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Chapter 533 Belief in the Gods
In the winter of the first year of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian led an army of 300,000 Qin soldiers to fight against Li Mu of Zhao State's 200,000 soldiers in Shangdang. The elite troops of both sides used all their tricks and fought for two months without a clear winner. Finally, they had to temporarily suspend the fighting because of heavy snow.

However, although the battle between Qin and Zhao attracted everyone's attention, no matter what, the most lively protagonist in the world this year was still the rebellious King Tang!

It can be said that the existence of the King of Tang completely exceeded everyone's imagination. Although there had been cases of powerful ministers plotting rebellion and overthrowing the monarch in the past, it took them several generations of accumulation before they dared to do such a thing.

But it is said that this King of Tang came to the capital alone and then accomplished his feat of usurping the throne, which really shocked all the ambitious people in the world.

In particular, the other side actually defeated the armies of Qin and Chu, directly changing the entire historical course of the Warring States Period.

All knowledgeable people in the world know that the demise of South Korea is a matter of time. After all, sandwiched between other countries, South Korea does not even have the slightest room for strategic maneuver. In particular, the years of ceding territory and paying indemnities have made South Korea nominally one of the Seven Kingdoms, but in reality it only has 800 miles of land and a population of only 100,000 households. It can be said that everything in South Korea is a miniature version.

For example, the current Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei has a private fiefdom of 100,000 households, while even though Zhang Kaidi, the Prime Minister of Han, has been prime minister of Han for five generations, his fiefdom only has 2,000 households.

There was no way. The Kingdom of Korea was so small that if it was divided among the nobles, big and small, it was still unknown whether the King of Han had 30,000 households in his hands. Han Xin, a nobleman of Korea, did not even have any fiefdom at all. It was really sad.

But in just one year, the Han Dynasty, which was originally on the verge of extinction, turned into a thriving Tang Dynasty, attacking the tyrannical Qin in the west and the barbaric Chu in the south. It has transformed from a tiny country with only 800 miles of territory into a small powerful country with nearly 2,000 miles of territory and a population of more than 300,000 households.

Among the seven countries, Qin and Chu are the strongest. They are both super powers with an area of 5,000 miles and a population of over one million. Zhao follows closely behind, covering an area of 3,000 miles and a population of about 600,000 households.

Both Qi and Yan covered an area of about 3,000 miles, but Qi had a population of about 400,000 households, while Yan had only about 100,000 households.

As for the State of Wei?
Now Wei has become the smallest country, covering an area of only 1,500 miles. However, because it is located in the Central Plains, it has a large population of 500,000 households.

In the original historical time and space, the Qin State first directly annexed the Han State, and then because of its sworn enemy with the Zhao State, it immediately destroyed the Zhao State!
At this time, all other countries were still sitting on the sidelines, thinking that it had nothing to do with them. As a result, when Qin directly destroyed Wei and started to attack Chu, Yan began to get anxious!

Jing Ke's assassination of Qin Shi Huang took place during this period. It has to be said that Jing Ke is the most famous assassin in history, but his work was really terrible. He was the only one among the four great assassins who failed to complete the task, but he still has the greatest fame. It is really puzzling.

It can be said that the Qin State unified the world because of the harmony between the monarch and his subjects and the courage of the soldiers to fight, but the six countries' ulterior motives and their conquests also gave the Qin State room to use diplomatic means.

Now, if Qin wants to rule the Central Plains, it must confront Tang, which makes it basically impossible for Qin to continue to develop!

Of course, the whole nation of Qin State did not think so. They felt that if it were not for that bastard from Zhao State who came to attack, Wang Jian would definitely be able to capture Luoyang. Therefore, the hatred in the court of Qin State was instantly attracted to Zhao State. After all, Qin and Zhao were sworn enemies. After conquering Shangdang, even though the commander of the Zhao army, Li Mu, repeatedly ordered his soldiers to strictly abide by military discipline, the soldiers still went out everywhere to hunt down the so-called old Qin people!
There is no way. Just like when you led your army to conquer Japan in the 1970s, facing those beasts who burned, killed and looted on Chinese land decades ago and are now still living a life of luxury with the wealth they plundered, no matter how much you restrain your soldiers, do you think they can control the anger in their hearts?
The reason why the Shangdang area was not completely massacred was that Li Mu’s prestige was too high!

The Qin State had been operating in the Shangdang area for 30 years. It can be said that almost all the civil and military officials in the court either had relatives or fiefdoms there. What the Zhao army did was truly damaging their interests and feelings.

After all, although the Tang State captured Luoyang and caused heavy losses to the Qin State, the 100,000 households in the fiefdoms around Luoyang all belonged to the Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei, and had little to do with the interests of others.

But the Shangdang area was home to a large group of nobles and dukes of the Qin State. After Zhao State's massacre, even though Wang Jian had regained a lot of lost territory, the population could not be replenished so quickly!
Therefore, the whole Qin State is now united in the goal of attacking Zhao State after the spring. Although Lu Buwei is still thinking about his Luoyang, he alone cannot go against the entire court, right?

What's more, Qin Shihuang is now an adult. If it weren't for the Tang Kingdom incident, the two of them would have fought over who has the final say in the court. At this juncture, what Lu Buwei needs to consider now is how to continue to maintain his power as prime minister instead of trying to take back his fiefdom.

So the Tang Dynasty is now experiencing a brief period of peace, or has it been said that all the countries in the world have recognized the legitimate status of the Tang Dynasty?

"Come on, Li Si, tell me about your work today!"

In the newly built palace in Luoyang City, Li Qingyuan sat in the main seat and asked the civil and military officials under his command.

Yan Lingji and Jing Wei knelt on his left and right and served him.

"Thanks to your Majesty's great blessing, the population of Tang has now exceeded 300,000 households, and the land has reached 60 million acres. In addition, due to your benevolent rule, every household now has surplus food. It can be said that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the world of great harmony that the saints have talked about! Now all the people of Tang have set up a longevity tablet for you, hoping that you will live a long and healthy life!"

Li Si immediately began to congratulate, because the King of Tang had been giving away money everywhere this year, and Bai Yifei had previously massacred all the great nobles of Korea, resulting in the fact that there were basically no hereditary nobles in the Tang Kingdom now. So except for the land allocated to the soldiers, the rest of the land basically all belonged to the country, but was leased to the people for cultivation!

Li Qingyuan naturally would not distribute land to the people for free. After all, if you satisfy the people all at once, it would be difficult to lead the team in the future.

But this is enough. At present, the people of Tang Kingdom not only have work to do but also have food to eat. Even with the coming of the New Year, most families can buy some meat for the New Year's Eve dinner. This is a good time that people could not even dare to think about in the past!
So these people spontaneously burned incense to Li Qingyuan. If they were in a world that believed in deification, these incenses would be enough for him to directly ignite the divine fire!

(End of this chapter)