The scholars in Zhejiang knew that the scholars in Jiangnan who had met all fled to Sichuan, but they did not show any contempt. First of all, it is not easy to completely reverse the concept of people. Although the gentry class in Huzhou and Jiaxing now has revised the definition of promising from excellent reading to the courage to take up weapons to protect the clan, and these scholars in Zhejiang from Sichuan are also young people with a world outlook and a view of life that has not yet been established, they cannot look down on young scholars who continue to study in such a short time; secondly, the pamphlets that promote imperialism distributed in Sichuan have no intention of belittling scholars at all, and they characterize this difference as a different division of labor.

"Our Han civilization needs both defenders and things that need to be defended." A grandson of Zhuang Yuncheng said to Jin Shengtan's son. Imperialist theory is the most inciting for such young people: "We are defenders, and our writing, clothing, and food customs need to be defended. If there are no such things, if every scholar abandons his pen and does not write articles, and does not spread articles and poems, then what is the difference between us and the barbarians of the Tartars?"

After a few days of contact with these northern Zhejiang people, many young people from Wu County also went to their parents to yell. For example, Jin Shengtan's son suddenly changed his ambition and did not plan to go to Xuzhou to teach his children to study with his father, but instead yelled to go to Chengdu to study with northern Zhejiang people: "The child is also a seven-foot man, and he wants to be a defender, but he doesn't need to be defended. Anyway, with younger brothers here, father and mother don't have to worry about leaving anyone behind."

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Deng Ming also returned to Chengdu for this matter. Today he rushed to pay homage to Chen Zuocai of the academy, hoping that the latter would cooperate with him to carry out a wider imperialist education in the academy.

Chen Zuo is only in his forties and under fifty years old, but because he has become a veteran master of Sichuan, at least Chengdu Prefecture, he was wearing a short robe in Yunnan a few years ago. Chen Zuo, who can fly on a horse, has changed a lot. Now Chen Zuo is wearing a Confucian scholar's robe, wearing a square scarf, and always has a dragon-headed crutch in his hand when he walks, and is still trying hard to accumulate beards.

"Why are Chen Jijiu okay?" Deng Ming looked at Chen Zuocai's beard that was getting longer and longer under his jaw, and felt that in two years, the old master Chen would have the idea of ​​dyeing his beard white or even snow-white.

"Why did the Duke return to the Du Mansion so late?" Chen Zuo learned that Deng Ming had returned to Sichuan for at least two months, but he had been staying in Xuzhou. He had just returned to Chengdu two days ago - a grand triumphal ceremony was held. Now the academy has opened a sports department, and the department head is of course Professor Geriletu, a member of the imperial MP. Half of the teachers in the department are Mongolian fellows of Director Geriletu, former comrades of the Imperial Guards, and the others are basically veterans. On the day of the triumphal ceremony, Geriletu was embarrassed to join in the fun, but all the teachers in the department went to grab the money. The gains of these physical education teachers were quite good. Yesterday, they laughed and shouted in the department, boasting about their own gains. Chen Jijiu's office was very far away and could hear them clearly.

"Isn't it because the fellow scholars want to see the evidence of our army's victory?" Deng Ming said helplessly. Since the evil case was made when he returned from Myanmar, the fellow scholars in Sichuan thought that they had to have a free meal when the Duke Bao was victorious. In the Snow State, Deng Ming was stopped by the popular imperial citizens and had to give everyone some money. After seeing the people invited all the fellow scholars present to drink, the Chengdu people who heard the wind were eagerly waiting for Deng Ming to come back: "The people who came from outside the city this time! I sold jade and ivory for several months and saved a lot of money before I came back. I thought it was more than enough, but it almost didn't have enough."

After the greetings, Deng Ming said it. Although Chen Zuocai never publicly agreed with Deng Ming's imperial theory, the academy was quite cooperative in assisting the government's propaganda several years ago, not long after Xiong Lan came up with the theory that she kept going out to grab the population to maintain the rapid economic development of Sichuan, Chen Zuocai designated it as one of the courses for students to study and think in the academy.

However, when Chen Zuocai heard that Deng Ming planned to promote armed immigration to Southeast Asia and occupied overseas territories that were unknown how far away from Chengdu, he still felt a little difficult to understand.

"It's a pity that the Guo family passed away, otherwise I wouldn't have to do this." Deng Ming sighed. After losing Kinmen and Xiamen, Zheng Jing's attitude softened a lot and agreed to share trade with Deng Ming with Japan. Through the exchanges of envoys, Deng Ming also knew that Zheng Jing was implementing heavy taxes in Taiwan to support the huge army of Yanping's vassal.

"Does Chen Jijiu know why Prince Yanping raised taxes in Taiwan?"

"What's so strange about this?" Chen Zuo felt that Deng Ming's problem was simply despised by him. In order to maintain the hundreds of thousands of troops of Xiying, Sun Kewang gathered to make money and grain to launch offensives in Baoning, Xiangyang and Guangdong and Guangxi at the same time, and drove a large number of people under his rule into the military camp to serve as auxiliary soldiers. That was much more than Zheng Jing's permission to exist for self-cultivation farmers, but the tax rate was raised. Before the three kings' internal strife, the Western Army was able to launch a full-line attack and was defeated very quickly

It is indeed exciting to make a comeback again, but Chen Zuocai also witnessed the suffering in the military camp: "How many people does Taiwan have? 500,000? 600,000? The land is not as reclaimed as Jin Xia, right? The Prince of Yanping wants to maintain 30,000 soldiers, and there are thousands of warships. He also needs to reclaim wasteland and build water conservancy. How can it be possible without taking heavy taxes? The Prince of Yanping has not turned the people into auxiliary soldiers in the military camp? "

"Because the Prince of Yanping lost control of the Taiwan Strait," Deng Ming's answer was completely different from Chen Zuocai's thoughts: "Now not only we, but also the Dutch, have appeared in Japan in large numbers again. Many of them have not paid taxes to the Prince of Yanping, so they can still compete with our merchants, resulting in our profits falling. This situation has disappeared after the Guoxian sent troops to Taiwan. If the Dutch did not want to bear heavy taxes, they would withdraw from the direct transaction with Japan. Therefore, the Prince of Yanping could not afford the army, and he had to collect heavy taxes to ensure military supplies."

Chen Zuo felt that there was something in Deng Ming's words, so he shut up and waited for Deng Ming's words, held his dragon-headed crutch in his hand, and looked old-fashioned and unchanging.

"Chen Jijiu knew that the agricultural tax I collected in Sichuan was not high. From the beginning, I had fooled it by issuing IOUs, and then I relied on selling salt and redeeming city expenses, and then I was the stock exchange in Wuchang and Nanjing. I have always relied on the financial resources of tens of millions of people from Shandong, Zhejiang and Myanmar to support millions of scholars in Sichuan. So now Sichuan has a strong army and a huge fleet, but the burden on the people is not heavy, and the hardest farmers can almost have them.

Some outputs, but the industry and commerce can sell everything they do because of the protection of the army. If they meet competitors, the Imperial Army will help them break up. Even with the allies of Kuidong and the King of Jin in Yunnan, I can constantly give in and compromise and try to eliminate their dissatisfaction. It is because I have a strong family background and don’t have to risk conflicts to get along with them. If I refuse to suffer a big loss again and again, although I don’t want to provoke internal strife, maybe someone will be jealous of my territory and find fault to provoke internal strife against me.”

Deng Ming’s meaning is very clear, that is, Sichuan’s vigorous development and good relations with the alliance have all benefited from external plunder.

"Now, speaking behind closed doors, I admit that I am plundering the people of several provinces in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Although I have a bottom line, I know that they are my compatriots. I treat them much better than the Qing court and Sun Kewang, but this is still plundering. And I cannot plunder like this forever. Sooner or later, we will fight from Sichuan, and our army will restore more land from the Qing court. How should we treat the people in the Restoration District at that time?" Deng Ming felt that he could definitely do better than the Qing court. The Qing court monopolized the trade of various necessities of life, and tried his best to fool the people and ban the sea and enclose the land. These Deng

Ming will definitely not do it; but it is impossible if the people in the newly liberated areas want to immediately align with the living standards of Sichuan, and personal power will still be bound to the hands of clans and gentry, because Deng Ming has no money to redeem these political rights: "But if there is overseas income, these things will be much easier. Not only do they not have to pay heavy taxes for war, but they may also be widely exempted to allow the poor to have enough food and give landlords allowances in exchange for them to reduce the tenants' rents. We must drive away the Tartars, but if the Han people can die fewer than they have to bear heavy taxes, why not do it?"

Therefore, Deng Ming needs to expand overseas, and he also believes that this opportunity may appear at any time, because British gentlemen said that their motherland monopolized maritime trade with the Dutch, and the Spaniards monopolized South American gold and silver. In Deng Ming's view, the British now have similar views on the Dutch and the Spanish as Germany's views on Britain during World War I and World War II. And Deng Ming still remembers that in his previous life, when Germany jumped out to challenge Britain, what Japan did was to keep slashing in Asia: first pretended to be a friend of Britain and then broke up and snatched it directly. If Japan hadn't been too weak and Germany's two challenges had failed, plus the giant of the United States, Japan might have gained more benefits than Germany's challenger.

However, there is no United States now. China's strength is much stronger than Batavia and the Netherlands in the Philippines. The Spaniards are just limited by their navigational capabilities. More importantly, based on Deng Ming's experience, the challenger of the United Kingdom was successful.

"I have written to the King of England, saying that I think the profitable ivory, gold and silk trade should be completely in the hands of his great kingdom; this king has just regained the usurped throne and must have wanted to launch a war to establish authority, and can also make money to win people's hearts." Deng Ming has always been committed to adding fuel to the relationship between Britain and the Netherlands. Now there is no Zheng Chenggong, so Deng Ming plans to follow Japan's strategy in his previous life, first make up his friends in the Netherlands, do arms trading, and participate more widely in the Dutch trade network, and then buy some Dutch ships and hire some shipbuilding engineers to help the Netherlands solve the military expenditure problem. After the British continue to challenge, Deng Ming's ships were almost prepared, and he can learn Japan's next strategy.

Deng Ming explained to Chen Zuo for a long time, making the other party realize that Nanyang has huge potential, which can provide China with huge amounts of food, and can obtain gold and silver income exceeding agricultural tax through trade, and can also use this income to buy Siam. Japanese mercenaries will help the Chinese fight. However, if they want to seize large tracts of land and good ports from Western colonists, they need to prepare in advance, armed immigration, and Han people who dare to go out to sea to take risks. When the time is ripe, these Han strongholds and weapons reclamation groups scattered in Nanyang will be the bases of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, supplementing the guides and soldiers.

Deng Ming has sorted all these things into brochures, intending to encourage Sichuan people to organize things like the East India Company to recruit poor people from coastal areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Shandong to form a colony group to go out to sea. Sichuan will provide rifle and military training, and the Fujian army in Zhoushan will help them reach their destination. Now, whether it is Batavia or the Philippines, they control some good ports and strongholds. As long as the colony group avoids head-on conflicts with the Netherlands and Spaniards, and with some diplomacy, the enemy they have to face is a mess of South Yang natives.

The key is to dare to defend one's own interests, not to accept it but to shoot at the indigenous people who were trying to rob. Deng Ming hopes to use his geographical advantages and population advantages to allow a large number of armed Han farmers to appear in Nanyang as soon as possible. This requires publicity through Chengdu Academy, first cultivate the leaders of the reclamation group, and then let them recruit armed farmers.

"Huaxia, barbarians, beasts." Chen Zuocai looked through the textbooks prepared by Deng Ming and whispered, but then he changed back to his old-fashioned appearance just now: "I cannot agree with the words of the Duke of China. Our vast China has always advocated the use of virtue to conquer people. I don't agree with such things that violate the way of benevolence and forgiveness."

"But the saint also said that opening the book is beneficial." Chen Zuocai received the booklet that Deng Ming gave him: "Since the Duke has written it, let's take a look for it for the students. It's always no harm in reading two more books."
Chapter completed!