Chapter 605: The Final Chapter of the Holy Hall Warriors

Zhu Yijun was just a fox borrowing the tiger's might, while the real tigers were Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang. One civil and one military, assisting in state affairs, Zhu Yijun as the Emperor relied on the elite troops of the Great Ming capital to be so arrogant as to be able to kill or spare anyone, while most ministers relied on the Emperor's prestige.

For so many years, Zhu Yijun had cherished the capital camp. The elite troops of the capital camp were all selected from good families, trained with the military soul proposed by Qi Jiguang: "Report to the Son of Heaven above, save the common people below." They were the "Holy Hall Warriors" in the words of Li Yashi. Because of their generous treatment and strict military discipline, the capital camp elite troops would not harass the common people, thereby gaining widespread support.

As long as Zhu Yijun had time, he would go to the North Camp.

For so many years, Zhu Yijun had also cherished the current court. Under the influence of Zhang Juzheng, an authoritative figure, the Great Ming court had visibly become much clearer. The clarity of officialdom brought a fairer competitive environment, and the Great Ming's administrative power finally recovered. Politics never lacked rules; what it lacked was how to make everyone follow the rules.

Zhu Yijun was so diligent that even Hence Hai Rui had to criticize him, also because Zhu Yijun cherished the current court scene.

This was hard-won. Looking at the five thousand years of the Central Plains, it was a rare pattern, and Zhu Yijun naturally had to cherish it.

But now, Pan Jixun and San Niangzi San Niang, and the Suiyuan local government hoped that the Emperor could shoulder greater responsibilities and make his own contributions to the King's transformation. On one hand, it was a Great Ming proposed by Hou Yuzhao, where everyone was the King's people; on the other hand, it was Pan Jixun's hope that the Emperor could become the human belief of the grasslands.

Zhu Yijun was just a king borrowing the tiger's might. Letting him become a human belief was indeed adding a burden.

Actually, this matter was quite taboo. "The Master does not speak of strange powers and chaotic spirits." As a traditional secular country, the Great Ming's resorting to gods and Buddhas when solving problems was somewhat unorthodox and belonged to heretical speech. Therefore, Pan Jixun and San Niangzi San Niang used the study tour group of Lin Fucheng, Li Zhi, and others to test the court's reaction.

This was the redundancy in politics. If the court ministers unanimously opposed it, it was also because when the study tour group was investigating, they made some immature suggestions in a hurry to solve sudden problems. Could the court punish them because of immature suggestions?

But if it was written into a memorial, it was a political remonstrance. If the court did not adopt it, it might affect the court ministers' perception of local officials, thereby affecting their promotion and transfer.

Exterminating Buddhism is easy; the Great Ming has a garrison of 72,000 men in Suiyuan, and the Great Ming Capital Battalion can deploy via the imperial highway, reaching Guihua City in just five days. For the Great Ming, exterminating Buddhism is a simple matter. The aftermath following the extermination, however, is the real focus—just as for the Great Ming, reconquering the Hetao is easy, but holding it is not.

"Actually, thinking about it carefully, it is quite reasonable. There is truly no more suitable candidate." Zhu Yijun held the joint memorial of Pan Jixun and San Niangzi San Niang, and after annotating it, handed it to Feng Bao, saying, "Next chapter, cabinet court discussion."

This burden, Zhu Yijun added to himself, and the infamy of the future, he also shouldered.

Whether the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Venerable True Martial Great Emperor was reincarnated needed to be decided by the Great Ming court discussion.

Three days later, the Great Ming Emperor was discharged from the hospital. The Minister of Rites, Shen Li, prepared a grand ceremony for the Emperor's discharge, leaving Zhu Yijun completely confused. His wisdom tooth had grown sideways and needed stitches. After Zhu Yijun had the stitches removed, he planned to leave the Jieku Institute and return to the Tonghe Palace.

As soon as the door opened, he saw flags fluttering, and the sound of gongs, drums, and horns suddenly erupted.

"Making it this big?" Zhu Yijun looked blankly at the court ministers in the courtyard and the court officials outside the door, asking suspiciously.

"To liven things up," Zhang Juzheng said in a low voice. "Your Majesty, the ten thousand people of the capital need to see Your Majesty's heroic posture."

Holding a grand discharge ceremony was to stabilize people's hearts. The Great Ming Emperor had left the Jieku Institute where he had stayed for seven days and returned to the human world. The Great Ming's king had returned, and naturally, everyone needed to know.

"Alright, alright, let's start." Zhu Yijun knew about this, and he had approved it, but he didn't expect it to make such a big commotion. The specification was equivalent to the sacrifice at the Heaven and Earth Altar.

And Zhu Yijun personally offered sacrifices to Qi Bo, the Sage of Qi, who stood in front of the Jieku Institute this time.

Qi Bo was the great imperial physician in the "Su Wen," and the medical official of the Huang Di. The entire "Su Wen" was the Huang Di asking questions and Qi Bo answering. Qi Bo was the ancestor of medicine, so the Jieku Institute offered sacrifices to him. This was not an illicit sacrifice. Even if the base scholars came to the door, this was the Supreme Sage Teacher who followed the laws of the three generations.

Wan Shihe wrote a piece of green-paper prayer, which was considered a prayer article. After the Emperor worshipped, Wan Shihe burned the green-paper prayer, which was considered thanking Qi Bo for his protection.

The court officials first worshipped the Emperor, then worshipped Qi Bo. Feng Bao read an imperial edict in a high-pitched voice, and then the imperial edict was passed on to all directions to stabilize people's hearts.

From then on, the dark clouds of the Emperor's illness finally dispersed from the Great Ming's sky, and the sun still rose.

Zhu Yijun's figure appeared in the Wenhua Hall to preside over the court discussion, and again appeared in the North Camp to drill troops. From then on, all rumors about the Emperor were self-defeating, and those who took the opportunity to make trouble were also punished. Shen Zibin, Luo Yuren, and a total of fourteen people, as well as eighteen people including the wealthy household Xu Youren of Xitucheng, were handled urgently and taken to Caishikou to be beheaded and displayed to the public.

The Great Ming Emperor did not personally supervise the execution because the Emperor was very busy. After resting for seven days, many things needed to be handled personally. Watching the heads of base scholars fall was not that important.

While the Great Ming Emperor was busy, Li Yashi, who was sitting in the Court of State Ceremonial, put down the steel pen in his hand, blew the ink dry, and quite satisfied, put the volume of books he had translated into an iron box and locked it.

The translated books had to be cross-verified before being sent to the Three Classics Factory to be printed as part of the Western Literature Collection.

He translated a mythological story about the story of the Holy Hall Warrior Paladin.

Li Yashi looked at the Junior Minister Gao Qiyu and said, "In the West, the Holy Hall Warrior is a legendary knight above all other knights. They swear oaths; they do not pledge allegiance to royal power or divine power, but to lofty ideals. They are the guardians of all beauty in the human world."

"But in the West, the Holy Hall Warrior can only become a legend because the object of their allegiance is not royal power. When the monarch's morality is close to lofty, just like Your Majesty, then loyalty to ideals and loyalty to the monarch are no different. When the monarch's morality is limited, their allegiance to ideals instead becomes the monarch's concern."

"We all know that most monarchs' morality is obviously limited."

"When the monarch's morality is limited, allegiance to this kind of ideal will have concerns. Naturally, there will be people with ulterior motives to spread rumors and slander the Holy Hall Warrior's morality, eventually expelling these warriors, and the monarch will also lose everything because of losing the Holy Hall Warrior."

Heaven-born nobles, that is, the morality of nobles is limited. These Paladins who swear allegiance to their own ideals rather than royal power or divine power are not loyal to the monarch, so there will be gaps.

Gao Qiyu pondered for a while and shook his head, saying, "For the Great Ming, it is also the same. The capital camp has also had its ups and downs, experiencing many twists and turns. It flourished during the Yongle reign, died in battle at Tumu Fortress during the Zhengtong reign, flourished during the Jingtai reign, was disbanded during the Tianshun reign, was reorganized during the Chenghua reign, and declined during the Hongzhi reign until the Wanli reign, when it flourished again."

"Now the Great Ming is trying to compromise, adopting the proposition of 'Report to the Son of Heaven above, save the common people below,' hoping to keep the capital camp elite troops maintaining sufficient faith and combat power."

"Contradiction tells us that history is always cycling and spiraling upward."

Li Yashi was unexpectedly concerned about the Great Ming capital camp. He really, really liked discussing the capital camp because in his view, this kind of military institution theoretically should not exist. Holding a steel gun is the most violent collective in the human world. With a sharp blade in hand, the heart to kill arises on its own. But the Great Ming capital camp achieved "Report to the Son of Heaven above, save the common people below." Li Rusong borrowed livestock in Wuchuan County and actually paid it back later.

"When colonizing, invading, and plundering other countries, it is unfavorable because plundering wars and aggressive wars are unjust wars. You also know that the Holy Hall Warrior exists to protect all beauty in the world. Colonialism, aggression, massacre, plunder, and slavery have nothing to do with beauty." Li Yashi still insisted on his high-morality inferiority theory.

"If plunder and aggression are needed, you can use hired barbarians. The Han and Tang did this, and the Great Ming can also do this. Some dirty things will cause people's hearts to scatter if done. Then the capital camp elite troops won't do it; just leave it to these barbarian mercenaries." Gao Qiyu explained this doubt.

Using good family sons to carry out massacres is really too wasteful. The Great Ming has also used guest soldiers and tooth soldiers as the core combat power at sea, hiring many natives and Japanese slaves. War is the most intense manifestation of the intensification of contradictions. War is inevitably accompanied by killing, suppression, and plunder. The Great Ming has never denied this.

The best way is not to do these dirty and tiring jobs.

Li Yashi spread his hands, wanting to speak but stopping, and finally didn't say anything. The Great Ming has persistence and also flexibility.

The legendary story Li Yashi translated is the final chapter of the Paladin, or Holy Knight legend.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, a Roman Empire briefly appeared in the West, which was the Charlemagne Empire, the predecessor of the current Holy Roman Empire, whose territory included almost the entire Western continent.

After the death of Emperor Richard, the Holy Knights were still there, and the empire began a civil war. In order to seize the imperial throne, a long war unfolded. Some Holy Knights, unwilling to take action against civilians, were killed; some became executioners because of the cruel war and regretted it, eventually committing suicide; some fled because they were unwilling to be butchers.

Aaron de Brown, whose father was one of the twelve Holy Knights who followed Emperor Richard, burned himself in front of the Palatine Cathedral because he could not bear the cruelty of the war, causing a huge uproar.

The once-flourishing Holy Knights disappeared into the long river of history like this, eventually becoming a legend.

Li Yashi said solemnly, "An army with firm faith is invincible in the human world when guarding the beauty of the human world, but when fighting unjust wars, its combat power is no different from a thief army composed of refugees."

"Now His Majesty's diligence, going to the North Camp to drill troops regardless of wind and rain, is so hard because His Majesty's morality is close to lofty. There are two problems that the court must consider to prevent the capital camp from following in the footsteps of these Holy Hall Warriors: the first is His Majesty's slackness, and the second is the limited morality of the successor."

"Human nature tends toward slackness. His Majesty's diligence is against human nature. Nobles are even less able to guarantee high morality. This is a problem that His Majesty and Master Zhang have already discussed clearly, and the state has so many iron examples of base scholars."

"So, this is a dilemma."

"As you said." Gao Qiyu frowned, but then gradually relaxed, smiling and saying, "This is not something we should worry about. By that time, we will have long been a handful of yellow earth."

"Your Majesty, in the prime of life, is the blessing of the Great Ming."

Li Yashi said with a smile, "Alright, you are right. I am somewhat worrying about the sky falling. This is not a problem for us to have a headache about."

The various chaotic phenomena brought about by the Emperor's critical illness made Gao Li Yashi consider the issue of the imperial successor. How the Holy Knights of the West disappeared into the long river of history has reference significance.

Gao Qiyu and Li Yashi were just chatting. This was the influence and concern brought about by the Emperor's critical illness. But Zhang Juzheng, as the Prime Minister of the Empire, could not leave this matter to the wisdom of future generations because, in the eyes of this handsome old man Zhang Juzheng, future generations have no wisdom.

Zhang Juzheng stood in a high position. He knew very well that the current situation of the Great Ming, which is flourishing and even changing with each passing day, is hard-won. In China's long history, it is one of the few, only the Shang Yang Reform, which relied on the remaining strength of six generations, briefly appeared in that era of great contention.

This was the only era Zhang Juzheng could think of that was similar.

On April 13th of the twelfth year of Wanli, after the Great Ming Emperor recovered his health, he presided over the court discussion for the first time. The morning sun was bright, and the spring swallows were chirping and building nests. With the gradual recovery of vegetation, the sky became clearer and clearer. The smoke and haze caused by coal smoke only appeared in midwinter and early spring.

"Master is really willing, sending a half-grown child like Xiong Tingbi to Suiyuan?" Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in front of him. Zhang Juzheng requested to send Xiong Tingbi to follow Pan Jixun and make contributions to the King's transformation of Suiyuan.

"Xiong Tingbi has received imperial grace. Fifteen is not small. If he hadn't been studying at the Quanchu Hall, he should have been married long ago." The solution given by Zhang Juzheng was to cultivate more talents and form a joint force to maintain the New Deal and maintain the clarity of the court.

"Then let him go." Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and decided to let Xiong Tingbi go to Suiyuan to follow Pan Jixun and accumulate more practical experience in Suiyuan.

"The Ministry of Justice Secretary Yu Xianqing submitted a memorial impeaching the Ministry of Rites Secretary Director Tu Long for licentious and indulgent feasting." Zhang Juzheng took out a memorial.

Impeaching a Ministry of Rites Secretary Director Tu Long alone was not worth bringing to the Great Ming Wenhua Hall for court discussion. Besides Director Tu Long, it also involved two marquises: one was Xining Marquis Song Shien, and the other was Linhuai Marquis Li Yangong. There was also a Junior Minister of Rites, Vice Minister of Rites Zhang Jiayin.

Ministry of Rites Secretary Director Tu Long and the Xining Marquis and Linhuai Marquis often feasted. During the seven days when the news of the Emperor's critical illness spread, they all stayed at home honestly. After the Emperor was discharged, they went out to continue feasting, indulging in sensual pleasures. Because they had been holding back for seven days and drank some horse urine, they had licentious and indulgent behavior.

As for the scene of licentiousness and indulgence, it was truly unbearable to look at. In the brothel, in public, it became known to everyone.

"What is going on with Xining Marquis and Linhuai Marquis? How did they get mixed up with Director Tu Long, and even sworn brothers, calling each other brothers?" Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial, his brows locked. Martial nobles and civil officials swearing brotherhood was truly a bit novel.

"Your Majesty, Xining Marquis and Linhuai Marquis do not practice martial arts, and have never participated in the capital camp selection." Qi Jiguang answered this question. As the head of the martial nobles, he didn't know the situation of these two martial nobles because they belonged to the noble army, only receiving salaries without attending to affairs, and were not under Qi Jiguang's management.

Qi Jiguang, this Great General, only managed the martial nobles in the army.

The Chief Censor of the Censorate, Li Youzi, said, "Director Tu Long was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Wanli. He worshipped the Vice Minister of Rites Zhang Jiayin as his teacher, and then went to Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, to serve as county magistrate in the sixth year of Wanli. In the tenth year of Wanli, he returned to the capital for assessment. After the assessment, he was recommended by the Junior Minister Zhang Jiayin to remain in the capital as a Ministry of Rites Secretary."

"Xining Marquis and Linhuai Marquis love poetry, and Director Tu Long is good at poetry. They met by chance, and after a while, Xining Marquis and Linhuai Marquis wanted to worship Director Tu Long as their teacher, but Director Tu Long naturally didn't dare to accept the marquises as disciples, so they had to call each other brothers."

"Yesterday, Xining Marquis Song Shien feasted and said to Director Tu Long: 'By the grace of heaven, I have been allowed by the Master to call you brother. In the future, my younger brother's wife will bow to the Madame and the sister-in-law.' Xining Marquis really felt that Director Tu Long had talent and wanted to bring his wife to visit."

Li Youzi explained the situation clearly. Xining Marquis sincerely recognized Director Tu Long's literary talent and even wanted to bring his wife to visit. They were sworn brothers of different fathers and mothers, not just drinking buddies.

"Your Majesty, your servant thinks that even if they are martial nobles of the noble army who do not attend to military affairs, they should practice martial arts. At the very least, they should understand some military affairs, instead of indulging in sensual pleasures. There was an ancestral system in the Yongle reign: ten steps, ten arrows, seven hits, only then can one inherit the title. Your servant thinks we should restore the ancestral laws, at the very least, they should be able to pull a bow." The Minister of War, Ceng Shengwu, was very dissatisfied with the martial nobles wasting their martial arts.

As an extreme conservative, Ceng Shengwu immediately brought out the ancestral law's title inheritance clause, demanding the restoration of ancestral laws.

"Civil officials are quiet and martial officials are playful, and the world is corrupted like this. Can it be the great plan of the state? If there is a change, there will be people to use." Ceng Shengwu explained the reason for his advocacy. If something major happened, they could still count on them, instead of having no one to use.

"Forget it, as long as they eat for free and don't make trouble." Zhu Yijun pondered for a while, but still didn't make things difficult for this bunch of rich kids, because he couldn't count on them at all.

The three great dukes in the capital of the Great Ming had already become high priests. Last time, when Andahan was executed, the three high priests sacrificed to the Shizong Emperor. According to the rituals, they had to start from Deshengmen and walk to the Western Mountain Imperial Tombs.

This bunch of martial nobles, like the civil officials, couldn't walk to the Western Mountain Imperial Tombs, so in the end, they had to send carriages to pull them there.

Zhu Yijun could run ten miles fully armed, but these noble army martial nobles really couldn't run.

"Your servant cannot restrain his disciple. Your servant begs Your Majesty to punish him." Zhang Jiayin, as the Vice Minister of Rites, was also in the Wenhua Hall. Seeing the memorial, his eyes went black. This Director Tu Long usually looked quite refined, but he played so wildly. That was in public!

"Is it not a false accusation by the Ministry of Justice Secretary Yu Xianqing? Is this really the case?" Zhu Yijun looked at the Chief Censor of the Censorate, Hence Hai Rui, to inquire about the truth of the matter. He continued, "When Director Tu Long was the county magistrate of Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, he severely offended Yu Xianqing. After returning to the capital, the two competed in poetry, accumulating hatred."

The plaintiff Yu Xianqing and the defendant Director Tu Long had hatred, and it was not a small hatred or grudge.

Yu Xianqing was from Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, and it was not a small family. The Yu family also had a lot of farmland in Qingpu County. Director Tu Long was very strict in clearing the fields and didn't pay attention to their big families at all. Moreover, the Yu family also occupied part of the farmland, which Director Tu Long ordered to be returned.

Grain taxes, fleeing people, land measurement, water conservancy irrigation—Director Tu Long tossed the Yu family around quite a bit when he was the county magistrate of Qingpu County.

In the tenth year of Wanli, Yu Xianqing entered the capital to prepare for the imperial examination the following year. In the capital, Director Tu Long and Yu Xianqing began to compete in poetry. Director Tu Long was slightly better and won the respect of many people.

Interest conflicts plus being suppressed in poetry, Yu Xianqing harbored hatred, and it is possible that he listened to the wind and rain.

"It is not a false accusation; it is indeed the case." Hence Hai Rui first confirmed that this was a fact, not a false accusation, because before the morning court, Hence Hai Rui had communicated with the patrolling censor. If the yamen runners hadn't arrived, the three of them would still be indulging in licentiousness in public.

"The Ministry of Justice has the official document of the Shuntian Prefecture Yamen. Yesterday, the Shuntian Prefecture Vice Magistrate Wang Xiyuan took the yamen runners to the Taibai Tower. It is indeed the case." Wang Chonggu corroborated this point. Wang Chonggu actually didn't say that his son Wang Qian was at the scene yesterday!

After Wang Qian went home, he vividly and gesticulatingly described the scene at that time, having the posture of wanting to do it himself, almost making Wang Chonggu take out his seven-star ring-headed sword.

Zhu Yijun pondered for a while and said, "Strip Xining Marquis Song Shien and Linhuai Marquis Li Yangong of their marquis titles. The Ministry of Rites will propose people to inherit the titles. Strip them of three years of salary. Within five years, the two are not allowed to step out of their mansions, otherwise, they will be arrested and questioned. Ministry of Rites Secretary Director Tu Long is dismissed from his official position and returned to his hometown to wait for employment."

"Ministry of Rites Vice Minister Zhang Jiayin, fined six months of salary, a slight punishment. Master Zhang, go back and kick Director Tu Long out of your school. He has some talent, but he cannot be arrogant and ignore public order, good customs, and the law."

"Your servant obeys the decree." Zhang Jiayin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. The April weather was not hot, but Zhang Jiayin was already covered in sweat. Fined six months of salary, if there is another incident next time, he can consider going home to plant sweet potatoes.

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng did not express opposition. Such an absurd thing happened in the capital, the place of first goodness.

Even if they closed the door!

The specific scene of licentiousness was that they started playing on the railing of the second floor of the main hall and shouted loudly. People eating wine below watched a live spring palace. This matter spread throughout the capital early in the morning. The aunts and grandmothers on the street corners all knew about it, and they were even discussing the specific details of the three people's size and duration.

And because of biological limitations, the three people definitely didn't drink to the point of breaking pieces. Being dead drunk wouldn't allow them to play. The three people were definitely sober at the time.

Zhu Yijun naturally wanted to curb the spread of this unhealthy trend of civil officials being quiet and martial officials being playful.

The Great Ming enjoyed the benefits of silver inflow and commodity economy transformation, so naturally, it had to bear the price. There are many supporters of absolute freedom. This Director Tu Long and these two marquises obviously liked absolute freedom very much and didn't care much about public order and good customs, otherwise, they wouldn't have done such things in a sober state.

"Your Majesty, Yu Xianqing submitted another memorial, requesting to go to Suiyuan to support the border." Zhang Juzheng took out another memorial. It was still this Ministry of Justice Secretary Yu Xianqing who took the initiative to leave the capital and run to Suiyuan to find opportunities for promotion.

"Why does he want to go to Suiyuan so well?" Zhu Yijun asked suspiciously.

"Yu Xianqing feels that Viceroy Pan is good at governing water and wants to go to apprentice, and Suiyuan happens to lack people." Zhang Juzheng kowtowed and said.

Zhu Yijun spread his hands and said, "Master, I am already twenty-two years old. You can't fool a child like this."

"Because of licentious and indulgent feasting, he impeached Director Tu Long and Xining Marquis and Linhuai Marquis." Zhang Juzheng had to explain the reason. In principle, Great Ming officials are not allowed to go to brothels, but that is in principle. Yu Xianqing impeached on this ground, which broke the subtle rules, so he had to leave.

Without anyone to protect him, crossing the Flaming Mountain in the dog days, there is no place to shade.

Yu Xianqing obviously wanted to find someone to shade him. Pan Jixun was the shade he found suitable for him. Working under Pan Jixun, besides being a bit bitter, everything else is good.

Of course, the bitterness is real.

"Go, go." Zhu Yijun thought about it and still let Yu Xianqing go to Suiyuan. Mainly, if he doesn't accumulate local experience, does Yu Xianqing have to observe politics in the capital for a lifetime?

In the current Great Ming, observing politics cannot lead to promotion.

"Vice Minister Wang, the Great Proclamation says: officials are forbidden to harbor prostitutes, and those who do will be dismissed and not recorded, and will be shackled for three days. The Great Proclamation has not been implemented for a long time. If anyone speaks for Director Tu Long and others, give Director Tu Long shackles and parade him through the streets." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu and explained the follow-up to this matter.

If someone pleads for mercy, directly give Director Tu Long shackles and parade him through the streets!

The things they did were truly too abstract.

"Viceroy Pan asks about destroying Buddhism and hanging True Martial Great Emperor statues in temples." Zhang Juzheng talked about the methods given by Pan Jixun and San Niangzi San Niang. He pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, San Niangzi Zhongshun is in the capital, why not summon her to ask?"

San Niangzi San Niang entered the capital again, running three times a year. Her greatest responsibility as an Administration Commissioner was to ensure the stability of the wool business, which involved huge and currently the most important interest distribution in the grasslands. San Niangzi San Niang had to do it herself.

"Don't summon her first. What opinions do the court ministers have?" Zhu Yijun didn't intend to ask San Niangzi San Niang first, but asked for the opinions of the Great Ming court ministers.

Wang Chonggu said very affirmatively, "Your Majesty, this side of the water and soil raises this side of the people. Development in various places is not balanced. The Great Ming land measurement is being pushed in various places, and even Liaodong is being pushed, but Guizhou and Yunnan have been slow to act, just because these places are not suitable for land measurement decrees."

"The grasslands are a newly opened land, and the decrees should be adapted to local conditions." Zhang Juzheng expressed his point of view, supporting the destruction of Buddhism and changing beliefs, forcing the Lamaist sect in the grasslands to transform and adapt to the Great Ming society.

"Your servant thinks it is inappropriate." Hence Hai Rui immediately said, "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven, not a god or Buddha." ===== CHAPTER 606 =====