After washing the dishes, Xiaocui took out the embroidery work and went to the tree outside the house to get busy, while Li Liping pestered Liu Shufen to continue to tell.

"After your grandfather saved the emperor, find a way to ........."

After Liu Shufen finished speaking, Li Liping combined some of her own memories and inferences, and generally had a certain understanding of the history of the Li Mansion and the situation of the two.

Today, there are four countries in the mainland, namely the Cangmang Kingdom, the Xichang Kingdom, the Yuan Kingdom and the Wu Kingdom.

The vast country has a developed economy and is very wealthy. Among them, silk, tea, and ceramics are even more eager.

Xichang is a mountainous country with rich mineral resources, especially rich in iron ore, and the country is heavy on military force and light on literature.

Yuan State is close to the sea on three sides, and the ship technology is very advanced, which also drives the development of trade, and the economic strength has a tendency to catch up with and surpass the vast country. The sea water on three sides forms a natural barrier, there are few foreign invasions, and there have been few wars for hundreds of years, making it a very suitable place to live.

However, Yuan Guo is a daughter country, and the lord of the country has always been a woman, and many important positions in the court are also held by women. In the Yuan Kingdom, a woman can take a husband or marry, which has to be determined according to the status of the woman. Because of the noble status of women, monogamy was a relatively common phenomenon in the Yuan Kingdom. Of course, there are some men of noble status who will take concubines, but this is a minority after all.

Wu is located in the northernmost part of the mainland, with a long winter and a cold climate, and a very harsh living environment. The country is rich in sweat and blood BMW. The state of Wu is mostly a nomadic people, with a small population, but it is brutal by nature, likes to kill, and is the most war-loving country among the four countries. often invaded the border between Cangmanguo and Xichang, which made the two countries very headache.

The vast country covers a vast area and is divided into five counties in the east, west, south and north. Pyeongchang County in the east, Huaihe County in the west, Gangnam County in the south, Grouhua County in the north and Cangyang County in the middle. There are four to eight state capitals under each county. Below the state capital is the last administrative body directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court - the county. Of course, there are also towns and villages below the county level. But the chief executive at this level is directly appointed by the county order and does not need to go through the imperial court.

The country Li Liping is in now is the Vast Country, and Li Fu was once the richest man in the Vast Country.

Li Yuan, the old lady of the Li Mansion, is also Li Liping's grandfather, who was originally an authentic farmer. When he was fourteen years old, a drought starved to death, leaving him alone. In order to survive, Li Yuan ruthlessly entered the salt gang and started selling illicit salt. At the age of seventeen, he inadvertently saved the life of the emperor who was still the prince at the time, and quietly escorted the emperor back to Cangyang, so that the emperor could be the final winner. After the first emperor ascended the throne, in order to repay Li Yuan, he handed over the national salt industry management rights to Li Yuan for exclusive management.

Although Li Yuan is illiterate, his mind is very flexible. In addition, he also has some experience in the salt business, so it only took more than ten years to become the richest man in the vast country.

After making a fortune, Li Yuan knew that this wealth was not easy to come by, in order to let the descendants develop a good character of hard-working, independent and self-reliant from an early age. When Li Yuan built the Li Mansion, he separated a piece of land in the easternmost corner and built an authentic farmhouse courtyard - Rong Yuan. From time to time, I will take my younger generations to the Banyan Garden to cultivate the fields, and sometimes even live for a while.

Li Yuan had a wife and two concubines. His wife Chen Yin, the second aunt Taizhang and the third aunt Taihuang. Chen Yin had a son, and he was also the only son-in-law of the Li Mansion, Li Xiang, and he was also the cheap father of the original owner. Aunt Zhang had a son and a daughter, namely the eldest son Li Yong and the eldest daughter Li Xia. Aunt Huang has a son, Li Yu, who is the second in line.

When Li Yuan was forty-six years old, he died suddenly due to a violent illness. There is no doubt that the position of the head of the family has fallen to the only son-in-law, Li Xiang. Li Xiang only likes to read, and has no interest in business at all. Therefore, at the end of the three-year worry, Li Yong proposed to join a business bank to help Li Xiang take care of business, and Li Xiang agreed without hesitation. And both he and Li Yu were bent on preparing for the imperial examination.

To the surprise of everyone in the Li Mansion, the originally unknown second young master Li Yu Ding was worried, he passed all the way in the exam, and at the age of twenty-two, he was admitted to the Jinshi and was appointed as the county magistrate of Qinghe County, Quanzhou, Pingchang County. Before taking office, Li Yu asked for a split at the cost of not wanting any property in the Li Mansion. When he took office, he left the Li Mansion with his biological mother, wife and children, and never returned.

Li Yu didn't want any property to ask for a separation, but of course the old lady was happy, and took advantage of the situation to divide the second room at the small price of three small courtyards in the west of the Li Mansion and a small grange in the suburbs. Although the division was very unfair, the second room did not protest, which made the old lady very satisfied. Therefore, he specially instructed the shopkeeper of the firm to teach Li Yong wholeheartedly, which can be regarded as giving the second room a hint of sweetness, so that Li Yong can help Li Xiang manage the firm wholeheartedly.

At the age of twenty-three, Li Xiang lived up to expectations and was admitted to the Zhongjin Shi. Before this, Li Xiang married a wife and a concubine under the arrangement of the old lady, namely the eldest wife Chen and the second aunt Xu. The eldest lady Chen is the niece of the old lady, so the Chen family is very popular with the old lady after marrying into the Li Mansion.

After Li Xiangzhong was a jinshi, he was recognized by the imperial court as the county commander of Dazu County, Huizhou, Huaihe County. On the way to take office, passing through Feng County, Wanzhou, I met Liu Shufang, who had just lost her father and was almost humiliated, and was attracted by Liu Shufang's beauty, not only saved Liu Shufen but also paid to help Liu Shufang bury her father. In the end, Liu Shufang was accepted as his third aunt.

Liu Shufang's father was originally a talented person, but he was never able to be admitted to the exam, and later opened a private school in his hometown to teach children to read and write. Who knew that there was a plague in the county that year, and Liu Shufen's mother died in this plague. Liu Shufen's father endured the pain of losing his wife, and was worried that Liu Shufen would also be infected, so he sold his property and took Liu Shufen to prepare to return to his hometown to avoid trouble. Who knew that when she met a bandit on the road, she not only robbed all the silver, but also saw that Liu Shufen was beautiful and wanted to do wrong, her father was beaten to death by the bandits in order to protect her, and was rescued by Li Yongxiang who was passing by at a critical time.

At that time, Liu Shufen was just fifteen years old, which was the age of Hua Rong and Yuexiang. Although she has been taught by her father since she was a child, she can also read and write, but after all, she is a girl who does not go out of the door, and usually embroiders in addition to reading and reading, and has never been born into contact with outsiders. Now I have lost my only family member in an unfamiliar place, and I am at a loss, and I don't know what to do. So he asked Li Xiang to help transport his father's body back to the ancestral house and bury it alive.