Chapter 763 Retake Seoul and capture Qi Jiguang alive!


Chapter 763: Retake Seoul and capture Qi Jiguang alive!

Ling Yunyi is an extremely ruthless person. Ever since he dealt with the Luo Dingyao people's rebellion, he has been very fond of going to extremes and using extreme violence to solve difficult conflicts. His extreme personality is not suitable for court decision-making, because court decisions are difficult to make. Sometimes, we must tolerate each other and compromise with each other for the sake of the country.

In Ling Yunyi's view, the Ming Dynasty's conquest of North Korea was not a problem. After the Ming Dynasty was conquered, the main contradiction was the contradiction between the old people who cherished their homeland and the Ming Dynasty king's efforts to solidify the country. How to win the hearts of the people in the game and gain the approval of the majority is The top priority before Ling Yunyi.

This group of people still yearns for the collapsed Joseon royal family because they have benefited a lot from the Joseon royal family, and these few will cause greater harm if they spread rumors among the crowd.

For example, when the Ming Dynasty transformed Suiyuan into a king, it also encountered stubborn scum such as the officials in Suiyuan City who cleverly created names and the craftsmen of the official woolen factory who stole worsted wool and made huge profits to support them.

What Ling Yunyi wants to do when he comes to North Korea is to keep pouring salt into the hearts of North Koreans and use all possible means to make them remember the pain forever and cherish their hard-won life.

This teahouse built by the Japanese nation is a pillar of shame. The past was so shameful that no one wants to miss it.

"I'll leave the internal affairs to Ling Butang. I'll just fight the war." Qi Jiguang thought about it and felt that Ling Yunyi's method was better.

Sharing the same hatred as the enemy and being grateful are all centripetal forces. This centripetal force does not distinguish between good and bad.

Ling Yunyi's car continued to move forward, occasionally stopping, and finally arrived at Ying'en Gate. Ying'en Gate was built in the fifth year of Yongle's reign. It is a typical Chinese-style archway building. Later, the Joseon royal family built the Yingbin Pavilion and Mu Mu around Ying'en Gate. Hualou, when the envoys of the Ming Dynasty came with the imperial edict, they stayed in the guest house.

But now everything has been destroyed, and the Ming Dynasty soldiers are cleaning up the ruins. Apparently before it was burned down, this was also a teahouse, where Korean women were kidnapped and raped and tortured.

"Qi Shuai, it is easy for the Ming Dynasty to fall into a deadlock, that is, the stronger the military, the more capable it is of deterring the enemy, the fewer situations where force is needed and the fewer opportunities to use force. People agree that this is not a question of whether Daming can afford it, but a deadlock. ”

"The stronger the military, the weaker it becomes." Ling Yunyi saw the Ming soldiers in battle with his own eyes.

"In the past, I brought guest soldiers back to Beijing and fought against the Beijing camp. The Beijing camp narrowly won. At that time, I still thought, hey, the elite soldiers of the Beijing camp were nothing more than that. But now it seems that I was totally wrong. ." Ling Yunyi talked about the past. He brought the guest soldiers to fight with the Beijing camp. He didn't win, but he didn't lose much.

But looking back now, it was actually Jingying who saved face for him. With this firearm formation, there was really no need to fight and it was good to surrender.

"The stronger the military, the weaker it will be." Qi Jiguang shook his head helplessly. It is very expensive to raise so many elites. Once the times are quiet, disarmament will become inevitable. This is a dead end. Qi Jiguang knows that Ling Yun Wing is not an alarmist.

Ling Yunyi said with a relaxed face: "Your Majesty is trying to take a different path, that is, development. Now that overseas development is taking place, this knot will enter another cycle."

"The stronger the navy is, the faster overseas expansion will be. Then the capital camp must be stronger. If the sovereign country is one day counterattacked by the overseas governor's office and vassal states, it would be a big joke. It seems a bit similar to a militancy. , without the support of overseas interests, this cycle of stronger military strength will collapse.”

"Hey, is this what His Majesty told Governor Ling?" Qi Jiguang thought about it carefully, and it seemed that it was indeed the case.

Because the Ming Dynasty is undergoing primitive accumulation. The Ming Dynasty is already very rich, but it can be richer. Your Majesty has a clear path in his heart, and he will go on it no matter how difficult it is. This kind of accumulation is extremely bloody, either with the blood and flesh of the Ming Dynasty people, or with overseas sacrifices. The flesh and blood of Panyi.

Ling Yunyi smiled and shook his head and said: "No, His Majesty didn't tell me this. I just read the third volume."

"So, I should read the third volume carefully." Qi Jiguang was a little annoyed. He was busy with the war and had not had time to read the third volume. He felt like he was out of touch.

The third volume is about struggle, but also about games, a methodology for reaching consensus through games at all levels.

Ling Yunyi and Qi Jiguang chatted and learned more about North Korea.

After Li Chenggui established the Li family's Joseon, he studied the land system of the Ming Dynasty and began to compile the Korean Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book, measure the country's land, and implement the land law, which means that all land belongs to the public, and the two classes are granted land and established Eighteen subjects were assigned fields at different levels.

Li Chenggui had a very good idea. I would divide the land and soil, and then take it back after the death of the person. But Li Chenggui obviously did not consider one question. If the land is divided, is it possible to take it back?

Just seventy years later, the Ketian system was terminated because there was not enough land for land transfer, and it was changed to a job-field system. Each mu of job-field land was paid with three measures of millet and one piece of grass, and salaries were given to the serving civil and military classes.

In the third year of Hongzhi, the job-field system also existed in name only. There was still a nominal salary, but the Korean royal family was completely unable to provide salary.

"Since the land system has been abolished in the third year of Hongzhi, what kind of land system will North Korea use after that?" Ling Yunyi frowned and asked in confusion.

Qi Jiguang spread his hands and said: "There is no land system."

"Well... there is no land system." Ling Yunyi understood that because North Korea was still able to suppress the Japanese pirates in the early days of the country, this time the Japanese rebels had no ability to resist and were captured directly.

In all the Ming dynasties, only the Song Dynasty did not establish a land system, allowing land and land to be annexed. Allowing annexation would encourage farmers to go bankrupt. Without good family members, there would be no sources of soldiers, the military would be weak, and lack of military equipment would be the norm.

It is not surprising that North Korea lost like this.

Qi Jiguang said with a heavy face: "Since the third year of Hongzhi, the Li family has successively handed over the fishery tax, salt tax, and ship tax to powerful people for private use to consolidate their position. Salt, iron, tea, wine, alum, coal, firewood, etc. To put it simply, a pound of salt in North Korea costs three hundred and twenty coins.”

"Crazy? One pound of salt, three hundred and twenty coins?!" Ling Yunyi thought that he was cruel enough, but he never expected that he was too gentle!

Compared with the inhumane guys like Lee Chosun, he is simply the most virtuous person among the virtuous people!

A pound of salt can be sold for three hundred and twenty cents. The capital of the Ming Dynasty sells ten catties of salt for two hundred and fifty cents, so one pound of salt only costs twenty-five cents. This is because of the concentration of population, and the price of salt has increased four times. At that time, there were only seventeen cents per catty.

The North Korean royal family, together with the powerful, dare to sell it for 320 coins!

"The largest salt-producing area in North Korea is in Xin'an, Jeolla Province. The price of one pound of salt is about 200 Wen." Qi Jiguang shook his head repeatedly. If the price of salt in Zhejiang was also the same, the imperial court would not be able to support three thousand guest soldiers, let alone It's okay.

"But in the salt-producing areas of the Ming Dynasty, a pound of salt only costs seven coins." Ling Yunyi asked with a frown: "How do North Koreans live with such an expensive salt price?"

"I'm jealous of Bu and Jiang Bu." Qi Jiguang spread his hands and said, "There is a very famous nursery rhyme in Seoul called the Platycodon ballad. You have to sing it when you go hunting Platycodon and you have to sing it when you die. I hope they won't be Seoulese in the next life. , even if it means going to Daming to be a dog.”

Even with the input of a large amount of silver, prices in Ming Dynasty have been very stable, with almost no changes in these years. Ming Dynasty's desire for silver and brass has no upper limit. Even so, Ling Yunyi still feels that the people of Ming Dynasty are living in misery. They yelled and killed all day long, but compared with North Korea, Ming Dynasty was indeed a celestial dynasty.

Ling Yunyi shouted to fight and kill, but compared to the North Korean carnivores, he was indeed a good person.

Qi Jiguang took a sip of tea and continued: "Actually, Li Huo also thought of a way. He discussed with Hu Cao and prepared to implement the equal service method, which is similar to the one-whip method of the Ming Dynasty. Aluminum, coal, firewood, etc. were returned to public ownership, but Hu Cao refused to agree because Hu Cao was afraid of death. ”

"Li Huo said to Hucao, if you are afraid of death, I will let you die now, so he started to push for the return of these specialties to public use, but it soon failed. The corruption in North Korea is worse than that in the Ming Dynasty. Then, taxes under various names began to appear. The most outrageous thing was that even if it rained, taxes would be collected. ”

"What the hell?" Ling Yunyi looked at Qi Jiguang blankly and asked blankly: "Is there a tax even if it rains?"

As the Ming Dynasty under the feudal monarchy, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes with clever names are unavoidable problems. Strict crackdowns are the only way when found. The Ming Dynasty is also looking for ways to solve it, using a whip method to carry out tax reform, but this rain tax will exhaust the Ming Dynasty. The imagination of officials cannot do it.

In the Ming Dynasty, people were armed to collect land taxes because the people of the Ming Dynasty were armed to resist taxes.

"The rain tax is charged according to the size of your house and field. It is said to be needed to maintain ditches. A harvest of brown rice in paddy fields is 30 bushels, and a harvest of mixed grains in dry fields is 30 bushels." Qi Jiguang flipped through an account and handed it to Ling Yunyi.

The Li Dynasty regarded the land that produced 20 tons of grain as a unit, which was the land unit of Korea, and then divided it into paddy fields and dry fields. The tax collected every year was the same, thirty tons of rice.

"It's really crazy." Ling Yunyi leaned on the back of his chair and shook his head repeatedly. There are indeed no monsters in North Korea, because monsters can't survive at all. The North Koreans can't eat it. It's really too painful.

That is to say, Ling Yunyi was ignorant. If he knew that England even levied tax on the shroud, he wouldn't be so surprised.

Qi Jiguang exhaled and said: "If you can't survive now, you will hide in the mountains, secretly buy salt from those private salt dealers, and then live such a difficult life. It is already difficult, but the Japanese pirates are here again."


Qi Jiguang has been fighting in Korea for more than half a year. He knows the life of the Koreans very well. It would have been unlucky to meet carnivores like the Korean royal family and the civil and military classes. However, when he encountered Japanese pirates again, his life was completely hopeless.

This is actually the reason why there are so many Hwarangs in North Korea. North Korean carnivores treat them as pigs and dogs, but the Japanese pirates treat them as nothing more than grass.

And Ming Dynasty treats them as human beings, which is a great blessing.

Qi Jiguang and Ling Yunyi talked so much about the sufferings in Korea, but Ling Yunyi did not change his mind. Those sufferings were not caused by the Ming Dynasty and had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. If you want to completely occupy a place, the most important thing is to give both kindness and power. Only kindness, only kindness. Will raise white-eyed wolves.

Ling Yunyi repeated what he said to His Majesty to Qi Jiguang, and Qi Jiguang began to think in silence.

Ling Yunyi's plan has two prerequisites. The first premise is that the Ming Dynasty has the absolute initiative and will prevent the situation from getting out of control; the second premise is that the Japanese pirates will not abandon Zhongzhou.

Regarding the matter of absolute initiative, Qi Jiguang was very confident. Zhongzhou was not a dangerous pass like Jiayuguan, Juyongguan, and Shanhaiguan. With the support of artillery, it would be easy to break through. He would launch battles on the mountain roads and plains of Gyeonggi Province. The meat grinder tactic is not difficult to pull off.

As for whether the Japanese pirates would abandon Zhongzhou, Qi Jiguang was not sure.

Qi Jiguang said solemnly: "In my opinion, the war has reached this point. The Japanese pirates should think about how to reduce losses, withdraw the samurai and ashigaru to the Japanese mainland, and use the Yamatai military port built by the Ming Dynasty as a defensive point to prevent the Ming Dynasty from attacking. from It is difficult to invade the mainland from North Korea, and the Yamatai military port is easy to defend and difficult to attack. "With such a gap in military strength, the only reasonable plan is to use all our strength to defend at this time."


"But Japanese pirates are different. To put it more simply, they don't look back until they hit the south wall, and they don't shed tears until they see the coffin."

Qi Jiguang had fought with Japanese pirates for more than 20 years, and he knew the Japanese pirates very well.

The Japanese pirates were so crazy because of their narrow land, which destined them to fight to the death. Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes were extremely frequent in the Japanese country. The narrow land, frequent geological disasters, and precarious life meant that the Japanese country was destined to be very dangerous. It is easy to embark on the road of eternal disaster.

"I agree with your idea. It's not difficult to implement. It's very simple to fight in rounds." Qi Jiguang once hesitated. He was torn between a quick victory or meat grinder tactics, because the Koreans have already experienced With too much suffering and too long a war course, the war in Korea is destined to cause more harm to civilians.

Qi Jiguang had sympathy for the Koreans, but sympathy was sympathy. He could not learn the historical lessons of the Ming Dynasty from the Thirteen Divisions of Cochin.

Ling Yunyi's statement was recognized by Qi Jiguang.

At this time, in Chungju City, the Japanese lords gathered together. It was different from what Qi Jiguang thought. The overall atmosphere of the Japanese pirates was: take back Seoul and capture Qi Jiguang alive!

Among the daimyo who fought against the Ming Dynasty was Konishi Governor, who was trampled to death by the fleeing Hwarang. Konishi Governor was not even qualified to make specimens because he was trampled to pieces and could barely be recognized;


Kato Kiyoshi's courage was shattered in Kaesong. During the Battle of Inchon in Seoul, he did not dare to contact the Ming army at all;

Toda Katsutaka was also captured alive by the Ming Dynasty army, and was sent to the prison as a prisoner; Hideyoshi Hashiba killed a good man and took credit for his crime, and borrowed Hwarang's head;

Mouri Terumoto was in Incheon, and before he fought, he ran away with his samurai, and ran directly back to the Japanese mainland.

"Everyone, if you are really stupid to this extent, my suggestion is to find a manure pit and compost yourselves directly. There is no need to chatter here. Qi Jun is so strong in combat that it is rare in the world. You call me here, okay. Ah, come on, I'll collect the bodies for you." Hashiba Hideyoshi, as the commander-in-chief, said sternly as he looked at the noisy tent.

Hashiba Hideyoshi, the monkey, after a brief contact with the Ming Dynasty army, expressed his attitude: Whoever wants to go will go, but he will not go.

"Who wants to go! Stand up now and I will let you go!" Hashiba Hideyoshi said angrily when he saw that the big tent discussion finally became quiet.

"Hashiba Hideyoshi, you are a ronin, but you dare to shake the morale of the army here!" Otomo Yoshii slammed the table and said angrily.

The Japanese country has a strict hierarchy. Hashiba Hideyoshi's original name was Tokichiro, and he didn't even have a minor surname. In the Japanese country, a minor surname was also a type of samurai, who served the king, generals, and daimyo as retinues. Hashiba Hideyoshi's background was even worse.

Hideyoshi Hashiba's father died in the war in his early years, his mother took him to remarry, and his stepfather was violent and beat him away. As a child, he was malnourished and thin. He hated being called a monkey.

He didn't even have the qualifications to bear the surname. He could only have the surname 'Kinoshita' after marrying Ning Ning.

Therefore, in the eyes of many daimyo, Hashiba Hideyoshi was a ronin, extremely humble compared to them, the nobles who had been daimyo for generations.

Hashiba Hideyoshi looked at Otomo Yoshitomi and smiled and said: "You are a lost dog, but you still have the nerve to call me a ronin? How did Kyushu Island get lost? Your Otomo family, as the overlord of Kyushu Island, was beaten by the Ming Dynasty navy, and even your father was beaten. Died at the hands of Chen Lin! ”

"That was an accident! The Ming Dynasty does not respect martial ethics, so it was a sneak attack!" Otomo Yoshitoshi said bravely. He is the 22nd generation governor of the Otomo family, but since Kyushu Island was occupied by the Ming Dynasty and became part of the Nagasaki Governor's Palace, he actually lost his fiefdom and became a bereaved dog.

On October 15, the sixth year of Wanli, after the Ming Dynasty occupied Kyushu Island, Tahara Chiken, who lived in seclusion in Usuki Castle in Kaifu County, gathered Otomo Yoshitsune as the governor of the family and sought to revive the Otomo clan. However, he was defeated again by the Ming army. Tahara Chiken He took Otomo Yoshitoshi into exile and defected to Oda Nobunaga.

In Otomo Yoshitoshi's view, the Ming army was carrying out sneak attacks back then. If it hadn't been for the conflagration between the Otomo family and the Shimazu family, how could it have been so easy for the Ming Dynasty to capture Kyushu Island and establish the Nagasaki Governor's Palace?

"Stop rambling, you said, do you want to take the initiative to fight, take back Seoul, and capture Qi Jiguang alive? Okay, you take your headquarters there. I, Hideyoshi Hashiba, am incompetent and lost Seoul. I will deal with it myself. Since you think you can, you Go." Hideyoshi Hashiba didn't bother to talk to Otomo Yoshitomi, so it was all in vain.

Hashiba Hideyoshi had no intention of stopping him, and he deserved to die.

Before Otomo Yitong reached Gyeonggi Province, he was discovered by the Ming Dynasty army and launched a small-scale blockade. Soon Otomo Yitong returned in defeat, but the result of the battle was a bit subtle, that is, Otomo Yitong did not win, but still Didn't lose.

This result shocked Hideyoshi Hashiba!

"Kato, do you see anything?" Hashiba Hideyoshi called Kato to his side and said solemnly: "Otomo Yoshitsune led 3,000 people there, and only more than 100 people died. Is this normal?"


Kato Kiyoshi said with a complicated expression: "With a single line array firing, more than three hundred people should die. I have a very bad premonition."

"I have the same premonition." Hashiba Hideyoshi said in a low voice: "Qi Jun is probably deliberately arrogant to the Japanese pirates who have never fought. His purpose is obvious. He wants to wipe out a large number of active forces on the Korean battlefield. It's very simple. Qi Jun It’s easy to capture Chungju, but if we don’t capture it now and instead defend it, that’s intentional.”

Hideyoshi Hashiba had seen the power of the Ming Dynasty artillery. The city wall of Chungju could not stop three volleys.

"But the problem now is that the daimyo who have never fought with Qi Jun always feel that Qi Jun is nothing more than this and has a false reputation." Kato Kiyomasa sighed heavily. There were too many pig teammates to lead him.

Hideyoshi crossed his fingers and moved several times before shaking his head and saying: "I'm not afraid of being weak, but I'm afraid of not being self-aware. Let them go. I won't go anyway."

"I won't go either." Kato Kiyomasa said very clearly: "And I have arranged for the ship to be in Busan. If there is a change, I will escape immediately... and transfer to Yamatai Military Port."

"Okay." Hideyoshi Hashiba smiled and didn't say much. He had the same plan. He would give it to others for free, so he wouldn't die.

Under Qi Jiguang's deliberate release of water, the meat grinder of the Battle of Zhongzhou began to turn slowly. The Japanese pirates always felt that you were coming and going. Today you occupy a high ground, and I can take it back tomorrow. They are equally powerful. Qi Jiguang and the Ming army did not. These defeated soldiers boasted so much that the Ming army was just trying to make excuses for their defeat.

The Japanese pirate daimyo, who did not regard Ashigaru as human beings, did not realize the terrifying casualty ratio, and quickly began to swell, fighting with the Ming army between Chungju and Seoul.

When Zhu Yijun received the battle report from the front line, he was stunned for a long time. Ling Yunyi's method was good, but the biggest difficulty in executing it was whether the Japanese pirates would cooperate. However, the Japanese pirates were fooled in this way. The hardest part of the meat machine project is now well underway.

"This Japanese pirate is really blinded by lard." Zhu Yijun Zhu approved Qi Shuai's battle report and said to Feng Bao with a smile.

Feng Bao thought for a while and shook his head and said: "This is actually because Qi Shuai and Li Rusong fought well, making the battle line look precarious. It seems that with just a little effort, the Ming Dynasty battle line will collapse. Every time the Japanese pirates use more force, the Ming army will collapse." Just add more strength to give the Japanese pirates hope, but they have been unable to defeat them, so they continue to increase their bets. ”

"Your Majesty, this may be Qi Shuai's control of the battlefield, which is difficult for others to achieve."

If the force is too strong, people will be scared away. If the force is too weak, the front line will collapse, and the Ming Dynasty will suffer heavy losses. Even Zhu Yijun can see the sense of propriety here, which is very difficult.

"The Japanese pirates were led by the Ming army on the Korean battlefield." Zhu Yijun picked up the next memorial with a smile on his face. The battle on the front line was going smoothly, which made Zhu Yijun in a good mood. Moreover, Qi Jiguang really started to fight, and he would take the three One infantry battalion withdrew from Incheon to the Ming Dynasty, and three more infantry battalions were mobilized to Incheon.

Let the Ming Dynasty's 100,000 elite troops go to the battlefield to see blood and gain practical combat experience.

"Songjiang and Zhejiang Governor Shen Shixing's memorial is interesting." Zhu Yijun held the memorial in his hand and didn't know how to reply for a while. Shen Shixing discussed an issue: that is, the impact of urbanization and mechanical production on the government's ability to govern and govern. Cost is a huge challenge.

The Wanli Reform of the Ming Dynasty once again encountered challenges, and it was a very serious challenge, "The Rise and Fall of an Era of Rapid Change".

The Wanli Reform is in full swing, and the Ming Dynasty is now in a time of rapid change. What this sudden change means is that the old production relations are beginning to go bankrupt under the promotion of the New Deal, and new production relations are constantly being established. The benefits are visible to the naked eye, but hidden dangers are lurking. Under the water, there are undercurrents.

The Ming Dynasty benefited greatly from the Wanli Restoration. In its continuous development, the Ming Dynasty gradually formed a consensus, that is, the establishment of large-scale free employment production relations, the opening up of seas, the abolition of lowly slaves and other new policies, integrated together, The myth of 'progress, development and change' was formed.

The typical feature of this myth is the emergence of the Great Light Sect.

Even this mythical story gradually occupied the position of good morally.

It seems that anyone who opposes the Wanli Reform must be conservative, backward, stubborn, a supporter of the old order, and evil.

But what’s the price of this myth?

In the case of Shen Shixing's management of Songjiang Prefecture, the population siphon phenomenon in Songjiang Prefecture became increasingly serious.

In just fourteen years, Songjiang Prefecture has gathered more than three million Dingkou. These are living people. They have joys and sorrows, love and hatred. A large number of disputes will inevitably break out, and they will also be accompanied by serious conflicts. Labor-capital conflicts have put forward new requirements for the court's management capabilities, and the difficulty of governance has increased exponentially.

Songjiang Prefecture only has so much land and so many people. When you open your eyes, it is the livelihood of three million people. This is a big deal for the officials on the ground in Songjiang Prefecture.

And the Ming Dynasty is even more dangerous, because the Ming Dynasty has too many people. It is like a strong man walking on the edge of a cliff. Whether it is under the feet or above the head, one wrong step will lead to an abyss of eternal destruction.

Shen Shixing truly felt what it meant to be walking on thin ice.

The personal ownership of production relations in the small-scale peasant economy has a huge advantage, that is, the cost of governance is low. An ordinary person will never leave the area of ​​a hundred miles in his lifetime. It has a high degree of autonomy. It does not matter whether the court collects land tax revenue or not. Jiangshan Sheji is extremely stable.

Governance is difficult and management costs are high. Shanghai County has 3,000 government officials, which is often stretched thin. In addition, the number of firemen and watchmen in the former Qiaolou is also increasing rapidly. Drainage, roads, water supply, coal supply, You have to pay attention to everything, including firewood, rice, oil and salt. This is the huge cost of governance.

The most important thing is that Songjiang Mansion cannot seek stability and slowdown, but must resolve various conflicts forcefully, because Songjiang Mansion is the bridgehead of the Wanli Reform and one of the iron horses of the Ming Dynasty. The inflow of silver from the five major shipping companies is huge. The most powerful driving force for the Wanli Restoration.

The result of seeking stability and slowness is that nothing will be achieved. We must cut through the waves, move forward with determination, and make no mistakes.

"Same, sir, it's not a big deal to watch the excitement." Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng's floating ticket.

The floating ticket posted by Zhang Juzheng is more interesting. It just says: In the future, the candidate for the first assistant of the cabinet should be Songjiang.

What Zhang Juzheng means is that the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty should have had experience in Songjiang Mansion. If he can handle the intensity of work and the complexity of conflicts, then real gold is not afraid of fire. In the position of Yuanfu, even if he is greedy, , and will not lead the country into a ditch.

(End of chapter)

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