I have already established my power and prestige, so how did Li Shimin come back to life?

In everyone's perception, Japan is an extremely weak and insignificant existence.

Its population is shockingly small, just over 300,000 people, which is a drop in the ocean compared to those populous countries.

This country, like a child trying hard to imitate adults, has just begun to learn from the Tang Dynasty and try to build a centralized system.

However, they only learned the basics, and the implementation of their political system was terrible, like a pile of loose sand, with no order or organization at all.

The power boundaries between different classes are unclear, the administrative system operates in a bumpy manner, and often falls into chaos and inefficiency.

The economic foundation of Japan as a whole is currently rooted in the agricultural sector.

The scenes of working in the fields are mostly still filled with primitive and backward atmosphere. Iron farm tools have not been fully popularized in this land. Many Japanese farmers are still using crude wooden or stone farm tools to dig in the land with great effort.

However, handicrafts and commerce have begun to emerge on this barren soil.

In some corners of Japan, you can see simple workshops where craftsmen are concentrating on making simple pottery, wooden products and other products.

In the market, there were also small vendors in groups of three or four, displaying their few goods and bartering with passers-by or trading for a small amount of copper coins.

The current military strength of Japan is mainly composed of infantry and sailors.

The equipment of these soldiers was in extremely shabby condition, so crude that it was shocking.

The so-called "weapons" held tightly in the hands of many soldiers were actually farm tools used for farming on a daily basis. Those worn-out hoes and sickles were often easily broken because they were not forged well.

But batch after batch of envoys to the Tang Dynasty returned to their homeland tirelessly, and Japan also ushered in the dawn of cultural and institutional changes.

They introduced complete and systematic rules and regulations from the Tang Dynasty, which gradually spread among the aristocracy and literati in Japan, becoming an important tool for recording history, inheriting culture and exchanging ideas.

Majestic temples sprang up everywhere, bringing spiritual sustenance to this still relatively ignorant small country.

If judged by the standards of a port, Japan's Satsuma Port is really not worthy of its name.

The facilities at the dock are dilapidated, the wooden planks are rotten, and some places are even crumbling.

The warehouses and houses on the shore were also riddled with holes, and the thatched roofs were so sparse that they looked like they could be blown down by a gust of wind.

Compared with the prosperous, bustling, well-equipped, and merchant-ship-filled Mingzhou Port in the Tang Dynasty, the gap between the two is like an insurmountable chasm.

In the waters near Satsuma Port, a group of Japanese navy are carrying out patrol missions day after day.

Every day they sit lazily on the small and simple boat, drifting slowly on the sea, looking around casually to see if anyone attempts to invade their small island country.

Speaking of which, this job is really an easy and comfortable one.

Slaves who were not looked up to by their superiors had no such opportunity at all.

After all, for many years, almost no country would covet such an isolated island country with scarce resources and chaotic management.

For those powerful neighboring countries, even if they could successfully capture Japan, the subsequent management costs and energy required would be huge, while the benefits they could obtain would be very few. It was really a deal that was not worth the loss.

Therefore, Japan was able to live in peace in this relatively peaceful environment and has not been invaded by foreign enemies for many years.

The gears of fate began to turn quietly after Li Chengqian's words, and everything in Japan's past would be completely broken.