frightfiction Chapter 548
Chapter 548
When Zhou Chu led the Xuanwu Army into Tibet, the Xuanwu Army showed great respect for the customs and traditions of the Tibetan people, and absolutely did not touch anything they were not supposed to touch along the way.
It wasn't until the Xuanwu Army razed a Lama temple and killed all the local landlords that the Tibetan people looked at these people in disbelief. Those high-ranking officials in their eyes could actually be killed.
This was the first time they realized that the high-ranking nobles were not immortal. When Zhou Chu and the Xuanwu Army told them that they were free and could do whatever they wanted, and then distributed the land of those nobles to them, they looked at the soldiers in front of them in disbelief, and knelt down and kowtowed.
Some devout Tibetans even followed Zhou Chu's men, prostrating themselves all the way.
The Xuanwu Army acquired a new name among these Tibetans.
Golden Pearl Mami, Bodhisattva Soldiers.
Zhou Chu became a living bodhisattva in the eyes of the Tibetans. In their eyes, the leader of these Golden Pearl Mami was a bodhisattva from the East who had come to save them.
When they learned that there was an emperor in the East, whom they considered a living Buddha, all the Tibetans saved by Zhou Chu enshrined two portraits in their homes: one of Zhou Chu and the other of the Jiajing Emperor.
Zhou Chu had many portraits of Emperor Jiajing prepared before he even came to Tibet.
People in every Tibetan area take out their treasured pigments to copy portraits of Zhou Chu and Jiajing, which they then take home to enshrine.
However, when news of Zhou Chu's massacre of the Tibetan aristocracy and the slaughter of lamas in temples reached other parts of Tibet, the landlord class was alarmed and spread rumors that Zhou Chu and the Xuanwu Army were evil spirits from the underworld, and that they should kill them on sight.
At first, the common people believed the propaganda wholeheartedly. However, as the first batch of Tibetan people rescued by Zhou Chu spread to the surrounding areas and spontaneously promoted the Xuanwu Army, and when the people saw that the Xuanwu Army was extremely friendly and even respectful to them, and that they would not steal food from their homes even when they were starving, they instantly realized that what those noble lords were saying was all nonsense.
They were afraid of the Bodhisattva soldiers in front of them.
As a result, the people of Tibet spontaneously sent food and water to the Xuanwu Army, which completely solved the problem of the Xuanwu Army's long supply lines and the fact that they often did not have enough to eat.
Of course, Zhou Chu wouldn't take the Tibetan people's grain for nothing. After seizing the grain from those landlords' homes, he would return it to them double.
For the people of Tibet, grain is always more tangible than silver or copper coins.
In this way, Zhou Chu led the Xuanwu Army to sweep through the landlord class, nobles, and lamas temples of Tibet. This was destined to be a long process. In the end, every Tibetan who saw the Xuanwu Army and Zhou Chu was extremely excited. Zhou Chu and the Xuanwu Army became legendary figures in Tibet.
Zhou Chu led the Xuanwu Army and spent two years completely flattening the entire Tibet. The nobles and landlords who were originally high and mighty were basically killed by the Xuanwu Army. Zhou Chu also distributed the resources and land of Tibet to the Tibetan people.
Of course, Zhou Chu wouldn't have dared to do this in other regions, but Tibet was relatively isolated and not connected to the Central Plains, so he did it because of the lack of communication.
Over the course of the past two years, Zhou Chu sent memorials to the capital, reporting his progress in Tibet to Emperor Jiajing. Every time Jiajing saw Zhou Chu's memorials, he couldn't help but sigh, wondering what virtue or ability he had to have such a capable minister who cleared away all obstacles for him.