There were also numerous restrictive measures. The Empress's strategies and methods left the court officials astonished time and again, one after another.
Not only that, the Empress paid a great price to commission sturdy ships and powerful cannons, crossing the oceans to bring back countless treasures of gold and silver, along with several high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn. This brought a qualitative transformation and increase to the agricultural output of the Great Ming Empire!
In the fortieth year of the Hongchen Calendar, the eternal Empress abdicated and passed the throne to the Crown Prince, retiring to live in seclusion at Wudang, the state religion.
At Wudang, old acquaintances such as Song Yuanqiao, Yu Lianzhou, Yu Daiyan, and Zhang Songxi had all long since passed away.
Zhang Sanfeng was one hundred and forty years old, yet still hale and hearty.
Mo Shenggu and Yin Liting were both nearing eighty. They had long stopped concerning themselves with worldly affairs and were spending their old age peacefully at Wudang.
From the Back Mountain of Wudang Mountain came, from time to time, the hearty laughter of three white-haired old men and a distinctive middle-aged woman who appeared to be in her forties.
"Haha, it's not that your Seventh Brother wants to criticize you, little sister, but you're already over sixty. How do you still look so young?"
Red Dust shot Mo Shenggu a look and said irritably, "Don't you know never to mention a woman's age in front of her?
Seventh Brother, you deserve to have been single for over seventy years!"
Yin Liting chimed in, "Exactly. Seventh Brother, you really haven't made any progress."
Mo Shenggu did not dare tease Zhang Sanfeng, and Red Dust's child was already Emperor. But he had no such reservations with Yin Liting.