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Volume 2: Looking at Chang'an Chapter 24: Looking at the north and south of the country (finale)

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    ~Date:~October 19th~

    ,nbsp;Chapter 24 Looking at the north and south of the country (finale)

    Spring is coming in the east, and ten years have passed by in a blink of an eye. Chang'an, a great city in the world, has become the real center of the world. Today is the second day of February in the 11th year of Dingwu. It is the day when the dragon raises its head. The city of Chang'an is bustling with people, large and small carriages.  Countless people are heading out of the city. This is a good time for spring outings. The spring breeze is blowing and the temperature is moderate.  (,,duka

    There are all kinds of restaurants on the street, and business is good. Today is a rare good time for doing business. Baoguo Temple, Fo'en Temple and other temples have held large-scale temple fairs. Countless pilgrims and believers have gathered. Chang'an, which does not believe in Buddhism,  Residents also went to take part in the fun. I heard that a lot of money had been spent on the Eighteen Buddhist Temple in Chang'an City. Everyone who went there, whether they believed in Buddhism or not, had Buddhist cakes to eat, and there were also amulets consecrated by eminent monks. This was extraordinary.  Generally speaking, since all religions in the Zhou Dynasty have to calculate property and pay taxes, when have you ever seen Buddhist temples so generous?

    Chang'an City now has not only Buddhism, but also Muslims, Mommism, Lamaism, and the God of War, there are probably more than twenty sects.  It was just to attract more believers to join the religion, so there would be some friction. Later, Emperor Li Zuoguo of the Great Zhou Dynasty saw that this was not an option, so he turned the two streets in the southwest into religious streets, and all the Buddhist temples and  All religions moved there, and regulations were set to allow only peaceful preaching, and no one was allowed to force believers, and no one was allowed to attack each other. This made these sects disappear.

    In the past ten years of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the imperial examinations were used to select candidates. Various schools with Confucianism as their only learning object appeared in various places in the Great Zhou Dynasty. After batches of college graduates, they became the main source of the lower-level officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This made many scholars study sages.  It was only after reading the books of the previous dynasties that students discovered that one could become an official without reading the books of Confucian sages. There was a lot of opposition at the beginning, but who was the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty?  He was the founding emperor who single-handedly used force to conquer such a huge empire. When he decided on something, he would do it regardless of who opposed it. Therefore, the new official promotion system of the Zhou Dynasty that focused on practicality was slowly consolidated over ten years.  down.

    In fact, the expectations of the common people are not high. The extensive use of professionals has enabled the common people to truly realize the benefits. When farming, there are specialized farmers to guide them. When making tools, there are craftsmen to help, not to mention the use of various water conservancy facilities and the reasonable accumulation of fertilizers.  Waiting for the benefits of benefiting farmers, the bumper harvests every year made the world settle down quickly. As the saying goes, you won't want to rebel when you are full, and it is right.

    The stable internal environment gave the Great Zhou the strength to begin external expansion. After the bloody battle in the Ancient Mur Valley, the Great Zhou did not immediately retaliate against countries such as Dashi and Tochara, but instead defended the Daren Pass and Anchis.  Guan, the only military direction with action was Shuofang where Li Yi was.

    Later general Li Yi directly sent troops to launch a powerful encirclement and suppression of the Uighurs and the Turkic tribes in the Hexi area. The troops were sent out to attack. There were two types of troops: forward march and slow advance. The forward march was all cavalry, and the light cavalry was sent out, which could march overnight.  More than three hundred miles away, this allowed the Uighurs and the tribes on the grassland to really experience the sharpness of the Zhou cavalry. They could not defeat such light cavalry, nor could they escape. This made all the forces on the grassland dumbfounded.

    Li Yi slowly used infantry to set up pastures one by one on the grassland. Each pasture had one to several small fortresses as defense support. The fortresses had powerful crossbows from the Great Zhou Dynasty as defensive weapons, even if the grassland soldiers were ten times more powerful.  It is difficult for troops to break through such a small fortress, and if someone attacks, the revenge of the Zhou cavalry will be very terrible. It is very likely that the entire clan will become herder slaves. Li Yi did not blindly set up pastures on the grassland, but formed a  An arc, with the twelve largest forts as the outermost perimeter of this defense line. The twelve forts basically enclosed the most fertile pastures in the west of the river.

    As the strongest nation in the world, the Uighurs suffered the most under Li Yi's care. In desperation, almost the entire country migrated to the northwest. Tribes that were unwilling to accept the direct rule of the Zhou Dynasty also migrated with the Uighurs. In the end, this  The grassland people who were forced to leave went through a cruel and long migration, crossed the Tianshan Mountains, went all the way to the northwest, entered today's Ukraine, and settled down. This migration lasted fifty years, which can be said to be the pain of three generations.  During the journey, we not only had to defeat nature, we also had to fight the local Tu tribe. When they started migrating, the Uighurs and more than 30 tribes had a total population of nearly 4 million. In the end, only 700,000 were left after settling down, and almost 90,000 Uighurs were lost.  into population.

    Li Guiren, the great governor of Northeast China, has basically eliminated the grassland peoples north and west of Youzhou in the past ten years. He also forced the tribes who did not want to become vassals of the Great Zhou to move north into the bitter cold Siberia. In the past ten years, they have continued to  The policy of population relocation to the north also stabilized the population base of Youzhou and Hebei. Three major victories almost led to the loss of most of the army in countries such as Silla and Baekje that were not willing to let the Zhou Dynasty reach their noses. Li Guiren kept the emperor's instructions in mind.  , work steadily, ?The strength of these hostile countries was constantly divided. For the first time in the ten years of Dingwu, Silla could not bear to surrender, and Baekje would not be able to hold on for long.

    The tribes on the grassland that had surrendered to the Zhou Dynasty were restrained and asked to settle down. The warriors became the vanguard of the Zhou Dynasty in dealing with the disobedient tribes. The situation in the whole north was moving in the direction planned by Li Zuoguo.

    The Great Eating Caliph Zerfar immediately withdrew the troops gathered at the Anchis Pass after the death of Abu Muslim. At the same time, he sent his credentials to Emperor Li Zuoguo of the Great Zhou Dynasty, as well as a huge convoy of gifts, hoping that Li Zuoguo would be able to  Accept Dashi's apology. The battle at Darun Pass this time was a personal act of Abu Muslim. It was a religious action by Muslims trying to get involved in Anxi. At the same time, in order to show sincerity, Zerfar launched a military campaign against Islam in Dashi.  Action, killing no less than 100,000 believers.

    Li Zuoguo received Zerfar's gift in Chang'an, but he did not respond to Zerfar's credentials. Instead, he comforted the Dashi envoys with gentle words and left them in the Seyi Pavilion.  , Zerfar did not receive a clear answer from Li Zuoguo, and he was uneasy and tried his best to strangle Islam. This farce of persecution lasted for a year. Originally, Zerfar was able to kill two birds with one stone by doing so, that is, he avoided launching a war against Anxi.  responsibility, and also dealt a devastating blow to those who dreamed of establishing an Islamic theocratic country.

    It wasn't until the next year, when Li Hu came to Anxi, that the purge in Dashi came to an end. Li Hu, the demon king, was the one Li Zuoguo released to deal with Dashi and Tocharo. In the third year of Dingwu, Li Hu led five  Ten thousand troops left Darun Pass and captured the entire Tocharian territory in just one month. The country to the west of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had been founded for more than a hundred years, perished, the Yueshi Dynasty was destroyed, and the entire Tocharian territory was merged into the Great Zhou Dynasty.  Zhou Dynasty established the Dingxi Protectorate and also gained access to Tubo from the west.

    Later, when Zerfar realized that something was wrong and wanted to send envoys to Chang'an again, Li Hu directly sent 150,000 troops from Anzis Pass under the banner of revenge for the Muslims and to regain the throne for the Mohammed family.  At that time, the Mohammed family, who was forced to flee Anxi under the oppression of Zerfar, also appeared in this crusade.

    Li Hu and Zerfar fought one after another. The main force of the Abbasid dynasty in Zerfar was basically annihilated in two decisive battles. In the last battle, Li Hu directly trapped and killed 200,000 Dashi soldiers.  The king of Dashi Zhongxing who left his name was defeated and committed suicide. Then the Zhou army supported Hashem of the Mohammed family to become the new caliph of Dashi. This regime has since become the orthodoxy of Dashi and Islam.  Returned to Dashi and became the state religion. The new Dashi was called the Mohammedan Empire by the Great Zhou Dynasty, also known as the Mohammedan Dynasty.

    At the end of the fourth year of Dingwu, Li Hu was recalled to Chang'an by an edict from Li Zuoguo. Because of the massacre in Dashi, Li Hu was demoted again and became Dingxi Nan. However, because of his military exploits in Dashi, Li Hu was promoted to the Great Zhou Empire.  Cavalry General, this is already the highest military position for the generals of the Zhou Dynasty.

    In the seventh year of Dingwu, Li Yi, who had basically pacified Shuofang, returned to Chang'an. Li Qi became the governor of Shuofang and took over Li Yi's post. Li Yi was granted the title of General Protector of the Country and led Duke Wu Lie. In May of the same year, Li Yi sent troops to Shibao City.  At the same time, Duan Heng from Tucharo led his troops into Tubo and began the two-year war against Tubo. In this battle, the Zhou Dynasty sent troops from two directions and lasted for two years. The Tubo land was in flames of war. Unlike the Northeast, what the Zhou Dynasty did to Tubo was  Looting, mainly destroying, Tubo has been extremely dishonest in recent years. They launched two battles against Shibao City, but were beaten back by the Zhou army. After a few years of recuperation, the Zhou Dynasty went to war against Tubo.

    Tubo is located on a plateau, with a vast territory and sparse population. The battle did not go smoothly at the beginning. The main attrition of the Zhou army was altitude sickness. After a year of fighting, they could not make any progress. It can be said that it was the most unsatisfactory since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty.  In the war, after a year of adaptation period, the Zhou army stabilized its position. First, Li Yi led 60,000 infantry troops and defeated a 100,000-strong Tibetan army in an unknown dam near Danku. Then Duan Heng on the western front defeated two  Thousands of elite troops made a surprise attack on the city of Yambu behind the Tibetan army, burning the food and grass of the 150,000-strong army. The Tibetan army on the western front was completely defeated due to lack of food, and both routes into Tibet were given up. Then the two Zhou Dynasties  The army surrounded Luoche (today's Lhasa), the capital of Tubo. After resisting for fifteen days, Li Yi used gunpowder to blow open the north gate of Luoche, and Dazenmangzan surrendered.

    Dazan Manzan's surrender announced the end of the Tubo War. Subsequently, Dazan Manzan's four sons were sent to Chang'an to study. Tubo ceded the western Yangtong area. Yangtong was the most important livestock base of Tubo at that time and lost  It can be said that Tubo lost most of its power in the Yangtong area. In the middle of the eighth year of Dingwu, most of the Zhou troops withdrew from Tubo. The Tubo War ended, and the most important forces in the west of the Zhou Dynasty were basically wiped out. This kind of force  Deterrence coupled with the colonial plunder that has been implemented since then kept the west peaceful for nearly four hundred years until the 56th generation of Tibet, Zampugong Songgontsen, launched the anti-Chou war.

    The eighth year of DingwuAfter three years of self-cultivation, coupled with the renewed prosperity of the western trade routes, the entire Great Zhou Dynasty was prosperous. In the spring of the eleventh year of Dingwu, the crowds in Chang'an witnessed the results of more than ten years. Outside the west gate of Chang'an City, stood  A main hall with a circumference of five miles. The huge stone beams and pillars in the hall are extremely majestic. All the walls and pillars are made of the hardest granite. In front of the door is a huge square paved with granite. Surrounding the square are all people wearing large robes.  The stone statues made of armor from Zhou Dynasty are all dressed as soldiers. There are more than 100 lifelike stone statues in total. They are all more than three meters high and are realistically carved. The main entrance of the main hall facing the square has no gate and is supported by 18 giant stone pillars.  A one-piece dome, taken from the round sky and the square place.

    Anyone will feel insignificant in front of this huge gate. Directly above the gate is a huge stone plaque, on which are the three characters "Wudi Hall" written by the current emperor himself. After entering the gate, there is a long corridor.  There are stone statues on both sides of the corridor. These stone statues are the generals who accompanied Li Siye to death. There are more than a thousand such stone statues in the entire hall. On both sides of the corridor are stele corridors. The stone stele inside is engraved with dense numbers of lives, all of which are like this.  In front of each monument, there is a huge incense burner with the names of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the Zhou Dynasty in more than ten years, and cigarettes are smoked every day.

    At the end of the corridor are three huge buildings. The huge stone platforms inside are layered with memorial tablets. This is where the collected ashes of soldiers who died in battle are stored. People come to offer incense on the first and fifteenth day of every month.  There was an endless stream of people walking past these three spiritual halls. The innermost one is a building that is larger than the previous three spiritual halls. It has cornices and hanging walls. The whole building is made of black stone. The outer walls are engraved with the words of Zhou soldiers fighting to the death.  The relief sculpture, a tragic momentum rushed towards the face.

    This hall only enshrines one spiritual tablet. The huge stone spiritual tablet is like an oversized stone tablet. It stands on an altar-like stone platform in the hall. The top of the stone platform is square in shape and has stone guardrails. In the center of the spiritual tablet are engraved ten words.  The seven characters read "The position of Taizu Li Siye, the most sincere, kind, filial and courageous Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty". The stone tablet is all red and polished to a discernible shine. The stone tablet is surrounded by carved cloud patterns, and a dragon in the clouds is engraved on the top.  , the dragon head is on the right side of the stone tablet, and its teeth and whiskers are like a real dragon, lifelike.

    The material of this stele was taken from broken leaves in Anxi. The whole stone is nearly ten meters high. It took a year of processing in Chang'an City to become what it is now. The entire Hall of Emperor Wu took six years to complete. This was Li Zuoguo's own sacrifice for several years.  The place of worship built by Li Siye, the father of the Great Zhou Dynasty, is also the place where the soldiers who died in the Great Zhou Dynasty were enshrined. The Hall of Emperor Wu will serve as the final destination of the heroes of the Great Zhou Dynasty, accompanying the Great Zhou Dynasty in its glorious journey.

    Common people are not prohibited from entering the Palace of Emperor Wu. Only the real Palace of Emperor Wu, where Li Siye's spiritual tablet is placed, is prohibited from being accessed by ordinary people. It is guarded by 300 soldiers of the Forbidden Army all year round. Li Zuoguo has set a rule that all heirs to the throne, including princes who are not princes,  There is also a princess who must come to live in Emperor Wu's Palace for half a year when she is twelve years old. Li Zuoguo wants his descendants to remember that the Great Zhou Dynasty was founded by force, and all the prosperity was conquered by the sacrifices of the ancestors.  Future generations must not forget each other.

    Today is February 2nd, which is a good time for hiking and climbing. At this time, the palace of Emperor Wu is quiet, and none of the Forbidden Army soldiers who were standing guard outside the palace are missing. On the stone platform, in front of the stone tablet, there is a tall man wearing a dragon robe.  The figure standing there quietly was none other than Li Zuoguo, the current Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty.

    Li Zuoguo looked up at the big characters on the stone tablet, with a long beard on his face. After being the emperor for more than ten years, Li Zuoguo's originally relatively immature feeling has been completely replaced by majesty. He still stands like a javelin.  In those days, Li Zuoguo was usually very sharp, but in the past ten years, Li Zuoguo has been practicing martial arts. At the age of thirty-three, Li Zuoguo is the most powerful in his life.

    "Father, have you seen it? My son has turned the Tang Dynasty into the Great Zhou Dynasty. Now the Great Zhou Dynasty is the most powerful empire, and the surrounding countries have basically been conquered. You have been loyal to the Tang Dynasty all your life, how do you feel now?  I will only ask you when my son sees you in the future. Next year, my son will launch an army against Nanzhao. The Medical Bureau has developed drugs that can prevent epidemic diseases. From now on, the serious miasma in the south will no longer be an obstacle to the advancement of the army. The Great Zhou Dynasty  The territory of China is now twice as large as that of the Tang Dynasty. There are two giant ports that will be put into use next year, one is called Shanghai Port and the other is called Hong Kong. Father, do you know how this name came about? My son is hiding something, "  A complicated look appeared on Li Zuoguo's face, "Actually, the son is not from this world. The son is a ray of soul from the future. Now that the Tang Dynasty is gone and the Great Zhou Dynasty has risen, does the son still know the future history? It turns out that the Tang Dynasty is gone and the Zhou Dynasty has risen.  His father is not dead either?"

    Li Zuoguo showed doubts on his face. Li Zuoguo had buried these words in his heart for nearly twenty years. When he said them in front of Li Siye's memorial tablet, his heart felt relieved. Li Zuoguo frowned slightly. Yes, history is no longer familiar to Li Zuoguo.  Unrecognizable.

    ?????????????????????? handsHolding his hands behind his back, Li Zuoguo shook his head and put away the messy thoughts in his mind. Whatever happened, no matter how he changed, he would not be able to care about it in a hundred years. Maybe this is not the earth. Thinking of this, Li Zuoguo had a look on his face.  A naughty smile. If any ministers saw his majestic emperor smiling like this, their jaws would drop to the ground in shock.

    Li Zuoguo took a step forward and walked behind the stone monument. There was no one in the hall, not even Chief Manager Zheng Chunyun, who was inseparable from Li Zuoguo. Li Zuoguo saw that there was no one around, squatted down behind the stone monument, and murmured:  "The third scale above the hind claws of the dragon's body." His hand was groping for the golden dragon carved under the stone tablet. Suddenly, Li Zuoguo's eyes lit up, "Found it."

    Pressing hard with his fingers, there was indeed a scale on the claws on the dragon's back that could move. This scale looked no different from other scales, but when Li Zuoguo pressed it, the scale sank in, and the base of the stone monument "haha"  A stone box popped out with a sound. The whole stone box was inlaid on the base of the stone tablet. Before it popped out, it looked seamless. The stone box was not big, only about the size of two palms, and its height was not high, only three fingers high.

    Li Zuoguo picked up the stone box, grinned, and took out a cloth bag wrapped in white cloth from his arms. Li Zuoguo gently placed the stone box and the cloth bag on the ground, opened the cloth bag, and found layers of book pages inside.  Thin gold foils of various sizes were densely covered with words. Li Zuoguo carefully put the thick stack of gold foils into the stone box, covered the lid of the stone box, and put it back in place. Looking around, Li Zuoguo  He nodded with satisfaction. It was impossible to tell that there was a stone box embedded here.

    The naughty smile appeared on Li Zuoguo's face again, and he said to himself: "If you write something with gold foil, you won't be afraid of it breaking after a thousand years. I will write everything about myself as a person from the future on it, including cars and airplanes."  , go online and write all this down. If someone discovers this thing in a thousand years or hundreds of years, they will be scared to death, right?"

    Li Zuoguo couldn't help but burst into laughter. He bent over with laughter, but tears fell down. He wrote this secret in such a prank way, but it made Li Zuoguo feel lonely. After all, he was still alone in ancient times.  No one can share the secrets in his heart, so it feels better to write it down. After all, he came to this world after he became an adult. Li Siye and his wife can't say bad things about themselves, but feelings cannot be said to be open-minded. Li Zuoguo knows that his  I feel that I am still a modern person at heart. No matter how glorious I am here and I am an emperor, I still just hope that I can go back to the place where there is Internet and QQ chat, even if I just go back to be an ordinary person.

    Li Zuoguo wiped away the tears on his face, straightened his chest, glanced at his father's stone tablet again, and walked resolutely towards the outside of the palace. Queen Ariel's carriage was parked outside the Palace of Emperor Wu, and two thousand people from the imperial army were also outside.  , Prince Li Zhongfei of the Great Zhou Dynasty was also waiting for his father. Neither Arier nor Li Zhongfei knew why Li Zuoguo drove everyone out of the main hall and stayed in the hall himself.

    Li Zuoguo walked out of the hall. The sun was shining brightly outside. As he walked through the corridor, the stone statues on the left and right seemed to pay tribute to Li Zuoguo. In front of the huge stone door, Li Zuoguo saw his guard. Ariel was lifting the curtain of the carriage. Her worried look showed that  Li'er was very worried about Li Zuoguo. On a black horse beside Ariel's carriage, an obviously mixed-race boy was saying something to Ariel. This handsome boy was the current prince, Ariel and Li Zuoguo's first child.  Son Li Zhongfei.

    Zheng Chunyun is still the same. Time seems to have left no mark on Zheng Chunyun's face. Seeing Li Zuoguo come out, Zheng Chunyun's face is obviously relaxed.

    Li Zuoguo walked down the steps slowly and suddenly, he suddenly thought that his empire was called the Great Zhou Dynasty. Wasn't the country that the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty overthrew the Later Zhou Dynasty the same?  Do you want to tell your son that when he sees a guy named Zhao Kuangyin in the future, he will stab him first and then shake his head, who can care so much?  Do we still need to tell everything that may happen in the future?

    Li Zuoguo quickened his pace, remembering the last words he left on the gold foil, he couldn't help but reveal an endless smile. There were only a few words written on the entire gold foil: "Li Saimeng returned to the Tang Dynasty for the great Tang Dynasty." (  Complete book)

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