Chapter 62: The Finale

In May of the eighth year of Tai'an, Ye Zhao's class returned to the court, but he did not go back to Chang'an directly, but went to Changmen Palace, and Liu Wei, who had been imprisoned here for two years, respectfully invited him back to Chang'an, and at the same time imprisoned Ye Zheng, Jia Xu, Guo Huai, Wang Shuang and others.

Through such means, Ye Zhao completely silenced those in the court who criticized Ye Zhao for plotting against him and wanted to stand on behalf of the Han Dynasty.

Not only that, Ye Zhao personally took the flail to the palace and pleaded guilty to Liu.

In the end, under the intercession of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, Liu Wei did not remove Ye Zhao from his official position, and Ye Zhao's reputation was climbed to the peak after this incident, after all, in this world, almost all of them were beaten down by Ye Zhao with a knife and a shot, even if Ye Zhao changed the dynasty at this moment, no one could say anything, Ye Zhao's practice won the favor of the people of the world.

After the war, it was naturally governance, and in the next three years, Ye Zhao continued to improve the Han law and gradually strengthened law enforcement.

In the eleventh year of Tai'an, Ye Zhao's main room, Liu Wei died of illness, in fact, since Ye Zheng sent Liu Wei to Changmen Palace, Liu Wei was very ill after he was furious, it was when Ye Zhao pacified the Central Plains, and he failed to come back in time.

After Liu Wei's death, Ye Zhao was decadent for a long time, and asked Liu Wei to resign, but at the same time, Ye Zheng, who had been in prison for three years, was released to replace Ye Zhao in power, and Ye Zhao went to guard Liu Wei's filial piety.

However, Ye Zheng is not Ye Zhao after all, and his prestige in the court is not enough to convince the public, in the third year of Ye Zhaozhishi, that is, in the fourteenth year of Tai'an (216 AD), Wusun and Kangju in the Western Regions joined forces to expel the forces of the Han Dynasty from the Western Regions.

Under Liu Bian's repeated requests, Ye Zhao reluctantly agreed, and asked Liu Biao to restart the former generals, Ye Zhao led Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Ye Kai, Guan Ping, Cao Zhang and other generals to lead an expedition of 30,000 troops for 3,000 miles, and it took three years to fight until the capital of Kangju, forcing King Kangju to be a minister, Wusun fled, and returned to the dynasty before the class returned to the dynasty, and Ye Zhao's name returned to its peak again.

In the eighteenth year of Tai'an (220 AD), Ye Zhao returned to the dynasty, Liu Wei wanted to crown Ye Zhao as the king of Qi, Ye Zhao refused to accept it, and after repeated begging, Ye Zhao accepted the throne of the king of Qi at the request of Liu Wei and the Manchu Dynasty.

King Qi also had the intention of being on par with the emperor, and Ye Zhao's power reached its peak, and after that, Ye Zhao spent another five years helping Liu Wei sort out the world again.

In the twenty-third year of Tai'an (225 A.D.), there was the queen of the Eastern Ying Wa Kingdom, Himiho, who came to pay tribute, in these ten years, the shipbuilding skills of the Han Dynasty had the ability to sail far away with the efforts of the Shengong Battalion, and the Han sailors also opened up several routes in the coastal area, and the soldiers discovered Yizhou, which was the Taiwan of later generations, Ye Zhao took the opportunity to establish trade relations with Himihu, and continued to plunder a large number of silver ore and other materials from the Wa Kingdom by commercial means.

In the twenty-seventh year of Tai'an (229 AD), Liu Wei died of illness in Weiyang Palace, and his son Liu Ren, Ye Zhao was the auxiliary minister, the official worshiped the Great Sima, Ye Zheng worshiped the Taiwei, and changed the year name to Hanping.

In the sixth year of Hanping (234 AD), Liu Ren agreed to let the emperor be located in Ye Zhao under the repeated persuasion of the ministers, and Ye Zhao, who was already sixty-six years old at the time, successfully took over the throne after three concessions, and in the same year, Ye Zhao's wife Cai Yan and concubine Xin'er both passed away, and Ren Hongchang was also ill.

Ye Zhao did not change the name of the country, he still took Han as the country name, and changed the year name to Hanxing, which was the first year of Hanxing.

In the second year of Hanxing (235 AD), Ren Hongchang finally did not survive and passed away, in the same year, Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, and Huaxiong died of illness, Ye Zhaoli Zhen Mi was the queen, and Sun Shangxiang was the concubine.

In the eighth year of Han Xing (241 AD), Zhao Yun, Ji Ling, Xu Rong, Ding Li, Fang Yue, Zhang He and other generals who followed Ye Zhao in the past passed away one after another, Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Li Ru also passed away, and the national strength of the Han Dynasty has grown rapidly in these 30 years, Ye Zhao has prospered agriculture, business, and industry, solved the pressure of population survival, and destroyed the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other nomadic peoples, and the new grassland tribes are not a climate, so that the Han Dynasty in a comfortable environment, flourish, to the Han Xing eight years, the Han population not only recovered its peak, There has also been a population explosion.

When Ye Zhao ended the troubled times, the population of the Han Dynasty was less than 30 million according to household registration statistics, but in just 30 years, the population of the Han Dynasty had increased fivefold, and in the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, the population was already close to 160 million.

At the same time, the industrial and shipbuilding industries of the Han Dynasty have also undergone significant improvements in the past 30 years, and although they have not yet entered the industrial age, the flying ships of the Han Dynasty have the ability to sail long distances and can cross the ocean to reach the Wa Kingdom.

In the ninth year of Han Xing (242 AD), the Wa Kingdom declared itself a vassal to the Han Dynasty and was willing to move the whole country to the Han land.

In the tenth year of Han Xing (243 AD), the general Ye Kai captured Guishan City, incorporated Dawan into the territory of Dahan, and at the same time used flying boat technology to establish diplomatic relations with Guishan, Anxi, and Rome, which were parallel to the Han Dynasty at that time, and opened trade.

Because the technology of the flying boat has gradually matured, the flight speed and safety performance have made great progress compared with the time when the flying boat first appeared, and the Han Dynasty, as the master, earned a lot of materials for the Han in the trade with the three countries.

In the twenty-first year of Hanxing (254 AD), the sixty-five-year-old prince died of illness, and Ye Zhao, who was already eighty-six, tasted the pain of sending a white-haired person to a black-haired person, and almost collapsed, and set up the emperor's great-grandson Ye Chen (Ye Zheng's grandson) as the prince, and changed the Yuan Jianxing.

In the seventh year of Jianxing (261 AD), which lasted 50 years, Ye Zhao finally built the first steam engine with the help of the Ministry of Industry, and the emergence of the first steam engine also represented that the Han Dynasty would once again enter an era of rapid industrialization.

In the following 30 years, until the 37th year of Jianxing (291 AD), Ye Zhao spent 30 years, through war, constantly pushing through the old and bringing forth the new, with advanced weapons, successively defeated Kushan, Anxi, and Rome, and realized the first unification of the entire Eurasian plate.

Modern tools such as telephones and trains have also sprung up in the past 30 years, solving all kinds of military troubles in the Han Dynasty, Ye Zhao is also known as the first emperor of the ages by later historians, and his deeds have been praised countless times by later generations.

In the thirty-eighth year of Jianxing (292 AD), Ye Zhao, a legend who lived for 123 years, returned to his ancestral hometown of Huaixian after entrusting the throne to his grandson (Ye Chen's grandson) Ye Xun, and passed away.

Although Ye Zhao passed away, his influence was extremely far-reaching, and his ruling career lasted nearly 80 years, and because of him, the privileged class did not reappear in his lifetime.

After Ye Zhao, Ye Xun inherited Ye Zhao's legacy, continued to govern the world with Ye Zhao's strategy, and actively promoted the development of science and technology.

After the death of Ye Zhao, the Han Dynasty continued for nearly 800 years, plus the 100 years of the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty and Ye Zhao's reign, which lasted for nearly 1,300 years, in 1126 AD, with the last emperor of the Han Dynasty when he went west to conquer the Americas, he was unfortunately destroyed by a meteor, and the entire Han continent fell into turmoil and reorganization, divided into several countries, but the whole continent because it spent 800 years under the governance of the Han Dynasty, even if it was divided into different countries, the people in the territory still regarded themselves as Han people, and the civilization of the whole world, also because of Ye Zhao's birth, hundreds of years higher than the original historical trajectory, when the time passed to the time period of Ye Zhao's previous life, the earth had already entered the interstellar era.

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