North America.

Kingsoft Peninsula.

It's not hot in summer and not cold in winter.

The sea breeze blows, and the Central Plains is in March when fireworks are fireworks, and they are still wearing thick spring cotton jackets. But here, they only need a thin robe.

The weather here is equivalent to May in the Central Plains.

In the palace on the Jinshan Peninsula, Li Shimin was sitting on a rattan chair under a vine tree and playing the flute. The flute sounded slowly, with a bit of sadness and a bit of longing for his hometown in the Central Plains.

Jinshan City has been built more neatly, and the wooden fences have been replaced with rammed earth city walls. Those simple wooden houses and tents have now been replaced with earth houses and log houses. Li Shimin's palace is even more built of bricks and tiles.

These bricks and tiles were produced by brick and tile factories on the outskirts of Jinshan City. They are not large in scale now, but they have allowed Li Shimin to own a brilliant palace with red walls and golden tiles. Although the palace is very small, it is equivalent to a larger three-entrance quadrangle.

The sun is just right, and it is the busy farming season.

A lot of new land has been reclaimed this year. The American people in Kingsoft City are busy in the fields. Some are also driving boats to fish in Kingsoft Bay. Some are also driving farther to trade with the Yin people, and some go to the sea to catch whales.

A busy scene.

If you abandon your longing for the Central Plains and your concern for the Tang Dynasty, you will actually be a prosperous and peaceful life here.

"His Majesty!"

Wu Mei led Li Hong over and bent down to greet her.

Wu Cairen is now becoming more plump and charming, and is fully mature.

On this wild land of exotic country, there were not many concubines following Li Shimin, and many of them were not willing to do so. After arriving here, they looked even more disgusted.

Only Wu family has never left each other.

Especially Wu is a good wife. She has made a lot of efforts to achieve her current scale and prosperity, and has given many excellent suggestions.

There are Yuchi Jingde and Xu Maogong outside, and Wu Mei inside. In less than two years, Li Shimin has built a well-known country.

Yuchi Jingde was responsible for the defense of Jinshan City and the training of militias. In the past two years, Xu Maogong was mainly responsible for the American navy, taking those ships along the coast to trade with the Yin tribes. Of course, Xu Maogong would sometimes make a comedy role as a pirate or two, uprooting some small tribes and capturing their men and women because of Jinshan.

Li Shimin seemed to be back when he was the King of Qin, but this time, there were no eighteen scholars in his Qin Palace, nor any house plan. There were few people who could use it, and he had to do many things himself. Fortunately, Wu helped him handle the logistics, which made him much easier.

Li Shimin put down the flute in his hand.

"Hong'er is here, come here quickly and let Yeye carry him."

Two-year-old Li Hong has learned to walk and even calls Ye Yeh Mother. This child may have been blessed by God. When he was so young, he had been through thousands of miles of hardships and did not get any serious illness along the way.

After coming to America, I quickly adapted to the climate here.

Now that he is very strong, Li Shimin even gave the little name to his youngest son, Xiao Shitou.

"Yeah."

Xiao Shitou opened his hands and smiled and asked Li Shimin to hold him in his arms. His hands and feet did not stop. He grabbed Li Shimin's beard and pulled it.

Li Shimin was so angry that he laughed and scolded, "Little bastard, I will pull my beard every time I come. I will pull all these beards sooner or later."

Wu was wearing a blue robe, with a bun on her head, and just a simple hairpin was inserted, but it was full of seductive charm.

"What is your Majesty thinking?"

Li Shimin sighed and rescued his beard from his son, "What else can I think? There is no Tang Dynasty now."

Three months ago, the Central Plains supply fleet that he had been looking forward to for a long time finally arrived.

Zhang Chao did not break his promise, and indeed sent a supply ship, and brought a lot of supply supplies. However, Zhang Chao's proclamation official came with him.

The Tang Dynasty is gone, and the Central Plains is now the Tang Dynasty.

This was like a bolt from the blue.

When he heard the news, Li Shimin was so angry that he drew his sword directly.

The war is almost about to begin.

At the critical moment, he had an old problem again and had another stroke.

The situation was very dangerous at that time and he was paralyzed in bed.

At that time, he could not speak, could not write with his hands, and even became more in a coma than he was awake.

At that time, it was Wu who stabilized the people from Jinshan City. She persuaded Yuchi Gong and Xu Ji to agree to accept Zhang Chao's enthronement.

Zhang Chao conferred Li Hong as the Duke of the United States, Li Shimin as the Duke of Germany, Wu as the wife of Germany. He also conferred Yuchi Jingde as the Duke of France and Xu Shiji as the Duke of England.

Near North American Golden State, four countries, including Germany, the United States, Britain and France, were sealed off.

With this edict coming, there were eight North American colonial companies granted by Emperor Zhang Chao of Dahua, and their colonies were also divided on the west coast of North America.

If Li Shimin could speak at that time, he would definitely not have accepted the edict.

He was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, even the abdicated emperor would never recognize Zhang Chao's usurper, nor would he accept the German duke enthroned by Zhang Chao, the usurper.

But at that time, he spent most of his time fighting with King Yama and finally came back from the gate of hell. When he woke up, things had already settled.

Dahua's envoy agreed to the US Jinshan City chaired by Wu, and agreed to his statement on behalf of Li Shimin and Li Hong and his son to receive the imperial edict.

As promised before, the messenger left a lot of supplies in Kingsoft, and of course, these supplies were not given in vain. It was trade. Wu sold all the gold, medicinal materials, fur and even some slaves accumulated in the warehouse in Jinshan City to the Dahua fleet in exchange for those supplies.

After clearing the warehouse, the converted money is limited, and one-third of it has to be paid to Dahua after accounting for the taxes.

Finally, Wu also signed a loan agreement with the fleet and borrowed a large amount of money.

When the agreement was signed, they did not get the money, but received various supplies directly. It was equivalent to borrowing money from Dahua and then purchasing the supply materials transported by the fleet.

When the supply fleet left, the US treasury was empty, but it was exchanged for many urgently needed supplies, such as swords and armor, such as cattle and horse seeds and farm tools.

The treasury is empty, and many loans are still owed, with a high deficit.

But there was also a war. Even Xu Maogong and Yuchi Gong did not think that they had a real fight, so how many chances of winning were they had.

The United States has a population of nearly 50,000, and the young and strong must have 20,000. However, these 20,000 people lack training and insufficient weapons. On the contrary, the fleet that came not only had naval gunboats, but other merchant ships were also armed merchant ships. The sailor crew members also looked like they were not good people.

In the end, everyone took a deep breath to the end with this result.

Wu, Li Hong, Xu Maogong, and Yuchi Jingde all swore to the envoy of Dahua, knelt down to the north to receive the decree of Emperor Dahua, and swear to the envoy representing the emperor to be loyal to Dahua and Zhang Chao.

No matter what they thought when they made these vows, they had indeed chosen to surrender to Dahua and Zhang Chao in public.

Li Shimin, who was originally very critical at the time, miraculously began to recover after the supply fleet left. In just three months, he was able to walk now.

Although I can't ride a horse or run, my skills have disappeared from my once exquisite steps, but my health is pretty good, my speech is very clear, and I sometimes drool. When I walk, I need a trench and I can walk very quickly.

When he is fine, he will exercise his hands and feet, play the flute, bullets and lutes.

Three months.

Li Shimin recovered little by little, and his mind had long been restored to rationality and peace.

Nowadays, he is more than one in North America.

Not to mention that Yuchi Gong and Xu Maogong were both granted the title of Dukes, even on the coastline not far south of them, the eight North American colonial companies had established strongholds.

The eight colonial companies are not weak, and each has three or five thousand people in its strongholds. In particular, they are obviously guarding against him, contacting each other, and forming a small alliance.

"Is Your Majesty still angry with me?"

Li Shimin shook his head.

"Thinking about it now, I was impulsive at the time. If I hadn't suffered a stroke, I would have really started the war." He sighed. In the scene at that time, if the war really started, he had no chance of winning. There were only about two thousand slightly well-trained soldiers, and there were no other weapons.

How do you fight against the Dahua fleet with several gunboats?

Not to mention anything else, just the eight colonial companies, they had thousands of soldiers.

He could calculate that if the war had really started at that time, and the war would have started in such a hurry, he would have been defeated.

The best result was that he fled into the inland U.S. with his wife and children after his defeat, and since then he was like a stray dog.

"I should have expected this day to come. Chengqian was taught by Zhang Chao. How could his apprentice fight against the master? He was too impatient. If he could do it ten years later, there might be a chance. If he was really steady, it would be better to wait until Zhang Chao dies before starting to collect power."

"But Zhang Chao won't give him a chance." Li Shimin smiled bitterly, "I've misunderstood Zhang Chao."

Wu came over and sat down next to Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, the situation is quite good now. Chengqian is in Africa, Li Zhi is in Australia, Your Majesty, his concubines and Honger are in this America. Although the Tang Dynasty has changed its rulers, we are still there."

Li Shimin held his son with one hand and Wu's hand with the other, looking at the direction of the Western Central Plains.

"Zhang Chao's biggest mistake was that he should not have the kindness of a woman. Since he usurped the throne and seized the court, he should send a fleet to eliminate me and eliminate future troubles forever."

"His Majesty!"

Li Shimin snorted.

"I will endure it now, but sooner or later, I will take thousands of troops back to the Central Plains and build the Tang Dynasty again. Even if I can't wait that day, my sons will return to the Central Plains."
Chapter completed!