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Chapter 798 Take your silver and put my name on it!
The winding mountain roads of the Japanese-style castles are the nightmare of the cold weapon era. It is the final product of a hundred years of war in Japan and one of the reasons for the endless wars in Japan.

Whoever wants to unify Japan must face such turtle shells. Each mountain city requires a large number of lives to be built, and huge manpower, material resources and people's hearts are paid to wipe out the mountain city.

Once you become weak, others will take advantage of the situation and capture your poorly defended mountain city.

The already fragmented Japanese nation became even more fragmented because of the existence of the mountain city.

The solution proposed by Oda Nobunaga and Hashiba Hideyoshi was one city per country. Only one mountain castle was allowed to exist in a country under the ordovician system. If more mountain castles were built, they would face the risk of being attacked by daimyos from all over the world.

This decree was not implemented in the area under the jurisdiction of Oda Nobunaga, because in the process of unification, if one's own territory was also a country or a city, one would have to face endless harassment from the enemy.

This is only possible after unification.

The reason why Japanese-style castles could change the political landscape of Japan was entirely because Japan lacked gunpowder, artillery, and armor.

When facing a mountain city like this, if you don't want to suffer heavy casualties among the soldiers, the best way is to surround it without attacking. After all, it is difficult to supply a mountain city and it is difficult to farm on the mountain, but besieging a city is extremely expensive.

To besiege a city, one needs to have twice as many troops as the enemy, and the amount of food and fodder consumed by the men and horses would be an astronomical figure.

Qi Jiguang ordered an attack on Zhongzhou City. Chen Dacheng had already described in detail how Zhongzhou was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and hoped that all units would be prepared for a certain degree of casualties.

The next morning, at daybreak, hundreds of boats appeared on the other side of the Tanqintai River, blocking the entire river surface. The dull sound of drums, beating again and again, woke up the dawn.

The sound of horns pierced the sky, and ships of all sizes rushed towards the other side of the Han River.

The Ming Dynasty's attack began.

The 24,000 volunteer soldiers led by Yi Sun-sin began to cross the river. Their goal was to attract the maximum attention of the Japanese pirates in Chungju and delay the time for the flank attack.

Qi Jiguang's mission for Lee Sun-sin was to lead his men to attack Tanqin Terrace and attract the attention of the Japanese pirates. Even if it was only for half an hour, it would allow the Ming army to cross the river smoothly.

As long as the Ming army could successfully cross the river on both sides and deploy its battle formation, the recovery of Zhongzhou would be a foregone conclusion. No matter what happened, even if all the gunpowder in the rear was blown up, it would not hinder the Zhongzhou offensive.

The Ming army had been fighting entirely with firearms for just over a year, and the elite soldiers of the Ming capital camp and the Liaodong army had undergone extremely rigorous training in cold weapon techniques.

The Japanese pirates in Zhongzhou had long noticed the unusual movements on the other side of the river.

There were crowds of ships, all kinds of food and fodder loaded onto the ships, and soldiers on the other side of the river were ready for battle. When the horn sounded, the Japanese pirates also began to attack halfway across the river. They had no cannons, but they had all kinds of catapults. Stones coated with various oils were set on fire and thrown by the catapults towards the ships crossing the river.

All flat-bottomed canals were manufactured at the Han River Shipyard. They were originally used to transport food, gunpowder, armor and other items along the Han River, but are now used to transport troops.

Japan's defense was already very tight, and its morale did not collapse due to successive defeats. One after another, the burning ships rushed to the riverside, and the Korean volunteers jumped off the boats and pounced on the Japanese pirates on the shore.

"Kill!" Li Shunchen jumped onto the shore and rushed forward at the lead.

Qi Jiguang put down the telescope and began to give orders. He asked the two brothers Ma Gui and Ma Jin to lead two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion to prepare to cross the river. This was an additional deployment.

The performance of the Korean rebels prompted Qi Jiguang to make temporary adjustments to his orders, because the Korean rebels were able to stably occupy the beachhead.

To be more specific, the Korean volunteers won the recognition and respect of Qi Jiguang, who believed that their role was not just to attract attention but could also carry out more in-depth combat missions.

The Korean rebels fought without any rules or strategies, without any waves or formations. They were less than 10% armored, had no firearms, no bows and arrows, and were even a little ragged. They only had the long and short weapons issued by the Ming court.

But despite such simple equipment, the morale of the Korean volunteers was high.

The defensive fortifications of the Japanese pirates guarding Tanqintai were broken one after another by a desperate fighting method.

Li Shunchen's Korean volunteer army did not care about their own casualties at all. They rushed forward madly, using all the weapons and forces they could to kill the Japanese pirates who invaded their homeland. The fearless army wiped out the defensive positions of the Japanese pirates on the beach with great momentum and rushed deep into the enemy territory.

Lao Tzu once said: People do not fear death, so how can you scare them with death?

Once the people are no longer afraid of death, then death cannot be used to scare them. The Korean volunteers who failed to complete their revenge may find living a more miserable life than death.

In other words, they have already died, hatred dominates their bodies, and revenge is their only goal in life.

If you want your feint to be effective, you must make it as powerful as a main attack.

Li Shunchen did it. The feint attack turned into the main attack. Ma Gui and Ma Jin, two generals from Xuanfu Datong, led the infantry and artillery battalions to cross the river to support the Korean rebel army.

When the Ming Dynasty's artillery was placed at the foot of Jiming Mountain and Dalin Mountain, it was too late for Zhongzhou to provide support.

Zhongzhou was also unable to provide support because it was unable to take care of itself.

Whether it was the fox relying on the tiger's power or the dog relying on the power of the master, with the support of the Ming infantry battalion and artillery, the morale of the Korean army was boosted again, and the Japanese pirates' defense line outside Chungju City collapsed in just three hours.

The fragile walls of Zhongzhou City could not withstand the artillery bombardment of the Ming army and were on the verge of collapse.

At the foot of Jiming Mountain, the Ming Dynasty's nine-jin artillery had begun to unleash its firepower. The entrance to the mountain city had been completely destroyed under the dense artillery coverage.

The garrison commander Zhao Ji put on his helmet, and behind him were 330 men, 30 teams. This was the Xianzhen Camp. All the soldiers in the Xianzhen Camp were selected elite soldiers, charging in the front, with the highest casualty rate, the most rewards, and the most luxurious equipment.

The Xianzhen Camp has only one goal, to go up the mountain.

All the strongholds on both sides of the mountain road were eliminated to prepare for the subsequent heavy infantry to enter the city. At the same time, the castle tower was attacked to completely undermine the enemy's will to resist.

Each infantry battalion has a trap camp, and the selection of the vanguard and first to climb the ladder is extremely strict.

First of all, you have to be able to afford to wear armor. The standard armor is five feet seven inches, which means you have to be five feet seven inches (190cm) tall to wear such armor.

If you are under five feet seven inches tall, you are not even eligible to participate in the selection.

The weight is 200 kilograms, and full body armor requires physical strength. Without sufficient physical strength, it is difficult to even move in a full body armor of 53 kilograms, let alone fight.

As for height and weight, these two items can eliminate many elite soldiers of the Beijing Camp. The vanguards who are selected first will be the elite among the elite.

For the Ming Dynasty's Beijing Army, they don't have to worry about what happens after they die. Even from the most utilitarian point of view, the pension they receive after dying on the battlefield is more than what they would receive if they were a sharp soldier in the Beijing Army for a lifetime.

The soldiers are not stupid. They have calculated that the pensions given by His Majesty, the additional schools, and the benefits that can be inherited for three generations, all together can be converted into two thousand five hundred silver coins, or even more, because of the priority admission to the Military Academy, which is a privilege that cannot be bought with money.

And a sharp soldier in the Beijing camp, even if he started to serve in the army from the womb, and worked for seventy years, all he could gain would be only about two thousand one hundred silver coins.

In fact, sometimes the soldiers felt that His Majesty really didn’t need to pay so much. Paying full pay would be enough to make them fight for their lives.

"Click."

Zhao Ji put on his helmet, took out a very small dragon flag and pasted it on his iron armor. The dragon flag was only three inches in size, vermilion in color, and looked extremely calm.

The three-inch round dragon flag sticker was issued by His Majesty for the purpose of encouragement. Only in the event of a life-and-death battle will it be taken out and attached to the body. It represents fighting for the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will never forget your contribution.

The three-inch round dragon flag sticker has another meaning, which is that anyone without the round dragon flag sticker is an enemy, regardless of gender, age or status.

There were female samurai in Japan. They had a special weapon called the naginata. One of the three men who died in the Battle of Pyongyang from the Ming Dynasty's Jingying was Lü Jinlin from the Infantry Battalion. He was unaware of the existence of female samurai and died from the naginata.

This is a lesson, so once the three-inch round dragon flag is released, it means that no one will be left alive in the mountain city.

Your Majesty's intention in issuing this document is very clear: the soldiers on the front line do not have to worry, all the charges for killing will be borne by the emperor, and if there is any retribution, it will be the emperor, not the soldiers, because the soldiers only obey the emperor's orders.

Three hundred soldiers in iron armor wearing helmets stood two hundred steps away from the entrance of the mountain city, standing there quietly like a city wall. The golden light of the morning sun shone on them, making them shine brightly.

The exciting horn sounded.

"Kill!" Zhao Ji drew out his Qi family military knife and pointed it at the mountain city ahead. After giving the order, he raised his foot and slowly and firmly walked towards the entrance of the collapsed building at the foot of the mountain city.

The advance of the Ming army was like a moving city wall. This was the attack of the Ming army from the perspective of defending against Japanese pirates!
Cannons, bows and arrows, long and short weapons, were unable to cause effective killing. It was more like climbing a mountain than attacking.

Zhao Ji raised his hand and grabbed a naginata that was sticking out from the steps. He pulled it hard and pulled down a female warrior. With a clean cut of the sword, he cut her neck and freed her from this sea of ​​sin.

The iron armor has gauntlets, which are gloves made of steel.

Female warriors were even more miserable than male warriors. Sometimes, they had to provide some special functions, such as serving as military prostitutes in teahouses.

It was the teahouse with the inscription "A real man serves his life in the battlefield and sharpens his spear; a little woman devotes her life to her country and opens the door to her husband" and the horizontal banner "Sacrifice one's life for the country" that Ling Yunyi saw before entering Seoul.

For the female warrior, this place is no less than hell, and death is a relief.

The trap camp continued to move forward. Their steps were slow, but they took one step at a time and eliminated all the strongholds along the way one by one. Their method of breaking the door was not simple either. They just used force and a running start to knock the wooden iron door open, and then killed the people inside.

Sometimes, when we came across a place with a cellar, we would light some firewood and throw it in, and if anyone showed their head, we would kick it down.

The heavy infantry's attack was relatively slow. They attacked upwards, climbed the mountain roads and built fortifications. Each step would have resulted in huge casualties. However, the heavy infantry took one step at a time and it took a full six hours for the Ming army to successfully climb to the top of the mountain and clear Jiming Mountain. The Ming army's record was zero casualties.

Compared to the relaxed and carefree battle at Jiming Mountain, the battlefield in Zhongzhou was extremely bloody.

Ma Gui repeatedly emphasized that Yi Sun-sin should restrain the Korean volunteers, wait for the artillery bombardment to suppress the Japanese pirates defending the city, and then charge after opening a breakthrough, otherwise there would be unnecessary casualties. The Korean volunteers listened, but when they started the charge, all the waves were in chaos.

The Korean rebels swarmed up the collapsed city walls and, after suffering heavy casualties, captured the outer city of Chungju.

On the first day of the Battle of Chungju, the Ming army captured Tanqin Terrace, Jiming Mountain, Dalin Mountain, and the outer city of Chungju.

The next day, Chungju Castle, Houshan, and Seokjong Temple were captured;

On the third day, Nanshan Mountain City was breached. The resistance of Nanshan Mountain City was the most fierce, and it even repelled an attack by the Ming army.

The Japanese pirates got hold of a kind of fierce fire oil tank that could spit out flames over a meter long. The Ming army did not know about this thing during their first attack and suffered heavy casualties. They only withdrew from the battlefield after four of their best soldiers were sent to cover the rear. After retreating, they repeatedly tested it and finally determined that this kind of fierce fire oil tank was extremely rare.

After several rounds of artillery bombardment, the Ming heavy infantry finally broke through the Nanshan Mountain City. In the end, the entire Nanshan Mountain City was burned down by the Ming.

"General Qi! Urgent news! In Seoul, Yangpyeong, and Lizhou, a total of thirteen gunpowder depots were attacked by Japanese pirates' spies, and more than 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder were lost!" A Duntai Yuanhou rushed into the central military tent of the Wanfu Pagoda camp on Tianzi Mountain and reported an urgent report!

The generals who were originally celebrating the great victory in Chungju all changed their expressions drastically when they heard the news!

It’s a good thing that I hit it quickly!
Otherwise, when the battle was in full swing, such bad news came, what would happen to the morale? It was still unknown what direction the battlefield would take.

In order to avoid any further complications, the Ming army put all its efforts into this campaign and even sent out the Xianzhen Camp. Given the terrain of Zhongzhou, it was extremely advantageous for the defenders.

If they could not break through quickly, the Ming army would have no choice but to retreat to Lizhou and make long-term plans.

"Fortunately, the Japanese pirates are now in a major defeat and unable to organize a counterattack." Chen Dacheng said with lingering fear.

Qi Jiguang looked at the crowd and said with a smile: "It's okay, the loss is not serious. There are still 40,000 kilograms of gunpowder on the front line and 110,000 kilograms of gunpowder in the rear. Even if we hold on, we can wait for logistics to be replenished."

Qi Jiguang, Chen Lin, the commanders of the army and navy, all knew very well that the Penglai Huang family was never just a cover for the emperor to go out of the palace for fun. There were 300,000 kilograms of gunpowder stored in Penglai, which could be replenished to Seoul within three to five days if needed.

Moreover, after taking Zhongzhou City, the army on the front line still had 40,000 kilograms of gunpowder. If used sparingly, it could last for several months.

The Ming army explored the use of all-firearms warfare. It did not mean that they could not fight without gunpowder. On the contrary, without gunpowder, the Ming army was still able to crush Japan.

Of course, the Ming army’s gunpowder has always been oversaturated.

Qi Jiguang attached great importance to logistics, and even the long-planned raid by the Japanese pirates did not cause any fatal casualties.

"I'm afraid it's due to collusion between the inside and outside." Li Rusong said solemnly, "The gunpowder depot has always been heavily guarded. The Japanese pirates can't even find it, let alone blow it up."

"How did the location of the gunpowder magazine leak? How did someone sneak into the heavily guarded gunpowder magazine? These all require careful investigation."

The Ming army was highly dependent on firearms, so naturally they were very careful in protecting their gunpowder. This would have been impossible to accomplish without the collusion of an insider.

"Leave it to Governor Ling." Qi Jiguang said solemnly, "We need to conduct an internal review. We can take advantage of the gap in the attack to find out if there is a traitor."

Emotionally, Qi Jiguang could not accept the fact that there was a traitor in the Ming army, but when leading troops into battle, he had to eliminate all hidden dangers.

Ling Yunyi was very angry and the consequences were very serious. In just five days, Ling Yunyi dispatched his own foreign soldiers and 10,000 Liaodong troops to arrest more than 50,000 people and interrogate them strictly. Anyone who had contact with gunpowder was not spared, even the elderly over 70 years old.

Pass each level one by one!

The reason why Ling Yunyi was so angry was not because he felt sorry for the gunpowder.

Your Majesty has plenty of gunpowder. Thirteen places were blown up and 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder were used to set off fireworks. It is not scary. Ling Yunyi was afraid that the merchants and couriers who followed the army leaked the news.

This meant that something had gone wrong within the Ming Dynasty, and that unacceptable chaos and losses had occurred. Ling Yunyi, who had suggested the meat grinder tactic, bore an unshirkable responsibility.

But the results of the investigation were unexpected: it was done by North Koreans.

To be precise, it was the Korean civil and military officials who slipped through the net and organized this operation in collaboration with the Japanese pirates.

All the criminals in the case were sent to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, including 17 Han people. These 17 Han people were all from Liaodong. They were suspects involved in the case. They were involved in it, but they had only a slight connection with it.

Nearly a month had passed since the victory in Chungju, and the Shenxian wine from Songjiang Prefecture came out on top, earning the reputation of being the best wine in the world. On June 17th, Zhu Yijun received good news from Korea, the victory in Chungju and a pile of case files.

When Zheng He captured the King of Ceylon in Ceylon, he also brought the King and his son back to the Ming Dynasty to prevent the emperor from thinking that Zheng He was doing something wrong.

Handing over major cases to the court for trial can avoid endless trouble, especially the mouths of censors.

"According to the memorial, these 17 Liaodong soldiers were only acquainted with the remnants of the civil and military classes. Are they also to be arrested?" Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial and asked solemnly, "General Ti, have they been interrogated?"

Zhao Mengyou bowed his head and said, "We have interrogated them. It is true that they are just acquaintances. There is no money exchange. The three of them are responsible for recruiting laborers and transporting food and grass. For the recruitment of laborers, these remnants of the civil and military classes have some connections and can help."

"I really didn't expect them to be so bold."

The Northern Pacification Office examined a new file, in which the 17 Liaodong soldiers even confessed to peeping into the women's bathhouse when they were children. They did not accept bribes and did not have any subjective intent. They just wanted to complete the recruitment of forced labor.

"The seventeen Liaodong soldiers were more or less corrupt. The most corrupt took nearly two hundred taels of silver, but none of them were related to gunpowder." Zhao Mengyou told the emperor that these seventeen soldiers were not very clean either. Relying on their status as Liaodong soldiers, they took a lot of silver in Korea.

But they didn’t take things that they shouldn’t have taken, such as such important matters as transporting gunpowder.

"Is there a murder case?" Zhu Yijun asked.

Zhao Mengyou shook his head and replied: "Twelve people have the merit of beheading people. The most is that one soldier killed seven Japanese. There is no case of taking human lives lightly."

Zhu Yijun finished reading all the case files and said with a smile: "Then let them go, and don't go back to Liaodong. Ningyuan Hou has a bad temper. After losing such a big man, I'm afraid he will kill them and send them to Luzon to serve as guards in the Governor's Office for the Lord Guoxing."

"General Ti, do you think that the Ming Dynasty's powerful and powerful people really did not participate in the gunpowder burning this time?"

Zhao Mengyou thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "All the evidence and confessions so far show that no powerful and powerful people from the Ming Dynasty were involved."

"Your Majesty, the war in the southeast has lasted for more than 20 years, and the pain it has caused is not only on the southeast coast, but also in the north."

"At that time, the imperial court had to allocate manpower and resources to suppress the Japanese pirates in the southeast, which resulted in the court being able to defend but not attack in the conflict with Altan Khan in the northwest. To some extent, the northern barbarians and Japanese pirates led by Altan Khan formed a pincer attack on the Ming Dynasty from the north and south, which made the Ming Dynasty overwhelmed."

Zhao Mengyou is over 40 years old. Your Majesty is not an experienced person, but Zhao Mengyou has experienced it personally. He knows that at that time, the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil and precarious, and it looked like it was about to end in decadence.

At that time, people had already begun to doubt.

Even the most loyal ministers would wonder in their hearts whether the Ming Dynasty's reign has come to an end.

This was also the main reason why Zhang Juzheng was able to launch the Wanli Reform. The Ming Dynasty was really too bad, so bad that everyone agreed to reform to keep order going.

The biggest beneficiaries of the Wanli Restoration in the Ming Dynasty were still the old powerful and wealthy people, as well as the local gentry. They were all wealthy themselves, and gained even more wealth during the Wanli Restoration.

Among the emerging bourgeoisie, seven out of ten are powerful and wealthy themselves, such as Sun Kehong's family in Songjiang Prefecture, which is a family with a history of thousands of years.

How could these aristocratic families that have been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years perish so easily?
They are very good at changing with the times and have a strong ability to adapt. When the wind direction in the Ming Dynasty changed, they would take advantage of the situation and go to make a fortune.

"Your Majesty, the master has arrived." A eunuch walked in and reported.

"Xuan."

Zhang Juzheng also came for the burning of 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder. From the results, the Ming Dynasty suffered an additional loss of 150,000 kilograms of gunpowder and seized the Zhongzhou territory, where the terrain was extremely favorable to the Japanese pirates.

Zhang Juzheng had already read through the case files before he arrived. He said solemnly, "I think this matter has little to do with the powerful and wealthy."

"If we really want to interrupt the progress of the Wanli Reform, we have to ignite the gunpowder in Tianjin Tanggu Port. There are still 1.3 million kilograms of gunpowder there. It will be useless to blow up the gunpowder on the front line."

"It's more like the remnants of the old Joseon court and the Japanese pirates joined forces to force the Ming army to attack Chungju, taking risks and resisting desperately."

Zhang Juzheng felt that your Majesty's cautious attitude of anticipating the enemy and being lenient was excellent.

But Your Majesty is being too lenient in your assessment of the enemy.

"These criminals, including the civil and military officials, Japanese pirates, etc., should be sent to the exhumation hospital as specimens." Zhu Yijun gave the result of the disposal. If no new decisive evidence emerges in the follow-up investigation, after three re-reports, the fate of these people will be determined.

"It is the performance of the Korean rebel army this time that makes me look at them with new eyes." Zhu Yijun picked up Qi Jiguang's victory report. The main force of the Zhongzhou victory was not the Ming army, but the Korean rebel army.

A total of 4500 Korean volunteers were killed. The army, which had only people, did not collapse even though of them were killed. Instead, they captured Chungju in one go.

A total of seven Ming soldiers were killed, including six who were the first to charge into the enemy line and one elite soldier from the Beijing camp.

"Your courage is commendable." Zhu Yijun gave these four words to this group of volunteers, praising their bravery in fighting. They might have been fighting just for themselves, but as an emperor, Zhu Yijun still had to praise and reward them.

"In Yi Sun's hands, the Korean army could lose the whole of Korea in 30 days, but in Yi Sun-sin's hands, it can be pulled out of the tiger's mouth. Your Majesty, after the war, Yi Sun-sin and the volunteer army he led cannot be left in Korea. Send them to Japan to destroy Japan." Zhang Juzheng reminded the emperor to be careful of the formation of a new core in Korea.

The Ming dynasty spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources, but in the end, it helped Yi Sun-sin. Didn't the Ming emperor make a losing deal? How should he explain this to the Ming dynasty?
"I've made note of it." Zhu Yijun nodded and agreed.

"How is the matter of asking the powerful and wealthy officials in the capital to donate money to establish a normal school going?" Zhu Yijun talked about begging for alms. The court was out of money, and the emperor wanted to borrow money to develop. However, the powerful and wealthy officials did not help His Majesty the Emperor to solve his problems. This was disloyalty!
Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said, "No one is refusing to donate. We are still scared of the way His Royal Highness Prince Lu tortured us last time. This time, each family is donating 5,000 silver coins, which is really not too much."

The emperor was very reasonable in his actions, while Prince Lu was unreasonable. Last time, he asked each wealthy household in Xitu City to pledge a donation of 50,000 silver coins, and if they refused, his house would be broken into. This frightened the wealthy households. In comparison, the emperor only asked for 5,000 silver coins at most, and even erected a monument to commemorate their achievements.

Five thousand silver coins really can't buy an inscription that will go down in history.

The Ming Dynasty exists, China exists, the Imperial Normal University exists, the inscriptions exist, the school annals exist, and these wealthy families will be remembered for generations to come, and they may even have statues erected for them. It's really not that expensive.

Some people lamented that in the eyes of His Majesty, their family was too poor and they were only given a donation share of one thousand silver coins, so they had to rank at the bottom in the ranking for erecting the monument.

Once it comes to things like ranking, even the most powerful and wealthy will find it difficult to remain calm, especially when it comes to the kind of ranking that serves to establish a monument and a name.

Zhang Juzheng said with a strange expression: "The Yao family, a wealthy family in Xitu City, hopes to claim all the two million silver coins from the Normal University. We don't ask for anything else, just to leave our name behind."

The development of the matter was beyond Zhang Juzheng's expectations.

Wang Chonggu has a Chonggu Road, the inscription written by the emperor himself is more important than the ancestral tablets of their family! Every year, they go to the inscription to burn incense.

The Yao family’s meaning is also very clear: take your silver and put my name on it!
"Wang Xiyuan refused to accept it and finally only took 200,000 silver coins and promised to build a building in the Normal University called Yaoxing Building. The Yao family happily set off firecrackers and held a buffet for three days." Zhang Juzheng added the details.

Two hundred thousand silver coins can buy the cultural heritage. These big families have been able to continue for thousands of years. They are definitely not stupid, they are just bad.

(End of this chapter)