Chapter 523: The Japanese Cannot Not Be Pacified, But They Cannot Be Completely Pacified

Huang Yuanxian is the son of the righteous man Huang Yique who resisted the Japanese, and he is also in the kelp business.

The kelp business itself doesn't actually make much money. Yao Guangqi planted kelp in suitable waters along the Great Ming coast to prevent goiter. It is a commodity destined to be sold in volume. It requires a large number of fishermen to plant, requires greater transport capacity to maintain the transport of kelp, and a long sales chain to ensure the sales volume of kelp.

The kelp business is thankless. Even Yao Guangqi's father, Yao Zhangzhen, did not support his son.

Yao Guangqi still married the daughter of Wang Chonggu's younger brother, which could be considered as defecting to the Jin merchants, and only then did he have a trading network. Only the bundled sea goods, such as fish oil, pearls, etc., made money. Its investment and return were not even as good as buying some ship tickets at the trading house or subscribing to the Great Ming Emperor's national debt.

In terms of family background, Huang Yuanxian is a family of righteous men, local gentry who ruined their family to resist the Japanese. In terms of personal behavior, Huang Yuanxian is supporting the Great Ming's general strategy of "the people are the foundation of the state, and the foundation is solid, the state is peaceful" with his own practical actions. And looking at the whole thing, Zhu Yijun, this Imperial Prince, is indeed impersonating the Huang clan of Penglai.

Zhu Yijun saw Huang Yuanxian. His appearance was quite handsome. With this skin, he could make more silver than a broker by going to a brothel to mess around.

The Great Ming Emperor walked into the prison. Huang Yuanxian immediately knelt on the ground, trembling, and said: "See Your Majesty. Long live, long live, long live Your Majesty."

"Allow this student to state his case. Qi the Grand General resisting the Japanese is the backbone of the Great Ming. This subject came from Shandong. Shandong has deeply received the grace of Qi the Grand General pacifying the Japanese. This student heard that someone was walking around in the names of the Grand General's Mansion and the Huang clan of Penglai, and felt that the Grand General was too lazy to care about such swindlers, so he let people spread the news, hoping... hoping to see this Young Master Huang."

The person was seen, but it did not unfold according to the script Huang Yuanxian wanted. Meeting the Imperial Prince in prison was a scene Huang Yuanxian had never imagined.

Let alone Huang Yuanxian, Zhu Yijun had not imagined it either.

"Your best way is to go directly to the Grand General's Mansion to inquire, instead of spreading news. Rise." Zhu Yijun sat down steadily.

Huang Yuanxian is a merchant, not a person who is slick and smooth. If he doesn't do things right, he will offend people. In a foreign land, problems are very likely to occur. It is not difficult for him to guess that Young Master Huang is the Emperor. People have already entered the prison, and he still doesn't know what kind of character he has opened the box to. He doesn't need to do business anymore.

Zhu Yijun was wearing casual clothes, but Huang Yuanxian guessed it the first time.

"Your Majesty's instruction is correct. This student will never dare again." Huang Yuanxian had bitterness that he could not speak of. Go directly to the Grand General's Mansion to inquire? Great Ming Emperor, you really have no heart! That is the Grand General's Mansion. Is it a place that ordinary people can visit?! If anyone can run to the Grand General's Mansion to ask questions for various reasons, is the Grand General still the Grand General?!

Zhu Yijun asked curiously: "You call yourself a student, why haven't you obtained fame?"

Huang Yuanxian is a Xiucai. Logically speaking, at this age, he should be studying at home to impact the Juren and Jinshi examinations. He is a merchant, so his mathematics naturally won't be bad. At least he can deal with the Jinshi examination questions. The mathematics examination questions for the Great Ming Jinshi are really not very difficult. They mainly test logic, not algorithms.

"My father asked this student to lead a team to do business. Parents have orders, so I can only obey. This student has been doing business for three years." Huang Yuanxian said with some helplessness. A very standard story: abandoning Confucianism for business, abandoning righteousness to serve merchants.

In the late Great Ming, especially after Wanli, it was very common and was regarded as an unrighteous act of abandoning morality to pursue profit.

Huang Yique asking his son to lead a team to do business can be considered as supporting the political decree when Governor Ling Yunyi was still in Shandong.

"Your Majesty, this student has quite a lot of family assets." Huang Yuanxian bowed his head and said: "After the Zhang clan of Jimo went bankrupt due to reselling ship permits, my father became the merchant leader of the Mizhou Ocean Trading Firm. Because of selling kelp everywhere, Viceroy Ling wrote a letter to the National Surname Lord, and my family can go to Luzon to do business."

Huang Yuanxian wanted to redeem himself. Redeeming crimes with money is a system that the Central Plains dynasty has had since the pre-Qin period, and the Great Ming also has it.

The Book of Documents says: "Metal is used to redeem punishment."

That is, the redemption used in the three generations was bronze. When bronze was first cast, it was golden like gold. It was not until the Han Dynasty that gold began to be used. The Eastern Han used thick silk, Wei and Jin used silk,

Sui, Tang, and Song all used red copper, Yuan used precious paper money, and the Great Ming followed the Tang system and used red copper.

The redemption punishment of the Great Ming has rules. Heavy crimes and death crimes cannot be redeemed. Only some ambiguous light crimes can be redeemed.

The most typical case here is the poverty of Qi Jiguang in his later years.

In the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng passed away. Qi Jiguang's biggest backer fell. When Zhang Juzheng's bones were not yet cold, the court unanimously decided to send Qi Jiguang to Guangdong as a Regional Commander.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, the Supervising Secretary Zhang Xigao pursued and killed, and impeached Qi Jiguang again. Qi Jiguang was forced to retire and return to his hometown in Penglai.

In the fifteenth year of Wanli, the Henan Circuit Censor Fu Guangzhai requested the reinstatement of Qi Jiguang, which led to a severe reprimand. At that time, the Wanli Emperor thought that Qi Jiguang was still secretly seeking reinstatement, and immediately began to hold him accountable. Finally, under the wrestling in the court, Qi Jiguang ended up with "salary redemption," which was to strip Qi Jiguang of his retirement salary to redeem his crime.

What crime? The crime of seeking reinstatement.

In the fifteenth year of Wanli, 61-year-old Qi Jiguang passed away in poverty. The Imperial Court did not give him a posthumous title or an official burial. In the seventeenth year of Wanli, Qi Jiguang's son Qi Zuoguo went to the capital to run around, and only then did he request an official burial for his father. It was not until the end of the Wanli period, when the Wanli Emperor was defeated in the Battle of Sarhu, that he realized his mistake and realized how strong and loyal Qi Jiguang, who had fought north and south without defeat from the Jiajing period to the early Wanli period, was. Finally, he gave him the posthumous title "Wu Zhuang."

As time passed, with the continuous decline and corruption of the Great Ming's national power, Qi Jiguang's status continued to rise. The posthumous title was changed to "Wu Yi," hoping that the State would produce another strong general to stabilize the country.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor specially set up a memorial hall in Penglai for spring and autumn sacrifices to boost morale.

But it was all too late.

Great Ming court officials were all wary of Grand General Qi Jiguang, but in fact, Zhu Yijun knew very well that Qi Jiguang was not that powerful in the court. Whether the Prince of Duke Fengguo's Mansion, which had lost the Emperor's protection, could continue was unknown.

He, this Emperor, didn't even need to do anything. As long as he released some signals, Qi Jiguang of the Prince of Duke Fengguo's Mansion would also be attacked to the point of having nowhere to hide.

In fact, what the court officials feared was not the 100,000 elite soldiers of the Beijing Garrison, but Qi Jiguang's protective umbrella, the Emperor himself. In order to maintain Qi Jiguang's name, the Great Ming Emperor once killed the lowly Confucian scholar Chen Youren on the street.

Clearly, Huang Yuanxian was extremely clear about the provisions of the Great Ming law. If the mistake he made was handled according to the Great Ming law, he could redeem his crime with gold and silver, but the iron plate he kicked was the biggest iron plate in the Great Ming Dynasty.

"No need to redeem." Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "I pardon you for your crime."

The legal provision applicable to offending the Emperor is the correctness of non-punishment, which is that the Emperor has the final say. If the Emperor says there is no crime, there is no crime. Wang Chonggu was pardoned in this way.

This was not a big deal. In fact, Zhu Yijun felt a bit guilty. Li Gui met Li Kui. If he handled it with arrogance and dominance, it would be counterproductive. It was better to let him go secretly and let this matter pass.

"This student kowtows to thank His Majesty for his imperial grace!" The biggest stone in Huang Yuanxian's heart fell to the ground. He knelt down to thank him. For him, this was a world-shattering event, but because of the Emperor's words, the clouds cleared and the sky became bright.

Everyone said that the Emperor was violent and moody, but after Huang Yuanxian came into contact with him, he felt that the Emperor was really a very easy-going person.

"I will still use the Huang clan of Penglai to walk around in the future. You know that, right?" Zhu Yijun spoke of his "Imperial Prince" vest. This was his vest for watching the fun, and it couldn't be thrown away casually.

Huang Yuanxian immediately bowed his head and said: "There is more than one family surnamed Huang in Penglai."

Huang Yuanxian's answer was very clever and witty. In the blink of an eye, he found the best answer. The Emperor used the name of the Huang clan of Penglai, and he, Huang Yuanxian, dared not not borrow it. However, the Great Ming Emperor could not possibly lower his status and really be his Huang family member.

Therefore, there is more than one family surnamed Huang in Penglai, which perfectly solved this problem. The Emperor continued to walk around as the Imperial Prince, and the Huang clan of Penglai was just the Huang clan of Penglai.

Not everything can be climbed up the pole. Climbing randomly will only lead to death.

"Good." Zhu Yijun asked curiously: "Your family's connections are also quite powerful. You have a relationship with Minister Ling, and you also have a relationship with Minister Yin of Luzon."

The Huang clan's relationship with Governor Ling Yunyi was to support the political decree. For the kelp business, the old Huang family even sacrificed their smart son. Their relationship with the National Surname Zhengmaou of Luzon was introduced by Governor Ling Yunyi. This business was not small.

Huang Yuanxian thought for a while and didn't hide anything. He bowed his head and said: "This student's father was actually Qi the Grand General's old subordinate. Although he didn't follow Qi the Grand General to fight south and north, he was also resisting the Japanese in Shandong. In fact, he can also talk to Qi the Grand General."

"So you should have just asked directly, instead of making such a scene." Zhu Yijun shifted the blame again. It was all Huang Yuanxian's fault; otherwise, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened.

Huang Yuanxian pondered for a while and bowed his head: "But my father warned me that Qi the Grand General is not easy in the court, and I must never attach myself to him without reason."

Being able to talk is for seeking help in a life-and-death crisis. The relationship is only that much, and it shouldn't be consumed in this kind of matter. And if Qi Jiguang didn't recognize this relationship, it would be even more embarrassing. After all, the relationship is not close, and it is not easy to inquire about family matters.

Huang Yuanxing bowed his head and said: "My father also has correspondence with Viceroy Xu of the Nagasaki Viceroy's Mansion. It is mainly about Japanese silver entering the Ming. Our family's ships will go to Nagasaki, and my father can also talk to Viceroy Xu."

Zhu Yijun chatted with Huang Yuanxian for a long time, from the scar on Yao Guangqi's face to sea pirates, from sea pirates to trade with Nagasaki, and from Nagasaki to Luzon. Zhu Yijun found that the Huang clan of Penglai's business was really big.

Luzon is an island country, and Japan is an island country, but the needs of the two island countries are different. Japan lacks grain and has much silver, while Luzon lacks people and has much copper. A small triangular trade unfolded between the Great Ming, Japan, and Luzon. The Great Ming has everything, and while it lacks nothing, it also lacks everything.

And Japan's short-lived prosperity was also at the cost of population, participating in the triangular trade, only then did it welcome short-lived prosperity, and this prosperity was harvested by precious paper money.

The development of the Huang clan of Penglai is a microcosm of the Great Ming's opening of the seas. Zhu Yijun is indeed demanding of the powerful and wealthy, but as Lin Fucheng said, as long as they don't collect rent, don't make trouble on their own one-third of an acre of land, go to the seas to plunder, and don't fight among themselves at home, they will be treated favorably.

The overall strategy of the Wanli opening of the seas is not the official ships and official trade of the Yongle period, but the safety of the sea frontiers guaranteed by the navy. Dangerous areas are escorted by the navy for official ships and official trade, while the vast majority of the Great Ming's trade is completed by merchant ships. This is a completely different direction of opening the seas from the Yongle period.

As long as they are willing to change their thinking and follow the pace of opening the seas, they can make a fortune, and it is a big fortune.

After Huang Yuanxian walked out of the gate of the Northern Internal Security Division, he immediately left the capital. He originally planned to stay in the capital for a short time before heading to Xuanfu. The alkali there was the purpose of his trip. Alkali is the alkali noodles at the pass, mainly from the alkali lakes in Suiyuan. These alkalis are of high quality. Bringing kelp to Xuanfu and then bringing alkali back to Shandong was the purpose of Huang Yuanxian's trip to the capital.

Huang Yuanxian left quietly. The 2 million people in the capital didn't pay much attention to him, thinking that he was arrested and exiled to Suiyuan like countless swindlers.

There were too many swindlers around the imperial examinations. Shuntian Prefecture arrested 1,000 people and then widely educated the scholars entering the capital not to be deceived. This matter could be considered to have come to an end. Nearly 900 people were exiled to Suiyuan, and it was the Wamagang mining area. According to the judgment of the Shuntian Prefecture, they needed to serve their sentences in Wamagang for five years before they were allowed to return to the hinterland, if they were still alive.

Before the metropolitan examination, Zhu Yijun received a memorial from the Supervising Secretary Zhang Dingsi. In the memorial, Zhang Dingsi impeached Governor Ling Yunyi.

Zhu Yijun read this memorial in detail. It was thousands of words long and made a lot of sense. He summoned Zhang Dingsi and asked Wang Chonggu to take the person away. This was one of the direct descendants of the Jin Party, and Zhu Yijun felt it was necessary to respond to this memorial published by this person.

"The problem of guest troops is very specific and clear. You discuss the harm of guest troops in the memorial, and I understand it clearly. It makes a lot of sense, but I do not agree with the inference you draw from it." Zhu Yijun did not let Zhang Dingsi be excused from the salute. Summoning Zhang Dingsi was a response and even more a reprimand.

The combat effectiveness of guest troops is extremely fierce, but the problems of the guest troop system are equally prominent. Their sources are mostly desperate people, and their military discipline is lax and often illegal. Settlement is extremely difficult. As long as there is a problem of arrears in pay, they will make trouble. The biggest advantage of the guest troop system is that they can fight. In times of war and chaos, the previous problems are not problems. As long as they have the advantage of being able to fight, that is enough.

In the late Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng organized the Tianxiong Army, and Sun Chuanting organized the Qin Army, both of which belong to a type of guest troop. The guest troop system continued until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

But Zhang Dingsi inferred from the problem of guest troops that Governor Ling Yunyi might have disloyalty. Zhu Yijun did not recognize this.

Governor Ling Yunyi impeached the Provincial Administration Commissioner and the Assistant Commissioner. These two local heads in Henan would definitely pull out the radish and bring out the mud, eventually leading to a major reshuffle in the Henan officialdom. Zhang Dingsi believed that this behavior was to exclude dissidents and then grow bigger.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Dingsi seriously and said: "As a court official, when you think about problems, you need to first ask where the money and grain come from. Your entire memorial is thousands of words long, discussing everything, but you didn't discuss where the money and grain for Minister Ling's disloyalty come from."

"Confucian scholars in the Imperial Academy always wring their hands in regret for 'Water Margin,' always feeling that Song Jiang's surrender was a betrayal of Liang Shan Marsh. But when Confucian scholars think about problems, they never ask where the money and grain come from. There are 100,000 people in Liang Shan Marsh. The mouths to feed go from few to many, and Liang Shan Marsh does not grow crops. Where do the money and grain come from? Naturally, it is borrowed. As for whether it is borrowed with the mouth or with a knife, it is conceivable."

"Water Margin" says from the beginning that the 108 generals of Liang Shan Marsh are magic stars.

Standing from the perspective of these chivalrous men, Song Jiang's surrender was indeed a betrayal of the good men. But from the perspective of the common people, these 100,000 people do not grow crops, so where does the grain come from?

"The same problem applies to Li Chengliang and Governor Ling Yunyi. Where do their money and grain come from? From the Imperial Court." Zhu Yijun stated his point of view. This world is material, and in the current world, only the Great Ming and Spain can afford to raise a huge navy. Matter objectively exists, and so do people. Guest troops need to eat and need silver. The military pay, military equipment, and military supplies of Governor Ling Yunyi's guest troops are all supplied by the Imperial Court.

Li Chengliang's guest troops and retainers, after being paid in full in the second year of Wanli, are also like this.

"But aren't the engineer corps and the official factory group construction method producing? Once Governor Ling Yunyi controls the financial path, that is the Regional Military Commissioner controlling everything. The Imperial Court should be vigilant!" Zhang Dingsi still argued. With strong troops, are they still short of money and grain? Governor Ling Yunyi is addicted to killing. As long as he is determined, money and grain are not a problem!

"Shut up!" Wang Chonggu wished he could tear Zhang Dingsi's mouth apart. Anything comes out of his mouth! He said sternly: "The production of the engineer corps and the official factory group construction is also public, not Governor Ling Yunyi's private gate. Even if he takes it, he has to go through the accounts. It's not that he can take it if he wants to. If the local government can take it if they want to, that would be terrible!"

"You don't understand the basic logic of the official factory group construction at all. The official factory is directly under the Ministry of Works. Do you think the local government can borrow from the official factory and the official factory will let the local government take whatever they want!"

Wang Chonggu was dizzy with anger. This Zhang Dingsi didn't understand the basic logic of the official factory's operation and thought that the official factory belonged to the local government office. But in fact, all the appointments of the official factory were led by the Ministry of Works, including the profits handed over, which also went through the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue, and then the Ministry of Revenue gave the local government a 30% retention.

Governor Ling Yunyi had no conditions to become a Regional Military Commissioner. Neither personnel nor financial power belonged to him. If he really wanted to be a Regional Military Commissioner, the Provincial Administration Commissioner should have died, not been sent to the capital for questioning.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Dingsi and continued: "Let's talk about Minister Ling again. If he really wanted to do it, it should have been in the two Guangs, not in Shandong and Henan."

Governor Ling Yunyi was not without the opportunity to become a Regional Military Commissioner. By raising bandits to make himself important, he could use the Japanese chaos and bandit chaos to continuously ask the Imperial Court for enough power, and then complete the separation. The Jin Party set an example back then, and Governor Ling Yunyi was not someone who didn't read the court gazette. Could he not know how to operate?

He didn't. Governor Ling Yunyi was extremely serious about pacifying the Japanese chaos and bandit chaos in the two Guangs and wiped them out.

Governor Ling Yunyi had a big problem in his brain. He didn't choose the two Guangs in the far south, but chose Henan and Shandong. The Beijing Garrison was not too close from the capital to Shandong and Henan.

In the twenty-first year of Wanli, Li Rusong entered the court to resist the Japanese. Some people used Qi Jiguang's old affairs to remind Li Rusong that the Japanese cannot not be pacified, but they cannot be completely pacified.

As long as the Japanese pirates were still ravaging Korea, Li Rusong, the Grand General for Pacifying the Japanese, would be as stable as Mount Tai. But Li Rusong still did not listen to such slander and chose to repel the Japanese pirates.

Chen Lin had also heard similar noise, but in the end,

everyone took complete elimination as the standard in pacifying the Japanese, rather than raising bandits to make themselves important.

"Take this memorial back." Zhu Yijun handed the approved memorial to Feng Bao and gave it to Zhang Dingsi, letting him take it back.

Last time, Zhang Juzheng requested the abolition of the Cabinet and the restoration of the ancestral law, the one-man dictatorship of the Hongwu period, because the Emperor was wise enough. Zhu Yijun rejected Zhang Juzheng's proposal for the sake of his own life, but also agreed that if there was anything, he would summon foreign officials. There is no doubt that this was the result of a compromise.

In the first year of Yongle, Zhu Di, who had just ascended the throne, also tried to have a one-man dictatorship and handle miscellaneous affairs. Later, Zhu Di really couldn't stand it and organized the Wenyuange.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was also tired. After he dismissed the Prime Minister, he worked for a few years and once set up four officials to assist in the government in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, but soon Zhu Yuanzhang abolished them and continued the one-man dictatorship, doing everything himself. Although Zhu Biao listened to court affairs, he never handled them.

Zhu Di discovered his eldest son, Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi's talent in miscellaneous affairs, and directly became a hands-off shopkeeper. During the Yongle period, Zhu Gaochi was the substantive executive vice-emperor. Zhu Di was more like a Grand General for Conquering the North, not conquering or on the way to conquer.

Zhang Dingsi took the memorial, and after paying his respects, left the Wenhua Hall.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Dingsi's back and said to Wang Chonggu: "Wang Cifu Wang, this is clearly not aimed at Governor Ling Yunyi, but at you."

Aimed at Governor Ling Yunyi, this ambiguous matter could not make Governor Ling Yunyi fall.

Zhang Dingsi is not a fool. He wrote thousands of words just to avoid discussing where the money and grain come from, just to trigger the Emperor's thinking or even misunderstanding of the engineer corps and the official factory group construction. As long as he thought of this layer, Zhang Dingsi's memorial was not in vain.

From the situation of the court discussion, Zhang Dingsi was aiming at Wang Chonggu. This is the Jin Party's warning to Wang Chonggu. Wang Chonggu's high-pressure internal policy triggered the widespread dissatisfaction of the Jin Party.

"This subject also just realized it." Wang Chonggu bowed his head and said. He is a sycophant who usurps power and gathers wealth. Without the Emperor's holy favor, he can't do anything. The previous internal clearing of those who falsely used names for exemptions triggered the dissatisfaction of the Jin Party. This is also the Jin Party's warning to Wang Chonggu: You Wang Cifu want to perform in front of the Emperor, don't take the Jin Party to the knife.

Zhu Yijun asked: "What does the Wang Cifu think should be done?"

After all, he is a member of the Jin Party. Zhu Yijun wanted to hear Wang Chonggu's opinion on how to deal with him.

"Send him to Suiyuan. If he does well, he will naturally have practical experience. If he doesn't do well, he won't need to return to the hinterland or the capital." Wang Chonggu came up with a solution. Zhang Dingsi is the chicken. The Jin Party let this chicken crow to warn Wang Chonggu, and Wang Chonggu killed the chicken to warn the monkeys.

"Then follow the Wang Cifu's words." Zhu Yijun agreed with Wang Chonggu's disposal method.

In fact, Zhang Dingsi probably thought about what his end would be, but he had no power to refuse. Wang Chonggu also gradually got rid of the shackles of the Jin Party after the official factory group construction grew bigger. How could Zhang Dingsi have that ability?

Wang Chonggu is even more ruthless than Zhang Juzheng. Even his own nephew can be used as a gift for offering.

After Zhang Dingsi heard his transfer order, he went to the gate of the Quanjin Guild Hall to seek an audience, but Wang Chonggu didn't see him. Zhang Dingsi had to go to Suiyuan to serve as the Prefect of Wuyuan Prefecture. He could only hope that he could return to the court by virtue of his political achievements.

The punishment of the Censors did not cause much resistance from the Censors. The triennial metropolitan examination began. Who has time to care about the internal infighting of the Jin Party?

On the seventh day of the second lunar month in the eleventh year of Wanli, the Great Ming Emperor issued a decree appointing the chief examiner of this metropolitan examination, Yu Youding, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel from Zhejiang, the third place in the forty-first year of Jiajing, and the other chief examiner was Xu Guo, a Jinshi of the forty-fourth year of Jiajing and Libationer of the Imperial Academy.

These two chief examiners, as the presidents, will lead eighteen co-examiners to organize the examination, restrain the examination style and discipline, and after the event, conduct the grading, and provide written comments on every failed answer sheet, present them to the Imperial presence, and after the Emperor confirms there is no problem, post the list to announce.

All eyes of the Great Ming looked at the Examination Hall, and Zhu Yijun was no exception. This examination had the Embroidered Uniform Guards guarding it, and there were also the eunuchs of the Eastern Depot. Li Yougong, who moved the vassal kings back to the capital from Henan, went to the Examination Hall to supervise.

Li Yougong, a life of toil. Outside the palace, almost everywhere has his figure. He is very keen on going out. This time, after finishing his errands in Henan

and returning to the capital, Li Yougong also hoped that His Majesty would go out for a walk when he had nothing to do. Staying in the palace all the time is not a thing.

The conversation between the Prince of Zhou and his son Ma Deli Yougong feel deeply.

In the original historical line, February of the eleventh year of Wanli should have been Feng Bao's unlucky day. It was on the third day of this month that the Eastern Depot eunuch Zhang Jing and the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guards Liu Shouyou raided the homes of Feng Bao, Feng Bao's nephew Feng You, and Feng Bao's two adopted sons Zhang Dazhou and Xu Jue. The entire raid lasted for more than half a month. Feng Bao and his accomplices raided a total of 1.2 million silver, which was about the money of one year's gold flower silver.

It was also this month that Liaodong completely moved toward the regional military commissioner system. The two most typical things at that time were Li Chengliang destroying the Gule Village again, but this time, Li Chengliang let the tiger return to the mountain, releasing the retainers of the Gule Village, Nurhaci, Shurhaci, and the other five brothers, letting the five brothers of Nurhaci annex the Jurchen tribes outside the Great Wall and letting them grow bigger.

Moreover, Li Chengliang indulged his retainers to kill the good to claim merit. After Qi Jiguang was transferred from Jizhen to Guangzhou and the capital lacked strong generals, Li Chengliang lost his shackles.

On the seventh day of the second month, the Ministry of Justice's Physician Wang Daochun and others noticed that Li Chengliang began to kill the good to claim merit, and united dozens of people to submit a memorial, saying that the situation in Liaodong was corrupt, and requested that Qi Jiguang be stationed in Liaodong with his original official position, and Li Chengliang, who was already the Earl of Ningyuan, be transferred back to the capital for honorable retirement. The Wanli Emperor was almost persuaded, but the Wanli Emperor still wanted to liquidate Zhang Juzheng, and finally did not agree to this suggestion.

And the dozens of officials including Wang Daochun were labeled as the Zhang Party and were all sent out of the capital. Wang Daochun became the Prefect of Kaifeng, promoted in name but demoted in reality.

The seeds planted in the eleventh year of Wanli blossomed and bore fruit in a tragic way in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, in the Battle of Sarhu.

This is also the reason why the Wanli Emperor gave Qi Jiguang a posthumous title after the Battle of Sarhu. ===== CHAPTER 524 =====

The seeds sown in the eleventh year of Wanli bore fruit in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, during the Battle of Sarhu, in a most tragic and devastating manner.

This is also the reason why Emperor Wanli only bestowed a posthumous title upon Qi Jiguang after the Battle of Sarhu.