Chapter 608: Ancient and Modern Warfare, the Pig Tactic Has Been Successfully Used by People Time and Again

Kuki Yoshitaka was not an upper-class person, but a lower-class one. Even though he had fought many battles and won many times, Kuki Yoshitaka still could not get the recognition of the upper class. His army was called the Kumano Pirates, and Kuki Yoshitaka was also called the Pirate Daimyo. Whether in Japan or Korea, "thief" was a curse word.

The treaty between the Great Ming and the Azuchi Shogunate, the seventeen articles, was actually called the "Anti-Piracy Treaty."

Xu Wei knew the culture of Japan quite well, so Kuki Yoshitaka could never abandon Oda Nobunaga, just like those courtesans who would never dare to defy their "destined lord" no matter what, because they wanted to use their "destined lord" to climb into the upper class, even if it meant being a concubine or a slave in the mansion, they were willing.

Japan is such a contradiction. On one hand, the hierarchy is strict from top to bottom, and on the other hand, "gekokujo" (the low overcoming the high) widely exists. The tragedy of the lone hero is constantly being staged and then talked about with relish.

This is a culture that is very difficult for Great Ming people to understand. For example, Wan Shihe, as the leader of the Emperor's party, is scolded as a sycophant every day, but sometimes he also chooses to go against His Majesty's wishes and express his own views. This time, regarding the reincarnation of the True Martial Great Emperor, Wan Shihe clearly expressed his opposition in the Wenhua Hall, and His Majesty did not blame Wan Shihe.

This is social consensus, this is public order and good customs.

The Great Ming has an extremely violent expression for its understanding of rank and class: "The imperial street is trodden with the bones of dukes and ministers; the camp gates are hung with the heads of the powerful and noble."

History is created by the people. Being responsible for history is being responsible for the people. This is the historical lesson of the Central Plains and also the greatest historical consensus.

But in Japan and the West, it is not so. In these lands of barbarians, the greatest consensus is to climb into the upper class. For the sake of the word "upper class," everything can be abandoned.

"Kuki Yoshitaka cannot continue to climb into the upper class without Oda Nobunaga. Similar ones are Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Their situation is completely different from Mori Terumoto and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Mori Terumoto and Tokugawa Ieyasu themselves are the upper class." Xu Wei said very affirmatively, "Kuki Yoshitaka knows very well what the source of his power is. Therefore, his public clamoring is just Oda Nobunaga's instruction."

"We must be very clear about this point. Oda Nobunaga has never been an obedient dog. After using the Great Ming's influence to stabilize his position, he immediately began to want to get rid of the Great Ming."

Oda Nobunaga has never been willing to be under others. The Emperor of Japan won't do, and the Son of Heaven of the Great Ming won't do either. What Oda Nobunaga has always wanted to do is to be the man of the world, that is, above his head, except for heaven, there is no one else.

"So, how should we respond to this attack by Kuki Yoshitaka?" Command Commander Li Chengli asked the Governor about the direction of the war.

Li Chengli gave his own opinions and plans, which was to hold firm and wait for reinforcements. The Great Ming Emperor's edict said very clearly that the Great Ming Navy had already taken action. As long as they held for a few months, when the Great Ming Navy arrived, it would be the time for the Japanese Navy to perish.

"Military affairs should still listen to the General. I am just a scholar." Xu Wei said very sincerely, "I will hand it over to General Li completely. His Majesty has a clear decree: 'If the green hills remain, don't worry about firewood.' If you can't hold it, you can retreat first, and then come back with the Great Ming Navy. Don't worry about the so-called responsibility of losing territory."

Even if the Nagasaki Governor's Office really perished, it didn't matter. His Majesty's explanation was that as long as people are there, everything is there. It was originally a newly opened Governor's Office, and it is normal to have twists and turns. As long as it is captured back, that's it.

As for Xu Wei, he, Sun Keyi, and Luo Yinghe were going to coexist with Nagasaki.

Li Chengli did not intend to change houses or take the initiative to attack, but used the tactics of the red-haired barbarians, bullying the Japanese for not having siege weapons.

Ancient and modern warfare, the pig tactic has been successfully used by people time and again. When attacked, you lean your butt against the wall, so they can't grab your tail. In the end, they can't do anything about it, and if they are not careful, you give them a bite with your sharp teeth, and once you bite, you don't let go.

There is no doubt that Li Chengli was using the pig tactic, relying on strong city walls for defense.

The two premises for this tactic to be effective: the first premise is to abandon all territory except the city and the camp. You must have such ruthlessness. If the Nagasaki Governor's Office and most of Jiuzhoudao are Japanese, it doesn't matter if they die.

The second premise is that the enemy has no large firearms to attack the city. It must be firearms, not anything else.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a key battlefield in Taiyuan. Taiyuan's position was extremely important. As long as Taiyuan was there, the Great Song's most capable Great Song Western Army could support Kaifeng, and the Jin people could not destroy the Song.

Once Taiyuan falls, the world cannot be held. Taiyuan is also known for controlling the mountains and rivers, occupying the shoulders and back of the world, guarding the key points of the four passes, and controlling the cities of the five plains. Taiyuan is also the place where the Great Tang rose.

Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi destroyed the Later Han and, because he was wary of this place being the place where the dragon rose, burned the 1,400-year-old ancient city of Jinyang to the ground, and then flooded it with water, completely destroying the 40-li Jinyang city and building a 10-li Taiyuan city.

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang combined their forces to attack this 10-li Taiyuan. Zonghan and Zongwang were both famous generals. Their achievements were capturing three emperors: the last emperor of the Liao Dynasty and two emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty.

And the elite they led were also the founding elite, driving countless captives to make large siege weapons, attacking Taiyuan for a full 250 days. Wang Bin guarded the palm-sized Taiyuan city and did not wait for reinforcements. Only when the grain in the city was cut off and people were eating each other was the Taiyuan city broken.

This is the difficulty of attacking a city without large firearms.

Regarding this, the Great Khan of the Mongols, Möngke, also had something to say. Möngke spent his whole life galloping, and finally died at Diaoyu City.

Li Chengli began to formulate a defense plan, began to expel the Japanese in the city, and then completely sealed the water gate, completely militarized the granaries, distributed them according to the number of people, which could be used for three years. If they didn't expel the Japanese in the city, they could only use it for one year. The row houses closest to the coastline were requisitioned and armed into camps, and the forty-eight wells in the city were deepened and cleaned.

The anti-horse stakes, horse-trapping pits, and the inspection and test firing of firearms outside the camp were carried out in an orderly manner. Finally, before Kuki Yoshitaka arrived at Jiuzhoudao, the Nagasaki Governor's Office became a fully armed pig, shrinking into the city, hiding its tail, and showing its sharp teeth.

Kuki Yoshitaka put down the telescope in his hand. This was given by Oda Nobunaga, and it was also bought by Oda Nobunaga at a high price from Great Ming merchants. It was only 20 times. The 40-time astronomical telescope produced by the Imperial Manor was limited in quantity, and only this kind of telescope, which was more like a toy, flowed out of the Great Ming.

"It really is an impeccable turtle formation." After Kuki Yoshitaka put down the telescope, he felt deep despair. Kuki Yoshitaka had fought half his life with Oda Nobunaga. Before setting off, Oda Nobunaga had repeatedly urged him to be fast, that speed is the essence of war, and that he must take the Nagasaki Governor's Office within a month, otherwise he should give up.

Because in a month, the Great Ming Navy would arrive. By then, the Kumano Navy would be completely wiped out.

Another man with a shaved head and samurai attire also said sincerely, "No matter how many lives are filled in, it cannot be taken."

This person was Kuki Yoshitaka's old rival, Murakami Takeyoshi.

This sneak attack on the Nagasaki Governor's Office was a joint action by Oda Nobunaga and Mori Terumoto, not just the Kumano Navy, but also the Mori family navy. Kuki Yoshitaka and Murakami Takeyoshi, rivals who had fought for half their lives, suddenly joined forces to attack the Nagasaki Governor's Office.

Oda Nobunaga paid a heavy price to win Mori Terumoto's support.

But facing the turtle formation of the Nagasaki Governor's Office, they were helpless, and there was no place to bite.

First of all, there were scattered camps. The camp tactic originated from the mountain cities of the Northern Song Dynasty. It has a long history. It was reused in the hands of Qi Jiguang, carried forward by the loyal Hou Yuzhao, and then combined with the Western bastion tactic to take shape. The Great Ming suffered a lot in the two and a half years of fighting in Malacca, and now it is all used in the Nagasaki Governor's Office.

The scattered camps did not have too towering city walls. The camp circumference was no more than four li. There were only two city gates in total. The city wall, including the city gate tower, was only one zhang five chi high, which could not be compared with the three-zhang city wall of the Great Ming capital. It was just the height of a room, and even on both sides, it was just earth walls, with only two city gates covered with bricks.

But this height of more than one zhang is geographical advantage. To attack, you have to climb up, and climbing up means huge casualties.

There are only eight mortars at the four corners, and there are water wells and granaries in the city. There are no more than two hundred soldiers in the camp, and some have only one hundred.

Fifteen camps are arranged around the Nagasaki Governor's Office in a state of mutual support. Attack one place, and all four sides will arrive.

Kuki Yoshitaka and Murakami Takeyoshi certainly had more than 20,000 Japanese pirates, but the narrow battlefield could not accommodate so many people, and they had to take care of the reinforcements from all sides.

And bypassing is definitely impossible, because bypassing these camps means exposing the back to the Great Ming, which is easily caught by the tooth soldiers, which is a dead end.

The Great Ming's only way to deal with the red-haired barbarians' camp tactic is to use cannons to bombard them, pulling out these camps one by one.

Even if they could pull out these camps within a month, the 10-li Nagasaki City would become a new challenge. Outside the moat of Nagasaki City, there is a large gentle slope, which is completely covered by the range of the cannons. The Great Ming's explosive shells can beat the Japanese pirates' morale to a negative number. Huge casualties brought about by low morale, and then mutiny, is the biggest concern of the attacking side.

Kuki Yoshitaka scratched his head with trembling hands, caught a flea, pinched it to death, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Throw the corpses that died of plague into the camp, and it will break without attacking."

"I'm afraid it won't work. The Great Ming's precautions against this are very strict. The water wells are all inside the house." Murakami Takeyoshi shook his head after confirming it repeatedly in the telescope.

The Great Ming had long been prepared for this. The water wells were built with houses and guarded by special personnel. Even if they could really throw the corpses that died of plague into the camp, they would be burned to ashes.

"Lord Kuki, the Great Ming has also suffered a lot in front of this kind of camp. We can only gnaw hard." Murakami Takeyoshi sighed. Only by paying huge casualties can these camps be taken. As for Nagasaki City, we have to take the camp before we can consider it.

The Great Ming was helpless against this kind of tactic, let alone Japan, which did not master the production of gunpowder. Gunpowder is only produced in large quantities by the Great Ming and Spain in the world today. Japan has no saltpeter.

"Helpless." Kuki Yoshitaka was extremely anxious. He didn't take it seriously on the march, thinking that no matter how difficult the Nagasaki Governor's Office was to attack, it was still a battle in a foreign land. Could it be harder to attack than Azuchi City?

Kuki Yoshitaka didn't consider what would happen if he couldn't take Nagasaki. If he couldn't take the Nagasaki Governor's Office, Oda Nobunaga would only say that the navy acted on its own, and it had nothing to do with him, Oda Nobunaga. After cutting off, Kuki Yoshitaka would be a person everyone shouted to beat. Whether the Kuki family would exist would be a problem.

Kuki Yoshitaka couldn't consider so much anymore. His time was running out. Oda Nobunaga judged that the Great Ming Navy would support Nagasaki within a month. By then, Kuki Yoshitaka could only retreat, or be attacked from both sides and be completely wiped out.

Kuki Yoshitaka started a tentative attack, but seven consecutive attacks were blocked by the tooth soldiers of the Great Ming camp. Cannons, muskets, arrows, gold juice, hot soup, and rolling logs were all sharp weapons for defending the city. The Japanese pirates shouted and rushed up, but facing the sharp blades that took lives, they could only retreat.

Seven consecutive charges, the attack on four camps, did not make any progress, and the Great Ming tooth soldiers actually opened the city gates swaggeringly and began to clean up the battlefield!

Because the morale of the seven charges had already fallen to the bottom, the huge casualties made people panic. The samurai and foot soldiers were all worried about whether they would become the first three rows of the charge. The rain of bullets meant death.

Kuki Yoshitaka was furious, but he could only watch the Great Ming tooth soldiers walking leisurely, stripping the Japanese naked, and piling them on the road to block the Japanese pirates' charge.

Li Chengli is from Dongping, Tai'an, Shandong. He practiced martial arts himself. His father died in the anti-Japanese war, and Li Chengli also devoted himself to the anti-Japanese war. Li Chengli had self-knowledge. He knew he was not good at attacking, but defending, isn't that just a matter of hands?

"Japanese pirates, nothing more than this." Li Chengli breathed a sigh of relief. The Japanese were not as fearless of death as they imagined, nor were they ghosts who didn't know pain. Yang Shiqi also plummeted in the face of huge casualties. Seven charges, one weaker than the other, morale declined at a speed visible to the naked eye, and later they all stopped.

War has always been like this. One drum of courage, momentum like a tiger; then decline, momentum like a wolf; three times exhausted, momentum like a worm.

Li Chengli pondered for a while and said to several battalion commanders, "Pass the order down, don't take off your armor at night, prevent the Japanese from raiding at night."

To prevent the dog from jumping over the wall, don't take off armor at night, and don't give the Japanese any opportunity. Li Chengli activated his martial skill: Invincible.

You are strong, you are strong, the breeze brushes the mountain post; he is horizontal, he is horizontal, the bright moon shines on the big river.

I stand still, what can you do?

Sure enough, at the midnight of the night, suddenly the drums sounded, and the Japanese launched a charge again, starting a night raid. But the Great Ming tooth soldiers were prepared, repelling the enemy's night raid again, making the battlefield fall into a stalemate.

"Heavy casualties, thirty-two Great Ming tooth soldiers died in the bloody battle." Li Chengli reported the battle situation of yesterday with an extremely difficult face, including the night raid, a total of thirty-two tooth soldiers died in the bloody battle.

Xu Wei frowned and asked, "What about the casualties of the Japanese pirates?"

"More than 1,200 heads were cut off." Li Chengli reported the enemy's casualties.

"Register the list, and after the war, memorialize the court to reward them, build a loyalty shrine, and engrave their names on a monument to remember them." Xu Wei took a deep breath. War will always kill people. Xu Wei had been with Hu Zongxian for so many years and had long seen through life and death, but every time his comrades died, he still felt sincere emotion.

The battlefield has never been a game, life and death are in an instant.

"Can you hold it?" Xu Wei looked at Li Chengli and said, "If you can't hold it, we must arrange for the retreat."

"Yes." Li Chengli said very affirmatively, "The Japanese are much weaker than we imagined. Their will is not firm."

"Where are Sun Shangzong and Luo Censor?"

Sun Keyi and Luo Yinghe were not there. Since the news of the Japanese attack came, Sun Keyi and Luo Yinghe had not participated in the Governor's Office discussion.

"Watching the gunpowder in the armory." Xu Wei told Li Chengli where the two went, watching the gunpowder in the armory.

The Great Ming army retreats, the Japanese pirates enter the city, and Sun Keyi will ignite the gunpowder, blowing the entire Nagasaki to the sky. This is "better to be a broken jade than a whole tile." Sun Keyi is not prepared to retreat, and Luo Yinghe is with him.

This was planned long ago. Luo Yinghe, this scholar, chose to die with Nagasaki.

"People can be used, we won't lose." Li Chengli made a guarantee again. The Japanese were not as strong as they thought. This time it was the navy acting on its own, not going all out, plus the battlefield factors, the Japanese couldn't win.

On the third day, the wind suddenly rose, and the sky began to drizzle, and then the drizzle turned into a torrential rain. At this time, the Japanese pirates' opportunity came. The Great Ming's sharp weapons for defending the city—cannons, firearms, and arrows—all had their power greatly reduced because of the rainy day.

Many times, you have to talk about the right time, place, and people. This is the right time. The weather at the end of April would not have had such a torrential rain, but the rain was pouring, which was unfavorable for defending the city.

But at the same time, the road was muddy. When they trekked to the front of the camp, the Japanese pirates' physical strength had already been consumed seven or eight out of ten. Facing the one-zhang-high city wall, they were also helpless. Even if the samurai were in the rear, they killed many foot soldiers who were hesitant and stopped, but still, no one climbed the city wall.

And even worse things came. The Great Ming camp had cover and could light a fire to cook, but the Japanese pirates outside the city had no such convenience. Because of the heavy rain, the firewood was wet and could not be lit. The Japanese pirates who could only eat dry food were even more unable to attack the city. As for tents, that was a luxury that only samurai could enjoy.

Soon, the Japanese faced a greater test. The Great Ming tooth soldiers and guest soldiers were fighting in a foreign land, and the Kumano Navy was also fighting in a foreign land. The heavy rain brought a big drop in temperature. The cold northwest wind blew, and the Japanese foot soldiers began to get sick.

As for the Mori family navy? The Mori family navy had already run away!

Murakami Takeyoshi, seeing that it was impossible, did not notify Kuki Yoshitaka and took the Mori family navy and retreated secretly. Kuki Yoshitaka had no way out, but Murakami Takeyoshi was not a barefoot person. He had a way out, coming quietly and leaving quietly.

The situation on the battlefield presented a one-sided trend. The Great Ming tooth soldiers sat firmly in the city and would not open the city gates to attack. Command Commander Li Chengli was extremely cautious. He had to be responsible for the lives of the soldiers he brought out.

"No, is Japan so fond of the Three Kingdoms?" Li Chengli looked at the female clothing in front of him and was stunned, "Does he think he can humiliate me with women's clothing?"

Zhuge Liang once used women's clothing to humiliate Sima Yi, but Sima Yi still stood firm and did not come out. Now Kuki Yoshitaka actually used this trick to humiliate Li Chengli, trying to force Li Chengli out of the city to fight, and fight Kuki Yoshitaka one-on-one.

"The Great Minister always says that Japan has not learned three parts of human appearance, and seven parts of beastliness are deeply rooted. This one-on-one fight is actually arranged from the 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' not the 'Records of the Three Kingdoms.' They don't even want to look at the 'Records of the Three Kingdoms'." Xu Wei looked at the women's clothing and also shook his head.

The Central Plains never had a culture of one-on-one fighting. Martial generals fighting one-on-one was mainly for leisure and strength, and the victory or defeat of the battlefield was never decided by martial generals fighting one-on-one.

"It seems that we don't need to retreat, and Sun Shangzong doesn't need to blow Nagasaki to the sky." Xu Wei was full of confidence. This was the performance of the Japanese being helpless. If there was a way, they would have attacked long ago.

The Japanese used firearms, dismantling cannons from ironclad ships to bombard the camp, but the damage caused was zero.

Because the power of the Japanese firearms was too small. The firearms they used were all foreign trade models sold to them by the Great Ming. To put it bluntly, they were all defective products. They looked sound and powerful, but the gunpowder count and airtightness of the cannons were completely different, so that the three-jin cannon hit the adobe city wall and only made a pit.

Adobe is three-in-one soil, not soil piled together. It is weaker than brick and stone structures, but it is definitely not slag that breaks at a touch.

The Japanese were a bit desperate, and the Great Ming tooth soldiers found that the sharp weapon for defending the city against the Japanese was a wooden stick, which was better than other city defense weapons.

The Japanese pirates who climbed up the ladder were matched by two Great Ming tooth soldiers. One gave a stick to the head, making them dizzy and hurting their brains, and then the other poked, poking them off the ladder. Falling down wouldn't kill them, only wailing, further hitting morale.

It was like a gopher-hitting city defense. A Great Ming tooth soldier could hit for a whole day.

After the enemy retreated, they cleaned up the battlefield and made up the knife. The samurai refused to charge, and the foot soldiers had no protective gear. This became a dilemma for the Japanese pirates on the Nagasaki battlefield.

The drizzle continued for more than ten days, and the sky finally cleared, but Kuki Yoshitaka was desperate because the Nagasaki Bay was full of ships, hanging the Great Ming's Big Dipper Seven Stars flag.

The reinforcements that were expected to arrive in a month arrived in half a month!

Speed is the essence of war. The Great Ming Navy arrived half a month earlier than expected, so Kuki Yoshitaka didn't prepare for retreat at all and was caught off guard.

Marquis of Shouli Chen Lin personally brought three five-masted ocean-crossing ships and thirty horse ships, rushing to support day and night. When Chen Lin received His Majesty's edict, Chen Lin knew it was going to be bad. The Nagasaki Governor's Office was very dangerous!

The Japanese are dogs that look at both ends. Never expect the Japanese to be loyal. Oda Nobunaga will definitely resist.

Chen Lin rushed day and night, anxious, and finally arrived at Nagasaki, only to find that the situation on the battlefield seemed to be in the Great Ming's favor.

Chen Lin soon figured it out. The camps that even the Marquis of Sishui Yin Zhengmao and the Marquis of Yingyang Zhang Yuanxun had headaches about, and it took two and a half years to gnaw down, why did the Japanese pirates, just by sending a navy, want to gnaw down this hard bone?

Chen Lin did not attack immediately, but hunted the Japanese navy on the sea. The ironclad ships that were invincible among the Japanese were like paper in front of the sea giants like the five-masted ocean-crossing ships, and couldn't stop a single volley from the five-masted ocean-crossing ships.

After the Great Ming Navy sank the Japanese ships, they began landing operations, and the Nagasaki Governor's Office, which had endured for more than ten days, also began to take the initiative to attack, cooperating with the Great Ming reinforcements to launch a pincer attack on Kuki Yoshitaka. The Japanese defense collapsed quickly, scattering in all directions, and the Great Ming began to pursue.

When Zhu Yijun received the Nagasaki battle report, it was already mid-May. During this time, Zhu Yijun was extremely worried about the situation in Nagasaki. The coastal patrol "Water Flying" had been passing messages, but because it was a war zone, the battle situation changed rapidly.

Zhu Yijun was prepared. If Sun Hongyi, Luo Yinghe, and others really blew Nagasaki to the sky, a comprehensive war to destroy Japan would start immediately!

Although the timing was not ripe and the Great Ming had not yet figured out the hydrology and geography of Japan, sometimes, even if it is raw rice, it must be eaten!

"Well fought!" Zhu Yijun finished reading the report and stood up suddenly, saying repeatedly, "Good, good, good! My Great Ming soldiers are brave, fighting to the death without retreating, resisting the Japanese pirates' tide-like attacks, repelling the invading enemy, and when Chen Lin's reinforcements arrived, launching a pincer attack, completely annihilating the Kumano Navy! Kuki Yoshitaka was captured alive, hahaha, good! Good!"

"Reward heavily! Next chapter, Ministry of War and Ministry of Rites, draft the title conferral for Xu Wei and Li Chengli."

"Next chapter, Nagasaki Governor's Office, force Oda Nobunaga to sign the silver and sulfur treaty!"

Conferring titles on Xu Wei and Li Chengli, the rewards for the soldiers would definitely not be low, and they were heavily rewarded. In addition to the established rewards, Zhu Yijun specially issued a batch of silk and national cellar wine from the internal treasury as rewards. Both physical rewards and monetary rewards were available.

The interesting part was that Kuki Yoshitaka was captured alive and had to be sent to the capital for interrogation, and finally sent to the Jieku Institute to be executed according to the law, to avoid the risk of reporting false military intelligence to the greatest extent. After all, interrogation is checking the accounts.

Sending the captured enemy general to the capital to offer captives is to avoid possible political risks, deliberately retaining a portion of the captives to prevent base scholars from wagging their tongues.

"Master is a bit too cautious. He wants to investigate the Jieku Institute. There is no need. It was just an accident." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in front of him. Zhang Juzheng's memorial made the Emperor difficult.

There were three patients who had wisdom teeth extracted that day. All the utensils were disinfected and taken together. Zhang Hong watched it personally. Others were fine, but Zhu Yijun developed symptoms of wind-cold and fever. The chief surgeon who knocked out Zhu Yijun's sideways tooth was Chen Shigong.

The Jieku Institute had no problems, but Zhang Juzheng believed it was necessary to investigate.

"Master doesn't trust anyone." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "If Master wants to investigate, let Master investigate."

"The Grand Secretary is a bit too cautious. There is no need for him to investigate the Jiekuyuan; it was just an accident." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in front of him. Zhang Juzheng's memorial put the Emperor in a difficult position.

There were three patients who had their wisdom teeth pulled that day. All the utensils were sterilized and taken together, and Zhang Hong watched it personally. Everyone else was fine, but Zhu Yijun developed symptoms of a cold and fever. The chief surgeon who knocked out Zhu Yijun's horizontal tooth was Chen Shigong.

There was no problem with the Jiekuyuan, but Zhang Juzheng believed it was necessary to investigate.

"The Grand Secretary doesn't trust anyone." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "If the Grand Secretary wants to investigate, let him investigate."