Chapter 780 The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for a thousand miles
Shen Li was the minister of the Ministry of Rites and the eldest uncle. After Wan Shihe left, he wanted to represent the rites and the basic rites. When he looked at "The Rise and Fall of the World", he felt something was wrong. It was not like the writing style of the Ming Dynasty scholar-officials. The Ming Dynasty scholar-officials always took a picture first. Flattery, and then discuss specific issues. For example, Hai Rui criticized Master Tao, saying that he was devoted to mystical cultivation and had no regard for the world.
The Ming Dynasty's style of criticizing the emperor was relatively direct: during Jiajing, every family was clean, and during Wanli and Wanli, every family was violent.
Therefore, Shen Li judged that this was not a trick played by the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty. His diligent Majesty was the wise king who sincerely hoped to appear both inside and outside the Ming Dynasty since the 21st year of Jiajing.
Kanda Shinichi was a tough guy. When the Ming Dynasty's overseas treasure money poured into the Japanese country, Kanda Shinichi began to prepare to use the local "bad money" to fight against the "money from the Central Plains". The Ming Dynasty and the Japanese country also printed, focusing on a bad currency to drive out the good coins. , to prevent the excessive influx of Ming currency and to control all the port economies of Japan.
This is a very courageous approach. Under the overall offensive attitude of the Ming Dynasty against the Japanese, it is a life-threatening approach.
After the Ming Dynasty knew about it, he immediately informed Azuchi Shogun General Oda Nobunaga to escort Kanda Shinichi to the Ming Dynasty, and even fought a battle for it. The court did not kill him immediately, but kept him in the Ming Dynasty so as not to destroy the Ming Dynasty. The overall strategy against Japan is.
Shen Li sent his opinion to Beizhen Fusi. Beizhen Fusi Tiqi searched everywhere for the rebels but could not find them. With the idea of taking three poles if there were no dates, Tiqi rushed to Siyi Pavilion. Tiqi had not yet After finding Shinichi Kanda, Shinichi Kanda decided to commit suicide by taking poison.
Tiqi immediately pulled Kanda Shinichi to the Jieguyuan. Under half a bowl of powdered soap water, Kanda Shinichi vomited and was not dead.
"Tiqi just found some clues that were not clues. He asked as a routine. If you didn't commit suicide, who would know that you had something wrong in your heart?" Zhao Mengyou looked at the file in front of him. It was originally a headless case, but unexpectedly it took a turn.
After the fire burned down the house in Tongzhou East, the clues were completely cut off. It was not Shinichi Kanda who committed suicide. There is no telling when this matter will be revealed. This suicide is immediately confirmed.
"It's scary." Shinichi Kanda sighed heavily and said, "Tiqi's detective skills are rare in the world. I thought you knew everything when you came here, so I committed suicide by taking poison."
Kanda Shinichi was very nervous. As soon as he heard that Tiqi had arrived, he immediately felt that the sky was falling. He wanted to die and let the case become a headless case to live up to his plan. As long as he was not directly caught, this case would always be A thorn in the emperor's heart.
The chief medical officer of Kaiguyuan had great medical skills, and Kanda Zhenyi did not die, and was tortured several times by soap powder.
"You were bound to die by cutting your throat and committing suicide. You committed suicide by taking poison, but you were saved." Zhao Mengyou said with a frown.
Kanda Shinichi shook his head and said: "You have to have a sharp weapon to cut your throat. I managed to bring that little bit of arsenic back to Seikan. The management of Seikan is very strict."
Kanda Shinichi lives in Seikan and seems to be an envoy of the Azuchi shogunate, but his supervision is as strict as a prisoner.
"Why did you spread the demon book?" Zhao Mengyou flipped through the case file and said with a frown: "I thought it was the right-wing people who opposed the New Deal, but I didn't expect it was really Japanese pirates."
"The Ming Dynasty has a strong national power and is difficult to defeat from the outside. However, strong fortresses are often broken from the inside. I see hope. The Ming Dynasty is now like a volcano waiting to erupt. It only takes a spark to turn the fire Burned all over the Ming Dynasty. "Kanda Shinichi didn't seem to be injured, but he actually had a few big memory recovery spells and was already very honest.
Say whatever you want, just want a quick death.
Most people in the Ming Dynasty have never seen a volcanic eruption and do not understand what a volcanic eruption is. Mount Fuji, one of the three major spiritual mountains in the Japanese country, became active during the reign of Emperor Yizong of the Tang Dynasty. The eruption lasted for two hundred years and did not stop until the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty. The eruption, after a rest of four hundred years, Mount Fuji became active again in the sixth year of Zhengde reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty.
Mount Fuji is active for two hundred years at a time. When it erupts, the top of the mountain will burn itself. During the day, the smoke will be dark, and at night, the fire will illuminate the sky. Its sound is like thunder, and the ashes will fall like rain. The rivers and rivers below the mountain are all red, and the light is high. Twenty feet long, the smoke column covered the sky and reached into the sky.
Every time the Mount Fuji volcano becomes active, new peaks and lakes will be created. This kind of physical collapse is incomprehensible to the people of Ming Dynasty.
There are nearly 80 volcanoes similar to Mount Fuji in the entire Japanese country.
This is the reason why the Japanese country is determined to attack the mainland. Under these disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions, it is obvious that the Japanese country covets the Central Plains.
In the Japanese country, "entering the Tang Dynasty" is a consensus and has even become the destiny that all Japanese people dream of.
Kanda Shinichi knew the Ming Dynasty very well. He was very aware of the strength of the Ming Dynasty's army and the fragility of the Ming Dynasty's politics. The Ming Dynasty's politics seemed stable, but in the fifteen years of the Wanli Restoration, many conflicts of interest had accumulated, waiting to explode. Now the situation of the Ming Dynasty seems to be stable. Stability actually depends on the emperor's sanity.
Shinichi Kanda raised his head and said: "The Ming Dynasty has three volumes of Theory of Contradiction and Theory of Class. Since the launch of the Wanli Reform, there has been an emerging bourgeoisie along the coast. They have gained sufficient economic status and are seeking a higher political position."
"As for the old rural gentry and powerful right-wingers, their fields are no longer the best means of production. The accumulation of assets based on their fields is far inferior to manual workshops and mechanical workshops. They are losing their economic status and political standing. The position becomes precarious.”
"At this time, all it takes is a small fire. For example, in order to vent his anger, the emperor wanted to arrest, embarrass, and frame the wealthy households in Xitucheng. Then the emerging bourgeoisie along the coast would swarm in and tear apart the virtuous, gentry, and powerful right-wingers in order to gain power. It has to be crushed. This kind of violent activity will never last for a day or two, but will end in a year or two.”
"I was actually prepared to be caught by you, but unexpectedly, the emperor's decision seemed not to do anything."
"Isn't the emperor angry?"
Kanda Shinichi is very convinced that the current political system of the Ming Dynasty is very dangerous. The emperor controls the capital and navy, and the imperial power has reached its peak since Yongle. As long as the emperor has more irrational wishful thinking, the Ming Dynasty will fall into crisis. It's a matter of course.
As long as the emperor becomes irrational and makes some slightly more radical decisions for the sake of his own ambition and hegemony, the Ming Dynasty will be even more torn apart.
The Ming Dynasty has a very complete supervisory agency. The systematic and independent supervisory agency is directly subordinate to the emperor. The Liuke Gallery can sit in the cabinet together with Wenyuan Pavilion. The Six Branches give the ministers and censors a low and powerful position, a multi-layered and multiple supervisory network, The combined use of multiple monitoring methods gave Daming a strong error correction capability.
However, the correction power of the Ming Dynasty could not correct the emperor. All supervisory systems were designed to supervise officials. The supervisory system was only an accessory to the emperor and never had the function of supervising imperial power.
When people with power use power, they will not stop until they encounter the boundary of power, and they will not stop until after an extremely fierce battle.
People with power, without exception, will feel that they are omnipotent. As long as the world changes according to their own ideas, it will last forever. This is inevitable alienation of power.
The discussion of alienation of power in the Ming Dynasty has always been superficial, also because it is easy to discuss the one-yuan dictatorship.
And power inevitably breeds corruption. The greater the power, the more corruption. Absolute power is equivalent to absolute corruption.
This is what he repeatedly discussed in "On the Rise and Fall of the World". A political system in which the rise and fall of the world depends on the emperor is undoubtedly extremely dangerous.
As long as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty lost his mind and made some foolish decisions, even if they caused bad effects, the power of correction would not be effective against the emperor. Even if someone like Hai Rui risked the disapproval of the world to speak out, the supreme How could the emperor admit that he was wrong!
The emperor refused to admit his mistakes, refused to take back his orders, and insisted on going his own way, creating greater rifts. The Ming Dynasty fell into internal troubles. Even if the Japanese nation lost in the Korean battlefield, they would not lose their capital, which was the Japanese mainland.
After losing, he went back to lick his wounds and wait for the next attack.
Careful planning, but in the end, everything was in vain, and nothing was caught. The Ming Emperor was a little too rational. He neither closed the Nine Gates nor arrested the editors of major poetry societies, nor did he angrily go to Xitucheng. Zheshehu's troubles.
Zhao Mengyou thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty just thinks your accusations are a bit funny. The main reason is that they are a bit inconsistent. You are right, but none of the contents of your accusations are related to His Majesty. They are not even as good as Legas. The prophecies written by Legasil can still make His Majesty angry.”
Zhao Mengyou clearly remembered that His Majesty was really angry the day Legas said that the Tax Inspection Court was an inquisition and that the demand notes were indulgences. Legas was imprisoned for nearly a month that time.
Zhao Mengyou has been by His Majesty’s side, and Kanda Shinichi has criticized the imperial system. The fourth volume of His Majesty’s Theory of Classes is much more excessive than Kanda Shinichi’s. His Majesty’s fourth volume even more bluntly stated that the monarchy must perish. If Mr. hadn’t stopped him, the Emperor would have died. The fourth volume has been written long ago and made public.
Kanda Shinichi is a very strategic and brave man. He prides himself on knowing enough about Ming Dynasty, but he does not know His Majesty well.
Zhao Mengyou said with a smile: "I'm just a Tiqi. You said that absolute power is destined to be absolutely corrupt. I agree with you very much. However, Yuan Fu said: When should I say anything? In the current world, the imperial system is 100 years old. Within the year, it is still the best way. A stable country is more important than anything else.”
Kanda Zhen's expression changed, he clenched his fists, hammered the table hard, and said loudly: "His old Zhu family's empire has perished, but all the people are still there! Dynasties can change, but all the people will not disappear! What is stability? The country and the DPRK are more important than anything else, what kind of consensus is this!”
"I am just a warrior, loyal to His Majesty above all else. I am not good at debating scriptures." Zhao Mengyou thought for a while and then said: "But I can answer your question, Kanda, let me ask you, what is the world?"
"The world is made up of all the people!" Kanda Shinichi said loudly. This is a universal answer that is very consistent with the principle of putting the people first, but it is equivalent to no answer.
Zhao Mengyou sighed and said: "Well, do you know "Xiaoyao Yiwen"? It is the magazine that promotes limited freedom. Li Zhi recently serialized a topic, which is the change of dynasties and the rise and fall of the population."
"Before Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, there were more than 59 million Ding in the Western Han Dynasty. However, when the Eastern Han Dynasty was newly built, there were less than 30 million people. There are some hidden Ding. Do the ten thousand people you mentioned include those who died due to wars?"
"At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty, there were more than 56 million Dingkou. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three kingdoms fought endlessly. By the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, there were 660,000 households in Wei with 4.48 million people, 280,000 households in Shu Han with 940,000 people, and 520,000 households in Wu Han with 2.3 million people. Ten thousand people, the total population of Ding is only 8 million. Even if Yin Ding is included, tens of millions of people died in the chaos of the late Eastern Han Dynasty. "
"White bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles."
"Changing dynasties requires paying the price of tens of millions of people's lives. Therefore, treason, treason, and treason are the most heinous crimes, because maintaining the existence of a dynasty itself is to protect the people from still living in order, not War.”
"Your intention to subvert the rule of the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to killing nearly ten million households and tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, so you deserve to die. Do you understand?"
The world is indeed in tatters, but the Han Dynasty has always been loyal and loyal, and there have always been men who stepped forward and made repairs. As long as the broken ship of the Ming Dynasty can be repaired, don't give up until the broken ship is really about to sink. By then What will happen, how many people will die, only God knows.
Zhao Mengyou asked Tiqi to find a book of Xiaoyao Anecdotes, and said with a smile: "Read it for yourself, be a sensible person, I am a rough man who understands better than you."
Loyalty is originally an illusory concept. No matter how many times you say loyalty to yourself, it is also a lie. However, after Li Zhi completed the subject of dynasty changes and the rise and fall of the population, warriors such as Zhao Mengyou have a concrete understanding of loyalty. Zhao Mengyou has a concrete understanding of loyalty. Your Majesty’s loyalty is your loyalty to all people.
Reporting to the emperor to save the head of Guizhou, reporting to the emperor is equal to saving the head of Guizhou, and saving the head of Guizhou is equal to repaying the emperor. This is true when the emperor is wise.
"No! It's not like this! It's not like this!" After reading Li Zhi's article, Kanda Shinichi kept shaking his head like a rattle and kept talking to himself.
He prides himself on being a talented person, and he feels that his theory is impeccable. He feels that the theory that the world rises and falls with one ear is absolutely correct, so he said that even if dynasties change, all people will still be there. But Li Zhi clearly told Shinichi Kanda that when dynasties change, at least half of all people will become withered bones on the roadside.
The disillusionment of the theory was worse than killing him.
"If political activities become disordered, they are destined to affect thousands of households and everyone." Zhao Mengyou repeated a sentence that His Majesty said to himself. Military is an extension of politics. Violent and purposeless rectification activities, It will cause violence to get out of control, ultimately endangering thousands of households.
Zhao Mengyou sat at the desk and began to sort out the case files. In the afternoon, he finished sorting out the case files and evidence, and then went to Tonghe Palace to hear the details of His Majesty.
"Kanda Shinichi is crazy." Zhao Mengyou told His Majesty a piece of news. He said with a strange expression: "He thinks that he is one of the rare smart people in the world. He thinks that his ideas are flawless, but the result is like those believers in Taixi. Only then did heaven realize that it was hell, and Shinichi Kanda couldn’t accept it.”
Zhu Yijun finished reading the dossier and said: "He is crazy, he still has to go to Jiecuyuan."
"Thanks to Shinichi Kanda for the powerful rightists in the Ming Dynasty. I thought it was these powerful rightists who were dissatisfied with the tax increase, so they deliberately spread the demonic books. I am going to ask the Tax Inspection Institute to find out who is holding a grudge."
Zhu Yijun is indeed sensible and will not go crazy, but the Tiqiu people in the Tax Inspection Institute may not be so rational. They are afraid that they will collect taxes crazily and make everyone frightened and uneasy.
"He is wrong in another way. The politics of the Ming Dynasty are not as fragile as he thought. If there is any slight disturbance, you will fight to the death." After reading the confession, Zhu Yijun said with great certainty: "If the Ming Dynasty is really as clear-cut as he thought, , that’s great, everything is bad in this world, I am among you, and you are among me.”
"The politics of the Ming Dynasty is not stable, it is a muddy land like stagnant water."
Kanda Shinichi's imagination of the Ming Dynasty's politics is relatively naive. He thinks that there are clear-cut oppositions, so he only needs to throw a match to light the explosive barrel. But the world's affairs are a mess, entangled with each other, and this is the biggest problem. scourge.
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Shinichi Kanda risked his life to serve the country, but what he did was meaningless.
If he could really give an order to deal with a clear enemy, Zhu Yijun would have done it long ago. How could he wait until Shinichi Kanda instigated him?
There is no clear enemy at all. As long as the treacherous ministers do not jump out on their own, everyone is a loyal minister and everyone is loyal to the monarch and the country.
The struggle volume says that knowing clearly who the enemy is is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
"Your Majesty, the sentencing commander Chen Mo reported to Shanxi Xuanfu that the situation is better than expected." Zhao Mengyou took out another memorial, Chen Mo's information in Xuanfu, who was born in Duntaiyuanhou of Xuanfu When Chen Mo returned to Xuanfu, he naturally had his own connections to inquire about the situation.
In addition to personal connections, he also dispersed the two hundred cavalry and asked the people how they were doing.
"Did Zhou Liangyin really do it?" Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial.
Zhou Liangyin did not lie or exaggerate. He really achieved elimination in Xuanfu Datong, and the situation was better than what Zhou Liangyin said. Of course, Yan Guan's criticism of Zhou Liangyin was not a false accusation.
Zhou Liangyin's elimination method was to eliminate dissidents and eliminate all the nepotism of the Jin Party. The weird thing here is that Zhou Liangyin was born in the Jin Party.
All the people from the Jin Party were removed and replaced with people from the Labor Party. Most of the most numerous officials in each county came from official factories.
The methods are ruthless and quite effective. Zhou Liangyin plans to use three years to complete the elimination of the entire Shanxi Province and return Shanxi to a peaceful world.
"According to Chen Mo, it is indeed Zhou Liangyin who has the ability to eliminate and remove the nepotism of these Jin Party members. There is another reason why Zhou Liangyin did not tell the court, and that is that Shanxi is too poor now, and those who are poor will want to change." Zhao Mengyou explained the basic environment of Qingtai.
Shanxi's poor taxation can no longer support the huge number of officials and must be eliminated.
After Anda Khan entered the capital in the 29th year of Jiajing, the disputes between the Ming Dynasty and Anda Khan were mainly concentrated in Datong and Xuanfu in Shanxi. The prefectures and counties in Yanmen Pass had to support Xuanfu Datong. Although the war was in Longqing The peace talks have basically ended after five years, but the confrontation and the high cost of border defense are still sucking the blood of Shanxi.
In the tenth year of Wanli, Anda Khan was finally wiped out and the war ended. When the foreign invasion disappeared, Shanxi was riddled with holes in the battlefield outside the Pass. And there were no foreign invasions. There was no reason for the yamen at all levels to give way to the important and rural areas. The virtuous and merchants pledged donations, too many government servants, and the financial situation of the government offices at all levels that could not make ends meet created a contradiction.
In a state of war, everyone has a higher level of tolerance because there is the threat of enemy invaders. After all, enemy invaders will really kill your whole family and take away your wife and children.
At the end of the war, tolerance will decline. Those exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes that were cleverly created in the name of war in the past are no longer recognized. The deficits of Shanxi's yamen are getting bigger and bigger, and the mood of tax resistance is also increasing.
Zhou Liangyin was able to eliminate them successfully because the time, place and people were favorable. This is of course not to deny Zhou Liangyin's contribution. Without his ruthlessness, it would indeed be difficult to solve the problem.
After Zhu Yijun dealt with Tiqi's report clearly, he picked up the Tang newspaper on the table. Some things happened on the Korean battlefield, which was beyond Qi Jiguang's expectation. Qi Jiguang reported it to the court and told the emperor and cabinet ministers that there was no need to go too far. concern.
In the wild, the Ming Dynasty's battle damage ratio remained at a terrifying ratio of single digits to thousands. A single infantry battalion could withstand the charge of 30,000 people from the opposite side, and with an extremely weak battle damage ratio, it killed and wounded. Capture thousands of enemy troops.
However, Qi Jiguang underestimated the Japanese pirates' tolerance. The Ming army consumed six kilograms of grain per person per day. The Liaodong army was slightly lower, requiring five kilograms of grain. But the Japanese pirates did not. The Japanese pirates could maintain basic living standards with one kilogram of grain per person per day. front.
If the Ming army only gives them this little food, they might rebel.
The Ming Dynasty sent Duntai Yuanhou to explore the Japanese pirate camp, and concluded that Zhongzhou's food would be exhausted in a month. As a result, the Japanese pirate Yingshi waited for three months to wait for logistical supplies.
Qi Jiguang could only admire this ability of endurance.
The second unexpected thing is the Japanese-style fortress of the Japanese pirates.
(Japanese-style castle)
The main structure of the Ming Dynasty's city was the wall, and almost all city defense designs were developed around the wall;
The main structure of the castle in Taixi is a tower. It was an arrow tower in the past and a gun emplacement later;
The main structure of the Japanese country is the road, and the overall design plan is to extend the exposure time of the siege party to the firepower of the city defense, focusing on twists and turns.
The Japanese-style castle is built like a maze. Even if the gate is breached, you will have to face enemy firepower on the way up the mountain, making it really difficult to attack.
Similarly, this is one of the reasons that created the fragmented political structure of the Japanese country. In such a city, if there are not enough firearms, more than a thousand people defend the city. As long as there are no insiders, tens of thousands of people attacking the city at the same time will become very difficult. difficulty.
In the wild, the Ming army beat Japanese pirates as easily as an adult beat a child, but in a Japanese castle, it was really difficult for the Ming Dynasty to crack down on such hard bones without using artillery.
Of course, it becomes very simple with artillery.
The Japanese blunderbuss is called iron cannon, and the Japanese artillery is called "Guobeng". The meaning is very clear. As long as the number of artillery is enough, these mountain cities can be completely destroyed.
These Japanese-style castles were the product of hundreds of years of internal dogfighting among the Japanese pirates. They were the accumulated experience of countless actual battles and carried the greatest malice of the defenders. The Japanese pirates built sixteen such castles in Chungju, Busan and other places. Disgusting mountain castle.
"Hashiba Hideyoshi has not yet transferred to the mainland. He is building a castle in the Busan defensive circle." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in front of him and said solemnly: "This thing is really disgusting."
"Didn't Qi Shuai say there is a way?" Feng Bao said with a frown.
He finally understood why Oda Nobunaga wanted to delay the war and agreed with the Ming Dynasty to use Imjin as the boundary. The north of Seoul would belong to the Ming Dynasty, and the south of Seoul would belong to the Japanese country. He intended to set up defenses and blockades in Seoul, Inchon, Chungju, Busan and other places. Ming Dynasty Army.
Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi also relied on them. As long as the Ming army did not want to pay huge casualties, it had to slowly wear out. These mountain cities had broken through so many lines of defense. The Ming army was also exhausted from the expedition and could no longer attack the Japanese mainland.
Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Qi Shuai's idea is to defeat the ten groups with one force, and really attack and use artillery to level these mountain cities."
Among the three great campaigns of Wanli, there was the Battle of Hailongtun in Bozhou. Hailongtun was also a similar mountain city and was easier to defend and harder to attack. In the end, it was defeated by the Ming army's artillery.
Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty expected the enemy to be lenient and equipped the front line with too many artillery, which once became a problem for Qi Jiguang. But now, facing the Japanese pirates, the castle carefully prepared has a place to use it.
If you are well prepared, there will always be a time when you attack the Japanese country. You must use enough artillery to sweep away these disgusting Japanese castles.
"It just costs some gunpowder." Feng Bao said with a smile. It only requires gunpowder, which is too simple. It requires human lives, and His Majesty feels sad, but if you use gunpowder to explode, the more the merrier.
The Ming Dynasty now only produces 1.5 million kilograms of gunpowder a year. It’s not that it can only produce so much, but that no matter how much it is produced, it will be useless. If it doesn’t work, just open a few more production lines and use all the saved saltpeter to make gunpowder. , and can also expand the scale of craftsmen.
Recently, the saltpeter brewing immortals have created a highly corrosive liquid, which is made by boiling green vitriol oil and saltpeter together. The craftsmen call it 'gold-killing water', and they are still exploring how to prepare it.
More skilled craftsmen equal more productivity. This is the experience summarized by Ming Dynasty.
Are sixteen mountain cities a lot? Pour it in with gunpowder. If it's not enough, pour it in twice as much.
If doubling the amount of gunpowder is not enough, cut off the supply of these mountain cities and starve them for a year. Then use Japanese slaves to build a wall and surround them for three to five years. If the turtle shell cannot be opened, then surround it. The Ming Dynasty can afford it.
If you lose to the Ming Dynasty in field battles, you will lose the initiative, your offensive capabilities, and your mobility capabilities.
Zhu Yijun picked up the second memorial, from Wang Qian of Yanxinglou Trading House.
"Wang Qian's cut was too harsh." Zhu Yijun trembled. Wang Qian's sickle was too sharp. He had already learned how to wash dishes.
(End of chapter)