Standalone Northern and Southern Dynasties

Chapter 75: Attack and Defense Change
Su Chuo suddenly reacted. He looked at Su Ze and said, "Brother Su, you were not planning to enter the Qinghe Palace, right?"

Su Ze did not comment, and Su Chao thought quickly: "You are not going to join the Shogunate, but you are still leading the Han Yulin to hunt. Is it to accumulate reputation in the army?"

Su Ze still didn't answer, so Su Chao asked again: "But Brother Su, you don't want to enter the Qinghe Palace, why do you have to participate in the selection? What if you are favored by the Qinghe King?"

Su Ze glanced at the falcon flying in the sky and said, "Because there is something I must accomplish here."

Su Chuo looked at the sky blankly, but had no idea what Su Ze was thinking.

This also made Su Cho become very interested in Su Ze again. For the lower-level warriors of Yulin Huben, being able to join the Qinghe Palace is their greatest pursuit. This is also the reason why joining the selection of the best warriors has become more and more a grand ceremony in Luoyang.

Su Chao didn't even tell his brother Su Liang about his thoughts, but Su Ze not only agreed with his ideas, he had even made the same decision as himself.

Su Ze certainly had no intention of joining the Qinghe Palace.

Judging from the level of Prince Qinghe's operations, he would soon be eliminated from the court struggles in the late Northern Wei Dynasty where jackals were everywhere. By clinging to him now, isn't it just waiting to be implicated and retaliated against when he falls?

Su Ze's plan from the beginning was to stay in the Yulin Army.

Because in the near future, a major event will occur in the Yulin Army - the Yulin Rebellion.

The cause of the incident was that Zhang Zhongyu, the son of Sikong Zhang Yi and Jieshi Zhong, wrote a letter to the court, requesting that the court prohibit military personnel from entering officialdom, the so-called "suppressing military personnel and not allowing them to be in the clean ranks", prohibiting military personnel from being promoted to court officials.

This incident triggered a fierce conflict between the Yulin Army and the imperial court. The Yulin Army first surrounded the Shangshu Province and cursed at it in the streets. None of the ministers in the court dared to come out to appease these angry imperial guards.

Then the Yulin Army surrounded the residence of Sikong Zhang Yi, beat Zhang Yi to death, and burned his house. However, Zhang Zhongyu, who wrote the letter, escaped.

The Northern Wei court's handling of the incident afterwards was even more bizarre. In the end, they only executed a few "ringleaders", and all the Yulin troops involved in the riot were not punished at all.

What's even more bizarre is that Empress Dowager Hu also ordered the Ministry of Personnel to re-select military men from the imperial guards to serve as officials.

Cui Liang, the Minister of Personnel at the time, invented a personnel recruitment method called "Tingniange", which used the qualifications for holding positions in the Yulin Army as the standard for appointing officials. Twenty-seven Yulin were given official positions that year.

Since there is such a shortcut to becoming an official, why should one go to seek refuge with the King of Qinghe who may collapse at any time?
Even if he wanted to surrender to someone else, couldn't he just surrender to Erzhu Rong like Liu Gui did?
The Erzhu "Military School" was actually the Huangpu Military Academy in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, the training base for the founding pillars of the Northern Qi and Western Wei dynasties, and the Gu breeding ground for the ancestors of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

However, if Su Ze wanted to take advantage of the Yulin Rebellion to get an official position, he would face two problems.

First of all, it is the issue of "age-stop qualification". If one wants to be appointed as an official through "age-stop qualification", one must first have a military position and prestige in the army.

Su Ze had some prestige among the Han Yulin, but if he wanted to be granted an official position in the Yulin, he still needed the support of nobles in the court.

In the military system of the Wei Dynasty, the two largest military forces in the capital Luoyang were headed by the General Commanding the Army and the General Guarding the Army. These two positions were always held by the most trusted members of the royal family.

The general in charge of guarding the imperial palace was Yuan Yi, Prince of Jiangyang, and the general in charge of guarding the imperial guards outside the imperial palace, including the Yulin Huben, was Yuan Yi, Prince of Qinghe.

If Su Ze wanted to be appointed to the Yulin Army, all he needed was the nod from Prince Qinghe.

However, there is naturally no way to tell Su Cho about these things. After all, being able to predict the future like a god is just a guess about the future like Su Cho. If he directly calculated the Yulin Rebellion, then he would be a demon who could predict the future.

After Su Ze cleaned up Ben Xiao, he said to Su Chuo: "But before that, there is one more thing to deal with."

"what's up?"

Su Ze casually closed the system's prompt: [The team has discovered a Chinese Yulin team following the host, should we take action? ]

Su Ze immediately chose "No". He looked at the Han Yu Lin who were camping under the mulberry forest and smiled.

He had heard from his father-in-law before that the Xianbei guards who had participated in the selection of soldiers to join the curtain in the past would often rob the spoils of the Han guards.

However, in the past, it was only when the spoils were finally returned that these Chinese Yu Lin would snatch the Han spoils, in order to prevent the Han Yu Lin from obtaining the final qualification.

But this time, these people had lost all their dignity and simply stopped hunting. They just waited to rob them.

In fact, Su Ze had already vaguely sensed something was wrong during the last hunt, so he sent the team that had infiltrated the hunting ground to investigate behind him, and sure enough, they discovered this group of Chinese Yulin.

Since the other party was hostile first, I won’t be polite!

Su Ze waited until the troops had rested and then summoned all the Han Yu Lin to the mulberry forest.

"Are you satisfied with today's hunt?"

No one understood why Su Ze asked this, but Sun Dayan followed Su Ze closely in these two hunts. He was completely impressed by Su Ze's strength and became Su Ze's biggest fan.

Sun Dayan said immediately: "Satisfied! Following the team means we can have meat to eat!"

With someone taking the lead, everyone cheered. For ordinary Han Yulin, being able to become a white-clad scholar can be said to be the biggest dream of many people.

Su Ze raised his whip and pointed to the hillside in the distance and said:
"Now someone wants to rob my prey, steal our honor, and break our backbone. Can you tolerate this?"

Everyone immediately understood what Su Ze meant. It was common knowledge in the Yulin Army that the Chinese Yulin oppressed the Han Yulin. Otherwise, why were the Chinese Yulin selected every time in recent years? The Han Yulin came back with injuries?
Sun Dayan immediately said, "Whoever steals my prey, I will kill him!"

"kill him!"

When someone took the lead, everyone was immediately filled with indignation. Su Ze saw that the atmosphere was almost heated up, so he jumped on his horse and said:

"Encircling people is like hunting! Do you remember the method of hunting deer before?"

"Remember!"

Su Ze looked at Su Chuo again and said, "Ling Chuo, this time it's your turn to count the military merits. Anyone who hunts a horse will be rewarded with a jar of wine. Anyone who lets a horse go will be fined a glass of wine!"

Everyone burst into laughter, and the tense atmosphere eased a lot.

Su Chao said quickly: "Captain, it is not appropriate to cause a loss of life when selecting a striker!"

Su Ze immediately said: "Don't worry, Lingchuo! I know what to do!"

Su Ze once again assigned the areas of responsibility to each person according to the method of hunting deer, and took Sun Dayan and several of the bravest Han Yu Lin to prepare for a frontal charge.

As Su Ze shot a flaring arrow into the air, the riders rushed out like a flood. More than thirty riders rushed out with the momentum of thousands of people!
The Han Yulin had been bullied by the Chinese Yulin for a long time. After two hunting expeditions, this group of Han Yulin had developed a tacit understanding. They were alone when facing oppression before, but now they have comrades around them. How could they be afraid of these Xianbei dogs?

Lu Zheng and his companions were still preparing to set up camp on the hillside when they suddenly felt the sky collapse and the earth give way. The Han Yulin in the mulberry forest had already appeared in front of them!

(End of this chapter)