It's about whether the empire can take root in the Philippines, so Deng Ming doesn't mind spending more time in Manila. Here, as in Sichuan, there are no deep-rooted clans. There are many businessmen among the Chinese, and it is no stranger to them to make contracts, but they never imagined that the government would have such a day when they would sit down and discuss with everyone like a businessman how to exchange the rights and obligations of the people fairly.

As for the natives of Luzon, Deng Ming also intended to follow the way of Zheng Chenggong, who in his previous life, the indigenous people of Taiwan had completely become part of the Chinese. If Zheng Chenggong had not landed in Taiwan at that time, or had adopted a discriminatory policy after landing, perhaps Taiwan would have become the same as the Spanish and Dutch colonies such as the Philippines and Indonesia.

"The most important thing is to raise the judge." Deng Ming told the Luzon diaspora about his experience in Sichuan: "Our government was completely modeled after the merchants. If the firm can trust each other, it can rely on the contract to perform; If someone violates the contract that everyone has signed, then there needs to be a place to be reasonable. If there is no way to guarantee that the contract will be fulfilled, then it is useless to set it well. ”

In the final analysis, it is necessary to put the most important judicial power in the hands of a few judges. Based on the experience of Yuan Xiang and He Daoning, Deng Ming felt that the best way to do it was to give judges a high social status, so that they would be widely respected, and at the same time give them high salaries and benefits. But there are also strict restrictions on judges, who can be removed if they bend the law for personal gain. In this way, there is no need for them to lose their respectable rights and well-paid positions because of petty profits. Now that the judicial execution in Sichuan is not bad, Deng Ming feels that one of the important reasons is because He Daoning has become a rich man after selling his father's land, and he no longer has much pursuit of money.

When Deng Ming was busy preparing for the Ming Luzon Province and the Yamen of the Governor of Luzon, Feng Xifan came to bid him farewell.

"Have a nice trip." Deng Ming felt that since the other party had made up his mind, there was no good way to keep it, so he could only tell the other party that he actually valued firearms very much, and the art of war was unreliable, and it was safest to fight openly. However, Deng Ming didn't know if Feng Xifan could listen to it - in promoting military concepts to allies, Deng Ming felt that he had always been a failure, whether it was the Zhedong Army or the Kuidong Army, few people took Deng Ming's military theory seriously.

"Prime Minister, there is one more thing to be humble." But Feng Xifan's purpose for this trip seems to be not just to resign, but also to say something.

"Feng Weishi, please speak." Deng Ming motioned to the other party to say yes. But Feng Xifan looked around, but he didn't say it immediately in front of Deng Ming's guards.

Seeing this, Deng Ming took Feng Xifan to a small room in the back, which had just been converted into a study by Deng Ming.

"Last year my king's son-in-law was born." Now Feng Xifan's expression looks like a roadside dog skin plaster seller, patting his chest and boasting to Deng Ming: "Although the prince is still young, he looks like a dignified husband and a man, and when he was one year old, he had the heroic spirit of the first king." ”

"Really?" Deng Ming vaguely guessed what Feng Xifan wanted to say, although his face was silent, but secretly Deng Ming had already erected thorns all over his body like a hedgehog to prepare for defense.

"yes. The king is very fond of the prince......"

"Wait a minute, I remember that King Yanping has already established a son." Deng Ming interrupted Feng Xifan: "It seems that he is his eldest son, and he has also been recognized by the imperial court." ”

"But, but that's a concubine." Feng Xifan said anxiously: "Prime Minister, the rule since ancient times is that there is a grandson, and there is no grandson. At the beginning, my king was a little anxious, but since he has a son-in-law, it is natural to change the son-in-law. ”

Deng Ming was silent. Zheng Jing's eldest son was born to him and that nurse, who made Zheng Chenggong so angry that he couldn't afford to be sick, and also instructed Zheng Chenggong to order Zheng Jing to cut himself, and his will on his deathbed also explained that he would leave Taiwan to his younger brother instead of Zheng Jing; After Zheng Chenggong's death, Taiwan became infighting, and as much as half of the army was dispersed, and the Jinxia and Xiamen bases were also lost. Although everyone didn't mention it on the surface, they secretly regarded Zheng Jing's eldest son as the culprit and an ominous person.

Zheng Jing is also well aware of this viewpoint of the Taiwan military. But it is precisely because Zheng Chenggong deprived Zheng Jing of his inheritance rights and even took his life, so Zheng Jing cannot back down and must make his eldest son the heir. After the birth of his son-in-law Zheng Kexuan last year, there was an undercurrent in Taiwan's Zheng family and the army, and Zheng Jing's wife, needless to say, even Zheng Jing's mother also thought that the son-in-law should be changed to the son; However, Zheng Jing resolutely refused to agree, because he felt that if the eldest son was abolished, it would be tantamount to admitting that he had done something wrong in Xiamen.

Knowing that most people have opinions about the prince, Zheng Jing handed over the responsibility of assisting the prince to Chen Yonghua. Chen Yonghua is a loyal and honest man, Zheng Jing knows that no matter what other people have in their calculations, Chen Yonghua will definitely obey his orders.

"What King Yanping did in Xiamen was really wrong." Deng Ming said slowly.

Listening to Deng Ming's accusation of Zheng Jing, Feng Xifan didn't answer, but he obviously agreed in his heart.

"But the prince is not wrong, and this is the family affair of the king of Yanping, and I can't interfere." Deng Ming's words immediately afterward shattered Feng Xifan's illusions and made it clear that Sichuan would not be involved in this confused lawsuit.

"There are no rules, how can there be a grandson who does not stand but goes to establish a house?" Feng Xifan was anxious when he heard this: "The prime minister can't help but uphold justice." ”

"The prince is approved by the emperor," Deng Ming also knew that this reason was not very convincing. Because of Yang Zai's planning, the Son of Heaven is still living in southern Myanmar. If it weren't for the fact that Ma Jixiang was no longer a threat and was also Yang Zai's father-in-law after all, it is estimated that Ma Shoufu would have to continue to accompany the emperor in Yangon: "It's useless to talk to me, I'm an outsider who is pointing fingers at the family affairs of the king of Yanping County, this is nosy, right?" ”

"I heard that the prime minister got a thousand gold the year before last," Feng Xifan said cautiously: "The age and the son are very compatible, and the relationship between the prime minister and the former king is so good......"

Deng Ming sighed in his heart: "Sure enough, this is the case."

Now Deng Ming has a son and a daughter. The son is okay, no general or high-ranking official has come to sell his daughter to Deng Ming - because according to the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, this is a very inappropriate thing, and the prince should marry the daughter of a family without a prominent background. Although Deng Ming does not admit that he is a royal family, everyone has always regarded his son as a prince.

But after the birth of her daughter, there was an endless stream of people who came to climb relatives. Needless to say, Major General Zhao and the other four brigadier generals, whether they had a son or not, tried to preemptively give the doll a kiss; There are also the eldest grandsons of Kuidong generals, Jin Shizi, and Wen Governor...... For this kind of temptation, Deng Ming pretended not to understand. The only one who didn't bother him was Li Laiheng, probably because Li Siming hadn't married yet. And Li Laiheng always suspected that Deng Ming was his cousin, and if he didn't come to the test, it showed that Li Laiheng still held this suspicion, and he didn't know how Gong Yan brainwashed him.

Feng Xifan inquired in advance that Deng Ming's daughter was already two years old and had not yet been married, which probably meant that Deng Ming felt that there was no suitable marriage candidate around him.

Why is it inappropriate to sell your daughter to the prince? If the prince's Yue family is already very powerful, then he can rely on becoming the prince to further suppress dissidents and form a situation of dominance - this may arouse the emperor's suspicion; And once he marries a certain prince, then the minister has no room to remain neutral. Once the prince is deposed, the emperor will not be relieved of the powerful ministers, and often the minister's family will be implicated - so powerful ministers are less willing to take this gamble unless they have already determined the goal to support to the end.

But the emperor's daughter is completely different, no matter which prince succeeds to the throne in the future, the emperor always has to take care of his brother-in-law and brother-in-law in the face of his sister or sister. And even if Zheng Jing thinks that the problem of the son of the world is related to his face, as long as the son-in-law becomes Deng Ming's son-in-law, then Zheng Jing will definitely still choose the son-in-law as his heir, and he will happily change the son.

"Why does it sound like infighting?" Deng Ming said secretly in his heart. From Feng Xifan's words, it seems that Taiwan's sister-in-law faction and the eldest son faction have had a fierce struggle, and many important ministers in Taiwan have begun to bet on choosing sides. It sounds like Zheng Jing's attitude is also ambiguous, many concubines think that Zheng Jing is just a face-saving problem, and Zheng Jing's determination is not very firm, and it is only a matter of time before he changes his son. Now Deng Ming's feeling is the same, if Zheng Jing is firm enough on this issue, so that the civil and military ministers of the Yanping County Palace's palace clearly know that the concubine will not have any chance, then a confidant like Feng Xifan will not put the treasure on the concubine's body.

In Deng Ming's previous life, Zheng Jing asked his eldest son to marry Chen Yonghua's daughter, and let his sister-in-law marry Feng Xifan's daughter. This is not a big deal in modern society, three old friends, all of them have become relatives; But in the feudal feudal states, this is simply a fear that the world will not be chaotic. Zheng Jing died suddenly at the age of thirty-nine, just like his father, when his son-in-law was still young, and Lichang was the only viable option, which would also give Ming Zheng more chances of surviving. But Feng Xifan, who was no longer able to withdraw from his son-in-law, did not have the slightest room for maneuver to change the court, so he launched a coup d'état of internal strife regardless of a single moment, merged Zheng Jing's eldest son, and let the twelve-year-old Zheng Kexuan succeed to the throne.

Although Zheng Jing has not yet pointed out Feng Xifan's daughter to his son-in-law, Feng Xifan has already begun to bet on his son-in-law, if he promotes the marriage contract with Deng Ming's daughter, then he will definitely be the chief hero of the sister-in-law faction in the future.

"Wen has Chen Yonghua and Wu has Feng Xifan, these two people are Zheng Jing's right-hand men, and they are also the two henchmen who are the most loyal to him. But now the contradiction between the two people is so deep, and if they fight openly and secretly for a few years, will they be able to pay it back? Along the way, Feng Xifan occasionally revealed some dissatisfaction with Chen Yonghua, and Deng Ming was still a little strange at that time, because being able to accidentally reveal it in front of outsiders shows that he has deep prejudices. Now that Deng Ming finally understood the root cause, he muttered in his heart: "Could it be that Zheng Jing is playing some kind of imperial trick and wants his subordinates to fight each other, so that he can control him?" But this is a situation where there will be discord, and there is no room for compromise at all, and it will not stop dying. If it's playing with the emperor's mind, it's almost to the point of playing with fire, right? ”

Thinking of this, Deng Ming was even more sure that he would definitely not be dragged into the chaotic factional strife in the Yanping County Palace.