Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 64 Return
Since the Xuanwu Gate Incident, there has been no obstacle to Li Jiancheng's advancement.

After entering the palace to meet Li Yuan that day, Li Yuan issued an edict the next day, ordering Li Jiancheng to be regent, while he himself would not be in charge of government affairs due to health reasons.

Three months later, he officially issued an edict to abdicate the throne to Li Jiancheng.

During the three months when Li Jiancheng (Chengqian) was the crown prince and regent, he issued an edict in the name of Li Yuan to destroy Cihang Jingzhai, Yuwen clan, and Dugu.

It is worth mentioning that Dugu Feng, the legitimate daughter of the Dugu clan, was originally killed together with the others, but because Li Jiancheng (Chengqian) thought that she stopped on the battlefield, he did not pursue her. After Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, he granted her the title of concubine.

At the same time, those who were also granted titles included Shi Feixuan of Cihang Jingzhai, Kankan of Shengjiao, the world-famous talented woman Shi Qingxuan, Shang Xiuxun, the owner of Pegasus Ranch, Shan Wanjing, the heir of Dongming School, and others. It can be said that all the famous beauties in the Tang Dynasty world were gathered into the harem.

Li Jiancheng began to carry out drastic reforms after he ascended the throne. The domestic aristocratic and conservative forces suffered heavy losses because of him using Li Gong's identity. Later, he took advantage of the Xuanwu Gate Incident to clean up a group of them, allowing the reform to proceed smoothly.

Under his governance for several years, the Li Tang Dynasty has recovered its vitality.

So Li Jiancheng began to clean up the hostile forces around the Tang Dynasty. He first destroyed DTZ in one battle, and then destroyed Western Turks and Tuhun Valley, bringing the vast grassland to Central Asia under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Later, due to Goguryeo's special geographical location and weather climate (because Goguryeo is located in Liaodong, winter will be their biggest weapon, those who don't understand can refer to the Soviet Union during World War II), they were unable to exert their strong military advantage and could not fight for a long time. Li Jiancheng (Cheng Qian) listened to Su Lie's (Su Dingfang) strategic guidelines, used guerrilla tactics, mainly with a small number of elite soldiers and generals, and constantly adopted harassment tactics against Goguryeo.

That is, we will plunder a village or city today, and destroy your rice fields and granaries tomorrow, thus consuming Goguryeo's war potential. (This is the strategy adopted by Li Shimin and Li Zhi in history)
After all, Goguryeo was a small country and could not withstand such turmoil. After three years of continuous attacks from the Tang Dynasty, it finally collapsed.

Li Jiancheng directly appointed Su Lie as the marshal and led an army of 200,000. It took less than three months to destroy Goguryeo, and at the same time destroyed the two small countries below Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla.

During this period, Japan sent troops to rescue Baekje, but they were defeated by the Tang army and returned.

It also reminded Li Jiancheng that there was a neighbor "separated by a strip of water" on the other side of the sea, so he decided to organize an expeditionary force to help the people of the small island, who were still in a slave society, to enter the embrace of the Tang Dynasty.

Later, Li Jiancheng realized that it was impossible to build a strong empire by military power alone, and that civil governance was also needed.

A twenty-year period of civil governance began, during which agriculture, commerce, industry, science and technology, and culture were fully developed. The population also grew explosively during these twenty years, surpassing the population before the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

The demographic dividend made the Tang Dynasty as stable as a rock, and the emergence of a large number of new talents enabled the country to develop rapidly.

Just when people in the world thought that Li Chengqian, who was growing stronger and stronger, would make new achievements, he announced his abdication to the Crown Prince Li Chengzong. Then, after officially handing over the throne to the Crown Prince at the succession ceremony, he truly broke through the void and left, with the temple name "Shengzu".
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I am the dividing line -
In the bitter world of Donghua Mountain, it seemed that another innate person was about to appear. People within a hundred miles felt the same sensation, and auspicious clouds appeared in the sky, as if celebrating this person's achievement.

Inside the Purple Mansion, Guiyou and others who had been waiting for a long time saw this movement and knew that their master was about to come out of retreat, so they all came to Shaoyang Jun's retreat room and waited.

All the power of heaven and earth was seen surging here: strong winds, thunder, raging fire, floods, all the mighty forces of nature were displayed before everyone, and everyone was amazed.

But when it approached the place where Shaoyang Jun was in seclusion, it turned into silent pure spiritual power to help the people inside. Then there was a loud bang, and Shaoyang Jun came out of seclusion with a strange vision of heaven and earth.

After two lifetimes of accumulation, Donghua Zifu Shaoyang Jun finally broke through the innate realm in the realm of suffering, and from then on he was far different from most warriors in this world.

When everyone saw Shaoyang Jun, they congratulated him, "Congratulations to the lord for his success and stepping into the Xiantian realm. You will definitely have a place in the future in the realm of suffering."

Shao Yang Jun heard the compliments from the crowd and said with a smile: "Ha, I understand your loyalty. If I succeed in my future ambitions, I will definitely not treat you unfairly."

Then he named: "Ghost Ghost, Child Emperor, and Ugly Kong Ming."

"My subordinate is here!"

"Report on the intelligence of the Bitter Realm, Miao Territory, and Eastern Wulin during my retreat, as well as the organization's current situation."

Gui You, the leader of the crowd, spoke first: "Yes, my lord, the martial arts world is now in a period of chaos caused by the Demon King. With his special skills and super-strong cultivation, he has made the righteous martial arts world miserable. Hai Shangjun died in the battle on Haijing Island, Yi Ye Shu disappeared afterwards, and Su Huanzhen was forced to join the Demon King's camp, using the alias Hua Jue Bai Liansheng to secretly help the righteous."

Upon hearing this, Lord Shaoyang knew that the martial arts world was now dominated by the Demon King, but in the near future, the situation would change again.

Longge Solo, who was released because of the destruction of Xuandu, will unseal the Dragon King to fight against the Demon King. Later, Yi Ye Shu will return as the creator and spread his own way of creation.

Later on, the Demon God Zhan Hai was born and unlocked the Heavenly Demon Record.

The first of the seven ancient calamities - the union of Buddha and the devil and a bloodbath in the world - will begin.

After knowing the latest situation in the martial arts world, he began to pay attention to the status of the force formed by his own incarnation.

First, in Miaojiang, under the leadership of Cangyue Guming and assisted by a group of brave generals and wise men such as the Three Heroes of Miaojiang (Tian Di Bu Rong Ke, Shen Gu Wen Huang, Qian Xue Gu Ming) and King Bei Jing, the unification of Eastern Miao and Central Miao has been largely completed. The only obstacle was the remnants of the Yiliu Black Faction who were forced into the territory of Western Miao by Mu Shao Aiwo and King Zhonglie Hu Zheng during the expedition to Western Miao.

The poison techniques of the Yiliu Black School did create some obstacles for the Miao army's advance, but it was still not enough in front of the two great poison doctors, Shen Gu Wen Huang and Qian Xue Gu Ming.

Finally, the best friend of the former Yiliu leader Nangong Shenyi, the Awakener, came forward and reached an agreement with the Iron Army Guard commander Tieqi Qiuyi. Miaojiang would allocate a piece of territory under its jurisdiction to the Yiliu Black Faction for recuperation, but as a price, the Awakener had to join Miaojiang and serve, and Yiliu would be subordinate to Miaojiang in the future. If there was a royal order, the people in the faction had to wait for orders.

At this point, Miao territory was unified, except that due to its rapid expansion, there were many mountains in the territory, and many tribes were unwilling to obey orders. For example, the Yu Cangqiong tribe was too powerful to be completely conquered, and the Gu Ming lineage was only the nominal leader of Miao territory.

However, with the passage of time, the nominal unification of Miaojiang has also caused the dragon energy under the royal court to surge and become more and more dense. More and more expert soldiers will be produced, and its direct sphere of influence will radiate wider and wider. In the end, the result is that the mountain forces in the territory will be completely devoured.

(End of this chapter)