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Chapter 877: The First Principle of Invoking Violence to Prevent It from Getting Out of Control
Zhang Cheng began to order the confiscation of property of the six hundred local gentry and powerful officials who had participated in compiling the list of surrendered families, in order to conduct a thorough liquidation.

Through investigation, Zhang Cheng has become very clear why the despicable Confucian scholars represented by Lin Qing are so crazy.

Lin Qing recorded an incident. Last year, he went to the Northern Yamen and returned to Beijing to report on his work. He participated in a gathering. The title of this gathering was very shocking. The discussion was: How about distributing 12 strings of Ming treasure notes to the people of the Ming Dynasty every year?

The gatherings in Beiya are very tolerant, and as long as the discussion is based on facts, there will be no problems.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and Marquis Ningyuan also attended the gathering.

This topic is an unrealistic castle in the air, at least it is really impossible to achieve at this stage. Everyone is expressing different opinions and discussing where the future of the Ming Dynasty should go. In these gatherings to discuss the future, the old landlords are no longer there.

If the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted to issue so many treasure notes, he would have to obtain 1.16 tons of gold a year, which was really too much.

During this gathering, several students left the room after stating their opinions to express their disagreement, and each of these students quoted the contradictory theory annotated by the Ming Emperor.

No matter what school of thought they were in, there were no old landlords. Every student talked about the contradictory theories personally noted by His Majesty. This was why Lin Qing was so frightened.

The students in Bei Ya, even those in the Imperial Academy, read the complete version of Mao Dun's book, which was the annotated version by His Majesty himself, with neither the content nor the annotations modified. This was what Lin Qing feared the most.

Some local tyrants do have some means to block the spread of knowledge, such as deletion and modification, and banning sales, but the theory of contradiction is still spreading rapidly.

The most important thing is that every three years, 6,000 candidates would come to Beijing to take part in the imperial examination. In order to ensure that the candidates would not make a wasted trip, the emperor gave each of them a set of clothes and a new book box containing books, including many books with original copies annotated by His Majesty himself.

Knowledge was spreading to every corner of the Ming Dynasty during the large-scale migration of Juren, and this was something that the lowly Confucian scholars could not stop in any way.

If the tendency of class theory is unacceptable to students from wealthy families;
The theory of contradiction, which has no tendency, is gaining universal acceptance.

"We don't know why these people are so afraid of contradictions." Zhang Cheng found it very difficult to understand. Isn't it just a book?
This book was hastily written by Zhang Juzheng in response to the Emperor's inquiries when Your Majesty was ten years old. It mainly contains some questions and answers. Over the years, the court-published version has not been revised.

This was more than ten years ago, it's old stuff, I don't know what to be afraid of.

"Dayang thinks that contradictions are not uncommon, right?" Luo Bingliang thought for a while and asked Zhang Cheng in return.

Zhang Cheng thought for a moment and nodded, saying, "Of course. I was also fortunate enough to accompany His Majesty to study for two years. His Majesty studied very seriously. I think this book is nothing special, even a little ordinary. His Majesty had already understood it when he was ten years old."

Luo Bingliang said with certainty: "This is the problem. Knowledge is poisonous. After learning, you will take it for granted and think it should be so. Just like now, Dayuan thinks that contradictions are nothing strange, because Dayuan puts what he learns into practice, and he also improves his cognition in practice."

"This is what Lin Qing and his people are most afraid of. They even created public opinion to prevent Ming Dynasty students from reading history books. They are losing the power to interpret the classics, which they have relied on for hundreds of years."

For these families, losing the right to interpret the scriptures means losing the ability to monopolize the means to obtain power. This is a matter of life and death, and even the continuation of the family.

Zhang Cheng thought seriously, and then Zhang Cheng gave up thinking.

He was just an ordinary eunuch of the admiral of the navy and the director of the Songjiang Maritime Customs. Such a serious issue was not within his consideration. He wanted to focus his main energy on confiscating property.

Zhang Cheng looked at Luo Bingliang and Xu Weizhi and said, "Forget it, let's arrest them first."

The first family is the Lin family of Min County. They have moved their whole family to Nanjing City. They only go back to their hometown once, which is to worship their ancestors. The home of the Lin family of Min County is on the Qinhuai River and the south bank of Wende Bridge. This place is also famous in history as the Wuyi Lane during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Since the capital was moved to Beiya, the city of Nanjing has been occupied by these demons and monsters, and it is somewhat similar to the Lion Camel Ridge which is very close to Lingshan.

Wende Bridge was rebuilt on the Zhuque Bridge during the Wanli period in order to gather literary energy. Opposite this bridge is another bridge called Wuding Bridge. According to legend, it was at Wuding Bridge that Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang saw off Xu Da, who was on his Northern Expedition. After Xu Da won a series of victories, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne and established the Ming Dynasty.

Between Wende Bridge and Wuding Bridge is the wealthy area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. The people of the Ming Dynasty called the people living in this area: Danyang Fugui.

Because this place was called Danyang County City during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it was where aristocratic families lived.

On the banks of the Qinhuai River are the Bianhuai Streets, which are shops dedicated to serving the wealthy families in Danyang. This street is as famous as the world-famous Luoxia Fugui Street in Shanghai.

But today, the Bianhuai shops that were once bustling are so quiet that even the crowing of roosters can be heard clearly.

A eunuch came from Songjiang Prefecture and closed the Imperial College, the Imperial Examination Hall, and the prefectural school. All the city gates of Nanjing were closed, and the streets and gates were closed. The streets were filled with large fences put up by the captains of the Five Cities Military Department, preventing anyone from passing.

The people living in the shops in Bianhuai didn't even dare to stay on the first floor, for fear that the blood would splash on them. They stood on the second and third floors, carefully opened the windows a crack, and looked at the empty streets.

Soon, the thing that made people's hearts rise to their throats finally happened!

Teams of soldiers in neat rows appeared at the shops along the border, and then knocked on doors one by one. Some of them were found to be normal after the inspection, while others were found to be wailing. After seven days of investigation, a group of main criminals were preliminarily identified.

Of course, these criminals refused to surrender. Some of them put up a desperate resistance, and the soldiers would fire their muskets into the sky. If there was still resistance, the soldiers would put their muskets down. Some, seeing that disaster was imminent, wanted to escape, but were pinned down on the street by the imperial guards. Some people hid in a vat in the cellar with their heads in their hands, hoping to escape, but they were all found by the imperial guards.

People of all kinds were dragged away by soldiers in distinctive armor.

After the inspection, most people did not harbor suspects, and the soldiers who came to search would not ask for any money or property; if someone offered a bribe, it would lead to a more thorough search by the soldiers.

Zhang Cheng was a very capable eunuch and Luo Bingliang was a very capable general. They mobilized the coastal defense inspectors to prevent the violence from getting out of control.

The reality that prevents violence from getting out of control is that this group of coastal patrols, which only have 300 people, is completely sufficient.

Once violence gets out of control, it changes from the initial search to demanding property, then to robbery and extortion, then to murder and looting, and finally to a situation where if I don't kill anyone, others will rob more than me, and finally it turns into a massacre. Therefore, when invoking violence, the most important thing is to prevent it from getting out of control.

There were 622 million people living in Nan Ya. Once the massacre started, it would be a sea of ​​blood and corpses. Among them, there were only families who were guilty.

The people who led the Southern Court cavalry and soldiers in the search were the coastal defense inspectors. They all wore a three-inch round dragon flag sticker on their chests. They were responsible for the specific arrests and executions. If the soldiers killed people without reason or demanded property, they would be taken to the Pacification Office.

If you have anything to say, please tell His Majesty.

This three-inch round dragon flag sticker is not something that ordinary soldiers can wear.

To become a marquis or a coastal defense inspector, one must work hard for the emperor on the grasslands and at sea for three years. This is a sign of loyalty.

Of course, there is another way, which is to join the Xianzhenxiandeng Camp and attack the mountain city, and you can get such a seemingly insignificant flag sticker.

It is really light, only three points in weight, but it represents loyalty, as well as the position and tendency in extreme events.

This was also something that the literati found very difficult to understand. Was an insignificant banner worth a person's loyalty to an emperor whom he had never met or seen? They could produce as many banners as they wanted.

What the scholars and officials will never think about is that before Your Majesty mobilized the military, most soldiers, even those at the highest positions, could not receive full pay. It was already the last straw to receive half a pay. The emperor pretended to pay the soldiers, and the soldiers pretended to fight.
He fought on the battlefield and, relying on his military exploits, was promoted to the position of commander, a position that ordinary soldiers looked up to. However, the commander was killed in public by civil officials without any trial, investigation, or reason, except for possible reasons. If even a military general who was promoted due to military merit could be killed so easily, one can imagine the status of ordinary soldiers.

Public opinion such as "die soldiers" and "good men don't join the army" has put soldiers at the bottom of society, even worse than prostitutes and whores.

Recently, His Majesty has just increased the salaries of the Duntai Yuanhou and the Haifang Patrol Inspector, which is a salary increase without any reason, without any sign;

Every year, His Majesty goes to Nanhaizi in Daxing County to visit the families of marquises and coastal defense inspectors who have died.
There are special military academies in the Beijing Camp in Beiya, the navy in Songjiang, and the navy base in Sandu'ao.
During the war against the Japanese invaders, after the soldiers died, the prince was willing to carry the coffins to the Cemetery of Loyal Martyrs and bury them personally.

The three-inch round dragon flag sticker is not worth a penny, but the meaning behind it is worth more than ten thousand gold.

The scholars would ask, why are these coastal defense inspectors so loyal to His Majesty whom they have never met? But the scholars never thought about what His Majesty, who never slacked off in daily military training and inspection, meant to the soldiers.

This is the emperor's self-salvation and the redemption of the poor and laborers, and the redemption of the Ming Dynasty.

Before Zhang Cheng acted so unscrupulously and recklessly, the greatest imagination of violence among the literati in the Southern Court was just the killing sticks in the government office. The last time there was such direct violence was during the Yongle period, by Ji Gang, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, which was more than 180 years ago.

Now, the scholars and officials in the Southern Court finally recalled the fear of being dominated by the feudal iron fist.

"Oh!"

The sharp sound of the flaring arrows broke the silence, and the fireworks suddenly exploded in the air, scattering clouds of smoke and dust. Soon, the coastal defense inspectors on the street, together with the imperial cavalry and naval soldiers, moved towards the direction of the fireworks.

Teams of soldiers gathered from various alleys and concentrated on the main street. As they marched, the soldiers in the front row pushed the side chariots, the middle army consisted of eleven people in a team, each team was equipped with three tiger squat cannons, and each soldier in the back held a flintlock gun.

Lin Qing was arrested, and his family began a desperate resistance.

When Zhang Cheng led his men to search the house, powerful crossbows and several bird guns appeared on the courtyard wall of the Lin Mansion. Zhang Cheng didn't waste any time and directly fired a flare and called for support.

The nine-jin cannons on the side chariots soon gathered in front of the Lin Mansion.

"Shoot!" Zhang Cheng did not make any announcement this time. He was the one who said to kill without mercy. Since you took out the powerful crossbow and the bird gun, it is very reasonable for me to take out the nine-jin cannon, the tiger squat cannon, the Pingyi gun, and the flintlock gun.

He is a eunuch. The only thing he has to do is to be responsible to His Majesty. He doesn't even have to worry about his reputation after his death. He only considers His Majesty's demands.

When the sound of artillery fire rang out again in the city, thousands of families in Bian Huai Liesi immediately hid under the bed with their children, trembling and waiting. The direct violence always makes people so frightened. The Lin Mansion surrendered faster than Zhang Cheng expected. In less than a quarter of an hour, after the entire courtyard wall was blown up, the Lin Mansion surrendered immediately. Of course, when the nine-jin artillery appeared, these servants holding strong crossbows and bird guns were ready to surrender, but Zhang Cheng's order was too fast!

"If there is resistance, kill without mercy. The people inside are enemies, not your Majesty's subjects. They are traitors and rebels." Zhang Cheng repeated his order before the coastal defense inspector led the soldiers in to arrest people.

Zhang Cheng and Shen Shixing were both in Songjiang Prefecture. When Hou Yuzhao's ship arrived at Songjiang Prefecture, Shen Shixing didn't know how to deal with the powerful and wealthy people and local gentry in Zhejiang who opposed the return of land. Zhang Cheng also didn't know how to deal with these powerful and wealthy people and local gentry who were nominally His Majesty's subjects.

Hou Yuzhao found it very difficult to understand the thoughts of officials from the hinterland such as Zhang Cheng and Shen Shixing. He did not even obey the order of His Majesty. How could he say that he was a Ming Dynasty man? If he was an official in Liaodong like in the hinterland, he would have died hundreds of times.

The coastal defense inspector led his men into the Lin Mansion, and the sound of flintlock guns firing could be heard from time to time.

After the Lin Mansion's resistance failed, the remaining 600 families did not put up much resistance. Soon, all the 600 families from Nanya, Jiangzuo, Jiangyou, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places were arrested and detained in the military camp in the north city.

On the ninth day after Zhang Cheng led his troops into Nanjing City, the Duke of Wei's Mansion announced the lifting of the ban. Dashilan was pulled back to the Wucheng Bingmasi, the gates were opened, the city gates were opened, and people entering and leaving were still subject to inspection.

After the ban was lifted, thousands of households in Bianhuai suddenly realized that the people they were familiar with had not left, their neighbors were all there, and no one's house had been looted.

Soon, the people in Nanjing knew what had happened and why His Majesty was so furious.

The circumstances of the case were explained in great detail in a notice posted by Wang Xiyuan, the governor of Yingtian. During these nine days, Wang Xiyuan cooperated with the actions of Zhang Cheng and Luo Bingliang, organized personnel, guarded the criminals, inspected property, pursued the murderer, maintained stability in the city, wrote notices to explain the situation, and issued arrest warrants to wanted fugitive suspects.

Wang Xiyuan felt that Nanjing City was much easier to manage than Beijing City.

The Southern Court is richer than the Northern Court, but the officials in the Northern Court are much more powerful than those in the Southern Court. When handling cases of those high-ranking officials, one must be careful and cautious, as none of them can be offended by a fourth-rank chancellor of the capital!
When he arrived in Nanjing, Wang Xiyuan felt like he was back home. As for the tribute selection case, Wang Xiyuan felt that there was no need to send out coastal defense inspectors, as the Yingtian Prefecture government did this job.

No matter how difficult this case is, is it more difficult than the Yang Wei case and Tian Yijun case? Yang Wei is the Dali Temple Minister, and Tian Yijun is the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites. They are ministers of powerful departments, and the impact they have caused is much worse than that of these powerful and powerful people who colluded with each other.

The emperor also gave Wang Xiyuan a secret decree, and the secret box and secret memorial system was still in use. The emperor explained why he let Zhang Cheng preside over it, because Zhang Cheng was a local tyrant.

The Ming Dynasty has just completed a round of major personnel appointments. Li Le left Yingtian and went to Songjiang Prefecture, Shen Shixing resigned, Wang Xiyuan was appointed Governor of Yingtian, and the Navy Commander-in-Chief Chen Lin was still in the Northern Yamen.

Considering that he was a new official, the emperor did not put too much pressure on Wang Xiyuan.

After Zhang Cheng captured all the people, he went to Yingtian Governor to play his role.

Wang Xiyuan communicated with the Tax Inspection Office and asked the Tax Inspection Officers to start investigating the tax issues of these 622 companies. The Tax Inspection Office's tax investigation was indeed a simple tax investigation, but what Wang Xiyuan wanted was to find out the economic dealings of these 622 companies and find out if there was someone behind them.

The position of Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister is very difficult. This is all based on Wang Xiyuan's experience in handling cases. Figuring out the economic transactions and starting with the economic transactions is the best entry point. Finding the right entry point can often lead to an excellent start.

In the notice posted by Wang Xiyuan, some economic dealings between Lin Qing and the Lin Mansion were mentioned.

For example, the Lin Mansion had an untaxed income of up to 200,000 silver coins every year, the source of which was unknown. After careful checking of the accounts, it was finally determined that the Lin Mansion and 17 other rebel families were jointly selling opium, and that they were not selling it to Japan or the West, but to the heartland of the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that half of the opium in Jiangzuo, Jiangyou and Zhejiang comes from the Lin family.

For example, the Lin Mansion had an untaxed income, which was the steel fire feathers sent to Japan. The total amount of this income was less than 70,000 silver coins, but even when the Ming Dynasty entered Korea to fight against the Japanese, this amount of money never stopped.

It was well known that Japan was short of gunpowder. If Lin Fu had taken advantage of the soaring grain prices in Japan to sell some grain, it would have been fine, but he sold gunpowder.

There were as many as seven powerful and wealthy families who smuggled the steel and fire feathers into Japan.

For example, the Liang Mansion in Yangzhou had an annual income of 30,000 to 70,000 silver coins, which was not taxed. This money was the income from the human trafficking business. The Liang family in Yangzhou had been running the Yangzhou skinny horse business for generations. After the abolition of the slave system in the ninth year of Wanli, the Yangzhou skinny horse business was no longer legal. The Liang Mansion chose to go out to sea and sold Ming women to North and South America, and even the West.

Just like the West sold the golden-haired and red-haired foreigners to the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Xiyuan posted the notice to explain to the people the reasons for the court's action. He pondered over every word and based on the facts, told everyone the preliminary investigation results of the case. This was one of the unique skills Wang Xiyuan learned in the Northern Yamen after the establishment of the public trial system.

The 2.3 million people in Nanjing were in an uproar. The Nanjing common people, local gentry, and powerful officials who had been complaining about the eunuch Zhang Cheng's misbehavior were now extremely angry!

Since Emperor Taizu Gaodi built the Southern Court, there has been no war in the Southern Court. The last time people were forced into panic was during the Japanese invasion during the Jiajing period. The Ming Emperor had coastal defense inspectors carry three-inch round dragon flags to prevent violence from getting out of control, but the Japanese pirates killed people like crazy.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty came to Korea to fight against the Japanese pirates and attacked Tsushima, Nagato, Iwami, Izumo and other places. Many powerful and wealthy people in Jiangnan were very willing to pay tribute.

As a result, while they were fighting desperately in the front, the steel fire feathers were being transported to Japan in the rear. This was really intolerable.

The Ming Dynasty won a great victory, and the people of Nanjing celebrated with fireworks for three whole days. From top to bottom, from inside to outside, Nanjing was celebrating sincerely, because in the foreseeable future, Nanjing would continue to prosper and dance, just like the previous two hundred years.

But this group of rebels actually colluded with the Japanese.

Wang Xiyuan's memorial to the emperor was even more detailed. It was not just these seven families that colluded with the Japanese. If the Japanese invasion during the Jiajing period was included, at least 622 of the families colluded with the Japanese, or they themselves were the culprits behind the Japanese invasion.

When Zhu Yijun received Wang Xiyuan's memorial, he had already started his southern tour. He traveled very quickly and had arrived outside Jinan Prefecture by train. He did not enter the city, but lived in a temporary palace outside Jinan Prefecture. Although it was called a temporary palace, it was actually just a small courtyard covering less than 20 acres.

The bigger it is, the more bloated it is; the smaller it is, the easier it is to manage. The smaller it is, the easier it is to prevent fires and assassinations. It is definitely not the emperor's way of saving money!

Li Yashi, who was accompanying him, could only admire it against his will, saying it was small but beautiful, small but exquisite. He did not make up a joke, saying that this palace might only be occupied once every few years, and the large-scale construction and extravagance and waste of money could not even guarantee security.

When the emperor was on tour, the Ministry of Rites was preparing to hold a grand ceremony at Chaoyang Gate, but was directly stopped by Zhu Yijun. This time the reason was also very sufficient. It was not to save money, but to affect the lives of the people.

Chaoyang Gate is a key place for the distribution of goods in the capital. If a grand procession ceremony is held, everyone's lives will be affected for the emperor's procession.

"General Qi, take a look." After receiving Wang Xiyuan's memorial, Zhu Yijun called Qi Jiguang and Zhang Juzheng to the study in Xingyuan.

Zhu Yijun said with some emotion: "As expected by General Qi, most of them played extremely dishonorable roles in the Japanese invasion during the Jiajing period. After the governor of Zhejiang Province, Zhu Wan, destroyed the Shuangyu private market, they were among those who forced Zhu Wan to commit suicide."

"Because in the eyes of these powerful people, the huge profits from maritime trade are their private land, which the imperial court cannot touch under any circumstances."

Zhu Wan actually dared to block these people's financial path. If he didn't die, who would die? If Zhu Wan really wanted to turn Shuangyu Private Market into the Maritime Customs, wouldn't the huge profits from maritime trade be usurped by the court?
We must see the contradiction from the surface. Once we see the contradiction clearly, it will be self-evident what exactly happened during the Jiajing period.

No matter how the literati who control public opinion try to cover up, they cannot change the essence of the contradiction.

The imperial court was extremely poor. Zhu Wan went to Zhejiang and wiped out the pirates. Was the next step to open the sea? After Zhu Wan's death, the Japanese invasion began to spread and soon got out of control. The imperial court finally pacified the Japanese invasion and established the Yuegang Maritime Customs, which was considered to be a hand in the war.

"This is simply outrageous!" After reading the memorial, Qi Jiguang slammed it on the table. The slam was so powerful and loud that even Zhao Mengyou was startled.

Qi Jiguang stood up and said angrily, "How dare they? Who gave them the courage? What do you mean the emperor knows what's good for him by not setting up official ships for official trade in Southeast Asia? Know what's good for him? How dare they!"

"General Qi, please sit down and calm down." Zhu Yijun signaled Qi Jiguang not to be so angry, as anger is harmful to his health.

The reason why Qi Jiguang was angry surprised Zhu Yijun. Qi Jiguang had expected that these bandits would collude with the Japanese. After all, they had to guard against these guys from setting off the gunpowder depot on the battlefield. Qi Jiguang was angry at the anti-traitorous remarks made by these rebels.

The emperor has transferred all the profits from trade with Japan, Southeast Asia and Ming Dynasty to the private sector, while the more difficult global trade is completed by the court. Global trade is indeed lucrative, but too dangerous and far less stable than near-sea trade.

The tariff of the Ming Dynasty was only 13%. The tax rate was so low that even Western merchant ships arriving at the port would sigh that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was truly benevolent. After all, in those days, tariffs of % to % were the norm.

Zhu Yijun was willing to give up his interests in order to encourage industry and commerce. The shortage of money, silver and copper in the Ming Dynasty was a reality, and the development of industry and commerce revolved around maritime trade, which was the current situation.

But in the eyes of these Jiangnan gentry and bureaucrats, the emperor was sensible.

The first sentence that Qi Jiguang found difficult to accept was: The emperor knows what is interesting;

The second sentence that Qi Jiguang could not accept even more was: How could he turn the tables just by seizing the slightest opportunity?

The second sentence was what made Qi Jiguang most vulnerable. During the interrogation, similar words appeared more than once.

Sometimes, this "he" refers to the emperor. The Ming emperor took advantage of Zhang Juzheng's betrayal of the gentry and bureaucracy and immediately seized the opportunity to turn over and become an authoritarian emperor;
Sometimes, he refers to generals. The generals of the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the Japanese invasion and broke the 170-year-old culture and military policy. Qi Jiguang became the Duke of Fengguo and was able to attend meetings in the Wenhua Hall.

Sometimes, this refers to the soldiers. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had been owed wages for a long time, the military garrisons in the hinterland suffered serious losses, and the soldiers on the border were just barely surviving. Now they not only have wages, but also have the Martyrs' Shrine, Military Academy, Huimin Pharmacy, Eastern Expedition Records and Heroes Records, and the Prince's Coffin Carrying Service, and so on.

Sometimes, he was referring to the poor coolies, tenants, vagrants, slaves, and forced laborers. They were the largest group of people in the Ming Dynasty, accounting for more than 80% of the people. When public opinion required it, the poor coolies were human beings. When it was not needed, the poor coolies who had never been cared about by anyone, now were able to sit at the table and eat?

Sometimes, he refers to the lowly people, such as slaves, boatmen, beggars, and prostitutes, who have suddenly transformed themselves into good people. The confessions during the interrogations were full of anger. The 622 arrested families still expressed their anger even after being caught. They were trying their best to make the lowly people remain lowly people for the rest of their lives.

Qi Jiguang was very disgusted with these two sentences. The first sentence was the position of these rebels. As Your Majesty said, they felt that they were the masters of this land.

The second sentence is that the reason why the rebels are rebels is that the poor coolies who make up the majority have risen up, which is actually the rise of the Ming Dynasty. This is the secret of the success of the Wanli Reform. However, they are very unhappy with this rise.

(End of this chapter)