In the early morning of the next day, Li Ming returned to the Ming Dynasty, and he handed over all the cultured pearls and artificial gems in his hand to He Wenhai, and settled the silver with him at one time, which was more than 100,000 taels.

Li Ming also entrusted He Wenhai to help him buy a village in the suburbs of Beijing, more than 100 acres of dry land, more than a dozen tenant farmers, Li Ming also became a small landlord in the late Ming Dynasty, but he has now lost his initial excitement.

He just wanted to experience the landlord career at the end of the Ming Dynasty in the afterglow of the empire at the end of the Ming Dynasty in this time and space, while there was still time, but whenever he thought of this huge empire, which was about to collapse and overturn, his mood was inexplicably lost.

During this time, he also deliberately went to the courtyard he once patronized, and after asking the people next to him, he found out that this Zhuangzi was actually the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian's Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing.

Li Ming is so happy in his heart, it seems that he has really done a good thing, although the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are more fucked, but there are more bad people among the eunuchs, and Wei Zhongxian is the most fucked up one.

He saw a large number of homeless people next to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing, Li Ming had only seen such a scene in movies and television before, but when he was immersed in it, the miserable scene made Li Ming's heart twist like a knife.

He knew that this was only the beginning, and that in the next 20 years, it would be the real bare land for thousands of miles, starvation everywhere, and even the tragic phenomenon of people changing children and eating, and even people eating people.

Li Ming let the people in his Zhuangzi boil several pots of hot porridge here every day, and give these homeless people a bite to eat every day, he knows that he can only help this step, in such an era, the power of the individual is simply too small, if you want to change the world, it is impossible to rely on yourself.

Ever since he saw the miserable scene of those homeless people, Li Ming's mood has not been better, he really can't forget those desperate eyes, which makes your heart break when you see it, knowing that more people will become like this in the future, but you are powerless to change this qiē.

He kept shuttling back and forth between the two planes, and Li Ming also found something that shocked him, the light point of the wormhole turned out to be slightly weaker than before, it seems that the wormhole does not exist forever, and sooner or later it will disappear one day.

After discovering this situation, Li Ming simply never returned to the Ming Dynasty, staying in his villa every day and drinking stuffy wine, drunk and dreaming of death for more than half a month, Li Ming knew that he was worried about the ancients, but he really couldn't let it go.

This morning, Li Ming was sleeping lazily in the bed, the phone on the bedside suddenly rang, Li Ming picked up the phone sleepily, and just pressed the answer button, there was an angry roar on the other end of the phone.

"Didn't you say you were going to pick me up at the airport, what about you...... You're playing with me. ”

As soon as Li Ming heard it, he knew that it was bad, and he actually forgot about it, and the person on the other end of the phone was Li Ming's comrade-in-arms, named Song Tao. He was the brother of life and death who went abroad with Li Ming on a mission that year.

The day before yesterday, Song Tao called and said that today's plane was back to Beijing, and Li Ming was stunned at that time, so he vaguely agreed, but these days Li Ming is drunk and dreaming of death, and he has long forgotten about this matter.

Li Ming immediately smiled and said, "Brother, you take a taxi back, I'll pick you up at the highway intersection, I forgot about it." ”

"You really can do it, you don't think I'm a brother, you can even forget about it, you ......" Li Ming hurriedly pressed the phone, or this guy could scold him for an hour without changing his appearance. He quickly got up, washed his face casually, and drove downstairs to the airport at high speed.

Song Tao's identity is not simple, he is the illegitimate son of a certain family in the capital, because his mother died when he was fifteen years old, he was taken back to Beijing by his father.

The people of that family, although they recognized his identity, still couldn't accept him psychologically, his father had no feelings for him, and he was at that age when he was rebellious, so he didn't have the slightest sense of identity with that family.

Because he caused trouble every day, his father sent him to the army, but he didn't expect this guy to be like a fish in water when he arrived in the army, and he actually mixed into the special unit, so they became comrades-in-arms.

Although Song Tao is excellent, he still loves to cause trouble, and later beat his own leader, so he was forced to retire and demobilize, and after returning to the place, Song Tao did not go to work in the unit arranged for him by his father, and went to Africa alone to become a mercenary.

Every time I come back, I will go to Li Ming's house for a while, and they have saved each other's lives back then, so their relationship is not more like brothers.

Li Ming drove to the highway intersection, and Song Tao was waiting there with an impatient face. Li Ming drove a Mercedes-Benz SUV, Song Tao didn't know it, Li Ming suddenly raised the speed of the car, and ran into Song Tao and crashed into the past, but Song Tao was frightened, and he rolled to the side in an instant.

After all, he was a mercenary, and his movements were clean and neat, but his whole body was also dirty. Song Tao turned over and got up, opened his mouth and scolded: "You are so looking for death, dare to provoke Lao Tzu, you ......"

But when he saw that the person in the car was Li Ming, he immediately dragged Li Ming out of the car, and then looked around the car, and shouted excitedly: "Brother, who borrowed your Daben, aren't you a female tyrant next to you." ”

"Fart, can't I buy it myself, I sue you, you have money now...... Like it, I like to send it to you......" The two got into the car in a fight, no matter how Li Ming explained, Song Tao just didn't believe that the car belonged to Li Ming, even if he arrived at Li Ming's villa, Song Tao still didn't believe it, and always thought that the car was borrowed by a rich sister, even this villa.

In the end, Li Ming simply didn't talk nonsense with him, and the two didn't go to the restaurant, but when they came back, they bought a lot of cooked food and snacks on the way, as well as a few bottles of Erguotou, and then moved a table, sat in the courtyard and drank it.

They haven't seen each other for two years, and they are naturally very happy to meet, one of them is holding a bottle of two pots, and you and I will take a bite. Li Ming's original frustration was much better because he saw his brother, and after a while, the bottle of Erguotou in the hands of the two of them had already seen the bottom.

Li Ming raised his head and drank the bottle of Erguotou in his hand, picked up another bottle and unscrewed it, just wanted to take another sip, but suddenly remembered something, so he said to Song Tao: "Brother, you said that if you return to the last years of the Ming Dynasty, what are you going to do." ”

Song Tao just blew down the bottle of Erguotou, and suddenly, he was stunned by Li Ming's words. He thought for a while and said, "Then I'll pull a team to occupy the mountain as the king, eat and drink spicy food every day, find a few more Mrs. Crushing the village, and then ......."

Li Ming was angry when he heard this, he got it, he still didn't ask him, it was better to ask him than to ask about the mallet. He interrupted Song Tao's words with a wave of his hand, raised the wine bottle and said, "Come on, you better stop talking nonsense, let's still have a drink." ”

But Song Tao stopped doing it, and said hurriedly: "What are you doing, you have to listen to me, at my level, it's no problem to train a group of special forces, and then I will take them to lay down a piece of territory as a base, and then sweep the world, and then lay down a big ** ......"

"There is also a special base area, where is there a place in the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, where do you go to find a base area, the land is in the hands of the gentry group, and there are hundreds of thousands of thieves at every turn, as well as the iron cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the private soldiers of warlords in various places, and food alone is a big problem."

Song Tao pointed at Li Ming and laughed: "If you don't say you're stupid, then I'll go overseas, many places in that era were barren land, I can lead my team to Australia, there are no colonists there, and Australia is also rich in mineral resources, I want to build an invincible fleet to dominate the world, and then lay down a big ** ......"

Seeing that Song Tao was down again, Li Ming was so angry, he simply ignored him, leaving Song Tao alone there, just when Song Tao was about to seize the solar system, Li Ming's phone rang.

He picked up the phone and saw that it was a call from an old leader, and this old leader's name was Gao Jianguo. said that it was Li Ming's old leader, but in fact he was just the commander of his recruit battalion, and because of Li Ming's excellent training performance, he personally sent Li Ming to the special service battalion.

When he was in the army, even if Li Ming was not under Gao Jianguo's hands, the other party had helped him a lot, and the reason why Gao Jianguo helped Li Ming was very simple, that is, he thought Li Ming was a good soldier.

Gao Jianguo was born in a poor rural area, came out to serve as a soldier at the age of 15, from an ordinary soldier, to the training top of the whole regiment and the whole division, and was later promoted to work in an exceptional manner, and was sent to the army academy, after graduation, he successively served as a platoon commander, deputy company commander, company commander, regimental training unit chief, battalion commander, division training staff officer, regimental deputy chief of staff, chief of staff, deputy regiment commander.

But since he returned to the local area, he has not been as happy as he wants, and he was assigned to the Lengshui Yamen of an agency and became a division-level researcher.

Gao Jianguo's wife was found in the station, because Gao Jianguo was dedicated to the army, his wife had someone outside many years ago, and the relationship between the two had long existed in name only, Gao Jianguo also divorced his wife by agreement, his son followed him, and his wife threw himself into the arms of **.

A year ago, Gao Jianguo's son was terminally ill, and Gao Jianguo even sold the house in order to make up for his son's surgery, but it was still not enough, so he had to borrow money from everywhere, and finally borrowed it from Li Ming.

Li Ming was auctioning antiques in various places at that time, and after hearing the news, he went to Gao Jianguo's house, and without saying a word, he helped Gao Jianguo pay the operation fee, and also helped Gao Jianguo pay off the famine he owed.

Li Ming has always respected Gao Jianguo. Gao Jianguo is a real soldier, but he was born in the wrong era, and only in the war-torn war years is the frontier where people like him gallop. With his kind of character, returning to the place must be incompatible with this society.

"Old battalion commander, it's been okay lately."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line, and then a tired voice came.

"Li Ming, I'm in Kyoto now, I'm going back, I want to tell you before I leave, the money you borrowed from me...... I'll do my best to give it back to you...... My son's surgery was done...... The delay was too long, so ......"

When Li Ming heard the news, his heart was also tight, and he immediately said: "Old battalion commander, we haven't seen each other for a long time, let's get together, where are you now, I'll go over and pick you up." ”