Chapter 505: Lying flat in the weeds is stable, but the common people in the four seas are afraid they are not at peace

Lin Fucheng's Baoding trip lasted 30 days in total, visiting five counties, and seeing many, many things. The armed tax resistance in Gaoyang County and the prevalence of such tax resistance were shocking.

Baoding Prefecture is next to Shuntian Prefecture, which can be considered the radiation zone of the capital. But in just six days, large-scale tax resistance, especially armed tax resistance, occurred three times.

The Great Ming land tax is one-thirtieth, which can be considered light taxation. How did it reach such a point?

The cause of everything was the labor service difference silver of 19,400 households in Baoding Prefecture.

The Great Ming levies labor services, which can be exempted by paying money. In fact, it is an additional poll tax. It is the local government making up names and scraping three feet of ground to search for the people's fat and cream. It is not really to levy 19,400 households, but to collect this money and then use it for the public expenses of the yamen. Armed tax resistance is resisting these private demands of the township departments.

The core philosophy of Wang Chonggu's "Memorial on Equalizing Land Services" is to determine the quota for these labor service difference silver poll taxes in various places, and then apportion them to the land for collection. The ministers of the Great Ming Dynasty actually realized the seriousness of the problem of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous levies.

This masterpiece of Lin Fucheng once again punctured the prosperous situation of flowers and brocade, and the world depicted was so tragic.

Gaoyang County apportioned 2,700 households' labor service four-difference silver. As soon as Gaoyang County posted the list, it immediately boiled over. Soon, things got bigger and bigger. First, it was a strike, that is, the common people organized spontaneously and no longer transported rice, flour, grain, oil, vegetables, firewood, soil, wood, and stone into the city. The masters in the city did not engage in production, and the common people who bore the taxes seemed to want to use this way to resist these exorbitant taxes and the poll tax collected more.

Gaoyang County Magistrate Yu Qiyuan ordered the villagers to deliver goods into the city, and the contradiction began to intensify. On the 24th day of the seventh month, the riot began. The yamen runners responsible for urging were put in sacks and beaten up, and this way of putting in sacks immediately became widespread. The yamen runners no longer went out of the city to urge taxes. After all, they would be put in sacks as soon as they went out.

On the 26th, Yu Qiyuan let the 3,000 yamen runners of the county yamen go out of the city to urge taxes collectively, so they wouldn't be beaten.

The contradiction was immediately intensified at this moment. Hearing the news, the villagers blocked the city gate and did not let the yamen runners go out of the city. The yamen runners did not have orders and did not directly kill. At the moment when the contradiction was ignited, Yu Qiyuan panicked. He ordered the yamen runners to withdraw.

"This world is still rotten like this."

Zhu Yijun said dissatisfiedly: "Let people speak, the sky won't fall."

【Officials are too urgent, yamen runners are fierce, local gentry are not virtuous and lack morality, villagers hear the wind and become bandits, and when the wind passes, they become people again. Officials are bandits, clerks are bandits, yamen runners are bandits, local gentry are bandits, and villagers are also bandits. Bandits, bandits, bandits, bandits, bandits, everyone in the world is a bandit. Seeing such strange conditions with my own eyes, it is truly: laws change in the morning and evening, levies increase in the sun and decrease in the shade, the cost of nameless supplies is like a surging river, the needs of unannounced levies are like high mountains, and the common people suffer in thousands of ways, which cannot be exhausted in words.】

【Lying flat in the weeds is stable, but the common people in the four seas are afraid they are not at peace.】

Lin Fucheng can naturally sit in the weeds and be the one who lives in seclusion. He has that wealth to live a stable life, but the common people within the four seas are probably not yet at peace. He is like a disgusting big mouth, saying words that everyone hates.

The common people also came out of the bandit dens. Once the bandit skin was taken off, they became villagers again.

"This Guangde Bookstore, if it weren't for the protection of Wang Chonggu's son Wang Qian and Young Master Huang of the Great General's Mansion, I'm afraid someone would have told him to shut up long ago, right?" Zhu Yijun also just laughed. He had no disgust for Lin Fucheng. These are all stubborn diseases of the Great Ming. Everyone pretends not to see them, and this kind of thing will only keep rotting.

"Your Majesty, should we let Lin Fucheng's mouth restrain itself a little?" Feng Bao said with an embarrassed expression.

The key is that this dog thing doesn't come up with a solution.

Before it is thoroughly solved, we can only let Lin Fucheng continue to scold. Scolding a few words can also be considered as helping the wind of the new policies.

Zhu Yijun could have shouted like Kangxi: "Increase the poll tax forever without adding taxes!"

Moreover, in the memorials of Zhu Yijun's reprimand and Xin Zixi's confession, no solution was mentioned. But in the secret memorial, Xin Zixi reported to His Majesty that he was going to clear out redundant officials. Solving the fiscal problem is nothing more than two channels: opening sources and reducing expenditure. Opening sources is difficult, and reducing expenditure is not easy either. Therefore, Xin Zixi was going to clear out redundant officials and solve redundant expenses.

Feng Bao had to say: "Your Majesty is right."

The end of the seventh month in Gaoyang County was a lively month. What made Lin Fucheng feel emotional was that in the end, Yu Qiyuan panicked again. Before the soldiers met, Yu Qiyuan ordered the yamen runners to return to the yamen. In the end, the four-difference silver was not collected. The movement was too big, and it ended up with nothing.

Did only Wang Chonggu notice the local government collecting exorbitant taxes and fish-eating the common people?

As early as the seventh year of Wanli, the Ministry of Revenue had already taken note of this issue. On the eighth day of the eighth month of the seventh year of Wanli, Wang Guoguang led the Ministry of Revenue in submitting a memorial, requesting an order to hold prefectures, departments, and counties accountable for auditing all money and grain—including corvée labor, Lijia service, public expenses of various yamen, and official travel expenses—beyond the two taxes. Everything taken from the people was to be thoroughly audited, with amounts reduced, obsolete names abolished, and quotas established based on old regulations. The principle was that one must not follow outdated customs and merely report false figures and empty documents; nor should one cut and abolish too much, making it difficult to implement or sustain.

Zhu Yijun looked at the "Xiaoyao Yiwen" in his hand, and at the end of the article, Lin Fucheng said with great emotion:

Lin Fucheng didn't just say unpleasant things. Lin Fucheng also charged into battle every day for the Great Ming's new policies, fighting with his tongue against the scholars, never retreating.

From the court's point of view, this money is not what the court wants to collect, so it is not under the court's control. But in the eyes of the common people, the county yamen, prefecture yamen, Provincial Administration Commissioner, and capital officials are all the court, and they are one body.

It was only when Yongzheng was there that it was implemented for a period of time. Later, this "never add taxes" could not be implemented either. Indeed, the court didn't collect it, but the local government collected it as usual. A clean magistrate for three years, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, every cent and every li is blood and sweat, every inch is fat and cream.

The local gentry brought their own dog-legged men, the squad leaders took the yamen runners, and they joined forces to go to the countryside. What they said was a three-seven split, but how much they grabbed and how much they collected extra depended on the conscience of the local gentry, dog-legged men, squad leaders, and yamen runners! But these people don't know how to write the two words "conscience"!

Gaoyang County had seven bandit dens. Soon, the bandit dens were overcrowded, and armed tax resistance started from this.

Yu Qiyuan was worried about causing a civil riot. Yu Qiyuan knew clearly about the insect disaster in the county this year. If it were a bumper year, the common people wouldn't have gathered like this. In the end, Yu Qiyuan first found the prefect, and after the discussion failed, he went to find the Baoding Governor Xin Zixi, but there was still no result.

That is to say, they didn't show up for the roll call once in five years. Not only did they not show up to the yamen to sit in the office, but they also received the yamen's salary. This time, they not only had to clear them out, but also had to pursue the previous salaries. If they received a grain of rice, they had to pursue it back. In this way, the Baoding yamen would not lack money.

The four-difference silver belongs to local self-governance collection and is not under the control of the Ministry of Revenue.

After this issue of "Xiaoyao Yiwen" came out, Gaoyang County Magistrate Yu Qiyuan and Baoding Governor Xin Zixi soon submitted a memorial to explain the situation. The general meaning was that everyone was having a hard time, so they could only do it reluctantly.

Anyone can say that!

Actually, the problem lies in this "really needed" question. This silver in Baoding Prefecture is actually ambiguous. If collected, life will be better; if not collected, everyone will tighten their belts. Things like concubines giving birth to children cannot be paid for with public funds. Xin Zixi also knew that this silver could not pass the Ministry of Revenue's audit, so he stood by and watched.

Zhu Yijun looked at Feng Bao and said with a smile: "Only let people flatter and sing praises, not let people criticize and point out the ills? If he, Lin Fucheng, really donated his integrity and greedily sought from the powerful and wealthy, would I still look at him with favor? The Great Ming has been raising censors, which is to let them say these things. But the censors? They only know about court fighting all day, holding the banner of the 'Clear Stream,' and talking about the heart and nature all day long."

Xin Zixi soon submitted a memorial, saying that His Majesty's reprimand made him terrified. He didn't do a good job in guarding one side, and it was all his fault. He sent a list to the court, clearing out 6,000 officials, squad leaders, and yamen runners. And in this clearing list, all of them were those who should have arrived but didn't.

"This time going to Tianjin to inspect the navy, let Lin Fucheng accompany you, and just arrange a place for him to watch the ceremony," Zhu Yijun arranged for Lin Fucheng to accompany him to Tianjin Guard. Feng Bao also had a point. If Lin Fucheng continued to scold like this, all the Great Ming officials would be dissatisfied with him. The Great Ming had been around for two hundred years, and there were too many accumulated ills. They were being disposed of bit by bit, and they were doing it. Lin Fucheng chattering on the side was indeed annoying.

Zhu Yijun did not punish these two people. He severely reprimanded Baoding Governor Xin Zixi, training Xin Zixi that when Yu Qiyuan asked him for help, he couldn't help. It was indeed difficult, and he had to do it reluctantly. So could Xin Zixi report it? He didn't know how to use the secret memorial channel, and he didn't know how to complain. If it was really needed, the court could also remit it.

Labor service, courier supply, civilian strength, and service are the names of the four-difference silver, but the county yamen and prefectures buying things also gradually included them in the four-difference silver. Finally, the public expenses of the local yamen were gradually included in this name. There were many names for public expenses, and even someone's concubine giving birth to a child and preparing a banquet had to be included in this name. Anyway, it was public money. If you don't try every possible way to take it, it will be occupied by others.

This principle is Zhang Juzheng's floating ticket. He requires that one cannot constantly make up names and constantly increase levies, nor can one suddenly cut too many, so that the local yamen cannot maintain it, which is equivalent to having no yamen.

It's time to let Lin Fucheng sing praises.

Feng Bao became more and more dissatisfied with Lin Fucheng. These problems, the court noticed, and was doing it. How did it become that he alone became the one who worries before the world in Lin Fucheng's mouth, and the Great Ming Emperor and the ministers were all like wine bags and rice sacks.

Yu Qiyuan found Baoding Governor Xin Zixi, but Xin Zixi avoided talking about it and just waved his hand. Xin Zixi promised Yu Qiyuan, then what about other counties, Quyang, Fuping, Xingtai, Shahe, should they also come to the door directly? If all were promised, who would bear the public expenses of the Baoding yamen?

"Being able to tell the truth is already extraordinary. And our Lin Dashi, he supports every political order of the court, and even is willing to run and shout for it, which is extremely rare."

What is Lin Fucheng's identity? Five Classics Doctor. The Five Classics Doctor is a specially bestowed official status. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is the Emperor's staff. This is the embodiment of the staff system, collecting some capable people to run for the monarch. The Emperor is also a person of flesh and blood, and he doesn't know everything, and he is not good at everything.

To thoroughly solve this problem, it is necessary to survey the population, abolish the base slave status, gather the wandering and lazy people in the engineer regiments, build production in the officialdom, determine the public expenses of yamen at all levels, and finally apportion all four-difference silver into the land before it can be solved.

Zhu Yijun's secret memorial recognized Xin Zixi's idea.

Feng Bao said extremely angrily: "He, he, he doesn't know the complexity of the matter at all! Many things are not as simple as he thinks! He has been chattering, but he doesn't come up with a solution! He is really, the Great Ming has so many good things he doesn't say! Talk about the Great Ming's northern expedition, talk about the development of Liaodong, talk about the Great Ming's roads, talk about the flourishing development of the mining industry, he doesn't, he just picks those sores to puncture!"

Not taking advantage of cheapness is a turtle.

"I know Feng Daban's loyalty to the monarch. He scolded Gaoyang County Magistrate Yu Qiyuan, scolded Baoding Governor Xin Zixi, and similarly he scolded the teacher Zhang Juzheng, scolded me, the Emperor. The Emperor's teacher has been engaged in new policies for so many years, what kind of name has he made? He shouts every day, 'The people are the foundation of the country, the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful,' but what about the result?"

Yu Qiyuan returned to Gaoyang County and finally found the local gentry, letting the local gentry share this cost. Things reached this point and there was no turning back.

"I have every reason to suspect that our Lin Dashi was used by Gaoyang County Magistrate Yu Qiyuan and Baoding Governor Xin Zixi," Zhu Yijun was also a bit dazed when he saw this list. He knew that none of these Great Ming readers were simple!

This is simply a trap.

It wasn't that Lin Fucheng ran to someone else's land to puncture someone else's sore. It was clearly that these two people knew Lin Fucheng's specialty and played a game of "letting go to catch." Lin Fucheng's "Xiaoyao Yiwen" was the link of the report. Lin Fucheng was arranged clearly and clearly by others.

This list couldn't be produced in a while. Connecting it to the direct reason for the extermination of the Gao Yang He family before, in "Xiaoyao Yiwen," this Yu Qiyuan is a useless clown, fierce and cowardly, fierce in urging taxes, cowardly in critical moments, always afraid, collecting yamen runners, and after things got noisy, it subsided within a few days.

Is Yu Qiyuan really so useless that he can suppress the contradiction that has reached the point of soldiers meeting so quickly? It is clearly that the control is extremely strong.

Feng Bao also put several contents together and realized: "I understand a little. Xin Zixi wants to clear out, but the local roots are deep, and it is not easy for him to move. And Yu Qiyuan is actually his knife, wanting to poke this matter to Your Majesty, and not make it so embarrassing. Lin Fucheng is the tongue he wants."

"This Yu Qiyuan must have seen the Embroidered Uniform Guard Chen Mo to be sure of this matter, and it will definitely reach Your Majesty."

The Embroidered Uniform Guard is the Emperor's personal army. Lin Fucheng can get the protection of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, which clearly shows that his identity is extremely special.

If Xin Zixi suddenly reported to clear out without any reason, the Baoding local area would definitely oppose it with all its strength. Playing such a game is borrowing force to do things, borrowing the wind to do things. In this way, it is natural.

Zhu Yijun approved Xin Zixi's clearing memorial and said with a smile: "I finally understand. Our Great Ming officials all want to make contributions and all want to be promoted. For the sake of the two words 'promotion,' they really, use every possible means. I am now very sure of this point. Any fleeting opportunity will be grasped."

Yu Qiyuan was a third-rank Jinshi in the second year of Wanli. If there were no accidents, Yu Qiyuan would be like Liu Hanru, spending a lifetime in local areas. It would be as difficult as ascending to heaven to enter the capital. Hu Zongxian was a third-rank background, and he spent his whole life unable to cross this natural chasm. After suppressing the Japanese pirates, he was killed after the work was done, and he never had the possibility of walking into the Wenhua Palace and Wenyuan Pavilion to become a court minister.

"In Liu Hanru's case, we must explain clearly the matter of Pang Shangpeng recommending Liu Hanru as Fujian Governor, disclose the original copy, including the teacher's floating ticket and my vermilion approval, to let the officials of the world know that as long as there is talent, origin is not a problem," Zhu Yijun instructed Feng Bao. Liu Hanru cannot die in vain.

Zhu Yijun does not regret beheading Liu Hanru. He indulged in private markets, which is a capital crime. But Zhu Yijun is very sorry for Liu Hanru's death. Being able to operate a private market to that extent can be considered a capable person. There are many people like Liu Hanru. They are clearly capable, but because they didn't pass the first or second rank, their official career is only cut off. They spend their whole lives in local areas and cannot return to the capital. Such capable people who take the wrong path are often the most terrifying.

Disclosing the details, Liu Hanru's seeking but not getting, climbing a tree to catch a fish, his lessons are the last gift he left to this world.

Baoding Governor Xin Zixi began to clear out, and soon governors in various places also began to clear out openly or secretly.

"Your Majesty, Pang Shangpeng is waiting outside the Imperial Study." A small eunuch walked in and bowed.

"Proclaim."

Former Fujian Governor, now Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Pang Shangpeng, walked in, bowed five times and kowtowed three times. He knelt on the ground and said: "Sinful minister Pang Shangpeng pays respects to Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty. Sinful minister recognized people improperly, which is truly shameful. Sickly, I request to retire and return to my hometown."

Pang Shangpeng was promoted to do the work of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in the capital, but he didn't go to the Ministry of Revenue to sit for a day. He entered the capital to see the Emperor and presented the prepared retirement memorial, which was considered leaving face for everyone. Promotion was originally to let him retire.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Stand up. Just live in Xitucheng. I have prepared a house for you. Rest well. You have worked hard for the country all your life. I know your loyalty to the monarch and your ambition to revitalize the country. Actually, you didn't misjudge him. Liu Hanru is indeed very capable."

Pang Shangpeng had a very bad relationship with Zhang Juzheng, but Zhang Juzheng still appointed him as Fujian Governor because Pang Shangpeng was very capable and had always been working for the Great Ming's revitalization. He was also the first to advocate the "Single Whip Law" and conducted a pilot project in Zhejiang. After it failed, he conducted a pilot project in Fujian, and this time it succeeded.

The "Single Whip Law" needs a foundation. The Great Ming is not in a hurry to implement the "Single Whip Law" right now.

The "Memorial on Equalizing Land Services" and the "Single Whip Law" are both to solve the problem of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous levies. The Great Ming is currently in the stage of surveying the population, and there is still a long way to go before the "Single Whip Law."

"Thank Your Majesty for your great grace." Pang Shangpeng breathed a sigh of relief. At least he landed with face and didn't end up with his head moving.

Pang Shangpeng didn't know clearly about the private market Liu Hanru made, but he could guess one or two. Liu Hanru must have traded something with these wealthy households, otherwise, how could the political order be so smooth? Originally, Pang Shangpeng thought it was the ship permits of the Maritime Customs Office, but he didn't expect Liu Hanru to make such a big scene.

The Chen Jingbang and Liu Hanru case had been investigated. Pang Shangpeng indeed didn't take silver, and the Assistant Regional Commander of the Fujian Southern Route, Li Yingchi, didn't take silver. Only by taking silver would they be a community of interests. Only by taking silver would Pang Shangpeng know the secrets of the Sandu'ao private market.

"Is the Great Black Ditch really so difficult to cross?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

Pang Shangpeng bowed and said: "You can only walk through Yuegang, Penghu, Xinglongzhuang, or walk from Songjiang, Ningbo to Ryukyu and go south to Danshui Town. Crossing is difficult. The wind is uncertain and the water is not peaceful."

Zhu Yijun took out the sea survey memorial of the fast sailing ship "Youlong" and handed it to Pang Shangpeng, saying: "Now, it is not a natural chasm. The fast sailing ship has crossed it."

Pang Shangpeng's old eyes were dim. He put on his reading glasses, finished reading the content of the sea survey, and shook his head: "Your Majesty, this is an exception. The 'Youlong' has the best navy soldiers, the best captain, and even the Assistant Regional Commander sitting in town, and the best boat division. A Great Black Ditch is nothing. What I said is difficult is for merchant ships."

The "Youlong" is naturally easy. It is the pearl on the Great Ming's crown and the crystallization of the Great Ming's most advanced shipbuilding experience. It is a sailing ship aimed at rapid global navigation. The Great Black Ditch is naturally like a smooth road. Civilian merchant ships are all two-masted small boats, looking at the wind and water, which is naturally different.

"What you said is reasonable," Zhu Yijun nodded: "You have been in Fujian for a long time and have been involved in maritime trade. From your point of view, how is this 'Youlong'?"

"If there were 100 of these things, the Westerners would lose all their colonies," Pang Shangpeng looked for a long time and said.

Pang Shangpeng further explained: "It is not that his military prowess is so formidable, but that the goods of the Great Ming will be carried by it to all corners of the world, breaking the original trade cycle. In terms of the crude economic tethering of the West, I fear it will not be able to sustain itself for many years before the supply of the colonies encounters difficulties, because once trade is launched from the West again, there will be no profit to be made."

"This is its most important significance, rapid trade."

The significance of the fast sailing ship lies in accelerating the establishment of global trade in the Great Age of Discovery. Its reliance is still the Great Ming's huge productivity and production scale. If the Great Ming flips the pancake again on banning the sea and opening the sea, changing from opening the sea to banning the sea, then the fast sailing ship is meaningless.

Military, economy, culture, technology—these abstract concepts do not exist alone, but exist in universal and close connections. Other aspects are often more important.

Zhu Yijun and Pang Shangpeng talked for a long time. Until Pang Shangpeng was a bit exhausted, Zhu Yijun let Pang Shangpeng leave. It was mainly to ask about the development of Jilong Island. The development of Danshui Town and Xinglongzhuang was an expansion from point to surface. The entire Jilong Island could accommodate the population of a Zhejiang, which could effectively alleviate the contradiction between people and land in the Southern Capital.

"He is old," Zhu Yijun said with great emotion when Pang Shangpeng left.

From Pang Shangpeng, Zhu Yijun saw the twilight. This twilight, he had seen in Tan Lun. It was the all-around languor of spirit caused by long-term illness. Even without this Sandu'ao private market affair, he wouldn't have lasted long. Since he fell ill in the eighth year of Wanli, Pang Shangpeng had been running around with illness. Now, the Sandu'ao private market was a comprehensive blow to Pang Shangpeng.

Pang Shangpeng thought highly of Liu Hanru and even recommended him to take charge of the governor, but in the end, he was disappointed.

Three days after Pang Shangpeng moved into Xitucheng, bad news reached the capital. The depression and worry aggravated his illness. After sleeping on the night of the 23rd of the ninth month, he never woke up again.

Zhu Yijun issued an edict to bury him in Xishan, the Ministry of Rites gave the posthumous title "Huimin," suspended the court for one day, and there was no extra gift of official rank.

At the end of the ninth month, the "Youlong" entered the capital. The matter of the Emperor going to Tianjin Guard to inspect the navy was discussed by many people, mainly divided into two factions. One faction believed that "Bo Lang, Bo Gu, its disaster can also be used as a mirror" was the reason to oppose the Emperor's inspection.

The stories of Bo Lang and Bo Gu are about Qin Shi Huang being attacked by someone with an iron cone at Bolangsha, and Wu Di of Han being refused by the pavilion chief when he visited Bogu in disguise. Wu Di of Han was dissatisfied and started a big prison. These two things were all things that happened when the Son of Heaven toured the south.

There are fierce and lawless people who take the opportunity to make trouble, and the disaster is very great.

On the other hand, Zheng Prince entered the capital and lived in the De Prince's Mansion. If the Emperor left the capital, I am afraid it would cause some bad rumors, which is harmful to Prince De Zhu Zaiji.

The method given by the opposition is: let the Minister of War, the Grand Marshal, go to inspect it. It is better for the Emperor not to move easily.

This time, being able to stop the Emperor from going to Tianjin Guard to inspect the navy, the same reason can stop the Emperor from leaving the capital next time.

The support faction is led by Wan Shihe in the court. Wan Shihe clearly stated: Prince Zheng and Prince De, go to Tianjin together, wouldn't that be fine? Take them with you, what bad things can happen? It can show the friendship between relatives. It just so happens that Prince De, as the dean of the Polytechnic Institute, can personally see the things he tossed about, which are not useless things.

And the folk are assisted by Lin Fucheng. Lin Fucheng's "Xiaoyao Yiwen" believes that the Emperor should go, and must go!

Lin Fucheng's point of view is: the Imperial Palace is a heavenly prison, and the capital is a confinement. If the Emperor cannot get rid of the confinement, it is like living in a heavenly prison. How can he understand the suffering of the people, and how can he understand the various things of the Great Ming?

His Majesty going to Tianjin Guard to inspect is the freedom to get rid of confinement.

Lin Fucheng is really too disappointing. Everyone's expectation for him is "the flag-bearer who openly challenges imperial power." Now he is completely a licking dog! The court farts, and Lin Fucheng can relate it to freedom.

The key is that it makes sense!

Lin Fucheng also wants to see big ships. Embroidered Uniform Guard Chen Mo notified him that Young Master Huang used his connections to get him a position on the viewing platform. Then Lin Fucheng would support it even if he shouted his throat out. Before leaving Songjiang Prefecture, he had seen a five-masted ocean-crossing ship, but he had only heard the name of this "Youlong" and had never seen its shape.

The noise and dispute subsided after the Grand Secretary and Second Grand Secretary expressed their support together. The Grand Secretary and Second Grand Secretary reported together, supporting His Majesty to go to Tianjin Guard to inspect the navy, which also meant that the Grand Secretaries would support His Majesty's tour of the south.

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