Chapter 605: The Zhumen watch the singing and dancing in several places, and they are afraid that the spring will swallow the orchestra
In March of the 12th year of Wanli, the Ming court passed the increase in luxury tax. For example, one tael of seal pad was previously priced at 20 taels of silver, and the previous sitting price was 20 taels of silver. Businessmen draw one out of thirty, which means they have to pay a tax of six cents and seven cents of silver. But now that the tax has been increased to 30%, they have to pay a tax of six cents.
This tax is a special tax and the catalog of goods is very clear.
And collecting taxes is not to collect taxes from merchants, but to set up tax offices on both sides of the street to specifically clarify taxes.
You can actually escape by using all your scheming and means, but if the thing in your hand is true or false, no one will prove it.
The essence of luxury goods is waste, and the purpose of waste is to show off. If you don’t pay taxes or tax stamps, you won’t know whether the luxury thing in your hand is genuine or not, and everyone will default to it as fake. It’s so luxurious. The greatest exchange value and emotional value of the product are gone.
Obviously the same Shu Jinchuan forging was used to make the clothes in a ready-made clothing store. The styles were all the same and they cost a lot of money. As a result, because of the lack of certification, they only got ridicule instead of envious glances and Praise.
Worship the money religion and believe that money is omnipotent. This is essentially a denial of the value produced by labor. To deny the labor theory of value is to deny that individual efforts can change destiny. The final result is the entire Ming society. Overall deactivation from top to bottom.
The Ming Dynasty has entered a point where it is impossible to have both, and there is no way to merge. Relying on individual efforts and hard work cannot even maintain a basic life. If the money worship religion spreads further, then the Ming Dynasty as a whole will Deactivation, a systemic failure of the imperial court, is not far away.
Can individual efforts really change destiny? Zhu Yijun can't say, but he has tried his best to make his personal efforts pay off and his work will be rewarded.
Zhu Yijun was very cautious about raising taxes. In twelve years, he raised taxes twice. One was the direct profit tax from going overseas. This tax was called the defection tax among the people. After betraying the Ming Dynasty and fleeing the Ming Dynasty, people would pay the tax. Taxes that people can leave freely have a very clear derogatory connotation. The second one is the luxury tax currently being implemented.
In fact, in addition to these two tax increases, there is another tax increase, and that is the whipping method trialled in Songjiang Prefecture.
This is also the reason why Yan Shixuan made up his mind to leave Shanghai County. Yan Shixuan is not a heavenly person like Shen Shixing or Yao Guangqi. Faced with a situation where conflicts will inevitably become more intense, Yan Shixuan can only escape.
Zhu Yijun never believed that Yan Shixuan's escape was a shameful act, just like when Wang Zhigao chose to leave Wenhua Hall and did not dare to continue.
It is not shameful to escape, because the officialdom is so cruel. There is no one in your court, and the official career is like passing through the Flame Mountain in the dog days, without even a place for shade. Apparently, the trial of a whip method, It's a dangerous situation like crossing the Flame Mountain in the dog days of summer.
What the one whip method wants to solve is the exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes with clever names, that is, to combine a wide variety of corvee and miscellaneous taxes into one line and convert them into silver taels for tax payment; what it wants to solve is the incompleteness of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal and taxation system, which is self-inflicted. The founding of the Ming Dynasty left stubborn problems left over from the Hongwu period; what needs to be solved is the shift from physical taxation to monetary taxation;
And what one whip method needs to solve is the problem of overburdening the people. Sun Kehong of the Sun family in Songjiang said it very clearly, A whipping law is to increase taxes, but the more thoroughly and thoroughly the whipping law is implemented, the lighter the burden on the people will be.
The more taxes are raised, the lighter the burden on the people is, just like the more taxes are raised, the more it inhibits mergers. It is a paradox, but it is reasonable under the special national conditions of the Ming Dynasty.
Since the Hongwu period, when the land tax was set at 30 and 1 tax, the Ming Dynasty land tax seemed very low, but in fact, there has been a freight problem since the Hongwu period. At that time, the people's liberation government collected the tax, which meant that the people transported it themselves. How much food waste is required to transport the grain for tens or hundreds of miles to the county seat or government office? How many were there from the local area to the imperial court?
Later it was changed to official release and official collection, but the government also had to collect labor. The issue of freight was still a huge expense and needed to be allocated more.
But it’s much easier to switch to silver.
The Ming Dynasty received 4 million shi of grain from Nanya every year. Many local officials from Nanya brought silver to Songjiang Prefecture to buy imported grain directly. The grain did not even leave the ship, but went directly to Beijing. In this way, , the local yamen also relieved the heavy freight burden. Of course, this money, Sichayin and Dingxiyin, still had to be collected, but they all fell into the pockets of the local yamen.
From the basic operating logic of the Ming Dynasty court, we can see that the court and the government are just tools of rule in the hands of the ruling class, and the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty is very clear, hereditary officials and official elected officials, and official elected officials after birth The country's virtuous gentry is powerful and right-wing.
As a tool, the country and the dynasty can not only gain profits, but also ensure one's social status.
One method of whipping is to move the right wing and take the cake of the local government. It is the internal strife of the ruling class. With this level of contradiction and conflict, Yan Shixuan chose to leave because of his assessment of the situation and his helplessness. If he, Yan Shixuan, Wang Chonggu's clan party, not the ordinary Jin party, dared to fight to the last moment in Shanghai County!
"Yan Shixuan's escape is not shameful, because he chose to leave only after knowing that Yao Guangqi came to Shanghai County. This is also a kind of responsibility." Zhu Yijun personally wrote a letter to Yan Shixuan to encourage him After he arrived in Hangzhou, he wanted to work hard. Along with the letter, there was also the newly printed "Official Records: From Entry to Power".
This is affirmation and encouragement. Compared with Songjiang Mansion, the first battlefield, Zhejiang, the second battlefield, is equally important. Zhejiang Governor Zhu Wan, Li Tianchong, and Hu Zongxian successively occupied the position of Zhejiang Governor. Death, whether it was Yandang or Qingliu, during the Jiajing period, as long as the Japanese were peaceful, they would die.
Therefore, even if Yan Shi chose to be the prefect of Hangzhou, he could not relax his vigilance.
Yan Shixuan is not irresponsible. Yao Guangqi has made his choice long ago. The nickname King Kelp has destined Yao Guangqi to continue on the path of insisting on seeking benefits for the people. He has no other choice. , Yao Guangqi has a scar on his face, which is his medal of merit for protecting the interests of the people.
"Your Majesty, here are the memorials and study notes from Guihua City." Feng Bao presented several other memorials.
Zhu Yijun received the second grassland study tour notes from Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi. This note was still bold, but the boldness was not to accuse the country of losing its soul, but to act too boldly.
The content of the discussion is still the alienation of people by religion.
Lin Fucheng and his party arrived at Guihua City successfully. The Chief Envoy of Suiyuan received them with a very high standard. Sanniangzi also expressed tactfully that she hoped Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi could say something nice. As the Ming Dynasty, Sanniangzi The consecrated Lady of Yipin Zhongshun still knows the identity of Mr. Huang very well.
Sanniang Zi knew very well that what Lin Fucheng and the others gained from this study tour would go directly to Tianting, so naturally she did not dare to neglect it.
But Lin Fucheng still criticized Guihua City and the religion in Guihua City, which was somewhat shameless.
There is a Lama Temple near Guihua City, where the incense is very popular. Every third day of March, a Dharma meeting is held. Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi then learned that Dharma meetings on the third day of March are common. It is held when spring is warm and flowers are blooming and rivers are thawing.
Spring on the grasslands comes much later than in the mainland, and the third day of March is the busiest time.
The Dharma Conference in the grassland is very problematic! Because it affected the spring plowing of the grassland, people rushed to attend the Dharma conference. As a result, the spring plowing was delayed.
In the Ming Dynasty, when the spring silkworms were about to spin silk, even if the county magistrate went to the countryside, he could not blow the gong to clear the way, because the spring silkworms were frightened, could not spin silk, and even died from convulsions; in the Ming Dynasty, the old cow gave birth to its young Everyone must be gentle about the calf, and the yamen must send yamen servants to visit the door to express congratulations, and record them in the record;
The Ming Dynasty Law clearly stipulates that from January to March, no yamen may impose labor without reason, unless there is an imperial edict , but the emperor usually would not issue such an imperial edict easily to avoid being scolded.
In May, when the wheat is harvested, children in county schools will have a day off to harvest wheat.
Is it to protect production or to protect gifts? The Ming Dynasty made a very clear choice, which has not changed in more than two hundred years, and that is to ensure production.
But this is not the case in the grassland. The Lama Temple in Guihua City plays music and the Dharma ceremony lasts for half a month, and almost all the young adults have to go there.
Lin Fucheng directly transformed into a big troll and went to other lamasery to cause trouble. At the Dharma meeting, he made a lot of nonsense and angrily complained that these big lamas were not doing human affairs. The big lama was scolded for a long time, but in the end he did not dare to retaliate. He chose to dissolve the Dharma assembly and let the young man go home to be busy.
The big lama originally wanted to scold Lin Fucheng back, and even mobilized the monk soldiers to sew Lin Fucheng's mouth shut. The scholar scolded the street, which was much harsher than the scolding of the shrew, because many times, the big lamas did not understand the scolding at all. You know it's dirty.
But when the great lamas saw Chen Mo and the Tiqi silently setting up the Crouching Tiger Cannon, they immediately woke up and chose to give in.
Buddhism cannot stop bows and arrows, nor can it stop firearms. The imperial order that Chen Mo received is to protect the safety of this group of traveling scholars. No matter what mistakes this traveling group makes, only His Majesty can judge them.
Spring plowing on the grassland, in addition to planting grass, also involves shearing sheep. These must be done during this season, otherwise the wool will naturally fall off under the spring breeze and blow everywhere. Children and women cannot do these tasks.
Because the pasture was planted too late, it was unable to supply the ewe’s terrifying food intake before and after the lamb was born.
Lin Fucheng felt that the grassland people were crazy. Spring is the occasion of the year. What kind of Dharma conference should be held at such an important time! Can Buddha provide food, clothing, and supplies? What nonsense!
Lin Fucheng was all about emotional output, and his scolding was unpleasant, and Li Zhi discussed the reasons for this.
Li Zhi begins with the poem "Watching and Praying for Rain" by Li Yue, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
The leafless soil produces smoke on the mulberry branches, and the flutes and flutes welcome the dragon. In front of the temple, there are several red gates watching singing and dancing, as if the spring yin swallows the orchestra.
There has been a long drought without rain, the mulberry trees cannot grow leaves, the land is cracked, and the wind blows dust, and the land seems to be burning with smoke; people beat gongs and drums and come to the Dragon King Temple to pray for rain.
But the wealthy families in the wealthy family were still watching the singing and dancing. I heard that some people went to the Dragon King Temple to pray for rain. They were worried that the continuous rain in spring would cause the orchestral instruments to get damp and unable to produce beautiful sounds.
Different standpoints lead to different views on the problem. Under the drought, when the red sun is scorching like fire, and the fields and rice fields are half withered, the common people only hope for the rain to fall, while the rich and powerful have no need to worry at all. Due to the impact of drought, they are more concerned about whether orchestral instruments will be affected by moisture.
The same is true for the Dharma Assembly on the third day of March that is common on the grasslands.
The nobles who support the lamas in holding such ceremonies actually don’t have to worry about the loss of wool, the lambs are malnourished, and they don’t have to worry about the lambs starving to death due to insufficient ewe milk, because the ones in their hands Wealth will not decrease. At worst, the poor will continue to suffer, and the lamas will bear the burden.
After Lin Fucheng made a big fuss at the Water and Land Dharma Assembly, Sanniangzi went to the Taoist memorial to express her feelings.
Sanniangzi’s memorial explains why the Dharma conference should be held during the busy time of spring. In fact, no one has thought about this problem, because they are used to it and don't think there is any problem. It was not until someone pointed out the problem that they were extremely upset. Such a simple truth, no one noticed or mentioned it before.
Among the emperor's new clothes, only the childish child pointed out that the emperor had no clothes. It's not that there are no smart people on the grassland, it's not that no one sees the problem, but they are unwilling to meddle in other people's business. No matter how big the poor coolies are, Complaints could not reach the ears of the third lady.
Sanniangzi is also the ruling class on the grasslands. This ancient problem of superiors and subordinates is also common in the grasslands. Sanniangzi has made a guarantee that the Great Lama’s Dharma Conference will not be held in the spring. If he disobeyed, he would order the great lama to return to secular life and burn the lamasery to the ground.
In the memorial, Sanniang Zi once again expressed her euphemism, hoping that His Majesty the Emperor would take charge of the Shanxi merchants. They had made a lot of money by loan sharking on the grassland, and they had given the border people a way to survive. Zhu Yijun specifically replied to Sanniangzi about Shanxi merchants' usury loans. Wang Chonggu had already issued a warning to Shanxi merchants and stipulated that the annual interest on loan sharks should not exceed one cent, that is, the annual interest should not exceed 10%, and violent debt collection would be punished. It is expressly prohibited.
Border residents have to live, and Shanxi merchants also have to live if they make loan sharks. In this year of natural and man-made disasters, a white-haired wind killed more than 30% of the livestock. No matter how low it is, you should lose money. Someone will do the business of beheading, but no one will do the business of losing money.
In the past, when the border people belonged to Ada Khan, the attitude of the Ming Emperor was to be as bold as possible! No matter how you suck blood, when Suiyuan belonged to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun's attitude immediately changed and he made clear restrictions.
“Mrs. Zhongshun still has a respectful heart. She discovered the problem and immediately dealt with it. She also suffered from both sides in her position. On the one hand, it was local customs and on the other hand, it was the decree of the Ming Dynasty. Although Lin Fucheng The content discussed by Li Zhi, the alienation of people by religion, is not universal in the Ming Dynasty, but it is still very suitable for the grasslands, the Western Regions, and the Sichuan and Tibet areas." Zhu Yijun compiled the memorial and handed it to Feng Bao, the next chapter of the cabinet, by the way. Sent one to Legaz.
Taisi does need a discussion on the alienation of people by religion.
Feng Bao took the memorial and bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the alienation of people by religion is also generally applicable in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. There are countless kinds of obscene sacrifices in the countryside. It still needs to be discussed and destroyed. The origin of obscene sacrifices can be traced back to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, when a poor emperor named Liu Yu came out. "
"Liu Yu went all the way to the north and destroyed all the obscene sacrifices along the way." br>
His Majesty is somewhat optimistic about the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. From the perspective of Feng Bao, the internal minister, the freedom of discussion among liberals such as Lin Fucheng and Li Zhi is actually a very certain issue. People are people, and everyone is a person. How can Allowing people to transform from being under the influence of rural sages, gentry, religion, and power to become real people is Feng Bao's understanding of freedom.
Lewdness, indulgence, excessiveness, excess, loss of control, illegality.
"Book of Rites." "Quli" says: "Sacrificing something other than the object of sacrifice is called obscene sacrifice." There is no blessing in obscene worship.
The gods that have been approved by the court and can be worshiped are all righteous gods, and they all bear the title of the court; without the approval of the court, they are all evil gods that cannot be worshiped, which are obscene sacrifices.
"Feng Daban is right, and it is also very meaningful to the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and recognized Feng Bao's advice. As the internal minister, he not only spoke ill of civil servants, but also advised them. The emperor also did his duty when it came to censuring Chen Shan.
"Li Zhi has another memorial." Feng Bao took out another memorial, and the Director of Ceremonies organized the memorial to make it more organized.
Li Zhi additionally discussed the alienation of people by power, the alienation of people by power, religion, money, etc. This is Li Zhi's subject, and Li Zhi is still improving it.
On the subject of the alienation of people, Li Zhi tried his best to avoid discussing the alienation of people by power, because His Majesty the Emperor, the source of power, would review the manuscript.
But Li Zhi still worked hard to discuss these taboo topics in front of the imperial power that threatened him life and death.
"Li Zhi is really courageous." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in his hand and said sincerely: "This must be revised before it can be published. It is still a bit treasonous."
Li Zhi first flattered a lot of people, praising Emperor Taizu Gao's wisdom and martial arts, and Emperor Chengzu Wen's literary and military strategies. He called Zhu Yuanzhang: "One of the emperors of thousands of years. It can no longer be evaluated through the ages." It has taken thousands of years for such a great person to be described.
In fact, Li Zhi was just stacking up his armor. Li Zhi changed the topic and talked about Xuanzong's dethroning of the queen, Xuanzong cooking the king of Han, Yingzong's civil fortress changes, the seizing of the gate, Wen Tian's martial arts during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong, and then Li Zhi analyzed Emperor Shizong and Dao Ye in lengthy documents.
This entire article is dedicated to Master Dao!
Li Zhi believed that Emperor Sejong's neglect of government in his later years was not only a complete disappointment, but also the result of long-term alienation from the peak of power, which ultimately led to the difficulty of overcoming the emperor.
With power, you can do whatever you want. This is the willfulness of power. The laziness in later years is in sharp contrast to the hard work of governance in the early days. People will indeed lose their original intention in the boundless power and forget why. Set off.
Zhu Yijun spread his hands and said: "He just said Emperor Sejong. After all, Emperor Sejong himself pinched his nose and recognized it. The security in Hai Rui Shang had been sparse for so long, and Emperor Sejong couldn't make up his mind in the end. The reason for killing Hai Rui is very clear, because Hai Rui is right."
"Hai Rui is right, so who is wrong?"
"But he is not even the late emperor. Should we also blame the emperor who was indifferent and did not take care of things? "
"I think it is not unreasonable. The late emperor was a little too doting on the eunuchs." Feng Bao felt that Li Zhi was a bit too pampered. That's right.
Li Zhi also pointed fingers at Emperor Longqing, mainly criticizing some of the confused things Emperor Longqing did in the two years before he ascended the throne.
In the first year of Longqing, Emperor Longqing suddenly issued an order to the cabinet to let the three eunuchs Lu Yong, Gao Xiang, and Tao Jin sit in the regiment camp, mobilize the soldiers of the Beijing camp, and set up an internal playground to form a pure army. With this decree, The cabinet exploded!
The first assistant, Xu Jie, who was already very good at protecting himself with wisdom and wisdom, couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly wrote two "Please ask the imperial minister to remonstrate with the ministers sitting in the camp ticket post" and "Please allow the imperial censor to report." "Inner Training Field Drill Notes" stated the stakes and asked Emperor Longqing to withdraw his order.
Emperor Longqing did not listen.
If you are an admiral, this is the ancestral law of eunuchs and supervisors since the Hongwu period. It has been used in all dynasties. It is not a problem. But if you are promoted by the regiment camp, this problem is big!
Eunuchs have the power to mobilize and control troops. Are they crazy?
But Emperor Longqing refused to listen and insisted on these three eunuchs to sit in the regiment camp. In Emperor Longqing's view, the ministers were not trustworthy, Wu Xun did not have the talent to lead the army, and the army was not under his control. Here, how can I feel at ease?
It was Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng who locked the palace door at night and persuaded Emperor Longqing to withdraw his order.
Gao Gong brought up the matter of the ten ministers of the Han Dynasty and the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty who abolished and established nine emperors, and threatened Emperor Longqing that if you gave the eunuchs military power, especially the military power of the capital, the consequences would be very serious.
Since Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism became a prominent school, after the Spring and Autumn Period, there was no great meaning, but only remembering things. This ancient-advocating school became the mainstream for three generations above. Even scholars in the Ming Dynasty generally did not read history. Emperor Longqing didn't even read history books in Prince Yu's Mansion.
Gao Gong was able to talk about the eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty who abolished and established nine emperors, which surprised Emperor Longqing and wondered: Is it true?
This is also the reason why Zhang Juzheng wrote the "Illustrated Theory of the Emperor's Mirror". It is impossible not to read history. The times are developing, and the theories from two thousand years ago cannot explain some problems. After all, people have to keep pace with the times, and the emperor is no exception.
Li Zhi’s criticism of Emperor Longqing focused on: taking it for granted.
The alienation of people by power can easily lead to an extremely common phenomenon, which is a given.
It is to set goals that are too taken for granted by the superiors. Impossible construction period, impossible output, unrealistic expansion, etc. are all the results of taking it for granted. In this era, one acre of land near Gyeonggi is Three hundred kilograms of grain was already in good weather. If the emperor did not understand, the Daxing County Magistrate's one thousand kilograms per mu would cause a terrible turbulence and affect the implementation of the Ming Dynasty's New Deal.
Power, especially the supreme power of the Ming Emperor, will inevitably create the illusion that I have a detached power similar to the ‘power of my thoughts’.
If I want it, I can do it.
"What he said does have some truth, but Feng Daban, as a leader of eunuchs, you said that the late emperor pampered the eunuchs too much. Isn't your stance wrong?" Zhu Yijun was a little confused. Feng Bao actually Did not speak for the eunuch.
Feng Bao thought for a while and replied: "In July of the second year of Longqing, the eunuch Xu Yi, with more than a hundred eunuchs, captured Li Xuedao, the censor of the city patrol, at Zuoshunmen, and brought him Li Xuedao was beaten. He actually dared to do this without the Holy Order. If he dared to do this without the master's order, he was no longer His Majesty's eagle dog."
"Huh?" Zhu Yijun looked at it. Feng Bao said in surprise: "Is there such a thing?"
How arrogant the civil servants were during the Jialong period has been vividly demonstrated by the words Yuan Fu when he was in power. Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong or Zhang Juzheng, which one is not the one with the most power?
As a result, in the second year of Longqing, the censor was attacked by eunuchs in the palace.
Feng Baojiang made it very clear what happened at that time. Xu Yi, the eunuch, relied on his status to take plunder outside the palace. When Li Xuedao, the patrolling censor, saw him, he naturally couldn't bear it and punished him. Xu Yi was impeached and impeached Xu Yi for taking plunder. Xu Yi had a grudge and led his men to beat Li Xuedao.
Emperor Longqing knew that Xu Yi and more than a hundred eunuchs had beaten Li Xuedao, and he was furious. A dozen eunuchs headed by Xu Yi were beaten with a hundred sticks, and the remaining sticks were used to fill the smog-stricken area of Yunnan. At the age of sixty, he was sent to Xiaoling to be sent to the army.
Emperor Longqing doted on the eunuchs, which led to such a thing. The emperor was disgraced and had to let Li Xuedao go.
After that, Emperor Longqing also discovered that he might not really have any talent, so he was too lazy to deal with the affairs of the outer court. If he did more, he would be wrong, and if he did not do good, he would get a memorial from the outer court and stamp it. Just leave it to the foreign court.
Everything must be done in moderation. Excessive trust and pampering are not a good thing for the eunuch himself.
"This is why I think Li Zhi is right. It is precisely because of excessive pampering and giving too much power that eunuchs such as Chen Hong, Teng Xiang, and Meng Chong acted so boldly." Feng Bao talked about the assassination of the king in the first year of Wanli. Chen Hong actually dared to collude with people outside the palace and sent people to the palace to assassinate the emperor.
This dog bit its master, which is the result of alienation.
Zhu Yijun suddenly thought of what Li Yougong said that he became greedy after seeing the luxury goods on Xiafei Street, and was ready to confiscate his house for trespassing, but in the end he did not do it. Li Yougong was able to follow the imperial edict despite disturbing the place. This was the result of not being alienated by power.
"It makes some sense. Next chapter, the Ministry of Rites, just ask Wange Lao to revise the draft." Zhu Yijun still did not plan to publish Li Zhi's editorial, which mainly criticized the emperor, for publication. No matter how reasonable he said, , also criticized Master Dao and the late emperor.
As the emperor, Zhu Yijun had no position to let this editorial appear in this form.
But the content of the discussion is worthy of recognition and can be handed over to Wan Shihe for revision. Another example, the truth is still the same, power makes people willful, and power makes people take it for granted.
"Why don't you eat minced meat as suggested by Emperor Hui of Jin? That's good." Zhu Yijun felt that there are ready-made examples to replace it. The Taoist priest was replaced by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and the former emperor was replaced by Emperor Hui of Jin's "why not eat minced meat."
In this way, it can be argued, but the impact is not as strong as Li Zhi's statement. According to Li Zhi's original manuscript, Shilin can beat Li Zhi to the point of being unfaithful and unfilial without anyone else taking action. One column, and then completely beaten to death.
(End of this chapter)