Deposed? I couldn't be happier! I wouldn't even be a dog to the crown prince.

"Snapped!"

A heavy memorial was slammed onto the imperial desk in the Taiji Hall.

Li Shimin's eyes widened as he stared intently at the four large, flamboyant characters "Global Enfeoffment" on the screen, his breathing becoming heavy involuntarily.

The civil and military officials below were in an uproar.

Changsun Wuji's brows furrowed into a deep frown. He stepped out of the ranks, his expression so solemn it seemed as if water could drip from his eyes.

"Your Majesty! While His Highness the Crown Prince's plan may expand our territory, it carries enormous risks!"

Changsun Wuji pointed at the memorial with great distress.

"Throughout history, the practice of enfeoffment has inevitably led to the calamity of regional warlordism! The Rebellion of the Seven States during the Han Dynasty and the War of the Eight Princes during the Jin Dynasty are both bloody lessons!"

"Your princes are taking the finest firearms and cannons from the Tang Dynasty to your fiefdoms overseas. Far from the emperor's reach, if you later grow powerful and independent, how will the Tang Dynasty control you?"

These words struck at the Achilles' heel of the feudal dynasty.

Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, and other senior officials echoed his sentiments, and the hall was filled with voices of opposition.

"Uncle, you are mistaken."

Just as the courtiers were arguing heatedly, Li Chengqian yawned and slowly strolled out of the side hall.

He was dressed in casual clothes, holding a glass of plum juice with ice in his hand, and walked to the special chair next to the dragon throne and sat down.

"The Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms? The Rebellion of the Eight Princes?"

Li Chengqian took a sip of ice water, chuckled, and his eyes revealed a contemptuous disdain that seemed to see through the limitations of history.

"That's because the courts during the Han and Jin dynasties were too short-sighted and too weak-willed."

"But my Great Tang is different."

He put down the cup and held up one finger.

"First, the railway. Our steam trains travel day and night, transporting troops at lightning speed. If any foreign countries dare to make any moves, the iron cavalry of the Great Tang can be at our gates within half a month."

Li Chengqian raised his second finger.

"Secondly, telegraphs. Why do you think I'm wasting money laying submarine cables? With telegraphs, even if an ant fights overseas, Chang'an will know in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea."

"The mountains are high and the emperor is far away? In front of the telegraph machine, the whole earth is a village!"

As he raised the third finger, a sly, capitalist-like smile crept onto Li Chengqian's lips.

"Third, and most importantly, is monetary power."

"I will let them become local tyrants, but the printing presses they establish in their fiefdoms must be absolutely controlled by the Great Tang Royal Bank!"

"The gold and silver they unearthed and the grain they grew in their fiefdoms could only be settled with silver notes from the Tang Dynasty."

Li Chengqian's gaze swept over the ministers who were silent as cicadas in fear.

"The guns and cannons are in their hands, but the tools for making them and the gunpowder formulas are in Chang'an. What will they use to rebel? Wooden sticks to fight against the steel torrent of the Tang Dynasty?"

"As long as the Tang Dynasty firmly grasps the three lifelines of technology, finance, and logistics, those princes who have been enfeoffed will become the Tang Dynasty's most loyal global employees!"

This groundbreaking theory of hegemony, like a thunderbolt from the heavens, shattered the outdated political views of the entire court.

Changsun Wuji opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but found that his proud political skills were utterly pale and laughable in the face of the Crown Prince's all-encompassing, dimensional control.

"Excellent! What a brilliant global fiefdom!"

Li Shimin slapped his thigh suddenly, his face flushed with excitement.

His biggest headache was that his sons would grow up and fight each other for the throne. Now, things are much better. Chengqian has simply given each of them a territory larger than the Tang Dynasty to wreak havoc on.

This preserved the bond between father and son, brothers, and also allowed the Li family bloodline to truly rule this star.

What an achievement that will last for generations!

"Issue my decree!"

Li Shimin suddenly stood up, drew his Tian Ce sword, and pointed it at the void.

"As requested in the Crown Prince's memorial, the large-scale enfeoffment shall commence immediately!"

"I hereby bestow upon Li Ke, Prince of Shu, the title of Grand Commander of Dongsheng Prefecture (the Americas), commanding 10,000 Shenji Battalion soldiers and 10 treasure ships, to set sail immediately!"

"The title of Grand General of the Northern Court is hereby bestowed upon Li Tai, Prince of Wei, to oversee all military and political affairs and mineral development in the northern icy plains (Siberia, Russia)!"

"I hereby bestow upon Prince Li Zhi the title of Grand Governor-General of Europe, commanding 10,000 troops to travel to the far west and proclaim the might of the Tang Dynasty!"

"The rest of the imperial clan members, all those who have reached the age of fifteen, shall be granted fiefdoms, firearms, and farming tools. Go and plant the crops of the Great Tang Dynasty on all the wasteland in this land!"

The moment the imperial edict was issued, the entire city of Chang'an was in an uproar.

In the following months.

The war machine and industrial production line of the Tang Dynasty were running at full speed with unprecedented frenzy.

Steam trains belching black smoke, laden with the most advanced machinery, seeds, and fully armed soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, departed from Chang'an and headed towards major ports.

The people of Chang'an could see different royal banners fluttering along Zhuque Avenue every day.

"Look! That's His Highness the King of Shu's entourage! I heard that the place he's going to has more gold than stones!"

"That's His Highness Prince Jin over there! Tsk tsk, he's so tiny and already trying to manage those blond-haired, green-eyed barbarians!"

In teahouses and taverns, people cracked melon seeds, their voices filled with extreme pride in the Tang Dynasty, the supreme empire.

They watched as these expeditionary forces, representing the will of the Tang Dynasty, departed.

Watching those young princes, filled with fervent ambition for the new world, being scattered like dandelion seeds by Li Chengqian to every corner of the globe.

They all knew it in their hearts.

Before long, the colors on this map will all change.

And on the star-gazing platform at the highest point of Taiji Palace.

Wrapped in a fox fur coat, Li Chengqian watched the royal banners gradually disappear into the distance and stretched contentedly.

"Now it's quiet."

"Now that I've sent all these little devils away, I can finally get a good night's sleep."

He turned his head and looked at Wu Meiniang beside him.

The little girl was holding a newly compiled "Map of Global Product Distribution in the Tang Dynasty," her big eyes sparkling with shrewd calculation.

"Your Highness, although the princes took a large amount of supplies with them when they went to their fiefdoms, the wealth they bring back in less than three years will be more than ten times the current national treasury of the Tang Dynasty."

Wu Meiniang closed the book and looked at Li Chengqian with admiration.

"Your Highness's strategy of 'using the world to support the Tang Dynasty' is truly brilliant."

"but……"

She frowned slightly, seemingly somewhat worried.

"Although those vassal states are ruled by members of the Tang imperial family, they are sparsely populated and inevitably employ local natives. Over time, if the people of the Tang dynasty go overseas, won't they be oppressed by those natives?"

"Oppression?"

Li Chengqian felt as if he had heard a joke that wasn't funny at all.

He walked to the edge of the observatory and looked down at the magnificent metropolis below, which was already taking shape as a modern metropolis.

A cold and absolute racial will flashed in those deep eyes.

"Meiniang, remember this."

"I sent them out to plunder money, grain, and territory from the Tang Dynasty."

"But in my eyes..."

Li Chengqian's voice sounded cold in the night wind, yet it also carried a protective quality that stirred one's blood.

"Only this land of the Great Tang will forever belong to the descendants of Yan and Huang."