Chapter 786: You Cannot Only Oppose Me When His Majesty Is Present!

The public trial is a whole set of procedures that Prince Lu, Zhu Yiliu, tossed out during the Emperor's southern inspection in the thirteenth year of Wanli. This is part of the sins of Zhu Yiliu's reckless behavior.

Zhu Yiliu's reckless behavior included extortion of wealthy households in Xitucheng, mass arrests of dissidents, shelling the Lianyuan Bookstore, insulting the literati by hanging them on the city wall to blow in the wind, uprooting twelve bookstores and digging three feet into the ground, etc.

It was really digging three feet into the ground, and later it was renovated into new official residences for the Emperor to reward and use.

At that time, Zhu Yiliu was very disgusted with some Hanlin Academy scholars, Imperial College scholars, and magazine writers who pointed fingers at the Emperor, believing that these guys were mouthpieces for certain people, took money, and deliberately spoke ill of the Imperial Brother, so he arrested them and hung them on the city wall. These people were detained in the Northern Town Fusi.

Originally, inside and outside the court, everyone was waiting for the Great Ming Emperor to return and pardon these "innocent people." The Great Ming Emperor also intended to pardon them, but was blocked by Zhang Juzheng. In the end, the Emperor was persuaded, and they were exiled to the Luzon Governor's Office to contribute to the great cause of promoting culture in Luzon.

Among Zhu Yiliu's many reckless acts, the system deliberately retained by His Majesty the Emperor is the public trial.

These innocent people, after arriving in Luzon, immediately became loyal to the monarch and the country, and began to sing the praises of Great Ming, because only by singing praises could they be recognized as Great Ming people, have the qualifications to move into the Han Township Town, enjoy protection, and enjoy everything that Great Ming talents have.

The final public trial location was at the Great Punishment Hall, usually held publicly at noon. Before the public trial, there was a whole set of procedures to go through.

All the suspects detained would be hung on the tour cars created by Zhu Yiliu and Xiong Tingbi, departing from the Northern Town Fusi and the Criminal Ministry prison respectively, bypassing the East City, West City, and Outer City, entering the Imperial Palace Forbidden Garden from the Great Ming Gate, and stopping at the Great Punishment Hall in front of the Jin Shuiqiao.

Public trials are not for every suspect. Petty theft, fighting, accidental homicide, dereliction of duty, corruption, etc., are not qualified for public trials. Any public trial held outside the Chengtian Gate is a major case that endangers the country and society.

When the Great Ming Emperor appeared at the Meridian Gate, all the court officials who participated in the viewing ceremony breathed a sigh of relief.

His Majesty was just losing his temper, feeling annoyed that his government decree was opposed, rather than slacking off. This is great news for Great Ming.

It is like when Zhang Juzheng was desperate to reform, to push the assessment law to rectify the officialdom, change the environment of the officialdom, improve administrative efficiency, and make the hundred officials at a loss, just like that.

Now the Emperor is slacking off, which will also make the hundred officials highly uncomfortable.

According to the explanation of the human selection theory, that is: under human selection, people who cannot adapt to the environment and ecology have been eliminated. Now the hundred officials are either adapted to the environment or have been replaced by people who are more suitable for the current ecology.

Great Ming officialdom, it was not easy to get used to the fast pace and relatively fair competition environment.

The Emperor suddenly slacked off, and it would have to metabolize again. For the hundred officials, losing power is more difficult than killing their own parents.

Especially when Zhang Juzheng is still alive, the Emperor strikes for one day, and the court officials are uneasy for one day, fearing that Zhang Juzheng will turn over the old accounts.

Zhang Juzheng has been an authoritative figure from beginning to end, but the Emperor is there, so he doesn't need to play prestige; the Emperor is also an authoritative figure, but the teacher is there, so Zhu Yijun will not be too excessive.

Monarch and subject conjugate seal.

The sky was blue and clear, the sun was shining brightly, the flags were fluttering on the imperial city, and they were blown by the wind in the summer wind. The melodious horn sounded on the city wall. The Embroidered Uniform Guards wore flying fish suits and stood like javelins in front of the big drums, while the eunuchs in red robes stood in pairs on the stairs, waiting for the heavenly voice.

In the Wufeng Tower of the Chengtian Gate, the Emperor, the Empress, and the eldest son of the Emperor were seated. The left was civil and the right was military. The ministers were seated in order, but a chair was empty next to the Emperor's right hand. That was Qi Jiguang's seat. Qi Jiguang was fighting in Korea, but his seat was still in the court.

And under the city gate, inside the Jin Shuiqiao, were several layers of viewing platforms. Officials of the fifth rank and below who were not qualified to go up to the Wufeng Tower were all on the viewing platform, and there was a group of barbarian envoys who did not even have seats.

The Ministry of Rites firmly refused to arrange seats for the barbarian envoys. Except for Li Shunchen and Shah Mai Mai Ti who had Great Ming official positions, they all stood and watched. In the eyes of the Ministry of Rites, letting them come was already a great grace.

Wan Shihe left a lot of precious wealth to the Ministry of Rites, and of course, left many bad habits. For example, the Ministry of Rites likes to say "barbarians are wolf-faced and animal-hearted, fearing power but not cherishing virtue" in every sentence. As long as it involves foreign affairs, this sentence will definitely appear, holding ten points of vigilance and twelve points of suspicion toward the barbarians.

Suspecting that the barbarians have ulterior motives, suspecting that the barbarians want to preach, suspecting that the barbarians seek benefits, suspecting that the barbarians intend to subvert.

The Ministry of Rites of Great Ming used to be the Ministry of Rites that was gentle to people from afar, but now it is the Ministry of Rites that is wolf-faced and animal-hearted.

"Uh, why is there still someone beating drums and gongs?" Zhu Yijun put down the thousand-mile mirror in his hand and asked with some doubt.

He just looked at where the suspects were walking, and as a result, he saw a scene that surprised him. Behind the several tour cars, there was a long tail.

Leading the long tail were acrobats walking on stilts. They were dressed in strange costumes, with bright colors, strange makeup on their faces, deliberately pretending to be ugly, and holding all kinds of things in their hands, performing all kinds of acrobatics.

Wang Chonggu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, walking on stilts is actually because of fighting corrupt officials."

"It is said that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the people from Kaifeng to Luoyang had to move around each other every Spring Festival, holding fire festivals, temple fairs, silver flowers and fire trees, dance pavilions and song platforms, which can be described as a spectacle of fish and dragons, and the skill of kicking cuju and swings, gathering to watch all night until dawn."

"One day, a state official named Chen Erjin came to Luoyang and felt that there was profit to be made. It cost thirty wen to enter Luoyang and thirty wen to leave Luoyang. People walked on stilts across the moat to enter the city and refused to pay this entrance and exit fee."

"So the folk custom of walking on stilts came from this." Zhu Yijun understood.

Behind the stilt team were the music bands, beating drums and gongs, which was very lively. Zhu Yijun sat on the Wufeng Tower and heard the beating sound. The copper gongs the size of arms, and the high-pitched suona, could be heard from far away.

Behind the music band were the patrol signs. The patrol signs were two people high and were carried by four bare-chested strong men. On them were written some words, all of which were the crimes of these evil people on the tour cars.

Behind this long tail were the car drum array, big drum array, jump drum array, hundred crane array, etc. On both sides of the street stood the yamen runners of the Shuntian Prefecture, and behind the yamen runners were the people watching the fun.

Feng Bao heard the Emperor's inquiry and asked the little yellow gate. Soon, the little yellow gate ran back with vigorous steps and told the old ancestor what happened.

Feng Bao bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine has found out clearly. It is a play staged by wine merchants from Fujian."

"They are here to participate in the opening inspection at the end of May. This is not to create momentum and promote their wine. Hearing that there is a public trial, they staged such a big play and called this 'touring the master'."

"Tour, what kind of thing is that?" Zhu Yijun asked with some surprise.

Feng Bao hurriedly explained: "As long as you are qualified to open a public trial, most of them are masters, not poor people. Poor people are not worth the effort. It is just touring the master."

Fujian wine merchants created a beautiful landscape in the Great Ming capital. Following the tour car, they walked on the streets of the Great Ming capital, marched along the planned route, and deeply experienced the rich historical heritage, long-standing humanities, and vibrant customs of the capital.

The big wind vent of the capital's stroll was fiercely grasped by the Fujian wine merchants!

Lu Guangzu, as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, presided over the entire public trial. The yamen runners held up the patrol signs and showed the people the crimes of the returning-home bandit group, the gentry Shi Chengwu of Ningdu, Ruijin, and Ninghua three counties. These crimes were shocking and everyone shouted to beat them.

Great Ming is very, very big. The capital is Great Ming, Songjiang Prefecture is Great Ming, and the wealthy place of Taizhou Prefecture, Zhejiang, is Great Ming. Ruijin, Jiangxi, this poor place, is also Great Ming. Everyone is Great Ming people, but there are still some differences in the understanding of Great Ming.

The people of the capital, because they are at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the best place in Great Ming, are naturally indignant about this kind of evil, because if these things are reasonable, does it mean that the Emperor can swallow these 3.5 million people in the capital alive?

Zhang Juzheng's class theory is very clear. The Emperor is an independent class, an existence above all ruling classes.

Feng Bao took two little yellow gates, walked down the Wufeng Tower, stood in the middle of the execution ground, stood still, the little yellow gate opened the imperial edict, Feng Bao flicked the whisk, and shouted loudly with a hanging voice: "The Emperor of Heaven's mandate, the edict says:"

"The officials and gentry of Ningdu, Ruijin, and Ninghua three counties colluded, indulged in lawlessness, and harmed the villagers. The villagers endured again and again, retreated again and again, gambling houses, increasing rent, demanding annual examples, collecting late grain rent, urging rent and taxes, and killing people in front of everyone."

"The people's leaders Wan Qianchang, Lian Yuanhou, Zheng Sanwan, etc., led the tenant farmers to rise up, forced by necessity, pleaded for the people, occupied the three county seats, formed an alliance, and the alliance agreement was to reduce rent, remove old items such as annual festivals, close gambling houses, request camp village laws, and remove traitors. Today, the matter is caused by reasons, and the three leaders of the field soldiers are specially pardoned."

"There is nothing greater for the monarch and the country than to serve Heaven, and there is nothing more important for guarding the success than to follow the ancestors; for the monarch, there is nothing more urgent than to respect Heaven and follow the ancestors and love the people; for the minister, there is nothing more urgent than to be loyal to the monarch and the country and cherish the people."

"When people are poor, they return to their roots, so when they are tired and exhausted, they have never failed to call Heaven; when they are in pain and sorrow, they have never failed to call their parents."

"The monarch and the minister are together, with the same virtue and respect, up and down with one heart, to achieve peace."

"If later generations mourn it but do not take it as a mirror, it will also make later generations mourn later generations again."

"Today's field soldier rebellion in Ruijin, the internal and external hundred officials and ministers, should keep in mind, be loyal and thick and guard against stinginess, be upright and guard against evil and crooked; do not attach to the bottom and deceive the top, do not indulge yourself to abuse people; do not make cleverness to mess up old chapters, do not take money to ruin your reputation!"

"Indulging in desire and breaking the law, the ancestral code of rewards and punishments is there, the national law is hanging high on the top, I dare not be selfish!"

"The constitution of the successive dynasties, spreading virtue and bestowing grace, announced to the world, making everyone hear and know."

"Respect this."

Zhu Yijun's imperial edict was half-classical and half-vernacular. The classical Chinese was for the scholars to hear, warning them not to forget what they were doing. The country had already set the rule that the gentry and gentry who broke the law would be punished three degrees more.

The vernacular was for the people to hear. The three leaders of the civil riots that the people were most concerned about were specially pardoned.

These three people will not return to Ruijin, Jiangxi, but will be sent to Zhejiang, sent to Shen Shiqing, and help Zhejiang return land.

Wan Qianchang, Lian Yuanhou, and Zheng Sanwan cannot return to their hometowns. This is the suggestion of the Minister of Justice Wang Chonggu. Indeed, the three people holding the Emperor's pardon edict, the local officials definitely dare not make things difficult, and these three people are very likely to hold the specially granted imperial edict to threaten and coerce the local yamen.

This is likely to happen, but if they want the three to go back, they are dead.

The situation in Jiangxi is very complicated. The local powerful families and local gentry are very strong. They cannot do anything about the imperial court, but cleaning up the three civil leaders is like playing. If they go back, the mountain bandits will kill their families clean the next day, and then disappear without a trace.

And the three of them not returning to their hometowns is conducive to Zhejiang's land return and also conducive to Jiangxi's camp village.

As long as the three of them are still alive, the Jiangxi gentry and gentry dare not go too far. If the Emperor sends the three back, it will be another bloody storm;

Zhu Yijun finally adopted Wang Chonggu's suggestion and sent the three civil leaders to the hand of Shen Shiqing, the judge of Taizhou Prefecture, to promote the progress of Zhejiang's land return.

"Take it." Zhu Yijun waved his hand, and the little yellow gates in pairs passed the heavenly voice layer by layer, passing it to the execution ground.

Shi Chengwu, the head of the half-county family in Ningdu, was pushed to the execution ground. He had a good meal yesterday and knew that he was dead today. That was the meal before execution.

Shi Chengwu was a bit regretful. What he was very annoyed about was that he wanted too much. If he had known earlier, he would not have let the servants go to the countryside to urge payment with the yamen runners of the county office.

When the death card was removed by the executioner, Shi Chengwu finally clearly realized that his life had come to an end, and it was a method of death with body and head separated, and no whole corpse. Shi Chengwu's desire for life and fear of death were finally stimulated.

At this moment, he did not struggle, because his legs were soft, and he did not have the slightest strength, and even breathing became difficult. His body clearly knew that he was going to die.

The executioner took out a bone-prying knife less than a foot long. The bone-prying knife was very thin and very sharp. The executioner's hand pressed on Shi Chengwu's neck, counted the third root, and the bone-prying knife pierced into Shi Chengwu's neck very smoothly.

"Click."

Shi Chengwu heard the sound. He didn't know what happened, but soon the severe pain began to pass, and he was about to shout, only feeling the world spinning, and only the bright sun and the scorching sun in front of him.

Until the consciousness completely dissipated and there was no feeling at all, Shi Chengwu was still confirming whether he was dead. He was still regretting that he should not have let the servants follow the yamen runners to urge the land tax. As for gambling houses, increasing rent, demanding annual examples, and collecting late grain rent, he didn't feel that what he did was wrong at all.

In his view, a group of unruly people, what else could they do.

He died very decently. If it weren't for the three civil leaders restraining the tenant farmers, Shi Chengwu would have been stripped clean and bled, and sliced into pieces to feed the dogs by the tenant farmers.

Shi Chengwu's sins were heavy, and there were seventeen tenant farmers who died directly in his hands. This was what he killed himself.

The villagers did not read books and understand reason, and did not know much about the harm of gambling. Those gambling houses set up on the traffic arteries, those legends of getting rich overnight, made the villagers walk into the gambling houses.

They lost their ancestral property and ancestral home, lost their wives and children, and still fantasized about winning back in one go. If they couldn't pay back the huge gambling debt, they could only become one of the running dogs.

Songjiang Governor Shen Shiying once said bluntly: Debt will make people lose their freedom and become slaves.

These small-scale farmers and tenant farmers became actual slaves of Shi Chengwu. They were killed and taken away. Some family slaves who became family slaves, if they didn't agree, would be beaten until they couldn't get up for several days, breaking their legs, breaking their hands, and if they had no value, they would be killed directly and thrown into the compost pit to compost.

Shi Chengwu is another kind of returning-home bandit group, but it is more hidden than the returning-home bandit group in Taizhou Prefecture, Zhejiang.

Zhu Yijun saw the execution end and stood up. The public trial was over. He was going to the Zhao Wenhua Hall for the court session. Yesterday he went on strike, today he had a public trial, and the court session had been suspended for a day. It was time to restore the order of the past.

The court session started again, and the Emperor appeared on the moon platform as usual, making everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, I oppose the Official Selection Law proposed by the Senior Grand Secretary!" Li Changchun, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, came out of the class and said loudly.

Zhang Juzheng showed a puzzled expression and said calmly: "Vice Minister Li, you cannot only oppose me when His Majesty is present!"

"Please let the Senior Grand Secretary finish listening to me." Li Changchun bowed to the moon platform again and said: "Your Majesty, please allow the concubine to report in detail."

"Teacher, listen to what Vice Minister Li has to say." Zhu Yijun signaled Zhang Juzheng not to be impatient, to listen to both sides, and to see the ideas of these conservative officials.

Li Changchun bowed again, straightened his waist, and said with his hands: "This Official Selection Law looks good everywhere, then it will become dangerous. There is no government decree that is perfect, so what is the cost of the Official Selection Law?"

"That is the interests of the officials who are metropolitan graduates and scholars are damaged. They will sincerely oppose these government decrees."

"Ten years of cold windows, only to change into a set of court clothes, and these clerks, who are not naturally intelligent, can still be officials if they cannot pass the examination. Resentment naturally accumulates in their hearts."

"Honestly, they fear His Majesty, and they also fear the Senior Grand Secretary, and dare not oppose the Official Selection Law on the surface, but they can be hypocritical in other things."

"Your Majesty, the power is still controlled by the officials who are metropolitan graduates and scholars. Doubling the execution and letting things get out of control is easy. Once a consensus is formed, the new policy is in danger!"

Zhu Yijun pondered for a long time and nodded: "Reasonable, but the Official Selection Law must be implemented."

The three words in the history books, the Official Selection Law, will completely affect the fate of Great Ming for decades, or even hundreds of years.

The Official Selection Law is really important to Great Ming. The Wanli Reform has many emerging industries. The gap in the audit clerks of the Ministry of Revenue, the lack of computing power, and competing for talent with the people is just a microcosm.

When Great Ming's productivity increases, it will definitely encounter this kind of dilemma. The people are becoming more and more professional, and the imperial court is becoming more and more unprofessional because of rigidity. The imperial court will lose its ability, be unable to control the direction, fear risks, and will fall into a passive position.

The Official Selection Law is to explain this dilemma. Promoting clerks to officials is the general trend. If it cannot be completed, the new policy will end here.

Li Changchun looked at Wang Chonggu. Wang Chonggu was a bit strange. As the leader of the Industrial Party and the leader of the Jin Party, this Junior Grand Secretary Wang was watching his nose and heart, and had no intention of taking advantage of the situation to pursue.

He originally planned to bring it up himself, and Wang Chonggu would follow up, so he would not be fighting alone, but his plan miscalculated.

"I have a word." Li Changchun took a deep breath and said: "Your Majesty, we must go a step further and divide and conquer. If we cannot form a consensus, let officials oppose officials, so that the government decree can be pushed forward."

"Officials who examine clerks can get some preferential treatment in the assessment law. This one sentence is enough."

The theory of contradictions brings a new perspective to Great Ming's observation of problems, that is, the history of spiral ascent. The military, politics, economy, and culture of the Central Plains dynasty are all in a spiral ascent, and Great Ming is also cycling in this cycle of ascent and descent.

Once the dynasty loses order, falls through, and breaks its position, it is a crisis that triggers a change of dynasty.

Since it is a spiral ascent, it is natural to take three steps forward and two steps back, picking up the steps and moving forward constantly.

Undoubtedly, compared to Wang Chonggu's previous plan to completely replace the local gentry with the artisan class, and Wang Qian's plan to use the professional officials of the Nine Dragon University to replace the Confucian scholar-official class, Zhang Juzheng's method took a step back, and Li Changchun's method took another step back.

The Emperor Xuanzong liked to fight crickets the most, using a grass stick to play with the crickets. Similarly, Li Changchun's meaning was very clear. The extra preferential treatment of the assessment law is that grass stick.

Great Ming's officialdom attaches the most importance to incense feelings. If Zhang Juzheng falls, the Zhang Party will be shouted and beaten by everyone. Even if there is a slight relationship, they will all be liquidated as the Zhang Party.

While obtaining political resources by examining clerks, they can also obtain a group of colleagues with incense feelings. This is a closer relationship, relying on each other to cover up and form a forest.

Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and said: "This will definitely lead to forming cliques for selfish interests, but there are tens of thousands of officials and clerks in Great Ming. No one is not selfish, and no one is not forming cliques."

In the beginning, the Jin Party of Gao Gong, Yang Bo, Wang Chonggu, and Zhang Siwei was a local party, a clan party, and the interests were highly consistent.

In the second year of Wanli, when Zhang Juzheng was lecturing, he said to the Emperor: No one is not selfish, and no one is not forming cliques.

It means: People are not selfish, and they must consider their own interests; then people are not forming cliques, because they must stand together to protect their own interests.

This is discussed from the perspective of Xunzi's human nature being evil.

Zhang Juzheng is a Confucian scholar. He talks more about human nature being good, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith, and he talks more about the Han family's country and the loyal and good generations.

Even these court officials sitting in the Zhao Wenhua Hall are the Emperor's ministers, and they also have their own factions, which are very complicated, with you in me and me in you.

For example, Zhang Juzheng, Wang Guoguang, and Shen Li, the three ministries of Personnel, Revenue, and Rites were highly convergent; while Wang Chonggu, Wang Daokun, and Ceng Shengwu walked relatively close.

And Shen Li and Hai Rui, these two upright officials, walked relatively close because of their clean reputation.

Zhang Juzheng immediately opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, I think that examination is possible, but examination must convince the public, and it must pass the assessment law. It cannot be turned into filial piety and integrity, which would be a laughingstock."

Great Ming did not ban the examination system until the thirteenth year of Zhengtong. Before that, some people without fame had entered the center of power, such as Fang Xiaoru and Yang Shiqi, who had never passed the examination.

Yang Shiqi was recommended to the court by Wang Shuying, and Wang Shuying was a close friend of Fang Xiaoru.

This is the difficulty of pushing the government decree. In order to allow the government decree to be pushed forward, we have to give some convenience. If we give convenience, we have to worry about the bad influence, repeatedly, pulling and pulling, and constantly perfecting the system design in practice.

If you play the trick of identity politics like filial piety and integrity in the Wanli years, then the Great Ming monarch and ministers will be laughed at by later generations!

No Liaodong person will believe that lying on ice to seek carp is true, because lying on an ice lump in the middle of winter will definitely freeze to death. The filial piety that moves heaven and earth cannot move the ice lump.

"The assessment, I understand. After all, it is a very clear time limit, limit to, limit to finish. The three-limit assessment law has been practiced for fifteen years and has been quite effective. But this convincing, how should it be judged?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

Zhang Juzheng bowed and said: "For example, there are twenty-seven book clerks in the household room of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture. If one of them is recommended by Yao Guangqi to enter the Songjiang University of Science and Technology, then the remaining twenty-six book clerks must write comments and report to the Songjiang Governor."

"If they get the specially granted metropolitan graduate status, they must write comments by their colleagues and report to the imperial court. After weighing, judge whether to entrust them with important tasks."

Clerks are not a piece of iron. It is not impossible for them to be jealous of their colleagues' soaring, yin and yang, or simply shake out some black materials.

Since you want to fight crickets, you don't just want officials to fight, but clerks also have to fight. Even if the comments themselves are easily affected by some factors, it is a grass stick after all.

This screening process is definitely not completely fair and just, just like anti-corruption is not to catch all the corrupt officials in the world.

Every time a screening mechanism is added, it will increase the cost of deception and concealment, increase the risk of exposure, and the imperial court can get more real talent.

"What does Vice Minister Li think?" Zhu Yijun looked at the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites with a full face of smiles and asked about his attitude.

"I think the Senior Grand Secretary is thoughtful." Li Changchun bowed. He sat on the Taishi chair, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong it felt. He always felt that he had been fooled.

Because Zhang Juzheng's reaction was too fast, so fast that it was like waiting for someone to jump out!

Wang Chonggu looked at Li Changchun and showed an ambiguous smile. Little Li had made progress, a bit young, and was too eager to express himself.

Wang Chonggu knew Zhang Juzheng too well!

A person like Zhang Juzheng, who plans and then decides, is a person who takes one step and sees three steps, or even ten steps. Li Vice Minister can think of it, Zhang Senior Grand Secretary has been the Minister of Personnel for fifteen years, can he not think of it?

The reason why Zhang Juzheng did not take one step to the end and perfect the system might be that he hadn't thought about it, might be weighing it, might be that the time was not ripe, but it was impossible to leave a handle for people to attack.

Wang Chonggu raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, I heard a thing."

"The Bliss Sect in Japan has recently caused some trouble in Japan. Some maids who believe in the Bliss Sect have come up with a trick of white chicken feathers. The wounded soldiers who retreated from the Korean front line, these maids do not receive them, and they have to give them a white chicken feather."

"Uh, I don't understand, what is the intention of this?" Zhu Yijun frowned and said.

Wang Chonggu explained: "But those who are given white chicken feathers will be identified as cowards, afraid to fight to the death on the battlefield, are cowards, are soft-boned."

"Some wounded soldiers could not bear the humiliation, and there are many who committed suicide by disembowelment." ===== CHAPTER 787 =====

"Some wounded soldiers could not bear the humiliation, and those who committed seppuku were everywhere."