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Chapter 650: I am the chief culprit!

Yan Shixuan saw arrogance in Wu Shanyan, the governor of Zhejiang Province, the kind of arrogance that was high and mighty and looked down on others. From beginning to end, Wu Shanyan had never thought that these soldiers would dare to attack the government office and trample him under their feet after the pay cut!
We have been living in the clouds for too long, so much so that under the alienation of power, we have forgotten that we are also human beings and living creatures. As long as a human being is killed, he will die. Everyone is so fair in the face of death.

Wu Shanyan did not read the theory of contradictions, so he only knew the power from top to bottom and completely ignored the anger from bottom to top, and the terrible consequences that would be caused after it was ignited.

Yan Shixuan stood in the front hall of the government office and said loudly to the four captains in charge: "How about letting me interrogate you? Everyone, believe me once! You are all witnesses. I released Ma Wenying and let him return to Luomu Camp. I told him about the mutiny myself! We are in the same boat. Believe me."

"Why? I mean, why do you insist on interrogating him yourself?" Yang Tingyong asked with full of confusion.

"Because I am an official appointed by the court, I am afraid that you will be so angry that you will beat him to death on the spot! Only if he is alive can we give an explanation to the court!" Yan Shixuan stretched out his hand and said, "The government office is full of Luo Muying's men. He can't run away, he will definitely die!"

Yan Shixuan has confidence in Your Majesty. Wu Shanyan will definitely die, and he will be beheaded in Hangzhou Prefecture as a public display. The execution ground in front of Chongyifang in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture is the best proof. Even the fanatical believers of the Daming Cult went to watch the execution.

"Wait until the imperial navy arrives?" Zhang Wenyuan's real name is Zhang Changwu. He changed his name to Zhang Wenyuan when he was the captain. The name Zhang Changwu was not worthy of being mentioned in formal occasions, so he chose Zhang Wenyuan himself. He knew that this was Zhang Liao's courtesy name, and he hoped to be as powerful as Zhang Liao.

"By the time the imperial navy arrives, I will be in the government office, and so will Wu Shanyan! We don't have wings, how can we fly away?" Yan Shixuan looked at the captains and said, "Leave it to me, everyone."

"Okay." Ma Wenying, who had been silent, agreed to Yan Shixuan. This Yan Shixuan was different from the corrupt officials he had met. He was a flesh-and-blood person.

"If you want help, just tell me." Yang Ting waved his fist and said, "I'll hit him with this fist until he tells the truth."

Yan Shixuan began to interrogate Wu Shanyan. Wu Shanyan was not very cooperative at first. Yan Shixuan called Yang Tingyong. Yang Tingyong did nothing but poked Wu Shanyan there, and Wu Shanyan became obedient. If he didn't behave, he would be beaten. The soldiers don't care that you can't be punished. They will use a sky rocket to knock out three of your teeth.

"Why should we reduce the soldiers' salaries? After the opening of the sea, the treasuries in Zhejiang are extremely full, and the soldiers' food and salary burden is not very heavy." Yan Shixuan asked the biggest question in his heart. Wu Shanyan has nothing to do, why does he bother these soldiers? Reducing the monthly salary from nine cents to three cents is basically forcing the soldiers to die.

"This, this..." Wu Shanyan avoided his gaze and did not dare to look at Yang Tingyong and whispered: "The dam built by the Ninth Battalion in Zhejiang is so well built."

"What kind of logic is this? Did we build the dam well, or were we wrong? The dam was destroyed and the fields were flooded, and the people's harvest for the year was gone. We built the dam well and we put in a lot of effort!" Yang Tingyong raised his fist immediately. Wu Shanyan, this dog official, was just not honest. Even at this point, he was still talking nonsense.

Wu Shanyan was afraid of being beaten again, so he quickly said, "It's just that it was built too well. In the past, building dikes in Zhejiang was a business that made a fortune. The golden bridge, the silver road, and the jade dike. Dredging waterways and building dikes are big projects. Since the nine battalions of soldiers were used, the dikes have never been repaired again."

"Ah?" Yang Ting looked at Wu Shanyan blankly and said blankly: "You can't tolerate rough guys like us just because we do our job too well?"

Yang Tingyong was a rough man, and he was a little confused by Wu Shanyan.

"Yes." Wu Shanyan closed his eyes and nodded vigorously, saying, "You guys built the dike so well that the local gentry are not very satisfied, because if the fields of the poor and coolies are not flooded, how can they annex them? Not only are their fields not flooded, but you also help build the canal. When you built the dike, you also built the canal at the same time."

"The gentry blocked the canal, and you came back next year to dredge the canal. Now the common people don't even need the water from the gentry to irrigate their fields. Isn't that urgent?"

Wu Shanyan was also a desperate man. He was going to die, and the soldiers had launched a mutiny with the idea of ​​destroying themselves along with him. It would be best if he could suffer less before dying. He would only get a slap in the face if he kept talking tough. Yang Ting's fist was bigger than a casserole, and one punch could stun people for a long time.

"Damn it, you dog official! I will kill you!" Yang Tingyong was furious. He always thought that Wu Shanyan was just a little greedy and felt that the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion were too expensive, so he wanted to force the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion to go home and farm. He never expected that the real reason for the pay cut was that the soldiers were too capable and too frugal, blocking their way to wealth!
"Yang Tingyong! You promised the Third Master that you should listen to me here." Yan Shixuan saw that Yang Tingyong was furious, so he hurriedly spoke loudly and pulled Ma Wenying out to suppress Yang Tingyong.

"Spare your life!" Yang Tingyong was so angry that he kicked Wu Shanyan's stool, breaking it into pieces. Wu Shanyan sat directly on the ground, knocking over the table, looking extremely embarrassed.

Yan Shixuan said sincerely: "You are really strong."

"Yan Shixuan, you joined this group of soldiers in mutiny. If the imperial court investigates, you will suffer the consequences!" Wu Shanyan sat on the ground and shouted at Yan Shixuan angrily. In his opinion, it was Yan Shixuan who betrayed him.

Yan Shixuan said calmly, "You want to kill me, so I can't kill you? Once Ma Wenying dies, you, me, and all the officials in Zhejiang will die. Do you believe it? You don't really think that the Hangzhou Taxation Bureau is only responsible for taxation and doesn't care about other things."

"Those are the eyes and ears of the Emperor!"

"idiot!"

Wu Shanyan was startled. He realized that the Tax Inspection Office usually only focused on tax inspection, so he forgot that the Tax Inspection Office was directly under the North and South Pacification Offices. They were the imperial guards and the court's lackeys. He said stubbornly, "The law does not punish the masses."

"Law? You are talking to His Majesty about the law? Your Majesty is a sage monarch, so he is willing to follow rules and regulations and not abuse power. Do you think everyone is like you? Do you really think that His Majesty, who is in charge of the Beijing camp, will care about the law when he is angry?" Yan Shixuan discovered a phenomenon, the gap between the new and old officials.

This kind of split made Yan Shixuan unable to understand Wu Shanyan's thoughts. He was sick, talking about laws with His Majesty!

Your Majesty really follows the Confucian law of the past three generations, can you kill the Confucius family in Yanzhou? The beast who forced Chen Dazhuang's father to be a dog's funeral was executed by your majesty!

Wu Shanyan's view on the emperor and imperial power was still stuck in the late Jiajing period and the Longqing period, and he did not take the young emperor seriously.

If you don't read the "Contradiction Theory", you will not be able to understand the contradiction, let alone see the essence from the phenomenon. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty started to practice martial arts at the age of ten, inspected the troops at the age of twelve, and inspected the troops at the age of thirteen. Everyone in the Beijing camp knew the emperor. With such hard work, didn't he just become the emperor without any effort?!
The army is the king, and Your Majesty has long possessed the ability to overturn the table.

"Well, well, well, Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang will also stop Your Majesty. Is it really that necessary just for Ma Wenying?" Wu Shanyan still said stubbornly.

Yan Shixuan was too lazy to argue with Wu Shanyan about this. Qi Jiguang would never stop the emperor. Wherever His Majesty points the sword, the Ming army will head there. This was the oath Qi Jiguang made to all the soldiers before he became the Duke of Fengguo. To report to the emperor and save the people, reporting to the emperor was the prerequisite.

As for Zhang Juzheng, that is even less likely. The first prime minister of the Ming Dynasty to propose the policy of reviving military power was Zhang Juzheng. He accepted money from military generals, and this matter has been talked about over and over again by the censors for more than 20 years. Moreover, sovereignty is the core of Zhang Juzheng's new policy. Your Majesty is no longer in a situation where the country is in doubt.

Wu Shanyan lives in his own world.

"Before his death, Dong Chao wrote down all the dirty deeds you commissioned the prison warden Dong Chao and jailer Xue Yunpu to do, and he also handed over all the physical evidence." Yan Shixuan continued to investigate the case.

Why did Dong Chao and Xue Yunpu commit suicide? Because they had committed serious sins. They had helped Wu Shanyan do too many dirty things over the years.

The Ming Dynasty believed that the death of a person was the greatest tragedy. Dong Chao and Xue Yunpu were already dead, so it was inconvenient to investigate their families and faults. Moreover, if Dong Chao had not fooled his advisor and Wu Shanyan in this mutiny, if Wu Shanyan had organized a resistance, there would probably have been a lot of trouble, and it would not have been so easy to wipe out the gangs in the city.

Yang Tingyong whispered to a scout and said solemnly, "Prefect Yan, something happened. All the nine battalions in Zhejiang Province have gone to war..."

The Huaying originally only had Luomuying and Jiuquying. Now all the nine camps in Zhejiang have joined the Huaying. They have captured the prefectures and counties, captured the local chief officers, and cleared out the bandits in the city.

“Hahahaha!” Wu Shanyan laughed wildly while sitting on the ground. He pointed at Yan Shixuan and said with a laugh, “Yan Shixuan, look at what you’ve done! Now things have come to this point. Let’s see how you end this!”

"The bigger the commotion, the better. Your Majesty, he likes to watch the fun." Yan Shixuan said calmly, "Yang Tingyong, tell the Third Master to issue an order to all the camps not to disturb the people."

"Of course." Yang Tingyong immediately left to find Ma Wenying after receiving the order. Ma Wenying's words were effective.

Yan Shixuan looked at Wu Shanyan, sneered and said, "The Ninth Battalion is not the bandits of the past. As long as we don't rob the people, the sky won't fall, and His Majesty's thunderous wrath won't fall on us."

"You regard them as a thorn in your side because they do such a good job, they build dams well, and they handle floods well. Do you think the people trust you more as the governor, or these nine battalions of soldiers?"

"Tell me your problem."

Seven days later, Yan Shixuan posted a notice announcing Wu Shanyan's crimes, which included more than a hundred charges divided into three categories.

The first category is corruption, using the power in one's hands to amass wealth, such as the owners of manure channels, water holes, earthworks, wood and stone, coal markets, vegetable markets, etc., with more than 30 items in total, each of which has solid evidence, and all documentary and physical evidence has been sealed.

The second category is illegal, sheltering powerful and wealthy people, local celebrities and gentry, annexing and various illegal activities, supporting vagrants and gangs. The crimes and material evidence before Dong Chao's death are ironclad evidence, and in the process of investigation and rectification, many new crimes were discovered. The most serious crime was in the tenth year of Wanli, when yamen runners went to the countryside to collect taxes, causing chaos in the whole village. Seventeen people were killed or injured in tax resistance and yamen runners, and the people were at a loss.

The third category is more special, which is contraband. There are mainly two types of contraband, smuggled raw silk and opium. Raw silk is strictly prohibited from export since the second year of Wanli, and opium is a capital crime punishable by immediate death. Of course, other contraband items are also included.

On the day Yan Shixuan posted the notice, the Ming navy arrived. A 30,000-strong navy led by Chen Lin, with Songjiang Governor Shen Shixing as the general governor, rushed to the city of Hangzhou.

The reason they arrived late was that Shen Shixing was shocked by the sudden change in Zhejiang Province, and reported it to the court. Only after receiving the imperial edict did he start to advance.

"Put down your weapons, we surrender." Ma Wenying stood at Yongchang Gate, looking at the neatly dressed navy, and ordered all the soldiers of Luomu Camp and Jiuqu Camp to surrender. He said to everyone, "I am the main culprit!"

Ma Wenying never thought of evading responsibility. This time he did not tie himself up. Instead, he had the city gate opened and walked out of Yongchang Gate by himself.

"Ma Wenying, the commander of Luomu Camp, the ninth battalion in Zhejiang, accepts the order." Li Yougong shook his whisk, took three steps forward, and said loudly.

"Ah? I will accept the imperial decree." Ma Wenying did not wait for shackles, but received an imperial decree instead.

"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, proclaims:" "I am thousands of miles away in the capital, and I do not know what has happened in Jiangnan that has caused the anti-Japanese patriots to take such a risk. I heard about the Zhejiang mutiny and was deeply worried. I summoned the court officials for a discussion. The first assistant Zhang Juzheng and the second assistant Wang Chonggu both said that there must be a reason for it and we should investigate it clearly. However, the mutiny has cut off the post roads."

"I have ordered my eunuch Li Yougong to take the imperial edict to Hangzhou. Li Yougong was my training partner when I was young. You can trust him and follow him to the capital to present your grievances."

"If you refuse to lay down your weapons and surrender to the navy, you must not harm the civilians at all, otherwise the navy will attack you! These civilians were saved by you in the bloody battles on the battlefield. If you want to hurt them today, why did you save them in the past?"

"Appreciate this."

The imperial edict was written in vernacular Chinese, which meant it was written by the emperor himself.

The content mainly informed the Ninth Battalion of the emperor's attitude. The attitude in the emperor's edict was very clear. It must have been some great injustice that led to the mutiny. This was to confirm that what the Ninth Battalion did was reasonable.
Secondly, Xuan Ma Wenying and others went to the capital to meet the emperor and present their grievances. This was the emperor's promise, and in order to fulfill his promise, he sent his own sparring partner to pick them up;
Finally, the emperor allowed the mutinous soldiers not to surrender and to wait until the matter was settled before taking any action, but the condition was that the civilians should not be harmed in any way, because these civilians were all rescued from the hands of the Japanese pirates by the anti-Japanese patriots.

"I thank Your Majesty for your grace." The first thing Ma Wenying felt was something strange.

How could we allow mutinous soldiers not to surrender? This is already a clear sign of partiality.

"Your Majesty has a verbal order." Li Yougong put the whisk aside and said, "Your Majesty said that we believe in the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, especially the anti-Japanese patriots. The Ming Dynasty has owed them wages for so many years, but they haven't made such a big fuss. If it weren't for a huge grievance, how could they mutiny? Rather than mutiny, it's better to say that they are desperate and are taking a gamble."

Li Yougong helped Ma Wenying up. In fact, Li Yougong had never done this action before, because he was representing the emperor in announcing the decree. So even when it was King Koxinga who received the decree, Li Yougong would maintain his demeanor. But he did it this time.

Before the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty left, he gave special instructions to find out the cause and not to let the situation escalate further. The most important thing was that His Majesty spoke some words in a sincere and earnest manner.

His Majesty said that he believed that the majority of the people in the Ming Dynasty were kind-hearted. This kind of kindness was toward goodness, not numbness. This kindness even included some local gentry and powerful people. Unless they really could not survive, they would not rise up in resistance or take up arms.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance.

The reason why Zhu Yijun believed this so much was actually because history has proven that the three borders in the late Ming Dynasty owed wages. In fact, after Zhang Juzheng's death, the three borders in Shaanxi owed wages until the end of Chongzhen, when there was a severe drought. The soldiers in the three borders were finally willing to completely abandon the Ming court and defect to Li Zicheng. This can be regarded as loyalty.

Li Yougong had a deeper understanding of His Majesty's words. Look at the soldiers of the Nine Battalions of Zhejiang. As soon as the Ming navy, envoys, and imperial edicts arrived, they opened the city gates and surrendered. Moreover, the head of the case was kneeling in front of him. Are they really traitors? Or do they want justice?
The Ming navy began to take over the city defense, and the nine battalions of soldiers in Hangzhou city returned to Luomu Camp and Jiuqu Camp without disarming.

As the governor-general of military affairs, Shen Shixing stood in front of the Shenming Pavilion in front of the government office and looked at the contents of the notice posted by Yan Shixuan. There were more than a hundred charges, and the length of the Shenming Pavilion was not enough to cover them, so they extended outside.

Shen Shixing was extremely surprised. After being an official for many years, this time he really broadened his horizons and gained more knowledge. The soldiers of the Ninth Battalion were so calm that they did not chop Wu Shanyan to death on the spot!

"Governor Shen." Yan Shixuan walked out of the government office and saw his old boss. He hurried over to pay his respects. It was not that he was neglecting Shen Shixing, but the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion had just withdrawn and Yan Shixuan had just been released from the government office.

"Let's stop talking nonsense and parade Wu Shanyan through the streets first. Chen Tiande, pull over those parade cars you made and parade all the corrupt officials on this list through the streets!" Shen Shixing did not argue with Yan Shixuan, but used his old method of parading them through the streets.

Yuan Shen, as a powerful and wealthy person, could be paraded through the streets, and Wu Shanyan, as an elected official, could also be paraded through the streets.

As for damaging the reputation of the government, Wu Shanyan is not even a human being, so why should he worry about his reputation?

Only by parading Wu Shanyan through the streets can the government save face and the people will believe in the Ming Dynasty court.

"Great!" When Chen Tiande heard that he could hang people on long poles and parade them through the streets, he jumped three feet high. Chen Tiande specially built several vehicles for parading, a long pole with a notice board underneath that stated the crimes, and a night watchman beating drums and gongs to preach. It could be said that everything was taken care of.

"Governor, there are not enough parade cars. I only have six in total." Chen Tiande looked at the long list and took a breath. There were too many, and they couldn't swim all the way. There was no way they could swim all the way!
"Squeeze them together and hang a few more on one pole. I know you added steel bars to the long pole for safety so it can hold up." Shen Shixing said with a smile.

"It's still the scholars who have the solution!" Chen Tiande gave a thumbs up. He saw that the brains of those who have studied are still smart. The idea is clear just by looking at his eyes.

Shen Shixing looked at Yan Shixuan with a complicated expression, sighed and said, "Yan Shixuan, are you doomed? You worked for me, and I demoted you three levels. You haven't recovered yet, and now you've imprisoned Wu Shanyan. You've only been here for a few months, and you've already put Wu Shanyan in jail."

"Governor Shen, what you said is true. I actually don't want to do anything. I just want to work in peace. It's Wu Shanyan who forced me to do this. He wants me to die. I can't just surrender." Yan Shixuan said with a little embarrassment.

Shen Shixing said in a low voice with an embarrassed look on his face: "Well, His Majesty has ordered me to temporarily take over the post of Governor of Zhejiang. Now I am a doctor inspecting Songjiang and Zhejiang. Well, Brother Yan, I am now your immediate superior. Can we discuss something? Please put away your magical powers."

"Look, who in the Ming Dynasty would employ a fifth-rank official to inspect two places? Ling Yunyi is the Minister of War and the Governor of Henan and Shandong. Prefect Yan, please be merciful."

Shen Shixing, this joke in officialdom, is still going on and has become even bigger. When something happened in Zhejiang, the emperor ordered him to take charge. Even Zhang Juzheng wrote a letter personally, asking Shen Shixing to handle the Zhejiang mutiny carefully and not to cause any more trouble and be demoted again. As a teacher, he really can't afford to lose this person. Wang Chonggu was so arrogant that he openly mocked him, Zhang Juzheng, for teaching a good student.

"Ah, this, I..." Yan Shixuan sighed. His boss's nemesis was a passive skill, and he didn't know how to turn it off.

"Governor Shen, what do you think, whether Wu Shanyan is dead or alive?" Yan Shixuan asked about the result of Shen Shixing's handling. In fact, he was asking who the emperor thought was at fault in this matter. This involved the issue of the characterization of the mutiny.

Wu Shanyan's death means that the government is forcing the people to rebel. Except for Ma Wenying who may be held accountable, all the nine battalions in Zhejiang will land safely.

If Ma Wenying died, the 9th Battalion of Zhejiang might even be disbanded, and it would be lucky for Yan Shixuan to be alive.

"He's dead." Shen Shixing pointed at the notice on the Shenming Pavilion and said, "Take any one of the cases here and they're all punishable by death. Tsk tsk, Wang Ci Fu didn't dare to do this when he was at Changcheng Dingjian. He's even bolder than Wang Chonggu!"

"Governor Shen has no doubts that I deliberately fabricated charges?" Yan Shixuan was a little surprised. Shen Shixing just looked at the notice and threw the man out to parade through the streets, treating him directly as a criminal instead of a suspect.

"Can you make this up?" Shen Shixing pointed at one of the stories and said, "The clerk of the orphanage bullied the orphans and widows under the pretext of providing them with relief. He abused 17 of the widow's children. The widow sued, but the clerk bribed the lawyer to condone the incident. Wu Shanyan knew about it but didn't ask. Can you make this up? What will the sons of this widow think of the court when they grow up? You and I are both dog officials in the eyes of these sons."

It’s not that Shen Shixing looked down on Yan Shixuan, it’s just that Yan Shixuan couldn’t fabricate such outrageous charges!
"That's true." Yan Shixuan stood in the Shenming Pavilion, looking at the lengthy list of charges, and sighed, saying, "This Wu Shanyan is a parasite to the country."

Shen Shixing took over the post of governor and began to preside over the work. First, he asked Luomu Camp and Jiuqu Camp to send officers to the other seven camps to persuade them to surrender. In accordance with the highest instructions of His Majesty the Emperor, all soldiers of the Ninth Camp were allowed to remain armed until the matter was resolved. The post roads in Zhejiang were restored as soon as possible to allow the people to return to normal life.

Shen Shixing was very pleased. At least the Ninth Battalion did not cause large-scale disturbance to the people during this mutiny. However, there were still lawless people who robbed the people's property. Shen Shixing ordered them to return the property within a time limit and forgive them. If they did not return the property, they would be dealt with by the pacification and judicial authorities.

Shen Shixing wrote a very detailed memorial about what he saw and heard in Zhejiang and sent it to the capital.

When the Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun received Shen Shixing's memorial, it was already mid-October, a full month after the mutiny in mid-September.

"Fortunately, we have Yan Shixuan. I dare not imagine how much chaos there would be in Zhejiang if Ma Wenying died in prison." Zhu Yijun summoned the chief minister and the deputy chief minister to the imperial study in Tonghe Palace to discuss matters. Small matters were discussed in large meetings, big matters in small meetings, and extremely serious matters in closed-door meetings.

This was a closed-door meeting of Zhu Yijun, and the Secretariat would not take any notes or include them in the daily records.

The Hangzhou Prefecture Tax Inspection Office did not take any action from beginning to end, but it saw everything and reported it to His Majesty truthfully. It was almost the same as what Shen Shixing said. The Tax Inspection Office was only responsible for tax inspection and was not responsible for other matters. This was to restrict the power of the Tax Inspection Office.

"It won't be a big deal. If he's dead, he's dead." Wang Chonggu said calmly, "They got together to make trouble for the military pay. Ma Wenying made trouble for the military pay. The soldiers won't get in trouble. This Wu Shanyan must not have done this for the first time."

"Gradually, people's hearts began to fade away."

Wang Chonggu was quite experienced in this matter, which was why Wu Shanyan dared to deal with it. With a little pulling and beating, the cohesion of the rioters was dispersed. Ma Wenying died in prison. Committing suicide out of fear of punishment was an acceptable reason. Moreover, based on his extremely rich experience in fighting against traitors, Wang Chonggu determined that this was not Wu Shanyan's first time.

"In this case, Wu Shanyan must die. As the governor of Zhejiang Province, he should not go through the Eight Discussions and Eight Excommunications." Zhu Yijun made a very biased judgment on the case. According to Wu Shanyan's official rank, he should go through the Eight Discussions. Wu Shanyan met the two criteria of discussing the virtuous and discussing the noble. Logically, his sentence should be mitigated as appropriate.

But the emperor did not give him this opportunity, so he needed to convince his ministers.

"It's reasonable and there's nothing wrong with it." Wang Chonggu answered this question very clearly. The reason why he escaped from the Zhang Siwei case by luck was actually because of the eight discussions, discussing merits and talents.

"Your Majesty, even after the eight deliberations of the Nine Ministers, there is nothing to forgive about him. I don't see any merit in him. It is my dereliction of duty that he was able to climb to the position of Governor of Zhejiang." After reading the files, Zhang Juzheng felt that he was really blind. He failed to assist Your Majesty and did not select capable ministers for Your Majesty.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "What does Wu Shanyan's mistakes have to do with you, sir? People's hearts are hidden in their stomachs. Can you take out his heart and lungs to see if he is a ruthless person? That is the job of the chief medical officer of the Jiekuyuan."

"Some people are like this. In front of me, in front of the teacher, when they are facing their superiors, they are loyal to the emperor and the country, and they are willing to die for the revival of the Ming Dynasty. But when they are facing their subordinates, they are vicious and rebellious. "

"What did I sense from Wu Shanyan? I felt a sense of separation. As an elected official, Wu Shanyan had already been separated from the majority of the Ming Dynasty. He naturally felt that it was his right as a governor to exploit the people below."

"If you forget the people, you will end up like this: the people are the foundation of the country, shouting loudly, but doing nothing."

(End of this chapter)