Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties
Chapter 1436 Final Chapter·Old Ancestor
Chapter 1436 Final Chapter·Old Ancestor
The first year of Tianbao.
The new emperor has not been on the throne for less than a hundred days, but the Supreme Emperor has quietly set out from Xianren Palace to tour the world.This time the Supreme Emperor went on a tour, without fanfare, only Chaozhong Zaifu and some third-rank ministers knew about it.
Emperor Tianbao specially dispatched Jinyiwei, Huangchengsi and other elites, and selected [-] knights from all over the world to form the Taishanghuang Guards Dragon and Tiger Army to protect the Taishanghuang's safety along the way.
When leaving Luoyang, there were no people to see them off, nor did the emperor lead a hundred officials out of the city for twenty miles to see him off. , He originally intended to bring two or three hundred people along.
The Supreme Emperor rode a horse when he came out of Beijing, and changed to a carriage the next day. He was older, no more than the inspection tour more than 20 years ago, and now he rode a horse for a day, and felt a little overwhelmed at night.
The Taishang Emperor went eastward, and first went to Songshan for a tour. Although the Shaolin Temple, the great temple here, is still there today, it is considered a real hermit practice. Thousands of temple cleansers no longer exist, and now there are only a hundred monks, young and old, who are self-sufficient by plowing fields, growing vegetables, collecting firewood and burning charcoal while chanting scriptures and practicing.
Inside the mountain gate, there is no such splendid golden bronze statue, nor those exquisite temples and pavilions, but the tranquility here makes people like it.
The Supreme Emperor stayed on the mountain for three days, talked with the current abbot about the status quo of Shaolin Zen Buddhism, and also talked about Buddhism, and then went down the mountain.
Continue eastward, exit Hulao Pass, cross the Grand Canal, enter Shandong along the Jishui River, and arrive at Mount Tai.
The Taishanghuang climbed Mount Tai again, but this time there was no huge team from Fengchan. The Taishanghuang climbed to the top of Mount Tai, saw the sunrise, and then went down the mountain.
Going north, I arrived at my hometown Zhangqiu, and went to Changbai Mountain to see the forest of heroes over there.
The manor villas of heroes and nobles all over the mountain are magnificent.
There are not many familiar people and things in my hometown. It is already one of the six capitals of the Great Qin Dynasty, a bustling industrial and commercial center.
After leaving his hometown, the Supreme Emperor toured the Shandong Peninsula, then cruised along the Bohai Bay, passed the Liaoxi Corridor to the Liaodong Peninsula, and then crossed the Yalu River to the Korean Peninsula.
Walk slowly all the way, stop and go.
The Supreme Emperor finally crossed the Korean Strait, landed on the Dongying Islands, went to see the Iwami Silver Mine and the Besshi Copper Mine, and finally even went to the northern islands to see the naturalized Ainu people there.
Picking a good weather, the Supreme Emperor took the boat driven by Shi Xin to Sakhalin Island, landed on Vladivostok, and finally went northeast to Heilongjiang Estuary, and went around the feudal kingdom of his third son Li Zhewei. There, Luo Cheng I also saw the concubine Li Xiuning who has lived here for more than a year. She is still in good health and has adapted to the cold here. There are seven or eight months of winter in a year. She adapts and slowly I like it.
After spending a long winter there, the Supreme Emperor did not go further north, but began to return south.
On the return journey through Baishan Mountain in Liaodong, the Supreme Emperor climbed to Tianchi on the top of the mountain and set up a stele there.
Take another boat from Dahang City at the mouth of the Yalu River to Qingdao Port.
Dahang City, which was fought in the past, was once just a small military fort, but now it is a prosperous trading port, a Yalu River, connected to the sea, transporting countless merchants to and from.
Riding on the big ship of the Bohai Fleet, the Supreme Emperor sailed back to the Central Plains, landed in Qingdao, a big port in Shandong, and then cruised southward to climb Langya Mountain.
The Supreme Emperor occasionally felt the wind and cold in Langya Mountain, so he stayed there for three months. During this period, he also organized an adventure fleet, an ocean-going adventure fleet with more than ten ships and more than 1000 people. The Supreme Emperor drew a relatively simple sea plan for them. Figure, let them sail eastward, across the vast East China Sea, to find the southern land of the Eastern Desolation Continent.
Although Shixin has long gone to the Eastern Desolate Continent from the northern strait, what he arrived at from the north was a wild snowy field of ice and snow world, and the exploration from the north to the south was not smooth, and until now, he has not gone south much. .
Luo Cheng hopes that this new adventure fleet can directly cross the Pacific Ocean and reach South America. In that fertile land, many new species in the south can be found, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, etc., as well as tomatoes and other South American crops. , these things, especially potatoes and corn, are extremely important.
For this reason, the Supreme Emperor rewarded the adventure fleet with a generous amount of money and made a very heavy promise that if they could find these corns, potatoes, etc., they would be able to exchange each of them for a Marquis.
Three months later, the Taishanghuang recovered and continued to cruise south. After passing through Pengcheng County, when the Taishanghuang was sailing in Surabaya, he organized people to salvage Zhou Ding in the Sishui River. After more than a month of searching, he actually found it. Produced by Zhou Ding.
After arriving at Guangling, the Supreme Emperor continued to go south along the Grand Canal until he reached Yuhang, climbed Kuaiji Mountain, sacrificed to Dayu, and carved stones.
In Kuaiji, the Supreme Emperor was assassinated.
There was an assassin intending to ambush with a privately built catapult on the way of the Supreme Emperor, but the Pathfinder Knights found out ahead of time, and the assassin was captured. Under interrogation, it was found that the assassins were a group of Japanese pirates, and the commanders behind the scenes were a group of subjugated nobles who pretended to be businessmen Infiltrated into the Central Plains, planning for a long time, intending to assassinate the Supreme Emperor.
These people are very courageous, but they want to assassinate the Supreme Emperor, but it is impossible to succeed at all. Although they finally sneaked into the Central Plains and managed to predict the route of the Supreme Emperor, it is impossible for their simple catapult to have a chance to hit The emperor's carriage.
For these people, Luo Cheng was not too frightened and angry, not even surprised. After all, he has destroyed countless countries, and it is normal for a few unwilling people to assassinate him.
After asking the knights to hand them over to the local government, Luo Cheng went west.
Go west all the way to Yunmeng, inspect the Jinghu granary, go down the Xiangjiang River, reach Jiuyi Mountain, and worship Yu Shun at Jiuyi Mountain.
After offering sacrifices to Yu Shun, the emperor drove across Wuling, arrived at Lingnan, toured Guangxi and Guangdong, and then went south along the coast to tour Guangnan, Linyi, Funan, Chenla, and Lishui roads in the south.
In Ruiguang Port, the emperor drank with Cunxiao and other vassals, and went into the sea to shoot sharks and catch whales with a bed crossbow. After spending a good summer vacation there, the emperor went up the Lishui River to Ruili.
Then he abandoned the boat and rode a carriage to reach Lijiang, Dali and other places. After resting there for a few months, the emperor went west to Shuzhong. Enter the snow-covered plateau and go to Weizang.
After passing through the Xiangxiong Road, enter the Bolu Road, walk through the snow-capped mountains and glaciers under the Kunlun Mountains, go down the Xindu River, and enter the Tianzhu Continent.
Along the Xindu River to the Arabian Sea, the emperor took the ship of the ocean-going fleet, headed west to Yemen in the Red Sea, and then followed the imperial court's colony on the southern bank of the Red Sea all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, all the way to Egypt.
By the time he arrived in Egypt, the emperor had been on tour for five full years.
In the past five years, Luo Cheng traveled around the mountains and rivers, and indeed no longer interfered with the affairs of the court.Although the emperor will regularly send people to send memorials to the emperor, the emperor will also ask him for instructions on many important state affairs.
But every time Luo Cheng read it, he just replied that he had read it later, and even later, he simply didn't even approve these two words, and sealed it back as it was.
Although the emperor made some mistakes after he came to power, they were only minor mistakes, and the emperor finally secured his position.
The Political Affairs Hall and the Hanlin Academy, including the Yushitai and the Privy Council, have been replaced with a group of newcomers. These are the officials in the Eastern Palace. Now, after five years, the old ministers such as Changsun Wuji have either expired or Older people gradually withdrew from the center, and exited decently.
Jiawen was very generous to these old ministers. Those who had served as prime ministers and university scholars all served as dukes of the country, and each of them made an exception and got a good piece of fief. Money and silk increased.
In the past five years, many founding heroes have passed away.
There are fewer and fewer old friends.
The Taishanghuang's body is not as good as before, but it is still quite strong. The five-year parade, not only did not make his body deteriorate, but it seemed to make his body better.
When I was in Egypt, it happened that the Arabs sent troops to fight again.
At this time, the Arab Empire, after experiencing the era of the Prophet and the four caliphs, was powerful and dominated Central Asia. The Persian Sasanian had completely destroyed the country, most of it was occupied by Dashi, and part of it was merged into Daqin.
After the four caliphs, the Dashi, which originally elected its leaders by election, was eventually seized by the Umayyad family to rule Arabia. They relied on their power to become the governor of Syria after their conquest of Syria and managed Syria and Damascus. It's the same as their family's private territory.
The third Othman of the four caliphs belonged to the Umayyad family. He was assassinated later, but the fourth caliph was the enemy of the Umayyad family. The Umayyad family was originally the oldest twelve families in Mecca One, once their patriarch was mad against the Prophet.
The governor of Syria, Mu'awiyah, was originally the nephew of the third caliph Osman. He relied on the privileges given by his uncle when he was the caliph, and managed Syria as a private territory. After the assassination of the fourth caliph, he led the powerful The strength suppressed the other factions and successfully became the new caliphate.
However, not long after the caliph came to power, he announced that his son Ye Zid was the next heir to the caliph, and then moved the capital of Dashi to Damascus, his headquarters. In this way, the original leader election system was actually changed to They are Umayyads hereditary.
Therefore, today's Dashi is also called the Umayyad Dynasty, because they advocated white, so they are also called Baiyi Dashi.
A few years after Muawiya came to power, he gradually consolidated his power. He began to be dissatisfied with the city-under-the-city alliance he signed with Daqin, and he was unwilling to let Daqin take away the vast and fertile land of Persia.
Especially when Dashi was fighting fiercely back then, after Daqin united with Rome to destroy Dashi’s ally Axum, they attacked westward and occupied many port areas in Egypt. Later, Dashi even had to withdraw from Egypt, and Egypt finally It fell into the hands of the Daqin people.
The caliph had a grudge against the Romans, and his heart to perish Rome was not dead. After stabilizing his power, he began to organize a large army to go north, and launched three consecutive sieges of Constantinople.
It's a pity that they were defeated by the joint fleet of Rome and Daqin every time.
The great Qin sails, fast boats and treasure ships, coupled with the Greek fire weapon of the Romans, almost wiped out the Arab fleet that killed three times.
Seeing that it would be impossible to break Constantinople, Caliph Mu'awiya wanted to take back Egypt again in order to cut off the reinforcements of the Great Qin Fleet to Rome.
Mu'awiyah personally led an army south from Damascus, Syria, to expedition to Egypt.
It happened that the Supreme Emperor Luo Chengxi visited Egypt, and he immediately took over the command of Egypt, recruiting militiamen, pioneer knights, ocean fleets, and armed merchant ships from various colonies to unite.
In the Mediterranean, the Allied Army commanded by the Supreme Emperor defeated the Great Food Fleet and burned them all outside the port of Egypt. Then the Supreme Emperor commanded the army to defeat the Great Food Army on land.
Mu'awiya retreated back to Damascus in panic, losing more than [-] land and water soldiers and horses, and his vitality was severely injured.
The Caliph was forced to send envoys to ask Da Qin for peace.
Tianbao six years.
The Overlord and Constantine II, the grandson of the Roman Emperor Heraclius, and the Arab Caliph Muawiya held an alliance in Jerusalem.
In this meeting, the 66-year-old Emperor Qin completely controlled the rhythm of the meeting.
The defeated Mu'awiyah failed in successive conquests against Rome and Qin, and his domestic Four-leaf faction opponents took advantage of the situation. In order to prevent Rome and Great Qin from counterattacking, the Four-leaf faction rebelled again, so they could only agree to the peace agreement proposed by the Supreme Emperor .
After three months of negotiation, a new Three Emperors agreement drafted by Luo Cheng himself was finally released.
This new agreement replaced the old Great Qin Persia-Rome Permanent Friendship Agreement. Both Daqin and Rome recognized the status of the Dashi Umayyad Dynasty, but at the same time, the Umayyad Dynasty also formally established friendly relations with Daqin and Rome, and signed Under the Triple Border Agreement.
This border agreement stipulated that the Great Qin and the Umayyads would divide Persia, the Persian plateau and Mesopotamia belonged to the Umayyads, but Khorasan and Armenia belonged to the Great Qin, the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and the Balochistan mountainous area along the coast of the Arabian Sea to the east of Persia. Return to Daqin.
In addition, regarding the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen and Oman in the east belonged to Great Qin, while Syria in the west belonged to Umayyad.
But Jerusalem and the land south of it belonged to Rome.
The land on the south coast of the Red Sea and Egypt belonged to Daqin.
The big cannibal can no longer invade Armenia and Asia Minor, and the islands on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea also belong to Rome.
This agreement is not friendly to Dashi.But for the caliph who has been defeated repeatedly and the Four-leaf faction in the country is taking advantage of the rebellion, signing this covenant is also a helpless move.
If you don’t sign, then Rome and Great Qin may launch a counterattack. At that time, you will have to face attacks from all sides, east, west, north, and south. If you sign, then everyone can enjoy peace for the time being, and do business together to restore domestic stability.
In fact, the Roman emperor Constantine II wanted to persuade Luo Cheng to send troops to destroy the Umayyads, but Luo Cheng finally refused.
Although Dashi was defeated, it was still on a strong upward path. It would not be worthwhile for Daqin to have a full-scale decisive battle with them at this time.
Even if Dashi is wiped out, the Romans may benefit the most.
Therefore, to promote peace and stabilize the colonies occupied by the northern Persia and the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, it is actually very cost-effective for Luo Cheng and Daqin.
Back in Egypt, his son Changqing asked Luo Cheng why he didn't join hands with Rome to destroy Dashi, and then the whole of Persia and the Arabian Peninsula belonged to Daqin.
"Others don't care enough to swallow elephants. In fact, as early as 20 years ago, my Daqin's potential for expansion has reached its limit. Although it has conquered many places since then, it is no longer possible to immigrate Han people in large numbers. It is not possible to emigrate Han people in large numbers. You can’t immigrate and change species, do you know what it means? It means that our conquest of these places is still just an occupation. There are still a large number of alien races here. Sooner or later, they will rise up and turn the table to rebel. These newly conquered lands can only be regarded as plunder and collection of resources, and they cannot be truly regarded as our territory. We must be prepared for that. Once these places are out of control, we must have the courage to cut off our wrists at any time And determination, don't let them endanger the entire empire, understand?"
The Minister of the King of Armenia was thoughtful, "Are these places just used as resource-producing areas?"
"Yes, since we can't fully grasp it, we have to keep it. We have to get out at any time. Of course, if there is a chance, we can slowly turn it into our territory, such as your country of Armenia. Over the years, it has also been Is there no less than 20 people who immigrated before and after?"
"Yes."
"It's still a little less. Haizhong Road now has five counties, occupying the Transcaucasus and the Armenian Plateau, with a population of more than one million. There are only 20 Han immigrants, but they account for [-]%. They are still only a minority."
Changqing said, "But we have also engaged in replacement immigration these years, immigrating some Persians, Arabs, Egyptians, etc. here, and then relocating most of the tribes that have grown here for generations. Now the real In fact, only about [-]% of the aborigines, and the other half are immigrants from all over the world, and our Han immigrants account for the second largest number, which is quite impressive.”
"It is indeed impressive, but [-]% is still not enough. We have to find a way to strengthen it. There are not so many people to move in the Central Plains. You have to find a way, such as strengthening colonial education and increasing the speed of Sinicization. After two or three generations, let those alien immigrants only talk. In Chinese, only know etiquette, righteousness and ethics, and don’t remember their traditions and their gods. You can also strengthen the intermarriage between different ethnic groups, such as letting foreign women marry my Han family men, and foreign men marry my Han family Women, whether they marry a Han family or marry a Han family, the children they give birth to will all be Chinese Han people, and from the very beginning they can only learn Chinese and Chinese culture, and are not allowed to learn foreign languages and so on.”
Changqing nodded. He looked at his father and suddenly felt that his father was very old.
"Where is father going next?"
Luo Cheng rubbed his face, "Originally, I planned to sail the Mediterranean Sea, go to Constantinople, and then go to the Kingdom of Franks smoothly, then go north, return east along the Black Sea, meet old Turkic friends, and then pass by The Western Regions returned to the Central Plains."
"However, I suddenly lost interest. In this battle in Egypt, I took over the command for a while, won the victory, and forced Zaishi to sign a peace treaty. But in my opinion, these big cannibals are not good people. Even worse, sooner or later they will have trouble again, but I can't control those, maybe I can't see them."
The Roman Emperor Constantinople didn't want to go, and he didn't bother to visit the Frankish Kingdom, Bulgaria, Avars, Slavs, etc.
Anyway, here in the Mediterranean, you can see these Romans, Greeks, and barbarians everywhere. Compared with the Great Qin, these people are indeed still very backward, and they have a long way to go.
Here, the emperor also saw some other things, such as those Daqin merchant ships sailing in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, not only merchants, but also many ambitious people, and those coastal colonies did not fully follow the laws and regulations of the court, here It's very barbaric, and it's developing barbarously.
The strength of these colonies is not strong today, but what about 20 years from now, 50 years from now, and 100 years from now?At that time, I am afraid that these colonies will no longer pay attention to the control of the central government.
Whether there will be a colonial rebellion or something else in the future, Luo Cheng can't control it.
These may not be all bad things.
At least Huaxia has come out and is no longer confined to the circle of the Central Plains, and is still ahead of the times and leading the way.
From the Central Plains to the South China Sea, from Guannei to the Western Regions, from the plateau to Tianzhu, from the Indochina Peninsula to the Kunlun Islands, and then to the colonies in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the Chinese people have gone farther and farther, blossoming everywhere and taking root everywhere.
Whether it's the wild islands of the Kunlun Sea, the uncivilized continents of Beimang or Donghuang, or the ancient battlefields of Central Asia that have been fought for thousands of years, the Xias have all descended.
Maybe after a hundred or thousand years, some Xias will take root and sprout, and some Zhuxias will be slaughtered or assimilated by foreign races, but Luo Cheng believes that the seeds he sowed today will still lead Zhuxias to go further.
"I'm old, I want to return to my roots, and I don't want to continue wandering outside. Tomorrow, I will set off and return to the Central Plains. I will take a boat to Xindu Port, then follow the Xindu River to the Western Regions, and then pass the Silk Road from there Take the Hexi Corridor back to Guanzhong."
"My son sends the Supreme Emperor back home!"
Luo Cheng patted Changqing, "You can stay here, I'm not dead yet, when I die, you can come and see me off for the last time. Changqing, you've been here for decades, yes, go on Persevere, don't think about it for a while, and regret it in the end."
"My son doesn't dare!"
"It's useless to dare. Although Haizhong Road has 20 Han people and a population of one million, this is the Dao County of the imperial court. The feudal lords, knights, and soldiers here are all from the imperial court. If you want to rebel or want to separate one side, It is impossible to succeed, as long as the imperial court orders, the rebellion will be wiped out, remember!"
Changqing nodded, "My son will never dare to disagree."
"As long as you can keep your own position, then you can be a king here for the rest of your life, and your children and grandchildren will also have peace with the country. As long as the Great Qin exists, you can continue to be princes and nobles for a day. If one day, the Great Qin of the Central Plains You are gone, you can choose to raise the banner of King Qin and go back to the Central Plains to fight for rebellion, or you can choose to stand up for yourself here. There are two minds, do you understand?"
"My sons and ministers must keep in mind the words of the sages, and pass them on to future generations, and remember them forever."
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In the sixth year of Tianbao, the emperor finally returned to the east.
In Constantinople, the Roman emperor wept in grief when he heard that the Great Qin Emperor was no longer coming to the west.The Frankish Kingdom was deeply saddened to hear that the Emperor Qin Taishang canceled the trip to the west. They regretted that their country could not welcome an oriental saint.
Tianbao ten years.
It took the emperor five years to finally return to Luoyang from Egypt in the Mediterranean.
However, the emperor only stayed in Luoyang for half a year, and then went out of Beijing to Zhangqiu. The 70-year-old Supreme Emperor chose to stay away from Luoyang, the capital, and came to his hometown Chengtianfu to spend his old age.
At the foot of Changbai Mountain, on the Gongchen Mountain where the villas and manors are like forests, a large valley has been newly designated as a restricted area, where the emperor lives in seclusion.
He raised flowers and vegetables, and raised several horses and cows. The Supreme Emperor also raised a group of cats, cats and dogs, chickens, ducks and geese, and even dug several square fishing ponds to raise many fish.
There are no gorgeous palaces and pavilions, only grass sheds and bamboo houses that return to nature and simplicity.
Reading books every day, planting flowers and vegetables, teasing cats and dogs, no longer caring about military affairs, not about court personnel, life is happy.
The sun and the moon are unknown in the mountains, and the Supreme Emperor lived in the valley for ten years.
The winter of Tianbao's 20th year.
An envoy from Luoyang came from outside the valley, and the emperor was seriously ill.
On his sickbed, the emperor wrote a long letter to the Supreme Emperor, in which he recalled many past events, and finally said that he was fortunate to have lived up to the Supreme Emperor, and that Tianbao is still flourishing and prosperous after 20 years.
He also said that his body had reached its limit, so he decided to follow the example of the Supreme Emperor back then, pass the throne to the prince in advance, and help the prince get on the horse and send him off for a ride.
"This silly kid, he just cares too much about these things, so he works too hard. A person who is only 60 years old has already become sick from hard work, and he will be seriously ill."
Over eighty years old, his hair was already as white as frost and snow, but his complexion was still rosy and his teeth were still there. Luo Cheng shook his head with emotion.
"Saint, the crown prince is outside and said he wants to meet the saint."
"Yuanyou? Why is he here? At this time, he should stay in Luoyang?"
If the emperor died of illness, according to the rules, the crown prince should first ascend the throne before the spirit, complete the enthronement ceremony first, and then mourn for the Daxing emperor.
But now the prince came to Shandong not far away at this critical moment.
"Let him in."
Prince Yuanyou has also been a prince for 20 years, and he is over 40 years old. Seeing him, Luo Cheng couldn't help but think of Jiawen. They are very similar, but the prince is more heroic.
The crown prince saw Luo Cheng, and met him on a prostration. He informed Luo Cheng of his father's condition, and then he talked about the current situation of Daqin.
"The imperial doctor said that my father won't last this year."
However, Daqin is very stable and strong.
After Kaiyuan's 38th year of prosperity, followed by 20 years of Tianbao's prosperity, it lasted for nearly 60 years, especially the Central Plains, which has been very safe and stable.
"Father has been in power for 20 years, diligent and dedicated, and has never relaxed for a moment. In the past 20 years, my Great Qin has consolidated its control over the Indochina Peninsula, and it took another 20 years to finally colonize and conquer the kingdoms of Tianzhu... ·”
The 80-year-old Taishanghuang was not interested, and waved his hand, "There is no need to tell me these things. I chose you as grandson 20 years ago. Now that your father is leaving, the burden of Daqin will fall to you." It's on your shoulders, go back, take over this burden, and work hard."
"Grandson understands, grandson and Chancellor Di Renjie, Shangguanyi, etc. have agreed that he will ascend the throne next month, and next year it will be changed to Yuan, and the reign name is Zhenguan!"
This year name made Luo Cheng slightly taken aback.
Yuanyou quickly explained, "Sage, the word Zhenguan is taken from the Yijing, the way of heaven and earth, the person who observes Zhenguan, Zhen, Zhengye, Guan, showing, Zhenguan, also looks at people squarely."
Luo Cheng nodded, "I know, you took the word Zhenguan as your year name. It seems that you have a lot of ambitions, clarify the world, and expand the righteous way. That's right. Let's go and do it. I have experienced this with your father for 60 years. The scene of the prosperous age of the sky, now the Great Qin is strong and prosperous, and the people are rich. You have inherited a very rich world, but I also want to remind you, don’t be arrogant because of this. When I passed my warhammer to your father when he came to the throne, I told him He said that although a country is big, it will be in danger if it forgets to fight. Now, I will also tell you that although a country is strong, it will die if it is warlike. , remember to put people first, the people are the water, the king is the boat, the water can carry the boat, and it can also capsize the boat, remember.”
"I hope that in 30 or [-] years, when you hand over the throne to your prince, the world will still be strong and the people rich, and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe."
"Ancestor, please give me a few words of instruction!" Prince Yuanyou said sincerely.
"You have also studied state governance with your father for 20 years. With your intelligence, you can only say that the blue is better than the blue, so there is no need for me to teach you anything."
Yuanyou still knelt down.
"Okay, okay, let me just say a few words, now my Daqin is very powerful and has a vast territory, and some places have been conquered, such as the Korean Peninsula, such as the Dongying Islands, such as Liaodong outside the Guan, and Guangnan, Yunqian. Of course, there are still many places where our Daqin’s control is not strong due to one reason or another. The most fundamental reason is that immigration has not been realized there. There are deficiencies."
"If you want to solve these problems, the only way out is to immigrate and change species. This is the fundamental solution once and for all. However, my Daqin is now a vast land with few people. The mines, manors, and factories in the Central Plains all rely on the sale of foreign slaves. When working, the people of the Han family can at least be self-cultivating farmers and small landlords, or they are doing business, selling goods or opening workshops, and they all live a healthy and unrestrained life. How many people are willing to emigrate to those wild frontiers?"
"So, the only way is to find a way to have more children, and let those Han men marry wives and concubines. If you marry more, you will have more children, and the population will increase in the future. You can arrange for those bastards in the family to immigrate to the colony. They have been granted land and property over there."
"The other thing is that in these frontier colonies, these Han immigrants have to marry more Hu Yi women as concubines, so that they can quickly spread and increase the population of the Han family, supplemented by colonial and Sinicization education, then that will greatly improve the current colony. Dilemma."
Thank you Yuanyou.
"Thank you, my ancestor, for your guidance."
"Actually, you all know all of this. You just want to hear this from me."
"I can't hide anything from my ancestors. It's because there are many disputes and disputes about the colonies in the court. My grandson is about to take the throne, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the people after he takes the throne."
"Hahaha, so you said to come to me, let me say these words, and then take them back and pass them on to the court ministers?" Luo Cheng laughed.
The crown prince nodded. Although the Supreme Emperor has abdicated for 20 years, and he has not been involved in state affairs for 20 years, he still has unrivaled prestige and influence in Daqin. His words are definitely more effective than the crown prince who ascended the throne. .
"Okay, go back to Luoyang, I won't go back, I don't want white-haired people to send black-haired people. In the future, if you have nothing to do, don't bother me, no one will disturb me, I am happy and quiet, maybe I can live a few more days Year."
Crown Prince Luo Yuanyou left and returned to Luoyang.
In the autumn of Tianbao's 20th year, Emperor Luo Jiawen held a Zen throne ceremony and passed the throne to Prince Yuanyou.
Yuanyou was the third emperor of Great Qin, and Jiawen also became the third Supreme Emperor of Great Qin.
After these two times, abdication and passing on the throne has faintly become a Daqin tradition.
After taking the Zen throne, Jiawen still couldn't survive that winter. He died of illness in Xianren Palace in Luoyang just over a month after passing on the throne.
In the following year, the yuan was changed, and it became famous all over the world.
The new emperor was in power, determined to forge ahead, and reformed some of the long-standing shortcomings of the Tianbao Dynasty.
Five years after his reign, Zhenguan Emperor Yuanyou began to form an expeditionary army. Daqin’s expeditionary army went from Tunisia to Morocco, and quickly carried out Sinicization and colonization in North Africa. After that, the former Egypt, Axum, Yemen and other local Sinicized Hu people formed the Confederacy Army .
In the tenth year of Zhenguan, Daqin launched an expeditionary army of 20, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to attack Spain, and invaded the Iberian Peninsula.
After three years of fighting, the Great Qin Expeditionary Corps conquered two-thirds of Spain's territory, and then conquered the Germanic Visigothic Kingdom.
Yuanyou enfeoffed eight of his princes, and dozens of meritorious officials went to the local area to establish a country, and enfeoffed and stationed thousands of knights there, set up the Spanish Road and the Visigothic Road, and then immigrated and garrisoned there. Build castles etc.
Zhenguan 12 years.
Conscript the knights of Egypt, Morocco, Spain, and Visigoths, enlist the militia and Hu Yixie to join the army, and form an expeditionary army again.
The Hundred Thousand Expeditionary Corps crossed the Pyrenees and attacked the Frankish Kingdom.
However, due to the outbreak of the plague in the expeditionary corps, the distance was too far, the supply was difficult, and the barbarian agreement army defected, in the Battle of Poitiers, Frank Ostrasia, Neustria Wulvard, who was the Minister of the Third Kingdom of Burgundy, was ordered by King Hilderik II to call on the nobles and enfeoffed knights of the three kingdoms of the Franks to gather all the strength of the Franks to face the Great Qin Expeditionary Army.
Before the battle started, the commander-in-chief of the Great Qin Expeditionary Army was assassinated by the barbarian Gothic servants around him, which caused a big problem in the command system. Immediately after the battle, the Visigothic servants turned back again, making the Qin army Caught in the predicament of front and rear attack.
At the critical moment, other barbarian alliance troops also rebelled. The Frankish cavalry rushed to the Qin army. The betrayed Qin army was flanked back and forth.
However, the betrayal of the Congcong Army also led to the interruption of the Qin Army's logistics supplies. The Qin Army could only fight with hunger. After three days of hard fighting and more than a hundred miles of fighting, they were finally defeated due to lack of food.
The [-] expeditionary army was wiped out.
Although there are only about 2 Qin army knights and Han people's soldiers among them, there are [-] Qin army veteran knights in North Africa, Spain, and Visigothia.
The news of the defeat came back, shaking the Luoyang government and the public.
The emperor personally rushed to the foot of Changbai Mountain in Chengtian Mansion to plead guilty to the supreme emperor.
Kneeling is a day and a night.
In the end, the Supreme Supreme Emperor just asked someone to bring a few words to Yuanyou, and then let him go back without seeing him.
No one knew what the supreme emperor told the emperor, but after Yuanyou returned to Beijing, he immediately formed an expeditionary army again.
This time, none of the ministers of the DPRK and China objected.
The expeditionary army traveled from the Central Plains to Tiannan, from Tianzhu to the Red Sea, and then to North Africa. Knights and militiamen were called one by one.
In Spain, the Expeditionary Legion finally gathered [-] people. Although there were not as many soldiers and horses as in the first time, this time they were all Han knights and colonial militiamen, not a single barbarian.
The Merovingian dynasty had just won a battle, and they arrogantly thought they could win again.
Wulvard, the palace minister of the Three Kingdoms, once again served as the marshal, commanding the knights of the Three Kingdoms to lead the army to fight.But this time, the Qin army came prepared. In Visigothia, the Qin army won nine battles and won nine victories. People once again destroy the country.
Different from the gentle appeasement policy when they captured Visigoth last time, this time, the expeditionary army massacred [-] Visigothic cities, killing more than [-] people, and Visigothic rebels and Frankish knights were planted on pickets everywhere. .
Wulvard fled back to the north of the Pyrenees in embarrassment. The expeditionary force did not take advantage of the victory to enter Frank, but began to send out a large army to sweep the entire territory of Visigoth and Spain. brutal purge.
Finally, after the purge, the Qin army made a move to go out of the Pyrenees and attack Frank.
King Frank please make peace.
In the end, the two sides reached a peace agreement and signed a century-old armistice agreement. Frank had to pay 60 gold coins to Daqin every year in exchange for Daqin's forgiveness of Frank.
The agreement was signed, and the expeditionary army returned triumphantly.
The Spanish and Visigothic lands on the Iberian Peninsula north of the Butoro Strait have also stabilized and are still firmly in the hands of Daqin.
However, after this battle, the expeditionary force was disbanded, and the Emperor Zhenguan in Luoyang never mentioned the use of troops to the west coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
After this war, the territory of Daqin was basically stable. The territory of the empire started from the barbaric continent in the east, the Arctic Ocean, the Kunlun Sea Islands in the south, and the Iberian Peninsula in the Strait of Gibraltar in the west. Half of the Mediterranean Sea belonged to Daqin, and the Caspian Sea , Black Sea, completely subordinate to Daqin.
Originally, Yuanyou wanted to take advantage of the civil strife in Dashi, and wanted to turn around to encircle Dashi after defeating Frank, but Frank failed in the first battle, and after Changbai Valley was reprimanded by Luo Cheng, he stopped taking the initiative to tear up the agreement of the Three Emperors in Jerusalem plan.
In the 24th year of Zhenguan, the emperor Luo Yuanyou was seriously ill. Before he died, he still had a trace of regret. He had always been brooding about his failure to conquer Frank and Dashi.
Three months before his death, Luo Yuanyou also abdicated his throne Zen to his prince Luo Shaosheng according to the tradition.
Before succeeding to the throne, Luo Shaosheng also came to the Forbidden Valley of Changbai Mountain in Chengtian Mansion to meet the ancestors according to the tradition.
At this time, the empire has gone through 84 years, and the ancestor is 44 years old. He has lived for [-] years after he abdicated. Although these years have become more and more ignorant of world affairs, no one can ignore this founding saint. Supreme Supreme Emperor.
Outside the Forbidden Valley, Crown Prince Shao Sheng left behind his guards and ministers, and entered the valley alone to pay his respects.
When he saw Luo Cheng, the middle-aged Luo Shaosheng was so startled that he could hardly speak. Ten years ago, he came here with his father to pay respects to his ancestors. But see you again ten years later, the old ancestor has black hair and looks like a child, as if he has rejuvenated.
"Don't be surprised, it's actually just a wig. I've lost all my old hair and teeth. Although I'm in good spirits, I might not be able to sleep someday."
"It will be changed to yuan next year, what is the name of the new year?"
"Back to our ancestors, the new year's name is Yonghui!"
Luo Cheng looked at Luo Shaosheng and nodded slightly. He looked far inferior to Zhenguan Emperor Yuanyou, but he was not bad. In terms of qualifications, he might be better than Jiawen. His succession would not do much, but as long as he is willing to appoint wise men Listening to advice and accepting advice can be regarded as a successful king.
"I heard that you brought your eldest son here?"
"Empress Xian is waiting outside. Without the permission of my ancestors, I dare not bring it in directly."
"Call over and have a look!"
Luo Shaosheng nodded quickly, as long as the ancestor is willing to see him, if he is satisfied at that time, then he nods, and the crown prince's position will be stabilized.
He is still very fond of Luo Xian, but the child's mother died early, so even though he is born as the first wife, he is a bit lonely in the palace.
Luo Xian was in his early twenties, tall and tall, and what was rare was that he looked very similar to Luo Cheng when he was young, and Luo Cheng fell in love with him immediately.
After asking for a conversation, I found that this child is also generous, very intelligent, and has a good temper.
"Alright, alright, I will make Xian'er the crown prince in the future."
Three months later.
Luo Cheng received the bad news from Luoyang in the Forbidden Valley of Changbai Mountain. The third emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty, Emperor Zhenguan Luo Yuanyou died of illness in Xianren Palace in Luoyang.
The temple name is Gaozong, and the posthumous title is Emperor Wu.
Luo Cheng sat on the bamboo chair in the bamboo building with a calm expression. He sent away his son and now his grandson and the two emperors.
After sitting quietly for a while, the emperor got up and went down the bamboo building.
When he came to the vegetable garden surrounded by bamboo fences in front of the building, he carefully inspected the rows of vegetables in the garden.
The sweet potato leaves are green, and the vines cover the vegetable ridge, and corn is planted on one side of the vegetable ridge. The corn whiskers like the general's helmet tassel have withered, and the corn wrapped in shell leaves is full and mature, ready to be picked at any time.
On the other side of the ridge, there are tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, and potatoes.
On the side of the garden, pumpkin vines are covered on the shelf, and a small piece of sunflower is planted in one corner.
These were all obtained with great difficulty across the ocean, and they were all native products of the American continent on the far side of the ocean. The emperor successively organized several ocean-going adventure fleets. It took ten years to finally have this garden.
"Old ancestor, are you taking care of these treasures again?" An old-fashioned eunuch came over.
"Xiao Lizi, the corn is ripe. Send some back to Sinong Temple and tell them that these are treasures. After planting, the yield per mu is over a thousand catties. And the potatoes and sweet potatoes can be dug in a few days. They are also drought-tolerant and high-yield crops that are easy to grow, and can be used as coarse grains, all of which are treasures."
"Saint, this is all auspicious." Xiao Lizi, a eunuch in his 70s, said with a toothless grin.
Luo Cheng stood in front of the garden full of potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, and peppers holding his hoe, and grinned, revealing his empty gums that also lost half of his teeth.
(End of this chapter)
The first year of Tianbao.
The new emperor has not been on the throne for less than a hundred days, but the Supreme Emperor has quietly set out from Xianren Palace to tour the world.This time the Supreme Emperor went on a tour, without fanfare, only Chaozhong Zaifu and some third-rank ministers knew about it.
Emperor Tianbao specially dispatched Jinyiwei, Huangchengsi and other elites, and selected [-] knights from all over the world to form the Taishanghuang Guards Dragon and Tiger Army to protect the Taishanghuang's safety along the way.
When leaving Luoyang, there were no people to see them off, nor did the emperor lead a hundred officials out of the city for twenty miles to see him off. , He originally intended to bring two or three hundred people along.
The Supreme Emperor rode a horse when he came out of Beijing, and changed to a carriage the next day. He was older, no more than the inspection tour more than 20 years ago, and now he rode a horse for a day, and felt a little overwhelmed at night.
The Taishang Emperor went eastward, and first went to Songshan for a tour. Although the Shaolin Temple, the great temple here, is still there today, it is considered a real hermit practice. Thousands of temple cleansers no longer exist, and now there are only a hundred monks, young and old, who are self-sufficient by plowing fields, growing vegetables, collecting firewood and burning charcoal while chanting scriptures and practicing.
Inside the mountain gate, there is no such splendid golden bronze statue, nor those exquisite temples and pavilions, but the tranquility here makes people like it.
The Supreme Emperor stayed on the mountain for three days, talked with the current abbot about the status quo of Shaolin Zen Buddhism, and also talked about Buddhism, and then went down the mountain.
Continue eastward, exit Hulao Pass, cross the Grand Canal, enter Shandong along the Jishui River, and arrive at Mount Tai.
The Taishanghuang climbed Mount Tai again, but this time there was no huge team from Fengchan. The Taishanghuang climbed to the top of Mount Tai, saw the sunrise, and then went down the mountain.
Going north, I arrived at my hometown Zhangqiu, and went to Changbai Mountain to see the forest of heroes over there.
The manor villas of heroes and nobles all over the mountain are magnificent.
There are not many familiar people and things in my hometown. It is already one of the six capitals of the Great Qin Dynasty, a bustling industrial and commercial center.
After leaving his hometown, the Supreme Emperor toured the Shandong Peninsula, then cruised along the Bohai Bay, passed the Liaoxi Corridor to the Liaodong Peninsula, and then crossed the Yalu River to the Korean Peninsula.
Walk slowly all the way, stop and go.
The Supreme Emperor finally crossed the Korean Strait, landed on the Dongying Islands, went to see the Iwami Silver Mine and the Besshi Copper Mine, and finally even went to the northern islands to see the naturalized Ainu people there.
Picking a good weather, the Supreme Emperor took the boat driven by Shi Xin to Sakhalin Island, landed on Vladivostok, and finally went northeast to Heilongjiang Estuary, and went around the feudal kingdom of his third son Li Zhewei. There, Luo Cheng I also saw the concubine Li Xiuning who has lived here for more than a year. She is still in good health and has adapted to the cold here. There are seven or eight months of winter in a year. She adapts and slowly I like it.
After spending a long winter there, the Supreme Emperor did not go further north, but began to return south.
On the return journey through Baishan Mountain in Liaodong, the Supreme Emperor climbed to Tianchi on the top of the mountain and set up a stele there.
Take another boat from Dahang City at the mouth of the Yalu River to Qingdao Port.
Dahang City, which was fought in the past, was once just a small military fort, but now it is a prosperous trading port, a Yalu River, connected to the sea, transporting countless merchants to and from.
Riding on the big ship of the Bohai Fleet, the Supreme Emperor sailed back to the Central Plains, landed in Qingdao, a big port in Shandong, and then cruised southward to climb Langya Mountain.
The Supreme Emperor occasionally felt the wind and cold in Langya Mountain, so he stayed there for three months. During this period, he also organized an adventure fleet, an ocean-going adventure fleet with more than ten ships and more than 1000 people. The Supreme Emperor drew a relatively simple sea plan for them. Figure, let them sail eastward, across the vast East China Sea, to find the southern land of the Eastern Desolation Continent.
Although Shixin has long gone to the Eastern Desolate Continent from the northern strait, what he arrived at from the north was a wild snowy field of ice and snow world, and the exploration from the north to the south was not smooth, and until now, he has not gone south much. .
Luo Cheng hopes that this new adventure fleet can directly cross the Pacific Ocean and reach South America. In that fertile land, many new species in the south can be found, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, etc., as well as tomatoes and other South American crops. , these things, especially potatoes and corn, are extremely important.
For this reason, the Supreme Emperor rewarded the adventure fleet with a generous amount of money and made a very heavy promise that if they could find these corns, potatoes, etc., they would be able to exchange each of them for a Marquis.
Three months later, the Taishanghuang recovered and continued to cruise south. After passing through Pengcheng County, when the Taishanghuang was sailing in Surabaya, he organized people to salvage Zhou Ding in the Sishui River. After more than a month of searching, he actually found it. Produced by Zhou Ding.
After arriving at Guangling, the Supreme Emperor continued to go south along the Grand Canal until he reached Yuhang, climbed Kuaiji Mountain, sacrificed to Dayu, and carved stones.
In Kuaiji, the Supreme Emperor was assassinated.
There was an assassin intending to ambush with a privately built catapult on the way of the Supreme Emperor, but the Pathfinder Knights found out ahead of time, and the assassin was captured. Under interrogation, it was found that the assassins were a group of Japanese pirates, and the commanders behind the scenes were a group of subjugated nobles who pretended to be businessmen Infiltrated into the Central Plains, planning for a long time, intending to assassinate the Supreme Emperor.
These people are very courageous, but they want to assassinate the Supreme Emperor, but it is impossible to succeed at all. Although they finally sneaked into the Central Plains and managed to predict the route of the Supreme Emperor, it is impossible for their simple catapult to have a chance to hit The emperor's carriage.
For these people, Luo Cheng was not too frightened and angry, not even surprised. After all, he has destroyed countless countries, and it is normal for a few unwilling people to assassinate him.
After asking the knights to hand them over to the local government, Luo Cheng went west.
Go west all the way to Yunmeng, inspect the Jinghu granary, go down the Xiangjiang River, reach Jiuyi Mountain, and worship Yu Shun at Jiuyi Mountain.
After offering sacrifices to Yu Shun, the emperor drove across Wuling, arrived at Lingnan, toured Guangxi and Guangdong, and then went south along the coast to tour Guangnan, Linyi, Funan, Chenla, and Lishui roads in the south.
In Ruiguang Port, the emperor drank with Cunxiao and other vassals, and went into the sea to shoot sharks and catch whales with a bed crossbow. After spending a good summer vacation there, the emperor went up the Lishui River to Ruili.
Then he abandoned the boat and rode a carriage to reach Lijiang, Dali and other places. After resting there for a few months, the emperor went west to Shuzhong. Enter the snow-covered plateau and go to Weizang.
After passing through the Xiangxiong Road, enter the Bolu Road, walk through the snow-capped mountains and glaciers under the Kunlun Mountains, go down the Xindu River, and enter the Tianzhu Continent.
Along the Xindu River to the Arabian Sea, the emperor took the ship of the ocean-going fleet, headed west to Yemen in the Red Sea, and then followed the imperial court's colony on the southern bank of the Red Sea all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, all the way to Egypt.
By the time he arrived in Egypt, the emperor had been on tour for five full years.
In the past five years, Luo Cheng traveled around the mountains and rivers, and indeed no longer interfered with the affairs of the court.Although the emperor will regularly send people to send memorials to the emperor, the emperor will also ask him for instructions on many important state affairs.
But every time Luo Cheng read it, he just replied that he had read it later, and even later, he simply didn't even approve these two words, and sealed it back as it was.
Although the emperor made some mistakes after he came to power, they were only minor mistakes, and the emperor finally secured his position.
The Political Affairs Hall and the Hanlin Academy, including the Yushitai and the Privy Council, have been replaced with a group of newcomers. These are the officials in the Eastern Palace. Now, after five years, the old ministers such as Changsun Wuji have either expired or Older people gradually withdrew from the center, and exited decently.
Jiawen was very generous to these old ministers. Those who had served as prime ministers and university scholars all served as dukes of the country, and each of them made an exception and got a good piece of fief. Money and silk increased.
In the past five years, many founding heroes have passed away.
There are fewer and fewer old friends.
The Taishanghuang's body is not as good as before, but it is still quite strong. The five-year parade, not only did not make his body deteriorate, but it seemed to make his body better.
When I was in Egypt, it happened that the Arabs sent troops to fight again.
At this time, the Arab Empire, after experiencing the era of the Prophet and the four caliphs, was powerful and dominated Central Asia. The Persian Sasanian had completely destroyed the country, most of it was occupied by Dashi, and part of it was merged into Daqin.
After the four caliphs, the Dashi, which originally elected its leaders by election, was eventually seized by the Umayyad family to rule Arabia. They relied on their power to become the governor of Syria after their conquest of Syria and managed Syria and Damascus. It's the same as their family's private territory.
The third Othman of the four caliphs belonged to the Umayyad family. He was assassinated later, but the fourth caliph was the enemy of the Umayyad family. The Umayyad family was originally the oldest twelve families in Mecca One, once their patriarch was mad against the Prophet.
The governor of Syria, Mu'awiyah, was originally the nephew of the third caliph Osman. He relied on the privileges given by his uncle when he was the caliph, and managed Syria as a private territory. After the assassination of the fourth caliph, he led the powerful The strength suppressed the other factions and successfully became the new caliphate.
However, not long after the caliph came to power, he announced that his son Ye Zid was the next heir to the caliph, and then moved the capital of Dashi to Damascus, his headquarters. In this way, the original leader election system was actually changed to They are Umayyads hereditary.
Therefore, today's Dashi is also called the Umayyad Dynasty, because they advocated white, so they are also called Baiyi Dashi.
A few years after Muawiya came to power, he gradually consolidated his power. He began to be dissatisfied with the city-under-the-city alliance he signed with Daqin, and he was unwilling to let Daqin take away the vast and fertile land of Persia.
Especially when Dashi was fighting fiercely back then, after Daqin united with Rome to destroy Dashi’s ally Axum, they attacked westward and occupied many port areas in Egypt. Later, Dashi even had to withdraw from Egypt, and Egypt finally It fell into the hands of the Daqin people.
The caliph had a grudge against the Romans, and his heart to perish Rome was not dead. After stabilizing his power, he began to organize a large army to go north, and launched three consecutive sieges of Constantinople.
It's a pity that they were defeated by the joint fleet of Rome and Daqin every time.
The great Qin sails, fast boats and treasure ships, coupled with the Greek fire weapon of the Romans, almost wiped out the Arab fleet that killed three times.
Seeing that it would be impossible to break Constantinople, Caliph Mu'awiya wanted to take back Egypt again in order to cut off the reinforcements of the Great Qin Fleet to Rome.
Mu'awiyah personally led an army south from Damascus, Syria, to expedition to Egypt.
It happened that the Supreme Emperor Luo Chengxi visited Egypt, and he immediately took over the command of Egypt, recruiting militiamen, pioneer knights, ocean fleets, and armed merchant ships from various colonies to unite.
In the Mediterranean, the Allied Army commanded by the Supreme Emperor defeated the Great Food Fleet and burned them all outside the port of Egypt. Then the Supreme Emperor commanded the army to defeat the Great Food Army on land.
Mu'awiya retreated back to Damascus in panic, losing more than [-] land and water soldiers and horses, and his vitality was severely injured.
The Caliph was forced to send envoys to ask Da Qin for peace.
Tianbao six years.
The Overlord and Constantine II, the grandson of the Roman Emperor Heraclius, and the Arab Caliph Muawiya held an alliance in Jerusalem.
In this meeting, the 66-year-old Emperor Qin completely controlled the rhythm of the meeting.
The defeated Mu'awiyah failed in successive conquests against Rome and Qin, and his domestic Four-leaf faction opponents took advantage of the situation. In order to prevent Rome and Great Qin from counterattacking, the Four-leaf faction rebelled again, so they could only agree to the peace agreement proposed by the Supreme Emperor .
After three months of negotiation, a new Three Emperors agreement drafted by Luo Cheng himself was finally released.
This new agreement replaced the old Great Qin Persia-Rome Permanent Friendship Agreement. Both Daqin and Rome recognized the status of the Dashi Umayyad Dynasty, but at the same time, the Umayyad Dynasty also formally established friendly relations with Daqin and Rome, and signed Under the Triple Border Agreement.
This border agreement stipulated that the Great Qin and the Umayyads would divide Persia, the Persian plateau and Mesopotamia belonged to the Umayyads, but Khorasan and Armenia belonged to the Great Qin, the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and the Balochistan mountainous area along the coast of the Arabian Sea to the east of Persia. Return to Daqin.
In addition, regarding the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen and Oman in the east belonged to Great Qin, while Syria in the west belonged to Umayyad.
But Jerusalem and the land south of it belonged to Rome.
The land on the south coast of the Red Sea and Egypt belonged to Daqin.
The big cannibal can no longer invade Armenia and Asia Minor, and the islands on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea also belong to Rome.
This agreement is not friendly to Dashi.But for the caliph who has been defeated repeatedly and the Four-leaf faction in the country is taking advantage of the rebellion, signing this covenant is also a helpless move.
If you don’t sign, then Rome and Great Qin may launch a counterattack. At that time, you will have to face attacks from all sides, east, west, north, and south. If you sign, then everyone can enjoy peace for the time being, and do business together to restore domestic stability.
In fact, the Roman emperor Constantine II wanted to persuade Luo Cheng to send troops to destroy the Umayyads, but Luo Cheng finally refused.
Although Dashi was defeated, it was still on a strong upward path. It would not be worthwhile for Daqin to have a full-scale decisive battle with them at this time.
Even if Dashi is wiped out, the Romans may benefit the most.
Therefore, to promote peace and stabilize the colonies occupied by the northern Persia and the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, it is actually very cost-effective for Luo Cheng and Daqin.
Back in Egypt, his son Changqing asked Luo Cheng why he didn't join hands with Rome to destroy Dashi, and then the whole of Persia and the Arabian Peninsula belonged to Daqin.
"Others don't care enough to swallow elephants. In fact, as early as 20 years ago, my Daqin's potential for expansion has reached its limit. Although it has conquered many places since then, it is no longer possible to immigrate Han people in large numbers. It is not possible to emigrate Han people in large numbers. You can’t immigrate and change species, do you know what it means? It means that our conquest of these places is still just an occupation. There are still a large number of alien races here. Sooner or later, they will rise up and turn the table to rebel. These newly conquered lands can only be regarded as plunder and collection of resources, and they cannot be truly regarded as our territory. We must be prepared for that. Once these places are out of control, we must have the courage to cut off our wrists at any time And determination, don't let them endanger the entire empire, understand?"
The Minister of the King of Armenia was thoughtful, "Are these places just used as resource-producing areas?"
"Yes, since we can't fully grasp it, we have to keep it. We have to get out at any time. Of course, if there is a chance, we can slowly turn it into our territory, such as your country of Armenia. Over the years, it has also been Is there no less than 20 people who immigrated before and after?"
"Yes."
"It's still a little less. Haizhong Road now has five counties, occupying the Transcaucasus and the Armenian Plateau, with a population of more than one million. There are only 20 Han immigrants, but they account for [-]%. They are still only a minority."
Changqing said, "But we have also engaged in replacement immigration these years, immigrating some Persians, Arabs, Egyptians, etc. here, and then relocating most of the tribes that have grown here for generations. Now the real In fact, only about [-]% of the aborigines, and the other half are immigrants from all over the world, and our Han immigrants account for the second largest number, which is quite impressive.”
"It is indeed impressive, but [-]% is still not enough. We have to find a way to strengthen it. There are not so many people to move in the Central Plains. You have to find a way, such as strengthening colonial education and increasing the speed of Sinicization. After two or three generations, let those alien immigrants only talk. In Chinese, only know etiquette, righteousness and ethics, and don’t remember their traditions and their gods. You can also strengthen the intermarriage between different ethnic groups, such as letting foreign women marry my Han family men, and foreign men marry my Han family Women, whether they marry a Han family or marry a Han family, the children they give birth to will all be Chinese Han people, and from the very beginning they can only learn Chinese and Chinese culture, and are not allowed to learn foreign languages and so on.”
Changqing nodded. He looked at his father and suddenly felt that his father was very old.
"Where is father going next?"
Luo Cheng rubbed his face, "Originally, I planned to sail the Mediterranean Sea, go to Constantinople, and then go to the Kingdom of Franks smoothly, then go north, return east along the Black Sea, meet old Turkic friends, and then pass by The Western Regions returned to the Central Plains."
"However, I suddenly lost interest. In this battle in Egypt, I took over the command for a while, won the victory, and forced Zaishi to sign a peace treaty. But in my opinion, these big cannibals are not good people. Even worse, sooner or later they will have trouble again, but I can't control those, maybe I can't see them."
The Roman Emperor Constantinople didn't want to go, and he didn't bother to visit the Frankish Kingdom, Bulgaria, Avars, Slavs, etc.
Anyway, here in the Mediterranean, you can see these Romans, Greeks, and barbarians everywhere. Compared with the Great Qin, these people are indeed still very backward, and they have a long way to go.
Here, the emperor also saw some other things, such as those Daqin merchant ships sailing in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, not only merchants, but also many ambitious people, and those coastal colonies did not fully follow the laws and regulations of the court, here It's very barbaric, and it's developing barbarously.
The strength of these colonies is not strong today, but what about 20 years from now, 50 years from now, and 100 years from now?At that time, I am afraid that these colonies will no longer pay attention to the control of the central government.
Whether there will be a colonial rebellion or something else in the future, Luo Cheng can't control it.
These may not be all bad things.
At least Huaxia has come out and is no longer confined to the circle of the Central Plains, and is still ahead of the times and leading the way.
From the Central Plains to the South China Sea, from Guannei to the Western Regions, from the plateau to Tianzhu, from the Indochina Peninsula to the Kunlun Islands, and then to the colonies in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the Chinese people have gone farther and farther, blossoming everywhere and taking root everywhere.
Whether it's the wild islands of the Kunlun Sea, the uncivilized continents of Beimang or Donghuang, or the ancient battlefields of Central Asia that have been fought for thousands of years, the Xias have all descended.
Maybe after a hundred or thousand years, some Xias will take root and sprout, and some Zhuxias will be slaughtered or assimilated by foreign races, but Luo Cheng believes that the seeds he sowed today will still lead Zhuxias to go further.
"I'm old, I want to return to my roots, and I don't want to continue wandering outside. Tomorrow, I will set off and return to the Central Plains. I will take a boat to Xindu Port, then follow the Xindu River to the Western Regions, and then pass the Silk Road from there Take the Hexi Corridor back to Guanzhong."
"My son sends the Supreme Emperor back home!"
Luo Cheng patted Changqing, "You can stay here, I'm not dead yet, when I die, you can come and see me off for the last time. Changqing, you've been here for decades, yes, go on Persevere, don't think about it for a while, and regret it in the end."
"My son doesn't dare!"
"It's useless to dare. Although Haizhong Road has 20 Han people and a population of one million, this is the Dao County of the imperial court. The feudal lords, knights, and soldiers here are all from the imperial court. If you want to rebel or want to separate one side, It is impossible to succeed, as long as the imperial court orders, the rebellion will be wiped out, remember!"
Changqing nodded, "My son will never dare to disagree."
"As long as you can keep your own position, then you can be a king here for the rest of your life, and your children and grandchildren will also have peace with the country. As long as the Great Qin exists, you can continue to be princes and nobles for a day. If one day, the Great Qin of the Central Plains You are gone, you can choose to raise the banner of King Qin and go back to the Central Plains to fight for rebellion, or you can choose to stand up for yourself here. There are two minds, do you understand?"
"My sons and ministers must keep in mind the words of the sages, and pass them on to future generations, and remember them forever."
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In the sixth year of Tianbao, the emperor finally returned to the east.
In Constantinople, the Roman emperor wept in grief when he heard that the Great Qin Emperor was no longer coming to the west.The Frankish Kingdom was deeply saddened to hear that the Emperor Qin Taishang canceled the trip to the west. They regretted that their country could not welcome an oriental saint.
Tianbao ten years.
It took the emperor five years to finally return to Luoyang from Egypt in the Mediterranean.
However, the emperor only stayed in Luoyang for half a year, and then went out of Beijing to Zhangqiu. The 70-year-old Supreme Emperor chose to stay away from Luoyang, the capital, and came to his hometown Chengtianfu to spend his old age.
At the foot of Changbai Mountain, on the Gongchen Mountain where the villas and manors are like forests, a large valley has been newly designated as a restricted area, where the emperor lives in seclusion.
He raised flowers and vegetables, and raised several horses and cows. The Supreme Emperor also raised a group of cats, cats and dogs, chickens, ducks and geese, and even dug several square fishing ponds to raise many fish.
There are no gorgeous palaces and pavilions, only grass sheds and bamboo houses that return to nature and simplicity.
Reading books every day, planting flowers and vegetables, teasing cats and dogs, no longer caring about military affairs, not about court personnel, life is happy.
The sun and the moon are unknown in the mountains, and the Supreme Emperor lived in the valley for ten years.
The winter of Tianbao's 20th year.
An envoy from Luoyang came from outside the valley, and the emperor was seriously ill.
On his sickbed, the emperor wrote a long letter to the Supreme Emperor, in which he recalled many past events, and finally said that he was fortunate to have lived up to the Supreme Emperor, and that Tianbao is still flourishing and prosperous after 20 years.
He also said that his body had reached its limit, so he decided to follow the example of the Supreme Emperor back then, pass the throne to the prince in advance, and help the prince get on the horse and send him off for a ride.
"This silly kid, he just cares too much about these things, so he works too hard. A person who is only 60 years old has already become sick from hard work, and he will be seriously ill."
Over eighty years old, his hair was already as white as frost and snow, but his complexion was still rosy and his teeth were still there. Luo Cheng shook his head with emotion.
"Saint, the crown prince is outside and said he wants to meet the saint."
"Yuanyou? Why is he here? At this time, he should stay in Luoyang?"
If the emperor died of illness, according to the rules, the crown prince should first ascend the throne before the spirit, complete the enthronement ceremony first, and then mourn for the Daxing emperor.
But now the prince came to Shandong not far away at this critical moment.
"Let him in."
Prince Yuanyou has also been a prince for 20 years, and he is over 40 years old. Seeing him, Luo Cheng couldn't help but think of Jiawen. They are very similar, but the prince is more heroic.
The crown prince saw Luo Cheng, and met him on a prostration. He informed Luo Cheng of his father's condition, and then he talked about the current situation of Daqin.
"The imperial doctor said that my father won't last this year."
However, Daqin is very stable and strong.
After Kaiyuan's 38th year of prosperity, followed by 20 years of Tianbao's prosperity, it lasted for nearly 60 years, especially the Central Plains, which has been very safe and stable.
"Father has been in power for 20 years, diligent and dedicated, and has never relaxed for a moment. In the past 20 years, my Great Qin has consolidated its control over the Indochina Peninsula, and it took another 20 years to finally colonize and conquer the kingdoms of Tianzhu... ·”
The 80-year-old Taishanghuang was not interested, and waved his hand, "There is no need to tell me these things. I chose you as grandson 20 years ago. Now that your father is leaving, the burden of Daqin will fall to you." It's on your shoulders, go back, take over this burden, and work hard."
"Grandson understands, grandson and Chancellor Di Renjie, Shangguanyi, etc. have agreed that he will ascend the throne next month, and next year it will be changed to Yuan, and the reign name is Zhenguan!"
This year name made Luo Cheng slightly taken aback.
Yuanyou quickly explained, "Sage, the word Zhenguan is taken from the Yijing, the way of heaven and earth, the person who observes Zhenguan, Zhen, Zhengye, Guan, showing, Zhenguan, also looks at people squarely."
Luo Cheng nodded, "I know, you took the word Zhenguan as your year name. It seems that you have a lot of ambitions, clarify the world, and expand the righteous way. That's right. Let's go and do it. I have experienced this with your father for 60 years. The scene of the prosperous age of the sky, now the Great Qin is strong and prosperous, and the people are rich. You have inherited a very rich world, but I also want to remind you, don’t be arrogant because of this. When I passed my warhammer to your father when he came to the throne, I told him He said that although a country is big, it will be in danger if it forgets to fight. Now, I will also tell you that although a country is strong, it will die if it is warlike. , remember to put people first, the people are the water, the king is the boat, the water can carry the boat, and it can also capsize the boat, remember.”
"I hope that in 30 or [-] years, when you hand over the throne to your prince, the world will still be strong and the people rich, and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe."
"Ancestor, please give me a few words of instruction!" Prince Yuanyou said sincerely.
"You have also studied state governance with your father for 20 years. With your intelligence, you can only say that the blue is better than the blue, so there is no need for me to teach you anything."
Yuanyou still knelt down.
"Okay, okay, let me just say a few words, now my Daqin is very powerful and has a vast territory, and some places have been conquered, such as the Korean Peninsula, such as the Dongying Islands, such as Liaodong outside the Guan, and Guangnan, Yunqian. Of course, there are still many places where our Daqin’s control is not strong due to one reason or another. The most fundamental reason is that immigration has not been realized there. There are deficiencies."
"If you want to solve these problems, the only way out is to immigrate and change species. This is the fundamental solution once and for all. However, my Daqin is now a vast land with few people. The mines, manors, and factories in the Central Plains all rely on the sale of foreign slaves. When working, the people of the Han family can at least be self-cultivating farmers and small landlords, or they are doing business, selling goods or opening workshops, and they all live a healthy and unrestrained life. How many people are willing to emigrate to those wild frontiers?"
"So, the only way is to find a way to have more children, and let those Han men marry wives and concubines. If you marry more, you will have more children, and the population will increase in the future. You can arrange for those bastards in the family to immigrate to the colony. They have been granted land and property over there."
"The other thing is that in these frontier colonies, these Han immigrants have to marry more Hu Yi women as concubines, so that they can quickly spread and increase the population of the Han family, supplemented by colonial and Sinicization education, then that will greatly improve the current colony. Dilemma."
Thank you Yuanyou.
"Thank you, my ancestor, for your guidance."
"Actually, you all know all of this. You just want to hear this from me."
"I can't hide anything from my ancestors. It's because there are many disputes and disputes about the colonies in the court. My grandson is about to take the throne, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the people after he takes the throne."
"Hahaha, so you said to come to me, let me say these words, and then take them back and pass them on to the court ministers?" Luo Cheng laughed.
The crown prince nodded. Although the Supreme Emperor has abdicated for 20 years, and he has not been involved in state affairs for 20 years, he still has unrivaled prestige and influence in Daqin. His words are definitely more effective than the crown prince who ascended the throne. .
"Okay, go back to Luoyang, I won't go back, I don't want white-haired people to send black-haired people. In the future, if you have nothing to do, don't bother me, no one will disturb me, I am happy and quiet, maybe I can live a few more days Year."
Crown Prince Luo Yuanyou left and returned to Luoyang.
In the autumn of Tianbao's 20th year, Emperor Luo Jiawen held a Zen throne ceremony and passed the throne to Prince Yuanyou.
Yuanyou was the third emperor of Great Qin, and Jiawen also became the third Supreme Emperor of Great Qin.
After these two times, abdication and passing on the throne has faintly become a Daqin tradition.
After taking the Zen throne, Jiawen still couldn't survive that winter. He died of illness in Xianren Palace in Luoyang just over a month after passing on the throne.
In the following year, the yuan was changed, and it became famous all over the world.
The new emperor was in power, determined to forge ahead, and reformed some of the long-standing shortcomings of the Tianbao Dynasty.
Five years after his reign, Zhenguan Emperor Yuanyou began to form an expeditionary army. Daqin’s expeditionary army went from Tunisia to Morocco, and quickly carried out Sinicization and colonization in North Africa. After that, the former Egypt, Axum, Yemen and other local Sinicized Hu people formed the Confederacy Army .
In the tenth year of Zhenguan, Daqin launched an expeditionary army of 20, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar to attack Spain, and invaded the Iberian Peninsula.
After three years of fighting, the Great Qin Expeditionary Corps conquered two-thirds of Spain's territory, and then conquered the Germanic Visigothic Kingdom.
Yuanyou enfeoffed eight of his princes, and dozens of meritorious officials went to the local area to establish a country, and enfeoffed and stationed thousands of knights there, set up the Spanish Road and the Visigothic Road, and then immigrated and garrisoned there. Build castles etc.
Zhenguan 12 years.
Conscript the knights of Egypt, Morocco, Spain, and Visigoths, enlist the militia and Hu Yixie to join the army, and form an expeditionary army again.
The Hundred Thousand Expeditionary Corps crossed the Pyrenees and attacked the Frankish Kingdom.
However, due to the outbreak of the plague in the expeditionary corps, the distance was too far, the supply was difficult, and the barbarian agreement army defected, in the Battle of Poitiers, Frank Ostrasia, Neustria Wulvard, who was the Minister of the Third Kingdom of Burgundy, was ordered by King Hilderik II to call on the nobles and enfeoffed knights of the three kingdoms of the Franks to gather all the strength of the Franks to face the Great Qin Expeditionary Army.
Before the battle started, the commander-in-chief of the Great Qin Expeditionary Army was assassinated by the barbarian Gothic servants around him, which caused a big problem in the command system. Immediately after the battle, the Visigothic servants turned back again, making the Qin army Caught in the predicament of front and rear attack.
At the critical moment, other barbarian alliance troops also rebelled. The Frankish cavalry rushed to the Qin army. The betrayed Qin army was flanked back and forth.
However, the betrayal of the Congcong Army also led to the interruption of the Qin Army's logistics supplies. The Qin Army could only fight with hunger. After three days of hard fighting and more than a hundred miles of fighting, they were finally defeated due to lack of food.
The [-] expeditionary army was wiped out.
Although there are only about 2 Qin army knights and Han people's soldiers among them, there are [-] Qin army veteran knights in North Africa, Spain, and Visigothia.
The news of the defeat came back, shaking the Luoyang government and the public.
The emperor personally rushed to the foot of Changbai Mountain in Chengtian Mansion to plead guilty to the supreme emperor.
Kneeling is a day and a night.
In the end, the Supreme Supreme Emperor just asked someone to bring a few words to Yuanyou, and then let him go back without seeing him.
No one knew what the supreme emperor told the emperor, but after Yuanyou returned to Beijing, he immediately formed an expeditionary army again.
This time, none of the ministers of the DPRK and China objected.
The expeditionary army traveled from the Central Plains to Tiannan, from Tianzhu to the Red Sea, and then to North Africa. Knights and militiamen were called one by one.
In Spain, the Expeditionary Legion finally gathered [-] people. Although there were not as many soldiers and horses as in the first time, this time they were all Han knights and colonial militiamen, not a single barbarian.
The Merovingian dynasty had just won a battle, and they arrogantly thought they could win again.
Wulvard, the palace minister of the Three Kingdoms, once again served as the marshal, commanding the knights of the Three Kingdoms to lead the army to fight.But this time, the Qin army came prepared. In Visigothia, the Qin army won nine battles and won nine victories. People once again destroy the country.
Different from the gentle appeasement policy when they captured Visigoth last time, this time, the expeditionary army massacred [-] Visigothic cities, killing more than [-] people, and Visigothic rebels and Frankish knights were planted on pickets everywhere. .
Wulvard fled back to the north of the Pyrenees in embarrassment. The expeditionary force did not take advantage of the victory to enter Frank, but began to send out a large army to sweep the entire territory of Visigoth and Spain. brutal purge.
Finally, after the purge, the Qin army made a move to go out of the Pyrenees and attack Frank.
King Frank please make peace.
In the end, the two sides reached a peace agreement and signed a century-old armistice agreement. Frank had to pay 60 gold coins to Daqin every year in exchange for Daqin's forgiveness of Frank.
The agreement was signed, and the expeditionary army returned triumphantly.
The Spanish and Visigothic lands on the Iberian Peninsula north of the Butoro Strait have also stabilized and are still firmly in the hands of Daqin.
However, after this battle, the expeditionary force was disbanded, and the Emperor Zhenguan in Luoyang never mentioned the use of troops to the west coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
After this war, the territory of Daqin was basically stable. The territory of the empire started from the barbaric continent in the east, the Arctic Ocean, the Kunlun Sea Islands in the south, and the Iberian Peninsula in the Strait of Gibraltar in the west. Half of the Mediterranean Sea belonged to Daqin, and the Caspian Sea , Black Sea, completely subordinate to Daqin.
Originally, Yuanyou wanted to take advantage of the civil strife in Dashi, and wanted to turn around to encircle Dashi after defeating Frank, but Frank failed in the first battle, and after Changbai Valley was reprimanded by Luo Cheng, he stopped taking the initiative to tear up the agreement of the Three Emperors in Jerusalem plan.
In the 24th year of Zhenguan, the emperor Luo Yuanyou was seriously ill. Before he died, he still had a trace of regret. He had always been brooding about his failure to conquer Frank and Dashi.
Three months before his death, Luo Yuanyou also abdicated his throne Zen to his prince Luo Shaosheng according to the tradition.
Before succeeding to the throne, Luo Shaosheng also came to the Forbidden Valley of Changbai Mountain in Chengtian Mansion to meet the ancestors according to the tradition.
At this time, the empire has gone through 84 years, and the ancestor is 44 years old. He has lived for [-] years after he abdicated. Although these years have become more and more ignorant of world affairs, no one can ignore this founding saint. Supreme Supreme Emperor.
Outside the Forbidden Valley, Crown Prince Shao Sheng left behind his guards and ministers, and entered the valley alone to pay his respects.
When he saw Luo Cheng, the middle-aged Luo Shaosheng was so startled that he could hardly speak. Ten years ago, he came here with his father to pay respects to his ancestors. But see you again ten years later, the old ancestor has black hair and looks like a child, as if he has rejuvenated.
"Don't be surprised, it's actually just a wig. I've lost all my old hair and teeth. Although I'm in good spirits, I might not be able to sleep someday."
"It will be changed to yuan next year, what is the name of the new year?"
"Back to our ancestors, the new year's name is Yonghui!"
Luo Cheng looked at Luo Shaosheng and nodded slightly. He looked far inferior to Zhenguan Emperor Yuanyou, but he was not bad. In terms of qualifications, he might be better than Jiawen. His succession would not do much, but as long as he is willing to appoint wise men Listening to advice and accepting advice can be regarded as a successful king.
"I heard that you brought your eldest son here?"
"Empress Xian is waiting outside. Without the permission of my ancestors, I dare not bring it in directly."
"Call over and have a look!"
Luo Shaosheng nodded quickly, as long as the ancestor is willing to see him, if he is satisfied at that time, then he nods, and the crown prince's position will be stabilized.
He is still very fond of Luo Xian, but the child's mother died early, so even though he is born as the first wife, he is a bit lonely in the palace.
Luo Xian was in his early twenties, tall and tall, and what was rare was that he looked very similar to Luo Cheng when he was young, and Luo Cheng fell in love with him immediately.
After asking for a conversation, I found that this child is also generous, very intelligent, and has a good temper.
"Alright, alright, I will make Xian'er the crown prince in the future."
Three months later.
Luo Cheng received the bad news from Luoyang in the Forbidden Valley of Changbai Mountain. The third emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty, Emperor Zhenguan Luo Yuanyou died of illness in Xianren Palace in Luoyang.
The temple name is Gaozong, and the posthumous title is Emperor Wu.
Luo Cheng sat on the bamboo chair in the bamboo building with a calm expression. He sent away his son and now his grandson and the two emperors.
After sitting quietly for a while, the emperor got up and went down the bamboo building.
When he came to the vegetable garden surrounded by bamboo fences in front of the building, he carefully inspected the rows of vegetables in the garden.
The sweet potato leaves are green, and the vines cover the vegetable ridge, and corn is planted on one side of the vegetable ridge. The corn whiskers like the general's helmet tassel have withered, and the corn wrapped in shell leaves is full and mature, ready to be picked at any time.
On the other side of the ridge, there are tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, and potatoes.
On the side of the garden, pumpkin vines are covered on the shelf, and a small piece of sunflower is planted in one corner.
These were all obtained with great difficulty across the ocean, and they were all native products of the American continent on the far side of the ocean. The emperor successively organized several ocean-going adventure fleets. It took ten years to finally have this garden.
"Old ancestor, are you taking care of these treasures again?" An old-fashioned eunuch came over.
"Xiao Lizi, the corn is ripe. Send some back to Sinong Temple and tell them that these are treasures. After planting, the yield per mu is over a thousand catties. And the potatoes and sweet potatoes can be dug in a few days. They are also drought-tolerant and high-yield crops that are easy to grow, and can be used as coarse grains, all of which are treasures."
"Saint, this is all auspicious." Xiao Lizi, a eunuch in his 70s, said with a toothless grin.
Luo Cheng stood in front of the garden full of potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, and peppers holding his hoe, and grinned, revealing his empty gums that also lost half of his teeth.
(End of this chapter)
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