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The gathering of Li Ke and Li Zhen was the most important for Li Zhi to break the deadlock, especially his words about his children and grandchildren inheriting the throne, which finally became the last straw in the hearts of Li Ke, Li Yun and Li Zhen, so that the three finally agreed to the idea of merging the four empires, after all, they all believed in Li Su's character and would never deceive them in this kind of matter. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

So after a year of preparation, the five emperors of Li Ke, Li Su, Li Yun, Li Zhen and Li Zhi jointly issued a statement and decided to form a close alliance of the four countries, named after "Huaxia", headquartered in Shanghai, and jointly managed by the five emperors.

For Li Su's decision to form an alliance, it did not cause too many people to be surprised, after all, everyone knows that the four empires originally came from the same source, and it can also be seen from the newspapers that there are often some contradictions between the four empires in recent years, and it is time to solve these contradictions, and although the formation of an alliance cannot fundamentally solve the problem, it can coordinate and solve most of the contradictions, especially some commercial disputes in various countries, so these alliances have been welcomed by most businessmen since the formation of the death train.

First of all, the four empires will send a part of the army, and then Li Su will integrate these armies into the alliance army, which is not only responsible for resolving some internal contradictions and conflicts, but also responsible for the external development of each country, as for the remaining armies of each country, it is mainly responsible for guarding its own territory.

In addition, in addition to the military aspect, the alliance has also unified and coordinated the political, economic, and cultural aspects of the four empires, and there is little to say about its Chinese and political aspects, after all, the four empires come from the same source, although there are some differences in some aspects, but there is not much difference in nature, and it is easy to coordinate, mainly because the economies of various countries have a lot of conflicts and contradictions.

First, Li Su abolished the currencies of the four empires. In addition, he also lowered the import and export tariffs of various countries and formulated a unified industrial and commercial bill, so that the entire alliance had unified commercial rules in the law, and tried to avoid some commercial contradictions. And in case of contradictions, there can be laws to follow.

In addition to these. For example, for Datang and Daqi, the country is mainly dominated by Han Chinese, and various industries are also very developed, so some relatively high-end industries, such as steam engine manufacturing, firearms research, ship design, etc., most of these industries have been relocated to these two countries.

As for Tianzhu and the Mediterranean, the country of these two countries is mainly dominated by local ethnic groups. In their bones, Li Su and others did not trust these non-Han people, so they restricted the development of heavy industry in these areas in terms of policy, most of which were mainly planting, animal husbandry and mining, and some light industry as a supplement. And in order to strengthen its rule over these two countries, the alliance strengthened the encouragement of Han Chinese to have children. While vigorously immigrating to these two countries, the proportion of Han Chinese in these two countries increased rapidly, and the rule became more and more stable.

However, in the process of forming the alliance, there were also some unpleasant things, such as the rebellion of the natives in some areas of the country where the rule was weaker, and the five brothers of Li Su also quarreled because of some problems, etc., but these were minor problems. In general, the alliance is still developing in a good way, and it is becoming more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and many people have accepted the idea of the alliance above the empire from their hearts.

After the establishment of the alliance, on the surface, most of the contradictions that occurred in the countries before have been resolved, and even some of the contradictions that occurred later were coordinated by the alliance, and there would be no major chaos at all, so that it seemed that only one alliance was enough, and there was no need to merge the four empires into one empire at all.

But in fact, this is not the case, although the alliance is becoming more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but within the alliance, the four empires are still independent, and each empire has a group of high-level interest groups, which usually get along with each other very happily, but each group has its own interests, whenever these interests conflict, the relationship between the two groups will also decline sharply, and even hate each other, but now there are five brothers Li Su and Li Ke pressing, and the interest groups dare not break out this conflict.

However, you must know that the reason why Li Su and Li Ke were able to suppress the domestic interest groups was mainly because most of them were founding emperors, and they had incomparable prestige and power in the country, and no one dared to resist their decisions, but with the passage of time, they are slowly entering their old age, God knows how long they can live, in case one day they are gone, then the emperor who has just ascended the throne has to make concessions and compromises to the domestic interest groups in order to stabilize his rule. It will even be assimilated by these interest groups, so that the contradictions between countries will erupt again.

It is precisely because he clearly knows the above, so after nearly ten years of development, the Huaxia Alliance has met Li Su's original requirements in all aspects, so on his fifty-fourth birthday, Li Su, Li Ke, Li Yun, Li Zhen, and Li Zhi issued a statement again, canceling the independent status of the four empires in the alliance, and the entire alliance became one.

After several days of quarreling with Li Su's brothers, they finally decided to restore the name of "Datang", because this is the name of the country set by their grandfather and father, and it is also their brother's mother country, and the adoption of this country name is also their brother's respect for their grandfather and father.

At the same time as the establishment of the Tang Empire, Li Ke, Li Yun, Li Zhen and Li Zhi jointly recommended Li Su as the emperor of the Tang Empire.

At the same time as Li Su ascended the throne and became emperor, Li Ke, Li Yun, Li Zhen and Li Zhi jointly announced the formation of the imperial parliament, and also announced the composition and power of the parliament.

The Imperial Parliament has a speaker and two deputy speakers, of which the first speaker is Li Zhi, after all, he is the heir designated by Li Shimin. However, the term of office of the Speaker is also limited, and cannot exceed a maximum of eight years, which is the same as the term of office of the Prime Minister. It's just that the election of the speaker of the House of Representatives coincides with the appointment of the prime minister.

As the name suggests, the Imperial Council is naturally only accessible to the royal family, and this imperial family refers to the descendants of the five Li Su, like Li Chengqian and Li You, who are not eligible to enter. Moreover, there is no hard and fast rule on the number of people in the entire parliament, generally as long as they are the descendants of Li Su and the five of them. to be eligible to enter.

As emperors, Li Su naturally won't have only one woman by his side. For example, taking Li Su as an example, he is relatively lascivious among the five brothers, in addition to the queen Wenxin, there are also the four noble concubines and the three concubines Wen'er, Hua'er, and Luzhu, and there are also some women who secretly maintain a relationship, so that he has as many as twelve sons and many grandchildren.

As for Li Ke and Li Yun and others, there are more of their sons and grandsons, so in the first phase of the royal council. There are one hundred and seventeen members of the royal family who want to enter the parliament, but the royal council is related to the security of the Tang Empire, and naturally not everyone can enter, so after many strict investigations, some unsuccessful royal families were removed, and in the end only fifty-nine people remained. With the addition of Li Ke's four members, there are only 63 parliamentarians.

The formation of the imperial council, in addition to containing the power in the hands of the Tang Emperor, the most important thing is to elect the candidate for the next emperor, so the smell of gunpowder within the parliament is also full, and many young people think that they are the candidates for the next emperor, so conflicts often break out within the parliament. Later, it was Li Zhi who worked hard to rectify several of the most violent troubles, which made the order of the parliament much better.

First of all, the territory of the entire empire was divided into dozens of regions, for example, the original Tang territory was divided into nearly ten regions, such as the West Asia region, the Western Regions, the Guanzhong region, and the Liaodong region, and the three regions of Daqi, Tianzhu and the Mediterranean were also divided into the Nanyang region, the Northern Tianzhu region, the Eastern Roman region, etc., at the beginning there were thirty-nine regions, and later with the expansion of the territory, the empire's regions have been in a state of growth.

As the name suggests, the power of the governor is limited to the executive, and there is no right to make suggestions and no command over the army, and the army has its own internal system operation. Moreover, in order to prevent the extradition of the Governorship, each Governor could only serve for four years, and at the same time, a noble council similar to the Imperial Council was established under the Governor, which was composed of nobles living in the local area, and had the power to supervise and control the Governor, and even removed the Governor if necessary, but did not have the power to appoint the Governor.

At the same time, the members of the Imperial Parliament were brutally eliminated internally, and finally selected the best twenty people, and then divided into groups of ten, and arranged to govern in various regions year by year, and during this period of their rule, they must not have any connection with the Imperial Council, and everything must obey the orders of the imperial administration, and if someone is really unsuitable for the governorship, the imperial prime minister also has the power to dismiss him.

After four years, according to the political achievements and official reputations of these people, the top two in each group were selected, and then the four people selected went through rounds of strict inspection and selection, and only those who passed finally could become the successors of the emperor of the Tang Empire.

The imperial council took a long time to select the heir to the throne, which lasted several years, for example, the selection of the first heir took eight years, and finally Li Hong, the son of Li Zhi and Cai'er, won and became the heir to the throne.

In addition, Li Qi and Wu Meiniang's son Li Qi also participated in this investigation, and in the end he was on par with Li Hong, but unfortunately because he was Li Su's son, he was destined not to become the next emperor, so in the end Li Hong could only serve as the emperor's heir. However, in the end, Li Qi was not too depressed, and entered the army after the selection, and later became a general with outstanding military achievements in the royal family, and his military achievements were tied with Li Zhen.

The establishment of the Tang Empire has caused a great sensation in the whole world, and some people are happy and some are worried. Although Li Su did not deprive Li Ke and Li Zhi of their emperor titles after becoming the emperor of the Tang Empire, he gave them the emperor as a special honorary title, so that they could retain the position of emperor for the rest of their lives.

But despite this, Li Ke and Li Yun still felt a little dissatisfied with some of their loyal courtiers, even after the personal persuasion of Li Ke and others, these people still had opinions on the merged Tang Empire, and even caused considerable disturbances in some places.

However, this situation did not last long, and soon Li Su, with the help of Li Ke and them, used both soft and hard measures to quell the dissatisfaction in various places, in some personnel appointments. He also tried to be impartial, so that after several years of hard work, coupled with the existence of the previous Huaxia Alliance, there was also a transition process in the hearts of these people, so in the end, the merger of the Tang Empire became faster and faster, and all places slowly adapted to the rule of the Tang Empire. And so an empire that had never been seen before finally appeared on the map of the world.

When Li Su became the emperor of the Tang Empire, he was already fifty-four years old. By the time he became the emperor of the Tang Empire for ten years, the entire Tang Empire had completely settled down, all walks of life were prosperous, and almost the entire world was included in the rule of the Tang Empire.

However, at this time, Li Su, who was already sixty-five years old, felt a little tired, especially as he got older, he felt that his energy was not as good as before, plus in the last twenty years. He devoted most of his energy to government affairs and did not have time to spend time with his family, so when he was sixty-five years old, he took the initiative to submit a request to the imperial family council to abdicate, and after discussion between Li Ke and Li Zhi and others, he finally agreed to Li Su's abdication. Li Zhi's son, Li Hong, became the second emperor of the new Tang Empire.

Another decade has passed, and the time has entered the twenty years of the new Tang calendar, Li Ke, Li Zhi and Li Yun have passed away one after another, and the five emperors of the year are now only Li Su and Li Zhen. Li Su's former friends, such as Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Huailiang, Yan Bei, Li Yong and others, also passed away one by one.

It is also worth mentioning. The three daughters of Wen Xin, Xijun, and Jin Shengman beside Li Su also died in the past two years, and they all lay in Li Su's arms, and then looked at their beloved husband for life, and left the world with a satisfied face, although Li Su knew that this was unavoidable, but it still caused him a big blow, and it also made his originally healthy body collapse suddenly.

However, when Li Su ushered in his seventy-five years old, there was a change in the Tang Empire, that is, the second Tang Emperor Li Hong suddenly fell ill, and the disease was the same as Li Shimin and Li Zhi, all of which were genetic diseases of the heart, and what was worse was that Li Hong's illness came more violently, and it broke out several times in just a few months, and finally like Li Zhi in his later years, he could hardly see anything with his eyes and could not deal with government affairs at all, so he also asked for voluntary abdication like Li Su.

Originally, Li Hong was still very young, and the imperial council's investigation of the next heir had just begun, and now Li Hong wanted to abdicate due to blindness, resulting in the imperial council not being able to come up with a suitable heir to the emperor, which made the entire Tang Empire's high-level chaos, and the rule began to be a little unstable in places with large non-Han populations such as West Asia and Europe.

It was also at this time that Li Su and Li Zhen were invited out to be regent again, and as a result, the entire Tang Empire was immediately restored to normal, and then Li Hong recommended Li Qi, who was comparable to him, to take over his throne, and finally after discussion and voting by the imperial council, Li Qi passed by a slight margin and officially became the third emperor of the Tang Empire.

However, after Li Qi became the third emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Meiniang, who was over seventy years old, also seemed very happy, and when celebrating her son, she couldn't help but drink a few more glasses, but when the maid went to serve her to freshen up the next day, she found that Wu Meiniang was no longer breathing.

Wu Meiniang's death dealt another blow to Li Su's already not very good body, and his spirit was sometimes in a trance, and he often felt that Wen Xin and others, who had passed away, were by his side. In this way, a few more years passed, and the familiar people around Li Su died one by one, and even the physically strong Li Zhen also lost his footing in a horseback riding, and ended up with the same fate as Li Shimin, and finally died in front of Li Su.

In the twenty-sixth year of the New Tang Dynasty, the eighty-one-year-old Li Su was already a long-lived old man, but at this time, almost all the people around him had passed away, such as Mengxue, Hua'er, Luzhu and other women, and they were also the same as Wenxin, and they died in Li Su's arms one by one.

However, at this time, Li Su has already looked down on life and death, and he thinks that this is only a short-term separation for the death of his relatives, because he doesn't have much time, and sooner or later, he will meet with these beloved women in another world officialdom prophet.

In the Qi Palace in Keelung, Taiwan, Li Su has been living here with his family since his abdication, but as his children grow up, they have also left here one by one. So that only Li Su and his wives lived in the mansion, but with Wen Xin and the others leaving one by one, there are few familiar people around Li Su now.

Under the bright sunshine, two gray-haired women pushed a chic wheelchair, on which sat Li Su, who was also full of white hair, and was walking slowly in the garden. Behind them were a large group of maids, doctors, and guards. They took one step ahead, but they didn't dare to get too close, and they were worried that something would happen to the three old men.

The two old women pushing Li Su's wheelchair are the only two women left by Li Su's side, one of them is Wen'er, who has taken care of him all his life, and the other is Feng Shuyu, who is younger than Wen'er and them, but now she is over seventy years old. Speaking of which, although Feng Shuyu said that she didn't want to get married, she still hooked up with Li Su later, and the two had a son and two daughters. Now the son and daughter are married, and even the grandson and grandson.

The winter in Taiwan is still not too cold, Li Su had a serious illness some time ago, and the doctors around him told him to relax, there will be no big problems, but his body knows it. Li Su felt that his limit was only in the past few days. In addition, these days, his children have also rushed back from all over the world one by one, and then forced a smile to tell him about their lives over the years, which also proves that Li Su's own feelings are correct.

Today's weather is really good, sweeping away the rainy weather of the past few days, and there is no wind, the sun is shining warmly on his body, Li Su disregards the dissuasion of the people around him. insisted on coming out to bask in the sun, and Wen'er, who had the same heart as him, did not stop him, so the previous scene appeared, the three of them were in front, followed by a bunch of cautious people.

Li Su felt that his spirit was exceptionally good today, especially after feeling the sunshine outside, he wanted to stand up by himself, but his weak body still made him dispel this thought.

"Quick! Pass me the ball! ”

"Oops! Stinky Ball......"

At this moment, Li Su heard a noise of children coming from a corner of the garden, which made him very interested, so he stretched out his hand and pointed in that direction, Wen'er and Feng Shuyu immediately understood, and pushed his car and walked over slowly.

After turning two corners, what appeared in front of Li Su was a turquoise lawn, and on the lawn, several little guys covered with grass clippings and stinky sweat were playing football, although their oldest was only eleven or twelve years old, and the youngest was only seven or eight years old, but they kicked a board at a glance, and they also knew how to cooperate, and they looked really good.

"This ...... Whose children are these? Li Su looked at these energetic children, and finally asked with a smile on his face.

"Husband, these are the grandsons of Qi'er, Mian'er, and Xiu'er, I heard that a Qiwang football team was formed in the school, and they want to compete with the Wuwang football team composed of the third brother's great-grandson, and they practice here every day!" At this time, Wen'er replied. Wen'er is about the same age as Li Su, the two have two sons and two daughters, and her health has always been very good, and she has been taking care of Li Su all these years.

When Li Su heard that these boys were going to compete with the descendants of Li, he was also in good spirits at the moment, and said with some joy: "Tell these boys, let them practice well, if they can win the Wu Wang team, grandpa will definitely have a lot of prizes!" ”

Seeing Li Su's excited appearance, Feng Shuyu also rarely showed a smile and said: "I know, husband, don't worry, these boys are serious about practicing, and I heard that they haven't been defeated until now!" ”

"Good! Good! My great-grandson Li Su naturally can't lose to the third brother! After hearing this, Li Su also applauded repeatedly, as people get older, their personalities are more like children, such as Li Su, who has become more competitive in some small things, but is not as generous as when he was young.

But at this moment, suddenly a child on the football field missed a shot, and the football flew over the lawn towards Li Su's wheelchair, fortunately the other party was a child, and the football quickly hit the ground with all its strength, and then bounced on the ground a few times, and finally rolled to Li Su's wheelchair.

It was only then that the football children saw Li Su. These children usually follow their parents in other places, and they rarely see Li Su, the grandfather, so now when they see the football rolling next to Li Su, they actually look at each other one by one, and I don't know if I should go up to say hello?

However, one of the ten-year-old children was the most courageous, and after hesitating for a moment, he immediately ran up, and first saluted Li Su and said, "Hello grandpa, great-grandson Li Qin has seen the all-round master of grandpa's rebirth!" ”

"Oh, your name is Li Qin, you should be Mian'er's grandson, right?" Li Su looked at the child in front of him, who was half a head taller than his peers, and asked kindly in a somewhat weak voice. Although he is not in good health, his memory is still very good. I still remember the names of some of my great-grandchildren.

"Grandpa Qiyu, great-grandson is indeed grandfather's grandson!" Although Li Qin was young, he knew that he couldn't mention his grandfather's name, so he answered so awkwardly.

Li Su nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, motioned for Wen'er to give the ball to Li Qin, and then encouraged the other party a few words. Only then did he let him go back, and as a result, Li Qin also saluted Wen'er and Feng Shuyu very politely. Then he returned to the court with the ball in his hand and started playing with a bunch of cousins.

Li Su sat and looked at the children in front of him, but his thoughts drifted farther and farther, he thought of his past life, and thought of the happy time when he got along with a group of brothers after crossing over, and even later thought of himself in Dengzhou, Taiwan, and Nanyang......

Li Su felt that his life was like a movie, passing through in front of his eyes quickly, with joy and sadness, and even a lot of regrets at times. But all this has passed, and he can only watch the picture of his life flow by in front of him as if he was a spectator.

And with the rapid playback of these pictures, Li Su felt that his spirit began to trance again, and finally his body became lighter and lighter, as if the whole person was floating up all at once. When the picture of his life is frozen to the last picture. Li Su finally felt that his eyes were dark, and he no longer had any consciousness!

On November 13, the 26th year of the new Tang calendar, the founding emperor of the Great Qi and the new Tang Dynasty, Li Su, died at the age of 81 and was buried in Taiwan, and the whole country of the Tang Empire mourned.

In addition, the nickname of Li Su after his death also caused great controversy. Because many people think that some words commonly used in history, such as Wen, Wu, Ming, Rui, Kang, Jing, etc., are not worthy of Li Su's merits, after the discussion of the imperial parliament and ministers, Li Su's nickname was finally set as "the Great Emperor", this nickname was only used by Sun Quan in history, but Sun Quan only lived in a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, and even dared to use this kind of nickname, which is really a bit boastful, and only an emperor like Li Su is qualified to be called the emperor.

So in this case, Li Qi, the third emperor of the Tang Empire at that time, issued an order to set his father Li Su's nickname as "The Great Emperor", that is, the most famous founding emperor in the history of the Tang Empire.

After Li Su's death, the Tang Empire in the first 100 years, still according to the track he and Li Ke and others envisioned, the imperial parliament, the emperor and the prime minister represented by the administrative opportunities in their respective positions, although there were also some conflicts, and even one of the emperors was abolished by the imperial parliament, but in general it was not bad, at least there were no major problems in the general direction of the rule. Moreover, the electromagnetic effect that Li Su came up before his death, after several generations of research, slowly began to enter the practical stage, and some simple electrical appliances were also invented.

However, with the fixation of the elite class in each region, some regions are too far away from the power center of the empire, and some conflicts of interest have caused some regions to call for independence. For this situation, the high-level of the Tang Empire has always been a heavy blow, and even a large region in Europe rebelled, but was bloodied by hundreds of thousands of troops gathered by the empire, and millions of people died in the war.

In the nearly two hundred years after the death of Li Su, the electric revolution began, all kinds of electrical appliances emerged in an endless stream, among which the inventors of the empire finally invented the telegraph and the telephone, this advanced communication style appeared, immediately attracted the attention of the imperial parliament, because in the suicide note left by Li Su, these ideas of electricity communication have been mentioned many times, and Li Su also boldly asserted that the emergence of these advanced communication methods will inevitably greatly improve the ruling mode of the Tang Empire.

In fact, it is true that the advent of telegraphs and telephones has made the orders of the Tang Empire be delivered to any corner of the world at the first time, the central dynasty can talk to the local at any time, and the control of the local area has been increased geometrically, the impact of spatial distance is getting smaller and smaller, and the possibility of regional rebellion is getting lower and lower, and the Tang Empire has almost no possibility of being divided! (End of book)"