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Chapter 882: Scholars are really too vicious
The new nobles of the Ming Dynasty had no choice.

The new nobles had been unwilling to support the new policies before because Your Majesty was a good man and there was still room for maneuver if they had offended the Emperor. As long as they did not rebel or commit evil, they would not die. The rebels were bad people, so the new nobles sided with them and appeased Your Majesty.

Good guys are always at gunpoint, that's normal.

But once the list of the families who surrendered came out, Lu Shusheng's experience told all the upstarts that in the eyes of these rebels, if you don't rebel, if you pretend to obey but actually disobey, if you appease, if you compromise, you are a surrenderer.

The new nobles of the Ming Dynasty were forced to the side of the emperor. Even if they had to pretend to be loyal to the emperor, they had to express their loyalty to him.

Most of the powerful and wealthy people in the Ming Dynasty, including some nobles of the old cultural system, found it very difficult to understand this list of families that had surrendered. Why was Lu Shusheng also on the list?

You yourself are afraid of the Emperor's violence and dare not rebel openly, but you force others to charge into battle? You are even more overbearing than Emperor Taizu Gao.

Emperor Taizu Gao conquered the world and fought in the battlefields himself. You are a group of servants who relied on Emperor Taizu Gao's order to gain political status, but you forced others to die.

Your Majesty, even though he is stingy, knows that the Emperor has no shortage of hungry soldiers!

For the new rich, the current situation has completely changed. Whether you offend these rebels or not, they really intend to dig up the roots of your descendants and prevent them from obtaining any political status by monopolizing culture.

Without any political status, one cannot keep any wealth, whether it is land or means of production and tools in the workshop.

The Southern Court rebels only did this once, when the Hongwu Emperor punished the Pu family of Quanzhou. That was because these Pu family members from the Arab Empire betrayed the emperor of the Song Dynasty, who was also an emperor, killed the royal family of the two Song dynasties, and handed them over to the Tartars to be killed.

Even though His Majesty was assassinated by the King, he was furious and only banned the imperial examinations in Zhejiang for ten years. Moreover, when half of the time was up, the ban would be lifted as long as the land was returned.

Therefore, the new nobles supported the emperor in using violence to completely kill this group of rebels to prevent future troubles.

The public trial outside Chaoyang Gate of the Southern Court received extremely universal support, from hereditary officials and elected officials to poor people and laborers.

For the poor coolies who were tenants and vagrants, they were far from having turned over a new leaf. They had merely poked their heads out of hell. No matter in the new or old interpretations of the system of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, there was no place for the poor coolies.

In the new interpretation of the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, farmers are landlords who control the means of production and production tools, and artisans are skilled craftsmen who have mastered skilled skills and must be relied upon by workshops and government factories. Neither of these is the position of poor laborers.

Even if they poked their heads out of hell and looked at this wonderful world, these cultural aristocrats would still be completely unable to accept it.

Wang Xiyuan presided over the public trial and could feel the universal support. The people were waiting to be beheaded, and the powerful and wealthy were looking to see if they were on the list of those who had surrendered.

Even the hereditary military hero, the Duke of Wei, was eagerly waiting for these rebels to be beheaded.

The incident happened on Duke Wei's territory, but the emperor did not hold him responsible because the Xu family was the original shareholder of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, Duke Wei had not been involved in state affairs for many years, so it was indeed not the responsibility of Xu Bangrui and Xu Weizi.

Wang Xiyuan selected seventeen cases for public trial. Since the announcement had been posted in advance, there was no need to elaborate on the cases. He just displayed witnesses, material objects, and evidence to make sure that the court had not wrongly accused these seven families.

"Any last words?" Wang Xiyuan looked at the sun. It was almost three quarters past noon. The time had come.

The death date was approaching. After hearing the sentence of immediate execution, Lin Qing's face changed from ashen to ferocious. He struggled to stand up with shackles and shackles, looked at Wang Xiyuan and shouted loudly: "Wanli's Reform will eventually fail!"

"Whether it's Zhang Juzheng or the emperor, they regard us as the enemies of the Wanli Reform! But, Wang Xiyuan, have you ever thought about it? Are we really the enemies of the Wanli Reform? No, it's human nature, the greed in human nature!"

"Everyone has his own family, his own relatives and friends. If not everyone is selfless, how can the world be united? The emperor and Zhang Juzheng hope that everyone in the world will not be selfish!"

"Everyone is selfish!"

Wang Xiyuan looked at Lin Qing coldly. He looked around at the criminals waiting to be beheaded, chose to let it go, pulled out the arrow from the quiver, threw it out and said calmly: "Behead him immediately."

"Today it's me, and tomorrow it'll be you, Wang Xiyuan, Zhang Cheng, Luo Bingliang, and all of you, don't be so arrogant. God is watching us. Today my entire family will be executed, and tomorrow it will be your turn!" Lin Qing shouted hysterically.

Wang Xiyuan knew it very well, and His Majesty had also said it many times. His Majesty said: Selfishness is a neutral word, not a derogatory word.

But Lin Qing still thinks this is a derogatory term, and even believes that the biggest reason for the failure of reforms throughout the dynasties is selfishness.

What the emperor wants is actually very simple. These people are only concerned about their own selfish ends and have no regard for the people and the world. They are not broad-minded and resolute people. When the backbones stand up, they should not drag their feet. If they are willing to obey orders, that would be great.

The Wanli Reform could be used to pursue the private interests of his faction. Whether it was the fact that the emperor had rewarded many noble titles that were equal to the country's, or that Wang Chonggu, the traitor, was still the largest wealthy man in the world, Zhu Yijun was allowed to be selfish and to pursue the private interests of his faction.

Lin Qing's last words showed that he had never known about the Wanli Restoration, had never read the theory of contradictions, and had never read the court reports.

Wang Xiyuan watched the criminals struggling desperately as they were dragged away, and he began to understand His Majesty's instructions on both treating the symptoms and the root cause.

Even if your medical skills are invincible and the medicine you prescribe is effective, if the patient turns a deaf ear to you and uses the medicine according to his own ideas, your medical skills are useless. To treat the symptoms, you need to make the patient listen to you.

It sounds good to say contradictory things, but if no one reads them, the ideological disease cannot be cured.

Lin Qing was taken to the execution ground. Until now, he still felt that everyone in the audience was ignorant. He even thought that this failure was just because he was careless and had someone sell the list for 10,000 silver coins. Lin Qing suddenly glanced at a scholar in the crowd.

This academician was the one who sold the list of families who donated money to Li Xianfang for 10,000 silver coins, which eventually led to the outbreak of the tribute selection case.

Because of his meritorious performance, and the fact that this scholar chose to keep a low profile and did not get involved in the whole incident, he was released shortly after being arrested and is now sitting in the audience.

Lin Qing wanted to rush up and bite the student to death. He wanted to curse the student with the most vicious words, but his mouth was stuffed with rags and he could not make any sound.

This Xuezheng was a juren from Fujian Prefecture. He came to Nanjing in search of a job and eventually became a student of Lin Xun, Lin Qing's brother. He was appointed Xuezheng of the Imperial Academy and was called a disciple, no different from a "family member".

This scholar is a traitor.

The illegal proceeds of 10,000 silver coins were eventually confiscated by the Tiqi. Lin Qing simply couldn't understand why his "family" dared to bite him back and kept staring at him with such disdain and anger.

However, Lin Qing never thought about why this famous scholar would betray him.

Even if there was no ten thousand taels of silver, and even if we don't mention the grievances suffered by the Lin family, this list of families that donated money actually created injustice. Even if this famous scholar did not betray, anyone involved, with a little conscience, would have exploded sooner or later in the tribute selection case.

"Execute." Seeing that the criminal was in place, Wang Xiyuan threw out the order again.

With a light click, the executioner's hands were very nimble. He inserted the bone prying knife accurately into the fourth vertebra. After prying it gently and making a cut, Lin Qing could no longer feel the existence of his body.

Lin Qing was dead, but he didn't know that he was dead. He just had a little bit of consciousness left. Even so, he was still cursing the emperor, the prime minister, and the academician in his mind, cursing the injustice of the world towards him.

After the world spun around, his last glimpse of consciousness was looking at the clear blue sky before his consciousness completely dissipated.

Heads rolled and blood flowed like rivers.

At the execution ground, the seven families beheaded plus the officials involved in the ship robbery case in Chizhou Prefecture, a total of 492 people. These were the first batch of rebels to be used to serve as a deterrent, so that the living could clearly see the existence of violence.

Wang Xiyuan looked at the clear blue sky and sighed again, "The south of the Yangtze River is beautiful and the scenery is familiar to me."

Even when the sky above Beiya is clear, there is always a layer of light blue smoke floating in the air. These smoke are small particles of haze that scatter the sunlight into various strange colors. These colors mixed together look particularly disgusting.

In Beiya, no matter how clean a table is, it will be covered with a layer of dust in just half a day.

But it is not the case in Nan Ya. Nan Ya, you wipe the table clean and don’t move it for a month, but it is still as clean as new, without any flying dust, no sand, and no haze. Such a good place was completely occupied by demons and monsters after the Ming Dynasty capital moved south.

After nearly five hundred heads fell to the ground, Wang Xiyuan did not order the dismantling of the execution platform, because His Majesty had made it very clear that this was just a first batch, and there would be more than six hundred powerful and wealthy people to come.

Wang Xiyuan watched the bailiffs cleaning up the execution ground for a long time. He felt that His Majesty could be more violent. As a young and vigorous man, when he was in the capital, he could not understand why His Majesty always played the role of a conservative in the court. He could have been more violent.

For example, right now is the time to announce it to the world and let the 8,000 powerful and wealthy families in the world express their opinions and ask them to submit a petition.

This denunciation petition should include all of the following contents: the most vicious criticism and curse against the six hundred rebels, the expression of support for Wanli's new policies of surveying and returning land, reducing rents for building farms, conducting a census of the population, abolishing slavery, etc., the promise to pay taxes legally and on time, the admission that no support would be given to pirates, no private markets would be set up, and the active cooperation with the court in promoting the construction of the Dinghai school system, etc.

This reprimand is a loyalty test, a way to establish authority, and an act of violence.

Simple, rough and straightforward universal pressure makes everyone hand over their lives to His Majesty the Emperor. After all, you have made a solemn promise to the Emperor. If you commit the crime you promised, then whatever the Emperor does will be justified and legal.

If you enjoy the obligations, you must of course take on the responsibilities. From the perspective of the contradiction theory, this is a very reasonable request.

The speed of submitting a reprimand form is also limited by the system. The reprimand form must be issued within the specified time. If it is issued slowly or poorly, it means disloyalty, disrespectfulness, and treacherous.

Wang Xiyuan felt that the emperor might be reluctant to implement such a decree because he was afraid of the basic correctness of the Holy Emperor's principle of being gentle and benevolent. So naturally, someone had to be the bad guy, and that person was Wang Xiyuan.

Wang Xiyuan, the governor of Yingtian, sent a memorial to Xuzhou. When the emperor received it, he read it for a long time before saying to Feng Bao, "Feng Banban, did you see it? These scholars are really vicious, so vicious."

Zhu Yijun was certainly not hindered by the Holy Emperor's idea of ​​being gentle and benevolent. In the Nanyang plantations, a cow lived longer than a Japanese slave. The garbage on his grave in the future would probably pile up into a mountain. He was just not as bad as scholars like Wang Xiyuan.

"Tsk tsk, he reads too many books, does he drink ink like water? Otherwise, how could his heart, liver, spleen and stomach be so black?" Feng Bao looked at the memorial with a look of horror.

The eunuchs were indeed not able to win the fight against these scholar-officials. After the Wanli New Deal, these ministers who were able to climb to the positions of governors and ministers were all the best. It could be said that they were bad, but definitely not stupid.

"Is it a good idea to do this?" Zhu Yijun chose to be cautious and think more about the pros and cons before making a choice.

"Governor Wang said in his memorial that this method can calm people's hearts." However, Feng Bao did not think this was wrong.

Because the powerful and wealthy, as well as the local gentry, would also be afraid that the emperor would start killing people again, and killing a lot of people. They were afraid that the fire in the Southern Court would burn them. For example, Lin Qing said bluntly at the last moment that all the academies in Jiangxi were doing this, so why was he the only one to die?

The emperor issued an edict for all powerful people to submit a petition to denounce the new policy. In essence, this was to ask them to make a break and limit the scope of the case. This would help to stabilize people's hearts and minds, rather than making them become opponents of the new policy out of fear.

Similarly, in future cases of rebellion, the emperor will be able to deal with them with greater legitimacy. You made the promise in person, which means you knew that doing so violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Knowingly breaking the law is a breach of trust with the world.

"That makes sense." Zhu Yijun approved the memorial and asked the cabinet to discuss it and then give a result.

The cabinet gave an answer that afternoon. The four cabinet ministers thought it was a good idea to kill a chicken to scare the monkey. Let the monkey see it with its own eyes. Don't play dumb. You have to make a choice of position on this matter. Zhu Yijun's carriage had arrived at the Xuzhou Palace. When he arrived in Xuzhou, he did not meet the governor of Xuzhou or the powerful and wealthy. Instead, he asked the imperial guards to invite 120 kiln dwellers from the coal mine. These 120 kiln dwellers thought something had happened and were taken away suddenly.

The kiln dwellers bathed and changed their clothes before they realized they were going to meet the emperor.

Compared with communicating with powerful and wealthy people, Zhu Yijun was better at talking with poor people and laborers. He changed into casual clothes and started asking questions in groups of several people. He prepared a hundred questions related to food, clothing, housing, transportation and labor remuneration. Ten people formed a group, and each group randomly selected thirty questions for communication.

Finally, I had a comprehensive understanding of the lives of the kiln dwellers.

The kiln dwellers were very scared at first. After all, according to rumors, the emperor was a devil who killed people without blinking an eye, regardless of any rules. He would kill people at will. But after a brief communication between the kiln dwellers and the emperor, they found that although the emperor was very majestic, he was easy to communicate with and could understand what they said.

After Zhu Yijun sent away the last batch of kiln dwellers, he said to Zhao Mengyou: "Send the imperial guards here once a year to check if these 120 people are still alive. If they died in retaliation for telling the truth, I will treat the powerful and wealthy people in Xuzhou as traitors."

"Tell the governor of Xuzhou exactly what he said, and have him tell all the powerful and influential people."

"Of course, Xuzhou has done a good job in the past four years. I asked someone to ask just to understand the situation."

During these four years, Xuzhou's development was not rapid but steady. The power over the mines was completely taken back from the merchants of Suzhou and Hangzhou and fell into the hands of the Xuzhou government. After a comprehensive reorganization of the coal mines, the Xuzhou government reorganized production.

At least the lives of the kiln dwellers have visibly become better. There are still various problems, but most of the problems discovered before have been solved.

The emperor's words were very good, and they could put the prefect of Xuzhou's anxiety at ease.

"Interesting, these family affairs are indeed interesting." Zhu Yijun was chatting with the kiln dwellers. One of the kiln dwellers was quite bold and directly complained to the emperor, saying that his wife had an affair with a local celebrity and gentry. Zhu Yijun did not dare to ask.

Originally thought to be an opportunity for the emperor to demonstrate his wisdom and uphold justice, the imperial guards made a special trip and confirmed that it was just the kiln dweller's imagination.

In fact, his wife did not have an affair, and the kiln dwellers were not overthinking it. It was the woman's mother-in-law who was making up stories, and it was a conflict between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law.

The woman was strong-willed and opinionated. The mother-in-law couldn't control her, so she started talking nonsense in her son's ear. The kiln dwellers were already tired from working in the mines, and the mother-in-law's constant nagging caused such doubts.

The interesting thing about this matter lies in the reason. After the reorganization of Xuzhou Coal Mine, the labor remuneration increased. The mother-in-law thought about changing the wife of the kiln dweller, but the couple had a good relationship. The mother-in-law thought about it and came up with this idea.

Tiqi was very sensible in his actions. He went to the village to ask about things at the coal mine. After investigating thoroughly, he told the results to the coal miners and told them to live a good life.

Since the imperial guards had gone there, they naturally could not leave empty-handed. They arrested six ruffians who were idle and causing trouble in the village. One of them was sent to the county government for trial, and the remaining five were all sent to Southeast Asia. The ruffians were all good at whipping, so they would naturally be useful on the plantation.

The reason why Zhu Yijun paid attention to this matter was that he actually wanted to get a glimpse of the local people's moral customs and economic situation from these trivial matters. At least the problem of the Xuzhou coal mine was indeed solved.

"What does Le Yashi mean? Does he not plan to return to the West even after his death?" Zhu Yijun looked at a book at hand. This book was written by Le Yashi, an interpreter of the Ministry of Rites. It was to be included in the "Records of Overseas Vassal States", so the emperor had to read it.

In this book, Li Yashi sorted out the rise and fall of the Papal States. In it, he criticized the Roman Catholic Church for all its faults, and he concluded that there was only one reason for the decline of the Roman Catholic Church, and that was arrogance.

Less than four hundred years ago, the Church had supreme power, such as the power of excommunication and interdict. Excommunication was for individuals, and interdict was for groups.

This kind of excommunication order is simply incredible, and it is also an invincible weapon in the hands of the Holy See. As long as an excommunication order is issued to a secular king, this secular king will lose his church membership, and this secular king will lose the support of the people and even be overthrown by the nobles of various fiefdoms.

Henry IV, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, had a fierce conflict with the Pope, who issued an excommunication against Henry IV.

Henry IV was widely opposed, and he had to cross the Alps in the severe cold with a small entourage to the Castle of Canossa in northern Italy, where the Pope was temporarily residing.

Henry IV stood barefoot in the castle in the snow for three days before he gained the Pope's forgiveness and the Vatican revoked the excommunication order. This day is also called the Humiliation of Canossa by the Western people.

Henry IV worked hard to govern the country, entered Rome, captured the Vatican, exiled the Pope who had conflict with him, and signed the Treaty of Worms with the Holy See, which stipulated that religion was under religious management and that the emperor and monarch authorized secular power.

In Li Yashi's view, this is somewhat similar to the Central Plains' Jedi Tiantong, and also a bit like the Western version of sleeping on firewood and tasting gall, with only 3,000 troops, Yue can conquer Wu.

The excommunication order forced King Henry IV to cross the Alps and stand in the snow for three days before he was forgiven, but Henry IV's military actions completely brought secular power back into the hands of the king.

Once the excommunication order becomes ineffective, the prohibition order will also become ineffective.

The prohibition order is an upgraded version of the excommunication order, which means that the secular lord loses his church membership, and the people under his rule also lose their church membership. Initially, the prohibition order caused great panic because of the fear of being nailed to the Wall of Unbelievers after death.

Later, the people and the lords discovered that it was nothing big.

The lord only needs to appoint a new priest, and all weddings and funerals can go on. It doesn't matter whether the priest is a drunkard or a vagrant. As long as he bears his sins, life can go on as usual.

And now that there were no more Inquisitions and religious taxes, life was getting better and better.

There is an Arabic saying: Don't show off your real skills casually, otherwise everyone will know that you have no skills.

A man named Martin Luther published his Ninety-five Theses, and Protestantism was born.

After a long and complicated struggle, the Treaty of Augsburg was signed in the 34th year of Jiajing, which established the principle of religion being determined by the state. The core of the principle was that the lord had the right to decide the religion of his own territory.

Eventually, Protestantism gradually gained a foothold under such circumstances.

The supreme glory of the Holy See could be maintained for a while thanks to its past glory and the splendor of the Spanish Empire, but now, even Felipe II is thinking about jumping ship.

"Just append it to the Overseas Foreign Countries." After Zhu Yijun annotated the Papal States compiled by Le Yashi, he allowed it to be included as an appendix.

Without mentioning the contents of the book, just for listing the Papal States separately and placing them in the West, Legazpi would be worthy of being burned at the stake.

"Your Majesty's excommunication order and ban order are actually somewhat similar to the public opinion of the Confucius Mansion in Yanzhou and the Southern Court to stop the submission. Some of the new nobles who were hesitant were afraid of the methods of these old nobles, but once their methods were used, everyone found that they were nothing special."

"Naturally no one will be afraid of them." Feng Bao also finished reading this volume of book. After all, it was something to be presented to the emperor.

Feng Bao felt that this volume on the Papal States was highly similar to the Jiangnan tribute selection case. Both of them controlled the order of public opinion and created a terrifying effect where the punishment was unknown but the power was unpredictable. However, once the means were fully exposed, it became laughable like a donkey at the end of its rope.

In comparison, Your Majesty is taller and harder, and more terrifying. After all, when the conflict is irreconcilable, Your Majesty's attack is heavy and painful.

When the Ming Dynasty's imperial guards were arresting as many as 622 powerful families, only the Lin Qing family chose to fight to the death. After the Lin family's resistance failed, no one else put up any more resistance.

The reason why Zhang Cheng mobilized 300 coastal defense inspectors and then mobilized the navy to enter Nanjing was because he was afraid of a situation where both sides would be destroyed.

But the weakness of these rebels proves that they have no courage and ability to perish together with their enemies.

Zhu Yijun heard this, thought about it carefully, nodded and said: "It is indeed somewhat similar. The Confucius Mansion in Yanzhou and the Jiangnan rebels want to obtain supreme authority similar to the Western Church by monopolizing the right to interpret scriptures."

"Unfortunately, I am still alive."

"When we census the population, we identify 8322 powerful families, local elites and gentry. If they refuse to submit a petition to denounce and criticize, we will put them on the list of rebels and purge them."

"I... obey your order." Feng Bao bowed his head and accepted the order. This was an act of exaggeration, but Feng Bao could only say that he deserved it for having to be a traitor on the issue of education.

Zhu Yijun made an important reply to Wang Xiyuan's memorial. He demanded that the list of people to be liquidated be expanded. If they were unwilling to even give a false promise, then there was no need for them to continue to be people of the Ming Dynasty.

"I have miscalculated. I should have let Prince Lu stay in the capital. Since the relocation of wealthy families to the capital in the sixth year of Wanli, a large number of powerful and influential people have gathered in Xitu City. If they are willing to take the lead in expressing their opinions, all the powerful and influential people in the world will follow suit."

"If they don't want to make a statement, things will become troublesome, but Zhier is too young, and the wealthy families in Xitu City might have other ideas." Zhu Yijun found that he seemed to have made a wrong decision.

The last time Zhu Yiliu was regent, he made things very difficult for the wealthy families in Xitu City. The day after the emperor left, he demanded 50,000 silver coins from every household. This was simply robbery.

Zhu Yiliu was a ruthless man. He dared to do anything to maintain the Zhu family's superior status, which was the foundation of his current affluent life.

Zhu Yijun was very worried. After he left, the wealthy families in Xitucheng united and bullied Zhu Changzhi because of his young age.

"Your Majesty will have to go back eventually. The wealthy families in Xitu City understand this." Feng Bao was not as worried as his majesty.

Zhu Yijun stayed in Xuzhou for a full twelve days. The prefect of Xuzhou requested an audience with the emperor three times, but the emperor refused to see him. The emperor was waiting to see whether he should continue to march south with the Beijing army or return to the capital.

Before setting off, Zhang Juzheng was very worried that the eldest prince Zhu Changzhi would be in danger. This was also part of the danger. The cabinet ministers did not meet the emperor and were waiting for news from the Northern Yamen.

On the thirteenth day, Zhu Yijun received a letter of reprimand from the wealthy families in Xitu City.

Yang Junmin, the Chancellor of Shuntian Prefecture and Yang Bo's most promising son, played a crucial role.

Yang Junmin gave the wealthy families in Xitu City three days to think it over. If they didn't, no one could predict what the Beijing camp would do.

This was a rebuke, a promise, and an authorization for the emperor, but it was also the court determining the scope of the purge of the rebels. If the wealthy families in Xitu City insisted on becoming rebels, they would be liquidated during the violent political turmoil and would suffer the consequences of their own actions.

Qi Jiguang was not warlike, but Li Rusong didn't care. He was waiting for the rich families in Xitucheng to make their choice. As for the Nan Ya rebels' collusion with the Japanese, Li Rusong wanted to go to Nanjing himself to kill them.

Li Rusong was not afraid at all. At worst, he would go with his father to explore the Western Regions.

Every wealthy household in Xitu City wrote thousands of words in a fluent manner. For this reason, Yang Junmin, the Chancellor of Shuntian Prefecture, had to prepare a joint statement, have the wealthy households sign it, and publish the joint statement in the official gazette.

Yang Junmin presented the original text of the petition of denunciation of one thousand wealthy households in Xitu City to the emperor who was on his southern tour.

"I don't like Yang Bo very much. He is disloyal, even in his heart. But as a son, he is still very responsible." After reading the joint statement, Zhu Yijun affirmed Yang Junmin's work ability. At least Yang Junmin made it clear about the two sides of the policy of submitting a denunciation, and the wealthy households also listened to it.

Zhang Juzheng was also relieved after seeing the joint statement and said, "Your Majesty, the wealthy families in Xitu City have actually made their choice long ago. Every household has invested heavily in Yanxinglou Trading House. They are willing to invest because they are betting on the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty."

Shuntian Prefecture has proved more than once that after the Wanli Reform, it has become a loyal Shuntian Prefecture.

(End of this chapter)