Great Zhou, Xunjing City!

At midnight, the splendid Jingyang Palace was already full of candles and lanterns...... In Xunjing City, whether it is the rich and wealthy or the ordinary people, most of them have rested...... It's just that Li Hong, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, is still in the warm pavilion, reviewing countless pieces from nine provinces and thirteen provinces across the country!

Slowly putting down the red pen in his hand, Li Hong slowly stretched his waist...... He rubbed his legs, which had become sore, slightly, and stood up leisurely from the soft couch!

Although the warm pavilion is surrounded by candles, it is not very bright...... In the dark environment, Li Hong held a red pen and didn't know how many books he had reviewed...... The two eyes already felt a little ghosted...... That's why I decided to take a break and get back to work!

The Great Zhou Dynasty, as the most central of the five kingdoms of Chengtian, had border military realms in the east, south, west, and north...... Although there are three kings in the east, south and north to guard the territory, and the western territory is now in a semi-independent state, far away from the battlefield...... But the Great Zhou Kingdom can still be called the land of four wars!

It is precisely for this reason that the successive emperors of the Great Zhou royal family are like "raising Gu" when choosing their heirs, allowing the imperial heirs to fight...... And the Great Zhou Emperor also chose the most suitable heir to the dynasty!

Therefore, since the founding of Emperor Wu, the Great Zhou Dynasty has never had a faint lord...... Every crown prince who ascends the throne as an emperor is a "Ming Jun" who can crown the Chengtian Continent...... This kind of inheritance method is more cruel than the "Three Emperors in the Eastern Jin Dynasty", but it is the most suitable for the Guozuo of the Great Zhou Dynasty!

Therefore, even though Great Zhou was in the very center of the Chengtian Continent, there were enemies on all sides...... The national strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty, in the more than 1,000 years after the Spring and Autumn Generation, was far stronger than the other four countries!

Even the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was "in charge of the country by the Three Emperors", had a big gap compared to the strength of the Great Zhou!

And Li Hong, the current emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, also stood out in the bloody struggle to "seize the heir" and achieved the ...... of a generation of emperors Therefore, although he is not as literate and martial as his father Emperor Chengzong, Li Hong, who has always been diligent, can also be called a generation of Ming Jun!

Li Hong was in the warm pavilion, pacing slowly...... Because he sat cross-legged on the soft couch for a long time to review the folds, the blood between his legs has become a knot......

Listening to the words of the imperial doctor, such a slow walk can temporarily alleviate the condition that the blood in his legs cannot be coagulated, so Li Hong will now sit on the soft couch for half an hour, and then he will go down to the ground and slowly slip up twice..... Then he returned to the soft couch and continued to work, until he played three more tenths, and then he would return to the dormitory to rest...... Since he ascended the throne, for more than ten years, it has always been like this!

But it is precisely because Li Hong is too diligent in government affairs that he basically has little time to pamper the concubines in the harem...... For more than ten years, except for the queen Ye Qionghua who gave birth to a princess, in the inner court, there is no longer a royal heir dragon born!

In the court, the ministers had quite objections to Li Hong's thin heirs...... More than one important minister wrote to the emperor and asked the emperor to spread the branches and leaves, leaving the dragon heir...... What's more, he even pointed out that the queen of the middle palace was jealous and couldn't tolerate the birth of the emperor's heir!

It is precisely because the emperors of the past dynasties cultivated heirs like "raising Gu...... Therefore, although the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty is numerous, most of them are side branches, and there are very few children of the royal family who are qualified to inherit the great unification!

Among the members of the royal family of the same generation as Li Hong, the bloodline of the former emperor Chengzong is the only one left, Prince Li He..... The rest of the clan royal family is just a side line!

However, for the ministers' advice about the imperial heir..... Li Hong, who has always been a member of Chanaya's words and has always been obedient, has always turned a deaf ear......

Whenever someone mentioned this matter, at first, this Ming Jun of the Great Zhou just pretended to be stupid and passed the test again and again...... It wasn't until he demoted a loyal minister who was ranked as the third prince out of Beijing that the ministers of the court and the central government temporarily put aside the discussion of the crown prince!

Li Hong took his hand and wandered in the small warm pavilion...... On the wall next to the soft collapse, there are two "big and plump" maps...... One is a map that encompasses the entire Chengtian Continent, and the other is a map of the Great Zhou Kingdom, nine provinces and thirteen provinces!

Both maps, within their own range, are both informative and full...... It not only shows the geographical features of various places, mountains and rivers, but also uses different colors, but divides the distribution of different forces!

Whenever he had spare time, Li Hong would stare at these two maps and secretly think about them...... As long as he saw the map of "Great Zhou Territory, Nine Provinces and Thirteen Provinces", those other areas that were different from the bright yellow color of the Great Zhou royal family, Li Hong was a burst of heart blockage!

The first emperor Chengzong Emperor Wencheng Wude, the four realms are stable...... Whether it is those super sects that have been passed down since ancient times, or the upstarts who have risen since the Spring and Autumn Generation...... Even some of the nobles who have gone through thousands of years have bowed down under his rule!

However, Li Hong is very clear...... Today, such a seemingly peaceful environment has a lot of hidden worries and disadvantages!

At that time, Emperor Chengzong supported the four kings of the east, west, south and north, and relied on these new strengths to fight with some old snobbery in the country..... The effect is certainly significant!

Today's Eastern Regions of the Great Zhou Dynasty basically has no so-called gate valve family...... All of them are under the rule of Gu Zhantian, the king of the East and the court of the Great Zhou, and they have ordered a door!

And Du Qianyang in the south, with the help of the imperial court, successively defeated several thousand-year-old wealthy families like the Wan Qian family and stabilized southern Xinjiang!

The Northern King Chun Yu Zhang, who was originally a high-roller in the rivers and lakes of the roaring side, was subdued by Emperor Chengzong, and served as the commander of the Great Zhou Forbidden Army for more than ten years, which can be said to be the hardcore henchman of the first emperor..... Later, he led the army to guard the northern border, and with his reputation and status in the rivers and lakes back then, as well as the supreme power from the court in his hands, he has been prosperous in the north for more than ten years!

Countless unruly Jianghu sects, under his leadership and authority, obey the holy order and guard themselves...... The forces in the rivers and lakes, which were originally the most headache for the imperial court, have become the most advantageous arm to guard the border in the hands of Chun Yuzhang!

And the western border of the Great Zhou ......

If it weren't for the old things of the Gu family's three masters, then the Western Realm would definitely be the most stable frontier of the Great Zhou Empire...... Even in today's situation, the Western Border of the Great Zhou is still the most solid barrier blocking the Western Qin, and it can definitely be regarded as safe and sound!

Today, the four realms are stable, the people live in peace, and the nine provinces and thirteen roads are rich and peaceful..... And the factors of instability in the whole country have died down because of the seal of the four kings...... It can be said that these are the achievements of Emperor Chengzong's martial arts!

However, in the eyes of the current emperor Li Hong...... The four princes who were divided into the east, west, south, and north gradually had a tendency to evolve into a major problem for the imperial court!