Chapter 504: The Great Ming Law will deal with him!

Chen Jingbang never had the chance to fulfill that contract. This 50,000 taels of silver finally went through the Ministry of Revenue's account and entered the Ministry of Revenue's Great Treasury, which could be considered a contribution to the Great Ming's fiscal deficit.

The disposal of Chen Jingbang, Liu Hanru, and several other officials was finalized in the court session in early September. Chen Jingbang was sent to the Jieku Institute. Originally, he was to be beheaded, but Chen Jingbang insisted on deceiving the Emperor one last time. The last person to live in the Jieku Institute for hospice care and be made into a specimen was Zhang Siwei.

Regarding the matter of Chen Jingbang being sent to the Jieku Institute, there were still some discordant noises. After all, he was a high official of the third rank, and it was not appropriate to send him in without rebellion. But after Wang Qian understood the whole story and spread it, everyone chose to shut up. Communicating with Japanese pirates, trafficking Great Ming people, trafficking opium, plus deceiving the Emperor—none of these things could be touched.

Everyone avoided it like a snake or scorpion, and didn't even want to mention it, treating this person as if he didn't exist.

After the arrest came the confiscation of property. A total of 730,000 taels of silver and one big mansion were confiscated from Chen Jingbang's home, which could be considered the largest corruption case in the Great Ming Dynasty after the Xu Jie corruption case. Xu Jie's corruption still led the way in a generational way. The monument he had in the Forest of Steles of Pleasure outside Chaoyang Gate was still the tallest one. There was less than 4,000 taels in Liu Hanru's home. He was indeed not a particularly greedy official; he just really wanted to progress.

The Great Ming navy also conducted an internal investigation and found that Li Yingchi, the Assistant Regional Commander of the Fujian Southern Route, had the crime of negligence, and three people, including the Garrison Commander, Platoon Leader, and Camp Sitting Official, were dismissed.

Chen Tiande of Leshan, when investigating the old case of the Fujian Maritime Defense Inspection, found that the Maritime Defense Inspection had reported three times that there were some anomalies in Sandu'ao Bay and requested to go to investigate, but Li Yingchi did not approve it.

Because the anti-smuggling of the Yuegang Maritime Customs Office had drained the maritime defense inspection in Fujian, and the Yuegang Maritime Customs Office often borrowed maritime defense inspectors, because these "white strips in the waves" could be used as half a boat division. Most of the "white strips in the waves" ran fixed routes. As long as they didn't exceed this range, the "white strips in the waves" could guide them.

Manpower was seriously insufficient, and Li Yingchi couldn't take care of this matter at all. After the incident, he had to report the situation and chose to retire, giving himself face.

"See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty's holy body peaceful?" Qi Jiguang bowed and paid his respects.

During the Hongwu years, Crown Prince Zhu Biao supervised the state. During the Yongle years, Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi supervised the state. During the Xuande years, two imperial uncles, Prince Xiang Zhu Zhanji and Prince Zheng Zhu Zhanchu, supervised the state. By the Zhengtong years, Prince Cheng Zhu Qiyu supervised the state. By the Zhengde years, because the Zhengde Emperor had only one child and his uncles had all been enfeoffed, he could only proclaim himself Duke of Zhenguo and tour the south.

600,000 jin was already more than a year's production in the hinterland of the Great Ming. If the road could be successfully opened to traffic, and soda ash could be transported back to the hinterland, then really, as much as there was, it would be used.

The entire Fujian area underwent a blood transfusion of civil and military officials, and it was an extremely thorough blood transfusion. Even Fujian Provincial Administration Commissioner Shu Yinglong, who pretended to be ignorant, was not involved in this case, but he did not escape the disaster and was also dismissed and stripped of his official status.

"I originally intended to use my imperial uncle, Prince De, to supervise the state, but Prince De is obsessed with research and indifferent to miscellaneous affairs. Let Prince Lu do it. Although he is young, it will only take a day," Zhu Yijun talked about the arrangement for the person to supervise the state.

For safety, on the ground, Qi Jiguang did not think anyone could threaten His Majesty's safety, but on the sea, Qi Jiguang was a bit worried.

On the third day of the ninth month, Consort Liu gave birth to a princess, 5 jin 7 liang, and the Emperor named her Zhu Xuanyuan. Two days later, Consort Li gave birth to an imperial prince, 6 jin 2 liang, and the Emperor named him Zhu Changxun. The officials in the capital all received the Emperor's "Everything Goes Well" box. The palace and outside were full of joy, which could be considered another happy event. Thanks to the progress of medical skills and the Emperor living in the Tonghe Palace, none of Zhu Yijun's children died early.

"Take the land route," Qi Jiguang had no other requirements. His Majesty could do whatever he wanted, but he could not take the sea route, because taking the sea route meant that the Emperor would lose complete control of the situation. The memorials that needed His Majesty's vermilion approval every day could not be obtained in time. The Emperor could not lose power for a single day, otherwise, he would not be the Emperor.

"Together with joy, together with joy," Zhu Yijun said happily.

"Proclaim."

"His Majesty has gained an imperial heir. I congratulate His Majesty and congratulate the Great Ming," Qi Jiguang first congratulated His Majesty on having another prince. Whether legitimate or illegitimate didn't matter, whether talented or not didn't matter, first there must be one. Having experienced the establishment of the heir at the end of the Jiajing years and the sudden death of the Longqing Emperor in his prime, Qi Jiguang only prayed for His Majesty to have many sons and many blessings.

"Is His Majesty planning to tour the south?" After Qi Jiguang confirmed various things with the Emperor, a thought arose. Such a massive training with great fanfare clearly had some plans, otherwise, there was no need to be so grand.

"Sailing out to sea, it seems I have no fate with it," Zhu Yijun said with a smile, which was considered an agreement. He didn't intend to take the sea route anyway. He could indeed swim, but that was the sea. As the most valuable target of the Great Ming, he had to cherish himself. Protecting himself was protecting the Great Ming's new policies.

Qi Jiguang came to communicate with the Emperor about the itinerary for going to Tianjin Guard in mid-October. Qi Jiguang naturally had to escort the Emperor, and the vanguard general was set as Li Rusong, riding a white elephant to drive for His Majesty. There were about 30,000 guards accompanying him. This number was very subtle and consistent with the number of the navy coming to the capital. If something like a military remonstrance that no one wanted to see happened, Qi Jiguang wanted Chen Lin to know that even if you are a dragon on the sea, there is still him, Qi Jiguang, to subdue dragons and tigers on land.

Zhu Yijun thought about it and said: "The teacher also means this, so let's not set it up for now."

The Great Ming still called Qi Jiguang "Commander Qi" instead of Duke of Fengguo, because His Majesty opened his mouth and closed his mouth calling him Commander Qi. Yu (Dayou) and Qi (Jiguang) were very special in Zhu Yijun's heart. For example, Li Chengliang, Chen Lin, and Zhang Yuanxun, Zhu Yijun called them more by their titles.

"Your Majesty, Commander Qi is asking for an audience outside the hall." A small eunuch walked in.

"I am peaceful. Commander Qi, sit down quickly," Zhu Yijun said with a smile. Chen Jingbang was sent to the Jieku Institute, and Zhu Yijun was in a good mood. Evil being judged meant that justice had been upheld. The Great Ming was still wiping out sea pirates, and it was doing so with all its strength. Protecting the safety of maritime trade was promoting the flourishing development of maritime trade.

Glassware would also enter thousands of households with the large-scale mining of alkali lakes, rather than being the Emperor's own luxury item.

From beginning to end, there was only a verbal agreement, no land deed.

Involving the issue of imperial succession, no matter how cautious one was, it was not too much. After all, there had been trouble.

Unlike the last time he went to pick up Yu Dayou to return to the capital, that time it was going and returning on the same day, so there was not so much news that needed to be confirmed.

Zhu Yijun inquired carefully before he knew that this place belonged to the Gansu merchant Zheng Haifeng. Zheng Haifeng went out of the pass to do business and gambled in Wuyuan Prefecture, winning this alkali lake from a Tatar chieftain, but he never managed to mine it because there was no road. Since then, it had been shelved. By the time the Great Ming army arrived, Zheng Haifeng had already been dead for four years, killed by horse bandits. This place became ownerless.

Burning glass requires soda ash as a flux, otherwise, it is impossible to burn transparent glass.

Both civil and military officials opposed setting up a supervisory position, obviously remembering the lessons. If they could not set it up, they would not set it up. If they really had to set it up, it would be the Crown Prince supervising the state. Even if the Crown Prince was only two years old, on the 15th day of the second month of the 18th year of Jiajing, the Daoist master left the four-year-old Crown Prince Zhu Zaiji to supervise the state, assisted by Grand Secretary Gu Dingchen. This was the ancestral law.

The Great Ming's military center and political center were in the North Capital, while the Great Ming's economic center was in the South Capital. Both north and south were very important to the Great Ming, and without communication or exchange, it was easy to have problems. As long as Zhu Yijun didn't intend to toss about moving the capital, touring the south was imperative. It was something that had to be done to maintain the Great Ming's rule.

Don't toss about Prince Lu. Prince Lu's attitude was very clear: he didn't want to get involved in the mess of the court. Most importantly, there was a lesson. The matter of the Ming Yingzong and the Jingtai Emperor fighting between brothers was a warning from the past.

Soda ash, also known as mirabilite, is currently mainly used by the Great Ming to burn glass, ceramics, clean wool, and make washing products. The Great Ming's largest alkali mine is in Henan, about two li away from where people live, but that is the vertical distance. At a depth of more than 1,000 meters underground, there are large alkali mines. The Great Ming is currently unable to mine them. There are also some scattered small mines, with extremely limited output, ranging from tens of thousands of jin.

Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Yes, Commander Qi really understands me very well."

Qi Jiguang judged the Emperor's next move from the clues. Touring the south to the Southern Capital, with the recovery of the Great Ming's national strength, touring the south became a necessity. The south's economy was developed, money and grain were abundant, and the contradiction between people and land in this place was extremely prominent. If Zhu Yijun didn't tour the south, the Great Ming's south would become like the Netherlands of Spain.

The Great Ming's earliest glass was lead-barium glass in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. It was a craft, such as glass dragonfly eyes, such as the glass decorative beads on the Sword of Goujian, King of Yue. By the Han Dynasty, the burial objects were gold-threaded jade suits for the Emperor, silver-threaded jade suits for vassal kings and marquises, and copper-threaded glass suits for other nobles. The concubine of the King of Guangling, Mo Shu, was buried in a copper-threaded glass suit.

And heading to Tianjin Guard, Zhu Yijun was going to take the Grand Jade Carriage pulled by iron horses. Going there on the same day and returning the next day, staying at the Guanchao Building in Tianjin Guard, the security of the entire perimeter was the responsibility of the Capital Battalion, and the security around His Majesty was the responsibility of the Commandant of the Embroidered Uniform Guard Zhao Mengyou. The list of accompanying officials was also gradually finalized.

And the Great Ming Emperor was somewhat soluble in water, which could be considered a prophecy of the Little Ming King being sunk into the river back then.

"Your Majesty, there is an interesting thing that I must tell Your Majesty," Qi Jiguang said with a quite relaxed expression: "When the Capital Battalion was wiping out bandits in the Hetao, they found a large alkali lake called Hohhot Nuoer. In the Han Dynasty, it belonged to Gaowang County, and in the Tang Dynasty, it belonged to Qizhou. After the Later Tang Dingnan Army changed to Western Xia, this place gradually became desolate. At first, the soldiers were not sure whether this alkali lake was salt or alkali, and how much alkali was inside."

"Your Majesty's trip is only a one-day journey. I think it is better not to set up a supervisor," Qi Jiguang expressed his opinion very tactfully.

"I have been waiting, and recently the Five Classics Doctors sent news that it is indeed the alkali lake that the Ministry of Works has been thinking about. Nearby, a total of 40 alkali lakes have been explored, requiring about 300 people to reclaim, and about 600,000 jin of soda ash can be dug every year."

"Does Zheng Haifeng still have family?" Zhu Yijun inquired. The Great Ming's discovery of this large alkali lake had something to do with Zheng Haifeng. It was a bodyguard under Zheng Haifeng who led the Great Ming to find the local horse bandits. This bodyguard wanted to take revenge, and the Great Ming army needed to wipe out the bandits. The horse bandits had already been wiped out, and whether this place was what the Ministry of Works wanted had been confirmed.

This was Qi Jiguang's opinion.

"Hmm? Good, very good," Zhu Yijun was immediately overjoyed.

Being able to build is small-scale trial production, which is technical verification, and being able to manufacture on a large scale are two completely different concepts.

Being unable to burn transparent glass was because no large-scale soda ash mine was found in the hinterland, and at this time, what limited the production capacity of transparent glass was soda ash.

And now there was finally accurate news.

Qi Jiguang shook his head and said: "There are no relatives. After Zheng Haifeng died outside the pass, his family fled in all directions."

Merchants outside the pass, half are merchants and the other half are bandits. After Zheng Haifeng died, his children and grandchildren could only flee, otherwise, those enemies in the past would definitely strike and retaliate, making life worse than death. Doing business outside the pass is a very dangerous thing, but the profit is actually not that rich.

The soldiers who discovered the alkali lake and the Five Classics Doctors who confirmed the alkali lake naturally had to be rewarded heavily. Only in this way could the Great Ming continuously discover more mines. Qi Jiguang brought an inspiring good news.

"The 72 members of the Xia family of Renhe have entered the capital, and the 17 wealthy households involved have all been arrested by the Commandant of the Southern Division," Zhu Yijun talked about the Sandu'ao private market case. The officials were disposed of, and now it was the turn of the powerful and influential families.

Qi Jiguang wanted to speak but stopped. He rarely spoke on state affairs, which was to avoid unnecessary suspicion. After all, he was in charge of the Capital Battalion elite soldiers. Only when someone dared to bully the Emperor would Qi Jiguang show his claws.

Qi Jiguang rarely commented on state affairs in the Wenhua Palace.

Since the two Song Dynasties, the Great Ming's military had become an extension of politics. In Zhejiang, if Hu Zongxian hadn't given him the power to recruit soldiers, he wouldn't even have been able to train soldiers, let alone military equipment, logistics, grain and pay, baggage, etc. As the sharpest knife of the Great Ming, Qi Jiguang generally did his own job well, and the Emperor, the knife-holder, pointed where he hit.

But involving the Japanese pirate affair, Qi Jiguang finally couldn't hold back. He said with a heavy expression: "Your Majesty, this Xia family of Renhe also participated in the Shuangyu private market back then. It's not the first time."

"Oh?" This was the first time Zhu Yijun heard about such a thing. He frowned and inquired about the details.

The Shuangyu private market was the fuse that exploded the powder keg of the Japanese pirates in the Great Ming back then. Finally, Zhu Wan committed suicide and it was left unsettled, and it was not investigated further. Including his successors Li Tianchong and Hu Zongxian, they were all deeply wary of this matter. The private market naturally had ships, had transactions, and had cargo owners, but no one mentioned it, and this matter passed like this.

Zhu Yijun only learned from Qi Jiguang that there was a follow-up to this matter back then. Hu Zongxian investigated it later, but it stopped at the investigation and there was no further news.

The reason was very simple. Hu Zongxian didn't want to cause more trouble. Suppressing Japanese pirates was already chaotic enough. The court was fighting with hidden arrows, and the people below were fighting to the death. If there was another matter, would the Japanese pirates be suppressed or not?

For the sake of the overall situation of suppressing Japanese pirates, Hu Zongxian did not investigate to the end.

However, Hu Zongxian still knew. His subordinates Tan Lun, Qi Jiguang, Wang Daokun, Xu Wei, and Mao Kun actually all knew.

Back then, for the sake of the overall situation of suppressing Japanese pirates, it was not investigated to the end. Now, for the sake of the overall situation of opening the sea, it needs to be investigated to the end.

"That is to say, this is clearing out old diseases and poisons?" Zhu Yijun only then learned that there was such an old matter back then, and for a while, he was a bit emotional. It was really very, very difficult to do something back then. Zhu Yijun sneered and said: "Then send them to the Jieku Institute."

The Jieku Institute had a strong demand for specimens. Since Zhang Siwei, Zhu Yijun had rarely sent criminals other than Japanese pirates to the Jieku Institute.

Zhu Yijun was full of expectations for the Great Ming navy, especially the fast sailing ships. According to the Ministry of Works' report, the first version of the "Youlong" scheme made some improvements during the actual construction process, and at the same time added many designs. Although the Ministry of Works kept describing these details, one still had to get on the ship to know.

In the ninth month of the tenth year of Wanli, a piece of bad news reached the imperial front: the former Great Ming Minister of Rites, Ma Ziqiang, had been bedridden for a long time and passed away.

Zhu Yijun issued an edict to suspend the court for three days and bury him in the Xishan Mausoleum. As Minister of Rites, although Ma Ziqiang was not as comprehensive as Wan Shihe, Ma Ziqiang was an extremely qualified Minister of Rites. He cooperated with Zhang Juzheng's new law of reorganizing school administration. Finally, the Ministry of Rites decided on the posthumous title "Wenzhuang," and Zhu Yijun gave him the title of Junior Guardian, which completed Ma Ziqiang's funeral.

And the Xuan-Da Viceroy Wu Baipeng reported one thing: the 190,000 refugees settled by Wang Chonggu back then had multiplied to 240,000.

In the two places of Xuanfu and Datong, there were a total of 1.75 million mu of land, which did not include the barren land planted with sweet potatoes. The tax on sweet potatoes was one-fifth of the dry weight. The Great Ming had never thought about levying taxes on sweet potatoes. The positioning of sweet potatoes was originally for disaster relief, and the area of sweet potato planting in the entire Xuanfu and Datong had exceeded 700,000 mu. Only then did the common people have a surplus.

The engineer regiments of the Suiyuan Road and the mining industry had about 10,000 people, all of whom came from these refugees back then.

Zhu Yijun issued an edict to reward Wang Chonggu again for his merit in giving birth to the people. The rewards were not many: 100 silver coins, 5 bottles of national cellar wine, and a cloak. This time, the cloak was still a crane cloak, without python patterns or flying fish patterns, but for Wang Chonggu, this was imperial favor.

On the 13th day of the ninth month of the tenth year of Wanli, the chief editor of the Guangde Bookstore, Five Classics Doctor Lin Fucheng, got up early. The new issue of "Xiaoyao Yiwen" had been written and was being printed urgently. Getting up so early was not to continue writing, but to dress up, preparing to go to Chaoyang Gate. Today was the day the prisoner carriage of the Xia family of Renhe was escorted into the capital. Lin Fucheng wanted to go and watch.

When Lin Fucheng was studying abroad as a teenager, he offended the Xia family in Renhe, Zhejiang, and finally ended up as a criminal. Taking the imperial examination became the shore that Lin Fucheng could never reach in his life. This was Lin Fucheng's heart disease.

The reason why Lin Fucheng offended the Xia family of Renhe back then was that he heard about Xia Boshou's legendary experience in the streets and talked about it for two sentences, which led to a prison disaster.

Xia Boshou's mother was a concubine, and when Xia Boshou was born, his father Xia Xun was already 57 years old. Xia Boshou had two older brothers who were already adults, but Xia Xun took Xia Boshou and his mother back to the Xia mansion. The two adult brothers began to bully Xia Boshou. Xia Boshou endured humiliation and bore the burden. When he was six, Xia Xun died of illness, and the legitimate mother drove Xia Boshou and his mother out of the Xia family.

Xia Boshou was bullied since he was a child and understood things early. He had been carrying firewood everywhere to subsidize the family. When he was seven, he returned home and found that his mother had died before the stove.

Xia Xun's legitimate wife, Xia Boshou's legitimate mother, still couldn't tolerate the existence of this concubine, so she found a desperate person to strangle Xia Boshou's biological mother.

The seven-year-old Xia Boshou didn't even bury his mother and fled directly. If it were later, it would be a dead end. Xia Boshou fled to Shuangyu. How a seven-year-old child fled such a long distance, only Xia Boshou himself knew. He went to Shuangyu to seek refuge with an uncle, and this uncle was a sea pirate.

When he was seventeen, his uncle died, and Xia Boshou became the big leader of the sea pirates. Then a tragic revenge began. The two brothers died one after another. One died in a woman's belly, dying suddenly in a brothel, and the other was strolling in the garden, undoubtedly Xia Boshou's work.

The new head of the family was only eleven years old. Xia Boshou appeared openly, and the legitimate mother died tragically at home the next day. The children of the two brothers died suddenly one after another.

Xia Boshou was a very cruel person, killing without blinking, and also good at enjoying himself. He successively took 27 concubines and gave birth to a big nest.

Lin Fucheng came to the outside of Chaoyang Gate. Chen Mo, who was responsible for protecting Lin Fucheng, took Lin Fucheng to the Wufeng Building on Chaoyang Gate. From here, looking down, one could see the prisoner carriage passing by.

"Young Master Huang, Young Master Wang, are you here to watch the fun?" Lin Fucheng went up to the Wufeng Building and saw Young Master Huang and Wang Qian.

Until now, Lin Fucheng didn't know what Young Master Huang was called, only that his surname was Huang. The Great General's Mansion never made any response to Young Master Huang's affairs.

"Lin Dashi, what kind of leisure and elegance did you get to come and watch the prisoner carriage enter the city? Everyone in the capital is looking forward to Lin Dashi continuing to finish the travelogue," Zhu Yijun asked with a smile.

"Xia Boshou is my enemy," Lin Fucheng said slightly awkwardly: "I just came to see him have bad luck."

This is not a gentleman. According to Confucian values, one should be magnanimous and have a degree of tolerance, but Lin Fucheng never had a gentleman's persona, and he didn't have much tolerance.

"Oh? I'd like to hear the details." Zhu Yijun knew quite a bit about Lin Fucheng's affairs, just letting him say it himself.

Lin Fucheng finished the process in a rambling way, thinking of it and still hating it to the teeth, but there was nothing he could do.

Zhu Yijun asked Zhao Mengyou to take a spear and said to Lin Fucheng: "In a while, when his prisoner carriage passes Chaoyang Gate, it needs to be checked. Here is a spear. You throw it down directly and smash him to death! If something happens, I will cover for you."

"Why, don't you dare?"

"I won't cause trouble for Young Master Huang," Lin Fucheng waved his hands repeatedly. He hated Xia Boshou, but he really didn't have the guts to do such a thing.

Zhu Yijun said happily: "It's okay, it's not troublesome. No one dares to cause trouble for the Great General's Mansion, right?"

Military generals, after achieving success, all have to self-smear. This has been the case since ancient times. For example, the fierce general Wang Jian of the Great Qin, when destroying Chu, was constantly asking for money and beauties, which was to express that he was only interested in money and beauties and not interested in more. This practice has always existed.

Qi Jiguang didn't need to self-smear anymore. Zhu Yijun was arrogant and domineering outside under Young Master Huang's name, which could be considered causing quite a bit of trouble for Qi Jiguang.

"Forget it, the Great Ming Law will deal with him!" Lin Fucheng finally didn't have the courage to take action, gritted his teeth and said.

Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "That's fine."

Xia Boshou's prisoner carriage was getting closer and closer. The onlookers whispered to each other. Xia Boshou didn't care at all, but looked left and right, extremely novel. Xia Boshou was really not afraid of death. Having spent his whole life fighting for his life, he had long thought of this day, sooner or later.

He started as a sea pirate, which was his foundation. He used sea pirates to take revenge, transformed himself, and became the head of the Xia family. He still had to manage the sea pirates.

Xia Boshou felt that he shouldn't have been born. Then his mother wouldn't have spent six years of non-human life in the mansion and died tragically. As for that father Xia Xun, Xia Boshou never recognized him. Death was just a relief, but Xia Boshou would never have thought that the road to relief would be very long.

The Jieku Institute is a human purgatory.

Zhu Yijun watched the long carriage enter the capital. Behind the prisoner carriage was the Zheng Prince's Mansion's motorcade. Yesterday, the Zheng Prince's Mansion's motorcade arrived in Tongzhou, and today the whole family of the Zheng Prince's Mansion returned to the capital. Compared with the 72 members of the Xia family of Renhe, the Zheng Prince's Mansion only had 21 people, and there was also an imperial uncle, Zhu Zaiji, who had been lingering in the capital for ten years.

The Zheng Prince's Mansion entered the capital, naturally responding to the Great Ming court's order to move the fief. Counting all the clan members in the register, there were only 21 people, which was really not many. The Ten Kings City had not been built yet. The whole family of the Zheng Prince's Mansion would live in Zhu Zaiji's De Prince's Mansion, waiting for the Ten Kings City outside Deshengmen to be built before moving there.

Yesterday, Zhu Yijun issued an edict for Zhu Zaiji to come to Chaoyang Gate to welcome his father. Zhu Zaiji rarely appeared outside the Royal Polytechnic Institute. Ten years had passed, and Zhu Zaiji and his father naturally had a lot to say. They said a few words outside Chaoyang Gate before heading to the De Prince's Mansion.

"That is Prince De." Lin Fucheng had always been very curious about Zhu Zaiji, but Zhu Zaiji never went out in the Royal Polytechnic Institute, and Lin Fucheng had never had the fate to meet him.

"Lin Dashi is not a Five Classics Doctor? If you are curious about visiting Prince De, just go with your tooth tablet," Zhu Yijun reminded Lin Fucheng that he now had an official status and was someone who could freely enter and exit the Royal Polytechnic Institute.

If he was really curious about what Zhu Zaiji was doing, he could go.

"Forget it, I am someone who entered through the back door. If I am ridiculed, I won't be able to talk back," Lin Fucheng had a trace of thought in his heart, but finally dispelled this idea. He, someone who entered through the back door, had better not go. Being scolded and unable to talk back would be too uncomfortable.

"Actually, everyone in the Royal Polytechnic Institute entered through the back door," Zhu Yijun told Lin Fucheng this fact. Tan Lun had recommended a strange person, Huang Zifu, who made tea-serving wooden beauties, which was through Tan Lun's back door.

The Royal Polytechnic Institute was not as mysterious as Lin Fucheng thought.

Zhu Yijun chatted with Lin Fucheng for a few words and returned to the Tonghe Palace Imperial Study. On the desk was the new issue of "Xiaoyao Yiwen" written by Lin Fucheng, and the content was about the common people in Gaoyang County resisting the Xia tax.

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