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As a prince who had wanted to become a vassal since childhood, Liu Wei, when he was old enough to understand, gave his saved money to trustworthy people to buy property and make money.

In addition, his maternal family, the Xu family, was originally a large landowner and had some connections, so he had accumulated some assets over the years.

However, due to limited capital, the total estimated value of his assets was only one or two million yuan, and the cash he could use was only a few hundred thousand silver dollars.

Adding the 100 million yuan interest-free loan from the imperial court and the 100 million yuan in royal support, he only had a little over million yuan - he was not planning to sell his property in Dalai.

Therefore, among the eleven families who were about to be enfeoffed, the money that Liu Wei could mobilize might be ranked at the bottom, not to mention compared with Liu Yu, the Duke of Yue, or even compared with the nine princes.

The money and other resources that Liu Yu can mobilize are definitely the best among the eleven families.

Who made his maternal family Zheng?
The Zheng family was already wealthy enough to rival a country during the early Ming Dynasty.

After the founding of Dalai, although Zheng's maritime business shrank for a time, when Dalai entered the Age of Discovery, Zheng was still able to make a lot of money relying on its original foundation.

Therefore, the Zheng family is still among the top ten in terms of wealth in the Dalai Empire.

Although Liu Yu is a descendant of the Liu family rather than the Zheng family, it should not be a problem for him to get an investment of several million yuan from the Zheng family.

If Zheng were more generous, it would be possible to invest tens of millions.

Therefore, every time Liu Wei encountered money problems, he would envy Liu Yu.

Now he can only raise more than 2 million yuan in immigration funds, so he has to be thrifty.

Although the navy's ships and equipment are expensive, they cannot be saved. Liu Wei gritted his teeth and decided to buy two cruisers and fifty gunboats.

Then, Liu Wei discussed with his staff the plan to purchase various supplies...

The snow came earlier this winter.

However, the whole Nanjing, and even the whole Dalai, is prosperous amid the cold wind and snow.

Because during this winter, the two dukes and nine kings were all preparing to establish their own country and establish their own fiefdom overseas.

Whether it is recruiting people or preparing various materials, it has made Dalai's economy more vibrant and business more prosperous.

To use the words of later generations, from this year to the next few years, China's GDP will inevitably increase even more rapidly.

After Liu Sheng dealt with the matter of enfeoffment, he had some free time.

It was winter now and he didn't want to go anywhere, so he stayed in a royal palace in Nanjing, leading a leisurely and comfortable life with Hong Niangzi and other concubines.

Only when the weather is good will we walk around Nanjing together and make a "secret visit".

Nanjing has naturally changed a lot compared to when Liu Sheng left more than ten years ago.

In some areas, buildings are lined up one after another and street shops are next to each other.

Even on snowy days, the prosperous commercial streets are bustling with cars and pedestrians.

Although Liu Sheng had experiences in later life, he still felt it was fresh and lively when he walked there, and could not help but feel proud of the prosperity of Nanjing.

As for problems, Nanjing naturally has some.

In fact, even when he was about to abdicate more than ten years ago, there were still many problems in Nanjing.

For example, illegal construction of houses, poor drainage, difficulty in cleaning sewers, frequent traffic accidents, etc.

These minor problems will not cause too bad an impact, but they are difficult to solve for the time being - Nanjing is an ancient city after all, not a new city built from scratch, so many problems are difficult to solve.

Some problems will become more serious as Nanjing develops.

Of course, there are also some issues that have been basically resolved, such as traffic safety issues.

At present, Taiwan has formulated a series of traffic laws and implemented them in various cities, which has greatly reduced traffic accidents in large cities.

As for the big problem, Liu Sheng didn't notice it for a while.

After the New Year, winter goes and spring comes.

Liu Sheng, along with Hongniang and the imperial guards, began to conduct "semi-incognito" inspections throughout the Dalai Empire.

What is “semi-incognito”?
With his status, if he were to conduct an official inspection somewhere, he would have to notify the local authority in advance to prepare for the reception.

Even in a world that values ​​efficiency, this process is still cumbersome.

As for "half-incognito", it means not notifying the local authorities, nor asking the local authorities to receive him. Even the itinerary is unplanned, and Liu Sheng goes wherever he wants.

But it’s not an incognito visit.

For a real incognito visit, he had to conceal his identity and pretend to be an ordinary person, so he could not bring too many followers or guards.

Therefore, incognito visits can easily lead to security issues.

But now he is with his guards in the Dalai Empire. As long as he does not go to the provinces of Central and South Asia, Central Asia, Nanyang Province and Haixi Province, his safety will be guaranteed.

Because the quality of the soldiers and their weapons and equipment are even better than those of the Royal Guards, they are the truly top special forces in Dalai!

While Liu Sheng was conducting a semi-incognito inspection in the Dalai Empire, the two dukes and nine kings were also carrying out immigration preparations according to their respective plans.

In late spring, the immigration teams of the two lords and nine kings set sail one after another from various coastal ports in Dalai, carrying ship after ship of immigrants and various equipment and supplies, heading for distant Australia, Africa, North America and South America.

Dalai thus completely opened the door to the Age of Discovery, leading the empire's 400 million people into a more wild, passionate, and epic era of global military power!

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Time flies and does not stop for anyone. Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Liu Sheng brought Hongniang and others as well as the guards to Tianmu Mountain and entered North America through the time and space gate of Tianmu Mountain.

After resting for a period of time, it set sail again from the military port of Longshou County, Longyang Prefecture, and headed for Dakai on the other side where Liu Yu was the emperor.

In the past three years, Liu Sheng has visited almost all the inland provinces of Dalai in the seventeenth century.

He punished many corrupt officials, discovered many institutional problems, and carried out relevant reforms - these reforms were not major, and could be considered as patching up the first Dalai Empire he established, allowing the Dalai Empire to maintain its vitality for a longer period of time, and even increasing the country's fortunes.

In addition, Liu Sheng also discovered a group of talents and recommended them to Liu Rui.

Although the Dalai Empire now has many channels for advancement, after all, it has been more than 30 years since its founding, and it is difficult for talented people of later generations to rise as smoothly as their predecessors did more than 20 years ago.

Coupled with the implementation of compulsory education and the improvement of the university system, talents can be said to be gushing out.

As such, it is normal that some real talents in the lower levels of society and officialdom find it difficult to come to the fore.

The talents discovered by Liu Sheng are only a small part, and the talents who follow the two dukes and nine kings to work overseas are only a small part. Most of the talents will still fight and struggle in all walks of life in the Dalai Empire, striving to pursue their own dreams.

If he could split himself, Liu Sheng would naturally want to watch the Dalai Empire continue to develop and see what it would become in ten, twenty or even a hundred years.

Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to clone himself.

Compared to watching the growth of Dalai ruled by Liu Rui and Liu Yu, Liu Sheng would rather go to the other side of the space-time gate of Tianmu Mountain in the original Da Chu while his physical condition is still good to find out what's going on.

Perhaps curiosity killed the cat.

But he is willing to be the cat...
Longshou County, at the military port dock.

Liu Sheng and Hong Niangzi bid farewell reluctantly.

Concubines such as Li Xiangyun, Li Lingfei, and Zheng Haizhu were also present.

After Liu Sheng's persuasion, Hong Niangzi decided to stay in North America because Liu Sheng had already handed over North America to his other son with Hong Niangzi, the ninth prince Liu Can (nicknamed Yuanzi).

However, Liu Can is young after all. Although he took over military and political affairs in North America three years ago to gain experience and accumulate prestige, he is still insufficient.

Therefore, under Liu Sheng's persuasion, Hong Niangzi decided to stay in North America and, as the queen mother, help Liu Can to suppress the Liu family and other veteran families that developed North America.

Among these major North American old families, Liu Dachuan passed away due to illness last year, but the Liu family is still quite powerful.

The remaining families such as the Yang family, the Yan family, and the Wang family are equally powerful.

But with Hong Niangzi around, even if these major families really had ulterior motives, they would not dare to make any unusual moves - if the Dalai founded by Liu Sheng was regarded as a large group, Hong Niangzi was the second largest shareholder of the Kaichuang Group, and her prestige among the elders was second only to Liu Sheng, and no one could match her!
Hongniang is six or seven years younger than Liu Sheng. She is not yet sixty years old this year. She is in good health. With the medical conditions in North America, it will be no problem for her to live to over seventy years old.

In more than ten years, Liu Can will not only enter his prime, but will also become the true emperor of North America...

Time flies, and another half a year has passed.

In the sixth year of Yongkang in the Dalai Empire, it was late spring in March, and the breeze was gentle.

Liu Sheng came to Tianmu Mountain in Henan Province at the end of the fourteenth century.

Also coming with him were several of his concubines, as well as Emperor Liu Yu of Dalai, Liu Heng, Liu Jing and other members of the Liu family.

After the guards inspected the entire former tomb of Emperor Taizu of the Great Chu again and confirmed that there were no problems, Liu Sheng prepared to go in.

His concubines, as well as his children Liu Yu, Liu Heng, Liu Jing and others were reluctant to leave.

Among the people present, only Emperor Yongkang Liu Yu had the most important status, and he couldn't help but ask, "Father, do you really have to go?"

Liu Sheng smiled, "Haven't I told you this many times? Going there to find out what's going on has become my obsession."

"With this obsession in my heart, it's hard for me to live a truly comfortable life here. Only when I get over it can this obsession be resolved."

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much. The other side may not be as dangerous as you think. Maybe I can come back soon after I go there?"

"Or maybe, I will master the use of this space-time gate and open a new space-time for Dalai?"

After hearing this, Liu Yu and others knew that Liu Sheng's mind was as hard as iron and stone and could not be changed.

Although Liu Yu was very worried that his old father would never come back, he could only look at him and said in a deep voice: "Take care, father!"

Liu Heng, Liu Jing and others also said: "Father (Your Majesty) take care!"

“Hahaha.” Liu Sheng laughed heartily and said, “I’m going to satisfy my curiosity and resolve my obsession. It’s a good thing. Don’t be so depressed. Be cheerful—I’m leaving!”

After saying the last sentence, Liu Sheng turned around and strode into the passage of the imperial mausoleum.

Never looking back.

Soon, Liu Sheng arrived at the main hall inside the mausoleum of Emperor Taizu of Great Chu and asked the guards to open the door of the secret room in the main hall.

The time and space gate that Xiong Mingyuan encountered that year is still there, as if it has never changed.

Liu Sheng looked carefully for a while, then said to Yang Kuiwu beside him: "After I go in, you and the guards will guard here for ten years. If I haven't come out after ten years, you will end your mission and live your own lives. Remember?"

Yang Kuiwu was also over fifty years old, and his eyes were filled with tears, but he still saluted and responded loudly: "I obey your order!"

"it is good!"

Liu Sheng patted Yang Kuiwu on the shoulder, pulled the straps of his backpack, checked his excellent equipment, water, food and other necessary supplies, opened the mysterious door in front of him, stepped in, and disappeared in front of Yang Kuiwu and other guards. (End of this chapter)