Chapter 142: I have thirty-three infantry battalions, how many do the powerful have?

He Xinyin knelt on the ground, trembling as he explained how many people were standing behind him. Sichuan, Huguang, the Southern Yamen, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi all had his followers. There were many supporters, and every single name was a powerful gentry member who settled the people and grazed the land.

Zhu Yijun listened calmly to He Xinyin's rambling, then had the Embroidered Uniform Guard drag He Xinyin away. His expression was heavy.

"The problem is much worse than imagined." Zhu Yijun said extremely solemnly to Zhang Juzheng.

Behind He Xinyin was a behemoth. The purpose of them funding people like He Xinyin to wag their tongues everywhere was to create a kind of confrontational public opinion, making the common people and the imperial court completely opposed to each other. That was their goal.

Once this kind of opposition was fully achieved, the common people would have to rely on the powerful to get rid of the imperial court's harsh demands; and for the imperial court to rule the common people, it would have to rely on the powerful spread across the Great River North and South.

This made Zhu Yijun more fully understand the bottom-up and top-down nature of power, as well as the root cause of the empire's exhaustion.

"Now it seems that it is not Wang Chonggu who was radical, but that I was conservative." Zhang Juzheng rarely affirmed Wang Chonggu's decision in administration. Wang Chonggu had previously demanded that the imperial court issue strict bans: destroy all non-official academies under heaven, ban gathering disciples for lectures; execute thieves upon capture to rectify the customs of the world!

And this decree, from the previous perspective, was a radical act of Wang Chonggu standing from the perspective of a victim. But now it seems that it was Zhang Juzheng's understanding of the harm that was not deep enough, and his cognition of this contradiction was not as empathetic as Wang Chonggu's. This was the role of court discussion: one person's wisdom is short, but the wisdom of the masses is long.

Qi Jiguang's gaze was circulating, and he said extremely firmly, "Your Majesty, your subject requests that the Capital Battalion go to Liaodong to fight the Tu Manhan tribes together."

Qi Jiguang used his actions to support any decision of the Emperor. The Capital Battalion wanted to use one victory after another to maintain His Majesty's authority and deter the usurpation of His Majesty's power by the powerful under heaven. Victory is the most inspiring, and it is also the most capable of deterring the wolfish ambitions of the petty people.

"In my opinion, it is nothing more than the fact that Liaodong and the Northwest have not been decided for more than ten years, and the hearts of the people are restless, which gave these petty people an opportunity. If we win, and win a complete victory, these demons and monsters will hide and look for the next chance to catch their breath." Qi Jiguang believed that the years of defeat in the Northwest and Liaodong had made the empire's cohesion weak.

Just win it back.

Just like what Qi Jiguang did in the Southeast back then, if the Great Ming army can win, everything will get better.

Zhao Mengyou bowed his head and said, "Your subject requests to dig three feet into the ground for the homes of the powerful confessed by He Xinyin to eliminate future troubles."

Slandering the Emperor's biological mother—these supporters behind He Xinyin also deserve to die.

"Hmm, at worst, I will issue a decree of self-reproach. I am a child and don't understand the severity. Sir advised me, but I didn't listen." Zhu Yijun stood up and walked with his hands behind his back. He agreed to the proposals of Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang, and Zhao Mengyou. Among them, the ideas of Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang had to go through court discussion, while Zhao Mengyou's proposal could be realized now.

"People, you can't live too much like a gentleman. If you do, wouldn't the villains be rampant? To deal with villains, you do need some villainous means." Zhu Yijun walked with his hands behind his back, taking square steps, and slowly left.

He Xinyin did not falsely accuse, because according to He Xinyin's confession, the people behind this evil wind had the real purpose of opposing the imperial court's pursuit of arrears.

This was just a shadow of the Great Ming imperial court's tax protection war. Previously, the young Emperor had doubled the tax, and Inspector Luo Bingliang Bingliang was auditing taxes in the Southern Yamen. The court officials submitted memorials saying they wanted benevolence and righteousness, not to talk about profit. Tax-auditing Battalion Commander Inspector Luo Bingliang Bingliang should not audit taxes. The imperial court decided to double the tax and pursue the arrears of the past.

This was just a shadow of the Great Ming imperial court's tax protection war.

And He Xinyin, as a typical figure of toppling Yan, was placed high hopes by the powerful, hoping that He Xinyin could create enough confrontational public opinion to keep Zhang Juzheng busy, so he wouldn't have time to survey land, clear up encroachments, return land, pursue arrears, etc.

He Xinyin was caught too quickly, leaving the powerful unable to react.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard of the Northern Town Fudisi was still repeatedly questioning whether there were any fish that slipped through the net, but soon an evil wind rose in the court, and He Xinyin was shaped into a heroic image opposing the powerful. This round of shaping was extremely successful.

The shaping of this hero was comprehensive.

He Xinyin was an actor without predecessor or successor, a firm supporter of Wang Yangming's "unity of knowledge and action." Because He Xinyin turned his own home, Liangfang, into a Great Harmony world, where everyone had virtue, everyone respected the old, everyone loved the young, there was equality everywhere, and there was warmth and fullness everywhere.

He Xinyin's real name was Liang Ruyuan. In his hometown of Liangfang in Ji'an, he founded the Juhuitang and appointed "Rate of Teaching" and "Rate of Nurturing" to be responsible for teaching and nurturing. He Xinyin knew and practiced his own original heart. He Xinyin eliminated harm for the country and assassinated Yan Song. If this isn't the unity of knowledge and action, what is?

He Xinyin was the first person among the ancient and modern local sages, the last knight-errant of the Great Ming. He was for the country and the people, a great knight. For the country, he assassinated Yan Song; for the common people, he spoke out. His arguments were all for the common people. His disciples ranged from teachers, protectors, dukes, and ministers down to scholars, farmers, artisans, and officials. He taught without discrimination and educated the world.

The imperial court's officials should have the obligation to protect He Xinyin and stop and remonstrate with the Emperor to stop the cruel and violent acts against He Xinyin. The officials must speak out for He Xinyin on the grounds that he was a virtuous talent for the country and the people, and because he remonstrated but the superior did not listen, he was killed. Under heaven, there would be no more backbone and righteous spirit.

The imperial court should reflect on what He Xinyin said. There were so many famous officials, yet He Xinyin did not attack them, only attacking you, Zhang Juzheng, alone. Putting aside whether He Xinyin was right or wrong, don't you, Zhang Juzheng, have any faults at all?

Zhang Juzheng, as the Grand Secretary of the empire, had extremely harsh and cunning methods when governing the country. He Xinyin rose up to fight back; shouldn't he?

Does this world still let people speak!

Zhu Yijun held a small metal ingot of one and a half inches, a copper, tin, and arsenic alloy, pure white. He was studying how to manufacture a more accurate telescope with a larger magnification. This time, he did not choose a refractive lens, but a parabolic concave mirror. The production requirement for a parabolic mirror is that any light shining on any point of this parabolic mirror must pass through the focus after reflection.

"Your Majesty, Sir is requesting an audience outside the hall." Zhang Hong whispered to remind His Majesty that Zhang Juzheng was requesting an audience.

Zhu Yijun put down the metal block in his hand and nodded, saying, "Proclaim."

"Your subject pays respects to Your Majesty. Is Your Majesty's holy body peaceful?" Zhang Juzheng performed the ceremony.

"I am peaceful. Sir, exempt yourself from the ceremony." Zhu Yijun asked with a smile, "Sir, come quickly. I have discovered something fun."

"Ah?" Zhang Juzheng had originally come to communicate with the young Emperor in advance about the evil wind and public opinion in the court. Zhang Juzheng was somewhat worried about the Emperor's state. You Jianru scholars always liked to tear apart all the beauty in the world, making the Emperor disappointed and finally desperate.

And Zhang Juzheng was surprised to find that the young Emperor did not have any disappointment, and was still tirelessly pursuing the principles of the infinity of all things.

"Sit, sit quickly." Zhu Yijun let Zhang Juzheng sit in the position he had just sat in.

"Your Majesty, your subject cannot sit. This is His Majesty's chair." Zhang Juzheng insisted on not sitting. Just kidding, this was a stool the Emperor had sat on. Zhang Juzheng still had this bit of submissive heart.

During the Jingtai period, the Jingtai Emperor went to inspect the Six Ministries Corridor and sat on a stool once. Later, no one in the Six Ministries Corridor dared to sit on that stool again. After the Jingtai Emperor found out, he went to the Six Ministries Yamen or the Censorate and never sat down again, just not to add trouble to the court officials. The Jingtai Emperor was undoubtedly a benevolent monarch. Later, he was toppled by the Ming Yingzong in the Tumen Incident.

A benevolent monarch is very difficult to protect himself.

Zhu Yijun shook his head when he heard this. He said to Zhang Hong, "Oh my, Zhang Hong, go move a stool!"

"Your subject obeys the decree." Zhang Hong hurriedly went to move a stool and placed it in front of the table. Zhu Yijun picked up the paper and pen in his hand and said, "Sir, look at this curve. Previously, we knew that the angle of incidence of light equals the angle of reflection. I wanted to find a curve so that all light rays directed at the mirror could focus at one point. In this way, by placing a mirror at the focus, the image could be magnified."

Zhang Juzheng could understand this sentence. Refractive telescopes had strong chromatic aberration, which was the reason why the moon looked reddish when Zhang Juzheng observed the moon. And wanting to expand the magnification was extremely difficult because grinding glass was harder the larger it was. To solve chromatic aberration and the problem of convex lenses being hard to grind, the young Emperor had once put forward this idea: use a reflective mirror instead of a refractive mirror.

But what kind of curved surface this reflective mirror should be had always been a headache.

"When Imperial Uncle talked about the 'circle-cutting method,' he talked about the idea of infinite cutting. I thought, if we infinitely cut this curve into one small tilted mirror after another, wouldn't it mean that we could find this curve?" Zhu Yijun took out his design drawings.

Actually, it was very simple. A beam of parallel light rays enters. At first, it is two pieces, three pieces, then ten pieces, a hundred pieces. Finally, a smooth parabola is drawn.

Zhang Juzheng could understand up to here, and said with some confusion, "If you look for it this way, a craftsman might not be able to make such a concave mirror in a lifetime."

Zhu Yijun took out a small set square and said with a smile, "It doesn't need to be that troublesome. Sir, look at this."

"Actually, finding this curve is not very difficult. Sir, look, draw another directrix. The distance from any point on the curve to the directrix is equal to the distance to the focus. This problem is converted into finding the set of points where the distance between a fixed straight line and a fixed point is equal."

"You only need a set square."

Zhu Yijun took a right-angled set square, passed the right-angled side through the focus, and then the vertex of the right angle was always on the straight line. Drawing a line along the right-angled side, the shape swept by the right-angled side was a standard parabola.

Zhu Yijun explained the principle to Zhang Juzheng in detail.

Zhang Juzheng was greatly surprised, then picked up the paper and pen to try it, thought for a while, and said, "Actually, you can also draw it this way."

Zhang Juzheng's drawing method was more cumbersome. He used the principle of the perpendicular bisector of any point on the point and the straight line to draw. It might take a craftsman a few days to draw it, but the concave mirror produced would be more accurate, the light would be more concentrated, and finally, the image would be clearer.

"Sir, I have a doubt." Zhu Yijun looked at the drawing and said, "Sir, what is the relationship between the magnification of the object and the distance between the focus and the fixed straight line?"

"This, this..." Zhang Juzheng frowned and said, "Your Majesty, wait for your subject to study it for a while before answering Your Majesty."

The young Emperor suddenly smashed over with a big hammer. Zhang Juzheng also didn't know what the relationship was. It would take long-term study. This was a mathematical problem. Shouldn't he go to the mad scholar Zhu Zaiyu to answer it?

Zhang Juzheng indicated that he was a Chinese and politics teacher, not a math and physics teacher! Please ask the math teacher for questions, Your Majesty!

Zhu Yijun traced the lines on the small metal block and handed it to Zhang Hong, asking him to have the Weaponry Bureau grind out the new telescope.

"Ah, right, Sir, what did you come for?" Zhu Yijun finally remembered that Zhang Juzheng had come for serious business, not to study ruler-and-compass construction to draw parabolas and study reflective telescopes.

"The pursuit of arrears in the Southern Yamen has caused a violent backlash. The officials in the court seem to be rescuing He Xinyin, but they are actually paving the way for the pursuit of arrears." Zhang Juzheng said seriously about state affairs. He wanted to tell the young Emperor the true purpose of these people.

He Xinyin was just a pretext. If they could rescue He Xinyin, it would mean they could oppose the pursuit of arrears and oppose the imperial court's tax auditing.

Zhu Yijun clearly knew the fundamental purpose of these people and said with a smile, "Is Sir worried that I will be disappointed, so you came to see? Most of the officials in the court have become the tongues of the powerful, publicly defying the imperial court's clear edicts, but not daring to refuse the requests of private doors. This is what Sir calls 'gaining fame for a while'."

"If you say I am not disappointed, that is a lie. But I have known their faces for a long time, so there is nothing to be so disappointed about."

"The powerful, how many infantry battalions do they have? I have three infantry battalions, and Qi Shuai in Jizhou, Yongping, and Shanhai Pass has thirty infantry battalions."

"What is the attitude of the Minister of Justice, Wang Chonggu?"

Zhang Juzheng said with a strange expression, "Minister Wang says He Xinyin must die! Sending him to the Dissection Institute to die, or sending him to the vegetable market to be beheaded, both are fine. If He Xinyin doesn't die, the world will not be at peace. Minister Wang is a victim."

He Xinyin was a symbol, a symbol of having no monarch and no father, killing the monarch and killing the father.

"What is the attitude of the Grand Court of Justice, Lu Guangzu?" Zhu Yijun asked about another key gentleman. The Three Judicial Offices: Ministry of Justice, Grand Court of Justice, and Censorate. He Xinyin had no official position. No matter how fierce the officials were, it had nothing to do with the Censorate.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head again and said, "The meaning of Justice Lu is: kill."

Lu Guangzu was Zhang Juzheng's fellow examinee and also a capable official. Lu Guangzu had heard of He Xinyin's name long ago. This kind of person was infinitely harmful.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile, "Then there is no hurry. Keep this He Xinyin, stir up this fire, find out those officials in the imperial court who dare to defy the imperial court's clear edicts but dare not defy the requests of private doors, and then add the Performance Evaluation Law to see how these officials perform. If their performance is poor, dismiss them all."

"Your subject obeys the decree." Zhang Juzheng needed to clearly know the Emperor's attitude. If His Majesty wanted to appease, Zhang Juzheng also had a way to appease. If His Majesty wanted to handle this case to the end and completely intensify this contradiction, Zhang Juzheng also had a way.

It all depends on the Emperor's attitude.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and said, "Sir, I heard from Qi Shuai that in the army, traitors are hated the most, because these traitors will leak military secrets, which is harming lives, harming the lives of comrades. Therefore, anyone who secretly colludes with the Hu will be dealt with according to military law, and then reported to the imperial court."

"Isn't this the same principle for the officials of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Great Ming? Just like in the army, officials also need to be cleaned up. Let's take advantage of this matter to find those people and clean them up completely."

"Sir, some things, it is better not to be too conservative."

"Your subject respectfully obeys the holy instruction." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head again.

In the matter of He Xinyin, Zhang Juzheng's handling was indeed a bit conservative. Conservatism has the benefits of conservatism; conservatism can maintain stability, especially when the monarch is young and the country is suspicious. Stability is greater than everything. It is more difficult to push through new policies in stability;

And radicalism also has the benefits of radicalism; it can flood the fields and then attack the strongholds. Everything depends on the choice.

Zhang Juzheng did not choose radicalism, also because He Xinyin and he, Zhang Juzheng, had old grudges. He had some scruples when doing things. If His Majesty felt that he was forming a party to exclude others, it would not be worth the loss.

The next morning, the sun was bright, just like the young Emperor's smile. Zhu Yijun came to the Wenhua Palace for the routine imperial gate hearing.

"Exempt from ceremony, exempt from ceremony. Let's have the court discussion." The reason Zhu Yijun was so happy was that the craftsmanship of the Great Ming craftsmen far exceeded Zhu Yijun's imagination. It only took one day to make a parabolic concave mirror, which was a full ninety-three years ahead of the West's reflective telescope.

This, of course, cannot be compared with Zu Chongzhi and Zu Geng being more than a thousand years ahead, but it is already precious enough.

Zhang Juzheng first took out a memorial and said, "Minister of Justice Wang Chonggu submitted a memorial to ban and destroy all non-official academies under heaven and ban gathering disciples for lectures. What do you think?"

When Wang Chonggu heard that it was this matter, he immediately said, "Look, look, I said long ago, these lowly Confucian scholars, if you don't give them a little color, they will climb up your nose! Look, look, was I right?"

"These lowly Confucian scholars, running around for He Xinyin every day, he gathered people to publicly defy the county hall, executed six people with private punishment, and everything he said was wagging his tongue. This kind of thing, sending him to the Dissection Institute is cheap for him, and you still want to rescue him?"

"Destroy them! The face of the newly built Earl Wang Shouren has been lost by them!"

Zhang Juzheng sorted it out and said, "Sixty-four academies in total, the Ministry of Justice yamen is responsible?"

"Easy to say!" Wang Chonggu agreed without any hesitation.

Minister of Rites Wan Shihe said, "Regarding the matter of banning gathering disciples for lectures, we should annotate Wang Yangming's Heart Learning and set up an official style. Anyone who does not lecture according to the official style, only talks about conscience and not the unity of knowledge and action, will be labeled as a heretic. We cannot let them distort the newly built Earl's theory like this anymore. If they continue to distort it, the newly built Earl will probably not be able to rest in peace in the underworld."

"Then the Ministry of Rites will do it?" Zhang Juzheng pondered for a while and said with a smile, "What does the Grand Minister think is feasible? Originally, as a disciple of Heart Learning, I should take on this burden, but state affairs are busy, so I will have to trouble the Grand Minister."

"Easy to say, easy to say, small matter. How can I say I have also read the theory of contradictions." Wan Shihe agreed with a face full of smiles. He just loved to hear people call him Grand Minister.

"Minister of Personnel, the name-hiding method must be posted and filled in within the year. This is the cabinet's performance evaluation for the Ministry of Personnel." Zhang Juzheng looked at Zhang Han and assigned a task. He was not asking for Zhang Han's opinion, but arranging a government decree that had already been passed by the court discussion, which could not be defied.

In the Wenyuange, Zhang Juzheng discovered a very interesting phenomenon: the court officials who ran around for He Xinyin, under the Performance Evaluation Law, were mostly in the lower grade.

The Great Ming Performance Evaluation has nine grades. The upper three grades are promoted, the middle three grades are retained, and most of the lower three grades are dismissed and stripped of official status. The lowest grade is basically equated with corrupt officials.

This list is highly overlapping. Therefore, the task His Majesty gave to clear the officials who serve the powerful and wealthy out of the court can be achieved simply by strictly executing the Performance Evaluation Law.

"Does anyone have any objections to Minister Wang's memorial?" Zhang Juzheng asked.

Tan Lun leaned forward and said, "Minister Wang's memorial is because of the He Xinyin case. The He Xinyin case involves many people, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard has only 600 people, which is difficult to support alone. Can we select a batch of soldiers from the Capital Battalion and the three towns of Jizhou to fill the positions? These powerful and wealthy gentry have raised quite a few domestic slaves."

"I think it would be appropriate to select from the distant Earls of the beacon towers of the Night Scout patrol. They are loyal to the empire, otherwise they would not have gone deep into the grassland Hu camps to investigate enemy intelligence."

Zhang Juzheng was silent for a while. The number of Embroidered Uniform Guards was too small. He looked at Zhao Mengyou and asked, "What does the Embroidered Uniform Commander think?"

"I have no opinion." Zhao Mengyou said with a smile, "Expanding the number of Embroidered Uniform Guards is the first time since the opening of the Great Ming. In the future, wouldn't I be as famous as Ji Gang? When you gentlemen kill me, you can't say that I have raised many desperate people. This is the proposal of you gentlemen."

Expanding the Embroidered Uniform Guard is the first time since the opening of the Great Ming. The reason Zhao Mengyou said this was because in the worldview of Confucian scholars, the distant Earls of the beacon towers of the Night Scout patrol who went deep into the Hu camps were desperate people.

Ji Gang's death was because he handled the White Paper Case without the Emperor's knowledge, without an imperial edict, without a carriage sticker, and arrested people himself. In the end, he was dealt with by the Emperor Chengzu. And one of Ji Gang's crimes was raising many desperate people, which was privately expanding the number of Embroidered Uniform Guards. That was why Zhao Mengyou said that when the gentlemen killed him, the crime of raising many desperate people must absolutely not be buckled on his head.

It was passed by court discussion.

Zhang Juzheng wrote down his handling opinion on the floating slip again and presented it to the imperial front.

Zhu Yijun picked up the seal of the Wanli Treasure, read it carefully once, stamped it, and then said, "Why not let Sir concurrently take charge of the Ministry of Personnel?"

The young Emperor once again expressed his dissatisfaction with Zhang Han. Listening to Zhang Juzheng's meaning, Zhang Han still wanted to wait for the He Xinyin case to have a result before pushing the name-hiding method. If this is not publicly defying the imperial edict, what is it?

"Your Majesty, your subject thinks it is inappropriate." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said, "State affairs are most taboo about having multiple doors for government decrees. If I am in charge of the country and also in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, I fear there will be a danger of overturning."

Zhang Juzheng's power was already big enough. If it were any bigger, he would not be able to control what the Zhang faction under him would do. Just being the Grand Secretary was just right.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Han, this wolfish and ambitious person, who was not even as good as Wan Shihe. He said gently, "Then follow Sir's words."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your great grace." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head again to thank him.

"The Capital Battalion has set off for Liaodong to fight the Tu Manhan tribes together. His Majesty has approved Qi Shuai's hard work." Zhang Juzheng flipped out a memorial. This was Qi Shuai's memorial. Now the memorial of the Capital Battalion Commander did not go through the Ministry of War, but was sent directly to the Emperor's hands. Therefore, Zhang Juzheng got this memorial, which had the Emperor's clear will on it.

Qi Shuai has worked hard.

"The Capital Battalion has set off. Historically, the Tan Sima has been the Governor of Military Affairs. His Majesty is benevolent. Because your subject is unwell, let the Left Vice Minister Liang Menglong go on your behalf. Can your subject go and see? Not to govern military affairs, not to fight, just to go and see." As soon as Tan Lun heard that there was a battle to be fought, he clamored to go and join the fun.

Zhu Yijun looked at Tan Lun and said with a grave expression, "Does the Grand Minister believe his own words? The Grand Minister is the Tan Sima of the empire. Your health is related to the empire's vitality and the country's foundation. How can it be a child's play?"

Tan Lun whispered, "Wu Baipeng, Liang Menglong, and Liu Yingjie are all quite good. It doesn't have to be your subject."

Zhu Yijun was helpless, waved his hand and said, "Not allowed. This matter will not be discussed again."

"Your subject obeys the decree." Tan Lun could only sigh and accept the order. He was afraid he would have no battle to fight in this life. He really wanted to go, even if it was just to see. But the Emperor just wouldn't let him.

"Is there any problem with the military supplies of the Ministry of Revenue?" Zhang Juzheng looked at Wang Guoguang. Soldiers and horses have not moved, food and grass go first.

Wang Guoguang looked at Qi Jiguang and said, "This year, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War worked together to supervise the construction of 1,500 heavy and light war chariots, which have been delivered to the Capital Battalion as scheduled. I hope the General can return in triumph and shine our national prestige!"

Historically, when fighting, the Ministry of Revenue was the most opposed, but the Ministry of Revenue did not oppose at all and even supervised the construction of 1,500 war chariots for Qi Jiguang. Heavy and light are two chariot specifications; one is a heavy chariot, and the other is a light chariot.

Taking the heavy chariot as an example, each chariot is equipped with 2 large Frankish cannons, each equipped with 9 sub-guns. The whole battalion is equipped with 256 Frankish cannons;

The bird-gunners are equipped with 1 bird gun each. The whole battalion has 512 bird guns; the rocket soldiers are equipped with 60 rockets each. The whole battalion has a total of 【missing figure】 rockets. This is the firepower of an infantry battalion.

According to Qi Jiguang's original plan, the Great Ming's infantry, chariot, and cavalry battalion would have one large Frankish cannon, two medium Frankish cannons, two bird guns, two chain-shot guns, two pearl-gushing cannons, and ten fast guns per heavy chariot. The firepower would be stronger, but practice found that the firepower looked stronger, but the flexibility was reduced, and... the imperial court didn't have that much money to equip him with such luxurious war chariots, so it was abandoned.

It was mainly because they were poor.

The Capital Battalion has a total of three infantry battalions. These are the sharp soldiers among the elite.

"I dare not say anything else, but fighting, I still have some skills." Qi Jiguang showed a smile and said.

"Grand Minister, what is your opinion on fighting?" Zhang Juzheng looked at Wan Shihe and asked.

Wan Shihe said with some helplessness, "Softening the distant people is one of the nine dimensions of the world, but if you soften them too much, it doesn't work. I can only say that the barbarians have wolf faces and beast hearts, fearing power but not cherishing virtue."

Wan Shihe actually wanted to talk about softening the distant people. He wanted to soften them, but the distant people didn't cooperate with him. Could it be that he had to kneel to the Northern Hu Andahan and Tu Manhan and say, "Please, let me soften you a bit"?

Showing off power is to deter the petty people under heaven. The imperial court still possesses an absolute violent machine and possesses the power to use violence legally.

If you don't understand, ask. Ge Shouli asked with some confusion, "We are so harsh, if the powerful form an infantry battalion and publicly rebel, how will the imperial court respond?"

Hai Rui said with a smile, "Grand Censor Ge is overthinking."

"Oh? Why am I overthinking?" Ge Shouli asked.

To gain fame for a while, they would rather defy the imperial court's clear edict than dare to hang the slander of vulgar customs; they would rather destroy the public law and discipline than dare to defy the requests of private doors. This was Zhang Juzheng's original words. Please ask for monthly tickets, Aowu!!!!

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