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Chapter 766: Commoner's Fury, Two Dead, Five Steps of Bloodshed
The former emperor's tomb became a unit of measurement and even became a joke of the Ming Dynasty. It was mentioned again and again. It was not disrespectful to the former emperor by the Ming Dynasty's monarchs and ministers, but a constant reminder to everyone why the Wanli Reform was launched.

We were really poor back then. We owed 500,000 silver coins and 110,000 of them for a year.

And now, the study abroad fees with a total value of two former emperors' tombs have been received. This study abroad fee of 10,000 silver per person is Akbar's exploration of another path, such as restoring the glory of Hu Yuan, rather than rolling in the mud.

Akbar has aspirations as an entrepreneur, but these aspirations are not necessarily good things.

People always involuntarily beautify the road they have not walked on, thinking that the road is full of flowers. Only when they really walk on it regardless of everything, they will find that it is full of thorns and start to miss the past.

The Mongol King Akbar sent princes and nobles to the Ming Dynasty to study. This is like another road full of flowers, but when Zhu Yijun walked on this road, he knew it was full of thorns.

If the Mughal Empire wanted to maintain its long-term rule in that muddy land, the confluence of the four-class class and the caste system was an inevitable reality that could not be completely changed by international students.

Peaches cannot grow on a pear tree. The result of forcing a pear tree to grow peaches is that you won’t get any pears at all.

"Your Majesty, Akbar has a letter to present." The Ministry of Rites took out the letter from the Mughal Empire, and after it was translated by several interpreters and confirmed to be correct, it was presented to Your Majesty.

Akbar wrote a very long letter in very poor Mongolian, and then attached Persian, which was translated into Chinese by special envoy Shah Mamtim. Shah Mamtim did not understand Mongolian, so he translated according to Persian. After the Ming interpreter translated the Mongolian, he marked the mistakes in Akbar's use of Mongolian.

The people who were most proficient in Mongolian were in the Four Barbarians Hall of the Ming Dynasty. Even the leader, the Great Khan Tumen Khan, was not particularly proficient in Mongolian.

This letter explains in detail why this large-scale study tour is called "Root-Seeking".

[The people of the Ming Dynasty are the happiest, because they know who they are very clearly, and will not forget who they are after waking up from a deep sleep. After waking up from a deep sleep, they work from sunrise to sunset and rest from sunset to sunrise. But the distant Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, do you have this kind of trouble, that one day after waking up, you suddenly don’t know who you are? ]
[I call myself the emperor in my land, and I tell my people that I am the Dharma Protector, the future Buddha, the future Wheel-turning King, and the Brahman, but who am I? I think it is difficult for Your Majesty to understand my strange question.]
[My father, the law implemented here is the Great Yasa, that is, the Genghis Khan Code, but it is not applicable. Later, I changed it to the Sharia Code, but it does not seem to be very useful, or in other words, I now have no written law to constrain my people.]
[I know a little bit of Mongolian, or it would be more appropriate to call it Chagatai, but I am not very good at it. I am better at Persian and can write long sentences in Persian, but I can only piece together Mongolian bit by bit, which can only make Your Majesty laugh at my knowledge.]
[When I heard Shah Mamtim talk about the Ming Dynasty, everything about it was very appealing. The Ming Dynasty had New Year's Day, the Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The origins of these festivals can even be traced back to the time when the Mongols had not yet formed a tribe. It was so far away, but they were passed down from generation to generation. Isn't this a miracle?]
[I have to celebrate Ramadan, Christmas, and church here, but I don’t particularly agree with these, otherwise I wouldn’t have so many names of God. These are not my festivals, nor are they my culture.]
[This is my question, who am I? It seems that in the constant struggle and migration, I have completely lost track of who I am. Am I a Turk? Am I a Persian? It seems so, but I know I am not. How absurd this is. I don’t know who I am.]
[So, I humbly ask the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty for permission to teach the children something useful, so that they won’t end up in the same muddleheaded state as I did.]
[May your Majesty and your people be forever happy.]
Zhu Yijun understood Akbar's confusion very clearly. He was actually experiencing an identity crisis, which made him feel very divided and even a little painful.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty, this was not something worth wasting any energy thinking about. There was no need to look for their roots because they were already rooted in this land from birth.

Akbar's pain was actually very simple. He needed an afterlife, but none of these afterlife were the one he wanted. The locals regarded him as an invader, and the Ming Dynasty regarded him as a Mongol. No one recognized him, so he could only spread the names of a bunch of gods.

Akbar's blessing is a sincere wish that the emperor and his subjects will never face this kind of identity crisis.

"The roots he is looking for are not with me." Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment, and suddenly understood why the Ming Dynasty became the suzerain state of Annan, Korea, and Japan. It was not only the Ming Dynasty that needed it, but they also needed it. They needed an anchor.

The birth of culture never happens overnight.

"Your Majesty, the Censor-in-Chief of the Ministry of War impeached the Korean Governor-General Ling Yunyi and harshly criticized the Korean region." Li Youzi, the Chief Censor of the Censorate, took out a memorial and said with a somewhat unpleasant expression.

Ling Yunyi was charging in the front, and the Ming Dynasty's censors were constantly stabbing him in the back, stabbing him again and again. However, these memorials could not be suppressed because that would be deceiving the emperor and was a crime of deceiving the emperor.

Zhu Yijun was stunned and said in confusion: "Ling Bu Tang has only been in Korea for a few days, and he has been impeached? Isn't this too fast? Let me see how he criticizes the Koreans."

While reading the memorials, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty looked at Liang Menglong, who had just returned to the court not long ago. Liang Menglong was a scholar-official with high moral standards. He followed Qi Jiguang to the court as the governor-general of military affairs, and managed the rear of the Ming army in order.

All the places recovered by the Ming Dynasty were under military control, which meant that all food and supplies were confiscated and then rationed. This was carried out by the 20,000 troops who came from Liaodong. Liang Menglong did this because he was afraid that the soldiers on the front line would have difficulty in supplying food and fodder.

However, due to the effective logistical supply of the Ming Dynasty, all the confiscated grain was used to maintain stability in the rear.

At first, various porridge factories were set up to cook porridge and distribute it to the people. Then the refugees were organized to cultivate the land in spring and summer. The porridge factories provided work for relief. After working, they could eat their fill and so could their whole family.

Later, seeing that the situation was gradually improving, Liang Menglong began to build various mills and iron furnaces to process grain. This porridge factory had many advantages, but the only disadvantage was that it could not be used as dry food. Many farmers and craftsmen who went to work with morning dew had to return to the porridge factory to have lunch. This delay in production.

Liang Menglong successfully upgraded the porridge factory into a cake factory. Even if it was a cake factory, it needed a mill to grind wheat into flour, and an iron stove, firewood, etc. to make cakes. The Koreans did not have that much iron.

A Korean conscript could bake 2,000 pancakes a day, which solved the problem of dry food and greatly promoted production efficiency.

During this process, Liang Menglong discovered corruption. The soldiers of Liaodong looked down on this little food, but the Korean conscripts always secretly hid the fine grains and took them home, and exchanged the deficit for bran cakes.

After Liang Menglong learned about this situation, he simply stopped processing the refined grains and instead mixed bran directly into the refined grains. Although the whole-wheat biscuits were unpalatable, they could fill people up and they could work only after they were full.

In this way, the bran and refined grains are directly mixed, and the taste is of course very bad, but the profit is much smaller, so it is not worth it for these recruits to take the risk.

The porridge factory and the cake factory were the benevolent policies of the scholar-official Liang Menglong. These porridge and cakes could only be obtained for free if one had registered his household registration in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, every family had to have able-bodied men participating in planting and production and having work points recorded in order to receive the porridge and cakes. There was a fixed number of them per day. As for the odd households, orphans, etc., they were all distributed by the orphanage.

Only the ladies from noble families were allowed to work in the fields. Even if there were no able-bodied men in the family, a woman could earn one work point every four hours.

This is a typical case of work-for-relief, which requires both work and relief.

During the period of military control in the Ming Dynasty, long queues could always be seen in front of the porridge and cake factories. Most of them were women and children, who would use the work points and chopsticks their husbands and fathers had earned from their work to collect rice porridge and cakes. Mothers and wives, with their children, would eagerly watch the cakes in the stove slowly bake, and then happily take a bite.

Of course, the flatbread with bran added is not delicious and does not have much oil, but being able to have food to eat in such a chaotic time is a blessing from God and the grace of His Majesty.

There is a saying in North Korea during the war: Sometimes gold cannot buy food.

Every strong laborer can get one work-point chopstick for working for two hours, and two work-point chopsticks can feed a family of four. The wood for these work-point chopsticks is not native to North Korea, but comes from the Nara tree in Luzon. It is not afraid of being counterfeited and can be considered a kind of currency.

Therefore, North Korea had well-paved official roads and post roads, ditches, brick factories, lime factories, coke factories, docks, collectively built official residences, and places to shelter from wind and rain.

Recently, Seoul has planned a shipyard, and it is expected that thirteen docks will be built by the end of next year, with the capacity to build thirteen two-masted ships at the same time for maritime trade with the two ports of Yizhou, Incheon and Ming Dynasty.

"When Ling Butang arrived in Korea, he shut down all the porridge and cake factories!" Zhu Yijun's eyes went dark. This Ling Yunyi was really ruthless. He shut down the cake factories that saved his life just like that.

"Your Majesty, this is not Ling Bu Tang's fault. He really had no choice but to do so. He is truly a wolf from Zhongshan." Zhang Juzheng still spoke well of Ling Yunyi.

The favor was too easy to obtain, so he didn't know how to cherish it. When Ling Yunyi arrived, he found many problems in the porridge factory and the cake factory, namely serious overspending.

Liang Menglong was a benevolent man, who was able to provide refugees with a piece of bread during wars. He was like a living Bodhisattva who saved people from suffering. However, Liang Menglong's benevolent rule did not win empathy from others. Instead, it brought about some very bad phenomena, such as arrears and overspending.

Some people dared to owe money to the official porridge and cake factories in the Ming Dynasty! They should have been given two work points of chopsticks, but they only gave one, or even nothing!

These Korean conscripts were even more daring, openly harming the public interest for their own benefit. Some people, because they were short of money and had no work points, owed them first. It was relief in the first place, so they owed them, and would pay them back after they had done the work and got the work points.

These Korean conscripts were kept privately and sold to others in exchange for benefits.

Debts, overspending and corruption made Ling Yunyi realize that the porridge factory and cake factory could not continue to prosper like this.

Zhu Yijun said in amazement: "The old saying is right, a pinch of rice is a favor, a pound of rice is a grudge. If you give him a little, he will remember your kindness. If you give him more and keep giving, he will take it for granted."

The real reason that made Ling Yunyi take action was not debts, overspending and corruption. These were inevitable things in a group, as long as they were within the tolerable range. A few work points could only be exchanged for some bran cakes, which was really not much. But when Ling Yunyi asked not to check the debts, something unexpected happened.

The Korean conscripts secretly instigated the refugees to attack porridge and pancake factories.

Zhu Yijun said with a bad face: "Even a dog knows to bark twice. The Ming Dynasty has set up porridge and cake factories in Yizhou and Pyongyang for eight months, with countless people, and they actually attacked the porridge and cake factories! They eat and drink my food, and even bared their teeth at me, and even smashed my rice bowl! Even a dog knows to protect his own rice bowl!"

"You're deceiving the heavens!"

"When you're hungry, you know you're wronged. When you're hungry, you know this isn't what you should do?"

The Military Affairs Secretary was not making a false accusation, but rather it was the Korean side that reported that the Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty liked people from distant lands, which was a kind thing in itself. They felt that Ling Yunyi was wrong and too arbitrary in closing the porridge and cake factory.

The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not think that Ling Yunyi had done anything wrong. He was very glad that he had transferred Ling Yunyi to Korea!
"If we continue to raise them like this, we will only raise a bunch of living fathers. We will spoil them! The son of a Zhongshan wolf is absolutely right. I originally thought that the newly opened areas should be given some policy preference. Now it seems that Lingbu Tang has to go." Zhu Yijun exhaled and said, "Whoever thinks that my handling is problematic, let him go to Korea to see for himself."

"These Korean conscripts are not allowed to buy on credit, so their interests are damaged. Why should these refugees who rely on porridge and cake factories for their survival join in the commotion?" Liang Menglong asked with some confusion.

Wang Chonggu sneered and said, "They are not refugees. There are not even many working people there. They are all lazy thugs raised with the work points earned through corruption. To put it nicely, they are people who stick together for warmth and are of the same blood. To put it bluntly, they are scum who want to abuse their power just because they have a little power."

"These scums are a minority, but it is precisely this minority who, in order to seek their own privileges, undermine the interests of the majority."

"Now it's good. All the porridge and cake factories are closed. No one needs to eat the relief grain from the court anymore."

Wang Chonggu even felt a little gloating. Even if he emphasized that they were all subjects of the Ming Dynasty, these people were actually Koreans. Wang Chonggu really didn't have much sympathy for them. Only those who sincerely accepted the rule of the king were real people of the Ming Dynasty. "Your Majesty, I am guilty." Liang Menglong bowed his head and said, "In fact, when I was here, I also discovered these problems, but I had more important things to do, so I didn't pay too much attention to them. Instead, I often heard those Koreans say that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were all white flour buns, and they were given bran cakes to eat."

"I sensed this discontent, but I didn't expect them to be so bold."

"This is not your fault. Not only are they ungrateful, they also think they have to eat the same food as the soldiers. As expected, people only have one worry when they are hungry, but they will have countless worries after they are full. These worries are all caused by being full!" Zhu Yijun motioned Liang Menglong to stand up.

This is not Liang Menglong's fault. Liang Menglong's benevolent administration and the benevolence of the military official who impeached Ling Yunyi are both kind morals.

There are universal contradictions in all things, and there must be a major contradiction among them. Before the recovery of Seoul and Incheon, the major contradiction was to take back these two places. Only then would the Ming Dynasty take the absolute initiative. In order to maintain stability in the rear, it was inevitable that minor contradictions would be sidelined.

You don’t know how sweet something is without salt. Ling Yunyi’s words when chatting with Qi Jiguang are still having an impact.

After reading the memorial, Wang Guoguang said in a low voice: "It's right. That's the rice of the Ming Dynasty. You're thinking about something you shouldn't be thinking about. You're resentful and can't get it. You'll regret it after starving for two days."

Under the rampage of Japanese pirates, Korea could not even guarantee its agricultural production. We can roughly estimate the number of people killed by the pirates, but there is no way of knowing how many people starved to death. The Ming Dynasty was a real heavenly army when it entered Korea to fight. Not only did it repel the Japanese pirates, but it also, under the coordination of Liang Menglong, repaired bridges, repaired roads, and constructed ditches in spring and summer.

In the midst of war, it ensured that most Koreans would not starve to death under the Meiji rule.

Instead of receiving the gratitude they deserved, they received jealousy and slander. For some unknown purpose, some people spread rumors that the Ming army was burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of atrocities. The Koreans who were involved in the incident were committing a sin if they did not stop the spread of rumors.

"Lingbu Tang's idea is very good." Zhang Xueyan looked at the emperor and said, "The situation is gradually stabilizing. The land in Yizhou, Pyongyang, and Kaesong has been evenly distributed. The Ming Dynasty has also started recruiting people for labor. They will be paid for the work and can buy porridge and cakes by themselves."

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In addition to getting paid for work, people could also exchange grain for porridge and cakes. It was no longer based on work points as in the past. This meant the end of relief from the imperial court.

The court's relief in Seoul and Incheon would continue, but there were not many civilians in Seoul and Incheon under the rule of Japanese pirates.

Zhang Xueyan has always disagreed with Daming's style of being the patriarch. Being someone's father may earn you the name "Dad", but there is nothing else besides that. Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly, so when governing a place, one must naturally be meticulous.

Not being a father can save you a lot of money.

For the Ming Dynasty, there was never enough money. The Ming Dynasty had not yet built highways all over the country. The Ming Dynasty had not yet popularized education on a large scale like in the early days of the country. The Ming Dynasty did not have enough industrial population, enough production surplus, enough material wealth, and the people of the Ming Dynasty had not yet gained freedom.

"Um... Ling Butang did something that seemed a bit excessive." Zhu Yijun picked up the red pen and wrote, "I will definitely severely reprimand Ling Butang!"

In addition to closing the porridge and cake factories, Ling Yunyi also did something that was not so kind and even seemed a bit immoral. He asked the captured Hwarang to identify the middlemen who colluded with the Japanese.

All the captured Hwarang were castrated. They were going to be sent to Womagang as prisoners of war. They no longer had any worldly desires and could only survive in this life. In this case, they got a chance to identify without the need for exact evidence.

As for those middle-class people who used to ride on the heads of these Hwarangs with arrogance under the system of the Lee Dynasty, they only needed to raise a finger, and they would be castrated like the Hwarangs, and go to Womagang to dig coal, plant potatoes and build roads together. Naturally, the Hwarangs would cherish this opportunity very much.

The middlemen who used to bully Hwarang were destined to be bullied when they joined the prisoner team.

Obviously there will be many unjust, false and wrong cases, but Ling Yunyi still carried out the plan because these former vested interests will definitely become obstacles and destabilizing factors for the Ming Dynasty's rule over Korea. Some of them have even become obstacles. For example, the bosses of the recruiters in the porridge and cake factories are these middlemen.

Ling Yunyi is clearing out the bad influence, and he wants to ensure that the Korean ground he has rectified is loyal.

Zhu Yijun also promised that he would give him a severe reprimand. How could he do this?
The impeachment by the Military Affairs Department's Secretary is already very mild, but I think it is not a good idea to do so. I hope Your Majesty can persuade Minister Ling to keep it a secret, at least turn off the lights and avoid being criticized.

Everything that happens in North Korea reflects the process of the birth of power. Violence sorts out production relations, production relations evolve into morality, morality gives birth to order, and only under order can there be power.

When the violence of Joseon collapsed and the army was completely defeated by the Japanese pirates in a very short time, the Joseon Dynasty lost all power.

When the Ming army began to enter Korea to fight, production relations began to be reorganized clearly under violence. Under the condition of stable production, interest distribution appeared and morality evolved. Porridge factories and bakery factories were all benevolent policies, and order was constantly established in the distribution. However, the corruption of Korean conscription destroyed the order and angered Ling Yunyi, who held power, and ordered the closure of the porridge factories and bakery factories.

As the production relations in the porridge and cake factories collapsed, the recruits also lost very little power.

It is not wrong to say that power is based on order, morality, production relations, and violence. The only real thing here is violence, which is the cornerstone of everything.

When a king does not have enough violence, he will not be able to sort out the production relations, and his power will naturally be lost gradually. The right to interpret production relations, morality, distribution, and order will be in the control of others.

This logic was clearly stated in "Tang Ju Does Not Disgrace His Mission" a thousand years ago: When the emperor is angry, a million corpses will be buried and blood will flow for a thousand miles; when a commoner is angry, two corpses will be buried and blood will flow for five steps, and the whole country will be in mourning.

The court discussion is still going on. Two cases have recently occurred in the capital, both related to tax inspection.

The first case was that a gambler owed thirty-five taels of silver to a gambling house. The gambling house demanded that the gambler pay back the money, but the gambler refused. They believed that at least thirty taels of the silver were a trap set by the gambling house. The gambler acted like a rogue and spread the word that he was injured or died, and that it was the gambling house that had done it.

The gambling house was a little cautious. After all, the capital was the best place to live. The court had limited energy to deal with financial disputes caused by gambling, but a murder case had to be investigated. In the end, the gambling house reached a settlement with the gambler and only had to pay five taels of silver.

Gambling houses also need to do business, so they quickly reconciled the matter and made the gambler shut up. Besides, the debt of thirty taels was indeed a trap set by the gambling house.

Just after the gambler paid back the five taels of silver, he received a collection notice. The exempted thirty taels of silver were considered unexpected income, and according to the tax law, he had to pay a tax of one silver and eight cents, which had to be paid before the New Year. The gambling house also received a collection notice, requiring him to pay three cents of silver according to the tax law.

The second case was about Zhang family of Qiyang, a wealthy family in Xitu City. After receiving two collection notices, he still held on to his luck and tried to evade taxes by transferring accounts from one level to another, using brokers and compradors to carry the accounts. He was caught evading taxes for the third time by the Tax Inspection Office, and the Tax Inspectorate led the Imperial Guards to raid Zhang's house.

The Tax Inspection Office has thoroughly audited the taxation and after deducting the taxes and fines payable, all the criminals have been transferred to Shuntian Prefecture. According to the compiled tax inspection law, the Tax Inspection Office enjoys the priority right of execution.

A common man and a wealthy man, both suffered from the disaster; the common man could not escape, and the wealthy man could not escape either!
The Tax Inspection Office's words, "Your Majesty pays taxes, so why shouldn't you?", were truly golden rules within the framework of the Ming feudal monarchy.

"Isn't the Tax Inspection Office too pervasive? This gambler settled the thirty taels of silver with the gambling house. Does he also need to pay taxes?" Li Youzi said in amazement.

These thirty taels of silver actually require tax.

"Well, the Tax Inspection Office is also following the rules. The thirty taels are equivalent to the gambling house giving to the gambler, and the gambler giving back to the gambling house. Even if there is no actual transaction of money and goods, it is still a transaction. Generally, the Tax Inspection Office will not investigate these. Tax inspection also has costs. The main reason is that the gambler spreads rumors everywhere." Wang Guoguang explained.

If it weren't for this gambler's big mouth and spreading rumors everywhere, the Tax Inspection Office would not have had the time to deal with him, but now that they know about it, they must start the tax inspection process.

"I see." Li Youzi nodded repeatedly. This was the kind of trouble caused by his bad mouth.

Zhu Yijun frowned and asked, "Qiyang Zhang, why did you evade taxes?"

"Zhang secretly sold tobacco to Sichuan. The tobacco business was a monopoly of the imperial court. Since they had violated the law, they decided to go all out. They thought they could just let the broker take the blame and nothing would happen. But they were still discovered by the Tax Inspection Office." Wang Guoguang answered His Majesty's doubts.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "For secretly selling tobacco, he should pay taxes. At least the Taxation Bureau won't cause trouble for him. How foolish."

Li Yashi said that the Ming Emperor's collection notices were like selling indulgences. To a certain extent, this was true. The Tax Inspection Office had the strongest detective capabilities. If one paid taxes honestly, he would probably not be found so quickly, or even have his property confiscated.

"After a thorough interrogation, exile Luzon to the Marquis of Sishui." After asking for the opinions of the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple, Zhu Yijun made the judgment.

The imperial edict of the Ming Emperor was transmitted to Songjiang Prefecture, and then Shen Shixing took the imperial edict to Hangzhou Prefecture, preparing to continue promoting the Land Return Order and the One Whip Law.

When Shen Shixing saw Yan Shixuan, his face was filled with mixed emotions. Everything was going well for him in Songjiang Prefecture, and he was successfully reinstated as the third-rank Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and returned to his original post.

Shen Shixing was really not afraid of returning the land at all. Even if His Majesty had not lifted the ten-year ban on examinations in advance, he was confident that he could implement the order to return the land, just a little late. However, Yan Shixuan's supernatural power to overcome the enemy was really frightening.

"Greetings, Governor." Yan Shixuan went to Yongchang Gate to welcome Shen Shixing.

"Thank you for your courtesy, Governor Yan." Shen Shixing got out of the car and said with a smile. Before his smile faded, he saw a man running towards him in a hurry.

At the time of Shen, something felt wrong.

"Governor! Prefect! It's bad. An urgent report has come from Sanjiang Camp in Taizhou Prefecture, saying that a civil unrest has occurred in Sanjiang Camp. At least three thousand people have risen up. I don't know why!" Yan Shixuan's advisor shouted and ran to Shen Shixing.

"A civil uprising?" Shen Shixing was in a daze. His premonition was so accurate. One of his feet was still in the car, and he wanted to take the car back to Songjiang Prefecture immediately!
Yan Shixuan turned his head stiffly and said to Shen Shixing: "Governor! This is the Taizhou government's business, it has nothing to do with me!"

The master said in a low voice: "The governor, it seems to be related to our Hangzhou Prefecture. The leader this time is a scholar from Hangzhou Prefecture."

(End of this chapter)