"Thank you to my father for being successful. In the past few years, my daughter has been preparing to let people from the Jin family come to the Tang Dynasty to have a long experience. The etiquette and clothing of the middle school will also follow the Tang Dynasty. Over time, who can tell the difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Silla people?
By that time, even if some people still have objections, it will not cause any trouble, and my daughter will not ask for much, just let the Jin family be the same as those famous families in Chang'an.
If my father can give me a child, my daughter will definitely make him a useful person to the Tang Dynasty like King Wu."
These words are extremely beautiful, what else could Li Po be dissatisfied with?
You just don’t want much? Do you know where the famous families in the Tang Dynasty came from? Are you still like them? Li Poxin said, you are just thinking too much.
If the person in charge of Silla in the future is his son or daughter, it will be a matter of course to turn Silla into a county of the Tang Dynasty. If he is still there, it should not be difficult to operate.
Of course, he himself would be quite old by then. Will the major events in the world still be as attractive to him at that time as they are now?
Li Po shook his head and then shook this too decadent thought out of his mind.
He has the ambition to match his status as an emperor, which can even be said to be greed. He has long forgotten that when he went south, he just wanted to be a rich man in peace.
After raising the army, as a leader, his mind was filled with military and political matters. It was not until he captured Jinyang and had a more solid foundation that his thoughts suddenly changed.
First he wants to be an obedient citizen, and then he pursues official positions. When he reaches the stage of being a prince, there is only one goal left in front of him, and it is not up to him to make the decision.
Now that he has become the emperor, his thoughts are even more different...
The Japanese country has now become Fusang, and the Donghai Protectorate, which has never appeared in his memory, has been established. A large number of Japanese people have been moved to the Central Plains and become migrant workers.
So after more than a thousand years, can the Japanese still develop such powerful minions according to the established trajectory?
Similarly, if Silla becomes a county in the Tang Dynasty, will the humanoid creatures that fled to the American continent be able to use the Korean Peninsula to form their so-called first island chain?
The change seems to be quite big, Li Po thought with a sense of accomplishment, and his nerve endings became excited again...
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The emperor's sense of achievement naturally does not come from food, clothing, housing and transportation. That is their daily life. They enjoy the best things in the world and will not have any desire to compare.
A mediocre emperor would indulge in beauty, poetry, or even carpentry.
A promising emperor only cares about his imperial achievements, and the expansion of territory should be at the forefront.
It’s hard to say that founders like Li Po were outstanding in domestic and foreign affairs, because they had already developed such qualities when they conquered the world.
There are many things that an emperor in peacetime would have to strive for, but for the founder of the country, everything comes naturally.
Now Li Po is only in his thirties. He united with the Turks in the north, pacified the world, pacified the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the plateau, and the southern barbarians, reopened the Hexi Corridor, etc. These are all his achievements.
Such achievements are extremely rare among the founding kings, but he is still young and has a lot of time to build more achievements to decorate his crown.
The Silla Jin family made their own choice, and it actually didn't matter to him. A small country is also a country, and being the leader of the country is naturally better than being the governor.
He could have predicted such a result in advance. Although Kinderman kept calling her father, this woman's desire for power was no worse than others.
But the Silla people couldn't occupy the peninsula, and the weird thing that later guys even considered the Goguryeo people as their ancestors is unlikely to happen, right?
Of course, this must be a question. Thinking about the era of prosperous science and technology, falsifying history has become a trend, which is really dumbfounding. So who knows what weird things will happen?
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The next day, Li Po did not rush back to the palace, but went to visit the Han Dynasty palace.
The first place to go is Weiyang Palace in the southwest.
This is the palace complex of the Han Dynasty. To the east is Changle Palace, generally known as the East Palace and the West Palace, with an arsenal sandwiched between them.
To the north of the two palace complexes are the Beigong, Guigong and Mingguang Palace where the concubines lived. Later, Emperor Wu Liu Che built Jianzhang Palace in the north of Weiyang Palace as a place for handling government affairs.
In other words, two-thirds of Han Chang'an were royal palaces, plus the residences of the nobles, which actually did not leave much place for the common people to live.
This is completely different from the concept of New Chang'an. The palaces and imperial city of New Chang'an only account for about a quarter of New Chang'an.
It can be seen from this that the emperors of the Han Dynasty did not seem to build a city, they just built themselves a palace complex that could accommodate the core of power.
This was consistent with the philosophy of the nobles at that time. Ordinary people were not worthy of living in the city. Those who had the right to live in the city were basically the nobles and their retainers and slaves.
The emperors of the former Han Dynasty were extremely luxurious. The palaces they built could be said to consume countless people's resources. Every time they carried out large-scale construction projects, they had no concept of saving people's resources and strived to be broad and grand. The same was true for the princes at that time.
Therefore, during the reign of the Former Han Dynasty, no matter which king was in power, wars never stopped, especially civil strife, which could be said to come and go.
Tracing back to the origin, it is actually an inevitable process of the transformation from a slave society to a feudal dynasty. At that time, people still had the idea that except for the nobles, everyone else was a slave, and it was difficult for ordinary people to enjoy the benefits brought by social progress.
The Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty was overwhelming and was countless times larger than the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising. In addition to the increase in population, it was actually a fierce resistance by the people against this system that was not much better than slavery.
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Therefore, the Weiyang Palace in old Chang'an is already similar in size to the Taiji Palace in New Chang'an. There are also Jianzhang Palace and Changle Palace next to it, which are almost the same size.
Outside of old Chang'an there were royal gardens such as Shanglin Garden, which could almost be regarded as a country within a country. This shows the luxurious life of the emperors of the former Han Dynasty.
"According to the Zhou Dynasty, the craftsmen run the country with a square area of nine miles and three gates on the side. There are nine longitudes and nine latitudes in the country, and nine tracks along the way. The ancestors on the left have their houses on the right, facing the market in the future, and the market facing one man."
This was said by Su Yuan and Su Shichang. Yuen Lang had just recommended him to Li Po the day before. Today, when we visited the Forbidden City of the Former Han Dynasty, this person appeared among the people accompanying him.
Yuen Long was really good at people he could like, so he turned around and took Su Shichang with him to introduce him to him.
Su Shichang was once a bachelor in Tiance Mansion, and he had no problems with his talent and learning. Like those well-educated people, he was knowledgeable about the past and present, and was very familiar with various allusions and even architectural patterns of Han Chang'an.
While quoting scriptures, he shows his masterly style.
It's just that it was his first time meeting the emperor and he didn't know much about the emperor's details. Li Po only understood more than half of what you said in such a docile manner. This was due to the fact that he had read a lot of books.
I didn’t understand much about Zuozu and Youshe, Shichaoyifu.
Yuen Long, who was not as good as Li Po, listened in confusion and whispered a few instructions to Su Shichang.
Su Shichang's face, which looked much older than his actual age, showed a little surprise, and then he began to explain stiffly.
"Your Majesty may not know that Chang'an of the Han Dynasty was not only the capital of the former Han Dynasty, but also changed the pattern of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. At that time, the city was the place where the king lived. There was a city within the city, and the dignitaries lived separately.
Chang'an also started as an imperial palace, but according to the number of the Big Dipper, it is close to mountains and rivers, winding along the banks of the Wei River, and is shared by the Liu family, their ministers, and the common people.
This place is based on the palace, mixed with the residences of nobles, craftsmen, business travelers, and ordinary people, each with their own residences, without mixing, and with nine east-west markets for trade.
This was the first of its kind, and the population gradually became more prosperous, attracting princes to imitate it. It can also be said that the current layout of the city, whether it was the great prosperity of Emperor Wen or the Luoyang of Emperor Yang, all followed the Han system, without exception."
When Li Po heard this, he understood that when he founded the country, Liu Bang might have just wanted to build a palace for himself on the edge of the Wei River.
However, as it continued to be built, the country's power became increasingly stronger, and new ideas came into being in the construction of the city, so a majestic city was built that took into account all aspects of politics, military, economy, and humanity.
This did not happen overnight. It was based on the palaces of the former Qin Dynasty and then carried out various liberties. It took dozens, even hundreds of years, to create the Han Chang'an in front of us.
It is actually similar to the Daxing City built by Yang Jian. Until now, Li Po dare not say that New Chang'an has been completely completed. There are obvious blank spaces in many places.
Everyone used to say that Yang Jian built Daxing City in one year, which is not right. Just like building a house, Daxing City in the early Sui Dynasty could only be regarded as a foundation.
Decades passed, and the former Sui Dynasty carried out many expansion projects in Daxing City. Until Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, the construction of Daxing City came to an abrupt end.
The follow-up work seemed to have to be completed by Li Po himself, because the population of Chang'an increased too fast, which not only tightly compressed the space for the royal palace to expand, but the neighborhoods of Chang'an also seemed crowded.
Therefore, Li Po has been intending to demolish some gardens in the city and convert them into houses for Chang'an residents. If the population is larger, he is afraid that he will have to demolish the city walls or build several satellite cities outside the city.
Of course, if you find it troublesome, the solution is very simple. Just move the population of Chang'an to Luoyang, or drive some of them to farm, which can effectively alleviate the population pressure in Chang'an, but the method is just too crude.
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"In other words... the cities before the Pre-Qin Dynasty were not like this?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, most of the royal cities of the princes were in the style of palaces. The people living in the city, in addition to the princes themselves and their families, also had some ministers, and the rest were all soldiers and servants."
"Making the city your home isn't the same as Wubao?"