Chapter 272: Relocating 5,800 wealthy households to Liaodong to guard the border

The victory reports of the Great Ming Huining Guard and Yingchang victories did not turn into a "happy event treated as a funeral." The generals on the front line, Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Ma Fang, Li Rusong, Ma Gui, Liu Yingjie, Liang Menglong, Zhou Liangyin, and others, wrote congratulatory memorials, loudly praising Tan Lun, the Grand Minister, in the memorials, and did not spare any flowery language.

The reason for praising Tan Lun so much is that, on one hand, Tan Lun's logistics were indeed very good. The grain and grass prepared by the Ministry of Revenue needed the Ministry of War to use the Transport Department and other departments to transport them. If logistics are done well, victory is guaranteed.

According to Li Rusong, the high officials in the court did not point fingers. Being thousands of miles away, letting a certain infantry battalion move three feet was already burning high incense. Ensuring the smoothness of logistics was truly a great kindness!

Praise, must be praised vigorously!

Li Rusong still hated the civil officials in the court so much. In his view, among the civil officials, he only admired one, Grand Minister Tan Lun.

Tan Lun had fought for half his life. Now, even drinking celebration wine was plain water. The great physicians of the Dissection Institute had absolute authority in this regard. Tan Lun was truly caught in the middle. The generals praised him as if they were scolding him for stealing the credit of heaven, and the Emperor kept rewarding him, making Tan Lun restless.

Those who act from themselves have no loyalty.

The little Emperor once scolded Yang Bo while taking the officials to visit the Baoqi Hall in the back mountain, asking Yang Bo whether he was loyal to the country, loyal to the Emperor, and most importantly, whether he was loyal to himself. Those who act from themselves have no loyalty. Tan Lun did not feel that he had made any outstanding contributions, yet he received such praise, which was stealing the credit of heaven. After thinking about it, the only way was to resign to preserve his reputation and his loyalty to himself.

A person must at least be loyal to his own heart to settle himself well.

A gentleman is one who governs others and governs himself. A gentleman who can settle himself well and can also settle the people of the world is a gentleman.

Tan Lun is a gentleman, so he is uneasy about the praise of stealing the credit of heaven.

"Grand Minister, wait until the spring of March, when Qi Shuai's Beijing troops will sweep the area around Huining Guard clean and the border will be peaceful, Grand Minister, go to Huining Guard and Yingchang on my behalf." Zhu Yijun took out an old method. He couldn't go to the battlefield in person, but being able to go and hear about it in person could be considered participating in the matter. After all, Rehe, Huining Guard, and Yingchang would be the Great Ming's new military towns and new borders.

"Your subject will obey the decree." As soon as Tan Lun heard this, he knew that the Emperor did not intend to let him resign and wanted him to continue working.

Zhu Yijun asked with some doubt, "Grand Minister, why does the Great Ming have a trend of 'valuing culture and disparaging martial arts'? Just like the question of King Felipe II of Spain in the West: civilization, order, and peace are nothing but compromises made by strong powers when there is no absolute advantage to break the balance. Felipe II was very puzzled why the Great Ming wanted to promote culture and disparage martial arts, and it was regarded as a golden rule."

Tan Lun thought seriously for a long time before saying, "Your Majesty, weapons are inauspicious things."

"When Huang Chao entered Chang'an, he saw the Shence Army dressed gorgeously, so he directly robbed the Shence Army, threw the soldiers of the Shence Army onto the street in the middle of winter, and froze countless to death."

"Ah?" Zhu Yijun was stunned.

The Shence Army was the most important military force in the Beijing area in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The reason why the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty could abolish and establish emperors was also because they controlled the Shence Army. Such a regular army was actually robbed by Huang Chao's mob and thrown onto the street to freeze their butts. It was truly surprising and also felt very reasonable.

If the Shence Army were very capable of fighting, it wouldn't have reached the point where the capital was captured six times and the Emperor moved nine times.

Just like the Beijing troops facing Li Zicheng's rebel army, tens of thousands of men took off their armor, and there was no resistance at all. If the Beijing troops were capable of fighting, could they have let the rebels reach the capital?

"When Huang Chao's army invaded Guanzhong, when they were confronting the government troops in Chang'an, both sides did business. Huang Chao caught common people and sold them to the government troops, so the government troops didn't need to press-gang people, and there were people to build city defenses. Huang Chao caught common people and sold them to the government troops as slaves. Later, the government troops thought about it, why go through the trouble? They just caught them themselves." Tan Lun continued.

"Doing business?" Zhu Yijun was stunned again.

As an Emperor who was used to reporting to the Son of Heaven and saving the common people, Zhu Yijun could not imagine such a scene.

In fact, the Great Ming also had it. The border troops and the Northern Barbarians did human trafficking. The Great Ming border troops needed head-counting merits, while the Northern Barbarians wanted wealth when they raided. The Northern Barbarians took the money and grain, so the heads were useless and sold to the Great Ming border troops to seek the Emperor's rewards. The Great Ming border people, after being raided, became Northern Barbarians, and then were treated as heads. This kind of tacit killing of the good to claim merit was also one of the reasons for promoting the Great Ming's merit law.

Tan Lun said with great emotion, "Emperor Xizong of Tang moved away from the capital to avoid the disaster of war, and a large number of common people followed him to flee into Shu. As a result, these common people blocked the road, and Emperor Xizong of Tang ordered Wang Jian to be the vanguard to cut through the thorns and kill the common people to open the road."

"The middle and late Tang Dynasty was like this. If you could kill the Inspector and stay in office yourself, and report it to the court, you would soon receive the court's appointment letter and become an Observer or a Training Commissioner. If you were militarily capable and continued to expand, you would become a Military Governor and become a feudal lord."

"Officials and thieves are indistinguishable. Officials are not as good as thieves, thieves are not as good as bandits, and bandits are not as good as grass-roots. By the Song Dynasty, it naturally started to value culture and disparage martial arts."

"The decline of the Great Tang was not necessarily the loss of control over the army by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, leading to the suffering of the world and the people's livelihood."

"Your Majesty, the army is a violent institution. All the trivial troubles and low efficiency are largely to prevent this violent institution from losing control and becoming the root cause of disaster for the country."

Ma Fang, for the sake of simplicity, privately mobilized 100 soldiers to do things and was sentenced to be beheaded. If it weren't for Gao Gong and Yang Bo's protection, there would be a crisis of life and death. These trivial troubles and low efficiency are largely to restrain the beast of the army.

The loss of control of the army is a very terrible thing. In the final analysis, it can be summarized as military disaster.

On one hand, it is a historical lesson, and on the other hand, it is the inertia of policy.

"Your Majesty, Qi Shuai's two military books, Your Majesty has read them thoroughly. Qi Shuai's method of training troops is probably the first person to talk about training troops." Yu Dayou suddenly spoke up to supplement. Qi Jiguang's military books are different from previous military books. Qi's military books focus on training troops, improving the organization of the army, and restraining soldiers to prevent the tragedy of the army shaving the people.

Yu Dayou supplemented the prerequisites for the current invigoration of martial arts. Without Qi Shuai's military books, without Qi Jiguang's proposal of reporting to the Son of Heaven and saving the common people, the Great Ming's invigoration of martial arts would not be possible, lacking effective means of army construction.

Zhu Yijun discovered an interesting thing, that is, the Great Ming's invigoration of martial arts actually invigorated the Beijing troops, not the border troops. The corruption of the border areas may also be intentional by the court, to prevent the feudal lords from becoming too big on one hand, and to let the rituals and conquests come from the Son of Heaven on the other.

And the border troops bear the responsibility of "advancing one inch a day." They don't require conquest, only fighting and defending. And the content of Tan Lun's memorial on the invigoration of border troops is also an old method.

The Song Dynasty once used this method of advancing step by step and "advancing one inch a day," and almost wiped out Western Xia. If it weren't for Sima Guang using the last time of his life to return the land to Western Xia, and if it weren't for Prince Duan being frivolous and unable to rule the world, Western Xia would have been played to death by this method.

"The Censor-in-Chief of the Grand Canal, Hu Zhili, spoke of the benefits of converting grain to silver in Jiangnan, requesting that one-third of the annual accounting be converted to silver as a norm. The Ministry of Revenue replied that the accumulation in the Taicang is enough to support six years, and the sea transport of grain has become a general trend, so the Ministry rejected this clause." Lu Diaoyang, as the First Assistant, continued to preside over the court discussion and mentioned an interesting thing.

The Censor of the Grand Canal said that Jiangnan's grain transport was 4 million shi, and requested that one-third be converted to silver, the reason being that it delayed the river transport. The Great Ming's sea transport capacity last year had increased from 1 million shi to 3 million shi, and this capacity would soar this year. For the rest, Hu Zhili said just convert it to silver and let the people and merchants operate the river canal.

The Ministry of Revenue said that the accumulation in the Taicang was enough for six years, and the sea transport of grain had already achieved great success, so there was no need to rush. This year's transport capacity was enough to bear the transport of Jiangnan's grain.

This clause was originally a daily matter reported to His Majesty, but the Ministry of Revenue's sentence "the accumulation is enough for six years" shows how wealthy it is.

One must know that during the Longqing era, the Great Ming's annual expenditure could only be done for three months, and the remaining nine months were all in arrears. As for when to give and how to give, there was no plan at all. But now, the Great Ming is really wealthy. The court has saved six years of expenditure, and this is still under the condition of continuous warfare.

Last year, 100,000 troops went north, and the expenditure was extremely heavy. All grain and grass were converted to silver, which exceeded one million taels of silver.

The court could afford it, and didn't even specifically discuss this matter in the court discussion, because everyone felt it was worth it. The Northern Barbarians, the Japanese pirates, and the Toungoo Dynasty of Mang Yinglong in the southwest were enough to give the Great Ming a headache. If the Northern Barbarians and the Eastern Barbarians joined forces, the Great Ming would not just spend this one million taels of silver.

"In the eighth month of last year, a comet first appeared in the southwest. By the tenth month, it was as bright as a lamp, with a white tail several feet long, crossing the tail and basket, crossing the bucket and ox, and pressing directly on the girl constellation. Censor Chen Yanping and Censor Gao Weisong impeached Cabinet Minister Wang Chonggu for being improper, gathering wealth and seeking profit, and Heaven was furious. A Cabinet Minister, shouldering the heavy responsibility of the world, tied to the gaze of the four seas, must correct himself before he can correct the hundred officials and the ten thousand people."

"His Majesty's comment: Do not make trouble. Take your eyes to the Wumen Gate to make an appointment to watch the stars with a telescope. Where does Heaven get such a temper?" Lu Diaoyang took out another memorial, and after finishing, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Last time the guest star offended the main seat, Zhang Juzheng and the Emperor tossed and turned for a long time. Now it's the Emperor's turn to toss these speech officials.

The "cheap scholars" always talk about a bunch of plausible nonsense, and then draw a wrong conclusion.

In the fifth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng's father, Zhang Wenming, passed away. The mourning turmoil of Zhang Juzheng, plus the great comet appearing in the southwest sky, started a court infighting that affected the entire Great Ming. The whole struggle lasted for nearly half a year. The celestial phenomenon plus the mourning of the three generations, Zhang Juzheng was very passive, but he had to stay.

And now, Zhang Juzheng was observing mourning as an ancestor in Xishan. This struggle calmed down before it even started.

Zhang Juzheng had left the court after all. The celestial phenomenon of the great comet was transferred to Wang Chonggu. The impeachment of Wang Chonggu began to increase again. The Emperor replied very seriously. No matter what the reason, His Majesty did not simply draw a cross, but carefully explained the reasons.

In the confrontation between the Emperor and the "cheap scholars," the Emperor always occupied a huge advantage. The telescope in the Royal Academy of Investigation of Things was like a thorn in the hearts of the "cheap scholars," piercing the fragile hearts of the "cheap scholars."

"Minister of Revenue Zhang Xueyan led the Ministry of Revenue to submit a memorial, saying that those who illegally cast coins and powerful people who obstruct the money law should be severely punished." Lu Diaoyang talked about another topic today. Zhang Xueyan took office as Minister of Revenue, and Wang Guoguang concurrently served as Minister of Revenue and entered the cabinet. Wang Guoguang's political promise was the money law, while Zhang Xueyan's promise was the land measurement of the world, which was not approved. But Zhang Xueyan set fire to private casting.

"Your Majesty, please allow me to speak." Wan Shihe said with a difficult face, "Your Majesty, since ancient times, there has never been a dynasty that did not severely punish private casting, except for our Imperial Ming. Since the founding of the dynasty, we have never punished private casting. In the past, the money law was dim, and we all relied on merchants to trade private money to the capital. The powerful people bought it cheaply and sought profit, leading to a sudden drop in money prices. I hope Your Majesty will investigate."

Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, those who cast privately died. During the time of Wu Di of Han, the power of feudal lords to cast money was even abolished. Anyone who cast privately was a capital crime. The nine generations of feudal lords were not mentioned, after all, the Emperor was in the nine generations of feudal lords, and they were generally ordered to commit suicide.

Only the Great Ming Dynasty, not only did not severely punish private casting, but even did not prohibit private casting.

The Great Ming court cast money, tens of millions of coins a year, only tens of thousands of strings, which was not enough for the people to use. Now the Great Ming has started to work overtime to cast money, so for the matter of casting money privately, it should be strictly investigated to the end.

Zhang Xueyan immediately took out dozens of copper coins from his sleeve, placed them on the table, and said, "Private money is mostly iron money, and it is not heavy enough. The people suffer from it. The people use Song money and not iron money. Private casting is just for private gain."

"The people have no money to use, iron money is too cheap, Song money is very rare, so they can only barter. If the money law is not smooth, the canals will not be smooth, and trade will not flourish."

Zhang Xueyan spoke facts and placed the money cast by the powerful people in front of all the court officials. The Great Ming's private money had no copper at all. The court couldn't get copper, let alone the powerful people. They cast iron money, and it was extremely thin, rusty, not the kind of green copper rust, but deep brown rust. This thing couldn't be used as money at all.

No money to use, the resulting money shortage seriously hindered the transformation of the Great Ming's small-scale peasant economy into a commodity economy, seriously hindered the exchange between commodities, and hindered the development of the Great Ming.

"Your Majesty, Yunnan's Dian copper is naturally one aspect, and on the other hand, it is mainly sea copper from Luzon and Japan. Bai Yin flows in, and copper should also be kept in mind. All private coin casting workshops must be closed within one year. Those who still cast privately will be beheaded." Zhang Xueyan gave a specific solution.

The court does not allow private casting, changing to official casting by the court. And the copper material for official casting by the court comes from Yunnan, Luzon, and Japan. Japan not only has a large amount of silver, but also a massive amount of yellow copper. Copper material is also urgently needed by the Great Ming, even exceeding silver. At least silver has large sailing ships imported, where does copper material come from? Only the court can find a way to get it from Luzon and Japan. Yunnan's Dian copper should naturally be mined.

What is interesting is that those in the Great Ming clan who cast privately are abolished as commoners and their kingdoms are abolished.

Who let the Yan Mansion really conquer the world? The prohibition of feudal lords is to prevent feudal lords from rebelling, even if the Great Ming does not prohibit private casting, it also prohibits feudal lords from gathering wealth, preventing another Yan Mansion from appearing.

The Yan Mansion fought well on one hand, and the Crown Prince Zhu Yunwen cooperated well on the other.

"Inform the powerful families, those who cast privately will be beheaded." Zhu Yijun stamped this memorial. "Those who speak of the Master's faults will be beheaded" is a time-limited beheading order. After Zhang Juzheng returns to court, he can continue to attack Zhang Juzheng. When the Master is here, he can scold him. Yang Bo has proven many times that a gentleman can be deceived by the right way. When he is not here, the little Emperor does not allow scolding.

And this "beheading for private casting" is a long-term ban.

The Great Ming's coin casting requires the import of overseas silver and yellow copper to continue. And the implementation of the money law must be consistent, that is, one force to the end. There can be no hesitation, and even more so, no giving up halfway, otherwise it is better not to do it.

Lu Diaoyang summarized it and wrote it on a floating note. He had no opinion of his own, just like when Zhang Juzheng was in court, Lu Diaoyang didn't have too many opinions of his own. He knew he was a substitute, and he didn't intend to be an imperial teacher. If the Emperor really did something very excessive, Zhang Juzheng in Xishan would definitely not sit idly by.

Lu Diaoyang was very competent as the First Assistant. After he stamped the memorial, he took out another memorial and said with a heavy face, "Wang Zhiyuan, the Assistant of Shuntian Prefecture, counted the Gengxu Barbarian Change and the Longqing first year Tuman Khan invasion. Shuntian Prefecture originally had 669,030 households and over 3.34 million people. By the fifth year of Longqing, there were only 147,300 households and over 736,000 people. By June of the fifth year of Wanli, it recovered to 423,000 households and over 2.115 million people."

Shuntian Prefecture had 660,000 households and 3.34 million people before the 29th year of Jiajing. By the fifth year of Longqing, there were only 140,000 households and 730,000 people. By June of the fifth year of Wanli, it recovered to 420,000 households and 2.11 million people. This is the population of Shuntian Prefecture.

The Barbarian Change is a military disaster, not captured by the Northern Barbarians, but because of the disaster of war and fleeing.

Most of them fled. The four disasters of the downfall of the country—the departure of the monarch, the entry of the barbarians, the migration, and the party ban—any one of them can take the life of a dynasty.

During the Wanli era, the population of the Great Ming's Beijing area recovered to a number that could be considered acceptable.

"Except for the capture of the Barbarian Change and avoiding the disaster of war, the rest fled because of the miscellaneous levies of money and grain outside the regular rent and labor, leading to the people's livelihood being difficult and gradually withering." Lu Diaoyang continued to read the memorial.

The harm of the barbarians is long-term, not a sudden pain. In order to prevent the Northern Barbarians from invading again, the levies in the Beijing area became more and more. The surviving people, because of the increasing miscellaneous levies of money and grain, could only flee. Under the Emperor's carriage, in the capital, it became like this. The Assistant of Shuntian Prefecture was heartbroken. And recently, because of the reconciliation with the Northern Barbarians, the Great Ming took the initiative to attack, the Beijing area became stable, the levies were reduced, and the people gradually returned and settled down.

It was already the fourth year of Wanli when the Emperor started to go out of the palace frequently. At that time, the capital already had a population of one million, so it looked crowded and lively.

The dignified Beijing area actually only had 700,000 people, the streets were empty, which could be described as everything withering.

"Your Majesty, the Master always said that the late Emperor lived extravagantly, and the Aoshan lantern festival was rewarded with tens of thousands of taels, which was not without the intention of invigorating people's hearts." Lu Diaoyang did not continue to read the memorial, but said a digression, saying a few good words for the Longqing Emperor. The Longqing Emperor lived extravagantly, which is an indisputable fact, but the reward of more than 100,000 taels for the Aoshan lantern festival was just for fun, and fun is actually to invigorate people's hearts.

In the fifth year of Longqing, the population of the Beijing area withered. Anyone who saw it would think that the Great Ming's luck was exhausted and it was already setting like the sun.

Zhu Yijun did not answer. He still did not approve of the Longqing Emperor's behavior of rewarding hundreds of thousands of taels to the hundred arts, which was exactly the same as Zhang Juzheng's evaluation of this, a waste of money.

Lu Diaoyang actually wanted to say that the main contradiction of the Longqing Emperor at that time was different. At that time, the Beijing area only had 700,000 people, and gathering people's hearts was the fundamental task.

Lu Diaoyang saw that His Majesty did not answer, and understood His Majesty's meaning. He still advocated frugality and simplicity, but the Emperor waved his hand and gave 10 million taels to Nanya, and Pan Jixun, the Great Ming Dragon King, was responsible for opening the sea.

That was a full 10 million taels of silver!

You say the Emperor is stingy, this is 10 million. You say the Emperor is generous, the Emperor hides in the Wenhua Hall and watches the Aoshan lantern festival with a telescope. He wants to see and likes to see, but just doesn't pay, focusing on companionship.

Lu Diaoyang continued, "The Assistant of Shuntian Prefecture, Wang Zhiyuan, counted the reality of the capital's population and households, and submitted a memorial: I suggest imitating the ancestral laws and relocating over 5,800 wealthy households from Zhejiang, Nanya, and other places to fill the capital."

"Ah?" Zhu Yijun's eyes widened suddenly. He smelled a familiar taste. Back then, Wu Di of Han, in order to gather wealth, moved the wealthy households and powerful people of the world to Maoling to guard the mausoleum. Now the Assistant of Shuntian Prefecture actually wanted to move 5,800 wealthy households to the Northern Capital because the capital was weak and the population was not prosperous.

Wan Shihe said very affirmatively, "Your Majesty, please allow me to speak. The Founding Emperor relocated wealthy households five times in total, and Emperor Chengzu Wen relocated wealthy households six times in total. In the Wu year (the year before the first year of Hongwu), he relocated wealthy households from Suzhou to Haozhou, because the Founding Emperor returned from Haozhou to the capital, and the states and counties he passed through had few people and the fields were desolate. The Gu family of Wujiang refused, so they were ordered by the Founding Emperor to be forcibly relocated; in the first, sixth, twelfth, and twenty-fourth years of Hongwu, the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu in July was the most, totaling 5,300 households;"

"By the time of Emperor Chengzu Wen, in order to enrich the Northern Capital, he relocated six times, totaling 3,600 households. The largest one was in the nineteenth year of Yongle, when Emperor Wen moved the capital to the Northern Capital, and there were more than 1,000 households accompanying him."

"Your Majesty, it is indeed an ancestral law."

Zhu Yijun suddenly realized. No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were scolded by the Nanya scholars for nine hundred years. The mausoleum-guarding method created by Wu Di of Han became a means for the Great Ming Dynasty to enrich the capital, and it was tossed eleven times in total.

Fortunately, Zhu Yijun is not a wealthy household. If he were a wealthy household, he would also scold.

"What happened later?" Zhu Yijun looked at Wan Shihe and asked Wan Shihe what happened to this policy later.

"Later, it was never relocated again." Wan Shihe bowed his head and said.

After Yongle, it was never relocated again.

So it is said that wealthy households were relocated at the beginning. At that time, the court controlled military power. The Gu family of Wujiang refused to relocate and was directly ordered by the Founding Emperor to be forcibly relocated, and the Gu family was given a Hu surname to humiliate the Gu family, which was not changed back to the Gu family until the Hongzhi era.

Later, wealthy households were no longer relocated. It was not that the court didn't want to. These people knew how to annex land in the local area, and some even annexed half a county, lying down and collecting rent, such as Xu Jie, who directly annexed more than 400,000 mu of land, half a county of land, all under his family's name.

But the court couldn't do it, right? If it could be done, it would still be relocated.

Relocating wealthy households to the capital is the only way to physically prevent annexation. These local wealthy households arrived in the capital and were no longer powerful people. In the capital, if you throw a brick, you can kill several big officials.

"Can it be done?" Zhu Yijun tapped his fingers on the table and said, "It doesn't matter if you get scolded for two sentences. The main thing is whether it can be relocated? Can it be done now?"

"It can be relocated after Qi Shuai returns. Now, first count the number of people, households, and choose a location. Who to relocate, where to relocate, and how many to relocate, all need to be planned. It cannot be done overnight. It just so happens that Qi Shuai is also returning to the capital from Huining Guard." Minister of Revenue Zhang Xueyan said so.

Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "This is not strange. No wonder the Beijing troops are invigorated, it is always so difficult. Once the Beijing troops are invigorated, they want to relocate wealthy households. How can the officials from wealthy backgrounds agree?"

Zhu Yijun found the source of the "valuing culture and disparaging martial arts" again, and it was likely the main reason. The Emperor showed off his military power and forced the wealthy households to leave their own soil and come to the unfamiliar capital. And the relocated wealthy people lost both wealth and power, so they absolutely could not let the Emperor hold the knife. It was a problem that the Emperor didn't know how to use it, such as Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen; it was even more of a problem that the Emperor knew how to use it, such as the Founding Emperor and Emperor Wen.

"Then who has objections?" Zhu Yijun asked again.

"Your subject has objections." Wang Chonggu suddenly came out and bowed, "Your Majesty, the capital is the best place in the world. I think it is better to relocate these wealthy households to Liaodong. It just so happens that Liaodong is reclaiming wasteland."

Zhang Xueyan, as the Minister of Revenue, let the Assistant of Shuntian Prefecture talk about the population loss in the capital, in order to relocate wealthy households to the capital and solve some annexation problems, not to take the lives of wealthy households. But Wang Chonggu opened his mouth and it was exile.

What kind of place is Liaodong? That is a place of bitter cold. People were domineering in the local area, and they already had to tuck their tails in the capital. Wang Wang Cifu is not letting people live.

Zhang Xueyan, before entering the capital, was the Governor of Liaodong. Liaodong is a place where birds don't lay eggs and even peeing can freeze. Wang Wang Cifu is seeking wealth and life. How ruthless!

Wang Chonggu did not think he was ruthless. He found that he had to stand up, otherwise everyone would think he was easy to bully. He admitted that he really couldn't fight Zhang Juzheng. There were not many people in the world who could fight such a monster as Zhang Juzheng. But if he couldn't fight Zhang Juzheng, couldn't he fight this gang of "cheap scholars"?

Big things and small things were all taken out to impeach him. Even the great comet, he, Wang Chonggu, had to bear the responsibility. Is he, Wang Chonggu, a basket? Everything is put in it?

Wang Chonggu wanted to give them some color to see. Even if he couldn't relocate them to Liaodong, he had to tell this gang of "cheap scholars" that he, Wang Chonggu, was not so easy to provoke! His son had already been defined as hiring a killer, so Wang Chonggu also began to be a little vengeful.

Wang Chonggu didn't dare to fight with the court officials openly before, a large part of the reason was that he had no bottom in his heart. If they fought, where the Emperor's favor was, was the first thing Wang Chonggu considered.

Now, Wang Wang Cifu had no such worries at all. He revealed his fangs and claws, and with one claw, it was 5,800 households!

This claw was both ruthless and poisonous.

"I think Wang Wang Cifu's words make sense." Zhu Yijun felt that Wang Chonggu's words made sense, because Liaodong was reclaiming wasteland. It was unnecessary for these wealthy households to enrich the capital, but they could fill the border.

Zhu Yijun, Wang Chonggu, and Wang Qian were essentially the same kind of people, not the kind of gentleman like Zhang Juzheng, but the kind of bad people who were bad to the bone.

The Emperor had never been a kind person.

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