By December, the resettlement arrangements were almost over, Chengdu had received 60 percent of the immigrants, and Xuzhou had become a large city with a population of 300,000.

The sudden increase in population has brought many food and housing problems, and there is no doubt that Syria is much less resilient than Chengdu. Now that the Imperial Diet is in a state of recess, Deng Ming ordered a special meeting to be prepared, demanding that a new tax plan be formulated before the Chinese New Year: at first, the Xuzhou Prefect's Yamen was similar to a branch of the Chengdu Prefect's Yamen, and if there was any difficulty, it would directly ask Chengdu for help, but now the two have been separated, and there are disputes over interests.

Therefore, it is imperative to prepare for the establishment of a higher-level administrative body, and this yamen Deng Ming intends to name it the Sichuan Governor Yamen according to custom. Deng Ming didn't bother to figure out how much money he should take from the two prefects' yamen to the governor's yamen of Sichuan Province, so he instructed the imperial parliament to discuss it. This governor's yamen will be under the direct jurisdiction of Deng Ming for the time being, and Deng Ming will also use the provincial taxes paid by the Chengdu government to the governor's yamen to help the Xuzhou prefect's yamen that may have a deficit in line with the principle of making up for the deficiency.

In order to prevent the Senate from becoming an institution opened in Chengdu, Deng Ming also forcibly stipulated that half of the senators should be moved to Xuzhou, and if any other city rises to the point where it can compete with these two provinces in the future, then 30% of the senators from Chengdu and Xuzhou will have to be moved to live in the third province - the senators are all appointed by Deng Ming, and he can give orders to the senators according to his own wishes - and there is also a very high-sounding reason, that is, the senators who represent the authority of the Baoguo Gong certainly need to be present in Xuzhou. to check and balance the work of the Parliament.

However, the candidates for the Imperial Diet were more cautious in dealing with Deng Ming, and he stipulated that the government, which was to be distributed according to the population of the same Xiucai and pay more taxes to the governor's yamen, should have more say in the Imperial Diet.

After these instructions were given, Deng Ming did not return to Chengdu, but left Xuzhou for Jiading. After the unremitting propaganda of the Ming army, more and more people are coming out of the mountains, and Jiading Prefecture is the third area planned to be built in western Sichuan. It not only connects Chengdu and Xuzhou, but also is the only way to Jianchang, hidden around Mount Emei may have thousands or tens of thousands of mountain people, after the development of Jiading Prefecture, these people are willing to go down the mountain is easy to settle them nearby.

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At this time in Chengdu, two famous guests came to visit Chen Zuocai, one was Zhu Zhiyu, and the other was Meng Zhengfa, who was dragged to Sichuan by him. Zhu Zhiyu lived in the latter's house for several months in order to raise Meng Zhengfa, and Meng Zhengfa really couldn't stand his soft grinding and hard bubbles, so he had to reluctantly go with him. In addition to the problem of affection, the news of Zhu Zhiyu's visit to Meng Zhengfa was also spread all over the city, although the magistrate seemed to be deaf, his reaction was extremely slow, and he never came to get people, but Meng Zhengfa himself could not live anymore - he could not let Zhu Zhiyu make any mistakes in his own home, otherwise the people of the world would definitely accuse him of betraying his friends. And Meng Zhengfa felt that even if he could send Zhu Zhiyu, the great god, away, this time he would make such a fierce fuss, and he would definitely be investigated by the Huguang Qing Court afterwards, and Meng Zhengfa, who was forced into a desperate situation, had no choice but to follow Zhu Zhiyu to join Deng.

In the ten years since Meng Zhengfa shaved his hair and surrendered to the Qing court, he married more than a dozen concubines and gave birth to a large number of children, and now these children are not adults, and Meng Zhengfa is reluctant to leave them. Meng Zhengfa complained that Zhu Zhiyu had harmed his whole family, and on the other hand, he worked hard to move all the small families to Sichuan, and during this period, he was afraid that he would be beaten by the magistrate. But it turned out that the Qing court magistrates in Huguang were even more incompetent than Meng Zhengfa imagined, and the whole city knew that Zhu Zhiyu, a thief, lived in Meng Zhengfa's house, but the government just didn't know; Everyone knew that Meng Zhengfa was cleaning up and was going to be a thief, and his concubines cried, made trouble, hanged themselves, and said goodbye to their mother's family with tears, but the magistrate Leng was kept in the dark - in the end, Meng Zhengfa escaped calmly, and took all his family property with him, and even successfully sold his house and land.

Meng Zhengfa was first hesitant at both ends, and then he was reluctant to his family, and finally even thought about taking away his family routine, which scared Zhu Zhiyu enough. But in the end, the unbelievable sluggishness of the Huguang Qing court allowed Meng Zhengfa and Zhu Zhiyu to arrive in Jingzhou safely and enter the area controlled by the Kuidong Army.

Originally, Meng Zhengfa still wanted to drag Wang Fuyi with him - his good life was ruined by Zhu Zhiyu, so he didn't want Wang Fuzhi to lecture comfortably on the side of Chuanshan. But Zhu Zhiyu said that he wouldn't do anything, Meng Zhengfa dragged his family and a big family, and Wang Fuzhi heard that there were still a large number of family members and children, if such a big movement was not discovered by the Qing court, it would be too much to look down on Zhang Changgeng's ability.

Zhu Zhiyu didn't look down on the people who broke into the camp, and Meng Zhengfa hated them even more, so the two didn't stop at Li Laiheng's place at all, and went straight to Kuimen after arriving at the boat. waited until Fengjie, and these two people respectfully sent Wen Anzhi a name card to ask for a meeting, Wen Inspector was a protégé of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and these two did not dare to hold it up in front of him. After hearing that they were here to help Deng Ming eliminate the influence of the camp on western Sichuan, Wen Anzhi pondered for a moment and asked, "How do you know that it is the influence of the camp?" ”

"Late born stupid, but don't think about it, right?" Meng Zhengfa's tone was still very respectful, but the confidence in it was very obvious: "Baoguo Gong was deceived by treachery and evil, and he actually called himself a 'robber'......"

"It's the Empire." Wen Anzhi corrected it, but immediately nodded: "Of course, the meaning is the same, you continue." ”

"Yes." Meng Zheng responded, in his opinion, if you don't let good officers and soldiers and good people do it, you have to be robbers, and only the unreasonable guys who broke into the camp can do this kind of thing, in this case, what else can Deng Ming be under their influence?

Zhu Zhiyu's opinion was similar to Meng Zhengfa's, and they thought that as long as they got to Deng Ming's side, then the poison of the rogue would naturally subside.

Wen Anzhi was noncommittal, he pondered for a while, and finally said slowly: "You have a long way to go." ”

After speaking, Wen Anzhi gave the two of them a pick-up, and wrote two letters to them, one was a letter of introduction to Deng Ming, and the other was for Chen Zuocai. Wen Anzhi told them that Deng Ming couldn't stay idle, running around all year round, and if they couldn't find Deng Ming, they would go to Chen Zuocai, who was the mainstay of western Sichuan - Wen Anzhi was not very familiar with Chen Zuocai, but over the past year, Chen Zuocai kept writing to complain, saying that the teachers in western Sichuan were weak, and he wanted Wen Anzhi to help him find some professors.

Wen Anzhi doesn't have much opinion of Zhu Zhiyu, but even if this person can't assist Deng Ming, it's still no problem to help Chen Zuocai teach; And how to introduce Meng Zhengfa in the recommendation letter made Wen Anzhi hesitate slightly. When the governor Zhang Kuang died of illness, Meng Zhengfa hoped that Yongli Tianzi would let him take over the position of governor, but Yongli Tianzi gave this position to Wu Jinxi, Meng Zhengfa's teacher when he was in the middle of the move. Meng Zheng was furious and broke off the friendship between master and apprentice with Wu Jinxi, and never recognized the existence of this teacher again - in the hearts of a scholar like Wen Anzhi who valued the kindness of his master and apprentice, insulting a teacher and beating his parents was almost the same.

Moreover, after the incident, Meng Zhengfa and Wang Fuzhi scolded Wu Jinxi again and again -- Wang Fuzhi is an absolutely qualified friend, and when narrating history, he only asks about relatives and relatives, not about right and wrong. Wang Fuzhi scolded Meng Zhengfa's former teacher Wu Jinxi for being a bloody squirt, which was simply a veritable brute - because Wu Jinxi did not die for the Ming Dynasty. Looking at Wang Fuzhi and Meng Zhengfa's articles scolding Wu Jinxi, sometimes it really gives people an illusion, as if Wang Fuzhi and Meng Zhengfa were martyred for the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the end, Wen Anzhi still did not write this matter in the letter to Chen Zuocai, because he knew that Chen Zuocai was also a person who respected teachers and respected his ways, and if he knew that Meng Zhengfa had such a behavior of "bullying teachers and destroying ancestors", it was estimated that it would be difficult to cooperate.

The gentleman hides the evil and promotes the good, Wen Anzhi feels that now is the time to employ people, since Meng Zhengfa has dragged his family to Sichuan, then there is no need to mention these things.

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As Wen Anzhi expected, when Zhu Zhiyu and Meng Zhengfa arrived in Xuzhou, Deng Ming had indeed left, and there were no settlements on Mount Emei, only the army, so there would be no civilian ships going to Jiadingzhou. Without Deng Ming's instructions, it was difficult for Xuzhou to arrange warships to send them to Jiading Prefecture, and even if they went, they might not be able to find Deng Ming who entered the mountains.

Yuan Xiang, the prefect of Xuzhou, suggested that the two go to Chengdu to live temporarily, and when Deng Ming finished dealing with the affairs of Jiading Prefecture, he would naturally return to Chengdu, and in any case, Deng Ming would go to Chengdu to attend the meeting of the Imperial Assembly before the year. After a discussion, the two adopted Yuan Xiang's suggestion and took another letter of recommendation from Wen Anzhi to visit Chen Zuocai.

Chen Zuocai is the gentleman of Yunnan, but Zhu Zhiyu and Meng Zhengfa are famous scholars all over the world, after seeing Wen Anzhi's letter of recommendation, Chen Zuocai dared to slack off, and hurriedly invited the two to enter the academy to rest, and immediately asked people to tidy up their rooms.

Zhu Zhiyu is easy to do, that is, he is single, and Meng Zhengfa is a family member, a servant, a house slave, and the family of these slaves, a total of more than 100 people. Chen Zuocai tossed for a long time to make enough houses for Meng Zhengfa and his family to squeeze into, and built a few sheds for his servants to live outside the academy first.

Looking at this large group of women and crying children, Chen Zuocai also sincerely admired: "Being able to bring so many people out of danger, Meng Chongyang is really talented." ”

When he fled, Zhu Zhiyu was always worried, but now that he escaped safely, he couldn't help but boast a few words for Meng Zhengfa: "That's natural, when Meng Chongyang joined the army for Governor Zhang (Zhang Kuang) in the past, he supervised the new wall and fought with the Tartars, and defeated tens of thousands of Tartar horsemen with 8,000 foot soldiers, and ambushed the corpses for dozens of miles. Since Hongguang crossed to the south, he dared to fight since then, since Meng Chongyang. ”

Since Meng Zhengfa can command thousands of people to defeat tens of thousands of Qing army iron cavalry and sweep away the decline since the southern crossing, the escape of the whole family is not a small test.

Chen Zuocai was slightly stunned, listening to Zhu Zhiyu's tone, Meng Zhengfa seemed to have had a very famous victory, but what he knew about Meng Zhengfa was that the other party had published a book, and as a party, he described the contention between the Ming and Qing armies in Huguang in Longwu and Yongli over the years. When Deng Ming was educating in the academy, he asked the professors to introduce the important battles in the Ming and Qing wars to the students, and Chen Zuocai knew all these battles, but there was certainly no such thing as Zhu Zhiyu said.

Zhu Zhiyu is talking about the story that Wang Fuzhi bragged about for Meng Zhengfa. In the story, Wang Fu wiped out the surging rebel armies in all parts of the Southern Ming Dynasty with a single pen, and tens of thousands of eight kilograms were Wang Fuzhi's fabrication. However, since Zhu Zhiyu believed that he really said it, Meng Zhengfa couldn't correct it, let alone say that this was a gold paste on his face, and it was made up by his old friend Wang Fuzhi.

In any case, Meng Zhengfa is also a good friend, and in his books he always tries to remove the responsibilities of relatives and friends; For example, this time Zhu Zhiyu came to his house, Meng Zhengfa was reluctant to protect his friends, so Meng Zhengfa also recognized it and smiled at Chen Zuocai, saying that Zhu Zhiyu was right.

"Bao Guogong is too disrespectful to scholars." Chen Zuocai's prejudice against Deng Ming was still the same, and he suddenly had an idea in his heart: "Mr. Chongyang has made such great achievements, he didn't even mention it!" Hmph, isn't it because he can't get used to seeing us scholars in and out of the picture? No, I will compile this battle into the textbook tomorrow to correct Mr. Chongyang's name, and let everyone take a good look at how Baoguo Gong smeared the scholars. ”

Out of respect for Meng Zhengfa, Chen Zuocai asked him about his views on Sichuan Academy.

"If you want to get to the root of the problem, you need to let the people know how the thieves misled the country." Meng Zhengfa's view is very simple, that is, we should make good use of the propaganda position of the academy to let everyone know how the scholars sacrificed their lives to fight for the imperial court, and how the thieves added chaos to it again and again, causing the efforts of the scholars to come to naught: "If there are no thieves, how can the hard work of so many loyal ministers and righteous men be in vain?" We must let the Baoguo Gong and the people see clearly that the world is corrupted by thieves. When everyone sees the scourge of the thieves, they will wake up and no longer be deceived by the thieves and no longer work with the thieves, so that the affairs of the state will be saved. ”

Although Chen Zuocai secretly admired Deng Ming's strength, he was angry when he thought of the other party's contempt for scholars, and it was of course best to fight back with powerful facts. Chen Zuocai immediately asked Meng Zhengfa to preside over the compilation of this history textbook. And for Meng Zhengfa, this is also an easy job, his "Sanxiang Engagement" has long been written, as long as it is turned into vernacular, it can be competent.

Expose the evil of the thieves to the Baoguo Gong and all the elders of western Sichuan, so that everyone will be disgusted, abandoned, and cut down...... Meng Zhengfa found that Chengdu is indeed a promising place. He hurriedly repaired a letter to Huguang to his old friend Wang Fuzhi, and warmly invited Wang Fuzhi to go to Chengdu to discuss the great cause together.