Zheng He's eyes were also bright, and he couldn't hide his pride. "I didn't talk nonsense to King Yingjia, nor did I dare to attend their banquet. I just asked them to pay tribute to His Majesty with gold."

"King Yingjia finally understood what I meant and wanted to refuse. But they were scared when they ordered the firearm to be launched. In just one day, hundreds of thousands of gold were sent! I also understood that these people were still relatively simple, so I no longer continued to ask for it."

"I didn't stay here for long, so I returned to the seaside boat and prepared to return to my country. But who would have thought that this time I returned to my country was more difficult than when I came, and I encountered a storm..."

Zheng He's eyes dimmed, "The boat was either swept into the sea by the strong wind, or sank from the reef, and encountered pirates many times. Pirates were nothing and could not compete with us at all. The worst thing was that someone among the soldiers began to get sick..."

"In the end, only three warships and more than 700 people came back. Fortunately, gold, corn and other things were placed on the strongest Luoyang..."

After hearing this, Li Luo sighed and said, "Bless Laojun, you will be back after all. Zheng He, you have a good rest and I will give you a month off."

"Thank you Your Majesty. I don't need to take a long vacation. So many soldiers have not returned. I want to go and see their families to express my condolences." Zheng He said.

Li Luo nodded, "Well. I will hold a banquet in the palace tomorrow to welcome the soldiers who have returned!"

After Zheng He resigned from the palace, Li Luo said to Cui Xiuning a little sadly: "More than 700 people have not come back, which is a pity. I would rather all of them come back than want the more than 500,000 taels of gold."

Choi Soo-ning stared into his eyes, "Fugitive, are you telling the truth? This is more than 500,000 taels of gold."

But soon, she realized that Li Luo was telling the truth.

Has Li Luo changed over the years? He changed.

But Cui Xiuning knew that Li Luo had become better, not worse.

He did his best to be an excellent emperor and a wise monarch for all eternity.

This man has a terrible sense of self-discipline and strong willpower. He has an extremely clear and vigilant attitude towards power and wealth.

She later saw many men who were promoted to the post and then carried away half of the position. However, Li Luo said that she had been alone for so long and still maintained her original intention.

This original intention is: China.

Cui Xiuning grabbed Li Luo's hand and said, "Your Majesty, you are really a little amazing."

Choi Xiuning rarely calls her husband by His Majesty when they are alone. But this time, she wants to call her husband from the bottom of her heart.

Li Luo patted Cui Xiuning's hand, "Xiu Ning, you have not changed yet, your essence has not changed. And I have really changed, the emperor. You are a policeman, but you have to look at me and remind me that in this position, the most difficult thing is not to deal with national affairs, but to be self-disciplined and self-improvement, and to always maintain public spirit. If I have signs of pride and greed for pleasure, the ministers will definitely not dare to point it out, and you are the only one who dares to point out it out."

Cui Xiuning smiled gently, "Okay, I must stare at you. You must stare at me too. I am the queen and may become an annoying power animal."

Li Luo hugged her, "Then we will supervise each other. We must take good care of ourselves. We cannot leave alone too early and be too lonely."

Cui Xiuning's nose felt sour and she smiled with tears: "Damn it, what are you talking about? We are only thirty years old, so we have to live for decades."

Even though she said that, she felt scared when she thought of Li Luo walking in front of her one day and she didn't dare to think about it.

"Luo." Cui Xiuning raised her head, and a mist floated in her eyes. "Can you let others go this southern expedition? Every time you go on the expedition, I am actually very scared. I don't know when this worry will end."

Li Luo smiled bitterly: "It's better to fight this battle myself. A place like Thailand and Cambodia is not something that ordinary people can fight well. If they fight, if they fall into a deadlock and become a protracted war, it will be a big trouble."

Cui Xiuning said: "The climate in Thailand and Cambodia is full of diseases, snakes and insects, and it will be more serious if the environment is not suitable for the local environment. Fortunately, there are many troops sent in winter. This time, you must bring enough medicinal materials. Then you can set up the central army in temples, and you can camp wherever there is a temple."

"Also, bringing Xiao Ni with you can help you prevent the deadly mosquitoes there."

She was right. Siam Zhenla places are now full of rainforests, huge leeches, mosquitoes, poisonous snakes... The sanitation conditions are even worse than Annan and Myanmar.

What product is the most famous in Thailand in later generations? Pesticides. You can imagine that the insects there are, even the natives have a headache.

Since ancient times to the present, the Central Plains dynasty has fought against Annan and Myanmar many times, but rarely attacked Cambodia and Thailand. It is not without reason.

Cui Xiuning continued: "You must prevent human-cannibal leeches. That thing is not only particularly disgusting, but also very dangerous. It can absorb several liters of blood within ten seconds, just like a water pump. It is not only harmful to warriors, but also to war horses."

Li Luo has also heard of this kind of thing, and the lethality should not be underestimated. A few cannibal leeches can suck the blood of a buffalo in just a few minutes.

They often take advantage of the cattle and horse drinking water, enter the cattle and horse's mouth, or drill into... and then suck the blood dry, coexist with the rotten corpse in the body of the cattle and horse that died suddenly. They will not see the light of day again until the corpse completely rots.

Disgusting?

Moreover, this guy has extremely tenacious vitality and is almost not afraid of any physical damage.

War horses are drinking water by the water, be careful!

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Soon it was October of the golden autumn, and all preparations for the southern expedition were getting more and more, and soldiers were transferred to Myanmar one after another. However, the Tang Dynasty ruler Li Luo had not set off yet.

On the second day of October, the Hanlin Academy and the Tang Dynasty Academy jointly submitted a memorial, and the five thousand commonly used simplified Chinese characters were finally completed after nearly a year of repeated research by dozens of scholars!

Li Luo was overjoyed and immediately ordered a meeting to observe and revise simplified Chinese characters, convening all civil officials in Beijing, and famous folk scholars watched and revise 5,000 commonly used Chinese characters in the Imperial City Square.

Why was it difficult to popularize education in ancient times, and the cost of literacy among the people at the bottom is that literacy is more complicated.

In modern times, when education is popularized and reading a lot, many people will forget words or write wrong words with their pens. This is still a simplified word.

What's more, the popularization of education in ancient times was very low and the number of readings was still written in traditional Chinese characters?

This greatly hindered the popularization of education. In the later generations of Baodao and the Oriental Pearl, although the per capita income was very high, the illiteracy rate was higher than that of the later mainland. The Baodao authorities could only reduce the illiteracy rate by lowering the statistical threshold (the illiteracy standards are low, and the illiteracy standards are low, and they are cognitive and written).

Ten days later, all 5,000 simplified Chinese characters were posted, each one was a foot square, and were also equipped with traditional Chinese characters to confirm.

A hundred suggestions and 100 pieces of pen, ink, paper and ink were also set up on site to facilitate viewers to make suggestions for modification.

The entire Jiangling City was in sensation.

This is a big thing that has never been done before!

Many folk scholars who have not been in office come to the public and hear the news. Many of them are elderly and weak, but they are sick and will only participate.

There were tens of thousands of officials and scholars attending the observation of the amendment conference! Many of them came from Xiangyang, Ezhou and other places after hearing the news.

Three days later, the observation and revision conference came to an end, and more than 1,000 opinions were collected.

This has led to the Tang Ting Simplified Chinese Character Movement having a great degree of folk participation.

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning summoned the ministers to analyze and correct their opinions one by one. Everyone was very serious and careful, for fear of missing important opinions.

Many of these opinions are insightful and have proposed better simplified solutions. There are also many valuable suggestions.

The king and his ministers worked in the Hanlin Academy for two days, and passed each word by word before they combined various suggestions and finally finalized the draft.

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning were a little happy to find that as many as 70% of the simplified Chinese characters were the same as those in later generations!

The remaining 20% ​​of Chinese characters are more scientific and reasonable than later generations.

It can be said that under the guidance of Li Luo and Cui Xiuning, this is a more successful Chinese character simplification plan than later generations.

For example, the word "Love" and "Traditional" characters have hearts, but after simplification in later generations, they lost their hearts, which is obviously unreasonable. The Tang version retains the hearts, cancels the heads of the word "Cai" and becomes a treasure veil, adds a heart and a friend.

For example, the traditional Chinese characters are not beautiful enough and do not conform to the original meaning. The Tang version retains the head of the word "Cao" and the character "Feng" is the character "Feng" at the end, but the character "Feng" is the vertical one and does not show up on it, which is more beautiful.

For example, Taiwan was simplified into Taiwan in later generations, which was not only not beautiful, but also did not reconcile the original meaning. The Tang version was simplified into earth-tips, like auspicious.

All these are generally more reasonable than later generations. Many characters are obviously much simplified, but they can make people guess what characters they are. Moreover, the most complex characters are no more than fifteen strokes.

Li Luo felt quite satisfied, and the next step was to issue an official edict.

"The emperor who followed the heavens and inherited the imperial edict said: The foundation of Chinese education is the Chinese characters. The size of Chinese characters is the universe, the beauty of Chinese characters, the patterns of heaven and earth. The mystery of heaven and earth are all in it. Since Emperor Xi created the characters, hundreds of ghosts were suffering at night, because there is the divine and secluded Chinese characters, and the grand view of China..."

"However, there has been no change in heaven since ancient times. Chinese characters have inherited the past and changed the present. Since they have inherited the same lineage, they have not changed their essence, they have also simplified them and learned them easily. This is the simplicity of the great way..."

"…Simplifying the five thousand Chinese characters is commonly used. From the first month of next year, all documents and announcements, imperial edicts, imperial edicts, school teaching, imperial examinations, publication and other matters will be used to simplify Chinese characters. And folk letters, couplets, inscriptions, etc. can be complex or simplified, and you will be able to listen to them... I admire this!"

The great edict was stamped with the imperial seal and issued it to the world to show its solemnity.

This is the "Simplified Chinese Edict" that has a profound influence in later generations!

Immediately, Li Luo ordered the Tang Dynasty Academy to organize the compilation of the "Hongwu Dictionary", include simplified Chinese characters, and publish and promulgate the world.

The Ministry of Works also ordered the Ministry of Works to produce simplified movable type carvings and simplified versions of the classics, history, and collections of classics, history, and issued an edict to use simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified simplified

It is planned to print 3,000 sets of simplified Chinese classics, history, and literature collections within two years, and publish them all over the world! Including the lost classics in the Central Plains brought back from Yingzhou, they are also among the simplified Chinese publications.

Another edict was issued, and those who print and sell books by folk booksellers and use simplified Chinese characters will be exempted from tax for three years!

Of course, Li Luo also expressed respect for traditional Chinese characters. The emperor ordered that in the future, important edicts such as the ascension of the throne, the enthronement of the crown prince and the empress, and the war edict must be based on traditional Chinese, with the simplified version as the supplement, and two versions will be issued.

Plaques of palaces, temples and other buildings are also written in traditional Chinese and are not allowed to use simplified Chinese characters.

The vigorous simplified Chinese movement has begun.

Based on Cui Xiuning's knowledge, the Ministry of Works finally came into great use in the lead-moving type printing technology that was more than 100 years ahead of the West.

After completing this "cultural cause" that I had long wanted to do, it was almost in late October, and Li Luo was finally going to go to war.

In order to keep it a secret, the Tang court did not report the expedition ceremony with great fanfare to avoid the discovery of the Mongol Yuan and the pseudo-Song Investigators.

In fact, such a big thing cannot be concealed at all, that is, it can be concealed for a while.

In order to prevent the Mongol Yuan and the pseudo-Song from taking the opportunity to attack, Li Luo secretly ordered Wen Tianxiang, Zhu Han, Yang Xu and others to strictly guard their respective defense lines and closely monitor the enemy's movements. He also secretly transferred Chen Shuzhen to take charge of Xiangyang, Jiang Jun to take charge of Jinling, and secretly strengthened the Chang'an defense line.

Although the total number of Tang troops was as high as more than 700,000, there were 18 states in the Tang Dynasty, and half of the troops used to guard the local area alone accounted for half, of which there were 170,000 troops in Yingzhou and Dongzhou. In the remaining states, there were only more than 10,000 people guarding each state, and they could only rely on police officers to help maintain local stability.

In addition to the heavy army groups in the northwest that resisted the Yuan army, the Tang army's mobile forces were actually very limited.

This time the Tang army was going to mobilize 200,000 troops to fight south, which was an elite mobile force. As a result, the local mobile force was almost allocated, and they had to secretly maintain a strategic defensive attitude towards the north.

With the current strength of the Tang army, they can only attack south and defend north at this time.

On October 18th, the Imperial Heavenly Prison announced the auspicious day of the expedition. The Tang lord Li Luo issued a secret order to use the crown prince Li Zheng to supervise the country, and the queen Cui Xiuning to regent, and then he personally led the army to the Nanyang!

Just half a year after his personal expedition to Goryeo, the Tang lord Li Luo began to personally expedition to the Nanyang Empire. He was really the mighty emperor of the army and was worthy of the name of Hongwu.

Taking advantage of your youth to make achievements, spread martial arts throughout the world, and use troops all over the world. Don’t let your hair turn white and your head be sad. Isn’t this what a great hero should do?
To be continued...