Chapter 1069: Killing Two Birds with One Stone, Isn't That Beautiful?

Xiong Tingbi, who was on the Kanto Plain, also saw the vigorous development results of Shandong. These results were extremely gratifying. Shandong did not seal itself off because of conservatism and caution. The development around the two core areas of Jinan Prefecture and the Mizhou Shipping Department was in full swing.

Even if conservative, it could not hinder this kind of development.

First was the expansion of territory. The Ming Dynasty's reclamation of wasteland in Liaodong brought prosperity and stability to Liaodong, and also had partial agricultural surplus to exchange for goods;

After the King of Korea, Li Yan, promised to submit, he went back on his word and wanted to use the method of abdication to evade his promise, but he was killed by Li Shunchen. Korea submitted to the Ming Dynasty. The capitals of Iwami Silver Mine, Nagasaki, Korea, etc., were actually Jiaozhou Bay;

The expansion of territory brought more means of production, such as fields, minerals, forests, trees, livestock enclosures, etc., and also brought a larger market. Continuous reclamation and the establishment of official factories allowed these places to have a certain consumption capacity, and Shandong had a broader market.

Besides the benefits brought by territorial expansion, there were the successive Governors of Shandong, all of whom were people who did practical things. From Ling Yunyi to Wang Yie, and then to the current Song Qichang, they were all virtuous and good officials of the Ming Dynasty. They did not just serve the superiors, but chose to settle down and let Shandong develop vigorously as an answer to respond to the court's concern and His Majesty's inquiries.

They redistributed means of production in Shandong, actively improved production enthusiasm, responded to the court's decrees, built galloping roads, dredged canals, expanded official factories, civilian workshops, etc.

Of course, there were also the most important Shandong commoners. They created all this with their diligent hands. Labor changed nature, labor gave value to goods, and labor made people free.

To this day, Shandong was the place with the least population loss in the north. Not many people flowed to the Jiangnan region. But as long as there was a way, no one wanted to choose to leave their hometown.

The wind and public opinion of conservatism and radicalism could not change the objective existence and laws. The fundamental element that influenced people's livelihood was productivity.

If one looked closely, one would find that, in fact, the wind and public opinion of conservatism and radicalism, if the court officials were not wrapped up by these winds and maintained enough determination to actively promote development, they could completely make the local government and people harmonious and protect the peace of one side.

Xiong Tingbi wrote a very, very long memorial, reporting what he saw and heard in the Edo River to His Majesty.

After the Coastal Defense Inspector received the memorial, he boarded a hydrofoil and headed to Owari Province. This land was the territory of the Oda family. Since Oda Nobunaga died, the Ming Dynasty, on the grounds that the Oda family lived in the Ming Dynasty, divided this land into the Ming Dynasty's hands, becoming a transit station for the Coastal Defense Inspector.

Departing from Owari Province, the hydrofoil successfully arrived at the Osaka Bay Garrison Company. After stopping in Hiroshima, it arrived at Jeju Island three days later.

If it were summer, the Coastal Defense Inspector would go north from Jeju Island, arrive in Incheon, and then head to the Bohai Sea to land at Tianjin Prefecture. In winter, the Bohai Bay was frozen, so the Coastal Defense Inspector would go from Jeju Island to the Mizhou Shipping Department, and then walk the galloping road to the capital.

Zhu Yijun received Xiong Tingbi's memorial fifteen days later.

Xiong Tingbi answered in detail the questions His Majesty was concerned about, and also stated the problem of the samurai in Edo Castle.

"The various atrocities of the Japanese samurai are actually what it looks like after violence loses control. Seeing these things that are worse than pigs and dogs, it is probably very difficult to make up one's mind to revitalize martial arts." After Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial, he was also full of disgust.

Just as Xiong Tingbi said, the ruling class of Japan—court public officials, Shogunate generals, local daimyo—were all things worse than pigs and dogs.

The most important slave catchers of the Japanese slaves were these guys. They sold a stone of grain for three taels of silver, ten times the rice price in Songjiang Prefecture! The high rice price forced the poor and suffering in Japan to the road of slavery, forced good families into the corridors to become prostitutes, and squeezed the people without any means!

It really wasn't that Zhu Yijun looked down on this group of Japanese. During the Chongzhen reign, there was a loyalist army that came from the Shi Zhu Tusi in Sichuan; the commander's name was Qin Liangyu, and the soldiers she led were called the White Pole Army.

In the battle to pacify Bozhou by Liu Ting and Liang Menglong, Qin Liangyu and her husband Ma Qiancheng led 3,000 White Pole Soldiers to conquer Yang Yinglong with the Southwestern Han Army.

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming Dynasty was defeated. Qin Liangyu listened to the court's orders and set off with 3,000 White Pole Soldiers to rescue Liaodong. Thousands of miles away, they did not violate the autumn hair in the places they passed, and the military discipline was very strict.

This kind of strict military discipline was maintained until the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, when the White Pole Soldiers were severely damaged by Zhang Xianzhong and were completely wiped out.

Even when the Ming Dynasty was on the verge of collapse and the sky was falling, even the army mobilized by the Tusi at the court's order could guarantee a certain military discipline.

Similarly, the army that came from Shanxi to the capital to serve the Emperor had been hungry for three full days without food or water, yet they did not loot the common people of the capital; instead, they mutinied and demanded it from the imperial court.

The Ming army, even when it was collapsing, could still maintain extremely strong discipline, rather than extending knives and guns to the common people and plundering everywhere.

"Those Japanese samurai are not out of control; it is that these samurai have never had any military discipline to speak of." Zhang Hong didn't think this was violence out of control. Those court public officials, Shogunate generals, and local daimyo had never fully controlled the samurai, so naturally, it couldn't be called out of control.

"That is also true." Zhu Yijun still agreed with Zhang Hong's point of view.

Japan is typical usurper politics. This political system also existed in the land of the Central Plains, which was the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

From the An Lushan Rebellion to the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, 117 military governors were killed by mutinies of their subordinates. Under usurper politics, there was no way to restrain soldiers and demand military discipline.

Regarding Xiong Tingbi's plan to raid Kyoto and give Tokugawa Ieyasu a surprise, Zhu Yijun did not give specific instructions. He was not in Japan, and micro-managing would cause great trouble to local generals. He only urged Xiong Tingbi to be careful and not to take risks easily.

After replying to Xiong Tingbi's memorial, Zhu Yijun picked up a miscellaneous report on the table.

Before Li Yashi left, he wrote a book titled *On China*. In this book, there was a point of view that made the Ming scholar-officials feel a bit uncomfortable. In this book full of flattery toward the Ming Dynasty, Li Yashi rarely criticized and denied a new wind and public opinion that had emerged in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yashi believed that the Ming court should be vigilant against a concept that had gradually formed after the opening of the seas: Ming Exceptionalism.

Ming Exceptionalism was based on the distinction between Hua and Yi. After the Ming Dynasty opened the seas, it gradually witnessed the actions of many overseas barbarians, and a point of view emerged:

The Ming Dynasty is special. The Ming Dynasty's values, systems, etc., have transcendence in the whole world, are naturally just, and everything the Ming Dynasty does is just.

Moreover, problems that other countries need to worry about, the Ming Dynasty does not need to worry too much about.

For example, Philip's gold bonds will collapse, but the Ming Dynasty's gold Precious Banknotes can be an exception. No matter how much they are over-issued, they can be an exception and will not collapse;

For example, any country launching a war needs to pay an extremely heavy price, but the Ming Dynasty will not. The Ming Dynasty's foreign wars can be an exception and will not pay an overly heavy price;

For example, the overseas colonies established by the West will gradually break away from the control of the mainland, but the Ming Dynasty does not need to worry too much, because the Ming Dynasty is an exception. The governor's offices established overseas will naturally support the Ming Dynasty and will not betray.

And Li Yashi believed that this Ming Exceptionalism should be vigilant. The rulers of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Emperor, should not immerse themselves in this exceptionalism and be arrogant and complacent.

Arrogance is a sin, no matter in what aspect.

He believed that discussing any problem could not be viewed from the perspective of Ming Exceptionalism, otherwise it was deceiving oneself and others.

Just because the Ming Dynasty is the Celestial Empire, can it be exempted from some natural, objective, and heavenly laws? Obviously, Li Yashi believed it could not.

In the twenty-plus years since the opening of the seas, many claims of the distinction between Hua and Yi had been perfectly verified. This could only represent that the Celestial Empire had particularity, but did not possess sacredness.

Li Yashi's explanation of sacredness was very clear, a bit like the "one proof forever proof" in Ming myths and legends. As long as one progresses, masters, and understands, one will never regress or forget.

The Ming Dynasty's particularity would decline, and it was not a matter of course. The court, scholar-officials, literati, and the people all needed to correct this decline at all times, rather than feeling that the empire was so powerful that this little decline did not affect the Ming Dynasty's greatness.

The miscellaneous report in Zhu Yijun's hand was a discussion about Ming Exceptionalism. Lin Fucheng, Li Zhi, and Gao Panlong, three opinion-makers, jointly wrote an article: "Can the Ming Dynasty Really Be an Exception?"

At the very beginning, the three gave a consistent answer: the Ming Dynasty cannot be an exception.

In terms of military, politics, economy, culture, etc., whether from the vertical scale of ancient and modern times or from the horizontal scale of internal and external, the Ming Dynasty cannot be an exception.

The Tumu Crisis, a huge setback and failure caused by the Emperor's arrogance and recklessness; the Jingnan Campaign, a huge change in the world caused by the succession; the Hongwu Precious Banknotes, a carnival of meat-eaters, leading to the loss of great trust in the country; the alienation of money, making people generally believe in the omnipotence of money;

These were all things that had happened or were happening in the Ming Dynasty. The existence of these objective facts meant that the Ming Dynasty could not be an exception.

Zhu Yijun held the miscellaneous report and said very solemnly, "Can it really not be an exception? The examples they gave, on the contrary, prove that the Ming Dynasty can be an exception."

"In the Tumu Crisis, the Emperor was captured. The Ming Dynasty did not follow the lessons of history and move to the Southern Capital, having only half the country. The Ming Dynasty not only won the Beijing Defense War, but also brought back Emperor Yingzong, and hung Yesian's head on the city wall of Datong Prefecture."

"The Jingnan Campaign was indeed earth-shattering, but after the Jingnan Campaign, the Ming Dynasty campaigned five times in the north, and seven times sailed to the Western Ocean. Emperor Chengzu Wen's civil and martial achievements crowned the past and present. The prosperity of Yongle is still missed today, making barbarians fear."

"How terrifying the alienation of money is, naturally goes without saying. But the Ming Dynasty is still trying hard to curb the moral slide caused by this alienation, and it has been quite effective."

"I feel that the examples they gave cannot convince me."

Zhang Hong pondered for a moment before whispering, "Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty Precious Banknotes."

Lin Fucheng and others gave four examples. The Emperor talked for a long time, but only missed the Ming Dynasty Precious Banknotes.

"Don't mention this." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "Emperor Taizu Gao did not have much talent in financial affairs. Of course, you cannot expect a person to be omnipotent and good at everything. That is not a person, that is a god."

"Besides, didn't I issue gold Precious Banknotes? Summarizing experience and lessons, inheriting the past and ushering in the future, it will get better and better."

Zhu Yuanzhang specifically kept his three-year experience of begging along the way to tell future generations that he was himself, a living person, not a god born sacred.

"What Your Majesty said just confirms that the Ming Dynasty cannot be an exception. The final result has good and bad. The good result is that countless benevolent people and righteous scholars went to remedy it, and only then was it corrected." Zhang Hong thought about it and further clarified, "Whether it is an exception or not depends on human effort. Discovering problems, facing them actively, and taking decisive measures to remedy them, rather than pretending not to know and whitewashing peace."

"This is the true meaning of Li Yashi."

Whether the Ming Dynasty can be an exception is a contradictory and unified contradictory body. Sometimes it can be an exception, and sometimes it cannot. But any place that is an exception is the result of human remedy.

"Hmm, what you said makes sense." Zhu Yijun thought carefully about Zhang Hong's words, read the article again seriously, and nodded affirmatively, "Exceptionalism is actually sacredness. Sacredness cannot have any flaws. Whether the Ming Dynasty can be an exception has contradictions, which means that sacredness has vanished, which has already falsified it."

The reason why religion runs through the beginning and end of human society is entirely because there is a problem in it that is difficult to prove: God. Since it is impossible to prove its existence and impossible to prove its non-existence, this leads to the problem of God always existing in human society.

And Ming Exceptionalism obviously no longer possesses this sacredness, because the history of the Ming Dynasty proves that the Ming Dynasty has times when it cannot be an exception.

Li Yashi also talked about the disadvantages of Ming Exceptionalism. If one believes in Exceptionalism, one will not see one's own shortcomings. For things that happen in other countries, one will hold an arrogant attitude, feeling that such things will not happen to oneself, without analyzing the deep reasons behind the phenomenon.

This is obviously not conducive to the development of the country. One must always maintain a sense of vigilance against various problems.

"This *On China* by Li Yashi is still a bit too flattering." Zhu Yijun forwarded Lin Fucheng and others' article to the court gazette, and then picked up *On China*, marking a sentence in red. It wasn't that he wanted to delete it, but to let people distinguish it seriously and treat this sentence with caution.

The sentence marked in red was:

The Ming Dynasty has reached the upper limit that empires created by humans in the current era can reach. Before coming to the Ming Dynasty, I could not imagine that people could live stably for two hundred years and enjoy the peaceful life brought by order.

The Wanli Reform broke through this upper limit and is moving rapidly toward the upper limit of human imagination. And the place that helped the Ming Dynasty break through this upper limit is in the temple of science, located in the Royal Academy of Investigation of Things next to the Tonghe Palace.

This sentence is a bit too flattering.

Li Yashi used this sentence to open the introduction to the Ming Dynasty's Academy of Investigation of Things, summarizing the Ming Dynasty's various magical inventions and creations. These inventions and creations could be called miracles. The doctors of the Academy of Investigation of Things and master craftsmen used human power to achieve all this.

It was also in this article that Li Yashi told an interesting story. When the Dinghai School System was formulated, the Emperor went to ask the Dean of the Academy of Investigation of Things, Zhu Zaiyu, for his opinion on the Dinghai School System.

At that time, Zhu Zaiyu submitted a memorial proposing to speed up the progress of talent cultivation. Children should enter school at the age of four, enter the middle school at the age of eight, complete all three-level school subjects at the age of twelve, and complete the university studies at the age of fifteen.

Compared with the established Dinghai School System that required twenty-four years to complete studies, Zhu Zaiyu's plan was advanced by a full ten years.

In this way, it could save educational expenditure for the court and allow students to serve the court early. Killing two birds with one stone, isn't that beautiful?

Zhu Zaiyu formulated the plan this way because he had his own limitations. He hadn't seen so many idiots. For many people, the mathematics that he thought anyone could learn was a heavenly book.

The Emperor rejected this memorial and adopted the method of the Ministry of Rites.

Mathematics was becoming complex. Zhu Yijun sometimes had to study the formulas submitted by the Academy of Investigation of Things for a long time before he could understand them.

For example, the brachistochrone curve recently studied by the Academy of Investigation of Things, the dense formulas inside, were indeed very difficult to understand. The doctors of the Academy of Investigation of Things seemed to be improving clock design through the brachistochrone curve to make clocks more accurate. In Galileo's conjecture, the brachistochrone curve should have isochronous characteristics.

This curve was very magical. Dropping small balls from different heights, although the path lengths were different, they could arrive at the destination at the same time. This was the isochronous characteristic, which could be used for clocks to increase the accuracy of pendulum clocks.

Zhu Yijun put down the miscellaneous report in his hand and looked at the haze disaster in the sky. It was slightly better in autumn, but in winter, the entire capital would be soaked in smog. The smog glowed with a charming dark purple light, making people extremely uneasy.

The Academy of Investigation of Things conducted in-depth and detailed research on the haze disaster and gave the Emperor a conclusion and answer: the causes of the haze disaster were very complex, related to burning coal, but also extremely closely related to the reduction of trees.

During the two Song dynasties, when the Northern Capital was still called Youzhou, there was no record of any haze disaster. It wasn't until the Jin Dynasty built its capital here that the first haze disaster occurred.

Similarly, since then, the trees near the Northern Capital began to decline rapidly.

During the Yuan Dynasty, it would appear once in a whole winter and spring. During the Yongle reign, the haze disaster became more and more frequent. The nineteenth year of Yongle was the year with the most haze disaster records, appearing five times in total. Since then, it had become more and more frequent.

From once every ten days, to once every five days, to once every three days during the Jiajing reign, to now, there is haze every day, and the sky is not visible.

Burning coal indeed aggravated the occurrence of the haze disaster, and the reduction of trees was also a reason.

The Academy of Investigation of Things also found a cleaner fuel, at least burning it didn't have so much dust, which could effectively reduce the possibility of haze disaster. This thing was light oil, a product obtained from fractional distillation of petroleum, but this thing was extremely expensive.

"Your Majesty, Grand Secretary Wang has arrived." Zhang Hong whispered to remind His Majesty. The court officials summoned today had already arrived.

"Summon."

After Ling Yunyi retired, Wang Jiaping became the new Cabinet Minister, in charge of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Works, responsible for the affairs of official factories. Zhu Yijun called him to the Tonghe Palace regarding the renovation of official residences at the Xishan Coal Bureau.

"See Your Majesty. Your Majesty's holy body is peaceful." Wang Jiaping saluted. After the Emperor told him to stand up, he took out a memorial, his face full of excitement, and said, "The water heating renovation of the official factories has been completed."

"The boiler room burns hot water to supply official residences and school buildings. Before winter, the construction was completed. For the Xishan Coal Bureau alone, the coal used for winter heating in official residences, school buildings, etc., was saved by more than half. This year, only 16 million catties of coal are needed!"

"Just for heating alone, the Xishan Coal Bureau can save 137,000 silver!"

The coal of the Xishan Coal Bureau before was sold by household, about 6,000 catties per household. Once autumn arrived, every artisan could receive coal tickets for 6,000 catties based on their status as a resident artisan.

The court bore 30% of this coal, and the artisans had to bear 70% themselves, which was a kind of welfare counted in the ointment money. Many artisans came from poor backgrounds and couldn't bear to burn coal, so they would sell the coal.

The twentieth year of Wanli was a cold winter. Seven artisan children froze to death that year. Only then did the Ming Emperor know that the artisans sold all the coal instead of using it for their own heating.

Soon, the heating renovation was put on the agenda. The first to start was the Xishan Coal Bureau. The Xishan Coal Bureau owned four official residences, each garden could accommodate 10,000 households. The renovation process lasted for about a year and a half. Before winter this year, the Ministry of Works completed the heating renovation of official residences and school districts.

Not only saved coal and money, but also reduced coal smoke.

"I heard that the artisans opposed the renovation of collective heating. Did this matter even reach the Artisan Assembly?" Zhu Yijun asked about the specific details of this renovation.

Wang Jiaping considered it and said, "Your Majesty, the Artisan Assembly finally had more than half agreeing to the renovation. After heating began, most of them recognized it. Your Majesty, sometimes, you can't just listen to what the artisans say."

Collective decision-making is sometimes not wisdom, but following the crowd. If collective decision-making were truly a panacea for all diseases, there would be no "overruling the crowd" and "I have decided."

Take the collective heating renovation as an example. The number of artisans who opposed it was much more than Wang Jiaping thought. Almost half did not agree with the collective heating renovation.

For the artisans, they paid the money but didn't get the coal, and the construction and maintenance of these pipes had to be spread into the heating fee.

Everyone knew the price of coal, how much money bought how much coal could be seen, and these pipes, maintenance, and water temperature were all problems. The opposition was very large.

"I heard that you fooled the artisans, saying that the heating method used in the official residences and school buildings was an imperial method, which scared the artisans, and the first Artisan Assembly passed it. Later, the artisans knew they were fooled and scolded you." Zhu Yijun mentioned the rumors he heard.

Wang Jiaping said helplessly, "This little ugly thing was known by Your Majesty."

The heating method used in the official factories, official residences, and school buildings was not an imperial method. The imperial one was copper pipes buried directly in the floor tiles. The official residences and school buildings were in the style of radiators, not floor heating.

This Tonghe Palace of Zhu Yijun was built by Wang Chonggu at the beginning, and the heating method was also a collection of the strengths of a hundred families. In winter, it could be maintained at above 20 degrees. This was because His Majesty still advocated frugality. For example, Empress Dowager Li's Cining Palace could be maintained at around 26 degrees during the 125-day heating period, while the official residences and school buildings were only around 10 degrees.

"Sometimes, when you should make up your mind, you should make up your mind." Zhu Yijun agreed with Wang Jiaping's statement. Don't be superstitious about any panacea that cures all diseases; it simply doesn't exist.

"Grand Secretary Wang, the treatment of resident artisans is very good, but the artisans of our Ming Dynasty are not just resident artisans. You cannot just see that the treatment of resident artisans has improved and think that the artisans generally have such treatment." Zhu Yijun said very solemnly, "I wish I had a million mansions to shelter all the scholars under heaven."

"I will encourage you together with you."

The official factories and official residences had collective heating, at least no one would freeze to death in winter. But what about the artisans of the world? What about the farmers living in the countryside? These must also be seen.

"Living"—this was also one of Zhu Yijun's general requirements for the Wanli Reform. His general requirements could be summarized as "five-room big tile houses."

Collective heating in the capital was to reduce coal smoke, reduce haze disaster, save coal, and reduce the living costs of artisans, etc. From official factories to civilian residences, they would gradually follow up. The Prefect of Shuntian, Yang Junmin, also made a plan and was in progress.

The realization of every magnificent goal required down-to-earth work, doing it bit by bit. Accumulating small steps to reach a thousand miles, it could never be done in a day.

Wang Jiaping finished talking about the collective heating renovation, took out a memorial, handed it to Zhang Hong to pass on, and sighed, saying, "The sea pirates led by Lin Daoqian specialize in trading Han people. The Prefect of Guangzhou, Wan Wenqing, recently cleared up the case."

"The sea pirates led by Lin Daoqian, in recent years, have traded more than 7,000 people through human traffickers in the hinterland."

"Blood debts are piled up."

In the process of the Ming Dynasty's military campaign in Annam, Guangzhou Prefecture began to strictly execute the crackdown on smuggling. Lin Daoqian's nephew, Lin Mao, was captured by the Ming army on Gusu Island. The secret agents and embroidered uniform guards didn't use any means, and they pried open Lin Mao's mouth, starting to clean up the internal ghosts in Guangdong, Fujian, and other places.

These internal ghosts mainly did the business of human traffickers, selling Ming people overseas to seek huge profits.

The secret agents and embroidered uniform guards investigated the case, and they were guilty if there was suspicion. Soon, they investigated the big case clearly.

"This Lin Daoqian must die! I said it! If he is captured alive, send him to the Dissection Institute. If he is not captured alive, I will tear him into ten thousand pieces! Even if he is dead, I will open his coffin and dig up his grave!" After Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial, his face showed anger.

Obviously, this was a real anger. These human traffickers in the hinterland were disguised extremely well. They all used the method of passing on help to deceive these good people overseas. Once they reached the sea, they immediately changed their faces.

Lin Daoqian knew that this line could not be touched, but the profit was too much, and this was also the main way he expanded his scale. Forcing these originally good people to become accomplices, to be tigers for the evildoers, and to become members of the sea pirates—among these 7,000 people, more than half had become ghosts.

Zhu Yijun would naturally be angry. In the second year of Wanli, Yin Zhengmao pacified the sea pirates in Dianbai Port, declaring that the Ming Dynasty's seas were peaceful and there were no more Japanese pirates. This was an important achievement of the Emperor's Wanli Reform. But this case was equivalent to denying this achievement.

Indeed, there were no Japanese pirates, but the sea pirates from the Ming Dynasty used the method of passing on help to do such things that angered heaven and people and were abandoned by people and gods!

"Your Majesty, the West has a City of Freedom, and our Ming Dynasty also has a Da Nang." Wang Jiaping and Wan Wenqing had frequent correspondence, and Wan Wenqing introduced more inside information.

The white slaves of the West all flowed to all parts of the world through the City of Freedom hanging overseas.

Similarly, the place where Ming people were bought and sold was in Da Nang. This place was not controlled by the Ming Dynasty. Today it was Lin Daoqian, tomorrow it was Zhang Daoqian, and the day after tomorrow it was Huang Daoqian.

This place had become a thief's den. If it was not taken down and rectified, I fear that such things would only become more and more frequent.

The Ming Dynasty's war to conquer Annam was originally worried by the Emperor that it would evolve into an unjust war. As a result, the more they fought, the more it appeared that this war of the Ming Dynasty was fought at the right time! With such behavior, if the Ming Dynasty did not strictly punish it with thunderous means, the lawless desperadoes would only stretch their claws further and further, causing endless harm.

Dare to stretch claws, then eliminate them with thunderous means. This is the best warning.

Similarly, the Ming Dynasty was determined to win this important place, Da Nang. ===== CHAPTER 1070 =====