Now in the capital, you can read Jiangnan Daily again.
Although you will always have to wait two days after the release date to see it, for people of this era, it is already unimaginably fast.
Newspapers, as a revolutionary media tool, have made people's hearts beat in unison as never before. The whole society has never paid so much attention to a certain event, and has never been so concentrated.
The biggest hot topic in society recently is no longer the long and tedious North-South negotiations, but the war on the Korean front.
"Extra, Extra, a great victory in the Battle of Tsushima. Our navy's Seventh Fleet completely annihilated the Toyotomi navy, and 150,000 Japanese pirates were killed!"
"Extra, Extra, a great victory in Seoul, our expeditionary army has recovered Seoul, Marshal Qi announced that the Japanese pirates will be driven out of Korea completely by the Mid-Autumn Festival!"
People have never paid so much attention to a war going on in a distant land. Newspapers were snapped up every day, and men of all ages read the newspapers aloud with great joy, discussing with great interest whether the army should cross the Tsushima Strait and capture Toyotomi Hideyoshi alive!
In fact, good news is coming not only from the peninsula.
The generals of each town are now in full bloom!
Li Rusong, the general of Xuanfu, Ma Gui, the general of Ningxia, and others launched frequent attacks to crack down on the extremely dishonest Tatar tribes, and won successive victories in Ganshan, Nanchuan and Xichuan, three resounding victories known as the Three Victories of Huangzhong!
He successively defeated several powerful Mongolian tribes and wiped out the Huoluochi tribe that killed Ningxia Deputy General Li Lianfang!
Several major Tatar tribes that caused border troubles either disappeared or fled far away, and the small tribes that remained in the area were weak and returned to the country. Several generals took the opportunity to recruit soldiers, build border forts, and push the defense line forward to the Qilian Mountains!
They jointly signed a military order, vowing to capture the throat of the Qilian line before the snow fell, drive out the "Songlu" - the Tatar Achitu tribe that had been entrenched there for decades, and recover the Big and Small Song Mountains that were occupied by Altan Khan!
However, their copy was not sent to the imperial court, but to Jiangnan...
In the southwest, Yunnan General Deng Zilong and the Siamese army attacked Mang Yinglong together. Both sides fought well, and the chieftains also actively led their troops to help. For a time, the Toungoo Dynasty, the former little overlord of Indochina, was in a state of decline!
In addition, Sichuan Governor Li Hualong also ordered Liu Jing to lead his troops south to pacify Yang Yinglong of Bozhou. Regardless of whether he could do it or not, at least his courage was commendable.
It seems that the martial virtues of our Chinese nation are abundant and have surpassed those of Taizu and Chengzu.
This made people excited and no longer worried. Without the emperor and the court, how would the civil and military officials in the provinces and towns, who were in disarray, cope with so many internal and external troubles?
It seems that China no longer needs them...
The fact that more than 100 stocks on the Dashilan Stock Exchange have risen back to their highs before the Wanli Maritime Ban last year is clear proof of this!
But this is not good news for the royalists and the trapped beast in the Forbidden City.
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Zhang Jing reported to Wanli that there were rumors in Beijing recently that the people had lost patience with the negotiations and were planning to attack the Forbidden City and bring him out for public trial...
This made Wanli unable to sleep or eat, and he had to seriously consider his brother's proposal.
Last month, Prince Lu sent his personal eunuch to Beijing to pay his respects and delivered a secret letter to his brother. The letter said that they, the princes, were having a hard time and had to sell off their ancestral property and land in exchange for a temporary peace. But those peasants were not grateful at all and were going to push their luck and wanted to follow the example of Jiangxi and Huguang and drive them out of the palace!
Now they have reached the limit of their patience, so the princes of Lu, Yu, Shan, Shan, and Shu have already joined together and decided to raise an army to support the king and revive the government. However, because the previous emperors had severely restricted and weakened the princes, each of them only had 3,000 guards, which was not enough to attack the heavily armed capital.
So Prince Lu suggested that the eldest brother could find an opportunity to leave Beijing and tour Xi'an? According to the King of Qin, the people in Guanzhong are simple and honest, and loyal. The people's minds have not been tainted by the Jiangnan group. If the emperor brother raises his arm and calls for action, everyone will follow.
More than a dozen of us vassal kings will also swear to follow our brother the emperor until death. Then, with the strategic location of Tongguan in front and the land of abundance in the back, a new situation will be created!
Moreover, Datong General Dong Yiyuan has secretly stated that the so-called "uprising" before was just to paralyze the rebels. But his brothers in the Dong family are all loyal to the emperor, so as long as the emperor can reach Zijing Pass, he can send you safely to Xi'an!
At first Wanli thought his brother was just fooling around. Wouldn't this mean he would be exiled?
But as people's opinions became increasingly divided and his safety became increasingly threatened, Wanli finally decided to let Zhang Jing make arrangements in advance.
At the beginning of August, Wanli read in the Jiangnan Daily that Zhao Hao had left Pudong and was preparing to go north to comfort the army fighting against Japanese invaders!
In Wanli's view, this was Zhao Ni's naked reminder to the people, whose army was the Japanese expeditionary army? After winning every battlefield, he would have accumulated enough prestige to kill himself and directly become emperor!
The more Wanli thought about it, the more it made sense to him, and he began to be more and more inclined to escape.
A few days later, one incident made him completely determined - some citizens launched several homemade rockets at the palace outside Donghua Gate, causing a small fire.
Although no one was hurt, Wanli was frightened and thought that the palace was no longer safe. A mob might rush in at any time, causing the Beijing Palace to repeat the fate of the Nanjing Palace.
On the tenth day of August, Wanli formally ordered Zhang Jing to arrange to leave the capital and go to Zijing Pass as soon as possible!
The emperor had been in danger for a long time, and Zhang Jing had already made a plan. After reporting all the details to the emperor and making some adjustments according to the emperor's will, the "Wanli Western Hunting Plan" was officially launched.
Because it was a secret escape, the fewer people the better. Most of the concubines, palace maids and guards could not be brought along.
In fact, Wanli originally wanted to take his two sons with him. It was not because he loved his sons, but if he left his sons behind, the royalists might make his sons emperor. So he wanted to take both sons with him.
After thinking for a while, he found that the two Empress Dowagers had to go with him. Although they had no right of succession, they could choose a new emperor from among the princes and relatives, which Wanli could not bear.
In addition, each person has a servant, plus Zhang Hong, Zhang Jing, and Zhang Cheng, there are thirteen people in total.
Wanli always felt that someone was missing, but he couldn't remember it at the moment. He thought, forget it, if he couldn't remember it, it didn't matter...
Amid the intensive preparations, the day of escape arrived - the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, a day for family reunion. Wanli believed that people were busy celebrating the festival and their attention would definitely not be on him. He took great pains to choose this day to escape.
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At night, a dark red blood-red full moon rises from the east.
Several inconspicuous colorful carriages, with intervals of about a mile between them, left the palace from Xuanwu Gate and left the imperial city from Bei'an Gate.
Then the carriages went north along the street under the Drum Tower. When they arrived in front of the Bell and Drum Tower, the evening bells happened to ring.
A corner of the curtain of a carriage was lifted, and Zhu Yijun, who was dressed as a government official, took a deep look at the bell and drum tower in the capital.
He had grown up hearing these sounds, but this was the first time he had seen them in person.
I don’t know if I will have the chance to hear the sound of bells and drums again in this life…
Wanli couldn't help but burst into tears and felt that he was the tragic figure of the year.
In the carriage, the two Empress Dowagers each hugged a prince. Seeing him crying, they couldn't help crying.
"I want my mother..." The third prince Zhu Changxun started to make a fuss in Empress Dowager Chen's arms.
"Stop crying, or they will cook you!" Queen Mother Chen quickly covered his mouth and scared him to avoid being exposed.
Wanli then slapped his head and remembered that he had forgotten about Concubine Zheng.
But I can't go back now. Never mind, I'll talk about it next time...
After the carriage passes the Bell and Drum Tower, walk along the west side street of the Drum Tower to the end, and you will reach Deshengmen.
Normally, the palace gates would have been locked by this time.
But the palace gate had been taken over by the Imperial Stables for more than half a year.
Zhang Hong showed his face, and the eunuch guarding the gate nodded, and had someone quietly open the half-closed city gate a crack to let the carriages out.
Ironically, Emperor Wanli escaped from the capital through Deshengmen. But everyone was relieved that he escaped safely.
The carriage stopped shortly after it started, and the East Factory guards were waiting there, leading the emperor and his family to a small boat. The carriage went straight to the West Hill, while the boat went along the moat to the South Pier of Fuchengmen.
There were also several carriages parked there, and the emperor and his family got off the boats and mounted the horses.
"Zhang Jing is reliable! He has improved a lot..." Seeing how professional this action was, Wanli couldn't help but secretly praise him and decided not to use him as a punching bag anymore.
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As the convoy gradually moved away from the capital, the emperor and his family relaxed and even felt inexplicably excited.
Maybe this is what it feels like to escape from a cage.
However, two hours later, when the blood moon was at its zenith, the carriage suddenly stopped in front of Lugou Bridge.
Wanli opened the car curtain and looked out in surprise, and his heart sank to the bottom.
There were densely packed flickering torches on and under the bridge, and there must be several thousand people blocking the way.
The Jinyiwei who was driving the carriage tried to turn the carriage around anxiously, but the crowd surrounded him.
"Go away!" The Royal Guards shouted, "You are here to do your job at the Northern Pacification Office. Don't you want to live?"
"It's already this late, and you still dare to show off?!" The common people cursed and picked up stones to throw at the carriages.
The walls of the carriage were banging, and dirt and stones flew in from the windows from time to time. The two empresses and the two princes were frightened like quails. Wanli felt that he had to go out and stop them, but he couldn't move at all.
In order to keep the secret, there were only a few coachmen and guards, and when they were rushed by the common people, they all disappeared.
The people began to search for the tyrant in each car, and finally found the emperor and his family in the middle car.
When Wanli prayed for rain before, the people in the capital had all seen him, so they recognized him at a glance and wanted to drag Wanli out and give him a beating!
Fortunately, someone stood up and stopped the people.
"We cannot use lynching. We must send him to public trial!" The speaker was Li Jiaqi, who organized the Suzhou weavers' riot last year. Unexpectedly, he organized another blockade of Marco Polo Bridge. Apparently, he has been busy in the past year!
His words were so authoritative that the common people let go of Wanli's collar. Wanli hurriedly shrank back into the car in embarrassment, causing the common people to burst into laughter.
The emperor is nothing but a coward even if he leaves the throne room and is without his lackeys!
Li Jiaqi was about to say something else when suddenly the sound of chaotic horse hooves was heard on the official road.
A large group of cavalrymen with torches chased after them.
Li Jiaqi frowned slightly. Even though the emperor looked like a horrible person, he was still everyone's favorite.
The group of people who came closer were Duke Dingguo Xu Wenbi and Duke Yingguo Zhang Yuangong, and behind them were the security team of Xishan Group.
The common people don't understand the relationship between the Xishan Group and the Jiangnan Group, and think they are the same group. So when they see the security brigade, it's like seeing the government troops...
"Thank you for bringing the emperor back. It was our mistake not to take good care of him." Xu Wenbi politely bowed to everyone and said, "Let's go now, it's so late. I'll treat everyone to a drink another day."
Just as the common people were about to move, they heard Li Jiaqi say in a deep voice: "Wait a minute!"
"Where are you going to take the emperor?"
"Since you're asking this, of course the emperor is going back to the palace." Xu Wenbi looked the man up and down and felt that he was not a good person.
"That won't work. The emperor has finally come out. We can't let him go back." Li Jiaqi opened his arms and shouted, "We have to send him to Jiangnan for trial! We can't let him go back to the palace!"
"Yes!" The common people also followed suit and said loudly, "If he goes back, who knows when he will be able to wait! We must send him to Jiangnan for trial!"
"You guys!" Xu Wenbi was so angry that his nose was crooked. These peasants were really taking advantage of him. He wanted to pretend to be an ordinary person and talk to them, but they were so ungrateful!
The reason why he was able to catch up in time was because he was notified by the civil servants.
Now the royalists have a serious sense of crisis. Because a terrible fact lies before them - the capital is no longer important, and is no longer the heart of the empire. The country is fighting three, no, four wars at the same time, and they are completely unnecessary!
This frightened the royalists. People are important because they are needed. People who are not needed can be abandoned at any time...
So they had to bring the emperor back to the palace. That way at least the emperor would need them!
But these unruly people actually dared to sing a different tune!
If they were allowed to send the emperor to Jiangnan for trial, regardless of whether Zhu Yijun could save his life in the end, the imperial system would be ended, and this was something the royalists could never accept!
"Who are you? Who sent you?" Zhang Yuangong had never worked in Xishan Group before, and he was too lazy to even put on a show. He pointed his whip at Li Jiaqi and said coldly, "What are you trying to do?!"
"I'm Li Jiaqi. It's normal that you don't know me, because when have you, the ministers, ever taken the common people seriously?" Li Jiaqi said loudly, "No one sent me here. The eyes of our people are everywhere! Our goal is of course to eliminate the poisonous snakes and beasts that eat our flesh and blood!"
His words were so inspiring that the people couldn't help but want to follow him.
"Don't make a mistake. Before the negotiation is over, the Emperor is still your Emperor!" Zhang Yuangong shouted, "Everyone, go away! Stop being so unruly!"
"Fuck you!" Some people couldn't help but curse Zhang Yuangong: "The emperor is like a dog, why are you still pretending to be so high and mighty?!"
Amid the roar of laughter, Zhang Yuangong shouted angrily, "Don't refuse a toast and drink a penalty!"
"Bah!" Little did they know that the common people had already been unleashed by Zhao Hao, and trying to scare them with the old tricks would only backfire.
The people threw torches at the two dukes, and the security team members quickly protected them behind them.
"I'll count to three. If you don't get out of the way, I'll arrest you!" Zhang Yuangong roared with a sullen face.
After three counts, still no one paid any attention to him, and instead the common people began to pull their carriages towards the dock.
The Lugou Bridge Coal Yard is where Zhao Hao made his fortune. The Yongding River under the bridge is now well connected, and you can go to the Grand Canal via the North Canal. You can also go directly to Tianjin, and you can go to Tangshan via the Chaobai River...
"We can't let them get the emperor on board!" The two dukes looked at each other, both looking anxious.
"Catch him!" Xu Wenbi shouted with gritted teeth.
"Sir, isn't this inappropriate?" The security team members were puzzled. Although they were not local soldiers, they knew that the group's slogan was 'For the People'.
"We can't worry about that anymore. Let's get the emperor back to the palace first!" Xu Wenbi said with gritted teeth, "Can't you see? That Li guy and the guys beside him are definitely not ordinary people. They are spies with ulterior motives!"
The security team member looked at the captain and saw him nod, so he had no choice but to ride forward and capture Li Jiaqi and several of his accomplices who were blocking the crowd.
"Don't worry about us, send the emperor to Jiangnan! End the imperial system!" Li Jiaqi and others had their hands handcuffed behind their backs, and they kept shouting and yelling, not letting the people rescue them.
He knew very well that no one dared to commit violence against ordinary people. If the slogan of "everything for the people" was shouted too much, some rules would inevitably be changed.
"Let them send the people back!" Xu Wenbi shouted angrily, but how could it be useful?
Zhang Yuangong was still unrestrained. He pointed at Li Jiaqi and others and said to the people: "Send them back within five minutes, or I will shoot them!"
"Firing squad, get ready!" Xu Wenbi was also desperate. He didn't dare to shoot at the common people. But in order to save the emperor, killing a few guys of unknown origin was nothing.
"Start counting." Zhang Yuangong said, taking out his pocket watch.
The people were stunned at the time. How could they ignore Mr. Li and his people? They were the leaders of the poor people!
"You must not let them go!" Li Jiaqi became anxious when he saw the people trying to make way for him. He simply sang the uprising song loudly:
"Rise up, slaves who are starving and cold! Rise up, the suffering people of China! The blood in your hearts is boiling, let's fight the last war!"
"The old world has been defeated, slaves, rise up! Do not say we are worthless, we want to be the masters of the world!" The common people can actually sing this song and join in the chorus, which makes the two dukes' scalps numb.
Suddenly they saw a naval general riding a horse galloping towards them. It was the group's deputy envoy for negotiations, Rear Admiral Cai Yilin.
When the singing stopped, Cai Yilin dismounted, stood in front of Li Jiaqi and his men, and looked coldly at the firing squad opposite.
He suddenly realized that the security captain in his forties or fifties standing opposite him was the one who brought him to the Jeju Coast Guard School in that distant spring.
Cai Yilin saluted Chu Liuxiang and said in a deep voice, "Instructor, long time no see."
The former Coast Guard gunner smiled and returned the greeting: "Yes, I have been retired for ten years."
As he spoke, he glanced at Cai Yilin's shoulder badges, smiled with satisfaction and said, "Excuse me, Rear Admiral, what can I do for you?"
"I would like to ask the instructor, has this execution been subject to a legal trial? Is there a document from the People's Provisional Government designating your unit to carry out the death penalty?" Cai Yilin did not use his position to pressure others, and was obviously giving face to his former instructor.
Chu Liuxiang shook his head, grinned with relief and said, "No."
"Then you can't execute him." Cai Yilin said in a deep voice: "Please take him back immediately to avoid further damage to the group's image!"
"Yes, Your Excellency Rear Admiral!" Chu Liuxiang waved his hand and ordered, "Retreat!"
In the blink of an eye, he rode away with his subordinates, no longer paying any attention to the two dukes.
"As the deputy envoy of negotiations, I will write a report on your behavior today and submit it to the People's Provisional Government!" After Cai Yilin finished speaking, he glanced at Li Jiaqi, who then hurriedly returned to the crowd with his companions and surrounded the carriage and headed towards the dock.
Xu Wenbi's forehead was covered with sweat, and Zhang Yuangong's face was ashen. The two men realized that they were not leaders of the Royalist Party at all, but were being used as pawns by others...
If things go wrong, he might be exiled to Aozhou, or even go to Xibeliya to grow potatoes!
The blood moon in the sky seemed to have transformed into a kind father, looking at them with a smile.
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Here, Emperor Wanli, escorted by thousands of common people and watched by fellow villagers along the way, traveled in glory to the south of the Yangtze River.
The Japanese expeditionary army also cleared out the Japanese pirates who invaded Korea as scheduled. After the Mid-Autumn Festival in Busan, they boarded the Chinese shipping fleet and crossed the sea to counterattack Japan.
According to the original plan, the first battle of the Japanese expeditionary army after landing would be at Nagoya Castle.
But when His Excellency Tai-King built the city, he obviously did not ask the old king of Kyushu... Oh, yes, the old king is dead. Then you can ask Matsuura Takanobu who is nearby.
He will certainly use his own tragic example to tell Your Excellency that when building a city, one must stay away from the coast, or at least build it out of reach of artillery fire.
As a result, Nagoya was still built on the seashore, and the Seventh Fleet could even approach to a distance of one kilometer and fire.
For the large-caliber ship-borne cannons, this range is neither too far nor too close, which is simply too comfortable. After a round of bombardment, coupled with the monkey's obsession with Oda City... rockets, this second largest city in Japan after Osaka was basically reduced to ruins.
No matter how arrogant Toyotomi Hideyoshi was, he knew at this time that his dream of conquering the continent was shattered.
Moreover, the 300,000-man army and more than 10,000 navy troops were completely wiped out, which brought extremely serious consequences. First of all, it almost drained Japan's national strength, military power and manpower.
This was an extremely heavy blow to the Toyotomi family, whose foundation was already unstable. The direct line of the army was basically destroyed, and the military strength fell to the bottom.
Tokugawa Ieyasu and his gang had already reached the other side of the Kanmon Strait, but upon hearing that he had suffered a devastating defeat, they actually returned home, which showed that they no longer took him seriously.
How could Toyotomi Hideyoshi care about Shanghai at this time? He hurried back to Osaka Castle, reassembled his troops, and concentrated his strength to deter the daimyo who were ready to make a move.
Sure enough, Tokugawa Ieyasu soon raised the banner of rebellion, accusing him of being obsessed with evil, provoking the Celestial Empire, and bringing heavenly punishment on Japan! He should be beheaded to appease the wrath of the Celestial Empire.
Kennyo Honganji, who had always been on good terms with the monkey, also launched the Ikko Ikki and declared the monkey to be the new enemy of Buddhism.
The now-diminished Amago clan began to attack the severely weakened Mori clan...
The daimyo of Kyushu Island also began to attack the crippled Shimazu clan...
For a time, the situation in Japan was very good, as if it was returning to the Warring States Period.
On September 18th, the entire expeditionary force arrived at Osaka Bay.
The Seventh Fleet covered the landing of the First Army and the Cavalry Division at the mouth of the Yodo River, and then the army headed straight for Osaka Castle.
There, the Tokugawa army, flying the "Zhao" flag, and the monks of Honganji Temple, had been fighting for many days outside the well-equipped Osaka Castle, which had three circles of walls and multiple moats, and suffered heavy losses.
The raccoon originally planned to beat the drowned dog, but he didn't expect that the monkey would still be able to beat him when he was in trouble. If Dad didn't come again, Ieyasu would be prepared to commit seppuku.
But even the best castles in Japan could not withstand the bombardment of cannons. Even without the Chenghua cannon, the solid bullets of the Yongle cannon could easily destroy the walls of Osaka.
This is inevitable. After all, when the Japanese built the city, they did not think about the defense of artillery, so the walls were all dry-laid with stones. Without even a little glue, how could it withstand heavy artillery bombardment?
In just two days, the artillery division destroyed the Ninomaru and Sannomaru of Osaka Castle, which were the second and third circles of the city, leaving only the lonely Honmaru.
Therefore, Japan later called cannons "national collapse".
Every night, the Japanese expeditionary army would fire thousands of Oda City rockets at Osaka Castle to send warmth...
Japan's houses are made of pure wood and are more fire-resistant than North Korea's houses.
The entire Osaka Castle was engulfed in flames, and it took two full days to extinguish the flames. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's castle tower was particularly badly damaged, and it collapsed in the flames.
Three days later, when the conquering Japanese army, the Tokugawa army, and the monks filled the trenches and rushed into the huge Osaka Castle from different locations, the surviving Toyotomi army had completely lost the will to resist and knelt down in surrender.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had been a powerful figure throughout his life, rose from a farmer to a noble, and at the end of his rope, he and Kitanosho Nene committed seppuku in the Nikairo corridor of the Imperial Palace...
The blood was bright red, like maple leaves in late autumn.
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In October of that year, at the foot of the snow-capped Mount Fuji, the maple leaves by the lake were as red as the fire of Osaka, so beautiful that it took one's breath away.
"It's so beautiful." Zhao Hao came to enjoy the maple leaves as promised.
"Yes, I didn't expect that the place where the Japanese pirates were born and raised was so beautiful." Qi Jiguang also sighed: "It seems that the local climate and soil determine the local people, which is not absolutely absolute."
"Don't kill them all with one blow." Zhao Hao smiled as he strolled along the golden and fiery red tree-lined avenue, and said to his godson who was following him respectfully, "I think Ieyasu is a good guy."
"It's all thanks to my father's good teaching." Zhao Jiakang said modestly: "In fact, the most beautiful maple leaves in Japan are in Matsushima. Father must come to Matsushima again next year to appreciate the maple leaves."
"Okay, I will." Zhao Hao nodded and said to Zhao Jiakang with a smile, "Even if you become a general, you can't just sit back and eat tempura. You have to put in more effort and cooperate with Marshal Qi to continue the great situation of unifying the Three Kingdoms."
"Don't worry, father. It's such a blessing to be part of the Celestial Empire for generations to come! Who would want to go back to the past?" Zhao Jiakang promised. "I will cut him into pieces!"
"Okay." Zhao Hao nodded.
After enjoying the maple leaves, Qi Jiguang and Zhao Jiakang went to the Fujikawa Pier to see Zhao Hao off on board.
Knowing that Zhao Hao and Marshal Qi had something to say, Ieyasu obediently avoided them.
"Marshal, are you not going back to the country with me?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.
"I don't have many years left. You should use the rest of your time to build a sturdy dog cage." Qi Jiguang said with a smile, "When I die, bury me on Mount Fuji and write on my tombstone: Qi Jiguang, forever guarding the three islands of the Japanese slaves!"
"Hahaha, good idea." Zhao Hao laughed out loud.
"Will you try the emperor when you return this time?" Qi Jiguang asked in a low voice.
"Yeah." Zhao Hao nodded, his smile gradually fading as he said, "We've finished the pleasant things. It's time to go back to the unpleasant things."
"How are you going to deal with him?" Qi Jiguang asked hesitantly.
"As I said before, let the people decide." Zhao Hao let out a long breath and looked towards the distant Pudong.
Although he was thousands of miles away, he seemed to see the roar of the mountains and the gleaming guillotine under the Oriental Pearl Tower.
"This is just a question on our test paper. It's not even the hardest one." Zhao Hao held his patinated pipe and looked at the geese flying south in the sky.
"I hope we can at least pass the exam..."
After saying this, he boarded the ship with firm steps, set sail, and set out to sea, returning to the examination room that belonged to him and to every Chinese of this era.
【End of the book】
p.s. Allow me to take a moment to reflect on my final words.
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