"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"
On that day, Lü Tu appointed a group of officials, including Liu Yang, Liu Hu, Nie Yun, Tuoba Yue, Liu Hong, and Xiang Ze, who became the new Eight Pillars of State. However, apart from Liu Yang, Liu Hu, and others who were stationed in the northern border, the others had no military power.
Xiao Zhong naturally became the founding prime minister and one of the Eight Pillars of State. Others, such as the Sun brothers, the Feng brothers, and Chai Yong, also became regional officials, but they did not have military power, only the power to manage domestic affairs.
Furthermore, Lü Tu redistributed all the land according to the equal-field system, and made all the land collectively owned by the village. All land could not be bought, sold, or given away, in order to prevent the problem of land annexation in the future.
Finally, returning to the issue of the harem, Lü Tu unprecedentedly appointed Song Yuxi, Nangong Huiyu, Wang Miaoling, Jiang Wanyu, and Zhao Qingyao as empresses.
When this announcement was released, the people of the world were shocked. Even Nangong Huiyu and Zhao Qingyao volunteered to become concubines.
But Lü Tu refused on the spot, for a very simple reason: "I, Lü Tu, have never broken my word. I said back then that I would love each and every one of you equally. A concubine is an empress!"
In the eighth year of Xinghan, with the widespread adoption of sweet potatoes, the Han Dynasty could be said to have become the most prosperous place in the world, with its people living in peace and contentment and its army strong and powerful.
Having not stretched his muscles for a long time, Lü Tu personally led 300,000 cavalrymen across the Great Wall into the heart of the desert, reaching the Wuhuan royal court, annihilating all the Wuhuan nobles, capturing millions of cattle, sheep and horses, and returning in triumph with the golden statue used for sacrificial rites.
That evening, in the imperial palace of the Han Dynasty, Lü Tu lay on the large dragon bed, surrounded by his five stunningly beautiful wives.
He twirled Song Yuxi's hair with his fingers: "My wife, do you still remember the day we met?"
Song Yuxi tenderly kissed Lü Tu's cheek: "I will never forget how you, my husband, ignored everyone's ridicule and said you would take care of me! I am so happy to have married you!"
Nangong Huiyu, Wang Miaoling, Jiang Wanyu, and Zhao Qingyao all smiled sweetly in unison and said, "Husband, we are very happy too!"
Lu Tu smiled wickedly: "If you're happy, then give me many more princes and princesses!"
In the following decades, Lü Tu used the knowledge he had acquired in his previous life to enable the Han Dynasty's technology to develop rapidly under a powerful centralized system, conquering the world!
The End!
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