Chapter 990: Return to Oneness
In the summer of the first year of Long'an, Sun Shaozong got married.
In the spring of the second year of Long'an, the emperor passed away.
In the autumn of the same year, Sun Shaozong, commander-in-chief of the imperial guards of Quanlong, personally led the three towns of Liaodong and the navy of Bohai Sea to sweep the north from two directions, and captured more than 70,000 barbarians in Liaodong , which was known in history as Long'an Li Ting.
In the spring of the fourth year of Long'an, the Minister of War, Jinzhou Bo Sun Shaozong, requested to fill Liaodong with refugees, escapees, starving people, landless tenants, and redundant water transport workers.
In the following ten years, under the leadership of Yu Qian, Sun Chengtao, Li Xian and others, countless people from the Central Plains moved north to the outside of the Great Wall. By the time of the Ministry of Revenue's major inspection in the 15th year of Long'an, the number of Han people in Liaodong had exceeded one million.
In the winter of the ninth year of Long'an, Sun Shaozong, the second assistant of the cabinet and the Marquis of Tongliao, requested to establish two academies, "Engineering and Science". Because he often selected craftsmen as teachers, he aroused criticism from the literati, who said: How can such strange and lewd skills be accepted in the halls of elegance?
In the spring of the eleventh year of Long'an, the emperor took power.
In the summer of the 17th year of Long'an, the empress dowager was seriously ill. She summoned the chief minister of the cabinet, Duke of Wei, Sun Shaozong, into the palace to entrust her with her affairs after her death. In the afternoon of that day, Duke of Wei came out covered in blood.
It is said that blood was flowing inside Kunning Palace that day.
Afterwards, 37 civil and military officials including Deputy Censor-in-Chief Xu Youzhen were captured and killed, nearly half of whom were civil and military scholars who had passed the imperial examinations in the 12th and 15th years of the Long'an period.
From then on, Emperor Long'an stopped attending court and all military and political affairs were controlled by Duke Wei. Everyone inside and outside the court was silent and no one dared to offend.
In the autumn of the same year, Shen Lian, the commander of the patrol camp and the Earl of Yongyi, brought more than a hundred civil and military officials to persuade the Duke of Wei to ascend the throne, saying that Emperor Long'an was of low moral character and that it was time for Wei to replace Zhou. However, the Duke of Wei refused.
In the eighteenth year of Long'an, the chief minister of the cabinet, Gongsun Shaozong of Wei, reformed the imperial examination system, set up local official schools, and implemented a policy of getting rid of empty talk and focusing on practical matters.
At that time, the scholars were in an uproar and cried, "It is difficult for scholars to enter high positions, and the government is handed over to corrupt officials. This is a sign of the country's destruction."
In the spring of the 21st year of Long'an, Sun Chengyi, the admiral of the Bohai Navy, sailed eastward to Japan. After seven months and 39 battles of varying sizes, he captured the Japanese emperor and the Japanese general alive and returned to the court.
In the summer of the 23rd year of Long'an, Sun Chengyi, the admiral of the Bohai Navy and the Marquis of Donghai, invaded Japan again and ceded the entire Kyushu and eleven "countries " of Honshu.
In the spring of the following year, Marquis Donghai passed through Humen, climbed to a high place and looked into the distance. He said to his attendants: How can we let such a beautiful country go to waste?
In the winter of the 28th year of Long'an, the emperor died in the Qianqing Palace.
Sun Chengyi, the commander-in-chief of the Dragon Guards and Marquis of Donghai, held the dragon robe and jade seal to persuade him to ascend the throne, but was repelled by his father, Duke Sun Shaozong of Wei.
In the spring of the 29th year of Long'an, the new emperor ascended the throne and changed the reign title to Hongwu.
From the second year to the fourth year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu intended to abdicate several times, but was rejected by the Duke of Wei each time. As a result, he was given the Nine Gifts and was appointed King of Wei. His eleven sons were all granted the titles of duke and marquis.
People at that time privately said: The King of Wei is Zhou Wen and Wei Wu.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, a grand court meeting was held.
Sun Shaozong, the Prince of Wei, ascended to heaven in broad daylight in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Auspicious clouds covered the sun and the whole city heard the news.
On the second day of the second month of the same year, the governor of the Beijing Camp [commanding three camps and one guard], the Wei State Gongsun Chengyi, led his troops directly into the Central Palace and said to the emperor: "I am the son of heaven and man, and I shall ascend the throne."
He then replaced Zhou and established the country, named it Xin Wei, changed the era name to "Tianyuan", and remotely revered his father as the Great Emperor of Wei Shenwu Zhisheng Xianzun.
During the Tianyuan period, the New Wei Dynasty expanded its territory by thousands of miles, almost recovered the old territories of the Mongols in Europe and Asia, and its military forces in Southeast Asia reached as far as Australia.
In the following decades, the people of Wei became increasingly arrogant in the newly expanded territories, especially the royal surname Sun. They often regarded themselves as descendants of immortals and looked down on the locals as pigs and dogs.
Therefore, the indigenous people often call them "celestial dragons".
(End of the book)
