Chapter 2 The Situation in the World

Three days later, when Li Zhen, the king of Yue, went out to inspect the government affairs of various counties, he encountered an extremely dangerous assassination in the suburbs of Panyu County, it is said that the other party even used the rhubarb crossbow, fortunately the king of Yue dodged quickly, otherwise he was hit by the rhubarb crossbow, even if he did not die, he would at least fall into a disability.

Encountering this assassination, Li Zhen was furious, activated all the forces under his command, and ordered them to investigate the murderer.

This time, Li Zhen's anger finally let the world see the horror of King Yue.

In just half a day, the assassin was captured alive by the Blood Dragon Guard, and all the killer tools suffered the most terrible torture in the world.

A day later, the Yang family's lair in Lingnan was wiped out by Skynet, and all the old and weak in the stronghold were beheaded.

A day and a half later, Yang's representative in the court, and also the person with the highest grade, Yang Xuancheng, the secretary of Dali Temple, was riding a horse when he went out to go out, and the mount suddenly ran out of control, and Yang Xuancheng was dragged to death. Although I don't know who did it, everyone knows that this must be related to King Yue.

Two days later, the Hongnong Yang clan, except for those who were not at home, regardless of men, women and children, were wiped out, everyone was cut off and hung in front of the main gate, and all the eagle dogs of the owner or the earthworms in the ground were poisoned - this is a typical chicken dog that does not stay. The murderer shot cleanly, even the severed head, the cut marks were neat, and it didn't look like it was cut with a knife at all. No one knew who the killer was, only that something resembling a sticky rod was found at the scene, but no one knew what it meant.

Three days later, except for some of the women who married outside, all the men of the Hongnong Yang family, whether they were released as officials or went out to do business, were all beheaded.

Hongnong Yang was completely removed, and the world was shocked......

Everyone was shocked by Li Zhen's handwriting, and even the family who was ready to make trouble for Li Zhen was frightened by Li Zhen's ferocity, and immediately stopped their small movements, ready to wait and see.

When Hongnong Yang's extermination shocked the world, as the initiator of all this, Li Zhen didn't care about it, because he knew that as long as his orders were issued, the people below would naturally execute his orders perfectly, and he didn't have to worry about it at all.

Since the birth of the child, Li Zhen seems to have changed as a person, delegating almost all the official affairs in his hands, except for some major matters that must be decided by himself, the rest of the things are handed over to his subordinates, and he himself has been hiding in the back house, teasing two cute dolls.

It is said that the genes of the old Li family are good, and Wu Meiniang is also a famous beauty in history, so these two children can be said to have gathered all the advantages of the two families, although they are only two months old, they can already be seen from their eyebrows, and when they grow up, they will definitely be handsome guys and beauties.

Although there is still some chaos on the Lingnan side, the biggest source of chaos has been extinguished, and the next thing is to appease the people, and Lingnan will slowly recover.

And after this chaos, Li Zhen also saw the situation of Lingnan officialdom clearly, and then it was time for him to take action himself, completely clear the chaos in Lingnan, and return Lingnan to a clear and clear sky.

When all this is completed, Lingnan will definitely enter a period of stable development, and that time will be the best period for itself to open up the Age of Discovery.

As long as the Age of Exploration is opened, there is no need to care about how much you do, it only takes three or five years, the whole Lingnan will change greatly, and it will not be a problem to surpass Suzhou and Hangzhou, and in two years, a new Chang'an will stand in the south of the Tang Dynasty...... No, to be exact, it is the central part, because of the conquest of the South Seas, Lingnan is no longer the southern part of the Tang Dynasty, but has become the central and southern part of the country.

The situation in Lingnan is getting better and better, and the situation in Northeast China is not much worse.

In mid-February this year, not long after Li Shimin's birthday, he launched a war against Goguryeo under the pretext that Goguryeo disrespected the Tang Dynasty and repeatedly invaded the Tang frontier.

A total of 500,000 troops were invested by both sides in this battle, of which 100,000 were from the Tang Dynasty, and more than 400,000 were hastily assembled by Gao Zang, the treasure king of Goguryeo.

Last year, Goguryeo Quan Yuan Gai Suwen (in order to avoid the name of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, also known as Quan Gai Suwen) launched a coup d'état, killed King Rongliu, and supported the current Treasure King to succeed to the throne and became his puppet.

Although the Treasure King knew that he was a puppet, how could he be willing? As soon as he ascended the throne, he tried to compete for power with Quangai Suwen, but the treasure king was not very old and his talent was not outstanding, how could he be the opponent of the cunning Quangai Suwen? In just a few short encounters, the Treasure King was crushed by Quangai Suwen, and there was no room to turn over.

Even if Quangai Suwen died later in 666 AD (this era is a good name), his three sons still fought for power, and the Treasure King still did not control the country, which shows how mediocre his talent is.

Since he came to the throne, although he has the name of a king, both military and political affairs are in the hands of me, please tell me, and there is no room for him to interfere at all.

For example, this time, although the edict was issued in his name when the domestic warriors were summoned to fight against the Tang Dynasty, it was actually Quangai Suwen who was actually in charge, and even the edict did not pass through his hand from beginning to end, because even the signature was written by Quangai Suwen in imitation of his handwriting.

It's just that the standing army of Goguryeo is only 150,000 in total, and the remaining 250,000 are simply peasants with weapons, how can such a team be the opponent of the Tang Dynasty? I'm afraid that if the Tang Dynasty goes down with two cannons, these people will probably be scattered, right?

And the next situation is indeed the case, Anshi City has been taken before Li Shimin's personal expedition, so this time the main place of Datang is Xincheng.

Goguryeo and the Central Plains are old enemies, so in order to guard against the Central Plains Dynasty and the former Turks, Goguryeo built many cities on the border line of the Tang Dynasty, such as Anshi, Xincheng, Liaodong, etc., and Xincheng is the second largest city on the Goguryeo border after Anshi.

Of course, although it is nominally the second largest city, it is actually similar to some of Datang's larger counties, how can such a defense be the opponent of Datang's artillery?

Just two shots down, the people on the city wall ran out, and when the fifth cannon was fired, the city wall of the new city had completely become a ruin, and Datang stepped directly into the new city without encountering the slightest obstacle.

From the time Datang went to the new city to the time when he laid down here, it didn't take an hour in total.

(End of chapter)