1752 in the Yanhuang calendar, the fourth year of Zhengde.
With the passing of the New Year, the entire Ming Dynasty has begun to enter the busyness of the new year.
In Liu Jin¡¯s study, Liu Jin stood by the window, looking at the falling snowflakes, thinking a lot.
It has been more than thirty years since I traveled to this world. From a young man who was still young, he has now become a man in his early fifties.
Because of his arrival, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes, some of which even Liu Jin himself finds a little unbelievable, as if they are too fast.
Just like Ming Dynasty's very popular movies now, it is hard to imagine that in such a short period of time, the movie came out, and skipped the stage of silent movies from the beginning, directly entered the sound movie, and suddenly became the Ming Dynasty. Completely heated up.
It only took the people of the Ming Dynasty thirty years to go through the technological path that later generations in the West took more than 100 years to go through. Today¡¯s Ming Dynasty, in terms of technology and development level, is almost equivalent to that of later generations before and after World War I. level, even more advanced in some aspects.
And compared to Europeans in history, the living standards of the people of the Ming Dynasty were much, much higher. Because of their vast land and resources, coupled with the development of agricultural mechanization, the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty were unprecedentedly rich.
Although the Europeans in history plundered the whole world, the life of the Europeans at the bottom was actually very ordinary, even very ordinary. It was not until after World War II that the living standards of Westerners truly changed. Great changes, leading to a prosperous life.
Earth-shaking changes, the spacious concrete roads, the cars running on the roads, the gramophone and telephone in the home, and the electric lights in the rooms are intertwined with the green bricks and tiles and courtyards that have not completely fallen off during this period.
Liu Jin has an unreal feeling, and he often falls into a kind of chaos. He always feels that he is at the intersection between modernity and ancient times, and there is a kind of misty chaos.
¡°Master, it¡¯s time to drink ginseng soup!¡±
Just when Liu Jin was thinking a lot, Liu Jin's concubine Liu Hui came in with her maid carrying ginseng soup.
Liu Hui was a beauty that Korea attacked Emperor Zhengde. Last year, after Liu Jin asked to go home for retirement, Zhu Houzhao felt that he had not properly rewarded Liu Jin when he became emperor, so he also gave several Korean and Japanese beauties to Liu Jin. Jin, this Liu Hui is one of them. She is only eighteen years old now, very young.
Liu Jin was not Liu Xiahui, she was a beauty, and Xu Waner and Li Zhen in the family did not object, so they took in a few concubines.
This Liu Hui is Liu Jin's favorite concubine. She is well-informed and knowledgeable. Her father is a minister of Korea. She has grown up learning the language, characters, life customs, and the Four Books and Five Classics of the Ming Dynasty since she was a child. , can be regarded as a young generation growing up in the new era.
"Um!"
Liu Jin looked at Liu Hui and nodded with a smile.
Coming from North Korea, she likes to stew ginseng soup for Liu Jin to replenish his body when she has nothing to do. In her words, drinking ginseng soup is very common in North Korea, but it is relatively less popular in Ming Dynasty.
In the past, Liu Jin didn¡¯t like supplements. Liu Jin, who came from later generations, knew that a person¡¯s health mainly depends on daily exercise and a reasonable diet, which is stronger than taking any supplements.
"But now that I'm a little older, I'm no longer as weak as when I was young. It's still much, much worse than when I was young.
"It's like I started taking concubines last year, and took all the beauties rewarded by Emperor Zhengde as concubines. Even now, it has been almost a year, but there is no movement at all among these concubines.
This made Liu Jin feel that he was really old and not as good as before.
When I was young, I met Xu Waner and Li Zhen several times. They would soon become pregnant. The two gave birth to eleven children to Liu Jin. Not to mention high fertility, at least it reached the average level of the Ming Dynasty people during this period.
It has been almost a year now, and none of the concubines have responded. This makes Liu Jin very depressed, thinking that maybe he is really old and cannot be Wang Shouren.
When Wang Shouren was in his fifties, all the concubines at home gave birth to sons for him. Now that he is over sixty, I heard that he has another concubine at home. His fighting ability is really impressive. He seems to be better than him. It's a bit far off.
Liu Jin drank the ginseng soup in one breath. It was time for him to replenish himself. After all, he was almost like Lao Wang. This concubine followed him. Apart from other things, he always wanted to leave her a child or something. Wait until laterAfter hearing the news, he hurriedly went to visit Liu Hui. At the same time, he also told the maids and servants in the house to take good care of Liu Huilai.
¡°My husband-in-law has not given birth to a son for almost 20 years. To be honest, Xu Waner and Li Zhen also felt that it was time to give Liu Jincheng a concubine.
In a wealthy family like Liu Jin, human resources are very important.
As the hostesses of the family, the two of them have always attached great importance to this period. Almost all the sons in the family have married several houses and have many concubines.
Liu Jin is the mainstay of the family, but there have always been only the two of them. They are old and can no longer have children, so they naturally have to give Liu Jin concubines.
Liu Jin had no such intention in the past. Last year, the emperor gave Liu Jin a beauty, which was just right.
Soon, several experienced doctors hurried to the Liu Mansion by car. After their repeated diagnosis, they were sure that Liu Hui was indeed pregnant.
After getting the confirmation, everyone in the Liu family celebrated happily. As for Liu Jin, he couldn't help but shake his head. He was sighing about this just now, but he didn't expect to turn around. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com