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Chapter 878 Invisible Power

"They are really a bunch of ungrateful wolves. They should just eat and take everything, just like during the Yongle period!" Qi Jiguang said viciously.

During the Yongle period, the emperor took everything and even the court did not receive any share of the profits. It all went into the imperial treasury. The reasons for this were complicated, the most important of which was that Zhu Di was the Prince of Yan who had fought in the capital, and he naturally distrusted the court, which was very similar to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked the leader of the civil riot why he did not report it to the authorities. The leader replied: Why didn't you report it to the authorities back then?

Zhu Yuanzhang's and Zhu Di's distrust were different. Zhu Yuanzhang did not trust the system, while Zhu Di did not trust the Jiangnan gentry as a group. He pretended to be crazy and stupid and hid in the stable and cowshed, but he could not escape the instigation and persecution of these literati.

Zhu Yunwen was probably mentally ill. He even wanted to kill Zhu Bo, the Prince of Xiang who had no son.

During the Yongle period, when large ships arrived at the port, all the proceeds went into the imperial treasury, but the imperial court, which was responsible for organizing the production of ships and goods, did not receive a single cent. Coupled with the policy of maritime ban, it became possible for the emperor to eat and take it all.

The reason why Zhu Di wanted to move the capital and take everything was that he saw clearly what kind of existence the literati-officials were. If he relied on the literati-officials to rule the world, there would inevitably be one result, and that was the demise of the leader and the demise of the government.

No matter how good Zhu Di was at fighting, it was still okay when he was alive. But once he was gone, any system would be completely corrupted, just like what happened during the Hongwu and Jianwen periods.

The first principle of invoking violence is to prevent it from getting out of control. This is the historical lesson of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. However, the way the literati prevented it from getting out of control was to promote culture over military, to value culture over military, to not use force at all, and not to maintain armaments, so that it would not get out of control.

So Zhu Di was a man who seized the day. He only cared about doing everything he wanted to do while he was alive.

As for the future? God knows.

What Qi Jiguang meant was to seize the day. Your Majesty actually holds a very pessimistic attitude towards the final outcome of the Wanli Reform, just like what Your Majesty said when he scolded the lowly Confucian scholars: This world is mine, and it is yours, but in the end it is yours, so why are you in such a hurry?
Eat it all, take it all, and finish it first.

No one can control what happens in the future, not Emperor Taizu Gao, not Emperor Chengzu Wen, and not Your Majesty.

"General Qi was just speaking in anger." Zhu Yijun said calmly, "The situation of the Wanli Reform is the result of the unity of the emperor, his subjects, the army and the people of the Ming Dynasty. These lowly scholars used the word "turn over", and I think he used it very well. Only when the majority of the people in the Ming Dynasty turn over can the declining national situation of the Ming Dynasty turn over."

"The more these rebels oppose, the more it shows that the Wanli Reform has achieved some results. If there are no results at all, there is no need for them to oppose and just watch the joke."

"Even if we take a step back, aren't there still 1387 powerful families, local gentry and local gentry who are willing to obey the land survey and return the land, reduce rent and build farms, and support the new policy?"

Zhu Yijun did not think that taking everything was beneficial to the development of the Ming Dynasty. It was the same as the annexation of local gentry and the monopoly of the powerful. During the Song Dynasty, a pound of coal was sold for two hundred coins, a pound of alum was sold for five hundred coins, and two taels of wine cost a hundred coins, which was the result of taking everything.

Merger is expressed as monopoly in the commodity economy and as absolute autocracy at the court level. This is true for many things; too much is as bad as too little.

When it comes to politics, the one who makes the most friends always makes the most enemies, but these traitors are going against the grain, always making the least friends and the most enemies.

In fact, the scale of this offensive and defensive alliance, which was established with the Nan Ya Guozijian as the bond and had a general consensus, was far larger than the current 600-plus families. Many of them had changed from offensive and defensive alliances to surrendering families, such as Shanxi merchants, Wang Chonggu, Lu Shusheng, Jimo Zhang family, Songjiang Sun family, Suzhou Xu family, and so on.

As time goes by, more and more local celebrities, gentry, powerful people and wealthy people will complete a gorgeous transformation in their identities.

It had to be completed, and the emperor was sharpening his knife to force a change. As the Wanli Reform continued to advance, the local gentry who refused to return their land and farms would probably have no choice but to be buried in the ground.

"Your Majesty is wise." Qi Jiguang said this because he was furious. He knew very well that the rebels were a minority, while the people who wanted to live a good life were the majority, and these people were the ones that the Ming army wanted to protect.

Qi Jiguang calmed down, thought carefully, and felt that His Majesty was right, and that too much is as bad as too little.

However, he still quite liked the word "turnaround". Yes, most of the poor and coolies in the Ming Dynasty were turning around with the change of production relations. Politics was a game of numbers. If the people of the Ming Dynasty turned around, the Ming Dynasty would also turn around.

The main body of the Ming Dynasty has never been the emperor of the Zhu family, nor the powerful and wealthy, nor the local gentry, but the poor and coolies. Even in the new interpretation of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, the poor and coolies still have no place. The soldiers came from them, and the labor force and working time came from them.

As the originator of the idea of ​​reporting to the emperor and saving the people, Qi Jiguang had a new understanding of this sentence when he thought about it again.

Zhang Juzheng frowned and said, "The tax bureau has reported that the preliminary tax amount is 3000 million silver coins, which means that the amount of money confiscated is at least million silver coins."

Is thirty million silver a lot? It is indeed a lot. Wang Chonggu is a wealthy man of the Ming Dynasty. His total assets are less than seven million silver. Among them, five million silver is Wang Qian's valuable tickets for Suiyuan Chidao.

Thirty million silver coins are not too much at all. The emperor estimated that it would cost thirty-four million silver coins to complete the construction of the Longkaichi Road. This time, the property was confiscated, and only the Longkaichi Road was seized.

Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "I don't want this money either. I want to invest it all in the Dinghai school system. Aren't they trying to monopolize education and then realize the monopoly of power? I won't let them have their way! I want to implement the Dinghai school system and let the majority of people learn to read and understand reason!"

Zhu Yijun liked money, but actually he liked power. Money cannot give birth to more money, and money cannot be brought into this world and cannot be taken away from this world. What he wanted to achieve was to build five large tiled houses during the Wanli Restoration.

"That has to go into the imperial treasury first." Zhang Juzheng knew that the emperor didn't want it. The last time he extorted money from Nanjing, he got more than 10 million silver coins, which were all invested in the industry and commerce of the Southern Court. He didn't take a penny away. The emperor's attitude was very clear. He was not traveling south to get rich.

Qi Jiguang said with great approval: "Indeed, it must be put into the imperial treasury first."

The reason why Zhang Juzheng made such a suggestion was very simple. After the Li Ju Law, he would not implement any new policies. Even the Single Whip Law was left to the emperor to implement. Zhang Juzheng wanted to complete one thing before his death, and that was the narrative of gratitude of the Ming Dynasty.

It would be a bit embarrassing for the emperor to do this himself, but it was just right for Zhang Juzheng to do it.

The Wanli Reform was in full swing, but imperial power was rapidly weakening and centrifugal forces were strengthening. The narrative of gratitude had to be completed before the Wanli Reform had a backbone.

Zhang Juzheng's narrative of gratitude mainly focused on strengthening the military and education. This was a narrative of gratitude based on the practitioner's fidelity, not a lie, much less nonsense.

Your Majesty wants to implement the Dinghai school system, there is no problem with that, but all the proceeds from the confiscation of property must be put into the imperial treasury. After being kept in the imperial treasury for a period of time and becoming Your Majesty's money, it will be allocated to the construction of the Dinghai school system. This completes the transformation of favors. Your Majesty has suffered the infamy of the confiscation of property, so the favor of the Dinghai school system must be compensated accordingly.

This is why Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang believed that the treasury should be advanced.

The reason for promoting the narrative of gratitude is largely because the Ming Dynasty is in a period of rapid change. The power of the powerful and wealthy in Jiangnan is increasing rapidly at an unprecedented rate as maritime trade expands rapidly.

In order to ensure political certainty and stability, a narrative of gratitude based on facts becomes extremely urgent.

"That's fine." Zhu Yijun readily followed the advice. After all, the silver had to be counted in the emperor's treasury accounts. After the rebellion was over, a large sum of money would be injected. Zhu Yijun also wanted to see whether the construction of Kowloon School and Normal School met expectations.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting a war, he liked to advance inch by inch. He would advance one foot and gain one inch, and he would keep advancing in this way. The same was true for the implementation of the national policy of the Ming Dynasty. He would first throw a powerful punch, see the effect, and then throw the next punch.

"Zhang Cheng is very puzzled. Why did this offensive and defensive alliance of 622 families overturn the Tian Gang and use the minority to suppress the majority?" Zhu Yijun searched the file for a long time, handed it to Zhang Juzheng and said, "This may be the answer."

This is also one of the case files that Wang Xiyuan sent to Xingyuan. There is a case in it that deeply reflects the reason behind this phenomenon, that is, wind power public opinion.

Fresh salt is a new invention of kelp king Yao Guangqi after he established a culture factory in Shanghai County.

This kind of fresh salt was originally extracted from kelp and used together with salt. It tastes extremely delicious. It is made from grains, wheat, sweet potatoes, etc., which are saccharified during the fermentation process and finally fermented into fresh salt under the action of microorganisms. This thing was called MSG in later generations.

The Shanghai Fresh Salt Factory was the first government-run fungus application factory founded by Yao Guangqi. Once the fresh salt was launched, it caused a craze throughout Songjiang Prefecture. In an era when condiments were generally scarce, this thing could be said to be a nuclear bomb for taste buds, and Songjiang salt was expensive for a while.

Soon the cost of the fresh salt factory was recovered, and the cost of starting up the strain factory and the ten-year research funding for the Songjiang University Medical College were also paid for.

However, the promotion of fresh salt encountered the same problem as kelp, and this time it was even more excessive.

The sales of the fresh salt factory encountered great resistance because a large number of powerful and wealthy mouthpieces began to spread rumors about fresh salt, saying that eating fresh salt would cause infertility, impotence, hair loss, and withering disease, etc. As a result, the extremely popular fresh salt was immediately no longer in demand.

Soon, another variant of fresh salt, which was claimed to be very healthy, appeared on the market. It was named Weifen, and was said to have aphrodisiac effects. It became a hot-selling item, and the fresh salt from the Shanghai Salt Factory soon began to be shipped. However, this time the salt was not shipped to the market, but wholesaled to other merchants.

When Wang Qian arrived at Songjiang Prefecture, he was almost mad at Yao Guangqi. Where was the dandy young man he used to be? Now Yao Guangqi had become a cautious bureaucrat.

Seasoning powder and fresh salt are exactly the same thing!
The local powerful and wealthy bought the salt from the fresh salt factory, changed the packaging, and promoted it to be a healthy product.

This is simply unreasonable!

Yao Guangqi was Wang Chongyi's son-in-law. He had no place to complain when he was wronged. Young Master Wang Qian was Wang Chonggu's biological son and a loyal minister recognized by Hai Rui, Zhang Juzheng and the Emperor. Wang Qian immediately showed his dandy style and named everyone who had criticized Xianyan.

"Romance Affair" is a magic weapon for the famous scholars of the upright class. Wang Qian immediately exposed all the shameful lifestyle problems of these guys. Wang Qian is a man of heaven. He cannot tolerate any grievance in the capital, and even his father cannot let him suffer any grievance!

Soon, Wang Qian won the public opinion in his own way. Anyone who dared to talk nonsense would be named by Wang Qian. The pen directors were really afraid. Let the gods fight, and the pen directors dared not get involved anymore.

Soon, people who bought seasoning powder discovered that seasoning powder and fresh salt were exactly the same, but seasoning powder had a higher price, and was twice as expensive!
After observing fresh salt, the Jiekui Institute concluded that there would be no problem unless the dosage was too large. However, eating too much salt would cause problems.

"When Wang Xiyuan was investigating the tribute selection case, he asked for detailed information during the interrogation. Here comes the interesting part. These rebels did not dare to deal with Wang Qian because his father was still alive." Zhu Yijun talked about the details after the two important ministers finished reading the case file.

He only dared to stab the villain but did not dare to really take action, because if he took action against Wang Qian, Wang Chonggu would definitely go crazy. So he just had to be patient for a while and wait until Wang Chonggu died before taking action against Wang Qian.

"In other words, whoever controls public opinion can use a small amount of gossip and rumors to stir up trouble and even have the effect of bad money driving out good money," Zhang Juzheng said with a serious face.

Zhang Cheng thinks that the 622 companies that banned 1387 donation houses is a case of a minority blocking the majority. The reason they were able to do this is because they controlled the invisible power, the wind and public opinion.

Zhang Juzheng immediately said, "The laws of the Ming Dynasty are still imperfect, and the punishment for false accusations needs to be expanded. With the development of the commodity economy, the punishment for false accusations cannot be limited to reputation, but must be expanded to the control of public opinion. Any false reports must be charged with false accusations. Only in this way can the unhealthy trends be corrected." "After discussing with Wang Ci Fu, you should add an appendix to the Ming Dynasty Code." Zhu Yijun said with great approval.

"Your Majesty, Wang Ci Fu wrote a poem. 'Lament of the Kiln People.'" Zhang Juzheng hesitated, but still took out a poem and handed it to the emperor. Wang Chonggu was a serious Jinshi, but the poems he wrote did not follow any rules of rhythm. It was obvious that he learned bad things from the emperor and they were not neat at all.

He wrote primarily for narrative, not poetry.

The Lament of the Mine Workers is about a mine worker from the Xishan Coal Bureau who had his legs broken in a mining accident and was half dead. His life was worse than death and he would rather die.

The mines and tunnels of Xishan Coal Bureau are deep, and the old kiln workers are covered with dust; their broken limbs are tossed on the cold wheels, and one cart of coal is worth ten years of their lives.

He does not miss his wife who is married off and his children who are imprisoned, but only his old mother who takes care of him day and night; he washes clothes at the age of thirty and cooks forty, and his old body still serves as a cradle.

Frost soaks the coal lamp and penetrates the leaky house, wind tears the medicine jar and breaks the wooden door; in the morning he treats the lung disease and in the evening he treats the eyes, but his withered hands still hold the jade dew.

Suddenly I heard that a new ghost had been added to the desolate tomb, with gray hair weeping in the empty grave; he was still hugging the cold quilt and calling out, though he had lived half a lifetime without being covered in coal dust.

This kiln dweller had his legs crushed and broken. After being rescued, he has been sitting in a swivel chair. The pension given by the court can only be used for a maximum of ten years.

His wife married someone else, his son was in prison, and only his old mother was by his side to take care of him. She has been doing this for ten years. This kiln dweller is forty years old, and he can only ask his mother to help him with laundry and cooking. The aging mother also has to take care of the children.

The autumn frost extinguished the coal lamp and penetrated into the leaky house. Last year, an autumn wind broke the medicine jar and tore the wooden door apart. The kiln dweller contracted lung and eye diseases, but the mother did not show any disgust. She held the medicine she had begged for in her withered hands as if she were holding a delicacy.

When the mother returned home, she saw her son had committed suicide.

There was a new ghost on the grave in the wilderness. The white-haired mother was crying in front of the grave. Holding old clothes and bedding, the mother kept calling her child's name. Her son had lived this half of his life like coal ash that had never fallen, wandering and full of misery.

"Wang Cifu wrote it very well." Zhu Yijun finished reading the whole poem, raised his head and asked, "Is this true?"

"Your Majesty, it is indeed true. Not long after, the mother committed suicide at home." Zhang Juzheng sighed heavily. Wang Chonggu wrote this poem because of the scene. It expressed sympathy for the tragic experience of the mother and son, and also hoped that people would understand the suffering of craftsmen's forced labor.

"So Wang Ci Fu's intention is to establish a more complete pension system?" Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said, "That's fine."

"Wang Ci Fu still wants to establish a trade union, even if it is a non-existent one. If these odd households come to visit during festivals and ask about their difficulties in life, it will not lead to such a tragedy." Zhang Juzheng added his opinion that a more complete system of pensions for craftsmen must be established. This is itself the demand of the Labor Party and is also a continuation of the ancestral system of craftsmen.

And trade unions, no matter how useless they are, can neither bring justice to the workers nor secure their future, but they can comfort the suffering disabled craftsmen and prevent such tragedies from happening again.

The Ming Dynasty has formed a stable chain, in which poor laborers such as tenants and hooligans become craftsmen in workshops. Craftsmen who are already accustomed to the rules are the best source of soldiers.

This point has been made very clear in "Jixiao Xinshu". Miners are very disciplined because those who do not will die.

Only with good soldiers can the Ming army maintain strong enough military discipline, and military discipline is the greatest combat effectiveness.

On the other hand, the soldiers from the Beijing camp who came to rescue the common people used violence to change the production relations.

This virtuous cycle is the key to the Ming emperor's control over violence, so Wang Chonggu hopes that the emperor can support the establishment of trade unions. Even if a trade union seems useless, it is better to have it than not.

"Good." Zhu Yijun said concisely: "The government-run factory is not short of money. If it lacks any policy, let Wang Ci Fu speak."

"I obey your command." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head again and accepted the order. In fact, at this point, Wang Chonggu had run out of tricks. Wang Chonggu and Wang Jiaping didn't have any better solution for this matter. They could only keep trying to move forward.

Zhu Yijun sent Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang away. The fifth major case of the Wanli period was in full swing and was still in the stage of evidence collection and case investigation.

The difference between this southern tour and the last one is that Prince Lu Zhu Yiliu accompanied the emperor south to the south of the Yangtze River, while the eldest son Zhu Changzhi was regent in the capital. Prince De Zhu Zaiyu was finally willing to come out of the Institute of Gewu to listen to the government affairs, but he was just a listener and did not make any decisions.

For Zhu Zaiyu, the court discussions were really a torture and a waste of time. He was currently working on improving the Shengping No. 7 steam engine, and the daily court discussions annoyed him greatly.

Therefore, the revision and adjudication of the court deliberation results ultimately had to be done personally by the emperor who was on his southern tour.

Zhu Yiliu is going to accompany His Majesty on the southern tour in order to prepare for his own fiefdom. His Majesty has many descendants, and as his younger brother, he can no longer stay in the capital as the crown prince. He has to choose a time to become a fiefdom.

The royal family was the most ruthless. At the beginning, he was the de facto crown prince. He had to practice martial arts and study with the emperor, and even stayed behind to supervise the country. The civil and martial arts he learned were of no use. Now that the eldest prince is growing up, Zhu Yiliu must leave the center of power.

Zhu Yiliu planned to be established as a vassal overseas. Any of the five places could be Nagasaki, Ryukyu, Luzon, Jiugang, and Jinchi. Zhu Yiliu planned to take advantage of the emperor's southern tour to make some inquiries and find a suitable place for his palace.

In addition to this, another change is that Empress Dowager Li finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked the emperor to bring Queen Wang, Concubine Zhou Defei, and Concubine Ran Shufei with him. If these three ladies were not pregnant during this southern tour, Empress Dowager Li would arrange for the emperor to take concubines.

Concubine Zhou De is old, but she knows how to love people. If she doesn’t give birth now, she will not be able to give birth in the future.

Concubine Ran Shu was one of the emperor's most beloved concubines and was also the most favored by Empress Dowager Li.

Concubine Ran Shu has a face that indicates unrest in her family, and she is also quite capable. After all, she can make Empress Dowager Li very happy. Her methods are amazing, but it is useless. Concubine Ran Shu is not competing for favor with the Empress, but with state affairs. The harem can only unite around Queen Wang. I hope Your Majesty can pay more attention to the harem.

Empress Dowager Li did not leave the capital, but stayed in the capital to look after Zhu Changzhi who was regulating the country.

"Your Majesty, Song Yingchang, the governor of Shandong, requests an audience." A eunuch hurried in and said with his head bowed.

Song Yingchang was a Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing. He served as the magistrate of Jiangzhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, the prefect of Jinan, the provincial judge of Shandong, and the governor of Shandong. He was a typical advocate of war. As early as the 12th year of Wanli, he had been reporting to the court that the Japanese pirates might return again and requested the court to pay attention to coastal defense, especially to notify Korea to respond.

The King of Joseon, Yi Sun, also received a warning, but he did not take it seriously at all.

After Wang Yi'e returned to Beijing, Song Yingchang was promoted from Censor to Governor of Shandong.

"Xuan."

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Long live Your Majesty. Long, long live Your Majesty." After entering the door, Song Yingchang bowed five times and kowtowed three times to pay homage to the emperor. This was his second time to see His Majesty. The last time was in the 12th year of Wanli, when he returned to Beijing as an inspector to report on his work and met His Majesty as a non-official.

"No need to be polite, sit down and talk." Zhu Yijun signaled Song Yingchang not to be so restrained.

In the original history, Song Yingchang was a hero who fought against the Japanese pirates.

Song Yingchang followed Li Rusong into Korea to fight against the Japanese pirates, and drove them all the way to Busan and Ulsan. He had military merits in the Battle of Pyongyang and Seoul. He sent people to launch a surprise attack on 13 granaries of the Japanese pirates, forcing them to leave Seoul.

In the Wanli War to Aid Korea, Song Yingchang made great contributions, but was dismissed when he returned to the court.

Because Song Yingchang and others went against the tide, he forced Korea to provide food and grass. After the war, he wanted to station the Ming army in Korea and let Liu Qie lead 16,000 troops to defend Seoul. In name, it was to provide protection for Korea, but in reality it was to force the Korean King Yi Sun to fulfill his promise and submit to the Ming.

The Ming Dynasty suffered heavy casualties and consumed countless food and supplies, so it drove the Japanese pirates into the sea. Even if it won, it would still be a loss. Therefore, Song Yingchang wanted Korea to submit to the Ming Dynasty, which was contrary to the basic correctness of the people of Yuyuan. In the end, Song Yingchang was dismissed for his greed and was never re-employed.

Being able to fight is really of no use at all.

Song Yingchang came to deliver a work plan. He took over the burden of Shandong Governor from Wang Yi'e. He was originally the Shandong Censor and was very familiar with the situation in Shandong. The whole plan was still based on Wang Yi'e's approach. Salt fields and kelp fields needed to be built, normal schools and schools needed to be built, fresh salt factories needed to be introduced to ferment fresh salt, and machinery factories needed to be introduced to produce steam engines, etc.

The overall plan is to find ways to make Shandong prosperous and continue to reduce population outflow. This is his overall plan.

"You can contact Yao Guangqi about the fresh salt factory. As for the machinery factory, let's send it to the court for discussion. I think it's a good idea." Zhu Yijun agreed to Song Yingchang's request.

After Wang Yi'e returned to Beijing, he has been arranging these two things, and they have basically been finalized. The local government in Shandong will use its own money to build a fresh salt factory and a machinery factory to provide more jobs for the people of Shandong, so naturally Shandong people will not leave.

Shandong is close to the sea, but there is very little population outflow. In the context of the Wanli period when the sea was opened up, the small population outflow can be seen as a standard of local governance.

"Your Majesty, I have an unwelcome request. Can you establish another university in Shandong? We will bear the financial and levy." When Song Yingchang mentioned this request, there was some urgency in his eyes.

Jinan University has a total of four phases of construction. The first and second phases have been completed and are waiting for Your Majesty to visit tomorrow. The enrollment work has been in full swing. It was built on the basis of Shandong Maritime School.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "In the 15th year of Wanli, it was decided that eight places, including Tianjin, Jinan, Kaifeng, Songjiang, Nanya, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou, would establish higher education institutions of the same standard as the Royal Institute of Technology. Jinan already has a university hall, so even if Shandong builds one, it will also be a local university hall."

"After the first batch of Kowloon University Halls were built, the second batch of university halls would be built in Dali, Chengdu, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Zhending, Wuchang, Nanchang, Nanning, and Liaoyang. A total of 18 university halls were built, which was the complete plan for the Dinghai school system."

"The imperial court no longer has the energy to support the construction of another university in Shandong."

Shandong could provide money and food, but the court did not have many qualified academicians to allocate to Shandong. The emperor had to put in all his efforts to build these 18 universities. He even emptied out his treasury to build them.

The total investment in these 18 universities was more than 50 million silver dollars, and the construction was completed in eight years.

If Shandong wants to ask for one more, it can only find a way on its own.

(End of this chapter)