Chapter 1033: These Scholars, How Can They Be So Evil!

Zhu Yijun suspected that Hu Junde and Li Le were acting. As the heads of Songjiang Prefecture, they were a bit too weak.

He suspected that this was also a play of "creating sin and then blaming the victim."

This is a very common phenomenon, not only in England, in Spain, in the Great Ming, but in fact, it exists universally in almost all places observed in the Great Ming.

For example, Annam people enter the Zhennan Pass every year to cut sugarcane and earn labor remuneration. In this process, the Great Ming people give the labor remuneration to the "big head" who brings people out, and the "big head" usually deducts it, and the deduction share is extremely large.

When these "big heads" cannot push the blame to the Great Ming people, they usually start to blame the laborers who are the victims.

Not working seriously, resting without reason, chatting, talking back, not obeying discipline, not doing the work well, not finishing the work, damaging labor tools, etc., there are many reasons, all to find reasonable explanations for deducting labor remuneration.

People who create evil often loudly accuse the victims of being guilty, and because of various reasons, the victims are usually powerless to refute.

Just like the scene Zhu Yijun saw, these merchant leaders of the cotton textile merchants, how arrogant and domineering they were, and how they looked down on these laborers who created value for them from the bottom of their hearts, while several heads and craftsmen with sharp teeth and sharp mouths argued with flushed faces.

The reason for this phenomenon is also very simple. From the perspective of contradictions, it is easy to see at a glance.

People's cognition is contradictory and fragmented, eventually inevitably forming a cognitive paradox.

On one hand, people say that "man can conquer heaven," and on the other hand, they say that "heaven's will cannot be violated"; on one hand, they say that "money is not omnipotent," and on the other hand, they say that "money can make the mill push the ghost"; on one hand, they say that "a good man would rather die than surrender," and on the other hand, they say that "a great man can bend and stretch"; on one hand, they say that "in heaven we wish to be birds flying together," and on the other hand, they say that "when disaster strikes, each flies away."

Specifically for the craftsmen, on one hand, they struggle in the pain of the value created by labor being mostly exploited, and on the other hand, they have to thank these workshop owners for providing production materials, tools, and venues, and providing a slightly decent job that can support their families.

This contradictory cognition, plus the rhetoric of generalizing, leaves the craftsmen with only two choices: either work honestly and live one day at a time, or pick up a hammer and smash this rotten world.

Taking up arms, occupying factories, killing the whole family of the workshop owner, and the field soldiers gathering to break through the three counties of Ruijin, etc.

These two extreme directions are unacceptable to the Great Ming imperial court. The imperial court's duty is to regulate the contradictions between classes. Obviously, extreme choices make it very difficult for the imperial court to regulate.

Zhu Yijun just came to see. He did not interfere in the confrontation between the Dai Fuya and the rich merchants and giants. He did not tell Hu Junde what could be done and what could not be done. Any unnecessary explanation would make things more complicated.

This is also the ancestral law, the words written by the founding Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang in the *Great Proclamation*.

In the 15th year of Hongwu, the Southern Expedition General Fu Youde and the Right Vice General Xiping Marquis Mu Ying conquered Yunnan. After fighting for a period of time, they wrote a memorial back to Nanjing, asking what to do next, how to set up defensive cities, prevent the barbarians from rebelling, and how to set up military guard stations in Yunnan, etc.

Zhu Yuanzhang replied: "Ten thousand miles away, how can I know everything? If there is a change in the army, the generals should deal with it themselves."

The general meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's original words was: "Ask a fart! It's been half a year back and forth, and the food is cold! Decide for yourself, I just want Yunnan!"

In the first year of Wu, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun started the Northern Expedition to recover the old mountains and rivers. Before leaving, Zhu Yuanzhang exhorted them again: "However, in the moment of changing circumstances, one cannot but think, the generals should think about it."

It means don't ask for orders for everything, don't miss the opportunity of war, decide when to decide, don't be too rigid and dogmatic, winning is the most important thing.

Zhu Yuanzhang left these two ancestral instructions in the *Great Proclamation*, which is to tell the later emperors that without twelve percent certainty that doing so will make things develop according to their own design, do not use an unquestionable, arbitrary, "I have decided" tone to directly order the other party what to do specifically.

Because you are not him, you don't fully understand that situation, let alone their situation and the predicament they face. Such instructions will only make things worse.

Zhu Yijun left the Songjiang Dai Fuya and hurried back to the Huangpujiang Palace. He had been frowning all the way. He said to Feng Bao, who was sitting in the car with him: "Feng Daban, why do I feel like I've been acted?"

"Your Majesty, I am confused." Feng Bao looked at the Emperor with a feigned look of surprise and said.

"Still pretending!" Zhu Yijun was so angry that he laughed. Feng Daban had been serving before the imperial throne for twenty-one years, and he still had a look of surprise. It was too fake!

"That might be." Feng Bao then said hesitantly.

The Songjiang Governor Li Le and the Songjiang Prefect Hu Junde were ridiculed by a group of merchants to the point of losing their composure. This matter itself was worth suspecting.

Li Le played Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei around in the past, and Hu Junde could catch Li Le's mistakes and create a situation where everyone was happy on the day the Wensu Pavilion of the Shanghai Great Academy was completed.

You can say that the scholars of the Great Ming are evil, but you can never say they are stupid.

Can a fool pass the imperial examination? At that time, there were only three hundred scholars every three years.

These merchants were arrogant and collided with the Governor and Prefect. Then what Li Le and Hu Junde did next became reasonable, just like what these rich merchants and giants did: creating sin and then blaming the victim.

That was because Zhu Yijun was visiting Songjiang Prefecture. Otherwise, Li Le and Hu Junde would be too lazy to act out such a scene.

Sure enough, after the public discussion meeting on the 10th of the seventh month, Hu Junde seemed to be angry from embarrassment and began to retaliate. He began to strictly execute all the cases of the Salary Arbitration Office without leaving any room for feelings. Moreover, as long as they refused to execute, they would be transferred to the Tax-Auditing Yamen for tax audit review.

This immediately caused panic. The merchant leader of the Su-Song cotton textile merchant group, Shi Yingtai, began to beg for help and run around, hoping that the Hu Prefect could raise his hand high. Unfortunately, this Shi Yingtai couldn't even see the Hu Prefect's private secretary.

The Hu Prefect did not speak and pushed the decree blindly.

"These scholars, how can they be so evil!" Zhu Yijun finished reading the results and patted his forehead. He had to say that these scholars playing these dirty tricks were simply at the level of ancestors.

Hu Junde knew that the first public discussion meeting would definitely not look very good. The only thing he didn't expect was that His Majesty could come. Mainly, Hu Junde didn't know that His Majesty liked to watch the fun.

"Isn't it!" Feng Bao said sincerely. If the Emperor wasn't there, he estimated that he would be too lazy to act even if he wanted to.

Zhu Yijun had a deeper understanding of the book "Deep Plowing." This Hou Yuzhao was not reserved at all; he hid some things that everyone knew.

In the book, he beautified himself and the Shanyin County Yamen, using the "Spring and Autumn Brush Technique" to hide those dirty tricks between the lines.

It is human nature. People even deceive themselves. Hou Yuzhao could not shape himself into a villain in the book he wrote.

In mid-July, Songjiang Prefecture started the third "Fast Walk and Release" 85-li race. It started to get lively from the beginning of the seventh month. Heroes from all over the world flooded into Songjiang Prefecture to win the top spot and win flowers, applause, and honor.

The young master of the Mingyi Shoe Firm, Xing Yanqiu, who was highly expected by others, missed this fast walk race because excessive training led to a strain. He could only go to heal his injuries first. The place where he was strained was very strange; it was his shoulder, not his waist or legs.

When people run, in order to maintain body balance, they have to swing their arms back and forth. Xing Yanqiu was not naturally gifted. In order to seek faster speed and for the posture of running, he increased the training of his upper limb strength, which led to this strain. The injury period was exactly during the duration of the competition.

Pang Xian was very interested in this matter and brought several great physicians to visit. Don't even think about participating in this competition; he could only think about the next time.

"This Xing Yanqiu is also too thin. Five feet two inches and three points (178cm), and only 120 catties?" Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial written by Pang Xian and recognized Pang Xian's discovery.

Pang Xian discovered that if the build was big, there would be a lot of fat, that is, the body fat rate would not be too low. The elite soldiers of the Great Ming Beijing Camp were either fat men with general bellies or strong thin men.

If the body fat rate is low, there will definitely not be a big build. Running fast and running long, none of them are big builds. The body fat rate is not high, and they have thin muscles.

Everything is afraid of asking the reason. These great physicians like Pang Xian really wanted to know why this situation appeared.

In fact, Zhu Yijun knew a little bit of the answer. The human body is a hybrid machine. The three major nutrients—carbohydrates, proteins, and fats—supply energy at the same time.

The consumption of big-build muscles is very large. Without sufficient reserve energy, it is impossible to have high power for big muscles. Once the reserve energy is insufficient, people will consume muscle protein to reduce overall energy consumption.

If you want a big build and also want a low body fat rate to show your figure, either you have great perseverance to gain weight and lose fat repeatedly for many years, or you take a shortcut: take drugs.

Zhu Yijun discovered that this "Fast Walk and Release" held in Songjiang Prefecture also made a huge contribution to the progress of medicine.

He didn't intend to take a few handguns to participate in the competition, thinking of shooting whoever ran in front of him. With his physique, he couldn't run past professional people.

What is interesting is that Songjiang Prefecture held a fast walk and release, while the seven prefectures of Shandong, including Xuzhou Prefecture, would gather at the foot of Taishan in the golden autumn of September to hold the Taishan Mountaineering Race.

The Tai'an Prefecture Taishan Mountaineering Race started from the forest farm and ended at the Yuhuang Peak. The whole journey was only about seventeen *li*, but the time limit was also three hours, that is, six hours to finish the race. The mountaineering race was short, but the climb was high.

Compared with Songjiang Prefecture's ability to freely measure the race course, the Shandong Governor Song Yingchang changed his thinking and set up multiple finish points. For example, you could finish at the South Tianmen, or you could finish at the Middle Tianmen, or even at the Red Gate.

After finishing the race, you could continue to climb, and you could play in the mountains and water along the way.

After the establishment of the Great Ming, Tai'an Prefecture ushered in more than two hundred years of development time. Since the Wanli Reform, the Emperor had demolished the Kong family mansion in Yanzhou, moved away a mountain pressing on the head of Shandong, and then changed the river canal to sea canal, releasing the transport capacity of the canal.

The agriculture, handicraft industry, and commerce of Tai'an Prefecture developed rapidly.

During this period, the Tai'an Prefecture Magistrate, the Jinan Prefect, and the Shandong Governor had been running for the upgrade of Tai'an Prefecture from a prefecture to a prefecture. After this mountaineering race was held, they could further proceed to do it.

Zhu Yijun approved this memorial and allowed the preparation of the mountaineering race.

Feng Bao sent a tabloid.

Chen Zhun, the teacher of the Guangwen Hall of the Shanghai Great Academy who had been specially pardoned and released by His Majesty the Emperor, wrote another article. This article was about the difficulties encountered by cotton textile craftsmen.

As always, the style was to take a cotton textile craftsman as the protagonist and describe the craftsman's encounters in the past few years.

A few years ago, after the Great Ming cotton textile industry had a bottleneck, this cotton textile craftsman lived a very painful life until the establishment of the Pan-Pacific Trade Alliance, when there were some changes.

Picking on work, those were all small things. He worked diligently. When his father passed away, the workshop did not allow him to return home to mourn. It was entirely to force him to leave voluntarily. Two or three ruffians even harassed him for three months, splashing feces, throwing stones, smashing doors, etc., and his wife and children suffered a lot.

In the workshop, the workshop owner arranged for three people to watch him, but if he blinked or was slightly distracted, he would be deducted money.

The purpose of such torture was only one: to drive him away. Because this cotton workshop was already there when it was founded, he was an old master in the workshop, the price was very high, because the time was long, the work was quick, and he held the printing and dyeing formula of the workshop. The workshop owner hoped that he would leave voluntarily and hand over all the printing and dyeing formulas to the workshop, so he was harassed like this.

The establishment of the Pan-Pacific Trade Alliance suddenly made the cotton textile business prosperous again. This cotton textile craftsman immediately fulfilled the workshop owner's wish and left directly, but was immediately accused by the workshop owner.

The workshop owner demanded that the craftsman return all the remuneration and not continue to engage in the cotton textile industry. This case was fought for a full half a year. Because the craftsman was entangled in the lawsuit, the new workshop had to helplessly persuade him to leave.

The craftsman had no livelihood and had to wait for the imperial court's summons and inquiries. He could not leave Songjiang Prefecture. It was really like a year.

This period of torment only came to an end after the imperial court handled the matter.

At that time, Wang Qian was still there. Wang Qian used to be a dandy in the capital, and he was also a reckless person in Songjiang Prefecture. He even ran to the Suzhou Prefecture boundary to arrest people. It was not because of his Grand Secretary father, otherwise cross-border arrests would have been impeached long ago.

Wang Qian judged the case. The craftsman not only could not return the labor remuneration but also received 12 months of compensation for lost work. As for the unspoken rule of not continuing to engage in the same industry, Songjiang Prefecture directly abolished such troublesome rules and presented them for imperial review, obtaining His Majesty's vermilion approval.

The craftsman in this story happened in the weaving workshop of Shi Yingtai, the merchant leader of the Su-Song cotton textile merchant group.

Once this article was published, it caused an uproar and was filled with indignation, especially the literate craftsmen who competed to tell each other.

Zhu Yijun called the Embroidered Uniform Guard Commander Zhao Mengyou. He suspected that this "pen corrector" Chen Zhun was cooperating with the Songjiang Dai Fuya.

This Shi Yingtai just showed his arrogance in the Gongchen Hall of the Dai Fuya, and he was exposed by the pen corrector. There must be a connection here.

Zhao Mengyou's investigation speed was very fast. It was indeed related to the Songjiang Dai Fuya.

This article was simply a commissioned article from Songjiang Prefecture, and it was to make Chen Zhun, this pen corrector, completely offend the powerful and wealthy and rich merchants and giants, and completely draw a line, not to accept money to write articles anymore, so that he could be worthy of the holy grace.

His Majesty had pardoned him, but Chen Zhun continued to accept money to write articles. This made Songjiang Prefecture very embarrassed. On one hand, it was His Majesty the Emperor's pardon, and on the other hand, it was the possible loss of control of public opinion, so Songjiang Prefecture made an appointment with Chen Zhun.

Chen Zhun immediately agreed. In the past, he could still be vague. He had been specially pardoned, but he was still not on the road and refused to draw a line. Chen Zhun really couldn't afford the four words "failing the holy grace." His Majesty had pardoned him alone in the loyalty screening of the Shanghai Great Academy.

This article had long been written, just waiting for the right time to be published.

"There is no way for the people, it is really a lie and a fantasy." Zhu Yijun pondered, and found that Hu Junde dealt with Shi Yingtai, a merchant leader with great energy, just like grabbing a field snail with three fingers. It was easy and didn't take much effort.

Imperial officials are the dragons and phoenixes among people who killed their way out of thousands of troops and horses. Relying on the imperial court, it is really simple to clean up the local gentry and the powerful and wealthy, because power is controlled in the hands of imperial officials.

The biggest experience Hou Yuzhao brought back from Zhejiang to the imperial court was that there was never a "no way for the people," let alone any "desperate situation."

Zhu Yijun pondered the whole thing carefully and found something fun. Li Le and Hu Junde were actually Shen Party, that is, Shen Shixing's party members.

Shen Shixing was just a symbol, representing a line of thinking.

Shen Shixing believed that to resist the alienation of money, one must start from clothing, food, housing, and transportation, giving people the power to choose, which is limited freedom;

To continuously improve productivity and improve the utilization rate of machinery, one must make people more expensive than objects.

For example, in Nanyang, slaves are cheaper, more efficient, and easier-to-use tools than steam engines.

Why should a big iron lump that looks bulky, expensive, and requires special maintenance replace those slaves who can be scolded at will, can work on an empty stomach, are huge in number, and are extremely easy to obtain?

If the Great Ming does not make people more expensive than objects, then all the achievements of the Wanli Reform will not be preserved.

This is a self-evident thing. Material is the foundation of everything. People are always cheap, so the use of machinery will regress. For example, Lin Fucheng saw the abandoned valley wind cart in Baoding Prefecture.

Without coal, the machine will not move.

One person is approximately equivalent to 1.2 horsepower. One Princess Shengping No. 11 is approximately equivalent to 1,200 laborers. Only when the cost of the Princess Shengping No. 11 iron horse, including purchase, depreciation, maintenance, fuel, etc., is lower than 1,200 laborers, will the Princess Shengping No. 11 be widely used.

The horsepower, thermal efficiency, maintenance difficulty, miniaturization, etc., of the steam engine all take time to improve, especially maintenance. This cannot be spread in a short time. Increasing labor costs has become an important way to promote machinery and improve productivity.

Li Le, Hu Junde, and others, their thinking is completely consistent. Dealing with Shi Yingtai and being partial to the laborers of the poor and toiling masses are all for this fundamental purpose:

To resist the alienation of morality by the commodity economy by improving the living standards of the ten thousand people, to promote development by improving productivity, and to cover up social contradictions and solve problems in development.

This line of thinking is slightly different from Zhang Juzheng's "curing the disease by curing the root." Zhang Juzheng does things without leaving any room, and if he finds a problem, he must solve it.

Zhang Juzheng's method is more suitable for the situation in the early years of Wanli. Serious illness naturally requires strong medicine, otherwise he will die. In the twenty-one years of the Wanli Reform, enough national strength has been accumulated for the Great Ming, and it can be more gentle to promote the rhythm and pace of the reform.

In August, the Songjiang Prefecture area began the celebration of the Longevity Festival and also held a fleet review to manifest the majesty of His Majesty the Emperor.

After entering September, Songjiang Prefecture began to have continuous autumn rain. The rain that didn't fall in summer was concentrated in autumn. In the golden autumn of September, His Majesty the Emperor left Songjiang Prefecture, took a boat to Yangzhou, and returned to the capital by train.

On the third day of the ninth month, everyone who followed the Emperor packed their bags, ready to return north.

"Wang Qian is still doing quite well in Luzon." Zhu Yijun finished reading the last memorial. After handling this memorial, he was going to return to the capital.

After Wang Qian was transferred to the Governor of Luzon, he followed the rules and completely continued all of Yin Zhengmao's policies without making too many changes. The biggest change was the flow and rotation of the military.

However, Wang Qian planned to conduct a comprehensive land survey in Luzon and a census of the population in the Han towns.

The purpose of the land survey and census was to ensure that the Imperial Manor was still an Imperial Manor, that these assets of His Majesty were still operating effectively and well, and to have a clear understanding of the scale of Luzon's farmland to cope with the larger-scale migration that would follow.

Wang Qian mentioned a problem that even Yin Zhengmao didn't pay too much attention to, which was that Luzon's table salt could not be self-sufficient. The self-sufficiency rate was only about 15%, and the remaining salt all relied on purchasing from the Great Ming.

Luzon possessed a coastline of 40,000 *li*. There were many places suitable for building salt fields along this 40,000 *li* coastline, but heaven did not cooperate. Luzon, which rained all year round, resulted in extremely low efficiency in sun-drying salt. Sun-drying salt required continuous good weather. Great Ming salt workers also had the habit of rushing to harvest.

Before the Great Ming captured Luzon, Luzon solved table salt mainly by relying on the smuggling of Great Ming merchants. Hundreds of salt ships arrived in Manila every year.

Before the Great Ming established the new Governor's Office in the second year of Wanli, there were not many import and export cargo documents at the Manila port, so the scale of the table salt trade at that time was not clear.

Today, Luzon is under the control of the Great Ming. The salt from the Great Ming to Luzon is as much as 100 million catties a year.

Wang Qian suspended the local sun-drying salt fields in Luzon. The reason was very sufficient: the investment was too large and the output was too low. But its purpose was not difficult to guess. Once there was a change in Luzon, if the export of table salt to Luzon was stopped, the Luzon people could only lick bricks.

This was a means to increase the Great Ming's economic control over Luzon.

Luzon's local salt making used coconut shells soaked in water. After soaking for enough days, they started to burn. After filtering the wood ash left by burning, they boiled it in small pottery jars. It was time-consuming and laborious, and the effect was slow. Luzon's ghost weather made boiling salt indeed faster than sun-drying salt.

After Zhu Yijun replied to Wang Qian's memorial, he boarded the boat at the small pier on the Huangpujiang in front of the gate and headed towards Songjiang Prefecture.

This might be the most dangerous section of the Emperor's southern tour, from the Huangpujiang Palace pier to the Yangzhou pier, because falling into the water is very dangerous, and the boat is a closed space. Assassination and arson are the best opportunities.

No assassination occurred. The boats arrived in Songjiang Prefecture smoothly, because there were too many boats departing together, making it difficult to determine which boat His Majesty the Emperor was sitting on.

Assassinating the King and killing the driver, this kind of thing, either don't do it, or it must be a one-hit kill. But if there is any possibility of failure, you must be cautious. After all, if you don't succeed, when the Emperor's iron fist smashes down, it will really be exterminating the nine clans.

On the 16th day of the ninth month, the Great Ming Emperor's honor guard returned to Shuntian Prefecture. The Crown Prince Zhu Changzhi, the Regent Zhu Zaiyu, and the left-behind ministers Ling Yunyi, Shen Shixing, and others arrived outside the Zhaoyang Gate to welcome the holy carriage back to the capital.

After three days of rest, His Majesty the Emperor held a Great Court Meeting at the Huangji Hall, met the ministers, and began his boring grind life.

The lack of the court meeting link made not only the ministers unaccustomed, but even the Emperor unaccustomed.

People are not sages, who can be without mistakes? No one can be right forever. Zhu Yijun knew very clearly that he was a person, not an omniscient prophet. He needed ministers to check for leaks and fill gaps for his decisions.

So he began to frequently summon ministers to go to the Tonghe Palace to discuss politics.

In order to facilitate the Emperor's summoning of ministers, on the 24th day of the ninth month, Zhu Yijun built a new study room on the west side of the Tonghe Palace Imperial Study Room. The new study room was not big, with a total of eight rooms.

Zhu Yijun would pick out the memorials that needed to be seen by the Emperor one day in advance. The Ceremonial Supervision would organize the list of ministers who needed to be summoned according to the memorials. The next day, these ministers would wait in the West Study Room, waiting to be summoned.

This undoubtedly increased His Majesty the Emperor's workload, but the establishment of this error-correction mechanism made His Majesty the Emperor's own decisions more reasonable.

An error-correction mechanism, no matter in what organization, is an extremely important organizational construction.

This place was called the West Study Room, and the ministers who were summoned were called "West Study Room Walkers." The more times they walked, the more His Majesty valued them, the more their opinions were favored by His Majesty, and the greater the possibility of this minister entering the Cabinet.

The closer to the center of power, the greater the power. This iron law has not changed since ancient times.

The ministers who were called the most were: Shen Shixing, Gao Qiyu, Hou Yuzhao, and Wang Yie. These few were also called "West Study Room Grand Secretaries" by the officials in the capital.

"The two of you, I called you here today for no other reason than to ask: can you two stop bickering? You've made the censors and officials in the Office of Scrutiny terrified, fearing that if you two truly flare up, the fire at the city gate will bring disaster to the fish in the moat." Zhu Yijun gestured for Shen Shixing and Gao Qiyu to sit down before explaining the purpose of today's meeting.

Back, everything is back.

In the past, Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu fought very fiercely. Sometimes, when they fought with real fire, the officials in the capital were all in danger, fearing that the gods would fight and a fire would burn themselves.

Now, the struggle between Shen Shixing and Gao Qiyu is no less than that.

"Shen Cabinet Elder has such great official prestige! Just became a Cabinet Elder, and started to form cliques for private interests. It was fine to do screening in the Great Academy, but now you want to do it in the official factories. This is absolutely impossible." Gao Qiyu also stated his attitude.

Shen Shixing extending the loyalty screening to the official factories, in Gao Qiyu's view, was already going too far, and his hand was reaching too long and too far.

"It's not screening craftsmen, just screening officials, general managers, acting managers, meeting managers, and affairs managers. These people should all be checked!" Shen Shixing said righteously: "The official factories are one of the sources of wealth for the Wanli Reform. If these moths eat them empty, how can you and I explain to His Majesty?"

Intentionally making the official factories operate with difficulty, damaging the public to enrich the private, and even occupying the official factories as their own, this was something Shen Shixing would never allow to happen.

Especially Hou Yuzhao's proposal to tentatively delegate power to allow the three yamen of each province to prepare for the establishment of local official factories, that required even stricter supervision.

"You speak nicely. We have all been officials for many years. You guess, when it is really done, to what extent will it be upside down?" Gao Qiyu did not hesitate and said directly.

The Great Academy was fine. In a yamen that does not engage in production, no matter how you review it, it will not cause any mess.

The official factories are the "Sea-Stabilizing Needle" of the Great Ming. Military, political, economic, and people's livelihood are all closely related to the official factories. ===== CHAPTER 1034 =====