"As early as when I had just defeated the more than three million troops of the Turkic and Sui Empires, I could wave my army south to directly capture the entire Central Plains, and I didn't have to wonder if I had that ability at that time, but after defeating the Sui army, I thought about it for a long time and finally temporarily dispelled this idea!"

Speaking of this, Wang Ze suddenly laughed.

"As early as when I just occupied the land of Sanqi, someone suggested to my father and me: The land of Sanqi can be the foundation of the king, blocking the mountains in the south, the sea in the east, the big river in the north, and the Daiyue in the west.

At that time, although the land of Sanqi was far less vast than that of the Northern Zhou and Southern Chen, because there had been no war for more than 100 years, it had always been rich and prosperous, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses could be armed if necessary. ”

"But in the end, I didn't agree!"

Wang Ze glanced at Li Shimin as he spoke, and he said slowly, "Because I think that the Han people in the Central Plains have been suffering from this war since the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty, and have been oppressed continuously for hundreds of years, even if I seize the throne, I will inevitably be unable to bypass those noble families, and I will inevitably be at the mercy of them, so why should I get involved?"

I think that our China has been constantly subjected to foreign insults for thousands of years, first the Donghu, Inurong, and Shanrong in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Xiongnu and Xianbei in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and then the Wuhuan, Wuhu, Rouran, Turkic, Goguryeo, Khitan, Tuyuhun, and Tubo after the end of the Han Dynasty.

But why couldn't our ancestors have taken the initiative to completely solve all these foreign insults when the country was at its strongest? Even Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who had the most martial arts, could not completely solve the threat from the northern desert steppes.

Why is that?

Later, I thought about it for a long time and finally figured it out, it's not that the emperors of the past dynasties were unwilling to do it, but that they really couldn't do it, and there were too many constraints from within this huge empire! Although the Central Plains Empire is so powerful after dominating the world, it has more enemies within him.

The power strife within the royal family, the self-proclaimed noble families control the government, and the insatiable local tyrants try their best to oppress the people at the bottom, and they are constantly lying on the body of the country and the people to absorb the essence of this nation, even if the emperor wants to do something and infringes on their interests, they will be completely defeated.

When I figured out this truth, I knew that if I participated in the game of dominating the Central Plains, even if I worked hard for a lifetime, I would not make any changes in this game that had lasted for thousands of years, and if I wanted to completely change the reincarnation of this country and nation for thousands of years, I had to jump out first.

Therefore, I took a few thousand people overseas to occupy Jeju Island, hoping to open up a new country, even if I can't make any achievements, I can open up a new home for my subordinates, so as to escape the turmoil of the Central Plains for hundreds of years! ”

"Fortunately, I was lucky, at that time, the Wa Kingdom, Baekje, and Silla in the East China Sea were just small countries with millions of people, and they were constantly fighting against each other, which gave me the opportunity to deal with them, and when I had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, I first destroyed the Wa Kingdom, and then destroyed Baekje and Silla, and gradually destroyed the countries of the East China Sea.

Then pass through the land of Beji Heishui, so that while expanding the territory while opening up and operating the trade of the South Seas and the West, the national strength has increased rapidly, and after 20 years of operation, even the original overlord of the East China Sea, Goguryeo, has been eliminated by me, and since then it has become a power in the East China Sea!

Just like planting a small sapling, at first I just wanted to build a country where we Hermes-Epitek could be the masters of our own country, but this small tree quickly grew into a towering tree, and at this time I was not willing to have only one country of my own.

Since the entire Liaodong and even the land of Heishui and Beji have been captured by me, although the people are still very scarce, they are not inferior to the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of area, so I feel that I have the ability to change the Central Plains once in hundreds of years!

But at this time, I still have a lot of enemies, there are still powerful Turks in the western steppe, and there is the Great Sui in the south that unified the Central Plains, and there are countless enemies in the West and South Seas who are angry that I am operating the huge profits of the Eastern and Western maritime trade, but I don't want to lose, as long as I can enhance the strength of my Xia Kingdom, I will do it! ”

"So while I am operating in overseas tuntian, passing through the Nanyang Islands, opening up Western shipping routes, and even the Dafeng vassal states are all to increase the strength of my Huaxia in the whole world, even if I create that boundless killing, I don't care!"

"Your Majesty's prestige spreads far and wide, and the people of the world admire it!" Li Shimin was silent for a long time and only said this.

"That said, I'm afraid that many of you have scribes there have scolded me for being a bloody butcher!" Wang Ze waved his hand to stop Li Shimin's rebuttal, he didn't care, "Actually, I don't care about the opinions of those corrupt Confucians, the butcher is the butcher, the hero of Wu is the enemy, I must be the enemy of the foreign race, so I can be a good hero of China!"

At the beginning, when the Wuhu was chaotic, all the miscellaneous Hu rushed to kill so that there was not one in the Han people in the north, and they could kill us Han people unscrupulously, and we could also report back! As long as I can make Huaxia strong, even if there are more people blocking me, I will be crushed!

If you want to have the ability to change the Central Plains, defeating the Great Sui Empire is only a prerequisite, and you must also have the ability to change and weaken those noble families in the Central Plains, and if you want to make these noble families weaker, you have to find a way to reduce the people in the Central Plains, especially the number of people who are dependent on these nobles will be reduced! ”

"Could it be that Your Majesty's way to help the people of the Central Plains jump out of the fate of reincarnation for thousands of years is to let them die in the flames of war?" Li Shimin asked softly or hard when he heard this, "From the fall of the Sui Empire to the present day, there are millions of dead and injured people!" ”

Wang Ze didn't care at all about Li Shimin's mocking tone, he smiled and said: "Of course you don't know what will happen in the original history, if it weren't for me, the people who died when you Li Tang ruled the world were far more than ten times the number now, and the number of dead people was not only tens of millions, but now there are at least half of the people who have died with me!"

Although the people of the Central Plains have relocated to their land, they will be willing to leave their hometown if they have a better future, but it is precisely because of you, the government and the nobles, who will do everything possible to prevent them from leaving their hometown for their own interests.

When the Great Sui Empire became a few separatist regimes, the personal control of the nobles over the people was already very weak, and at this time, I could use the cheapest grain in the Xia Kingdom and these separatist forces in exchange for the free movement of the people! ”

"Now the total number of people under the rule of the various forces in the entire Central Plains is only about 20 million, and tens of millions of people have fled since the defeat of the Great Sui Empire. Hearing Wang Ze's words, Li Shimin's face darkened.

"Haha, why should I do it when I send troops to the south, the reputation of unifying the Central Plains is a gift I leave to my children and grandchildren, sending troops to the Central Plains to dominate the world during their reign can also make them have a higher prestige in the eyes of the people, why should I, a famous old man, go with young people to earn the last bit of credit!"

Seeing that Li Shimin was in a heavy mood, Wang Ze said with a smile: "Actually, now I don't care so much about the competition for the world, now I care more about whether the people under the rule of Xia Guo are doing well, whether the children are wronged in the school, and whether there will be so many forests in this mountain and river thousands of years later, and the large grassland in front of me is still there!" ”

"It's a good thing that the land west of the river is rich in water and grass, but cattle and sheep husbandry can't feed too many people after all, why don't Your Majesty choose the beautiful rivers and rivers to reclaim the cultivated land, so that there will be more food!" Looking at the large grassland in front of him, Li Shimin was puzzled.

"Mountains and rivers have a fixed number of land, the Hexi Corridor is located in the northwest, it is arid after all, the grassland is the grassland, if the grassland in front of you is reclaimed in order to seek more arable land, then the grassland in front of you will be a desert in less than a hundred years!"

Seeing Li Shimin's nod of understanding, Wang Ze suddenly became interested, and he said to Li Shimin happily: "So not only the entire Hexi Corridor, but even most places in the Western Regions, I will strictly prohibit the reclamation of wasteland, grasslands, forests and lakes!"

Moreover, I will set up national parks with a radius of thousands of miles or even tens of thousands of miles in the mountains of the entire Hexi Corridor, most of the Tuyuhun, Tianshan Mountains, Helan Mountains and other mountains, and these mountains are important places to protect the dragon veins in the northwest of China!

Even in the future, I will set up a protected area for the entire Taihang Mountain and the entire plateau north of Guanzhong, and all the people there will be relocated, especially north of Guanzhong, which is the origin of the Yellow Emperor, which is of great significance to my Chinese people, and it is necessary to strictly protect it! ”

Speaking of this, Wang Ze looked at Li Shimin seriously and said, "My old man has been rambling so much, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin knew very well in his heart that the conditions under which he was ordered to make peace with Xia Guo could not impress Wang Ze at all, and people did not bother to listen to these conditions of his own.

Wang Ze has such a profound layout of the Central Plains, and has been constantly advancing in this direction for decades, and he will not give up until he reaches his goal, Xia has the ambition to dominate the world, and also has the ability to dominate the world.

Finally, after staying for a day, he took Liu Wenjing, who had not recovered from his injuries, to Jincheng County, and along the way, he kept seeing a team of high-spirited Xia soldiers and horses along the galloping road, all the way to the Western Regions and the land in the river.

The flat gallop road with a width of 20 zhang has been built from Wuwei and Zhangye to Dunhuang, and 100,000 vanguard troops have passed in the past few months, followed by a convoy full of baggage from this road to the west.

In the vast meadows on both sides of the road, countless herds of cattle and sheep can be seen migrating westward driven by groups of herders, who are providing cattle and mutton for the army.

Most of these herdsmen who drove their cattle and sheep westward were about to settle in the land of the river, and some of them were recruited by Wang Rui to prepare for the migration to the Western Qin State, and the newly allocated land of the growing population of the Xia State was very restricted, while the sparsely populated Hezhong and even the Western Qin State could obtain a large amount of land.

"Alas, although the Xia Kingdom is so powerful, we can't accept our fate, whether there is a share of our Li family in this world, let's have our own destiny!" After walking to Jincheng County, Li Shimin took one last look at the other side across the Yellow River, and then rode to Chang'an.