I'm really not doing business

Chapter 742: Sending Japanese Pirates to Siberia to Plant Potatoes
Zhu Yijun held a grand court meeting on the third of every month. This was the busiest day for all officials in the Ming Dynasty capital.

All officials in the capital had to participate and had to get up before dawn every day. However, the grand court meeting was mainly to announce the decisions of the emperor and the cabinet, and had nothing to do with most officials. The officials standing outside the emperor's palace could not even see the emperor, they just stood under the steps. Even so, being able to stand here was already a matter of honor for the family.

On June 3rd of the 14th year of the Wanli reign, a rare quarrel broke out in the Huangji Hall. When all the officials heard about it, they were quite surprised. A quarrel in a court meeting must have meant that there were huge differences in the cabinet. However, with the emperor's personal announcement and Zhang Juzheng's acceptance of the emperor's order, the matter was considered over.

The root of the disagreement was that Zhang Juzheng wanted to finish his work while he was alive and not leave any hidden dangers for the emperor. It would be very troublesome for Lee Sun to stay in Uiju, so he wanted to use his posthumous reputation to exchange for the death of the Joseon royal family. But Wang Chonggu felt that His Majesty was quite wise, and no matter what trouble the Joseon royal family made, the Ming Dynasty could suppress it.

Wang Chonggu trusted the Emperor more than Zhang Juzheng because Zhang Juzheng was closer to the Emperor.

In Zhang Juzheng's eyes, Your Majesty has always been a grown-up child. He is young and full of vigor and enthusiasm. Your Majesty can handle government affairs properly, but he, Zhang Juzheng, is willing to bear more of the blame.

But in Wang Chonggu's opinion, child? Only you, Zhang Juzheng, treat His Majesty as a child.

In the eyes of treacherous ministers like Wang Chonggu, Your Majesty is more terrifying than Zhang Juzheng. Sometimes Zhang Juzheng would still be reasonable and make some concessions for the dignity of the dynasty and the country, but Your Majesty will not make even the slightest concession on core issues.

"Your Majesty, the other day, the Censor Li Zhi requested that the court abolish the Wanguo City and allow foreign envoys and sailors to operate in Ming." Wan Shihe bowed his head and said, "I reply to the Censor's advice. I think it is not possible. The reason is very simple. The barbarians have wolf faces and beast hearts."

When the Censor-in-Chief made a proposal, the six ministries would respond, and the Grand Master of the Imperial Clan was in charge of the Honglu Temple, and he thought Li Zhi was talking nonsense.

Wan Shihe's meaning was very clear. It was absolutely not allowed to let the barbarians enter the Ming Dynasty, unless they were castrated. The saying that the barbarians had the faces of wolves and the hearts of beasts had been said since the Three Dynasties, that is, the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it had been said for almost three thousand years.

It is not that our ancestors looked down on the barbarians, but history has continuously proved the value and correctness of this statement.

"They are all desperate criminals. Why are they sent to the Ming Dynasty? The Ministry of Rites has an interpreter named Li Yashi. He has been in the Ming Dynasty for fourteen years. Li Yashi told me that these foreign barbarians have different purposes. They either come to preach, or to learn about the hydrology of the Ming Dynasty, or to travel by boat and do business for profit. Wanguo City is enough." Zhu Yijun looked at the group of censors and said, "This matter has been concluded. There is no need to mention it again in the future."

Li Yashi himself was a foreigner. He knew very well the purpose of the foreigners coming to the Ming Dynasty, which was to preach, to steal information about hydrology and geography, and he had no choice but to do business honestly.

Li Yashi believed that the Ming Dynasty's summary of the barbarians was correct. They should be irrational wherever they could be. If they were reasonable, it was because they had no choice. They were willing to pay taxes and do business honestly because they were intimidated by the Ming Emperor's navy.

The system of Wanguo City is very good. It is reasonable to lock up the barbarians in Wanguo City and not allow them to leave the city without reason.

Zhu Yijun admired Li Yashi very much. A few days ago, he personally released Li Yashi from the Northern Pacification Office for accusing him of being hypocritical.

Li Yashi was captured by the Imperial Guards some time ago. He said that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty used humility to cover up his inherent arrogance, which was somewhat accusing the emperor of hypocrisy. He was imprisoned in the Northern Pacification Office by the Imperial Guards. When Zhu Yijun went to see Tang Zhihan, he released him because Li Yashi was telling the truth.

The reason why Zhu Yijun looked up to Le Yashi was because Le Yashi was a patriot.

Legazpi did not love the Ming Dynasty, he loved Spain and was loyal to his king Felipe II. In order to resolve the conflict caused by the killing of the envoy, he even traveled thousands of miles across the ocean back to Madrid, Spain, and had a long talk with Felipe to explain the reasons and prevent the relationship between the two countries from further deteriorating.

Legasi went back at the risk of his life. The journey itself was dangerous. Going to sea was risking one's life, not to mention the long distance. Legasi broke his vow to marry a wife and returned to Taixi. He was not tied to the stake by the court but burned directly because he was the envoy of the Ming Dynasty and the Left Envoy of the Light.

If Legazpi didn't even love the land that gave birth to him, this man would have been beheaded by the emperor long ago. He would be nothing more than a barbarian.

When Matteo Ricci came to the Ming Dynasty to preach, he was thrown directly into the Taoist Canon by the emperor. Galileo was able to move freely in the Ming Dynasty because he was a high-end talent in mathematics, medicine, and astronomy brought by Legazpi.

Zhang Juzheng glanced at Li Zhi and said, "Your Majesty said he was a lowly Confucian scholar." As expected, he jumped out.

"Your Majesty, Korea encountered some resistance in abolishing the Hunminjeongeum, and the Korean literati were quite resistant to it." Wan Shihe reported another Korean matter, which was more complicated than expected.

Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "Anyone object?"

"Indeed... no one objects." Wan Shihe answered halfway and understood what His Majesty meant.

"Hunminjeongeum" is the biggest class barrier and an artificial limit. The Joseon literati opposed it and wanted to continue to be inhuman. Since these literati were not human, no one opposed it.

Logical.

Wan Shihe responded to the emperor very quickly. When Wan Shihe finished speaking, the court officials carefully pondered these two short sentences before they understood the deep meaning behind them. It had to be said that Wan Shihe had to be the leader of the imperial party.

Lee Seong-gye of Korea killed the king and usurped the throne. There were some elements of the Song Dynasty, but Korea also had too many elements of the Ming Dynasty, which neutralized the problem of insufficient martial virtue in the Song Dynasty. But during the period when Lee Sun was in office, Korea emphasized culture over military and became such a waste.

In addition to the elements of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the most common element in Korea is the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the four-class system.

There are four classes of people in Korea: the yangban, the middle class, the common people, and the untouchables.

The first class of people were naturally the civil and military classes. The civil and military classes had hereditary land. The land for imperial examinations and the land for meritorious officials were real lands that were divided into fiefdoms.

Although there was an imperial examination in Korea, the students of the Yangban class were divided into Han and Yan classes through Hunminjeongeum, which completely controlled the imperial examination. The hereditary system of the Yangban class was essentially guaranteed through marriage and patronage.

The "Law for the Prohibition of Bastards" was passed to ensure that the power in the hands of the two classes of disciples would not be divided among their own clansmen. The King of Korea tried to implement the Korean Enfeoffment Order, but ultimately failed. The "Law for the Prohibition of Bastards" was intended to prevent the Enfeoffment Order.

The law of prohibiting illegitimate children is a typical Korean custom of following the mother's law, which means that if the mother is noble, the child is noble, and if the mother is humble, the child is humble. It is a bit like the later cult of the gods of legitimate and illegitimate children. The son born to the wife is legitimate, the son born to a concubine is illegitimate, and the son born to the mistress is illegitimate, and the son not born to the wife is a bastard.

The prohibition on illegitimate sons means that illegitimate sons and sons of bad parents are strictly prohibited from inheriting the official positions of the two classes, and only legitimate sons can inherit.

The reason why there is a law prohibiting illegitimate children is because the two classes of disciples need in-laws to ensure the inheritance of the civil and military classes. Your maternal family is powerful, so how could they allow a illegitimate child to get an official position?

The illegitimate children constituted the second class of people in Korea, the middle class. They did not inherit official positions and did not receive the two-class treatment. They could only work as interpreters, medical officers, clerks, etc. As time passed, the middle class completely occupied the class of wealthy businessmen, local gentry, and clerks.

Among the two groups of disciples, the legitimate sons firmly controlled the power, while the illegitimate sons and evil sons who were released began to usurp social resources by relying on their status as officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, a man was not allowed to take a concubine unless he was childless by the age of 40. This was a clear provision in Ming Dynasty law. This provision resulted in the Ming Dynasty actually not recognizing the legal status of children born to concubines or other wives. When they returned home, they could only exist as adopted sons and were treated the same as servants, all of whom were adopted sons.

However, North Korea has a very clear system of one wife and multiple concubines, with clear distinctions between wives and concubines, which has led to a large number of concubines who can openly act in the name of the family.

The disciples of the Yangban class and the middlemen continued to occupy and annex other countries, and controlled the vast majority of the means of production in Korea, causing a large number of ordinary people to fall into the status of pariahs because they lost their land.

The special group of Hwarang are the running dogs and hawks raised by the yangban disciples and the middlemen.

Sungkyunkwan is similar to the Imperial Academy of the Ming Dynasty and is the highest institution of learning in Korea. Most of its disciples are from the Yangban class, and only a few particularly talented people will be admitted.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Ming emperor and the officials in the court, the Korean literati who hindered the abolition of "Hunminjeongeum" were not human beings.

This is also what Zhang Juzheng is worried about. As long as the deposed King Yi Sun of Korea is still in Yizhou, he will have the opportunity to jump around. These two groups of disciples will definitely not give up and allow the Ming Dynasty to deprive them of their ruling status.

The solution Zhu Yijun proposed was very simple: expel the person from the society and kill him!

North Korea is not the so-called Little China, it really does not deserve to be called that.

Because from the perspective of the political system, Korea is a typical feudal system, while the main system of the Ming Dynasty is the county system, with a slight feudal system, such as the Duke of Qian in Yunnan, the Marquis of Sishui in Luzon, and the Marquis of Yingyang in Jiugang. Even with this slight feudal system, in name, it is still a county system.

Not to mention military merits, even the princes of the Ming Dynasty did not have actual land grants. The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty mainly came from the imperial examination system. People like Zhang Juzheng, who were from military households with mud on their legs, accounted for more than 30%, and the number reached 40% in the 14th year of Wanli.

"I have a memorial to make." Minister of Finance Wang Guoguang stood up and bowed his head and said, "Han Feizi said: All governance of the world must be based on human nature. Laws are not made by the world or the land, but by people and in accordance with human hearts. Your Majesty, I request that you revise the tax law, establish laws and regulations, write books and laws, examine punishments and rewards, and make clear the rules and regulations; present righteousness, find ways to judge things with reason."

"Good. Duke Chengguo Zhu Yingzhen will be the supervising officer, Wang Ci Fu will be the president, and Minister Lu will be the vice president. They will compile the tax law and attach the Ming Dynasty Code." Zhu Yijun nodded in approval of the Ministry of Revenue's request.

The tax law of the Ming Dynasty was a bit chaotic in itself. At the same time, the implementation of the "One Whip Law" in Songjiang Prefecture and Zhejiang made it even more chaotic. Moreover, there was no written law, and local government offices did many things as they pleased, because they could do anything that was not prohibited by law.

The Ming Dynasty needed a tax law that was in line with the current world situation to clarify tax items, determine the physical tax collection of the Maritime Customs and the Supervisory Office, profits tax, the functions of the tax inspectors, the overseas governor-general's office, tax laws on developed lands, and so on. This written code was the result of the great debate during the Wanli Reform. It must have been difficult to compile, but once it was compiled, it would have great guiding significance for the Ming Dynasty.

Regarding the revision of the tax law, the civil and military officials, powerful and wealthy people, and local gentry of the Ming Dynasty all agreed with their feet and legs!

The Tax Inspection Office, which is affiliated to the North and South Pacification Office, is the tax inspection office of the Imperial Guards. Its power is so great that the local government offices cannot compete with it at all. Your Majesty is extremely concerned about the tax inspection and personally inquires about every matter. The Imperial Guards dare not do evil and do not care about so many things but only inspect the taxes. Otherwise, this Tax Inspection Office would have been full of complaints long ago.

Now Your Majesty is willing to manage and can manage. But what will happen if Your Majesty no longer wants to manage, or gets annoyed, and directly lets go of the reins of the Tax Inspection Office?

Moreover, the scale of the Tax Inspection Office is constantly expanding. It would be too difficult for Your Majesty to rely entirely on the Emperor's wisdom. Therefore, a set of effective written laws that can restrain the Tax Inspection Office is very necessary.

The Legalists never intended to put the imperial power in a cage; rather, they emphasized the emperor's autocracy.

Han Feizi Yang Quan said: Tao has no pair, so it is called one, the king is the one in the world, the king is to control all power;

Guanzi said in "Fa Fa": The reason why a monarch is a monarch is because of power. If a monarch loses power, his ministers will control him. Therefore, when the monarch and his ministers change places, power is in the lower position. The general idea is that a monarch must grasp all power. Once he loses power, he is no longer a monarch.

Moreover, the Legalists believed that the king should not only control all power and dominate everything in politics, but also control people's livelihood and thoughts, and make people feel that your majesty's kindness can never be repaid, and the people should respect the king even in the tone and intonation of their speech.

This is what Guanzi said: The ruler is what people look up to for life, and his words are in accordance with the law. Therefore, the Legalists need wise rulers more than the Confucians. If the ruler is always wise, the Legalists' system is the most effective, but the ruler will not always be wise.

The establishment of tax laws will not affect the emperor's authority. Clear rules will be easier to gain the approval of more people and make the Ming Dynasty's tax system more perfect.

"If you have something to say, please step out and report. If you have nothing to say, please draw the curtain and leave the court." Feng Bao flicked his whisk and shouted in a hoarse voice.

"Sir, please follow me to the side hall of Wenhua Palace and adjourn the court." Zhu Yijun shook his hem, stood up and said.

"Retreat!"

"Your Majesty, we respectfully see you off." Zhang Juzheng, along with all the civil and military officials, saw the emperor off.

Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu were walking at the back. As they walked, they were already far away from the other officials. At this time, Wang Chonggu whispered, "Prime Minister, now that you have arrived at the side hall, do you still want to tell His Majesty about Li Cheng's transfer to the Ming Dynasty?"

"Of course." Zhang Juzheng let out a breath. He still felt that keeping Lee Sun in Korea would definitely become a disaster.

Wang Chonggu looked around before continuing, "You just need to listen to your majesty regarding the affairs of the Joseon royal family. Your majesty has his own plans."

"Let me be frank. Your Majesty is waiting for the Joseon royal family, the civil and military officials, and the scholars and officials of Sungkyunkwan to step forward. If they don't step forward, how can Your Majesty kill them all? If you don't kill them all, won't Joseon follow in the footsteps of the Thirteen Departments of Jiaozhi?"

"Oh, why do you say that, Wang Ci Fu?" Zhang Juzheng asked with his hands held high and his brows furrowed.

Wang Chonggu sighed and said, "The last Joseon king, Yi He, died without an heir. Yi Sun was originally Yi He's nephew, and was also a side branch that entered the main clan. In the eyes of the civil and military classes, Yi Sun was a bastard."

"Before the Japanese invaders, Yi Sun also wanted to correct the bad habits in Joseon, but the civil and military officials refused to do so. Kim Tae-jo, the Minister of Household Affairs, built Mingguan with the intention of trading with Ming in three places. Kim Tae-jo was also a disciple of the yangban and died in excrement for unknown reasons. Also, Lee Il Jin-moo, the Minister of Military Affairs, died in a prison cell."

"This is also the reason why Yi Sun-sin did not chop off Yi Sun directly. Yi Sun certainly deserved to die, but the civil and military officials deserved to die even more."

"Yi Sun is the King of Joseon, and Your Majesty is the Emperor of Ming. They are both monarchs. What can Your Majesty think of these two groups of disciples?"

Zhang Juzheng thought for a moment, nodded and said, "That makes sense."

Wang Chonggu continued, "Yuanfu, the Liaodong governor, Hou Yuzhao, once wrote a letter saying that in a great Ming, all are subjects of the king. If the Great Ming wants to swallow up Korea, it must go this way. Your Majesty will definitely not return the land of the civil and military classes to these disciples of the two classes. Your Majesty must abolish the status of inferiors, equalize the land, and distribute the land belonging to the disciples of the two classes to those inferiors."

"At that time, there is a 99% chance that these two groups of disciples will take risks. That day will be the day of reckoning for both the civil and military groups. Yuan Fu does not need to worry too much. Your Majesty knows what is going on."

Zhang Juzheng thought for a long time and said, "Wang Cifu's words have enlightened me."

"I didn't say this. Wan Shihe found me that day and talked to me for a long time." Wang Chonggu waved his hand and did not take credit for it. Wan Shihe was a member of the emperor's party. When Wan Shihe found Wang Chonggu and said these words, he was actually conveying the emperor's will.

Wang Chonggu's meaning was also very clear. Without the emperor's support, how could Wang Chonggu dare to fight with Zhang Juzheng like this and win so much? It was all His Majesty's task.

Wang Chonggu left the Huangji Hall, while Zhang Juzheng stood outside the Huangji Hall and thought for a long time. He felt that the emperor's method was better. Korea had essentially been destroyed, and since they had to destroy it completely, they had to destroy it to the end. Moreover, the fruits of this treaty could not be reaped by the Korean civil and military officials.

"Sir, this rolling clock is truly amazing." Zhu Yijun was fiddling with a rolling clock in a side hall. This thing was indeed very sophisticated. It could convert gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy and tell time accurately.

"Your Majesty's rolling clock is quite interesting." Zhang Juzheng looked at the emperor's rolling clock with a smile on his face. His rolling clock had one slope, while your Majesty's rolling clock had nine slopes. It could measure time for nine days, and it was even more exquisite with carvings of dragons and phoenixes.

Zhu Yijun fiddled with the clock for a while before he stood up straight and said seriously, "Sir, Yi Sun kept him in Yizhou mainly to catch rabbits with grass. If he loses the grass, the rabbits will run away and it will be difficult to catch them."

"Catch them all in one swoop and eliminate the trouble forever." Zhang Juzheng said with his head down. Now that he understood the emperor's plan, he agreed even more.

"Yes." Zhu Yijun walked step by step to a display window. In the display window, there were small bowls. Zhu Yijun opened the door under the window, took out a porcelain bowl, handed it to Zhang Juzheng and said, "Sir, let me introduce to you the next generation of flagship product of Ming Dynasty's maritime trade, thin-bodied porcelain."

"As thin as paper, as white as jade, as clear as a mirror, with a sound like a chime, and crystal clear when placed under the light. This is made by the master craftsmen in Jingdezhen, with 40% ox bone powder added. This kind of thin-bodied porcelain has 10% to 40% bone powder added. The more bone powder is added, the more transparent it becomes."

“The piece in the window has a bone powder ratio of over 48%, which makes it appear more translucent, but the probability of firing successfully is really too low.”

(Thin-bodied porcelain with 48% bone powder content)

Zhang Juzheng looked at it for a long time before he said sincerely, "Your Majesty, our Ming Dynasty craftsmen are truly amazing. How much silver does this bowl cost?"

Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "I plan to set the price at thirty taels of silver each. This thing is not that difficult to burn, because the thin-bodied porcelain used for foreign trade is called bone porcelain, but in fact it does not contain any bone powder."

Things like cow bones were used to make soup in the Ming Dynasty, so how could there be so much bone powder to make porcelain? Therefore, the bone china in the royal special supply is real bone powder, while the foreign trade version is added with quicklime.

"Gimmick?" Zhang Juzheng held the porcelain in his hand and was sure of one thing, that is, His Majesty really had a lot of tricks. With a simple packaging, the profit could be multiplied many times. High value-added products could bring more profits.

"A gimmick." Zhu Yijun walked to the next window, took out a foot of cotton cloth and handed it to Zhang Juzheng, saying with a smile: "Besides the new porcelain, this is it."

"It's a bit thin. This cotton cloth is even thinner than the rag." Zhang Juzheng said with a frown.

"Yes, it was done on purpose to reduce the thickness of the cotton cloth and increase the loss of cotton cloth." Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "It was for the sake of profit. When you are profit-oriented, this kind of thing will definitely happen."

"Very good." Zhang Juzheng had no intention of stopping him. There were many cotton spinning mills producing cotton cloth in the Ming Dynasty and the competition was too fierce. If the cotton cloth of one company was too thin, the next one would just buy it. Under fierce competition, only high-quality and low-priced goods could be sold and fully gain market share.

There is indeed a general understanding among meat eaters, but there are too many workshops producing cotton cloth.

"General Qi is going to escort a group of captives to Womagang to open a mine. There are about 20,000 people in total. They have already been castrated. Please send instructions to all places along the way to actively cooperate." Zhu Yijun talked about an incident in Qi Jiguang's memorial.

Qi Jiguang wanted to send the Japanese pirates to Siberia to grow potatoes.

The Womagang Mine is still some distance away from Siberia, but not very far. The Japanese pirates were captives of the Ming army, including more than 10,000 Hwarang accomplices. Qi Jiguang made a clear classification of the prisoners of war. The civilians who were trapped were rescued and asked to repeatedly identify the Hwarang. Together with the 7,000 Japanese pirates, they made up this group of prisoners.

These were all evil beasts, wicked to the point of being rotten to the point of festering. Killing them as prisoners would be unlucky, but keeping them in Korea would be a disaster, so Qi Jiguang handed them over directly to the Liaodong Army and sent them to Womagang to grow potatoes!
The castration has been completed.

In the Ming Dynasty, castration was performed by picking off the bell, which was then done with a small knife, a little squeeze, and a pair of scissors. A skilled worker would take less than half a minute to castrate a pig. It was quick, accurate, and ruthless, and it was not easy to get sick. It was as simple as knocking a pig in the village.

Zhang Juzheng communicated the details with the emperor and found something strange. That is, when the Japanese pirates heard that they would be fed while working, they kowtowed repeatedly and expressed their surprise. This was because these Japanese pirates, apart from the insignificant rations that could only fill their stomachs, had to rely on robbing for everything else.

"Your Majesty, recently an imperial censor from the Censorate impeached Sishui Marquis Guo Zhengmao, saying that the drug prohibition was too strict and even a bit cruel." Zhang Juzheng talked about the recent criticisms of the Censorate.

"Whoever shouts the loudest, let him go to Luzon and tell the Marquis of Sishui himself." Zhu Yijun directly rejected this impeachment. He said bluntly: "I have to coax the Luzon Governor's Office and marry the eldest princess there. They are so capable, go and correct them yourself."

Zhang Juzheng was silent for a moment and then said, "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Sishui recently beheaded 1,200 drug dealers at the port of Manila. More than 30,000 people were arrested and thrown into hard labor in copper towns and plantations. During the arrest process, at least 3,000 people died in the conflict."

Zhang Juzheng also felt that Yin Zhengmao had gone too far, so he sent out troops to crack down on drug trafficking. In Cebu Island alone, more than 3,000 people were killed in the destruction of opium fields. He then executed 1,200 people openly and sentenced 30,000 people to 20 years of hard labor.

These days, that's the equivalent of working yourself to death in the mines and on the plantations, and the scope of this impact is too wide.

This was still a sentence. More than 70,000 people in Luzon were whipped.

Drug enforcement is indeed effective.

"Good job, kill more!" Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "Master once told me that overcorrection is inevitable. Wang Cifu told me that fighting evil cannot be legal. Legal means not fighting evil."

"Our local government offices in the Ming Dynasty are closely connected with these local nobles, and most of these gangs in the city and bandits outside the city are related to these nobles."

"It's getting serious. In order to crack down on drugs and fight crime, is it possible to set up a department to monitor local crime prevention and then set up another department to monitor this department? Isn't this nonsense?"

In terms of administrative costs, it is absolutely impossible to legally enforce drug control, fight crime, and suppress bandits. First, the administrative costs are high. Second, wherever the situation is serious, the government offices have long been infiltrated to the point where they are as close as a family. Even the emperor knows about it, so taking direct and heavy-handed measures is the only correct answer.

Are there unjust, false and wrongful convictions? Of course there are, and there are many, but the imperial court is not omnipotent. The best way for the people to avoid being involved in such matters is to stay away from them.

"Anyway, most of the dead were sea barbarians." Zhu Yijun said without much concern. Yin Zhengmao did commit murder, but only a negligible 5% of them were Ming people, and the rest were natives, which was even better.

People knew that this was a drug enforcement operation, but those who didn't thought that Yin Zhengmao was arresting slaves under the guise of drug enforcement. The reason why Zhang Juzheng mentioned this matter in front of His Majesty was that he suspected that Yin Zhengmao was arresting slaves.

"That's true." Zhang Juzheng thought about it and agreed with his majesty's decision. Since the emperor allowed the tobacco monopoly, Yin Zhengmao has started a complete anti-drug war. The war even spread from Davao City to Borneo and Yuanxu Islands. Five hundred thousand kilograms of opium were destroyed and a large amount of opium was burned with lime water.

Yin Zhengmao did not engage in the opium business and sell it to the West to make a fortune, but destroyed it.

(End of this chapter)