Chapter 772 The merchants in Taixi may steal my money!
When Legas told the Emperor of Ming Dynasty about the colonial experience in Thailand and Spain, he was really hoarse. He really hoped that Ming Dynasty would listen, but Ming Dynasty had his own arrogance and believed that he would not fall into that pit.
But the fact is that Daming also fell into that pit. Fortunately, he was strong enough to stand up and continue moving forward.
Don't worry too much about the feelings of the colonized people, because the Ming people don't understand the Yi people, and they can't understand them.
The people of the Ming Dynasty had no way to empathize with the colonized people, especially after they drove away the Hulu and rebuilt China from the ruins, they were extremely proud. Their compassion and kindness would only cause undue trouble.
The biggest characteristic of the colonized is that if he disobeys, you can just beat him up. As long as he doesn't want to die, he will naturally figure it out. The biggest characteristic of the colonized is that he is very good at making peace with himself, because he is not good at it. All dead.
This is the case throughout Luzon. Those who survived only left behind the experience of how to survive.
Spain drifted across the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and established the Philippine Colonial Governor's Palace in Luzon. On the road to colonization, after traveling for so long, there are always some valuable experiences.
For some experiences, Ming Dynasty can still absorb experience from its long history and horizontal perspective, but for some things, there are no answers at all in the current world.
No one can solve the money shortage problem that Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan have to solve.
Wang Guoguang said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the essence of the money shortage is: the contradiction between the strong productivity of the Ming Dynasty and the insufficient quantity of silver and red copper. No matter how much silver is put in, it will not be able to satisfy the gluttonous appetite of the Ming Dynasty."< br>
"Even if Ming Dynasty is now a brave man who can only get in and out, Qian Law will not be able to continue to support Ming Dynasty in a few years."
Taotie means a big appetite, and Pixiu can only get in but not get out. The Ming Dynasty used profits tax to strictly control the outflow of silver coins and copper coins, but it was still short of money.
The more silver flows in and the more industry and commerce develops, the larger the gap in silver becomes. The strange phenomenon of the more money there is, the less money there is, prompted Ming Dynasty to find its own way - the banknote method.
The total economic scale of Western Europe is not very large. This is determined by population. For Western Europe, the overseas income of six million taels of silver a year can already revitalize the entire Western Europe, and even the prices are soaring, which requires the flood discharge area of Ming Dynasty.
But for Ming Dynasty, the overseas inflow of 10 million silver a year was of no avail.
The Ming Dynasty was too big, with too many people, too abundant labor force, and too much silver and goods needed.
"So you just tell a golden myth?" Zhu Yijun still shook his head very firmly and said: "I will not deceive the people of the Ming Dynasty. I can't do it. As soon as I entered the Gewuyuan, there was a passage on the stone, which was my message to the Gewuyuan. , Those who do it are just faithful.”
Wang Guoguang continued: "Your Majesty, this is not a lie, or we can say it is credit, banknotes are credit currency."
"Can the things done by scholars be considered stealing? Whether it is stealing or borrowing! Changing the definition cannot change the essence. It is still cheating or stealing." Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and said: "Starting from next year, gold will be collected and stored, and internal funds and funds must be disclosed every year. The amount of gold reserves in the national treasury, and the gold receipts and expenditures are audited by the cabinet. ”
"Shang Yang's reforms have led to the establishment of trust. Since you want to tell a golden story, tell it well and tell the truth. After fooling the people for a long time, you will believe it."
Zhu Yijun gave very clear instructions to collect and store gold. Of course, it is possible. The Ming Dynasty's surplus is still expanding. If it continues to expand, within a few years, if gold is still not collected, Taixi will not have enough precious metals to pay for the goods;< br>
There is no problem in telling gold stories and issuing banknotes. The Ming court has no credibility, but the Ming emperor has credibility, and Zhu Yijun can endorse the court.
But this story must be told well so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can truly know how much gold the emperor had.
The announcement of gold reserves is the cornerstone of all credit currencies. Gold cannot directly redeem silver, but gold can be exchanged for silver to redeem treasure banknotes. Gold is the greatest confidence in treasure banknotes. This is the thinking of the Ministry of Accounts.
In fact, it is still a dual standard of silver and copper, with gold as a standard of measurement.
The Ming Dynasty couldn't tell the story of silver, because everyone knew that the court did not have that much silver, and any money it had would be spent on building official factories, roads, plantations, etc.
But gold does not circulate and cannot be circulated. It is too precious.
Zhang Xueyen said with a worried look: "Your Majesty, silver has been flowing out of Europe and the West in recent years, and the price of gold has been rising; silver from the Ming Dynasty has been flowing in, and the price of gold has been falling. Some businessmen from Europe and the West have come up with the idea of selling silver in the Ming Dynasty. Change it to gold, change gold to silver in the West, and make money going back and forth.”
"It seems that you can make more money by directly transferring currency instead of goods."
"That is to say, the profits of goods in the Ming Dynasty are still very generous. There is no need for Thai and Western merchants to make profits in this way. In a few years, the volume of Ming Dynasty goods exported to the sea will increase and the profits of goods will decrease. There will definitely be Thai and Western merchants doing this."
Zhang Xueyan is down-to-earth and issues treasure banknotes. I don’t know what happened in the Year of the Monkey and Horse. Maybe he is dead and the Ming Dynasty still does not need to issue treasure banknotes.
The policy of collecting and accumulating gold in the fifteenth year of Wanli was actually to take advantage of the good financial situation and to use His Majesty's east wind to restore the credibility of the court. This is the main purpose of collecting and accumulating gold. Issuing treasure notes is a bit far away.
The main purpose of collecting gold since the fifteenth year of Wanli was to prevent arbitrage by merchants from Europe and the West.
"Your Majesty, this is no goods, only currency, which is not conducive to Ming production." Wang Guoguang, as the Minister of Finance, wanted to explain the harm clearly.
"I understand, what you two dears mean is that merchants from Taixi may steal my money!" Zhu Yijun asked with a frown. He was understanding the words of the two Situ very seriously. After thinking about it, he Just got this answer.
Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan looked at each other, immediately bowed their heads and said: "Your Majesty, you are wise!"
His Majesty's understanding is always a little strange, but very reasonable.
The main thing that the Ministry of Revenue was on guard against was that Felipe II suddenly figured out that he would exchange a large amount of gold for silver in the Ming Dynasty, and then exchange it for silver in the West, just making money in vain, which would affect the transformation of the small peasant economy in the Ming Dynasty into a commodity economy.
This will lead to a reduction in external demand. For workshops that focus on foreign trade, it will be a major event. All the supply of external demand will be transferred to internal supply, which will also cause problems, mainly causing deflation.
Switching from external supply to domestic supply will result in vicious competition among workshops, falling profits, falling labor remuneration in handicraft workshops, insufficient domestic demand, closure of workshops, and unemployment, which will lead to a greater reduction in demand, and a vicious cycle of money shortage and deflation, which is really difficult. Get out.
The flow of gold and silver between the Ming Dynasty and Taixi is a phenomenon that looks very complicated, is also very complicated to say, and is very difficult to understand. The most corresponding real-life example is the annexation of Daosang in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and the current plan of the Luzon Governor's Office The Daoyan annexation.
The gentry of the Ming Dynasty are harvesting the poor coolies, the Governor-General of Luzon is harvesting the barbarian landlords, and the merchants of Taixi may be harvesting the Ming Dynasty.
But His Majesty the Emperor simply understood it as: Stealing my money!
Just like Li Kaifang's conditional probability formula, it was difficult to understand, but His Majesty applied it to tax collection, and everyone understood it immediately!
This may indeed leave a loophole for Thai and Western businessmen to take advantage of the interest rate difference between gold and silver to steal His Majesty the Emperor's money.
The largest holder of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty is His Majesty. The silver is invested and kept with His Majesty in a different form. If this kind of idling occurs, those assets will definitely depreciate. Yes, it is indeed stealing. Your Majesty's money.
But the officials of the Ming Dynasty allowed this phenomenon to occur, which was incompetence.
"Your Majesty, it is expected that there will be people in the court after the year who say that Yuan Fu has been too hasty in asking for things and has imposed strict regulations on officials." Wang Guangguang said with some worry: "They are not asking His Majesty to take back his orders by stirring up this public opinion."
Zhang Juzheng's methods of governing officials were very ruthless. Kao Chengfa repeatedly used high pressure and continued to put pressure on him. He proposed four typical characteristics of officials who have no money but are afraid of being discovered; they are pretentious and muddle along; they are full of bad ideas, etc. You made a mistake; absolutely loyal and deeply aware;
In response to these four typical characteristics, Zhang Juzheng carried out rectification of official administration and decrees.
After the policy was formulated, there was really a lot of wailing, and the Ming Emperor himself felt a little anxious and pleaded with the bureaucrats, but in the end he was persuaded by Zhang Juzheng, and the policy passed the court discussion smoothly.
"Isn't it to make me take back my life? What are they doing in the memorial?" Zhu Yijun tapped his fingers on the table and said: "Oh, I understand. They stirred up this public opinion just to make the bureaucrats form a consensus. My attitude is not the same. What matters is what most bureaucrats think.”
"Is it necessary to deal with Yuan Fu's decree by slowing things down and being tolerant for the sake of the country? It's very interesting."
Zhu Yijun immediately understood what these people were planning to do. He criticized the over-hasty demands and heavy emphasis on governing officials, stirring up the public opinion that "slow things down will make things right, and tolerance will serve the country", and then used slow down things to make things right to deal with the decree.
Slow things down, it doesn't mean openly opposing Zhang Juzheng, but calling for mourning, making oneself very miserable, sitting oneself in the position of a victim, not explicitly opposing the decree, but not resolutely executing it, focusing on one Dragging, dragging, dragging, dragging, dragging, dragging the court's spirit away.
Like Li Hongdao, the prefect of Taizhou, those who dare to fight with open fire and resist government orders must be in the minority.
And if things are slowed down, it will be smooth, and it will be the majority. This is also the most effective method in the game between ministerial power and monarchy, besides doubling it.
The bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to do it twice, because His Majesty had already designated it as treason. If they doubled the execution of the decree, the emperor would really kill the whole family. His Majesty was famous for the four major crimes, and he never showed mercy on murderers.
Slowing things down will make things smoother, which means that everyone's energy will be worn away. If it is delayed for a few years, everyone's views on this issue will have changed. By that time, whether things can be done or not will become insignificant. .
If it can be done, it means that the Holy Spirit is virtuous; if it cannot be done, it means that God's will cannot be violated.
The invisible hand and the bad nature of human nature made things messy. At that time, the emperor was not guilty, and the ministers were not guilty. It was all God's fault. The invisible hand was at fault, and human nature was inherently evil.
Specific to government orders, such as the return of farmland in Zhejiang.
If Shen Shixing refused to implement it, he could also slow things down and make things smoother. For Shen Shixing, it was done. The credit was due to the elder who made the plan. It offended the right-wing powerful people in Zhejiang and the scholars and officials who were born in Nanya, Zhejiang. ; If it fails, the people of Ming Dynasty will lose, and the losers will be His Majesty and the current chief minister Zhang Juzheng. Not him, Shen Shixing himself.
Returning the fields is inherently difficult and the resistance is huge. This is a well-known fact. This is the will of God and the invisible hand.
Shen Shixing only needs to guard the base camp of Songjiang Prefecture. The opening of Songjiang Prefecture to the sea is his main responsibility. The problems in Zhejiang are the political baggage left by the previous governor Wu Shanyan. Neither the court nor the emperor can blame him for Shen Shixing's inability to work hard.
Shen Shixing only needs to delay it until Hou Yuzhao takes office, and leave the mess of returning the land to Hou Yuzhao.
It was impossible for Hou Yuzhao to complete the return of the land. When he took office as a new official, he needed the approval of all the officials below. Shen Shixing, a heavenly man and the emperor's senior brother, had a hard time doing it, let alone Hou Yuzhao.
If this delay continues, the court will re-examine the difficulty of returning the farmland, and the matter will most likely go unsolved in the end.
This means that things will be smoothed out if things are slowed down. If the delay continues, those who proposed the idea will give up, and those who oppose will no longer have the strength to continue to oppose. Everyone is confused. The last memorandum was given to His Majesty, saying that it is rare to be confused. This matter is like this. It's past.
For thousands of years, this has been the most effective means of struggle for bureaucrats besides doubling down. "What are you going to do, sir?" Zhu Yijun was a little curious about how Zhang Juzheng would deal with this problem.
Wang Guoguang said in a low voice: "Yuan Fu plans to play a heavy hand. The nobles will be noble and the nobles will be humble. Crimes will not be exposed, but crimes will be punished if they are exposed."
These sixteen meanings are that the nobleness of a scholar is due to his respect for himself, and the debasement of a scholar is due to his self-contempt. If he despises himself, he is not a scholar. When sins are hidden and not revealed, It's not easy to target, but the crime is already obvious, so punishment must be carried out with deadly force.
"During the previous court meeting, I hoped not to put so much pressure on the bureaucrats and cause trouble to Mr. Wang. I will issue a cabinet chapter and let Mr. Wang free his hands and feet." Zhu Yijun understood why Wang Guoguang said this. .
His Majesty does not particularly agree with the matter of putting pressure, so it is inconvenient for Zhang Juzheng, and Wang Chonggu has no motive. If Wan Shihe was in court, Wan Shihe would have come to mediate.
It's not that Shen Li is hard to use, he's just not proficient in his business. When Wan Shihe first became the eldest uncle, he was scolded by the emperor's child all day long.
Zhu Yijun emphasized again: "Since the court meeting has passed, it means that a general consensus has been reached. I will not easily overturn the decision of the court meeting. In terms of my attitude on this matter, my intention is very clear and I support you in governing officials."
"Your Majesty is wise." Wang Guoguang breathed a sigh of relief. His Majesty has shown extremely strong political talent in the past fifteen years. This is a lucky thing. The bureaucrats cannot fool the emperor, and the bureaucrats have not yet stuck their butts out. Well, Your Majesty knows that there is nothing wrong with it.
"I will retire." Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan bowed their heads and resigned.
"I'm going to my husband's house for lunch today." Zhu Yijun planned to have a chat with Zhang Juzheng in person, but Zhang Juzheng was worried about the emperor's dissatisfaction and couldn't do anything.
Zhu Yijun's carriage was so powerful that as soon as the people saw the carriage stopped in front of the Quanchu Guild Hall, they knew that the lively Majesty had come to the husband's house for dinner again. This was a sign of the emperor's great favor.
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The Emperor of Ming Dynasty entered Wenchang Pavilion and looked at the slightly messy study. He only thought of eight words, and died after exhausting himself.
Zhang Juzheng also had five large tile-roofed houses that he wanted to build. His expectations for the Wanli Reform were actually not high. After the imperial examination, the return of the land, and the one-step whipping method were implemented, Zhang Juzheng built his five large tile-roofed houses. It's covered.
To make the Ming Dynasty great again, that is the high-rise building His Majesty wants to build.
Zhang Juzheng could have pretended to be a confused master and fooled him, but judging from the messy study and various official documents, he had no intention of stopping.
Zhu Yijun sat on the soft bamboo rocking chair and explained his purpose of coming, and Zhang Juzheng also explained his thoughts.
"It turned out to be the purge in Guangling County, which made Mr. want to continue to exert pressure." Only then did Zhu Yijun know that it was Zhou Liangyin's successful purge that made Zhang Juzheng see that the Ming Dynasty's officialdom was not so beautiful.
Zhang Juzheng sighed and said: "What happened in Guangling County is really a shame."
At the end of the thirteenth year of Wanli, the Ministry of Household Affairs audited the accounts of Guangling County and found problems. The tax burden was not up to par, and part of the tax was underpaid.
The Ministry of Household Affairs did not discover it when it was collecting and disbursing money, the Chief Secretary did not discover it, the Xuanfu did not discover it, and even the magistrate of Guangling County did not discover it. It was not until the Ministry of Household Affairs conducted an audit that the problem was discovered.
After going through the layers of accountability, I found out what went wrong. The land tax was collected, but before it reached the county government's warehouse, someone was corrupted.
Before the Qing Dynasty, in Guangling County, there were twelve household officials in each household, and only four were on duty. Among these four, three were cronies of the Jin Party, and only one was actually working. His name was Lu Anping.
Lu Anping collected taxes based on the land registers after the land clearing was completed in the ninth year of Wanli. Every summer and autumn tax payment time, he would take his yamen out of the city to collect taxes.
After he got the tax in his hands, he discovered that the field register in the hands of the magistrate of Guangling County seemed to be an old register. Lu Anping made the decision himself and withheld the extra tax from his father-in-law.
Guanglingzhi County has collected the old taxes for three years, and the county government, government government, chief secretary, and household department have also collected the old taxes for three years.
When Qing Tai's machete was struck, Guangling County Magistrate was dismissed, and the three officials who were not working and those who were not working were all dismissed as one. However, Lu Anping, who was "greedy for money", landed safely because He has been in contact with most of the Li Zheng and grain chiefs for a long time.
Lu Anping did not take all the taxes that were withheld from him. Instead, he divided them up. The tax collector, Li Zheng, and the grain director all took most of the money that fell into Lu Anping's pocket. , a total of less than twenty taels of silver in three years.
The purpose of Lu Anping's "rebate" was to allow taxes to be collected in a more peaceful way, so that the tax could be resisted by armed forces, and the killings would be unsightly.
Lu Anping really wanted to take the government officials to collect taxes. If he pushed too hard, he might be beaten to death.
"It's really a grassroots team." After hearing what happened in Guangling County, Zhu Yijun was filled with emotion. The world is indeed a bit sloppy. Even for such a rigorous matter as taxation, it took Lu Anping three years to discover it.
Zhang Juzheng sighed and said: "Actually, the Ministry of Household Affairs doesn't pay much attention to agricultural taxes because there are too many commercial taxes. The Ministry of Household Affairs thinks that Guangling County has not received it, so it treats it as a tax arrears, and will pursue it when the amount owed is too much." Owe;"
"The Chief Secretary of Shanxi is in Taiyuan, and Guangling County is outside Yanmen Pass. The summer and autumn taxes are shipped directly to Beijing. However, the Chief Secretary of Shanxi naturally doesn't have much to do. The government office is just fooling around. There is no problem with Guangling County's report. , and turned it over directly.”
"The magistrate of Guangling County, he has been the magistrate for three years in a daze, and he doesn't even know how much tax he should collect."
The basic political structure of the Ming Dynasty was divided into sections. Guangling County had no problem reporting it, but Xuanfu did not review it at all and submitted it directly.
But it is indeed the Caotai team, because it is not just Guangling County. Zhang Juzheng simply looked at the tax arrears audited by the Ministry of Household Affairs and found that at least twenty or thirty counties were doing this.
"What about Lu Anping? Are you still going to be his household secretary?" Zhu Yijun was a little curious that this capable scribe actually escaped Qing Tai's sword.
Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "Now Lu Anping is the chief bookkeeper. As for taxes, he is asked to keep 20% and distribute them downwards."
"Keep 20%?" Zhu Yijun sat up straight.
Zhang Juzheng explained: "It is to maintain local stability. There are two official characters. Lu Anping, the tax collector, the grain chief, and Li Zheng are officials in the eyes of the court. To the people, they are officials. Don't feed the officials." If they are full, they will not do their best.”
"It also saves them from making excuses and exploiting loopholes to make money, which intensifies the contradiction between the government and the people."
"Two percent of the land is not a lot, but people's hearts are so greedy that they are afraid that even 20 percent will not be enough to feed them, so they will continue to plunder." Zhu Yijun said with some worry.
Twenty percent of the land tax is really not too much. If we use 20% of the land tax in exchange for the cool officials and government officials not to continue to press for taxes, it can solve this problem, and it is really not a loss.
The current taxation of the Ming Dynasty mainly consists of the revenue from official factories, the profits from coal and iron smoke franchises, banknote collection and customs duties. These are collectively called commercial taxes. The commercial tax in the fourteenth year of Wanli has reached 18.9 million silver, accounting for Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue accounted for 54%, and the proportion of agricultural taxes was declining year by year.
The most noteworthy thing here is the tobacco franchise. The Ministry of Accounts originally expected only 200,000 silver, but in the end the profit turned over exceeded 300,000 silver. The official woolen factory still lost money in the first year, and only collected money in the second year. The expenses were balanced, and the profit turned in in the third year was less than 20,000 silver.
Within ten years, the income from the tobacco franchise will really be able to cover military expenditures.
That is to say, the imperial court is rich now and does not care about this. Otherwise, Lu Anping will still have to press for repayment of the tax rebate.
"Your Majesty, the folk customs in the two mansions outside the mountain, Datong and Xuanfu, are a bit fierce. Lu Anping also took risks when he first started doing what he did. Otherwise, the government officials who went to the countryside to collect taxes would not be able to survive easily. They would cause chaos among the people and Guangzhou. Everything in Lingxian County is in trouble. "Zhang Juzheng is not particularly worried about this.
If he could, Lu Anping would have pocketed it long ago. Can he still 'return points'? It is all forced by the strong folk customs. This is also a consensus formed after the game between the government and the people, but it is legalized in the form of retention in the tax law.
Each county in the Ming Dynasty has its own situation, different development conditions, and different implementation of tax laws. Not every county government in the Ming Dynasty is carved from the same mold. Government orders must also be adapted to local conditions and take into account regional development differences.
Zhu Yijun shook the rocking chair and said with a smile: "That's true."
"Sir, it will be the fifteenth year of Wanli soon." Zhu Yijun looked out the window and said slightly absentmindedly.
In the fifteenth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty reached a critical point of complete decline. All Zhang Juzheng's new policies were completely abolished in this year, and the Ming Dynasty slid towards the abyss and could no longer be stopped.
"I am stupid." Zhang Juzheng said with some confusion: "There was another heavy snowfall the day before yesterday. This heavy snow covered the entire north of the Huaihe River. There will be no locust plague or drought next year. I feel that next year, we will still be prosperous. ”
Zhang Juzheng saw nothing to worry about.
In the Korean battlefield, Qi Jiguang had a firm grip on the initiative, forcing the Japanese pirates to gain experience for the elite soldiers in the Beijing camp; Li Chengliang did not support his troops and opened up nearly 500,000 acres of farmland in Liaodong; part of the sandy land in Suiyuan has restored its ecology. Flying sand and walking stones again;
Wool production has increased again, preparations are being made for road construction in Womagang, and Guanxi Qiwei is recovering in an orderly manner;
Yunnan is preparing to build a road to Laos, which contains salt, which is an important additive for water and fertilizer; Ming Dynasty's exploration of the sea is still in full swing, and even the system of the Governor's Mansion is being improved.
Zhang Juzheng believes that the fifteenth year of Wanli will still be a year of rapid development.
"Nothing, I just feel that time has passed by in vain. In the blink of an eye, it has been fifteen years since I ascended to the position of Dabao. Looking back on these fifteen years, I have a clear conscience." Zhu Yijun stretched his legs and still stared blankly. Daze outside the window.
"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head again. He looked at it for a while and found that His Majesty was really just in a daze, so he sat down and continued to process the official documents in his hands.
Zhu Yijun was indeed in a daze. He was watching Wang Yaozhuo, Zhu Changzhi and Zhu Xuanshu building snowmen under the hackberry tree. Zhu Changzhi was wearing a dog-skin hat and his face was red from the cold. They were piled up. He didn't know who started it first. There was a snowball fight.
When Wang Yaozhuo's scolding voice sounded, Zhu Yijun showed a smile.
After leaving the Quanchu Guild Hall, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty started to grind again and went to Beida Camp to express his condolences to the soldiers. Zhu Yijun visited the families of the soldiers who died on the front line and asked about the difficulties of their families' lives. After leaving the military camp, Zhu Yijun went to the Ten Kings City. I met the vassal king who moved into the capital.
At dusk, he met again at the Royal Institute of Technology for wine and learning.
Returning to Tonghe Palace, Zhu Yijun didn't rest. He called King Lu Zhu Yili and scolded him severely. The beauties from all over the world in Prince Lu's Mansion had caused some trouble. A Persian beauty sent to Prince Lu's Mansion this year was killed. He froze to death, not because Zhu Yili was playing for fun, he was not that violent, but because of the palace battle between the beauties from all over the world, this beauty was cut off.
Zhu Yijun reprimanded, mainly because he was worried about Zhu Yili's danger.
"Your Majesty, Commander Qi's military newspaper." Feng Bao placed a newspaper on the table.
Hashiba Hideyoshi retreated from Chungju to Busan with 30,000 people, and Dundai Yuanhou found out that Hashiba Hideyoshi would probably transfer to the mainland.
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