After the Han annexed the Lu State, according to Liu Ji's intentions, he was originally going to set up four or five more legions to garrison the forty-nine states of the original Lu State, but under the strong opposition of Xiao He, the chief lieutenant of the household department, Liu Ji only formed three more legions, namely the Silver Dragon Legion, the Molong Legion and the Red Dragon Legion.

The Silver Dragon Legion, the Molong Legion, and the Red Dragon Legion all had ten guards, each consisting of two cavalry brigades and three infantry brigades, with a total strength of two million in each legion.

Liu Ji appointed Huo Qubing as the commander of the Silver Dragon Legion, Zhao Pu as the military advisor of the Silver Dragon Legion, Wei Qing as the commander of the Molong Legion, Cheng Yu as the military advisor of the Molong Legion, Guo Ziyi as the commander of the Red Dragon Legion, and Huo Guang as the military advisor of the Red Dragon Legion.

Now, the number of the main army of the Han has increased to twenty-three, and the total strength of the Han army has also reached an astonishing sixty million.

A large number of Han officials led by Xiao He, the chief lieutenant of the household department, have always hoped that Liu Ji can be disarmed, after all, with the strength of the Han Dynasty, the power that can threaten the Han is almost non-existent.

However, Liu Ji is unwilling to disarm, according to Liu Ji's meaning, under the whole world, it is not the king's land, there is still so much land around the Han Dynasty, it has not been conquered by the Han Dynasty, how can it be disarmed at this time!

In June of the 15th year of the Han Dynasty, the Han army gathered tens of millions of troops and launched an invasion war against the two vassal states of the former Great Zhou State, Mu State, which owned five states, and Bai State, which owned three states.

After only holding out for two months, the state of Bai announced its surrender to the Han Dynasty, and the state of Mu held out until the end of the 15th year of the Han Dynasty, and was finally completely captured by the Han army.

After conquering the kingdoms of Mu and Bai, the Han Dynasty already had 237 states with a total population of more than 1.55 billion.

In October of the 16th year of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty demanded that all ethnic groups in the grassland surrender their armies, and the entire grassland would be under the rule of the Han Dynasty in the future.

The Xiongnu, Khitan, Xirong, Donghu, Tiele, and Karasuma, the six strong tribes of the grassland, were all indignant at this unreasonable demand of the Han Dynasty, and the six strong tribes immediately united with other nomads on the grassland to form a grassland coalition army, ready to fight the Han Dynasty to the end.

In the face of the rejection of the grassland tribes, Liu Ji was not surprised, and then the iron hooves of the Han army entered the vast prairie and began the war to conquer the grassland.

The war lasted almost four years before it ended, and the Han Dynasty suffered nearly 1.5 million casualties in this war to conquer the steppe, and the cavalry of the various nomadic tribes of the steppe alone lost more than 7 million casualties.

In the end, many nomadic peoples, including the Xiongnu, Khitan, Xirong, Donghu, Tiele, and Karasuma, were all conquered by the Han army by force, and the grasslands with an area of more than 40 million square kilometers became the land of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Ji then divided the vast grassland into 24 states, so that the Han Dynasty had 261 states and a total population of 160 million.

In May of the 21st year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ji ignored the dissuasion of many top civil servants and insisted on launching an invasion war against Xiao State, which had sixteen states.

The total population of Xiao State is about 120 million, with an army of more than 6 million, the key is to deal with the threat of the Han Dynasty, Xiao State has formed a military alliance with Yan State, Yan State has nineteen states, a population of about 160 million, and an army of more than 7 million.

The reason why many top civil servants opposed it was because the Han Dynasty had just ended the war to annex the various nomadic peoples in the grassland, and on the other hand, because of the military alliance formed by the Xiao State and the Yan State, once the Han army invaded the Xiao State, it was equivalent to starting a war against the Xiao State and the Yan State at the same time.

After the outbreak of the war, the Yan Kingdom really declared war on the Han Dynasty as soon as possible.

The strength of Xiao and Yan was not weak, and after the outbreak of war with the Han Dynasty, Xiao and Yan immediately recruited a large number of young men to join the army.

In this war, the army of the Yan State even reached 20 million in its heyday, and the army of the Xiao State reached 18 million in its heyday, and the Han Dynasty invested more than 37 million troops in this war.

In the end, the victor was still the Han Dynasty, the sixteen states of the Xiao State, and the nineteen states of the Yan State, all of which were annexed by the Han Dynasty, but the Han Dynasty lost more than eight million troops in this five-year war, and a large number of generals were killed, including several system generals who had reached the level of peerless generals.

After annexing Xiao and Yan in a row, Liu Ji completed two hidden tasks to expand his territory, and the system rewarded Liu Ji with a total of 20 prime ministers in the Tang and Song dynasties, as well as 1,000 groups of cowardly Xue troops and 1,000 groups of Beiwei troops.

In addition, in the war of annexing Xiao and Yan, the Eastern Barbarian Protectorate of the Han Dynasty also sent troops to annex the Bai Miao and other Eastern Barbarian tribes of the 100,000 Great Mountains, which made the Eastern Barbarian Metropolitan Protectorate increase the territory of six more states, and the entire 100,000 Great Mountains became the land of the Great Han.

After annexing the Xiao and Yan states, the Han Dynasty already had three hundred and two states and a population of nearly 1.9 billion, and at this time, except for the Kihu and Nani tribes in the millions of mountains, as well as the Europa Empire on the western continent, there were no other countries and forces around the Han Dynasty, and only the long coastline remained.

At the end of the 26th year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ji, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, ordered the formation of the Han Royal Fleet.

On March 1, the 27th year of the Han Dynasty, in a large hall in the Imperial Palace of Canglong City, Liu Ji, who was already fifty-one years old, smiled and asked Guo Jia, the captain of the Ministry of Industry, "Have you built a few shipbuilding drawings that I handed over to you from the Ministry of Industry?" ”

Guo Jia, the lieutenant of the Ministry of Industry, immediately said: "Your Majesty, according to the drawings you gave, our Ministry of Industry has built three kinds of warships, 5,000 materials for large warships, 500 materials for small warships, and 1,500 materials for medium warships. ”

Liu Ji nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then the Ministry of Industry will hurry up and build more warships, and I will form at least four Han Royal Fleets." ”

At this time, Zhang Juzheng, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Officials, said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, now that our Han army is invincible in the world, why waste a lot of money to build so many useless warships? ”

Liu Ji smiled and said: "We have a long coastline, and we have to guard against the enemy coming from the sea. ”

Hearing Liu Ji say this, several captains of the Han Dynasty shook their heads helplessly, they did not believe that there would be any enemy who could come up from the sea and launch an invasion of the Han Dynasty.

However, to everyone's surprise, at the beginning of June of the 30th year of the Han Dynasty, there was really a huge fleet from the sea that attacked the Lianshan Port of Hangzhou, and the four warships of the Han Royal Fleet stationed in this port were sunk, but because of the desperate resistance of the defenders of Lianshan Port and the people, this invading fleet did not take the port of Hangzhou.

"Your Majesty, this fleet does not belong to a certain country on the Western Continent, but an unknown force, through the battle of Lianshan Port, we found that the people in this fleet are all as black as charcoal, and we have never seen such a black person before." Jia Xu, the commander of Heishuitai, said to Liu Ji in a deep voice.

Liu Ji touched his chin and said, "I didn't expect that there would be blacks, how big is this black fleet?" ”

Jia Xu, the commander of Heishuitai, continued: "Your Majesty, this ...... The black fleet had almost more than two hundred ships, and the largest warships even exceeded five thousand, and may have reached seven or eight thousand. ”

Liu Ji asked in a deep voice: "What kind of weapon does the black warship use?" ”

At this time, Zhang Liang, the lieutenant of the military department, said: "Your Majesty, the black battleship is also equipped with catapults and large crossbow arrows, which is the same as our Han royal fleet, and one medium warship and three small warships we are stationed in Lianshan Harbor were all sunk by the catapults of the black battleship. ”

Liu Ji couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard that the black warship was not equipped with firearms such as artillery.

After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ji asked people to make black powder according to the recipe of black powder, but for some reason, black powder could not explode in this time and space, so that Liu Ji had no way to get this big killing weapon out.

Liu Ji then ordered: "Immediately order the East China Sea Fleet to destroy this black fleet that suddenly appeared, remember to capture some prisoners alive, and figure out where this black fleet came from!" ”

At this time, the Han Dynasty had established four Han royal fleets, namely the East China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet, the West Sea Fleet and the North Sea Fleet.

The East China Sea Fleet alone has 26 large warships, 128 medium warships, and more than 500 small warships, with a total strength of more than 200,000.

On June 10, the 30th year of the Han Dynasty, the East China Sea Fleet of the Han Dynasty gathered nearly 400 warships and broke out a sea battle with the black fleet in the waters east of Lianshan Port in Hangzhou.

In the end, at the cost of sinking two large warships, nine medium warships, and 23 small warships, the East China Sea Fleet completely annihilated the black fleet, sank more than 100 ships of the black fleet, and captured more than 80 ships.

Later, among the captives, several black people who knew a little Han dialect were found, and finally figured out where these black people came from.

About two thousand miles away from the ocean east of the Han Dynasty, there is a vast continent, and the people living on this continent are all dark-skinned blacks, this fleet comes from that continent, an empire called Essur, Essexur is a relatively powerful country on that continent, with a population of hundreds of millions.

About three years ago, there was a fishing boat of the Great Han Kingdom, because of a typhoon at sea, lost its way, and finally came to the Ezesur Empire, two thousand miles away, which also let the Ezesur Empire know that on the other side of the sea, there is a rich continent, so there is this expeditionary fleet of the Ezesur Empire.

Originally, in order to conquer a rich continent, the first expeditionary fleet of the Ezesur Empire gathered nearly 500 ships, with a total strength of 170,000 people, but at sea, the expeditionary fleet of the Ezesur Empire was very unlucky to encounter two typhoons and lost more than half of the warships, otherwise the East China Sea Fleet of the Han Dynasty alone may not be able to eat the expeditionary fleet of the Ezesur Empire!

Liu Ji, who originally felt how lonely it was to be invincible, learned that on the other side of the sea, there was a vast continent, and suddenly became excited again, and ordered all shipyards in Dahan to build warships with all their might, and ordered the Ministry of Industry to design a super-large warship with more than 10,000 materials.

Just when Liu Ji was preparing to expedition to another continent, at the end of the 30th year of the Han Dynasty, a serious border conflict broke out between the Han Dynasty and the Europa Empire on the Western Continent.

This war between the Han and the Europa Empire eventually involved all the countries of the Western continent and turned into a war between the Han and the Western countries.

This war lasted for eight years, during which the Han army lost more than tens of millions, and finally conquered all the countries in the Western Continent, directly or indirectly causing more than 70 million deaths to various countries in the Western Continent, and the population of the entire Western Continent dropped from 700 million to 630 million.

The entire western continent was eventually divided into forty-eight states, and thus the Han became three hundred and fifty states.

During the war with the coalition forces of Western countries, the Ezesur Empire, on another continent, successively sent two expeditionary fleets to invade the territory of the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately they were surrounded and annihilated by the Han Royal Fleet.

On June 1, the 39th year of the Han Dynasty, the first expeditionary fleet of the Han Dynasty set out to conquer the continent on the other side of the sea.

The expeditionary fleet of the Han Dynasty consisted of 28 super-large warships of 13,000 materials, 60 large warships, 280 medium-sized warships, 700 small warships, and 200 transport ships of 10,000 materials, with a total strength of more than 1.8 million.

In the following ten years, the Han royal fleet transported more than 45 million troops to another continent, and finally in July of the 51st year of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty finally conquered the continent with an area of more than 200 million square kilometers, and then this continent was divided into 200 overseas provinces of the Han Dynasty.

On September 1, 51 years of the Han Dynasty, at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ji announced that he would pass the throne to the crown prince Liu Poyu, and Liu Ji became the emperor.

After Liu Polu ascended the throne and became emperor, the Han Dynasty soon launched an attack on the last two powerful clans of the Southern Barbarians, and in May of the 53rd year of the Great Han Dynasty, the Kihu and Nani tribes of the Southern Barbarians were completely annexed by the Han Dynasty.

In March of the 56th year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ji, who was already eighty years old, suddenly learned that on the ocean west of the Western Continent, another vast continent had been discovered, and the people living on it were no different from the Han people except for language.

The eighty-year-old Emperor Taishang personally led the army on an expedition to an unknown continent, which was like a fantasy, from the emperor Liu Poyu to the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, all of whom strongly opposed Liu Ji's crazy plan.

However, in the end, Liu Ji set off with the expeditionary fleet of the Han in October of the 57th year of the Han Dynasty.

Next, it took only six years for Liu Ji to completely conquer this continent, which is also about 200 million square kilometers, and added 200 overseas provinces to the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty invested more than 40 million troops in this continent in the past six years.

During the conquest of this continent, the Han Dynasty discovered two overseas continents, which were also adjacent to each other, so that the subjects of the Han Dynasty finally believed that they lived on the same ball.

At this time, the Han Dynasty truly reached the "whole world, it is not the king's land".

In April of the 71st year of the Han Dynasty, the Han Emperor Liu Poyu died, and the crown prince Liu Pu succeeded to the throne, at which time Liu Ji was already ninety-five years old.

After Liu Pu succeeded to the throne, more than a dozen of Liu Ji's sons in power actually joined forces and prepared to overthrow their nephew, and even gathered an army of five million.

However, after Liu Ji came forward, this rebellion was quickly quelled, and even a battle was not fought, and more than a dozen rebellious sons and their families were sent to overseas provinces by Liu Ji.

In May of the 76th year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ji, the 100-year-old Emperor Taishang of the Han Dynasty, died of illness in the palace of Canglong City, nicknamed Emperor Taiwu, and the temple name was Han Taizu.

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