But it also reveals sincerity and kindness.
He just sat there, his eyes a little dazed, and then he said softly: "It just feels a little unreal."
"What's unreal about it?"
Zhao Jun asked.
After asking, he remembered the reason and said with a smile: "Brother, you are thinking about the Western Regions."
"yes."
Zhao Zhen also laughed, and then his face became more excited. He put his hands on the table and said, "There were so many people around just now, I was just laughing and happy for a while, but now I..."
He stood up and walked to the open space nearby, jumping up and down, waving his hands and saying, "I really want to do something to express my excitement. I really want to pound the table, but I'm afraid of the pain."
“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.”
Zhao Jun laughed heartily and said, "Brother, you're still too easily satisfied, but I understand. I'm calm because the Western Regions have always been our inherent territory in later generations. The recovery of Xinjiang during Zuo Zongtang's reign kept our territory largely intact. So I'm sure I'd want to jump up and find something to hammer a few times."
"ah!"
Zhao Zhen felt the rage in his chest about to burst out, and finally he slammed his fist on the desk, followed by a scream: "Ouch."
“Hahahahahaha!”
Zhao Jun was overjoyed, and then he thought,
This thing really is a different state of mind.
Zhao Zhen was happy because the achievement of expanding territory was the highest achievement among any emperor in ancient times.
Second only to the founding of the country.
And now it is not just this little bit of territory, but a vast land of more than one million square kilometers, so it is not just a simple matter of expanding the territory.
Why is Li Longji so highly regarded in history?
You have to know that in his later years he was a complete tyrant. He empowered treacherous ministers, ignored court officials, lived a dissolute life, and even robbed his daughter-in-law. He also believed false accusations and killed his three sons in one day. Not only was this against human nature, but he also killed his own flesh and blood.
Although this situation would definitely be considered a relatively normal emperor in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, it would definitely be considered a very poorly regarded incompetent or tyrannical ruler in other dynasties.
However, these things do not affect his historical status as a wise ruler.
The reason is that his first half of life was so glorious, so glorious that if he had died in the late Kaiyuan period and not the Tianbao period, his evaluation might even be ranked second in the Tang Dynasty and in the top ten in history.
This is what Zhao Zhen is like now.
Li Longji didn't care about the evaluation of future generations, he only cared about his own desires, so he eventually collapsed.
But Zhao Zhen already knew how future generations would evaluate the former emperors, comment on their achievements, and even discuss them online, so he had to do better than in history.
In history, he was not even as good as Li Longji. At least Li Longji had his glory. In the Northern Song Dynasty, he could only be regarded as a tall man among short ones.
It is a wonder that he was a mediocre ruler, yet he could be ranked among the top three emperors of the Song Dynasty.
And now.
Everything has changed.
Even the title of Song Renzong is no longer worthy of its name.
Not worthy of his achievements.
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