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Chapter 24 The world is unified
The sixth year of Yuanhua.

The barbarians marched southward, and no one in the huge imperial court could resist them. The 400,000-strong army was slaughtered and fled in disarray, losing a city a day and a piece of land a night.

In July of the same year, Li Ming sent troops to attack Jiangbo County. At that time, Wang Yuan used the pseudonym Zhang Wenyuan to lurk in the army as a general. With the help of internal and external forces, they won three battles in a row. Later, Li Ming personally defeated Wan La alone. The army was convinced and Jiangbo was in his possession.

A month later, the army set out, and Wangshan surrendered without losing a single soldier.

In November of the same year, the Barbarian King captured the capital of Da Qi!

The most ridiculous thing is that they actually used the firearms and cannons invented by Zhu Chang to penetrate the city walls.

It was winter, and the barbarians stripped the emperor, who was less than ten years old, of his dragon robe, demoted him to a commoner, and froze him to death in the imperial garden.

The concubines in the harem, even the queen and princesses, were all reduced to playthings. Many of them hanged themselves in the palace because they could not bear the humiliation.

The Great Qi Dynasty perished here!

As a result, the fifteen states in the world were divided into two parts, north and south, and governed across the river. Among them, the Barbarian King dominated seven states. Liang He, the leader of Shuipo Songshan, rose up in the name of Jun Bailing and raised an army to avenge the Barbarian King's blood, and split off two states. Lu Shan claimed that he had the blood of the royal family of Da Qi and was the elder brother of the young emperor. He took the opportunity to annex three states.

At this time, Li Ming occupied an entire state. In addition, there were many self-proclaimed kings, big and small. Some of them even dared to claim to be kings if they occupied a county. These self-proclaimed kings were concentrated in Lingzhou and Zhenzhou, which happened to be the intersection of the forces of Li Ming, Liang He and Lu Shan.

Everyone spontaneously took a break to recuperate, as if they were gathering strength to prepare for the next battle.

Li Ming withdrew his troops and secretly sent the next generation who grew up in compulsory education to preach the idea of ​​Datong. With the groundwork laid in the previous year, everyone knew that there was a Zhang Mingyu who advocated equality for all and intended to achieve Datong in the world, but no one cared about these.

But no one knows that a single spark can start a prairie fire!
A single spark can start a prairie fire!

Lu Shan and Liang He were fine, because they had big empires and had some hope of conquering the world, so they treated the people under their rule well, at least they could have something to eat. But it was not the same in Lingzhou and Zhenzhou. It was really like the kings changing their minds all the time, and those self-proclaimed kings were all different.

Today I occupy this place, and tomorrow you capture my nest. We are having a great time switching homes. But when you occupy an area, the first thing you do is burn, kill and loot. You have never had the habit of long-term governance.

But it really makes life difficult for the people.

It really proves the saying that it is better to be a dog in prosperous times than a man in troubled times.

The tragic scene of bones exposed in the wild and no rooster crowing for thousands of miles almost happened in reality.

Therefore, the people who had the hardest life were not those under the rule of the Barbarian King in Jiangbei, but here. The Barbarian King adopted a feudal system. Although the feudal lords in various places regarded the Han people as slaves, they were also their own property and a labor force.

Even if we don't treat them as human beings, it's not that difficult for them to survive.

Only under Li Mingzhi did people focus on farming, and the wealthy families were punished and their land was divided. It was a paradise in the troubled times.

Moreover, Li Ming was well aware of the importance of productivity and was determined to make progress. He improved agricultural tools and upgraded production technology according to the methods he remembered, at least to the point where people could have enough food to eat.

From the nearest Lingzhou and Zhenzhou, refugees fled from time to time. Regardless of whether there were spies or not, Li Ming accepted them all. He was not afraid of these people gathering intelligence, and even fanned the flames by sending people out to preach.

"There is a place in this world where everyone can have enough to eat, everyone is free and equal, and although everyone has to work, everyone helps each other." "Defeat the local tyrants, farm for food, everyone is born equal, and everyone is free!"

Such slogans spread all over the world unknowingly.

Especially in the north, and in the two states closest to Li Ming, Dingzhou has almost become a holy place in the minds of the people.

Against this background, it seems understandable that Li Ming's army moved swiftly, swallowing up the two states very quickly, and providing food and drink to the people wherever he went.

Just because he treats ordinary people as human beings!
Li Ming deeply understands how great the power of human heart is!
He knew that his golden finger could not help him here. In his previous life, he did not know that the reincarnation world could be inherited. When he was Zhu Chang, he had already "invented" everything that could be used when conditions allowed. In other words, he no longer had any black technology to come up with.

This time, with such an opening, he knew that there was only one thing he could use, the real dragon-slaying technique!

Learn from the path a great man once walked!
Although times are different, the sufferings of the people are roughly the same.

In fact, Li Ming was also hesitant. He didn't know whether this was a real world or nothingness, a game that existed because of him?

He just wanted to brush up on the entries. Logically speaking, he had always been pursuing achievements in martial arts and spent all his time and energy on martial arts. Maybe now he could go to the next level and reach a level that he could not achieve in his previous life.

But for some reason, it would be fine if the world was peaceful, but as he watched the chaotic world gradually approaching, he could hide in the mountains and forests. Anyway, as long as there was no large army to surround and suppress him or set fire to the mountains, with his skills, how could there be any accidents?

No one knows what he is thinking. Some people say that he is trying to attract attention and realize his ambition of unifying the world in the name of Datong. However, only Li Ming himself knows that he has no ambition at all, just a little compassion.

Sweeping the tide of the times, we have come to where we are today.

"It doesn't matter. It's just a cycle anyway. Maybe I can get some weird achievements." Li Ming would tell himself this privately.

"I have the Record of Reincarnation, and I have countless lives. This time, let me borrow the light of that great man and become a hero!"

Li Ming popularized literacy and promoted the idea of ​​Great Harmony. He used the slogans of "All under heaven are one family, everyone is like a dragon, and everyone is born equal and free" to inspire the people's fighting spirit to the greatest extent!
Simply because he treated these people as human beings, he obtained something that no emperor in history had ever obtained, the true support of the people!
It is not the people's will written by scholars in history books, but in the hearts of every ordinary citizen, not on paper or in books.

In the same year, Li Ming, who was 21 years old at the time, did not ascend the throne or become king. Instead, he established the Datong government and served as the first head of state and commander-in-chief of the army.

Together with Liang He and Lu Shan, the three parties fought against the barbarians together. After eight years, they finally defeated the barbarian king and restored the Central Plains.

During this period, Li Ming led by example and was always the first to fight. Unknowingly, he had accumulated a very high reputation in the army. The Datong thought had been spread for eight years and finally produced results.

Liang He did not want to start another civil war, so he led his brothers to either be appointed officials or retire. However, the ambitious Lu Shan was too old and his old injuries relapsed, and he died two years ago. The so-called descendant of the royal family of Da Qi, whom he supported, also surrendered to Li Ming very straightforwardly. From then on, the world was united!

The reign title was changed to Datong, which is known in history as the first year of Kaitong.

PS: Datong Kaiyuan is not the end, there will be more stories about this world in the future. I hope everyone will not make a final conclusion after reading this. It’s just because I spent too little space and didn’t introduce too many things clearly. I hope everyone can be patient and read on.

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