After Li Siye left, Gong Yan looked at Deng Ming carefully: "It's not wrong to beware of Wu Sangui, this guy is full of conspiracies, but are you sure you want to give Hunan to the King of Jin?" ”

"Yes." Deng Ming nodded seriously.

"Huguang in Zhang Changgeng's hands, although it is different from in your hands, it is equivalent to you sharing it with him, well, almost thirty percent belongs to you, and seventy percent belongs to Zhang Changgeng." Gong Yan calculated the benefits that Deng Ming could get from Huguang, he didn't know how to calculate the profits of business, so he could only roughly estimate it.

"It's almost, but some of them have returned to Beijing," Deng Ming pointed out, adding that Zhang Changgeng is still riding the wall between Beijing and Chengdu, and the luck to Beijing will never be short.

"This is because he does not dare to completely fall on you, and he does not know what benefits you are willing to give him. But if you hit the Tartar a few more times, Zhang Changgeng may fall to you. Gong Yan pointed out that if Li Dingguo got Hunan, then Deng Ming would not be able to blackmail the king of Jin and give Hubei to Kuidong, then the income of the entire Huguang would probably not belong to Sichuan.

"Yes, but King Jin is our own person, and Zhang Changgeng is not." Deng Ming admitted that Gong Yan was right, not only would Sichuan not be able to share Huguang's tax revenue, but also probably not be able to obtain so many benefits in business.

"What kind of person is your own?"

"Gong Shangshu, isn't this clear? Anyone who has ever fought with the Manchus is his own people. "After such a long time in this era, Deng Ming has also seen a lot of ignorant customs within the Han people, but despite this, it is much more civilized than the Manchu coating system; Although the Ming Dynasty was also cruel to the people at the bottom, it at least treated the scholars with respect, while the Manchus regarded all Han people as slaves.

Next to the Han civilization is the Mongolian steppe, the world's largest barbarian production base. Since the Wuhua Rebellion, every barbarian invasion has been a great regression of civilization. By the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the barbarian customs inherited by the Ming Dynasty did not have to be much less Mongolian: "Just like Gong Shangshu or Kuidong's generals, the officers and soldiers of the Western Battalion also rose up to resist the barbarians, and Zhang Changgeng was with the barbarians, not to mention Wu Sangui." So, if I treat Zhang Changgeng better than King Jin, that's not right. ”

"Well, I don't know if you'll be able to think that in a few years." Gong Yan didn't seem to have much confidence in Deng Ming, but he also hoped that the people who broke into the camp would have a good death, so naturally he couldn't persuade Deng Ming to play tricks with Li Dingguo: "Then what about after the expulsion of the Tartars?" Have you ever wondered what to do at that time? ”

"I am more than ten or twenty years younger than King Jin, Zhang Shangshu, and Hu Shuai, and they have suffered much more than I have suffered, and they are far from being in good health." Deng Ming smiled: "When the Tartars are expelled, I will say to them, 'Should we consider reunifying our country?' If they agree, that's fine, and if they don't say no, I won't ask a second time. Anyway, I can afford to wait, they don't want to learn He Daoning, their son, just like this Jin Shizi, his ability and popularity are far worse than the King of Jin, right? ”

Thinking of Li Siye's city government and experience in dealing with people, Gong Yan nodded slightly: "It is indeed far from being comparable to the King of Jin." ”

"The heroes are competing because they all feel that they have a chance, as long as Sichuan has an absolute advantage, but does not take the initiative to provoke internal strife, the civil war will not be fought." Deng Ming felt that he actually wanted to open it, it was just such a small thing, and there was no need to force those heroes to bow their heads. They don't want to be subservient, so let them be majestic for the rest of their lives. Anyway, Deng Ming needs to do a lot of things, and at least it will take a generation to promote his national concept. Besides, a smaller territory will not delay Deng Ming to do more important things, he knows that he is facing an era of expansion of the Mandate of Heaven, and it is also an era in which various civilizations divide the world, and it is the time when imperialism is in full swing, and the turbulent colonial struggle will not appear until a long time later.

And as long as the overseas expansion is completed, there is money and land, Deng Ming feels that the domestic contradictions are easier to solve, and no one can suffer losses, so he can naturally speak in harmony. However, there is no need to explain this to Gong Yan, not to mention that this old master, who is Deng Ming's subordinate, may not be able to generally accept the idea of first taking care of the outside and then the inside: "Expelling the Tartars is not an overnight effort, at least it will take another ten years for the Sichuan Academy to educate enough students." ”

As for the disposal of Zhang Changgeng, Gong Yan has no objections, the other party has always been a high-ranking official of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, since Deng Ming's strength is strong enough, and he can confront the Qing court anyway without Zhang Changgeng, then he can completely not accept the surrender of the other party.

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Jin Shengxian and others traveled all the way up the Yangtze River by boat, and in September they came to the front of Yuezhou City, which was the dividing line between the Qing army and the Kuidong army-controlled zhì district, and after passing here, they entered the jurisdiction of the Ming army.

After leaving Jiujiang and entering the Huguang realm, Jin Shengxian and his friends saw a lot of businessmen with short hair, they knew that these were Sichuanese, and the short hair was said to be in line with Baoguogong's hairstyle - Deng Ming always thought that short hair was very good, easy to wash and not easy to get lice, while Sichuan people generally believed that this was to make it easier to shave their heads and put on makeup to sneak attack the Qing army, including Chongming's allies.

After seeing that Huguang's officials turned a blind eye to short hair, Jin Shengxian and the others also began to grow their hair, and their clansmen also had short hair when they passed through Guò Yuezhou. After landing at Jiangling, the exiles who had escaped from the Qing army-controlled area were completely relieved, and they planned to rest here in Jiangling for a while, recuperate their spirits, and then continue their advance, striving to reach Xuzhou by December.

After staying in Gangneung for less than two days, another group of Gangnam people arrived. The dress of these people is completely different from that of the exiles in Wu County, they are all tight-fitting and short-lined, and many of them have swords pinned to their waists. When I inquired, it turned out that this was a boatload of Zhejiang people, all of whom were children of the former Jingnan Army. After accepting Zhao'an, Zhuang Yuncheng and they immediately let their children set off to Chengdu to study at the military academy - for these gentry in Huzhou and Jiaxing, these children are not only their hope for defending the clan in the future, but also the fire reserved for the clan, in case the Qing army transferred a large army from the north, tore up the Zhao'an agreement, and killed their hometown, then their children would not be burned with jade; It can even play a hostage-like role, making Deng Ming believe that they are in Cao Xin and Han, instead of sincerely accepting Zhao'an, so that if there is any need in the future, they can also talk to the Sichuan side.

Chengdu also attaches great importance to this group of non-commissioned officers and international students, first of all, they are all self-financed students, and each of them pays a tuition fee, so of course the military academy must provide excellent services in return. More importantly, Deng Ming intended to exert influence on these young students, who were the new generation of the gentry class in northern Zhejiang, and sooner or later Deng Ming would have to leave Sichuan and try to rule the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Therefore, Deng Ming needs a group of Zhejiang people who understand his thinking, so that at least they can communicate without misunderstandings; It would certainly be better if these young people could agree with Deng Ming's ideas.

Therefore, when these young Zhejiang scholars marched westward, Deng Ming sent soldiers to accompany them throughout the process, introducing them to the Ming army's conquests over the years, and also providing each scholar with tight-fitting combat clothes and short swords. The tour guides also assured the students that when they arrived in Sichuan, the military academy would issue them military uniforms and let them receive the same military training as the non-commissioned officers of the Sichuan Standing Army.

In addition to these, the officers also distributed imperialist pamphlets to the young Zhejiangese, and began to try to change their mindset.

Jin Shengsi's son, who was not very old, quickly became acquainted with several non-commissioned officers and students who had disembarked from the previous batch of students, and listened to them repeat to themselves the reflection questions in the pamphlet: "The Han people have been immigrating to Nanyang for hundreds of years. Nanyang is rich in products, and in some areas it can even be harvested three times a year. The Han people are industrious and simple, but they have not grown up in such a rich land for hundreds of years, why? ”

"Why?" Jin Gongzi also felt a little strange after hearing this, and asked rhetorically.

"Because the Han people have carved out a large area of land after several generations of hard work, and the local natives are angry when they see it, they attack the Han people, kill all the men, and take away the women, children, and all the property. Therefore, for hundreds of years, the Han people have continued to migrate to the past, but the number of people has grown very slowly. A Huzhou man shouted indignantly: "I didn't know it before, but after reading this book, I realized that after Hongyi arrived in Nanyang, he constantly instigated the natives to kill the Han people, rob the land of the Han people, and then turn the natives into slaves to cultivate for Hongyi." It has been like this for hundreds of years, and only when the king of Yanping County beat Hongyi a few years ago did they restrain themselves and rescue many Han people. ”

The pamphlet introduces Western colonizers who say that most of them were at the bottom of the social ladder in their own countries, just like the Han Chinese immigrants, and that many were landless peasants who struggled to earn a living in their home countries. However, after they landed in the South Seas, they quickly became rich and became the rulers of the region within a few years. They enslaved the natives, while the Han were the targets of the natives.

"Why? Why are they all going to open up wasteland, and the experiences of our Han people and Hongyi are completely different? Another Huzhou scholar couldn't help but shout.

"Why?" Jin Shengsi's son was a little confused when he heard this. Although I don't know that the scale of immigration is so large, it is not too strange that overseas immigrants live a difficult life, after all, they are away from home and are not familiar with the place; If there were no Dutch comparisons, many scholars would have taken it for granted and would not have thought deeply about the reasons.

"Because our peasants went to sea with hoes and sickles, they only brought farm tools. And Hongyi carries a gun in addition to farm tools! Now the people of Huzhou have a deep impression of rifles, and these young people, because they have seen with their own eyes the bullying of the Yamen, the governor of Zhejiang, are afraid of the hard, so they also deeply agree with the truth in the pamphlet of the Sichuan army: "Our peasants not only do not carry guns, but also have a weak heart, feel that they are guests, they are going to the master's house as guests, begging for a bite to eat, and they are obedient; In fact, these wastelands belong to God, and whoever reclaims them belongs to them. A Zhejiang scholar waved a pamphlet given to him by the Sichuan army and shouted: "This book is very good, all those natives who do not work themselves, and specialize in killing and robbing are in fact like jackals, as long as they dare to circle outside the fence of the Han people, we should deal with wolves in the same way." ”