Chapter 90: The Asymmetric Global War Erupts

  The new emperor's ascension was broadcast all over the world through radio waves. At this time, image formation technology also made a breakthrough - photography!

  The first to enjoy this treatment was the new emperor - Li Xing! His accession process was recorded in history, leaving precious image data for future generations.

  Li Jiancheng never wanted to be the emperor, and Li Yuanba had already restricted the emperor's absolute power from behind. Moreover, the current emperor has also been stripped of most of his powers and is no longer in a position to say yes or no as he used to be! After the division of power, the emperor was just the largest councilor. Since Li Shimin's abdication, the so-called three thousand beauties have become a thing of the past, but the practice of having multiple wives and concubines has been retained! As a result, the emperor's powers are strictly limited, and it's not like he even has more wives and concubines than ordinary people do!

  Li Jiancheng, who had been in the army for many years, was not adapted to such a system environment. So he thought about it and set his sights on Li Yuanba's descendants! Li Yuanba is the biggest head of Huaxia, can be said that now is his word, Li Shimin is the model, finally even his own queen was scared to death, Li Jiancheng will not repeat his brother's mistakes!

  Li Xing has several advantages as emperor: First, he is the eldest son of Li Yuan; Second, if this kid does something that makes Li Yuan unhappy, he will be beaten to death and will not implicate others around him; Third, this kid is a thorn in the imperial family and has participated in activities opposing the Li family's dictatorship, and still has feelings for the people of the world; Fourth, this kid has ambitions to become emperor...

  Li Jiancheng and Li Xing made contact several times, and the throne was settled! The others had also been in contact before, but they were all afraid that Li Yuan would not take this talk seriously as emperor, and if one day he became muddle-headed, it was uncertain whether their lives could be preserved.

  Li Xing took the throne, what excitement! He jumped up and down, wanting to come up with a representative of his own coronation, to have a new atmosphere for the New Year's renaming of the country! In his heart, he still had some resentment. Since they didn't overthrow the entire feudal system at the beginning, now it should be possible to give the current system a new national name! As soon as this idea was mentioned, the members were terrified...

  Li Jiancheng thought this kid was too much, so he immediately sent a telegram to Li Yuanba, telling him the situation. Li Yuanba rushed over in a rage, scolded him severely, but still didn't feel relieved, and directly resorted to violence!

  Li Xing, who had been severely beaten, was also a man of great courage and wisdom. As soon as Li Yuanba left, he immediately changed the year number to "Sheng Shi" (Prosperous Era) without regard for the opposition from the people below, because if the year number wasn't changed, how would the people know that a new emperor had ascended to the throne?

  "Haha, not bad! This kid has guts. If he were a softie, I'd really worry about having no one to inherit my legacy!" Li Yuanba felt relieved after hearing this and didn't bother his son anymore.

  In this way, thirty years passed in the world, waiting for Li Yuanba's death in secret.

  In 701 AD, the Tang Dynasty welcomed a population base of 200 million! The new technological developments every day and month have brought unprecedented prosperity to the Tang Dynasty!

  Li Yuanba has never been involved in any decision-making of the Tang Dynasty for thirty years, and gradually faded out of people's sight! The global technological development has made the world a family, and foreign countries are also thriving.

  Every country regards science and technology as its own basic national policy, making high-end military power frequently break through the previous base, causing those countries that have always been dissatisfied with the dominance of the Tang Dynasty to secretly contact each other, wanting to get rid of the shadow of the Tang Dynasty above the country. Due to the influence of the Tang Dynasty, these countries have established a constitutional monarchy system, making them more perfect than the Tang Dynasty in terms of system, and the royal family basically belongs to a symbol. The power of the people is greater than that of the pseudo-constitutional monarchy of the Tang Dynasty. However, this is not the point. The existence of Li Yuanba has kept the Tang Dynasty from taking any detours. Li Yuanba after all belongs to a later generation, and the details are not clear, but the general direction is still referable! Moreover, Li Yuanba plays the role of a sea-calming needle in the Tang Dynasty, at least there are no corrupt officials who dare to embezzle, and this kind of clean and honest atmosphere is the best foundation for a dynasty, with a strong guarantee to promote social progress.

  The great Tang Dynasty has now formed a fleet of naval formations, with huge aircraft carriers that are unmatched in the world! The entire ocean's resources have been monopolized by the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that the richest mineral resources of other countries are also controlled by the Tang Dynasty. This situation makes the world realize the importance of these resources as it develops, and the desire to break free from the Tang Dynasty's rule becomes increasingly urgent!

  In such an environment, under the catalysis of a war-like situation, the development of science and technology in various countries has already surpassed individual martial power on the surface! Even some countries have discovered those forbidden cultivation techniques in already extinct island nations, secretly manufacturing massive beast-type armies. Combining their own cultivation concepts, the combat strength of these beast-type armies far exceeds that of the previous island nations! This army is a product of the combination of technology and martial power, with humans as its foundation. In peacetime, it takes on human form, but in times of war, it can transform into a beast-like state on its own. This is precisely the bio-mechanical beast that appears in science fiction later on, and yet, people in this world have actually managed to create it!

  This is the terrible aspect of human wisdom, it can create new species that are comparable to the creator in myths! However, this new biochemical weapon consumes too much resources, and the Great Tang has already occupied a large amount of their domestic resources. Such weapons have almost depleted all their reserve resources! Faced with resource scarcity, some countries that could no longer bear it finally couldn't hold back anymore!

  In the year 705, the countries of South America finally declared war on the Tang Dynasty, and a global conflict erupted! Before the Tang Dynasty even realized what was happening, the Tang mining army and civilians who had settled here were slaughtered! When news reached the ears of the top leaders of the Tang Dynasty, other countries from various continents also bared their fangs and raised their butcher knives!

  A war in which one nation opposed the world finally opened the curtain on a cruel and bloody massacre for global resources! In this global war, people all over the world recognized the terrible power brought by technology, such power even made myth-level masters tremble with fear!

  But in the end, Li Yuanba's participation in the war made the world realize that individual martial arts had reached its peak, and everything else was just a joke. At this point, people finally raised an idea: what level of combat power did Li Yuanba actually have? Such combat power implies that the current main cultivation method has reached a bottleneck and cannot break through the myth, so is combining technology with martial arts a good way out?

  The current understanding is that technology and personal martial arts are two completely different concepts. At this time, people never thought of applying technological applications developed through training methods to martial arts training. When they had this realization, people began researching how to apply technology to personal martial arts after the war! They have an ambition, which is to use all means to improve combat effectiveness, that is, even if it's not possible to surpass Li Yuanba, try to narrow the gap with Li Yuanba as much as possible. This is also the idea of everyone in the Tang Dynasty!

  Such research did not stop even after Li Yuanba's death, and the various ingenious ideas that emerged during this period gave them hope. Although the miracle left behind by Li Yuanba after his death made them puzzled, it only represented that they had not yet reached the extreme, and they would never regret such thinking until their death!

  Before the outbreak of war, Li Yuanba became a house man again at the age of nearly 100! After electronic equipment was researched by people, the speed of development once again showed how terrifying human intelligence is! After Li Yuanba discovered that television was being studied by the crazy people of the Datang Institute, he proposed to them whether they could use Taoist yin-yang theory and the perspective of all things in life to study computational things. For the people of this world who are familiar with Taoist theory, their cultivation techniques cannot be separated from these theories!

  An idea was given to them at an unimaginable speed, and such things play a catalytic role in the development of technology. The technological advancements of later generations cannot keep up with this era! After all, people's physical quality is not just a little bit worse here, and the practice of kung fu also has a huge boost to people's brain development! Li Yuanba also started tinkering with some new things at home, completely ignoring the outside world!

  For nearly twenty years, computers have rapidly updated and entered people's homes! But people's understanding is still very poor. With the development of technology to this point, Datang actually doesn't even have its own artificial satellite! Li Yuanba didn't say it, and the people here can't think of it either! The wish to fly has been realized here long ago, so they can't think of anything worth researching outside of high altitudes!

  After a period of research on the combination of technology and military force, people accidentally conducted research and quickly entered the space age! That's all for now...

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