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Chapter 763 Recapture Seoul and capture Qi Jiguang alive!

Ling Yunyi is an extremely ruthless person. Ever since he dealt with the rebellion of the Yao people in Luoding, he has been very fond of going to extremes and using extreme violence to resolve difficult conflicts. His extreme personality is not very suitable for court decision-making, because court decision-making sometimes requires tolerance and compromise for the sake of the country.

In Ling Yunyi's view, it is not a problem for Ming Dynasty to conquer Korea. After conquering it, the main contradiction will be the contradiction between the old people who miss their homeland and the counties and prefectures under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. How to win the hearts of the people in the game and gain the recognition of the majority is the top priority facing Ling Yunyi.

This group of people still yearn for the collapsed Korean royal family because they have benefited a lot from the Korean royal family. If these few people spread rumors among the crowd, it will cause greater harm.

For example, during the Ming Dynasty's process of conquering Suiyuan, it also encountered stubborn villains such as officials in Suiyuan City who made up excuses and craftsmen in the official woolen cloth factory who stole finely spun woolen cloth for huge profits to support them.

What Ling Yunyi has to do in North Korea is to keep rubbing salt into the hearts of the North Koreans, using all the means he can to make the North Koreans remember the pain forever, so that they will cherish their hard-earned lives.

This teahouse built by Japan is a pillar of shame. It was shameful enough in the past, and no one wants to miss it.

"Leave the internal affairs to Ling Bu Tang, and I will only focus on fighting the war." Qi Jiguang thought about it and felt that Ling Yunyi's method was better.

Sharing a common hatred for a common enemy and being grateful are both centripetal forces, and this centripetal force does not distinguish between good and bad.

Ling Yunyi's carriage continued to move forward, stopping occasionally, and finally arrived at the Ying'en Gate. The Ying'en Gate was built in the fifth year of Yongle. It is a typical Chinese archway building. Later, the Korean royal family built the Yingbin Hotel and Muhua Tower around the Ying'en Gate. When the Ming envoys came with the imperial edict, they stayed in the Yingbin Hotel.

Now all of this has been destroyed, and the Ming soldiers are clearing the ruins. Apparently, before it was burned down, this was also a teahouse, where Korean women were abducted, raped and abused.

"General Qi, it is very easy for the Ming Dynasty to fall into a deadlock. The stronger the military force, the more it can deter the enemy, and the fewer situations in which it will need to use force. The fewer opportunities there are to use force, the more people will agree with the idea of ​​reviving the civil and military forces. This is not a question of whether the Ming Dynasty can afford it, but a deadlock."

"The stronger the army becomes, the weaker it becomes." Ling Yunyi witnessed the Ming army's battles with his own eyes.

"In the past, I brought foreign soldiers back to the capital and fought against the Beijing camp. The Beijing camp narrowly won. At that time, I was thinking, hey, the Beijing camp's elite soldiers are nothing special. But now it seems that I was wrong." Ling Yunyi talked about the old things. He brought foreign soldiers to fight against the Beijing camp. He didn't win, but he didn't lose much.

But looking back now, it was actually the Beijing camp that gave him face. With the firearms array deployed, there was really no need to fight. It would have been good if they could surrender.

"The stronger the army, the weaker it will be." Qi Jiguang shook his head helplessly. It was very expensive to maintain so many elite troops. Once the times were peaceful, disarmament would become inevitable. This was a dead end. Qi Jiguang knew that Ling Yunyi was not exaggerating.

Ling Yunyi said with a relaxed expression: "Your Majesty is trying to take a different path, that is, to explore. Now that overseas is being explored, this deadlock will enter another cycle."

"The stronger the navy is, the faster we can expand overseas, and the stronger the Beijing Army must be. If the suzerain state is counterattacked by the overseas governor-general's office or vassal states one day, it will be a huge joke. It seems a bit like warmongering. If there is no overseas interest support, this cycle of getting stronger and stronger will collapse."

"Hey, is this what His Majesty said to Governor Ling?" Qi Jiguang thought about it carefully and it seemed to be true.

Because the Ming Dynasty is in the process of primitive accumulation, the Ming Dynasty is already very rich, but it can be richer. Your Majesty has a clear path in his mind, and he will continue to follow it no matter how difficult it is. This accumulation is extremely bloody, and it will either cost the flesh and blood of the Ming people or the flesh and blood of the overseas barbarians.

Ling Yunyi smiled and shook his head and said, "No, Your Majesty didn't tell me this. I read it in the third volume."

"In that case, I should take a good look at the third volume." Qi Jiguang was a little annoyed. He was so busy with the war that he had no time to read the third volume carefully. He felt like he was out of touch.

The third volume talks about struggle and game, and a methodology for reaching consensus through game among various classes.

Ling Yunyi and Qi Jiguang chatted and gained a deeper understanding of North Korea.

After Lee Seong-gye established the Joseon Dynasty, he learned the land system of the Ming Dynasty and began to compile the Yellow Book and Fish Scale Book of Korea, measure the land across the country, and implement the land system, which means that all land belongs to the public. Land is granted to the two classes, and 18 categories are established to grant land at different levels.

Lee Seong-gye had a good idea. He would divide the land among others, and then take it back after they died. But Lee Seong-gye obviously had not considered one question: once the land was divided, would it be possible to take it back?

After just seventy years, the Ketian system was terminated because there was not enough land to distribute, and it was replaced by the Zhitian system. The salary of each acre of Zhitian was three dou of millet and one wei of grass, which were given to the civil and military officials as salaries.

In the third year of the Hongzhi reign, the official land system existed in name only. Although salaries still existed in name, the Korean royal family was completely unable to pay them.

"Since the official land system was abolished in the third year of Hongzhi, what land system did Korea use after that?" Ling Yunyi frowned and asked in confusion.

Qi Jiguang spread his hands and said, "There is no land system."

"Uh... there is no land system." Ling Yunyi understood that because Korea was able to suppress the Japanese pirates in the early days of the country, this time, it had no ability to resist the Japanese invasion and was directly conquered.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, only the Song Dynasty did not establish a land system and allowed land to be annexed. Allowing annexation encouraged farmers to go bankrupt. Without good family sons, there would be no source of soldiers, and the military strength would be weak. The lack of military preparations was the norm.

It is no surprise that North Korea lost like this.

Qi Jiguang said with a heavy face: "Since the third year of Hongzhi, the Li family has successively handed over the fishing tax, salt tax, and ship tax to the powerful and influential people to privately occupy in order to consolidate their own position. Salt, iron, tea, wine, alum, coal, and firewood are all given to private people. Simply put, a pound of salt in Korea costs 320 coins."

"Are you crazy? Three hundred and twenty coins for a pound of salt?!" Ling Yunyi thought he was cruel enough, but he never expected that he was too kind!

Compared with those unkind guys in the Lee Dynasty of Korea, he is simply the best of the best!

A pound of salt was sold for 320 wen. In the capital of the Ming Dynasty, 10 pounds of salt was sold for 250 wen, which means a pound of salt was only 25 wen. This was because of population concentration. The price of salt increased four times. At the beginning, it was only 17 wen per pound.

The Korean royal family and powerful families are determined to sell it for three hundred and twenty wen!

"The largest salt producing area in Korea is in Sinan, Jeolla Province, and the price of salt is about 200 coins per catty." Qi Jiguang shook his head repeatedly. If the salt price in Zhejiang was the same, the court would not be able to support 3,000 foreign soldiers, let alone defeat the Japanese pirates.

"But in the salt-producing areas of Daming, a pound of salt is only seven cents." Ling Yunyi frowned and asked, "How do the Koreans survive with such expensive salt prices?"

"They live on vinegar and soy sauce." Qi Jiguang spread his hands and said, "There is a very famous nursery rhyme in Hancheng, called Platycodon Ballad. People sing it when they go to pick Platycodon. People sing it when they die. They hope that they will not be Hancheng people in their next life, even if they have to be dogs in the Ming Dynasty."

Even with the massive import of silver, prices in Ming Dynasty have been very stable, with almost no change over the years. Ming Dynasty's desire for silver and brass is unlimited. Even so, Ling Yunyi still feels that the people of Ming Dynasty are living a miserable life, shouting for war and killing all day long. But compared with North Korea, Ming Dynasty is indeed the Celestial Empire.

Ling Yunyi calls for war and killing, but compared with the North Korean carnivores, he is indeed a good man.

Qi Jiguang took a sip of tea and continued, "In fact, Li Cheng also thought of a solution. He discussed with the Ministry of Revenue and planned to implement the equal labor law, which was similar to the Ming Dynasty's single whip law. It would take the salt, iron, tea, wine, alum, coal, and firewood occupied by the powerful and influential people into public ownership. However, the Ministry of Revenue refused to agree because he was afraid of death."

"Yi Sun said to the Ministry of Revenue, 'If you are afraid of death, I will kill you now.' So he began to push for these monopoly matters to be brought under public ownership, but soon failed. The corruption in Joseon was even worse than that in Ming Dynasty. Various taxes began to appear, and the most outrageous one was that even the rain was taxed."

"What the hell?" Ling Yunyi looked at Qi Jiguang blankly and asked, "We have to collect taxes even when it rains?"

As a feudal monarchy, the Ming Dynasty was faced with the unavoidable problem of heavy taxes and levies in various pretexts. The only solution was to crack down on them when discovered. The Ming Dynasty was also trying to find a solution, using the Single Whip System to carry out tax reforms, but this was a rain tax that the Ming officials could not come up with no matter how hard they tried.

The Ming Dynasty had to use armed forces to collect land taxes because the people of the Ming Dynasty armed themselves to resist the taxes.

"The rain tax is collected according to the size of your house and land. It is said to be needed for the maintenance of ditches. One crop of brown rice in a paddy field is 30 dou, and one crop of miscellaneous grains in a dry field is 30 dou." Qi Jiguang flipped through an account book and handed it to Ling Yunyi.

The Joseon Dynasty considered land producing 20 shi of grain as one unit of land, which was the unit of land in Korea. It was then further divided into paddy fields and dry fields. The tax collected every year was the same, dou of rice.

"It's really crazy." Ling Yunyi leaned back in his chair and shook his head. There really were no monsters in North Korea, because monsters simply couldn't survive. The North Koreans couldn't eat it because it was too bitter.

It was just that Ling Yunyi was ignorant. If he knew that England even collected taxes on shrouds, he wouldn't be so surprised.

Qi Jiguang exhaled and said, "If you can't survive, just hide in the mountains and secretly buy salt from those private salt dealers. Then you can live in such a difficult situation. It's already difficult, and the Japanese pirates are coming again."

Qi Jiguang had been fighting in Korea for more than half a year. He was very familiar with the lives of Koreans. It was bad enough that he encountered carnivores like the Korean royal family and the civil and military officials. But then he encountered the Japanese pirates. There was no way out for him to survive.

This is actually the reason why there are so many Hwarang in North Korea. The Korean meat eaters treat them like pigs and dogs, but the Japanese pirates treat them like grass.

And it is a great fortune that the Ming Dynasty treats them as human beings.

Qi Jiguang and Ling Yunyi talked so much about the sufferings of Korea, but Ling Yunyi did not change his mind. Those sufferings were not caused by the Ming Dynasty and had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. If one wants to completely occupy a place, the most important thing is to use both kindness and force. Giving only kindness will only produce ungrateful people.

Ling Yunyi repeated to Qi Jiguang what he had said to His Majesty, and Qi Jiguang thought silently.

Ling Yunyi's plan has two prerequisites. The first prerequisite is that the Ming Dynasty has absolute initiative and the situation will not get out of control; the second prerequisite is that the Japanese pirates will not give up Zhongzhou.

Qi Jiguang was very confident about the absolute initiative. Zhongzhou was not a dangerous pass like Jiayuguan, Juyongguan and Shanhaiguan. With the support of artillery, it was easy to break through. By setting up a battle formation on the mountain roads and plains of Gyeonggi Province, it was not difficult to implement the meat grinder tactics.

As to whether the Japanese pirates would give up Zhongzhou, Qi Jiguang was not sure.

Qi Jiguang said solemnly: "In my opinion, the war has reached this point. The Japanese pirates should think about how to reduce losses, withdraw the samurai and foot soldiers back to the Japanese mainland, and use the Yamatai military port built by the Ming Dynasty as a defense point to prevent the Ming Dynasty from attacking the mainland from the direction of Korea. Landing operations are difficult, and the Yamatai military port is easy to defend but difficult to attack." "With such a huge gap in military strength, the only reasonable plan at this time is to retreat and defend with all our strength."

"But the Japanese pirates are different. To put it more simply, they won't turn back until they hit the wall, and they won't cry until they see the coffin."

Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese pirates for more than 20 years and he knew them very well.

The Japanese pirates were so crazy because their narrow territory doomed them to fight to the death. Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes were extremely frequent in Japan. Their narrow territory, frequent geological disasters, and precarious lives doomed Japan to easily go down a path of no return.

"I agree with your idea. It is not difficult to realize. It is simple to fight in rotation." Qi Jiguang also hesitated before, torn between a quick victory or a meat grinder tactic. Because the Koreans have experienced too much suffering and the war has been too long, a war in Korea is bound to cause more harm to civilians.

Qi Jiguang sympathized with the Koreans, but sympathy is sympathy. He should not learn from the Thirteen Departments of Jiaozhi, which is the historical lesson of the Ming Dynasty.

Ling Yunyi's statement was recognized by Qi Jiguang.

At this time, in Chungju City, the Japanese daimyos gathered together. Different from what Qi Jiguang thought, the overall atmosphere of the Japanese pirates was: recapture Seoul and capture Qi Jiguang alive!
The daimyo who had fought against the Ming army included Konishi Yukinaga, who was trampled to death by the fleeing Hwarang. Konishi Yukinaga was not even qualified to be a specimen because he was trampled to pieces and could barely be recognized.
Kato Kiyomasa was so scared at Kaesong that he dared not engage the Ming army in the Battle of Seoul and Incheon;
Toda Katsutaka was also captured alive by the Ming army, and was sent to the kegakuin after being presented as a prisoner to the emperor; Hashiba Hideyoshi killed a young man to take credit for his crime, and borrowed Hwarang's head for use;
When Mori Terumoto was in Incheon, he fled with his samurai before the battle even started, and ran straight back to the Japanese mainland.

"Everyone, if you are really stupid to this extent, my suggestion is to find a manure pit and make a compost yourself. There is no need to chatter here. Qi Jun's combat strength is rare in the world. You are shouting at me here. Okay, go ahead and I will collect your bodies." As the commander-in-chief, Hashiba Hideyoshi looked at the noisy tent and said sternly.

After a brief contact with the Ming army, the monkey Hashiba Hideyoshi expressed his attitude: whoever wants to go can go, but he will not go.

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"Who wants to go! Stand up now and I'll let you go!" Hashiba Hideyoshi said unhappily when he saw that the meeting in the big tent had finally quieted down.

"Hashiba Hideyoshi, you are a ronin, yet you dare to shake the morale of the army here!" Otomo Yoshitsugu slammed the table and said angrily.

The Japanese country had a strict hierarchy. Hashiba Hideyoshi's original name was Fujikichiro, not even a small surname. In Japan, small surnames were also a type of samurai, and were attendants serving kings, generals, and daimyo. Hashiba Hideyoshi's background was even worse.

In his early years, Hashiba Hideyoshi's father died in the war, so his mother remarried with him. His stepfather was tyrannical and beat him away. He was malnourished and thin as a child. He hated being called a monkey the most.

He didn't even have the qualifications to have a surname. Only after marrying Ningning could he have the surname "Kinoshita".

Therefore, in the eyes of many daimyo, Hashiba Hideyoshi was just a ronin, and compared with them, the nobles who had been daimyo for generations, he was extremely lowly.

Hashiba Hideyoshi looked at Otomo Yoshitsugu, smiled and said, "You are a lost dog, and you still have the nerve to call me a ronin? How did Kyushu Island get lost? Your Otomo family, as the overlord of Kyushu Island, was beaten by the Ming navy and fled in panic. Even your father died at the hands of Chen Lin!"

"It was a moment of carelessness! The Ming Dynasty had no moral principles and launched a surprise attack!" Otomo Yoshitsugu said with a stiff face. He was the 22nd head of the Otomo family, but since Kyushu Island was occupied by the Ming Dynasty and became part of the Nagasaki Governor's Office, he actually lost his fiefdom and became a dog without a home.

On October 15, the sixth year of the Wanli reign, after the Ming Dynasty occupied Kyushu Island, Tahara Yoshitaka, who lived in seclusion in Usuki Castle in Kaifu County, supported Otomo Yoshitsugu as the head of the family and sought to revive the Otomo clan. However, he was defeated by the Ming army again. Tahara Yoshitaka took Otomo Yoshitsugu into exile and defected to Oda Nobunaga.

In Otomo Yoshitsugu's view, the Ming army launched a sneak attack. If it had not taken advantage of the conflict between the Otomo family and the Shimazu family, how could the Ming Dynasty have easily captured Kyushu Island and established the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office?
"Stop talking nonsense. Tell me, do you want to take the initiative to fight, retake Seoul, and capture Qi Jiguang alive? Okay, you take your troops and go. I, Hashiba Hideyoshi, am incompetent. If you lose Seoul, I will deal with it myself. Since you think you can do it, go ahead." Hashiba Hideyoshi was too lazy to talk to Otomo Yoshitsugu, so it would be useless to say anything.

Hashiba Hideyoshi had no intention of stopping him, so he deserved to die.

Before Otomo Yoshitsugu reached Gyeonggi Province, he was discovered by the Ming army, and a small-scale blocking attack was launched. Otomo Yoshitsugu was soon defeated. However, the result of the battle was a bit subtle, that is, Otomo Yoshitsugu did not win, but he did not lose either.

This result shocked Hashiba Hideyoshi!
"Kato, did you see anything?" Hashiba Hideyoshi called Kato to his side and said solemnly, "Otomo Yoshitsugu led 3,000 people, but only more than 100 people died. Is this normal?"

Kato Kiyomasa said with a complicated expression: "One linear array volley should kill more than 300 people. I have a very bad feeling."

"I have the same feeling." Hashiba Hideyoshi whispered, "Qi Jun is probably deliberately pampering the Japanese pirates who have never been engaged in battle. His purpose is very clear, to destroy a large number of living forces on the Korean battlefield. It's very simple. It would be easy for Qi Jun to take Chungju, but now he doesn't take it and instead defends it. He is doing it on purpose."

Hideyoshi Hashiba had seen the power of the Ming artillery, and the wall of Chungzhou could not withstand three rounds of salvos.

"But the problem now is that the daimyo who have never fought with Qi Jun always think that Qi Jun is nothing special and has only a false reputation." Kato Kiyomasa sighed heavily. There were too many useless teammates and he couldn't lead them at all.

Hashiba Hideyoshi crossed his fingers, stretched them several times, and then shook his head and said, "I'm not afraid of being weak, I'm afraid of not knowing myself. Let them go, I'm not going anyway."

"I won't go either." Kato Kiyomasa said very clearly: "And I have arranged a ship in Busan. If there is any change, we will immediately flee... to the Yamatai military port."

"Okay." Hashiba Hideyoshi smiled and didn't say much. This was also his plan. He would not go and die, no matter how others gave it to him.

With Qi Jiguang deliberately letting the enemy win, the meat grinder of the Battle of Zhongzhou began to turn slowly. The Japanese pirates always felt that you and I were fighting, you occupied a high ground today, I can take it back tomorrow, and our strength was equal. Qi Jiguang and the Ming army were not as boastful as these defeated soldiers said. Those who boasted about the Ming army were just looking for excuses for their own defeat.

The Japanese pirate daimyos, who did not regard the foot soldiers as human beings and did not realize the horrific casualty ratio, quickly began to expand and started fighting with the Ming army between Chungju and Seoul.

When Zhu Yijun received the battle report from the front line, he was stunned for a long time. Ling Yunyi's method was good, but the biggest difficulty in execution was whether the Japanese pirates would cooperate. However, the Japanese pirates were fooled so directly, and the most difficult part of the meat grinder plan had been carried out smoothly.

"These Japanese pirates are really blinded by greed." Zhu Yijun reviewed General Qi's battle report and said to Feng Bao with a smile.

Feng Bao thought for a moment and shook his head, saying, "This is actually because General Qi, Li Rusong and their men fought well, making the battle line look precarious, and it seems that only a little effort is needed to collapse the Ming battle line. Every time the Japanese pirates put in more effort, the Ming army will increase their efforts, giving the Japanese pirates hope, but they are unable to defeat them, so they will continue to increase their efforts."

"Your Majesty, this may be General Qi's control over the battlefield. It is difficult for others to do it."

If the force is too great, people will be scared away; if the force is too small, the front line will collapse and the Ming Dynasty will suffer heavy losses. Even Zhu Yijun can see that it is very difficult to strike a balance here.

"The Japanese pirates are being led by the nose by the Ming army on the Korean battlefield." Zhu Yijun picked up the next memorial with a smile on his face. The smooth fighting on the front line made Zhu Yijun in a very good mood. Moreover, Qi Jiguang really started to fight in rotation. He withdrew three infantry battalions from Incheon back to Ming Dynasty and mobilized another three infantry battalions to Incheon.

Let the 100,000 elite troops of the Ming Dynasty’s capital camp go to the battlefield to see blood and increase their practical combat experience.

"The memorial from Shen Shixing, the governor of Songjiang and Zhejiang, is interesting." Zhu Yijun held the memorial in his hand and didn't know how to reply for a moment. Shen Shixing discussed a problem: that is the huge challenges that urbanization and mechanized production pose to the government's governing capacity and cost.

The Wanli Reform of the Ming Dynasty once again encountered challenges, and they were very severe challenges, as shown in "The Rise and Fall of an Era of Rapid Change".

The Wanli Reform was in full swing, and the Ming Dynasty was now in a period of rapid change. This rapid change meant that the old production relations began to go bankrupt under the impetus of the New Deal, and new production relations were constantly being established. The benefits were visible to the naked eye, but hidden dangers were lurking beneath the surface, with undercurrents surging.

The Ming Dynasty benefited greatly from the Wanli Reform. During its continuous development, the Ming Dynasty gradually formed a consensus. That is, the new policies such as the establishment of large-scale free employment production relations, the opening up of the sea, the abolition of slavery, etc., were integrated together to form the myth of "progress, development, and change."

The typical feature of this myth is the emergence of the Great Light Cult.

Even this myth gradually occupied the position of goodness in morality.

It seems that anyone who opposes the Wanli Reform must be conservative, backward, stubborn, a supporter of the old order, and evil.

But what is the cost of this myth?
During the time when Shen Shixing was managing Songjiang Prefecture, the phenomenon of population siphoning in Songjiang Prefecture became increasingly serious.

In just fourteen years, Songjiang Prefecture had a population of more than three million. These were living people with their own emotions, love and hate. A large number of disputes were bound to break out, and they were also accompanied by serious labor-capital conflicts. This put forward new demands on the court's management capabilities and increased the difficulty of governance.

Songjiang Prefecture has limited land and so many people, and the livelihoods of three million people are at stake. This is a huge matter for the local officials in Songjiang Prefecture.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was even more dangerous because it had too many people. It was like a strong man walking on the edge of a cliff. No matter it was under his feet or above his head, one wrong step would lead to eternal damnation.

Shen Shixing truly felt what it meant to be walking on thin ice.

The personal ownership of production relations in the small peasant economy has a huge advantage, which is the low cost of governance. An ordinary person will never leave the area within a hundred miles in his entire life, and there is a high degree of autonomy. Whether the imperial court can collect land and taxes or not does not actually affect the country, and it is extremely stable.

Governance is difficult and the management cost is high. Shanghai County has 3,000 yamen runners, which are often stretched to the limit. In addition, the number of firemen and night watchmen in the watchtowers is also increasing rapidly. Drainage, roads, water supply, coal supply, firewood, rice, oil and salt, everything has to be paid attention to. This is the huge cost of governance.

The most important thing is that Songjiang Prefecture cannot seek to take things slow and steady, but must resolve various conflicts forcefully, because Songjiang Prefecture is the bridgehead of the Wanli Reform and one of the iron horses of the Ming Dynasty. The influx of silver from the five major maritime customs offices is the most powerful driving force for the Wanli Reform.

The result of seeking stability and slowness is to achieve nothing. One must brave the waves and forge ahead with determination, and not allow any mistakes.

"Sir, you are the same. You enjoy watching the fun." Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng's floating ticket.

The floating ticket posted by Zhang Juzheng is even more interesting. It only has one sentence: The future prime minister of the cabinet should be appointed to Songjiang.

Zhang Juzheng meant that the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty should preferably have been trained in Songjiang Prefecture. If he could handle the intensity of the work and the complexity of the contradictions, then he would be like real gold that is not afraid of fire. When he reaches the position of Prime Minister, even if he is greedy, he will not lead the country into trouble.

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