Chapter 1043: Han envoys are like parents, they must not leave

Wei Youshan explained to His Majesty the various dilemmas encountered in the process of manufacturing sulfuric acid.

Under the situation where the court urgently needed a large amount of sulfuric acid, Wei Youshan led the great craftsmen of the Western Hills Coal Bureau to start the trial production process.

This process was very, very unsuccessful. The first step had problems with materials. Iron and copper would react with sulfuric acid and were not corrosion-resistant. Sulfuric acid is highly corrosive and very dangerous. Whether it was the tank body or the pipe, if the air pressure was insufficient or it was corroded to make a hole, production would be very dangerous.

The Institute of Physical Studies finally went through many experiments and used traditional alchemy furnaces to solve the problem, that is, ceramic jars to solve the problem.

Previously, to get sulfuric acid, that is, green vitriol oil, one needed to dry-distill green vitriol. Very early on, alchemists would put green vitriol into a ceramic jar, put it in a furnace to heat, and extract the sulfuric acid. The efficiency was low, the output was lower, and it could only be used for small-scale extraction.

Ceramic jars are corrosion-resistant, high-temperature resistant, have mature craftsmanship, and are easy to shape. You can burn out whatever shape you want.

Soon, the first batch of ceramic jars started. After sulfur burned, it turned into sulfur oil in the pipe with water vapor. Sulfur oil and green vitriol oil are the same thing, acidic and corrosive.

But its output was quite moving, almost exactly the same as dry-distilling green vitriol, and it was accompanied by a severe pungent odor.

The efficiency was really too low.

The craftsmen of the Great Ming started adding all kinds of messy things to the jars and towers. They would burn whatever minerals they found, burn various mixtures together, and see if they could refine some unexpected things. This had long become the daily routine of the craftsmen.

Coal, coke, iron blocks, and even water fertilizer did not escape the disaster; they were all thrown into the furnace, and they successively obtained various messy products, until the Great Ming craftsmen threw fire nitrate into the furnace.

The output of sulfuric acid preparation began to increase significantly.

"The tower is two ceramic jars, one male and one female, filled with lead in the middle, riveted and sealed. There are three towers in the front in total. The first one puts sulfur, the second one puts fire nitrate, and the first two towers are connected to the third tower. There is a pressure-stop valve in the middle. As long as the air pressure is sufficient, you can lift the pin to release the gas to the third tower." Wei Youshan explained the role of the three towers in the front.

These three towers are the front furnace, which is responsible for pressurization and heating. The third tower contains water.

If the air pressure of the three towers is sufficient, sulfuric acid can be produced. There are eight large jars in a row, and the eighth tower is mainly for waste gas disposal, which contains copper strips for the final recovery of sulfur and nitrate.

Craftsmen discovered in production that the higher the efficiency of raw material use, the less waste is produced. One of the keys is temperature. According to the Institute of Physical Studies' explanation of heat by Zhu Zaiyu, the hotter it is, the faster these tiny particles that humans cannot observe move, that is, the reaction is more sufficient.

Of course, temperature is not the higher the better, and the sealing problem must also be considered.

The great craftsmen started the fourth iteration, like burning coke, trying to change different temperatures to increase reaction efficiency.

It went through seven generations of iterations in total, and finally, it was possible to let His Majesty take a look. They really didn't eat and sit idle. Taking the court's salary, they really had things to do.

Wei Youshan presented a sealed glass bottle to the Emperor. According to the label, it was concentrated sulfuric acid with a concentration as high as 98%, weighing half a catty. But Zhu Yijun frowned and asked, "Is there water in here?"

"Your Majesty is wise." Wei Youshan was silent for a while. His Majesty is really not easy to fool.

Zhu Yijun smiled dumbly and nodded, saying, "Water is water."

Concentrated sulfuric acid is highly corrosive. Such a dangerous thing was handed to the Emperor like this. Obviously, it did not conform to the security regulations of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Let alone concentrated sulfuric acid, even the chalcanthite pesticide made of copper sulfate, Zhu Yijun had never been in contact with it.

Zhu Yijun didn't want to make his subordinates embarrassed, so he didn't force a look at the concentrated sulfuric acid, and accepted the water as concentrated sulfuric acid. Production will not lie. The demand for output is there. If chalcanthite pesticides cannot be mass-produced, the official factories will all be judged from top to bottom.

Deceiving the Emperor is an unforgivable crime.

Zhu Yijun took a big circle around the Xiliu Factory of the Gunpowder Bureau. In Zhu Yijun's hand was a principle model. In reality, one tower was as high as three floors. The frames were all steel-concrete structures. The towers were neatly arranged in front of him, and countless pipes passed through them.

Everyone who sees it will be shocked. Human power can actually do this.

"See His Majesty, long live, long live, long live Your Majesty." Agricultural Doctor Ke Yanchang bowed and paid his respects. He arrived a little earlier than His Majesty and hurriedly went to the copper sulfate preparation workshop. Under layers of protection, he saw concentrated sulfuric acid and copper sulfate in reaction.

"I am late to see the Emperor, I hope His Majesty will forgive my sin." Ke Yanchang bowed again to apologize.

"It is not, it is a full two years late." Zhu Yijun asked Li Yougong to bring Ke Yanchang's Chonggu Progress Award medal and gold base, handed it to Ke Yanchang himself, and then breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "I have kept it properly, for fear of dropping it for Doctor Ke."

"Thank His Majesty for his great grace." Ke Yanchang put away his Chonggu Progress Award medal. The front is the Technical Progress Award, and the back is the gift from Wang Chonggu.

Ke Yanchang actually didn't want this medal very much because Wang Chonggu is a treacherous official.

However, looking at the ingenious craftsmanship of the craftsmen brought out by Wang Chonggu, Ke Yanchang had some doubts about Wang Chonggu's identity as a treacherous official.

Perhaps, Wang Chonggu is not a treacherous official, but just a hat put on by political struggles in the court? Court struggles are a bit complicated for Ke Yanchang, and he is too lazy to pay more attention. This progress award is an affirmation of his contribution, and he deserves it.

Zhu Yijun walked and chatted with Ke Yanchang about the production of green vitriol oil and how to use chalcanthite pesticides.

Most of the time it was Ke Yanchang talking and Zhu Yijun listening. Sometimes, Zhu Yijun also asked some questions, and the topic gradually changed from pesticides to agricultural affairs.

For example, the cultivation of Zhong-Sheng good potato No. 1, the promotion of fast-growing poplars, the Great Ming planted hundreds of thousands of acres of fast-growing poplars in many places, and the rotation of artificial forests have many benefits. Every time one more fast-growing poplar is planted, one less tree is felled.

The Great Ming's demand for wood is almost unlimited, but the Great Ming's vegetation coverage rate is also very low, and soil erosion is serious. How to prevent soil erosion in the process of development and handle the relationship between humans and nature is also a difficult problem encountered on the Great Ming's development path.

"The Great Medical Officials conducted a three-year experiment on the potatoes produced by Zhong-Sheng good potatoes, used 300 specimens, and conducted long-term observation. They found that potatoes are indeed qualified to become a staple food. Even for heavy physical labor, there will be no symptoms of malnutrition." Zhu Yijun talked about the medical experiment of potatoes as a staple food.

Although the Great Ming's Great Medical Officials do not have very good testing equipment, they have direct experiments on specimens specially approved by the Emperor.

The nutritional value of potatoes has been verified by practice. This kind of high-yield crop can indeed make it easier to feed the Great Ming people.

"It is really a gratifying message." Ke Yanchang's eyes lit up. The biggest fear of this kind of high-yield, easy-to-plant crop is that it lacks something the Great Ming has not yet understood, leading to it not being able to be taken for a long time and not being able to become a staple food.

Now it seems that this concern can be temporarily put down.

"I heard that Doctor Ke also helped the Marquis of Ningyuan open up 500,000 acres of cotton fields. Tell me in detail." Zhu Yijun talked about the development of the Western Regions.

Ke Yanchang said with great emotion, "I still have to thank the Marquis of Ningyuan for saving my life. When I was looking for salt-tolerant plants in Hami, I was caught by horse bandits. It was the Marquis of Ningyuan who rescued me everywhere before I was saved."

"Horse bandits?" Zhu Yijun immediately felt a chill, rushing from his tailbone to the top of his head!

If something happened to Ke Yanchang, Zhu Yijun would be afraid that he would tear all the horse bandits in the Western Regions to pieces and still not be able to vent his hatred.

The agricultural doctors sent out by the Great Ming all have fifty Embroidered Uniform Guards to protect their safety. It is not that Ke Yanchang was wandering in the desert alone. It may be precisely because there were escorts that the horse bandits felt this was a big fish.

Ke Yanchang found a salt-tolerant plant and sent it to Jiayu Pass. The escort force around him was reduced, and he was surrounded by horse bandits.

The horse bandits sought wealth but not lives. After Li Chengliang learned the news, he let Tiger Lord, who was on the horse bandit road, come forward to protect the person. Tiger Lord was one of the horse bandits who surrendered to Li Chengliang, and his original name was Ma Sanhu, who had quite a reputation on the road.

Ma Sanhu redeemed the person, and Li Chengliang did not attack. Instead, the horse bandits exploded, directly destroying the horse bandit den that robbed Ke Yanchang.

If the horse bandits didn't do this, Li Chengliang would have destroyed all the horse bandit dens.

Zhu Yijun understood the ins and outs of the matter. Ke Yanchang didn't let people report it because he felt it was not a big deal. It is not strange to encounter any danger when going out. To question local officials for such a small matter would bring some difficulties to Ke Yanchang's future travel.

"Damn horse bandits!" Zhu Yijun cursed fiercely. He didn't know it, but since he knew it, he couldn't let it go.

The Great Ming possesses the armed forces stationed by the Marquis of Ningyuan in the Western Regions. These horse bandits have become stumbling blocks on the Great Ming's road to reopening the Western Regions, so just crush them.

Zhu Yijun immediately ordered Li Yougong to issue an edict to the Marquis of Ningyuan: these horse bandits should be wiped out, and use their heads to contribute to creating a peaceful Western Regions.

Ke Yanchang said a lot about the situation in the Western Regions. It is different from what the Great Ming scholar-officials thought. From the country's lord and ten-thousand-household nobles to the common people, the Western Regions sincerely welcome the Great Ming Dynasty to go and transform them.

Because according to the experience of the Western Regions people, once the Central Plains Dynasty comes, there will be a clear sky, and life will be stable.

As long as the Central Plains people come, there will be Western Regions people supporting the Central Plains people to establish rule. There is even a saying in the Western Regions: "Han envoys are like parents, they must not leave."

During the transition between the two Han dynasties, the Western Regions and the Central Plains lost contact. Emperor Guangwu re-established the Eastern Han, but his national strength was limited, and he had no intention of reopening the Western Regions Protectorate. The Western Regions were ruled by the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu's rule over the Western Regions can be said to be abandoned by both humans and gods.

Under the situation where the Western Regions countries repeatedly petitioned, Dingyuan Marquis Ban Chao reopened the Western Regions and operated for thirty years, bringing stability and prosperity to the Western Regions.

By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions lost contact with the Central Plains again, until the transition between the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, Yelü Dashi of the Liao Dynasty ran to the Western Regions and established Western Liao, which also gained the support of the Western Regions people, and Yelü Dashi did a very good job, operating the Western Regions extremely well.

For the Western Regions people, the people sent by the Central Plains Great Emperor are trustworthy. They don't quite believe in people coming from other directions. These rulers can only bring turmoil and slaughter.

This place of the Western Regions has been conquered by rulers from all directions since ancient times—the Xiongnu in the north, the Tubo in the south, and the Persia and Timur in the west. These rulers were more brutal than the other, and more abstract than the other.

Only the rulers from the Central Plains will promote agricultural technology, build water conservancy, mediate contradictions between many states in the Western Regions, and end the war.

The well-drilling and Karez technology left by Ban Chao back then still protects all the Western Regions people.

Moreover, completely different from what the Emperor and scholar-officials thought, the Western Regions is an agricultural area, not a nomadic area. Relying on snow-capped mountain meltwater and groundwater, they developed oasis cultivated land. The common people in the agricultural area naturally tend to the Central Plains Dynasty of agriculture.

Even in the grazing area north of the Tianshan Mountains, the local people will also plant something, rather than living by the water and migrating with the seasons. They live a settled pastoral life. They do not approve of migration. Of course, in this world, no one is willing to be a wanderer.

After Li Chengliang built the Iron Gate Pass and the Hot Spring Pass, he received the support and support of the local people, because what Li Chengliang did seemed to be no different from Ban Chao: reclaiming land, building water conservancy, building passes to prevent invasion, mediating contradictions between all parties, and stopping slaughter.

Of course, it is by no means saying that there are no die-hard elements. When force needs to be used, Li Chengliang has never been stingy.

Ke Yanchang meant that reopening the Western Regions is simpler than the court expected. At least there is a very strong public opinion foundation and historical inertia. The common people do not resist the Han people coming to establish rule. With this premise, many things become much simpler to do.

After the Hot Spring Pass is built, the Great Ming court can set up the Western Regions Protectorate again, and Li Chengliang can transform himself into the Great Protector of the Western Regions. Although Li Chengliang is at this age, he still wants to make contributions, at least to move his family's title up a step and be promoted to a Duke.

Zhu Yijun, Ke Yanchang, Zhang Juzheng, and Qi Jiguang had lunch together at the Wu Ying Building in the Northern Camp. Zhu Yijun took the time to write a holy edict to the Western Regions, telling Li Chengliang absolutely not to let these horse bandits go. Since they dared to move on the Great Ming Emperor's head, they could not be kept.

Agricultural doctors, every one of them is a treasure. Zhu Yijun is not happy to lose any of them.

After lunch, Zhu Yijun inspected the military horses at the Northern Camp, and in the afternoon returned to the Tonghe Palace Imperial Study to continue handling national affairs. The memorials were complicated, and he kept busy until dinner time before he finished the day's work.

"This article is interesting." Zhu Yijun picked up a "Civil News," which published a "Civil News," "Examination of Jinshi Families—Wealth Does Not Pass Three Generations."

This article examines the inheritance situation of 2,088 Jinshi families that can be verified from the Hongwu years to the Wanli years. First of all, the geographical distribution is extremely uneven, completely concentrated in Zhejiang and the Southern Capital. Secondly, among these 2,088 Jinshi families, those that passed down for one to seven generations are 311, 1500, 209, 51, 12, 4, and 1 respectively.

Nearly 86% of the Great Ming's Jinshi families cannot pass down for three generations. Only one-tenth pass down to the third generation, and the probability of not passing down for more than three generations is 96%, which forms a sharp contrast with the military merit nobility. The Great Ming military merit nobility, including hereditary battalion and company commanders, basically have descendants. The "Annotation of the Selection of Military Colonies and Garrisons in Shaanxi and Gansu" records it very detailedly, and there is almost no interruption.

Jinshi families, wealth does not pass three generations.

This writer spent five years examining why these Jinshi families declined, and finally reached a conclusion: as far as the reasons for the extinction of families that can be verified, there is only one—internal strife, the corruption and collapse of family structure caused by internal strife.

Internal strife is very serious: concubines fighting for favor, sister-in-law fighting in the house, brothers fighting each other, reporting to the government, framing and planting evidence, buying murderers to kill, bribing jailers to kill in prison, wearing green hats, divorcing wives, nephews drowning aunts—all kinds of means are varied, several times more exciting than those messy things written in those storybooks.

The writer used the Xu family of Changshu, Suzhou as an example.

Xu Shi was a Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing, served as the Minister of Works in Nanjing, and passed away in the 9th year of Wanli at the age of sixty-three. Not long after Xu Shi passed away, the Xu family of Changshu could no longer hold on.

Xu Shi had one son and one daughter. The Jinshi's daughter naturally had to marry a Jinshi's son. Xu Shi found a good marriage for his daughter.

The Xu daughter married Qu Ruji, whose father was the first in the palace examination and second in the palace examination in the 23rd year of Jiajing, serving as the Right Vice Minister of Rites, Qu Jingchun.

Unexpectedly, not long after the Xu daughter entered the door, her father-in-law Qu Jingchun passed away. At that time, according to the etiquette of mourning, Qu Ruji needed to mourn for three years. During these three years, Qu Ruji could not share a bed with the Xu daughter.

The Xu daughter couldn't hold back her temper, took a fancy to her husband's younger brother Qu Ruji, and the two of them looked at each other and rolled onto a bed.

When her husband Qu Ruji learned of this, he was furious and wrote a letter, "Reply to Minister Xu," informing his father-in-law Xu Shi that he wanted to divorce his wife.

Xu Shi is a figure in the officialdom and cares most about face, so he naturally refused to let his son-in-law divorce his wife and promised some benefits.

Qu Ruji is a decisive person, wrote another letter to reply, determined to divorce his wife. The Xu daughter was divorced and returned to her mother's house.

Xu Shi was furious and began to make things difficult for his former son-in-law Qu Ruji.

Qu Ruji would be beaten up on the street, and a large group of Xu Shi's disciples, former subordinates, relatives, and friends suppressed Qu Ruji to the extreme.

This former son-in-law Qu Ruji is a decisive and ruthless person. If you, Xu Shi, are not afraid of losing face, then make it known to the world!

Qu Ruji directly took the letters between him and his former father-in-law and the younger brother who committed adultery to the government office, accusing Xu Shi of lawlessness. These things the Xu daughter did became famous all over the world.

This matter caused a great uproar, and Xu Shi finally imprisoned his daughter at home, not allowing her to see her lover, but he did not stop suppressing his former son-in-law, and even planned to bribe jailers to kill him. In such a big case, how could the jailers dare to accept it? Finally, Qu Ruji was released by the government office.

Xu Shi also had a son named Xu Shangde.

Xu Shangde had three wives and one concubine. The first two wives passed away not long after marrying, so Xu Shangde took a concubine, Zhou. This Zhou was very competitive and gave birth to three sons for Xu Shangde in one breath, and all of them were very healthy.

Just when Zhou thought she could rely on her son to become a legitimate wife, Xu Shangde married a legitimate wife, An.

The first dispute began.

Zhou and An started fighting in the house. An came from a wealthy family and was proficient in house fighting, and she was also very competitive, giving birth to three sons in one breath. Finally, Zhou died, and An completely controlled the house.

An won, but her means made her husband feel terrified. The husband gave the quota of the Imperial Academy for the Jinshi's grace to the eldest son born to the concubine Zhou.

The second dispute began.

This time, An relied on her status as a mother and left most of the property to her own sons, not the eldest son born to the concubine Zhou. An won again in the second time.

However, the eldest son took the quota of the Imperial Academy for grace, which was reported to the court and could not be changed. The eldest son took the quota of the Imperial Academy for grace, and after sitting in the prison for a full term, he passed the examination and became an official, rising to the position of the 5th-rank Nanjing Ministry of Justice Physician.

This official is nothing in the court, but in the local area, it is too big.

The eldest son united with the other two sons born to the concubine and the three legitimate sons to launch the third dispute.

This third dispute lasted for a long time, and finally angered the Nanjing Patrol Censor Deng Cheng, who could only write "Former Ministry of Justice Physician Xu Changzuo (eldest son born to concubine) steamed and lewdly plundered his father" in the final case report, summarizing this absurd family internal strife.

This eldest son born to the concubine drowned his aunt, the Xu daughter who was not clean, in the pond;

The legitimate sons were not idle either. The second legitimate son actually colluded with outside thieves, disguised as robbers, and robbed his own father, causing his father to die of anger;

The eldest son born to the concubine drowned his aunt and was arrested, and was poisoned to death in prison by the eldest legitimate son who bribed the jailer;

The second and third sons born to the concubine pretended to be ghosts and gods, disguised as their father's ghost to demand his life, and scared the second legitimate son to death;

When the battle between the legitimate and concubine sons came to an end, all these lives of the Xu family were tossed in, leaving only the second son born to the concubine, who made a living by selling calligraphy and writing letters for others. Let alone an official family, in the Changshu area, their family became a joke.

And this legitimate mother An came from the An family of Wuxi, Jiangsu. Her father was known as An Millionaire, a wealthy family with a million silver in assets, and she also had a son, An Xifan, who was a Jinshi in the 14th year of Wanli.

An's house fighting was also going on, and the patrol censor had already handled two cases of An's house fighting, and the excitement was no less than that of Xu's house fighting.

Zhu Yijun finished reading this "Civil News" and was silent for a long time before saying, "It seems that our Young Master Wang and Young Master Yang are still very promising."

Although Wang Qian is not right with his father, Wang Qian's character has been recognized by Hence Hai Rui and Zhang Juzheng, and his talent doesn't need to be said, otherwise Zhu Yijun would not have sent him to Luzon to stabilize Luzon.

Young Master Yang is Yang Bo's son Yang Junmin. Yang Junmin is working like cattle and horses in the position of Shun Tian Prefecture Assistant, suffering from all kinds of anger—the Emperor, court ministers, military merit nobility, powerful families, wealthy merchants, and giants. With so many boards clamping him, Yang Junmin still maintains the situation with difficulty, and he maintains it quite well, and even has become more and more at ease in the past two years.

Zhang Juzheng's sons, although not in the officialdom, are also quite harmonious, and there is no internal strife.

But not all court ministers are like this.

Hence Hai Rui's adopted son wanted to use Hence Hai Rui's reputation to exchange for silver, but was scolded by the Emperor and changed to a clan son to inherit.

Governor Ling Yunyi's son even used his father's name to commit fraud in the imperial examination, which made Governor Ling Yunyi have to retire. If it weren't for his great achievements and his willingness to retire, the Ke-dao officials would have been chasing him to impeach him.

"The father's fault for not teaching the son—this matter of the Duke of Wencheng teaching his son has become a fun story in the capital, known to everyone in the world." Li Yougong felt that this was not an accident.

Hence Hai Rui's adopted son dared to do this entirely because of the inheritance, and Hence Hai Rui could not strictly discipline him. Governor Ling Yunyi was running around outside all year round and neglected the management of his son.

Yang Bo's strictness with his son is also famous.

When Yang Junmin was a child, he punched a book boy and refused to apologize. He was almost beaten to death by Yang Bo. Yang Junmin knelt in the heavy snow, holding the family instructions, and knelt for a full two hours before returning to the room under his mother's pleading. A serious illness almost killed him.

In fact, it is the same in the palace. The Emperor is busy with national affairs and has no time to discipline his children. However, the Empress, she manages the children, and even if they are lazy, they will be beaten. For this reason, the Emperor and the Empress even quarreled once, and finally the Empress won.

Empress Dowager Li is dissatisfied with the Empress and even wants to support Concubine Ran to sing a rival show with the Empress, also because the Empress's requirements for all imperial descendants are equally strict, and she is a bit fierce.

The Emperor's imperial descendants are competitive, not spoiled, but managed.

There is also Prince Lu, Zhu Chang. Empress Dowager Li dotes on Prince Lu, but Prince Lu has been beaten by the Emperor since he was a child.

Li Yougong is a sparring partner and has seen it more than ten times with his own eyes. Every time, the Emperor borrowed the name of sparring to beat Zhu Chang until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen.

Otherwise, Zhu Chang's character as a demon king would not know how much trouble he would cause. Now that he can stand on his own, it is inseparable from the education of the Emperor, his older brother.

"It's easy to say but hard to do. I also know that I can't bear to reprimand Zhi and Chao. These children are messing around, all beaten by the girl with willow sticks. It's really unbearable to look at." Zhu Yijun put down the "Civil News" and was also a bit emotional. He also knew this truth, but he couldn't bear to be cruel.

Wang Yaozhuo can bear to be cruel, and when she beats them, she never softens her hand.

Zhu Yijun couldn't bear to look, so he just didn't look and handed over the education of the children completely to Wang Yaozhuo.

Li Yougong smiled and said, "The situation in the palace is still somewhat different."

The relationship between the Emperor and the imperial princes is not only father and son, but also monarch and minister. Adding a layer of monarch-minister relationship makes it very troublesome.

Any reprimand from the Emperor may release signals similar to establishing or abolishing the crown prince. If the Emperor really beats Zhu Changzhi, he will be interpreted by the court ministers as wanting to change the crown prince.

The King is selfless. The Emperor really cannot beat the imperial princes. The Empress must shoulder the heavy responsibility of education. If the Empress cultivates a group of useless idiots without even a qualified successor, how can the Empress participate in the suburban sacrifice, worship the ancestors in the divine way, and be buried with the Emperor?

The Empress's treatment is also responsible. The foundation of the country is on the Empress's shoulders.

Such treatment for the Empress also meant she had to bear responsibilities; the foundation of the state rested on the Empress's shoulders.

96% of Jinshi families cannot pass down for three generations. This number is really too high.

It is not just Jinshi families that are like this. In fact, the house fighting of some powerful families is also very cruel and no less inferior. ===== CHAPTER 1044 =====

This was not only the case for the households of successful examination candidates; in fact, the domestic strife within the mansions of some powerful and influential families was also very brutal and no less intense.