Children always feel that time passes very slowly, a day is a very long time in their eyes, but as they grow older, they will feel that time is going faster and faster, and the unit of calculating time begins to change from days to months, and then from months to years, and even finally even the year This time has become very short, as if in the blink of an eye, a year has passed, and another year has passed......

Li Xiu's age is old, and he feels that time flies, as if he only blinked a few times, but another ten years have passed, and he is nearly seventy years old at this time, as for the eldest grandson Wuji also died two years ago, and when he died, Li Xiu also went to visit as promised, but when the eldest grandson Wuji knew that Li Xiu was coming through time, the whole person's reaction was similar to Li Shimin's, and after the shock, he laughed, and then soon closed his eyes forever, and Li Zhi ordered the eldest grandson Wuji to be buried in Zhaoling.

After the death of the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Xiu had one less friend around him, and his health was not very good in the past two years, so he rarely went out, and even when Li Zhi wanted to discuss something with him, he would come to see him in person.

In the past ten years, there has been no big war in the Tang Dynasty, criss-crossing cement roads have been built on the grasslands in the north, and cities have been built at various transportation hubs, and more and more Han people have migrated to the grasslands, and the barbarians who dare to resist on the grasslands have all died, and the rest have all obediently intermarried with the Han people, and learned Chinese and wore Hanfu, except for those who are older, the younger generation has begun to be assimilated into the Han people.

As for the Western Regions, the Tang Dynasty has stabilized the territory in Central Asia, and even the Broken Leaf City has been defeated in advance, which also extends the power of the Tang Dynasty to the Awakening area, and the connection with Persia is getting closer and closer, but the closer the relationship, the more likely it is to have contradictions, mainly because Persia is guarding against the Tang Dynasty to annex its own territory, and the Tang Dynasty hates Persia for blocking the trade routes of the Tang Dynasty, which also makes the relationship between the two sides a little tense.

However, although there are more filths between the Tang Dynasty and Persia, they still maintain a cooperative relationship on the surface, but the Tang Dynasty began to contact the Great Food in private, and secretly provoked the struggle between the Great Food, Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire.

In fact, the three kingdoms of Dashi also knew that Datang was not well-intentioned, but they did not dare to tear their faces with Datang, after all, the three kingdoms all knew that no matter which side Datang joined, they could destroy the other party, so they could only deliberately befriend Datang and did not dare to offend too much, which also made Datang take advantage of the left and right between the three kingdoms.

In the southwest direction of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo has already been beaten into a half-crippled by the Tang Dynasty, and Songtsan Gampo is also a short-lived ghost, who died many years ago.

These Buddhist forces are fighting against each other, it is impossible to form a joint force, and Buddhism erodes people's hearts, so that everyone only cultivates the next life and does not seek this life, it can be said that the entire Tubo has been abolished because of this, and there is no hope of rising again, in fact, if it were not for the terrain of Tubo is too high, with Li Ke's temperament, it would have been knocked down here a long time ago, but it is a pity that the plateau is too dangerous for the people living in the plains, so the Tang Dynasty can only let the internal chaos of Tubo, thus losing the threat to the Tang Dynasty.

Ten years ago, Li Chengqian, Li Ke and Li Jin laid down Linyi, but this was only the beginning, after a few years of recuperation, Li Chengqian took Linyi as the foundation, and began to advance to the entire southeast peninsula, Zhenla and other countries have been destroyed one after another, most of the southeast peninsula has fallen into the hands of Li Chengqian, and even began to contact Tianzhu further west.

As for the footsteps of the navy, it is even greater, under the command of Li Jin, the navy has passed through the Strait of Malacca, and even reached the coast controlled by Dashi and Persia as far as the previous two years, and even fought with the navy of Dashi in the first two years, although the number of warships in Datang was relatively small at that time, but the quality was superior, and the navy of Dashi was defeated in one fell swoop, and then left after a coastal loot, after the fact Dashi not only did not dare to investigate, but sent a messenger to Datang to explain that it was just a misunderstanding.

However, as Li Jin and Li Chengqian went farther and farther, the court impeached the two of them more and more, but Li Zhi ignored them all, and he didn't even care about Li Chengqian and Li Jin attracting people to move out.

Speaking of which, the population of Datang has doubled again in the past ten years, and as long as the population is on the scale, coupled with the tradition of having many sons and blessings in the Central Plains, and there is no shortage of food now, the population of Datang is almost explosive, such as after the liberation of later generations, the population has increased from 400 million to more than 1 billion in just a few decades, and Datang also welcomes this period of population growth.

It's just that the population is larger, and the survival resources are apportioned, which is naturally thinner than before, and no matter how strong the empire is, there will always be many people who become poor for various reasons, of course, most of these poor people have been digested by the newly added land within the Tang Dynasty, but some of them choose to venture to the sea, which has become the source of population in the Southeast Peninsula and the Nanyang area, after all, the natives in the Nanyang area are too lazy and really unbearable.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that it is estimated that Li Ke saw Li Jin and Li Chengqian killing so happily overseas, and he seemed to understand Li Zhi's thoughts, so he began to be unwilling to be lonely, but he suddenly found out at this time that Li Chengqian's goal was to the west, Li Jin's goal was to the east, and the north was to the Tang Dynasty, and the only thing left for him was to the south, and the South Seas was impossible, and the only thing left was Antarctica.

Of course, Li Ke will not go to Antarctica to be the king of penguins, but in the end he actually contacted Li Chengdao in the Americas, and now the relationship between the two is close, Li Ke is also secretly building sea ships to prepare to go to sea, although Li Zhi knows everything about this, but he only sends officials to strengthen his rule over the south, and he never pays attention to Li Ke's small actions.

Although Li Xiu has rarely gone out in the past ten years, he has been paying attention to the changes in all aspects of Datang, and he also knows very well about Li Jin and the three of them, but as long as Li Zhi doesn't care, he doesn't bother to care.

However, when Li Xiu's 70th birthday was approaching this year, Li Zhi suddenly issued an order to summon Li Jin, Li Chengqian and Li Ke back to Chang'an, which also attracted the attention of countless people, and it was even rumored that Li Zhi was going to do something to Li Jin!