On the west side of the Caucasus Mountains, on the railway connecting the Black Earth Province and the Northwest Province in Nanyun Province, a train is passing through the Caucasus region. From time to time, it emits bursts of whistles, startling the birds in the surrounding trees, and causing the forest to panic.
The animals inside ran wildly.
Liu Jin looked at the mountains in the distance, with overlapping mountains, shrouded in clouds and mist, winding peaks, dense forests, green grasslands, trickling streams flowing in mountain gorges, and flying springs and waterfalls on cliffs.
The scenery here is really as beautiful as a painting. Even the best Ming Dynasty landscape poets can hardly describe one ten thousandth of the beauty here.
This is a picturesque and beautiful place, like a fairyland on earth!
So much so that even Liu Jin was stunned without realizing it, attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of him.
“It really lives up to its reputation!”
"I have long heard that the scenery of Nanyun Province is picturesque. The Nanyun Mountain Range is one of the rare spiritual mountains in the world. The scenery is unparalleled in the world. Now I just took a quick look on the train and it is indeed well-deserved!"
Xu Waner, who was beside Liu Jin, was obviously also deeply attracted by the picturesque scenery in front of her. The scenery of Nanyun Province was very famous in the Ming Empire.
Many newspapers have reported in detail the beautiful scenery of Nanyun Province. There are also a large number of literati who came here to visit the mountains and rivers, leaving a large number of poems and songs. There are also new poets produced by the rise of new learning, using new styles of poetry.
Poetry to praise the beauty of Nanyun.
There are three treasures in Nanyun: beautiful scenery, beauty and wine!
The so-called beautiful scenery refers to the beautiful scenery in the Nanyun Mountains area.
The Nanyun Mountains are later known as the Caucasus Mountains. The entire mountain range is about 1,200 kilometers long and can be roughly divided into three sections: east, middle and west. The overall trend is northwest to southeast.
Because the mountains change greatly, the natural landscape changes very obviously. From an altitude of three or four thousand meters to an altitude of one or two thousand meters, it is only a few hundred miles. Therefore, the unique waterfalls and springs of Nanyun Province are formed.
natural landscape, as well as the rapid transformation of plateau mountains, boreal coniferous forests, and temperate broad-leaved forests.
Mountainous, watery, mist-shrouded, with waterfalls, springs, and birds and animals, the scenery is as beautiful as a painting.
A large number of dignitaries in the Ming Dynasty owned manors here. The main purpose of these manors was to grow grapes, brew wine, raise dairy cows, and produce cheese for the Ming Dynasty dignitaries.
In their spare time, these dignitaries can also take the train here, relax in their own manors, ride horses, hunt and have fun in this picturesque place.
"It is indeed well-deserved. We can live in our own manor in Nanyun Province for a while."
Liu Jin also agreed deeply. The scenery here is so beautiful.
Here you can easily enjoy the scenery of the plateau snow-capped mountains, as well as the frigid coniferous forests, alpine grasslands, and temperate broad-leaf forests. There are also many springs and waterfalls. You can find beautiful scenery anywhere you go.
In later generations, those places will be circled for large-scale tourism development.
However, here in Nanyun Province, beautiful scenery is everywhere, including lush grasslands, cattle and sheep grazing on the grasslands, and you can also experience the feeling of a grassland herdsman.
"That's a must!"
"Our family still has a manor here?"
When Li Zhen heard this, she thought about it and asked.
"Haha, of course there is, and it is also one of the largest manors in Nanyun Province."
Liu Jin smiled and nodded.
Even his wife doesn't know how much property his family owns. Fortunately, Liu Jin goes to take a look every year, so he still knows about the extent of his family's property.
Due to its unique geographical environment, superior natural scenery and environment, Nanyun Province quickly became the most important wine producing area in the Ming Empire.
To the north of Nanyun Province is the Greater Caucasus Mountains. The Greater Caucasus Mountains have a higher altitude and form a unique alpine grassland. The alpine pastures here in Nanyun Province are very good and can be said to be one of the best pastures in the world.
The temperature in the alpine pastures is relatively low, and the water grass is sweet and rich in nutrients. It is very suitable for grazing cattle and sheep, especially dairy cows.
Because it has nutritious pastures, grew up with snow-capped mountains and rivers, and grew in picturesque and sunny grasslands, this alpine pasture produces high-quality beef, mutton, and milk from cows.
it's the best.
With good-quality milk and cheese-making technology introduced from Europe, the quality of the cheese produced in Nanyun Province is comparable to the best cheese in Europe.
The cheese produced in Nanyun Province has long been famous in the Ming Dynasty. It is very popular within the Ming Empire and can even be sold back to Europe, the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire and other places.
To the south of Nanyun Province is the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, which are generally parallel to the Greater Caucasus Mountains, with an altitude of only between 1,000 and 2,000 meters.
The altitude is relatively low, and the dimensions are also lower. The Caucasus Mountains in the north block the cold air from the north, which gives the south of Nanyun Province a very good climate.
This place is very suitable for growing grapes. The grapes grown not only have a large yield, but also have very good quality, making them the most suitable for making wine.
There are also numerous large and small manors here, almost all of which focus on wine-making. Slaves purchased from Europe brought the best wine-making technology in Europe.
In just a few decades, Nanyun Province has become the largest wine-making base in the entire Ming Dynasty and even in the world. Not only is the output large, but the quality of the wine produced is also extremely good.
It was very popular within the Ming Empire. When the famous families in the Beijing-Tianjin area of the Ming Dynasty entertained guests, they almost always used wine brewed in their own manors.
Although the quality of European wine is also good, home-made wine is the best.
This trend was actually brought about by the soldiers who fought in Nanyun Province back then.
At that time, the Australian Duke Yang Yun led 200,000 Ming troops to fight all the way west from the Hezhong area, defeating the Ottoman Empire and slaughtering hundreds of cities in the Ottoman Empire.
At the same time, it also conveniently destroyed the original Kingdom of Georgia in Nanyun Province, and finally captured the South Caucasus region from the Ottoman Empire, forming the entire Nanyun Province.
According to the system of the Ming Empire, soldiers will be rewarded as long as they perform meritorious service in wars. Among them, the most popular one is land.
At that time, a large amount of land in Nanyun Province was awarded to meritorious soldiers. After they retired from the army, they basically chose to stay here in Nanyun Province.
Each one of them established a manor on the land he received as a reward and ran it here.
Because in addition to the rewards of land, there were also rewards of cattle, sheep, gold, silver and women, so these soldiers made use of these.
It happens that the manor also needs someone to take care of it, the cattle and sheep can be grazed there, the gold and silver can be used to buy more land, and the women can help with work and give birth to children.
As a result, manors of all sizes were gradually formed in Nanyun Province.
Of course, the Ming Empire also intended to do this, because there were no Han people in Nanyun Province at that time, and the Ming Empire needed to move a large number of immigrants here.
It would be better to simply resettle these Ming soldiers here and let them become the first batch of Han people to immigrate here. Moreover, these Ming soldiers have undergone rigorous training and are able to fight well.
If anything happens here in Nanyun Province, all it takes is an edict, and these retired Ming soldiers can be immediately summoned again and armed, and any incident can be quickly put down.
Therefore, there are numerous manors and wineries in Nanyun Province, which slowly promotes the development of the wine industry in Nanyun Province.
When these soldiers of the Ming Dynasty interacted with relatives and friends, they naturally entertained them with the fine wine produced by their own wineries, and the same was true for Yang Yun, the Duke of Australia.
The quality of the wine produced was very good, and everyone felt it was quite good after drinking it, which gave them a lot of face.
The fine wine produced at home costs nothing and can win good reviews. Naturally, I will give more to my relatives and friends.
Slowly, the reputation of Nanyun Province's fine wines gradually spread, and then it began to enter the road of commercialization. Specialized wine merchants established manors here to make wine.
Therefore, hundreds of wine brands, large and small, have been formed here, and any one of them is quite famous. The high-quality wine produced is sold all over the world, bringing a steady stream of wealth to Nanyun Province.
In addition, the cheese produced here is very good for the body, especially for children and the elderly. Therefore, although cheese is something from Europe, it also quickly became popular in the Ming Empire.
stand up.
In later generations, very few people in the country eat this food often, mainly because the price of cheese is really expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it.
But now the Ming Empire is different. Not only are European countries desperately exporting cheese and wine to the Ming Empire, but the Ming Empire itself also has a large number of pastures and can produce cheese on its own.
The output of this cheese is large, the quality is high, and the price is cheap. Even ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty can afford it. This is why cheese became popular in the Ming Dynasty.
The double blessing of fine wine and cheese has also allowed manors to bloom all over Nanyun Province. There are dignitaries from the Beijing and Tianjin areas, locals from Nanyun Province, etc. There are many large and small manors, each with its own wine and unique cheese.
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As the largest capitalist and investor in the Ming Empire, Liu Jin also has his own huge industry in Nanyun Province, involving many fields, including many large estates, large wineries, and large ranches, specializing in the production of fine wine.
