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Chapter 340 Reform

Li Yuan explained to his two sons what countries were represented in the area depicted on the world map.

After listening, Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng realized how limited their knowledge was.

The world is so vast that they always thought that the area where the Tang Dynasty was located was almost the whole world.

It now seems that they were taking things for granted; the world is far larger than they imagined.

Li Yuan pointed to the world map and said to the Li brothers, "After looking at the map, what are your thoughts?"

“Father, the Tang Dynasty has just been established, and it is not advisable to wage war against foreign powers. Our priority is to stabilize the domestic situation. Only when the domestic situation is stable and people’s livelihoods are restored can we consider waging war against foreign powers,” Li Jiancheng said.

“My thoughts are similar to my elder brother’s. We can’t afford to wage large-scale wars abroad, but we can mobilize troops on a small scale as training to prepare for future world wars.”

The two brothers shared similar thoughts: the world was so vast, it naturally belonged to the Tang Dynasty and to their Li imperial family.

However, our current strength is not enough to conquer the entire world; we must proceed slowly and strategically.

Only after stabilizing the domestic situation can we turn our attention to the world.

“Your ideas are all good. Now that the Second Prince has returned in triumph, I, as his father, must begin reforms.”

The purpose of the reform is to strengthen the power of the Tang Dynasty and improve the people's livelihood. Once I have complete control over the country, we can launch a full-scale war against foreign powers.

As your father has said, from now on, Dalang will be in charge of domestic affairs, and Erlang will be in charge of military affairs. You two will not interfere with each other.

Once the Tang Dynasty has conquered enough territory, you two brothers can choose any region in the world to establish your own kingdom.

Li Yuan made empty promises to his two sons, but it wasn't really empty promises. After all, the world is so big, and if the Tang Dynasty conquered the whole world, it would be difficult for the Tang Dynasty to manage those distant places.

Since they are difficult to manage, it would be better to let our own people go there and establish kingdoms in the areas that are beyond our control.

The two brothers were also very excited upon hearing this. Their father had obtained a divine favor, which meant that the throne was no longer theirs.

Since I can't be emperor in the Tang Dynasty, being emperor in some other part of the world is not bad either.

"Rest assured, Father, we will certainly assist you well and let the glory of the Tang Dynasty shine on the world."

Next, Li Yuan discussed the reforms with his two sons.

From now on, Li Jiancheng will be in charge of domestic affairs, and Li Yuan will discuss domestic reforms with Li Jiancheng.

After discussing domestic reforms, he then discussed military reforms with Li Shimin.

The following day, the Tang Dynasty began a major reform, which involved government affairs, military affairs, and other aspects.

When Li Yuan announced that Li Jiancheng would be in charge of political affairs and Li Shimin would be in charge of military affairs, many ministers were quite shocked.

Li Yuan divided his power among his two sons, meaning that the Tang Dynasty essentially had two crown princes, who were also the executive vice emperors.

With this, the Tang Dynasty officially began its reforms.

The Great Zhou Dynasty has also been slowly carrying out reforms over the past year. As for the Great Song and Great Ming Dynasties, their reform progress is a little faster than that of the Great Zhou and Great Tang Dynasties.

Within the temple, Zhou Yongcheng condensed three gates of time and space from the river of time and space.

One portal leads to the Sui Dynasty, and two portals lead to the Three Kingdoms period.

The Three Kingdoms period was an era of many talented individuals, and Zhou Yongcheng wanted to give Liu Bei and Cao Cao a chance.

After establishing the portal to another time and space, Zhou Yongcheng upgraded the jade seal, adding a chat function to it.

The chat function is similar to WeChat in the real world, allowing users to type, use voice messages, video chat, send files, send red envelopes, and more.

Zhou Yongcheng created this feature because he noticed that Lao Zhu and the others always had to arrange a time in advance to meet, and if they didn't, meeting them depended on luck.

In the Ming Dynasty era, Old Zhu sat on a high-end sofa, browsing the exchange panel.

He exchanged the sofa using national fortune from the exchange panel. In addition to the sofa, he also exchanged many other modern items. He exchanged almost everything that he could use.

Since obtaining the divine favor, Old Zhu has almost stopped interfering in affairs, handing over all matters to Zhu Biao.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang is now the emperor, the actual control of the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of Zhu Biao.

Besides his regular cultivation practice, he would chat with emperors from other dynasties in the Time-Space Pavilion every day, discussing cultivation matters, experiences in governing the country, and so on.

Of the four emperors of the Ming, Song, Zhou, and Tang dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Gong were the most leisurely.

Zhu Yuanzhang had Zhu Biao, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, and although Zhao Yun and the Empress also had their own people, they didn't trust others and had to govern the country themselves, so they were the busiest.

Suddenly, Old Zhu noticed that the exchange panel displayed by the jade seal had changed.

There was another page above the exchange panel. He was thinking about the other page when the exchange panel disappeared and the other page popped up.

A page pops up displaying information explaining how to use it.

Following the instructions in the information, Lao Zhu began to operate the page.

Emperor Li of the Tang Dynasty also noticed the changes to the exchange panel page. Like Emperor Zhu, he followed the instructions in the information and began using the new page.

With the guidance of the information, both of them learned how to use the new page.

They added the owner of the jade seal as a friend as instructed, but only Lao Zhu and Lao Li added him; the others were too busy and did not accept.

Old Zhu clicked on Old Li's profile picture with his mind, and following the prompts, he made a video call to Old Li.

The video call connected, and both people's screens showed each other and their surroundings.

"Old Li, can you hear me?" Old Zhu waved to Old Li.

"I can hear it. The immortal is too amazing. The imperial seal was actually modified without our noticing."

"Immortals are definitely powerful. I added Old Zhao and the Empress, but they didn't agree."

"They may not yet know that the imperial seal has a new function."

The two started chatting via video.

Inside the Time-Space Pavilion, Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao sat chatting.

Liu Bei and Cao Cao were people from the same time and space. Their time and space were during the period when many warlords were fighting against Dong Zhuo, and at that time they did not know each other.

Of course, Cao Cao was more famous than Liu Bei. Liu Bei had heard of Cao Cao, but Cao Cao had never heard of Liu Bei.

Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, was greatly shocked after hearing the introductions of Liu Bei and Cao Cao.

"Are you Cao Cao and Liu Bei from the late Han Dynasty?"

“Yes, many of us lords have gathered to prepare to attack Dong Zhuo. You seem somewhat shocked to hear our names. Do you know anything about us?” Cao Cao asked.

"Yes, the late Eastern Han Dynasty, where you are, is more than three hundred years away from the Sui Dynasty that I founded."

It would be a lie to say that Cao Cao and Liu Bei were not shocked upon hearing this; the fact that Yang Jian actually came from more than three hundred years in the future was unbelievable to them.

Thinking of the portal that had suddenly appeared, they felt relieved.

No matter where they were, the mysterious portal would appear not far from them, and no one else could see it except them.

It was out of curiosity that they crossed the mysterious portal to come here.