Save the Bachelor of Heaven

After pacifying Jizhou, Qi and Lu, and with Lingnan nominally surrendered, Li Yuan deposed Emperor Yang You, proclaimed himself emperor, and named the country Tang, with the capital in Chang'an and the reign title Wude.

When he learned that Li Yuan had proclaimed himself empress, Song Que also established a country in Lingnan and proclaimed himself emperor.

Just like the ancient Annan, it nominally surrendered to the Central Plains dynasty, but in fact, in its own territory, people called themselves emperors.

Song Que named the country "Han", the reign title was Hanxing, and the capital was Guangzhou. Song Que's ancestors migrated all the way south to avoid the war in the late Western Jin Dynasty and finally settled in Lingnan.

Therefore, Song Que was also proud of his Han ancestry and despised people like Yang Jian and Li Yuan who were mixed Han and Xianbei, believing that they were barbarians and foreigners, not pure Han ancestry.

Therefore, when he founded the country, he once again named the country Han, meaning that he was the orthodox Han.

When Li Yuan learned that Song Que had also established himself as the queen, he chose to acquiesce and endure in silence.

Because with the current strength of the Song clan, he really couldn't do anything to him. So he could only pretend that nothing happened for the time being.

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In the following period of time, the Han Kingdom began to continuously immigrate to the Southeast Peninsula.

It was agreed that anyone who went there would have land to share when they arrived. Therefore, it attracted a large number of landless poor people.

At the same time, Lingnan widely planted corn, rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, etc., and the grain output remained high. The people could basically fill their stomachs, so it attracted a large number of people to move to Lingnan for survival.

Of course, after occupying the south, Li Tang also obtained seeds of crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, peanuts, and peppers, and began to promote their planting in their own ruling areas.

The promotion of these high-yield crops solved many famine problems and enabled the people to make a living. And as long as the people had a bite to eat, they would not think of rebelling. So Li Tang's world was firmly established.

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In the following years, the Han Kingdom colonized Southeast Asia on the one hand, and developed science and technology and educated the people on the other hand.

Rice, ore, gold, silver, coal, and jewelry from Southeast Asia were continuously transported to Lingnan.

Because the ships were steam-driven, they could travel back and forth without waiting for the monsoon. As long as there was no typhoon, the ships were very sturdy and not afraid of capsizing.

And cargo ships with a load capacity of thousands of tons could really carry a lot of things.

In terms of science and education, due to the popularity of woodblock printing, a large number of books were printed. The promotion of high-yield grain crops also increased farmers' income and enabled children to receive education.

Otherwise, when grain production was insufficient, children would also need to farm in order to increase grain production. At this time, there was no way to study.

In addition to the Four Books and Five Classics, many subjects such as geography, biology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and medicine were added, and Xiang Nan was responsible for writing and teaching them.

In addition, he also supervised the construction of large blast furnaces, large ships, heavy artillery, etc., but they were not built in Lingnan, but in the Red River Plain, Chao Phraya River Plain, and Mekong River Plain.

Because the Red River Plain is rich in coal mines, Zhenla, Laos and Siam are rich in gold, tin and iron mines... and the quality is much better than that of the Central Plains, and the local natives are just used to mine ores.

Through colonization, a large amount of wealth was transported to Lingnan, which made the science and technology and economy of the Han Dynasty very rapid. In terms of economic strength and technological level, the Han Dynasty has actually surpassed Li Tang.

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During this period, as in history, in the third year of Wude, the Xuanwu Gate Incident broke out in Li Tang.

Li Shimin killed his elder brother Li Jiancheng and younger brother Li Yuanji and became the only son of Li Yuan.

Li Yuan was then forced to pass the throne to Li Shimin, who later changed the reign title to Zhenguan and started the Zhenguan Reign.

After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, he accumulated strength and then defeated Liang Shidu of Xiazhou and Tuyuhun of Qinghai. In the fourth year of Zhenguan, he pacified DTZ. In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, he conquered the Western Regions and established the Anxi Protectorate. In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, he personally conquered Goguryeo and won a great victory. In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, he established the Anbei Protectorate in Mobei and the Shanyu Protectorate in Monan... The expansion of territory has reached the highest level in history.

When Song Que knew about it, he admired his martial arts.

Under his management, the economy and people's livelihood of Li Tang also rose steadily. This is also due to Xiangnan's high-yield crops, especially sweet potatoes and potatoes, which can yield thousands of kilograms per mu, which really solved the problem of people's food and greatly increased the population of Li Tang.

Moreover, these crops can be grown in bitter and cold places, which also facilitated Li Tang to cultivate land at the border, thereby solving the problem of insufficient grain production at the border and the need for inland supply and dispatch. This made Li Tang's rule over the border more solid.

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In the 20th year of Zhenguan and the 17th year of Hanxing, Song Que died of illness and passed the throne to his son Song Shidao.

Song Que was named Taizu and was posthumously named Emperor Shengwu. After Song Shidao succeeded to the throne, he changed the reign title to Longxing.

In order to facilitate the management of Southeast Asia, he moved his palace from Guangzhou City to Vientiane in the Chao Phraya River Plain.

First, Vientiane is located in the center of Southeast Asia, not too far from the Chao Phraya River, Mekong River and Red River Plain, so it can effectively control these areas. Otherwise, if it is located in Hanoi, Bangkok or Phnom Penh, it will be far away from other places, which is not conducive to governance.

Second, Vientiane is located at the foot of the mountains. If you attack it from the north to the south, it will be difficult to fight through layers of rainforests. If you want to attack it from the plains in the south, he can take people into the mountains.

Although Vientiane is in the tropics, the climate is generally pleasant, and the highest temperature in summer is only 35 or 36 degrees, which is relatively comfortable. After all, the temperature in northern China can also reach 35 or 36 degrees.

Xiang Nan and Song Yuzhi did not move to Vientiane like him, but stayed in Lingnan.

Because Lingnan still needs someone to be responsible for management, and Song Shidao has full confidence in his brother-in-law Xiang Nan.

He knew that Xiang Nan was not interested in fame and fortune at all. If Xiang Nan wanted to be emperor, it would not be his turn at all. His father would pass the throne to Xiang Nan, so he left Lingnan to Xiang Nan, and he was not afraid that he would become king himself.

However, Xiang Nan did not serve as an official official, but occasionally gave instructions to the officials in charge of Lingnan to prevent them from acting recklessly.

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In the 23rd year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin died and passed the throne to his son Li Zhi, that is, Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and changed the year to Yonghui.

In the early days of his reign, Li Zhi was still diligent in governing the country. He valued loyal ministers such as Zhangsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang, which enabled the economy and people's livelihood of the Li Tang Dynasty to continue to develop, so he was called "the legacy of Zhenguan".

He successively destroyed Western Turks, Goguryeo, Baekje, Goryeo and other countries, further expanding his territory. Li Zhi even sent troops to harass Lingnan.

As a result, the army encountered the extreme weather of thunderstorms and hail that was rare in a century when it was halfway through.

Egg-sized hailstones fell down cracklingly, and even wearing armor was useless. They were still smashed all over their bodies and their heads were bleeding. Thunder and lightning exploded above their heads, and many soldiers were directly electrocuted to death.

In the end, the army had not yet reached Shaoguan, and most of its troops had been lost, which made its morale completely gone, so Li Zhi had to give up.