By December, the immigration arrangements had basically come to an end, Chengdu had gained 60% of its immigration, and Syria had become a big city with a population of 300,000.

The sudden increase in population brought many problems of food and housing, and the ability of the State of Xuezhou to respond is undoubtedly much worse than that of Chengdu. Now that the Imperial Parliament is in a state of recession, Deng Ming ordered a special meeting to be held, requiring a new tax plan to be formulated before the New Year: At the beginning, the prefect of the State of Xuezhou was similar to a branch of the prefect of Chengdu. If there were any difficulties, they would directly ask Chengdu for help. Now the two are separated and there are disputes in interests.

Therefore, it is imperative to prepare for the establishment of a higher-level administrative agency. Deng Ming planned to name this yamen as the custom. Deng Ming was too lazy to figure out how much money he should get from the two yamen to the governor's yamen in Sichuan Province, so he instructed the Imperial Council to discuss it. This yamen will temporarily be under Deng Ming's jurisdiction, and Deng Ming will also use the provincial tax paid by the Chengdu Prefecture to the Governor's yamen to help the Xuzhou Prefecture government office that may have deficits based on the principle of reducing the excess and making up for the shortcomings.

In order to avoid the Senate becoming an institution opened in Chengdu, Deng Ming also forcibly stipulated that half of the senators should be removed to live in Xiazhou. If other cities in the future rise to the point where they can compete with these two governments, then 30% of the senators from Chengdu and Xiazhou will be moved to the third government to live in Xiazhou. All the senators were appointed by Deng Ming, and he could issue orders to the senators according to his own wishes. And there was a very high-sounding reason, that is, the senators who represent the authority of the sanctions must of course appear in Xiazhou to check and balance the work of the parliament.

However, the candidates of the Imperial Parliament were more cautious in handling Deng Ming. He stipulated that this mansion, which should be distributed according to the population of the same scholars, and pay more taxes to the Governor's Office, should have more say in the Imperial Parliament.

After giving these instructions, Deng Ming did not return to Chengdu, but left Xuzhou to Jiading Prefecture. After the unremitting publicity of the Ming army, more and more people were coming out of the mountains, and Jiading Prefecture was the third area planned to be built in western Sichuan. It not only connects Chengdu and Xuzhou, but also a necessary road to Jianchang. There may be thousands or tens of thousands of mountain people hidden around Mount Emei. After developing Jiading Prefecture, these people would easily settle them nearby if they were willing to go down the mountain.

...

At this time, in Chengdu, two famous guests came to visit Chen Zuocai, one was Zhu Zhiyu, and the other was Meng Zhengfa who was dragged to Sichuan by him. Zhu Zhiyu lived in the latter's house for several months in order to Ramon Zhengfa. Meng Zhengfa could not withstand his soft and hard work, so he had to follow him reluctantly. In addition to the romance, the incident of Zhu Zhiyu visiting Meng Zhengfa also spread all over the city. Although the local officials seemed deaf and reacted very slowly, and never came to get people, Meng Zhengfa himself could not stay - he could not let Zhu Zhiyu make any mistakes in his home, otherwise people in the world would definitely scold him for selling friends. Moreover, Meng Zhengfa felt that even if he could send Zhu Zhiyu away, the great god, this time, would be so fierce that he would definitely be pursued by the Qing court in Huguang afterwards. Meng Zhengfa, who was forced into a desperate situation, had to follow Zhu Zhiyu to surrender Deng.

In the past ten years after Meng Zhengfa shaved his hair and surrendered to the Qing court, he married more than a dozen concubines and gave birth to a lot of children. Now these children are not adults, Meng Zhengfa is reluctant to leave them. Meng Zhengfa complained that Zhu Zhiyu had harmed his whole family, and while working hard to relocate all his family to Sichuan, he was worried that he would be taken away by the local officials. But the facts proved that the local officials in Huguang were even more incompetent than Meng Zhengfa imagined. The whole city knew that Zhu Zhiyu, a rebel living in Meng Zhengfa's house, but the government just didn't know; everyone knew that Meng Zhengfa was cleaning up the fines and soft things and wanted to surrender to the thief. His concubines cried, made a fuss and hanged, and said goodbye to his parents' home with tears, but the local officials were stunned. In the end, Meng Zhengfa escaped calmly, and took away all his property, and even the house and fields were successfully sold.

Meng Zhengfa was first hesitant at both ends of the rat, but later he was reluctant to let go of his family. In the end, he even wanted to take away his family. This scared Zhu Zhiyu very much. But finally, the auspicious person and the incredible slowness of the Qing court in Huguang made Meng Zhengfa and Zhu Zhiyu safely arrive in Jingzhou and enter the controlled area of ​​the Kuidong Army.

Originally, Meng Zhengfa wanted to drag Wang Fuzhi with him. His good days were ruined by Zhu Zhiyu, so he didn't want Wang Fuzhi to teach comfortably on Chuanshan. But Zhu Zhiyu said nothing. Meng Zhengfa brought his family with a family. Wang Fuzhi heard that there were a large number of family members and children. If such a big disturbance was not discovered by the Qing court, he would look down on Zhang Changgeng's ability too much.

Zhu Zhiyu looked down on the people who broke into the camp, and Meng Zhengfa hated them even more deeply, so the two of them didn't stop for Li Laiheng at all. They had to go straight to Kuimen after the ship. They waited until Fengjie, and these two people respectfully sent famous letters to Wen Anzhi for a request. Mr. Wen was a disciple of Emperor Tianqi, so they didn't dare to be arrogant in front of him. After hearing that they were here to help Deng Ming eliminate the impact of the camp on western Sichuan, Wen Anzhi pondered for a moment and asked, "How do you know that it was the influence of the camp?"

"I was dull late, but I don't need to think too much about this?" Meng Zhengfa's tone was still very respectful, but his confidence was very obvious: "Duke Baoguo was confused by evil spirits and actually called himself a 'robber'..."

"It's the empire." Wen Anzhi corrected it for a moment, but immediately nodded: "Of course, the same meaning, you continue to say it."

"Yes." Meng Zheng responded. In his opinion, if a good soldier is put on good people and the good people will not do it, they must be robbers. Only those unreasonable guys who broke into the camp can do such a thing. Since that is the case, what else can Deng Ming be influenced by them?

Zhu Zhiyu's view is similar to Meng Zhengfa, and they believe that as long as they come to Deng Ming's side, the poison of the bandits will naturally fade away.

Wen Anzhi refused to comment. He thought for a while, and finally said slowly: "You have a long way to go."

After saying that, Wen Anzhi welcomed them and wrote two letters to them, one was an introduction letter to Deng Ming, and the other was to Chen Zuocai. Wen Anzhi told them that Deng Ming couldn't stay alive and ran around all year round. If they couldn't find Deng Ming, they would go to Chen Zuocai, who was the mainstay of western Sichuan. Originally, Wen Anzhi was not very familiar with Chen Zuocai, but over the past year, Chen Zuocai kept writing letters and complaining, saying that the teaching staff in western Sichuan was weak, and he also wanted Wen Anzhi to help find some professors many times.

Wen Anzhi did not have much opinion on Zhu Zhiyu, but even if this person was not assisting Deng Ming, it would be fine to help Chen Zuocai teach. How to introduce Meng Zhengfa in the recommendation letter made Wen Anzhi hesitate for a moment. When the governor Zhang Kuang died of illness, Meng Zhengfa hoped that Emperor Yongli would let him take over the position of governor, but Emperor Yongli gave this position to Wu Jinxi, the teacher when Meng Zhengfa passed the imperial examination. In a furious manner, Meng Zhengfa cut off his master-apprentice friendship with Wu Jinxi, and never admitted that there was this teacher. In the hearts of scholars like Wen Anzhi who valued the kindness of his master-apprentice, it was almost the same as beating his parents.

Moreover, afterwards, Meng Zhengfa and Wang Fuzhi scolded Wu Jinxi again and again. Wang Fuzhi was an absolutely qualified friend. When narrating history, he always only asked about relatives and distant things, not right and wrong. Wang Fuzhi scolded Meng Zhengfa’s former teacher Wu Jinxi, who was a true beast. Because Wu Jinxi did not die for the Ming Dynasty. Looking at Wang Fuzhi, Meng Zhengfa’s articles scolding Wu Jinxi sometimes give people an illusion, as if Wang Fuzhi and Meng Zhengfa had died for the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the end, Wen Anzhi did not write this in the letter to Chen Zuocai, because he knew that Chen Zuocai was also a person who respected his teachers and Taoism. If he knew that Meng Zhengfa had such a behavior of "deceiving his teachers and destroying his ancestors", it would probably be difficult to cooperate.

A gentleman hides evil and promotes good. Wen Anzhi feels that it is the time to use people. Since Meng Zhengfa has brought his family to Sichuan, there is no need to mention these things again.

...

As Wen Anzhi expected, when Zhu Zhiyu and Meng Zhengfa arrived in Xuzhou, Deng Ming had indeed left. There were no settlements and only troops on Mount Emei, so there were no civilian ships to Jiading Prefecture. Without Deng Ming's instructions, Xuzhou was not able to arrange warships to send them to Jiading Prefecture. Besides, even if they went there, they might not be able to find Deng Ming who entered the mountain.

The governor of Xuzhou Yuan Xiang suggested that the two of them stay in Chengdu temporarily. After Deng Ming handled the matter in Jiadingzhou, he would naturally return to Chengdu. In any case, Deng Ming would go to Chengdu to attend the meeting of the Imperial Parliament before the New Year. After discussing, the two adopted Yuan Xiang's suggestion and took another letter of recommendation from Wen Anzhi to visit Chen Zuocai.

Chen Zuocai was a gentry in Yunnan, but Zhu Zhiyu and Meng Zhengfa were famous scholars all over the world. After seeing Wen Anzhi's recommendation letter, Chen Zuocai dared not be negligent. He quickly asked the two to go to the academy to rest and immediately asked someone to organize their room.

Zhu Zhiyu was easy to deal with, he was single, and Meng Zhengfa was a family member, servant, slave, and the small family of these slaves, with more than a hundred people. Chen Zuo had to work hard for a long time to free up enough houses for Meng Zhengfa and his family to squeeze out, and he built several sheds for his servants to live outside the academy first.

Looking at this large group of women and children crying endlessly, Chen Zuocai also sincerely admired: "Meng Chongyang is really a talented person to be able to take so many people out of danger."

Zhu Zhiyu was always worried when he escaped, but now that he has escaped safely, he can't help but brag for Meng Zhengfa: "That's natural. When Meng Chongyang was the governor Zhang (Zhang Kuang) in the past, he was in charge of the army of Xinjing, and fought against the Tartars with eight thousand infantrymen and buried tens of thousands of Tartars for dozens of miles. Since Hongguang crossed the south, he has dared to fight since then, starting from Meng Chongyang."

Since Meng Zhengfa can command thousands of people to defeat tens of thousands of Qing cavalry and sweep away the decline since the southbound transition, isn’t it a big attempt to escape the whole family?

Chen Zuocai was slightly stunned. When he heard Zhu Zhiyu's tone, Meng Zhengfa seemed to have had a very famous victory, but his understanding of Meng Zhengfa only knew that the other party had published a book, and described the battle between the Ming and Qing armies in Huguang in Yongli over the years. When Deng Ming was educating in the academy, he asked the professors to introduce to students important battles in the Ming and Qing wars. Chen Zuocai knew these battles, but he certainly did not have the battle that Zhu Zhiyu said.

Zhu Zhiyu was talking about the story of Wang Fuzhi bragging for Meng Zhengfa. In the story, Wang Fu's writing erased all the rebels in the southern Ming Dynasty, and the eight kilograms and tens of thousands were fabricated by Wang Fuzhi. However, since Zhu Zhiyu believed it was true, Meng Zhengfa was not easy to correct it, and he could not say that this was a gild on his face, and it was made up by his old friend Wang Fuzhi.

In any case, Meng Zhengfa is also a person with enough friends. He always tries his best to remove the responsibilities of relatives and friends in his books. For example, this time Zhu Zhiyu came to his home, and Meng Zhengfa even if he was reluctant, he would protect his friends. Therefore, Meng Zhengfa bit the bullet and recognized him, smiled at Chen Zuocai, indicating that Zhu Zhiyu was right.

"Duke Baoguo is too disrespectful to scholars." Chen Zuocai's prejudice against Deng Ming was still the same, and he immediately had an idea in his heart: "Mr. Chongyang has such great achievements, but he doesn't even mention it! Humph, isn't it because he can't stand us scholars and become generals and ministers? No, I will compile this battle into the textbook tomorrow to correct Mr. Chongyang's reputation and let everyone have a good look at how Duke Baoguo slandered scholars."

Out of respect for Meng Zhengfa, Chen Zuocai asked him about his views on Sichuan Academy.

"If you want to correct the source, you need to let the people know how the thieves ruined the country." Meng Zhengfa's view is very simple, that is, to make good use of the academy as a propaganda position, so that everyone can know how scholars sacrificed their lives to fight for the court, and how the thieves caused chaos again and again, causing the efforts of the scholars to vain: "If there were no thieves, how could the efforts of so many loyal ministers and righteous men be wasted? The lessons of the past and the army of the later thieves, we must let the Duke of the Protected Kingdom and the people see clearly that the world is corrupted. After everyone sees the harm of the thieves, they will wake up, no longer be confused by the thieves, and no longer work with the thieves, so that the state affairs will be saved."

Although Chen Zuocai secretly appreciates Deng Ming's aura, he is angry when he thinks of the other party's contempt for scholars. Of course, it is better to use powerful facts to fight back. Chen Zuocai immediately asked Meng Zhengfa to preside over the compilation of this history textbook. For Meng Zhengfa, this is also a breeze. His "Sanxiang Conscientious Record" has long been written, and he can be competent as long as he turns it into vernacular Chinese.

He exposes the crimes of the robbers to Duke Baoguo and all the elders in western Sichuan, making everyone dislike him, abandon him, and attack him... Meng Zhengfa found that Chengdu was indeed a place to do. He hurriedly wrote a letter to Huguang to his old friend Wang Fuzhi. In the letter, he invited Wang Fuzhi to Chengdu with him to participate in the great cause of invasion.
Chapter completed!