Chapter 656: Upholding Justice, Zhu the Venerable Qingtian

Xiong Tingbi discovered the limitations of being a gentleman when he went to Xitucheng to tear down the doors of the wealthy families and happened to run into an incident.

The doorman of this wealthy family was beating a midwife. A midwife is a person who helps pregnant women give birth smoothly.

And when this midwife was beaten, she never fought back. The doorman kicked her to the ground and kicked her several times fiercely until the other party had beaten her enough, and then the midwife left staggeringly.

Xiong Tingbi arrived a little late. When he arrived, the doorman had already stopped. Xiong Tingbi immediately stepped forward and stopped the midwife to ask a few simple questions.

Xiong Tingbi's attire of iron armor scared the midwife, and coupled with the Embroidered Uniform Guards behind Xiong Tingbi, the midwife was so scared that she couldn't even stand steadily.

"Why didn't you fight back?" Xiong Tingbi asked suspiciously.

"You young man speak very strangely. I am a woman, how could I fight back? What if their family only had one doorman? If I fought back, it wouldn't be just the doorman beating me; those other servants would have rushed out too." The midwife learned that Xiong Tingbi was asking about the beating just now, not wanting to arrest her, and wiped the blood from her nose.

Xiong Tingbi said with unbearable expression: "You can report to the officials, you're even bleeding."

The midwife stomped her feet, though she wasn't injured, and sighed: "Report to the officials? Who doesn't know that the yamen gate opens to the south, and if you have reason but no money, don't enter? If I want to report to the officials, I have to find a litigation stick to write a petition. How much silver does this litigation stick want? If I want to sue the officials, how much money do I have to give to the Venerable Qingtian Great Master? The litigation stick and the Great Master might not even side with me. If I sue back and forth, my reason becomes no reason. Where is it that I am wronged? Clearly, the master is wronged."

"I..." Xiong Tingbi was speechless. He was both civil and military. He was a little disciple under the Grand Secretary, His Majesty's little junior brother, a hero in the grasslands. Doing it and doing it, he himself had become a part of the meat-eaters. Now, his words were blocked by a midwife, and he couldn't say a single word.

Eloquent? In the face of cruel facts, it is useless.

"Master Hu has never had a son, he has three daughters, so he secretly took a concubine. It was hard to have one, I came to see it some time ago, and told Master Hu it was a stillborn baby. The physician also said it was a stillborn baby. Master Hu wanted a son so much that he wanted to give birth to a stillborn baby. This is not, when it came to it, sure enough, I was beaten this time, which is just letting the master vent his anger."

"Just hoping that the master, can give me the wages." The midwife hammered her back and left limping when she saw Xiong Tingbi didn't ask anymore.

The midwife was beaten this time because she came to ask for wages. The concubine had given birth to a stillborn baby for half a month, and this time she came to ask for wages, but didn't expect to be beaten.

Xiong Tingbi stood in front of the Hu family's gate for a while before he figured out that a person cannot just be a gentleman. People are contradictory. When one should be a villain, one must use some villainous means.

Fake perfect crime: carefully planning to create an accident to hide the truth of the matter, making the investigator unable to start. This kind of perfect crime basically does not exist, because the Embroidered Uniform Guards yamen supervised the Li Sanhu assassination of Wang Chonggu case, Wang Vice Grand Secretary's younger brother Wang Chongyi died for the Vice Grand Secretary. This case had almost no clues, but the Embroidered Uniform Guards still found the whole process of the crime based on the life profile of Li Sanhu.

Real perfect crime: everyone knows the truth, but no one dares to say it. Everyone knows clearly that the actions are not just, but there will be people who can do it unscrupulously.

Xiong Tingbi turned around, looked at the two stone lions of the Hu family, and said: "Embroidered Uniform Guards, listen to the order. Later, when tearing down the door, press everyone you see to the ground and beat them up. If something happens, His Highness will take care of it!"

He, Xiong Tingbi, has an identity as a guard of Prince Lu's mansion. Before passing the imperial examination, he will be this identity. The autumn examination is in August, and Xiong Tingbi can still act recklessly for a long time. He decided not to return to the grasslands for the time being, intending to stay in the capital, follow Prince Lu, and be a villain for a good period of time.

"Obey the order!" The Embroidered Uniform Guards couldn't hold back anymore. After Xiong Tingbi gave the order, everyone shouted in unison.

The Hu mansion saw that these people were coming fiercely, and when they saw they were Embroidered Uniform Guards, they were immediately scared until their legs went soft. Yesterday, they didn't pay the fine for the flowing banquet, so the Embroidered Uniform Guards came to the door!

The Embroidered Uniform Guards gave up the door-breaking device again, chose to climb over the wall and enter the Hu mansion, and opened the gate. The Embroidered Uniform Guards poured in. When they saw people, they beat them without saying a word. Of course, women and children didn't count. The Ming law says that the clan is executed, which means those under fifteen are not killed, but exiled. Beating people naturally doesn't beat the old, women, and children, but grabs the guards, doormen, servants, and strong men to beat them fiercely.

After beating people, they tore down everything that could be called a door, threw a payment-urging ticket on the head of the Hu family, and walked away.

When Xiong Tingbi arrived at the second family, this old Xie family was very straightforward, prepared the silver, and said all the good words, saying that they didn't find a carriage yesterday, and there were too many wealthy families in Xitucheng who had to pay fines, so all the carriages were borrowed. These carriages were rented from the North City.

Xiong Tingbi saw that the other party's attitude was good, so he didn't choose to beat people, but still tore down everything that could be called a door.

"Your Highness, I beat the people of the old Hu family." When Xiong Tingbi reported back, he told everything he saw one by one.

Zhu Yiliu was dissatisfied when he heard it, and immediately said loudly: "You just beat them up and that's it? That's the end? It's a pity that the Master and the Imperial Brother taught you by example. The centripetal force of the Beijing Camp is to report to the Son of Heaven and save the common people below. Did you save them? You just beat these beasts and that's it? Let's go, follow me. No matter what, I have to let their family go through a prison disaster!"

"You, you, His Majesty is right. Sometimes you are too upright and too law-abiding. I'll go with you!"

Zhu Yiliu and Xiong Tingbi fought from childhood to adulthood. Zhu Yiliu knew Xiong Da's personality very well. Xiong Da was law-abiding and couldn't do more reckless things. Moreover, in terms of identity, Xiong Tingbi didn't even have a merit, so he couldn't do more things.

But Zhu Yiliu was different. Zhu Yiliu took people and swaggered to Xitucheng, grabbing the whole Hu family, because the victim didn't pursue it, and the victim midwife pursuing it might cause more trouble, so Zhu Yiliu's reason was: the fine was paid slowly, the master was unhappy, so grab them and lock them up for a while, and release them whenever he remembers.

Focusing on freedom.

The master is unhappy—this one reason is enough. The old Hu family relied on their status as powerful and wealthy to bully the midwife, so Zhu Yiliu relied on his status as a prince to bully these wealthy families!

A huge execution ground outside the Meridian Gate was rising from the ground. This was the public trial execution ground built by Zhu Yiliu. In this midwife's case, Zhu Yiliu suddenly realized that his reckless behavior was not meaningless for promoting the Ming Dynasty's Wanli Reform.

Zhu Yiliu stood in front of the public trial execution ground and suddenly said to Xiong Tingbi beside him: "Xiong Da, do you know? The Master's new policy, from the very beginning, was just to give himself an explanation. From the time Yang Bo lobbied the Master, persuading the Master to merge Chu and Jin, the Master was already very clear that the new policy would inevitably fail. No matter how much he could leave behind, it would be like this."

"Cannot escape the result of the reform and change of past dynasties."

In Xiong Tingbi's heart, the Master was an omnipotent person. Zhu Yiliu's statement made Xiong Tingbi slightly dissatisfied. He shook his head and said: "The Master personally told Your Highness this? Don't tell me you're teasing me again."

"Eh, this was personally said by the Master, not teasing." Zhu Yiliu stood straight, his face serious: "In the fifth year of Wanli, the Master's father unfortunately passed away. The Hubei Governor Censor wanted to build a pavilion for the Master, named the Three Edicts Pavilion, carving the memorials left by the Imperial Brother to the Master on it. The Master did not allow it."

"In the letter, the Master told the Hubei Governor Censor: 'Prosperity and decline, glory and withering, are the constant principles of reason. Times are different, situations are different, hills and valleys change. High platforms tilt, curved pools flatten. Even my residence cannot be guarded, what about a pavilion!' This means: Prosperity and decline, rise and fall are the constant principles of the world. Times change, situations change, the mountains and rivers change, this vicissitudes of life, the mountains will become valleys, high platforms will collapse, and even the deepest pools will become flat ground."

"The Master is very clear about what consequences the Examination Law as the first decree of the new policy will cause. 'Even my residence cannot be guarded.'"

"Why do I say that the new policy in the early years of Wanli was just the Master giving an explanation for his life? Because for the Master, it was just wanting to repay the monarch's grace, not caring about human words; it was just traps in front, arrows gathering on the body; it was just breaking the family and sinking the clan to follow the public affairs of the state; it was just knowing my crimes, not counting them."

"The Master knew that it was fine when he was there. If he wasn't there, it would be the family not being protected, it would be arrows gathering on the body, it would be breaking the family and sinking the clan."

Xiong Tingbi frowned and said: "I have never heard the Master say this."

Zhu Yiliu shook his head with a smile and said: "Of course you haven't heard it. These were all letters written by the Master to the governors and censors of various places. At that time, every letter was sent to the Imperial Study. I watched these letters with the Imperial Brother and could feel the despair between the Master's lines."

"Do you know why the Master was desperate at that time?"

"Don't know." Xiong Tingbi heard that it was a special information source from a special channel, so he immediately believed it. Zhu Yiliu was also very simple. When teasing you, he would say it very clearly. Such serious words were clearly sourced.

Zhu Yiliu sighed again and said: "The Master's despair was because the Master couldn't find a force, a force that could change heaven and earth. The Ming Dynasty was old, more than two hundred years old. The entire Ming Dynasty had accumulated too many chronic illnesses and old abuses in the long time. Only a force that could change heaven and earth could make the Ming Dynasty dark and then bright again."

"The Master couldn't find it. This is not something that can be solved by a sagely monarch and wise ministers, do you understand? Or more precisely, this is not something that can be solved by morality, will, or other metaphysical things. Lacking material power, the new policy cannot be guarded, and his family cannot be guarded."

"Later, under the constant questioning of the Imperial Brother, the Theory of Contradictions came into being. At this time, a weak force, like a candle flame, appeared in front of the Master. And now that force is also in front of your eyes. Do you know what it is?"

Zhu Yiliu stood in front of the public trial execution ground, his face extremely complex. He had never understood what the Emperor and the Grand Secretary were doing before. Now that he had become the regent, handling the trivial matters of the world, Zhu Yiliu understood. He even personally strengthened this weak, candle-like force.

"Don't know." Xiong Tingbi looked at this Prince Lu in shock. Prince Lu, who was usually indifferent to political affairs, also had his own unique insights when discussing politics, completely different from the usually reckless Zhu Yiliu.

Standing high and seeing much, naturally there is understanding.

Zhu Yiliu didn't continue to sell the secret, and said in a low voice: "This force is the millions of common people, the force that the Ming Dynasty once possessed, later lost, and is now looking for, hoping to possess again—the millions of common people, the common people of the world."

Public trial is the product of Zhu Yiliu's reckless behavior. He just wanted to make those lowly scholars lose face, unable to seek life, unable to seek death, and if they committed suicide, their whole families would die. This was completely a child's reckless behavior.

But at this moment, Zhu Yiliu suddenly realized that none of the things he had done recklessly were as meaningful as this public trial, because the public trial outside the Meridian Gate at least told the common people of Shuntian Prefecture what the law was, and let them know that justice, fairness, and these ethereal things really existed.

Before the public trial appeared, the law was a toy for litigation sticks, and the trial was the human rule of the presiding official, whose ruling completely depended on the intention of the presiding official.

The Ming law, no matter how strict, was non-existent for the common people, because in their entire lives, they wouldn't even have any dealings with the law, nor would they know those numerous clauses.

Like the midwife, it was absolutely impossible to sue Master Hu, because the final result would only be that Master Hu was wronged and the midwife was not wronged.

The law is one of the ruling tools of the ruler.

This is what Zhu Yiliu saw from the midwife being beaten. Even at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in the capital, it was like this. What would the world be like?

"In the fifth year of Wanli, the teacher moved to the Marquis of Yicheng's mansion in the Western Hills to observe mourning for his father; after that, the teacher never had such desperate words again," Zhu Yi stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the Meridian Gate execution hall, and said with a full face of smiles, "The teacher always talks about grandfather, saying that after the twenty-first year of Jiajing, grandfather hid in the Western Garden and refused to come out, saying that grandfather had difficulty in ending well, saying that grandfather was a scoundrel, a muddled emperor, letting the world wither without taking action, and wholeheartedly practicing mysterious cultivation; in the struggle, he went from disappointment to despair."

"But him, how is he not the same? Before the fifth year of Wanli, wasn't he just as desperate? At that time, what was the difference between him and Grandfather? He didn't even think that the new policy he promoted could succeed."

Xiong Tingbi looked at Zhu Yiliu blankly, as if he were meeting him for the first time. This guy, he is not confused!

"You are wondering, wondering why I see clearly." Zhu Yiliu shook his head and said: "Because I am a villain, a bad person, different from you, the Master, and the Imperial Brother. I am not heroic, not a gentleman, not a scholar. I have never cared about the common people of the world in my heart, only caring about the private calculations of my own family. That's why I see clearly."

"Don't recognize the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain."

Zhu Yiliu is an outsider. He doesn't care about the new policy, doesn't care about the people, doesn't care about the rise and fall of the world. He is very selfish. He is very clear about his own badness. The reason he can see clearly is that he is not in the game.

Just a simple, pure bad person.

"So, we are going to continue doing bad things now! Speaking of which, there is a grain tyrant outside the Zhaoyang Gate, named Qin Chaorong, nickname, Qin Tianba, from Ningzhou, Qingyang Prefecture, Shaanxi. In the second year of Wanli, he followed a merchant caravan to the capital, worked as a coolie at the Zhaoyang Gate, then became an apprentice at the Fuhuatang Dyeing Workshop at the Zhaoyang Gate, then worshipped a godfather, and became a yamen runner of the Tongzhou Department Southern Yamen, from then on soaring into the sky."

"Recruiting disciples, daring to fight, relying on the prestige of his godfather behind him, he soon carved out a large territory outside the Zhaoyang Gate, bullying the good, harming the common people. Today, we will eliminate the harm for the people!"

"Let's go! Today we must kill this monster and demon cleanly!"

Zhu Yiliu was not acting recklessly at will. Yesterday he attacked the water-tyrants, today he attacked the grain-tyrants. Zhu Yiliu's list also included dung-tyrants, vegetable-tyrants, and meat-tyrants. But anyone with the word "tyrant" didn't do anything good. It wasn't just collecting protection fees. If Qin Tianba was just eating and drinking, or even collecting protection fees to exempt merchants from being beaten by other gangs, that would be one thing.

Qin Tianba controlled all the docks, sluices, warehouses, and markets outside the Zhaoyang Gate. Short-changing, passing off inferior goods as superior, driving up prices, setting up his own rules, arbitrarily collecting taxes, etc., were all small things. Murder, arson, beating, smashing, looting, and burning were all within his capabilities.

And Zhu Yiliu, Zhu the Venerable Qingtian, today is to eliminate the harm for the people!

"Let's go!" Xiong Tingbi grabbed the hook-sickle spear in his hand and followed the Embroidered Uniform Guards straight to the outside of the Zhaoyang Gate. To prevent accidents, Zhu Yiliu didn't mobilize the yamen runners of Shuntian Prefecture and Tongzhou, because these yamen had thousands of connections with this Qin Tianba. Zhu Yiliu directly mobilized the Embroidered Uniform Guards to go.

Why didn't the wealthy families of Xitucheng, the pen-correctors of the bookstores, and the sitting bandits in the city join forces to resist?

Zhu Yiliu was acting like a human, and such massive manhunts should have caused an uproar. The reason for all this was that Li Rusong mobilized the Beijing Camp to take over the defense of the Jiumen. The Jiumen of the capital were originally under the jurisdiction of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, but they were all placed under military control.

This was the arrangement before the emperor left. Zhu Yiliu was reckless, but these powerful and wealthy families had no way, because violence was in Zhu Yiliu's hands. In the eyes of these meat-eaters, the change of guards at the Jiumen was the emperor guarding against Zhu Yiliu having ulterior motives, but now all this had become the reliance for Zhu Yiliu to do whatever he wanted.

Zhu Yiliu turned the Ming capital upside down. Li Rusong sat in the Zhaoyang Gate. Once someone wanted to be unfavorable to Zhu Yiliu, the Beijing Camp soldiers would absolutely not sit idly by. Zhu Yiliu had huge mistakes, but only His Majesty could manage them.

Flowers bloom in two branches, each expressing one side.

On this side, Prince Lu was acting recklessly in the capital, while the Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun, who was on vacation, also encountered an unexpected situation. Someone blocked the carriage to cry about grievances. This was not an arrangement by Hejian Prefecture Prefect Zhang Youxin, but a real grievance.

"So, there really is a grievance, then I will be the Venerable Qingtian Great Master once." Zhu Yijun heard Feng Bao's judgment and stood up, preparing to meet the common people.

He was on his way to the Tianjin Coal and Iron Bureau. The Coal and Iron Bureaus of various prefectures and counties were the yamen for the Ming Dynasty's coal and iron joint operation.

"If it wasn't Zhang Youxin's arrangement, then there must be a huge grievance, so they had to block the procession." Zhu Yijun got off the carriage and said to Zhang Juzheng while walking.

The Ming Emperor's procession was very long, and the guarding soldiers were very majestic. Moreover, in order to ensure the emperor's safety, the Embroidered Uniform Guards had cleared the streets in advance. Theoretically, there was no one who could come in front of the Ming Emperor's carriage and kneel in front to cry about grievances without intentional arrangement.

Zhu Yijun looked at the woman kneeling on the ground. Her hair was withered and messy, carrying some weeds and mud. The clothes on her body were very loose and didn't fit. Her clothes were ragged, and her exposed arms and ankles were dark. She had calluses on her hands, and at a glance, she was engaged in long-term physical labor. She had big feet, and there was a strange smell of not washing for a long time. Mainly, her fingernails were all black, and one fingernail was injured and not treated.

This was not Zhang Youxin's arrangement. If it were arranged by local officials, they would absolutely not appear in such a state.

"Your Majesty, the common woman is from Dagu Port, Tianjin Guard. My husband joined the army in Jizhou in the third year of Longqing, went to the Beijing Camp in the second year of Wanli, and returned to Tianjin Guard in the ninth year of Wanli because of injury. He is now a craftsman in the Li Zhizao's Legal Affairs Office. I implore Your Majesty to uphold justice for the common woman." The woman kneeling on the ground, seeing that the Ming Emperor had really come, immediately wailed.

Joined General Qi Jiguang Jiguang in the third year of Longqing, went to the Beijing Camp in the second year of Wanli, and went to the expedition against Anda Khan in the ninth year of Wanli. Clearly, he was injured in that battle.

Zhu Yijun's mouth twitched, and he tried his best to suppress the anger in the depths of his heart. He stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Old sister, be exempt from courtesy, quickly be exempt from courtesy. What grievance do you have, tell me in detail. I want to see, in the Ming Dynasty, who dares to treat my soldiers so harshly!"

"Zhang Youxin!" Zhu Yijun's tone was unkind, looking at the Hejian Prefecture Prefect, his eyes carrying coldness and scrutiny.

"Your Majesty, the minister really didn't know, really didn't know." Zhang Youxin knelt on the ground, crawled forward two steps, kowtowed desperately, and said busily: "The minister didn't know about her grievance, please Your Majesty forgive the crime."

This master in front of him, once he really got angry, was much more terrifying than the lawless Prince Lu in the capital. Prince Lu just acted recklessly, but this master had handled the four major cases and executed the Zhang Siwei, Kong of Yanzhou, Xu of Songjiang, and Yang of Xindu families.

Zhang Youxin had racked his brains to welcome the emperor, and he really didn't know who the woman in front of him was.

"Tell me in detail." Zhu Yijun asked the woman who was trembling and couldn't stand steadily.

"Your Majesty, the common woman's husband has inconvenient legs and feet. Last December, he walked slowly on the street and blocked the way of the Zhang family's young lady. That young lady had a vicious heart and let her servant whip him three times. Now my husband is lying on the bed and cannot move. The common woman had no way to seek help, so I had to disturb the holy carriage." The woman made a gesture to kneel again.

Zhu Yijun immediately supported her and said: "Old sister, no need for courtesy. Since I know, there is no reason not to care."

"Zhao Tishuai, immediately take people to investigate this matter clearly. When I return to the department yamen from the Coal and Iron Bureau, you bring all the criminals to the yamen. I want to ask the case personally. If I don't uphold justice for the soldiers in this case, how can the soldiers of the world look at me?" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhao Tishuai, his tone still calm.

"The minister obeys the edict!" Zhao Tishuai immediately bowed his head, took two criminal-investigation battalion commanders, and pointed twenty Embroidered Uniform Guards to investigate the case. Zhao Tishuai, who had been by His Majesty's side for ten years, knew that His Majesty was already very angry. The accompanying Great Physician Pang Xian followed Zhao Tishuai to the woman's home. The woman's husband was lying on the bed, and this injury, if not treated properly, would be life-threatening if delayed.

"You just kneel here and wait for the disposal." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Youxin kneeling on the ground, flicked his sleeves forcefully, and went to the Coal and Iron Bureau.

Zhu Yijun was restless in the Coal and Iron Bureau. After a simple look, he went directly to the woman's home.

Blue brick and tile house. There were carpenter's tools in the courtyard. After retiring from the army due to injury, he still had some means of making a living. Zhu Yijun walked into the house and saw the soldier lying on the bed.

"Your Majesty is mighty!" The man lying on the bed wanted to pay respects.

This iron-willed man had retired from the Beijing Camp and clearly recognized the emperor. He struggled to get up. Pang Xian pressed him not to let him move, treating the wound. Pang Xian knew His Majesty very well; His Majesty didn't care about these superficial rituals at all.

"The Ming army is mighty." Zhu Yijun said with great heartache: "Don't pay respects, treat the illness first, treat the illness first."

"How is the situation?" Zhu Yijun looked at Pang Xian, asking about the injury.

Pang Xian treated the wound and said with a smile: "After another month, even if a god comes, there's no way. The weather is warming up, and if the wound continues to fester, it's hard to live. But now, even if the King of Hell comes, he can't take him away."

This is the confidence of being a Great Physician.

"That's good, that's good." Zhu Yijun let out a long sigh of relief, sat on the edge of the bed, and chatted with the soldier.

The strong man's real name was He Liu, later changed to He Danghun, from Penglai, Shandong, which is the same hometown as General Qi Jiguang Jiguang. His family suffered a disaster, so he went north all the way, intending to go to Liaodong, but stopped at Tianjin Guard in Hejian Prefecture, married into the family, and became a son-in-law of Dagu Port. He joined the army in the second year of Longqing. At that time, no one was willing to join the army. He Danghun was a son-in-law and was pulled as a strong man, so he went to Jizhou.

The Beijing Camp recruited 10,000 people for the first time. He Liu was not selected. During the second expansion, he became an elite soldier of the Beijing Camp.

Until the ninth year of Wanli, when fighting Anda Khan, one finger and two toes were broken at the front line, so he retired and returned to the Li Zhizao's Legal Affairs Office, because he learned carpentry in the military camp, so he became a craftsman.

The main reason for the difficulty in life was that someone ordered a batch of wood processing from He Liu. He Liu was whipped three times by the Zhang family of Hejian, was injured, didn't finish it, and paid a large sum of money to others, which led to this.

Zhu Yijun said with a serious expression: "Why not report to the officials? If that group of scholars dares to make things difficult for you, you can find me at the Northern Camp. Can I ignore it?"

"Originally thought it was a small injury, so I didn't want to trouble others." He Liu sighed. He thought this small injury wouldn't matter, but it delayed the work. The family had no means of living, and the family suffered together, almost losing their lives.

"This quack doctor, if you don't know how to see a doctor, go farm! Hu Nao." Pang Xian looked at the prescription after reading it and said angrily.

The prescription and medicine bought by He Liu's wife were not wrong. It was processed ground-cover grass, used for hemostasis and wound healing. But the problem was that if the rotten meat was not removed, new meat would be hard to grow. He Liu's three whips were festering and rotting. If you don't remove the rotten meat, what's the use of applying medicine?

"He Liu, if you have any difficulties, just tell me." Zhu Yijun held He Liu's hand and said. ===== CHAPTER 657 =====

Zhang Juzheng's tacit approval was actually to let Prince Lu teach the lowly scholars a lesson. As a result, Prince Lu created such a big scene, and the Emperor still looked like he was watching the fun without thinking it was too big.