I'm really not doing business

Chapter 516: The whole body is lying down and the grass is stable, and the people all over the world are afraid of being unsafe.
Lin Fucheng's trip to Baoding lasted for thirty days, and he visited five counties in total. He saw many, many things. Gaoyang County had armed tax resistance. The prevalence of this kind of tax resistance was shocking.

Baoding Prefecture is right next to Shuntian Prefecture and is considered the radiation zone of Gyeonggi Province. However, in just six days, large-scale tax resistance, especially armed tax resistance, occurred three times.

The Ming Dynasty's land tax of thirty and one tax can be regarded as a light corvee and a small tax. How did it get to such a point?
All the reasons were caused by Baoding Prefecture's demand for 19,400 people in labor.

In the Ming Dynasty, labor levies were levied and exempted by paying money. In fact, it was an additional poll tax. The local government used a clever name to plunder the people's fat and oil. It was not really that 19,400 people were levied, but that this amount was collected. The money is then used at the yamen's public expense to fight against taxes with arms, and what they are resisting is the private demands of these township ministries.

The core concept of Wang Chonggu's request to equalize the land was to pay the head tax for these labors. After determining the quotas in various places, they were then apportioned to the fields and collected together. The Ming Gong of the Ming Dynasty actually realized the seriousness of the problem of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

This heroic article by Lin Fucheng once again exposes the prosperity of flowers and brocades, and depicts such a tragic world.

Gaoyang County apportioned 2,700 people four ounces of silver for their labor. Once the list was announced, Gaoyang County immediately became agitated. Soon, things became more and more serious. First there was a market strike, and then the people organized themselves and stopped going to the county seat. When transporting rice, flour, oil, rape, firewood, earth, wood, and stone, etc. into the city, the lords in the city were not engaged in production, and the people who were responsible for the taxes seemed to use this method to resist these exorbitant taxes and the overcharged head tax.

Yu Qiyuan, the magistrate of Gaoyang County, forced villagers to deliver goods into the city. The conflict began to intensify. On July 24, riots broke out. The official responsible for urging was put in a sack and beaten violently. Then this kind of sacking The method immediately became widespread, and the government officials no longer went out of the city to urge students to do the work. After all, they were sacked as soon as they left the city.

On the 26th, Yu Qiyuan asked three thousand county government officials to go out of the city to urge students to act collectively, so they would not be beaten.

At this moment, the conflict was immediately intensified. After hearing the news, the villagers blocked the city gate and prevented the government officials from leaving the city. The government officials could not directly kill them without orders. At the moment when the conflict was ignited, Yu Qiyuan gave up and ordered the government officials to withdraw.

Yu Qiyuan was worried about causing civil unrest. Yu Qiyuan knew very well that the county was plagued by insects this year. If the two thousand seven hundred people had been in a good year, the people would not have gathered like this. In the end, Yu Qiyuan first went to the prefect to discuss the matter. Afterwards, he went to Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding, but still to no avail.

Corvee service, post supply, minzhuang, and police officers are the names of the four differences of silver. However, the things that the county magistrates and prefects needed to buy were gradually included in the four differences of silver. Finally, slowly, the public funds of the local government were included in the four differences of silver. In this category, there are many types of public funds. Even if someone has a child outside the family or buys a banquet, it must be included in this category. It is public money anyway. If you don't try to use it, it will be taken away by others.

If you don't take advantage of it, you are a bastard.

The four difference silver is collected by the local government and is no longer under the control of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

In the eyes of the court, these funds are not collected by the court, so they are not under the control of the court. However, in the eyes of the people, the county government office, the chief secretary, and the capital hall are all the court and are integrated.

Yu Qiyuan went to see Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding, but Xin Zixiu avoided the question and just waved his hand. Xin Zixiu agreed to the public expenses of all aspects of Baoding. Then should other counties, Quyang, Fuping, Xingtai, and Shahe, also go directly to him? If they all agreed, who would bear the public expenses of Baoding government?

Yu Qiyuan returned to Gaoyang County, and finally found the rural gentry and asked the rural gentry to share the cost equally. When things got to this point, there was no room for turning back.

The rural gentry and their thugs, and the squad leader and the government servants teamed up and started going to the countryside. It was said that the account was divided into 30 and 70, but how much they grabbed and how much they overcharged depended on the rural gentry, the thug, and The conscience of the squad leaders and government officials is gone! But not a single one of these people knows how to write the word conscience!
There were seven bandit dens in Gaoyang County. Soon, the bandit dens were overcrowded, and armed tax resistance began.

The end of July in Gaoyang County is a lively month. Lin Fucheng was filled with emotion. In the end, Yu Qiyuan gave up again. Before the battle, Yu Qiyuan ordered the Yamen servants to return to the Yamen. In the end, he failed to collect the four shortfalls of silver. , the commotion was too great, and we couldn’t let it go.

The common people also came out of the bandit village. Once the bandit skin was taken off, they became villagers again.

Zhu Yijun looked at the Xiaoyao Hewen in his hand. At the end of the article, Lin Fucheng said with great emotion:

[Officials ask for things too hastily, government officials are vicious, village sages are unworthy and unvirtuous, villagers hear the news and drop grass, and then serve the people again after the wind passes. Officials are bandits, officials are bandits, government servants are bandits, village sages are bandits, and so are the villagers. Bandits, bandits, bandits, bandits, bandits all over the world. Witnessing such strange phenomena with your own eyes, it is true: laws and regulations come and go, levies and levies decrease and the yin increases, the cost of unnamed supplies is like a torrential river, and the needs of science and technology are like meandering mountains. There are no words to describe the suffering. ]
[The whole body is lying in a crotch and the grass is stable, but the people all over the world are afraid of being unsafe. ]
Of course Lin Fucheng can be the one living in seclusion in the grass and fields. He has the resources to live a stable life, but the people within the four seas may not be stable yet. He is like an annoying big mouth, talking about everything. Words that everyone hates.

"Your Majesty, would you like to ask Lin Fucheng to restrain his mouth a little?" Feng Bao said with an embarrassed look on his face.

Zhu Yijun said dissatisfied: "If you let people talk, the sky will not fall."

"I know Feng Daban's loyalty to the emperor. He is scolding Yu Qiyuan, the magistrate of Gaoyang County, and Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding. He is also scolding his husband Zhang Juzheng. He is scolding me, the emperor and the emperor's tutor, who has been engaged in the New Deal and After all these years, what tricks have you come up with? We have been shouting every day that the people are the foundation of a country, and the foundation is strong and the country is in good hands. What’s the result?”

"This world is still so rotten."

Feng Bao said extremely angrily: "He, he, he doesn't know how complicated things are at all. Many things are not as simple as he thinks! He keeps chattering, but he actually comes up with a solution! He really does, Ming Dynasty has done so many good things Don’t tell me! Talk about the Ming Dynasty’s Northern Expedition, talk about the development of Liaodong, talk about the Ming Dynasty’s Chidao, talk about the booming mining industry, but if he doesn’t, he will just pick on those thick sores to poke them!”

Feng Bao became more and more dissatisfied with Lin Fucheng. The court noticed these problems and was taking action. Why, according to Lin Fucheng, was he the only one who worried about the world before him? From the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to the ministers, everyone followed him Just like wine bags and rice bags.

The most important thing is that this piece of shit doesn't come up with a solution.

"This Guangde Bookstore, if it hadn't been for Wang Cifu's son Wang Qian and General Huang Gongzi, someone would have told him to shut up." Zhu Yijun just smiled. He had no dislike for Lin Fucheng. These were all stubborn diseases of the Ming Dynasty. If everyone doesn't see it, this kind of thing will just keep going bad.

Zhu Yijun looked at Feng Bao and said with a smile: "We only let people flatter him and praise his virtues, instead of criticizing and criticizing the evils of the times? If Lin Fucheng really sacrificed his integrity and shame, and coveted the rich and powerful, then I would still favor him. Plus? The Ming Dynasty originally raised censors to talk about these things, but the censors know how to fight in court all day long, under the banner of Qingliu, and talk about their hearts and minds all day long. "

"Being able to tell the truth is already remarkable. Moreover, our Master Lin supports every decree of the imperial court and is even willing to run and shout for it. This is extremely rare."

Lin Fucheng didn't just say unpleasant things. During the Ming Dynasty's New Deal, Lin Fucheng also charged into battle every day, fighting with the Confucian scholars and never flinched.

Feng Bao could only say: "Your Majesty is right."

What is Lin Fucheng's identity? Doctor of the Five Classics, Doctor of the Five Classics is a specially conferred official status. In fact, to put it bluntly, he is the emperor's staff. This is the embodiment of the staff system. He collects some capable people and strangers to work for the emperor. The emperor also needs staff. The emperor is a person of flesh and blood, and Not everyone knows everything and is good at everything.

"This time I go to Tianjin to inspect the navy, and I asked Lin Fucheng to accompany me, so I can arrange a place to watch the ceremony." Zhu Yijun arranged for Lin Fucheng to accompany him to Tianjin Guards. What Feng Bao said made sense. If Lin Fucheng continues to scold like this, all officials in the Ming Dynasty will want to go there. I am dissatisfied with him. In the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there are really many accumulated shortcomings. Little by little, Lin Fucheng is dealing with it and doing it. It is really disgusting to see Lin Fucheng chattering next to him.

It's time for Lin Fucheng to sing his praises.

Is Wang Chonggu the only one who noticed that local governments levied exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes to deprive the common people?
As early as the seventh year of Wanli, the Ministry of Revenue had already noticed this problem. On August 8, the seventh year of Wanli, Wang Guoguang led the Ministry of Revenue to report, requesting the prefectures and counties to charge the prefectures and counties with taxes on corvees, lijia, government fees, Tolerances, etc., should be paid for every amount of money and grain, and if it is taken from the people, it should be fully verified, the amount should be reduced, the old names should be removed, and the quota should be established according to the old regulations. The principle is that we should not follow the old habits and only report false numbers and false documents; nor should we cut too many cuts to make the It's hard to do for a long time.

This principle is Zhang Juzheng's idea. He requires that he cannot continue to create clever names and increase taxes, nor can he suddenly abolish too many. If the local government cannot maintain it, it means there is no government.

To completely solve this problem, we need to conduct a census of the population, abolish the status of slaves, reduce the revenue of the engineering corps, organize the officialdom to build production, determine the public funds of all levels of yamen, and finally spread all the four-deposited silver into the fields.

Zhu Yijun could be like Kangxi and shout: Never add wealth to the population!

Who can't say it yet?

During the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, it was implemented for a period of time. Later, the policy of never increasing taxes could no longer be implemented. It was true that the court would not accept it, but the local government still accepted it. After three years of clearing the prefecture, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver, one penny. Every centimeter is full of blood and sweat, and every inch is fat.

Before it is completely resolved, Lin Fucheng can only let Lin Fucheng continue to curse, just a few curses, which can be regarded as encouraging the New Deal trend.

As soon as Lin Fucheng's "Happy Anecdotes" came out, Yu Qiyuan, the magistrate of Gaoyang County, and Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding, quickly published this book to explain the situation. The general meaning is that everyone has a difficult time, so they can only do it by force.

Zhu Yijun did not punish these two people, but gave a severe warning to Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding, and reprimanded Xin Zixiu. When Yu Qiyuan asked him for help, he could not help. Woolen cloth? He doesn't know how to use the dense channels, and he won't complain. If it is really necessary, the court can avoid it.

In fact, the problem lies in this issue of 'really needed'. The money from Baoding Prefecture is actually ambiguous. If you take it, your life will be easier. If you don't take it, everyone will tighten their belts. Things like having children outside the family cannot be paid for by the public. That’s all. Xin Zixiu also knew that this amount of money would never pass the audit of the Ministry of Accounts, so he just stood aside.

Moreover, Zhu Yijun and Xin Zixiu's memorials did not mention any solutions. However, Xin Zixiu reported to His Majesty in his memorial that he wanted to eliminate redundant staff and solve financial problems through two channels: increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. It is difficult to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, so Xin Zixiu needs to eliminate redundant staff and solve redundant costs.

Zhu Yijun approved Xin Zixiu's idea.

Xin Zixiu soon wrote a memorial, saying that His Majesty's orders made him panic and uneasy. It was all his fault that the Mu Shou failed to do a good job. He sent a list to the court to abolish officials at all levels. The number of squad leaders has reached 6000, and all of them on the elimination list are not qualified.

In other words, if you don’t arrive at midnight every five years, not only will you not go to work at the Yamen, but you will also receive a salary from the Yamen. This time, not only will you be eliminated, but you will also be owed the previous salary. Even if you receive a grain of rice, you will have to get it back. In this way, Baoding Yamen will not be short of money.

"I have every reason to suspect that our Master Lin was used by Gaoyang County Magistrate Yu Qiyuan and Baoding Governor Xin Zixiu." When Zhu Yijun saw this list, he was also a little dazed. He knew that scholars like Ming Dynasty had no A simple!

This is simply a trap.

Lin Fucheng ran to someone else's house and pricked someone's thick sore. It was because these two people knew Lin Fucheng's specialness and played hard to get! Lin Fucheng's anecdotes were the so-called link. Lin Fucheng was clearly arranged by others.

This list cannot be produced in a short while. Before contacting us, Lin Fucheng knew the details of the direct reasons for the destruction of the He family in Gaoyang. In Xiaoyao Hewen, this Yu Qiyuan was an incompetent clown, tyrannical and cowardly. , He is always pushing for discipline, but he is timid because he always dares not to gather the government officials at the critical moment. After the incident broke out, it calmed down within a few days. Is Yu Qiyuan really so incompetent that he can put down this conflict so quickly that it has turned into a war? He clearly has a lot of control.

Feng Bao also put together several contents and said with some clarity: "I understand a little bit. Xin Zixiu wants to eliminate him, but the local area is too big and the roots are deep, so he can't move. And Yu Qiyuan is actually his knife." , If I want to bring this matter to His Majesty without making it so embarrassing, Lin Fuchen is the one he needs."

"This Yu Qiyuan must have seen Tiqi Chen Mo, and then he knew that this matter would definitely come before His Majesty."

Tiqi is the emperor's personal soldier, and Lin Fucheng can be protected by Tiqi, which obviously means that his status is extremely special.

If Xin Zixiu suddenly wants to be eliminated without mentioning anything, Baoding will definitely oppose it with all his strength. If he does this, he will use his own strength to do things, and it will be a matter of course.

Zhu Yijun Zhu approved Xin Zixiu's Qingti memorials and said with a smile: "I finally understand that we officials in the Ming Dynasty all want to make meritorious deeds, and we all want to be promoted. So for the word "promotion", it is really meaningless. There is no need to resort to extreme measures, I am very sure of this now, and I will seize any fleeting opportunity."

Yu Qiyuan was born as a Jinshi in the Third Class of the Second Year of Wanli. If there were no accidents, Yu Qiyuan, like Liu Hanru, would spend his whole life wandering around in local places. It would be as difficult to enter the capital as to reach the sky. Hu Zongxian was born in the Third Class and could not cross this natural chasm in his life. After the Japanese pirates were put down, they were killed and killed. There was no possibility of entering Wenhua Hall and Wenyuan Pavilion and becoming a court official and assistant minister.

"In the case of Liu Hanru, we must make it clear that Pang Shangpeng recommended Liu Hanru as the governor of Fujian. The original transcript, including Mr.'s floating notes and my Zhu's approval, must be disclosed in one piece, so that all officials in the world will know that as long as they have talent and background, It's not a problem." Zhu Yijun told Feng Bao that Liu Hanru could not die in vain.

Zhu Yijun did not regret beheading Liu Hanru in public. He indulged in the private market and could not escape the death penalty. However, Zhu Yijun's death of Liu Hanru was a pity. He could be considered a capable person if he could run the private market to that extent. Liu Hanru was There are many people like this, who are obviously very talented, but because they did not pass the first-class or second-class examination, their official career can only be cut off. Such capable people who go astray are often the most terrifying.

Revealing the details, Liu Hanru's request was not obtained, and his lesson was the last gift he left to the world.

Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding, began to eliminate people, and soon the governors in various places also started to eliminate them openly and covertly.

"Your Majesty, Pang Shangpeng is waiting outside the imperial study." Xiao Huangmen walked in and bowed his head.

"Xuan."

Pang Shangpeng, the former governor of Fujian and now the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, came in, kowtowed five times and kowtowed three times. He knelt on the ground and said obediently: "The guilty minister Pang Shangpeng pays homage to your majesty. Long live your majesty. Long live your majesty. I don't know who the guilty minister is. In fact. It is shameful that he was so sick that he returned home begging for his body."

Pang Shangpeng was promoted and went to Beijing to serve as the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. However, he did not go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to work for a day. He went to Beijing to meet the emperor and presented the prepared official memorial to the emperor. This was considered as leaving everyone with dignity. The promotion was to let him become an official.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Save your life and live in Xitucheng. I have prepared a house for you to live and recuperate. I have been working hard for the country all your life. I know that your loyalty to the emperor will revive your ambitions and embody the spirit of the country." , Actually you read that right, Liu Hanru is indeed very capable."

The relationship between Pang Shangpeng and Zhang Juzheng was very bad, but Zhang Juzheng still appointed him as the governor of Fujian because Pang Shangpeng was very talented and had always been working for the revival of the Ming Dynasty. He also initiated a whip method and piloted it in Zhejiang. After the failure, another pilot was conducted in Fujian, and this time it was successful.

The one-whip (braiding) method requires a foundation. Now the Ming Dynasty is not eager to implement the one-whip method immediately.

Both the "Invitation to Equalize Fields and Services" and a compilation method are to solve the problem of excessive taxes and numerous tax and service categories. The Ming Dynasty is now in the stage of census of Dingkou, and there is still a long way to go before a compilation method.

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty." Pang Shangpeng breathed a sigh of relief. At least he was able to respect himself and did not make a fuss to the point of moving his head.

Pang Shangpeng didn't know much about Liu Hanru's private market, but he could still guess a thing or two. Liu Hanru must have traded something with these wealthy households. Otherwise, how could the decree be so smooth? Originally, Pang Shangpeng thought it was the ship pilot of the Municipal Shipping Department who did the transaction. , but I didn’t expect Liu Hanru to make such a big noise.

The Chen Jingbang and Liu Hanru cases have been investigated. It is true that Pang Shangpeng did not take the money, and Fujian South Road Counselor Li Yingqi did not take the money either. Only after taking the money is a community of interests. Only after taking the money, Pang Shangpeng will understand what happened in the Sanduao private market. secret.

"Is the Daheigou really that difficult to cross?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

Pang Shangpeng bowed his head and said: "You can only take the Yuegang Penghu Xinglongzhuang, or take the Songjiang Ningbo to Ryukyu Nanxiadanshui Town. It is difficult to cross because the wind is unstable and the water is unstable."

Zhu Yijun found the memorandum of the sea survey of the fast sailing ship Youlong, handed it to Pang Shangpeng and said: "Now, it is no longer a natural chasm, the fast sailing ship has crossed it."

Pang Shangpeng's eyes were dim. He put on his reading glasses and after reading the content of the sea survey, he shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, this is a special case. The Youlong has the best navy soldiers, the best captain, and even a staff general. , and the best boat master, it’s just a big black ditch, I can’t say it is difficult for merchant ships.”

Of course the Youlong was easy. It was the jewel in the crown of the Ming Dynasty. It was the crystallization of the Ming Dynasty’s most advanced shipbuilding experience. It was a sailing ship heading for a fast global voyage. Daheigou was naturally a smooth road, and civilian merchant ships were all two-masted boats. , look at the wind and water, naturally different.

"What Aiqing said makes sense." Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Aiqing has been in Fujian for a long time and has been involved in maritime trade. From Aiqing's point of view, how does this Wandering Dragon fare?"

"If there were a hundred of these things, Taixi would lose all its colonies." Pang Shangpeng looked at it for a long time and said.

Pang Shangpeng further explained: "It's not that his attack is so powerful, but that Ming's goods will be taken to all parts of the world, breaking the original trade cycle. In terms of the rough economic constraints of the West, I'm afraid it won't last long. "

"That's what it's all about, fast trade."

The significance of the fast sailing ship is to speed up the establishment of global trade in the great voyage. It relies on the huge productivity and production scale of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty once again flips the biscuits on the forbidden sea and opens the sea, and changes from the open sea to the forbidden sea, what will happen quickly? The sailboat makes no sense.

These abstract concepts of military, economy, culture, technology, do not exist alone, but are generally closely related, and other aspects are often more important.

Zhu Yijun and Pang Shangpeng chatted for a long time. It was not until Pang Shangpeng became a little exhausted that Zhu Yijun let Pang Shangpeng leave. He mainly asked about the development of Jilong Island. The development of Tamsui Town and Xinglong Village was an expansion from point to point. Jilong Island can probably accommodate a Dingkou in Zhejiang, which can effectively alleviate the contradiction between man and land in Nanya.

"He is old." Zhu Yijun said with emotion when Pang Shangpeng left.

From Pang Shangpeng, Zhu Yijun saw the twilight. This kind of twilight, Zhu Yijun had seen in Tan Lun, was long-term illness and torture, which led to all aspects of spirit and spirit being depressed. Even without this incident in the Sandu'ao private market, He can't last much longer. Pang Shangpeng has been running around with his illness since he fell ill in the eighth year of Wanli. Now the Sanduao private market has dealt a blow to Pang Shangpeng in all aspects.

Pang Shangpeng was optimistic about Liu Hanru and even recommended him to take over as governor, but in the end he failed.

Just three days after Pang Shangpeng moved into Xitucheng, bad news came to the capital. His depression and worry worsened his condition. After going to bed at night on September 23, he never woke up again.

Zhu Yijun ordered an official to be buried in Xishan. The Ministry of Rites gave him the posthumous title Huimin.

At the end of September, the Youlong entered the capital, and His Majesty the Emperor was going to Tianjin Guard to inspect the navy. There was a lot of discussion, and it was mainly divided into two groups. One group believed that "Bolang and Baigu can also learn from their misfortunes". Therefore, I object to His Majesty’s inspection.

The disasters of Bolang and Baigu are about the Qin Shi Huang being attacked with an iron cone at Bolangsha, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty making a private visit to Baigu incognito but not being accepted by the pavilion chief, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty being dissatisfied and imprisoned. Both of these incidents were the emperor's southern tour. Something stupid happened.

If there are stubborn and lawless people who take the opportunity to cause chaos, the disaster will be great.

On the other hand, King Zheng moved to Beijing to live in Prince De's Mansion. His Majesty left the capital, and there might be some bad rumors, which would be harmful to Prince Zhu Zaiyu of De.

The solution given by those who objected was: just let the Chief Sima of the Ministry of War review it for you, and it would be better for Your Majesty not to tamper with it.

If we can prevent His Majesty from going to Tianjin Guard to inspect the navy this time, the same reason will prevent His Majesty from leaving Beijing next time.

The supporting faction, led by Wan Shihe, supported in the court. Wan Shihe made it very clear: His Highness King Zheng and King De, can't we go to Tianjin together? If we take him with us, what bad things could happen? It can show the close friendship. It just so happens that His Highness Prince De, as the dean of Gokumonin, has personally seen the things he has tinkered with, and they are not useless.

The people, on the other hand, are supported by Lin Fucheng. Lin Fucheng's happy anecdotes believe that His Majesty should go and must go!
Lin Fucheng's point of view is: the imperial palace is a prison, and the imperial palace is a prison. The emperor cannot escape his imprisonment, and it is like living in a prison. How can he understand the sufferings of the people and understand the Ming Dynasty?

Your Majesty's visit to Tianjin TV is a freedom from imprisonment.

Lin Fucheng is really disappointing. Everyone expected him to be a 'standard-bearer who openly challenges the imperial power', but now he looks like a licker! Even if the court farts, Lin Fucheng can be associated with freedom.

The point is, it makes sense!
Lin Fucheng also wanted to see the big ship. Tiqi Chen Mo informed him that Mr. Huang, thanks to his connections, got him a seat on the viewing platform. Lin Fucheng wanted to support him even if his throat was broken. Before he left Songjiang Mansion, he had seen It was a five-masted ship crossing the ocean, but the name of the Youlong was only heard, but its shape was not seen.

The noisy dispute ceased after the first and second assistants jointly expressed their stance. The first and second assistants all played together to support His Majesty in going to Tianjin Guard and inspecting the Navy. This also meant that the Auxiliary Ministers would support His Majesty's southern tour.

(End of this chapter)