Lu Lingqi has been training female soldiers in Jiaozhou, and she has not seen her father Lu Bu for a long time. Whenever asked, Nan Ye always shirked Lu Bu to guard the frontier outside. This time, Lu Lingqi heard that Lu Bu appeared to kill the assassin and save Nan Ye, so she hurriedly came to meet her.

Nan Ye knew that he couldn't hide this time no matter what, so while arranging for Hua Tuo to treat Dong Bai, he pulled Lu Lingqi aside and asked, "Lingqi is here for General Fengxian?" ”

Lu Lingqi looked left and right and said, "Dare to ask where the father of the national master is now?" ”

Nan Ye didn't know how to explain the matter of the invincible golden corpse, and he didn't want to become Lu Lingqi's revenge killer, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "This matter is a long story, in fact, General Fengxian has not guarded the frontier, but has always been by my side. During the Battle of Xuzhou, Feng Xian was seriously injured, and I used a secret method to save his life, but he couldn't appear in front of people for a long time. I'm afraid you'll be sad, so I haven't told the truth, Lingqi don't blame you. ”

Lu Lingqi has been under Nan Ye's command for a long time, and she has a deep belief in Nan Ye and admires Youjia, so she doesn't doubt it, but just pleads: "I know the difficulties of the national teacher, but Lingqi and her mother miss their father, and I also ask the national teacher to be gracious, so that my father can return home and meet my mother to relieve my longing." ”

Nan Ye couldn't refuse when he heard this, so he had to nod and say, "When this is over, I will go to visit with Feng Xian." ”

Lu Lingqi was very happy, and after thanking Nan Ye, she stepped aside. Nan Ye secretly decided to wait for a while to use his control skills and take Lu Bu to Lu's house for a trip, so as not to be suspicious of Lu Lingqi.

After the two of them finished talking here, Hua Tuo's treatment over there also had results. Dong Bai's poisoning is not deep, and the treatment is timely, Hua Tuo only needs to prescribe some detoxification drugs. Nan Ye had no intention of pursuing Dong Bai, so he sent her to the hospital to recuperate first, and then made arrangements after her injuries healed.

After Nan Ye got rid of Dong Bai and Lu Lingqi, the two little girls, he went back to the house to accompany his wife and children, but he didn't know how worried the three princes of Liu Bei, Sun Quan, and Cao Pi, who were thousands of miles away.

After Liu Bei left the Central Plains, he joined Zhuge Liang in the Xiongnu and gained a firm foothold with the assistance of a group of civil and military forces. But when he wanted to enter the Central Plains again and seek revenge on Sun Quan and Cao Pi, he found that Nan Ye had beaten both of them out of the plug. Faced with this situation, Liu Bei didn't know whether he should continue to unite with Nanye to exterminate Cao Pi and Sun Quan, or should unite Cao Pi and Sun Quan to return to the Central Plains.

Zhuge Liang admonished: "After the national teacher expelled Sun Quan and Cao Pi, he did not kill them all, I am afraid that the national teacher will not start a large army to go on a northern expedition in the near future." His Majesty invited the national division to send troops, and the national teacher could also excuse himself by saying that he had expelled Cao Pi and Sun Quan to avenge His Majesty. ”

Liu Bei said: "Then according to the prime minister's intentions, should we wait for Cao Pi and Sun Quan to return to the Central Plains?" ”

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said: "Cao Pi and Sun Quan's vitality is greatly damaged, it is not easy to gain a foothold in the land of Xianbei and Sanhan, how can you have the spare strength to send troops and horses?" What's more, the national division is strong and brave, and it dominates the world, even if the three are combined, it is difficult to shake it. ”

When Liu Bei heard Zhuge Liang say that Nanye ruled the world, he was a little disheartened. In the depths of Liu Bei's heart, he was eager to emulate Liu Xiu and ascend the throne as emperor. It is precisely because of this that he founded the country as a "Han". If Cao Wei and Sun Wu ruled the world, Liu Bei would still be able to counterattack the Central Plains under the banner of rejuvenating the Han Dynasty, but now Nanye supports Liu Yi as the emperor, also known as the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, which makes Liu Bei have no advantage at all. The people of the Central Plains, who have already lived and worked in peace and contentment, may not support Liu Bei to oppose Nanye.

Zhuge Liang saw that Liu Bei was silent and said, "Your Majesty doesn't need to worry too much!" The country is sparsely populated, salt and iron are scarce, and only His Majesty has a good relationship with the national teacher among the three kingdoms and trades with each other. As long as Your Majesty does not move to recuperate, after a long time, Cao Wei and Dongwu are not Your Majesty's opponents, and at that time, Your Majesty can first unify the outside and then return to the Central Plains. ”

Liu Bei had no better way, so he had to suspend the army and raise the people according to Zhuge Liang's plan. Cao Pi fled to the land of Xianbei and Wuhuan, only to know how bad the environment here was, not to mention that compared with Yecheng, it was much inferior to the villages in the Central Plains. Cao Pi had the intention to build a city and become emperor, but he lacked materials.

Yang Xiu admonished Cao Pi and said: "Your Majesty once called Liu Bei and Sun Quan ministers, and surrendered to the King of Wei, now why don't you call the national teacher a minister." If you can trade with the Central Plains, Xianbei and Wuhuan can prosper, and you don't have to be afraid of the national division coming to attack. ”

When Cao Pi heard the words, he called him good, and sent an envoy to reconcile with Nan Ye and call him a minister. Nanye had newly settled the world and had no time to go on an expedition, so he agreed to Cao Pi's request to be a minister and trader.

Sun Quan traded with Nanye after learning that Cao Pi was a vassal in Sanhan and Goguryeo, and obtained a large amount of materials to build the city. Now Liu Bei and Cao Pi are friends with Nanye, although they are far away from the Central Plains, but the enjoyment is not inferior to before, only the people under Sun Quan are still living a hard life in the past, how does this make Sun Quan's heart balanced?

Lu Su and Zhang Zhao also understood that if this continued, the national strength of Eastern Wu would inevitably be overtaken by Liu Bei and Cao Pi, and in the end they could only lose the country, so they advised Sun Quan to follow Cao Pi's example and abdicate and become vassals, and first trade with the Central Plains to obtain actual benefits.

Although Sun Quan did not want to be a minister in his heart, he had no other way but to be a minister at the moment. Sanhan and Goguryeo did not have Xianbei and Xiongnu, and if they were not called ministers, it would be equivalent to being enemies of Nanye, Liu Bei, and Cao Pi, and Sun Quan did not have the guts. So he had to follow Cao Pi's example and surrender to King Wu.

Nan Ye accepted Cao Pi's request to surrender, so naturally he would not refuse Sun Quan. Since then, Cao Pi and Sun Quan have nominally become Han Chen, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Sanhan, and Goguryeo have also become Han lands, plus Liu Bei's Xiongnu land is also called Han, and the territory of the Han Dynasty has expanded more than twice as much as when Emperor Xian was in power. If we add new places such as Xiqiang, Australia, and the Western Regions, the territory of the Han Dynasty will increase by more than three times.

Liu Bei, Cao Pi, and Sun Quan all stopped, and Nan Ye began to vigorously reform and expand national strength. It also built a companion capital in Youzhou, named the Northern Capital, which echoes the southern capital of the South China Sea in Jiaozhou.

The construction of the northern capital made the Sun, Cao, and Liu families feel a heartbeat again, and they thought that Nanye planned to send troops to the Northern Expedition, so they sent envoys to pay tribute. Liu Bei was worried that he would attract the suspicion of Nanye by wearing the hat of an emperor, so he also surrendered to the king of Han at the suggestion of Zhuge Liang. However, it turned out that the three families were a false alarm, Nan Ye did not send troops at all, and Liu Bei was demoted by one level without spending a single soldier.

At this time, the national strength of the Southern Han Dynasty reached its peak, the people lived in peace, the Quartet submitted, and all countries came to court. Many civil servants and military generals suggested that Nanye should raise troops to the north and expand the territory. However, Nan Ye did not agree, but proposed a relaxed policy of autonomy for the three kings, ensuring that the rights of Liu Bei, Cao Pi, and Sun Quan in their respective territories remained unchanged for fifty years, and let them be princes.

Although Liu Bei, Cao Pi, and Sun Quan can all be called a generation of heroes, their knowledge is far worse than that of Nan Ye. The Central Plains region controlled by Nanye was politically harmonious, science and technology were changing with each passing day, and productivity was steadily improved, and it took only ten years to heal the wounds of the war and achieve the prosperity of the Southern Han Dynasty. Liu Bei, Cao Pi, and Sun Quan wanted to be self-governing, but the effect of autonomy was far from being as good as the reform of Nanye, so all three followed the trend of Nanye to reform the political system, whether it was politics, economy, education, science and technology, all copied from the Southern Han Dynasty, and the people under the rule of the three families were no different from the Han people, and they traded and intermarried with the Central Plains, accelerating national integration.

Fifty years is a long time for a person, but it is only a short moment for the long river of history. In this instant, countless heroes of great talent passed away. Liu Bei, Cao Pi, Sun Quan, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang, Lu Su, including Jia Xu, Xi Zhicai, Huang Zhong, Wang Yue, Cai Yong, Hua Tuo and others under Nan Ye all passed away one after another.

Nan Ye has been practicing the art of the house all the year round, and he has longevity skills, although he is nearly 100 years old, he is still very tough, and all his wives and concubines are also stained. Several important ministers around him were given ten years of yang life by Nan Ye with the star-giving skill, and although they have been retired at home, they are all living well with children and grandchildren. The people of the world all say that Guanghua Guoshi is a god, and God blesses him, and there are so many long-lived people in the court.

Liu Bei, Cao Pi, and Sun Quan didn't have the ability to live Nan Ye for so long, and the three of them had been trying to chase Nan Ye's pace of reform, wanting to one day catch up with the Southern Han Dynasty and re-enter the Central Plains, but this wish was not realized until their death. After Liu Bei's death, Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, this is a happy lord, and he does not have much ambition, so naturally he will not be an enemy of Nan Ye. The descendants of Cao Pi and Sun Quan and Liu Chan are all people who are content with pleasure, far inferior to their ancestors.

Seeing that the time had come, Nan Ye directly issued three edicts to cancel the autonomy of the three kings and nationalize the vast land in the north. Liu Chan and the people under their rule had long been accustomed to accepting the leadership of the Southern Han Dynasty, so no one resisted, and they all bowed down to their subordinates, and the world was unified from then on.

Liu Yi, the son of heaven, was originally the son of Nanye, and if it was peaceful today, he wanted to restore his surname and no longer pretend to be a descendant of the Liu family. So under Nan Ye's arrangement, Liu Yi ceded the throne to Nan Yun, the grandson of Nan Ye. After Nanyun ascended the throne, he announced that the country name, year name, and policy would remain unchanged, but the royal family was changed from Liu surname to Nan.

The courtiers and the people have long hoped that Nan Ye will ascend the throne as the emperor, and now Nanyun's succession to the throne is also expected, and no one opposes it at all. Nan Ye took the opportunity of Nanyun's ascension to the throne and the unification of the world to convene the civil and military, hold a canonization ceremony, and canonize people from all walks of life who have made contributions to the country. Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and others will be named martial saints, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing will be named medical saints, and Ma Jun and Huang Yueying will be named workers......

After the canonization ceremony, Nan Ye gathered his wife, concubines, heirs and confidants together and said: "If it is peaceful today, I plan to walk around, take a look at this great river and mountain, and leave the affairs of the court to Jiang Wei and them." Whoever you want to go with me will set out together. ”

Everyone was very excited when they heard this, and Cai Yan said: "My husband once said that my hometown is in the extreme west, and now my Han sea ship can cross the sea and reach Daqin." Why don't you take me back to my hometown to see? ”

Nan Ye couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, he had lived in ancient times for decades, and he had long regarded this place as his hometown. Nan Ye suddenly realized that he hadn't been homesick for a long time. At this time, listening to Cai Yan mention it, Nan Ye felt that it was time to tell the truth.