Chapter 609: Man Can Conquer Heaven, Heaven May Abandon, But Man Shall Not

The Emperor was very clear that the Dissection Institute had no issues, and Zhang Juzheng was also very clear, but the common people of the Great Ming were not. Zhang Juzheng requested an imperial decree to investigate in the name of the Cabinet; the reason was very simple: to put an end to the spread of conspiracy theories and to provide a final characterization of this matter.

This time, the Great Ming Emperor's critical illness was a massive crisis. For the Great Ming, which had just stood up from the mire, the Emperor was the center of the new policy's centripetal force. Once the Emperor had a problem, the Great Ming would immediately slide into an unknowable abyss. The imperial system had always been like this; the rise and fall were greatly related to the individual Emperor.

The Great Ming had survived a catastrophe and needed a final official conclusion regarding this catastrophe, so that conspiracy theories would have no soil to grow in. This was good for everyone.

Including the Emperor himself.

The Great Ming Emperor underestimated his own influence a bit too much.

A very simple and straightforward example: there was now a consensus on the grasslands that one could oppose the Han, but one could not oppose the Emperor. On the grasslands, the conflict between the Northern Hu and the Han people still existed widely, mainly due to the conflict over means of production; land, pastures, salt lakes, mines, and so on were all inducements for the outbreak of conflict.

However, in the grasslands, one cannot oppose His Majesty, because the stable life of today is brought by His Majesty and His Majesty's heavenly soldiers and generals. This is the greatest consensus of Hou Yuzhao's Great Ming, where all are the King's subjects. It will only take two or three generations, and only once the means of production have been distributed, for the state of "you in me and me in you" to transform into an inseparable whole, where it will no longer be possible to distinguish between one another.

The reason Zhang Juzheng wanted to conduct an investigation was to prevent the growth of conspiracy theories, because due to the existence of the case of the assassination of the King, many people among the populace believed that Wang Chonggu and his nephew Zhang Siwen were like those assassinating the King, so an investigation was needed, and a conclusion was needed.

Soon, after several rounds of review, the Dissection Institute's review result was that the Dissection Institute had no issues.

His Majesty developed symptoms of a cold and flu because of an rejection reaction caused by His Majesty's body being overly robust. This is the adverse reaction a person has to foreign objects or drugs entering the body, and it is a hyper-acute rejection. His Majesty's current round of rejection can be explained as the immune system hunting for enemies in the void, while Emperor His Majesty himself is extremely strong, which led to this fever.

His Majesty's horizontal tooth was stitched three times; it is the thread from these three stitches that caused this phenomenon. An ordinary person would only experience local inflammation or pain.

The Grand Medical Officers of the Dissection Institute were all very curious about how the Emperor managed to pull through. Generally speaking, if a fever occurs after surgery, one can basically cover the person with a white cloth and prepare for the funeral. Even Li Shizhen, upon seeing it, could only say, "Wait for death; there is no saving him."

Of course, although the Grand Medical Officers of the Dissection Institute felt that Emperor His Majesty was very special, no Grand Medical Officer said that they wished to dissect the Emperor.

The Dissection Institute had no issues during the Emperor's surgery, but Zhang Juzheng discovered during his investigation that the Dissection Institute was operating in violation of regulations. The Dissection Institute has quite a number of rules and regulations, and the management of medicine is extremely strict; pain medication even requires three people to supervise each other before it can be withdrawn. Many rules and regulations were established specifically because the Dissection Institute was treating the Emperor.

The violations at the Dissection Institute were mainly concentrated on experiments. The Dissection Institute explicitly forbade any Grand Medical Officer from using themselves as samples to test medicine. Emperor His Majesty painstakingly collected so many beasts that could not even be called human, along with criminals sentenced to death by slow slicing, and sent them into the Dissection Institute specifically for the Grand Medical Officers to conduct experiments on.

However, the phenomenon of Grand Medical Officers using themselves to test medicine is widespread. For example, Grand Medical Officer Pang Xian, who had already left the observation period, planted cowpox on himself after repeated verification, thereby obtaining immunity to smallpox.

"So, Sir, do you want to punish these Grand Medical Officers who possess the benevolence of a healer? They are responsible for their own experiments, which is why they use themselves to test medicine. How could you have the heart to punish them, Sir?" Zhu Yijun spread his hands. Zhang Juzheng demanded the punishment of this behavior, but the Great Ming Emperor did not agree.

"Your Majesty, every Grand Medical Officer walked into the Dissection Institute amidst the strange gazes of others to study the infinite principles of biology. Each one of them is precious, while the specimens are inhuman beasts. Every soldier who died in Nagasaki is a loyal and righteous soul of Great Ming. No matter how many Japanese pirates die, it cannot offset this sin of the Japanese people. The Oda clan, the Mori clan—the entire Japanese nation must pay the price!" Zhang Juzheng was very stubborn and still insisted on dealing with it according to regulations. This is punishment, but even more so, it is protection.

Moreover, Zhang Juzheng used this Battle of Nagasaki as an example to persuade His Majesty that the punishment is intended to eradicate this trend.

"The medicine and therapies developed by the Grand Medical Officers sometimes need to be used on Me and My imperial relatives—such as abdominal surgery, or Chen brine, or allicin. If any problem arises, it will implicate their families. Is it better to die from testing medicine, or to have My entire family buried with them because of a medicine? To the Grand Medical Officers, this is an obvious choice."

"Sir, if the punishment is light, it won't work; if the punishment is heavy, I am not happy." Zhu Yijun still insisted on not imposing punishment; this involves the issue of the severity of the penalty.

If the punishment is light, this ban becomes a mere formality, which is equivalent to saying: one only needs to pay a negligible price to obtain the right to violate the ban.

For example, with some national traitors, as long as they do not die, there will certainly be people who follow one after another to break the law. Moreover, with this national traitor present, the ban cannot be enforced. People do not worry about scarcity, but about inequality. If this national traitor does not die, on what grounds can we be punished?

Wang Chonggu always says: killing people is truly useful, because killing people is the proper execution of the law; it is the clarification that the ban is untouchable, and it is what makes national law more solemn. Trying to smooth things over can only bring temporary peace, after which the situation will become increasingly worse.

"Then I request Your Majesty to issue an imperial decree to once again clarify to everyone in the Dissection Institute that they must act according to the rules. If they offend again, they shall be driven out of the Dissection Institute." Zhang Juzheng said helplessly: "Your Majesty, the world has never lacked rules; what it lacks is a way to make people generally comply with them."

If the established regulations are not enforced, then why establish them? Just for show?

Zhang Juzheng had no choice. His Majesty was unwilling, and he could not force the issue. He could only follow His Majesty's words and retreat to the next best option; if he could obtain an imperial decree strictly clarifying the regulations, that would be enough.

This pair of monarch and subject, Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng, did not always see eye to eye. Disagreements were the norm, and many times, Zhu Yijun won.

"Is it useful for Me to issue an imperial decree?" Zhu Yijun was willing to issue this decree, but he did not know if it would be useful or not.

"Your Majesty, issuing an imperial decree is truly useful." Zhang Juzheng said very affirmatively. Issuing a decree is truly useful; His Majesty's credibility and prestige are still there. With a strict decree, the Grand Medical Officers will not openly violate the regulations.

The Dissection Institute is not tolerated by the rites and laws of Great Ming. "The body, hair, and skin are received from one's parents"—this is the holy teaching of Confucianism. It can be said that the Dissection Institute exists entirely under the protection of the Emperor, so the Emperor's words are naturally effective.

"How are the results of the cowpox?" Zhu Yijun signaled for the drafting eunuch in the Inner Study to draft the decree. After he reviewed it, he would affix the seal. He began to chat about the planting and promotion of cowpox.

Zhang Juzheng said with great excitement: "I have learned from the Dissection Institute that smallpox is also divided into several types. They are all smallpox, but even the mild cases have a mortality rate of over 30%. If it is severe or hemorrhagic, death is certain! Taking Wuli Village in Datong, Shanxi, as an example, smallpox broke out in the eighth year of Wanli. In the end, the city gates were closed, and when they were opened again, out of 15,000 people, only 5,000 remained."

"If cowpox is truly useful, it would truly save countless lives—a Saint Qi reborn!"

"On what grounds should merit be awarded?" As a later arrival, Zhu Yijun actually could not empathize with the terror of smallpox and the harm it caused, because he had not experienced it. Later generations live in a world without smallpox, and they don't even plant cowpox anymore; the flower planted on the shoulder is the BCG vaccine, not cowpox.

Zhu Yijun could not understand the fear people of that time had for smallpox, but Zhu Yijun had experienced life and death. He knew that death was truly terrifying, and there is great horror between life and death.

"First-class merit award!" Zhang Juzheng said very definitely. The technical progress award for this year already has its winner, and it cannot even wait until the New Year to be presented.

Pang Xian represented the Dissection Institute in winning a first-class merit award plaque for extraordinary achievement.

"Your Majesty, in places where smallpox breaks out, one can only close the city gates. Regardless of old or young, women or children, everyone must be locked in the city until everyone is infected, falls ill, and dies. It is equivalent to saying... the imperial court has abandoned the common people. Now, finally, there is a way." Zhang Juzheng clenched his fists and said forcefully.

From closing the city gates to opening them, it is a period of three years—three years of great plague.

Places where smallpox broke out were all lands of death. Any city that experienced smallpox had to be abandoned for a period of time, which also led to various legends of being abandoned by heaven.

Ma Yilong, the teacher of Zhu Yijun's agricultural teacher Xu Zhenming, once said that human effort can overcome heaven.

Heaven may abandon these common people, but the imperial court will not abandon these common people.

Heaven may abandon them, but man will not!

Cowpox is truly useful. On the day cowpox is widely used, even if His Majesty immediately announces that he is the reincarnation of the True Martial Great Emperor, there will be a large number of supporters who believe it without doubt.

War and plague are the greatest killers of mankind; they are evenly matched and neck-and-neck, often complementing each other.

"Pang Xian will eventually leave his name in history. He is the first person to plant the vaccine." Zhu Yijun used the vermilion brush to approve the memorial in which Zhang Juzheng requested merit for the Dissection Institute as a whole.

San Niangzi had not left yet. She had been waiting for Pang Xian to finish the observation period so she could learn from him about the results of this method. The grasslands also suffered deeply. Since the Han Dynasty, smallpox had been called "barbarian sores," meaning it was a malignant disease transmitted from the northern barbarian Xiongnu.

On the grasslands, smallpox was rampant.

There are four methods for human pox inoculation to prevent smallpox: the pox-garment method, the pox-plasma method, the dry-seedling method, and the water-seedling method. Each one uses the human pox virus and is extremely dangerous, while the cowpox method almost never produces pox, let alone being fatal. This is the wonderful thing about the cowpox method.

"Then let's try it first, and promote it starting from the capital." Zhu Yijun decided to start with a pilot program, and it would still start in the capital.

During the Chongzhen years, because of unprecedented lack of rain and frequent droughts, mosquitoes, insects, and rats became a disaster. The era of great plague, originating from Shanxi, arrived. Accompanied by drought, the common people had to migrate, and the plague was brought to the North China Plain. This plague was both a great bubonic plague and a smallpox epidemic, as it was known as the "lump plague" at the time.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, in small households along the streets, five or six out of ten were buried. In the neighborhoods, the shadows of children were cut off. With or without coffins, counting by the nine gates, there were over 200,000.

A super-great plague broke out in the capital. Five or six out of ten families had to collect and bury corpses. One could not see a single person in the rooms on the streets. Counting only the dead with or without coffins at the nine gates, it exceeded 200,000.

From the eighth to the twelfth month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the plague broke out again. By the most conservative estimate, it was on the same scale as the fourteenth year of Chongzhen. When Li Zicheng broke through the capital of the Great Ming Empire, he did not encounter any resistance, because he was facing a dead city where white bones lined the roads, ghosts and humans mingled, and people dared not walk at dusk.

Wang Xiyuan ran to the Emperor to complain, saying he was bitter and tired, and that he could not hold on anymore and wanted to resign. This was because the responsibility on his shoulders was truly heavy. When Wang Yie was there, the population density of the capital was still relatively low, and Shen Yiguan's term was extremely short. Wang Xiyuan truly received a hot potato. With an increasing population, epidemic prevention was also a huge test.

Wang Xiyuan was an administrative official who had to handle these matters; if he didn't handle them well, he would have to bear the responsibility.

"The 'Xunzi: Kingly System' says: 'When plants and trees are flourishing and abundant, axes and hatchets should not enter the mountains and forests, so as not to stunt their growth or cut off their development. This is the system of a sage king.' The 'Guanzi' says: 'When mountains and marshes are developed at their proper times, the people will not be reckless.'"

"Your Majesty, in the past two years, the capital has visibly become greener." Zhang Juzheng talked about environmental protection and mentioned the visible changes in the capital.

Xunzi mentioned in the "Kingly System" chapter that when plants and trees are flourishing and producing, axes should not enter the mountains and forests. This is the sage king's system of following nature. Mountains and marshes should be developed at the appropriate time. Cutting them down when plants and trees are growing is contrary to nature.

Following nature is a common understanding recognized by all the philosophers of the pre-Qin period.

The capital has become green; this is the biggest change Zhang Juzheng has noticed in these years. From a gray expanse to the current lush greenery, even the houses of the common people have planted trees. Every household has trees in front of their doors. Coupled with the Shun Tian Prefecture's vigorous tree planting to deal with the attacks of the base scholars on the Western Hills Coal Bureau, this result was finally achieved.

Human activity has a huge impact on the environment. Since the Western Hills Coal Bureau provided a stable supply of coal at six wen per jin, the woodcutters and log carriers did not disappear; they no longer entered the mountains but gathered near the Coal Market. Because the wealthy households of the Western Tucheng clamored about wind power when the Emperor was critically ill, they were beheaded, and the Coal Market has already been placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Works.

Nature recovers very quickly. Flying birds brought seeds from afar to all places. Under the nourishment of rain, they took root and sprouted. Without human interference, they gradually grew up, blossomed, and bore fruit. Mountains, forests, and grasslands appeared in the wilderness, and there were more trees in the fields. When the wind blew, the branches and leaves swayed, shaking the shadows of the trees.

Zhang Juzheng said with great emotion: "Perhaps this is the will of heaven. In these three or five years, the capital region can be considered to have favorable weather. Snow in winter froze the locusts to death, and rain in spring nourished all things. I have lived in the capital for thirty years, and these three or five years are the years with the least drought."

Snow in winter and rain in spring—shouldn't this be taken for granted? Actually, it is not.

From the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing to the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, the Jiajing Emperor went to the Prayer Hall to pray for snow six times, and only succeeded once. During the six years of Longqing, the Longqing Emperor prayed for snow three times and for rain once.

Up to the twelfth year of Wanli, only on the fifth day of the twelfth month of the seventh year of Wanli did the Emperor go to the Temple of Heaven to perform the Great Yu Ceremony, carrying out self-reflection and praying for snow. Hong Yingtan reflected for less than three days, and heavy snow fell in abundance.

If heaven does not send snow or rain, it is a huge challenge to imperial power and the imperial court. The Emperor might have been abandoned by heaven, and the imperial court needs to organize disaster relief and reduce taxes.

"Hmph! So it is favorable weather. I heard that those wealthy households in our Western Tucheng built 1,200 villas along Wangwang Mountain, with mountains, water, and gardens. What are they called? 'Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix' houses, 'Four Horses Dragging the Cart' houses. Building big houses right under My nose! Becoming a place where famous scholars linger and forget to return! When that Wangwang Mountain was bare, why didn't I see them building big houses!" Zhu Yijun got angry when he mentioned this.

With the recovery of nature, the vegetation on Wangwang Mountain recovered at a very fast speed. Coupled with the water diversion canal, the wealthy households of the Western Tucheng created an artificial lake comparable in scale to the Dragon Pool, and built 1,200 villas along the lake. Each one had its own name. The most expensive "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" big houses only had eight.

They dared not build nine, mainly for fear of overstepping and being confiscated by the Emperor, so they built eight.

There is also a long street under this Wangwang Mountain, selling rare items. Even foreign women like the Red-Haired Barbarians and Golden-Haired Barbarians are there. It is a place of extravagance and pleasure, so it is not surprising that these famous scholars linger and forget to return.

"It hasn't been built yet, and these eight 'Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix' big houses are already sold out?! I want to see who is so rich! Have they paid their taxes!" Zhu Yijun slapped the table with a bang.

"Feng, my attendant, issue an order to the Ministry of Revenue: for courtyards exceeding three entrances, add them to the luxury tax category, starting at 30%. For this kind of 'Nine Birds Facing the Phoenix' big villa, tax it at 100%. Don't they have money? If they don't pay taxes, they can't live there!"

Zhu Yijun included big villas that clearly exceeded living needs into the scope of luxury tax collection. It would be intolerable to heaven if this stuff wasn't taxed! Want to live in a big villa without paying taxes? If you can't afford the tax, don't buy it!

"I obey the decree." Zhang Juzheng did not expect that the luxury tax list, which had just been decided, would be updated so quickly. This added a new item.

This tax should be collected. The world is so big; if they don't want to pay, they can go overseas to build big houses. In those places, no one cares, and the imperial court even supports it.

Zhu Yijun's plan to award Pang Xian a first-class merit plaque fell through because Pang Xian had already agreed to go to Guihua City. For the pilot program in the capital, with Grand Medical Officers like Chen Shigong, Li Shizhen, and Wu Lian present, there would be no omissions or problems.

And Pang Xian wanted to go to the grasslands in person to promote the cowpox method.

Pang Xian would return to the capital before the New Year and would not delay His Majesty's award ceremony. Pang Xian's refusal was unanimously agreed upon by the Grand Medical Officers. The reason was very sufficient, mainly because there was no large-scale application and no practical experience. Pang Xian was also not sure about the specific effects of the cowpox method. It would not be too late to receive the award after the pilot program.

Not leaving any handle for the base scholars was the consensus of the Grand Medical Officers.

Zhu Yijun's plan to present the awards in the middle of the year fell through.

The end of the fifth month is the annual "Opening of the Wine" inspection. The white spirits of Great Ming gather in the capital. Compared to the rush of last year, the preparations this year were very sufficient. This time, the fee for the "World's Number One Wine," personally written by the Emperor, rose from 50,000 silver to 100,000 silver, but it was still sought after by many.

Before the "Opening of the Wine" inspection began, the Japanese envoy, former Minister of Civil Affairs Kanda Shinichi, arrived in the capital.

Along the way, Kanda Shinichi's mouth never closed. He was shocked beyond measure. Kanda Shinichi was a staunch resistance figure in Japan, and his resistance was blatant. He wanted to use privately minted coins to counter imported coins and refused to let Great Ming use paper money to take whatever it wanted.

Later, he was dismissed because of Great Ming's demands.

And this time, Kanda Shinichi arrived in the capital representing Oda Nobunaga.

"Support for military expenses, 15 million taels of silver, annual interest of 4%, paying 3 million silver within one year, and paying it off in forty years? Impossible, absolutely impossible! Where would Japan get so much silver!" Kanda Shinichi had just arrived at the Four Barbarians Hall when he received the diplomatic note from Great Ming's Court of Imperial Entertainments.

"After the Battle of Nagasaki, Japan's naval forces were all lost in Nagasaki. Your ironclad ships, which you are so proud of, will have two dragged to Tianjin Wei in fifteen days. Marquis of Shouli Chen Lin has a submissive heart and dragged these two to Great Ming, preparing to dismantle them as ornaments for His Majesty." Vice Minister Gao Qiyu said with a smile.

Chen Lin truly intended to do this. Great Ming had no use for this kind of ship. The only use was to serve as a toy for His Majesty. This time, it was not a model, but the real thing, dismantled into parts and placed in the Taiye Pool for His Majesty's enjoyment.

His Majesty couldn't see the victory, so give His Majesty two ironclad ships so that His Majesty could have a sense of participation.

"How can Great Ming not go and rob!" Kanda Shinichi shouted angrily.

"Isn't this robbing right now? You don't think I'm here grinding my teeth with you, do you? What cannot be obtained on the battlefield cannot be obtained at the negotiating table! Oda Nobunaga can certainly refuse, it doesn't matter. Great Ming's navy will go and take it themselves. Now the time for choice has arrived: will you let Great Ming's navy go and rob it themselves, or will Oda Nobunaga give it?" Gao Qiyu was calm and did not get angry, but every word was like a sharp blade stabbing into Kanda Shinichi's heart.

Great Ming can go and take it themselves; this is the reason Great Ming dares to demand such a huge war indemnity.

"Great Ming is not like this. As the Celestial Empire, how can it be so full of the smell of copper!" Kanda Shinichi was stunned for a long time before sitting down and saying: "That was Kuki Yoshitaka acting on his own. It was the navy acting alone, not the General's fault. Why should the General bear the responsibility for the mistake?"

"Lying to ghosts! The navy acting alone? Kuki Yoshitaka must have eaten a bear's heart and leopard's gall to dare to resist Oda Nobunaga?" Gao Qiyu slapped the table and shouted: "Do you think Great Ming is stupid? Who gave him the cannons! Who gave him the gunpowder! Who gave him the Japanese pirates in the navy! It was all Oda Nobunaga! Bullshit navy acting alone!"

"This 15 million silver war indemnity is not for Oda Nobunaga to take out himself. There is also that Mori clan. They secretly landed and secretly slipped away. Can this be treated as if nothing happened? What do you take Great Ming for? A prostitute in a brothel, who can come in and go out as they please?! And you don't want to pay?"

Gao Qiyu's words were very harsh. He was the first special envoy to the West. These barbarians are all like this; if you reason with them, they don't understand.

What rites, righteousness, integrity, and shame? Gao Qiyu only wanted silver!

He no longer had any hope of promotion. With Zhang Juzheng there, he could not be promoted. Even if Zhang Juzheng were gone, he still couldn't. His Majesty would definitely not promote him, because that would become a breakthrough point for counter-attacks.

At the negotiating table, one uses their tongue to strive for benefits for Great Ming. Since the front line won the battle, the results must be expanded. The negotiating table is also a battlefield!

"15 million taels of silver is really too much. Japan does not have such financial resources." Kanda Shinichi said with pain. If they didn't agree, Great Ming would launch a full-scale attack on Japan. They needed to do something to appease Great Ming's anger.

He thought the Bai Yin-Sulfur Treaty was already harsh enough, but he didn't expect an even harsher treaty waiting for him to sign.

"Bai Yin, squeeze a little and there will always be some." Gao Qiyu said calmly: "What you don't know is that Emperor His Majesty rejected the Bai Yin-Sulfur Treaty proposed by the Nagasaki Governor's Office. The Nagasaki Governor's Office is closer to Japan, and His Majesty was worried about the safety of the Nagasaki Governor's Office. But the Japanese people brought about their own destruction and insisted on attacking the Nagasaki Governor's Office."

"Those who bring about their own destruction cannot live."

This was equivalent to digging a piece of flesh from His Majesty's heart. His Majesty's attitude toward the Bai Yin-Sulfur Treaty was cautious, asking the Nagasaki region to study it further and not be so harsh, to prevent them from being driven to desperation. As a result, before there was a conclusion, they were already driven to desperation.

The Emperor's face was damaged; how much silver would it take to regain face for His Majesty?

"And Tsushima Island." Gao Qiyu reminded Kanda Shinichi that what Great Ming wanted was not just silver, but everything on Tsushima Island—forts, weapons, factories, ports, and Japanese people. Everything should be ceded to Great Ming as an eternal precedent.

Tsushima Island is a very important island and the only way for Japan to attack Korea. With the opening of the seas, Japan's wolfish ambitions have already been revealed, and Great Ming naturally has to take precautions. If Japan wants to steal the authority of the Central Kingdom, it must first take Korea.

Then Tsushima Island and the strait controlled by Tsushima Island are the strategic points that Great Ming must control in its hands.

"Tsushima Island is the foundation established by the Bai Yin-Sulfur Treaty. Without Tsushima Island, Japanese ships can still go to Korea and then use Korea's tally trade as a pretext. Don't think the imperial court doesn't know. Still the same words: you can refuse, Great Ming can go and take it itself." Gao Qiyu looked at Kanda Shinichi and said: "For Oda Nobunaga, it doesn't matter."

"Anyway, Tsushima Island belongs to the Mori clan, not the Oda clan."

The encirclement network formed by Jeju Island, the Nagasaki Governor's Office, and Ryukyu would firmly lock Japan on the island, unable to move.

Does it not matter to Oda Nobunaga? Oda Nobunaga prides himself on being the "Man of the World." As the Shogun of Japan, the result of signing this treaty would be to be nailed to the pillar of shame forever. It would be better to die at the hands of an assassin.

Oda Nobunaga needs to bear all these infamies.

"The General will not agree!" Kanda Shinichi said with pain.

"Exactly." Gao Qiyu stood up and said with a smile: "If you ask me, why talk? Great Ming pitied Oda Nobunaga for being assassinated and specially granted the establishment of the Nagasaki Metropolitan Command and the Osaka Bay Garrison Battalion. He did not know how to be grateful and even conspired to rebel. Let's just kill Oichi and her daughter to sacrifice the flag and launch a full-scale attack. Talk my ass!"

Gao Qiyu flicked his sleeves and made a move to leave. His attitude was extremely arrogant, as if he didn't intend to negotiate at all. But in fact, Gao Qiyu knew very well that the time had not yet come. Hu Yuan was hasty in attacking Japan because he didn't understand the hydrology and was defeated by the Divine Wind. Moreover, there are too many Japanese people now, so we need to wait a little longer.

"Wait a minute!" Kanda Shinichi stretched out his hand and said with an ugly expression: "Wait a minute, we can talk some more."

Gao Qiyu, with his back to Kanda Shinichi, revealed a smile.

The weaker Japan is, the easier it will be to destroy it.