Chapter 803: Clearing Mountains and Forests with Difficulty, Pacifying Barbarians to Belong to China

The Great Ming Emperor chose to go his own way and refused to formulate and promote a political decree to restrict population flow.

In the 15th year of Wanli, the Great Ming had already formed the basic agenda for collective decision-making, but the Emperor still possessed absolute veto power and authority.

Actually, the Emperor's purpose for not restricting population flow is particularly simple: to promote the "Return Land Law." If people have all run away, the land occupied by the local gentry and powerful families will have no meaning at all. Who will farm it?

Use Nanyang, use the Great Iron Ridge mining area, and use the population gap of the Jinchi Viceroyalty to force the powerful and wealthy and local gentry to distribute benefits downward, ensuring the fairness and rationality of distribution.

This is very clear, and even Japanese slaves are strictly restricted from flowing in, just for this point.

The court ministers knew the Emperor's plan very well. After repeated weighing, the court ministers chose to reserve their opinions, protect themselves, and watch as they go, to see the effect.

"Your Majesty, I am incompetent." Wang Chonggu came out of the class and bowed his head, saying: "The union I tossed in the official factory failed again. Sigh."

Wang Chonggu's heavy sigh contained too much helplessness. He never thought that the promotion of the matter would be so difficult, even more difficult than the great construction of official factories.

"Failed again?" Zhu Yijun frowned and said: "If you say the Second Grand Secretary is incompetent, who else in the world is a capable minister? Tell me in detail."

Wang Chonggu learned the lesson from the failure of the first union establishment. When the first union was established, the artisan representatives quickly alienated into a privileged class and created a terrible scene of gambling dens entering the factory. Wang Chonggu intervened immediately, which was considered not causing a major disaster.

The second union was established, and this time it lasted for eight months before announcing failure again.

This time, Wang Chonggu did not give the union too much power, but a union without any power had no effect, and could not even do condolences during festivals, only knowing how to open its mouth and ask for money. Wang Chonggu launched an error-correction mechanism and abolished this department.

The balance between power, duty, alienation of privileges, and performing functions is so difficult to build.

In Wang Chonggu's vision, the union should have been the mouthpiece for artisans, spending a small amount of funds to maintain the organizational structure, screening out enough artisan representatives, and running for the interests of artisans.

Thought well, but realization is very difficult.

"Your servant is dull. I didn't expect that uniting artisans would be several times more difficult than the great construction of official factories." He felt very helpless and even publicly admitted his incompetence in the Wenyua Hall.

He just wanted to establish a bottom-up error-correction mechanism, but the two attempts both went into a dead end. If he had this energy, he could have built two hundred li of roads.

Sometimes, he was a bit dazed. He even felt that even if the New Sun Canal was built, this bottom-up error-correction mechanism could not be established.

"This is very normal, the Second Grand Secretary doesn't need to worry." Zhu Yijun listened to Wang Chonggu's report completely and comforted him not to...

... take it to heart.

If the poor people unite and unite closely, they will have the power to change the world, but the most difficult thing is to make people unite and unite closely.

A big foreman of the Xishan Coal Bureau was unfortunately burned by boiling molten iron in a large area when smelting steel. The great medical officer of the Great Ming Dissection Institute used all means, but the infection caused by the large-area burns still caused the big foreman to die in pain.

After the big foreman died, the blacksmiths did not unite closely to demand that the official factory improve the working environment, ensure the smooth issuance of pensions, and guarantee the future life of the artisan's family. After simple mourning, everyone stared at the big foreman's position without exception, wanting to replace the big foreman's vacancy.

All the artisans did not think these were problems they should think about. Competing for the big foreman's vacancy was the most important thing.

There is an extremely serious barrier between people and people. This barrier is called private interest. People always subconsciously think about problems from their own interests, rather than thinking about problems out of collective interests or

And the powerful and wealthy are always more united than the poor and laborers, and there is a universal tacit understanding, which makes the poor and laborers, who are already in a weak position, even weaker in the process of the game.

In a private workshop of ten or twenty people, the workshop owner only needs to use a pittance to completely disintegrate the unity between the "oxen and horses." When someone stands up and runs around shouting for everyone's interests, all the artisans are watching coldly from the sidelines.

The tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. This somewhat stupid, honest, and straightforward person who runs around shouting for public interests often ends up very miserably, while other artisans, for the sake of a little petty profit, intrigue against each other and blindly bow and scrape to please their immediate superiors for profit.

Just like that famous saying: Human joys and sorrows are not connected; I only find them noisy.

"Vice Minister Wang, don't worry. Actually, it's very simple. The estrangement between the poor and laborers is built on a certain economic foundation. If there is no food to eat and they are at the end of their rope, they will put down all prejudices and estrangements to unite and be tightly bound together."

"Just like the tenant farmers in Taizhou Prefecture, Ningdu, Ruijin, and Ninghua counties." Zhu Yijun thought for a while and summarized: "The private property that everyone possesses is both a shackle and the estrangement itself."

"People are always afraid of losing—losing everything they possess. When they truly lose everything, the shackles are also lost, and they will be tightly united together."

When the poor and laborers completely lose their private property, their attachments, and their weaknesses, they are actually losing their shackles. Only then will they gain the whole world.

This is actually the simplest and most violent expression of the theory of contradictions, the theory of public and private, and the theory of class struggle.

How to keep the poor and laborers from resorting to violence? As long as they have private property, attachments, and weaknesses, these shackles will bind them tightly, rather than

taking risks and risking their lives with their heads tied to their belts.

Those with property have perseverance; those with property will spontaneously maintain the rule and continuation of the Imperial Court because this is maintaining their own property.

In the process of forming the labor union, there is also the contradiction between short-term interests and long-term interests.

Short-term interests are to eat and occupy as much as possible under the existing rules, which can only be achieved by squeezing those around them;

Long-term interests are to break the existing rules and establish a fairer rule. This struggle has few chances of winning, and it is even a distant horizon that can be seen but not touched.

Investing in the struggle for long-term interests is likely to be a life-and-death situation, and even if you die in the end and the struggle succeeds, and you become a martyr, the result of the struggle is not the establishment of a fairer rule, but a horror story of the dragon-slayer eventually becoming a dragon.

The uncertainty is too great, so squeezing those around you is a more cost-effective business.

Zhu Yijun sometimes thinks about it and feels that this is even more difficult than making the Great Ming great again.

"Your subject will keep the holy teachings in mind." Wang Chonggu carefully savored this passage and bowed his head to accept the order.

On the 16th day of the 8th month of the 15th year of Wanli, the Great Ming Code was printed and distributed throughout the world. Zhu Yijun wrote in red on the "Heaven and Man Volume": I have three tasks: first is food, second is education, and third is resisting violence. The hungry get grain, children get schooling, and the wronged beat the drum—this is the human right endowed by heaven, which should be recorded in the Code.

This is the Emperor's red annotation, it is also the big pie he drew for the people of the Great Ming, and it is even more of a solemn promise to the people, in order to exchange the fulfillment of the promise for the support of the people and to sit firmly on the throne.

Whether this big pie can be eaten, Zhu Yijun is not sure, but since he has made the promise, he will use all his strength to complete it.

Along with the printing and distribution of the Great Ming Code throughout the world, there was also an imperial decree.

The Great Ming uses horizontal cutting as the outline, and the Westerners use vertical cutting as the items. Therefore, the Westerners have a low moral advantage in the Age of Discovery. In order to win in the competition of the Age of Discovery, Zhu Yijun specially issued an imperial decree, announcing it to the world, and once again reiterated that there would be no restrictions on the movement of people.

At that time, there were officials who remonstrated, fearing that the flow of refugees overseas would shake the foundation of the country. The decree said: In the past, when we needed laborers, we let them go; now that we see gold mining, we forbid it. Is this reasonable? People all love their native land; if they are not in distress, why would they go to sea to face difficulties? It also said: The Westerners are eyeing us covetously. I would rather let the people expand the territory than give an inch of land to the barbarians!

The Wanli edition of the Great Ming Code is the general outline for the Great Ming to become great again. Officials, both high and low, inside and outside, must study it carefully. If they make a mistake in the line, it would be fine if promotion is difficult, but their heads are their own.

The ancestor of the Great Ming Inner Secretariat, Feng Bao, once said: Heads should grow on necks!

The next day, Zhu Yijun received a memorial opposing the "Great Ming Code: Heaven and Man Volume." It was from a censor in Huguang named Xu Chengchu, who explicitly opposed universal education and the free movement of people.

"Xu Chengchu, a native of Zhu Xi County, Huguang, a Juren in the tenth year of Wanli, failed the metropolitan examination in the eleventh year of Wanli, and has since lived in the All-Jin Guild Hall. He became a Jinshi in the fourteenth year of Wanli, ninth in the second

rank of the Bingxu list. He is a student of the Master, and started working as a supervisory official at the Coal Market at Xizhimen last year. He received a top-tier evaluation in last year's assessment, was granted official status, still serves as a supervisory official, and is observing politics at the Censorate. He is a hot figure in the Zhang Party right now." Feng Bao briefly introduced the background of this person.

"A fellow townsman and student of the Master, ninth in the golden list, willing to be a supervisory official, and doing it very well, but he submitted a memorial opposing universal education and the free movement of people." Zhu Yijun frowned. Judging from his past performance, he is a raw jade of a capable official. He only needs to be carefully carved, and the Great Ming might gain another capable official.

But to express such a stance on such a major issue, Zhu Yijun must consider whether this person's stance is his own intention or Zhang Juzheng's intention.

Sometimes, it is not easy for Zhang Juzheng to express his own opinions, so he has to let his disciples go up. This is very common. Going around in a circle prevents things from reaching an unmanageable point.

Feng Bao said with a difficult expression: "Your Majesty, Xu Chengchu's family is poor, and he had no way to get books to read. From the age of seven, he began to carry goods to sell in the countryside. During his spare time from farming, he studied and practiced diligently whenever he had time. His parents sold their ancestral property to provide for his schooling and literacy. Only then did he become a Juren. After he became a Juren, his parents were no longer there, and he refused to falsely register land under his own name."

"The tuition for his three years at the All-Jin Guild Hall was all paid by the Master, and even his wife was introduced by the Master."

"Censor Xu is a bit like Chief Censor Hai, upright and bone-stiff. Before he submitted the memorial, he went to find the Senior Grand Secretary, and the Senior Grand Secretary didn't let him submit the memorial, but he still handed it to the Transmission Office."

When this memorial reached the Inner Secretariat and the Directorate of Ceremonial, Xu Jue went to the All-Jin Guild Hall and found You Shouli to inquire about this person and the memorial.

"A bit like Hence Hai Rui? Is it faked or is he a true pure official?" Zhu Yijun was stunned, a little unbelievable. Is the Great Ming's fortune so prosperous?! One Hence Hai Rui is enough, can there actually be another one?

Feng Bao handed the memorandum to His Majesty and said: "Chief Censor Hai thinks he is a true pure official. Chief Censor Hai said: 'Chengchu impeaches without avoiding the powerful and wealthy, does not favor private feelings, and does not calculate personal gains and losses. He is bone-stiff; the rigid is easy to break, the soft and curved are complete.'"

Even Hence Hai Rui felt that Xu Chengchu was a bit too rigid and that some things need to be flexible. Being too upright is very easy to break.

"Summon him to see me." Zhu Yijun finished reading the notes in the memorandum and decided to meet him personally.

"Your Majesty, Xu Chengchu is ugly; why not just skip the meeting and reply to the memorial? He has no party, and it was a memorial written by him alone; no one echoed him." Feng Bao reminded His Majesty again that this person has no party, is not colluding, creating public opinion, or seeking fame.

"Ugly?" Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows: "Why, is the Grand Eunuch afraid of scaring me?"

"Ugly" means that seeing his appearance would make one unable to sleep or eat in peace, describing someone as not good-looking, or even ugly. Zhu Yijun's curiosity suddenly rose; he wanted to see exactly how ugly he was.

"He should have been in the top three

of the first rank, but because he was ugly, he was placed in the second rank." Feng Bao said in a low voice: "Xu Chengchu has a goiter, and scholars mock him as 'Xu the Goiter,' which is cursing him for liking to meddle in other people's business, with a tumor hanging on his neck, swaggering everywhere."

Zhu Yijun's expression changed upon hearing this, and the corners of his mouth twitched as he said: "Cultivating virtue and body—what kind of virtue have the Great Ming scholars cultivated! Xu Chengchu is sick, yet they attack people's defects. What kind of things are they!"

"Have they read their books into a dog's belly!"

"Summon him; I want to ask him about the memorial."

Cursing the mute, hitting the blind, chasing the lame—you can't bully people like this!

It really wasn't Feng Bao taking the opportunity to put eye drops on the civil officials; it was indeed true. There is a saying among the officials in the capital: "Walk and stop, avoid Xu the Goiter." On one hand, it mocks Xu Chengchu's defects, and on the other hand, because Xu Chengchu is too rigid, everyone is unwilling to walk with him.

The Emperor promises here, everyone just needs to flatter and shout "wise," but he insists on being this bird that sticks its head out, opposing universal education and the free movement of people. Isn't this looking for death!

Xu Chengchu's appearance is okay, but the big tumor on his neck is indeed a bit scary, so he is always alone. It was Zhang Juzheng who really couldn't stand it and introduced him to a wife; otherwise, who knows when he would have been able to get married.

"Your subject pays respects to Your Majesty. Long live, long live, long live Your Majesty." Xu Chengchu walked into the Imperial Study step by step, his voice a bit hoarse as he said.

Zhu Yijun finally understood why Feng Bao wanted to stop Xu Chengchu from having an audience. The big tumor was indeed a bit scary. Zhu Yijun said with a heavy expression: "No need for formalities. Go and summon the Medical Doctors Chen Shigong, Li Shizhen, and Wu Lian."

Chen Shigong, Li Shizhen, and Wu Lian are the three great medical officials of the Great Ming's Dissection Institute, and they can be said to be the holy hands of the apricot altar. If these three take action and still can't cure it, then I'm afraid it can't be cured.

Li Shizhen is the Chief of the Dissection Institute. After he looked at it for a long time and exchanged views with the two great medical officials, he stood out, bowed his head, and said: "Your Majesty, if this tumor is not cut off early, I am afraid it will deteriorate into a malignant disease. By that day, medicine will be useless. Censor Xu is not yet forty; it needs to be removed early."

"Is it dangerous?" Zhu Yijun asked with a heavy expression.

"It is not particularly dangerous. Your subject is ninety-five percent sure that there will be no problem." Chen Shigong stepped out and bowed his head. As the number one knife in surgery at the Dissection Institute, he is very confident in performing this surgery. Nothing else, just because he is skilled.

There are many specimens in the Dissection Institute, which provided Chen Shigong with too many opportunities to practice.

Goiter is a disease of the poor.

Especially before Shandong planted kelp, obtaining iodine was a relatively difficult thing. After Shandong planted kelp on a large scale, this disease began to gradually alleviate, which shows that Xu Chengchu was really very, very poor in his early years.

But the Great Ming's selection mechanism still selected Xu Chengchu to become a Jinshi.

"Do you want to cut it off? There might be a five percent risk." Zhu Yijun looked at Xu Chengchu. The malignant disease is cancer. If this tumor is not cut off, Xu Chengchu won't live long.

"Your subject kowtows to thank Your Majesty for your great grace!" Xu Chengchu didn't waste any words and directly kowtowed, thanking His Majesty for his great grace.

Medical resources are an extremely expensive social resource. Xu Chengchu became a Jinshi, but he still couldn't obtain treatment. There were no surgeons in the folk who could perform the surgery. The first batch of medical students had just graduated from the Medical College of the Imperial Academy in the capital.

The great medical officials of the Dissection Institute are like dragons—you see the head but not the tail. Even if he went to see a doctor, he would have to wait in a very, very long line. He is now just a low-level supervisory official and doesn't have that many privileges.

In fact, Xu Chengchu could have completely begged Zhang Juzheng. He lived in the All-Jin Guild Hall, and Zhang Juzheng would definitely have arranged for him to cut the line, but Xu Chengchu didn't do that. He had already troubled Zhang Taiyue enough, and he didn't want to trouble him for an illness.

With his bone-stiff personality, he would definitely criticize the Wanli Reform, which would be a bit too ungrateful.

"That's fine. After you finish seeing the doctor, continue to hold your post as a supervisory official. I think highly of you!" Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Believe in the great medical officials. I had a wisdom tooth pulled before, and there was no problem."

"Now let's talk about your memorial."

"Your subject takes his leave." Li Shizhen, Chen Shigong, and Wu Lian chose to take their leave. They had to discuss the condition and determine the surgical plan.

"Your Majesty, your subject opposes universal education and the free migration of people. These two are very contradictory; you can only have one, you cannot have both." Xu Chengchu began to talk about why he opposed it.

"Tell me in detail." Zhu Yijun said with a heavy expression.

Xu Chengchu began to talk eloquently. When he talked about government affairs, Zhu Yijun saw a completely different Xu Chengchu.

Before, when Xu Chengchu had an audience, he was cautious, and even a bit cowardly. The goiter had brought him too many troubles and discrimination. Even after he became a Jinshi, he was still discriminated against by his colleagues. Growing up in such an environment of discrimination, not becoming isolated, violent, or irritable was already the limit.

But when talking about government affairs, he immediately became graceful, confident, and even had a shadow of Zhang Juzheng.

"People are social animals. Although the hundred bones are provided by the private family, all matters such as education, transportation, prison, and medical workshops rely on the power of the public family."

"Public benefit is the obvious use of tax revenue. The ten thousand people share it, but it is not without cost. The Imperial Court spends hundreds of millions to maintain its order."

"The implementation of the Dinghai school system allows even the ignorant children to be educated, but the cost is huge, and the national treasury and local Yamens share the burden."

"However, if there is no restriction on migration, the prefectures and counties will empty their pockets to cultivate talent, but the talents will flock to the Nine Dragons University and compete to go to the coastal areas, like rivers flowing into the sea and never returning. The various departments in the interior waste resources without getting the benefit of feeding back; the various prefectures near the sea enjoy the gathering of talent and instead treat the interior as worn-out shoes."

"If this continues, the difference between the regions will deepen, and the disaster of rifts will become more obvious. Your subject is dull. Perhaps making students bear the cost of tuition themselves, or forbidding migration to force the retention of talent so that the native land can benefit and the gap between rich and poor will not be too wide, is the way to long-term peace." Xu Chengchu bowed his head again.

Xu Chengchu was actually prepared to be exiled. His Majesty is already the actual authority of the Great Ming. Defying His Majesty carries huge risks, and the risk is no less than Hence Hai Rui submitting the "Peace Memorial" to scold the Jiajing Emperor back then.

Xu Chengchu meant:

People are social animals, gregarious animals; people are the sum of all social relations.

A person's growth cannot be separated from the support of the private family for food, clothing, housing, and transportation, but it also cannot be separated from public resources such as public security, transportation, medical care, and education. This is the convenience provided by the public family.

Public benefit is the intuitive manifestation of the use of the Imperial Court's tax revenue. Everyone enjoys it, but it doesn't mean it's free. The Imperial Court needs to spend huge social resources to maintain the operation of public services.

Universal education does not mean cheap education. In order to popularize education, the Great Ming Dynasty has to stake all its revenue. The Dinghai school system has already begun to be implemented. Under the new school system, the high cost of universal education received by the ten thousand people of the Great Ming is borne by the Imperial Court and local Yamens.

But free flow means that the high investment of the local area is destined to be a total loss. The talents cultivated with great effort will flow to the Nine Dragons University and to more developed coastal areas.

The interior Yamens bore the cost of basic and universal education but did not get a return, while the developed coastal areas enjoyed the dividends of free population flow, especially the gathering of talent, but treated the interior as a burden and a package.

If this continues, the contradictions brought about by unbalanced development will make the Great Ming's opposition to the Great Ming's rift even more serious.

This is the reason why Xu Chengchu opposes universal education and free population migration.

Either let the students bear the cost of universal education, or do not allow excessive free population flow, keep the talent in the local area, build the local area, and reduce unbalanced development.

That is, the native land can benefit, and the gap between rich and poor will not be too wide, which is the way to long-term peace.

"Official Xu, I completely understand your meaning, and I also agree with your idea. However, if I block the nine rivers because I fear the waves, that is not my wish." Zhu Yijun sat up straight and said very seriously: "Blocking is not as good as dredging; this is the experience since ancient times."

"You look at the problem a bit too one-sidedly, just looking at it statically. In fact, looking at problems cannot be done so statically, setting the interior and the coast in binary opposition, while ignoring the essence that all things are changing and developing."

"To put it more clearly, the development of coastal areas will drive the development of the hinterland. Since the opening of the seas in the second year of Longqing, the porcelain of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, has opened more than 350 new porcelain kilns in just six years, which is proof."

"I am not against your opinion; on the contrary, your opinion

is very, very important."

"I ignored this fact. If the interior bears the cost of basic education but does not get enough benefits, it just shows that we need to improve horizontal fiscal transfer payments and tilt towards the hinterland."

"The country is fortunate to have an upright official who remonstrates."

Xu Chengchu's opposition seems to be a bad strategy of blocking the river, but in fact, it is based on the foundation of Shen Shixing's Great Ming opposition to the Great Ming, and a full discussion has been carried out.

The talents cultivated by the hinterland with all their efforts are all drained by the coastal areas. Which local Southern Yamen is willing? If this continues, there will definitely be complaints, and they will even promote private school education, using private schools to recover education costs. Therefore, we must design sufficient horizontal fiscal and tax transfers, just like the Kaizhong Law of the year, to adjust the imbalance in development between regions.

"I am in my prime, and all the officials are afraid of authority, tongue-tied and dare not refute. Your idea is very good." Zhu Yijun once again affirmed that this memorial by Xu Chengchu is very valuable.

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Go see the doctor. I will submit this memorial to the court discussion and discuss a plan."

Xu Chengchu had a difficult expression, wanting to speak but stopping, but he still bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, your subject has a presumptuous request."

"Because of submitting this memorial, the Master took away my All-Jin Guild Hall waist tag. Your subject is now temporarily staying in an inn with his wife, which is very inconvenient. I hope Your Majesty can explain it for your subject. The Master thinks that your subject learned from the treacherous scholars to seek empty fame instead of being pragmatic, so he expelled your subject."

"Ah, don't worry about the Master. Ever since the affair of Gao Qiyu in the Yingtian Prefecture provincial examination, the Master has always been a bit overly nervous about such things. You go see the doctor; I will help you ask for the All-Jin Guild Hall waist tag." Zhu Yijun signaled Xu Chengchu not to worry about these trivial matters.

Xu Chengchu didn't need to take such a big risk to submit the memorial at all. He could have completely continued to be his supervisory official, and under Zhang Juzheng's protection, continued to be promoted.

After the decree was implemented for a period of time, the danger would emerge, but it would take a long, long detour in the middle, and it would take a lot, a lot of costs to clearly see the harm.

This memorial has high value, saving a lot of political resources and a lot, a lot of silver.

But Xu Chengchu saw it, and he did it, staking his parents' sale of ancestral property and Zhang Juzheng's teacher-student relationship to remonstrate. This is an upright official.

"Your subject thanks Your Majesty for your great grace." Seeing His Majesty's promise, Xu Chengchu left happily and went to the Dissection Institute to see the doctor.

Xu Chengchu was very happy. He felt that he had not failed his parents' expectations, had not failed his status as a Jinshi, and had told His Majesty the danger he saw, making the Great Ming better.

"A bit like Hou Yuzhao back then, always going against the grain. To put it bluntly, it's honest, not understanding the ways of the world, not round enough, but isn't it a heart of a child?" Zhu Yijun looked at Xu Chengchu's back, quite gratified. This memorial saved

a lot of money! Great merit!

The Emperor opened the drawer of the imperial desk, took out a blank All-Jin Guild Hall waist tag, had Feng Bao engrave Xu Chengchu's name on it, and sent it to Xu Chengchu. Xu Jue would go to the All-Jin Guild Hall to explain that the Emperor had issued the waist tag.

The boundary between the Zhang Party and the Emperor Party is very blurred because Zhang Juzheng himself is the number one Emperor Party in the world. Therefore, the All-Jin Guild Hall waist tag can be issued by Zhang Juzheng or by the Emperor, and it doesn't even have to be notified.

But out of politeness, Zhu Yijun still told the All-Jin Guild Hall.

A small eunuch ran quickly into the Imperial Study of the Tonghe Palace, holding a report of victory and shouting loudly: "Your Majesty, a report of victory from the Joseon front! Fushan has been captured, and only the fourteen fortresses of Ulsan remain. All lost territories have been recovered!"

"Good! Reward based on merit!" Zhu Yijun picked up the report of victory. In the Battle of Fushan, the Japanese pirates were completely defeated, and the Great Ming army entered as if there were no one there.

"This poem by General Qi is very good, but I hope he restores his past poetic talent." After Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial, his eyes went dark.

Qi Jiguang wrote a poem that completely lacked the charm of "Enfeoffment is not my intention, I only hope the seas are peaceful" from the past.

The Ming army waved its flags and roared, the Japanese swords trembled three times. The warships were collected as firewood for the stoves, and they rolled back to the Fuso mouth with their helmets lost. The poem is titled "Song of Laughing and Beheading the Japanese Slaves."