More than a year had already passed since Li Shimin's overseas Fengshan sacrifice!
Over the past year, the Tang Dynasty had flourished in every way, and the people lived in peace and prosperity!
While its national borders had once again expanded dramatically!
As emperor, Li Shimin had also continued to let the people recuperate, vigorously developing livelihoods and all other aspects of society!
And after arranging the follow-up affairs on the Wa Islands, sending suitable officials there to govern and permanently assimilate those Wa donkeys, ensuring that they and their descendants would forever be slaves of China!
Before returning to the Tang Dynasty, Qing Mo had also taken Li Shimin and the others into the deep sea, where they hunted down an enormous whale!
Although, when Wei Zheng, that little old man, learned that Qing Mo intended to take Li Shimin whale hunting, he had opposed the emperor doing something so dangerous without pause from beginning to end!
Yet when they truly found a whale amid the boundless ocean and the Tang Dynasty Navy began the hunt, Wei Zheng, that little old man, was the most excited of them all!
At the same time, because Empress Zhangsun's fate had been changed ahead of time by Qing Mo, basically nothing of note happened in the tenth year of Zhenguan!
As for princesses such as Li Lizhi and Li Mingda, the hereditary illnesses they had originally carried were also completely cured. They would no longer die young as they had in the original history!
And when the eleventh year of Zhenguan arrived, just as in the original history, Wu Meiniang successfully entered the palace because Li Shimin was selecting consorts!
(Because Wu Zetian had not left behind her original name in history, she would simply be called Wu Meiniang here!)
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