As bond sellers rushed downstream, Deng Ming also mobilized the first batch of recruitment and began recruiting the military workers.

Newly arriving immigrants cannot join the army. In addition to not having enough military training, Deng Ming also had no intention of violating the ban of parliament. However, the Imperial Parliament did not prohibit them from recruiting them for the resident husband team. Therefore, Deng Ming planned to use all the resident husbands as new immigrants, because if the resident scholars join the resident husband team, there would be more conditions. If the resident scholars join the resident husband team, they would definitely add a new immigrant. Just add a "get the resident scholar status for one year" to the resident husband team, it is attractive enough.

Sure enough, although Deng Ming announced that the civil servant team could not be converted into a formal army and could not give the same bonus as the soldiers, a large number of people still signed up enthusiastically after the list was posted. As a result, the Chengdu Prefectural Council immediately came to Deng Ming to plead for mercy, saying that this person would be able to obtain citizenship after serving for one year. If he retired due to injury and illness, he would also give more than 12 points of rule at his discretion, even the skilled workers under his command were eager to try.

"Since you are worried, why not add an ban immediately, that is, the right to register for military workers in the capital is like a scholar who must have the letter of consent from his employer, otherwise he himself will need to pay compensation to his employer." Deng Ming thought that Sichuan is not at the moment of crisis at present, and it is necessary to send everyone who can fight to the battlefield, so the recruitment of skilled workers is undoubtedly a waste.

The MPs came to ask Deng Ming to give up their hands. They never thought that they could use parliaments at all levels to directly defend their rights. One MPs hesitated and asked: "Will the Senate agree?"

Obviously, the Imperial Parliament will definitely agree to restrict the army and prevent the army from robbing resources that are crucial to Sichuan's production, but the Senate is hard to say.

"I appointed the Senators. Only when I was away will they consider whether the parliamentary decree was feasible. Now that I am here, my opinion is their opinion." Deng Ming said without thinking. This was originally the opinion of Liu Yao and the others. So when the last time he passed the mobilization, taxation and bond issuance, the Senate passed Deng Ming's request unanimously: "I understand everything, are you still worried that this bill will not be passed?"

Five hundred standing troops, four hundred private guards, two recruited troops, one thousand sailors, three thousand laborers, and seven thousand men boarded the fleet, Deng Ming set off. This time, Deng Ming led Li Xinghan and Ren Tang to guard Chengdu and Xuzhou. The other three people would continue to recruit troops in Chengdu and Xuzhou, and then take them to chase Deng Ming's footsteps.

Zhao Tianba volunteered to be the forward, but Deng Ming did not hand over this task to him: "Isn't it my personal striker every time? Besides, now in Huguang, Liangjiang may be ready to move. The sooner I arrive, the easier it is to make them honest."

Before leaving Chengdu, Deng Ming asked the Imperial Parliament to conduct an authorization vote. In addition to giving Deng Ming free military action and deciding diplomatic countermeasures and clauses, he also ordered him to attack prefectures and counties that refused to purchase the Ming War government bonds.

"Is this the Duke of the State made an excuse to break the contract?" Ren Tang asked sarcastically when he saw Deng Ming deliberately making such a resolution, but he thought it was simply a cover-up. Even if there was this resolution, everyone would think that Deng Ming broke the contract.

"At the moment of life and death, my personal promise is not worth mentioning at all. However, if the contract is broken without reason, no one will believe in the contract with us in the future. Therefore, everyone must be clear about what our rules are. As long as we abide by these rules, they will be safe." Deng Ming explained, and then smiled and said, "Now the emperor is Nanshou, and I am not Cao Cao, so I obey the orders of the parliament to show that I am selfless and did not steal power for myself while the emperor is not here."

Ren Tang was stunned for a moment and retorted again: "The National Government believes that if an imperial council is organized, isn't it Cao Cao?"

"If I were Cao Cao, could I still tolerate you, Xun Yu, talking nonsense here?"

...

When Deng Ming went downstream, the two British merchants also set off. They were originally recording the prices and types of handicrafts in Chengdu, but after learning that the downstream situation suddenly changed, the two people observed the mobilization situation in Sichuan with great interest. For these two, this was the most important information, which determined whether they were still interested in engaging in commercial transactions with the Ming army. When Deng Ming set off, the two British merchants also hurriedly asked to follow their peers. Deng Ming thought for a while, agreed to their request, and showed that military strength to potential trading partners was not harmful.

"The Duke's parliamentary members are more complicated than those of our country. They can impose more taxes and mobilize more soldiers without avoiding dissatisfaction. However, the military expenses are also greater, which is more pros and cons." A British businessman and Deng Ming stood on the side of the ship chatting, pointed to the bustling crowds on the shore: "If it were in our country, sailors would not have to pay at all, just catch them from the shore. Anyway, the fishermen were not represented in the parliament."

Deng Ming looked along the British arm and saw that Sichuan fishermen by the river had seen two military flags on Deng Ming's flagship. Although they were not familiar with the broken arrow flag, they all recognized the three wall flags and hit the water with wooden pulp and sticks, cheering at the imperial army that was heading for war.

Retracting his gaze from the faces of these eager supporters, Deng Ming turned to ask the British businessman: "You are not an army, isn't it illegal to capture fishermen in your country?"

"Of course it is not illegal. We will pay taxes to the king and Her Majesty the Queen. The merchants are represented in the parliament." The British merchant replied with confidence, and recalled them with a respectful look on their faces: "Her Majesty found that there were too few sailors in Britain. If there were many wars, it was not necessary to withstand consumption. The legislation stipulated that meat was not allowed to be sold three days a week, which greatly increased the number of British fishermen. When the navy or when we set sail to sea, we would catch fishermen on the coast and serve without worrying about not enough sailors."

According to the description of British merchants, British fishermen now have no parliamentary representation, and the experience of Chinese tenants is similar, and they are even terrible, because they may fall from the sky at any time and be captured by a passing warship or privateer. According to the British merchants, there were a large number of domestic fishermen who were kidnapped in this way on the merchant ships in Chongming. After docking, these lower-level British sailors were locked on the decks of ships or cannons to prevent them from escaping.

"These are all beasts of cruel and ignorant," one British businessman was obviously very smart, and he was already very skilled in Chinese. The other was also studying hard and could discuss some elegant topics about art and music with Deng Ming. However, when talking about the British compatriots tied to the bottom deck, the merchants obviously did not regard them as human beings: "They had a muddy mind with the idea of ​​rebellion all day long, and they would murder the gentlemen and senior sailors who led them whenever they had the chance; otherwise they would torture the poor black slaves in the cargo hold, and some of them would be disabled and unable to sell them; after they arrived in your country, they would never let them land, otherwise they would kill people in the street and cause trouble."

Deng Ming ignored the evaluation of British merchants. In any case, the ones who could provide goods to the Ming army were these British captains full of adventure and completely without moral burdens, rather than the poor sailors locked under the deck.

Along the way from Chengdu to Xuzhou, the people in western Sichuan who heard the news greeted the Ming army fleet. When they passed by Xuzhou, the people there knew that the army was urgently mobilized and set off to ensure the interests of the empire in the downstream. Various supplies were already prepared with the cooperation of various businesses, so that the Ming army could pass through Xuzhou without stopping and advance to the destination as soon as possible.

In the private diary of the British merchant, he wrote his impression of Deng Ming: "The Duke is young and smart, well-educated, and respectable. The Duke's guards are well-equipped and highly morale, but the Duke also told me that there are not many such troops - there is no doubt that if all the Duke's troops were such warriors, the Tatars would not have occupied most of China. Faced with the pressure of the Tatars, the Duke did not hold his power to sink to the bottom of the sea with his power.

, but generously took it out and shared it with friends and leaders in exchange for their loyalty and service. I must admit that the Duke won my favor, and the Duke's governors were also very smart, willing to obey the command of gentlemen and officers who were nobler than them, and were completely different from the simple-minded peasants under the Tatars. Many of the Tatars' soldiers were as rebellious as the stupid fishermen in our country, and they had to be whipped with whips to work and point them with weapons to fight."

Before arriving in Chongqing, Deng Ming had already known the negotiation results. Gao Mingzhan honestly purchased 20 million yuan in war bonds and paid 250,000 taels of silver to Sichuan Industrial Bank for this. Zheng Chenggong's death made the situation full of crisis. If Gao Mingzhan and his gang dared not take the threat of the Sichuan army seriously, they would drive them out of Chongqing even if they didn't do jewelry business. Although they didn't think this situation was very likely to happen, Deng Ming was still prepared to land and fight, and now he could lift the guard and let the fleet advance east at full speed.

"Did you tell them we will pay with the IOU?" Deng Mingxun asked Yu Youming's partner.

"Tell me," another director of the Industrial Bank nodded quickly. According to the agreement between Deng Ming and Industrial Bank, they only needed to provide Ming Jun with 190,000 taels of silver, so they made 60,000 taels of silver in a blink of an eye: "The board of directors of this bank unanimously decided to purchase the Imperial War government bonds in full from today, hoping to sell the government bonds to the bank first."

"You can negotiate this with President Xiong. He will be responsible for the issuance of subsequent war bonds. When Mr. Gong comes back, they will be responsible for the two of them." Deng Ming replied: "You serve the country, and I think they will do their best to meet your requirements."
Chapter completed!