Chapter 663: The Great Ming Emperor Also Did It!

"His Highness the Prince of Lu has been busy taking people to the streets for a parade with Xiong Xiong Tingbi recently." Feng Bao said with a relatively calm face, bowing.

Zhu Zhu Yijun asked suspiciously: "Is it just a parade? Is he so honest now?"

"Your Majesty, this..." Feng Bao said in a low voice: "His Highness got more than a hundred carts, hanging more than eight hundred people on them, parading once every day, and the death row prisoners led by Chen Sheng have to parade twice."

The grand parade activity, specifically designated the time and streets, and carried out periodic parades. The purpose was to deter the petty people. Some things were done, and they would be treated like this by Zhu Zhu Yiliu.

"Although it sounds too much, and it is indeed too much, but for the Prince of Lu, it doesn't seem too out of line." Zhu Zhu Yijun commented sharply on the Prince of Lu's behavior, giving a very pertinent evaluation.

This matter is too much, but placed on an absolute free man who no one can restrain and cannot restrain himself—the Prince of Lu, it doesn't seem too much.

"Send a letter, just write a question mark to the Prince of Lu." Zhu Zhu Yijun decided to send a letter to see if His Highness the Prince of Lu was secretly holding back a big one for Zhu Zhu Yijun.

"The minister obeys..."

"Your Majesty, an urgent report from the capital!" After a little eunuch tripped over a threshold, he presented the memorial sent from the capital to the imperial front.

Zhu Zhu Yijun opened the memorial, looked at it for a while, widened his eyes, looked at Feng Bao, and said: "The Prince of Lu has really made a big move."

This time Zhu Zhu Yijun admitted that the move made by the Prince of Lu was really big.

Feng Bao hadn't received the edict yet. The memorial that the Prince of Lu was making trouble in the capital, making the hundred officials unbearable and helpless, and requesting the Emperor to return to the capital had already arrived at the imperial front. The Emperor had nothing to do but go on a southern tour, go home and lock this prince in the Prince of Lu's mansion, and never let him out again!

The memorial in Zhu Zhu Yijun's hand was sent by Minister of Rites Shen Li and Minister of War Zeng Ceng Shengwu. Shen Li denounced the Prince of Lu's behavior, but it was also a truthful report, clearly telling His Majesty what the Prince of Lu had done, without bias.

Shen Li is a stubborn and upright official, and like Zeng Ceng Shengwu, he is an extreme conservative. Although the joint memorial criticized and denied the Prince of Lu's behavior in an all-round way, the most interesting part of the memorial was that Shen Li and Zeng Ceng Shengwu did not mean to ask His Majesty to go back.

The meaning between the lines was to let His Majesty send an imperial edict to the capital to admonish him, which would be enough. Anyway, he had to make a gesture to show the officials of the world. That is to say, even in the eyes of extreme conservatives like Shen Li and Zeng Ceng Shengwu, what the Prince of Lu did was not too much.

Overly severe reprimands would only arouse the Prince of Lu's rebellious psychology and make the Prince of Lu go from bad to worse. The opinions of the two conservatives were: that's about enough.

The matter is also simple. Zhu Zhu Yiliu was making trouble in the capital, and some Hanlin scholars in the Hanlin Academy couldn't stand it anymore. They united with many upright writers in the scholar forest and began to write articles criticizing Zhu Zhu Yiliu's out-of-line behavior. Originally, the Hanlin scholars' idea was that I would create public opinion and wind, making you Zhu Zhu Yiliu throw a rat-avoiding weapon and not dare to be too much.

This can also be considered an old trick, a tradition of the Great Ming dynasty.

Where has Zhu Zhu Yiliu ever suffered such grievances? Zhu Zhu Yiliu doesn't want any face at all. He doesn't even have to worry about the Spring and Autumn History. He didn't do anything too out of line. He just threw all the Hanlin scholars of the Hanlin Academy into the Northern Town Fusi, and still felt it was not enough, and sent them to the Western Hills Coal Bureau to work.

Specifically found eunuchs and secret agents to watch, and even went there himself. These Hanlin scholars, if they didn't work enough every day, they couldn't eat at all.

When people are hungry, they only have the trouble of hunger.

These imperial censors and speech officials finally couldn't help it and wanted to jointly memorialize to rescue these Hanlin scholars. Zhu Zhu Yiliu issued an order, saying: Now these Hanlin scholars are still working on the ground. If anyone forces them again, they will be sent to work underground. This labor punishment will only be lifted after His Majesty returns to the capital. Just wait.

Imperial censors and speech officials are the ears and eyes of the Great Ming Emperor. Excessive targeting is easy to hurt the stubborn and upright spirit, and it is also easy to block the speech path. Zhu Zhu Yiliu did not make things difficult for these imperial censors and speech officials. He made things difficult for the Hanlin scholars. The more you rescue, the more I make things difficult for them.

These old pedants who have read books for a lifetime, where have they suffered this crime? This tossing directly took half their lives. If they talk nonsense again, they will really provoke the Prince of Lu, and their whole lives will be gone.

Zhu Zhu Yiliu just refused to loosen his mouth and refused to let the Hanlin scholars go back. If they didn't finish, they wouldn't give them food. It caused a big stir. The scholar forest didn't dare to scold, and couldn't resist, because these Hanlin scholars would really die if they went down the well, and His Highness the Prince of Lu didn't care about their lives at all.

The matter got stuck here, so the hundred officials could only ask His Majesty to return to the capital and let the Prince of Lu withdraw his magical powers.

"Hahaha, Li Li Youzi memorialized saying that he had never seen such a mixed person." Zhu Zhu Yijun was full of smiles.

The wicked Zhu Zhu Yiliu is indeed a bit of a bastard, but as a control group, the intensity is just right, confusing but not hurting the brain.

"Your Majesty, this imperial edict..." Feng Bao asked for the imperial will. After so many years, Feng Bao's ability to guess the imperial will has basically been lost. His Majesty speaks directly, so Feng Bao doesn't need to guess.

"Just write a question mark." Zhu Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Very ordinary."

Zhu Zhu Yijun thinks that the Prince of Lu has not done enough. It's not a big deal, and it's noisy to the Emperor, which is completely unnecessary.

The Great Ming Emperor is also on vacation during his southern tour, but some things that the Shi Shi Jingtang cannot handle, or memorials that require the Emperor to ask in person, will be sent to the Great Ming Emperor's hands.

Zhu Zhu Yijun opened the memorial of Pan Pan Jixun, the Governor of Suiyuan. This memorial was submitted to the imperial court by Pan Pan Jixun and the Lady Lady Zhongshun together.

"Binding water to attack sand" and "storing clear to brush yellow" are the general principles of Pan Pan Jixun's management of the Yellow River, which have been used until the new century, and it is still this idea.

Pan Pan Jixun has an upright official under his command, named Liu Liu Dongxing, a Ming Jinshi in the second year of Emperor Longqing, who has been following Pan Pan Jixun to learn about water management. When visiting the people, Liu Liu Dongxing discovered a phenomenon that there is a big problem with the reclamation method in the Suiyuan area.

Yanjia Tower is located on the Loess Plateau. This place is indeed poor and dangerous. The entire Yanjia Tower has only 1,700 mu of land, which cannot even support a village. It needs to go to the Hetao Plain to reclaim land. Yanjia Tower has little cultivated land, mainly because of the terrain. The fields are scattered here and there, all on the side of the gullies on the Loess Plateau, seven gullies and eight ridges and one slope, one mountain ridge and one pass.

And because of the perennial logging, soil erosion is extremely serious, the land is barren, one mu of land only produces more than 100 jin of grain, and because of the harsh celestial phenomena and the influence of the Little Ice Age, there is drought in nine out of ten years, and water for people and livestock is tight. But once it rains, it is yellow mud water that washes away all the crops, and there is no harvest.

This situation finally began to change with the opening of the Shengzhou Coal Mine in Great Ming. The people of Yanjia Tower finally stopped logging in the mountains. After using coal, the hardworking side of the people of Yanjia Tower began to show. They leveled gullies, built canals to store water, built layers of terraced fields on the soil slopes, and built dikes on the terraced fields to reduce the impact of water and reduce sediment loss.

The transformation was extremely successful. The yield per mu increased from more than 100 jin per year to more than 200 jin, and the cultivated land also increased from more than 1,700 mu to more than 4,000 mu, and soil erosion was slowing down.

The wild goose life of the Yanjia Tower for generations finally ended in this generation.

There is no problem with the reclamation of Yanjia Tower. The problem is that in some places, they blindly learned from the experience of Yanjia Tower and began to reclaim land, but many of them were blind. Logging is fine. There are not many people in Suiyuan, and logging is not the main livelihood. How much can they cut?

The problem lies in the method of reclamation. Some areas directly burn the mountains in autumn and winter.

This kind of desperate act of burning mountains will inevitably increase soil erosion. By then, the lower reaches of the Yellow River will be very dangerous.

And with the thawing of the Yellow River, the day of the ice flood is coming as scheduled. Pan Pan Jixun hopes that the lower reaches will be well prepared to prevent the occurrence of the Yellow River dike breach.

The Yellow River is a ground river, and the riverbed is higher than the ground. Once the dike breaches, the consequences are unimaginable.

Similarly, Suiyuan has formulated a time limit for entering the mountains, banning all acts of burning mountains. Suiyuan has a sparse population, and logging cannot cut much, but burning mountains, one mountain after another, bans any fire source from entering the mountains, and the coal kiln on the mountain is dug for five years. And specifically set up an inspection office to check people entering the mountains to prevent the appearance of fire sources.

Liu Liu Dongxing also went to Kaifeng. He is good at water management and wants to work with Ling Ling Yunyi to prevent the occurrence of dike breaches.

Ice flood is a disaster peculiar to the Yellow River in spring. It is that there is an ice layer on the surface of the Yellow River. In spring, it breaks into blocks, and the water under the ice carries the ice blocks forward. Once it encounters a relatively narrow place, the ice layer will accumulate, causing devastating damage to the Yellow River dike, and sediment will inevitably increase the power of the ice flood.

Narrow river channel, originally the upper ice blocks block, the lower sediment blocks, the risk of dike breach will increase sharply.

And once the Yellow River dike breaches, it is a tragic tragedy. Once a dike breaches, at least hundreds of thousands of people are affected, and tens of thousands of people die because of the dike breach, because it is not just the disaster of flooding, but also the rampant plague.

Pan Pan Jixun went to Suiyuan to manage the Yellow River.

"Send the memorial to Henan. Is Ling Ling Bu Tang prepared there?" Zhu Zhu Yijun finished reading Pan Pan Jixun's memorial and looked at Feng Bao to ask if Ling Ling Yunyi was prepared.

Feng Bao hurriedly bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Henan has four engineering corps. Before the post road from Kaifeng to Jiayu Pass is built, they will not leave the Yellow River dike."

Ling Ling Yunyi's struggle experience is very rich. Some people want to make a fuss about the Yellow River. Ling Ling Yunyi will really put the evildoers into sacks and throw them into the Yellow River to sink before he dies.

Anyway, Ling Ling Yunyi has long had no good reputation, except for Liangguang and Shandong.

"That's good." Zhu Zhu Yijun felt a little relieved.

Since the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Du Chong, the traitor, dug open the Yellow River, intending to block the Jin army from going south. The Yellow River flooded the entire Kaifeng, and later the Yellow River seized the Two Huaihe and entered the sea, making the fertile Two Huaihe Basin a piece of marshland. When Meng Gong led the Southern Song army and the Mongols to destroy the Jin Dynasty together and returned to Kaifeng to sacrifice to the Northern Song imperial tombs, the entire Central Plains was full of scars and broken.

All the prosperity of the past has turned into soil.

This is a true national tragedy. Ling Ling Yunyi arrived in Henan and was guarding against someone playing tricks on the Yellow River. The influential squires of Henan opposed the new policy, opposed land inspection, and opposed official factories, but they didn't dare to use the Yellow River as a means of struggle. Water and fire are ruthless. If the Yellow River really breaches the dike, the local influential squires are also victims.

Ling Ling Yunyi is a flowing official, and he will eventually leave. But for the mess left behind, the local influential squires can only eat their own bitter fruit.

So Ling Ling Yunyi's engineering corps repairing the Yellow River dike is also the consensus of everyone in Henan.

In Yunnan, the attack on Toungoo entered a rest period. Although the ground attack stopped, the attack along the coast continued, putting great pressure on Toungoo. Although Toungoo kept propagating that it had annihilated 100 million enemies and had the advantage, Mang Mang Yingli, who had broken Toungoo City, now said things that no one believed. He was in a difficult situation and was being forced to abdicate by his subordinates.

Mang Mang Yingli could only agree. If he didn't agree, his subordinates would really kill him and send him to see his father Mang Yang Yinglong.

Mang Mang Yingli requested reconciliation with Great Ming and personally went to Great Ming to pay tribute, hoping that Great Ming would calm its anger.

"This bastard Mang Mang Yingli, he doesn't know a truth. He can decide the beginning of the war, but he can never decide how the war ends. Does he want to talk peace just because he wants to? The military gentlemen in Yunnan who are sharpening their knives are waiting to earn military merits and make contributions. How can I agree to his peace talks? How do the soldiers in Yunnan look at me?" Zhu Zhu Yijun gave a vermilion endorsement to Yunnan Governor Liu Liu Shiceng.

Liu Liu Shiceng is a civil official and doesn't like killing. He is a moderate in the southwest, but even so, Liu Liu Shiceng has only one attitude toward this war that has lasted for three years: destroy its country, destroy its species, and cut off its seedlings.

The southwest has had chieftains since the Emperor Hongwu year of the founding of the country. Mu Ying, the King of Qianning, attacked Luchuan, and it has been fought for more than two hundred years. It is time to make a break. Only by completely destroying Toungoo can we solve the repeated rebellions of chieftains, pacification offices, and barbarians in the southwest.

There are chieftains in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Qian. These chieftains and the pacification offices and barbarians in the southwest often unite. Only by destroying Toungoo and carrying out Wang Hua can the southwest be completely peaceful, including the chieftains in Yunnan, Guizhou, southern Sichuan, and southwestern Huguang, who will truly be honest and accept the change of chieftains to return to the stream.

Liu Liu Shiceng hopes that the imperial court will support the war against Toungoo in the southwest. Now the southwest does not need support from the hinterland's food and grass. The Emperor just needs to pay the reward silver as the top list, and the rest, Yunnan local can guarantee self-sufficiency.

Shen Shen Shixing submitted a very interesting memorial.

Great Ming now has a relatively confused problem, that is: since the Great Ming Emperor always says that the people are the foundation of the country, why doesn't the Great Ming army listen to the people directly, but listen to the Emperor?

No one dared to ask the Emperor this question, and no one dared to ask General Qi, so the parties involved could not answer. Shen Shen Shixing, as a member of the people in heaven, did not dare to ask this question either. Zhang Zhang Juzheng didn't dare to do things, so Shen Shen Shixing dared even less.

But recently, there is a typical example in Songjiang Prefecture, which gives this question a result.

The Songjiang Town Navy has a total of 103,000 people. Last year, on the way to armed patrol, three navy soldiers unfortunately passed away.

One was because of the sudden strong wind and waves, the sail surface could not be retracted, and the navy soldier climbed the mast to untie the entangled ropes and unfortunately fell into the water and was rolled away;

One was because of hitting a reef, the bottom of the ship leaked, and the soldier risked his life to close the watertight compartment and locked himself in the watertight compartment;

The last soldier died in a conflict with Japanese pirates on Tsushima Island.

These three soldiers all went to the Loyalty and Bravery Shrine, and the imperial court gave pensions according to the system.

But the problem appeared. The pension of the imperial court plus the money saved by the three soldiers from their salaries exceeded 100 silver. 100 silver is already a huge amount. Who should it be handed to became a problem.

These three soldiers all have children, but the oldest is only seven years old, and the youngest is only three years old.

The widow, uncle, uncle, uncle, and even the clan leader of their clan all came to Songjiang Town to demand this inheritance.

Originally, according to the practice, it was given to the widow, a chastity archway was erected, and the child was raised. This is the practice that Great Ming has always followed. But in Songjiang Prefecture, where silver is seriously blocked, the widow does not want to erect a chastity archway, because she is still young, in her twenties, and does not want to be a widow for a lifetime, and can also remarry.

According to the system, if you don't erect a chastity archway, the widow may remarry. It is exactly what Wang Qian said: sleep with your wife, beat your son, and spend your pension.

According to the system, it should be handed to the uncle, and if there is no uncle, it should be handed to the uncle, and if there is no relative, it should be handed to the clan leader.

But Shen Shen Shixing quickly stopped this behavior. If it was given to the widow, the child would be beaten at most. If it was given to these relatives, the child would probably not live to the day of adulthood and inheriting the inheritance. Eating the family to death is not too common.

The Southern Yamen might black out a few meals, but these clans and relatives would probably set up a table for the child.

The Songjiang Town Navy has 103,000 people, the Beijing Camp has 100,000 sharp soldiers, Great Ming has 2 million soldiers, and 120,000 engineering corps soldiers are all watching. If one is not careful, it may be a major event of military unrest.

For this reason, Shen Shen Shixing thought of a way, Great Ming military town, local, and meeting hall signed a contract together, freezing the deposit until the child becomes an adult, and paying interest according to the year.

If the widow is unwilling to erect a chastity archway, before the child grows up, all the child's expenses must be verified and audited by the meeting hall. If they are unwilling to verify, it doesn't matter. After the child becomes an adult, it will be paid in full. As for how to distribute it, it is fine to discuss it yourself.

Shen Shen Shixing can be considered a method that is not a method, but this method was pushed out, and the biggest enemy was the relatives who moved with the wind!

Even the mother of a soldier's widow's child directly threw the child into the Songjiang Prefecture Southern Yamen, saying that since the imperial court deducted the child's father's pension, let the imperial court raise the child!

In the eyes of the widow, this is the Great Ming imperial court deducting the pension.

Other relatives saw this and sent a total of seven children into the Southern Yamen, letting the Southern Yamen raise them.

Shen Shen Shixing faced the children sent by the relatives of the sacrificed soldiers and was a little blind for a while, anxious and scorched, but soon, Shen Shen Shixing realized that this was a good idea! It's not impossible for the Southern Yamen to raise them!

For the imperial court, the little money of the soldier's inheritance is not worth mentioning. Just the Xu Huating, Qingpu, Shanghai, and Pudong post roads, Shen Shen Shixing wants it, he only needs to move his hands, not to mention more, tens of thousands of taels of silver are easy, and they are all reasonable losses, the kind that Hai Rui's divine sword cannot cut down.

For the imperial court, acting according to the rules is the most important.

But for these relatives, 100 silver is enough for them to fight to the death. Shen Shen Shixing has encountered cases where brothers fought for three points of land and were beaten to death.

Since no one is willing to raise them, let the imperial court raise them!

Shen Shen Shixing said he would do it, and directly set up 800 mu of land in the Jin Zeyuan of the Songjiang Town Navy camp, specifically to raise the orphans of loyalty and bravery, and the three-level lecture hall was also being planned, and specifically found foster parents for these three children, all of whom were comrades who lived and died together, only selected from the navy camp.

Shen Shen Shixing memorialized, asking the imperial court to approve the establishment of the Loyalty and Bravery Pension Institute, and hoped that the imperial court could give some support. For example, the mother is still alive, but gave up raising, and the imperial court raised it, is it in line with the law.

Zhu Zhu Yijun, while giving a vermilion endorsement, said: "Allocate 300,000 silver from the Inner Treasury, specifically for this matter. When the time comes, erect a monument for me, placed at the gate of the Pension Institute. Does he Shen Shen Shixing want to eat alone? Think beautifully! I sit on the mountains and rivers, and I don't lack money!"

"Build! Songjiang Prefecture must build, the five major Maritime Trade Offices must also build, and the Beijing Camp must also build! Soldiers sacrificed, family members are unwilling to raise children, fine, send them all to me, I will raise them!"

"Law? I am the law!"

Although Zhu Zhu Yijun's words were calm, Feng Bao heard the resentment in His Majesty's heart, resentment toward the child's mother, resentment toward these relatives who jumped out of the corners, and this resentment was very, very big.

Which soldier who can go to the Loyalty and Bravery Shrine is not sacrificing his life to protect Great Ming? As a result, when protecting Great Ming, he unfortunately sacrificed, but his aftermath was a mess. Zhu Zhu Yijun does not allow such things to happen. If the child's mother is unwilling to raise, he will raise!

Zhang Zhang Juzheng talked about this problem last time. When accumulating wealth becomes more and more important in Great Ming, and even becomes the most important thing, moral norms will also change accordingly, and the perfection of laws and the construction of the system need to keep up with this change.

Now Shen Shen Shixing has practiced this truth. The alienation of people by money is being reflected. At least these three widows don't want to be widows, don't want to be widows, individual freedom, but the orphans of loyalty and bravery must grow up healthily, otherwise who would be willing to fight for others on the battlefield?

"Your Majesty, if these widows of loyalty and bravery are willing to follow the children to the Pension Institute, should the imperial court also approve?" Feng Bao put forward his own opinion. Even if the widow is willing to erect a chastity archway, these widows and orphans will not be bullied? They will definitely be bullied.

Children without fathers will be bullied, bullied from small to large.

"Your idea is very good, approve it all." Zhu Zhu Yijun nodded very affirmatively.

Feng Bao said it very correctly. Look at specific problems specifically. These three women, unwilling to erect a chastity archway, perhaps that archway cannot protect the mother and child at all, so they refused so much.

Then now this pension institute system, of course, also allows the biological mother to bring her own biological children.

In Shen Shen Shixing's system design, it is not raising for a lifetime. When the child grows up and becomes an adult, he will take the pension and leave, which is equivalent to saying that it is similar to the existence of a large courtyard. This will definitely aggravate the inbreeding of the army, but Great Ming's military households are hereditary, so this problem does not exist.

The imperial court's expenses will not be very large. The food, use, and education investment of these children's mothers in the pension institute, all added up, are not as expensive as the land price of those 800 mu of land.

"Send an edict to the Ministry of Revenue, take out a specific charter, and consider all problems." Zhu Zhu Yijun let the memorial be sent back to the Shi Shi Jingtang for discussion and perfection.

Shen Shen Shixing's method explained that problem, why the Great Ming army must listen to the Great Ming Emperor, and also explained why people are gregarious animals.

The people with organization and leadership are the only ones who are invincible. The people without organization are just a mob, a plate of loose sand.

"Send this memorial to Liu'er, throw this imperial censor into the Western Hills Coal Bureau to work for three months, and I guess in the future, he won't be able to say such things. As an imperial censor of the country, the country raises him, not to let him talk nonsense." Zhu Zhu Yijun took out a memorial and threw it to Feng Bao.

The main content of this memorial is: The Yellow River turned a corner in Kaifeng, went to Xuzhou, went south in Xuzhou, and merged into the sea with the Two Huaihe in Hongze Lake, which not only caused trouble to the Two Huaihe Basin but also caused difficulties for the Grand Canal. Storing clear water in Hongze Lake to brush the riverbed can maintain the Two Huaihe's entry into the sea, so that it does not become a ground river.

Under this status quo, then why not directly return the Yellow River's waterway to its old path?

This imperial censor who proposed "returning the river to the east, solving the dilemma by itself" was still proud of his genius plan.

Zhu Zhu Yijun threw him into the Western Hills Coal Bureau to work. Zhu Zhu Yiliu did it first, and the Great Ming Emperor did it again, which became not so difficult to accept. Zhu Zhu Yiliu was not reprimanded, and the Emperor joined the ranks of labor-disciplining cheap scholars.

The Great Ming Emperor also did it!

The idea is very good, but it is not realistic. From a very early time, about the Jin Dynasty, someone already had this idea. Since Du Chong dug open the dike and made the Yellow River change its course, now, can we clean up the old river channel and let the Yellow River return to its old path?

Yuan Shundi: Ah, yes, yes, yes, how simple, I repaired the Yellow River dike and repaired a one-eyed stone man, you repair! Boldly repair!

Returning the river to the east looks like a beautiful vision, but now, it is as difficult as adding a lid to the Pacific Ocean. Let the Yellow River return to its old path, even if everything is settled, when it comes to practice, it needs 1.3 million laborers, working day and night for ten years, to have a possibility of success. And it is only a possibility.

The project volume is too huge. When destroying, it may only take hundreds of laborers to dig day and night for a few days to succeed, but when building, it is a problem of the century.

This imperial censor has a kind of stupidity that has never worked. Zhu Zhu Yijun prescribed the right medicine and let him roll to work. After a few months of work, he will be honest.

"This, don't build it." Zhu Zhu Yijun held a memorial and looked at it for a long time, a little hesitant.

Yingtian Governor Li Le requested to finish the unfinished project that lasted for two centuries, that is, the Yuejiang Tower started in the seventh year of Emperor Hongwu. For this building, Zhu Zhu Yuanzhang specifically wrote two articles, "Yuejiang Tower Record" and "Another Yuejiang Tower Record", but in

Li Le's meaning was to finish building the Yuejiang Tower on this foundation and, by the way, build the main Southern Yamen's Bell and Drum Tower.

Wonders ruin the country.