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Chapter 1269: The Great Tang Dynasty (End)
After making the new adjustments, Li Shimin issued several imperial edicts, one of which was to Hou Junji, and another was sent by carrier pigeon.

That afternoon, a secret army marched out from a valley in Mount Zhongnan.

With the imperial edict, they came to Hou Junji's army camp and took over all the wealth in the camp. When it was late at night, the army took away 340 million strings of money, leaving 60 million strings for Hou Junji.

The next day, Hou Junji transported the money to Chang'an City in a horse-drawn carriage with great fanfare.

Of course, before it entered the national treasury, well-informed officials from the Ministry of Finance robbed 50 million strings of the debt, and the remaining 10 million strings were taken to the national treasury.

At this time, the officials in the court learned that the retired emperor sent people to destroy Shiluodie's army that had ravaged several areas of Shandong, and even Shiluodie, the Turkic Khan, was beheaded.

However, these people did not care about what happened to the Turks. They only cared about the "fat and blood of the people" that Shi Luodie had robbed during his six months of dominance.

In the court, people began to argue. Some officials without Shandong aristocratic family backgrounds believed that all these should belong to the court to make up for the shortage of the national treasury. However, officials with Shandong aristocratic family backgrounds believed that these were all stolen from their families and should be returned.

When the two sides were arguing fiercely, Li Shimin smiled slightly, righteously reprimanded those ministers who wanted to take the wealth into the national treasury, and then stated in court that he would return all the wealth to the aristocratic families.

This immediately attracted countless ministers to kneel down and thank the emperor for his grace.

But when they found out that there were only 10 million guan, they were immediately dumbfounded. After further questioning, they learned that they only gained 60 million guan by destroying Shi Luodie's army. Of these, 50 million guan were intercepted by the Finance Temple before they entered the national treasury.

Those irrelevant ministers felt relieved, thinking that they were just intercepted.

Everyone knows that the treasury has no money, it belongs to the people, and the money must be stable. The national treasury itself was borrowed to cope with the war by using the annual income as collateral. Now that it has been repaid, the debt is gone, which is equivalent to entering the national treasury.

As for the officials from the noble families who suffered losses, they were in tears. They knew that they would never get the money back, but there was only 10 million strings of cash, and there were so many noble families who suffered losses. How could they divide it?

Smart people immediately guessed that the Turks had made multiple preparations and the bulk must have been hidden somewhere in Shandong. Instead of worrying about these small amounts, it would be better to send more people to find the remaining bulk. At that time, everyone's losses could be compensated.

Everyone's eyes began to stare towards the east. On the one hand, they wanted to find their family fortune, and on the other hand, they were also thinking about whether they could take over other people's wealth.

A huge conflict that could have arisen was resolved invisibly.

After dealing with the money, Li Shimin secretly breathed a sigh of relief and signaled Fang Xuanling to announce the negotiation terms with the Right Wise King. Most of the ministers then realized that the Right Wise King was so cruel and that he was slapping Li Shimin in the face!
However, they couldn't say much about this kind of thing.

Of course, silence is ambiguity, and ambiguity means the hope for peace talks. Li Shimin looked at his ministers, and the last trace of nostalgia in his heart quietly disappeared. Finally, he directly announced that for the sake of the stability of the country and the people of the world, he had decided to accept all the conditions of the Right Wise King.

After the court was dismissed, Fang Xuanling was sent to deliver Shi Luodie's head.

Li Yan did not cause any more trouble. After confirming that Shi Luodie had been killed and all his troops had been annihilated, he began to move out of Chang'an the next day without any hesitation. Ten days later, he had already retreated to the Dingxiang Yunzhong line.

A war that concerned the rise and fall of the country and caused countless people to worry was thus eliminated through the mediation of both sides.

At this time, Li Shimin, as the emperor emeritus, issued an edict of repentance to the world.

With a very sincere attitude, he admitted his guilt in the Xuanwu Gate Incident and confessed his guilt. He decided to move the tablets of his elder brother Li Jiancheng and younger brother Li Yuanji back to the Imperial Ancestral Temple and offer sacrifices to them every year. He also posthumously conferred the title of Tang King on Li Jiancheng and the title of Gui King on Li Yuanji.

Half a month later, it was announced to the world that the Right Wise King of the Turks was actually Li Jiancheng's biological son who had been stranded abroad, and that all of Li Jiancheng's descendants were included in the family tree of the Tang royal family.

This piece of news, one after another, shocked the whole world.

Countless people began to imagine how many confusing and ups-and-downs stories were hidden behind the battle for the throne.

Li Shimin's confession of guilt also attracted great attention, but most people were positive about it, believing that Li Shimin was worthy of being a wise emperor who had the courage to admit his mistakes and give a perfect explanation to his brothers and the people of the world.

This made Li Shimin's image even more majestic and glorious, and the court also gained unprecedented support from the people. Of course, it was also because Li Shimin had abdicated long ago and the current emperor was magnanimous and benevolent, and the grievances of the fathers had nothing to do with the next generation.

The people only hope that the two bloodlines of the Tang Dynasty can resolve their grievances and make peace forever, just like their fathers did, so that people all over the world can enjoy peace.

After all this was settled, the Turkic army withdrew to the grassland, returned all the land in Guannei Road to the Tang Dynasty, and established a peace agreement not to invade the south for ten years.

Li Shimin decided to seize the opportunity of these ten years to completely resolve all problems within the Tang Dynasty and leave an indestructible kingdom for future generations.

After the Turks withdrew, the court sent a large army to take over the northern part of Guannei Road and directly distributed all the land in the north to the lower-class people. This move was greatly supported by the poor people in the north. The court took this opportunity to recruit 300,000 soldiers to guard the north.

At the same time, the nobles who had gone west found that the war in the Central Plains had not broken out, so they returned one after another. However, their land had been divided up, and they no longer had a place in the court. They could only return to Chang'an as merchants.

The unwilling nobles resorted to murderous tactics, inciting the common people to take the lead in selling off the Tang Dynasty currency and withdrawing silver back to the Western Regions.

Although Li Shimin was angry about this, he could do nothing about it.

This is a war in the economic field, and it is difficult to intervene with force. If the exchange is forcibly prohibited, it will only make more people suspect that the treasury is empty, and they will exchange it. The Tang currency will become a piece of waste paper, and the court's credit will be completely bankrupt.

However, Li Shimin had money in his hands at this time and was not panicked.

Under the overall arrangement of the court, no matter how much currency there was, all of it was exchanged, and no one was rejected, until all the currencies in the hands of the nobles were exchanged for silver, and some civilians also successfully exchanged. Seeing that the total amount of 300 million was about to be exchanged for nearly 200 million strings, there was still a steady stream of silver.

After a period of tossing and turning, the people found that using silver was indeed inconvenient and easy to wear out and lose, so they began to exchange silver for currency and use it normally.

In the end, the nobles helplessly discovered that this tactic posed no threat to the Tang Dynasty at all.

When the first plan failed, the nobles thought of the Jiangnan nobles. They knew that the court had divided the northern lands, and the next step must be Jiangnan. So they colluded secretly, intending to start a war when the court took action against Jiangnan, forcing the Tang Dynasty to compromise.

Li Shimin and Li Chengqian had already found out secretly, but there was nothing they could do.

If there was only Jiangnan, it could be handled properly. With the involvement of the Western Regions, war was inevitable. Although this matter was unavoidable, it could be arranged in advance. After three years of comprehensive response, in the fourth year of Kaiyuan, the court issued a land reform, requiring Jiangnan to distribute land to ordinary people like the north.

Of course, the powerful and wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River would not accept this and launched a rebellion.

The imperial court had been preparing for three years, and so had they. However, they overestimated their own strength, and Yang Guang's march south still led to an invasion war.

The Tang Dynasty had been established for more than thirty years, and Jiangnan had long been its territory.

The court was fighting a just war, not to mention that this move was also announced to the world in order to gain land for the common people.

With a righteous cause above and the support of the people below, the resistance of the aristocratic families will naturally not cause any big waves.

It took two years, and in the sixth year of Kaiyuan, the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River was put down and the land was redistributed.

Of course, during this period of time, the nobles could not help but resort to the same old tricks, knowing that all this was supported by Li Shimin behind the scenes.

They sent out countless assassins in an attempt to destroy Li Shimin humanely.

During these two years, Li Chengqian encountered three assassination attempts, while Li Shimin encountered more than thirty. This shows how much those aristocratic families hated him.

All of these were resolved under the protection of Shi Luodie's original clone.

By the seventh year of Kaiyuan, the core area of ​​the Tang Dynasty, which was originally part of the Central Plains, had completed land distribution, the number of self-cultivating farmers reached more than 90%, and the military system was consolidated. The court's army was also composed of farmers' sons with clean backgrounds.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the aristocratic clan politics that had prevailed for hundreds of years has been basically eliminated.

All the nobles who were unwilling to compromise were driven to the Western Regions, where the environment was harsh and resources were insufficient. They could carve out a territory and claim the throne, but it was not enough to invade the Central Plains. In addition, the Western Regions were not without enemies. The Right Wise King in the north would send troops to invade from time to time, leaving them no time to look east.

The different ideas of the various countries within the country made it impossible for them to unite for a long time.

Further west, there were foreign countries such as Western Turkic, Byzantium, and India that threatened their safety from time to time. The nobles were caught in these four war zones, and after weighing the pros and cons, they had no choice but to continue to maintain their dignity with the Central Plains.

The Central Plains' requirements of them were the same as Li Chengqian's requirements of Li Ke. If they fought westward, the court would not only provide them with material and military support, but would also erect monuments and write biographies for them, and each of them would be a hero who expanded the territory.

If we attack eastwards, they will all be enemies, traitors, and scum who bring chaos to the Central Plains.

Under this pincer attack, the vassal states in the Western Regions had no choice but to compromise and increase their development strength. This naturally achieved the plan of Li Shimin and his son at the time, using these ambitious people to transform the Western Regions for the Han nationality and complete the sinicization of the expanded land.

By the ninth year of the Kaiyuan period, the Tang Dynasty had developed into a vast country with the Han nationality as the main body and multiple ethnic groups as an integration, with a thriving population, a powerful military, and happy and healthy people. It was an unprecedentedly powerful superpower that far surpassed the Qin and Han dynasties.

It was also in this year that Datang received a letter from Li Ke, who had disappeared for ten years.

He has already conquered a piece of land in the far western Europe described by Li Chengqian, and conquered a number of small European countries such as the Frankish Kingdom, the Charlemagne Empire, the Kingdom of Granada, and recently he is attacking Kievan Rus and other places to the east.

Li Shimin was very pleased to hear the news. After discussing with Li Chengqian, he decided to unite the various princes and small states in the Western Regions and attack eastward together. Both sides should work together to connect the east and the west as soon as possible.

At the same time, he promised the military generals in the court that as long as they could conquer a piece of land, he would directly grant the meritorious generals to the Western Regions.

This made the civil officials and military generals in the court excited all of a sudden, and they wanted to expand their territory and carve out a kingdom. This was a prosperous era, and even ordinary people could make meritorious contributions and be promoted, so that they could finally get a piece of land and establish their own kingdom.

Under the deliberate guidance of Li Shimin and Li Chengqian, the internal friction in the country was infinitely reduced, and as long as they were strong, they were introduced to a wider world. The strong should open up the world, and the warm back garden is just a habitat for the weak.

If a country or a force cannot direct its growing powerful force outward, then they can only spiral into inward-looking madness internally, exploiting and oppressing the weak, preventing them from growing. This is almost an iron rule.

The Novice Village is only a cradle for incubating strong people, not the final home for the strong people to reside.

The culture of the strong should be to challenge those who are stronger than you; while the culture of the strong that oppresses the weak is nothing but a fake strong culture.

On the New Year's Day of the tenth year of Kaiyuan, Li Chengqian convened a grand court meeting, and the retired emperor Li Shimin was also invited to attend.

Seeing the civil and military officials in the hall, as well as the princes from the snowy plateau, the princes of the opposite sex from the Western Regions, and the envoys from more distant countries coming to pay homage, a prosperous country that had never appeared in history was unfolding before the world.

Various domestic concerns were also cleared up one by one, and the emperor truly possessed the power of an emperor with his words being law.

Li Yan sat on the dragon throne, watching the scene with a smile, and then opened the system panel.

After checking, the completion rate of special tasks has reached 500%. According to the system calculation, the lifespan of the Tang Empire will reach 800 years.

Li Yan was startled, and a huge joy surged in his heart. He secretly calculated that eight hundred years had not only passed through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but also the Mongolian, Liao and Song dynasties, and was almost at the early Ming Dynasty in the original history.

Eight hundred years is a long time that is not inferior to the Zhou Dynasty. What happens next will be left to our descendants!
'Ding'

System prompt: Host, do you want to submit the task and return to the main world?

Li Yan hesitated for a moment, then slowly closed the system panel. He had thought it through. In the original world, he was just an insignificant ant, but in this world, he was the master of the entire world, controlling everything.

Why should we give these up and go back to suffer?

Or you could travel through a strange world again, start from scratch, and repeat the cycle of rising from a small person to a successful person. Wouldn’t it be great to be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty?
He has stayed in the Tang Dynasty longer than in his original world. Li Shimin, Changsun Wugou, Changsun Wuji, Hou Junji, Ankang, Jinyang, Haitang, Wenjun, Li Xiang, Li Jue and others are all his relatives. He might as well enjoy life here!

When all the familiar people leave and you get tired of them, you can start a new life.
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