Chapter 369: Ten Years
"Look, airship, it's an airship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "The men, women and children of Taihe City all pointed to the sky and shouted.
Airship, as a legendary-level existence in Dali, basically did not appear in people's field of vision, and this public appearance naturally aroused the public's curiosity.
There has long been a legend of airships in Dali, but it has always been kept strictly secret as a military secret, so the people just spread the saying of airships, but no one has ever seen the real thing.
And today, I saw it, and their king, their god, Li Shan, came back by airship.
"You see, the people down there are worshipping you." Yun Shu pointed to the people worshipping below, both proud and envious.
Li Shan is also a little vain, how can such an appearance be a good word. However, since the airship has been seen by Pei Min, I believe that Datang will know about the existence of the airship, and there is no need to hide it, so it is better to let it come out and shock the surrounding countries.
Knowing that Li Shan had returned, Qing'er and the others naturally came to pick up Li Shan.
Airships cannot be parked in the city, only in the suburbs.
When Li Shan got off the airship, he saw Qing'er riding a fast horse, followed by a group of entourages who had already come out of the city gate.
"I'll just say you shouldn't go to Chang'an, you don't listen to me, how about it? Have you suffered a lot? Qing'er looked at Li Shan, and it was relieved to see that Li Shan was unscathed.
Qing'er is so smart that she doesn't need to ask at all, but she just saw that Li Shan came back by airship, and at this time, it was the Lantern Festival in two days. knew that Li Shan must have failed, not only failed, but also fled in a hurry. At this level, he must have become a wanted criminal in the imperial court, otherwise how could he use an airship.
Li Shan scratched his head in embarrassment, and smiled: "Or Qing'er, you have a vision, it's really a lack of scheming, now I understand." β
Qing'er wanted to say something more, but she saw another person coming down from the airship, it was Li Yunshu. immediately ran towards Li Yunshu and said, "Yunshu, why are you here, did you come back with your brother?" How old are you, kid, running away from home without saying a word, do you know how worried we are? β
Yun Shu was like a child, bowing his head to admit his mistakes, not daring to refute, and quietly looked at Li Shan.
Li Shandao: "If it weren't for Yun Shu's help this time, I really wouldn't be able to come back." Let's go, let's go back to the palace if you have something to say, don't stand here stupidly. β
Qing'er glanced at Yun Shu and then at Li Shan, she naturally knew why Yun Shu left, and now that Yun Shu is back, it is a good thing for the family to be reunited.
Qing'er took Yun Shu's hand and said, "Silly girl, if you have anything to say to all of us, there is nothing that can't be solved." How can there be a problem solved by running away from home? It's good to be back, everyone is thinking about you. Isn't it, Xianggong? β
Qing'er smiled slyly, Li Shan's face turned red, and he smiled: "Haha, yes." β
In 736 AD, the king of Dali announced that Princess Yunshu of Dali was a princess with a different surname, and Li Yunshu was named correctly. Led to the ancestral tomb, another mausoleum was erected, and in the same year, Princess Yunshu married Li Shan.
In 737 AD, the five-year treaty between Japan and Dali expired, and Emperor Jimmu of Japan demanded that Dali return Kobe, Kumamoto, Osaka and other lands.
But Li Shan naturally can't give up the land to his mouth, and with the vigorous development in recent years, more and more Japanese residents have married Dali people. Now the Kobe area has no shadow of the fourth district, all the land merged into the only one, has become a perfect fusion of Japan and Dali city, Dali people in the city and Japanese people get along together, use Chinese to learn Han culture, as if it has become a Han city.
Dali is a mountainous place, the transportation is not convenient, fortunately there are many plains in the Annam area, and the port is developed. The development of these ten years has caused the population of Dali to surge, and Li Shan deliberately took in the displaced people from the Tang Dynasty.
Because of the increasing mediocrity of Tang Suzong, the imperial court has now formed two major political groups headed by the Yang family and Li Linfu, and they are fighting with each other. With the development of society, the system of equalizing land was seriously damaged, and landlords bought a large amount of land, resulting in a large increase in the number of displaced people. And Li Shan took advantage of this to open up to the Tang Dynasty, causing many displaced people to come to Dali.
Although the Tang Dynasty has unilaterally adopted a blockade posture against Dali, due to Dali's preferential policies for the Tang Dynasty refugees, many Tang Dynasty refugees are willing to come to Dali to live.
The increase in population has also contributed to the development of Dali, and at the same time has provided a cultural foundation for the integration of Dali and Japan.
There are now more than 200,000 Han Chinese living in Japan, which is basically the same as the number of people.
Moreover, under Li Shan's advocacy, the Han culture became dominant, almost replacing the local culture.
Emperor Jimmu asked Dari for land to no avail, and decided to start a war. But the consequences can be imagined, the Japanese army did not have the strength to fight at all, and after the defeat, Li Shan took the opportunity to put forward more demands.
Japan signed the "Treaty of Kobe" with Dali: Japan paid an annual tribute of 100,000 taels of silver to Dali, opened all ports to Dali, allowed Dali missionaries to preach anywhere in Japan, established Dali Mansion in Heichengjing, and established science museums in important cities in Japan.
Emperor Jimmu thought this was a great shame and did not want to comply, but Japan was no longer able to compete with Dali. In the same year, Otomo Yamoru staged a coup d'Γ©tat to force Emperor Jimmu to step down, and Li Shan took the opportunity to release Princess Koken back to Japan. Princess Xiaoqian was proclaimed Emperor Xiaoqian, and Japan officially became a vassal state of Dali, and Dali was fully open.
In 739 A.D., Dali established the first power plant to supply power to Taihe City, and Dali officially entered the era of electricity.
In the same year, Lu Zhenla united with the queen and the country of Pi to attack Dali in the name of recovering the Thai tribes. And this time, Li Guo showed the world real firearms, Shenwu cannons, mobile armored vehicles, submachine guns, airships and other weapons that completely surpassed this era and directly shocked the Three Kingdoms.
The total number of troops of the Three Kingdoms Alliance was 150,000, and they were defeated against 10,000 armored soldiers in Dali. The Three Kingdoms declared themselves vassals to Dali and ceded land.
In 740 AD, the Arab Empire finally discovered a route to South Africa and sent an expeditionary force into South Africa, where it engaged in a battle of fire with Li Shan's fleet and was defeated.
In the same year, Li Shan personally drove the airship to Baghdad to meet with the Arab king, and Dashi reached a friendly agreement with Dali. And Li Shan proposed to the Great Food Country, Princess Gaduo returned after being missing for several years, and married Li Shan, the lord of Dali, and the two countries established cooperation and friendship.
In the same year, Dali established its first port in the Persian Gulf, developed oil and gas fields, and formally established an oil transportation channel from the Persian Gulf to Dali.
The following year, 741 A.D. At the suggestion of Dali, the Arab Empire began to dig the Suez Canal.
Dali gradually became the center of world civilization development, and the Frankish Empire and the Arab Empire successively sent scholars to Dali to learn advanced technology and science.
In 743 AD, in the Tang Dynasty, an important event occurred. Li Linfu was defeated in the battle with Yang Guozhong, Yang Guozhong became the prime minister of the dynasty, and Li Linfu resigned and returned to his hometown.
However, things are not so simple, because of the long-term border troubles between the Turks and Tibet, which caused the Jiedu to support troops in the border towns. Tang Suzong sent Li Chengwei to concurrently serve as the envoy of Fanyang and other three towns, and although Li Linfu fell, it did not affect Li Chengwei's status.
On the ninth day of November in 744 AD, the rift between Yang Guozhong and Li Chengwei deepened, and Yang Guozhong devised a slanderous rumor to ask Tang Suzong to depose Li Chengwei's temperance envoy. Li Chengwei united with the Luo, Xi, Khitan, Murwei, Turkic and other ethnic groups to form a total of 150,000 soldiers, known as 200,000, and raised troops in Fanyang under the pretext of "worrying about the danger of the country" and crusading against Yang Guozhong under the pretext of "worrying about the danger of the country" and crusading against Yang Guozhong in a secret edict.
At that time, the country had been in Kuma for a long time, and the people were negligent in the war, and the county of Hebei Prefecture immediately collapsed, and the local county orders either fled or surrendered. In a short period of time, most of the counties in Hebei were controlled, and some counties in Henan also surrendered.
For a time, Li Chengwei lost a monstrous victory, and there was a great tendency to march into Chang'an, which was known as the "Fanyang Rebellion" in history.
Tang Suzong learned of Li Chengwei's rebellion on November 14 of the same year and was quite furious. Immediately appointed Gao Xianzhi, the general of the hussars of the imperial court, to concurrently serve as the envoy of Fan Yang and Pinglu Jiedu to defend Luoyang, and then appointed Guo Ziyi, the general of the court, as the marshal, and Wang Zhongsi, the general of the right Jinwu, as the deputy marshal of the Eastern Expedition.
On November 15, Tang Suzong sent Gao Xianzhi to the eastern capital Luoyang to recruit troops for defense. Although Li Chengwei's army encountered obstacles, due to Yang Guozhong's jealousy and jealousy, although he sent generals, he refused to let go of his military power and sent his cronies to hold him hostage, causing Li Chengwei to attack Luoyang on December 12 of the same year.
Li Xin, who stayed in Tokyo, and Lu Yi, the middle of the imperial history, refused to surrender, and was killed by Li Chengwei after being captured, and Yin Da Xixun of Henan surrendered to Li Chengwei. The Anxi Jiedu, who retreated to Tongguan, made Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi take a defensive position and stick to Tongguan. However, because Tang Suzong listened to the false accusations of the eunuchs of the prison army, he beheaded Chang Qing and Gao Xianzhi for the crime of "losing discipline and losing the teacher". On the first day of the first month of the first month of 745 AD, Li Chengwei was called Emperor Dayan in Luoyang and changed to Yuan Shengwu.
At this time, Li Shan naturally also received the news of the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shan looked at the report and sighed, what should happen will happen after all. Even though he did everything, he didn't expect the Anshi Rebellion to happen, although the initiators were no longer An Lushan and Shi Siming. But it doesn't matter who it is, the feudal empire is destined to go down this path, there is no doubt about it.
Li Shan has deeply understood that it is easy to start a business and difficult to keep a business, even if it is a prosperous dynasty, it will come to this day for a long time, this is the fate of the feudal empire, and it is not something that Li Shan can recover.
Li Shan put down the fold and said, "Ah San, pass the order, prepare the army, send a reconnaissance airship, I want to know the situation in Chang'an at any time." β
Li Shan was ready, although he had no way to stop the decline of the dynasty, but he had a way to make this dynasty break and stand up. (To be continued.) )