This tour allowed Li Yi to see that his reform was smooth and accessible to the grassroots, and the reform was very successful and won the support of the people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a top-down, very thorough reform, I believe that soon the Tang Dynasty will be able to get the fruitful results after the reform, and it is inevitable that the national strength will be strong.

In the Qianqing Palace, Li Yi looked at the large Tang Dynasty map hanging.

Compared with the map of the Han Dynasty, the map of the Tang Dynasty has changed dramatically. However, Li Yi looked at the huge blank in the southwest of the later generations and regretted it.

At this time, there were Western Regions countries in the northwest, and there were no established forces in the southwest. Even if it is the Tang Dynasty, it only established an administrative body in the Qinghai Lake area in later generations, and the rest of the places are still not involved.

In order to allow the southwestern region to enter the territory of China earlier, Li Yi issued an edict on the way back to Jicheng. The Tang Dynasty sent an expeditionary force of 50,000 from Yongzhou to the west, conquering the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in later generations.

After more than 20 years of conquest, Li Yi's current Tang Dynasty, even if it is still beneficial to the state and parts of the south of the Yangtze River has not been unified, but the territory has almost doubled compared with the Han Dynasty. It has become a huge country that extends to the Altai Mountains-Orchis-Ob River basin region in the west, the extreme north of the Mongolian Plateau in the north, the Sayan Mountains, the Kent Mountains, and the Yablonov Mountains, the Korean Peninsula in the east, and the northeast border to the Tatar Strait.

The north of Datang has reached its limit, and further north is the boundary of the arctic circle in the cold zone. Eighteen hundred years ago, these places were extremely sparsely populated, with only a few primitive nomadic tribes, so Li Yi simply encouraged the people of the Tang Dynasty to explore and discover these lands, and the Tang army would be their eternal backing.

Many people with a pioneering spirit go to these places to explore. Gradually, they became immigrants of the Tang Dynasty, just like the later generations who explored the western part of the Americas, and the seeds of the Tang Dynasty began to take root in these places.

In this era, the whole world is within the realm of agricultural countries. Only when there is more land and the peasants are rich can the development of commerce be promoted. With the development of commerce and the increase of private caravans, the Silk Road was restarted.

Li Yi encouraged industry and commerce, and he made it clear that the Tang army's army would be the backing of the Tang merchants.

The Tang merchants were very happy, but they also shouldered a responsibility. They traveled around the merchants, reporting what they saw and heard to the court. And Li Yi specifically pointed out that the issuance of a world map centered on the territory of the Tang Dynasty must be available outside the yamen in all places. With the help of the experience of later generations, Li Yi personally formulated the format.

An oval map doesn't need to be designed, and Datang is right in the middle. Asia, Europe, the Americas, and so on are all available, but the specific names and boundaries of each country are completely wrong in later generations, so most of them are temporarily blank and need to be filled after discovery. Li Yi plans to use this map to let the people of Datang have the concept of the world, and they can also know what position Datang is in the world.

The concept of the world has played a certain role in promoting businessmen. The merchants of the Tang Dynasty began to go abroad, and people with the spirit of exploration also began to go to those blank places to explore and discover the unknown world.

These people will bring very important world information to Datang, but Li Yi will not passively wait to receive it, but select elite people in the intelligence guard, form a team, and explore and discover.

In ancient times, without the developed communication and transportation of later generations, the process of exploration and discovery must have been very long and arduous. But Li Yi knows that as long as the seeds are sown, there will be a harvest day.

Li Yi has a lot of national affairs to deal with every day, and he also has to have his own life, so he doesn't have much time to think about it, but an occasional flash of inspiration will bring new changes to this world.

In the hearts of the ministers, Emperor Wude was wise, and the theories he put forward were all unprecedented. In the hearts of the people, Emperor Wude is a good emperor of benevolence, and the people have lived a good life that they have never had, so the people are very grateful.

In the study, it was very quiet, only the sound of reading and writing. Li Yi sat on the dragon chair, and Xin Xianying was hidden behind the screen, waiting with more than a dozen palace maids.

He has to watch ten hours of music a day, and Li Yi is not bored at all about this kind of life. He would be very happy when he saw that the song was written about the stability and prosperity of various places.

It is estimated that at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, a palace maid appeared outside the door. Xin Xianying immediately walked over, quickly returned, and played: "Your Majesty, Admiral Yu Dayou, the Governor of the Navy, asks to see you." ”

"Oh? Declare him in. Li Yi put down the recital.

Li Yi established the navy early because he had huge battleships that could last for a long time in the deep sea. In later generations, it would take three or five years for a battleship to be built, and if a country could have ten or eight warships, it would be a great naval power. Li Yi was rich in power, but due to the limitations of productivity and technology, he was running at full capacity a year, and only one shipyard in Quanzhou could be launched.

Li Yi now has fifteen battleships, named after major cities, and this is all his naval power.

This, of course, refers to the real naval combat power of later generations. If it is offshore and inland, there are still 18,000 ships.

When Yu Dayou walked into the imperial study with a large scroll, he revealed an indescribable joy and said: "Start the emperor, the Tang Maritime Defense Line, until the sea chart of Southeast Asia is finally completed!" ”

"Oh!" Li Yi was overjoyed, couldn't help but stand up from the throne, and said with some eagerness, "Hurry up and show it to me!" ”

The sea is boundless, unpredictable, and dangerous to the people of the great land countries of this era. So it wasn't until hundreds of years later that the people of China learned more about the sea and some of its places.

In the unknown sea, the lonely battleship carried the brave sailors of the Tang Navy, and after too many hardships and too long a time, they finally completed the exploration of the first island chain outside China in later generations.

There are Wa Kingdom, Ryukyu, Yizhou, Luzon Islands, Indonesian Islands, etc., Li Yi used the names of later generations to fill in the gaps in the names of islands on the nautical chart.

"With this chart, the issued world map can be updated. The people can also know that in addition to our China, there is a larger land in the world, and there are also people living on the land. Li Yi said to Yu Dayou.

"Your Majesty, there are indeed people living on these roads in Southeast Asia, but most of them are uncivilized, not even as good as barbarians, and they can barely be called savages." Yu Dayou pondered the sailor's report and said, "I heard that the women above are not wearing clothes, and the secret places are hugging outside, which is really rude ......." ”

"Hah!" Li Yi quipped, "That man must be very naughty!" ”

Yu Dayou smiled awkwardly but didn't dare to answer, and Xin Xianying behind the screen took a sip, saying that the emperor must be eager to go to that kind of place.

Sure enough, Li Yi immediately smiled and said, "I really want to take a look." ”

He said this very emotionally, let me ask anyone in the future, who doesn't want to travel abroad?

Xin Xianying, who was recorded behind the screen, gave Li Yi a "vicious" look.

Yu Dayou reported truthfully, "Your Majesty, the most important discovery this time. It is a continent found in the east of the coastline of Soochow, called Yizhou, which is very huge, and can only circle around it in a month. There are some aborigines, semi-civilized living on it. And the figure of the Soochow warship was discovered! ”

"Oh? Soochow's warships were also able to sail to the sea? Zeng Cheng asked suspiciously.

Yu Dayou hurriedly said: "The minister has already sent secret agents to find out, and the warships of Dongwu only have a structure with a pointed bottom, and there is no mature keel technology, so the ocean-going warships are only the size of our third-class warships, and they can only reach Yizhou, which is the closest to Dongwu." ”

The third-class warships of the Datang Navy have a displacement of about 500 tons, although they are not worth mentioning for the warships of the Datang Navy, but for this era, it is still a huge progress.

Li Yi is improving, and he can't help but let others improve, he just praised the spirit of the Datang Navy for its courage to explore, and recorded a collective first-class merit, and everyone will have the Datang Medal of Honor.

Yu Dayou retired.

The nautical chart attracted Li Yi's attention to the whole world, and he carefully recalled that during this period, there was Rome in the west, rest in the place slightly east, and Kushan next to the western regions. Rome, Anxi, Kushan, and the Eastern Han Dynasty were known as the four great powers of the world at that time. Today, the Han Dynasty has been replaced by the Tang Dynasty, but the other three empires still exist.

Li Yi's ultimate goal is to let Datang dominate the earth, and if this planet can become Datang's territory, it will naturally be the best thing. It's just that it's a little too far away. Don't say that Datang has not yet unified the Huaxia region, even if it is unified, there are still huge internal problems.

Today's Tang Dynasty, compared with the later Yuan Dynasty, is only less southwest and part of the Jiangnan region, with an area of 11 million square kilometers and a population of more than 40 million. Under his rule, more than 20 ethnic groups were active, including Han, Xianbei, Qiang, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, Jiankun, Dingling, Hujie, Jinwei, Fuyu, Rulou, Goguryeo, and Sanhan.

Li Yi relied on the strong prestige of defeating all ethnic groups at the beginning to maintain the rule of these regions, but Li Yi knew that the contradictions between ethnic groups had not been truly resolved. If one day he is gone, I am afraid that there will be serious problems with the rule of these alien areas.

Li Yi hopes to completely solve this problem that threatens the future of the Tang Dynasty and the Han people.

In fact, Li Yi has been making efforts in this regard over the years, for example, after he first occupied these areas, he implemented the policy of large and small settlements of various ethnic groups, which is a relatively effective measure. Li Yi pursued this policy for the sake of ethnic integration and the assimilation of these alien races by the Han Chinese.

However, after all, these alien races have great customs and surprises with the Han people, so even if they live together, they are still relatively independent of each other and do not really blend together.