After Wu Tao died again, the reincarnation of dreams continued, and the fourth reincarnation began.

This time Wu Tao's luck suddenly became very, very good.

When he was born, he was born into a scholarly, wealthy and powerful family.

His father was also a scholar with considerable knowledge and status, and his mother was also a young lady from a large family, with a distinguished family background.

Wu Tao's name in this life is Li Ning.

These two parents have been extremely strict with Li Ning since childhood.

To study, be a good person, and do things, you must be the first among your peers.

In this strict environment, Li Ning also performed extremely well and strive for success. He could recite poems at the age of one, write sentences at the age of three, compose lyrics at the age of five, and at the age of ten he could write an article to govern an entire country.

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Finally, Li Ning, who had performed extremely well at a young age, began to spread his reputation far and wide. In just a few years, his legend spread throughout the entire Jiangnan region.

Li Ning was even summoned by the first-rank governor of Jiangnan, and became a child prodigy known throughout the world.

At the age of eighteen, Li Ning was engaged to the eldest daughter of the Zhang family, a wealthy family in Jiangnan, and gained some power of his own.

Li Ning, who had just won the championship at the age of 20, took two exams and one subject.

In the end, Li Ning lived up to expectations, triumphed all the way, passed the test, and directly entered the imperial examination. With his article "On the North-South Canal", he became the youngest number one scholar in the Han Empire.

Now the Holy Emperor has entrusted him with the important task of governing a county.

Li Ning worked hard and spent ten years to transform the barren land surrounded by mountains into a rich and prosperous land of abundance. This year, Li Ning was thirty years old.

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After ten years of great rule, with remarkable achievements, the Holy Sage Longyan Dayue, against all opinions, recalled Li Ning to the center of the imperial court and served as one of the six central departments of the imperial court.

Li Ning lived up to the divine grace, worked conscientiously, was strict with himself at all times, and managed his affairs in an orderly manner, so that no one in the household department was corrupted, which has never happened before.

The national treasury was gradually enriched, and the lives of the people began to improve little by little, and the scene of a prosperous and harmonious world gradually emerged. It took Wu Tao fifteen years to gradually complete these things.

In these fifteen years, Li Ning also achieved the position of first-rank minister of household affairs and an important minister. In this year, Li Ning was forty-five years old.

After Li Ning became the Minister of Household Affairs, he reformed commercial taxes and established an imperial trading house. Money piled up in the warehouse.

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Three years later, because of the imperial court's policy of reducing vassal vassals, the eight vassal kings in the south joined forces to riot, setting off a rebellion that disturbed the entire south. The government was in turmoil and people were uneasy.

Li Ning was appointed at the critical moment, and as the imperial minister, he took charge of important military matters for the first time.

Two years of fighting rebellions gradually transformed Li Ning, a civil servant, into a military general.

After ten battles and ten victories, Li Ning led the army, and after a lot of hard fighting, he finally wiped out the eight feudal kings in the south one by one.

After the rebellion subsided, Li Ning, as the imperial envoy and the first contributor to the suppression of the rebellion, was granted the title of hereditary marquis of the country, and was rewarded with a death certificate.

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During this period, he began to form gangs, take bribes, and attack each other with other powerful officials, and grew into a qualified politician.

This year, Li Ning turns fifty.

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Another ten years passed, the spring, autumn, cold and heat passed, the emperor passed away, and the new emperor

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After ascending the throne, the official administration was renewed, and he became the Mingjun of the new dynasty.

The new emperor was too young, had weak political skills, and had a mediocre personality, so he delegated the power of the court to Li Ning.

From then on, Li Ning ascended to the position of prime minister for the first time. He was inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people.

Among the people, Prime Minister Li is called Li Banhuang.

This year, Li Ning is sixty years old.

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The sky brought disasters, severe droughts among the people, and hungry people everywhere in the Ming Empire. For his own benefit, Li Ning allowed the situation to continue to worsen, resulting in people's livelihood being in dire straits, people being displaced, and widespread complaints.

Fortunately, he had a young grandson. On his birthday, Li Ning came to his senses after having a drink in front of him.

In order to protect the life and death of all people and make up for the mistakes he made before, Li Ning worked tirelessly, regardless of his sixtieth year. He got up at midnight and went to bed at midnight. His old body gradually became unable to support him.

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The Central Plains imperial dynasty was weak, and the nomadic grassland people were tyrannical. They burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. It just so happened that the new emperor died and his youngest son came to the throne.

As the prime minister of the dynasty, Li Ning began to organize a counterattack, but in the face of the natural and man-made disasters that were everywhere in the Central Plains, little effect was achieved.

This year, Li Ning is seventy years old.

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Where righteousness lies, even if you die, you will not regret it. As an old man, Ji Ji's ambition is higher than the sky.

Because of internal strife at home and foreign enemies outside, Li Ning, as prime minister, could only command an army of 100,000 people. He was already over 70 years old and refused to accept hundreds of thousands of cavalry from the nomadic grassland Xiongnu Empire.

On that day, Li Ning, who was in his seventies, led an army of 100,000 people in a coffin, starting from Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, and arrived at Shanhaiguan, the first pass in the north.

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In the distance outside Shanhaiguan, there was a rumble of horse hooves. The sound was like muffled thunder rolling past on a sunny day.

The dust was flying, the earth was shaking slightly, and a huge yellow line appeared in the city gate, like a long dragon.

The continuous sound of hoofbeats came again, and the dark group of prairie cavalry began to slow down.

The neatly arranged horse heads are like dragon heads, the flying flags are like dragon fins, the ferocious helmets of the cavalry are like dragon scales, and the white air emitted from the horses' nostrils is like dragon whiskers.

The curved bows and arrows held by the cavalrymen flashed a chilling light in the distance, which were the sharp claws on the dragon's body.

"Woooo!!!"

The loud horn sounded across the sky, and the prairie cavalry who had been side by side just now spread out to both sides like a tide, revealing an iron chariot in the middle that was slowly moving forward.

As the chariot moved forward, the surrounding prairie cavalry calmly flew down from behind the chariot like waves in the sea.

The war horses they rode had the world-famous prairie scimitar inserted into the weapon slot on the saddle.

The huge chariot came slowly through the passage formed by the cavalry.

"Your Majesty Prime Minister, that is the chariot of the Great Khan of the Prairie Royal Court!"

At Shanhaiguan, a general next to Li Ning let out a nervous cry.

Li Ning took a deep breath and adjusted the court clothes with his hands. Everyone became nervous, and an amazing pressure came over them.

Everyone looked up and down at these uninvited guests who had come from afar with surprised eyes.

The calm temperament of these prairie cavalry is accompanied by an inexplicable sense of pressure. This feeling can only be felt by soldiers who have actually been on the battlefield.

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After some brief

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After a brief argument, the Huns didn't say anything more and started to attack directly.

Countless prairie cavalry, like a tide, charged toward Shanhaiguan in a black mass.

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The fierce battle lasted until five in the afternoon. Countless corpses were lying around the city wall that was less than three kilometers away. Soldiers on both sides were fighting to death and bleeding.

Armor and blood have been mixed together, making it difficult to tell who is who.

Dark red human blood was mixed among the soil and bricks, and piles of corpses lay scattered on the ground.

There were broken swords and broken spears everywhere, as well as broken arrows and scimitars.

Human corpses and horse corpses piled up like mountains, and broken limbs could clearly be seen on the mountains of corpses.

On this extremely bloody battlefield, corpses stretched as far as the eye could see. When one foot was stepped on, crimson blood squeaked out.

"Are these prairie people still human? Why are they so crazy?"

The first to be unable to withstand it were the soldiers of the Han Empire guarding Shanhaiguan. Facing the desperate charges of the prairie cavalry again and again, they almost couldn't hold on.

The defense line on the city wall was broken several times, and the city was almost broken by the prairie cavalry.

After several hours of fighting, both sides were exhausted, and each lost less than 10,000 soldiers.

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This situation lasted for half a month.

As a last resort, Li Ning could only mobilize the young men in Shanhaiguan to serve as militiamen to defend Shanhaiguan together.

The defense of Shanhaiguan has become more and more difficult as time goes by, because the arrows have been exhausted, and there are no more arrows for long-range attacks to fight back.

As a last resort, the soldiers began to demolish the houses, build trebuchets, and begin stoning attacks.
To be continued...