The relations between the Ming and Tang dynasties were eased for several years because of the common defense against the enemy, but once the strong enemy disappeared, the relations between the two countries became tense again. Xue Chongyin has completely blocked the friendship with Li Longji when he was a teenager, and adopted a tough policy towards Tang, not causing trouble, not afraid of things, once Datang crosses the line, he will resolutely crack down on it, and let them pay the price of physical pain.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China 12 years ago, the effect of "late marriage and late childbearing" in the Ming Dynasty has begun to appear, and only two years of postponement of the marriage age, the mortality rate of female dystocia has been greatly reduced, and the survival rate of infants and young children has also been greatly improved.

The population of the country has reached 60 million, the army is 2.8 million, agriculture, commerce, and handicrafts are developing day by day, and the living standards of the people have improved markedly.

But corruption is also inevitable, at the beginning of the year, Shen Mengxi made a will to correct a group of corrupt officials to set an example.

I don't know if it's because there is Emperor Zetian in front of her, or because Shen Mengxi is the founding emperor, and she has always been benevolent to the inside, she hasn't suffered too much criticism because of her gender.

She even had a faint feeling that the officials of the DPRK and China had not actually treated her as a woman at all.

It's a mixed feeling feeling.

The four seas are leveling, and the appearance of the prosperous era has been revealed.

In the fourteenth year of Zhengping, the sixty-year-old Shen Mengxi took the initiative to abdicate, and the forty-four-year-old prince Xue Chongyin succeeded to the throne and changed the era name to Jingming.

In the second year of Jingming, Shen Mengxi went to live in Penglai Palace in Shandong, and Wu Youji still followed.

The twenty guards she trusted the most had already changed a batch, among the first batch of guards, some died in the line of duty, some retired due to injuries and illness, some were sent to Haining to guard the island, and only a very few still followed Shen Mengxi's side, that is, Shen Qi and Shen Eighteen.

Shen Qi, who was over half a hundred years old, rode a horse to follow on the right side of the imperial chariot, his eyes were still blazing and vigilant, walking through the mouth of the wild wolf, he couldn't help but remember that back then, he rode in the "car" driven by the eldest princess, and the speed was extremely fast, he was dizzy, and he vomited when he got out of the car. Later, when the Ming Kingdom was established, His Majesty gave him a pistol and taught him how to use it with his own hands, but let him use it carefully, and every bullet must be explained clearly.

He overheard His Majesty and the crown prince say that apart from her family, Shen Qi was the person she trusted the most.

Since then, all his efforts have been just to be a person that His Majesty can continue to trust.

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Shen Mengxi, who retired, was at ease, and later Tuan'er also came to Penglai to accompany her, and King Ning also sent his daughter Zhe'er to Penglai, Shen Mengxi knew that this was the filial piety of the two sons.

She took her two granddaughters to Mount Tai and took a boat to Haining, where she even suffered an earthquake.

During this period, the Liaoning fleet continued to grow and already had more than 2,000 ships of various kinds, Yan Jikang recommended himself to lead a fleet of 300 ships to the east of the ocean to explore new areas, and Zhou Wenyan led 200 ships to fill up cargo and sail to the South Seas.

In the eighth year of Jingming, Lu Xingzhi's team crossed the black water, occupied a large part of the territory of the Turkic and Rakshasa countries, and went all the way to the north, where miraculously they met Yan Jikang, who crossed the strait. It turned out that Yan Jikang arrived on a continent, made friends with the natives after landing, marched north, and founded states and counties in the terra nullius in the name of the Ming Dynasty.

Until they crossed the strait and met the British king.

The two saluted each other and smiled with satisfaction, they actually coincidentally connected the land of Daming in this way.

In the tenth year of Jingming, Li Longji forcibly occupied his daughter-in-law Luo and was included in the palace as a concubine, which shocked the world.

Xue Chongyin remembered that his mother said that if his cousin acted against human ethics or was mediocre, he didn't have to be polite. In the eleventh year of Jingming, Li Longji had a heart attack and died in the bed of the concubine.

Li Longji had thirty sons, and because of the battle for the throne, he fought hard.

The eldest son, Li Cong, killed his four younger brothers, seized the throne, and gave Luo Guifei to die for Li Longji to be buried.

In the fifteenth year of Jingming, the Ming Dynasty occupied Chang'an City, Li Cong fled south, and the capital was Chengdu.

Xue Chongyin ordered the restoration of the title of Emperor Zetian, consulted Shen Mengxi's opinion, did not move the wordless monument, and continued to let it be commented on by the world in a silent way.

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After the age of seventy, Shen Mengxi rarely traveled, and when she was seventy-two years old, Wu Youji died.

The day before he died, he was full of energy and went to Shen Mengxi's bedroom to play three pianos.

On the second day, when he suddenly entered his death, Shen Mengxi arrived, he trembled and stretched out his hand, and said, "Sister Yue'er, I have been waiting for you all my life." ”

Shen Mengxi burst into tears, nodded, reached out and gently stroked his face, Wu Youji smiled and exhaled his last breath.

Shen Mengxi followed the coffin back to Youzhou and watched him buried in the imperial mausoleum.

Since then, she has lived in the Forbidden City, no longer cares about the political affairs of the former dynasty, but only uses her energy to charity, and gradually uses the gold in her private treasury and space for disaster relief, poverty alleviation, education and medical care.

She hadn't even deposited a grain of grain in the Wuling space. She waited for the arrival of death with peace of mind, and faintly felt in her heart that the killing in this life was too heavy, and she was afraid that she would not have a chance to be reborn again.

In the twentieth year of Jingming, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was unprecedentedly vast, and the Tang Dynasty changed the emperor again, this time it was Li Cong's younger brother Li Yi. However, his territory was so small that there was only one island left, and he was threatened by King Ning's fleet.

Shen Mengxi's heart is extremely peaceful, she has no regrets and no fears.

During the midnight meditation, she faintly heard Tuan'er's immature child's voice: When I left you gently and asked me to go back to my north, when the north was already snowing, I would miss you far away......