Yang Jing was not saying this nonsense, but made this decision after careful consideration over this period of time.

After discovering the magic of the holy ring, Yang Jing really didn't know what to do for a while, and all his previous life plans were disrupted. When making money was no longer a problem, and when the things that he had to work hard for before were now within his reach, life seemed to suddenly become a little boring... This really confused Yang Jing for a while.

Later, when Yang Jing met Gege the day before a class reunion and the two reconciled, Yang Jing realized that he had a lot of things to do, instead of his previous state of doing nothing.

Later, when Mr. Liu inadvertently suggested opening a private museum, Yang Jing found that his life seemed to have a new goal.

Whether it was going to the United States later or traveling back to the Cayman Islands in 1979, they were all striving for this goal. Fortunately, the Holy Rings were still as magical as ever, and the funds most needed to open the museum were solved in a short period of time.

It is not easy to open a private museum. Apart from other things, the venue alone is a huge expense.

After this trip to the United States, Yang Jing had already brought in enough funds. Not to mention the huge amount of money he earned in the London gold market in 1980, those bitcoins alone were enough to support Yang Jing to complete his private museum plan.

Of course, it is precisely because of such a large amount of funds that Yang Jing’s original private museum plan has become more detailed.

Everyone has a deep and intimate feeling for their hometown, just like their parents. Some young people may not be able to experience this feeling, but some older people or those who have lived abroad for a long time may have such feelings.

Yang Jing once lived alone in London for two years. He naturally experienced how terrible it was to be reluctant to leave one's hometown. Of course, he was even more aware of how important a position his hometown occupied in his heart.

Tianqu is just a small fourth-tier city. Whether it is GDP or natural resources, it is unknown in the whole country. What Mr. Yang said that day made Yang Jing think for a long time. Yes, since he wants to build a large private museum, why not put the museum in his hometown?

A large museum is very attractive to tourists. Look at the Palace Museum, the Nanjing Museum, the National Museum of History, and the National Military Museum. How many tourists can they attract every year!

Yang Jing was very confident that with the help of the Holy Ring, as long as he established a museum, its collection would definitely not be any worse than those famous large state-owned museums!

This is not an exaggeration. Apart from anything else, the batch of manuscripts and documents acquired since 1994 are enough to support a small museum. According to Yang Jing's plan, once all the manuscripts and documents acquired last time and the manuscripts and documents that Lao Xue continued to acquire in the 1990s are gathered together, it will definitely be a huge number. By then, we will have a cultural center!

It is not enough to have only a cultural center, a jade center, a porcelain center, a calligraphy and painting center, a miscellaneous center, and the overseas center that Yang Jing is planning, none of them can be missing!

If such a large private museum is really established, it will definitely be very attractive to tourists. Tianqu has a natural transportation advantage, so why not use this museum to attract more tourists to Tianqu?

So, since he decided to build his private museum in Tianqu City, Yang Jing has been thinking about the exact location of the museum during this period of time.

There are many places in Tianqu City that are suitable for building museums, such as the development zone and the newly added Lingcheng District to the urban area. The two new urban areas are also the focus of the city's current development. If Yang Jing wants to place the museum in that direction, the city will definitely welcome it with open arms, and it is not impossible to even provide Yang Jing with a piece of land for free.

But Yang Jing did not want to build his museum in the new city area in the east. Yang Jing wanted to place the museum in Hexi, where he grew up.

The most famous scenic spot and historical site in Tianqu is undoubtedly the Grand Canal. It is no exaggeration to say that Tianqu’s development into what it is today and becoming one of the 332 prefecture-level administrative units in the country is inseparable from this Grand Canal that has been flowing for thousands of years.

You should know that before the Ming Dynasty, the administrative center of Tianqu was not here, but in Jiangling County in the east. However, it was because Zhu Di believed in "the emperor guarding the national gate" and moved the capital to Yanjing that Tianqu, relying on the Grand Canal, gradually became one of the 32 commercial cities in the country during the Ming Dynasty.

You should know that before the Ming Dynasty, Tianqu was just a military stronghold with a population of less than 2,000. Even before Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty, Tianqu was also an important garrison. The famous Twelve Camps of Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty were located in Tianqu.

Later, when the Grand Canal was dredged, Tianqu became an important water transport hub. Tianqu gradually developed and eventually became one of the 32 major commercial cities in the country.

However, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the Grand Canal fell into disrepair due to years of neglect, and the Yellow River carried a lot of silt and changed its course several times through the canal. The Grand Canal became increasingly silted up and began to lose its strong transportation capacity. The Grand Canal also began to decline. The promotion of sea transportation of grain accelerated this process.

In fact, the sea transportation of grain began in the Yuan Dynasty, but stagnated due to the maritime ban policy implemented by the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was not until the sixth year of Daoguang that the Qing government tried sea transportation for the first time. Especially in the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), the Yellow River broke through the Tongwaxiang and changed its course to flow north, the canal was interrupted, and sea transportation became more frequent. This was a painful period, and Tianqu fell into the sad situation of "the commercial port was opened but the road to Beijing changed, the grain transport stopped but the south could not come, and the water and land business was greatly reduced."

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