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Chapter 769: Without sending people, even Tang Seng cannot obtain the true scriptures

After Zhu Yijun sorted out the whole context of the incident, he found that all the people in the Sanjiang Camp who entered the city to suppress the bandits were ruthless.

When the prefect Li Hongdao blocked the streets and roads to suppress the tenants who unveiled the notices, he was trying to cover it up; but when the tenants entered the Donghu Academy, he had no intention of covering it up at all. His purpose was simple, to intensify the conflict and turn Taizhou into a place where he had the final say!
Donghu Academy only knows about bookish literati, who are an unstable factor. Most young people still believe in the books of sages and hope that the world will be a better place. Since Li Hongdao has chosen to return to his hometown to join the bandit group, once something happens, the Ming emperor and the court will definitely put down the rebellion, take advantage of the civil unrest to break into Donghu Academy, and use the civil unrest to wipe out the opponents.

"I think Li Hongdao is a very ruthless person. After Shen Shiqing brought poor laborers and scholars into the Sanjiang Camp, the counterattack of the Sanjiang Camp was a bit too fierce." Zhu Yijun told Feng Bao about a suspicious point in the whole incident.

Excluding the imperial guards, Li Hongdao was the one who controlled the violence and was the advantageous party. However, Chonghe Gate was lost, Fengxianfang, Guangwenfang, Yingxianfang, Qinghefang and Yongjingfang were breached, and all the gentry were captured.

"Your Majesty, what you mean is that Li Hongdao did it on purpose and let the rebel soldiers and civilians into the city?" Feng Bao said in surprise.

Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Li Hongdao, he wants to use the civil unrest to settle old scores. The gentry will be arrested and killed. Li Hongdao will have more options. He can put all the sins on these gentry."

"Look, when the commander of the Sanjiang Camp, Fang Rongxing, took these gentry away, it was too smooth. What about those returning bandits? They were sent by Li Hongdao to guard the Chonghe Hall of the East Lake Academy, saying that they were waiting for the camp to be breached. Tsk tsk."

"This scholar has such a vicious heart!" Feng Bao shook his head repeatedly. Logically speaking, these gentry and Li Hongdao were in the same boat, but Li Hongdao didn't care about the life and death of these gentry at all.

Feng Bao agreed with His Majesty's guess, and settled old accounts and wiped out the past. He, Li Hongdao, was still a loyal member of the Ming Dynasty, and the gentry became the culprits. After Fang Rongxing withdrew his troops, Li Hongdao surrounded the Sanjiang Camp and suppressed it, preventing it from showing its head.

Li Hongdao was a ruthless man, and Shen Shiqing was also a ruthless man. Fang Rongxing, the commander of the Sanjiang Camp, wanted to use Jinshen to negotiate with Li Hongdao, but Shen Shiqing directly ordered the killing. This was a very cruel decision, but Zhu Yijun did not intend to deal with Shen Shiqing. He planned to release him without charge and then return him to Shen Shixing.

Shen Shiqing would put the farmland where there was greater resistance.

This brutal decision was forced by the situation. There were many capitulationists, wait-and-see factions, and fence-sitters in the Sanjiang Camp, and not many wanted to resist firmly. Killing people would tie everyone together.

Moreover, the Sanjiang Camp did not have enough food and fodder. Even if they rushed into the city and robbed some food and fodder, feeding more than 5,000 people would be a big problem. Killing these 40 gentry families and their families would reduce the consumption of food and fodder.

At that time, no one knew that the Tax Collectors would join the battlefield, and most people didn't even have a direct concept of the Tax Collectors' combat effectiveness. Shen Shiqing's move meant that even if he died, he would take someone with him before he died, and take revenge on the culprits who formed the returning bandit group, the gentry.

Li Hongdao wanted to wipe out the Tax Collectors because he was afraid that they would conduct tax inspections and uncover his relationship with the gentry, the Taizhou business community, and the cross-trading business. The Tax Collectors would be like a sword on his forehead, which could take Li Hongdao's life at any time.

And from the reports of Su Chengping, a tax inspector in Taizhou, one does notice something unusual. Some families could not do much business throughout the year, but they had farmland, built big houses, kept actors, and held poetry gatherings, enjoying unlimited prosperity. Without any business dealings, how could they support such an extravagant life?

Su Chengping has already started his investigation. If there had not been this civil unrest and military rebellion, with the scholar's advice, it would not be long before Li Hongdao would be forced to take risks and have a head-on conflict with the tax collectors.

"Li Hongdao should be beheaded in public, and his family should be exiled to the west." Zhu Yijun did not throw Li Hongdao into the dismemberment yard, because there was no shortage of specimens in the dismemberment yard. There were so many Japanese prisoners of war that they could not even choose from them all.

In addition to the issue of returning farmland to Zhejiang, Shen Shixing's memorial also discussed in detail a phenomenon, that is, the Ming Dynasty opposed the Ming Dynasty.

The real Ming Dynasty is in opposition to the Ming Dynasty constructed by ideas. This is the split between the reality and narrative of the Ming Dynasty. This split is reflected in all aspects, and Shen Shixing identified it as a contradiction.

But even with all the contradictions, the Ming Dynasty is still the undisputed Celestial Empire in today's world.

If you ask anyone in the Ming Dynasty why the Ming Dynasty was great, you will get a variety of answers.

Tenants and poor laborers would say: The Ming Dynasty is not great, because they have to think about the livelihood of their family as soon as they open their eyes, and their lives are very hard;

The peasants would say: The Ming Dynasty is not great, the officials and the bandits are all one family, and any natural or man-made disasters would destroy the family;
The local gentry would say: The Ming Dynasty was great in the past, but not now; the land system that does not allow annexation is a perverse practice;

The powerful and powerful would say: The Ming Dynasty was great before, but it is not great now, because the emperor is too ambitious, and they have to pay for all the great projects, the expansion of territory, and the war! The tax system is more vicious than confiscating property! And Zhang Juzheng, who taught such an emperor, deserves to die;

The officials who were selected would say: The Ming Dynasty is not great enough now, the emperor always controls too much, but because of his wisdom, this high pressure is offset, the performance evaluation system at least creates a relatively fair competition environment, promotion and wealth do not depend on nepotism, if the emperor allows them to make money, it would be great;

The ministers, nobles, and clan members of the ruling class would all praise the Ming Dynasty: The Ming Dynasty is so great because Your Majesty is wise, intelligent, decisive, and resolute; because of its vast territory and abundant resources; because of the clean administration and fair competition of the Ming Dynasty, which allows the capable to be promoted and the mediocre to be demoted; and because the long history has brought enough models, which may not be enough to bring the optimal solution to the Ming Dynasty, but can definitely avoid the worst outcome, etc.

Shen Shixing described this phenomenon very clearly in his memorials. The Ming Dynasty was the undisputed Celestial Empire. However, even with such an objective fact, there were still so many different answers. This is division.

It is difficult for the tenant farmers who farm in Sichuan to truly straighten their chests and be proud of the fact that the Ming Dynasty achieved global trade.

How to bridge these divisions is an issue that the Ming emperor and the court must consider when governing. At the very least, they must prevent these divisions from forming a huge centrifugal force that tears the Ming apart.

This is Shen Shixing's thoughts on the future of the Ming Dynasty after he concluded in the third volume that the Ming Dynasty would inevitably perish.

"Your Majesty, we have captured more than 1,500 bandits returning home. How should we deal with them?" Feng Bao asked solemnly.

"Kill them all without mercy, execute them all, build a monument to suppress evil outside Chonghe Gate, bury all the corpses under the monument, and let people despise them for generations to come!" Zhu Yijun chose the order to behead them all, leaving no one alive, and physically destroy them.

The reason why the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was so violent was because it had to be so. The court could not be ambiguous on this matter and had to make a clear and unambiguous choice in order to calm the public anger.

Shen Shixing's memorial was very long. He had tried his best to describe the evil deeds of the returning bandits in words that were not too harsh so as not to "offend the emperor's hearing", but it still made the emperor furious.

In just half a year, the returning bandits used various means, including hacking, hanging, burying alive, and bleeding, to kill more than a thousand villagers.

[When the returning bandits got tired of burying people, they asked the captured grain managers, postmen, and retired soldiers of the Ninth Battalion to dig pits for themselves and then bury each other. Burying people even became a token of surrender. Lazy people and vagrants who were willing to bury people could join the returning bandits and commit violence against others.]
[I know this because the angry tenants buried several bandits in the ground during the civil and military riots.]
[A retired soldier from the Ninth Battalion, before dying, was still shouting, "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor." Before dying, he still firmly believed that the emperor would avenge him, and that all these cruelties and evils would be wiped out by the emperor. His name was Guo Yun.]
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[They use this bloody method to show their cruelty and publicize their terror, just to force the poor and coolies to not dare to complain about their grievances and to swallow their sufferings. Maybe they can succeed, but some people resist and hope that the government can make the decision.]
[The tenants took down the notice and ran to the government office to ask Li Hongdao to make the decision. Li Hongdao made a choice that was condemned by both humans and gods.]
Shen Shixing used this whole incident to tell His Majesty his opinion that when it is necessary to take action, one should not be stingy with violence. When dealing with gang activities like the Returning Hometown Bandits, one should use force to fight violence with violence.

To borrow words from mathematics, it is impossible to satisfy everyone, so we just take the greatest common divisor to satisfy the majority of people.

Generally speaking, violence is irrational. The returning bandits have committed many atrocities and must be suppressed with the most brutal means. This is the most rational choice.

Before, when Shen Shixing was returning the land, he had already shown some transformation into Lingyun Yi. After the incident in Taizhou Prefecture, he had completely transformed into Lingyun Yi.

Before going to Songjiang Prefecture, Shen Shixing was a well-known good guy in the Ming court and a master of keeping things balanced. Even though Zhang Juzheng had given him many warnings and taught him many times, there was no effect. But now, Shen Shixing had changed, becoming even more extreme than Zhang Juzheng expected.

Zhu Yijun was very satisfied with Shen Shixing's change.

"I don't lack these things. It's New Year, and several governor-general's offices have sent me specialties. I have to give gifts in return. It's such a trouble." Zhu Yijun had a large list of gift lists in his hand. Once a year, the four major governor-general's offices overseas would send gifts, including Ningyuan Hou Li Chengliang.

Li Chengliang went to Heilongjiang again and personally broke ice to catch fish. Catching fish was not the key. The key was to declare that this time Li Chengliang brought a tablet with the words "Ningyuan Hou's Fishing Place" inscribed on it. In the past, these fish were still alive when transported to the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yijun ordered Li Chengliang to be killed on the spot. In the weather in the Northeast, it was too difficult to catch them like this.

This year, the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office sent silver and brass. Xu Wei noticed that Japan had a kind of copper coin with a phoenix on the front and the Bagua on the back. This kind of copper coin did not come from the Ming Dynasty, but was Japanese copper, that is, copper coins cast from Japan's own copper material.

Xu Wei soon figured out that these copper coins came from Dewa Province and the Mogami clan.

Dewa Province is located in the Tsugaru Strait. It was originally established to deal with the Ezo in the northern Ezo region (Hokkaido). The Mogami clan is a branch of the Ashikaga clan of the Muromachi shogunate. They are distant relatives of Ashikaga Yoshiaki. The current head of the family, Mogami Yoshimitsu, was given the character Yoshi from Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the elder brother of Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

The Ming navy's armed cruise around Japan was already in its seventh year, mainly to explore Japan's hydrology. The Nagasaki Governor-General's Office sent an envoy to Dewa Province to find out the source of the copper coins and identify eight gold, silver and copper mines, including Mukaiyama, Ozawa, Ozawa, Maki, Sanzhang, Ichinomata, Ni-nomata, and Hemerocallis.

After extremely friendly negotiations, the Ming Navy, with its powerful firepower, successfully persuaded the Mogami family to jointly develop the silver and copper mines at the three rivers flowing into the sea, the Mogami River, the Yoneshiro River, and the Omono River. All the minerals would be accumulated in Akita Prefecture and simply refined on site. After the crude materials arrived in Nagasaki, they would be refined and sent back to the Ming Dynasty.

The Akita mine is in its first year of development and is expected to produce 1,000 taels of gold, 240,000 taels of silver, and 3.6 million kilograms of copper starting next year.

Moreover, the Ming navy also heard rumors of copper mines in the Kanto region, and the infiltration of the Kanto daimyo Hojo, Sasuke, and Date clans had already begun.

Japan has many silver mountains. The Ming Dynasty wants to see the rich silver mountains, and also wants to see Japan has so many silver mountains. Draining their silver is also the same as destroying Japan.

The former Grand Master Wan Shihe once asserted in "The Ancient Inca Kingdom" that by controlling the mines, the evolution of local civilization could be completely interrupted. Bronze tools could not defeat iron tools, let alone firearms.

According to Wan Shihe's theory, if the Ming Dynasty wants to destroy Japan, it only needs to completely control the mines, and Japan will slowly decline like the ancient Inca Empire.

The Nagasaki Governor-General's Office took advantage of the Korean War in full swing and began to systematically control Japan's mines.

The Ryukyu Governor-General's Office gave the emperor a lot of fish oil, which is a local specialty.

The local Kume samurai also wished well to King Shangku. The local people wished well to the Ryukyu King, asking him to stay well in the Ming Dynasty and not to have any wild thoughts. The Ming Dynasty's rule over Ryukyu was very gentle. After all, Ryukyu was the true son of the Ming Dynasty, and people were moved there during the Hongwu period.

Without the Ming Dynasty, there would be no Ryukyu. The Luzon Governor's Office not only sent a lot of specialties to the emperor, but also sent some beauties from all over the world to Prince Lu. The main reason was that Yin Zhengmao was the surname of the emperor and a relative of the emperor, so it was natural to bring some good things to Prince Lu.

The Governor's Office of Old Port sent a thousand kilograms of cinchona cream. This thousand kilograms of cinchona cream was refined. The bark of the cinchona tree was ground into powder and mixed with soda lime. It was then repeatedly quenched with light oil and finally processed with green vitriol oil, which is sulfuric acid, to obtain crystals.

Quinine was a tribute and was extremely precious. One ounce of processed quinine was equivalent to one ounce of gold, which meant that the Governor's Office in Old Port now had a gold mine.

Light oil was mainly used for dyes and lamp oil in the Ming Dynasty. The lime blowtorch used by Zhu Yijun was used to burn this. In Shah Mamtim's hometown, there is oil wherever you step, and Java is also very rich in oil.

"No, how did you come up with the idea?" Zhu Yijun looked at the gift list from the Governor's Office of Jiugang and said with some confusion. The crystals were obtained after three processes of soda lime, light oil and green vitriol oil. No one knew how the Governor's Office of Jiugang came up with it.

Feng Bao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, it's all tested."

Ever since water-based fertilizer came out of nowhere, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty began to experiment, trying little by little, throwing everything they had into it, just like a Taoist priest practicing elixir, and whether there was any result, they would keep trying. Once there was a result, they would start to improve the link. After all, water-based fertilizer won the Chonggu Progress Award and was destined to go down in history.

Zhu Yijun did not prohibit the Governor's Office from giving gifts, even though scholars kept complaining that money was accumulated and politics was achieved through bribery. However, Zhu Yijun insisted on reciprocity. After all, Tang Sanzang did not obtain the true scriptures by themselves, but exchanged them for the purple gold bowl.

Without the help of others, even Monk Tang couldn’t obtain the true scriptures.

The heartland of the Ming Dynasty was preparing for the New Year, and the Governor's Office far away in Luzon was also decorated with lights and had already begun preparations for the New Year. The output of gunpowder was finally able to meet military needs, and fireworks were produced. Fireworks and firecrackers were very profitable, and this was one of the pillar industries of the Governor's Office of Luzon.

Lin Fucheng, who was exiled to Luzon by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, became a guest of honor in the Governor-General's Office and could enter and leave the Governor-General's Office freely. With his official status as a fifth-rank doctor of science, there was no place he could not go. In order to protect his safety, Yin Zhengmao sent three hundred cavalrymen to guard his safety.

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Lin Fucheng felt more comfortable in Luzon than in the capital, and it would have been even better if there hadn't been so many heavy rains and strong winds.

"What horrible weather! It's winter and there's a typhoon!" Lin Fucheng muttered as he walked into the Governor's Mansion and took off his raincoat.

"Greetings, Lord Guoxing." Lin Fucheng bowed with a smile.

Koxinga, some people in Luzon called Yin Zhengmao this. After all, the emperor was too far away, while Yin Zhengmao was very close. In addition, it was rumored that Yin Zhengmao was a member of the royal family who had been exiled, so it seemed reasonable for everyone to call him this.

"Master Lin, please take a seat." Yin Zhengmao motioned Lin Fucheng to sit down, then he took out a memorial and said, "Master Lin said that Luzon is in great danger."

The memorial was the result of Lin Fucheng's investigation during his visit to the plantations. It contained a lot of content. This was the imperial order, but in the last part of the memorial, Lin Fucheng discussed the situation in Luzon and expressed his uneasiness.

The Luzon Governorate is in great danger.

"I am an outsider, I am not involved in the situation, but I have seen a little bit." Lin Fucheng sat up straight, and said with a serious expression: "My Lord, the Han Chinese account for less than 20% of the population in Luzon, but they own more than 90% of the wealth. This is dangerous."

"In the past, the barbarians in Luzon had trouble even getting food. The red-haired barbarians from the west would kill people at will. When the Ming Dynasty came, they had enough to eat. But once this person had enough, he began to have wild thoughts."

"Aren't you giving them 10% back?" Yin Zhengmao said with a frown. This 10% is already more than before. The red-haired foreigners eat it all and don't give you any. This 10% that Yin Zhengmao gave is already more than the total amount in the past.

Yin Zhengmao thought for a moment and said, "I know that what people worry about is not the lack of wealth but the inequality of the wealth. But they are lazy and don't work hard. Who can I blame for not making progress?"

Lin Fucheng immediately said, "It will be the fourteenth year since Koxinga arrived in Luzon. The red-haired foreigners have been on the run for fourteen years. They have forgotten the pain of the past and only see the present. The people of the Ming Dynasty eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks, while they can only drink soup. This is what they can see now."

"Guo Xing Ye used to be their great benefactor, but now he is their enemy who brought the Ming people to rob them of their land, women, and houses. We cannot expect the barbarians to understand that wealth is created by labor, but they don't know that."

"They just think that all this prosperity belongs to them, the barbarians."

"This is indeed an issue that we should be vigilant about." Yin Zhengmao agreed with Lin Fucheng's suggestion. One person's plan is short-sighted, while three people's plan is long-term. Yin Zhengmao is in the situation and has everything going on every day. He cannot see the danger under the surface, but he is also aware that Lin Fucheng has pointed out the possible danger.

"I have a way to solve your worries." Lin Fucheng picked up two teacups and said, "The Governor's Office can find a business to store some grain and tobacco. When the harvest comes, the grain can be sold and the money can be used to buy tobacco. When the grain is sold out, the tobacco can be sold and the grain can be collected. This can be done over the years and the problem will be solved."

Lin Fucheng said it lightly, but Yin Zhengmao, an experienced official, knew the viciousness of Lin Fucheng's words. Lin Fucheng's strategy was aimed at the newly formed Luzon Yi landlords who had extremely weak risk resistance, and it was a precise strike.

This method is the specialty of the powerful local gentry and local elites in the hinterland to annex other places. In the Ming Dynasty, it was rice mulberry, and in Luzon, it was rice tobacco, and they both had the same effect.

Continuously releasing grain during the harvest season and continuously lowering grain prices will result in farmers not being able to recover their costs. The price of raw silk will rise, and farmers will switch from rice to mulberry. Then the price of grain will rise and the price of raw silk will fall. The money farmers earn from selling raw silk is not enough to buy grain. No matter how farmers adjust, they will not make any money and will even lose money.

Luzon is a large island and was deeply involved in the Ming Dynasty's open sea trade. Most of the Han people who came to Luzon to reclaim wasteland were people who had lost their land in the hinterland. They were all too familiar with this trick. Faced with such price changes, the people of the Ming Dynasty would remain calm and wait for the price to rise.

This way of playing has been played for more than two thousand years. After all, the idiom "waiting for a price to be set" comes from "The Analects of Confucius: Zi Han".

These barbarian landlords were the targets of Lin Fucheng's precise blasting. After a few times, the costs could not be recovered and their land would be annexed.

The Yi people, who have become rich through hard work, cutting down trees and reclaiming wasteland one after another, may never understand this problem. They have obviously been very hardworking, but just when they have a little wealth, they lose everything.

"Master Lin is indeed a scholar." Yin Zhengmao said with emotion.

Lin Fucheng smiled and said, "I also learned this from the local sages, gentry, and powerful people in our Ming Dynasty."

An anxious sound of footsteps was heard quickly, and a coastal defense inspector wearing a straw raincoat rushed into the West Flower Hall of the Governor's Office City Hall and bowed his head and said, "Governor! Something happened in Tongxiang Town. General Manager Chen Chengyi sent an urgent message. Tongxiang Town requests assistance!"

"Father, I am willing to go!" Yin Zongxin, the son-in-law of the emperor, immediately stood up and said, "I will immediately select a thousand soldiers and go."

"Okay, I'll bring three thousand to support you. Don't act rashly." Yin Zhengmao is old. When he was young in Dianbai Port, leading foreign soldiers to charge into battle is a thing of the past. Although he is unable to wear armor and fight sharp weapons, his military talent is still there. Since the news can be conveyed, it is naturally not particularly dangerous.

"Can I go with Lord Guoxing to take a look?" Lin Fucheng said tentatively, "I will definitely be in the central army tent, and will not cause any trouble or make any irresponsible remarks."

The last person who talked nonsense in the army was Yang Xiu. He said that military orders were like chicken ribs, which were tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away. This showed how capable he was. In the army, keeping your mouth shut and not causing trouble is the self-cultivation of a scholar.

"Okay." Yin Zhengmao considered it again and again and agreed.

The wind was very strong and the rain was heavy. The soldiers of the Governor-General's Office began to move out. The twelve Tongxiang Towns were the twelve pillars for the Luzon Governor-General's Office to maintain its rule in Luzon. Due to the huge economic benefits, there was even a highway from Manila City Hall to Tongxiang Town.

The sound of a whistle suddenly rang out in the rain, and one Shengping No. 4 steam engine after another began to roar. The train pulled by iron horses began to slowly leave the station and head towards Tongxiang Town. The soldiers in the carriages checked their armaments.

As Luzon was a very wealthy governorate, its military equipment was naturally luxurious, and most importantly, everyone wore armor.

These armors were the gifts that Yin Zhengmao obtained from the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty by using copper materials. There were a total of 4,000 sets. Yin Zhengmao was very clear that this was a reward. Armor was not something that could be bought with silver. It was a taboo. If ordinary people made armor, it would be considered a rebellion.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty's firearms could penetrate armor, otherwise the old men in the cabinet would never have agreed to the outflow of such a large amount of armor, which was too dangerous.

The iron cavalry did not run to Tongxiang Town, but stopped less than two miles away from Tongxiang Town. Because the highway was damaged, Yin Zongxin left two hundred engineers to repair the road in the rain. Before setting off, Yin Zongxin thought that someone might damage the highway, so he brought engineers.

As long as the highway is built, Yin Zhengmao's 3,000 troops can enter Tongxiang Town. By that time, even if the Jade Emperor comes, Tongxiang Town will belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Yin Zongxin led 800 people and rushed towards Tongxiang Town in the rain. When he arrived, he did not order an attack because the situation in Tongxiang Town was much better than he had imagined. There was a riot in the town, but the camp was under the control of the Ming people, and the barbarians could not climb over the earthen walls of the camp.

Yin Zongxin didn't order the attack until he heard the whistle.

The whistle sounded, indicating that the Ming army had arrived. These barbarians immediately began to flee in all directions, shouting and screaming, while Yin Zongxin ambushed on their flanks and completely dispersed them.

The riot lasted for a day and a night. Tongxiang Town restored peace and began to organize production. Due to the heavy rain, there was no fire in Tongxiang Town and the production tools were not damaged much. After a little cleanup, they could continue work.

"What caused this incident?" Yin Zhengmao asked Chen Chengyi, who looked a little embarrassed.

"There were women abducted in the mine, so I took people to look for them. They had been raped and killed. I killed twelve barbarians, and they began to attack Tongxiang Town. I thought it was an accident at first, but there were riots inside and bandits outside, so it was obviously a collaboration between the inside and the outside." Chen Chengyi explained the whole story.

Yin Zhengmao said with a frosty face: "It seems that I am too good-tempered on weekdays, which is why the barbarians dare to be so arrogant! How dare they set their sights on the people of the Ming Dynasty!"

It was just a matter of robbing some money, Yin Zhengmao didn't intend to make a fuss about it. Twelve Tongzhens were full of things that could happen. This was the land of Liuhe, not the heartland of the Ming Dynasty. But if someone from the Ming Dynasty was killed, Yin Zhengmao would be ready to go to war.

(End of this chapter)