What background should a powerful country have? Looking at the past and present, history is always the same.

First of all, there must be a powerful army that can defend the enemy from outside the country, and even go thousands of miles to continuously expand the country's territory. Secondly, there must be strong economic power that can support the army to defend the country and ensure the stability of people's lives.

To put it bluntly, it is just one thing. There are troops outside and people in the country who develop people's livelihood, have developed the economy and are prosperous.

Only such a country has the prototype of a powerful empire, like a giant dragon entrenched in the world, and the name alone can make the enemy tremble and tremble. Soldiers charge forward in front and throw their blood, while the people weave cloth and farm in the rear to enrich the country. The two complement each other, and no one can do without the other.

If foreign enemies invade, a powerful army will let the people know what safety is.

The same goes for the other way around!

When soldiers need food, supplies, countless people in the country create wealth with their hands, which will let soldiers know what prosperity is.

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It was 642 AD, which was the fifteenth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty in history. On the Autumn Festival, the Double Ninth Festival just passed, the heat in the Central Plains subsided, and Lingnan was still hot. The Tubo Plateau on the west side of the Han territory suddenly rolled up, and a shocking war attracted the attention of countless surrounding countries.

This battle starts nine months ago. At that time, the Tubo Plateau was suddenly invaded, and the 20,000 Xifu three guards who were stationed on the plateau were wiped out. The eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty traveled thousands of miles to Lingnan.

With the empress saying "Go back to Tubo", the Chinese Empire brazenly sent 100,000 troops to Tubo. At that time, the Emperor's Concubine Youyou Saint, and the Emperor's Concubine Luo Jinger and the Tang Dynasty Princess accompanied the army together. The 100,000 special forces advanced into the plateau, showing the iron blood of the Han family.

On the 12th day of the battle, the entire Tubo territory was cleared and the vast territory that had been in the hands of foreign races for nine months was once again returned to the control of the Han people.

In this battle, there were no tiles of 1,300 temples in Tubo.

In this battle, hundreds of thousands of lamas with ulterior motives were slaughtered.

In this battle, all 200,000 Arab troops that invaded were destroyed.

In this battle, the Arab prince, who was immersed in his dream, became a prisoner.

The Chinese Empire, which had just been founded, has shown great prestige and has also achieved peace and stability on the Tubo Plateau for hundreds of years.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire came here with an imperial edict. All the generals participating in this battle were promoted to one level. The soldiers were rewarded according to their merits and increased their wages by three times. They also granted the position of Prince Li Jiyun as the chief skin care commander of Anxi Capital, and granted Luo family Luo Tong as Duke of Dingyuan.

"Soldiers, fight abroad and fight to Central Asia. I will support you in establishing a country as much territory as you capture..."

With the order of the imperial emperor, the three guards of the Western Prefecture embarked on their journey again. One hundred thousand special forces crossed the mountains and headed west, just in time to face the Arab Empire army that came from the expedition.

This battle was the first battle for the two major powers to collide head-on.

The three guards of the Western Prefecture were invincible in the world, and the other side was also extremely powerful soldiers. The two sides fought a stunning battle on the border of the Western Regions. Eight thousand special forces were killed in battle, and 300,000 Arab troops were wiped out.

Unfortunately, when the entire army was counted after the war, everyone discovered a huge loss. It turned out that although this battle was a complete victory, Princess Changle of the Tang Dynasty died in the battlefield.

The bad news spread all over the world, and the special forces were heartbroken. At that time, a young man was rescued from the Tubo private prison. After hearing the news, he just sighed silently.

"Changle, I wish you..."

When this young man sighed, someone clearly saw that his face was filled with tears, as if he was remembering a lost relationship, and seemed to finally be freed from some kind of suffering.

Since that day, the people of the Chinese Empire have never seen Changsun Chong again. The young man has been in charge of the Tubo Plateau all his life and has never returned to the land where he gave birth to and raised him.

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The Chinese Empire, the vast land of Lingnan.

The scorching sun was shining brightly, and it was as hot as a poisonous snake. However, no matter how hot the weather was, it could not suppress the excited hearts of the people. Everyone had a bright and satisfying smile on their faces.

Lingnan is like summer all year round, without the saying of spring, summer, autumn and winter. When the three guards of the 100,000 Xifu fought bravely in Tubo, the Chinese Empire ushered in the first harvest moment.

The wind came slowly, blowing out a wave of rice. Looking around, he saw the golden fertile fields of thousands of miles. Han Yue stood on the edge of the rice fields with his hands on his back, with satisfaction and joy on his face.

At this time, an official from the Ministry of Rites stepped forward with a frown, his tone was obviously melancholy and helpless, and he whispered: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I beg you, I am here in time. Please change your outfits. Millions of people are waiting for you to pick up sickles. Your Majesty must not follow your own temperament..."

It turned out that Han Yue had to change his dress and then hold the opening ceremony of the sickle that would be held to the sky for a good harvest. This etiquette has been passed down in the Central Plains for thousands of years, and the emperors had to do this before the harvest festival.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

When the officials of the Ministry of Rites saw that Han Yue was silent, they couldn't help but beg for a low voice again. This guy was already anxious and sweating profusely, and kept cursing someone's mother in his heart.

He dared not scold Han Yue, but was scolding his colleagues from the Ministry of Rites who were pushed out. Everyone knew that His Majesty did not like tedious and clichés, so forcing His Majesty to change his dress is definitely not a good job.

But no matter how difficult the job is, someone must do it. The officials of the Ministry of Rites make a living.

Han Yue was still standing by the rice fields with his hands in his arms, looking at the golden sea in front of him. His power is getting stronger and stronger. Even if he is silent, he can breathe. The official of the Ministry of Rites sweats down and constantly waves his sleeves to wipe his forehead.

The auspicious time is coming soon, but Your Majesty has never planned to change his dress. If he delays the etiquette of opening a sickle to harvest, he may be the first official of the Ministry of Rites to be taken down because of this ceremony.

At this moment, Han Yue finally turned around and looked at him, then smiled faintly and said, "I have something unknown. What does the harvest have to do with heaven? The so-called abundant grain production is caused by the hard work of the people. Why do I have to put on a fancy dress to thank God? Why do I thank God? He has never intervened in helping my people?"

The officials of the Ministry of Rites were speechless and did not know how to answer for a moment.

He could not tell Han Yue that a good harvest is the result of good weather. He was also an official who experienced the founding of the Chinese Empire. He followed Han Yue from the Tang Dynasty to Lingnan. The incident that just came here a year ago was still vivid in my mind. At that time, everyone was worried about food and drink.

When immigrating, in order to ensure that the people were not starved to death, the imperial concubine Youyou walked all the way and robbed all the grain from the official warehouses of various prefectures and counties along the way. To this day, officials from the Ministry of Revenue in the Tang Dynasty still wrote letters to collect debts.

When the land was opened, millions of people almost exchanged land with their bodies. Because the ox purchased from the grasslands had not yet been transported, the people used themselves to pick pears.

It was really that the whole family and young were in battle. Both the people and the officials had to work. Even His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress had personally reclaimed twenty acres of land, and the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Empress also had their own reclaimed fields.

From the hazy sky to the sunset, from the morning birds not singing to the night of the beasts, the Chinese Empire did not starve to the people when it immigrated, but instead exhausted tens of thousands of people when it was developing the land.

It’s not that the government does not stop it, but that the people do it secretly. As long as the inspectors are not careful, the people will immediately run to the fields to clear the land in the middle of the night.

You know, they worked all day during the day, and there was no way to hold on to work at night, so many people fell into the wasteland, and when they were discovered, they were rescued.

The tens of millions of fertile land in Lingnan were earned by human life little by little. Tens of millions of acres were taken in less than a year. While refining land, it also took into account the construction of the city. It is conceivable how tired everyone is.

Then His Majesty sent someone to a place called Cham City, and brought back a kind of grain called Cham City rice from there. All the land in Lingnan was sown this rice, and in just four months it was the gathering of harvest.

I still remember that at the beginning of farming, His Majesty personally went down the paddy fields with his bare feet. Countless people squatted by the rice fields day and night, patrolling back and forth during the day, and even playing lanterns to attract mosquitoes at night. The bites of mosquitoes are so painful, but every commoner has a smile on his face.

As long as you don’t bite the crops, what can you do? Although Your Majesty has repeatedly ordered the people not to take care of the rice fields at night, no matter how powerful the government orders are, they cannot stop the people’s desire for a good harvest.

His Majesty has said that many times mosquitoes will not eat crops. The students of the institute even wrote a technical manual for farming to explain this matter. Unfortunately, the people were still unable to let go and used lanterns all night to attract mosquitoes.

The harvest in Lingnan has nothing to do with God. Just as His Majesty said, do it yourself, have enough food and clothing, live without looking at the sky, and manpower can overcome heaven...

"It's almost time, prepare to open the sickle!" Just as the officials of the Ministry of Rites were recalling the past, Han Yue's gentle voice suddenly sounded in his ears. The official was slightly shocked, and the sweat on his forehead suddenly surged even more.

Time is approaching, and then Your Majesty still insists on not changing his dress. Although the bumper grain harvest has nothing to do with God, the etiquette of opening a sickle to comfort God was passed down by our ancestors.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please, I beg you..." The officials of the Ministry of Rites almost burst into tears. He could already feel the eyes of the colleagues not far away slapped him like sharp blades.

He turned his head carefully and looked at it. He saw that there were crowds of people everywhere. Countless people were already holding sickles and waiting quietly on the edge of the rice fields, waiting for His Majesty to personally open the first sickle harvested in Lingnan.

This extremely solemn moment is the top priority since the founding of the Empire. No matter how solemn the etiquette is, it is not an exaggeration to do so. As a result, His Majesty was wearing a plain suit and was about to open a sickle.

The official of the Ministry of Rites sighed. At this moment, he really felt ashamed to die.

As an official of the Ministry of Rites, he could not bring etiquette solemnity to the empire. This was his greatest negligence. He was afraid that he would be ridiculed for hundreds of years if he died.

At this moment, someone finally saved him. A slight footsteps sounded behind him. A woman in a phoenix crown and robe came over slowly. The officials of the Ministry of Rites were delighted and couldn't help but shout "Empress" excitedly.

He bowed his hands quickly, but his eyes quietly observed. When he found that other imperial concubines were also slowly coming over in dresses, the official felt relieved.

The person who came was Tian Doudou, wearing a phoenix dress and a shiny crown on his head. The little girl who was born in a child bride back then now has a graceful and luxurious demeanor. She slowly walked to Han Yue, then smiled at Han Yue and persuaded softly: "My husband has been reluctant to change his clothes. Do you dislike Doudou's not good enough?"

The voice was a bit naughty, and it still looked like the gentle girl back then. Han Yue suddenly felt a sway in his heart and turned to the officials of the Ministry of Rites and said, "Take it, put it on..."

Not far away, a group of officials from the Ministry of Rites were overjoyed and rushed over almost wildly. More than a dozen people surrounded Han Yue and served him in a blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye, they put on a complicated dress.

At this time, the rising sun in the east happened to slowly climb, and golden lights suddenly appeared between the heaven and earth. At first, the official of the Ministry of Rites even trembled in his voice and said in surprise: "It was just the right time, it was the time to open the sickle..."

This guy didn't bother to wipe the sweat from his face, and suddenly turned his head and yelled at the distance. He was extremely happy and nervous, and shouted loudly: "Scream the salute, Your Majesty opens the sickle!"

Boom, Boom, Boom

Between the heaven and earth, the sound of cannons rumbling, and twenty-four cannons were gushing out into the sky, sending out twenty earth-shaking salutes.

Using cannons as the sound of opening sickles is Han Yue's personal order. For farming, salutes represent twenty-four solar terms a year. For military terms, the sound of cannons also indicates the strong military front of the Chinese Empire.

At this time, an official from the Ministry of Rites brought two sickles, which were exquisitely made of gold and silver. The officials delivered the golden sickles and silver sickles to Han Yue and Doudou, and then stood respectfully backwards and stood aside.

Han Yue was a little helpless, sighed, and said with emotion: "Golden sword and silver sword are used to cut rice. I didn't expect that I would have such a good day. I couldn't imagine pushing forward for fifteen years. I always feel that such etiquette is fake..."

Fifteen years ago, he came alone through the Tang Dynasty. He still remembered that night, the stars were like water, and he took Doudou to cut mugwort in the wasteland. The young couple was so poor at that time that, and the whole family had only a broken kitchen knife.

Doudou next to him smiled softly and said warmly: "My husband, the time has come. Although you don't like false extravagance, the people need strong worship. The emperor uses a golden sickle to cut rice, so that the people will feel satisfied. I have also benefited from it. I have dreamed of using a valuable knife since I was a child..."

As he said that, he raised the silver sickle in his hand mischievously and smiled at Han Yue and stuck out his tongue. Although he was married as a wife, there was still the cuteness he used to be between his eyebrows.

Han Yue laughed and suddenly reached out and pulled Doudou into the field. The two waved their sickles and bent down, cutting off the food that the Chinese Empire had harvested for the first time.

The group of officials from the Ministry of Rites behind were so excited that some people shouted loudly to the sky with their voices, and said excitedly: "In the first year of Emperor Zhaowu, His Majesty personally cut rice to comfort him..."

The shout was shouted out, and dozens of officials from the Ministry of Rites around repeated in unison, and then someone plucked up the best of his strength to roar around and shouted: "People, harvest crops!"

Rumble

It was like a thousand troops and a surging sea tides, but when countless people who had already been impatient rushed into the fields, the fertile fields suddenly turned into a scene of a prosperous harvest.

On this day, three million Han people in the Chinese Empire, plus nine million people in Lingnan, a total of 12 million people went to the fields to harvest, and tens of millions of acres of land were busy everywhere.

During the harvest season, everyone is united. Some people say that there must be auspiciousness in the land of the Holy King, and Han Yue, the Chinese Empire, is this auspiciousness.

Millions of people fought for three days and nights, and tens of millions of acres of rice fields were harvested. During this period, the government continued to organize people to build grain and dry the yard, then raise the chaff, and then enter the warehouse. The golden rice was constantly cut down and the white rice was constantly beaten out. In just a few days, the Chinese Empire had filled hundreds of large granaries.

He had food in his hands, and he was not panicked. The people's faces were filled with satisfaction, and the officials of the empire also had confidence.

So the civil servants became more enthusiastic about the internal affairs and organized the people to continue to farm the rice in Chameng in the second season. However, the military generals of the empire were itchy all over. Every day, they asked Han Yue to send troops to expand their territory.

The excuses for the generals are very simple. Your Majesty, aren’t you saying that the land where the Han soldiers point to is the territory of China? Then, if you fight, how can you have territory if you don’t fight? How can you be the best if you don’t fight? Now the country has sufficient food, which is suitable to shine your fangs to a country that is not convinced.
To be continued...