Chapter Seventy-Fifth: Population Restriction and New Era

  The Marshal's Mansion married off three daughters in one day, under the attention of the whole world, this marriage was a grand affair! The luxurious scene is not worth mentioning, but as for Li Yuanba's mood, it was a tangled mess!

  Children are by their side, but once they leave, parents are always worried. Li Yuanba just sent his daughter out of the house, and according to local customs, when a daughter leaves home, her parents need to rush to the groom's family in advance. But Li Yuanba didn't go, as his three daughters went to different places, he couldn't attend their weddings! He could only let the biological mothers of the three daughters take his place, rushing to the places where their daughters got married! Now Li Yuanba is waiting at home for news from them, hoping they can come back and visit often.

  After a month of waiting, the three daughters returned with their husbands. Li Yuanba set up a grand banquet and drank heavily with his three sons-in-law, but the scene was not very harmonious...

  A very young man sat in the main seat, drinking with three people who looked older than him. One called him son-in-law, and the other hastily responded by shouting father-in-law. It sounded awkward no matter how you listened! Li Yuanba's unpredictable capacity for liquor got the three sons-in-law drunk to the point of unconsciousness, all sprawled out under the wine table snoring loudly. In the end, the three daughters and his wife all blamed him for getting the first-time visiting son-in-law so drunk, without any sense of being a father-in-law!

  All of them, who were over fifty, looked no different from those in their twenties. However, Li Yuanba's appearance at that time had been etched in their minds! It was true that gods had a lifespan of two hundred years, but their looks would still age with the passage of time! Like Yang Lin, who became a god at eighty and regained his youthful appearance around forty. Once he passed a hundred, his looks would slowly change with the passing years.

  Wang Ting and the others reached their peak at around thirty, with their appearance and physical body remaining in their twenties for eighty years. Even after passing a hundred years, they still couldn't withstand the erosion of time! As mentioned earlier, once they reach the mythological stage, they are very clear about their own lifespan, which makes the next hundred years so unbearable for them! Moreover, Li Yuanba himself doesn't know how many more years he can live, with at least two hundred years being a guaranteed minimum lifespan.

  Sentimentality is a woman's patent, and they now cherish the days spent with Li Yuanba! A hundred years is such a distant distance, yet in the blink of an eye, they have already walked a quarter of the way! Their daughter has also grown up and gotten married, and in their hearts, they hope that Li Yuanba can stay at home for more days, best if he can wait until the expiration date of their most resplendent years! They know that the day when Li Yuanba will leave home again is near!

  As people frantically explored, the emergence of charcoal inadvertently led to the discovery of some metal combinations' hardness and toughness, which brought about the premature arrival of the Age of Exploration! The appearance of gunpowder marked the advent of the era of firearms, while the emergence of alloys represented a series of improvements in weaponry! Jet-type machines were among the earliest to appear, but they couldn't showcase their power due to material limitations. People have always yearned for flight, but this was a privilege reserved for those with innate abilities. Some individuals who couldn't cultivate themselves and fly in the sky turned their attention to jet technology. Moreover, facing warriors who couldn't resist, firearms were also updated and replaced at an incredible pace, as they all coveted high destructive power!

  War is the best catalyst for technology, and the weak who follow the army to plunder everywhere can only pick up some leftovers in the end. The good things have been snatched away by those who ran faster, how can they be willing! Human persistence is the greatest wealth of success, and those who want to rush to the front of high-level warriors to rob naturally modify these speed tools repeatedly, paying a heavy price and a lot of time to put airplanes and cannons on the stage of history!

  The emergence and application of airplanes in the world war took only a decade or so, because there is true energy here. Based on the production and emission of its own true energy, all the technologies that have emerged in this world are centered around the theory of true energy! So it's not something out of thin air that requires a long period of exploration, saving a lot of time! Everyone knows that all tools now require energy support, but these energies are just accidental applications by humans, and after a large amount of manpower, material resources, and time were spent, they were finally invented. For a world that has already been in contact with true energy and clearly perceives the operation of true energy, once this method is applied to external objects, the speed of development is astonishing! As for now, the Tang Dynasty has already made a prototype of this sky master, and in a few more years, the Tang Dynasty will thoroughly enter the flying era, also representing that this world will enter an era where technology and martial arts coexist.

  The development of this foreign object is beyond description! Moreover, the Chinese people are a clever race, although their ideas may be complex, they have many bright spots! A known theory can lead to countless discussions and generate numerous ideas! In the early days of China's research technology, there were countless achievements, but they were all shelved, only to be researched by others later on, and then having to spend money to buy back their own unused technology, how frustrating is that?!

  The Tang Dynasty has unknowingly entered a semi-feudal and semi-capitalist state, but this status quo still makes the rulers unaware of any changes. They only feel that the territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded several times, but management is much easier!

  The entire Asia was incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but each region still had a majority of indigenous people! The greatest change belonged to the interior of the Tang Dynasty, where people of various skin colors came and went, appearing very harmonious. This is the powerful inclusiveness and multi-attribute power of Chinese civilization!

  The emergence of guns and cannons didn't change much, as these firearms were just a somewhat useful hidden weapon in the face of top-notch masters. Top masters weren't afraid of being hit by such hidden weapons at close range, at most they would have an extra white mark on their body, no big deal! However, for those whose cultivation wasn't up to par, this was a life-saving guardian of the world's plunder!

  The territory is now so vast that no one had ever thought of it. Europe, which is closely connected to Asia, was also occupied by the Tang Dynasty in a small part. It's not that the whole of Europe couldn't be occupied, but... population restrictions!

  At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the total population was only over 3 million households. With an average of 4 people per household, it's just over 10 million people! In the whole of Asia, this is a small number of people. Even within the Tang Dynasty, many places were uninhabited, which also led to the rapid development of science and technology in the Tang Dynasty, with fast transportation tools, making management similar to before.

  The long-standing prosperity of the Tang Dynasty has made life easy and comfortable for everyone in the region, so this road is also relatively smooth. Otherwise, even the fastest means of transportation would not be as fast as walking!

  It's been many years now, and although the children of wealthy families are numerous today, they still haven't grown up yet. Moreover, even if their numbers were to double on this vast land, it would be like a drop in the bucket, not enough to fill the gaps between one's teeth! Those countries that have not fully integrated into the Tang Dynasty and that huge population, what is being used today is also not reliable!

  But human desire is endless, and this overnight wealth psychology has taken root in people's hearts over the past decade or so! Moreover, the more primitive accumulation of capital, the better!

  Li Yuanba had always planned to leave something behind in this life. Since it was impossible to expand the territory for the time being, he would plunder the world's wealth and make China's unique heritage the only one in the world!

  After so many years of cultivating one's mind and character, it's time to take action! Moreover, the principle of accumulating thickly and bursting forth thinly is also well understood by the high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty.

  Next year today is the beginning of Li Yuanba leaving an indelible legend for the world!