Chapter 641: The Chief Culprit, It Is I!

From the Zhejiang Governor Wu Shanyan, Yan Shixuan saw arrogance, that kind of high-and-mighty, condescending arrogance. From beginning to end, Wu Shanyan never thought that these soldiers would dare to break into the Prefectural Yamen after their pay was reduced and trample him fiercely under their feet!

Living in the clouds for too long, under the alienation of power, he forgot that he was also a human, also a creature. As long as a person is killed, he will die. Everyone is so fair in the face of death.

Wu Shanyan does not read *Contradiction Theory*, so he only knows the power from top to bottom, completely ignoring the bottom-up anger, and what kind of terrifying consequences it will cause after being ignited.

Yan Shixuan stood in the front hall of the Prefectural Yamen and said loudly to the four battalion commanders at the head: "Leave the interrogation to me, how about it? Gentlemen, believe me once! Gentlemen are all witnesses. I released Ma Wenying and let him return to the Luomu Battalion. I said it to him personally, mutiny! We are people on the same boat, believe me."

"Why? I mean, why do you insist on interrogating him yourself?" Yang Tingyong asked full of doubts.

"Because I am an official of the court, I am afraid that you will be unable to suppress your anger and beat him to death on the spot! Only if he is alive can we give an explanation to the court!" Yan Shixuan reached out and said: "The Prefectural Yamen is full of Luomu Battalion people, he can't run away, he must die!"

Yan Shixuan has confidence in His Majesty. Wu Shanyan must die, and it will be beheaded for public display in Hangzhou Prefecture. The execution ground in front of Chongyi Square in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, is the best proof. Even the fanatical believers of the Great Ming Sect went to watch the execution.

"Drag it until the court navy arrives?" Zhang Wenyuan, whose real name was Zhang Changwu, changed his name to Zhang Wenyuan when he was a battalion commander. The name Zhang Changwu was really hard to climb into the elegant hall. He chose Zhang Wenyuan himself. He knew that this was the word of Zhang Liao, and he hoped that he would be as powerful as Zhang Liao.

"Drag it until the court navy arrives, and I am in the Prefectural Yamen, and Wu Shanyan is also in the Prefectural Yamen! He doesn't have wings, can he fly away?" Yan Shixuan looked at the battalion commanders and said: "Gentlemen, leave it to me."

"Good." Ma Wenying, who had been silent, agreed to Yan Shixuan. This Yan Shixuan was quite different from the dog officials he had seen. He was a person of flesh and blood.

"If you need help, just speak." Yang Tingyong waved his fist and said: "My fist, until he honestly confesses."

Yan Shixuan began to interrogate Wu Shanyan. At first, Wu Shanyan didn't cooperate much. Yan Shixuan brought Yang Tingyong. Yang Tingyong didn't do anything, just stood there, and Wu Shanyan became honest. If he wasn't honest, he would have to take a punch. The soldiers didn't care about your punishment not being up to the doctor. A punch to the sky, and three of your teeth were gone.

"Why reduce the soldiers' pay? After opening the sea, the treasuries in various parts of Zhejiang were extremely full, and the burden of military pay was not very heavy." Yan Shixuan asked the biggest doubt in his heart. Why did this Wu Shanyan have nothing to do and provoke these soldiers? Reducing from nine *qian* of silver per month to three *qian* of silver was simply forcing the soldiers to die.

"This, this..." Wu Shanyan's eyes dodged, and he didn't dare to look at Yang Tingyong and said in a low voice: "The embankments repaired by the Zhejiang nine battalions were repaired too well."

"What kind of reason is this? We repaired the embankments too well, and we were wrong? If the embankment was destroyed and flooded the fields, the common people's harvest for a year would be gone. We repaired the embankments well, and we used dead strength to repair them!" Yang Tingyong immediately raised his fist. This dog official Wu Shanyan was just not honest. At this point, he was still talking nonsense.

Yang Tingyong was a rough man, and he was a bit dizzy by Wu Shanyan's detour.

"Yes." Wu Shanyan closed his eyes and nodded hard and said: "You repaired the embankments too well, and the local gentry and scholars were not very satisfied, because the poor people's fields were not flooded, how could they annex them? Not only were their fields not flooded, you also helped repair water channels. When repairing embankments, you repaired the water channels along the way."

"The gentry and scholars blocked the water channels, and you came again the next year to dredge the water channels. The common people didn't even need the water of the powerful and wealthy to water the land. Can they not be anxious?"

Wu Shanyan was also broken and broken. Death is definitely going to die. The soldiers mutinied, which was holding the idea of burning both jade and stone. It was best to suffer less before dying. Hard mouth would only lead to big slaps. Yang Tingyong's fist was bigger than a sand pot. One punch could make him dizzy for half a day.

"Damn, dog official! I'll kill you!" Yang Tingyong was crazy with anger. He had always thought that Wu Shanyan was just greedy, felt that the nine battalions were too expensive, and wanted to force the nine battalions to go home and farm. He didn't expect that the real reason for reducing pay was that the soldiers were too capable, too money-saving, and blocked people's way to make a fortune!

"Yang Tingyong! You promised Ma Sanye, listen to me here." Yan Shixuan saw that Yang Tingyong was already crazy with anger, and hurriedly shouted loudly, pulling Ma Wenying out to suppress Yang Tingyong.

"Spare your dog life!" Yang Tingyong was anxious and angry, kicked Wu Shanyan's stool, and directly kicked it apart. Wu Shanyan sat on the ground, brought down the table, and was as embarrassed as he could be.

Yan Shixuan said sincerely: "The strength is really great."

"Yan Shixuan, you mutinied with this group of soldiers. When the court investigates, you won't have any good fruit to eat!" Wu Shanyan sat on the ground and shouted angrily at Yan Shixuan. In his view, it was Yan Shixuan who betrayed him.

Yan Shixuan said quite calmly: "You want to kill me, so don't you allow me to kill you? If Ma Wenying dies, you and I, all the officials in Zhejiang with official ranks, will all die. Do you believe it? You don't really think that the Hangzhou Tax Inspection Court only manages tax inspection and ignores everything else, right?"

"Those are the eyes and ears of the Emperor!"

"Idiot!"

Wu Shanyan shivered. Only then did he realize that the Tax Inspection Court had only focused on tax inspection from beginning to end, making him forget that the Tax Inspection Court was directly under the Northern and Southern Town Fuses, and was a secret guard, an eagle dog of the court. He said stiffly: "The law does not blame the masses."

"Law? You talk about the law with His Majesty? His Majesty is a holy monarch, so he is willing to follow the rules and not let power be willful. When did everyone become like you? Do you really think that the Emperor who holds the capital battalion, when he is anxious, will care about the law not blaming the masses?" Yan Shixuan discovered a phenomenon: the split between new and old officials.

This split made Yan Shixuan unable to understand Wu Shanyan's thoughts. Are you sick? Talking about the law with the Emperor!

His Majesty really follows the Confucian set of laws above the three generations. Can he kill the Kong family in Yanzhou? That beast who forced Chen Dazhuang's father to send a funeral for a dog was executed by the Emperor!

Wu Shanyan's view of the Emperor and imperial power still stayed in the late Jiajing and Longqing reigns, not taking the young Emperor seriously.

Not reading *Contradiction Theory* is like this, unable to understand contradictions, and even less able to see the essence from the phenomenon. The Great Ming Emperor practiced martial arts at the age of ten, began to inspect military horses at the age of twelve, and began to practice military horses at the age of thirteen. In the entire capital battalion, everyone knows the Emperor. Being so hard, isn't it just standing and being the Emperor?!

The army is the monarch. His Majesty has long had the ability to lift the table.

"That, that, Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang will also stop His Majesty. For the sake of a Ma Wenying, is it worth it?" Wu Shanyan still said stiffly.

Yan Shixuan was too lazy to argue with Wu Shanyan anymore. Qi Jiguang would never stop the Emperor. Where the Emperor points his sword, the Great Ming soldiers will follow. This was the oath Qi Jiguang made to all soldiers before becoming the Duke of Fengguo. Reporting to the Son of Heaven is the premise.

As for Zhang Juzheng, it is even more impossible. The first Senior Grand Secretary of the Great Ming to propose strengthening the military was Zhang Juzheng. He took the silver of military generals. This matter has been recited by remonstrating officials for more than twenty years. Moreover, the power of the matter is the core of Zhang Juzheng's new policy. His Majesty is no longer young and suspicious.

Wu Shanyan lives in his own world.

"The dirty work you delegated to Prison Warden Dong Chao and jailer Xue Yunpu, Dong Chao wrote it out before he died and handed over the physical evidence." Yan Shixuan continued to handle the case.

Why did Dong Chao and Xue Yunpu commit suicide? Because their sins were heavy. They had done too many dirty things for Wu Shanyan over the years.

The Great Ming pays attention to the fact that the dead are the greatest. Dong Chao and Xue Yunpu are already dead, so it is not convenient to pursue their families and mistakes. Moreover, this mutiny, if it weren't for Dong Chao fooling the private secretary and Wu Shanyan, if Wu Shanyan organized resistance, I'm afraid it would cause a lot of trouble. Suppressing the gangs in the city would not be so smooth.

Yang Tingyong whispered a few words to a scout and said with a heavy face: "Prefect Yan, something happened. The Zhejiang nine battalions have all mutinied..."

The mutiny itself only involved the Luomu Battalion and the Jiuqu Battalion. Now the Zhejiang nine battalions have all mutinied, broke into the prefectural and county yamen, took the local chief officials, and cleared out the sitting bandits in the city.

"Hahahaha!" Wu Shanyan sat on the ground and laughed wildly, pointing at Yan Shixuan and laughing: "Yan Shixuan, look at the trouble you caused! Now it's good, things have reached this point, let's see how you end it!"

"The bigger the trouble, the better. His Majesty, he likes to watch the fun." Yan Shixuan said quite calmly: "Yang Tingyong, you tell Ma Sanye, let Ma Sanye order all battalions not to disturb the common people."

"This is natural." Yang Tingyong left to find Ma Wenying after receiving the order, because Ma Wenying's words were useful.

Yan Shixuan looked at Wu Shanyan's appearance, sneered and said: "The nine battalions are not the soldiers and bandits of the past. As long as they don't loot the common people, the sky won't collapse. His Majesty's thunderous anger will not pour onto our heads."

"You treat them as thorns in your eyes and flesh in your eyes, just because they do their work too well. The embankments are repaired well, and the flood prevention is done well. You guess whether the common people believe you, the Governor, or these nine battalion soldiers?"

"Confess your problems."

Seven days later, Yan Shixuan posted a notice announcing Wu Shanyan's crimes, writing more than a hundred crimes in total, divided into three categories.

The first category is corruption, using the power in his hands to gather money, such as dung road masters, water nests, earth and wood, coal market, vegetable market, etc., totaling more than thirty items. Each item is evidence-based, and all written evidence and physical evidence have been sealed.

The second category is illegality, shielding the powerful and wealthy, gentry and scholars from annexation and various illegal acts, raising wanderers and gangs. The crimes and physical evidence of Dong Chao's death are ironclad. In the process of investigation and supplementation, many new crimes were discovered. The most frequent one was the yamen runners going to the countryside to collect taxes in the tenth year of Wanli, causing chickens and dogs to be restless. Because of tax resistance, seventeen yamen runners died or were injured, and the common people had no plan.

The third category is special, which is violation of prohibition, mainly two kinds of contraband: smuggled raw silk and opium. Raw silk has been strictly prohibited from export since the second year of Wanli, and opium is a crime of immediate execution. Of course, it also includes other contraband.

On the day Yan Shixuan posted the notice, the Great Ming navy arrived. The 30,000 navy led by Chen Lin, with Songjiang Governor Shen Shixing as the Viceroy of Military Affairs, arrived under the Hangzhou Prefectural City.

Arriving late was because Shen Shixing was shocked to hear the sudden change in Zhejiang, reported to the court, and only started to advance after receiving the imperial decree.

"Put down your weapons, we surrender." Ma Wenying stood at Yongchang Gate, looked at the neat navy, and ordered all the soldiers of the Luomu Battalion and Jiuqu Battalion to surrender. He said to everyone: "The chief culprit, it is I!"

Ma Wenying never thought of evading responsibility. This time he didn't bind himself, but ordered the city gate to be opened and walked out of Yongchang Gate himself.

"Battalion Commander Ma Wenying of the Zhejiang nine battalions Luomu Battalion, receive the decree." Li Yougong flicked the whisk, took three steps forward, and said loudly.

"Ah? I receive the decree." Ma Wenying didn't wait for the shackles, but waited for the imperial decree.

"By the order of the Emperor, the edict says:"

"I am in the capital thousands of miles away, not knowing what kind of changes happened in Jiangnan, so that the anti-Japanese heroes are so desperate. I heard that the mutiny in Zhejiang was worried. I summoned the court officials to discuss the matter. Senior Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng and Junior Grand Secretary Wang Chonggu both said that there must be a reason for the matter, and it should be inquired clearly. However, the mutiny caused the post road to be broken."

"I order the internal official Li Yougong to take the imperial decree to Hangzhou. Li Yougong is my sparring partner when I was young. You can believe him. Follow him to the capital to present the grievances."

"If you are not willing to put down your weapons and surrender to the navy, you must not hurt the common people at all. Otherwise, the navy will definitely suppress it! These common people were all saved by you fighting bloody battles on the battlefield back then. Today, you want to hurt them, why did you save them in the past?"

"Respect this."

The imperial decree is in vernacular, representing that it was written by the Emperor himself.

The content inside is mainly to inform the nine battalions of the Emperor's attitude. The attitude in the Emperor's imperial decree is very clear. It must be that they have suffered some great grievances, so they will mutiny. This is to determine that what the nine battalions did is reasonable;

Secondly, it is to declare Ma Wenying and others to enter the capital to meet the Emperor and present the grievances. This is the Emperor's promise. In order to fulfill the promise, he even sent his sparring partner to pick up people;

Finally, the Emperor allows the mutinous soldiers not to surrender, and wait until the matter is handled before dealing with it, but the condition is that they must not hurt the common people at all, because these common people were all saved by the anti-Japanese heroes from the hands of the Japanese pirates.

"I thank His Majesty for his great kindness." Ma Wenying first felt strange.

How can you allow mutinous soldiers not to surrender?! This is already a very obvious partiality.

"His Majesty has an oral instruction." Li Yougong put the whisk aside and said: "His Majesty said, I believe in the Great Ming soldiers, especially the anti-Japanese heroes. The Great Ming has been owed military pay for so many years, and it hasn't caused such a big movement. If it weren't for great grievances, how could there be a mutiny? Rather than saying it's a mutiny, it's better to say it's a dead end, a desperate fight."

Li Yougong helped Ma Wenying up. Li Yougong had never done this action, because he represented the Emperor when declaring the decree, so even when the National Surname Lord received the decree, Li Yougong would ensure his demeanor, but he did it this time.

The Great Ming Emperor gave special instructions before leaving, to clarify the cause, not to let the situation expand further, and most importantly, His Majesty said a heartfelt word.

His Majesty said that he believes that most of the Great Ming common people are gentle. This gentleness is toward kindness, not numbness. This gentleness even includes some local gentry and scholars and powerful and wealthy people. If it weren't for the fact that they really couldn't live, they wouldn't rise up and resist, and rise up.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance.

Zhu Yijun believes so, actually because history has proven it. The military pay owed in the Three Frontiers of the late Ming Dynasty, in fact, since Zhang Juzheng died, the military pay owed in the Three Frontiers of Shaanxi has been until the end of the Chongzhen reign, until the great drought, the soldiers of the Three Frontiers finally decided to completely abandon the Great Ming court and defect to Li Zicheng. This can already be called loyalty.

Li Yougong had a deeper understanding of His Majesty's words. Look at the soldiers of the Zhejiang nine battalions. The Great Ming navy, the envoy, and the imperial decree just arrived, and they opened the city gate to surrender, and the chief culprit is kneeling in front of him. Are they really rebels? Or do they want to ask for justice?

The Great Ming navy began to take over the city defense. The soldiers of the nine battalions in Hangzhou City all returned to the Luomu Battalion and the Jiuqu Battalion, without disarming.

Shen Shixing, as the Viceroy of Military Affairs, stood in front of the Shen Ming Pavilion in front of the Prefectural Yamen, looking at the content of the notice posted by Yan Shixuan. These more than a hundred crimes, the length of the Shen Ming Pavilion was not enough at all, and it extended to the outside.

Shen Shixing was extremely surprised. Having been an official for many years, this time he opened his eyes and gained knowledge. The nine battalion soldiers were really too calm. They didn't chop Wu Shanyan on the spot!

"Governor Shen." Yan Shixuan walked out of the Prefectural Yamen, saw his old superior, and hurriedly came to salute. It was not that he neglected Shen Shixing, but that the nine battalion soldiers had just withdrawn, and Yan Shixuan had just been released from the Prefectural Yamen.

"Idle words are less narrated. First take Wu Shanyan to parade the streets. Chen Tiande, pull over the parade cars you made, and take the corrupt officials on this list to parade the streets!" Shen Shixing didn't be too polite with Yan Shixuan, but took out his old method, parading the streets.

Yuan Shen, as a powerful and wealthy person, can be paraded on the streets. Wu Shanyan, as an official-selected official class, can also be paraded on the streets.

As for damaging the face of the government, he, Wu Shanyan, doesn't even act like a person, so what face is he worried about?

Parading Wu Shanyan on the streets can make the government have face, and the common people will believe in the Great Ming court.

"Okay!" Chen Tiande heard that he could hang people on long poles to parade the streets, and he jumped three feet high. Chen Tiande specially built several parade cars, a long pole, a notice board below, writing the crimes, and a night watchman beating gongs and drums, specially lecturing, which can be said to be comprehensive.

"Governor, these parade cars are not enough. I have six in total." Chen Tiande looked at the long list and took a cold breath. There are too many, can't parade, can't parade at all!

"Squeeze, hang a few more on one pole. I know that for reliability, you added steel bars to the long pole, it can support it." Shen Shixing said with a smile.

"Still, scholars have ways!" Chen Tiande gave a thumbs up. Look, the educated brain is smart. If the eyeballs don't turn, it's an idea.

Shen Shixing looked at Yan Shixuan with an extremely complicated face and sighed: "Yan Shixuan, are you a lonely star of evil? You worked under me, I got a demotion of three levels, and I haven't recovered yet. This Wu Shanyan was directly convicted by you. You have only been here for a few months, and you have convicted Wu Shanyan."

"Governor Shen said this, I actually don't want to do anything, I just want to work in peace. This is all forced by Wu Shanyan. He wants me to die, so I can't just surrender, right." Yan Shixuan said a bit awkwardly.

Shen Shixing said in a low voice with difficulty: "That, that, His Majesty's imperial decree asked me to temporarily lead the Zhejiang Governor position. Now I am, as a Vice Minister, inspecting Songjiang and Zhejiang. That, Brother Yan, I am your immediate superior again. Let's discuss something, okay? Withdraw your supernatural powers."

"Look, in our Great Ming, who uses a fifth-rank Vice Minister to inspect two places? Ling Yunyi is the Viceroy of Henan and Shandong as the Minister of War. Prefect Yan, raise your hand high."

This official joke of Shen Shixing is still continuing, and it is making a bigger noise. Something happened in Zhejiang, the Emperor issued a decree for him to lead, and even Zhang Juzheng wrote a letter personally, asking Shen Shixing to handle this Zhejiang mutiny carefully, don't make any more trouble and be demoted again. He really can't afford to lose this student. Wang Chonggu that guy climbed up the nose, publicly mocking his Zhang Juzheng for teaching a good student.

"Ah, this, I..." Yan Shixuan sighed. This ability to overcome superiors is a passive skill, and he doesn't know how to turn it off.

"Governor Shen thinks, is this Wu Shanyan dead or alive?" Yan Shixuan asked about the result of Shen Shixing's handling. In fact, he was asking, whose fault does the Emperor think this is? This involves the definition of this mutiny.

If Wu Shanyan dies, it means the officials forced the people to rebel. Except for Ma Wenying who might be held accountable, the Zhejiang nine battalions will all land safely;

If Ma Wenying dies, the Zhejiang nine battalions might even be disbanded, and it would be good if Yan Shixuan could live.

"He is dead." Shen Shixing pointed to the notice on the Shen Ming Pavilion and said: "Just inside here, taking out one case is a crime of beheading, tsk tsk. Junior Grand Secretary Wang didn't dare to do this when he was building the Great Wall back then. His courage is bigger than Wang Chonggu's!"

"Governor Shen doesn't suspect that I deliberately fabricated crimes?" Yan Shixuan was a bit strange. Shen Shixing just looked at the notice and threw people out to parade the streets, directly treating them as criminals, not suspects.

"Would you?" Shen Shixing pointed to one of them and said: "The clerk of the Yangji Institute bullied orphans and widows in the name of relief, humiliated seventeen widows, the widows complained, the clerk bribed, the private secretary indulged, Wu Shanyan knew but didn't ask. Can you fabricate this? These sons of the widows, when they grow up, what is their view of the court? You and I are all dog officials in the mouths of these sons."

It's not that Shen Shixing looks down on Yan Shixuan, Yan Shixuan simply couldn't fabricate these outrageous crimes!

"That's true." Yan Shixuan stood at the Shen Ming Pavilion, looked at the long list of crimes, and sighed: "This Wu Shanyan is a worm of the country."

Shen Shixing, as the acting Governor, began to preside over the work. First, he let the Luomu Battalion and Jiuqu Battalion send officers to other seven battalions to persuade them to surrender. According to the highest instructions of His Majesty, all soldiers of the nine battalions are allowed not to disarm, and wait until the matter has a result before talking. The fastest time is to restore the post road in the Zhejiang ground and let the common people return to normal life.

Shen Shixing was very gratified. At least the nine battalions did not cause large-scale disturbance to the common people in this mutiny, but there were still lawless people who robbed the common people of their property. Shen Shixing ordered them to return them within a time limit, and they would not be held accountable. If they didn't return them, they would be handled by the Town Fuse Division.

Shen Shixing wrote his observations in Zhejiang into an extremely detailed memorial and sent it to the capital.

When the Great Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun received Shen Shixing's memorial, it was already mid-October, a full month after the mutiny in mid-September.

"Thanks to Yan Shixuan, I dare not think about how much chaos would have been caused in the Zhejiang ground if Ma Wenying had died in prison." Zhu Yijun summoned the Senior and Junior Grand Secretaries to the Tonghe Palace Imperial Study to discuss matters. Small matters hold big meetings, big matters hold small meetings, and heaven-sized matters hold closed-door meetings.

This was a closed-door meeting for Zhu Yijun. The Central Secretariat would not make records and would not write them into the Diary of Activity and Repose.

The Hangzhou Prefecture Tax Inspection Court had no action from beginning to end, but saw everything in its eyes and reported to His Majesty as it was. It was almost no different from what Shen Shixing said. The Tax Inspection Court only manages tax inspection and is not responsible for other matters. This is to restrain the power of the Tax Inspection Court.

"There won't be any big things, it's fine if he dies." Wang Chonggu said quite calmly: "Gathering together is making trouble for pay. Ma Wenying made trouble for pay, the soldiers can't be chaotic. This Wu Shanyan shouldn't be the first time to do this kind of thing."

"Slowly, people's hearts will scatter."

Wang Chonggu had a lot of experience in this matter, which was also the reason why Wu Shanyan dared to handle it. Pulling and hitting, the cohesion of making trouble for pay scattered. Ma Wenying died in prison, committing suicide out of fear of crime is a reason that everyone can accept, and Wang Chonggu's anti-rebel experience was extremely sufficient, determining that Wu Shanyan was not the first time.

"This case, Wu Shanyan must die. He is the Zhejiang Governor, not walking the eight discussions and eight pardons." Zhu Yijun made a very twelve-point biased judgment on the case. According to Wu Shanyan's official rank, he should walk the eight discussions. Wu Shanyan occupied both the discussion of virtue and the discussion of nobility. Reasonably, it should be appropriately reduced.

But the Emperor didn't give him this opening. This needs to convince the auxiliary officials.

"Where reason is, there is nothing that cannot be done." Wang Chonggu answered this question very clearly. He luckily escaped a disaster in the Zhang Siwei case back then, which was actually the eight discussions, discussion of merit and discussion of virtue.

"Your Majesty, even if it is the eight discussions of the nine ministers' round trial, he has nothing to be forgiven. From him, I can't see any merit. He can climb to the position of Zhejiang Governor, which is my dereliction of duty." Zhang Juzheng read the file and felt that he was really blind, failing to assist His Majesty well, and failing to select officials who could do things for His Majesty.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "Wu Shanyan made a mistake, what does it have to do with the teacher? People's hearts are separated by skin. Can the teacher still dig out the heart and lungs from his heart to see if it is wolf-hearted and dog-lunged? That is the work of the Great Physician of the Dissection Institute."

"Some people are like this. In front of me, in front of the teacher, when facing the top, they are loyal to the Emperor and the state, wishing to be shattered for the Great Ming's restoration. But when facing the bottom, they are fierce and rebellious who eat people without spitting out bones."

"Forgetting the common people will become like this. Shouting that the people are the foundation of the country is loud, but not doing any human affairs." ===== CHAPTER 642 =====

"Some people are just like this. In front of Me and in front of the Master, when facing their superiors, they are loyal to the monarch and patriotic, wishing they could sacrifice their lives for the resurgence of the Great Ming. But when facing their subordinates, they are vicious villains who eat people without spitting out the bones."

"What did I sense from Wu Shanyan? I sensed a fracture. As an official selected by the court, Wu Shanyan has already become fractured from the majority of the Great Ming. He takes it for granted that exploitation of those below him is his right as a Provincial Governor."

"Forgetting the common people leads to this. They shout 'the people are the foundation of the state' at the top of their lungs, yet they do not do a single thing for the people."