Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 310 North and South Volumes

"At that time, there were 66,598,337 people in the world, 4,527,632 hectares of land, a balance of 72 acres and 6 cents, and a tax of 3,200 acres. Millions of stones.”

"Nineteen thousand six hundred and twenty taels of gold, more than 1,487,000 taels of silver, and 2,876,000 taels of copper."

"There are more than 2,254,000 pieces of miscellaneous, commercial tax, mining, salt, and tea taxes, and nine pieces of iron, lead, silk, silk, silk, satin, cloth, cotton, etc. More than 146,000 strings."

"The annual income from food is 32 million dan, and the annual income from other kinds of colors is more than 7,777,200 dan."

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, one year old was eliminated, and in the Fengtian Hall, Yu Xin, the Minister of Household Affairs in court uniforms, reported the results, and the ministers in court uniforms in the entire temple looked at each other.

As the first court meeting of the New Year, everyone put on court uniforms, and Zhu Di, the king, and Zhu Gaoxu, the prince, also put on imperial uniforms respectively.

Compared to the calmness of the father and son, the ministers looked at Yu Xin in surprise, because the Zhengdan court gathering was usually just a ceremony to celebrate gifts, and basically nothing happened.

The records of the Ministry of Revenue should have been handed over to the emperor at the end of last year, but now it has been delayed until the first day of the new year.

Moreover, this year's booklet is missing the military grain from the Sixth Army Governor's Office, as well as horses, bundles of grass and other items. Could it be that the emperor wants to change the old system?

The ministers were daydreaming while holding a wat board. Zhu Gaoxu, who was wearing a royal robe and holding a jade gui, was also standing on the high platform. Zhu Di spoke to the ministers:

"From now on, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Sixth Army Governor's Mansion will manage money and food respectively."

"I accept the teaching order..."

When Zhu Gaoxu announced the new policy, the officials all showed serious expressions, and at the same time they couldn't help but pay attention to the situation in the Ming Dynasty last year.

When it comes to growth, the biggest growth factors are undoubtedly population and cultivated land.

Most of the data in the 33rd year of Hongwu are copied from the past, so the situation in the first year of Yongle can express the changes in the Ming Dynasty in the past few years.

Compared with the population of more than 65.5 million in the 30th year of Hongwu's reign, after the war, the population of the Ming Dynasty increased explosively to 66.59 million, an increase of 6.09 million in one breath. .

In addition, compared with the 3.87 million hectares in the 30th year of Hongwu, the number of Daming acres last year was 4.52 million hectares, an increase of 650,000 hectares in one go.

All the ministers are very clear about why the above-mentioned things are increasing.

The purge of Jianwen's sycophants resulted in a lot of hidden people and acres of land. The Tax Department's inventory of Shandong and Jiangdong, as well as the development of Northeast China, also gained a lot of cultivated land. This is how the current amount is formed.

"I, the Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army, Commander-in-Chief Zhang Yu, and the Right Commander-in-Chief of the Sixth Army Governor's Mansion have begun to report!"

Zhang Yu, wearing court uniform, stood up and bowed, waking the ministers from their reverie.

"Play!"

Zhu Di spoke majestically, Zhang Yu also bowed and bowed, and then said:

"Last year, the Sixth Army Governor's Mansion had more than 2,000 and 400,000 shi of grain in fields. There were 59,672 army horses, 24,300 riding horses, and 36,470,000 straw bundles. Remaining bundles.”

"The annual military rations are 27 million dan, the military pay is 2,394,000 guan, and the grass bundles are all exhausted."

"This year, the imperial court will need to allocate 6.6 million dan for grain and 2,394,000 guan for military pay. In addition, it will be necessary to issue corvees to cut 30 million bundles of grass, and the imperial court will need to allocate 2 million dan for bean feed."

"According to the report!" Regarding the request of the Sixth Army Governor's Mansion, Zhu Di chose to agree without hesitation.

However, in this way, the Zhengdan meeting became the year-end summary meeting of last year.

Yu Xin, the Minister of Household Affairs, took a step forward and bowed: "In the past year, hundreds of officials and local officials had more than 19,476,000 shi, and there are still more than 12,500,000 shi."

"This year, the imperial court built Beijing, subsidized Liaodong, dredged rivers, built the Shushui Gate on the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Wusong River. The voyage to the West requires three million ships and nine million dan of grain..."

"Including the accumulated grain in the treasury, we can use 7.23 million guan of money and 37.2 million dan of grain."

Yu Xin gave an overview of the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. However, since there was no government to exempt more than half of the world last year and taxes were normal, the money and grain accumulated last year were more than two million yuan each.

Counting Lao Zhu's savings, the Ming Dynasty still had a very solid foundation.

Even if this money and food were lost until the end of the Ming Dynasty, it would be enough to pay the entire army's military salary and salary arrears in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, which shows Zhu Yuanzhang's deep accumulation.

"Last year was the only savings from the past four years. I would like to congratulate Your Majesty..."

"Congratulations to Your Majesty——"

After Yu Xin said this, all the officials bowed and sang the salute, and Zhu Di also became complacent.

"Is there still something going on?"

Zhu Di wanted to end the morning dynasty. After all, today's dynasty meeting was just for him and Zhu Gaoxu to stand up for the new calculation method of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Sixth Army Governor's Mansion. Now that the opera was over, it was time to end.

"Your Majesty, Li Zhigang, the Minister of Rites, has something to report!"

Li Zhigang stood up, but he did not represent himself, but most of the people above the temple.

"Precisely." Zhu Di frowned slightly, and then saw Li Zhigang bowing and saying:

"Your Majesty, the imperial court has not held the imperial examination for four years since the Ding Chou examination in the 30th year of Hongwu. It is now the fifth year."

"I would like to ask your Majesty to set the imperial examination for next year, so as to calm the people of the world..."

After Li Zhigang finished speaking, Zhu Di also frowned, because he had just discussed this matter with Zhu Gaoxu yesterday.

Zhu Gaoxu said yesterday that the ministers would definitely ask the imperial court to hold the imperial examination today, and now it seems that he has a good prediction.

As for the imperial examination, after careful discussion with Zhu Gaoxu, he felt that it should be done, but the needs began to change.

"The imperial examination should be held, but it is too urgent to hold it next year. I have decided that the fourth year of Yongle will be the first year of the imperial examination, and the officials of the sixth and third departments will start informing the world's scholars two years in advance."

"In addition, Jiashenko takes Yao Guangxiao, the Prince's Young Master, as the main exam, and Xie Jin, a bachelor's student at the Hanlin Academy, as the secondary exam."

"Previously, the provincial examination results for the imperial examination were counted, but this year's college examination, provincial examination, and general examination papers will be published by the East Palace."

Zhu Di moved the imperial examination to the fourth year of Yongle, which made the officials above the temple frown, but they still accepted it. After all, the results of the imperial examination and the provincial examination in the Jianwen period were recognized.

However, handing the next imperial examination papers to the East Palace made the officials a little unbearable.

"Your Majesty, although the prince is knowledgeable, no one knows how much he knows about classics and history. I would like to ask the prince, are the Jiashen Ke examination papers similar to the previous imperial examination papers?"

Li Zhigang bowed and inquired, and also asked questions that the ministers were concerned about.

Everyone knows what is learned in the five-year official education in Liaodong. If Zhu Gaoxu puts those things on the examination papers, the students in the south will definitely suffer.

Thinking of this, everyone looked at Zhu Gaoxu secretly, but Zhu Gaoxu said directly: "Similar, but there are slight adjustments."

After that, without waiting for the officials to ask, he took the initiative and said:

"Since Jiashenko, the country has been divided into three volumes: North, South, and Middle, and the number of Jinshi has been set at three hundred."

"The distribution ratio of scholars between the north and the south is five-tenths of the people from the south, four-tenths of the people from the north, and one-tenth of the people from the southwest."

"The scope of the Northern Volume is Bohai, Liaodong, Daning, Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Shaanxi Xingdusi, and one hundred and twenty people will be recruited."

"The scope of the Southern Volume covers Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Guangdong, and one hundred and fifty people were recruited."

"The scope of the middle volume is Sichuan, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces, and thirty people will be selected."

Dividing volumes into northern and southern parts was one of the few useful policies promulgated by Zhu Gaoxu that he agreed with, and it influenced the Ming Dynasty and later generations for more than 600 years.

Separating volumes into the north and south is undoubtedly a policy to prevent the country from splitting. After all, the economic center of gravity has completely shifted south, and the Ming Dynasty raised its troops from the south. Therefore, Jiangnan was least affected by the war in the late Yuan Dynasty, followed by the north, and finally the areas where Sinicization was not as deep. Guangxi and southwest China.

In terms of economy, there is no doubt that this is the same ranking. Therefore, economically backward places must be educationally backward, and educationally backward places will definitely not be able to pass the Jiangnan area with advanced education.

Under such an economic and educational situation, if there is a "unified examination", the vast majority of Jinshi places will be occupied by southern origins. In the long run, the north and some southern provinces will inevitably become alienated.

The reason why the imperial examination was suddenly suspended after the four-year imperial examination in Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty was because Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that the gap between the north, southwest and south of the Yangtze River was too big. Therefore, during the thirteen years of the suspension of the imperial examination, Zhu Yuanzhang had been busy with the construction of official schools in the north and southwest. , it was not until the seventeenth year of Hongwu that the imperial examination was reopened.

In the subsequent four imperial examinations, the number of Jinshi seats occupied by the North remained at 30% all year round, and occasionally by the Southwest at 10%, and the rest was monopolized by the Jiangnan and Central-Southern regions.

The three volumes of "North and South" are Zhu Gaoxu's combination of the policies that were finally perfected by the Ming Dynasty in history.

Under this kind of division of books into the south, center, and north, there will not be a situation where the officials of the three places protect each other and form cliques for personal gain.

After all, the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were based on the provincial examinations organized by each province to determine the candidates, and then the imperial court organized the examinations to determine the candidates.

The allocation of quotas for the Southern, Central and Northern Volumes is fixed, but there is no fixed allocation of quotas for each province in the three volumes, so it is difficult to form a situation of party struggle among the three regions.

Even during the Wanli and Tianqi years when party strife was at its most serious, there was actually nothing going on between the north and the southwest, but a struggle between the southern provinces, thus forming the unique birthplace faction fights in the late Ming Dynasty.

Since Southern Zhili was split into eighteen Zhili states and prefectures, it also needed internal competition, so it was impossible to form parties like those in Huaixi and Jiangdong.

Throughout the late Ming Dynasty, officials from Nanjuan's hometown formed the Jiangdong Kun Party headed by Suzhou, the Xuan Party headed by Xuanzhou, the Zhe Party in Zhejiang, and the Chu Party in Huguang.

Compared with them, the Qi Party in Shandong and the Qin Party in Shaanxi and Shanxi are not powerful parties.

However, this situation has nothing to do with Zhu Gaoxu. At present, he only needs to confirm the three-volume system of North, South, Central and Central Governments. As for other parties such as Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuan and Kun, if they take the lead, it will help the emperor balance the temple and prevent one family from becoming the dominant one.

"One hundred and fifty seats..."

In the Fengtian Hall, the officials were silent, while Xie Jin, as a bachelor, was analyzing the pros and cons.

He and Yang Shiqi looked at each other vaguely, obviously they were not very satisfied with the one hundred and fifty seats in the Southern Scroll.

Jiangnan, Beijing and two provinces account for nearly half of the world's population, but they still have to compete with Huguang, Guangdong, and Fujian for the 150 Jinshi places. This is undoubtedly a restriction for them.

In comparison, although the total population of the north and southwest is only 150, their combined population is not as large as that of South Zhili and Jiangxi provinces.

Obviously, Zhu Gaoxu's move was obviously biased towards the north and southwest.

"Your Highness, it is a good thing to separate the volumes, but is the number of Jinshi in the South Volume too small?"

Xie Jin stood up and bowed: "The population of the five provinces in the southern volume of one capital is 40 million, while the population of the northern volume and the middle volume is more than 26 million. Such an equal distribution is easily criticized."

"Your Highness, I second the proposal..." Yang Shiqi and others stood up one after another. Not only them, but even Li Zhigang and others bowed and sang.

Faced with this situation, Zhu Gaoxu did not panic. He originally did not think that he could snatch 10% of the quota from the Nanjuan provinces with just a few words. Therefore, seeing this scene, he took the initiative to speak: "What do you think? how?"

"I think it should be one hundred and eighty in the south roll, ninety in the north roll, and thirty in the middle roll."

"I second the proposal, either to increase the quota for Nanjuan, or to allocate Guangdong and Huguang to Zhongjuan."

"I second the proposal..." As soon as Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth, the ministers rushed to ask for more places for Nanjuan.

The reason why they did not oppose the three-paper separate examination was because they knew that this was Zhu Gaoxu's bottom line, otherwise there would be no need to propose a policy of three-paper separate examination.

In other words, policies must be implemented, but their content is negotiable.

The content here is the allocation of quotas for each province and the category of which volume each province belongs to.

To this end, they put forward three ideas, but no matter how they were proposed, the South Volume accounted for 60% of the total quota, the North Volume accounted for 30%, and the Middle Volume accounted for 10%.

This proportion is similar to the results of the imperial examination in the Hongwu period. Except for the imperial examination in the 30th year of Hongwu, which was tampered with, the rest are this ratio.

By maintaining this ratio, the interests of the southern provinces will not be harmed.

"What do you think, Your Majesty?"

Zhu Gaoxu saw that the bottom line of the ministers had been exposed, so he turned around and bowed to Zhu Di, and said in a dramatic way: "I think it is better to maintain the original policy."

"This..." Zhu Di groaned, and the officials looked at them. Although they knew they were acting, they still had to cooperate.

"The population of the Southern Volume is indeed too large. How about setting the number of Jinshi at 320, leaving the Northern and Middle Volumes unchanged, and how about 170 for the Southern Volume?"

As soon as Zhu Di opened his mouth, he asked both sides to take a step back. The southern volume accounted for 55%, and the remaining northern and middle volumes accounted for 45%.

"Your Majesty, I think it can be promoted to 350 positions, with the southern volume occupying the 200th position, and the northern and middle volumes remaining unchanged."

Xie Jin bowed and opened his mouth. Obviously their bottom line was 60%.

Seeing this, Zhu Di also exchanged glances with Zhu Gaoxu, and then slowly said: "In this case, we will determine the 350th place in the imperial examination, the 200th place in the southern examination, the 120th place in the northern examination, and the 30th place in the middle examination. Bit."

"Your Majesty, Holy Ming——"

The ministers sang the salute, and when Zhu Gaoxu saw this, he also looked at the minister of Honglu Temple.

"If there is something going on, go ahead and leave if there is nothing going on!"

The minister of Honglu Temple sang a salute, but the officials in the temple remained indifferent.

"Sanchao..."

Finally, with the singing of the ministers of Honglu Temple, the first court meeting in the second year of Yongle came to an end.

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu were the first to leave the Fengtian Hall. After changing the crown clothes into regular clothes in the back hall, the father and son did not have time to rest, and each took a carriage to the Wuying Hall.

On the road, Zhu Di signaled the driver to slow down, and said at the same time as Zhu Gaoxu's driver:

"How are the goods for the voyage to the West and the food and fodder for the conquest of Annan being processed?"

"Everything is ready. It will arrive in Qinzhou in just a few days when the fleet sets off south."

While Zhu Gaoxu responded, he saw the Duke of Guizhou, Muchun, and others wearing royal robes and heading to the Wuying Hall.

As the two teams passed each other, Muchun and others stopped and saluted Che Yu.

After Zhu Gaoxu and the others left, they hurriedly followed.

A quarter of an hour later, when they arrived at Wuying Hall, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di had already brought the sand table to the main hall and prepared tables, chairs and benches for everyone.

Familiar or unfamiliar faces such as Muchun, Yang Zhan, Zheng He, Wang Xuan, Meng Ying, Zhang Fu, Qu Neng, He Fu, Gu Cheng, etc. appeared.

They came to discuss a major event in the second year of Yongle.

After they took a few breaths, Zhu Di sat on the golden platform and looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu understood the idea, stepped forward and pointed at Annan with dogma and said: "Half a month ago, Pei Boxi, the surviving minister of Annan, came to the capital and accused Hu Jiya and his son of "killing the emperor to usurp the throne and massacring loyal ministers." He asked the imperial court to send troops to capture and destroy this thief. Eliminate the traitors and restore the descendants of the Chen family."

"His Majesty has responded to him, that is, the imperial court will send troops in winter, and after pacifying Annan, he will search for the descendants of the Chen family among the people and support them as the Lord of Annan."

There is no big mistake in history. Annan Minister Pei Boxi came to the capital with dozens of surviving ministers to ask for help.

Taking this opportunity, Zhu Di also took the opportunity to put on a show and promised that if he captured Annan and found the descendants of the Chen family, he would make them the kings of the country.

Doing this is nothing more than trying to win over the survivors and ministers of Annan. When Annan is really captured, there will never be so-called descendants of the Chen family, and Annan will only become the Jiaozhi Province of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaoxu's thoughts were known to all the generals standing in the palace, so they waited for Zhu Gaoxu to continue speaking.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu also said: "With firearms in hand, I have no doubts about whether you can capture Annan. What I care about is how to manage Annan after capturing it."

"Yunnan cannot do without the Duke of Guizhou and Uncle Ning Yuan (He Fu), Guizhou cannot do without Uncle Zhenyuan (Gu Cheng), and southern Sichuan cannot do without you Jianchang Bo (Qu Neng)."

"Therefore, after taking Annan, you can withdraw your troops and return to your respective stations, leaving Fu Rang, Zhang Fu, Meng Ying, Lin Su, Zhang Chun and their 30,000 troops to guard Annan."

"At the end of the year, the imperial court will recruit three thousand subordinate officials from Jiangnan to go to Annan to assist Fu Rang in staying."

"But just like that, we can't completely control Annan, so we still need to move people into Annan."

"The Ministry of Household Affairs will recruit people from Fujian and Guangzhou to move to Annan. Each of the migrants will be given twenty acres of land."

"After you go south, you can publicize this news in advance so that interested people can be fully prepared. At the same time, you must remember to leave the fields to the court for distribution after the Hu family and other thieves are wiped out in Annan."

After Zhu Gaoxu explained what happened during the battle and after the battle, he then turned his attention to Muchun: "How many troops and horses have the many chieftains in the southwest gathered now?"

"About 46,000 people." Mu Chun bowed and replied, and Zhu Gaoxu was satisfied after hearing this.

"The fleet going to the Western Ocean will be converted into grain transport ships after taking the southern part of Annan. This time it will carry as much as 600,000 dan of grain and grass southward. In addition to the 800,000 dan stored in Guangzhou, Kunming, and Qinzhou, it will be enough for this close trip. The 130,000 troops and 200,000 civilians consumed six months.”

"In six months, we must at least capture Thang Long Palace and allow the local people to resume production to supply the army for a long time."

"Yes!" Muchun and others bowed in agreement. Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu said nothing more and turned to look at Zhu Di on the golden platform.

Seeing that he had finished speaking, Zhu Di had nothing to say in his heart, so he echoed: "Just do as the prince said."

"Yes..." Muchun and others bowed, and then discussed with Zhu Gaoxu some things that might be encountered in the conquest of Annan.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu only communicated with Mu Chun and others in a vague way, hoping to let the chieftain soldiers and horses be responsible for the task of mopping up and cleaning up the periphery of the battlefield.

When discussing Annan last time, Mu Chun learned about Zhu Gaoxu's attitude towards Annan. Therefore, Mu Chun nodded to express his understanding of these obscure reminders, but he still asked about some details:

"The local soldiers are in poor military discipline. If they are allowed to attack the city, I am afraid the city will be ruined. Moreover, most of the wealth of the gentry is in the city. This..."

"In the city, local soldiers can march together with officers and soldiers, but to clean up the remaining bandits in the countryside, local soldiers will be the main force." Zhu Gaoxu gave an accurate answer, which made Mu Chun breathe a sigh of relief.

"Except for fields and cattle, 10% of what was gained in this battle went to the generals, 40% to the soldiers who participated in the battle, and the remaining 50% was kept in a place waiting for the imperial officials to receive it."

Zhu Gaoxu added, and Muchun bowed after hearing this: "In that case, I have no problem."

"Okay, let's discuss it carefully after you return to the Governor's Mansion. Just keep Zheng He, Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan." Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zheng He and the others.

Seeing this, Muchun and others bowed and sang and walked out of Wuying Hall.

After they left, the sand table was replaced with a Nanyang sand table, and Zhu Di, who was interested, also walked off the golden platform.

He walked around the Nanyang sand table with his hands behind his back, but did not mention Nanyang, but instead focused on Xiaoliuqiu.

"I wanted to ask last time, are there no gold and silver minerals in Xiaoliuqiu?"

Zhu Di asked about the situation in Taiwan, and Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the island of Taiwan: "There is gold, silver, copper, and iron, but the best way to land here is from Ningbo all the way south."

"Although the Fujian Strait does not look wide, it is not suitable for crossing, and the conditions on the island are not very good, and it is easy to contract malaria. It can be used as a place of exile after the southwest is enriched."

"Can wasteland be reclaimed?" Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaoxu. After all, the west side of Taiwan on the sand table is fairly flat.

"It's possible, but water conservancy projects need to be built."

Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the west side of Taiwan and said: "This island is mainly composed of the southern plains and the central and northern plains. Although it can be reclaimed, the water conservancy construction required is too difficult. Without hundreds of thousands of manpower and more than ten years of investment, it may be difficult. Get the benefits.”

"Then why not exile people from Annan to enrich this place?" Zhu Di suddenly asked Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhu Gaoxu paused and was stunned by what he said.

"Anyway, many of the natives in Annan are not willing to stay, so why not send them here? With more than a thousand troops stationed, they can control hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe they can open up a lot of fields."

Zhu Di said enthusiastically, and Zhu Gaoxu thought about it and thought it was feasible, but the expenditure would be too high.

The reason why the Tainan Plain has become fertile and easy to cultivate is the Jianan Dazhen and Wushantou Reservoirs built during the Japanese occupation.

Fortunately, Jianan Dazhen can be built with manpower, but it is too difficult to build the Wushantou Reservoir.

This reservoir was built in the 1920s, but even so it is still the largest reservoir in Southeast Asia.

Such technology cannot be achieved by today's Ming Dynasty.

If we really want to build the dam, we can only move more people, chase and block it upstream, and seize the opportunity to build the dam during the dry season. It will be too difficult and easy to fail.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu shook his head: "It's too difficult. Now the national treasury can barely balance its expenditures. After taking Annan, it will take many years of investment to produce any results. If Xiaoliuqiu is added to the mix, then I'm afraid..."

"I'm just talking. Just remember it. It won't be too late to do it when you get this big position in the future."

Zhu Di touched his beard, then looked at Zheng He and the others: "Okay, you can talk to them about business first."

"Okay." Zhu Gaoxu nodded and turned to Zheng He and the others.

Facing their gaze, Zhu Gaoxu used dogma to draw a route through Fujian, Guangdong, and Annan.

　"Records of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty": "On the first day of the second year, the Northern and Southern Zhongjuan was set up, and the quota for Jinshi was 350. Starting from Jiashenke, the southern volume accounted for six out of ten, the northern volume three out of ten, and the middle volume one out of ten. "

　　"Records of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty": "At the beginning of the second year, Pei Boxi, the surviving minister of Annan, arrived in Nanjing and accused Hu Jiyou and his son of killing the emperor and usurping the throne, massacring loyal ministers, and petitioning the court to capture the thief, eliminate the evil culprits, and reestablish the descendants of the Chen family. "

　　"The emperor was angry: "Annan is a vassal of the Celestial Dynasty, and the Hu family has rebelled against him and usurped the throne by killing his master. We should raise troops to fight against him. "Then he sent 500,000 troops to conquer the Hu family."

　　

　

(End of this chapter)