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Chapter 843: Iron Bones Forge the Sea for Eternity, and a New Heaven Will Come

The Ming Dynasty established the Datieling Guard and the Jinchi Governor's Office in Juezhou, which was of great significance to the Ming Dynasty and provided the necessary material conditions for the Ming Dynasty to transform from a land power to a sea power.

The iron and gold mines in Juezhou are simply inexhaustible. At least with the current productivity of the Ming Dynasty, they cannot be fully mined even after the Ming Dynasty’s demise.

High-quality iron provided inexhaustible impetus for the coal and steel industry of the Ming Dynasty.

The gold mines provided sufficient credit guarantee for the Ming Dynasty's issuance of banknotes, which could greatly alleviate the Ming Dynasty's dilemma of money shortage.

The huge profits were impossible for anyone in the Ming Dynasty to ignore. Even the most stubborn and unrepentant scholars could not ignore the terrifying profits.

Everyone must pay attention to the benefits of the ocean, thereby rewriting the traditional path of land powers and forcing the empire to make corrections in many aspects such as finance, technology, policy, and thought.

"The orderly production of Datieling Guard and Jinchi Governor's Office can declare that the Ming Dynasty's open maritime faction has completely overwhelmed the maritime ban faction, because it will truly benefit future generations." Zhu Yijun said sincerely as he looked at the floating ticket on Chen Dazhuang's memorial.

Zhang Xueyan, the Minister of Finance of the Ming Dynasty, stated on the floating ticket that we could follow the ancestral law of the early days of the country and move people from Huguang to Sichuan, and move the wandering people from Zhejiang, Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiangzuo and Jiangyou, where the contradiction between population and land is acute, to remote areas to enrich the local areas.

If the Han population did not multiply, even if we had thousands of vast territories, it would still be a wilderness with fences.

If enough Han people are not migrated there, even the vast territory and borders will still be like a wilderness outside the fence and will not belong to the Ming Dynasty.

By the 16th year of the Wanli reign, there were still scholars and officials who kept clamoring that opening the sea was the greatest evil policy that led to the collapse of social ethics and music in the Ming Dynasty, that the court's accumulation of wealth and pursuit of profit was the original sin of the Ming Dynasty's moral corruption, and that the massive influx of silver led to everyone pursuing profit.

The Ming Emperor turned a blind eye and turned a deaf ear to the crisis of moral decline. Instead, he was immersed in mountains of gold and silver and failed to see the existence of the crisis, which made the literati heartbroken and they cried out for help.

The question is, if silver does not flow in, will the morality of the Ming Dynasty not be corrupted?

These literati had many supporters. The retrogressors and conservatives united together, hoping to convince more ministers to persuade the emperor to return to the right path. The phenomena criticized by these literati were real, so so many people agreed with them.

The influx of silver did lead to the collapse of old concepts of good and evil, and values, and the establishment of new concepts of good and evil, and values. In the eyes of these scholars, the new moral standards were undoubtedly heretical.

Indeed, there are signs that the economic transition has had a huge impact on morality.

Xiaoyao Yiwen, as the leader of limited liberalism, once published a powerful article with the title: Laugh at poverty but not at prostitution.

For thousands of years, prostitutes had an extremely low social status in any era. However, there have been new changes in Songjiang Prefecture in recent years. These prostitutes seem to have transformed themselves and become glamorous and beautiful. Even some top prostitutes have become the objects of competition and the fulcrum for establishing interpersonal relationships.

These top stars are adept at maneuvering between many celebrities, great scholars, and wealthy businessmen, acting as matchmakers and becoming business brokers.

The ostentation of these playboys became more and more grand, making people envious. The entire Shanghai County and Songjiang Prefecture were obsessed with money and intoxicated by sensual pleasures, unable to extricate themselves.

Some poor people also regard raising daughters as a way to get rich: families below the middle class will teach their adopted daughters to sing. The daughters are often spotted by wealthy businessmen and can make millions of gold instantly. Otherwise, they can be registered as ordinary citizens and get married and become rich.

The glamorous life of prostitutes even arouses envy from many inexperienced women.

Materialism is rampant in Songjiang Prefecture. Everyone laughs at poverty instead of prostitutes or the poor laborers who work hard but still struggle. No one laughs at those who engage in improper industries and get excess returns that they don't deserve.

In order to live a wealthy life, many people begin to take risks. They can do evil and commit crimes, but they cannot be poor.

Material pursuit has gradually become the general consensus or even the only consensus among people.

Wealth is seen as the only symbol of success, while poverty is considered a failure of personal ability. The poor are ridiculed and the evildoers are tolerated. It seems that as long as one can succeed and gain great wealth, no matter how great the sin is, it can be forgiven.

Some wealthy businessmen who seem to be in great glory on the surface actually have a shady background in their fortunes, but people don't care at all. They still divide people into different classes based on the amount of material wealth they have. They crazily worship the wealthy and powerful businessmen who are at the top of the world, worship them like gods, and take their every word and action as their guiding principle.

These crazy believers never thought that many of the sufferings they experienced came from the evil gods they deified.

Li Zhi analyzed that behind this phenomenon is the contradiction between rapid economic development and the breakdown of the social value system.

Traditional Confucian moral values ​​of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness have been shelved under the huge impact of the commodity economy, and moral concepts have become confused and declined.

Even liberals felt that Songjiang Prefecture, which had completed its transformation into a commodity economy, was a little too liberal.

If things continue like this, Songjiang Prefecture might become the paradise of the Paradise Cult, a divine kingdom on earth. This is not a glorious thing. The Paradise Cult is undoubtedly an evil that harms people, and even human sacrifices are very common.

Li Zhi, who advocated freedom and even dared to criticize Confucius, felt that Songjiang Prefecture needed some reins and shackles to prevent the continued decline of morality.

Zhu Yijun wrote in red on Chen Dazhuang's memorial and said to Feng Bao: "Mountains of gold and seas of silver wash away old thoughts, and steel and iron build a new soul."

"We the people of the Daming are sick. This is my fault. Originally, the people of the Daming were all Confucian scholars, and we were supposed to examine ourselves three times a day, reflect on ourselves, and criticize ourselves. Now I am governing the country based on contradictions, and this is the root of the disease."

"Your Majesty, I don't understand, what's wrong with Daming?" Feng Bao asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "It's a disease that only focuses on the bad side."

"They only saw the evils caused by the influx of a large amount of silver, stared at these evils, and criticized them as much as they could, but they did not realize the good things that came with the influx of a large amount of silver. New workshops were opened everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, roads were being built everywhere, and the lives of the people became better because of the increase in goods. Even the amount of abandoned land was decreasing."

"The rapid flow of goods drove the development of productivity. Iron plows, iron shovels, and windmills appeared in farmers' homes. Windmills were already popular agricultural tools during the Han and Tang dynasties, but by the Wanli period, they were no longer available in ordinary people's homes. The spinning and looms driven by iron horses greatly improved the scale and efficiency of production. "

"People always ignore the changes around them, and even take everything for granted. Ming is the Celestial Empire, so it should be this way."

"In fact, this is just the inevitable result of development. Although Zhou is an old country, its destiny is to be renewed. The old morality, good and evil, and order are changing, and new morality is being established."

“It is not wrong to pursue wealth and honor. However, it is wrong and evil to lose moral standards and slide downward on the road to wealth and honor.”

The literati of the Ming Dynasty were busy criticizing and had become accustomed to the changes happening around them. They didn't think there was anything wrong with them, but people's lives became more affluent.

The windmill, a farm tool that has been passed down for thousands of years, has appeared again in farmers' homes. Many villages in the countryside have built new threshing floors on higher and flatter terrain to dry the grains. These threshing floors are usually two or three acres in size and are paved with cement. The ground is leveled, and livestock pull the stone mill to husk the grains.

There is a mill in every village and town that processes shelled grains into flour and processes various kinds of sweet potatoes for farmers into potato starch. The beans, soybeans and cabbage seeds are pressed to extract oil, and sesame seeds are made into small-milled sesame oil and sold everywhere.

The villagers planted sweet potatoes and peanuts on the wasteland. Sweet potatoes can be used to relieve famine, and peanuts can be used to extract oil.

The cultivation of Artemisia scoparia led by Jie Kuyuan has been completed. After the Artemisia scoparia flowers and branches are dried, honey is added to neutralize the bitterness, and a little bit of sugar is added to make pagoda candies. They have begun to be distributed to official schools such as the Beijing Camp and the Artisans' School for children to use to kill insects.

The use of arsenic to kill insects is gradually being abandoned. Arsenic is a highly toxic substance with different purity levels in different places. Setting a standard would be harmful to people, so we can only rely on experience.

Drinking raw water and stream water is very common these days. In the absence of effective disinfection methods, children with weaker immunity are at a great risk of being infected with roundworms after drinking raw water and stream water. Therefore, deworming at a fixed time every year and the children receiving pagoda-like candies have become a common memory.

These are the benefits that came after a large amount of silver flowed in and the sea was opened.

The Ming emperor, the court, the literati, and even the peddlers have gradually realized the negative impact of the decadent phenomenon of "laughing at the poor but not at prostitutes". This moral deviation has not only aggravated social divisions, but also damaged social cohesion and even the interests of most people.

Reflection on moral deviance has begun, and reflection is the beginning of moral reconstruction.

With the reconstruction of morality, attitudes towards the poor will change, tolerance for illegal occupations will decrease, and people will once again pursue fair and just morals.

This is the ability of self-correction, self-mediation, self-repair, and self-healing that the Ming Emperor, Wan Shihe, and Shen Li always emphasized. In theory, the stronger this error-correcting ability is, the more resilient the society will be, and the more at ease it will be in the face of various crises, and it will even be able to self-correct without excessive interference from the court.

Of course, if you have a serious illness, you still have to take the right medicine and fight it. The longer you delay, the bigger the problem will be. In the process of moral reconstruction, the court must fulfill its responsibility to mediate conflicts. In fact, the wise officials of the court have anticipated moral deviance and moral reconstruction from the very beginning.

The cabinet headed by Zhang Juzheng had a very in-depth discussion on how money affected the Ming Dynasty, starting from the time when Zhang Cheng and Zhang Jin divided the large sailing ships that arrived at Yuegang without an imperial edict.

"Your Majesty is wise." Feng Bao did not refute His Majesty, but in his eyes, the Ming Dynasty's lowly Confucian scholars only focused on criticizing evil. This was not His Majesty's fault at all, nor was it caused by the theory of contradiction. The Ming Dynasty's scholars had the bad habit of finding faults in everything and criticizing for the sake of criticizing, not for one or two years, five or ten years, but for hundreds of years.

This is an old problem, not a new problem brought about by the Wanli Reform.

"Your Majesty, Song Shanyong, the chief academic officer of the Imperial Normal School, has arrived." A eunuch walked into the Tonghe Palace and reported that a minister had come to pay a visit.

"Xuan."

The construction period of the Imperial University of Peking is only one year, and the spring enrollment will begin soon. The main target of enrollment is still those scholars who cannot find a good career path in the capital. The first enrollment will be about 500 people.

In each imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, five thousand people competed for 300 places. Even after the enrollment was expanded twice during the Wanli period, there were still only 400 places. Among them, fifty mathematics scholars had to enter the Academy of Gewu or teach at the Royal Institute of Technology.

The horse gallops in the spring breeze, and all the flowers in Chang'an can be seen in one day. Only a few people pass the imperial examination, while the majority fail.

The Imperial University of Peking had very strict admission standards. The program lasted four years, and after completing the program, students had to serve as chief academic officers, instructors, or principals of normal schools in various places. Therefore, the selection of personnel was also relatively strict.

"Your Majesty, your humble servant, pays homage. Long live Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty." Song Shanyong walked steadily and calmly. As soon as he entered the door, he performed the formal ceremony of five bows and three kowtows.

It was slightly different from what Zhu Yijun thought. Song Shanyong, who was over fifty years old, had a gaunt face and several wrinkles of varying depths on his forehead, like a book. His figure was quite thin, and his waist was a little stiff due to years of sitting and lecturing for a long time.

His face showed a hint of sorrow. During the eighteen years at Tianxiong Academy, he had experienced the hostility of local tyrants, the jealousy of the private school, and the expectations of his disciples. All of this was like an invisible net that trapped him and made him unable to move.

Even if Xu Chengchu hadn't investigated his corruption case, he was a little overwhelmed. "No need to be polite, sit down and talk." Zhu Yijun had no intention of making things difficult for Song Shanyong. Song Shanyong was indeed a criminal, but Zhu Yijun promoted him, and there were still too few honest officials, not enough.

After Song Shanyong sat down, he hesitated again and again, and seemed to be struggling, just like the struggle between greed and non-greed, between compromise and non-compromise in the past 18 years. He finally bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I dare to say that this Dinghai school system is magnificent, but I am afraid that this Dinghai school system has no beginning and no end, and it cannot be completed well."

"This Dinghai school system is still too expensive. It costs hundreds of millions of taels of silver to invest, and it will cost tens of millions of taels of silver to maintain. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the court to afford it."

Telling the truth is much more difficult than telling a lie. It is always like this. Three minutes is already very long. Even if you tell lies with open eyes, Song Shanyong did not tell lies with open eyes. Instead, he chose to tell the truth. Expensiveness is the problem he saw.

Song Shanyong was very worried, fearing that this was the Ming Emperor's vanity. After all, the emperor always lived in a world of lies created by the joint efforts of everyone around him.

Zhu Yijun sat up straight, nodded and said, "I know that the Kowloon University requires an investment of 6 million silver coins for each period, which lasts for four years. The normal schools in various places, even if they require donations from powerful people, require 3.2 million silver coins a year. This adds up to nearly 10 million silver coins."

"Last year, the court's annual revenue was only 4100 million silver. The military pay for the nine frontiers plus the Beijing garrison and the navy cost 1200 million silver. This school system will cost tens of millions of silver a year, or even more for decades. Now the court is still building the highway, which is a very heavy burden for the court."

"Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty now really has mountains of gold, silver, copper and iron. The silver mountain of Japan, the gold mountain of Jinchi, the copper mountain of Luzon, and the iron mountain of Datieling can support my outrageous behavior."

"Your Majesty... is wise." Song Shan used the word "wise" without taking it seriously and was a little hesitant.

Because Song Shanyong had something true to say, but he knew he shouldn't say it, so he didn't.

Zhu Yijun revealed a smile, he knew why Song Shanyong hesitated. The ministers of the Ming Dynasty all praised the Dinghai school system, saying it was benevolent, kind, and beneficial to the present and future generations. But no one dared to say that the Dinghai school system undermined the greatest foundation of the imperial system.

You promote popular education, enlighten the people, and enlighten all the people. Do you still want to keep your position as emperor?
Since ancient times, what emperors have wanted is long-term stability and peace, which will never change. Only by completely monopolizing education in the hands of a few people and sharing the spoils can this be achieved for a long time. The emperor and a small number of scholars will maintain a steady state of order until the total collapse.

The result of enlightening the people will be a structural political crisis. Autocracy and dictatorship will be widely opposed, and finally a social consensus will be formed. Universal education will provide ideological soil and talent pool for institutional reform.

"Your Majesty..." Song Shanyong felt his scalp tingling at the emperor's laughter. He felt that the emperor had seen through the truth that he had not said out loud.

Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said, "Sure enough, Mr. Song is not liked by the powerful and wealthy in Daming Prefecture. In fact, he can't keep it secret. You didn't finish what you said. I know it too, but Zhier recited the dynasty song, Huang Yu Xia Shang Zhou, Spring and Autumn Warring States Qin; Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin, after Jin, the north and south were divided; Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan and Ming have been passed down to today."

"Nothing is immutable. Mr. Song, if you have some free time, you can read the third volume of Theory of Class."

Song Shanyong obviously had not read the third volume, "Struggle," which explains all this very clearly.

"I obey your command." Song Shanyong breathed a sigh of relief. He was just a teacher. He was just worried that His Majesty was not clear about these things and was deceived by the people around him, and would make mistakes again when he realized it. There was no need for him to plan for the fate of the empire.

Since Your Majesty knows that the Dinghai school system is aimed at undermining the imperial power, there is nothing to worry about. Your Majesty knows very well what you are doing.

Zhu Yijun and Song Shanyong talked for a long time, mainly about some issues related to the Imperial Normal School, such as whether traditional Confucianism should still be taught. Zhu Yijun still recognized Confucianism, but he also wanted to teach the various schools of thought, as well as science and engineering, and science and engineering were the main subjects. Mathematics was also required for the selection of students.

Some math problems are logic problems, which test students' logic.

Song Shanyong found certainty from the emperor. The Dinghai school system was neither about showing off nor about acting rashly on a whim, but was a decision made after careful consideration of all costs. This was the main purpose of Song Shanyong's meeting with the emperor.

The emperor also found certainty in Song Shanyong, a man who was willing to tell the truth and a very capable official. The Dinghai school system involved the political direction of the Ming Dynasty for the next few decades and could not be taken lightly. The students of the Normal School had to go to various places to train more teachers.

If Song Shanyong made a little rotten here, the Ming Dynasty would be in tatters.

"I'll take my leave." Song Shanyong bowed again and left the imperial study in Tonghe Palace. With the support of His Majesty, he could do his work with peace of mind.

On June 17th, Zhu Yijun summoned envoys from various countries.

Among these envoys, there was a more embarrassed person, that was the Korean envoy Yi Houbai. He and Yoon Geunsu were both Korean envoys to the Ming Dynasty. Yoon Geunsu was killed in Sungkyunkwan by the deposed King Yi Sun of Korea. Yi Sun believed that the humiliation given by the Ming emperor was the fault of the envoy.

After the Joseon Kingdom was abolished, Li Houbai's identity became embarrassing.

"Li Houbai, do you mean that Korea should be restored?" Zhu Yijun looked at Li Houbai who was kneeling on the ground, and at Li Houbai's memorial on the imperial desk, and asked with a gloomy face.

Lee Sun died, but the Lee clan of Korea was still alive, so theoretically, there was an option to restore the country.

Shen Li was shocked. This was completely different from what was agreed upon. Li Houbai actually changed the memorial to be presented to His Majesty!

"Your Majesty, I plead with trepidation. Thanks to the mighty heavenly army, the Japanese threat has retreated. I beg Your Majesty to have mercy on me and restore the barriers. The deposed King Yi Sun has committed heinous crimes and his death does not deserve pity, but the Ming Dynasty also has the laws established by our ancestors. Korea will not be conquered." Lee Houbai bowed again and said loudly in fear.

Zhu Yijun flipped through the memorial in his hand and asked calmly, "Li Houbai, do you want to use my ancestors to pressure me?"

"I dare not!" Li Houbai was so frightened that his legs twisted, but he still said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Korea regards Ming as its parent country. Today, the Japanese threat has been eliminated and the great revenge has been avenged. Korea is very poor with many mountains and few fields. There are no mountains of gold or silver, and even the coal is buried very deep."

"Korea is nothing but a chicken rib to the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty, please allow Korea to restore its country!"

After the Imjin War, the Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops from Korea. It searched all over Korea and found that the silver mines were exhausted, so it reluctantly left Korea.

Korea has no silver mines, but Japan does.

"I understand clearly that you want to be a loyal minister." Zhu Yijun read the memorial again and was convinced of Li Houbai's purpose. He was seeking death by submitting the memorial to the emperor. He wanted to die for his country.

Throughout all dynasties, there has been no shortage of scholars who died for their country. Behind Li Houbai's behavior are the ethical principles of ruler-ruler and subject-ruler, the explanation that starving to death is a small matter while losing one's chastity is a big matter, and an instinctive resistance to the total collapse of his own social role.

"I deserve to die." Seeing that His Majesty was angry, Shen Li hurried out of the class and knelt on the ground to apologize.

It was obvious that Li Houbai had been very cooperative before. The scene that should have been staged in Wenhua Hall today was that Li Houbai would submit a memorial to the emperor, asking his majesty to fully transform Korea into counties. The memorial was drafted by the Ministry of Rites for Li Houbai, but the memorial submitted by Li Houbai was not the one written by the Ministry of Rites.

This was clearly a dereliction of duty by the Ministry of Rites.

"Grand Master of the Imperial Clan, please excuse me. Bring me the memorial from the Ministry of Rites." Zhu Yijun said with a smile on his face, "Grand Master of the Imperial Clan has done nothing wrong. He sincerely wishes to die, but dying this way will make him look more tragic and heroic, and his name will go down in history."

Zhu Yijun thought of a person, Rui De, an envoy from the Governor-General's Office of Gua'a. After learning the news of the fall of Malacca, he committed suicide in the Siyi Pavilion. Zhu Yijun also ordered an official funeral for Rui De, and even asked Liu Ji to go to Taixi to learn about Rui De's life and complete the epitaph.

Zhu Yijun looked in the direction of the Secretary of the Central Secretariat and saw that the Secretary of the Central Secretariat had gone to the toilet. Zhu approved the memorial of the Ministry of Rites and said to Li Houbai: "Look, as long as the people in the Wenhua Palace don't say anything, you should ask the last envoy of the county and Korea."

Li Houbai looked at the Emperor in horror. He had never expected that the Emperor would be so shameless in this Wenhua Palace!
Seeing Li Houbai so shocked, Zhu Yijun continued, "Can you please explain the truth?"

"The Ming Dynasty received the news about the Japanese pirates' invasion of Korea and informed Japan of the unusual movement three months in advance. What were your King Yi Sun, your civil and military officials, and your ministers doing? It took the Japanese pirates one month to reach Pyongyang!"

"North Korea claimed to have 430 soldiers, but they couldn't even hold out for a month. North Korea had a population of million before. Lingbu Tang made a simple yellow book in North Korea and counted the population. Do you know how many there are now? million, less than half of that. War, plague, and famine are raging, and the scene is shocking, with corpses everywhere."

"It's a good thing that Li Rusong set out earlier. Otherwise, the Ming army would have interfered and we wouldn't have had a place to stay. If Pyongyang and Yizhou fell to the Korean monarch and his ministers, the Ming army would have to launch a landing operation, and the difficulty can be imagined."

"It was Yi Sun who failed the people, and then the people abandoned the rule of the Joseon royal family."

"It took my Ming army two full years to drive the Japanese pirates out of Korea. Those mountain cities were won with the blood and sacrifice of Ming soldiers. If it weren't for the Ming army's heavy armor and artillery, how many people would have died in these mountain cities?"

"You are talking about the laws of our ancestors, and I recognize them, but I also have to consider the present, and I have to give an account to my people."

Li Houbai did not expect that His Majesty would change the subject and start talking about reason. Some hope rose in his heart, but when he heard His Majesty's words, he understood that the emperor's will had been made. The Ming Dynasty had paid huge manpower, material and financial resources, and shed blood and sacrificed, to drive away the Japanese pirates and sort out the production relations in Korea. A new order was being established, and the Ming Dynasty would not give up no matter what.

Otherwise, how could the emperor explain himself to his ministers, court officials, high officials, local officials, and the people?
Moreover, there was no widespread resistance in Korea. The vast majority of Koreans happily joined the Ming Dynasty and became Ming people, which was the one Ming Dynasty proposed by Hou Yuzhao, where all were subjects of the king.

"Then can we find a member of the Korean royal family to inherit the throne? I am willing to die for him." Li Houbai compromised and hoped to end up like Ryukyu.

"No, Korea is a county of the Ming Dynasty. Those who do evil must be punished! Now Korea belongs to me, to the Ming Dynasty, so of course we cannot treat it as a barbarian."

"Your life is worthless. If you want to die, just die. Just hit yourself on the pillar of Wenhua Hall and die. I don't care about this infamy." Zhu Yijun waved his hand. He didn't care about the historical evaluation at all.

Korea is not Japan. It is the gateway to the northeast of Ming Dynasty. Those who do evil must be punished. If rewards and punishments are not clear, the world will be in chaos.

Zhu Yijun waited for a while, and seeing that Li Houbai did not move, he asked: "Are you going to die or not? If not, leave. I will allow you to return to Korea and even allow you to gather your friends to restore the country. I want to see whether the Koreans will follow you or the Ming Dynasty."

"You want to be Le Loi, no problem, just do it!"

Li Houbai glanced at the pillar, then kowtowed and said, "I'll take my leave."

Zhao Mengyou looked at Li Houbai's back with a bad face. He was not a good person and he would not let Li Houbai go back. Some dirty work had to be done by someone.

Le Loi took advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty was busy and led the people of Annam to rebel. The Ming Dynasty eventually lost Annan and has not recovered it to this day.

"Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng stood up and said with some worry.

Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir. He will not commit suicide. If he died for his country, he would not have submitted this memorial to the Wenhua Palace. He just couldn't make up his mind to die, so he asked me to kill him."

"He will not leave Ming and go back to Korea. He can't bear to do so."

(End of this chapter)