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

In the prosperous and bustling city of Xianyang in the Tang Dynasty, the Qianyu Chamber of Commerce is located in the heart of the city, where the coming and going merchants and busy shop assistants create a prosperous scene.

Lin Dafu, the core figure of Qianyu Chamber of Commerce, has hardly had a moment of peace since returning from Goguryeo.

In the present Tang Dynasty, the heavy responsibility of economic development falls heavily on the shoulders of Lin Dafu alone.

In the Qianyu Chamber of Commerce, the salaries of employees were raised to an astonishing level, far exceeding the levels of other jobs.

Behind this generous reward is the loss of their precious leisure time.

They are busy with the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce from morning to night every day. The sound of abacus beads, the sound of flipping through account books and hurried footsteps are intertwined.

This is because the Tang Dynasty recently opened up Liaodong and Lingdong. These two vast and highly undeveloped new areas are waiting for the Tang Dynasty to build on them.

This made everyone in the Qianyu Chamber of Commerce instantly busy, even several times busier than the officials in the imperial court.

The top priority is to make every effort to resolve these two economic development problems.

Your Majesty has spoken clearly that the wealth and profits created by the newly acquired territory will be given priority to the Qianyu Chamber of Commerce.

This undoubtedly shows His Majesty's great trust in Qianyu Chamber of Commerce, but it also makes Lin Dafu feel a heavy responsibility.

In his eyes, the two precious lands of Liaodong and Lingdong were two godsend treasures, full of unlimited potential.

The vast black soil in Liaodong is so fertile that it seems to be oozing oil. Just imagining the amount of grain that can be produced on that land is enough to make one's heart boil.

On that black soil, seeds are sown in the spring and mountains of grain can be harvested in the autumn, feeding countless people.

Not to mention the precious furs, rare ginseng, and abundant game, each of which is worth a fortune, worth a lot of silver, and is a huge amount of wealth.

Lin Dafu was obsessed with developing these two places as soon as possible and making them profitable. If there was any delay, he would feel like he had lost a lot of gold. He was anxious and uneasy, tossing and turning at night and unable to fall asleep.

At this time, Lin Dafu, who was busy in the Qianyu Chamber of Commerce, never expected that because of his unreliable uncle, the Chamber of Commerce would have to bear a huge amount of expenses for no reason. This undoubtedly made his already busy days even worse.

Late spring of the fifth year of Qianwu.

In Liaodong and Lingdong, factories of all sizes have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and are lined up in rows.

Every chimney of the factory continuously emits thick white smoke, and the rising smoke indicates that a prosperous development chapter is about to begin here.

In the distant Western Regions, the Tang Dynasty's cavalry galloped across the land, invincible.

The once powerful Western Turks eventually perished under the mighty military power of the Tang Dynasty.

From then on, this vast land became part of the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

On the New Year's Day celebration in the fifth year of Qianwu, a day worth celebrating, the Tang Emperor Li Chengqian was very pleased and personally named this newly incorporated western region "Xinjiang Road", implying that the new year would open up new territories, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty would be more vast and the national strength would be more prosperous.

The Western Turks practiced a tribal system. Although they had built several cities, in Li Shimin's eyes, the defenses of those cities were so weak that there was no need to even launch a large-scale attack. The Tang army's brave cavalry could easily flatten them.

But times have changed. Now that the Tang Dynasty has powerful cannons, we still have to give it a try.

Under the roar of artillery fire, the cities of Western Turkestan were reduced to ashes one after another and turned into the dust of history.

As the Tang army approached step by step, the remnants of the Western Turkic Khaganate were terrified and could only flee westward in panic. The once powerful Western Turkic Khaganate was declared completely destroyed.