Great Ming: I, Zhu Di, Declare My Intentions to Seize the Throne from the Start!

"Meet my father, queen, and eldest brother. 𝟲𝟵𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘅.𝗰𝗼𝗺"

After Zhu Yuanzhang and others arrived in the new carriage presented by Zhu Di, a group of princes from Zhu Di busily saluted and paid homage.

"no."

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, walked to Zhu Di, grabbed Zhu Di's hand, and walked to the Imperial Academy under the gaze of everyone.

Everyone looked at it with a look of understanding in their eyes.

Some people are relieved.

Some people have a hint of indescribable envy.

Especially the group of concubines in the harem, the sour look in their eyes flashed away, and they looked at their own son who followed Zhu Biao quickly behind Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and his son.

The sadness in my heart became even stronger.

Discussing quietly.

"Your Majesty is very kind to the fourth child."

"No, now we, the Crown Prince, probably don't hold as much weight in His Majesty's heart as the fourth child, let alone our son."

…

Xu Miaoyun, Crown Princess Chang and other daughters-in-law, accompanied Ma Xiuying, heard the faint discussion coming from behind.

Ma Xiuying turned her head and looked at Xu Miaoyun. Seeing that Xu Miaoyun was calm and composed, she smiled with satisfaction, took Xu Miaoyun's hand and patted it gently.

Xu Miaoyun turned around and saw Ma Xiuying, Chang, Guanyinnu and others smiling and nodding, smiling...

Some people were jealous of his father's affection for Shiro, but others understood it.

Not everyone saw more than what was in front of them.

But I didn’t expect how many things Shiro had done over the years.

It has been sixteen years since I left the palace in the ninth year of Hongwu. I have not had the chance to reunite with my father, the queen, and my queen during festive reunions like the Chinese New Year.

Sixteen years later.

As long as you have a fair heart, you can't help but understand how your father feels as a parent.

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Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and his son were at the front.

There is a distance from the back.

Zhu Yuanzhang's voice was neither too high nor too low, and he said: "This new editor of yours, Butterfly Lovers, just pointed it in my father's face and scolded him..."

Zhu Di suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, and turned to look at Zhu Yuanzhang and complain.

"Father, even if we criticize, we are criticizing the Eastern Jin Dynasty. What does it have to do with our Ming Dynasty?"

The old man made it clear that this was a deliberate expression of hurt and grievance.

Unexpectedly, as he got older, the old man would still have such a side.

The smile on Zhu Yuanzhang's lips flashed away. He looked at Zhu Di out of the corner of his eye and asked, "During this period, you have been observing everywhere in our Ming Dynasty. Have you finished writing your discussion of the people's economy and the elite economy?"

Zhu Di nodded, "Hurry, after the writing is completed, the child will be submitted to the father for review as soon as possible."

snort!

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted slightly.

What can he control?

Over the years, the world has become more and more complicated, and he still has to learn.

…

The father and son discussed in low voices and walked into the Imperial Academy.

From a distance, I could see a crowd of people standing waiting.

When Zhu Di saw the crowd waiting for the Holy Driver.

The dignitaries and scholars who came to watch also saw Zhu Di.

When they saw Zhu Yuanzhang holding Zhu Di's hand and walking at the front, everyone's surprise flashed away.

Hu Weiyong, Lu Ben, Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others got together and hid in the crowd.

Huang Zicheng stared at Zhu Yuanzhang and his son, and whispered: "Is this weight a little too heavy?"

Hu Weiyong turned his head to look at Huang Zicheng, then turned to stare at Zhu Di and Zhu Yuanzhang. He didn't know what he was thinking. He said softly with a smile on his lips: "It's understandable. After all, King Yan hasn't returned to the palace for the New Year in sixteen years. I pity the hearts of all parents in the world." Na."

Today is his first time watching the new version of Butterfly Lovers.

At the same time, I want to see the specific reactions of readers.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!"

When the sound of worshiping sounded, Hu Weiyong came back to his senses and hurriedly followed the crowd and knelt down to worship.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of the worshipers, waved and said: "Today is the New Year's Day, so we don't pay attention to those false etiquette. We are here to watch the stage play with you. Everyone, please stay safe."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Everyone thanked them and stood up.

Make way for a passage.

Zhu Yuanzhang led the royal family to the front and sat down on the rows of stools arranged.

Wait until everyone behind you is seated.

Everyone was staring at the stage covered by a red curtain in front.

"How will my mother-in-law scold and attack Liang Shanbo?" ’, ‘Humph, as a mother of a daughter, if a poor boy dares to miss my daughter, I will throw this poor boy, who has no self-awareness, into the river in humiliation! ’

Such whispers came from behind.

Zhu Di's family sat near Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying.

Zhu Di was sitting next to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a low voice: "What are you performing today? Is it like the women behind you talking about how Zhu Mu will humiliate Liang Shanbo?"

Zhu Di turned his head slightly, glanced back, and asked in a low voice: "Father, in fact, your experience with your mother is similar to that of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, right? At the beginning, your mother's status was not low, and she came from a scholarly family. Although, My grandfather and the others left early, but Guo Shuai, the stepmother’s adoptive father, was a well-known leader of the rebel army. My father was still a leading soldier at that time. Speaking of which, he was not even as good as Liang Shanbo, right? What obstacles did my father encounter in the first place? "

Zhu Di's face was full of gossip.

Ma Xiuying sat on the other side of Zhu Yuanzhang. She heard Zhu Di gossiping about them and stared with a smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang stared even more, and whispered with a smile: "Your father is more powerful than Liang Shanbo. Your mother already liked your father and me! We must not marry! Marshal Guo did not object. After knowing your mother's affection for us, he agreed. .”

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"Auntie, why can't I be with Yingtai?"

Just when a group of people were talking in low voices and quietly watching Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di and his son laughing and chatting in low voices, behind the huge red curtain, suddenly came the reluctance, anger, pleading, and there were too many incomprehensible things about this world. sound.

Everyone was instantly focused and stared at the red curtain.

The huge red curtain slowly rose.

Two people appeared slowly.

A middle-aged woman and a young scholar, both wearing clothes from the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Liang Shanbo's face was stubborn and haggard. He had just been tortured. His lips were pale and chapped. His bright eyes, filled with tears but not flowing out, stared at Zhu Yingtai's mother.

Zhu Yingtai's mother's face flashed with a hint of unbearability.

A group of powerful female relatives who were eating melon seeds stopped eating melon seeds when they saw the unbearable look on Zhu's mother's face.

They all showed dissatisfaction.

"The expression on Mother Zhu's face just now was that she couldn't bear it, right?"

"Isn't it because you want to help a poor boy like Liang Shanbo?"

"No way, for the sake of a happy ending, it would be too cliché to change it to fulfill the wishes of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, right?"

"If this happens, I will never come to see it again. It's so disappointing! Isn't this an anticlimax!"

…

Just when everyone in the audience was talking about Zhu's mother because of her unbearable expression.

On the stage, Zhu's mother's expression turned cold for a moment, "Do you think anger can change the fate of you and Yingtai!"

When Zhu's mother's angry voice sounded, the entire scene fell silent for an instant.

"You think the Hu people can tolerate the Han people in the south even if they are very dissatisfied!"

"If you want to complain, just complain that you were born in the wrong place! In the wrong era!"

"Born in this era when our Han Dynasty is in decline!"

"I was born in this environment where everyone is so hypocritical, pedantic and snobbish!"

"If you want to complain, just complain that you have too many ideas! You are so young and ignorant that you think you can change the people around you if you don't like it!"

"I thought you two could change this era!"

…

"Auntie, what if there were thousands of us!"

Liang Shanbo's voice sounded: "If no one does anything, this pedantry, hypocrisy and snobbishness will never disappear, and our Han Dynasty will never be able to regain its former glory!"

"Auntie helps us, maybe it will affect many people..."

…

The plot on the stage is still going on.

But the appearances of all the beings in the audience are different.

The women watched with even greater interest.

A group of young officials who supported the reform, headed by Fang Xiaoru, including Lian Zining, Sheng Yong, and Tie Xuan, tried hard to clench their fists and suppress their excitement.

Hu Weiyong and Lu Ben looked at each other, and both saw fear in the other's eyes.

Hu Weiyong subconsciously turned his head and looked at the young scholar from the Imperial College sitting behind...

A group of young scholars looked thoughtful and sympathetic.

The focus is no longer on the stage.

Except for a few people, they were attracted by the plot and continued watching.

Many people lowered their heads, seeming to be thinking and pondering.

Some people looked up, with a bit of understanding and a lot of confusion in their eyes.

Hu Weiyong's face turned slightly pale, and he murmured in a low voice in a voice that only a few people nearby heard, "This evil wind will definitely stir up a tornado. If it is not contained, it will definitely destroy everything!"

This group of young scholars are somewhat enlightened but also a lot confused, which is quite normal.

This is true of any kind of enlightenment.

But he could foresee that if it was allowed to develop like this.

This evil trend will definitely make young scholars all over the world "awaken into heresy"!

Once a storm forms.

Everything they strive to maintain.

They will all be destroyed by this storm!

…

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and saw all the creatures behind him. He turned his head, nodded imperceptibly, and whispered: "You let Zhu's mother, a woman, say this deafening words. This arrangement is very clever..."

In ancient times, it was the deciding factor in a woman's marriage.

Not the woman's mother.

According to reality, even if Liang Shanbo made a request, he should not ask Zhu’s mother, but Zhu’s father.

But the fourth child and his newly created Liang Zhu arranged to ask Zhu's mother.

Let these shocking words come from a woman's mouth.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhu Di and asked with a smile: "Tell us about the subtle purpose of this arrangement in the form of this drama."

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, secretly admiring him greatly.

The old man is worthy of being the only commoner emperor in history.

This insight is really incredible.

Zhu Di restrained his chaotic emotional thoughts and explained: "A woman who is considered to have long hair and short knowledge says something like this, but men cannot say it. This form of expression has a stronger impact and is more powerful." Highlighting and satirizing the pedantic atmosphere of the Eastern Jin Dynasty..."

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"In addition, in Dongpan, due to the needs of economic development, women must participate in many aspects of private production. However, some people can accept this situation of women participating more in production, but many people are opposed and complain. , or even use strong methods to stop it, resulting in family conflicts and stumbling civil society, we need to influence everyone in a subtle way, so we arranged for Zhu’s mother to say these inspiring words.”

"This kind of internal conflict among the people, where the mother-in-law is right and the father-in-law is right, is very difficult to deal with. If the government directly intervenes to deal with it, it will easily transfer the conflict between the people and the government. Some of our counties have just because of their husbands. He used strong methods to prevent his wife from participating in economic production, and a family fight broke out. The wife went to beat her drum to complain and sued her husband. The county official sentenced her husband to one month in prison in accordance with the laws of Yanfan. The wife turned around and refused, saying that it was just a husband and wife quarreling, why should the government be so rebellious, and that our government would not be a good person inside and outside..."

There are quite a lot of such trivial things in Yan Fan.

Women's contribution to the family economy has increased, and they have become more confident when they have been wronged.

Dare to sue the officials.

But once it is judged according to the law.

The women turned around and began to complain about the government, and even called all the women in the village to go to the county government to cry and make trouble.

Anyway, these women all know that as long as all the women in a village are gone, the county magistrate will not dare to punish them like the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty.

"Based on the problems we encountered in reality, we finally thought of using drama to subtly guide and educate some internal conflicts among the people."

"We have an institution similar to the Economic Research Department, which specializes in studying some internal contradictions among the people, the causes of bad habits, and the process of development and spread, and then finds solutions. Through the adoption of folk storytellers and dramatists recruited by our Ministry of Education , and even add solutions to the children's curriculum to covertly resolve internal conflicts and bad habits among the people through guidance and education. Although doing so is more time-consuming, the advantage is that it will not eliminate the internal conflicts among the people. , turned into a conflict between the people and the government."

"Moreover, it is actually very difficult to resolve such internal conflicts and bad habits directly with the force of power. Instead, it is not as good as this quiet and subtle way of moisturizing things."

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After Zhu Yuanzhang listened carefully, he curiously asked: "How do you recruit storytellers and dramatists?"

New🅇.🄲🄾🄼

Biao'er developed a complete Jinyiwei system in Laosi Yanfan.

But it turns out that this complete Jinyiwei system also misses a lot!

Take this institution for example, which studies internal conflicts and bad habits among the people.

Jin Yiwei never paid attention to it.

You may think that this organization is dealing with a group of storytellers, actors and other different religions, so you don't pay attention to it.

But through Lao Si's explanation, it is not difficult to see that it is precisely this institution that Jin Yiwei ignored.

The problem solved is a very important part of a political power!

If the folk customs are not good, the whole world will not be good either!

Zhu Di replied in a low voice: "Actually, people who are engaged in these industries need to register with the government. At the same time, the government gives playwrights and novelists a reputation, and while they can perform freely, they must also complete the tasks assigned to them by the Yanfan Central Committee. Performing tasks, such as helping to promote policies..."

In fact, it is semi-collection.

There is no restriction on the free interpretation of this group of people.

He believes that complete integration is not good.

In the end, this group of folk creators will inevitably become the echo of the Yan Fan regime.

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Zhu Yuanzhang has been listening carefully.

That night.

Zhu Di's family celebrated the New Year in the palace again after sixteen years.

The reunion dinner ended very late.

It's approaching midnight.

Several new-style carriages carried Zhu Di and his family out of the palace.

In a carriage ahead.

Only sitting there were Zhu Di and Zhu Xiongying's uncle and nephew.

Zhu Di closed the small glass window and rubbed his face with his hands. After his drunkenness subsided a lot, he looked at Zhu Xiongying and asked with a smile: "I know why your imperial grandfather asked you to send your fourth uncle out of the palace, and why your fourth aunt , let our uncle and nephew ride in a carriage alone?"

Xiongying smiled and handed Zhu Di the cup of tea he brought from the palace when he got in the car, and shook his head: "I know that the emperor's grandfather and the fourth aunt created a space for me and the fourth uncle to talk alone, but I don't know, the fourth uncle What do you want to tell me?"

Zhu Di took the tea cup, took a sip, and looked at Zhu Xiongying seriously, "Let's talk about the new Butterfly Lovers that I performed today."

"When watching the stage play today, did Xiongying observe the young scholars in the Imperial College?"

Xiongying nodded, "After Zhu's mother said those shocking words, I noticed that the young scholars in the Imperial College showed empathy. Many of them lowered their heads and pondered for a moment. There was understanding in their eyes, but most of them were confused."

"This is normal." Zhu Di nodded and said: "The enlightenment and awakening of thoughts are by no means achieved overnight. It must be born after continuous encounters with walls, continuous thinking, and a little bit of motivation from the outside world."

"This external factor is that next, Fang Xi copied various stage plays of Yan Fan. Yan Fan's various stage plays are all stage plays adapted to the development of the Yan Fan era. These stage plays make the audience feel tragic. While feeling joyful, it is also subtly exporting new ideas, new culture, and new customs.”

"After these new ideas were introduced in the Ming Dynasty, over time, they will inevitably awaken a large number of people, especially young scholars."

"Young people have a characteristic: passionate, impulsive, reckless, and impatient. They are eager to see the kind of beauty they hope to see. Once in the Ming Dynasty, thousands of young scholars will awaken after a long period of preparation. At this time, they will be eager to change, and at this time, if there is a force to support them and guide them, it can indeed accelerate change.”

"But if the conservative forces from above suppress them, it will anger these young people, and eventually these young scholars will explode."

"A movement of scholars broke out. My uncle called this movement a student movement."

Xiongying frowned slightly, "Fourth uncle, when the student movement occurs, I should support and guide them?"

Zhu Di shook his head, leaned forward slightly, raised his hand and patted Xiongying on the shoulder, stared at Xiongying closely, and warned: "Do you remember what your fourth uncle told you? Don't expose yourself too much before you have absolute power. When the time comes, if you are still a grandson or just a prince, then you will have to sit on the sidelines."

"But..." Xiongying showed unbearable expression on his face, "Fourth uncle, according to the current conservative atmosphere in our Ming Dynasty, if I don't stand beside this group of student movement scholars and protect them, they may pay their lives, or even have widespread massacres. Bloodshed.”

Zhu Di looked cold and hard, reaching out and gently pinching the back of Xiongying's head, "Xiongying, you must remember that you are the superior. When the superior should be hard-hearted, they must be as hard-hearted as iron!"

"There are only two types of changes from ancient times to the present. One, top-down. But now, it is obvious that top-down does not work. Two, bottom-up. Fang Xizhi ignored even life and death and wanted to take the stage of Yan Fan. The stills were moved back to the Central Plains in order to carry out a bottom-up revolution, and the group he chose was scholars!"

The scholar rebellion failed for ten years.

But a student movement launched by young "scholars" can violently attack the outdated atmosphere.

"As for shaking our Ming Dynasty, a student movement is not enough. The vast number of farmers, with local village communities and enough to eat, no one will rebel."

This is why he and Fang Xizhi dared to launch this student movement.

The broadest group of people in the Ming Dynasty were farmers.

With the completion of the rural village community in an all-round way.

Although the people are not yet rich.

But the problem of eating has been solved.

The eldest brother, through Jin Yiwei, obtained a lot of research results from the Economic Research Department under his administration.

I dare not say anything else.

The eldest brother must already know the huge hidden dangers of local protectionism.

I also know the solution.

In the future, when the eldest brother ascends the throne, even if the employment share system is not implemented.

We must also eliminate local protectionism.

In this way, it is not a problem for the people in the city to have enough to eat.

As long as the people have food to eat, they will never rise up in rebellion.

"So, this student movement has become an internal conflict limited to the elite and cultural classes..."

Xiongying pursed his lips.

He already understands.

Fourth uncle had thought of everything for him.

This student movement was launched at the request of Fang Xizhi.

In addition to helping him clean up and attack the stubborn and stubborn old spirit.

We also need to help him cultivate a group of innovative talents through the student movement.

Looking at Xiongying's expression, Zhu Di knew that Xiongying understood his purpose.

good.

Fang Xizhi is willing to be a pawn.

And the scholars in the student movement are also a group of pawns.

“This student movement that will break out in the future, and the internal struggles and conflicts among the elite and cultural classes, will most likely be very bloody. In this process, some young scholars will shrink back, and some will not be strong-willed enough. There are also people who are ambitious, and there are also a group of people who are strong-willed, and you have to observe and filter out those who are the most determined, observe them and support them in a low-key manner."

Change a nation.

How could it not bleed?

There is no such good thing in the world.

Social progress itself is a spiral of revolutions and reforms, repeated over and over again.

To limit the student movement to the elite and cultural classes is to prepare for reform.

Clean up the trend and carry out a fierce attack on conservative decadence.

Then, in the student movement, a movement that tests human nature, we will find determined revolutionary elements, and we will use this group of people to complete the reform in the future.

This way the bleeding will be minimal.

"Of course, if you can't stand by and watch indifferently, at most, you can only show sympathy for the student movement. For some young scholars who cannot stay in the Central Plains during the student movement, you can secretly help and win over people's hearts. My uncle and Fang Xizhi have already discussed it, and when the time comes, my fourth uncle will protect this group of academic scholars who cannot stay in the Central Plains."

"Fourth uncle..."

Xiongying's eyes were slightly red and he choked.

He knew very well what kind of trouble his fourth uncle would cause him if he protected this group of student movement scholars who were about to be killed in the Central Plains.

Fourth uncle will definitely bear the pressure from the entire Ming Dynasty!

It might even be a very intense war!

The imperial grandfather also understood everything, so he asked him to send his fourth uncle away.

Zhu Di rubbed Xiongying's head, smiled, leaned back on the soft backrest of the seat, stared at the dark night outside the window, and said to himself: "Don't worry about your fourth uncle, just take the current situation as it is. , do you think there will be no conflict between Daming and Fourth Uncle in the future? Since there is a conflict, it doesn’t hurt to be more violent. "

"You must always remember that no innovation is without bloodshed. The most you can do is sympathize. It does not mean that you are selfish, but that without you in the Ming Dynasty to guide this innovation, no one can complete it. Save yourself, It's because you have a more important mission to complete. Our Chinese civilization, after thousands of years of development, has entered a strange circle. Extreme ethical constraints are actually a kind of extreme left and extreme right. This is the shackles of cultural development. produced."

"People like Cheng and Zhu want to make breakthroughs on the basis of their predecessors and sages. Their intentions are good, but at our level of civilization, it is really too difficult to make breakthroughs, so they are either extreme left or right. .”

Later, Wang Yangming's theory of mind was actually the same.

Undeniable.

Wang Yangming's thoughts on the mind are indeed a breakthrough in ideological philosophy.

But the scope of application of mind science is also too narrow.

Not a universal philosophy.

"My fourth uncle is not that capable of making a breakthrough development of our culture and civilization. To put it bluntly, Yan Fan's new culture only follows the mean. It is not extreme, takes the middle line, and transforms the previous extreme phenomena. , make corrections and bring back the middle path.”

In the final analysis, Yanfan itself was just a system and economy.

In terms of culture and civilization, we just take a middle-of-the-road approach.

Don't go to extremes.

“The advantage of this middle road is that people’s thinking is greatly liberated and society is greatly enlivened. In this atmosphere, it is conducive to the ideological and theoretical theories that can truly promote the height of culture and civilization. In the evolution of the active folk atmosphere Birth.”

During the Western Renaissance, various ideologies and theories were born over hundreds of years. Wasn't it in this extremely active atmosphere that they were born?

"As long as our uncles and nephews create an extremely active social atmosphere, it will be like the first ray of sunshine emerging from the horizon before dawn. This is also a ray of dawn for our Chinese civilization to move to a higher level. Our uncles and nephews By completing this, we have fulfilled our responsibility.”

"In such a turbulent era, how could there be no bloodshed and no sacrifice? You don't need to feel guilty or benevolent as a woman, just stride forward."

No matter how great the bloodshed and sacrifice are now.

Is it possible that hundreds of years later, there will be so much history of darkness and humiliation?

Chinese civilization has developed to the present.

It's not Confucianism's fault.

Nor is it the fault of any single person.

It's because the level of civilization is too high.

Too difficult to break through.

In the process of pursuing breakthroughs, countless people have made selective mistakes like women binding their feet.

If it is difficult to break through, it will be easy to go to extremes in constant exploration.

He dared not say anything else.

Only their uncle and nephew can hold this dawn to the horizon.

The glory of the Central Plains civilization can impress the whole world!

The donation of land and people by Ohno Goro Group is the best proof and gives him great confidence.

This is why, even after entering Japan, he had to face frontal blocking battles and rear guerrilla warfare, so he had to send troops to Japan.

Xiongying looked at Zhu Di's profile. The glass-shaded lantern hanging outside the window was swaying, and the light and shadow fell on Zhu Di's face, swaying.

"Fourth uncle, Xiongying knows what to do."

…

The eleventh day of the first lunar month.

There are only two days left before Xiongying's wedding.

The entire Jinling City was decorated with lanterns and streamers.

Yanjing.

Navy dock.

One after another Yanfanhai merchant ships sailed into the dock.

The shipowners and crewmen watched as the merchants in front loaded up the soldiers and maneuvered the ship to approach the dock slowly and orderly.

While discussing excitedly.

"The prince is finally going to use troops abroad!"

"Haha... what about using troops externally? This is a force of the Japanese country, offering land and people to our Yan vassal!"

"What does this prove? It proves that the civilization and cultural height of our Yan Fan has made all the barbarians yearn to surrender. This is something that only happened during the Zhou Dynasty and the Emperor Zhou. The Zhou Dynasty had an eight-hundred-year-old state. Let me see, we It will take at least eight hundred years for Yan Fan!"

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News of the donation of land and people spread back to Yanjing.

The navy and army sang loud military songs as they boarded the ship and prepared to set off.

The entire Yanjing people were excited.

Although many people do not even know where the Japanese country is, dedicating land and people makes everyone feel a strong sense of honor and belonging.

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