October 11, 14th year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty.

The imperial capital, Han Jing.

The leaves of the persimmon tree have almost fallen, leaving only the fruits on the branches, bright red. The lotus flowers in the lotus pond have fallen, and only the black remaining branches are half standing in the water, and the autumn wind is bleak on the surface of the pond.

On the pebbly corridor, Li Shimin and Zhang Chao walked together.

Zhang Chao was half behind Li Shimin, and both the king and his ministers were wearing dresses.

Li Shimin carried his hands on his back, while Zhang Chao held his sleeves and bowed slightly.

The guards followed from afar and did not dare to disturb the monarch and ministers. In fact, many people looked at it from afar and felt very surprised. Why can this monarch and ministers still be so peaceful now?

Shouldn’t the emperor hate Zhang Chao to the core and wish he could strangle him to death?

Both of them walked very slowly.

"Wen Yuan, what do you want?"

After a long time, the emperor broke the silence first. The emperor's words were very calm, without anger, without accusation, just a calm inquiry.

Zhang Chao admired the emperor very much. It seemed that after the emperor suffered this blow, all the extreme, conceited, and stubborn were gone, and he returned to a rational and calm emperor again.

"Your Majesty, I want peace in the world!"

Li Shimin snorted softly, "Speak for truth."

"Set up your mind for heaven and earth, establish your destiny for the living and the people, inherit your unique knowledge for the past sages, and bring peace to the ages!"

"I don't want to hear this, just say something straightforward and realistic. Sometimes I really can't figure out what you want. Now it's settled, so it's okay for you to tell me."

"Your Majesty, I want the spread of Chinese civilization from all directions, the Han people are prosperous and healthy, and the Tang Dynasty is prosperous and the people are safe!" Zhang Chao said.

"What about you, what do you want?"

"I? I want the Zhang family in Bashang to share this prosperous era. The Tang Dynasty will be eternal and prosperous, and the Zhang family will flourish."

"You didn't think you would replace it?"

"No."

"No?" Li Shimin was puzzled. This was the biggest key to his separation with Zhang Chao. Seeing Zhang Chao's reputation and wealth increasing day by day, Li Shimin did not believe that Zhang Chao would not want to replace him. This was instinct.

"Your Majesty, many of my ideas are different from those of ordinary people, or most people. I have seen more and thought more. Perhaps many people in history are in my position. After having such reputation, official positions, wealth and status, and connections, they are thinking about the supreme position, but I think differently."

“How is it different?”

"Your Majesty, you are also familiar with history books. You must know that the world will be united for a long time, and the world will be united for a long time, and you will always fall into such a strange circle. The world was eight hundred years old, but after Zhou, the elders of the Han and Jin Dynasties and the unified dynasties were only two or three hundred years old, and they will inevitably fall into turmoil. After experiencing a cruel turmoil, they will be unified again."

"Does your Majesty know why this is?"

Li Shimin shook his head.

This question is simply difficult to explain in a few words, so many people attribute it to destiny and even have theories of the five elements incompatible.

"Your Majesty, in the final analysis, it is still a problem of productivity. After unifying the world, the population will increase greatly. In one or two hundred years, it will be enough to increase the population several times. However, after a long time, it will inevitably lead to corruption in the administration, serious annexation of the powerful and powerful, and finally a large number of people lose land, and countless people become tenants or slaves. The rights and interests of these people are never guaranteed. In the end, the confrontation between the rich and the poor is serious, and the class contradiction is huge, and eventually, it will break out."

"It can't be that simple." Li Shimin said.

"Of course it's not that simple. If you really want to talk in detail, you can't finish it for three days and three nights, but this is one of the essences and one of the important essences. Since the Zhou Dynasty, the Central Plains dynasty have been traditional classical agricultural civilizations, so land is actually the fundamental. When land annexation is serious, various problems will arise and eventually it will explode."

"But now the Tang Dynasty has an opportunity, an opportunity to change this cycle of governance and chaos, and an opportunity to avoid a cycle every two or three hundred years. As long as the Tang Dynasty grasps it, the Tang Dynasty can break away from the vicious circle and create a prosperous era for thousands of years. Even, let our Han civilization completely jump out of the Central Plains and spread further away."

An agricultural civilization cannot transcend the regional circle of the Central Plains because it lacks productivity and cannot support a super empire.

But if the Tang Dynasty develops industry and commerce, trade, and then implements external expansion strategies, explores and colonizes, then the Tang Dynasty is limitless.

The development of industry and commerce can continue to transfusion blood to the empire and support the empire's continuous expansion. Similarly, the land, population and other resources seized by protecting the empire can also feed back to the empire, allowing the empire to continue this cycle.

This is a completely new model, completely transcending the model of this era.

It will take a thousand years before Europeans will embark on a great voyage, then the Industrial Revolution, then Spain and Portugal will divide the world, Dutch sea coachman, and Britain's empire of the Sun never set.

Compared with these small European countries, the Tang Dynasty had more advantages.

With advanced technology at this time, a large population, a stable political situation, and an enlightened monarch and minister, capitalism has begun to sprout.

This is already a prelude to change.

Li Shimin wanted to retreat, but he was afraid of the uncontrollable unknown, but Zhang Chao knew that this path was more beneficial to China and the Han family.

If all the people are fixed on the land, then the dynasty will never exceed the early and middle stages of the empire, and the weaker the further you go.

"Your Majesty, I, Zhang Chao, hope that Datang will seize this gust of wind."

"If the Tang Dynasty had developed in the direction you mentioned, what would it look like in the end?" Li Shimin asked.

"If everything goes smoothly, maybe in less than a hundred years, the territory of the Tang Empire has spread across the continents."

"In the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the sun will never set!"

"The Tang Dynasty will become the empire that never sets."

Li Shimin now also knows some new geographical and astronomy knowledge, such as the sun sets on the continent here, but the sun rises on the continent there, but the daytime in the Tang Dynasty, but the night in the Americas.

The empire will not set, how wide will the territory of the Tang Dynasty be?

Zhang Chao said nothing else, the Tang Dynasty would be an Empire that will never set, and a Federal Empire that will never set. Countless noble leaders will gain greater autonomy and are part of the empire.

But he is always on the front line of expanding territory for the empire.

The Zhang family in Bashang will be a member of the federal empire in the future, and even the Zhang family will have multiple vassal states by then.

The Tang Dynasty was always the sect leader of the vassal states, and the parliament was the representative of the princes in the central government.

The vassal states and the sect leader states prosper together and lose together, and the honor and disgrace are related to each other.

It is still difficult to achieve this step, but there is still time, so you can take it slowly.

With the slow adjustment, the machine of the Tang Empire will always be able to be well-equipped and enter a long-term stable period.

Li Shimin asked his concerns, "Now the princes are getting stronger and stronger, and even the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie are getting stronger and stronger. How will the court control them in the future?"

"Your Majesty, it is better to be distracted than to block the enemy. It is not advisable to just control and suppress. The stricter the suppression, the more severe the rebound. Instead of suppressing, it is better to divert this pressure. As the minister said, in the future, the Tang Dynasty will expand to the outside world and share some pioneering dividends for the nobles and these industrial and commercial classes. They will become firm supporters of the court. Why do they still have to confront the court?"

Li Shimin always felt that something was wrong in Zhang Chao's words, but he couldn't find any problem for a while.

"I have never said anything, I'm very worried."

"Your Majesty, we can't always walk on the road we have walked by our predecessors. We have now reached the forefront of the road of history, and no one has ever arrived here. We can only explore the road ahead of us by ourselves. We have to be guides for future generations, and we cannot go back because of fear."

Li Shimin stopped and turned around and looked at Zhang Chao.

"Wen Yuan, remember what you said today. If you betray your ideals today in the future and let me down and Chengqian down, even if I am in America, I will lead my troops back to the Central Plains to attack you."

"I will defend my ideals and I will defend the Tang Dynasty."

Instead of spending countless efforts to set off a civil war and usurp the throne and seize the dynasty, Zhang Chao might as well take advantage of the opportunity to integrate the Tang Dynasty and open up the era of great voyage and coloniality.

After the two monsters, the aristocratic lord class and industrial and commercial capitalists, were released, Zhang Chao did not have to worry about the future capriciousness of the court.

These two monsters were released but they could not be taken back.

Li Shimin released two small monsters and grew up quickly. When he wanted to take them back, he was retaliated.

After this time, the strength of these two major classes has become stronger, and the imperial court will not want to impress them in the future.

Zhang Chao was not worried that these two major classes would subvert the court, so there was no need to worry about this for the time being.

As the leader of the aristocratic group and capitalist group, Zhang Chao would not allow it, and others did not have the strength.

Li Shimin turned around.

"Let's go, the time is almost over, don't let Cheng Qian wait for a long time."

Li Shimin accelerated his pace, and his pace seemed to have become lighter.

The emperor knew that he had been abandoned and he could not make a comeback in the Central Plains. Now Zhang Chao has given him a new hope and goal, and he can go to America.

There, you can conquer the world again.

Zetianmen.

The ceremony is held here.

Countless soldiers were fully armed and stood guard.

All the officials in the capital also came to attend the ceremony today, but it was too late for local officials to attend the ceremony.

The ceremony was very complicated.

There are many steps in the ceremony.

One by one, very serious.

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"Long live my emperor!"

Chengqian wore a twelve-stand scale crown on his head, a mysterious robe and red robe twelve heraldic emblems. The sun and moon heraldic emblems were arranged on both shoulders, and the stars were arranged on the back.

Carrying the sun and the moon on your shoulders and carrying the stars on your shoulders.

This set of emperor's crowns lasted for more than two thousand years from Zhou to Tang.

Cheng Qian stood in front of the dragon chaise, stretching out his hands to lift it.

"All my dear friends, let's be calm!"

Li Shimin also wore a crown, but from today, he has abdicated and is respected as the Supreme Emperor.

It’s Chengqian’s turn to sit on the dragon throne that has been sitting for fifteen years.

Chengqian sat down.

The golden dragon chaise is very wide, but it is also very hard, and it is actually not comfortable to sit.

All civil and military officials, the soldiers shouted long live the mountain and rushed straight to the clouds.
Chapter completed!