Chapter 841: Answering Will Lead to Mistakes, Escaping Is Not a Shame

Zhu Yijun sat on the Five Phoenix Tower of the Chengtian Gate, coldly watching the suspects bound with five ropes on the execution platform. All of these people were to be beheaded, and their families were to be exiled to Java.

In Zhu Yijun's view, Hence Hai Rui had no flaws in his conduct during his lifetime and was harmless after his death, because Hence Hai Rui did not even have a son. Hai Zhongpeng, who inherited the legacy, could at most be considered an example of the imperial court showing favor, indicating that the imperial court had not treated him poorly.

After Hence Hai Rui passed away, he would be set up as a moral monument. Everyone would pay homage to him during festivals, and then go about their own business.

Such a simple person as Hence Hai Rui, in the end, still had people splashing dirty water on his head, and it was two basins in a row: Zhang Limin's "The Three Great Faults of Hence Hai Rui" and Yang Wei inciting the wind of public opinion just to overturn the case. Therefore, these people were now all placed in the Great Execution Hall outside the Chengtian Gate for public trial and beheading.

Wu Shilai and his party were dragged back from Liaodong by the Emperor and beheaded together.

According to Yang Wei's promise, once the water was completely muddied, he would run around for Wu Shilai's case, set things right, and then conduct a comprehensive overturning of the cases of those who were dismissed from office and stripped of their titles during Hence Hai Rui's sixteen years as Chief Censor.

Zhu Yijun simply calculated that Hence Hai Rui had investigated and punished more than 40,000 corrupt officials and clerks over these years.

Among them, there were more than 30,000 clerks, more than 8,000 officials who were successful candidates in the provincial examination, and more than 300 officials who were successful candidates in the metropolitan examination.

Even the four major cases, including the four major cases involving Zhang Siwei, were all within the scope of overturning. And behind Yang Wei, there were not only these 272 suspects in front of him, but also many accomplices. These people would respond immediately after the wind of public opinion rose, including officials, merchants, and so on. And the Embroidered Uniform Guard rode fast out of the capital to arrest everyone and bring them to justice.

Including the ringleaders, 272 people were beheaded immediately, and the remaining nearly two thousand people and their families, totaling more than thirty thousand people, would be exiled to the Nanyang to supplement the population shortage in Hanxiang Town.

This was enough to be the fifth major case.

"Senior Grand Secretary, these people bullied Hai Wenzhong for having no successors. When Minister Wan passed away, no one dared to treat Minister Wan like this, because after Minister Wan, there was Minister Shen to inherit his will. If someone bullied Minister Wan like this, Minister Shen would not sit idly by. But Hai Wenzhong has no successors." Zhu Yijun sat on the Five Phoenix Tower and expressed his views to Zhang Juzheng.

Wan Shihe was a flattering minister, but after Wan Shihe died, no one dared to create such a wind of public opinion to beat Wan Shihe down and stink him, because the Ministry of Rites were all Wan Shihe's disciples. Even Shen Li, a person of backbone, had become like Wan Shihe.

But Hence Hai Rui himself was too upright, and no one else stood up to carry the banner of backbone and righteousness, so some people dared to stir up trouble like this.

"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng's mouth twitched, expressing his point of view. He finally understood why the Emperor insisted on making Xiong Tingbi his last disciple and letting him live in his Quanchu Guild Hall.

This was a bond of incense.

Having no successors is like this: small families are eaten up, and large families are counterattacked and settled scores with. One must have children, and one must also have political successors.

Zhu Yijun sighed and continued: "For a minister like Hai Wenzhong who dares to speak directly, counting back three thousand years, there is only Bi Gan. Having successors is truly difficult. Clearly, there is a problem with the learning."

"I think this is a dislocation between the monarch-father and righteousness. What does the Senior Grand Secretary think?"

Counting back three thousand years, a person as pure as Hence Hai Rui only existed in history books like Bi Gan. After all, daring to point at the Emperor's nose and scold him was indeed very bold.

Gao Cheng, who muttered "dog-footed Emperor" all day and let his subordinates punch the Emperor three times, does not count. That is a treacherous minister who usurped the throne, not an upright minister.

What Zhu Yijun said about the dislocation between the monarch-father and righteousness was actually related to Confucianism.

For example, "The Analects of Confucius: Xian Jin" says: "Those who are called great ministers serve their monarch with the Dao; if it cannot be done, they stop."

This means that as a minister, one serves the monarch with righteousness. If it cannot be done, one stops, because the monarch does not allow it. If one continues to speak, it is overstepping, and it will also cause the monarch's resentment, making the monarch unable to accept correct opinions.

This style of "stopping if it cannot be done" became more and more intense in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Qing dynasty, one could not even mention a wrong word, and the knife of literary inquisition could cut both small people and high-ranking ministers.

For example, "Mencius: Wan Zhang" says: "If the monarch has faults, remonstrate. If you repeat it and he does not listen, then leave." If he really does not listen, do not remonstrate anymore, just leave directly.

This actually reflects the contradiction between monarchical power and ministerial power. Ministers who encounter an Emperor who does not listen to advice can only passively escape and lack active correction. Ministers have no good way to limit the monarch's willfulness.

In "Xunzi," there is a completely opposite and even rebellious statement: "Follow the Dao, not the monarch; follow righteousness, not the father." Righteousness is above the monarch and father, so later Xunzi was expelled from Confucianism.

As soon as Zhang Juzheng heard the Emperor discussing this again, his head grew big. The three words "I have doubts" kept flashing before his eyes. He looked left and right, and the ministers were all looking at each other in dismay. Clearly, the ministers who had never directly faced the Emperor's hammer could not accept the Emperor's direct questioning.

The ministers then realized that the Senior Grand Secretary was not monopolizing the lectures! He was clearly bearing this indescribable pressure for everyone else!

Can the question of which is lighter or heavier between righteousness and the monarch-father be discussed? Isn't it enough to just shout loyalty!

"Your Majesty, we are supervising the execution now. Why not look at the case?" Zhang Juzheng thought for a moment and chose the method of escape from the "Illustrated Mirror of Emperors."

This is the method given by Confucius and Mencius: answering will lead to mistakes, escaping is not a shame.

Regarding this question, Zhang Juzheng thought: if he said righteousness was heavier, it would be bullying the Emperor with the heavenly merits of the Wanli Reform; if he said the monarch-father was heavier, it would be lying with his eyes open, a crime of deceiving the monarch.

After all, everyone knew that in Zhang Juzheng's heart, righteousness was heavier, otherwise there would be no Wanli Reform.

"The Senior Grand Secretary is still the same." Zhu Yijun said with a smile. Zhang Juzheng had already reached the limit of a minister. Going any further, he was not bold enough.

The case had been investigated clearly, and all the suspects had been taken to the execution ground. It was called a public trial, but it was actually sentencing and execution. Zhu Yijun knew very well that this was suppression. These guys committed the heinous crime of rebellion. Suppressing the rebellion did not require any criminal law; just list the names and behead them.

"Take them." Zhu Yijun waved his hand, and two rows of young eunuchs passed down the imperial decree layer by layer. The Embroidered Uniform Guard under the Chengtian Gate shouted in unison, and the sound broke through the clouds.

Hai Zhongshi looked blankly at the scene in front of him. It was not until Li Dan's head was cut off and rolled in front of Hai Zhongshi that Hai Zhongshi finally came to his senses. He seemed to have been deceived, caught in a trap, and this trap had been planned for a long time.

When did it start?

It started the day his friend introduced Li Dan to Hai Zhongshi.

Before that, although Hai Zhongshi did not feel that a clean reputation was of any use, he had never denied Hence Hai Rui's high morality, and even took pride in it, because wherever he went, others would look at him with high regard because of his status as Hence Hai Rui's adopted son.

But after a long time, someone kept saying in his ear that everything had changed. He did not know when he started to feel that his father had done too much, was too lacking in human touch, too harsh, and too upright.

Everyone was a colleague, seeing each other every day; why did he have to go to such lengths?

Looking back today, Hai Zhongshi suddenly discovered that he was actually nothing. If it weren't for his father being Hence Hai Rui, he would be on the execution ground now! The one losing his head would be him!

To a large extent, Hai Zhongshi was also an accomplice. He always thought he was fighting for family property, but he was actually involved in a huge political case. As Hence Hai Rui's adopted son, he knew too well that political cases do not speak of any law, and would even implicate the family; clan extermination was also reasonable.

There were many political cases, such as the four major cases in the early Ming dynasty, which were all political cases.

Hai Zhongshi felt that the Emperor sitting on the Five Phoenix Tower glanced at him. He hoped it was an illusion and immediately hid in the crowd and left quietly.

In fact, after finishing the family property lawsuit, he could still live under the name of Hence Hai Rui's son, because Hence Hai Rui's will did not explicitly state that he should change his name back. Hence Hai Rui's idea was to let him learn a lesson, not to let him die without a burial place.

It was indeed an illusion. Zhu Yijun did not look at Hai Zhongshi. He was confirming that the heads had fallen and swept across the entire execution ground.

The Great Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun once again displayed his violent side. This kind of large-scale beheading from fast and speed came again, which made the scholars of the Great Ming deeply understand how determined the Great Ming Emperor was in maintaining the achievements of the Wanli Reform.

The situation of the struggle was already very clear. To overthrow the Wanli Reform, it would not work even after Zhang Juzheng died. Only by killing the Emperor who sat on the throne and held power could they start to counterattack and settle scores; otherwise, it would all be in vain.

"In the next chapter, Chief Censor Lu Guangzu and Xin Zixiu, there is no need to increase the intensity of anti-corruption and anti-graft because of this case, but anti-corruption and anti-graft must be set as a common principle. It cannot be not opposed, and it cannot be not caught." Before leaving the Chengtian Gate, Zhu Yijun left an important instruction. The intensity of anti-corruption was still maintained at the intensity of Hence Hai Rui's anti-corruption in the past, rather than increasing it.

After the case of "The Three Great Faults of Hence Hai Rui" broke out, provincial governors everywhere submitted memorials one after another, expressing their loyalty and asking the Emperor to increase the intensity of anti-corruption to show his determination.

Zhu Yijun did not agree, but maintained the original scope and intensity. For some ambiguous cases, he still handled them with leniency and did not intend to execute them doubly.

Corruption cases that even Hence Hai Rui did not catch represented that their harm to the country was far greater than their benefits.

The autumn wind was bleak. The sixteenth year of Wanli gradually entered late autumn. The Great Ming Emperor returned to the Wenhua Hall to handle the memorials of the day.

After the metropolitan examination in the second month of the seventeenth year of Wanli and the return of the Beijing Camp in the third month, the Great Ming Emperor would go on a southern tour again. This was the second southern tour since the thirteenth year of Wanli, mainly to determine the situation after the Southern Yamen was split into three provinces, as well as the effect of returning land in Zhejiang.

Regarding the Emperor's southern tour, the Senior Grand Secretary and others expressed their worries. The first was the issue of supervising the country. Should Prince Lu Zhu Yijun supervise the country, or should the eldest imperial son Zhu Changzhi supervise the country?

Prince Lu had grown up. The attitudes of Empress Dowager Li, Empress Dowager Chen, and Prince Lu himself were consistent: Prince Lu could no longer touch the power of supervising the country.

The reason Prince Lu stated this was also very simple. Supervising the country once was an expedient measure. Supervising the country twice, someone would definitely have thoughts that shouldn't be had. Prince Lu would be involved in a political whirlpool he was not good at. In short, it was to save his younger brother's life, asking his elder brother to let his younger brother go.

Prince Lu wanted to go on the southern tour with the Emperor, but there was another problem: Zhu Changzhi was only seven years old, too young.

The imperial court gave two methods: postpone the southern tour time, postpone it for another three years in the seventeenth year of Wanli, and wait until the eldest imperial son was older before the Emperor left the capital. The subtext was that even if the Emperor had an accident, the eldest son could still succeed to the throne;

Or do not set up a supervisor, and have the miscellaneous affairs sent to the Emperor on the southern tour for handling.

The second method was undoubtedly to make the Emperor suffer.

"Is there no better way?" Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in front of him. The two methods given by the Cabinet were not methods. Zhu Yijun did not mind suffering a bit, but if he did not handle the memorials in time on the southern tour, many memorials, although not big, had timeliness. The longer they were dragged, the bigger the problem.

The Great Ming had long been accustomed to the efficiency of memorials not staying overnight. If it went on like this, the officials would find it hard to adapt, and the Emperor's southern tour might do more harm than good.

"Only let Prince Lu stay behind again, but doing so will have endless troubles." Feng Bao gave another method that was not a method. Prince Lu would supervise the country again. This involved a problem that was difficult to solve: once the Emperor had an accident on the southern tour, who would succeed to the throne, Prince Lu or the eldest imperial son Zhu Changzhi?

Could the farce of Emperor Yingzong and Emperor Jing, and Emperor Xianzong come again?

"Then postpone it. I will look again." Zhu Yijun weighed the three methods and chose to press it without expressing it.

In fact, letting Prince Lu supervise the country and the Emperor go on a southern tour was the plan with the greatest benefits, but at the same time, the risks were also the greatest. Even Zhu Yijun realized this clearly, so he directly submitted a memorial, expressing that he wanted to see the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River.

Zhu Yijun chose to wait until the army returned to the capital before discussing this matter.

"Who are these people in the Java Shunta Kingdom?" Zhu Yijun looked at a memorial from the Ministry of Rites and felt it was a bit strange. The entire territory of Java had already been occupied by the Great Ming. It was truly strange that a Java Shunta Kingdom popped up at this time.

Feng Bao took out another memorial from the Ministry of Rites and said: "It was established by Lu Zili, the son of the Left Zhang Yuanfu Lu Xiufu of the late Southern Song Dynasty. In the ninth year of Yongle, he once paid tribute with Zheng He's fleet. Later, official ships no longer went to the Western Ocean, and the Shunta Kingdom never came again, mainly because they could not build large ships to cross the ocean."

After the Red-Haired Barbarians destroyed the Ma Liujia Kingdom and occupied the Strait of Ma Liujia, they built two castles in the east and west of Java, and the Shunta Kingdom gradually retreated to the New Village. The New Village was the most prosperous, but with the invasion of the Red-Haired Barbarians, the New Village could only close its gates to prevent infiltration by the Red-Haired Barbarians.

The Great Ming destroyed the Red-Haired Barbarians in Ma Liujia and recovered Java. The New Village had always been unaware of the situation outside.

It was actually very normal for the Great Ming to have recovered Java for many years, but the New Village still did not know the situation.

In the Baoding Prefecture Elephant Room Mountain, where Wanping and Laishui meet, there is a place called "Three Slopes." In the Qing dynasty, it was called Wild Three Slopes. This place is very close to Beijing, but the dozen or so villages in this place have been isolated from the world for years. These dozen or so villages jointly elected three elderly people of high prestige to manage them. If one passed away, they would elect one to fill the vacancy.

This went on for hundreds of years. The Qing dynasty had already perished, yet this place did not know that the Qing dynasty had come, and they never shaved their hair or changed their clothes.

The New Village of the Java Shunta Kingdom was also like this. After closing the entrance to the mountain road, it was impossible to find the New Village without specifically spending effort to search for it. It was also by a very accidental opportunity that the Great Ming Star-Observing Ship discovered the New Village.

The Great Ming Star-Observing Ship almost fought with the Southern Song remnants, but after discovering that they were all Han people, the New Village sent people to Coconut Haicheng to express their submission.

This Shunta Kingdom was the Java Shunta Kingdom established by Lu Zili.

"The Lu family of Shunta saw Hanxiang Town and requested that overseas Chinese go to Coconut Sea...

... City. The matter is approximately like this." Feng Bao summarized the situation simply.

"Approved, but tell them clearly: strictly abide by the Great Ming Code and do not do evil." Zhu Yijun approved the memorial. The Southern Song remnants wanted to live in the isolated New Village; they could continue to be Southern Song remnants, but to live in Coconut Haicheng in Hanxiang Town, they had to acknowledge their identity as Great Ming people and abide by Great Ming laws.

"This is natural." Feng Bao bowed and said.

In fact, since the Lu family descendants submitted such a memorial, the New Village could not hold on anymore. If they did not communicate with the outside world, they would probably learn from those Southern Song remnants in the Jifu Governor's Office and quietly perish in the long river of history.

This was the second time Zhu Yijun heard the story of the Southern Song remnants: the Jifu Governor's Office and the Java Shunta Kingdom.

In the late Southern Song Dynasty, when heaven and earth collapsed, how terrible it was, it goes without saying.

For the West, Rome is a legend; for East Asia, China, this living father, is still alive.

"In the southwest direction, the Meng Yang Laos Laos Xuanweisi was re-established and changed to Meng Yang Prefecture, opening up the trade route to the Bay of Bengal." Zhu Yijun received the battle report from the southwest direction.

The Great Ming re-established a Laos Laos Xuanweisi, which was the same nature as the original Mubang Prefecture, belonging to a place jointly managed by Tusi, local areas, and the Qian Wei Wei Guo Gong's Mansion, similar to a subordinate territory.

From the start of the war in the twelfth year of Wanli to now, it has been four years. The current battlefield situation no longer involves large-scale fighting, but the situation of both sides cutting meat with small knives has been continuing. It can be said that every clash is bloody, and every confrontation makes Toungoo suffer a big loss.

Population, livestock, and territory are constantly shrinking.

The Great Ming's way of teaching is completely aimed at completely eliminating Toungoo, without any mercy.

"Only four years, keep fighting." Zhu Yijun felt that it didn't matter. Up to now, Yunnan has not requested grain from the hinterland, indicating that the war is not tense. This kind of cutting meat with small knives is truly painful. Toungoo's Bayinnaung has asked for peace several times, but has not received any response.

Bayinnaung decided the start of the war, and the Great Ming decided the end of the war. This is very reasonable and very fair.

"It's a bit strange. After so long, Bayinnaung has actually held on. Oda Nobunaga chose to commit suicide." Zhu Yijun talked about the situation in Toungoo. Bayinnaung actually blocked the Great Ming's offensive for four full years! Even Oda Nobunaga only insisted for less than three years before choosing to commit suicide.

"Isn't it because the Great Ming won't let Toungoo surrender?" Feng Bao was somewhat helpless. This was not Bayinnaung holding on for a long time, but the Great Ming's attitude was very tough. They wouldn't even let them surrender, so they could only fight while looking for an opportunity for peace talks.

Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "That's not what I mean. I mean, how is he still...

... alive? Did those Burmese thieves under him not take his life to strive for peace talks?"

Feng Bao thought for a moment and said: "Then arrange for him to die?"

Zhu Yijun shook his head: "What do I want his head for? I want Toungoo to never have the ability to harass the Great Ming's borders again."

"Precisely because the Great Ming doesn't want it, he is still alive. If the Great Ming gets tired and annoyed and asks the Burmese thieves for Bayinnaung's head, the Burmese thieves will have something to hand over to the imperial court." Feng Bao explained the reason.

The Burmese thieves were eager for the Great Ming to ask for Bayinnaung's head, which represented that this engagement was about to end.

At that time, the Burmese thieves would go to the Qian Wei Wei Guo Gong's Mansion to kowtow and call them father, and this matter would pass. For so many years, it had always been like this, from the beginning of the Great Ming's founding to the Wanli years, it had always been so.

Kowtowing and calling them father was not a shameful thing; after all, they had been calling them that for so many years.

Unfortunately, this time they met a very persistent Emperor who insisted on fighting until the Burmese thieves completely disappeared from the southwest direction of the Great Ming.

"Your Majesty, the reason why we are still fighting now is because of two things. One is jade. This thing is a stone in Burma, but in the hinterland of the Great Ming, it is a more precious item than gold. The second is timber. High-end mahogany and teak are very much needed by the Great Ming's shipbuilding industry, especially some expensive pleasure boats, which are all made of solid teak." Feng Bao explained the difference between this Great Ming expedition to Toungoo and previous ones.

In the past, the Great Ming did not continue to fight to the southwest because there was no economic value. Tropical rainforests were all trees, and it was very difficult to farm because the rainy season was too long, making traditional slash-and-burn methods useless, and there was no value in pioneering.

Past war goals were mainly for admonition, which is why they were repeated over and over again.

This time it is very different. The Burmese jade and timber business made the attack no longer a simple consumption of grain and grass. The huge gap in the shipbuilding industry made the relevant industries in Yunnan abnormally developed.

Capturing Toungoo barbarians and arranging for them to serve as laborers to cut wood and mine, after processing the timber, they would go down the Wu River, go south along the Yangtze River in Chongqing Prefecture, until the Southern Yamen and Songjiang Prefecture for shipbuilding, and bring various goods from the hinterland back to Chongqing Prefecture, separately loading them onto ships to enter Yunnan.

"Wait a moment, I understand. Jade mines have spawned Ming troops, is that it?" Zhu Yijun combed through Feng Bao's analysis and reached a simple and easy-to-understand conclusion.

It is the same as the Great Ming's war against Japan. In the past, they didn't fight because they didn't know Japan had silver mines. Even the Japanese King, the Emperor, and the Shogun, the Great Ming couldn't tell them apart. Now Japan has silver mines, and after the Great Ming opened the seas, they were severely lacking in silver.

Feng Bao bowed and said: "Your Majesty is wise."

"These jades, they have no use for them even if they keep them. Even if they can process them, there is no market. In the end, they are still sold to the hinterland of the Great Ming. It is better to let the Great Ming army station there. Mining can also be more peaceful. This is also for their own good, saving them from fighting for a little jade."

"Now, because of the jade and timber business, merchants in the hinterland of the Great Ming are willing to trade in Yunnan, which has driven the development of Yunnan, so the Yunnan side is not in a hurry to end this war at all."

This is: "It is easy to plan for a strong and orderly state, but difficult to plan for a weak and chaotic one."

Also shrouded in the shadow of the Great Ming was the Annam Kingdom. Annam had fallen into civil strife again. While the four families were fighting fiercely, the imported rice exported to the Great Ming this year hit a new high. Fighting required money and weapons, so the snatched rice and grain were used to exchange for the Great Ming's cheap weapons to continue the infighting.

Zhu Yijun handled a batch of memorials, most of which were from Nanyang. Zhang Yuanxun submitted that he had built three more Hanxiang Towns and reclaimed 40,000 qing of land. Yin Zhengmao submitted that they had found a silver mine with an annual output of 500,000 taels of silver, and had built a Hanxiang Town and reclaimed more than 20,000 qing of land. The demands of both memorials were the same: they lacked people.

The exiled personnel could not fill these shortages.

"The two governors ask me for people as soon as they submit a memorial. Where can I go to conjure people for them? The provincial governors of Fujian, Jiangxi, Huguang, and even Henan submit memorials and scold the Governor's Office for being greedy. The Governor's Office lacks people, but don't they lack people too?" Zhu Yijun found that this Emperor was always in such a dilemma. Both the palm and the back of the hand were meat. Zhu Yijun really had no people to coordinate and give to the Governor's Office.

"Your Majesty, in the past few years, the population outflow from Shandong has been the least." Feng Bao said very carefully: "Provincial Governor Wang Yie, there is no problem with his conduct. Originally, Shandong was full of bandits, but in the past few years, even those migrating to Liaodong from Shandong have been very few."

Population outflow is a very key barometer. If people don't run away, it's either because local migration is completely prohibited, or because development is good. Shandong has express roads, ports, and canals. It's impossible to prohibit it. For example, Fujian also has a road permit system.

Shandong people don't go to Liaodong, don't go to the Southern Yamen, and don't go overseas. This in itself represents that Wang Yie, this provincial governor, is doing well. That relationship with Xu Jie can be turned over. At that time, the court officials also considered this factor and didn't let His Majesty reuse him. His Majesty employed people according to their merits and enabled Wang Yie.

In this case of Yang Wei and Wu Shilai, the most passive one was Wang Yie. He was doing well in Shandong, but disaster came from heaven. Some censors even started to impeach Wang Yie on the grounds of being "Xu Jie's old acquaintance and disciple." Encountering such an impeachment, Wang Yie could not defend himself and could only submit a memorial to resign. Even Feng Bao could not bear to see it and spoke a few good words for Wang Yie.

Feng Bao's standard for looking at people was very clear: it depended on loyalty. If he was loyal to His Majesty, he was a good minister. If he was not loyal to His Majesty, no matter how capable or incorruptible he was, he was a treacherous minister.

Wang Yie was undoubtedly loyal. He had completed the things His Majesty entrusted to him very well. If he lost imperial favor because of this disturbance, it would be a great pity.

"I know." Zhu Yijun approved of Feng Bao's suggestion. Feng Bao knew him very well and knew that he had a strong sense of vigilance against scholars.

Wang Yie did not collude with Yang Wei. If he really had anything to do with this, Wang Yie would probably be on his way to exile in Jinchuan by now. As a third-rank high-ranking official, as long as Wang Yie was not the mastermind, he would not be sentenced to death for discussing merits or virtues.

"Henan and Shandong are both asking for the implementation of the Manor System. Returning land cannot be done, and the resistance is too great. The Manor System is just right." Feng Bao organized the related memorials and placed them in front of His Majesty. Regarding the problem of lacking people, the only way the Great Ming could give was the Manor System.

Of course, returning land was better, but in many places, there were no conditions for returning land.

"Approved. Tell the provincial governors everywhere to remember not to be too hasty." Zhu Yijun finished reading these memorials and finally chose to approve. The result of the Manor System in Jiangxi was not bad. At least in the three counties of Ninghua, Ningdu, and Ruijin, in just two years, there was a saying of "diligent farming, good harvest, prosperous goods, and peaceful people," and even marriages had increased a lot.

It is very simple to let the people have children. They see the land, see the means of production, and see the hope of life, so naturally they will not resist. ===== CHAPTER 842 =====

"Henan and Shandong have both requested to implement the Camp Estate Law. Returning the land is impossible; the resistance is too great. The Camp Estate Law is just right." Feng Bao organized the related memorials and placed them before His Majesty. For the problem of landless people, the only method the Great Ming could provide was the Camp Estate Law.

Of course, returning the land was better, but in many places, there were no conditions for returning the land.

"Approved. Instruct the various Provincial Governors to remember not to be overly hasty." Zhu Yijun finished reading these memorials and finally chose to approve. The result of the Camp Estate Law's implementation in Jiangxi was good. At the very least, in the three counties of Ninghua, Ningdu, and Ruijin, in just two years, there was talk of "diligent farming and good harvests, abundant goods and peaceful people," and even marriages had increased significantly.

Making the people have children was very simple. Once they saw the land, saw the means of production, and saw hope for life, they would naturally not resist.