Chapter 66 It’s all your fault! You stole even your ancestors and that’s why the country was destroyed.
Li Shimin never mentioned this matter because he was always uneasy in his heart.
His present life was so blissful that he was afraid that it would be like a mirage, and that one day God would be unable to bear it and would take Guanyinbi's soul back from this woman's body.
Moreover, Li Shimin and his wife have always been wondering, if the soul of this woman surnamed Wei is Guanyin's maid, then where did her own soul go?
[Don't worry, don't think too much. According to the law of time travel, generally speaking, the Wei girl may have experienced various murders such as high fever and falling into the water, so she has been reincarnated.
Now that you are here, make the most of it. Rest assured, everything will be fine! 】
Li Shimin asked them curiously where the laws came from, so Tianmu swore that they were all summarized from novels. Li Shimin was speechless.
"Guanyinbi, don't you know why you ended up in this body?"
Empress Changsun shook her head. She quickly saw the uneasiness in Li Shimin's heart and gently held her husband's hand and said:
“Everything has its own destiny.
Erlang, as long as you and I live each day to the fullest, we will have no regrets."
Although he said this, Li Shimin still felt uneasy.
Especially now that the war is over and the country is at peace and the people are at peace, this vague sense of anxiety is spreading even more.
But he had no choice.
One day, when the two were in a dream, Li Shimin suddenly heard his wife crying.
He was immediately startled and quickly got up to check with the lamp, only to find that his wife could not be woken up no matter how hard he called her.
When he was anxious to call the imperial physician, Guanyinbi stopped him with tears in her eyes.
"What's wrong? Why were you crying like that just now?"
Seeing his wife wake up, Li Shimin hurriedly wiped the tears from Guanyinbi's face. Guanyinbi took a long time to calm down and said:
"Erlang, maybe I saw the original Wei girl in my dream."
"What's going on?"
Li Shimin was shocked.
Guanyinbi was still upset and lay in her husband's arms for a long time before she said that she had just had a quick glimpse of Wei's daughter's previous life in her dream.
It turned out that when Chang'an was captured during the Anshi Rebellion, Wei's daughter was fleeing Chang'an with her father and brother when she accidentally fell off the carriage and was captured by the enemy.
She was then held in the hands of the enemy for eight years. Like other women from aristocratic families, she first became a servant in the harem of An Lushan and his son, and later was awarded to a rebel general and married to a low-ranking rebel general.
She was not able to return home until the end of the eight-year turmoil.
However, even though her father and brother tried their best to cover it up, the news of her loss of virginity still made Wei dissatisfied with their family.
The final decision was to let her become a nun in a temple outside the capital, where she would live out her remaining life with the help of Buddhist monks and green lamps.
She suffered humiliation and torture for eight years, and later because of her loss of chastity, she could only live in seclusion and could never raise her head again. In such a depressed state, Wei's daughter became depressed and died before she was 30 years old.
When she learned that she could not change the outcome if she had another chance, she was unwilling to go through such suffering again.
"As a woman, living in troubled times is like being a floating duckweed on the ocean; life is truly too hard.
I didn't want to live anymore, so I thought that if someone still wanted to live, I would let her live for me!
If it is possible, it would be best if you could avenge me for my past life."
In the endless darkness of the dream, Empress Changsun saw the original Wei girl bowing to her from a distance, saying that she had no regrets and it was time for her to reincarnate.
"Has her revenge been achieved?"
When Empress Changsun heard this, she gently tapped the tip of her husband's nose and burst out laughing:
"Erlang, you forgot that it was you who avenged her."
The Anshi Rebellion was put down by Li Shimin, and the rebel generals and An Lushan and his son all died at the hands of Li Shimin.
As for the Wei family, they had been made an example of for their previous evil deeds, and all the guilty members of the family were punished.
Perhaps Wei's daughter had been unwilling to live her life to the fullest, and she wanted to see if she could live differently if she had a chance to do it all over again.
"So it's you, the Empress, and His Majesty the Emperor Taizong.
I am already very satisfied that the little girl of the Wei family can see the Tang Dynasty revive again, and that I, the daughter of the Tang Dynasty, no longer suffer from the pain of being a wanderer and being bullied.
If possible, please ask the Empress to take a good look at the mountains and rivers of the Tang Dynasty for me."
The life of a noble lady is to marry from one family to another, from a daughter to another person's wife, and then to the mistress of another family.
She had never set foot in a distant place, let alone seen with her own eyes the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Tang Dynasty, the distant frontier, and the small bridges and flowing waters of the south of the Yangtze River described in poems.
Therefore, when Empress Changsun saw the figure of the Wei girl disappear, she felt a little emotional.
"I also want to see the beautiful country under your rule, Erlang, for her and myself."
Although the scenery in the palace was beautiful, she also wanted to see with her own eyes what the world outside looked like.
In her previous life, she was a good wife and mother, and the best queen to her husband.
In this life, after witnessing the freedom of modern women, she also wants to live for herself and help more women.
Li Shimin was a little sad after hearing what had just happened. Now that he knew his wife wanted to leave him and go on a long journey, he was worried and nervous.
Although he was a little reluctant, he respected his wife's decision. Seeing that she had made up her mind, he had no choice but to sigh and agree.
"Then Guanyin Bi, when you go there, remember to write to me from time to time and tell me everything!
Remember to come back soon! The kids and I are waiting for you!"
On the day the couple parted at the palace gate, Li Shimin waved goodbye to his wife who was traveling far away, holding his two children. He was so worried that he looked like a stone waiting for his wife.
[Hahahaha, is Erfeng going to write about missing his wife again? This is so corny!]
[Alone with his two cubs, Erfeng now looks like an orphan and a widower abandoned by his wife.]
"What are you talking about? What are you talking about!
My wife lives a long life. Orphans and widows are unlucky. Pah! Pah! Pah!
His wife died too early in his previous life, which really left a psychological shadow on Li Shimin.
Therefore, he asked Shen Yue to follow him all the way, fearing that his wife would get a headache, fever, cold or something, and he was very worried.
Li Shimin wrote letters to his beloved wife every few days, and also to Shen Yue, but the tone was very different.
One is "I miss you so much", and the other is like a very talkative and busy boss...
Shen Yue, who received many letters and instructions from His Majesty: …
You two just show off your affection, but why are you feeding me dog food every day?!
Not only is it heartbreaking for single guys, but they also have to go on business trips with their boss’s wife every day.
While Li Shimin continued to think about his wife, he decided to find something else to do.
It has been four or five years since we conquered Tubo. It is time to train the navy, especially the Sakura Country, which will sooner or later become a disaster in a thousand years.
It would be better to get rid of it now while China is still powerful.
However, Sakura is very far away from the mainland of the Tang Dynasty, across the sea, and the people of the Tang Dynasty are not very interested in the land there.
Li Shimin was having a hard time thinking of a reasonable reason to go on the expedition, but at this moment, the suicidal Emperor Sakura happened to bump into him.
The official letter sent by Sakura read: "To the Emperor of the land where the sun rises, and to the Emperor of the land where the sun sets."
This written statement that challenged the order between China and the barbarians immediately aroused the anger of the Tang Dynasty officials, and Li Shimin was also very dissatisfied.
Once during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, the then crown prince once wrote a similar statement to Emperor Yang of Sui, because they were in a period of strong development due to the implementation of a series of reforms.
However, the times are different now. How can the Sui Dynasty be compared with the Tang Dynasty?
What's more, after Li Shimin personally revived the country, the Tang Dynasty became even more vast.
[Wow, what's with Sakura? Talking to the Heavenly Khan Li Shimin like that?]
Who is this emperor? He's so brave!
After some investigation, everyone discovered that the emperor during this period was a puppet emperor.
At this time, the second female emperor, Empress Koken, was in power. In order to maintain power, she established her cousin Emperor Junnin as a puppet emperor.
[Empress Koken had no need to provoke the Tang Dynasty, and this puppet emperor would be deposed and exiled by her this year.
Perhaps the puppet sensed something was amiss, and so began courting death by provoking Li Shimin, thereby turning Sakura's internal conflict into an external one?]
In response, Li Shimin said that I, the Heavenly Khan, would act as a peacemaker and deal with both emperors in one go. Now you don’t have to quarrel anymore, right?
This was a good idea, so Li Shimin used this letter as an excuse to loudly rebuke the Tang envoys in court:
"Such a provocation to our Tang Dynasty shows that Yinghua may appear humble and respectful on the surface, but in reality, her ambition has never changed in the past hundred years. Once she becomes powerful, she will be a great threat to our China!"
Li Shimin was about to send troops to encircle and destroy Yinghua, but his ministers felt that it was a bit too much.
The officials of the Tang Dynasty could not predict what would happen a thousand years later. In addition, the cherry blossoms were far away, so it seemed useless to pick them down as they were out of reach.
Therefore, everyone advised Your Majesty that since Emperor Yang of Sui did not take action, you should not take action either, lest you be labeled a tyrant.
Li Shimin was a little angry, but when he saw the words in the sky, he immediately smiled and said:
"There are countless gold and silver mines here in Sakura, which are inexhaustible."
"Yes, Your Majesty is right. Sakura is truly respectful but lacks virtue! She must be beaten!"
"That's right, even the State Secretary dares to provoke us like this. This is intolerable!"
Your Majesty, why didn’t you tell me earlier if there was something good?
Since Sakura is so talented and has a bad attitude, let’s give her a beating!
The Tang Dynasty now has a population of tens of millions and abundant food, so it is not beyond its reach to fight.
Thus, the Tang Dynasty's navy officially set out for Sakura.
Ryukyu, an island very close to the east coast of the Tang Dynasty, was the first to be surrounded, landed and conquered by Tang soldiers.
At this time, the emperor, who was in the midst of a civil war, quickly began to defend against the enemy. The Sakura army was more organized than the Silla army, and they would often commit suicide by seppuku when they lost a battle.
Although the Tang army was far superior to the Sakura in terms of weapons and equipment and military strength, the two sides were in a stalemate because they were fighting at sea.
Fortunately, there was a precedent of Tang currency economic warfare. At this time, Wen Yuping used trade war and other means to take multiple approaches, and Sakura immediately fell into trouble.
Although the war was still going on, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the cherry blossoms would sooner or later become part of the Tang Dynasty's possession.
The Sakura Emperors are no longer concerned about who will be deposed, as they are all caught in a desperate crisis.
At the same time, the King of Silla, who had been in Chang'an City for several years, was depressed every day and hoped that something unexpected would happen in the Tang Dynasty.
The King of Silla was very depressed at first after being captured, but later he ate and drank well in Chang'an all day long and became healthier and more rosy than when he was in Silla.
So he had been looking forward to it for the past few years, and when he heard that the Tang Dynasty and Yinghua had started fighting, he suddenly felt hopeful.
At that time, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo were at war, and he was looking forward to Tubo invading Chang'an.
As a result, Tubo was not up to the task and was pacified without any effort.
Immediately afterwards, the Jiedushi rebelled, and the King of Silla immediately had hope again.
Rebellion is good! Quickly learn from An Lushan and storm Chang'an to overthrow the emperor!
As a result, within a few months, the three Jiedushi were quickly pacified and their heads and bodies were separated. The King of Silla became depressed again.
A few years later, the Tang Dynasty and Silla started fighting, and the King of Silla was waiting to see the spoils every day.
Fight, fight, the more chaotic the fight, the better! Maybe he can return home and restore his country!
As a result, within a few months, Sakura was completely unable to resist and had no room to fight back.
After repeated disappointments, the King of Silla became completely depressed. He was as listless as an old duck and sighed all day long.
At a banquet, Li Shimin saw the depressed King of Silla and asked with concern:
"Why are you so unhappy? If you're unhappy, go hunting!
"My Great Tang has such a beautiful land, hunting is so relaxing and enjoyable. I will allow you to go to Yanbei, where there are many mountains. I will appoint you as a county magistrate, and you can go hunting."
The King of Silla was so upset that he could only smile and decline.
[Aha ...!]
When the Turkic Khan Jie Li was captured by him, he was depressed all day long. Erfeng told him how fun it would be to go hunting.
I'll appoint you as a governor, and you can go hunting.
[Erfeng, you really don't know why he's unhappy? Doge]
After listening to Li Shimin's consolation, the King of Silla returned in an even worse mood and sighed all day long.
Even in his dreams at night, he hoped to dream of returning to Silla to restore the country's prestige.
As a result, in his dream, he suddenly entered a magical world where there were many different kinds of buildings, and the language spoken by people was somewhat similar to Silla language, but completely different.
The amazing thing is that he could understand it all.
Soon he realized that this was actually his Silla!
Great! Silla has developed so much!
The King of Silla immediately became alert and soon saw Silla on a map outside. The territory was so large that it was simply the center of the world!
“Isn’t our Silla so powerful? So strong!”
The passerby who was caught said "Asiba" inexplicably, and then said:
"Of course, our country is number one in the universe! The center of the world!
Even the United States is a watchdog we hired with money!"
The King of Silla became excited when he heard this. He looked carefully at the map of Silla, which was located at the center of the universe. However, he found something wrong.
Wait, did a large piece of land suddenly grow out?
Why does the Tang Dynasty next to it look so small?
Soon the King of Silla learned how to use the Internet, but as a result, he was ridiculed by Silla people for posting news about the Tang Dynasty in various forums and discussions.
[Where did this country bumpkin come from? Did you know that everything in the Tang Dynasty was stolen from us, the Great Bang?]
[Chopsticks were invented by us Goryeo people, writing was created by us Goryeo people, and clothing and language were all passed down to the Tang Dynasty by us Goryeo people!]
King of Silla: ...Ah?
The King of Silla was very shocked and began to ask who was stronger, the Tang Dynasty, the Heavenly Khan who had conquered the world, or the Silla at that time.
"Of course it's us, Goryeo. Haven't you heard that when Emperor Taizong of Tang failed in his campaign against Goguryeo, he was shot blind in one eye by us Goguryeo people and had to kneel down and beg for peace?"
[As for historical evidence, we even made a TV series about it!]
King of Silla: ???
"That's not right. Goguryeo and our Goryeo are not the same people. Even if Goguryeo really defeated Emperor Taizong of Tang, does it have anything to do with us Goryeo?"
What? Goguryeo is our Goryeo. They are our ancestors!
What's wrong with this? Why don't you admit it?
Tell me! Are you a spy sent by a neighboring country? How dare you slander our Republic of China like this?
King of Silla: ???
He was so angry that these descendants of Goryeo were so blind to their ancestors!
The King of Silla then asked everyone who invented chopsticks, and everyone proudly said it was the Republic of China.
They also claim that neighboring countries have stolen their culture and festivals, and that everything is learned from Chinese culture!
They also said that their country has a history of 100 million years, and there are written records unearthed in museums.
The King of Silla immediately ran to see, and was shocked to find that all the texts they unearthed were Chinese characters, and all the pottery they unearthed were passed down from the Tang Dynasty!
The King of Silla couldn't believe how his descendants could become so confused about right and wrong and yet act so confidently.
However, when he came out, he saw a soldier from the United States beating the people of the United States and demanding that they give up their seats with confidence.
These people who had previously confidently declared that the Great Stick Country was the origin of the universe immediately gave up their seats without saying a word.
When the King of Silla saw this, his eyes widened, and then he left in a daze as if he had suffered a great blow.
Then, while walking on the street, he heard a congressman in front of him giving a speech, saying "We are the world center of the Republic of China". He was so angry that he rushed to the stage and beat up these people.
"It's all your fault, it's all you descendants talking nonsense, you guys are weak but you can only yell nonsense and claim your ancestors randomly!
Don’t you even know who your ancestors are?
There's no hope. They're a bunch of people with no sense of propriety or shame. They only know how to brag and tell lies. Who else can they fool except themselves? "
"It's all your fault. If you hadn't said that, how could I have been beaten? How could the Tang Dynasty have destroyed my country?
You unfilial descendants will only destroy the country, I will beat you to death!"
The King of Silla was pulled down in the middle of the war and suddenly woke up.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the angrier he became, the more aggrieved he felt, and he burst into tears.
Only then did he realize that what the two Tang envoys and the Tang Emperor said was actually true!
Is there really someone in their Silla Kingdom who dares to make up such a story and let the Tang Emperor Tian Khan know about it?
No wonder his country was destroyed!
The descendants made up stories that led to the fall of Silla. It’s all your fault, the descendants of Silla, for bragging. Now your country is gone. Are you satisfied?
…
The King of Silla started crying every day but still no one paid attention. After half a year, Sakura was successfully pacified.
The two emperors no longer had to fight with each other because they were all captured and brought to Chang'an to play mahjong with the royal families of Silla and Tubo.
Li Shimin downgraded the emperor system to the king system and directly appointed a Tang Dynasty person as the Sakura King.
At the same time, Li Shimin also chose a modern worker to be the regent of Sakura, so that the two could check and balance each other to prevent ambition and independence.
Many people from the Central Plains who needed to be exiled were moved to Sakura to develop new territories.
In a few years, Sakura will be completely sinicized and become the people of the Tang Dynasty who speak Tang language, learn Tang writing, and wear Tang clothes. Their identity will only be the Tang Dynasty, not Sakura.
Now the thousand-year-old trouble of Sakura was solved. Countless gold and silver mines were developed, and the treasury of the Tang Dynasty became very rich.
Li Shimin finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time, thinking that he could take a break and build a hunting palace for fun.
Erfeng is already thirty-six, right? In a few years, she'll be entering old age. So let's discuss this.
If Er Feng lived to be seventy, would he become the second Li Longji?
Li Shimin was a wise ruler when he was young, but unfortunately he became incompetent and indulged in elixirs in his later years. If he had lived longer, he would have been the second Li Longji. Fortunately, he died early. (1)
Li Shimin: ...?!
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