Chapter 627: Man can control the mandate of heaven and use it

On the day Wang Wang Chongyi was assassinated, the Great Ming Emperor punished the patrol censor of the Metropolitan Gendarmerie. Zhao Zhao Chengfan was discovered because Liu Liu Zhangshan was sent to the capital. After interrogating Liu Liu Zhangshan, they obtained clues and finally found this borer.

Liu Liu Zhangshan was to be sent to the Dissection Institute because, as a sea merchant, he had repeatedly trafficked Great Ming people. During the Honno-ji Incident, Liu Liu Zhangshan had already cleared his relationship to the front of Oda Nobunaga, and as a representative of the Yuanxu Islands and some of the powerful families who had moved abroad, Liu Liu Zhangshan knew many things, including how to bribe the patrol censor to help with a little convenience.

Zhao Zhao Mengyou, as the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, personally interrogated Zhao Zhao Chengfan. Under repeated questioning, the patrol censor Zhao Zhao Chengfan confessed to the problem.

"In other words, you didn't know beforehand that the items Liu Liu Zhangshan asked you to help release were gunpowder. It was only after the explosion and Xu Xu Zhaode was arrested that you guessed you had caused trouble. Liu Liu Zhangshan couldn't be found either. It was only when the plain-clothed censors found you that you completely confirmed it was indeed gunpowder?" Zhao Zhao Mengyou looked at the confession in his hand.

"Commander, please investigate clearly! If I had known it was gunpowder, how would I have dared to release it! Who knew these people were so bold? I just took a little bit of silver; I never thought about assassinating the Senior Grand Secretary!" Zhao Zhao Chengfan's legs were shaking. He never thought that a small act of willfulness of power would bring such a great disaster.

"Interesting, Xu Xu Zhaode didn't even know of your existence." Zhao Zhao Mengyou compared Xu Xu Zhaode's confession repeatedly and, after reviewing the list of physical evidence again, said with great emotion.

Liu Liu Zhangshan's bribery of the patrol censor was entirely a means of "making friends." He didn't ask the patrol censor to do anything. In the past, calligraphy, paintings, gold, stone, and beauties were all sent to Zhao Zhao Chengfan as gifts from a friend. Then, on the grounds that it was inconvenient for earth and stone to enter the capital, he asked Zhao Zhao Chengfan to provide convenience.

Zhao Zhao Chengfan had a certain vigilance. He personally inspected the earth, stone, and wood once and let the captains inspect them carefully three times before he finally let go of his guard and chose to release them.

In the capital under the feet of the Son of Heaven, it's not that you can build a house just because you want to. This business is called the "inn business"—that is, the houses in the city collapsed, and you want to rebuild them? You have to pay the powerful families who control this business.

Otherwise, the earth, stone, and wood used to repair the house would not be able to enter the city.

Zhao Zhao Chengfan was not the first time he had "provided convenience" to others. Some people felt that the earth, stone, and wood of the powerful families were too expensive, and they happened to have connections with the Metropolitan Gendarmerie, so they saved this sum of silver. Everyone was a "meat-eater," seeing each other every day. The powerful families who controlled the business were also willing to give the patrol censor some face.

Otherwise, if the patrol censor really raised the banner of curfew, he could toss people to death.

Patrol censor Zhao Zhao Chengfan chose to release them against this background.

And the news Xu Xu Zhaode received was that gunpowder could be found in the stone materials for repairing the house at the Guangde Bookstore. Li Li Sanhu went five times in total before finding the gunpowder in the stone materials. The assassination was postponed four times, dragging on until the day the Wang family returned to their hometown to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. From the investigation of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, it was confirmed that Wang Wang Chongyi had indeed died in place of Wang Wang Chonggu.

The goal of Xu Xu Zhaode, Liu Liu Zhangshan, Li Li Sanhu, and others from the beginning was Wang Wang Chonggu.

"I was just greedy; the crime is not punishable by death! Commander, I still have silver! You can have as much as you want if you help me!" Zhao Zhao Chengfan was really scared. He kept begging, hoping that Zhao Zhao Mengyou would say a few good words for him by taking bribes.

"Stupid, if I kill you, the silver is also mine!" Zhao Zhao Mengyou's eyes flashed with ferocity and then became kind. He said with a smile, "How much do you think your life is worth?"

"I still have 30,000 taels of silver with my concubine! As long as the Commander saves me, I will definitely offer it all!" Zhao Zhao Chengfan saw there was a chance and said loudly.

"30,000 silver? It seems Censor Zhao doesn't think his life is worth much." Zhao Zhao Mengyou said happily, "We cavalry have already confiscated 50,000 silver in property. It seems Censor Zhao doesn't think his life is worth much money. Listen to my advice: as long as the green hills remain, don't worry about firewood."

Zhao Zhao Mengyou tried to cheat more silver by portraying himself as a corrupt official, just to confiscate the corrupt official's family fortune more cleanly.

Zhao Zhao Mengyou didn't even need any acting skills, because in the eyes of these giant borers, everyone is corrupt; it's just that they are not known.

In Zhao Zhao Chengfan's mind, he only needed to bribe the Commander. Even if it was a death sentence, he could just swap a civet cat for a crown prince when it was time for execution!

Zhao Zhao Mengyou failed to cheat more silver. The cavalry of the Emperor Wanli reign were clumsy at administering the court stick because they needed a cushion, but they were absolute experts at ransacking homes. They would never leave a single cent of silver; everything would be confiscated into the inner treasury. It was just a matter of practice making perfect.

Zhu Zhu Yijun received the memorial written by Zhao Zhao Mengyou and checked the case file. The approximate expenses for the assassination of Wang Wang Chonggu had been gradually completed. Bribing the patrol censor cost 70,000 silver, and raising the death warrior Li Li Sanhu cost about 30,000 silver, because Li Li Sanhu was the only one willing to do it. Others cheated food and drink, and disappeared without a trace when the time came. Purchasing gunpowder, clearing relationships, and other expenses totaled more than 150,000 silver.

Especially the price of gunpowder, which was more expensive than gold.

The gunpowder for fireworks was of course very cheap, but the gunpowder Li Li Sanhu held was granular gunpowder. Xu Xu Zhaode didn't know where it came from; it was obtained by Liu Liu Zhangshan, and Liu Liu Zhangshan didn't know where it came from either.

"There are two doubts in this case. One is where the gunpowder came from, and the other is how the gunpowder entered the capital. Now one doubt is clear. The cavalry must investigate this matter in detail." Zhu Zhu Yijun gave a vermilion approval to Zhao Zhao Mengyou's memorial and gave instructions to Zhao Zhao Mengyou.

Since he said he would investigate to the end, he could not let go of the obvious doubts.

"Your Majesty, I already have a rough guess." Zhao Zhao Mengyou found Liu Liu Zhangshan's confession. Although Liu Liu Zhangshan didn't know where it came from, he found some clues from the repeated interrogation records, and all clues pointed to one place.

"The Luzon Viceroyalty produces granular gunpowder."

Since Zhao Zhao Mengyou dared to say this in front of the Emperor, he naturally had full confidence. It was 99% likely that it flowed out from the Luzon Viceroyalty, because the Jiugang Laos Laos Xuanweisi had been fighting a war before.

When fighting a war, buying and selling military equipment is a very normal phenomenon. Bird guns and tiger-crouching cannons being reported as damaged, false reporting of gunpowder usage, etc. —this was still covering up. During the Emperor Jiajing reign, there were even soldiers who, because of unpaid wages, openly traded firearms in exchange for household goods.

Both the Emperor Wanli reign and the Yongle reign had a problem: the Jiugang Laos Laos Xuanweisi and the Viceroyalty were too far from the Great Ming hinterland. Luzon had already confirmed land ownership in substance and began to collect land tax. The Shipping and Taxation Office collected merchant taxes, and the speed of "King's Transformation" (civilization) was very fast. But the Jiugang Viceroyalty, because of the distance, was as difficult to transform as it was back then.

Ten thousand miles south, the extreme south.

"Since we want the benefits of opening the sea, we must bear the costs of opening the sea." Zhu Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Continue to investigate and confirm the source of the gunpowder."

Fast sailing ships are extremely important. The *Youlong* has been equipped. It takes only eighteen days to travel from the Songjiang Prefecture home port to the Jiugang Malacca City. Only when a large number of fast sailing ships are equipped will this problem be improved.

The burden on Songjiang Governor Shen Shen Shixing is very heavy. According to the report from Shanghai Magistrate Yao Xu Guangqi, Shen Shen Shixing's temples have turned gray. Zhu Zhu Yijun is very worried that Shen Shen Shixing will be exhausted to death before he becomes the Senior Grand Secretary.

But as a disciple of Zhang Zhang Juzheng, with Zhang Zhang Juzheng still alive, if Shen Shen Shixing wants to enter the Grand Secretariat, he must bear such high intensity to gain universal recognition.

For Shen Shen Shixing, the best news recently is that the shipyard for fast sailing ships has not had any more trouble, and everything is going smoothly.

"People, after all, have to force themselves to know how strong they are!" Zhu Zhu Yijun picked up a memorial in his hand, pondered for a long time, and said, "Go and summon the Minister of Revenue and the Junior Minister of Revenue."

Minister of Revenue Wang Wang Guoguang, Junior Minister of Revenue Zhang Zhang Xueyan, the financial ministers of Great Ming, the imperial court's money bag—Zhu Zhu Yijun summoned them because there were important matters to discuss.

Having been Emperor for twelve years, Zhu Zhu Yijun was very clear that since the memorial had reached his front, a result had actually been fought out. The Emperor only needed to stamp it. The Emperor must grasp the general direction. What he had to do was judge the pros and cons, using Great Ming's core interests as the basis for judgment.

Wang Wang Chonggu made a move.

The foundation of the Emperor Wanli Reform opposition alliance is overseas. This is a brand-new test. This alliance is composed of several powerful families who fled overseas and refused to obey the King's orders. They left Great Ming, so they were unscrupulous. And the first major move of this alliance was to assassinate Wang Wang Chonggu.

And now, since Wang Wang Chonggu is alive and continues to serve as the Junior Grand Secretary in the court, there will definitely be no good fruit for these guys to eat.

Wang Wang Chonggu's memorial is extremely long, but it totals three aspects.

The first is to increase the number of official plantations in Nanyang; the second is to take anti-drug as the main purpose and conduct regular inspections of the Yuanxu Islands; the third is to establish enough inspection departments in the Yuanxu Islands and set up coastal defense inspections.

Increasing the number of official plantations is a plan to draw the firewood from under the cauldron. This is using the power of a country to snatch the means of production. For these powerful families who fled abroad, this is even more painful than killing them. If the means of production are lost, all achievements are just flowers in the mirror and water in the moon, and water without a source.

Drawing firewood from under the cauldron, a plan to exterminate the family.

The second point is indeed aimed at the opposition alliance, but the main purpose is still anti-drug, to win the anti-drug war, prevent the spread of opium, ayahuasca, khat, etc., in Great Ming, strike severely and for a long time, and even not hesitate to go to extremes to clean them up.

In this era when it takes ninety-two days for a document to be sent from Yunnan to the capital, this kind of strike is very easy to expand in the process of execution. Anti-drug becomes a basket, and everything can be put into it, even becoming a means for the Luzon and Jiugang Viceroyalties to exploit those below.

The third point, enough inspection departments, coastal defense inspections, is a supplement to the second point. It is best to leave living people for anti-drug, to be checked by coastal defense inspections and sent to the capital, to the greatest extent avoiding the phenomenon of framing others and falsely claiming military merit.

But this kind of thing is definitely unavoidable.

Wang Wang Chonggu spoke very clearly and thoroughly, and the pros and cons of the policy were all stated very clearly.

This involves a question: do these powerful families who refuse to obey the King's orders and rebelled overseas still enjoy the protection of the Great Ming Code?

Wang Wang Chonggu, on the grounds of "if the feudal lords use barbarian rites, then treat them as barbarians," expelled these rebellious powerful families from the Great Ming register, treating them as barbarians, which perfectly avoided the legal problem.

The Great Ming Code never protects barbarians. For example, Solon, who was burned to ashes, was a barbarian, so the Emperor beheaded him and burned him to ashes, and the scholar-officials didn't even have anyone to save him.

"The official plantations of the imperial court already occupy 60% of the Nanyang plantations. Is there a need to continue expanding?" Zhu Zhu Yijun pushed Wang Wang Chonggu's memorial out and asked for the Ministry of Revenue's opinion.

"Your Majesty, the more plantations, the better." Wang Wang Guoguang clearly had seen this memorial and didn't open it to look at it carefully before answering the Emperor's question.

Zhang Zhang Xueyan further supplemented, "Your Majesty, the celestial phenomena have changed; Great Ming needs more food."

The Academy of Things clearly observed the arrival of the Little Ice Age. The grassland is getting colder, and the precipitation in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and the Hetao region is decreasing year by year. The drought in the land of Northwest Shanxi is becoming more and more serious. The Academy of Things found that the hinterland is far from the ocean, the huge temperature regulator, and in the situation where the specific heat capacity of land is only one-twentieth of water, Great Ming must face a food crisis, and it is already facing this severe problem.

Wang Wang Chonggu proposed expanding the number and area of official plantations, not only to retaliate against the murderers who dared to assassinate him and killed his younger brother, but also as a long-term strategy for the country. It is not just for the purpose of venting anger.

60%? Even 100% is not enough.

Wang Wang Guoguang pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, the population of Great Ming is increasing because the sweet potato for famine relief is truly a good thing for the people. But this weather is getting worse and worse. There are more people and less food, so there will be chaos. The world is changing. I believe that this matter of food concerns the lifeblood of the state. If it is not in the hands of the state, I am afraid there will be great chaos."

Food, especially food flowing into Great Ming from overseas, is not in the hands of the imperial court. Emperor, how can you sleep?

You can be Emperor because you have strong troops and horses. You have strong troops and horses because you have food, silver, guns, rites, and the hearts of the people. So you are the Emperor. If you have no food, you have no silver, and if you have no silver, you have no guns. Can you still sit firmly as Emperor?

The inevitable drought problem in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia and the population growth problem are the realistic problems that the Great Ming state must face.

When the people of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia make trouble because they are hungry, should the imperial court suppress or appease them? This problem was discussed very clearly by Marquis of Ningyang Chen Mao and Earl of Shuyang Jin Jin Lian as early as the During Zhengtong reign.

Chen Mao and Jin Jin Lian discussed this problem very clearly when they were suppressing the Ye Ye Zongliu-Deng Deng Maoqi uprising.

The people are diligent and persevering. If they can be full, they will be safe. If the people rebel, the world will be in danger. Suppression is like cooking oil on a raging fire; the more urgent the suppression, the more intense the rebellion. Only appeasement and resettlement is the only way to stabilize the four directions.

Chen Mao and Jin Jin Lian described the suppression of the people's rebellion in great detail. The people of Great Ming are more docile than sheep and more willing to endure hardship than donkeys. As long as they have a living, they will not rebel. Forcing such people to rebel and then continuing to suppress them is expanding the contradiction, finally making the world in great chaos. Therefore, the people's rebellion can only be appeased.

Appeasing the people requires food, and food is not under the control of the imperial court. Does the Emperor want to rely on the invisible hand and bet that the merchants who travel everywhere and seek profit will not raise prices? The invisible hand will only make silver flow to places where silver is not lacking, making food a tool for exploitation.

Food is the heaven of the people. Once there is a problem with food, it is by no means a small matter.

Although Wang Wang Guoguang and Zhang Zhang Xueyan didn't say it explicitly, that was the meaning. Since you want to be a great Emperor who manages everything in the imperial audience, you must be spirited!

"It has already expanded to 60%. Any more, and the problems of rigidity and bloatedness will become problems that plantations cannot solve. 60% is not small." Zhu Zhu Yijun elaborated on the reasons for his inquiry.

Any more, and the plantations will lose vitality because there is no competition, only monopoly. Rigidity and bloatedness will affect production, finally causing the total grain output to decline. The coal that sold for 200 wen a jin in the late Northern Song Dynasty sold very poorly; no one bought it, and no one produced it.

The plantations in Nanyang, because of rigidity and bloatedness, cannot become the blood bag of Great Ming and cannot help Great Ming smoothly pass through the Little Ice Age. This is also the reason for Zhu Zhu Yijun's inquiry.

Official and private are a mutual process, definitely not enemies who want to kill each other, but a process of mutual support, contradiction succession, and spiral ascent.

"Then let's increase it by another 10%. 70% official, 30% private." Zhu Zhu Yijun said very clearly, "Two beloved ministers, you can't let the Great Ming navy go out to catch slaves. Don't say I don't want the navy soldiers to do these dirty jobs; they don't know how to catch slaves. They are very good at attacking cities and seizing land and killing enemies, but catching slaves is a very professional job."

"And we can't manage it."

Wang Wang Guoguang and Zhang Zhang Xueyan whispered to each other for a while.

Wang Wang Guoguang bowed and said, "Your Majesty's words are reasonable."

70% is not much, but it is enough. According to Great Ming's theory of weight, in fact, occupying 30% is enough to occupy a dominant position. The imperial court occupying 70% in the plantation economy is already the limit of the imperial court.

Official plantations do not catch slaves and do not use slaves. This is not a disadvantage of high morality, but because the population growth rate in the coastal areas of Great Ming far exceeds that of the hinterland. These official plantations have another important role: resettling the population so that the unadjustable contradiction between people and land will not blow up the Great Ming dynasty.

"Regular inspections and establishing inspection departments in the Yuanxu Islands are very necessary." Zhu Zhu Yijun had no opinion on the last two points, but he did not agree with Wang Wang Chonggu's desire to take everything in the plantations.

Eating too much will also burst.

After seeing the Minister and Junior Minister of Revenue, Zhu Zhu Yijun also met with Grand Secretary Wan Wan Shihe. Wan Wan Shihe presided over the compilation of *The Collection of Various Schools of Thought*, opening the Hall of One Hundred Schools, recruiting scholars from all over the world to compile together, and had completely compiled *Xunzi*.

The Hall of One Hundred Schools recruited scholars from all over the world. After compilation, it was submitted to the Ministry of Rites for examination, and the final reviewer was Wan Wan Shihe himself, who sent it directly to the Emperor for reading.

Zhu Zhu Yijun had already finished reading the 32 chapters of *Xunzi*, which could be described as every word being a pearl, making the Great Ming Emperor gain a lot.

"Xunzi, as the Most Holy Teacher, was expelled from the Confucian register. It is a great pity for Confucianism. This is the loss of Confucianism, not the loss of Xunzi." After reading *Xunzi*, this was the only feeling of the Great Ming Emperor.

Great Ming's Most Holy Teacher is no longer Confucius or Mencius.

The various schools of thought are all Most Holy Teachers, the pioneers who opened up human civilization.

"I also realized after compilation that perhaps *Xunzi* is the other side of Confucianism. If later Confucian scholars could accept Xunzi's criticism, Confucianism would definitely not be what it is now." Wan Wan Shihe said very affirmatively.

Confucius and Mencius talk about human nature being good; Xunzi talks about human nature being evil. Dong Dong Zhongshu played with the superstition theory of "Heaven-Man Interaction," which had been gradually abandoned in the pre-Qin period; Xunzi talks about "Man can control the mandate of heaven and use it." Confucianism talks about valuing rites and laws, while Xunzi takes human nature being evil as the starting point, specifically using laws to govern the world and using rites and laws to persuade.

"Man can control the mandate of heaven and use it" is the most typical. It means: human beings have the ability to master the laws of natural changes and use them. Facing nature, one must exert initiative, emphasizing human change of nature, letting nature be used by me, rather than letting the mandate of heaven and nature become a shackle for human beings.

Just this point alone seconds Dong Dong Zhongshu's set of "Heaven-Man Interaction," cleanly and thoroughly.

Heaven-Man Interaction is reversing history; it is "Heaven and Man are not separated." And the Confucian Most Holy Teacher, Xunzi, had already clearly put forward the theory of "Heaven and Man are separated," and it was vividly reflected in *Xunzi: On Heaven*.

Zhu Zhu Yijun still remembered the terrible wind of public opinion that Zhang Zhang Juzheng endured when the guest star invaded the main seat at the end of the Emperor Longqing reign and the beginning of the Emperor Wanli reign. In order to express his support for Zhang Zhang Juzheng, Zhu Zhu Yijun issued an edict to repair and reflect, saying that the Heaven-Man warning was entirely because he, the Emperor, did not do well. In the fifth year of Emperor Wanli, when the great comet appeared, Zhang Zhang Juzheng's father passed away, and the mourning disturbance also caused a lot of trouble.

It was clearly separated in the pre-Qin period, but after turning around and arriving at Great Ming, the poison of Heaven-Man Interaction was still endless.

Facts also proved that the guest star that invaded the main seat was just a supernova explosion; and the great comet was even less of a Heaven-Man warning. The reflecting telescope observed it very clearly; it was just a comet.

"Heaven's way has its constants; it does not exist for Yao, nor does it perish for Xu Jie. Respond to it with governance, then it is auspicious; respond to it with chaos, then it is ominous. It is no wonder Xunzi was expelled from the Confucian register." Wan Wan Shihe said with great helplessness.

Xunzi was not expelled from the Confucian register because he scolded the lowly Confucian scholars, but because he attacked the sage kings above the Three Dynasties. Xunzi touched the core theory of Confucianism. Everything in Confucianism was built on the Zhou Rites, and Xunzi directly dug up the ancestral graves.

The way of heaven has its own laws of operation. It will not flourish because Yao and Shun are in the world, nor will it disappear and decline because of Zi Xia Xu Jie. As a monarch, one should take rise and fall as the standard. If the world is well-governed, it is auspicious; if the world is in chaos, it is ominous.

Forcibly binding the rise and fall of the world and natural phenomena to the morality of the monarch is something the monarch cannot afford, and the people of the world cannot afford it either. Placing all hopes of rise and fall on one person is extremely dangerous. It requires the monarch to be sage, the ministers to be virtuous, and ten thousand people to work together to flourish; otherwise, it will be lost and chaotic. Therefore, "the separation of Heaven and Man can be called the ultimate person."

Zhu Zhu Yijun likes the 32 chapters of *Xunzi* very much. This is the true book of emperors.

"Are there any more? Are there only these 32 chapters?" After reading these 32 chapters, Zhu Zhu Yijun was still unsatisfied and asked Wan Wan Shihe if he had found any rare copies from the folk, or scattered chapters, even one would do.

"There are only these 32 chapters; the others are lost." Wan Wan Shihe said with great regret.

"This... is truly regrettable. I will give you 3 million silver to specifically collect rare copies and unique chapters, to supplement the scattered texts of the various schools of thought. Even if you find one, these 3 million silver are worth it." Zhu Zhu Yijun asked Feng Bao to take a promissory note from the inner treasury, wrote down the 3 million silver in capital letters, took the seal, and stamped it on it.

Saying he would give money, he really gave money, definitely not perfunctory. Even if it was finding a pearl in the sea, 3 million silver was worth it.

The prosperity of Confucianism made the various schools of thought fall into decline, and various articles disappeared in the long river of history.

"Your Majesty, this is not just a matter of silver, it also requires some luck..." Wan Wan Shihe held the silver note in his hand. This thing could really be exchanged for 3 million silver. Wan Wan Shihe had never held so much silver in his life, but he could only tell His Majesty that it mainly depended on luck.

"Can we do something like 'buying a horse's bones with a thousand gold'? I mean, someone brings a family-transmitted ancient book to the Hall of One Hundred Schools to inquire, and then finds it is a scattered chapter, a thousand gold for one character, one character counts as 1,000 silver, and rewarding silver in public, wouldn't it be much easier to find scattered rare copies?" Zhu Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and thought of a good way.

A thousand gold for one character to find rare copies.

It was a bit expensive, but Zhu Zhu Yijun had plenty of silver, and he was willing to spend this silver to let the pearls no longer be covered in dust.

Wan Wan Shihe looked at the 3 million silver note in his hand and looked at the Emperor with sincerity: "Your Majesty is wise! This method is very good, except it is a bit expensive."

The Emperor, who was usually stingy, was suddenly willing to spend so much money. The meaning was very clear: His Majesty really wanted to get these things done.

The West is playing with the Renaissance, reviving Roman art. Great Ming doesn't need to, because Great Ming is the living Rome of the East.

All are the legacy of the ancestors. ===== CHAPTER 628 =====

"Your Majesty, this is not just a matter of silver; it also requires some luck..." Wan Wan Shihe held the silver note in his hand. This thing could really be exchanged for three million taels of silver. Wan Wan Shihe had never held so much silver in his life, but he could only tell His Majesty that it mainly depended on luck.

"Can we do something like 'buying horse bones with a thousand gold'? I mean, if someone brings an ancestral ancient book to the Hundred Families Hall to inquire, and it turns out to be a lost chapter, a thousand gold for one character—rewarding silver in public—wouldn't it be much easier to find lost rare books?" Zhu Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and came up with a good idea.

A thousand gold for one character to find rare books.

It's a bit expensive, but Zhu Zhu Yijun has plenty of silver, and he is willing to spend this silver so that pearls are no longer covered in dust.

Wan Wan Shihe looked at the three million taels of silver note in his hand and said sincerely to His Majesty, "Your Majesty is wise! This method is very good, except it's a bit expensive."

His Majesty, who is usually stingy, was suddenly willing to spend so much money, meaning it was very clear: His Majesty really wanted to get these things done.

The West is doing some Renaissance, reviving Roman art, but the Great Ming doesn't need to, because the Great Ming is the living Rome of the East.

It is all the legacy of the ancestors.