Liu Jin sighed slightly. It was rare for the Ming Dynasty to have such a good situation. Liu Jin still hoped that it could continue, but no one could control everything now.
The vehicle of history rolls forward, and everything that blocks its progress will eventually be buried in the dust of history.
Now that I have reached my age, over eighty years old, I can no longer do anything, and there is no need to worry about these things anymore.
I don't have many years left to live, and my body is not as good as before. I am really old.
Liu Jin put down the newspaper and started walking in the manor.
Because Hongyun Manor is the place where Liu Jin retires, everything has been carefully designed and laid out. There are exotic flowers and plants everywhere, the flowers are in full bloom, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and it is very quiet.
It’s time for the annual wine making again. There are bursts of laughter and laughter coming from the manor’s vineyard. Groups of beautiful girls are full of energy, picking baskets of grapes in the vineyard, just like flowers.
Like a butterfly among them.
Just looking at their beautiful figures is an extremely beautiful scenery, and listening to them chatting non-stop is even more pleasant.
"It's better to be young!"
Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh again.
Time flies and years are ruthless.
In the blink of an eye, more than sixty years have passed since I traveled through time.
Although I have lived up to my time and my youth, I have lived a wonderful life and the path of life has been very smooth.
However, heroes grow old and old men are helpless. When he saw the young figure, Liu Jin was still envious. At this moment, he understood why emperors in the past always thought of refining elixirs to prolong their lives.
In the face of time, all people are equal. Even emperors are unavoidable from the withering of time and the decay of life.
Liu Jin looked at the girl picking grapes in the vineyard and lamented how time flies. As for the people in the vineyard, they were all looking at Liu Jin, the old owner of Hongyun Manor.
They had heard a lot about Liu Jin, many stories about him, and knew that this old man was once an extremely great man.
The reason why the Ming Empire was what it is today was because of this old man's huge contribution. His life was a legendary one, and he was a great figure written into history.
Just looking at Liu Jin in his twilight years, no one would think that the Liu Jin in front of him was just an ordinary old man, with nothing special about him.
Only the temperament displayed by Liu Jin is a special temperament. It is different and stands out from the crowd. It can be felt at a glance.
Liu Jin walked very slowly, walking slowly in Hongyun Manor. He had seen everything here many times, but this time, Liu Jin had already made a decision in his heart.
It's time for me to return to my roots, and it's time to leave Hongyun Villa and return to my hometown in Changli County where I was born, where I will grow old, just like the fallen leaves on the tree that finally fall on the roots.
To be honest, Liu Jin doesn't like the climate in his hometown. The climate there is far less comfortable than here, and because of the developed industries in the Beijing-Tianjin area, the pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin area is very serious.
Even Changli County, which is next to the Bohai Bay, is not a suitable place for retirement.
But now that I'm my age, everything is the same everywhere, and there isn't much time anyway. Falling leaves and returning to their roots is the most perfect ending.
Liu Jin took a leisurely walk throughout the manor, memorizing every scenery here carefully. He would definitely not come back here again in the future.
Just half a month later, Liu Jin's family set out to return to their hometown in Changli County.
Thanks to the increasingly convenient transportation, you can take the train from Nanyun Province back to Changli County. Otherwise, with Liu Jin's current age and body, such a long distance would definitely cost him half his life.
"Woooo!!!"
On the return train, accompanied by bursts of whistle sound, the train traveled through the vast wilderness.
Xu Waner and Li Zhen were very happy because they could finally return to the Ming Dynasty and the capital city. Changli County is very close to the Beijing-Tianjin area. It is very easy to go to the capital city.
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For them, a woman's life is like this, three obediences and four virtues.
They can only follow their husbands wherever they go. Liu Jin is retiring here in Nanyun Province, and they will follow him here in Nanyun Province.
I haven’t had much contact with my natal family over the years. I only occasionally come over to see them when my natal family’s children come to Nanyun Province.
Of course, when they reach their age, their parents have already passed away, leaving only a few brothers and sisters alive, all of whom are already gray-haired old men.
The younger generation has long been in charge of my natal family. They actually no longer have much contact or affection with their natal family, but they still want to return to their natal family.
For Xu Waner, she had actually been thinking about returning to the capital for a long time, and then going back to Dingguo Duke's Mansion to see her brothers, sisters, nephews and so on.
At the same time, I also want to see the place where I lived as a child and the place where I played as a child.
The capital is her hometown and roots, and she has too many memories there.
Xu Waner, Li Zhen and the others were discussing their arrangements after returning, while Liu Jin was looking at the scenery outside the window, his whole body blank, as if he was thinking about something.
The place the train is passing through now is Hezhong Province. After more than half a century of development, the Hezhong area has already changed rapidly.
The original immigrant towns have now turned into cities. The cities are bustling with life and have a large population. The seeds sown at the beginning have taken root and sprouted here, becoming more and more numerous, and eventually it has become Yanhuang.
A new cradle for future generations.
But compared to the vast land, this place still seems vast and sparsely populated, with large, uninhabited areas with abundant water and grass, but it is desolate and uninhabited, and it is still a paradise for wild animals.
Sitting on the train, you can see a herd of galloping wild horses, running wantonly on the grassland under the leadership of a tall and strong leader, and you can also see a large group of wild sheep and camels happily foraging for food.
"Still so beautiful!"
Liu Jin sighed, he had been here several times, and the first time he came was when he led a large army to sweep the Western Regions and the Hezhong area.
I was still very young at that time, and I just thought that the Hezhong area was a treasure land and a bridgehead for the Ming Dynasty to conquer Central Asia and move westward into Europe, so I conquered this area.
Calculating the time carefully, it seems that it was a long, long time ago.
This person is old, and it is easy for him to fall into memories when he sees anything, recalling scenes from the past, but sometimes he often can't remember clearly, and he can't remember the past things clearly, so it feels like he is...
In a daze.
The train kept moving forward, and Liu Jin enjoyed the scenery along the way.
In the empty river, in the beautiful Western Region, the train keeps moving forward.
When you pass through Gansu and enter Shaanxi, you are returning to the homeland of the Ming Dynasty in a sense.
Compared with the past, the mainland of Ming Dynasty has changed even more.
The size of the city has not expanded much, but the areas around the city have become more prosperous. Villages everywhere are neatly planned and the houses are very beautifully built.
There are cars parked in front of every house, and you can always see football fields in every village. You can see adults and children sweating on the football fields.
Just from here, we can see that the living standards of the Ming Dynasty people have reached or even exceeded the living standards of ordinary people in later European and American countries.
People live a prosperous life, and they still have time and energy to exercise. Football, which Liu Jin moved from later generations, has also developed extremely prosperously in the Ming Dynasty and has already penetrated into the bone marrow and soul of the Ming Dynasty people.
To use what is said in Ming Dynasty newspapers now, people in Ming Dynasty cannot lose football just like life cannot lose sunshine. Football has long become the most important thing for people in Ming Dynasty.
Seeing such a scene, Liu Jin showed a happy smile on his face.
Thinking about future generations, although we are very hardworking, our lives have always been very hard, and we simply cannot live like Europeans and Americans.
Many times, it’s not that we don’t work hard enough, but that hard work may not yield results.
It is enough to see that the people of Ming Dynasty now lead a prosperous life.
Liu Jin did not go back to Changli County directly, but first returned to the capital after an absence of more than ten years.
In the Liao Duke's Mansion in the capital, with the return of Liu Jin, the Duke of Liao, the entire Liao Duke's Mansion became extremely lively.
Liu Jin's eldest son Liu Xin has always lived and managed here. Here in the capital, there is also Liu Jin's youngest son Liu Qing because he married the daughter of Emperor Hongzhi.
When Emperor Hongzhi was still alive, he made Liu Qing a count. After Emperor Zhengde ascended the throne, he was promoted to a marquis. When Emperor Yongsheng became emperor, Emperor Yongsheng made Liu Qing a duke again, and it could be hereditary.
In the past, only the descendants of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, could achieve the creation of two kingdoms. Ding Guogong and Wei Guogong were both descendants of Xu Da.
Now the Liu Jin family has become a family with two families. It can be regarded as the second family in the Ming Dynasty with two families. It can be said to be extremely glorious.
Of course, this aspect is related to Liu Jin's great contribution to the Ming Dynasty, because Liu Jin's own Duke of Liao was created by Liu Jin himself.
Another aspect is related to the Nanyang Princess.
Princess Nanyang is the youngest daughter of Emperor Hongzhi. Emperor Hongzhi only has two children, Emperor Zhengde and Princess Nanyang. Princess Nanyang is considered to be a daughter of old age, so naturally she loves her so much that she regards her as the apple of her eye and even fears that she will melt if she holds it in her mouth.
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When Emperor Hongzhi married his daughter, he directly gave away a large area of islands in Nanyang as a dowry. As for Emperor Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao, he only had this one sister.
In addition, there is a big age difference, so I have been extremely fond of the Nanyang Princess since childhood. After becoming the emperor, she was often generously rewarded, and the title of Marquis was just one of them.
For Yongsheng Emperor Zhu Zaicheng, the Nanyang Princess was his aunt who grew up with him. The Nanyang Princess was even younger than Zhu Zaicheng. They grew up together when they were young, and they had a very good relationship.
What's more, Zhu Zaicheng was just an aunt. After becoming the emperor, she was naturally granted the title again, thus creating Liu Qing, the new Duke.
So much so that Liu Qing has been complained about by people, saying that Liu Qing had the easiest time getting the title of Duke of this country. Just by marrying a Nanyang princess, he got himself a hereditary iron rice bowl.
In fact, Liu Qing himself knew very well that this iron rice bowl was given to him. It was only given to his descendants by the three generations of Emperor Hongzhi, Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Yongsheng.
The son of Princess Nanyang is also half of the blood of the old Zhu family. It is nothing for a descendant of the old Zhu family to be given to a prince.
With Liu Jin's return, the entire Liao government became extremely lively.
Liu Xin and Liu Qing have worked hard for many years to spread their branches, and there are many descendants. Now they all come back in droves to see Liu Jin, their ancestor.
For the descendants of the Liu family, Liu Jin is a legend and the founder of the mountain.
From now on, the descendants of the Liu family are scattered all over the world, and they all come from the Liu family in Changli. All of this is because of the ancestor Liu Jin.
Having reached the level of Liu Jin, he is indeed qualified to be the originator of this field.
Liu Jin temporarily lived in the capital.
When Emperor Yongsheng learned that Liu Jin was back, he took the time to visit Liu Jin and had an in-depth discussion with Liu Jin about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, hoping to get some guidance and help from Liu Jin.
However, even if Liu Jin saw it clearly and clearly, at this time, he still had to pretend to be ignorant. He could not say that constitutional monarchy would be the mainstream in the future.
Of course, Liu Jin did not forget to remind Emperor Yongsheng that he, Emperor Yongsheng, was the largest capitalist in the Ming Dynasty, with so many industries, factories, firms, etc. under his command.
These were all the businesses founded and laid down by Liu Jin, Emperor Hongzhi, and Emperor Zhengde back then. Even now, Emperor Yongsheng is cheaper. However, he seems to be a little unclear about how big and important his industry is.
If you dismantle your own family business, you will have trouble with your own money bag in the future.
Liu Jin's words were very tactful. It is unclear whether Emperor Yongsheng listened to it or whether he could understand it after hearing it.
Liu Jin lived in the capital for less than two years, and then returned directly to his hometown in Xiahetun, Changli County, preparing to quietly wait for death and the sunset in his hometown.
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