After Li Siye left, Gong Yan looked at Deng Ming carefully: "It's nothing wrong to beware of Wu Sangui. This guy is full of conspiracies, but are you sure you want to give Hunan to King Jin?"

"Yes." Deng Ming nodded seriously.

"Although the Huguang in Zhang Changgeng's hands is different from yours, it is equivalent to sharing with him. Well, almost 30% of them belong to you, and 70% of them belong to Zhang Changgeng." Gong Yong calculated the benefits Deng Ming could get from Huguang. He was not very clear about how the commercial profit should be calculated, so he could only roughly estimate it.

"It's almost the same, but some of them have been returned to the Beijing Governor," Deng Ming pointed out that Zhang Changgeng is still standing between Beijing and Chengdu, and the transportation of canals to Beijing will never be short.

"This is because he dare not turn to you completely, and he can't figure out what benefits you are willing to give him. But if you hit the Tartars a few more times, Zhang Changgeng might turn to you." Gong Yong pointed out that if Li Dingguo got Hunan, then Deng Ming could not extort the King of Jin and then gave Hubei to Kuidong, then the entire Huguang profit would probably not belong to Sichuan.

"Yes, but King Jin is our own person, and Zhang Changgeng is not." Deng Ming admitted that Gong Yan was right. Not only will Sichuan not be able to share Huguang's tax revenue, but he may not be able to obtain so much profit in business.

"What kind of person is your own person?"

"Isn't it clear that Gong Shangshu? Anyone who once fought with the Qing Dynasty was his own people." After so long this era, Deng Ming also saw many ignorant customs within the Han people, but despite this, it was much more civilized than the Qing Dynasty's coat system. Although the Ming Dynasty treated the lower class people very cruelly, at least he was respectful to scholars, and the Qing Dynasty regarded all Han people as slaves.

Next to the Han civilization is the Mongolian Grassland, the world's largest barbarian production base. Since the Wuhua invasion, every barbarian invasion was a major regression. By the early Ming Dynasty, there was no need for Mongolia to lose the barbarian customs inherited by the Ming Dynasty: "Just like Gong Shangshu or the generals of Kuidong, the officers and soldiers of the Xiying also rose up to resist the barbarians, and Zhang Changgen and others were from the barbarians, so Wu Sangui didn't need to mention it. So, if I treat Zhang Changgen better than King Jin, that's wrong."

"Okay, I don't know if you can think so in a few years." Gong Yong seemed not very confident in Deng Ming, but he also hoped that all those who entered the camp would have a good end, so naturally he could not persuade Deng Ming to play tricks with Li Dingguo: "So what after expelling the Tartars? Have you ever thought about what to do at that time?"

"I am more than the King of Jin, Zhang Shangshu, Hu Shuai and others, and they are more than 20 years old. They have suffered much more than I have suffered, and they are far less healthy than me." Deng Ming smiled and said, "When the Tartars are expelled, I will say to them, 'Do you think about unifying our country?' If they agree, that's great. If they don't agree, I won't ask again. Anyway, I can afford it. If they don't want to learn He Daoning, they won't learn it. Their son - such as the Prince of Jin, his ability is far worse than that of King of Jin, right?"

Thinking of Li Siye's cunning and his experience in dealing with people, Gong Rong nodded slightly: "It's indeed far from comparable to King Jin."

"The heroes compete because they all think that they have a chance. As long as Sichuan has absolute advantages but do not provoke internal strife, civil war will not be able to fight." Deng Ming felt that he was actually thinking about it. It was just that little thing. There was no need to force those heroes to bow their heads. They didn't want to be inferior to others, so they would be majestic for life. Anyway, Deng Ming needs to do a lot of things, and at least he has to spend a generation to promote his national concept. Besides, a small territory would not delay Deng Ming from doing more important things. He knew that he was facing an era of expansion of destiny, an era of dividing the world of various civilizations, a time when imperialism was prevalent, and the surging colonial independence struggle would take a long time to appear.

Moreover, as long as overseas expansion is completed, with money and land, Deng Ming feels that domestic conflicts are easier to resolve, and no one can suffer losses, so he will naturally speak in a harmonious manner. However, there is no need to explain this to Gong Yong. Not to mention this old master, even Deng Ming's subordinates, he may not be able to generally accept the idea of ​​first resisting foreign countries and then stabbing the country: "Expelling the Tartars is not a matter of one day or one night. At least another ten years, Sichuan Academy will only educate enough students."

As for Zhang Changgeng's handling, Gong Yan had no objection. The other party has always been a high-ranking official in the Qing Dynasty. Since Deng Ming's strength is strong enough, Zhang Changgeng does not need to be able to confront the Qing court anyway, he can completely refuse to accept the other party's surrender.

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Jin Shengtan and others took a boat to go up the Yangtze River. In September, they arrived in front of Yuezhou City. This was the dividing line between the Qing army and the Kuidong army controlled area. After passing here, they entered the jurisdiction of the Ming army.

After leaving Jiujiang and entering the Huguang territory, Jin Shengtan and his friends saw many businessmen with short hair. They knew that these were from Sichuan, and short hair was said to be to align with the hairstyle of Baoguo Duke. Deng Ming always thought that short hair was good, easy to wash but not easy to get lice. Sichuan people generally believed that this was to facilitate shaving and put on makeup to sneak attack the Qing army, including the Allied Army of Chongming.

After seeing the yamen runners in Huguang who ignored their short hair, Jin Shengtan and others also began to grow their hair. When they passed through Yuezhou, their tribe members also had short hair. After docking in Jiangling, the exiles who escaped from the Qing army controlled the area were completely relieved and planned to rest in Jiangling for a while, and then continue to move forward, striving to arrive in Xuzhou by 12 months.

After staying in Jiangling for less than two days, another group of Jiangnan people arrived. The dress of these people was completely different from the exiles in Wu County. They were all tight and short-padded, and many of them had swords on their waists. When they found out that this was a boat of Zhejiang people, all of them were children of the former Jingnan Army. After receiving the recruitment, Zhuang Yuncheng and others immediately asked their children to set off to Chengdu to study for military academy. For these gentry in Huzhou and Jiaxing, these children were not only their hope for defending the clan in the future, but also the fire reserved for the clan. If the Qing army dispatched a large army from the north, tear down the recruitment agreement and entered their hometown, then their children would not be burned with jade and stones; they could even play a hostage-like role, making Deng Ming believe that they were in Cao and Han, rather than accepting the recruitment sincerely. In this way, if there were any needs in the future, they could still speak with Sichuan.

Chengdu also attaches great importance to this group of non-commissioned students. First of all, they are all self-paid students, and each of them pays a tuition fee, so the military academy of course must provide excellent services in return. More importantly, Deng Ming intends to influence these young students. They are the new generation of the gentry class in northern Zhejiang. Sooner or later, Deng Ming will open Sichuan to try to rule the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. At that time, Deng Ming will not plan to learn from the Qing Dynasty and kill a man in the southeast to establish authority. Therefore, Deng Ming needs a group of Zhejiang people who understand his ideas, so that at least they can communicate without serious misunderstandings. If these young people can agree with Deng Ming's ideas, it would be better.

Therefore, when these young Zhejiang scholars advanced westward, Deng Ming sent soldiers to accompany them throughout the journey, introducing them to the Ming army's war over the years, and providing each scholar with tight combat uniforms and short swords. These tour guides also assured the international students that when they arrived in Sichuan, the military academy would send them military uniforms to them, allowing them to receive military training exactly the same as the regular sergeant in Sichuan.

In addition to these, the officers also distributed pamphlets to these young Zhejiang people promoting imperialism and began to try to change their thinking patterns.

Jin Shengtan's son was not old, and soon became familiar with a few non-commissioned international students who had disembarked from the ship. He listened to them retell the thoughts in the booklet: "The Han people have been immigrating to the South China Sea for hundreds of years. The Nanyang places are rich in resources, and some areas can even be familiar with each other three years. The Han people are hardworking and simple, but they have not grown stronger on such a rich land for hundreds of years. Why?"

"Why?" Mr. Jin felt a little strange after hearing this and asked back.

"Because the Han people have opened up a large area of ​​land after several generations of hard work, and the local natives were jealous when they saw it, so they attacked the Han people, killed all men, snatched women, children and all their property. Therefore, for hundreds of years, the Han people have been moving there, but the number has grown very slowly." A Huzhou man shouted indignation: "I didn't know before. After reading this book, I realized that after the Red Barbarians arrived in the South China Sea, they kept instigating the natives to kill the Han people, snatch the land of the Han people, and then turned the natives into slaves to farm for the Red Barbarians. This has been the case for hundreds of years. Only the Prince of Yanping beat the Red Barbarians a few years ago, which made them restrain themselves and rescued many Han people."

When introducing the Western colonists in this booklet, it was mentioned that most of them were the bottom of society in their own country, just like Han immigrants. Many of them were landless farmers who could not make a living in their motherland. However, after they landed in Southeast Asia, they quickly became rich in a few years and became local rulers. They enslaved the natives, while the Han people were the targets of looting by the natives.

"Why? Why do we all go to open up wastelands? What are the experiences of our Han people and the Red Wizards?" Another scholar in Huzhou couldn't help but scream.

"Why?" Jin Shengtan's son was a little confused when he heard it. Although he didn't know that the scale of immigration was so large, it was not too strange that the hard life of overseas immigrants was difficult. After all, he was away and was unfamiliar with the place. If there were no Dutch comparisons, many scholars would probably think it was a matter of course and would not think deeply about the reasons.

"Because our farmers went to sea with hoes and sickles, they only brought farm tools. In addition to farm tools, the red barbarians also brought guns!" Now the people of Huzhou have a deep impression of rifles. These young people have seen with their own eyes bullying the weak and fearing the strong, so they deeply agree with the truth in the Sichuan Army's pamphlet: "Our farmers not only did not carry guns, but also felt guilty, thinking that they were guests, they were visiting the host's home, asking for a bite of food, and then they obeyed; but in fact, these wastelands are God's, and whoever cultivated them belongs to whom they waving the booklet sent to him by the Sichuan Army, shouting: "This book says well, all natives who do not work and specialize in killing and robbing are actually the same as jackals. As long as they dare to circulate outside the fence of the Han people, how we deal with wolves, we should deal with them."
Chapter completed!