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Chapter 619: No math, no physics, no chemistry, no magic everywhere

The Ming Dynasty's foreign policy was very moderate.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it has formulated a list of fifteen countries that will not be conquered. Apart from its unswerving determination to attack the Northern Yuan Dynasty and destroy this previous dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has never launched a sustained war to annihilate other countries. Its conquests of Luchuan and Annan were mainly based on defensive counterattacks.

Annan, which was actually occupied during the Yongle period, was reluctantly given up during the Xuande period, and confirmed to be given up during the Zhengtong period. This was also because some people in the court believed that Zhu Di's occupation of Annan violated the Ming Dynasty's ancestral precepts of the fifteen countries that should not be conquered. The ancestral laws could not be violated, and it was also the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Cong, Gui E and others criticized the Three Yangs mainly to criticize the inferior Confucian scholars who only knew how to stick to the laws of their ancestors and were stubborn and inflexible.

Shinichi Kanda actually knows the Ming Dynasty very well. Because it is the Celestial Empire, it naturally has to have the magnanimity of a great country. To put it more simply, it is about protecting one's reputation.

If you give the Ming Dynasty enough face, no matter how big the grudge is, it will be over.

But now Kanda Shinichi knows clearly that the Ming Dynasty has changed, and this approach is no longer effective. The Ming Dynasty has become aggressive and has completely lost its tolerance. It is now petty and will fight for every penny.

After the Seventeen Articles came the Treaty of Silver and Sulfur, which had additional clauses, including the Tsushima Island and war indemnity of 15 million silver.

Oda Nobunaga would not sign this treaty, and the only one who could sign it was him, Kanda Shinichi, and he had to sign it, unless Kanda Shinichi went crazy and wanted to start a full-scale war.

"Let me report to the general at home and then make a decision." Kanda Shinichi's eyes turned, and he was ready to use the tactic of procrastination. This was a trick often used by the lowly scholars in the Ming Dynasty. In many things, they could delay big things into small things, and small things into nothing. It was very useful.

As time went by, people stopped paying attention.

Shinichi Kanda is a bureaucrat who was trained in various Confucian classics. The entire East is influenced by Confucian culture, so it is natural for him to know some tricks of the Confucian scholars.

A smile appeared on Gao Qiyu's lips. He had a sense of déjà vu facing the lowly Confucian scholars in the court. There were just too many lowly Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty. Gao Qiyu had seen all kinds of tricks over the years. In Hai Rui's words, they were all old tricks.

When it comes to how to be a good Confucian scholar, the Ming Dynasty is the living ancestor of Japan.

"Do you want to drag it out? Oh, it doesn't matter. Lord Shuri has already led the navy to Osaka Bay. I believe that Oda Nobunaga will send the signed treaty to the Ming Dynasty." Gao Qiyu told Kanda Shinichi a desperate reality, that is, the Ming Dynasty did not stop the attack because of the visit of his envoy.

No one stipulates that war and negotiation cannot go on at the same time.

When Kanda Shinichi heard this, his expression changed from extreme shock and horror to bewilderment and finally to lifeless dejection. This time, Japan was defeated in the war against the Ming Dynasty's deep interference in Japan's state affairs. Without the Kumano Navy, the Ming Dynasty Navy could land at any suitable place along the long coastline and launch an attack on Japan.

"I solemnly tell you once again that Your Majesty is extremely cautious about the Silver and Sulfur Treaty because he is worried about the safety of the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office. He asked the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office to discuss it again. Even if you do not agree and the court does not pass it, it is you who provoked the war, and you will have to bear the consequences of the war yourself."

"The Ming Dynasty has never lost its great magnanimity. Your Majesty has always been a benevolent emperor. You have brought this upon yourselves!"

"Moreover, the Kumano Navy was entrenched in Kumano Beach. The Ming Navy was helpless because the Kumano Navy knew Kumano Beach better. But they chose to go to Nagasaki to fight."

Gao Qiyu's words made Kanda Shinichi even more depressed.

Shinichi Kanda is the representative of the Japanese resistance faction, but now, the results have proved that their resistance is a joke, which has brought extremely bad consequences and they need to bear the wrath of the Ming Dynasty.

The Kumano Navy stayed at Kumano Beach, and the Ming Dynasty was really helpless because Kumano Beach was shrouded in the fog of war. The Ming Dynasty knew very little about Kumano Beach, and a rash attack would pay an extremely heavy price, but now the Kumano Navy has been completely wiped out.

It doesn't matter if Kanda Shinichi decides to delay. The Ming navy will just continue the attack. The Osaka Bay Garrison can be used as a springboard to attack the heart of Japan, Kyoto - Heian-kyo.

Sometimes, Gao Qiyu didn’t know how to evaluate Japan. These Japanese pirates really stole everything, even place names.

The Japanese capital Heian-kyō was divided into two parts, east and west, with Suzaku Street as its central axis. The eastern part was built in the style of Luoyang during the Tang Dynasty and was called Luoyang. The western part was built in the style of Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty and was called Chang'an. Chang'an and Luoyang were collectively called Kyoto.

Later, "Chang'an" declined and "Luoyang" became a synonym for the capital of Japan.

There is a special word in Japan called "Sanluo", which refers to the process of a Warring States daimyo leading his troops to attack Kyoto. The Muromachi shogunate did this, and Oda Nobunaga completed the Sanluo in the second year of the Longqing period.

The Ming Dynasty's strategy toward Japan was very clear. From the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office as a bridgehead, to the Osaka Bay Defense Thousand Households, and then to the current closed-door policy, the Ming Dynasty was trying its best to turn Japan into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. All the dirty work would be done by the Azuchi Shogunate and the Warring States daimyo, but all the profits would belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Semi-colonial and semi-feudal is more cruel than full colonialism or full feudalism. Full colonialism is one's own industry, so naturally one has to find ways to maintain stability. Just like before, when Suiyuan was not called Suiyuan and was still in the hands of Altan Khan and Tumen Khan, the Ming Dynasty could even think of ways to encourage Lamaism. Once it got it, the court immediately changed its face and flexibly switched from supporting Lamaism to destroying Lamaism.

Full feudalism is the hierarchical world constructed by Confucianism. Although the hierarchy is strict, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief, and even the worst order is still order.

Semi-colonial and semi-feudal means that the local feudal forces can survive without the recognition of local citizens, so all order is to serve the overlord.

The Ming Dynasty is doing its best to weaken Japan's resistance and let them kill themselves. This is a cruelty that Your Majesty does not care about.

His Majesty cared a lot about Aldan Khan. Even though Aldan Khan was already very old, His Majesty still took advantage of his old age and wanted to drag Aldan Khan to the capital to behead him in public, to put a final end to the past 25 years of war and to give everyone a final result.

That's what caring is.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty does not care about the Japanese. Your Majesty only wants to destroy them.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty's miscellaneous newspapers did not seem to care about the great victory the Ming Dynasty had achieved in Japan. They simply published the result of the great victory. Some miscellaneous newspapers even described the process in a slightly detailed manner, talking about the participants on the Ming Dynasty's side and the scale of the enemy and our side; some miscellaneous newspapers simply had one sentence: The Japanese attacked Nagasaki, and Shuri Marquis rushed to the rescue and annihilated them all.

This is also an old tradition. You win with one sentence, but lose with a long speech.

Compared with the great victory at Osaki, miscellaneous newspapers were more concerned about the cowpox issue. Almost all miscellaneous newspapers were opposed to cowpox. The special report conducted by the Gewu Newspaper was drowned out by the noise. Zhu Yijun immediately ordered the Ministry of Rites to publish the Gewu Newspaper's research on cowpox in the official gazette, which made the matter clear.

But judging from the reactions from all parties, they are still opposed.

"I am a human being, not a god. What the hell is this? If I get vaccinated with cowpox, will I be controlled by me, the living King of Hell?" Zhu Yijun spread his hands and could only hold his forehead in response to this conspiracy theory in the newspaper.

According to the description in the miscellaneous newspapers, vaccination became a ritual of some kind of mysterious power, and the inoculated cowpox became a brand, and then the people were affected to the point of losing their minds and becoming the emperor's loyal servants and running dogs. They then called on everyone not to be vaccinated. Their bodies and hair were given by their parents, and it was really strange to get a smallpox, especially a strange cowpox, into their bodies.

The emperor was the living King of Hell, the chief medical officer was the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demon, the Huimin Pharmacy affiliated with the Jiekuyuan and the Imperial Medical Bureau was the soul-stirring city god in various places, and vaccination against cowpox was a ritual.

"This is not outrageous enough. Some people say that people who get vaccinated against smallpox will go to hell after they die, and it will be the eighteenth level of hell." Feng Bao took out an even more outrageous miscellaneous newspaper and placed it in front of His Majesty. This one was even more outrageous. Going to hell was fine, but it was the eighteenth level of hell.

Without studying math, physics and chemistry, there is magic everywhere.

To the Ming Dynasty scholars, the idea that vaccination with cowpox could prevent smallpox was a magical fantasy. Could a mere cowpox prevent such a terrible disease as smallpox? To them, this was an incomprehensible magic.

"Issue an order to the Jiekuyuan to vaccinate me and my relatives tomorrow." Zhu Yijun chose to support the Jiekuyuan's vaccination cause with his own actions.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Kang Mazi once organized 1 palace maids to be vaccinated with smallpox, and four people died. In that place where smallpox was rampant and despairing, dying by half was considered a minor illness. The % mortality rate was really low.

He then ordered the vaccination of the princes and princesses. Later, Kangxi recalled this incident in "Court Instructions" and said complacently:

At the beginning of the country, many people were afraid of smallpox. As for my vaccination method, my children and your children all got well after vaccination. Now the 49 banners outside the border and the Khalkha vassal states have all been ordered to get vaccinated, and all those who got vaccinated have recovered well.

I remember when I first planted it, the elderly thought it was strange. I was determined to do it, and thus saved the lives of tens of millions of people. Was it a coincidence?

Since the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the smallpox vaccination method has been used, which has become the ancestral method.

The smallpox method used in the Kangxi era used to plant good seedlings. To cultivate good seedlings, in fact, the smallpox seedlings were taken from smallpox patients, sterilized in water, and then planted in the nose.

Feng Bao thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I think we can wait a little longer. After all, smallpox is raging very seriously on the grassland. We can wait for the border residents to be vaccinated. If it is effective, we can make a decision after awarding Pang Xian the prize."

Large-scale practice will be tried out on the grassland first. If it works, it will be promoted. If it does not, the perpetrators will be punished before too long.

"That's fine too. There's no rush." ​​Zhu Yijun was pleased with Feng Bao's good advice and chose to accept it. The main reason was that he could let the newspapers continue to argue. The more intense the argument, the better. By then, with Pang Xian's experimental data on the grassland, the promotion of the cowpox treatment would become a natural thing.

"The highway from Shengzhou to Datong Prefecture is now open to traffic!" Zhu Yijun looked at the report from Shanxi Governor Zhou Liangyin, nodded several times and said, "Submit a memorial to the Ministry of War, and reward the Sixth Engineer Regiment Battalion that participated in the construction with five silver coins!"

"it is good!"

The engineering corps is also called the Yong corps. For example, the Sixth Engineering Corps that built the line from Shengzhou to Datong Prefecture was actually called the Fenyong Battalion, but Zhu Yijun preferred to call them the Sixth Engineering Corps.

There is an open-air coal yard in Shengzhou (now Ordos). There are two entrances to the coal in the Shengzhou coal yard. The first is through Shuofang Prefecture, to Guihua City, and Daqing Mountain to Xuanfukou City. The second is directly to Datong Prefecture, and then to Xuanfukou City. This is an important part of the coal-silver convection. The completion of this highway means that the scale of coal-silver convection will be further expanded.

The Ming Dynasty was thriving and flourishing.

Since the conquest of Bansheng City built by Altan Khan in the ninth year of Wanli, the hand of the Ming Dynasty reaching out to Hetao finally became a tangible big hand.

"Summon Chen Mo to see me." Zhu Yijun finished reviewing all the memorials and summoned Chen Mo who had just returned to Beijing. He needed to know about the journey of the study group. Since Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi left Beijing, Zhu Yijun had not seen the excitement, mainly because the level of the Beijing official gatherings was really limited. In mid-May, the study group of 50 people led by Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi finally returned to the capital of the Ming Dynasty along the Chidao.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty can once again use his name as Master Huang to watch the fun.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty." Chen Mo changed into a Feiyu suit and saluted respectfully.

"No need to be polite, sit down and talk." Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Did the trip go smoothly?"

"It's hard to explain." Chen Mo's expression was extremely complicated. He thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I would rather take a hundred children than fifty Confucian scholars to the grassland. It's really too difficult."

"Oh? Tell me in detail." Zhu Yijun said with great interest.

Chen Mo frowned and said, "At the beginning, the study tour group thought that the imperial guards sent by His Majesty were not protecting them, but monitoring them. They did not allow us to get too close, nor did they plan for us to interfere. According to my plan, we could actually reach Kaipingwei before the heavy snow, but we were delayed because of these Confucian scholars."

"No one wanted to do manual labor, but someone had to carry food and drink. The animals were not strong enough, and no one was carrying them. Some scholars even quarreled over who had the right to ride in the cart. Not only were they unwilling to carry their own food and drink, they also quarreled over riding in the cart. They even refused to walk. In the end, they abandoned some of their food and drink and all got on the cart."

"This part of the baggage was discovered by the observing Tiqi and picked up."

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment and said, "Didn't they bring any servants?"

"Yes, the servants and the imperial guards will go together." Chen Mo also explained the reason in detail. All the servants were brought along, but only two were allowed per person. The servants were forced to sit at the same table with the imperial guards. The reason was not complicated. Since it was a study tour, they had to practice what they preached.

Chen Mo did not call the study tour group "lowly scholars" because they were not lowly scholars. At least the students were willing to practice what they preached and put it into practice, which was a thousand times better than lowly scholars.

Chen Mo described the entire study tour process in detail.

On the first day, some of the discarded baggage was like a boomerang hitting the scholar on the head that day, because the tools for making fire were all among the discarded baggage. The grassland was very cold and the temperature difference was extremely large. Not being able to make a fire was no different from killing someone.

Chen Mo had no choice but to return the picked up baggage to the Confucian scholar.

"Ah? Drinking raw water? Are you crazy?" Zhu Yijun looked at Chen Mo blankly and said blankly: "Didn't they light a fire? How can you drink raw water? Don't Li Zhi and Lin Fucheng know?"

"That day, half of the 50-member study tour group started to have diarrhea, and they collapsed and became dehydrated." Chen Mo said helplessly, "I didn't let the Confucian scholars drink the stream water. I told them it was unclean, but the Confucian scholars accused me of meddling in other people's business and told me that this was a place so remote that the water was naturally clear, so how could we not drink it?"

Naturally clear water, pure and pollution-free, that is why the Confucian scholars insisted that stream water was drinkable. However, it was for this reason that more than 20 people suffered from diarrhea that day and became dehydrated. This directly led to the entire study tour group being unable to move forward for three days, greatly delaying the travel plans.

"The Confucian scholars soon started fighting among themselves. Li Zhi, who had the most survival experience, was excluded first, and then Lin Fucheng. After the two were excluded, they immediately started fighting among themselves. I was really impressed." Chen Mo's face turned black when he talked about this experience. This caused quite a mess.

Chen Mo answered His Majesty's question why Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi did not remind him, because they were excluded.

Because of internal strife, three people joined together to mutter to each other. The Ti riders were far away and one of them was not kept watch, so the three people ran away and they were almost not found.

They left on their own and soon got lost. When they were lost, they ran around, making it difficult for the Ti cavalry to find them. If they hadn't run around, it wouldn't have been that difficult to find them. The three people also had an internal conflict and went their separate ways. If they didn't bring the people back, Chen Mo would also be responsible.

Later, the Ti riders had to stay closer to prevent any more accidents.

"The Confucian scholars are fighting among themselves, but don't the Imperial Guards have any of their own?" Zhu Yijun began to review military horses at the age of ten, but he had no experience in marching.

"Yes, there are no shortage of troublemakers among the Tiqi. After I beat them up, they all surrendered." Chen Mo said with a smile, "I have been a Duntai Yuanhou on the grassland for five years. It is easy for me to beat up a few troublemakers."

In the army, the strong are the king and fists are the hard truth. Chen Mo has rich survival experience and is also a good fighter. As soon as he left Xuanfu, he established his leadership position on the same day and quickly brought the imperial guards and servants under his control.

"The scholars never seem to plan anything. On the seventh day, they were already running out of water and food. Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi were driven to the Tiqi side. It was Yao Guangming, the second young master of the Yao family, who came to ask for help. I asked someone to borrow some water and food. When I arrived, wow! The scholar saw a wild boar and tried to catch it with his bare hands!" Chen Mo said with his eyes wide open, "That was a wild boar."

One pig, two bears, and three tigers. This does not refer to the strength of the wild beasts, but the degree of danger to humans. The first one is the wild boar, because wild boars are more common, and they are ferocious and not afraid of humans. The number of bears and tigers is much smaller, and they are extremely alert and will actively avoid them, because the terrifying upright ape is not easy to mess with, especially people with weapons.

In Chen Mo's opinion, holding down a wild boar with bare hands was tantamount to seeking death. Chen Mo rode there quickly, drew his bow and shot an arrow, injuring the wild boar. Finally, after the other Ti riders arrived, they surrounded and killed the wild boar, thus avoiding a tragedy.

From the seventh day on, the Ti riders and the Confucian scholars finally joined forces. These Confucian scholars who were willing to go to the grassland to study were actually not lowly Confucian scholars, they just had their own pride, but this pride soon fell in front of the ruthless nature.

After just seven days, these Confucian scholars accepted the reality and changed from being self-reliant to being young masters served by servants. Chen Mo was thankful that they were served without causing trouble.

Pride was shattered, kindness was deceived, cognition was subverted, compassion was exploited, sincerity was betrayed, etc., these were all reported by Chen Mo. The Confucian scholars had gained a lot from this study tour on the grassland. At least there were fifty fewer Confucian scholars who might have become lowly Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

"Does Lin Fucheng know that Young Master Huang is me?" Zhu Yijun was curious. Almost a year had passed. Could it be that Lin Fucheng still hadn't guessed the emperor's identity?
"At first I thought he was just pretending to be confused, but later I found out that he was really confused. Li Zhi knew your Majesty's identity and hinted to him many times, but Lin Fucheng just didn't hear it." Chen Mo really thought that Lin Fucheng was pretending to be confused, but later he found out that Lin Fucheng really thought that Young Master Huang of the General's Mansion could do whatever he wanted.

Once, Li Zhi mentioned that the transfer of the imperial guards required an imperial decree, that is, yellow paper, and the emperor's personal imperial order. Lin Fucheng said as a matter of course: The general is the head of the military merit, and your majesty should naturally treat him preferentially, which is a clear distinction between rewards and punishments;

Li Zhi said: "If there are more than 100 people, the Ministry of War is needed." Lin Fucheng replied: "It should be so. Military affairs are important matters for the country, so we should be cautious.
Li Zhi almost said: The imperial guards are the emperor's will! The general also has his own difficulties. It is taboo to request the transfer of imperial guards!

But Lin Fucheng felt that General Qi was pacifying the Japanese pirates in the south and resisting the invaders in the north, so the General's Office should certainly have the final say on military affairs.

Later, Li Zhi gave up on telling Lin Fucheng the truth unless he was pointed out directly.

The next afternoon, Zhu Yijun went to Yanxing Tower. Firstly, he wanted to check the accounts at Yanxing Tower, which was also the time for checking the accounts once every ten days. The accounts of Yanxing Tower Trading Company were mainly the 0.3% stamp duty and the subscription of ship tickets; secondly, he wanted to welcome Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi.

The trip to the grassland for these two people was not in vain, at least they confirmed the necessity of the order to destroy Buddhism.

Ship tickets were still in full swing, but because five-masted ocean-going ships were open to private purchase, the number of five-masted ocean-going ships in the trading house remained at five per month, causing dissatisfaction among the trading house's economic compradors.

We could have had more food, but it was snatched away by the gentry from Jiangnan!

The people who subscribed to the Yanxinglou Trading House were mainly powerful people from the north. They didn't have the geographical advantage, so they naturally couldn't go out to sea themselves. In the eyes of the powerful people from the north, the southern gentry's petition to open up five-masted ocean-going ships was just competing with them for profits! Such large ships should be controlled by the court!
"When I told you not to buy ships, you said I was greedy. Now I'm letting you buy ships, and you're selling them for 50,000 silver each. You're saying the court has lost its dignity. Everything I do is wrong!" Zhu Yijun spread his hands and said to Wang Qian, "Master Wang, look at me as an emperor. I've become stubborn and blocked both ends."

"It seems that no matter what I do, they are not satisfied, right?"

"Yes, as long as the money does not go completely into their pockets, the powerful and wealthy will always complain. No policy or any matter can satisfy everyone." Wang Qian said with his head down.

Wang Qian’s meaning was very clear. Since it was impossible to satisfy everyone, he had to satisfy those who were loyal to the emperor and the country under certain conditions, so that more people would unite around His Majesty.

"Someone has the idea of ​​building a shipyard." Wang Qian said with a very unpleasant expression: "I heard that recently someone has been making a fuss about the wind power and plotting to build the five major shipyards of the Ming Dynasty."

The five major shipyards of Longjiang, Songjiang, Mizhou, Fuzhou and Guangzhou are not simply five state-owned factories, but five industrial groups. The length of the shipbuilding industry chain determines the scale of these five state-owned factories.

The hype and propaganda mainly focused on criticizing the state-owned enterprises for competing with the people for profits, criticizing the state-owned enterprises for being rigid, criticizing the state-owned enterprises for being corrupt, and criticizing the state-owned enterprises for missing the main goal.

Rigidity and corruption have always been issues of concern to the court, and it has carried out several anti-corruption campaigns. Rigidity is gradually improving, and criticism is mainly focused on the scale.

"The five major shipyards now have 150,000 craftsmen, all of whom are able-bodied men. If the craftsmen don't take care of farming, they are missing the point. Some people want to put the blame for the land abandonment on the government-owned factories." Wang Qian leaned forward and said, "These guys just want the government-owned factories for their own benefit, not for the land abandonment."

"When there were no government factories, the land was also abandoned. This was inevitable under the natural closedness of the small peasant economy."

Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi explained this cycle when discussing the limitations, closedness and unreasonable distribution of the small peasant economy.

Because of irrational distribution, food cannot be commercialized, those who need it have no consumption capacity, and those who have consumption capacity have no demand, so production stagnates;

Because of limitations, backward productivity and means of production, and extremely weak risk resistance, a natural disaster would cause even rich peasants and landlords to be displaced and production to become unstable;
Because of the closed nature, there is no food in places where there is a shortage of food, and food is piled up and rotted in places where there is no shortage of food. The lack of transportation capacity has caused this common phenomenon, and food cannot be circulated smoothly;

The reasons for land abandonment are extremely complex. The government-run factories and engineering corps camps absorbed vagrants for the sake of the overall stability of the Ming Dynasty.

"Lord Wan has also told me about the problem you mentioned." Zhu Yijun sneered and said, "They keep saying that the government-run factory I run is a waste of copper and iron, but why are they so enthusiastic when it comes to getting it for themselves? I have half of the shares in this government-run plantation. If they compete with me for profits, they will have several regiments in their hands!"

Daming Kaihai currently has two major assets, one is the shipyard, and the other is 150 overseas plantations. These 150 plantations have a total land area of ​​more than 1.5 million hectares, which is not much, only 150 million acres of plantations.

Zhu Yijun is the biggest landlord in the Ming Dynasty!

Half of the shares of these two heavy assets belong to the imperial treasury, that is, the emperor himself. When Zhu Yijun first invested in opening up the sea, he joined forces with various parties to spend 3712 million silver dollars to build them.

Isn't seeking state-owned factories just competing with the emperor for profit?

The greed and stinginess of the Ming emperor were known to everyone from Ireland to Nagasaki.

(End of this chapter)