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Chapter 945: Aged Rice? Sell it to Japan
The fact that Zhang Juzheng was able to accomplish this was actually related to the emperor. Any courtier with eyes and ears could feel the emperor's mood, which was really bad. At this time, it would be disrespectful to cause trouble for His Majesty.

The emperor did not deliberately conceal the news that the second prince was seriously ill, and most of the court officials knew about it.

It is definitely not a wise choice to cause trouble for the emperor at this time.

The court’s logic is actually very simple and overbearing. The first condition proposed is the best, the second is acceptable, and there will not be a third time. The first and second times will not be a third time.

The Ming Emperor and the court would give people opportunities and would tolerate some opinions and mistakes.

As the prime minister, Zhang Juzheng allowed the three-level schools to be registered as members of the imperial court, but cancelled the registration of the university. This was already an excellent condition. If the prime minister's kindness was rejected, and even Wang Chonggu was gone from the court, things would become extremely troublesome.

The emperor's support for Zhang Juzheng can be summed up in one sentence: Anyone who speaks ill of Mr. Zhang should be beheaded.

Since Zhang Juzheng was so trusted and there was a lack of checks and balances in the court, it was very likely that he would purge his opponents in order to forcibly implement his policies.

It's not like Zhang Juzheng had never done this before. When the Kaosheng System was being implemented, Zhang Juzheng was the regent. At that time, he purged officials who opposed the Kaosheng System with ruthless and merciless means.

The most crucial thing is that the Beijing Camp did not express any opposition, and even agreed to the cancellation of the University Hall's affiliation, because the Beijing Camp already had the Military Academy.

The Military Academy trained grassroots military officers, and all the students came from all over the country, not just from the capital.

The grassroots military officers are the executive layer of the entire Beijing Camp, and they are responsible for executing any orders.

For various reasons, the Dinghai school system completed an extremely critical step, which was extremely important.

The cancellation of the registration of 18 universities actually solved one of the most important problems in the Dinghai school system during the entire process of conflicts, which was the division of the spoils.

The emperor and the imperial court got the biggest piece of meat, the top-level institutions of learning; while the powerful and wealthy, local gentry, wealthy businessmen, and the emerging bourgeoisie got a smaller piece of meat, and the system of attaching the third-level schools continued.

The reason why this piece of meat is small is because it originally belongs to them. The third-level school has a very obvious regional nature. The third-level school is basic education. It is too difficult for the people to travel a long distance to study in a foreign place.

In that era when highways had not yet been paved across the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty, and even the key north-south artery, the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway, had just begun to be built, the cost of traveling was too high, and leaving one's hometown usually meant never returning home for the rest of one's life.

"But the problem that Xu Chengchu is worried about has not been solved yet. Talents are leaving poor areas." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in front of him and said solemnly, "Wang Qian's method is very good, but the opposition is too strong. Even the teacher does not agree with it. In terms of education, Songjiang Prefecture Normal School still does not have the spare capacity to support remote areas."

Wang Qian's method is good, but if it cannot be implemented, it will easily become the wishful thinking of the meat eaters. Moreover, Songjiang Prefecture has not completed the construction of the Dinghai school system and has no spare capacity, so it is too early to talk about this.

"Xu Chengchu has come up with a solution." Feng Bao took out Xu Chengchu's memorial and presented it to the emperor.

Xu Chengchu was not a mean scholar. He did not raise problems to the court without seeking solutions. He kept thinking and finally his ideas matured.

After reading Xu Chengchu's memorial, Zhu Yijun nodded repeatedly and said, "Although it cannot completely solve the problem, it is indeed a solution."

In his memorial, Xu Chengchu proposed that if students from remote areas such as Shaanxi, Gansu, Suiyuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou, after graduating from university, are determined and willing to go to remote areas to teach, guard the border and educate the people, all tuition fees can be waived. This waiver will be paid in the form of salary within five years, and they will be given official status.

The term is generally five years. During the period of supporting the border areas, additional salary will be given, and if the test results are excellent, the candidate will be awarded the title of Jinshi in the special examination.

Xu Chengchu's proposal was mainly intended to change the native system into a Han system.

In fact, Huguang was already divided into Hunan and Hubei during the Ming Dynasty. There were many chieftains in Hunan, and many imperial decrees could not be implemented. Changing the chieftains into officials and appointing a large number of officials was the first step to solve the problem.

This method cannot solve the problem because only a few people are willing to go.

In the eyes of the court, solving the contradiction of uneven development is a greater interest, but in the eyes of most literati, personal interests are greater interests. The literati, who have become the ruling class, have no need to go to these dangerous places to fight for their lives.

Wang Qian used coercion and Xu Chengchu used bribery. Both methods had the same goal, which was to reduce the contradiction of unbalanced regional development.

Zhu Yijun dealt with the memorials that had been piling up over the past few days.

Wang Qian had already returned to Songjiang Prefecture. He submitted a memorial to the emperor, thanking him for the emperor's grace in providing him with a post station, and also reported some other matters.

In Songjiang, they are planning to build a palace on the Huangpu River again. This time, they are going to expand it from 400 acres to 800 acres, which is only 200 acres smaller than the 1,000 acres of the Beiya Palace.

The reason was that the emperor would stay in Songjiang Prefecture during his southern tour to facilitate handling of maritime affairs, and his entourage and ministers needed a place to live, so an official residence was to be built. This time, the emperor's approval was not obtained because Zhu Yijun had personally gone to see it and found it was fully sufficient and there was no need to double the area.

If Songjiang Prefecture is short of money, it can be sent to the imperial treasury. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is in dire need of money.

"No, what is this for? Can five-year-old stale rice be eaten?" Zhu Yijun looked at the contents of the memorial in horror.

There was a trend of eating stale rice in Songjiang Prefecture, which was jokingly called purple rice. Wang Qian reported to the emperor that the noble families in Songjiang Prefecture preferred purple rice and would not eat white rice. When steamed, it was loose but not sticky, full and chewy, with a unique fragrance, and was the best choice for meals.

Rice that is less than one year old is called new rice, rice that is one to three years old is called old rice, and rice that is more than three years old is called aged rice.

Zhu Yijun was a farmer. No matter how rice was stored, once it was stored for more than three years, the color of the rice would gradually darken, and even reveal a hint of purple. The usual way to dispose of aged rice for more than three years was to make wine, and secondly to make feed.

As feed, young livestock cannot eat this stale rice because of mold problems.

The cause of this trend that emerged in Songjiang Prefecture was simple. After the summer harvest this year, the Ming Dynasty conducted a nationwide inspection of the Changping granary, and the granaries in prefectures, counties and cities were also to be inspected. As a result, a large amount of stale rice from the warehouses appeared on the market.

The powerful people are willing to buy aged rice at a low price. In order to sell this kind of rice, this trend has emerged. Even the concept of five-year cellaring has been created, and it is sold at a higher price than new rice!
"Feng Daban, do you think I am a little too old-fashioned and my ideas are a little too old-fashioned?"

"This aged rice was sold just like that, and the more expensive it is, the more people will buy it? It stands to reason that prices fluctuate around value. The use value of this aged rice has reached its bottom, but it can still be sold at a higher price than new rice. It's really a wonder in the world." Zhu Yijun said with some emotion after reading the memorial.

"Your Majesty, it is better to have no books than to believe blindly in them. It makes sense, but in reality, it is often completely different from what is written in the books." Feng Bao's face was also full of sighs. Your Majesty must understand the truth better than him. The monarch and his ministers were just sighing that this world was too crazy. Even something like Chenhua rice could be sold at such a high price.

Wang Qian did not allow this trend to spread, but instead banned the sale of rice that was more than three years old. If anyone dared to sell old rice, the yamen runners would come to their door the next day. The first time they sold it, they would be fined; the second time, their store would be closed; and the third time, they would be exiled to Lingnan.

The subjective initiative of officials in imposing fines should never be underestimated.

But Wang Qian made another opening and allowed Chenhua rice to be sold to Japan. This was also the experience Wang Qian summed up after experiencing the turmoil in the capital. There must be trade-offs in everything, and you can't take all the good things for yourself.

If you don't allow the sale of old rice, Songjiang Prefecture doesn't need that much rice for brewing wine or making feed. You have to leave a way out, otherwise when the imperial court inspects the granary, you'll have to burn it down.

Wang Qian thought over and over again and decided that these profit-seeking merchants should stop harming the Ming people and go harm the Japanese. Maybe in the future, Japan will adopt purple rice as a fashion and consider it a superior choice for dining.

Japan's previous rice shortage was man-made. In order to shift the cost of defeat, the shogunate needed to export a large amount of rice to fill the hole of defeat. But Japan's current rice shortage is due to the decrease in able-bodied labor and serious abandonment of fields, which has led to a decrease in total output and cannot meet demand.

The price of rice is rising day by day, and it is unlikely to fall further.

The Ming Dynasty saw it very clearly because it was standing on the dry shore, but the Japanese could not see it clearly. They were in the trap and thought it was temporary and would pass as long as they endured for a while.

The Ming Dynasty does not have to worry about the problem of aiding the enemy, because aged rice can also be exchanged for Japanese slaves. The strong labor force in Japan will only continue to decrease, and the problem of imbalance between supply and demand will become more serious.

Whether it was Oda Nobunaga or Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they had only two options: completely close the country to the outside world or distribute land equally. Although a large amount of farmland in Japan is now abandoned, it seems that as long as these lands are restored to cultivation, the price of rice can be lowered.

As long as these abandoned fields are cultivated, heavy taxes and levies will be imposed immediately. If the land is not distributed evenly and given to the Japanese people, these fields will eventually escape the fate of being abandoned.

No one cultivates barren land, but once it is cultivated, people fight for it.

Only by thoroughly equalizing land, reducing the size of land owned by famous landowners of more than one hundred mu to less than one hundred mu, and giving the land to the Japanese people, will it be possible for the price of rice to fall and the downward trend can be completely stopped.

The Ming Dynasty has spared no effort in attacking Japan militarily, politically, and economically, which has put Japan in a downward cycle of collapse, and this collapse is showing a tendency to accelerate.

Japan is already in a destructive cycle where the more it does, the more mistakes it makes, and if it does nothing it is also wrong. Unless a strong man descends from the sky and defeats the Ming Dynasty repeatedly, drives away the Ming army stationed in the mines, and makes the Ming Dynasty stop targeting Japan because the cost is too high.

Otherwise, Japan's current chaotic situation will continue.

"The aged rice should either be used to make wine or feed, or sold to Japan. It must not be sold in the grain market. Violators will be exiled to Southeast Asia." Zhu Yijun annotated Wang Qian's memorial and approved his approach.

Stale rice could not even be used for disaster relief because the Ming Dynasty could not solve the mold problem. This kind of grain disaster relief, if handled improperly, could kill people and immediately intensify conflicts, turning famine into civil unrest.

Zhu Yijun picked up another memorial. Lu Guangzu carefully studied and implemented Wang Chonggu's last words, formulated seven specific anti-corruption measures, and communicated and cooperated with Yingtian Governor Wang Xiyuan through correspondence.

At 3:15 a.m. on April 14, when the sun was rising, Wang Xiyuan led 150 imperial guards to the Huixian Tower in Nanjing and arrested Chen Fan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works of the Southern Yamen, Li Zhongming, the provincial governor of Huguang, Yang Zhili, the councillor in charge of land in Huguang, Geng Wenfang, the official in charge of the Huguang Administration of Experience, and 13 others.

These thirteen people were entertained by Yuan Hongtai, a wealthy businessman in Nan Ya. The purpose of Yuan Hongtai's entertaining these officials from Huguang was to get some business for building highways in Huguang from Chen Fan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, and others, including clearing farmland, repairing bridges and roads, earthwork, stone materials, etc.

The Huguang government was completely wiped out, because the right governor and governor of Huguang were both involved in the case, especially the Governor of Huguang, Ren Fanglian, who was the mastermind of the whole incident.

In this division of the spoils, Governor Ren Fanglian took the lion's share. The wealthy merchant Yuan Hongtai presented twelve beauties to the Governor of Huguang, and even built a brothel specifically for Ren Fanglian in the Southern Court to house these beauties.

When this case came out, it really shocked everyone. The construction of the Chidao had not yet begun, the supporting government factories were still being built, and the Chidao was still being divided into sections, but the Governor of Huguang had already divided the fat of the Chidao!

The total scale of Ren Fanglian's embezzlement case exceeded 1.5 million silver coins and lasted for nearly fifteen years.

During the three years that Ren Fanglian served as the governor of Huguang alone, Yuan Hongtai built 23 bridges, 3,500 miles of official roads and post roads, 1,500 inns and houses, 17 workshops of various types, and annexed 240,000 acres of farmland.

These 240,000 mu of land were scattered around the important stops on the highway. Rather than saying that Yuan Hongtai was a wealthy businessman, it would be better to say that Yuan Hongtai was a tool for the Governor of Huguang, Ren Fanglian, to make profits.

"Geng Wenfang wanted to climb over the wall, but he was too panicked and broke his leg. He was spotted by the pursuing imperial guards." Zhu Yijun noticed a detail.

Geng Wenfang, an experience worker from the Experience Department, got up a little early at a brothel like Huixianlou and left just before the net was closed.

It was also the first time for Geng Wenfang to attend such a reception. When he saw the imperial guards rushing towards Huixian Tower, he panicked and wanted to climb over the wall, but as a scholar-official who was not even capable of tying a chicken, he ended up breaking his leg.

The imperial guards conducted the most rigorous interrogation on Geng Wenfang. The imperial guards were looking for a traitor. In order to catch the man, Wang Xiyuan did not even use the yamen runners and legal advisors, but borrowed 150 imperial guards from Luo Bingliang, the commander of the imperial guards in the Southern Yamen.

Geng Wenfang almost escaped.

The Tiqi believed that Geng Wenfang had received the news in advance and that there was a traitor within the Tiqi. After several rounds of interrogation, it was finally determined that Geng Wenfang got up early not because he had received the news in advance, but because he was very angry and depressed, so he got up early.

The reason why Geng Wenfang was angry was that his yang energy was not sufficient and his condition was a little bad. The waiter who entertained him was somewhat dissatisfied. The waiter naturally did not dare to say anything, but Geng Wenfang must have seen through his perfunctory attitude, so he got up early and almost ran away for him.

Now, once this case is reported in the court gazette, the whole Ming Dynasty will know that Geng Wenfang is not capable and that three minutes is already a long time.

"What do you say, sir? This Ren Fanglian is your disciple." Zhu Yijun flipped through the memorial submitted by Songjiang Prefecture and asked Zhang Juzheng what he thought. This meaning was not the meaning on the floating ticket, but the meaning conveyed through Xu Jue and You Shouli. That was Zhang Juzheng's real thought.

Zhang Juzheng spoke righteously on the floating ticket, asking the emperor not to spare him but to punish him severely and put an end to this trend. He said that the imperial court was in a state of great importance and no mistakes could be made.

But Ren Fanglian had been Zhang Juzheng's disciple since the 41st year of the Jiajing reign, and it has been 28 years now. This is a relationship between teacher and student. The letters Zhang Juzheng wrote to Ren Fanglian alone form a thick stack.

"The gentleman said, let's do it as soon as possible."

"Ren Fanglian is different from Luo Yao, the former Sichuan governor. Luo Yao's case only involved 340,000 silver coins, and that was the overall scale of corruption. If the highway was really sold to Ren Fanglian, he would have embezzled 3 million silver coins just for the Huguang section." Feng Bao pointed to a name on the memorial and said, "This person is also your disciple."

The major case this time was an internal conflict among the Quan Chu Guild Hall, and the person who reported and investigated Ren Fanglian was Feng Shike, the Left Governor of Huguang.

After Feng Shike became Zhang Juzheng's apprentice, he disliked Zhang Juzheng in the sixth year of Longqing's reign, because Feng Shike at that time believed that Zhang Juzheng was going to do the same things as Huo Guang and Cao Cao and commit treason. Later, when Zhang Juzheng became regent, Feng Shike, who was a doctor in the Ministry of War, submitted a harsh memorial to the emperor and was dismissed and returned home.

In the ninth year of the Wanli reign, Zhang Juzheng began to gradually return power to the government. Feng Shike then realized that he was wrong. At the beginning of the ninth year of the Wanli reign, Feng Shike wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng to admit his mistake. Zhang Juzheng reinstated him as the Education Commissioner of Guizhou, and later he went to Huguang to serve as the Governor.

Feng Shike discovered Ren Fanglian's behavior and found clues. When Li Zhongming, Yang Zhili, Geng Wenfang and other Huguang officials went to the Southern Yamen to do business, Feng Shike informed Wang Xiyuan of the clues. Wang Xiyuan then set up a dragnet.

Feng Shike killed his immediate superior, the Governor of Huguang, Ren Fanglian, in order to protect himself.

Feng Shike repeatedly obstructed Ren Fanglian from using public resources for personal gain. Ren Fanglian held a grudge against him and planned to kill him. Naturally, Feng Shike refused to surrender and chose to fight back.

Moreover, Feng Shike knew very well that the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway was extremely important. Whenever something serious happened, the court would hold people accountable and the governor's office, provincial governors, and provincial judges would all have to be punished. Ren Fanglian should never, ever set his sights on the Beijing-Guangzhou Highway.

"How did Feng Shike know that Ren Fanglian wanted to harm him? If the secret is not kept secret, it will inevitably lead to harm. Ren Fanglian is also an experienced official, but he was able to let Feng Shike know such a confidential matter? Moreover, Feng Shike knew when these Huguang officials met with the wealthy businessman Yuan Hongtai when they went to the Southern Court to do business?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

The memorial did not mention the source of Feng Shike's information. Ren Fanglian actually let his political enemy, Feng Shike, who was also a student of Zhang Juzheng, know so many confidential matters. It would be strange if Ren Fanglian did not lose in this internal struggle.

"Your Majesty, the reason is actually quite simple. Feng Shike is extremely talented and has an outstanding appearance. He is elegant and suave. He has a very good relationship with Ren Fanglian's most favored concubine." Feng Bao learned the whole picture from You Shouli.

Feng Bao used two "极". During the Longqing period, Feng Bao met Feng Shike and agreed with such words. Antonio exchanged seeds for seeds, and Feng Shike could exchange seeds for intelligence. If you have a sharp weapon, you should use it.

"The dogfight in the court is just as you said, sir, they really use any means necessary." Upon hearing this, Zhu Yijun was amazed, they actually won by using sharp weapons!

In fact, this is not surprising. Li Yuanji's queen, Yang, was from Li Shimin's camp, otherwise Li Shimin would not have won so cleanly.

"Then let's publish the court bulletin, bring the criminal to the capital, and let Wang Ci Fu prepare..." Zhu Yijun stopped talking halfway. After he finished speaking, he realized that Wang Chonggu had left. In the past, it was Wang Chonggu who prepared the public trial.

"Let Zhou Liangyin prepare for the public trial." Zhu Yijun was silent, feeling a little sad.

"I obey the order." Feng Bao obeyed the leader's order.

Wang Chonggu had long anticipated that after his death, there would be people who would retaliate against him, and that there would be quite a few of them, so he left behind a special anti-corruption death rattle to deal with these guys, and each of these ten entry points for anti-corruption hits the mark.

While the emperor was dealing with the backlog of memorials, the Minister of War Zeng Xingwu looked solemnly at the handful of gunpowder in front of him. This handful of gunpowder came from Japan and was homemade granular gunpowder from Japan.

Doctor of the Study of Things Zhou Jianhou was the gunpowder king of the Ming Dynasty. He completed the improvement from black gunpowder to granular gunpowder, making firearms truly easy to use. However, because of the granular gunpowder, he was targeted by the rebels.

Powdered black powder has numerous disadvantages. The transportation stratification alone reduces the actual combat effectiveness of black powder to the level of a supporting role. In addition, it is easily blown away by the wind, incomplete combustion of gunpowder results in low power, it is easily affected by moisture, and it is difficult to load during use, etc.

The emergence of granular gunpowder solved the pain points of firearms and made firearms the protagonist of the battlefield.
In the ninth year of the Wanli reign, granular gunpowder gave rise to paper-wrapped gunpowder. Previously, soldiers had to estimate the amount of gunpowder they were supposed to load, but now they could use strictly regulated quantified gunpowder.

And now, Zeng Shengwu had the Japanese-made granular gunpowder in front of him.

"Although the quality is very poor, it is barely usable." Zeng Shengwu's expression was extremely serious. There were seven display windows in the side hall of Wenhua Hall. Among them, there was an I-shaped window with a book titled "Secrets of Fire Attack", which contained the entire process of making granular gunpowder.

In actual production, only the Armory Bureau could produce granular gunpowder.

The most important step in making granular gunpowder is not the finished medicine, which can be made with just water. The key lies in the process of purifying saltpeter into saltpeter.

There are seven purification steps in total, and each step can increase the purity of saltpeter, up to the level of pure saltpeter.

Japan has always been tinkering with its medicines, using saltpeter with a purity of less than 40%. This kind of gunpowder would cause misfires and explosions.

The solution that Zhou Jianhou provided to the rebels for his son's sake provided Japan with a completely wrong direction, and it went further and further in the wrong direction.

The reason why Zeng Shengwu attached so much importance to these Japanese granular gunpowder was that Japan did not produce saltpeter and only used ground frost to make gunpowder, and the output could not meet the needs of military operations at all.

The fact that Japan possessed granular gunpowder proved that someone was smuggling saltpeter into Japan, a prohibited item that was strictly monitored by the imperial court.

The Ming Dynasty Code and the Criminal Law clearly stipulate that anyone who privately sells more than 50 catties of sulfur or 100 catties of saltpeter will be punished, and the saltpeter and sulfur will be confiscated by the government. Anyone who sells sulfur to foreigners, regardless of the amount, will be punished by beheading in accordance with the law for privately exporting military weapons.

It now seemed that the laws, which were already strict enough, needed to be made even stricter, because the profits from selling saltpeter were simply too high.

Zeng Shengwu spread out the memorial and wrote furiously, perfecting the ban. At the same time, he also asked the emperor to issue an imperial edict to the coastal defense inspectorate and the Nagasaki Governor's Office to strictly investigate the saltpeter smuggling business.

After receiving Zeng Xingwu's memorial, Zhu Yijun immediately issued an imperial edict to the Nagasaki Governor's Office and the Coast Guard Inspectorate, requiring strict anti-smuggling and strict prohibition of saltpeter from entering Japan.

Zeng Xingwu’s suggestion is to punish all persons collectively, including family members, those who knew about the incident but did not report it, those who provided convenience, and superiors and subordinates.

The fact that Japan possessed inferior granular gunpowder attracted the great attention of the Ming court.

It is actually very simple to prohibit saltpeter from entering Japan, because merchant ships to Japan, in addition to entering from Korea, must pass through Ryukyu and Nagasaki. If we keep a close watch on these two places, we can prohibit it.

North Korea does not have saltpeter. What it uses is sea saltpeter, which contains a large amount of sea salt impurities and is difficult to purify.

Zhu Yijun thought that it would take at least several years to make any progress in this case. However, less than ten days later, Songjiang prefect Wang Qian and Songjiang governor Li Le reported to the court that they had found clues and even arrested someone.

Nicola Ranchilotte, missionary in the City of Nations and president of the Sao Paulo College in Peru.

During the process of Spanish colonization, wherever Spain arrived, it would build churches, and then set up the churches as public schools. On the one hand, this provided missionaries with a place to stay, and on the other hand, it brought the colonies under the illumination of the Holy Light, that is, using religious means to completely change the local culture.

The Sao Paulo Public College of Peru was founded in the sixth year of the Jiajing reign. Lancilotte came to the Ming Dynasty in the ninth year of the Wanli reign, but because the Ming Dynasty did not allow missionary work, he lived in Songjiang Wanguo City.

The saltpeter smuggled into Japan did not come from the Ming Dynasty, but from Peru.

The saltpeter mines in Peru were the basis for Felipe's rampage in the West, and the dean of the public academy, Lancilote, was very good at smuggling. Sulfur, long and short weapons, armor, saltpeter, raw silk, porcelain, mercury, cinchona, etc. were all within Lancilote's smuggling range.

As long as you have enough silver, you can buy anything. This is the motto of Lancilotte, and everyone also calls him Mr. Fantastic.

Lancilotte once got hold of a 16-jin scrapped naval gun and sold it to pirates in the South China Sea.

The reason why Lancilot was arrested was not because he smuggled saltpeter, but because Lancilot had set his sights on "old brine". Old brine can be regarded as a life-saving miracle drug, but the control of this drug is stricter than that of opium.

Lancilot was committed to opening up the smuggling chain of old brine, which is penicillin, and ran into the gun of the Tiqi. Lancilot not only wanted to buy old brine, he also wanted to find out the preparation process of penicillin. He firmly believed that as long as he gave enough silver, he could buy everything he wanted in Songjiang Prefecture.

After all, the Ming Dynasty even sold five-masted ocean-going ships.

Lancilotte fell into the hands of the Tiqi. The Tiqi didn't care how famous you were. The Tiqi would investigate the case based on the principle of presumption. If they wanted to investigate you, they would have to investigate your entire family clearly. The case of smuggling saltpeter to Japan was discovered while investigating Lancilotte.

The contradiction theory states that quantitative change leads to qualitative change. The fact that saltpeter was smuggled into Japan attracted the attention of the Nagasaki Governor's Office and came before Zeng Shengwu. This meant that the matter had reached the point where it could no longer be covered up. More incidents would continue to surface and be noticed by the Ming court.

And Lancillot pointed out that he was instructed by the Spanish envoy and interpreter of the Ministry of Rites, Legazpi.

When the memorial from Songjiang Prefecture reached the capital, Chen Mo, the Chief Justice, arrested Li Yashi and brought him to justice.

(End of this chapter)