[In the first year of the Xuanhuang Calendar, as the Heavenly Ancestor, you quelled the chaos in the world and, incidentally, settled accounts with the remaining powerful families that you hadn't dealt with before.]
"Family tree is indeed a wonderful thing," you exclaimed sincerely. "With it, settling accounts with them becomes much easier."
"The imperial street is trampled with the bones of high-ranking officials, and the imperial treasury is burned to ashes."
From this day forward, all the powerful and wealthy families that once belonged to Daqian will be wiped out.
They did indeed want to resist, and even gathered their household servants and private soldiers in an attempt to fight back.
However, the gap was still too large. They were torn to pieces by the Taiping Army and the people who had been oppressed for many years, without Ye Li even having to take action himself.
[In the second year of Xuanhuang, thanks to your and the Taiping Army's tireless efforts, the local chaos has ended, and those disaster victims who had to leave their homes can now return home.]
Your efforts are not over yet, because you feel that achieving this much is not enough; you want to see the world become the utopian society you envisioned in your books.
[Using the power of the dragon veins to perceive the mountains and rivers of the world, he ordered officials to initiate work-for-relief programs, vigorously develop water conservancy, and construct fortifications.]
[The legacy from Da Gan, the funds in the Liu family's treasury, and the enthusiastic contributions from those powerful clans will ensure that your new dynasty will not encounter financial problems during this process.]
Meanwhile, you begin revising the laws with others to ensure that even after you leave, these laws will still restrain power and prevent the reappearance of a tyrannical ruler.
[In the fifth year of the Xuanhuang calendar, the Taixuan Law was promulgated. Because you and your subordinates ranged from former military officers to commoners, your knowledge and experience were unlikely to have any gaps, and the law was made as comprehensive as possible.]
[You even went so far as to revise the imperial examination system to enhance the selection of talent, especially capable individuals.]
The Ministry of War must be skilled in warfare, the Ministry of Revenue must be knowledgeable in finance, and the Ministry of Works must be learned...
During the period after the establishment of the new dynasty, you did not forget your past ideas. Taking advantage of a day when there was not much official business, you traveled to the Northern Territory via the dragon vein and exchanged friendly greetings with the Wolf King and the Eagle King.
When the two Khans saw you appear out of nowhere, their first thought was that they had seen a ghost, and they didn't have time to have a second thought.
"Hey, is it possible to reconcile?"
"At this moment? You must be joking."
None of the court officials expected that their emperor would only appear once at noon and then return to tell them that they could take over the northern border.
"Wasn't this accident a little too sudden?"
The newly recruited young men looked at Ye Li and listened to his request for them to accept the northern border.
He suddenly wanted to slap himself to see if he was dreaming or something.
"You're still too young. I fought alongside His Majesty to conquer the world. No matter how you look at it, you're still underestimating this man's strength."
The Minister of War was Liu Yong's former adjutant. These people had witnessed Ye Li slaying the Prince of Ji with his sword, and they had also seen the great sword descend from the sky above the capital.
They had a deep understanding of Ye Li's strength, and they could also sense that Ye Li seemed to be getting stronger.
[In the seventh year of the Xuanhuang calendar, you successfully brought peace and prosperity to the nation, ensuring that the people lived in peace and contentment, with doors left unlocked at night and lost items left unattended on the road.]
[With a large amount of engineering work already completed, you are also requiring local officials to teach the people how to grow drought-resistant crops, so that even if another severe drought occurs in the future, it will be less likely to lead to the famines of the past.]
You brought your parents back to live in the capital, and at the same time, your fellow villagers received large tracts of land, making you a wealthy man without any pressure.
[You did not recruit three thousand concubines for your harem; you merely found an empress from among the common people, and the two have three sons.]
[In the 99th year of the Xuanhuang Calendar, you still remain young. If the Crown Prince hadn't also entered the Dao through cultivation, he would probably have been sent away by you.]
You understand that your own life cannot be infinite, and that even an eternal monarch cannot guarantee absolute and perpetual wisdom.
"I need a way, even if I leave, even if the world changes again, so that the world and all living beings will not suffer."
Nearly a century has passed since the destruction of the Great Gan Dynasty. Ye Li has a son, and his grandson and even his grandson will soon have a son.
He opened the study window and watched the sunset. With his eyes closed, he could still recall the scene from years ago.
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