Yes, Emperor Zhaowu was an emperor who loved manic attacks even more than his father and grandfather. During his twelve years in power, he fought wars basically every year, either to suppress rebellions or to fight in the north or south.

, fight to the west, fight overseas. Anyway, he kept saying, "Whatever happened to my imperial grandfather, I will do the same."

He is addicted to learning from Li Zhiyun.

Then he died, of exhaustion.

The reign name of Zhaowu is as poisonous as anyone who messes with it will be a fool. You can't say that Emperor Zhaowu is useless, and you can't say that he is a waste. You can only say that he is not a good emperor. Because when this person was in power, Nian

During the years of war, his land territory and overseas territory more than doubled, but his warehouses were completely emptied by him, and even rats would cry hungry when they entered the warehouses.

He left a lot of mess to his prince, the fifth emperor of the empire, who was rumored to be the successor appointed by Emperor Zhenguan two generations later, Li Yaoshun.

When Li Yaoshun ascended the throne, he was finally different from Emperor Zhaowu and Emperor Xuanwu. He was in his thirties, when he was in the prime of life.

After Li Yaoshun ascended the throne, he changed his reign to Xuanlong.

He is the one who truly learned from Emperor Zhenguan. After Emperor Xuanlong ascended the throne, he comprehensively cleaned up the mess left by Emperor Zhaowu. It took only five years for the rapidly declining empire to stop its decline. After that, Emperor Xuanlong joined forces and joined forces.

, smashed the various interest groups in the DPRK to pieces, and then re-measured all the acres within the empire's territory, distributed the people for free, comprehensively massacred the local powerful, and arranged immigration in an orderly manner. The empire's economy quickly recovered under the governance of Emperor Xuanlong.

In this way, the people's hearts attached themselves to Lao Li's family again.

When Emperor Xuanlong first ascended the throne, he often said that the wealth left by Emperor Zhenguan, Emperor Xuanwu, and two other emperors was actually wiped out by Emperor Zhaowu alone. How did he do it?

Really, Emperor Xuanlong could not imagine how his father had ruined his family.

Emperor Xuanlong cleared land within the empire and vigorously promoted land distribution, which was the most vigorous effort after Emperor Zhenguan. During this period, there was an interval of nearly seventy years. The killing of powerful men was a reserved skill of the emperors of the old Li family.

Basically everyone knows it and everyone likes to use it.

Basically, everyone in the previous era died, but people who read history books think that Emperor Xuanlong is really very similar to Emperor Zhenguan.

Similar?

No, Emperor Xuanlong just wanted to say, in fact, I just digested all the theoretical books that my great-grandfather left me.

After the empire was stabilized, the ZTE began. Fifteen years later, the empire fully returned to the prosperity of Emperor Xuanwu's period. However, Emperor Xuanlong felt that it was not enough. He wanted to continue. He wanted to be as good as Emperor Zhenguan.

It's a pity that the empire's stall is even bigger at this time.

Because the steam engine was born.

After more than a hundred years of development, industry finally ushered in a period of huge explosion with solid theoretical knowledge.

Emperor Zhenguan, Emperor Xuanwu, Emperor Zhaowu, during the reign of these three emperors, various mechanical drawings left by skilled craftsmen of various eras were finally taken out by Emperor Xuanlong from the secret room of Chang'an Taiji Palace when the steam engines were heard in the sky.

Train, giant ship, automobile, loom

Countless steam machines appeared in front of the world, crushing the ridiculous human and animal power.

When the black smoke filled the air, accompanied by the sound of "clang, clang, clang, clang, clang", it crushed over the ice-covered Beizhou continent, passing through the vast ice field, muskets rang out, and ice bears fell in a pool of blood.

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When the artillery set off a violent storm on the sea, the giant steel ships crushed the ridiculous water villages of the natives of Tianzhu, and the soldiers of the empire landed on the lost continent that Emperor Zhenguan had dreamed of and wanted his descendants to find.

Various crops were brought back to the empire on giant ships, planted and picked, and the population exploded within twenty years.

During the reign of Emperor Zhenguan, the population peaked at 10 million households with a population of more than 60 million. During Emperor Xuanwu's period, the population declined because large-scale immigration began. During Emperor Zhaowu's period, the population further declined because people died in wars and the economy deteriorated.

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Now, with the bringing back of crops and the vigorous promotion of small-acre farming, the population has begun to rebound. Under the reign of Emperor Xuanlong, the population finally exceeded 100 million. This is not counting the colonies occupied by the empire or overseas.

The population of the metropolitan area.

After the application of the steam engine, Emperor Xuanlong decisively began the road of conquest, attacking all the way to the west and driving away a group of descendants of the old Li family.

Then, colonial rule began on various continents. Some historians believe that the real colonization of the Shentang Empire began with Emperor Xuanlong.

Emperor Xuanlong made many achievements in his life, paying equal attention to both civil and military affairs. Many people regarded him as the second emperor of Zhenguan. However, Emperor Xuanlong himself said that he could not compare with Emperor Zhenguan at all.

Emperor Xuanlong was also a long-lived emperor. He reigned for forty years and later abdicated to become the Supreme Emperor and lived to be over eighty years old.

Some people say he was the emperor who resurrected the empire, while others say he was the emperor who saved the empire.

Later generations of historians have studied and found that the emperors of the Tang Empire were basically long-lived emperors who could live to be seventy or eighty years old. The most outrageous Emperor Zhenguan lived to be more than ninety years old. Some people think that this longevity gene comes from

It was inherited from Emperor Zhenguan, but was quickly overthrown.

Because the brothers of Emperor Zhenguan generally only lived to be fifty or sixty years old. Later, some people proposed that the longevity gene of the Tang Empire was inherited from the Hongnong Yang family, because after checking the genealogy of the Tang Empire, they found that Emperor Zhenguan’s Empress Yang

The several children born to him, as well as their descendants, all lived a long life. And the line of King Ji born to another Yang Zhaoyi also lived a long life. Therefore, they concluded that the children of the union of the Li family and the Yang family all lived a long life.

However, this is not important.

What is important is that the most incredible thing about the Tang Empire to historians is that there were eight generations of Mingjuns in a row. For eight generations in a row, there was no such nonsense. This is simply incredible. Even the most despised Emperor Zhaowu still had merit.

Yes, after all, the territory he has conquered is not small. At most, we can only say that he is militaristic, but we cannot say that he is a waste.

After research by historians, they found that once the prince of the Tang Empire was established, there was no doubt between father and son. The emperor always tried his best to cultivate the prince, and the emperor was not afraid of the prince's challenge at all.

Even between the father and son who had the worst relationship in the history of the Tang Empire, Emperor Ningwu and Emperor Daxing, there was no mutual suspicion. At most, they were unhappy with each other.

Emperor Ningwu was the son of Emperor Xuanlong. He always felt that Emperor Daxing looked nothing like him. He was tall and thick, had a bad face, and his appearance was too bad. If this son was not valued by Emperor Xuanlong, he would not want to stand up at all.

For the prince.

Emperor Daxing was a concubine, and he didn't like his father who was busy writing and writing all day long. He was too lazy to cater to his father's preferences and still went his own way. Basically, during the reign of Emperor Ningwu, Emperor Daxing, who was still the prince, was just an otaku.

Don't think that Emperor Ningwu only played around all day long. He was evaluated by historians as the coldest, most scheming, and cruelest emperor in the history of the Tang Empire. His cruelty made ministers faint from fear.

During the reign of Emperor Ningwu, it was the lowest pressure moment in the history of the entire empire. Everyone lived cautiously. You know, Emperor Ningwu may be talking to you with a smile one moment, but the next moment, he will coldly order to kill you.

Your whole family, if I say I will kill your whole family, I will kill your whole family, and I will do what I say.

Of course, except for the common people.

Well, Emperor Ningwu once trampled down an old farmer's crops on horseback, and even after being pointed at his nose and scolded his ancestors for eighteen generations, he didn't even dare to fart.

When Emperor Ningwu was about to die, he summoned Emperor Daxing. By this time, Emperor Daxing had long been a otaku and had turned into a heroic man with fair skin and rosy complexion.

Emperor Ningwu was very happy. He took his son's hand and said, "This is my son. The descendants of my Li family have been unrivaled in their splendor from generation to generation since Emperor Zhenguan."

Emperor Daxing was speechless and even wanted to cover his face.

Before Emperor Ningwu died, he told him that after he succeeded to the throne, he would kill those nobles and local powerful people, kill them.

The traditional skills of Lao Li's family are passed down from generation to generation.

Emperor Ningwu is such a person, he is cruel, he is cold, and his scheming is so complex that people cannot fathom it.

He is evaluated by historians as a top professional emperor, a star-level player with a transfer fee of over 100 million.

By the way, Emperor Ningwu was extremely good at painting butterflies. He left thirty-two paintings in his life, eight of which were lost. Among the remaining twenty-four, one used skin as paper to paint.

"Blue Butterfly" is a priceless treasure.

As for why, you have to know what kind of leather it is.

According to unofficial records, Emperor Ningwu was hurt by love, and later his temperament changed drastically. After he ascended the throne, he liked to peel off human skins to paint, especially butterflies.

Some people call Emperor Ningwu’s first love the ‘Butterfly Queen’.

After Emperor Daxing came to the throne, the first thing he did was to start the traditional arts of the old Li family, massacre local powerful people, and then reduce taxes and gifts. After that, the second thing was to arrest all the painters in the palace and order them to use their own

As a template, draw a portrait of a woman.

As for who the woman was, there is no record in the history books. The history books only say that Emperor Daxing killed all the painters in the palace.

This unsolved mystery has been linked to the scandal of Emperor Ningwu. Historians even speculated that Emperor Daxing was probably born of the rumored Queen Butterfly. However, this Queen Butterfly did not harm Emperor Ningwu, but

Die early.

Of course, these are all speculations and there is no evidence at all.

Emperor Daxing was not as ridiculous as Emperor Ningwu, but he was not a good emperor either. During his reign, he traveled everywhere, traveling all over the world, and never had a free day, as if he wanted to make up for the time when he was an otaku.

Funny.

Despite this, Emperor Daxing was not a foolish emperor, he just loved to play. During the period when he was emperor, the empire was in two words: development.

No, Emperor Daxing did nothing else, he just followed the normal path of development. He had no ambition at all, he just enjoyed himself and lay down, completely unworthy of his reign.

After his death, Emperor Yuan Hui ascended the throne. The eighth emperor of the Tang Empire and the last wise emperor, he was very young when he ascended the throne, only sixteen years old.

Consecrating Emperor Yuan Hui as the crown prince was probably the most correct thing done by Emperor Daxing, who was lying flat.

Because after this young emperor ascended the throne, he made the empire strong again. Following the path of Emperor Zhenguan and Emperor Xuanlong, he reorganized the empire from top to bottom, inside and out, and made the empire complete.

He completely occupied the Australian continent and the American continent, turning the entire Pacific into the 'Great Lake' of the empire. In addition, he also popularized the orders left by his ancestor Emperor Zhenguan; he built primary schools and middle schools.

With the efforts of Emperor Yuanhui, every state and county had primary and secondary schools, and universities were built in some big cities. In terms of education, Emperor Yuanhui surpassed all previous emperors of the Tang Empire, even Emperor Zhenguan was not able to do the same. But this is understandable.

Emperor Zhenguan had too many challenges and too many things at that time, and it was time to lay the foundation.

People at that time praised Emperor Yuanhui as Emperor Zhenguan during his lifetime.

Emperor Yuan Hui was very cold in temperament, a bit like Emperor Ning Wu, but he was not as cruel as Emperor Ning Wu. He was only cruel to his enemies.

Despite this, the courtiers still feared him.

The reason why history remembers this emperor is not only his achievements, but also a stupid thing he did, which almost made him nailed to the pillar of shame.
To be continued...