Children always feel that time passes very slowly. A day is a very long time in their eyes, but as they grow older, they will feel that time goes faster and faster. The unit of calculating time begins to change from the sky to the moon, then from the month to the year, and even in the end, the time of year becomes very short. It seems that a year passes after a blink, and another year passes after a blink...

Li Xiu was older and felt that time passed quickly. It seemed that he had blinked a few times. As a result, another ten years passed. At this time, he was nearly seventy years old. As for Changsun Wuji also passed away two years ago. When he passed away, Li Xiu also went to visit him as promised. However, when Changsun Wuji knew that Li Xiu had traveled through time, his whole reaction was similar to Li Shimin. After being shocked, he laughed again, and then quickly closed his eyes forever. Li Zhi ordered Changsun Wuji to be buried in Zhaoling. .

After Changsun Wuji passed away, Li Xiu lost one friend, and he has not been in good health in the past two years, so he rarely goes out. Even when Li Zhi has something to discuss with him, he will come to see him in person.

There was no big war in the Tang Dynasty in the past ten years. Covered cement roads had been built on the grasslands in the north, and cities had been built at various transportation hubs. At the same time, more and more Han people moved to the grasslands. All the barbarians who dared to resist on the grasslands were dead. The rest were obediently living with the Han people, learning Chinese and wearing Hanfu. Except for those who were older, the younger generation had begun to be assimilated into Han people.

As for the Western Regions, the Tang Dynasty had stabilized the territory of Central Asia, and even the Thunder Ye City was defeated in advance, which also extended the power of the Tang Dynasty to the awakening area, and its ties with Persia became closer and closer. However, the closer the relationship, the more likely it was to conflict. The main reason was that Persia was preventing the Tang Dynasty from annexing its own territory, and the Tang Dynasty hated Persia for blocking the Tang Dynasty's trade route, which also made the relationship between the two sides a little tense.

However, although there was more filth between the Tang Dynasty and Persia, it still maintained a cooperative relationship on the surface. However, the Tang Dynasty began to contact Dashi in private and secretly provoked Dashi. The struggle between Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire was fought. Of course, these three kingdoms were in constant wars, and the Tang Dynasty only added a handful of firewood to the fire.

In fact, the Three Kingdoms of Dashi also knew that the Tang Dynasty had no good intentions, but they did not dare to break up with the Tang Dynasty. After all, the Three Kingdoms knew that no matter which side the Tang Dynasty joined, they could destroy the other side. Therefore, they could only deliberately make friends with the Tang Dynasty and not offend it too much. This also allowed the Tang Dynasty to get along well among the Three Kingdoms and gained all the benefits.

In the southwest direction of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo had already been half-defeated by the Tang Dynasty, and Songtsen Gampo was also a short-lived ghost. He had passed away many years ago. Later, the Feinusi of the Tang Dynasty was provoked, causing the Tubo, which was already uneven, to become a mess. In addition, the introduction of Buddhism made Tubo work in Buddhism, and all the power was controlled by major temples, forming Buddhist forces one by one.

These Buddhist forces are fighting each other and it is impossible to form a joint force. Moreover, Buddhism erodes people's hearts, making everyone only cultivate in the next life and not seeking this life. It can be said that the entire Tubo has been abandoned because of this, and there will be no hope of rising again. In fact, if it weren't for the high terrain of Tubo, Li Ke's character, that would have been defeated here long ago. Unfortunately, the plateau is too dangerous to the people living in the plains, so the Tang Dynasty could only make the internal chaos of Tubo, thus losing the threat to the Tang Dynasty.

Ten years ago, Li Chengqian, Li Ke and Li Jin captured Linyi, but this was just the beginning. After several years of rest and recuperation, Li Chengqian began to advance to the entire Southeast Peninsula with Linyi as the foundation. Zhenla and other countries have been destroyed one after another. Most of the Southeast Peninsula has fallen into Li Chengqian's hands and has even begun to contact Tianzhu on the west side.

As for the navy, the navy was even more steadily. Under the command of Li Jin, the navy had already crossed the Strait of Malacca and even reached the coast controlled by Dashi and Persia. Two years ago, it even fought with Dashi's navy. Although the number of warships in the Tang Dynasty was relatively small at that time, it had an advantage in quality. It defeated Dashi's navy in one fell swoop and plundered the coast before leaving. Afterwards, Dashi did not dare to pursue it, but instead sent an envoy to Dashi to explain that this was just a misunderstanding.

However, as Li Jin and Li Chengqian went further and further, more and more impeachments were made against them in the court, but Li Zhi ignored them all, and even he didn't care about Li Chengqian and Li Jin attracting the people to move out.

Speaking of which, the population of the Tang Dynasty has increased again in the past decade, and as long as the population has increased to scale, coupled with the tradition of having many children and blessings in the Central Plains, and now there is no shortage of food, the population of the Tang Dynasty has almost exploded. For example, after the liberation of later generations, the population increased from 400 million to more than one billion in just a few decades, and the Tang Dynasty also welcomed this period of large population growth.

However, with a larger population, the survival resources are naturally thinner than before. And no matter how powerful the empire is, there will always be many people who become poor for various reasons. Of course, most of these poor people have been digested by the newly added land within the Tang Dynasty, but some of them have chosen to venture to go out to sea, which has become the source of population in the Southeast Peninsula and the Southeast Ocean. After all, the natives in the Southeast Ocean are too lazy and are really useless.

It is also worth mentioning that Li Ke probably saw Li Jin and Li Chengqian killing so happily overseas. He seemed to understand Li Zhi's thoughts, so he began to feel unwilling to be lonely. However, he suddenly realized that Li Chengqian's goal was to the west, Li Jin's goal was to the east, and the Tang Dynasty was to the north, and the only thing left was to the south, and the Southeast was impossible, and the only thing left was Antarctica.

Of course, Li Ke would not go to Antarctica to be the king of penguins. In the end, he actually contacted Li Chengdao from the Americas. Now the two have a close relationship, and Li Ke is also secretly building a sea boat to prepare to go to sea. Although Li Zhi knew this clearly, he only sent officials to strengthen his rule over the south. As for Li Ke's small actions, he never paid attention to it.

Although Li Xiu rarely went out in the past ten years, he has been paying attention to the changes in all aspects of the Tang Dynasty. As for the matters of Li Jin and the other two, he knew very well, but as long as Li Zhi didn't care, he was too lazy to care.

However, just as Li Xiu's 70th birthday was approaching this year, Li Zhi suddenly issued an order to summon Li Jin, Li Chengqian and Li Ke back to Chang'an, which attracted countless people's attention. There were even rumors that Li Zhi was going to attack Li Jin and the other two!
Chapter completed!