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Chapter 1626: Peace in the World
"Good grandson, this is another truth that your grandfather taught you!" Li Shimin said lightly as he looked at the 100,000 soldiers who all knelt down in front of him, and Lou Shide, whose attitude was helpless but respectful.

"Please give us some advice, Grandpa Emperor!" Li Wei said hurriedly.

"The principle is very simple. You must simplify and handle things quickly. Don't make complicated plans that you can't even remember. Then spend days or even months planning them. By then, the opportunity will be gone!"

"Discover the problem, find its thread, and then pull it out directly, and the problem will be solved!" Li Shimin touched Li Wei's head and added, "If killing people can solve the problem, then kill them directly. Don't delay! The longer you delay, the worse it will be!"

"Yes!" Li Wei nodded, not quite understanding. These words were still a little too profound for him.

With Lou Shide's direct surrender, the entire situation was completely under the control of the Li Tang royal family in an instant. Needless to say, what happened afterwards was that the new emperor successfully completed the coronation ceremony, and the coronation edict was also announced to all directions by hundreds of messengers.

In Luoyang City, Wu Zetian, who was about to ascend the throne and had been powerful for more than 30 years, was killed. The whole Luoyang City was silent for a while, and then Luoyang City fell into a sea of ​​joy. Everyone applauded the death of Wu Zetian. Except for a very small number of people, few felt surprised.

There are many reasons for this universal celebration, the most important of which is that Wu Zetian was really ruthless. In order to ascend the throne, she killed almost all the noble families in Chang'an and Luoyang. After all, as long as most of the power in the world is still in the hands of the noble families, they will never tolerate a woman ascending the throne.

So compared to the ordinary people who have been ruled by aristocratic families for thousands of years, there are two people they need to thank the most, one is Wu Zetian and the other is Huang Chao.

Wu Zetian was the first person who blatantly took up a knife and attacked the aristocratic families. Although she did not wipe out the aristocratic families, she basically wiped out their military power. At the same time, she also gave students from poor families the opportunity to enter the court, which was equivalent to digging a hole for the aristocratic families.

And when Huang Chao came, he kicked all the aristocratic families into a pit... Because they had lost their military power at the hands of Wu Zetian, wherever Huang Chao passed, the aristocratic families could no longer easily pull out thousands or even tens of thousands of troops from their own fortresses as they did during the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Even if they cannot mobilize the adults' army, they can still defend their own Tungsten Fort, which is equivalent to a small city and has a very complete defense system. Even if tens of thousands of people besiege it, it will take at least thousands of lives to break through the Tungsten Fort, which is quite unprofitable.

Wu Zetian had neutralized all these armed forces and tungsten fortresses, so when Huang Chao passed by, she could easily kill all the aristocratic families entrenched in the local area, until almost all the adult males of the Five Surnames and Seven Families were extinct, and the aristocratic family system was completely kicked into the garbage dump.

Of course, it would be wrong to say that it was all due to the efforts of these two people. The real reason was the super melee among various warlords during the entire Five Dynasties period, which almost disrupted all the existing aristocratic families.

After the founding of the Song Dynasty, when the aristocratic families wanted to resume their development, the political atmosphere of the Song Dynasty that advocated culture, coupled with the rapid development of printing technology, made it impossible for education to be controlled by a small number of aristocratic families.

At the same time, with the rapid development of commerce and agriculture, as well as the relatively stable social environment in the north and south, the situation in which a large amount of land resources were concentrated in the hands of a few aristocratic families disappeared. Instead, a class of small landlords emerged, which owned relatively small amounts of land but were a hundred times more numerous than the aristocratic families. This eventually caused the aristocratic families to lose their living ground and ushered in the era of landlord feudalism.

There are so many things involved here that it is impossible to explain them in a few words. In addition to Wu Zetian's suppression of the aristocratic families, the biggest problem is probably her gender as a woman, which is really unacceptable. Even though she has been strong for 30 years and made everyone dare not oppose, opposition does not mean acceptance. Deep down, everyone is still extremely resistant to a female emperor.

I thought in my heart that having you, Wu Zetian, as the female emperor was enough, and I would never accept a second female emperor.

Therefore, even if Wu Zetian only stayed in her own palace for three days without directly managing the government, she immediately lost control of the court. The aristocratic families and the royal family of Li Tang launched a coup and drove Wu Zetian out.

When Li Xian's queen, Wei, also tried to replicate Wu Zetian's experience and killed her husband to become emperor, all the forces in the court did not hesitate at all and directly welcomed Li Longji back from thousands of miles away. Then, with the cooperation of almost everyone in the court, Li Longji easily killed Wei and put the imperial power back in the hands of men.

This means that the entire court is suffering from severe Wu Zetian PTSD.

Let's get back to the point. With such an atmosphere, the result of the hundreds of messengers going down can be imagined. Except for a few areas that were turbulent throughout the world, all other provincial governors happily accepted the enthronement edict, and at the same time, they were the first to present their congratulations to the new emperor on his ascension to the throne.

Although many provincial governors scoffed at the unbelievable plot in the imperial edict that Emperor Taizong returned to earth to kill Wu Zetian after becoming an immortal, they believed it to be complete nonsense.

But they are all smart people, and smart people can naturally immediately make up many truths in their minds.

For example, the trick of Emperor Taizong's return must have been a grand conspiracy that the Li Tang royal family had been secretly planning for a long time. There must have been countless forces opposing Wu Zetian who joined in the conspiracy and cooperated perfectly. Otherwise, how could it be hidden from a woman like Wu Zetian who was good at spy politics?

As for why Li Wei ascended the throne in the end, it was definitely because the Li Tang royal family was afraid that Wu Zetian's descendants would overturn Wu Zetian's case. At the same time, the descendants of King Wu Li Ke were the ones who secretly planned everything, so the throne naturally fell into the hands of Li Ke's lineage.

What, you ask why a little emperor ascended the throne in the end?

That must be because none of the bigwigs who were secretly planning everything wanted the other to ascend the throne, as this would mean they would lose power. It would be better to simply let a young teenage emperor ascend the throne so that they could still hold on to power before the emperor took power. This was truly an extremely clever strategy.

These provincial governors could not help but admire the Li Tang royal family's forbearance and planning, but at the same time they felt fear deep in their hearts. Who knows if there are any hidden players around them!
After so much consideration, which provincial governor would dare to rebel? Anyway, the imperial edict has already stated that past mistakes will not be pursued. More than half of the officials in the world were promoted by Wu Zetian. Can you really settle accounts with them?
Even if there were a few individuals who wanted to rebel, the army was arrested by the people around them before it even started, and then sent directly to Luoyang to be beheaded. The momentum that Wu Zetian had painstakingly built up for 30 years fell apart in an instant with her death.

The transfer of power was smooth to an unimaginable degree.

(End of this chapter)