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Chapter 913 - Chapter 439: Ironclads at the Gates, Hundred Ghosts Roam by Day (Part 3)

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And Zhu Jian was the fifth emperor of the Zhu family's empire.

Repeatedly admonished by Xu Qing, the ban on the prevalent opium in Dayan once again became the last straw that broke the Zhu family.

Those officials who proposed to Zhu Jian to legalize the drug, not criminalize those who used opium, allowing them to still participate in the imperial exams, were actually the biggest users and beneficiaries of the opium trade.

Their foolish descendants had long been infiltrated, and some officials had even turned their homes into opium dens, living in a perpetual state of intoxication.

Zhu Qian neglected state affairs and became a monk. The not-so-bright Zhu Jian forgot the ancestors' warnings and listened to the flatteries of wicked officials, causing instability in the nation.

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