Zhou You did not embarrass Li Shimin. Instead, he made him Duke of Tang and treated his family well. However, he could no longer return to Guanzhong to lead the army.

Later, Zhou You also gave Li Jing a title and appointed him Marshal of the Western Conquest, responsible for the expedition against Xue Ju and Li Gui. He gave him enough trust and autonomy. In addition to sending Qin Qiong to lead the army to Chang'an, he did not even send Li Jing's previous troops to the army. The Tang army was disrupted and reorganized, and it also provided sufficient supplies of food and grass. He also sent Cheng Yaojin to lead tens of thousands of troops to obey Li Jing's orders and assist him in pacifying the land of Longyou and Hexi as soon as possible.

At the same time, the Pei family and his son and Shan Xiongxin, who had captured Luoyang, continued to lead their troops northward. Together with Luo Yi and his son, they attacked Liu Wuzhou and quickly eliminated Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, consolidating the rule of the Wei Dynasty in the north.

In the south, when Xiao Mian, who occupied Jiangling, wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to send troops to capture Shuzhong, Prince Zhou Ping once again took command and led the army to go out. Yi Luo became the vanguard, and the Jiangnan Navy led by Shen Faxing assisted, and the troops were directed towards Jiangling.

At the same time, Du Fuwei and Wu Yunzhao were also ordered to go south to attack Lin Shihong. The Wei army swept across the south of the Yangtze River with great momentum, and quickly pacified Xiao Xian and Lin Shihong, causing all parts of Lingnan to surrender.

In just one or two years, the Wei Dynasty completely replaced the Sui Dynasty and established its rule over the whole country, except for Liang Shidu, which was separatist in Shuofang and attached to the Turks.

The most direct manifestation of the strong power and fortune of the Wei Dynasty is that Zhou You soon had several more children. Queen Mei Sanniang, as well as concubines such as Xin Yang, Xin Liu, Xin Wu, Dongfang Yumei, etc., all became pregnant with Zhou You one after another. Even Li Qingxia gave birth to another daughter for Zhou You.

A few years later, taking advantage of the good opportunity of the decline of the Turkic civil strife, Prince Zhou Ping once again led troops to attack Liang Shidu, which was separatist in Shuofang, and led the elite divisions of the Wei Dynasty. With the assistance of Luo Yi and his son, they were defeated outside the Great Wall. The Turks expanded the territory of the Wei Dynasty to the north of Lake Baikal.

After this battle, Luo Yi directly resigned and returned to seclusion, and handed over the military power to his son Luo Song. After all, his two sons alone had enough military power. He, as the father, was already a king, and if he fell in love again It is too ignorant to occupy power, and it is also causing trouble for your children and grandchildren!

Zhou You also took advantage of the situation and abdicated, leaving the kingdom of Wei in the hands of Zhou Ping. It was impossible not to abdicate, because Mei Sanniang gave birth to two sons for Zhou You one after another, and there were already some hints in the court that although Zhou Ping was the prince, After all, he was not born to the queen, so he was not his legitimate son, and he was not qualified to inherit the throne. Even if he had outstanding military exploits, ability and prestige, he would inevitably be criticized by interested people.

Now that Zhou You has directly passed the throne to Zhou Ping, naturally all unstable factors no longer exist. The two sons Sanniang gave birth to are only a few years old, and they are not very sensible yet! Zhou You does not have the patience to train another son. The prince comes, and there is no need for it at all.

In fact, Sanniang did not become the Queen Mother, but asked Li Qingxia, Zhou Ping's biological mother, to be the Queen Mother. Sanniang, who was born with a good reputation, went directly to travel around the world with Zhou You. For her, staying in Zhou You Being around her is far more joyful and comfortable than being trapped in a deep palace.

Sanniang left with Zhou You with her two sons, but Xin Yang, Xin Liu, and Dongfang Yumei all had young children to take care of, so they stayed in the palace temporarily.

Ten years later, in the tenth year of Dachang in the Wei Dynasty, Li Jing led an army of 150,000 to first destroy Tuyuhun and then Gaochang. He then stationed in Qiuci and set up Yizhou, Western Zhou Dynasty and Tingzhou.

Now, military towns were established in the four cities of Yanqi, Khotan, and Shule, all under the command of the Anxi Protectorate, restoring the Han family's control over the Western Regions.

In the 16th year of Dachang, Luo Cheng led an army of 100,000 cavalry to defeat Xue Yantuo. Relying on the sharpness of arrows and the power of firearms, the army marched eight hundred miles into Mobei. The killings frightened all the tribes in Mobei and ordered Tiele to return to Hehe.

More than a million households in his tribe requested to join the Wei Dynasty.

Then, within several decades of Zhou Ping's reign, the Wei Dynasty successively destroyed the Western Turks, Khitan, Baekje, Tiele, Japanese, Goguryeo and other countries, making the territory vast from east to west, and thousands of miles away from north to south.

And due to the gradual popularization of firearms, it became easier and easier for the Wei Dynasty to conquer other countries. It often had tens of thousands of troops, and it did not cost much food, grass, ordnance. By feeding on the enemy's country, a single general could easily destroy a country. Military power

When it prospered, all the countries surrendered, and all tribes respected the Wei Dynasty.

Domestically, Zhou Ping was light on corvees and light on taxes, allowing the people to recuperate and recuperate, attaching importance to agricultural development, cultivating fine seeds, increasing food production, and valuing talents, which enabled the Wei Dynasty to create an unprecedented prosperous era in just twenty or thirty years.

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Bianliang, Tokyo, was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty and one of the most prosperous cities in the world today. With a population of over one million, it is a majestic, large-scale, splendid metropolis that can be said to be full of flowers.

In the prosperous Bianliang City, not far from the Imperial City, there is an Yuxiang Tower located in the bustling market. It is uniquely quiet in this busy city.

The reason why it is quiet is not because the business here is not good, but because the people who are qualified to come here are all literati and elegant people. Even the princes and grandsons, who have little talent and learning, have no chance to meet the girls here.

, because there is a famous prostitute Li Shishi who is famous all over the world.

In the courtyard in the backyard of Yuxiang Tower, the sound of the piano is crisp and clear, and the dancing postures are graceful. The person playing the piano is none other than Li Shishi, who is about eighteen or nineteen years old, and the one dancing is a beautiful woman with a slightly plump figure, but she is Empress Xiao of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

, it’s just that she looks a little younger, but her mature charm is more alluring, which makes men’s hearts itch even more than the elegant and refined Li Shishi who looks like an immortal.

Zhou You, who was wearing loose clothes, sat casually behind the table with bare feet, drinking wine leisurely, listening to the piano and enjoying the dance, looking very comfortable and comfortable.

What's so good about being an emperor? How can I be comfortable as a rich and idle man! It's just a pity that the Zhenghe has been in the second year, and the Northern Song Dynasty will be destroyed in more than ten years. Once the Jin soldiers go south, the prosperity of the Song Dynasty can still be maintained.

How long? Thinking of this, Zhou You couldn't help but put down his wine glass with a sigh in his heart.

"What's going on, sir? Isn't this new dance performed by the Nu family not good to watch?" Empress Xiao suddenly came over and snuggled up next to Zhou You and said coquettishly.

"It's beautiful, it's very beautiful! I just don't know, if I'm not here, who else would you show it to?" Zhou You said casually, playing with the wine glass.

Empress Xiao laughed continuously and said: "I danced for the emperor of the Song Dynasty! How can ordinary people deserve to watch the slave dance! Official, let me tell you, that official of the Song Dynasty is really interesting.

When he saw the slave's house, he couldn't say anything bad. But when he got into bed, he did things very quickly. He just took off his clothes and... that was it. After that, he never dared to climb into the slave's house again.

Bed. Didn't you see how embarrassing he is every time he comes? It's so interesting..."

"Ahem...what did sister say?" Master Li, who stopped playing the piano, couldn't help but blushed and said coquettishly.

Zhou You's dumbfounded smile looked a little weird, while Empress Xiao covered her mouth and smiled sweetly: "What? My sister is a weird sister, so that she still can't inherit Junlu? If she is really weird, I'm afraid we, the official harem third
Chapter completed!