Chapter 143: Redefining the Pure Stream

"Expensive." Hence Hai Rui said concisely. He did not discuss that historically, only the common people who could not survive would rebel, nor did he discuss the universal contradictions among the powerful. Instead, based on the reality of practice, he talked about a problem: raising an infantry battalion is really expensive.

"Expensive?" Ge Shouli understood a little and nodded, saying.

Hence Hai Rui continued: "This expensiveness is multifaceted. People are expensive, training soldiers is expensive, military equipment is expensive, and maintaining an infantry battalion is even more expensive. If Grand Censor Ge pays attention to the six registers and one account of the Capital Battalion, you will find that the silver needed to raise an infantry battalion is not something that one powerful family or ten powerful families can solve by emptying themselves."

The expensiveness of an infantry battalion is multifaceted. Over the past three years, an infantry battalion of 3,000 people, from military pay to military equipment, to training, and then to the consumption of maintaining the Capital Battalion, has been extremely astonishing.

Elite troops are really expensive.

"What is the most expensive?" Zhu Yijun looked at Ge Shouli and Hence Hai Rui and said: "The most expensive thing is the imperial court that maintains this army, and the hearts of the people that are directed by the hearts of the people."

Everyone is a gentleman, and everyone can understand the young Emperor's words.

An infantry battalion is expensive in the physical sense. If you don't smash real gold and silver into it, you still want to raise an infantry battalion?

And an infantry battalion is even more expensive in the political sense. Forming an infantry battalion requires selecting soldiers who are not afraid of death, requires the Weaponry Bureau to forge long and short weapons, bows and crossbows, armor, firearms, etc., requires the Ministry of Revenue to find enough food and military pay through various turnovers, requires effective systems to complete military construction, requires political support from the Ministry of War and the Grand Secretary, and requires the Emperor's trust.

The expensiveness of an infantry battalion lies in itself, in the imperial court, and even more in the hearts of the people under heaven.

Ge Shouli bowed his head and said: "Your subject understands. I respectfully obey Your Majesty's teachings."

Zhang Juzheng said with a grave expression: "Grand Censor Ge asked well. Although they cannot form an infantry battalion, according to He Xinyin's confession, those who are in collusion and snakes and rats in the same nest want to obtain military power to contend with the imperial court."

"The demon Zeng Guang, I don't know where he came from, can use big words to confuse the public, gather disciples to lecture. The Daoist Qu Tianrui, the Taihu Zheng Shitao, the Jingjiang Lei Deming and Liu Hong, the Nanchang Zhang Yide, the Gao'an Chuan Zhu Yi, the Wu Gang Ouyang Meng, the Jingzhou Liu Zongwen and Ji'an Luo Xun, etc., are accustomed to traveling among the chieftains of Huguang, Guizhou, and Sichuan, teaching them military tactics to achieve great things, and writing evil books such as the 'Great Qian Qiyun Record', using the treasure of the Great Qian Taiji Emperor as a title, persuading the chieftains of Shuixi, Yongshun, Baojing, Youyang, etc., to gather and incite chaos."

"And He Xinyin is just one of the rats in the nest."

"It is very clear that it is not that they don't want to, but that they haven't done it. If it weren't for this time being caught quickly and dug out early, it would be hard to say what kind of chaos they could cause."

The court officials were discussing heatedly. This incitement of the chieftains in Guizhou and other places to gather and incite chaos, Ge Shouli's worry was not unreasonable. The powerful wanted to hold the knife, but it was too expensive to buy, and they couldn't hold it.

This time, they retreated and took the second best, and colluded with the hereditary chieftains of Xinan.

"I'm afraid that the court officials will chatter again, saying that the Grand Secretary is taking the opportunity to suppress dissidents and using capable officials to suppress the pure stream and pure discussion." Ge Shouli looked at the memorial and shook his head. He was the Grand Censor of the Censorate. The recent evil wind and public opinion were so fanatical that they wished the world would turn upside down. The wave of toppling Zhang Juzheng was higher than the other.

From the 21st year of Jiajing to the beginning of Wanli, some literati were keen on criticizing the government while writing books and gathering disciples to lecture, which was called "Pure Discussion."

Pure Discussion: Fair discussion that supervises customs, clarifies right and wrong, and promotes teachings.

Hence Hai Rui sneered and said: "Pure Discussion, are they the Pure Stream? How can they have the face to say they are the Pure Stream?"

"One by one, they take the money of the powerful and run around for the powerful. What did He Xinyin say? Sages are greater than scholars, scholars are greater than merchants, merchants are greater than farmers and artisans. The four pillars of the country were ranked by him. Is he for a new order? It's just taking the money of the powerful gentry and wealthy merchants and running around for them."

"Pure Discussion, if they want to consider themselves Pure Discussion, they must be the Pure Stream. If they want to be the Pure Stream, they must be clean and honest. Only by being clean and honest can they be the Pure Stream, and their discussion can be Pure Discussion. Otherwise, it is all muddy discussion."

"Why not do this? It's not that we don't let them discuss. If they want to discuss, they can. Just take my life in Hainan as a reference."

"Clean and honest: live in a mud house, go out in short clothes, be alone and not surrounded by people, not allowed to enter brothels, not allowed to drink alcohol, and even more not allowed to entertain guests. It is like the clean and honest of an ascetic monk. This is the Pure Stream. Only the Pure Stream can have Pure Discussion. This is no problem, right?"

"He Xinyin and these Taizhou School people, don't they label themselves as speaking for the common people? Their disciples range from teachers, protectors, dukes, and ministers down to scholars, farmers, artisans, and officials. They teach without discrimination and educate the world. They can't be wearing silk and satin, going in and out of sedan chairs, accompanied by luxury cars and beauties, and then go to a family of five with only two pairs of pants and say: 'What suffering do you have? I will speak for you.'"

"Draw a standard. Just use the standard of my entry and exit in Qiongzhou. If you can do it, it is Pure Discussion. If you are one way in front of people and another behind their backs, superficially bitter but secretly spending money like water, then as long as you are caught, you will be beheaded for evil books and prophecies."

"The reputation of the Pure Stream has been ruined by them."

Hence Hai Rui, the mainstay of the Pure Stream in the court, launched a redefinition of the Pure Stream. To label oneself as the Pure Stream and to have Pure Discussion on state affairs, one must be clean and honest and not luxurious. If you can't do it, don't label yourself as the Pure Stream.

Ge Shouli was silent for a moment and said: "Hai Grand Censor's standard is a bit too high."

"Muddy stream is muddy stream. If you have to say you are Pure Discussion, then follow this standard." Wan Shihe highly agreed with Hence Hai Rui's standard. Wan Shihe never labeled himself as the Pure Stream. He was not clean and honest, and he had no lofty ambitions. He was just a two-faced person who sat on the fence.

Zhang Juzheng, Tan Lun, Wang Guoguang, and others all directly defined themselves as capable officials. Capable officials focus on doing things. If you succeed, you are a good minister. If you fail, you are a mediocre person. Go home and sell sweet potatoes.

And Wang Chonggu simply thought he was a muddy stream. He just wanted to make money. As long as he could make money, he could even sell his own nephew at a suitable price.

This is the appearance of all living beings in the court. But they label themselves as the Pure Stream, yet they are not clean and honest. Isn't this being a whore and still wanting to set up a memorial archway?

Can all the good things under heaven be occupied by them? Just because they can talk? Where is such a good thing?

Zhang Juzheng pondered for a long time and said: "Then follow Hai Grand Censor's words. Those who are clean and honest can have Pure Discussion and are the Pure Stream; those who are corrupt are muddy discussion and are the muddy stream. What do you think?"

Zhang Han thought for a while and said: "What if you are born rich? If your family is rich, do you have to be poor? If you are rich, have lofty ambitions, and refuse to be with the muddy stream, are you not the Pure Stream?"

"Is the requirement too high to use Hai Grand Censor as a reference?"

After Zhang Han finished speaking, the court officials looked at Zhang Han, and no one paid attention to him, and no one answered him.

Zhu Yijun felt it was extremely interesting to see this scene. Ge Shouli also said Hence Hai Rui's standard was too high, and everyone didn't think there was a problem. As soon as Zhang Han opened his mouth, everyone ignored him. In fact, it was very simple. Ge Shouli really felt it was high, and using Hence Hai Rui as a standard was really high. Ge Shouli was discussing the matter as it stood.

And what Zhang Han's words were intended for, no one knew. Who was Zhang Han working for? Working for His Majesty? Working for the imperial court? Working for the Great Ming? Working for himself?

I am afraid he is working for the powerful.

Zhu Yijun said: "Hai Grand Censor's standard is indeed a bit high. How many people in the world can do it? To speak for the common people, you can't even know how to farm, right? If you don't even know how to farm, don't even distinguish the five grains, and talk about teaching without discrimination, it is just a delusion. Let's use this as a standard: whether you can farm."

"What does Sir think?"

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng thought about it, and it was indeed so. The standard of farming was just right.

The Emperor of the Great Ming knows how to farm. You label yourself as the Pure Stream, but you don't even know how to farm, and you say you are running around for the common people? You don't even understand the stomach problem that the common people are most concerned about. This is a hypocritical person, definitely not the Pure Stream.

Muddy stream is muddy stream. Stop pretending!

"The Ministry of Personnel recommends Guo Chaobin, Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, as Minister of Works. What do you think?" Zhang Juzheng flipped out another memorial and talked about the candidate for Minister of Works.

The Ministry of Works is the last of the six ministries. It is hard to say whether moving from Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue to Minister of Works is a promotion or a demotion in disguise. But for a while, there was no better person available, especially the matter of repairing the imperial mausoleum, which was a major matter. Now entering the Ministry of Works as Minister, he needs to clear this big mine.

No one opposed it. Guo Chaobin was just coming out to resist the mine, not anyone's party member.

Zhang Juzheng continued: "The Inspector Vice Minister Wu Baipeng inspected Xuan-Da and submitted a memorial: 'The Xuan-Da land reclamation matter. At the beginning of the country, the land was fertile and the taxes were light, and the soldiers were happy to reclaim it. Later, because the land was fertile, the tax quota was increased, and because of military mobilization, the tax on mu and grass bundles was increased, leading to arrears and displacement. Recently, the Xuan-Da Governor Wang Chonggu has recruited reclamation in many ways, and there are many responders, totaling 47,500 *qing* of reclaimed land. This year, the inspection shows a total of 5,103,764 *mu* collected, an increase of more than 380,000 *mu* compared to last year.'"

"Minister Wang is a virtuous talent."

Wang Chonggu was stunned. He had returned to the capital from Xuan-Da for several months, and he was not very clear about what Wu Baipeng was doing in Xuan-Da. It turned out that he was checking the number of reclaimed fields. He smiled and said: "Average, average, just doing my duty."

Wang Chonggu reclaimed land to make money. The imperial court said that only by paying in kind would they give military pay. Wang Chonggu was to get the silver given by the imperial court, but this was indeed the merit of settling the people and grazing the land.

190,000 displaced tenant farmers were indeed a great merit. Wu Baipeng went to inspect, and the facts were indeed so. Merit is merit, fault is fault.

Wang Chonggu soon realized the importance of this memorial. His return to the capital to take office was a reward, not a recommendation by the party of Zhang Han and Zhang Siwei. This was of great significance to Wang Chonggu's official career in the capital. That is to say, at least in the matter of entering the capital to take office, Wang Chonggu could very clearly make a political break with Zhang Han and Zhang Siwei.

This was very important to Wang Chonggu.

Zhang Juzheng looked through the memorial. This memorial was very long and also attached a Fish-Scale Register. Above it was the specific location of the reclaimed farmland and the number of households settled. It was one of the six registers and one account. Zhang Juzheng had originally thought that Wang Chonggu was exaggerating. Reclamation was definitely done, and restoring the wasteland quota was definitely done, but the figure of 47,000 *qing* was a bit suspicious.

Too much.

But Wu Baipeng's actual collection was more than 51,000 *qing*, even more than 300,000 *mu*. This was the influence of Wang Chonggu's political decree inertia in Xuan-Da.

Zhang Juzheng was very happy to see Wang Chonggu's change.

Wang Chonggu's remaining prestige in Xuan-Da could be maintained for at most two years. The governors and supervisors of Xuan-Da, one Wu Dui and one Fang Fengshi, were both officials who could play tricks like reporting false military situations to threaten the imperial court. The situation in Xuan-Da, which had just been invigorated, would deteriorate again.

Zhang Siwei is really an idiot. Zhang Juzheng looked at the memorial in his hand and could only shake his head.

"Xuan-Da Governor Wu Dui submitted a memorial requesting the Northern Hu's Third San Niangzi to come to Xuanfu as a guest to replace Andahan in tribute." Zhang Juzheng talked about the specific arrangements for Andahan's tribute, which was related to the war in the Northeast.

This was also the norm. The Great Ming used troops in the Northeast, and entertained the Third San Niangzi in the Northwest. Andahan was old, and the Third San Niangzi was the person in charge of the Northern Hu Jin Kingdom. As long as the Third San Niangzi was in Xuanfu, the risk of war in the Northwest of the Great Ming would be reduced, and the Great Ming could act as it pleased in the Northeast.

Since the Great Ming defeated Gule Village last year, the captives and the rebel chieftains were sent to the capital. The rebel chieftains Wang Gao and Dong Huli's nephew Buha Chu and others were imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison.

In the spring, the Tu Manhan tribes invaded Changyong Fort, and Li Chengliang repelled them. In April, the Hu chieftain Tu Manhan gathered troops and claimed that they wanted tribute from the imperial court. If they refused, they would grab Shanhai Pass, and the troops would reach Kaiyuan. Li Chengliang went to battle, and Jizhou Regional Commander Chen Dacheng led sharp soldiers out of Shanhai Pass to support, repelling Tu Manhan again.

In May, there was news of the Hu situation again. Zhang Juzheng submitted a memorial, saying that Liaodong Governor Zhang Xueyan submitted a memorial: "The Hu are taking advantage of the heat to gather troops, which is not the right time. Recently, there has been continuous hot rain, the bows are loose and the horses are tired, and they cannot show off their power."

You cannot draw a bow on a rainy day, because the rain will soak the bowstring. Zhu Yijun practiced martial arts, so he naturally knew this principle.

In the Wenhua Palace court discussion, Grand General Qi Jiguang and Minister of War Tan Lun also said the same. However, Wu Dui made a fuss again and said: "The Northern Hu may have the possibility of joining forces with Tu Manhan and the Jurchens. The Ministry of War's discussion is not credible." Sure enough, Tu Manhan went south in May because the summer season had arrived, and the rain was pouring, so they had to withdraw themselves.

By September, Tu Manhan was restless again, and the war in Liaodong was on the verge of breaking out.

The development of things is not achieved overnight, but has a very clear context and signs.

After the court discussion, Zhu Yijun did not have a lecture as usual, but took a carriage and headed toward the North Tucheng. This was the station of the Capital Battalion. The Great Ming Capital Battalion was about to set out again to fight in Liaodong.

Zhu Yijun came to the Wu Ying Building in the North Tucheng. Qi Jiguang received the seal of the Conquering Hu General, Liang Menglong led the Governor of Military Affairs, and Ma Fang and Li Rusong were the left and right Vice Regional Commanders, preparing to set out.

"Qi Shuai has worked hard, the Great Ming army has worked hard. I wanted to go with all the soldiers, but I am small and weak, so I won't add trouble to the generals. I will wait in the capital for the army to return in triumph." Zhu Yijun stood in the Wu Ying Building. This time, he came to see them off in person.

"Great Ming army, mighty!"

"Your Majesty, mighty!"

"The Great Ming military is mighty!"

In the first year of Wu, after Xu Da received the seal of the Conquering Hu General, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still the Prince of Wu, personally pushed Xu Da's chariot wheel, letting him conquer the Hu Yuan. Later, the Hu Yuan was beaten away, the Northern Yuan was beaten away, and the Northern Yuan Han Court was beaten into the Northern Hu by the Ming Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di.

Now the Northern Hu is rampant again. Zhu Yijun, as the Emperor of the Great Ming, stood at the gate of the North Tucheng and sent off the Great Ming army again.

The drums were beating, the horns were mournful, and the elite of more than 10,000 people began to go north. Zhu Yijun stood at the gate of the camp, watching the endless convoy of the Great Ming army, slowly disappearing at the end of the sky, before saying to Zhang Juzheng: "The ambition can be displayed."

If it were in Zhang Siwei's view, this would be a good opportunity. The Great Ming capital is empty, and the elite have gone north. Isn't this the perfect time to hold a knife to see His Majesty and talk to His Majesty about the pros and cons? Just mobilize the Xuan-Da Guard troops and enter the capital city, even if you can't seize the power of life and death, you can let the imperial court know how powerful you are!

But in Wang Chonggu's view, this is the most, most, most dangerous time. At this time, if you try to climb up the nose of the imperial court and Zhang Juzheng, that is looking for your own death. Once the Northwest rebels, the imperial court can immediately release the rebel chieftain Wang Gao and Dong Huli's nephew Buha Chu from the Heavenly Prison, agree to the tribute request of the Tu Manhan tribes, and then withdraw troops to suppress the rebellion in the Northwest.

Just like Wu Dui entertaining the Third San Niangzi in Xuanfu now, Zhang Xueyan can also entertain Chahan Khan in the Northeast, stabilize the Northeast, and then pacify the Northwest.

On the way back to the city, Wang Chonggu leaned toward Zhang Juzheng and whispered: "Grand Secretary, my remaining prestige in the Northwest is still there. This time it's fine. Next time, I'm afraid there will be trouble. The time after that, I'm afraid..."

Wang Chonggu didn't finish his sentence, but his attitude was very clear. He couldn't control it for too long. His remaining prestige would last at most two years. When there is trouble in the Northwest in two years, and the imperial court punishes, they must not harm him, this good person. He has no intention of rebelling.

Wang Chonggu felt that the Northwest could not win. Even if they relied on the power of the Northern Hu, just looking at the send-off today, the Great Ming army was neatly arranged. Could 100,000 people contend with these 10,000 sharp soldiers? The answer is no.

Sharp soldiers who have been baptized by the flames of war will only be stronger.

"Minister Wang is now the Great Ming Minister of Justice, responsible for criminal names and the wool official factory. The turmoil in the Northwest has nothing to do with Minister Wang." Zhang Juzheng whispered. He gave Wang Chonggu a reassurance.

In the fifth year of Wanli, His Majesty should get married. After the marriage, he should take personal charge of government. Zhang Juzheng does not intend to cling to power. His Majesty hopes for the Great Ming to rise again even more than he does, and he can also be more relaxed, study mathematics, study optics, occasionally farm, grind starch, which is a beautiful thing?

As for the promise, his, Zhang Juzheng's promise, is not His Majesty's promise.

Zhu Yijun returned to the capital and continued to tinker with his reflective telescope. He clearly knew the answer to the question he asked Zhang Juzheng.

The Great Ming began to pursue arrears in the Southern Yamen, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard attacked everywhere. Tax-auditing Battalion Commander Luo Bingliang personally went to Ji'an, Jiangxi, and confiscated the Luling Yang family.

The Luling Yang family started with Yang Lu and has been continuous ever since. Luo Bingliang confiscated this family, which is the Yang of Yang Shiqi. Yang Shiqi served five dynasties and six emperors, was an auxiliary minister in the cabinet for more than forty years, and was the Grand Secretary for twenty-one years.

The Great Ming's Luling Yang family is known as the "Four Generations and Three Dukes," and everyone in the world calls it a prestigious family. And Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu, and Yang Tinghe produced three prime ministers in four generations. Although Yang Shiqi was a descendant of Yang Lu's eldest son Yang Rui, Yang Pu was a descendant of Yang Lu's second son Yang Ting, and Yang Tinghe was a descendant of Yang Lu's fifth son Yang Song.

This time, the Embroidered Uniform Guard confiscated the family, but only confiscated the line of the eldest son Yang Rui. The people who funded He Xinyin, Zeng Guang, Qu Tianrui, Zheng Shitao, Lei Deming, Liu Hong, Zhang Yide, Chuan Zhu Yi, Ouyang Meng, Liu Zongwen, Luo Xun, etc., were exactly Yang Shiqi's descendant Yang Youren.

To ensure the success of this confiscation, Luo Bingliang even specially borrowed 3,000 Jiangxi soldiers and asked Jiangxi Governor Pan Jixun to come together to prevent changes.

Pan Jixun told Luo Bingliang that it was not necessary, just go and confiscate. Luo Bingliang arrived and found out that the Luling Yang family had five branches in total. These five branches could not be said to be of the same breath and branches, but could only be said to be enemies of each other.

Luo Bingliang came to confiscate the family, and the other four branches even set off firecrackers, wishing they could come up and help confiscate together. To put it bluntly, it was all a disaster caused by interests. Jiangxi was not rich, and there were only so many means of production. And Yang Shiqi's eldest branch and Yang Tinghe's fifth branch fought each other to the death. Taking the imperial examination as an example, there were only so many quotas for students and scholars. If you took them away, what would I take?

Farmland, population, workshops, waterways, etc., were all the same principle. The fifth branch led the other three branches to fight against the eldest branch.

Just like the feud between Sun Keyi and Sun Kehong's Sun family and the Xu family, contradictions are always universal. How to use the contradictions between the powerful and wealthy, the powerful gentry, and the wealthy merchants to provoke them and constantly divide them is the key work of the Tax-auditing Room and the Tax-auditing Bureau in the future.

To audit taxes, without an internal ghost, it is absolutely impossible to audit taxes thoroughly.

In September, the tax payment notices, or rather, the life-chasing charms, were sent to the hands of the powerful.

According to the Fish-Scale Register of the land survey, the Tax-auditing Room began to pursue arrears. This caused wailing everywhere. If the payment notice was not paid, then don't blame the imperial court for turning its face and not recognizing people.

Turning the face and not recognizing people means that the imperial court does not intend to handle it internally, but wants to put this matter on the table. When the time comes, there will naturally be public opinion on right and wrong. The taxes you owe are silver that a common farmer cannot earn in thousands of years. You say, when the time comes, will the common people scold the imperial court for being harsh, or scold the powerful and wealthy for refusing to pay taxes and exhausting the common people?

While the Tax-auditing Battalion Commander was busy, the trial operation of the painting boat in Songjiang Prefecture ended, and the response was good.

Soon the schedule was arranged for the next year. Sun Keyi keenly discovered the business opportunity and immediately continued to customize. The Songjiang Shipyard had no production capacity, so he went to the Yuegang Shipyard. These were all Great Ming imperial shipyards. Where it was built didn't matter, right?

A huge industrial chain was forming. Whoever grasped the means of production first would gain a huge advantage in this industry.

Sun Keyi discovered a huge problem, that is, the price of Yangzhou thin horses was rising rapidly, and the speed was astonishing. Not only that, but the prices of prostitutes on the banks of the Qinhuai River in the Southern Yamen and the Huangpu River in Songjiang Prefecture were also soaring. This was naturally because of the large inflow of silver, and also because the number of practitioners was decreasing.

That's right, the number of practitioners in the prostitution industry was decreasing, because the two weaving bureaus in Songjiang Prefecture and Yingtian Prefecture, and the wool official factory in the Northern Yamen were also recruiting weavers. Weaving indeed requires clever hands.

Prostitution is typically eating youth food. This job is unstable and easy to get sick. The turnover is extremely large. Those who die of illness and those who return to good standing are a dynamic industry. But now the three official factories have directly absorbed a large number of weavers, which has also caused a certain degree of impact on the prostitution industry.

Those who want to go to sea, look at the weaving on the other side, which can also earn a lot of money, so naturally they don't want to go to sea. After all, prostitution is a lowly status. Once you enter the prostitution door, you will be a lowly status for generations.

Following the path dependency of the past, it is to increase investment in tooth agencies, that is, to let human traffickers buy some young girls and cultivate them from a young age. But Sun Keyi calculated this, and local cultivation costs were a bit high. It would be better to import directly from Korea and Japan, which is more suitable.

Importing can also create an exotic style, just like the Hu beauties in the Great Tang Dynasty back then.

Yangzhou thin horses have to be split. A guest pays 500 taels of silver, and the thin horse has to take away 200 taels. Plus the expenses of raising boats, raising slaves, etc., the payback period will become longer. But buying the top beauties of Japan and the Korean beauties of Korea does not have this worry. These are strong personal attachments. Split? Good food and drink, and slaves to serve, and still not satisfied? Still want to split?

"Brother." Sun Kehong looked at Sun Keyi who was checking the accounts and hesitated for a long time before speaking.

"What's wrong?" Sun Keyi stopped checking the accounts and looked at Sun Kehong's swivel chair. Sun Kehong could only sit on the swivel chair.

Sun Keyi knew that his brother's legs were harmed by Xu Jie!

Back then, Gao Gong suppressed Xu Jie, and Xu Jie pushed Sun Kehong out as a scapegoat, directly crippling his two legs. Therefore, Sun Keyi hated Xu Jie to the bone. It was just that this old fox was too cunning. Even the He Xinyin matter could not be traced to Xu Jie.

"This business is harmful to heaven and reason. Why don't we stop doing it? We already have a lot of money." Sun Kehong said with some worry.

Sun Keyi pondered for a while and said: "Does Brother mean that working for the imperial court is like skinning a tiger for its skin?"

Sun Kehong nodded and said: "Yes, if the wind in the court changes, the imperial court will abandon us, and the powerful and wealthy gentry will treat us as enemies. At that time, my Sun family will be in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat. The past things are all in the past. I am still alive, not dead. The feud with the Xu family should be put down."

"Since Brother said to put it down, it is even more impossible to put it down. If the old dog Xu doesn't die, I won't be able to sleep or eat!" Sun Keyi shook his head and said extremely firmly: "This feud must be avenged!"

"Zhang Juzheng is fifty this year. He can still govern for ten or fifteen years. Let's say ten years. This opening of the sea has already become a foregone conclusion. If someone else governs and says they want to ban the sea, it will be difficult to do. The imperial court also needs to eat and cannot live just by drinking the northwest wind."

Sun Keyi decided to serve the imperial court, not just for revenge. He also had his own considerations. Once some things form inertia and form a huge interest group, it will be as difficult as ascending to heaven for the imperial court to move again. It will be difficult to change in thirty or fifty years.

"Head of the family, Battalion Commander Luo has arrived in Songjiang Prefecture and sent an invitation, asking the head of the family to go." A doorman took an invitation. Luo Bingliang asked Sun Keyi to go to the Songjiang Prefecture Yamen.

Luo Bingliang came to Songjiang Prefecture, naturally to handle the special case of pursuing arrears, but not to pursue the Sun family's tax arrears, but to pursue Xu Jie's tax arrears, and by the way, handle some small matters and watch some excitement.

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Luo Bingliang came to Songjiang Prefecture naturally to handle the special project of debt collection, though it was not to collect the Sun family's tax arrears, but rather Xu Jie's. While he was at it, he would handle some minor matters and watch some excitement.

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