Deng Ming hoped to send a large number of gentry to Sichuan for military training, which in his opinion would be of great benefit to Jiaodong's continued military strength.

"The gentry in Jiaodong have money and food, and can afford the tuition fees of their children, and it is easier for me to turn these people into imperialists when they arrive in Sichuan." Deng Ming's wishful thinking has been in his heart for a long time, these gentlemen are not only easy to assimilate in their way of thinking, but also feel the strength of the imperial army because of their training in the Sichuan army, and produce the fear of the imperial army.

However, although Deng Ming's abacus was good, the Fuqing House was reluctant to send students to Sichuan, they knew that the Sichuan army was very strong, but first of all, they didn't think that Deng Ming would give it to him, and secondly, they were worried that their children would be used as cannon fodder. These gentlemen could not understand why long-term and professional training was needed to transform the Jiaodong Army, and their military organization did not need such extensive military training.

The military structure of the gentry's army was based on their personal relations in the countryside, and it was stable to the point of rigidity, and it was impossible for a tenant to become an officer, and Xiucai had to obey the command of the elders. Now that the fighting power of this army had satisfied the Gentry Council, they did not feel the need to further improve, let alone select outstanding personnel from among the tenant soldiers to be trained as officers—these were the soldiers of the Fuqing Army whom Deng Ming thought had a future, and they also looked forward to the daughters-in-law, fertile land, and higher status of the clan promised to them by their owners and clans.

And those gentry children, they served as officers as a side job, and the family was in distress, so they had to lead the tenants out to protect Zhuangzi - in essence, they led the troops out and protected the dock fort from the robbers were the same thing, their position came from their birth rather than military talent, and they did not need any military training to be officers, and even if they had military talent, the tenants of the neighbors would not hand it over to him. And if there is a truce or a truce, these gentry children still have to go to study, for thousands of years they have relied on the imperial examination rather than military training to improve their status in their hometown and clan, and now although it is a troubled era, everyone feels that if they want to get ahead, they still have to take the imperial examination, and it is better to study hard if they have time to learn to lead the army.

At this time, many businessmen from western Sichuan had already come to Shandong, and Deng Ming had been unable to persuade the Fuqing Parliament to send gentry to Sichuan.

"Guogong does not intend to abolish the imperial examination in Shandong," Lu Huan came to Shandong this time as a representative of the salt merchant group, and after several years of running back and forth along the Yangtze River, close cooperation with the imperial army and training in the imperial parliament, these western Sichuan businessmen have become the most experienced group of Chinese people in this era: "Our Sichuan gentry are obtained by military merits, so a large number of people participate in military training, and sooner or later it will still be the imperial examination here, right?" ”

At present, more and more attention is being paid to military training in Sichuan, and even Chen Zuocai's academy is becoming more and more serious about the compilation of military teaching materials, because the army is an important channel for raising social status.

"yes." Deng Ming sighed, although there is no imperial examination in Jiaodong now, as long as they don't let the officials of the Qing court come in to rule, they will not be able to participate in the imperial examination of the Qing court, but Deng Ming does not have the courage to publicly announce the abolition of the imperial examination here in Shandong. Even in Sichuan, Wen Anzhi and Zhang Huangyan did not think that Deng Ming would abolish the imperial examination, but because the original gentry class in Sichuan was completely destroyed, Deng Ming reshaped this class with military merit as the standard, and when the world was stable, these people who relied on military merit to become gentry would still let their children study, and at that time they would naturally return to normal - Wen Anzhi basically understood Deng Ming's policy in this way, and Deng Ming did not dare to correct their views.

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The next issue was the ban on the sea, the uninhabited area of the Jiaodong Peninsula twenty miles along the coast, plus the sea trade and fishing, and Deng Ming planned to distribute it to the group of gentry who supported him the most.

"The emperor strictly forbade the sea, because he was worried that there would be pirates harassing the people and plundering the good ......" Xia Jie made a generous statement at the conference, he and a group of gentry in Weixian County and Deng Ming's earliest allies, and now they can't be forgotten when they are rewarded for meritorious deeds. When Zu Zepu borrowed the forbidden sea, he said that Xia Jie is repeating this set of crooked reasoning now, because the pirates want to come to the coastal area to kill people, so the Qing army wants to kill all the living people in this area in order to prevent the pirates from killing, so that the pirates have no one to kill: "There is no one to kill the pirates in the coastal twenty miles, but what if they want to go deeper into the interior?" Like thirty miles? Do we need to remove all the people within thirty miles of the sea or kill them all in order to prevent pirates from being thirty miles from the sea? ”

The relocation of the border actually had an impact on the gentry, and it also gave the officials the opportunity to extort them, and according to the logic of the Qing court and Zu Zepu, if Deng Ming was stronger, then the scope of the sea ban order was completely justified to be further expanded.

"Since the Baoguo Gong of the Ming Dynasty is sitting here today, it means that it is completely impossible to prevent pirates from going deep into the interior of Jiaodong by simply moving the border." Xia Jie not only defined Deng Ming as a pirate, but also asked for his opinion: "Admiral Deng, do you think pirates will land in Shandong?" ”

"From the perspective of the commander of the Ming army in Fuqing, there is nothing wrong with Councilor Xia's words, and the Ming army's attack on Shandong is imminent!" Deng Ming stood up and looked around the house, and replied in a calm and powerful voice. When Xia Jie gave evidence, Deng Ming's identity was the Ming Baoguo Gong, and the object of his question was the commander of the Fuqing Army, which was well known to many schizophrenic patients present, Deng Ming naturally could not be mistaken, he testified for Xia Jie as the supreme commander of the Jiaodong Fuqing Army: "And the sea ban order really can't prevent the landing of the Ming army." ”

"Therefore, we will establish a military camp in the forbidden sea area to prevent thieves from the country." If a gentleman is allowed to move to the forbidden sea area, then he may not be willing to take the risk, after all, the Qing army may come, and it is not in line with the gentry's desire to abandon the land and clan of his hometown. For example, Xia Juren and his gang in Weixian County will never sell their property to the beach.

So Deng Ming helped Xia Jie and them to design the Coastal Investment Company, which organized the refugees of Yu Qi to go to the coastal areas to reclaim wasteland and operate trade and fishing in the name of Juntun. The gentry who bought shares sent a shopkeeper to run the business, and the profits were distributed by the general meeting of shareholders, and the land reclaimed along the coast, the wharves and roads were renovated, and the merchant ships and fishing boats manufactured were all owned by these companies, and the profits went to the gentry who paid for them.

With this name, it is impossible for any individual homeless person to reclaim a piece of land of his own in the coastal area, because theoretically it is still a forbidden sea area, and only the Juntun (company) in the hands of these gentry in the Fuqing House has the right to operate on that land.

Therefore, Xia Juren's proposal has received a large number of supporters, but it is not without opponents, some councillors whose properties are not far from the forbidden sea zone, they do not want these outsiders to enter the coastal zone in droves, this time their desire to monopolize the land is frustrated. If there is no competition from the gentry from the interior, the gentry in the border areas have the opportunity to turn all the displaced people into their tenants - because of the lack of competitors.

However, their hopes were destined to be disappointed, because this proposal was in line with Deng Ming's wishes, the development of the forbidden sea area would help the Ming army's future landing operations, and Deng Ming was not willing to let the development work be monopolized in the hands of a few people, and the more fierce the competition, the higher the development efficiency. Moreover, Deng Ming also knew that the gentry in the border areas would definitely pay more attention to agriculture, because they were looking forward to connecting the land that entered it with their original fields. Weixian gentlemen like Xia Jie must be more interested in fishing, trade, and shipbuilding, which can come with faster money, and even if they reclaim land, they will pay more attention to cash crops - they expect to use profits to buy land in their hometowns, and it makes no sense for them to have more farmland in the forbidden sea zone.

However, the two sides were still at loggerheads for a while, because there were still many gentlemen who neither lived on the edge of the forbidden sea zone nor planned to participate in the investment, so it made no difference to them whether the establishment of the forbidden sea camp was established or not.

"What if the military tun divides the Senate?" Although the number of people is superior, it cannot exceed half, and Xia Jie, the soul of the Juntun faction, suddenly took the initiative to pay taxes in a hurry. From the very beginning, the Fuqing Assembly set up a rule for the refund of tax surpluses, that is, the surplus of the annual tax after discarding military expenditures, water control and other expenditures, could not be given benefits to officials or repaired yamen for officials, but should be returned to the taxpayers according to the proportion of tax paid -- that is, the gentry and heroes in the House of Representatives, and this rule was of course unanimously approved.

And if the military tun divides the dividends to the House, it naturally means that there is more tax surplus, which means that everyone here can pay less taxes. However, since the Juntun faction was not sure that they would be able to make money, the rule was to share dividends instead of a fixed tax.

After an afternoon of bickering, Xia Jie's proposal was supported by most of the original neutrals, and a policy of nationalization of land and sea in the coastal areas was formulated - all production in the land and in the sea must be taxed, and fishing without permission violates the sea ban, and if caught is punished with a fine (not a head).

"The whole world is not the king's land, and the output of the emperor's land must of course be used to help the emperor raise soldiers." Xia Jieyi said solemnly that insisting on nationalization of land will block the possibility of land enclosure by the coastal gentry, so that the inland gentry will have more profit margins; Xia Jie's speech aroused a large number of applause and cheers, which were all issued by the loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty who lived in the mainland.

Deng Ming felt that he had opened his eyes, that this parliament was completely controlled by feudal landlords and urban triad leaders, and that according to the class analysis method, it should be a stubborn ultra-right reactionary fortress. The far-right forces are indeed stupid and evil, and they do not hesitate to be the gravediggers of their own class for the sake of petty profits.

The only remaining question is whether it is safe to operate these transactions, which requires Deng Ming to give a guarantee, as long as he promises to buy and sell fairly and not loot the Jiaodong coast, then these military tuns (companies) will definitely have a bright future.

"Admiral Deng, do you think the pirates will land in Shandong?" This is the second time Xia Jie has raised this question today, and not a word has changed.

"From the perspective of the Admiral of the Fuqing Annihilation of the Ming Army-" Deng Ming stood up again and looked around the audience, and the Fuqing parliamentarians all looked at him intently, waiting for Deng Ming's assurance: "There is no possibility that the Ming army will land in Shandong. ”

"If I were the commander of the Ming army," Bao Guogong, the commander of the Ming army, put forward a hypothesis: "I would never choose to land in Jiaodong, and there is no possibility of war breaking out here." ”

"Thank you, Admiral Deng, for your answer." Xia Jie and the councilors present all showed satisfied smiles, and when he continued to speak, Xia Jie further accentuated his tone: "What else do you have to worry about? Admiral Deng personally assured us that the Ming army would never appear in Jiaodong. ”

The first Jiaodong Fuqing Council ended successfully.