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Chapter 898: Peace talks ≠ no fighting

Zhu Yijun had been emperor for seventeen years. During the Wanli Reform, imperial power was constantly slipping away. Zhu Yijun certainly saw this and he had made adequate preparations to deal with this situation.

The golden narrative strengthened the imperial power, allowing Zhu Yijun to overturn the table not only in the military field but also in the economic field.

As the Ming Dynasty's biggest creditor, Zhu Yijun could demand that the Ming Dynasty immediately repay all debts, directly drain the liquidity of the treasure notes, and cause the Ming Dynasty's economy to stagnate. If he, the emperor, was not allowed to make the decisions and eat, then no one would eat.

Therefore, once the Ming Baochao with its golden narrative is successful, Zhu Yijun will not only obtain the right to issue currency, but also the right to price assets.

The power to price assets is actually the power to measure all assets in the world using Ming Dynasty treasure notes. This pricing power is an even more terrifying economic hegemony.

Of course, it is still too far away to talk about asset pricing power now.

The gold storage of the gold narrative has not been completed yet. We can only discuss this issue after the gold storage is completed and the treasure note system runs smoothly.

"Your Majesty is wise." When Zhang Juzheng heard the emperor talking about the control over the Ming Dynasty's treasure notes, he realized that His Majesty had the confidence to oppose the narrative of favors. The control over the treasure notes was far more reliable than the narrative of favors.

Once the Ming Baochao was successfully implemented, the wealthy and powerful would ask: Where is the emperor? There would be a more accurate answer, which is: the emperor is everywhere.

Class theory told Zhang Juzheng that economic status determines political status. There is no doubt that the Ming Baochao with its golden narrative represents absolute economic status, which in turn represents absolute power.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty did not realize that this was a deepening of the imperial power, simply because they all had their own fixed mindsets. In the eyes of the officials, the imperial power in the traditional sense was constantly fading away.

It is also because the ministers are in the situation and cannot see the true face of Mount Lu because they are in the mountain.

After Zhu Yijun finished meeting with the envoys and finally determined the way to deal with Felipe's tricks, he ended the meeting in the West Flower Hall.

After the ministers left, Zhu Yijun took Shen Shixing's memorial and read it for a long time before shaking his head and saying, "If you dig out the heart, liver, spleen and stomach of a scholar, ninety-nine percent of them will be black."

Feng Bao also said with some emotion: "Your Majesty, this officialdom is the world's largest place of fame and fortune, and it is also a big dye vat. Everyone in it cannot be immune to it."

"Including me, right?" Zhu Yijun said with a smile.

Feng Bao thought about it and chose to tell the truth: "Of course."

"This tariff rationing system is excellent." Zhu Yijun finally approved the memorial and affirmed the contributions of ministers such as Shen Shixing and Wang Jiaping.

Once Zhu Yijun returns to Beijing safely, the two can resume their original posts.

The tariff rationing system is definitely an idea that only an educated person could come up with. It is extremely bad.

The tariff rationing system is actually commodity rationing, which is even more terrifying than Wang Chonggu’s Sunset Plan. It relies on the Ming Dynasty’s monopoly advantage in commodities and forcibly uses its power over commodity distribution to exert influence on the world.

This system can effectively alienate the relationship between the Governor-General's Office and the local area. The Governor-General's Office itself will inevitably have the problem of localization, that is, the hidden worry that "the general is not always able to obey the orders of the king when he is away from home."

Once this system is implemented, the Spanish Viceroyalties in the New World will become alienated from mainland Spain and drift further and further away.

At the same time, this system is also alienating the relations among the Western countries. The Western countries, which are already fighting each other to the death due to religion, family feuds and other reasons, will become even more divided because of this rationing system.

In any case, Felipe's ambition of establishing an integrated Western business alliance could not be realized.

Shen Shixing said in his memorial that he learned it from Wang Chonggu, which means that so much time has passed and the matter is over. Otherwise, Shen Shixing's memorial would be more like a list of Wang Chonggu's crimes.

In the early years of the Jiajing reign, Emperor Jiajing issued a clear decree that government troops should not send troops to attack the enemy's nests and provoke border conflicts as long as the enemy had not yet entered the country.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty's border strategy was mainly based on appeasement.

In the 29th year of Jiajing, after the barbarians invaded the capital, Daoye was blocked by Altan Khan in the capital and could not leave. This humiliation made Daoye's attitude change completely. No matter whether the barbarians violated the border or not, he would send troops to attack their nests.

In the 30th year of the Jiajing reign, the Taoist priest issued an edict: the servants kept by the generals in Xuanda and Shaanxi were usually sent out to the border to drive horses in order to be sold in the hope of printing them; when there was an alarm, they were to ambush and capture the prisoners in the hope of promotion and reward, so the brave men were happy to do so.

The head of a barbarian was worth fifty taels of silver, and a live horse was worth ten taels of silver.

Due to the change in the court's policy, a huge group of horse bandits, mainly composed of servants, was formed to raid the nests and drive away horses.

The daily expenses of the servants kept by the generals on the border were all dependent on the supply of nest-raiding and horse-driving. The generals would go out of the border to raid the nests at a fixed time every year. Not only would they not be punished by the court for their gains, they would also be generously rewarded.

This was the land version of a privateering license. The horse-raiding teams began to march into the grassland in a mighty manner, with Duntai Yuanhou Ye Bushu as their guide. The size of a team ranged from 100 to 300 people. There were about 500 horse-raiding teams, and they would be dispatched three to five times a year.

Now the Ming Dynasty is scattered across the Xianbei grasslands. The adventurous team headed by Duntai Yuanhou is actually the cavalry that used to raid nests and drive horses.

Those who were skilled in archery and horsemanship among these cavalry would be selected as guest soldiers. The appearance of these guest soldiers finally stopped Altan Khan from moving south, and even the Ming Dynasty began to fight back effectively.

After the peace talks began in the second year of Longqing, the ministers in the court were discussing whether to stop the nest-raiding and horse-driving tactics.
Wang Chonggu firmly rejected the suggestion that peace talks do not equal not fighting, and it is really quick to solve problems with formulas.

While Wang Chonggu was negotiating peace with Altan Khan at the instruction of the cabinet, he also increased the scale of the nest-raiding and horse-driving operations from 500 teams to thousands of teams, and from three to five times to nine times.

Wang Chonggu's reasoning was very sound: "In addition to fighting and defending, the only way to control the enemy is to destroy their nests and drive their horses to nourish the soldiers. Recently, the Western enemy has been paying tribute to us and trading with us. We have temporarily banned this. As a result, the enemy dares to enter, but we dare not leave. This is a big mistake."

Use war to promote peace. The court has no money, so it has to get money to nourish the army. Peace talks are one thing, but the looting will continue.

After the successful peace talks in the fourth year of Longqing's reign, Altan Khan's younger brother, Lao Badu, came to Beijing to pay homage to the emperor. When he met the emperor, he complained bitterly to him: Your soldiers and horses robbed our houses, drove away our horses, and we have to guard against them day and night, and we cannot live in peace!
Emperor Longqing said: It is this interest group that is preventing the peace talks, fearing that they will lose their profits. I will tell them now how they can do this, and we must ensure the stability and security of the border in the future.

(They were afraid that it would cut off their routes to raid the nests and drive the horses, so they all pleaded not to accept tribute. They told all the soldiers to stay at the border and to pursue and suppress those who violated the border. They were not allowed to leave the border unless necessary.)
The imperial edict of Emperor Longqing was useful, and the generals clearly expressed their knowledge of it, but it was useless. Your court did not pay salaries, and if you did not rob the Tartars, would you rob the people? You, the emperor, would not be happy to rob the people.

From the fourth year of Longqing to the ninth year of Wanli, before Aldan Khan's death, there were similar records in the tribute submitted to Aldan Khan every year: the military leaders of Shaanxi and Shanxi deliberately sent troops to invade and kill the old and young in our camp, day and night, without rest, driving horses and burning tents without interruption, with the number of troops ranging from dozens to hundreds.

Before negotiating peace, they have to destroy the nest and drive away the horses. After negotiating peace, they have to destroy the nest and drive away the horses. Isn't this a waste of peace?
Moreover, Altan Khan also sued the Governor-General of Shaanxi, Wang Zhigao, the former Minister of Punishment, who chose to retreat at the critical moment, Zhang Juzheng's relative, and Wang Zhigao. He said that Wang Zhigao disobeyed the imperial order, did not execute it despite the imperial decree, and did not restrain the soldiers, allowing the Ming government troops to continue to attack the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Zhigao reported this to Emperor Longqing: It's unjust! He was wronged!
He said: The people in Hetao and Hexi rely on destroying nests and driving away horses for their income, and they support their loyal soldiers. There is no pay in the army, and the soldiers and horses are exhausted and unable to fight or defend. If you are willing to give them a good monthly ration, then you can stop them.

Wang Zhigao openly protested his innocence, saying that it was not his responsibility and that the military leaders below were disobedient. But in fact, he was the one who was disobeying the order, because he said: If the court could give more food and wages, then they could stop the raiding of nests and the looting outside the border.

Obviously, the imperial court had no money or food to provide for the border troops, so the memorial only received a reply of "I understand," and there was no follow-up.

Emperor Longqing himself did not care about the behavior of destroying nests and driving horses, and whether the order was really enforced. As long as it did not come to his sight, Emperor Longqing would be very calm and just ask.

In the early years of the Wanli reign, the killing finally became more civilized, and the military forces in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places also divided their territories.

The chieftains of the barbarians in these places have to pay tribute regularly every year, and each tribe has a quota. If they cannot meet the quota, there will be no tribute quota. Moreover, if some people destroy nests, drive away horses, burn tents, and burn wasteland, you can't blame the Ming Dynasty for being unjust.

The military leaders in various places used this method of "tax quota and tribute quota" to alienate the tribes on the grassland one by one, and eventually made everyone on the grassland feel insecure. There would never be a hero who could unite everyone on the grassland again.

Shen Shixing said that he learned his tariff quota system from Wang Chonggu, and it was well-founded.

Therefore, it is the scholars who are bad. Wang Chonggu is bad, and Shen Shixing is learning to be bad.

Wang Chonggu has done many such things that damage one's moral character.

For example, he led Shanxi merchants to lend money at high interest rates on the grasslands. Sanniangzi went to Beijing to file several complaints, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty recovered Suiyuan that the usury on the grasslands stopped.
For example, Wang Chonggu ordered the military not to kill women from the grassland, but to bring them all back. All these women were sold, and became the Datong women.

After the invasion of the barbarians in the 29th year of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty changed its border strategy and retaliated extremely swiftly and cruelly.

Because of the Ming Dynasty's crazy revenge, the grassland became less loyal and the grassland people no longer supported Altan Khan. Altan Khan was widely questioned and many people regarded the invasion of the Ming Dynasty's capital as a "rebellious act" that brought disaster.

This is how Sanniangzi's pro-peace faction came into being and gradually became the mainstream.

When the Ming Dynasty's imperial guards were raising their flags, Altan Khan was already very old, and the people were divided. They no longer had the sharpness they once had, and the resistance was not that fierce. In addition, Suiyuan was conquered by the king, and the Ming Dynasty court gave enough grace, so no one was willing to resist.

No one wants to live by the water and grass and be displaced.

Zhu Yijun once asked Zhang Juzheng about these things. Zhang Juzheng was silent for a long time and said, "It's all in the past. It's all in the past. There's no need to talk about it anymore."

"Plant a few fast-growing poplars in Mochou Lake. I will be making a southern tour soon. When the time comes, I will see whether these fast-growing poplars are really as Ke Yanchang said. Send an order to the Northern Yamen to open another hundred acres of forest farm. I want to see it myself." Zhu Yijun gave a clear order.

The next morning, Zhu Yijun and Wang Yaozhuo got up early and started growing seedlings with the seeds that Ke Yanchang had sent to the capital. They did not plant the trees directly, but grew the seedlings first and then planted them.

"My wife, I have never learned how to farm before, so whatever I planted died. Now these fast-growing poplars will definitely survive." Zhu Yijun looked at the seedling box and poured a little water to keep the soil moist.

Before coming to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun would always kill the green radish he planted. At that time, he had no idea about the habits of the green radish and added too much fertilizer, which burned the green radish to death.

Now Zhu Yijun is also a genuine farmer.

Wang Yaozhuo leaned in Zhu Yijun's arms, sitting on the swing in the small garden, enjoying the rare leisure time. She smiled and said, "Agronomy is a big subject. When I was a child, I followed my parents to farm in the fields. I died more often than I lived, and I was also very stupid."

"Can Queen Wang, who is so clever and skillful, also be clumsy sometimes?" Zhu Yijun asked casually. The couple didn't really care what they were saying. They just enjoyed the leisure time they had stolen from their busy lives.

Wang Yaozhuo pulled out a letter from his sleeve and said, "Zhi'er sent a letter from the Northern Yamen. He complained that Luo Sigong was too controlling. He even stopped mother from taking care of the child and asked mother to execute him."

The nine-year-old Zhu Changzhi used colloquial language and jargon, and wrote a lot of nonsense. It was indeed written by him, and there were a few typos.

It was a family letter with smooth sentences, complete causes, processes, turns, results and logic. It told a story that Luo Sigong did not allow the palace maids of Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen of the Cining Palace to serve the eldest prince Zhu Changzhi, and after a certain time, the Empress Dowager was not allowed to visit him.

The Empress Dowager was extremely angry and asked for Luo Sigong to be beheaded. Empress Dowager Li finally left in anger and did not make things too difficult for Luo Sigong, because it was the Emperor's order to ensure the safety of the eldest prince.

When Empress Dowager Li was still the concubine of Prince Yu, she witnessed with her own eyes the death of Emperor Jiajing's eight sons, leaving only her husband, Prince Yu, as the only one left. Empress Dowager Li knew only too well the cruelty of political struggles. Luo Sigong's obstruction certainly made Empress Dowager Li dissatisfied, but if something happened to Zhu Changzhi, that would be even more unacceptable to Empress Dowager Li.

"The child doesn't understand. Mother is just testing Luo Sigong." Zhu Yijun could see clearly that Empress Dowager Li was testing to see if Luo Sigong was really that stubborn. In fact, Luo Sigong was much more stubborn than Empress Dowager Li imagined.

He dared to disobey the orders of the Empress Dowager Li, and did not even say the emperor's order, but just stuck his neck out and begged for death. "Luo Sigong is the same, he said that the emperor had made a clear order, why did he insist on asking for death?" Wang Yaozhuo did not understand, Luo Sigong's behavior was an order from the emperor, and the people around Zhu Changzhi were all arranged by His Majesty himself, and they were not allowed to be moved without permission.

Zhu Yijun smiled and shook his head and said, "He thinks that using my name to pressure the Queen Mother will alienate the relationship between me and the Queen Mother, so he is unwilling to speak directly. Qian San, this kid, can see clearly."

Qian San was a very loyal man and a man of few words. Zhu Changzhi asked Qian San about this matter. Zhu Changzhi was somewhat confused as to why Empress Dowager Li did not pursue Luo Sigong's disobedience.

Zhu Changzhi asked several times in a row before Qian Zhizhong managed to utter a few words: "Because he is loyal."

Zhu Yijun said with a look of nostalgia: "In the second year of Wanli, I mastered the art of using a tailless arrow, which is a slingshot. It is called a slingshot, but it is actually very powerful. The long arrow can make a bloody hole with one poke."

"I shot very accurately at that time. Even the fish in Taiye Lake could hear my footsteps and hid under the water without daring to come out."

"Once, I felt a little itchy, so I asked Luo Sigong to hold an apple on his head as a target for me. Luo Sigong picked up the apple and hit it on his head."

"Ah? And then what?" Wang Yaozhuo certainly knew the difference between a tailless arrow and a slingshot. A slingshot is a toy for juggling, while a tailless arrow is a weapon.

"I regretted it the minute I said it, but he carried it out. I saw that he was really getting angry, so I quickly said that I was just joking and it shouldn't be taken seriously, so I asked him to take it down. From then on, I knew that I couldn't tell him jokes, because he took every word I said seriously." Zhu Yijun knew this guy's stubbornness very well, and he knew it a long time ago.

Luo Sigong was the kind of person who would stick to his principles. Zhu Yijun trusted him so much that he was willing to even entrust his son's life to him.

If Luo Sigong betrayed him one day, Zhu Yijun could only feel that he deserved it.

Wang Yaozhuo leaned in Zhu Yijun's arms, stepped down hard and swung on the swing. The scene was very warm. Even Feng Bao stood far away and didn't want to disturb them. A eunuch hurried to Feng Bao and whispered twice.

Feng Bao's face changed drastically. He took a few steps and whispered, "Your Majesty, there is a plague in the Yuejiang Tower camp."

Zhu Yijun stepped firmly on the ground, his expression became serious, and he frowned and said, "What's the situation?"

"Your Majesty, I'll take my leave." As soon as Wang Yaozhuo saw that there was something going on with state affairs, she left immediately. Concubine Ran Shu should never ask about what was going on in the outer court. For all these years, Wang Yaozhuo had never asked once.

"Three hundred people have fallen ill. The military camp is now under complete martial law. Marshal Qi sent someone to ask Your Majesty to dispatch another 3,000 naval troops to be stationed at Lion Mountain as a support to prevent any changes."

"Chief medical officers Chen Shigong and Pang Xian have already rushed to the military camp to check it out." Feng Bao introduced the situation.

Zhao Mengyou adjusted the Ti cavalry to a state of readiness, waiting to see what happens in the Beijing camp.

"Find out the reason." Zhu Yijun was quite calm, because the army had been mobilized several times in recent years, and this kind of thing was very common. It was normal to have accidents during marching and fighting, and it would be strange if there were no accidents.

Not to mention the dispatch of 30,000 military personnel, even if 50 people go on a hike, it will be a mess if it is not well organized.

The army is the most sophisticated killing machine invented by mankind, and this machine will have all kinds of problems.

The problem is very serious. Whenever an epidemic breaks out in the army, it is a big deal.

When Sun Quan attacked Hefei, if there had not been a plague in the army, Zhang Liao would not have been able to lead 800 cavalrymen and ride on Sun Quan's head twice to do whatever he wanted, so that Sun Quan was ridiculed for thousands of years because of the Battle of Xiaoyaojin.

But when asked how serious it was, Qi Jiguang said it was not a big deal.

Three days later, news came from the Beijing camp that no one had died of the illness, and the 300 people who had fallen ill gradually recovered. The chief medical officers Chen Shigong and Pang Xian gave clear reasons: it was not poisoning by someone with ulterior motives, but rather the result of unfamiliarity with the climate and water.

There were only 30,000 guards from the Beijing camp who went south, and there were still 70,000 in the capital. Spreading the plague in the camp was not a struggle, it was seeking death. These were powerful troops who had just entered the dynasty to fight against the Japanese pirates and laid a foundation for the Ming Dynasty for at least 50 years.

Your Majesty does not even care about the bad reputation he has to go to the Southern Court to supervise the execution in person. With such determination, the powerful and influential people would not dare to jump out at this time.

There are many reasons for acclimatization, including climate environment, differences in microorganisms between the north and the south, etc.

The real reason these more than 300 people fell ill was that they drank unclean water, which led to vomiting and diarrhea. The symptoms were not serious and no one died.

"They just recovered from their illness and yet they got beaten again. General Qi is really..." Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang's report. After these more than 300 people recovered from their illness, each of them was given ten military sticks and was beaten severely.

The two captains who led the camp were also sent back to the Beiya Military Academy to serve as teachers.

The military regulations of the Ming Dynasty clearly stipulated that raw water could not be drunk. These soldiers and captains violated the military regulations and were beaten. The soldiers felt that the water was clear and clean, so they did not boil it.

The two captains were primarily responsible for not managing their subordinates properly and were severely punished. It can be said that their military careers ended there.

"A merciful army cannot be commanded. General Qi is right."

"But this is also my fault. After all, the school in the Beijing camp only allows the children of soldiers to study. There are still many people in our Beijing camp who are illiterate and do not understand reason."

"This is my fault. There have been no wars recently. I will allocate 200,000 silver coins from the treasury to strengthen education in the camp." Zhu Yijun reflected on his own shortcomings in military construction.

These soldiers felt that they could not drink raw water because it was dirty, but the sweet spring water from Lion Rock was clear and transparent, so there was no problem.

Zhu Yijun did not blame the captain-general, as it was impossible for the captain-general to handle every detail. The captain-general emphasized military precedents and also stopped him.

Zhu Yijun did not blame the soldiers. They were uneducated and did not understand reason. They thought that raw water could not be drunk only if it was unclean, but that clean water could be drunk.

These soldiers, who came from poor laborers, had a humble life since childhood. Many of them grew up drinking raw water. It was when they were selected to join the Beijing Camp that the trajectory of their lives changed.

The military literacy campaign only covered the captain-general level. The treatment of the Ming Dynasty's Beijing Garrison was already very good, but there were still more than 30,000 soldiers who could only read and write. There were many reasons for this, and one of the main reasons was that the Beijing Garrison had been fighting for many years.

Zhu Yuanzhang only started reading books after the country was stabilized. Even so, he was deceived by scholars time and time again.

"Let the chief medical officers go to the camp regularly to talk about hygiene and simple prescriptions." Zhu Yijun supplemented the shortcomings of military construction.

Feng Bao was about to say something but stopped himself, then took the order and went to carry it out. An army of 100,000 men, all of whom were well-educated and sensible, Your Majesty really had the guts to think, and General Qi really had the guts to do it, and it was almost done.

Such an army can be expanded to a million people in three months at the most critical moment.

It is more than enough to defeat the entire Ming Dynasty again.

After the news of the plague spread from the Lion Rock Military Camp, the entire city of Nanjing became depressed, as if time had been stopped under a spell.

Even the busiest area along the Qinhuai River was deserted. All the houses were locked, and even the vendors walking on the streets did not dare to shout loudly.

Everyone was cursing, wondering which blind, immoral bastard was trying to provoke the emperor at this moment!

The Beijing Army is not a weak point, but a reverse scale. If you touch your majesty's Beijing Army, isn't that touching the emperor's imperial power?
The governor of Yingtian, the prefect of Yingtian, and the officials who were still in office in the six ministries of Nanjing were waiting anxiously, fearing that the angry emperor would tear them apart.

This invisible pressure made everyone feel suffocated. Although there was no ban, it was even more terrifying than when there was a ban.

After the cause of the plague was found and announced, the city of Nanjing immediately returned to its former bustle.

"It seems that killing people does work." Zhu Yijun also learned about the situation in Nanjing from Feng Bao. He did not expect Yingtian Prefecture to react like this. It was a bit like seeing snakes in the shadows and seeing enemies everywhere.

At the slightest disturbance, it becomes still.

Feng Bao placed several memorials on the imperial desk and said with a smile: "Killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, I don't know how to appreciate the emperor's grace, but knowing how to be afraid is also very good."

The imperial power in the Ming Dynasty was called the power of power and blessing. Power and blessing are both part of the imperial power. But in the past, the scholar-official class in the south of the Yangtze River did not know the imperial power, let alone the emperor's grace.

They have lived like this for 180 years since the capital moved north.

Now I remember it all.

"Lin Fucheng is back, let's summon him to meet us." The first memorial Zhu Yijun flipped through was the one from Lin Fucheng. This opinion-monger had finally returned to Beijing after his term expired.

In Zhu Yijun's view, Lin Fucheng had fulfilled the imperial mandate perfectly.

A book called "Effective Force to Drive Out Profit" discusses that the world's division of labor system is based on efficiency first, and a book called "The Five Pivots of Industry" discusses the five factors of industrial agglomeration: resources, population, investment, research and market.

There is also a book called "Travels in Southeast Asia" which records the customs and habits of Southeast Asia. He proposed that the barbarians valued religion and blood identity more than class and ethnic identity, while the Ming Dynasty was completely the opposite and was destined to be at odds with each other.

Even when Lin Fucheng was exiled to Southeast Asia, he still went there with his official status. Zhu Yijun never blamed him for saying "Wanli Wanli, all families are rebellious". If the Taoist priest could tolerate Hai Rui, there was no reason why Zhu Yijun could not tolerate Lin Fucheng.

The reason for his exile was actually to allow him to research the economy of the Nanyang plantations.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Long live Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty." When Lin Fucheng was summoned, he performed a very standard salute as soon as he entered the door.

"No need to be so polite. Doctor Lin is so powerful that he can come back safe and sound after scolding me." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand, motioning Lin Fucheng to sit down and talk.

Lin Fucheng stood up and said very respectfully: "Your Majesty is so gracious. If Your Majesty had taken away my official position, I would have no place to be buried. I would have either been fed to saltwater crocodiles or sunk into the sea."

There are many people in Nanyang who want to please His Majesty, and they are still in office. The Governor's Office in Nanyang immediately understood that Lin Fucheng's real purpose was to tour Nanyang on behalf of the emperor.

"You are darker and thinner." Zhu Yijun looked at Lin Fucheng and said with some emotion: "After all, you have worked hard, my dear Lin. Please give me a reward."

Zhu Yijun gave him a second-class first-class silver medal, fifty gold coins, one hundred and fifty silver coins, a fine woolen coat, a national cellar, twelve books, a collection of court reports, a carriage and other rewards.

If you fulfill the holy command well, you will be rewarded.

"Are people in Southeast Asia really lazy?" Zhu Yijun asked a question that arose after reading "Travels in Southeast Asia".

"Not lazy." Lin Fucheng shook his head and said, "When I was stealing things, I was very diligent."

(End of this chapter)