In the overseas Chinese delegation welcoming Prime Minister Huang Ming, Yuan Haibin, who is from Nan'an, Fujian, stands in the front row. Although he has a smile on his face, his heart is full of worries and anxiety. Yuan Haibin's grandfather went out to sea in Wanli year and left his underage son in China. When Yuan Haibin's father became an adult, married, and had children, he also came to Luzon. Then it was his turn to grow up and run to sea. After three generations of business, Yuan Haibin has become a wealthy businessman, so when he was in great changes in the late Ming Dynasty, he was able to bring all his family in Nan'an and flee to Manila.

Twenty years passed in a flash. No matter what impressions of the Qing court, Yuan Haibin always thought about going back to his hometown. Because of Deng Ming, Fujian's ban on sea ban was actually in name only. Three years ago, Yuan Haibin returned to his hometown and brought back a sum of money, hoping to build a road for his hometown, build a bridge, or sponsor a private school. Overseas Chinese businessmen who had accumulated some savings for hundreds of years always served their hometown in this way, and perhaps this will continue in the next few hundred years.

Because Yuan Haibin brought the money back, the Nan'an official appointed by Geng Fan also came out to greet him with a smile, thanking Yuan Haibin for his donation on behalf of all the villagers, and also expressed his desire to put a plaque on his former residence. Yuan Haibin was shocked and hurriedly stopped him: "No, if the villagers knew that the young man had donated money to his hometown, it might be spread overseas in the future. If the Hongyi knew that the young man was so rich, the whole family would suffer."

Based on hundreds of years of experience, overseas Chinese businessmen in Fujian understand that donating their hometowns must be low-key, and low-key, because the natives, Dutch and Spanish are full of jealousy and hatred for the Chinese. They are jealous of the Chinese and hate them because they cannot live without them. Chinese make Manila and Batavia more prosperous, and periodic plundering of Chinese is also the consistent policy of Manila and Batavia, because this can make Chinese struggle on the poverty line, forcing Chinese to work harder, prosper the local economy, and save wealth to wait for the next harvest.

If Manila or Batavia knew that Yuan Haibin had money to donate to his hometown, he would definitely be in trouble. Yuan Haibin also knew very well that the government in his hometown could not help him. Since ancient times, the government has never helped the expatriates. If the expatriates cannot escape back by themselves, the government would also make a sound. The expatriates were once suspected of being the remnants of Fang Guozhen and were once considered to be a rebellious son who deviated from the kindness of the king and father. It is estimated that the government would now also call the expatriates a sympathizer of the Ming Dynasty, or abandoned people who did not fulfill their child's obligations to the royal father, and deserved to be killed by the Red Barbarians and natives.

"I know you won't care about me, and I don't expect you to care about me. I will take care of myself." When Yuan Haibin rejected the plaque of Fuqing's official government, he thought to himself: "Emperor Wanli just said verbally in the end. Those who believed in the emperor were even more cruelly slaughtered - it seemed that only the only one of the Master of Guo, and only he really did what he said. Because the Red Barbarians killed the Fujian people in Taiwan, they sent troops to fight with the Red Barbarians and drove away the Red Barbarians in Taiwan. However, the Master of Guo had passed away and the Master of Guo was no longer here."

While standing in front of the team today, waiting for Prime Minister Huang Ming to speak, Yuan Haibin once again secretly thanked that he had wisely not accepted Geng Fan's plaque, otherwise this might be another crime and would be taken down by the Ming army as an enemy. When he thought of this, Yuan Haibin was still a little guilty. When he saw Deng Ming walking towards them surrounded by guards, Yuan Haibin felt a chill on his back, fearing that the other party would point out the past when he thought he was unaware of it, and unconsciously paved the road for his hometown, and then ordered his left and right to take him down and ask for guilt.

"The government of Huangming has always been an extremely irresponsible government." Deng Ming began his speech: "Whether it is to overseas expatriates or domestic people, the government is trying hard to plunder the people's wealth and omen from the inside, and blames the overseas Chinese for not being loyal to the court. Whether the people need relief from the government or the government needs protection from the government, the government will become very stingy - if the government of Huangming is not so cold-blooded and cruel, China will not have this chaos. Even if the imperialist perishes, there is no regret for the imperialist demise, it is just a pity that countless people have suffered great disasters because of the government."

The audience members present were silent. Yuan Haibin recalled, yes, standing in front was the Prime Minister of the Emperor Ming, who was also the most famous commander of the Ming army in more than ten years.

"In the past, the imperial government was both despicable and cowardly. When the people had no way to survive because of heavy taxes, the mainland had to flee the famine, and the coast could only leave their hometowns. The government did not reflect on their own behavior, but instead tried its best to obstruct the people from famine or going to sea. When the refugees began to resist, the government would even blame them, saying that even if the officials did something wrong, the refugees should stay at home and starve to death, rather than fleeing the famine. In order to survive, they had to eat or even rob the food of other people. This was really hateful, so the government could not provide relief or tax exemption. However, if the refugees dared not stay at home on their own but chose to famine, they would kill them all, and they would be justified. If the coastal people could not survive and run to the sea, the government would applaud them. Who told you not to take imperial grain and serve labor service in China? Death would be retribution."

The whole place was silent, Deng Ming took a deep breath: "Huang Ming's previous actions were wrong, and the Empire was determined to correct them. Chen Jijiu of the Sichuan Academy of the Empire stated that it is the greatest immoral to preach morality to those who cannot eat. Because we are human beings, and people's hearts are flesh rather than iron stones, so hunger will make us suffer. Seeing that children starve to death will make us feel even more painful. In order to make our children live, we will kill people and set fires. We would rather deprive others of their lives than try to make our children live. This will also be the concept that the Empire adheres to in the future governance. We will never let the people bear the tax that will cause them to starve and let their children die. The Empire's government will also try our best to guarantee basic welfare."

Deng Ming read a book called "Aesthetics". The author of the book and Chen Zuocai had some ideas about it. He also believed that when people are oppressed to the verge of death, all behaviors adopted for survival are moral. However, it is interesting that this right-wing philosophy that emphasizes personal power is derived from the turmoil of people making their own lives. The government must pay attention to the left-wing conclusion that welfare is, otherwise it is not the people but the government. The left-wing philosophy that emphasizes collectivism, when the extreme thinking of personal interests is always under the collective interests, the state has sufficient reason to ignore welfare, and accuses everyone who refuses to starve to death at home for being backward thinking and does not know how to safeguard collective and national interests - deducing the extreme right national policy from left-wing philosophy.

"The Empire intends to include Luzon in its territory, but it does not appoint a migrant official, but uses a model similar to a contract with the local Chinese." Deng Ming patiently explained to the representatives present.

Like the original expatriates, most of the armed farmers in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang were poor, and they were worried about food and clothing. At the call of dozens of acres of land by the leaders of the reclaiming group trained by Sichuan, they boarded Shanghai to explore this foreign land overseas. Although Sichuan has strongly encouraged immigration over the years, only tens of thousands of armed farmers are just tens of thousands of armed farmers, which is far from comparable to the expatriates. If these dozens and millions of originally scattered expatriates were stopped like armed farmers, then the imperial government's rule in Luzon could be stabilized and lay the foundation for the future to be included in the territory forever.

All grassroots officials are elected by expatriates like the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and local taxes and national taxes are also determined by the Luzon parliament. The number of national taxes paid to the empire determines the seats in the imperial parliament. The power of the Luzon governor's appointment is temporarily retained in the hands of Deng Ming or the later prime minister. This period will last for twenty years. Twenty years later, taxpayers in the Luzon region will vote to continue to hand over the governor's appointment to the empire's prime minister for five years or elect them themselves.

"The Luzon government pays taxes, and the imperial government provides protection - any business will not last long. If Luzon does not pay taxes, it will be unprofitable for the imperial government and will naturally become reluctant to spend money and shed blood to protect the Luzon government; and if the Luzon government only pays taxes but cannot decide the national policy of the imperial government, then I guess sooner or later I will think about independence."

Although Deng Ming tried his best to explain, he guessed that the people present might not be able to think about it for a moment. Why didn’t the government collect protection fees nakedly but trade fairly?

"If the Luzon government is willing to become a province of the empire, then the Luzon government needs to stand on the side of the empire during wartime and not to go to war or make peace without authorization... In addition, there is a problem of royal law, that is, it must not violate the imperial constitutional principles and must not formulate laws that will be infinitely oppressed by individuals, because the empire believes that what people on the verge of starvation and death do cannot be expected and cannot be bound by moral constraints, so oppressing anyone to this situation is a threat to the empire - hurting one of us is to hurt us all." Deng Ming had prepared a lot of documents and materials. After the meeting, these expatriates would get detailed contract texts and explain in detail every item and every article in the contract proposed by the empire.

"Because of fearing the evil wolf on the road, people who travel far away must go together; because the lonely people are struggling, we need friends. Similarly, we also need states and governments. However, in order to eliminate the tragedy and chaos twenty years ago forever, the Empire was determined to try a completely different path from the Emperor Ming, hoping that every citizen could be rewarded for the taxes he paid and the taxes his ancestors paid, so that they would not die of starvation in the country of his parents; as long as every overseas expatriate reported to him, he would be respected by foreigners, and his safety would be the most reliable guarantee. Knowing that if he dared to give him unfair treatment, his motherland would raise an army to punish him - this is the direction of the empire's efforts, are you willing to join?"

Deng Ming did not ask the expatriate representative to answer immediately. After the meeting, Deng Ming asked Zhou Kaihuang again: "If all the Chinese in Nanyang agree to join the empire, what consequences do you think will be?"

"That means more girls can survive?" Zhou Kaihuang said with a laugh: "The admiral likes to ask me such questions because I know I definitely can't answer it, right?"

"It means we will not have a world of chaos again." Li Xinghan said with longing expression: "If I were them, I would choose to join."

"No, I dare not say that this will definitely not cause chaos in the world." Deng Ming smiled and said, "I am just worried that there will be no large number of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian and Zhejiang people will rush back to their country to build bridges and pave roads for their hometown, because in the future, Chinese in Luzon will regard this place as their motherland and hometown."
Chapter completed!