No matter how resolute the will of the Ministry of Households is to implement the banknote law, the Ming Dynasty currently does not have the necessary soil for the implementation of the banknote law, and in the implementation of the banknote law, the Ministry of Households has shown a positive attitude that does not conform to the conservatives.

"Your Majesty, in the minister's view, it is reasonable to use the post stations all over the official road post roads to implement the silver ticket, not the banknote law, compared with the banknote law, it is easier to prevent counterfeiting and is not easy to be imitated." Zeng Shengwu, the secretary of the military department, put forward his own point of view, and the acceptance bill or silver bill was more suitable for the Ming Dynasty.

To tell the truth, Zeng Xingwu is not optimistic about the credibility of the imperial court, and the hasty launch of the banknote law will definitely cause a lot of trouble in the end, but it will make the imperial court lose face.

The silver ticket that Zeng Xingwu said began in the Northern Song Dynasty.

As early as the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chengdu, Sichuan Province appeared specifically for carrying a huge amount of money merchants, operating cash custody business of silver ticket shop, silver or copper money merchants, will receive a silver ticket, made of paper, it will be stamped with a riding seal, and riding sewing book, used to prevent counterfeiting, silver tickets in the silver ticket shop acceptance, need to pay 3% of the custody fee.

This is not a banknote like a Ming treasure banknote, but more like a mutually recognized contract, or a kind of bookkeeping currency.

During the Jingde period of Song Zhenzong, Zhang Yong, the governor of Yizhou, rectified the silver ticket shops, eliminated the lawbreakers, and operated them exclusively by 16 wealthy merchants, so that the operation of the silver ticket shops was included in the supervision of the imperial court.

Zeng Xingwu thinks that this is the best way at the moment, the silver ticket is a contract check, and its contract is two-sided, not like the treasure banknote, how much to send, what style to send, all by the imperial court, only from top to bottom, that is not a contract, is squeezing.

"The Ministry of War is really calculating, the Ministry of Industry minted Tongbao embossed silver coins, even if it is, the Ministry of War is planning to put its hand into the household?" When Zhang Xueyan heard this, he said with an extremely ugly face.

The post station on the official road post road is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, so the right to issue bookkeeping currency in the nature of checks is in the hands of the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Households should be in charge of money and grain, but now they are digging the corners of the Ministry of Households!

Zeng Xingwu said with a smile: "Who let the banknote law corrupt." ”

Your own household department can't hold your own territory, so it's your fault that their military department grabbed the territory? The emergence and business model of the Civil Information Bureau made the eyes of the Ministry of War shine, and there was a big problem that had always plagued the Ministry of War, and finally the Ming Gong of the Ministry of War found a way out.

The problem of the loss of the official road post road.

There are all kinds of mountain people in the Ming Dynasty who can get the 'horse card', the horse card represents the official body, and the horse card can be used in the post station, which is the corner of the court dug by various mountain people.

In the third year of Wanli, the post station consumed as much as 3,130,000 silver every year, and the officials who were not on duty, the scholars who had meritorious reputations, and the mountain people who traveled the mountains and rivers ignored the quota, arbitrarily requisitioned the post station guards and chariots and horses, and the officials at all levels indiscriminately surveyed and commended.

After this expenditure was clear, it caused the admonition of the officials of the science and road, and the public opinion of the wind power of various abolition of the post station emerged in an endless stream, and the post station with serious losses was abolished to reduce the burden on the imperial court.

Zhang Juzheng Wanli three years on the "to the post regulations", the post station was strictly equipped with the post system, the official status of the permanent system, any private family is not allowed to steal the public door, the survey can only be used by themselves, only allowed to bring an entourage, Wanli four years, the post station consumption of money and grain reduced to 2187832 taels, saving 940,000 silver, the number of post stations, from 337, increased to 403.

For example, this official body is worthy of the permanent system, some people hold Kanhe, and even the things left by the grandfather's grandfather, it stands to reason that Kanhe should be used and consumed at any time, and after a certain errand is done, Kanhe should be taken back, but this kind of rotten thing, the bureaucracy benefits from all over the inside, and naturally no one cares.

Zhang Juzheng took care of it, and it was implemented.

The answer given by the imperial court is to tighten the issuance of horse cards, and to implement the regulations in place into the examination.

But the post station is still losing money, and the 3% custody fee of the acceptance bill is the best way for the post station to be able to bear its own profits and losses.

"The calculation of the military department, I heard it in the household department! Isn't it just watching the Minxin Bureau make countless profits every year, and you are greedy? With the appearance of the post station leaking on all sides, who would be willing to use the post station of the imperial court to accept? The silver is handed over to the post station, and if you want to take it out, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky! Zhang Xueyan immediately attacked the management of the post station.

Zeng Xingwu was a little helpless, when Tan Lun was here in the past, how could the household department dare to kick his nose in the face of the military department like this? Now that Da Sima is seriously ill, Zeng Xingwu, the young Sima who has just taken office, can only stubbornly say: "The post station management of the military department is leaking everywhere, and the Daming Treasure Money Bureau has been rotten since Hongwu for 26 years, and it is rotten to today!" Children know that treasure money is worse than toilet paper! ”

Zeng Shengwu's attack power is directly full, and the level of erosion of the household department is one hundred steps, how can he be embarrassed to mock the fifty steps of the military department!

The organizational structure of the post station is still there, and dozens of post stations have been added in the past two years, with the implementation of the "Regulations on the Station", the operation of the post station has gradually turned into a benign one, and the treasure money bureau of the household department has not even been served by the yamen at all, and the treasure money bureau has been promoted, mostly by Lang Zhong, and it is embarrassing to say that the military department is not well managed?

"Humph! I see who will use the acceptance of the post station, he dares to use it is crazy! Save it in well, you can't take it out, when the time comes, there is no way to beg, besiege the post station, and it is a disobedience, I see which businessman dares to take this risk! Zhang Xueyan immediately changed the direction of attack, and the acceptance bill of the post station could not be recognized by the people at all.

There is a fundamental problem here, the imperial court is a powerful power, and it can breach the contract without any loss, and there is no way to negotiate and sue the people, so it is better to use the civil letter bureau.

Zeng Xingwu immediately said loudly: "Pilot, do you understand the pilot?" There is no decree that can be rolled out at once! From the tax room to the tax institute, the tax audit from Nanya to Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Huguang, and Fujian is not achieved overnight, but step by step! After the establishment of the letter, the Shang Yang reform was implemented, and the establishment of credibility and mutual trust were accumulated little by little! ”

The military department and the household department quarreled in the Wenhua Palace, and the three auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, Zhang Juzheng, Wang Chonggu, and Wang Guoguang looked at the nose and nose and heart, and turned into a master who pretended to be confused, Wan Shihe looked at His Majesty without speaking, nor did he stand up to reconcile, and let the military department and the household department make noise in the Wenhua Palace.

The correction officer on the Wenhua Palace, everyone is also watching the excitement, as long as they don't do it, just a few words, don't you see Your Majesty on the platform, is looking at the excitement with interest?

The greatest pleasure of listening to the government of the imperial gate, watching the Ming Duke of the empire quarrel, Zhu Yijun did not persuade him to fight, he even wanted to shout loudly, fight, fight!

Zhu Yijun is actually looking at Zhang Juzheng's recital, "Gewu General Theory of Currency Sparse", which is talking about the changes of currency.

Zhang Juzheng divided money into three stages, the first stage is commodity money, that is, a specific commodity is used as a medium of exchange, and the oldest in the Central Plains is the shell currency.

Bribery, poverty, credit, expensive, gambling, gifts, fees and a series of money-related words, are shellfish next to the word, in very ancient times, the Central Plains used shell coins as general equivalents, such as "Salt and Iron Treatise, Wrong Coins" said: Xiahou to Xuanbei. "Shangshu Pangengzhong" said: shellfish, water insects, the ancients took their armor as goods, and now they use money.

And this commodity currency, overseas, is still used, in the eastern part of North America in Virginia and Maryland, it is used as a currency; The Viceroyalty of Peru, on the other hand, used a type of shell beads as currency, with 6 white beads or 3 black beads worth a total of one silver reais, and interestingly, the Viceroyalty of Mexico used corn as currency.

These are all typical commodity currencies.

After commodity money, there is the money method, that is, the metal coinage.

The Central Plains is from the pre-Qin began to mint all kinds of copper coins, until the later five baht money, and then to the current Wanli Tongbao, gold, silver and brass, is a natural currency, but also widely accepted and recognized, the lack of metal coinage, not only reflected in the Ming Dynasty, the whole world is the same, the coinage of the Taixi countries, to start from Rome, there is no silver in the silver coins of Rome, but also the joke that is widely spread in Taixi.

After the metal coinage, there is the banknote method, that is, the credit banknote, or the bond banknote.

Paper money is the court's loan to the people, this statement first originated from Xu Heng in the "Coins Notes", said: The husband counts the money of paper and ink, and gets the goods of the people in the world; Printing is easy, endless, and inexhaustible. The so-called immortals in the world refer to the art of turning rubble into gold, and why do they pass this.

Is there any difference between the imperial court using a little paper and ink and non-cashable paper money for the goods and commodities of the people, and the art of turning stones into gold from the gods? The more banknotes issued, the more debts are owed, and this debt can be arbitrarily never paid off, or even abolished directly.

During the Jiading period, the exchange of the new banknotes for the old banknotes was equivalent to owing half of the goods to the people, and during the Jiaxi years, the exchange of the new banknotes for the old banknotes was four times the goods, which was the stripping!

Zhang Juzheng Shi Hai hooked and sunk, and found someone to check the number of money issued by the Southern Song Dynasty, compared with Kublai Khan's 36.18 million guan, the Southern Song Dynasty accumulated 10 million guan during the Song Gaozong, 34 million guan during the Song Xiaozong, 370 million guan during the Song Ningzong period, and 1.929 billion guan during the Song Lizong period.

During the period from Song Gaozong to Song Lizong, a total of more than 2.343 billion Jiaozi were issued!

(Source of historical data, quoted from: "Research on the Evolution of Monetary Thought in the Two Song Dynasties")

Since the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Central Plains has had an official relationship, and it has completely become a sharp blade to peel downward, which is also the reason why the Central Plains does not recognize the treasure banknotes, from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the knife of the banknote law has been cut to the people again and again.

Interestingly, the Spanish Viceroyalty of Mexico also issued paper money, in order to raise funds for the war, the Viceroyalty of Mexico issued paper money and paid military salaries, which led to several major changes in the Viceroyalty of Mexico.

Paper money is closely related to the credibility of the imperial court, and once the credibility is lost, the paper money becomes a pile of waste paper.

Paper money is a debt, but also a reputation, the fluctuation of the value of the banknote endangers the country's trust, the hinterland of the Central Plains, it is not appropriate to prematurely implement the treasure banknote.

This is the conclusion that Zhang Juzheng came to after consulting all the banknote laws from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Hongwu period.

However, Zhang Juzheng is very supportive of paper money going to sea, especially when he chooses the first place where the paper money goes, that is, the Wa Kingdom.

The Wa State lacked smelting technology, although there was enough silver, but the silver dug out will flow to the Ming Dynasty in the transaction, because of the backwardness of mining, smelting, and coinage technology, the Ming treasure banknotes can be recognized in the Wa State.

As for the biggest problem with paper money, the credibility problem caused by the brutal never paying off, or even the direct abolition, Da Ming doesn't care, because it is the Wa State.

For more than 20 years, the Ming Dynasty has gritted his teeth with hatred for the Japanese from top to bottom, especially the hatred of the Jiangnan scholars for the Japanese Invaders, which is no longer known to passers-by.

The exchange of commodities requires the participation of general equivalents in the measurement of value.

Zhang Juzheng has seriously studied the mining and smelting of the Japanese Kingdom. The reason for the backwardness of coinage technology, he briefly summarized, is the lack of firewood, whether it is firewood or coal.

Zhu Yijun finished reading the recital, the military department and the household department finally stopped, the household department lost, the body lost incomplete, mainly because of the practice, the Ming treasure banknote of the household department, even the household department itself did not quite recognize.

"The Ministry of War is going to see the chapter." Zhu Yijun saw the result as soon as it came out, and announced the result as a referee, or try it out in the accounting currency of the acceptance bill to explore the road of treasure money of the Ming Dynasty.

For the first time, Zhu Yijun was a little unconfident in himself, in his lifetime, can Daming really move from metal coinage to credibility currency?

"The minister has already prepared a recital." Zeng Xingwu is good at planning and then acting, since it is launched, it is naturally not to fight with the household department, but to be prepared for a long time, your household department is secretly rubbing the implementation of the money law, and even slandering His Majesty, how can the military department not have any preparations?

Zhang Juzheng handed the song to Feng Bao, he opened the copy, thought for a moment, and wrote the floating ticket.

In fact, it is said that coal, mainly coke, the technology of coking in the earthen kiln is very mature, and the coke of the earthen kiln is also the main source of pollution.

After depositing silver in Songjiang Prefecture, you can directly accept coke at the Xishan Coal Bureau, and then go south from Chidao to Tongzhou, take the Grand Canal to the south, or go to sea from Tianjin Wei to Nanya, and when the ice is frozen in winter, you can take the official road post road to Mizhou City to ship south.

Zeng Xingwu believes that in the next five to ten years, the salt-silver convection will be completely replaced by the coal-silver convection, not that the southern salt will no longer go north, but its scale will be much smaller than the coal-silver convection, and even after the results of the mining in Womagang, the economic cycle will be completely established.

The resentment of the Nanya is very great, and many people in the Nanya believe that the Beiya is also a negative asset and needs to be actuarially calculated, which is manifested in the fact that there have been discussions about the relocation of the Jingshi back to the Nanya in all dynasties, and the rich mineral deposits in the north will effectively reduce this resentment.

"Your military department has been planning for a long time! It's been planned for a long time! Wang Guoguang, as an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, finally stopped letting Zhang Xueyan charge into battle after reading the recital, but spoke directly.

It seems that the defense is somewhat broken.

"Not long after, since the day I entered Beijing from Sichuan as a waiter, I entered Beijing from Sichuan along the water horse post, and I was thinking, how can this good post station have been losing money, since ancient times, this Jinqiao Silver Road, the post station can lose, the world's strange news, the post station thoroughfare the world, communication department stores." Zeng Shengwu's sentence was not long after, that is, six years, and in the third year of Wanli, Zeng Shengwu was promoted to the right servant of the military department, and he returned to Beijing from Sichuan, and he has been preparing for this matter.

Zeng Xingwu said with great certainty: "Since ancient times, merchants have not been able to do it unless they are strong men, and the mountain bandits who block the road and rob abound, this post man, the best source of soldiers." ”

Zhu Yijun approved Zeng Xingwu's recital, the military department has really been planning for a long time, and the preparations are very good, and it is necessary to supplement the "Regulations on Giving Posts", and the regulations on the management of silver and the acceptance of physical objects (coke) have been studied very clearly, and in the process of trial implementation, they will be revised when problems are encountered.

Contradictions have been explained one after another, and no system is perfect from the place where it is designed, it is all cyclical and gradual, spiraling, which is called reform and innovation in the ritual law.

Tobe's attempt to promote the treasure banknote was once again frustrated, and only permission was obtained from the Nagasaki Governor's Palace to issue banknotes.

Wang Daokun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, reported on the construction progress of Youlong and Feiyun, if according to the current situation, it is expected that the construction of three years will be completed, and it can be completed half a year in advance.

"Your Majesty, this production capacity cannot be reduced, and there can be no pollution, and when the Suiyuan Chi Road is repaired, the coal from Datong, Guihua, and Shengzhou can be successfully delivered to Beijing and then discussed." The attitude of the Ministry of Industry is particularly tough, and the plan to reduce production is just three words, impossible!

The price of coal rose from six wen a pound to two hundred wen a catty, and it was not the official of science and technology who was held accountable, but their Ministry of Industry, even if the emperor forcibly ordered, the Ministry of Industry would also say that Xishan Coal and Steel has been developing for a long time, and the craftsmen of the kiln are relatively rich, and the Ministry of Industry has implemented the strategic adjustment of the layout of refined steel and refined coal, improved the level of equipment, done a good job in energy conservation and emission reduction, and done a good job in pollution prevention and control, so as to provide power for the economic cycle of Daming.

If the emperor asks again, the Ministry of Industry can only say: Don't talk about it, don't talk about it.

"The Ministry of Industry has the difficulties of the Ministry of Industry, I respond to the poor, then I can only reluctantly make it difficult, the Jie Yuan got a cotton mask, after the court meeting, everyone take some back, this Suiyuan Chidao should be repaired as soon as possible." Zhu Yijun did not force the Ministry of Industry to reduce production, and Daming needed coal.

The household department heard about the issuance of Yanxinglou tickets, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate found a number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, mainly in Zhejiang Nanya and other places, this place is drunk and gold-obsessed, the most prone to degenerate, a total of 64 people, the specific handling is Yingtian prefect Li Le, Yingtianfu is Nanya, is one of the two capitals, Li Le is almost certain to be the next governor of Yingtian.

Because this term of Yingtian Governor Pan Jitao strongly asked to go to Suiyuan as the governor, this is a flat tone, more like exile, Pan Jitao wants to govern the Yellow River.

Pan Jitao, who invented the method of flushing sand with water, knew very well that if he wanted to make the Yellow River clear, he had to control soil erosion in Suiyuan.

In terms of Pan Jitao's qualifications, he entered Beijing from Yingtian, at least he was a young man, but Pan Jitao gave up his own progress and wanted to transfer Suiyuan, the border place where birds don't, from the richest Nanyaping in the south of the Yangtze River, just to govern the Yellow River.

"Governor Pan is for the country and the people, and Governor Suiyuan should be promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry." Zhang Juzheng, as the official of the ministry, invited a higher Beijing official to Pan Jitao, and when they met in the future, they would call Pan Butang.

Pan Jitao returned to Beijing at least as a young man, and it is possible to wait for a lack of Shangshu, but Pan Jitao chose Suiyuan, Pan Jitao is also the most staunch supporter of the Ming Dynasty, and once discussed the possibility of the resumption with Tan Lun in depth, the Yellow River is harmful, and only in the Hetao can this turbid dragon be captured!

Suiyuan's first political envoy is the three ladies, is the imperial court to fulfill the promise, but also helpless, no one is available, before there was no Womagang, Shengzhou mines, the Ming Dynasty even willing to go to Suiyuan officials can not find a few, Pan Jitao took the initiative to ask to go, just to govern the Yellow River, played an exemplary role.

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty are not all intrigues and tricks, and they are rotten people who will do whatever it takes to get promoted.

"What does Wang Cifu think?" Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu.

Wang Chonggu immediately bowed his head and said: "Pan Butang is righteous in the world. ”

Wang Chonggu agreed to Zhang Juzheng's proposal for major personnel appointments, and Pan Jitao led Suiyuan, the governor of the Ministry of Industry, who also greatly appreciated Pan Jitao's conduct.

The existence of people like Hai Rui and Pan Jitao has raised the average level of bureaucratic morality in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Chonggu saw that everyone had finished discussing the big things, and said, "A strange thing happened recently. ”

"In Shicheng County, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, there is an oil seller named Jin Xiao, as his name suggests, quite filial, to sell oil for a living, this day the oil seller out of the house is a little anxious, into the toilet to pick up the white cloth wrapped in the belly there are thirty taels of silver, overjoyed, Jin Xiao took the silver and went home happily, said to his mother, got the creation, found a lot of silver."

When the old lady heard this, she was immediately surprised and said, "How do you do such a bad thing, is it not stealing?" Jin Xiao told the origin of the thirty taels of silver, and the old lady heard the reason, and persuaded Jin Xiao to find the lost owner and return it, and said: This rich and poor are all fate, if you should enjoy your life, you are not born in the family of the oil burden, you have earned it hard, but you are afraid that it will be useless, but suffer from it. ”

When Zhu Yijun heard this, he said with a smile: "The old lady is a sensible person, this person who lost the silver must be as anxious as the ants on the hot pot, thirty taels of silver is not less." ”

Thirty taels of silver is enough to buy a few yellow flower girls.

Wang Chonggu continued: "No, Jin Xiao is a filial person, he listened to his mother's words and went to find the lost owner, which is bad. ”

"How is this broken? Picking up gold is not ambiguous, Jin Xiao has peace of mind, and the owner is lost and recovered, why is it broken? Zhu Yijun asked suspiciously, what do you think is a good thing.

Wang Chonggu shook his head a little helplessly and said: "This owner is not a good person, the owner took back the silver package belly, for fear that Jin Xiao would ask for a reward, so he had a plan, saying that there were fifty taels of silver in his pocket, and Jin Xiao hid twenty taels in vain. It attracted neighbors to watch. ”

"Your Majesty, this county is full of neighbors, if this Jin Xiao sits down and hides the twenty taels, then Jin Xiao will not have to be a man in the future, he will be scolded by someone poking his backbone when he goes out, and Jin Xiao is an oil seller, this reputation is bad, this Jin Xiao can only take his old mother to leave his hometown and go elsewhere to make a living."

"But it was said that this Jin Xiao argued loudly, but the owner was entangled, and the noise attracted the fireman in the building, and the fireman invited the officer, and the officer brought people to the Shicheng County office, and the county governor Chen Zhen, who was the second and forty-fifth in the eighth year of Wanli, had just performed his post, and this was also the first time he was promoted."

"This neighbor wants to see how this Xinzhi County will be punished."

Zhu Yijun sat forward and asked, "How did Chen Zhixian judge?" ”

Wang Chong's ancient god said: "Chen Zhixian asked the lost master, how many taels of silver are in your belly wrapped in silver cloth?" The lost owner said fifty taels, Chen Zhixian immediately understood, and said: The lost silver is fifty taels, and he picked up thirty taels, which is not yours. ”

The owner was shocked, and hurriedly said: The villain is willing to only take these thirty taels."

Chen Zhixian said sharply: If Jin Xiao wants to rely on your silver, why don't you take it all? But he only hid less than half of it, and he confessed to it to cause such an idle matter? The silver was broken and taken away by Jin Xiao to support his mother; Your fifty taels, go and find it! ”

"Good judgment." Zhu Yijun highly recognized Chen Zhixian's judgment.

Jin Xiao picks up the gold, the owner is beaten upside down, and the county knows right and wrong, since the number is not right, naturally you can't take it, since you lost fifty taels, go find it yourself.

Wang Chonggu's face became serious, and he said: "Your Majesty, Chen Zhen's disposition is more than that, after this Jin Xiao took Yin Liang to help his mother leave, Chen Zhixian tied up this lost owner. ”

"Da Ming law, false accusation and reverse sitting, this lost owner falsely accuses Jin Xiao in front, according to the "Da Ming Law" and "Da Ming Hui Code", anyone who robs people and property during the day will be given a hundred rods and three years in prison, and those who count the stolen goods will be added to the crime of theft and theft in the second degree, and those who hurt others will be beheaded, and they will be reduced by one class each."

"Therefore the owner should have been given a hundred rods and three years."

"Daylight is not to distinguish between yin and yang, but to emphasize broad daylight and blatant light, so the punishment is so heavy."

Zhu Yijun frowned slightly, and then stretched out and said, "The punishment is not too much. ”

Wan Shihe explained: "Snatching by surprise is said to be robbing, and it is said to be snatched by force, this lost owner is coerced by everyone's mouth, it is robbery, it seems to be a trivial matter, Chen Zhen seems to be a little too coercive and excessive, and he loses his heart of forgiveness, but he is falsely accused and sits, and it should be so." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, if the fireman didn't notice that he had invited the officials, what would happen if Jin Xiao was timid and afraid to admit it? Is the oil stall in his house worth twenty silver? If you can't afford to pay it, you can't afford it, will anyone buy his family's oil in the future? In this Shicheng County, will Jin Xiao still stay? In these years, when the people migrated elsewhere, they went into exile. ”

It seems that the punishment is a bit too heavy, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, if Jin Xiao admits it, I am afraid that his family will be ruined.

"If our Ming Dynasty are all followers like Chen Zhen, it's good, most of them are for the sake of saving trouble and thin mud, the place is convenient, but this and thin mud is indulgence, who will dare to pick up gold in the future? When this happens in other places, they will follow the old routine, but it will be more troublesome. Zhang Juzheng said with feeling.

Chen Zhen's punishment was so threatening, it all reached the ears of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and even got it to the Wenhua Hall to talk about it, which is a troublesome matter for officials like the magistrate.

In order to save trouble and dilute the mud, the local government will definitely fuel this arrogance, coupled with the inflow of a large amount of silver into the Ming Dynasty, the people's hearts are not ancient, and the etiquette collapses, which is a little bit of collapse.

The way of heaven favors the good people, the natural public order and good customs are destroyed, and the world is churning like a wheel.

(End of chapter)