Waves and winds.

Liu Jian stood on the beach and looked at the busy boatmen in his own shipyard on the coast.

Thinking in my heart.

It is now the first year of Zheng orthodox, and according to the AD of later generations, it is 1436.

Now Liu Jian has experienced sixteen colds and heats when he came to the Ming Dynasty.

In later generations, Liu Jian was a senior ship designer working in a shipyard.

Mainly engaged in various ship design work.

But an accident fell into the sea.

After waking up, Liu Jian found that he had become a born baby.

It must be reincarnated.

At first, Liu Jian thought so.

But as the days pass by day.

Liu Jian discovered that he had arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

This surprised Liu Jian.

This made me a future generation, but how could I survive?

Although Liu Jian often sighed secretly that fate was unfair.

But Liu Jian's background is not bad either.

Although it is not a scholarly family, it is not a gentry and a wealthy family.

But he is also a wealthy businessman in Hangzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang.

It's certain that you're rich.

Starting from Emperor Gaozu Liu Wan, to his great-grandfather Liu Tang, to his grandfather Liu Li and his father Liu Xin.

After four generations of operation.

Now the Liu Family Trading Company is one of the best business experts in Zhejiang.

Even in Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Fujian, and even Huguang.

There are also Liu's branches and industries.

The Liu family has dabbled in the business of grain, salt, restaurants, cloth, raw silk, porcelain, etc.

Not only that.

The Liu family also purchased land in Zhejiang, Fujian, Suzhou, Changzhou, Yangzhou and other places.

There are tens of thousands of hectares of various land, and there are more than 300,000 tenants.

There are tens of thousands of people, shopkeepers, even craftsmen, and long-term workers who operate industries in various places.

Dangdang has a great family and a great business.

But even so.

But Liu Xin, who now holds the power of the Liu family, is not happy at all.

Although the Liu family is now developed.

In fact, Liu Xin still couldn't be happy in life.

The greatest wish is to be a businessman.

It is precisely because it is a businessman.

Therefore, the Liu family was not accepted by scholarly families and gentry families in various places.

In their opinion, the Liu family has a low status and is full of money.

Disdain to join in.

Just like when Liu Xin got married, Liu Li wanted to find an ordinary gentry and scholarly family at the beginning.

However, these families do not take the Liu family seriously at all.

Liu Li had no choice but to find a family for Liu Xin who was also a businessman.

Cui Ying, the young daughter of Cui Xiancheng of the Cui family.

This is also Liu Jian's biological mother.

Although the Cui family is no better than the Liu family's huge businessman.

However, after being run by the Cui family for three generations, it is now a small achievement.

He is barely a match with the Liu family.

But whether it is the Liu family or the Cui family.

He was accepted by gentry and favored by those scholarly families.

Enter the circle.

This is the biggest pursuit of commercial families like the Liu family and the Cui family.

It's just because the businessman was born.

Therefore, neither the children of the Liu family nor the Cui family could participate in the imperial examination.

You can't even read and read.

This is true for at least three generations.

The important task of studying and literacy, participating in the imperial examination, and leading the two families into the gentry circle fell on the shoulders of Liu Jian, the fourth eldest son of the Liu family.

Liu Jian felt a lot of pressure.

It is now the first year of orthodox.

Logically speaking, there will be an imperial examination this year.

But now Liu Jian is only sixteen years old and will not be able to take the boy exam until next year.

Then he became a scholar in the children's examination the next year.

In the third year of Zhengtong, he participated in the provincial examination and won the Juren.

Only in this way can we be qualified to participate in the imperial examinations that were not in the four years of Zhengtong.

It would have to go four years later.

However, it is not necessary to participate in the imperial examination.

Liu Jian also has different views.

It is precisely because Liu Jian came from later generations.

I know the historical development in the next few hundred years.

Although the Ming Dynasty is still strong now.

But this is the last ray of light.

In the 14th year of Zhengtong, the Tumubao Incident.

It was Zhu Qizhen, who had just ascended the throne, who became a prisoner.

Although the Ming Dynasty finally survived the crisis safely.

But from then on, the Ming Dynasty began to go downhill.

Although there were occasional success later.

There were also powerful times such as Liting in Chenghua, Punishing the Japanese in Jiajing, and Sanzheng in Wanli.

But this is mostly a rebirth and cannot change the general trend.

At this time, the European countries, known as the land of Taisie in the Ming Dynasty, gradually emerged from the shackles of the medieval times.

The light of the Renaissance blooms.

In addition, it was the great voyage started by Portugal and Spain on the Iberian Peninsula at the end of this century.

Make Europe the center of the world for the next five hundred years.

Colonial plunder, industrial revolution.

It ultimately makes China fall behind the world.

The century-old national humiliation that followed the late Qing Dynasty.

It can be said that although the Ming Dynasty is now peaceful, the country is peaceful, and the people are prosperous.

But no one knows better than Liu Jian that this is just the afterglow of the doomsday.

As expected, although Liu Jian followed the crowd, he was extremely resistant in his heart.
To be continued...