Originally, Deng Ming was considering some economic planning, but after weighing his math level and the math helper he could find in this era, he gave up this idea.

The issue of giving scholars' fame and honor has become the most keen topic of discussion among the military and civilians around Chengdu. Since the release of the new policy, almost everyone has talked about "scholars" and "IOUs". After meeting and greeting each other, they will discuss this issue that they are most concerned about in less than three sentences.

Now the people near Chengdu are scattered and have not formed villages, so there are no respected clan leaders who come out to make a summary speech on this issue. The temporary podium has suddenly become a place for residents to gather. In addition, it is now the slack stage, and many scholars gather together all day long to discuss this policy.

After learning about this, Deng Ming immediately found Liu Jinge, who was still unresponsive, and asked him to send someone to stand guard at various propaganda platforms. These propaganda platforms were built on the wasteland by soldiers from the Tixing Yamen. Deng Ming believed that they should be the property of the Chengdu government, so each scholar who spoke on stage would charge one yuan as a half-hour fee for the speech. After paying, the soldiers from the Tixing Yamen would help maintain order, and others were not allowed to rob the payer of the power to use it. They could also provide an iron amplifier. Since the IOU had just begun printing, if the speaker did not have it, he could keep accounts at the Tixing Yamen.

One yuan was one yuan in half an hour, of course, which was not much income, but Deng Ming hoped to further consolidate the credit of the IOU. In addition, one yuan was equivalent to one liter of grain. Most of the people who were willing to spend one liter of grain to speak on stage were scholars with more political talents. They needed encouragement and were worth recording their names and following them.

When used for speeches during the day, these podiums are free to be attended, but there may be paid performances starting in the evening - this idea was still thought of by Deng Ming. Liu Jinge has been thinking about it for many days, but he has never thought of a paid item.

According to Deng Ming's suggestion, Liu Jinge picked some soldiers from the Chengdu Prefecture Army to form a performance team to perform operas and juggle on a nearby podium. Each audience would charge a ticket for a cent. Although the performance level was quite average, the audience still came in advance to take a good position and watched with relish. In advance, Deng Ming told Liu Jinge and the guards that the creditworthiness of the IOU is now relatively low, so the people are willing to spend it. In the past, if the people were asked to spend a few big money to watch the show every few days, most of them would not be willing to go. The facts also proved this judgment. Although the income was too much, the speech fees and performance ticket income of each gathering point could earn a hundred yuan back a day for the Ex-Zheng Yamen.

The day after the implementation, Deng Ming went to inspect again. Deng Ming told Liu Jinge that the time is not yet ripe. When the farmers become richer, they can charge differently according to the front and back of the seats, such as the first row of triangles and the last row of corners to increase their income through consumers' pursuit of consumption quality and comparison psychology. Seeing Deng Ming casually, he could come up with one method to recover IOUs one by one, Liu Jinge was impressed and began to doubt whether he had the ability to be the chief executive.

Many guards felt that Liu Jinge did not have any understanding. Although Ren Tang had a little bit of a sense of agreement, he still comforted Liu Jinge with kind words and said that in this world, there are probably few people who are more good at doing business than Admiral Deng. Losing to Admiral Deng is not a shame.

Half a month later, Liu Yao and Yang Youcai, who returned from Jiangyou and Mianzhu, brought back more than 5,000 men and 2,000 women and children from the two places. After learning about the great changes in Chengdu, Liu Yao and Yang Youcai temporarily adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Over the past year, Deng Ming's various policies have brought many benefits to the two, regaining a certain self-defense ability in Chengdu. Therefore, they will not immediately oppose any new policies of Deng Ming.

More than 5,000 male men who had just arrived in Chengdu were mostly auxiliary soldiers affiliated with generals. After staying for a few days, they heard about Deng Ming's laws and regulations, and immediately set off a craze of retreating troops and returning to the people.

A large number of military households rushed to Liu Jinge's Taixing Yamen to cry, saying that they were originally the people of the Ming Dynasty and were forced to join the army by officers from Jiangyou, Jiange and other places. Now they firmly demand that Admiral Deng make the decision for the people and restore their civilian status. Many people also expressed their willingness to press their fingerprints to ensure that they pay double protection fees to the Taixing Yamen. If it doesn't work, three or five times can be negotiated, as long as they can be exchanged for IOU to become a scholar.

This kind of thought certainly caused great trouble to foreign generals who had just arrived in Chengdu. Their foundation was unstable and could only come to Deng Ming to complain, saying that these auxiliary soldiers had been eating food in their army for many years. Not only did they insist on resisting the Qing Dynasty, but they also responded to the call to come to Chengdu to join Deng Ming, asking Admiral Deng to ask the imperial court to reject the unreasonable requests of the auxiliary soldiers for their contributions and hard work.

As for the local officers and soldiers in Chengdu, they are currently on the sidelines. Liu Yao and Yang Youcai have relatively stronger control, so the Chengdu soldiers plan to see the consequences of the troubled soldiers from other places first. If the foreign soldiers succeed, it will not be too late for them to participate in the troubled soldiers.

When he realized that there was an active volcano brewing and erupting under him, Liu Yao and Yang Youcai couldn't sit still. After having sufficient communication with his subordinates and other officers, the two joined forces with Ren Tang to find him. Deng Ming knew that this was the joint resistance of the Chengdu military and the scholar group, so he did not dare to take it lightly, and he had already decided to divide and conquer it.

After asking Liu Yao and Yang Youcai to sit down, Deng Ming first praised their achievements in carrying out scorched earth resistance with a smile, and expressed great appreciation for the many males they brought back. At present, the enemy is in front of Deng Ming, and Deng Ming is not willing to anger any military forces, let alone Liu and Yang who came on behalf of the military forces.

Civil Affairs is something that military generals should not intervene, otherwise it will arouse suspicion from the king and father, unless civil affairs seriously affect the morale of the army. It is precisely because of this kind of thinking inertia that Liu Yao did not intend to slap Deng Ming on the fame of scholars at the beginning, until the undercurrents in the army caused all officers to panic.

Liu Yao first questioned whether the rights enjoyed by civilians were too high. Of course, the status of civilians for hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty was higher than that of military service, otherwise there would be no such punishment as being a military force or the saying "a good man is not a military force". However, the difference between the two is not too much, so relying on military salary and food can win some civilians to join the army voluntarily, and the appropriate amount of food and salary can also allow soldiers to stay in the army to join the army with peace of mind.

However, after Deng Ming introduced the new law, the status of civilians was much higher than that of soldiers. If they wanted to keep soldiers in the army with peace of mind, no matter the rewards and punishments, the cost required was not something that the generals could bear.

"What Liu Shuai said is very true." Deng Ming nodded repeatedly when he heard this. Of course, this did not mean that he agreed with Liu Yao's opinion. The equal rights of citizens, the improvement of women's status, and the promotion of the rule of law and science are what Deng Ming wanted to do, and he regarded it as the social ideal that a new young man after the May Fourth Movement should have. If it were not possible to work at all and the rebound was too strong, Deng Ming would have wanted to grant all women scholars with IOUs fame.

Seeing that Liu Yao was going well, Ren Tang hurriedly shook his flag and shouted: "Buying and selling official positions is a sign of a destruction of the country, the admiral thinks twice."

"It seems that if I don't give them the name of scholars, the Ming Dynasty's national power is as strong as the sky!" Deng Ming whispered. In his opinion, selling official positions and titles is not a sign of destruction of the country, but the result of the country's destiny - if you don't sell official positions and titles, you can't survive. While there are still people to buy it, selling a little bit is a little bit, and when the country collapses, it will be completely worthless.

However, there is a saying in the art of war: I want to take it first. It is like bargaining when doing a business. If the customer asks for a discount, if he doesn't pay any discount at all, it means that he will not give the customer face and it will easily ruin the transaction. So the seller must erase the fraction of the deal. I have given the face so much, it would be too unrighteous if you don't buy it, right? Unless you meet a master who is really well versed in the art of war, ordinary people will still pay.

"Well, then how about changing his name to the same scholar? To show the difference." Deng Ming gave Ren Tang a step first. However, he expected that this small concession would not satisfy Ren Tang. Without waiting for the other party to react, he hurriedly said to Liu Yao: "Then I will also give soldiers some scholar treatment, how about it?"

"It's inappropriate." Liu Yao immediately objected: "The corporal punishment cannot be carried out... this one alone will not work."

Seeing that Liu Yao had already spoken out against him, Ren Tang, his Allied Army, felt that there was no need to charge forward, so he sat happily on the side and optimistically.

"Yes, the army is about orders and bans, and I will not interfere in the affairs of the army. But when soldiers are not in the army, they enjoy the same treatment as scholars. They do not worship officials, do not need to be led by road, and cannot be punished by corporal punishment... Not only soldiers, but also officers are the same." Deng Ming pointed out one thing specifically: "It is not exactly the same as scholars and scholars, and military service in corvee service cannot be exempted."

"So, each army can recruit soldiers or enlist the same scholar as soldiers?" Liu Yao had not reacted for a while, but Yang Youcai suddenly asked in surprise.

"What?" Ren Tang became anxious as soon as he heard this. Taking civilians into military origins was a punishment. Although it was a common phenomenon in the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, it did not conform to the law. He heard Yang Youcai's intention to legalize this illegal behavior, and hurriedly spoke out to stop it: "Of course this is not possible."

As soon as Yang Youcai said that he felt a little whimsical. In the past, it was not legal to recruit non-military households as soldiers, let alone scholars. When Ren Tang scolded him, he was out of righteous indignation and believed that Deng Ming had just failed to think carefully and said nothing.

But to their surprise, Deng Ming did not answer this question immediately, but instead looked up at the roof, obviously thinking about this question solemnly.

"Admiral, Admiral!" Seeing Deng Ming begin to think about Yang Youcai's proposal, Ren Tang was already very dissatisfied and called out repeatedly.

Deng Ming thought for a while and felt that the military service system was shocked too much now, and that too much information was given to the people at once could easily cause ideological confusion. The Gaoming army may have crossed Jiange, and it is not a good time to come up with too many reform plans.

"Yang Shuai is right. I think it is correct in principle. The army should be able to recruit soldiers from civilians as needed. However, this ratio must be well grasped, because if there are too many recruits, no one will farm." Deng Ming felt that if the military service system is implemented in the future, it would be natural for him to retire after a certain period of service. However, this kind of trump card must be taken out when the bargaining begins, and there is no need to disclose it to the military for the time being: "I think soldiers can be regarded as fellow scholars who serve in the military. For the sake of the combat effectiveness of the army, some of the fellow scholars need to be cancelled in the army, and in order to reward them for giving up this part of the treatment, the government will pay military pay. In addition to the one you give to the soldiers, I will also pay them a piece of military ration, but I may have to pay the IOU first."

If Deng Ming had twenty years of preparation, he would try to educate the people to question the feudal hierarchy. However, now he has no time to eliminate the people's uplifting the people's respect for scholars, so he simply elevated the bottom to a higher level. Isn't the common people kowtow to scholars? Well, now everyone is a scholar.

Deng Ming also planned to do this in the army, and from officers to soldiers, he could have a status equivalent to a gentry. Thinking of this, Deng Ming couldn't help but get distracted and thought of the sketches of high-heeled shoes he drew. Until now, Deng Ming has not come up with any way to improve the status of women, which is a huge waste of labor and creativity.

By increasing the treatment of soldiers to a level that can be compared with civilians, Deng Ming issued another military pay to help stabilize the morale of the army. Liu Yao and Yang Youcai felt that the purpose of this trip had basically been achieved.

"What should be the name of this fame for the officers and soldiers?" Yang Youcai asked with concern. Even as a senior officer, as long as he is a soldier, he will feel a dwarf in front of the gentry. Therefore, Yang Youcai also wanted to treat this: "It's a little worse than the scholar. So how about adding the word "ru"?"

"Like a scholar? Yes, just use this name." Deng Ming agreed.

"There is another thing." Liu Yao bowed and said again.

"Speaking."

"I heard that the scholars of the same scholars cannot hold crossbows, but can wear swords and firearms?"

“That’s right.”

"Oh, the admiral doesn't know that this rule was set by the early days of the State. A scholar can hold a sword, but cannot have armor, shield, bow and spear. Only when a sword is in his body, the scholar can deal with bandits who have robbed the Tao, but without armor, shield, crossbow, and spear, he cannot fight against officers and soldiers." Liu Yao hurriedly explained to Deng Ming: "It's okay, but this firearm should not be underestimated. If it is well-made, it will probably be more powerful than a crossbow!"

Deng Mingxin said, "How come I don't know that there are several muskets in my guard, but there is no need to say my purpose now."

"It should be forbidden to own firearms with scholars." Liu Yao and Yang Youcai said in unison: "Although good firearms are hard to find, if they have them among the people, it would be a big deal."

"The law of the ancestors is unchangeable!" Deng Ming flatly refused: "There is no ban on firearms in the ancestral system, so it cannot be banned."

"That's right, the law of the ancestors cannot be changed." Ren Tang had completely lost his language ability just now. After hearing this sentence, he felt suddenly regaining his vitality and shouted: "The admiral clearly understands, fame and reputation cannot be given lightly, even the same scholar and the same scholar cannot be used."

"Things are urgent to follow the power." Deng Ming was unmoved.

He said to Liu Yao and Yang Youcai: "If officers and soldiers are injured and disabled in the future, I don't think they must stay in the army and leave the army." Deng Ming's ultimate goal is to introduce the issue of the service life in the future, but this disability problem can be used as a breakthrough: "There are also those generals and officials who work hard and have no horses in the future, if they are older, they should be allowed to retire from the army and be exempted from military service. I am considering that the court can award these retired military personnel to Juren... No, they are the same as Juren's fame."

"Famous and fame of Juren?" Yang Youcai and Ren Tang shouted. Of course, the feelings expressed by their shouts were completely different.

"Dare to ask the admiral, what is the fame and honor of the same Juren?" Yang Youcai couldn't help but tremble when he asked a question. Juren has more privileges than scholars, the most important of which is tax exemption, so once he passes the Juren, a large number of people will vote in his name.

"I haven't thought about it yet, but since I am like a scholar in the army and have given up some of the fame and honor in order to protect the court, it is completely worthy to give the same juren treatment as compensation after retiring from the army. Well, let's discuss it again with the disabled. I think it would be reasonable for an officer to give the same juren treatment of hundreds to thousands of acres according to the level in the army. If he is a general, tens of thousands of acres of fame and honor as a general."

Ren Tang and Yang Youcai's bodies were trembling, of course, the reasons were completely opposite, but Deng Ming did not take it seriously. Compared with the fame of scholars, fame of scholars is not very impressive in his opinion. First, Deng Ming did not intend to promote only those with fame as officials; secondly, although Liu Yao and the others did not expect it because of their inertial thinking and would not realize it in the short term, in fact, under the circumstances of low taxes, fame of scholars is not very great. Deng Ming's 10,000 acres of fame of scholars sounded a lot, but in fact it was just a pension of 10,000 yuan a year.

As long as the credit of the IOU can be established, Deng Ming thinks that it is not a big deal to give more: "This matter can be discussed slowly, and the rules should not be discussed by me alone. After repelling Gao Mingzhan, whether it is the issue of fame and honor with the Juren or the recruitment of troops, generals and officials at all levels in the army can discuss it first and then report it to me. Although I am not wise, I can control the wisdom of the people."

"Sir!" Ren Tang mustered up the courage to object: "Everyone knows that you are trying to inspire the hearts of the army and the people, so you have to give a fellow scholar a fame, but there is no need to give some treatment, such as corvee labor, carrying weapons, and for example, no need for road guides."

"The laws of our ancestors are unchangeable." Deng Ming would never compromise.

"No," Ren Tang immediately pointed out: "The scholars will not be exempted from military service, but the ancestor system will be exempted."

"It's urgent to follow the power."

"Since that's the case, you don't have to exempt your fellow juren from taxes!"

"The law of ancestors is immutable."

"Famous fame cannot be awarded without imperial examinations!"

"This is an urgent matter."

...

At this time, Gao Mingzhan had already made a vow in Guangyuan and led tens of thousands of Green Camp troops to Jiange. He didn't know that Deng Ming had arrived in Chengdu.

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