Chapter 95: Antipathy

In the 20th year of Yongle, Chen Lian's sudden serious illness caught Rosen off guard.

Rosen tried every possible means and finally rescued Chen Lian.

Rosen was not good at treating illnesses. Most of his methods were used to treat injuries, but he had little experience with diseases.

It was also because of Chen Lian's illness that Rosen began to think about going home.

Zhu Di only has a few years left to live.

Rosen discovered a problem: Zhu Di might want to drag himself to be buried with him.

During these two years, Zhu Di gradually placed more than a dozen Jinyiwei spies in their Luo Mansion.

Moreover, these Jinyiwei spies occasionally released a hint of murderous intent towards him.

If this was not instructed by Zhu Di, Rosen would never believe it.

Rosen's last bit of affection for Zhu Di had also disappeared.

You should know that he doesn't owe Zhu Di anything, but it is Zhu Di who owes him.

Even though Rosen had been completely under Zhu Di's surveillance for the past twenty years, he was still wary of Rosen's help to him when he was in Fengtian Jingnan Rebellion.

Just like his father Zhu Yuanzhang, who killed meritorious officials in the years before his death, and wanted to take a few people with him after his death.

Zhu Di's personality is exactly the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's, so Rosen has a hunch that Zhu Di would most likely do the same.

So Rosen planned to fake his death to escape. Zhu Di taught Rosen one thing: great kindness can lead to great hatred.

Over the next year, Rosen began to feign illness.

After a snowstorm, Rosen began to stay in bed.

The Jinyiwei spy at home immediately passed the news to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di sent several imperial doctors to treat Rosen.

But the answers I got were that the disease was terminal and incurable.

After a few months of procrastination, Rosen showed some improvement, but his illness relapsed within a few days.

Finally, on a sunny afternoon, Zhu Di received the news of Rosen's death.

"Is it confirmed?" Zhu Di asked the imperial physician beside him.

"Your Majesty, it has been confirmed." The doctor replied, "He has no pulse or heartbeat. It is said that he died while fishing by the lake. When the servants found him, the old man was already cold."

"That old man likes fishing there the most. That's fine...that's fine too." Zhu Di said with emotion.

He remembered that the first time he met Rosen was also in the pavilion in the lake.

"Luo Chen comes to the palace gate to ask to see Your Majesty." At this time, a eunuch came to Zhu Di.

"Huh? What is she here for?" Zhu Di asked in surprise.

"I heard that they wanted to transport Mr. Luo back to Kaiyuan County for burial."

Zhu Di thought for a moment and said, "Go and draft an edict for me to confer upon Luo Chen the title of First-Rank Imperial Consort and posthumously confer upon Luo Sen the title of Marquis of Kaiyuan County."

"Your Majesty, Mr. Luo's son Luo Ming is already the Duke of Dongyuan County. To whom will the title of Kaiyuan County be passed?"

"Is his daughter ready to marry now?"

"Not married."

"She is over 30 years old and still unmarried. She really wants to be an old maid. Then give the title to his daughter." Zhu Di said.

……

Although Luo Ming severed his relationship with Luo Sen, his father had passed away, and he had to fulfill his filial duty out of both emotion and reason.

Together with Chen Lian, they escorted Rosen's body back to Luojia Village.

Rosen faked his death, so Chen Lian and Luo Mingyue naturally knew about it.

In fact, Rosen originally wanted to hide it from Chen Lian.

But given Chen Lian's poor health, Rosen was afraid that she would never recover, so he made it clear to Chen Lian in advance.

When we returned to Luojia Village, no one knew that it was a funeral.

But Luo Mingyue is now the Marquis of Kaiyuan County, and the title is hereditary.

This means that in the future, Luo Mingyue will have the final say over the entire Kaiyuan County.

I haven't been back for decades, and all the acquaintances in Luojia Village have passed away one after another.

Luo Damu and his sister-in-law have also passed away.

Rosen began his own plan.

"Dad, you said you wanted to dig a lake? What are we going to do with it?"

"Kaiyuan County suffers from floods every year," said Rosen.

In fact, Rosen's plan is to start the Red Queen host, which requires a huge power source.

So by digging a lake, Rosen wanted to build a hydroelectric power station.

Place several generator sets directly below the lake.

On the one hand, it can solve Kaiyuan County’s annual flood disasters, and on the other hand, it can also solve Lawson’s electricity needs.

"How about this, you just need to buy a piece of land and you don't have to worry about anything else."

"How big do you want it to be?"

Rosen thought for a moment and said, "Three million mu, the barren hills outside Kaiyuan County will do."

"There are only barren mountains there, how can we dig out a lake?" Luo Mingyue felt that Rosen had gone mad. Even with the whole country's efforts, it might not be possible to complete such a huge project.

Luo Mingyue saw that Rosen was not joking, and finally bought all the places designated by Rosen.

After obtaining the land deed, Rosen began digging in the area.

Of course, Rosen used his own multiple shadow clones. It took three months for ten thousand shadow clones to dig three million acres of land down dozens of meters.

At the same time, Rosen also built an underground hydroelectric power station and a main control room.

It took Rosen a whole year to build the hydroelectric power station and then begin to divert and store water.

"Dad, where are you taking me?"

"Go witness the new era." Rosen took Luo Mingyue to the lake.

When Luo Mingyue saw the lake in front of her, a look of shock appeared on her face. She totally couldn't understand how Rosen had dug out such a huge lake in just one year.

There are several islands in the lake, which are actually hills that were originally higher than the terrain.

Rosen brought Luo Mingyue to the island and then stood in front of a cliff.

"Red Queen, open the entrance."

At this moment, a three-dimensional projection appeared in front of Rosen and Luo Mingyue.

Luo Mingyue was startled: "What is this? Is this a ghost?"

"Hello ma'am, I'm not a ghost, I'm an artificial intelligence, my code name is the Red Queen."

"This is my daughter Mingyue. Enter her as level one."

"Yes, it has been entered. Welcome back, Master, Miss Mingyue."

At this moment, a door opened on the mountain wall. Luo Mingyue walked into the passage in a daze, and then stopped in front of the elevator.

Ding--

The elevator opened, Rosen patted Luo Mingyue on the back, and then walked into the elevator.

The elevator went down for two minutes and finally stopped in the main control space.

Luo Mingyue was shocked by the huge underground space in front of him.

"Dad...where...where is this?"

"I plan to take over the world." Rosen's words directly burned up Luo Mingyue's CPU.

"Dad... do you know what you are talking about?"

Rosen nodded affirmatively: "I know what I am talking about. Do you want to become the second female emperor of the Central Plains, and the founding emperor?"

"Dad, can you tell me first, what is going on here?"

"This is too complicated to explain." Rosen thought for a moment and said, "Red Queen, you and Mingyue start by explaining the principles of electricity."

"Okay, master."

The Red Queen began to explain through projection, first a flash of lightning streaked across the sky.

"Ms. Mingyue, have you ever seen lightning in nature?"

"Yeah." Luo Mingyue nodded.

"The most common form of electricity is generated through friction. Lightning in nature is the discharge phenomenon caused by the friction between clouds and air..." The Red Queen explained very carefully, and there were also matching video playbacks to ensure that Luo Mingyue could understand.

The Red Queen starts from the generation and application of electricity, to the application of steam engines and internal combustion engines, and then to modern industry.

After three full hours, Luo Mingyue already had a vague concept. Some things need to be experienced personally to be truly understood.

"Dad, so what are you going to do?" Luo Mingyue looked at Rosen.

"The first thing is to control the county lord of Kaiyuan County and make Kaiyuan County completely our territory. Then we will start to train our own armed forces and talents. The underground space of this power station is very large, so we will find orphans and place them here to train them to learn knowledge beyond this era. No one can find them. Then we can accumulate wealth, control the entire northern trade, and manufacture weapons." Rosen said, "Then we will wait for the opportunity to come."

"What time?"

“The world is in chaos.”

"Dad, why do you want to take over the world?"

"Because this is the karma that the Zhu family owes me. What they owe me must be repaid." Rosen said as a matter of course.

"What about Big Brother..."

"He still can't let go of Zhu Yunwen."

Zhu Yunwen has been under house arrest for many years and is almost at the end of his life.

As for the issue of their stance back then, both Rosen and Luo Ming believed that they were not wrong.

However, Rosen's plan will take at least ten years of preparation, so if Luo Ming wants to come back, Rosen will also let him participate in his plan.

If he didn't want to, Rosen wouldn't force him. It would be the same with or without him.

To build the capital city that Rosen had in mind, the first thing to do was to improve productivity.

The reason why the modern system is better than the ancient system is that productivity is dozens or even hundreds of times higher than that of ancient times.

Take the simplest transportation as an example. A distance of one thousand kilometers would take two months or even longer in ancient times, but now it only takes less than a day.

Rather than waiting for the Jurchens to retake control of the Central Plains in the future and let China suffer hundreds of years of humiliation, it would be better for him to rebuild China and build a brand new country himself.

In the following time, Luo Mingyue studied modern knowledge, while Rosen went out to look for orphans.

Although the main body of the hydropower station is for generating electricity, the internal living area is very large, so it is sufficient to provide activity and living areas for thousands of people.

In this era, it is easy to get as many people as you want.

In one year, Rosen bought back nearly a thousand children.

Even in the era later known as the Yongle Period of Prosperity, there were still people suffering from famine everywhere.

The so-called prosperous times in ancient times, in most cases, meant that not so many people died, there were fewer uprisings, and there were fewer disasters.

Just imagine, in a country where 80% of the people have to bear more than % of the rent, there is no prosperity at all; at most, they will not starve to death.

To put it bluntly, any prosperous period in history was a period when the imperial court had strong military power.

During this period, all internal and external troubles can be resolved by force.

Confucianism poisoned the Central Plains for a thousand years and treated the people as straw dogs.

The period when Confucianism was at its peak was often also the period when military preparations were the weakest.

So what Rosen had to do was to expel Confucianists from the court.

To carry out the plan, Kaiyuan County must be under control.

There are 145 villages around Kaiyuan County, plus the population of the county seat, with a total population of 120,000.

As long as Kaiyuan County is under control, Rosen can start his next plan.

So Rosen sent an invitation to the County Magistrate and the County Magistrate of Kaiyuan County.