Before meeting General Wen, Deng Ming estimated that the other party would first ask him about the details of the battle in Kunming, and Deng Ming was also ready to repay the truth. Unexpectedly, after he sat down and drank a sip of tea, Wen Anzhi was the first to talk about Dachang.

Shortly after Deng Ming left Fengjie and went to Chengdu, what he said to Yuan Zongdi in Dachang reached Wen Anzhi's ears. The reason why he learned so late was that Wen Anzhi was not as concerned about Deng Ming's words and deeds as Liu Tichun, and he did not send someone to inquire carefully like the latter. When Wen Anzhi got the news, Deng Ming had already left Fengjie and went to Jianchang. These remarks made Wen Anzhi quite dissatisfied and felt that it was necessary to have a good talk with Deng Ming.

Later, the war in Jianchang and Dongchuan came one after another. Wen Anzhi felt that it was very difficult for Deng Ming to survive and die, so he planned to blame him lightly. He should not speak too much, so as not to hurt the upward heart of this heroic young vassal king. Deng Ming's achievements in the subsequent battle of Kunming were even more dazzling. Although Wen Anzhi believed that it would be extremely inappropriate for the royal family to blame the Lie Emperor who died in the country, he was ready to breathe more peacefully.

Wen Anzhi thought that Deng Ming would immediately admit his mistake when he mentioned this matter, so that would be the end. Unexpectedly, although Deng Ming nodded and agreed after hearing his reproach, he obviously showed an insincere way. He knew at a glance that Deng Ming did not refute it completely out of politeness of respecting the elderly.

"Deng Ming, just say it right." Wen Anzhi felt a little awkward to call this young man "Mr.", so he simply called his name... Anyway, it's not the real name of the little prince, right?

"I heard a saying: Human fault is like solar eclipse..."

"A gentleman's mistake is like the eclipse of the sun and the moon. When it is wrong, everyone sees it, and everyone admires it." Wen Anzhi quickly told this allusion for Deng Ming.

"That's right." Deng Ming nodded.

"Even if the king and father occasionally have a minor mistake, as a minister, he refuses to give in and instead raises up his troops to instigate chaos. What is this not a traitor?" Wen Anzhi asked coldly.

"The camp and the western camp are all people. How could they see Emperor Lie, and how could they have the opportunity to state to the emperor?" Deng Ming murmured in a low voice. Seeing Wen Anzhi so angry, he didn't want to continue the argument, but his youthful and energetic resulted in him making a decision not to fight, but he had to add this sentence.

"If it were me, I would go to the capital and cry outside the palace," Wen Anzhi had good ears. After hearing Deng Ming's last words, he shouted: "I cried until my father corrected it."

Deng Ming suddenly said several words in his stomach, but he bulged his mouth and finally stood up to thank him: "Thank you for your teachings in the supervisor. You are taught by the younger generation."

Wen Anzhi saw that Deng Ming was not convinced. According to Wen Anzhi's idea, although the other party was a vassal king, he grew up and there were always a few eunuchs and guards around him. Those people must have held him like a god, making him involuntarily feel that he was superior everywhere. Now he could bow his head to the fore. In fact, Wen Anzhi had no malice. The emergence of this clan's son made Wen Anzhi feel that it seemed that Emperor Taizu had appeared. If Deng Ming wanted to ascend to the throne in the future, Wen Anzhi would not stop him-he felt that he would not have the chance to stop him at all. With Wen Anzhi's age, he would definitely not see that day.

But Wen Anzhi felt that since ancient times, the emperor not only needed to make achievements, but also demonstrated his kindness. What kind of virtue is the criticism of the ancestors who died in order to win over the morale of the army? Wouldn't it be despised by all generations? Even if Deng Ming really had outstanding martial arts one day, he still needed princes and ministers to be the common ruler, and then bowed and gave in. Even this may not be able to gain a good reputation in history books, let alone win people's hearts nakedly.

Wen Anzhi sighed. The Tian family and the royal family have rarely had a good temper since ancient times, and it seems that they are in a hurry. He no longer continued to try to convince Deng Ming, but asked about Jianchang, Dongchuan and Kunming a series of wars.

This narrative made Wen Anzhi very happy to hear it. However, Deng Ming's narration had many deviations from the Qing court's residence. The Qing court said that Deng Ming first leaned against Hong Chengchou, and then used this as a springboard to serve Zhao Liangdong, and then used these two levels of relationship to sneak into the key warehouse in Kunming City. However, Deng Ming said that he had never seen Hong Chengchou. Although Zhao Liangdong was a key figure, it was not the most important link. Wu Sangui was the one who played a decisive role.

"So that's it." Wen Anzhi certainly believed in Deng Ming. It seems that Hong Chengchou suffered a ruthless injustice for Wu Sangui. But this is not surprising, and Wen Anzhi has no sympathy for Hong Chengchou, but he only feels happy.

Next, let’s talk about the aftermath of Jianchang. After hearing Deng Ming’s three rules, Wen Anzhi sighed again: “You just want to calm people’s hearts and appease the generals. This man knows very well, but people in the world know what to think in the future? They will think that you are like Taizu of Han. Those who do not understand your loyalty will mistakenly think that you have a disobedient heart and damage your reputation; and those who know that you are a loyal minister will also think that you are not cautious enough in doing things.”

As an old minister and a loyal minister, Wen Anzhi could only imply that Deng Ming's actions were inappropriate. Yongli was still rampant in this way, which would likely arouse the disgust of those who value the principles. If it weren't for the outstanding achievements of the Tang King, Wen Anzhi would also be disgusted. Even now he was a little unhappy, so he implyed that Deng Ming should pay attention to his image and not make people feel that he was eager to seize the throne.

"There is no time to seek self-study for the country." Just like the last time, Deng Ming did not understand Wen Anzhi's hint at all.

Wen Anzhi shook his head gently again, thinking in his heart: "I know he can't listen."

Then he talked about the arrangements for farmers. Deng Ming said that only one stone of grain was required to hand over ten acres of land, Wen Anzhi felt that it was not enough. At the same time, he also thought that the name of protection fee was too ugly.

"The Master of the Supervisor clearly understands that even if one acre of grain is harvested, it may not be enough for the army. Anyway, it is not enough, so just collect less. As long as the grain collected can meet the registration and registration, the daily use of the Excavator's Office will be enough." Deng Ming's idea was to try to attract the people who fled into the barren mountains to come back, and at the same time encourage the revitalization and production. As long as there is grain produced, even if it is only enough for the people to eat, it is still much better than the people's hunger and fullness now.

"Without three or five years, it may be difficult to achieve a small success." Wen Anzhi felt that he was in a hurry. He was worried that the Qing court would give the southwest three or five years of time to develop safely.

"We can rely on military garrisons for these three or five years," Deng Ming comforted. Now, the Three Gorges area is full of military garrisons, and the whole people are soldiers. Those who do not join the army to fight have to farm land for the army. However, people's enthusiasm for labor may not be stronger than that of the Sichuan Xingdusi, and fleeing to the Qing ruling area often happens. Not everyone is like Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan vows to fight the Tartars to the end. Some auxiliary soldiers feel that the suffering days are out of sight, so they would rather shave their heads and go to Huguang to reclaim wasteland. Because of the war and abandonment, the officials of the Qing court are also encouraging land reclamation. Even if they have to pay half of the output to the Qing court, at least half of them can still be left, and there is still a piece of their own land.

However, most of these people who have reclaimed land will not reclaim large areas of land because the taxes are heavy. If the yield per mu cannot be guaranteed, the 70% or 80% of the harvest will be handed over to the government after working hard that year. Instead of reclaiming large areas of land, it is better to cultivate carefully and increase your rate of return.

Deng Ming faced a worse situation than the Qing Dynasty. The western Sichuan plains with thousands of miles of fertile land are now full of weeds. For ordinary people in Sichuan, the return on investment for land reclamation in the plain is lower than that of planting mountain fields on Mount Emei: when returning to the plain, it is likely that the army will catch people. Even if they become self-cultivated farmers, they will basically have to hand over to the government office. Although the mountainous areas are barren, the production is still their own. In addition, the threat of war, the people are even more reluctant to go down the mountain.

A small amount of taxes may stimulate the people to resume production. The protection fee of ten acres per stone does not require careful cultivation at all. The income will increase sharply with more land reclaimed. As long as the people have a large amount of food, even if they cannot be collected by taxation, there may be other ways, either borrowing or buying. If there is no harvest at all, it will be difficult for a good cook to cook without rice.

Although Deng Ming said it was a tax rate of one tenth, Wen Anzhi felt that the tax rate of ten acres per stone was probably less than one twenty. However, Wen Anzhi's intention to Deng Ming was still understandable. Since ancient times, light taxation has been a way to restore production. In the early years of the Han Dynasty, people's livelihood was in decline, and the emperor could not raise four horses of the same color, and the ministers took a ox cart to court. In order to restore production, the people were happy to open up land at that time, and soon even the middle-class family had three years of savings for grain storage.

However, that was a means to resume production in peacetime. In order to support the army during the war, the government wanted to take away every grain of food. Although the enthusiasm of the farmers was getting lower and lower, the fleeing continued, and production continued to shrink, if there was no such grain to prolong their lives, the court would have to die. Wen Anzhi knew that it was a poison to quench his thirst, but he had to do so. He could only hope to defeat the Qing Dynasty before squeezing all the potential of the military camp.

Since Deng Ming insisted, Wen Anzhi no longer objected. He weighed the pros and cons, maybe this would be beneficial. While using the military camp to the court, the army continued this tone, he used light taxes to restore production. If the war was not over when the military camp was squeezed out, he could still count on large areas of cultivated fertile land.

As for the positions of Feng Shuangli and other generals, it was all trivial matters, and Wen Anzhi recognized all these appointments issued in his name.

After all these matters were reported, the teacup in front of Deng Ming had been added several times, and he still felt a little dry: "If the supervisor has nothing to do, I will take the blame first."

"Don't leave now, I have something to do." Wen Anzhi told Deng Ming that Zhao Tianba had returned to Fengjie from Fujian, and only arrived a few days earlier than Deng Ming and his party.

"I have notified the Prince of Yanping. The Prince of Yanping hopes that you can go to Fujian and want to see you." Wen Anzhi said while observing Deng Ming's reaction.

Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong are both famous heroes. When Deng Ming heard that Zheng Chenggong actually wanted to see him by name, his first reaction was of course excited. After the excitement, Deng Ming felt a little strange and asked, "Why did Prince Yanping meet me?"

After seeing Deng Ming's unconcealed excitement, Wen Anzhi said in his heart: "It's true that's not what I expected." Hearing Deng Ming's question, Wen Anzhi felt like "a boy showed off his skills and wanted to pretend to be garlic in front of me."

"Are you going?" Wen Anzhi asked. He guessed that Deng Ming would definitely be willing to go.

Sure enough, Deng Ming asked back, "When do I need to leave?"

Wen Anzhi thought for a while: "This is not urgent. Yanping plans to attack Nanjing. If it goes well, maybe you can go to Nanjing by then. If it doesn't go well, it's not too late to wait until the dust settles before going to Fujian."

"The Prince of Yanping wants to send troops to Jiangnan?"

"yes."

Zheng Chenggong did not conceal his and Zhang Huangyan's plans from Wen Anzhi. On the contrary, he asked Wen Anzhi if he was willing to lead Kuidong troops down the river and meet him in Jiangxi. Looking at Zheng Chenggong's tone, Wen Anzhi felt that the other party thought it would be no problem to take Jiangnan.

However, Wen Anzhi was not very optimistic about the attacks of Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan, because these two people had a small plan in their minds, and there was also a problem with their loyalty to the Yongli court. Before, when Li Dingguo defeated Kong Youde and Nikan, Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong were not very happy about the great momentum of the Yongli court. Instead, they looked a little bit like the end of the world and disaster was coming. Therefore, Wen Anzhi had some doubts about their willingness and determination to send troops this time. Secondly, these two people were able to harass the coastal coastal ability, but whether they had the strength to fight the Qing army inland field is still to be investigated. Therefore, although Zheng Chenggong strongly invited, Wen Anzhi did not intend to rashly mobilize the Sichuan army to prepare for attacking Hubei and Jiangxi. Originally, there was not much food and grass left in Kuizhou, and there was not even the ability to fight Chongqing. If Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan could really conquer Nanjing, it would not be too late to let them provide some military rations and mobilize them.

"They will probably send troops next month," Zheng Chenggong told Wen Anzhi that his offensive would be launched in May. Wen Anzhi forwarded the information to Deng Ming: "Although Yanping is eager to see you, I think it's too late for you to set out to Fujian immediately. If you are willing to wait, you can go first and then wait in Xiamen."

Zhao Tianba returned to Fengjie half a month earlier than Deng Ming. If Deng Ming had been staying in Fengjie and had not gone to Yunnan, he might have had time to rush to Fujian to try his luck. However, Deng Ming did not make a decision immediately. After hearing Wen Anzhi's statement that Zheng Chenggong was eager to see him, Deng Ming immediately suspected that there was something wrong with it. However, sometimes listening to Wen Anzhi's words is like listening to Zen. Once there is something about royal family and throne, Wen Anzhi felt that he had already explained it very clearly, but Deng Ming still couldn't understand anything.

It turned out that Wen'anzhi sent Zhao Tianba to Fujian to go out. Although Wen'anzhi's words were not easy to understand, it was still easier to deal with Zhao Tianba. Deng Ming asked to see Zhao Tianba first. Wen Anzhi knew that Deng Ming was mostly trying to inquire about Zheng Chenggong's situation before making a decision, so he naturally would not disagree.

After Deng Ming said goodbye from Wen Anzhi, he planned to return to his residence to take off his luggage and go to find Zhao Tianba. Unexpectedly, Zhao Tianba had already come to the door and was chatting with Zhou Kaihuang, Li Xinghan and others. After the Kunming fire incident, Deng Ming and his team were famous all over the world. Zhao Tianba couldn't help but be jealous. He asked himself that his martial arts were better than Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan, and he was even more bold and meticulous. As a result, such a good thing that was famous in history was not as good as him.

Zhao Tianba was very disdainful of the generals of Jianchang's Xiying. Zhao Tianba's father was the direct descendant of Li Dingguo. He was a personal guard of the King of Jin's Mansion and a thousand households of Jinyiwei at a young age. Usually, those who were not the King of Jin were polite when they saw him. Zhao Tianba respected only the King of Jin and the Prince of Jin in the Xiying.

"King of Qingyang? I have seen him, and the dusk is so strong... Di Sanxi? When I talked to King Qingyang before, he could only stand by and listen."

Before Deng Ming could reach the door, he heard Zhao Tianba vocalizing Jianchang's characters inside.

After the two met, Deng Ming immediately asked about the trip to Fujian. Although Zhao Tianba was proud, he was very careful in doing things. When he saw that there were many people around him, he would stammer and stammer in detail in the future. Deng Ming knew what Zhao Tianba was concerned about, so he seemed to casually tell the story of his life and death with everyone during this period. Finally, he also expressed that the friendship during this period would be unforgettable for life.

After hearing Deng Ming say this, everyone was happy and expressed humility.

Zhao Tianba looked at Zhou Kaihuang, Li Xinghan and the others smiled happily, suddenly sneered, and said loudly: "Mr. Deng is not saying this to you, but for me, so that I can say something, he doesn't want to hide it from you. The gentleman didn't understand the words, so he didn't want me to have a rift with you."

Then Zhao Tianba said, "The supervisor asked me to go to Fujian and report to the Prince of Yanping that the young King of Tang is the one who is the young King of Tang."

Zhou Kaihuang immediately glared at his eyes and scolded: "What are you talking nonsense? The sir is obviously the third prince!"

"Sir, I haven't said that," Li Xinghan and a group of guards from Sichuan Army retorted in a verbal manner: "Sir, I am the King of Shu."

Originally, Zhao Tianba wanted to refute Zhou Kaihuang's sentence, but after hearing Li Xinghan's Sichuan army's speculation that Deng Ming was the King of Shu, he was too lazy to refute it. He thought to himself: "Why have to compete with these unknown guys for quarrels? When you look at the beads of your husband, you know that it is impossible for the Shu Palace to be taken out. I thought to myself that the Shu Palace was washed by me by me, so how much it was. It's clear how much it was."

Deng Ming asked Wen Anzhi's explanation and Zheng Chenggong's reaction. It seemed that the misunderstanding was getting deeper and deeper and difficult to resolve.

In order to convince Wen Anzhi to hand over the young King Tang to him, and to make the young King Tang be brave enough to join him, Zheng Chenggong made great efforts and tried to show Zhao Tianba his military strength. Zheng Chenggong felt that if he could not show his strong strength, the young King Tang might not have the courage to cross the enemy's border to Fujian.

A confidant of Zheng Chenggong who came to serve the ritual with Zhao Tianba was brought to see Deng Ming. After the man suddenly took out a letter from his arms: "Mu Tan, the general of Funing, Funing, is this what the king wants to hand over to His Highness the humble position."

"Just call me sir." Deng Ming took the letter in surprise.

Zhao Tianba was also surprised. This man and Zhao Tianba came back all the way and lived in Fengjie for so many days, but he had never revealed to anyone that he had a letter hidden on him.
Chapter completed!