"Big brother, do you think anything about ......, my father has been a little impatient lately?"

In Lingjiayan Bay in northwestern Luzon, the sea breeze blew on the faces of the Zheng Sen and Zheng Ping brothers, and the two brothers looked directly at the busy construction site crowded with people in front of them, and their expressions were very relaxed.

They don't have anything to worry about. The momentum of the entire Zheng family is now in a state of rising steadily, as the children of the Zheng family, are the Zheng Sen and Zheng Ping brothers proud?

However, in this spring breeze, the Zheng brothers also have some small differences in cognition.

Zheng Zhilong's recent actions are not wrong at all in the eyes of Zheng Sen, who has a resolute personality, he has no good opinion of the gentry class now, and the various ugly scenes he saw before, coupled with the practice of arranging the Tian Chuan clan in order to attack Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen's attitude towards the gentry has long turned to disgust.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's recent tough measures against the gentry, Zheng Sen will only look at it with joy. Even the surprises were repeated, Dad just did it, and there were some ways to toss the gentry that he couldn't think of.

But in the eyes of Zheng Ping, who has a more gentle personality, he feels that Zheng Zhilong's recent actions are a little urgent.

After learning about Zheng Zhilong's early experience, Zheng Ping had a feeling that the biggest change in his father was when his eldest brother got married, that is, since then, the Zheng family has undergone great changes, and only then has the current situation of dominating Nanyang.

The previous Zheng Zhilong has always been very close to the "Juche consciousness", respecting the gentry class, and although he was disrespectful to the Ming Dynasty, he never clamored to replace it.

That's a very good 'actor'!

Immediately after the southward relocation of the Ming Dynasty as another new starting point, the relationship between Zheng Zhilong and the Shilin gentry deteriorated rapidly, but the result of this deterioration was Zheng Zhilong's initiative early.

Zheng Ping, who has lived in Japan since he was a child and is in a very sensitive social environment, was naturally born with the label of 'cautious'.

"I can feel my father's caution in a series of previous measures, the kind of fear of leaking the true purpose, everything is hidden, just like an undercover agent, a spy, and a meticulous work, which makes the younger brother feel very empathetic."

Zheng Ping's eyes showed a touch of reminiscence. "That's how my life used to be. In the eyes of outsiders, he presents himself as a real and pure Japanese. But in fact, everyone knows, and I have always known, that I am Chinese.

I'm just a Japanese vein with half of my body in my veins.

But now I can feel that my father has changed, just after Denglai defeated Li Shuotaibu. The father's daily behavior seems to be a little presumptuous, tearing off his original cautious ......"

"But I don't think he's going to be so eager to do it. Wouldn't it be easier to keep it the same way? Wouldn't it be better to wait until the overall situation is decided, when the general trend has been achieved, and then reveal your true temperament? "Just like the old Tokugawa tortoise, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were very well-behaved when they were alive.

Zheng Sen glanced at Zheng Ping, his mind was definitely not as delicate as Zheng Ping, and the living environment and growth experience of the two were completely different. He was a man who had been on the battlefield for many years.

And he didn't agree with Zheng Ping's words.

The urgent change in Zheng Ping's eyes was simply reasonable in Zheng Sen's opinion, "Our Zheng family is already so strong, why should my father be careful and wronged himself?" ”

"Will he be careful enough to make the emperor of Jinling City completely reassure my family, or will we sacrifice our own interests in order to conform to the interests of the gentry?"

"Jiro. My father once told me that building a dynasty is like building an edifice. Only by destroying everything that is old can we completely consolidate a new foundation. In this way, the new edifice will have a solid foundation. ”

"Otherwise, your seemingly tall edifice, no matter how splendid and beautiful your decoration is, the foundation has long since decayed. It won't be strong after all. ”

It is not difficult to be a 'Ming Monarch Holy Lord' who is completely in line with the interests of the gentry class. The difficult thing is whether such a foundation can really support the Zheng dynasty through the changes in the coming years?

Now it is the middle of the seventeenth century, and the first industrial revolution will be in another hundred years, and the Zheng dynasty has laid the foundation of the dynasty with the old model.

Without laying a new foundation at the beginning of the founding of the country, Zheng Zhilong finds it hard to believe that the children and grandchildren of future generations can 'go far ahead of the ancestors'!

The current saving time and effort is at the cost of the life of the future Zheng dynasty.

Zheng Sen didn't fully understand this now, and he was only disappointed in the gentry class at the moment, so he quickly accepted Zheng Zhilong's view of the gentry class.

Roughly speaking, Song Confucianism is not available.

Those scholars and doctors under the banner of 'Heavenly Principles' are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but behind their backs they are full of male thieves and female prostitutes. It is necessary to get rid of the life of science, to engage in the study of merit, and to engage in Confucianism in the Han and Tang dynasties.

Moreover, what is the most important thing for a country to be stable and prosperous?

That has to be land. Everyone has a cultivated field, and the world can be safe.

And where is the land? Is it in the hands of the Zhu Ming court or in the hands of the gentry all over the world?

The answer is obvious, therefore, the attitude of the Zheng family towards the gentry must also be very clear.

The two are in a hostile relationship, staunch enemies.

As for saying that the Son of Heaven and the scholars share the world, then it is okay to replace the scholars with 'intellectuals'. Moreover, the threshold for intellectuals is very low, as long as they can write 1,800 words, and can simply add, subtract, multiply and divide, just like those clerks and officials in the government in the past, then can't they be replaced by scholars?

Look at how many officials in history have been overshadowed by their clerical officials?

Look at how many masters are there under the current Ming officials?

So the government affairs, is it the masters who are handling it, or the officials, lords, scholars and doctors who are named on the gold list are handling it?

Zheng Sen was naturally convinced.

"Now, our strength is there, the Zheng family's land and water army, the Zheng family's financial resources, and the Zheng family's territory, this is no longer something you can ignore if you want to keep a low profile."

"In the past few years, we have successively won Dayuan, Hexian, and now Luzon, and the Zheng family's overseas foundation has not only been established, but also consolidated. According to the agreement between his father and Emperor Chongzhen, the Zheng family is not far from the day when the feudal state will be officially divided. At this time, why should my father be low-key and tolerant? ”

"Why do you want to watch those bastard gentry do whatever they want?"

"You have been by your father's side for a while, you know the Donglin Party, and you know the gentry and businessmen in Jiangnan. Don't you think they're dirty and ridiculous? ”

"I read in my mouth that the court does not compete with the people for profit, but in fact, everyone has a lot of money. The mouth is full of loyalty and patriotism, asking others to support the country's righteousness, but when it is their turn to bleed and contribute, they are judged to be like two people. (The Donglin Party did not support the collection of commercial taxes, but they insisted on the "ancestral system" of retired officials not paying taxes, and second, they opposed the system of direct tax collection by the central government.) The emperor directly sent eunuchs to collect salt taxes, iron taxes, etc., and the Donglin Party criticized the emperor for looting the people's fat and ointment, and resolutely opposed it. That is, the so-called: the emperor loves pearl and jade, and people also love food and clothing. Taxes must be collected by the local government and then handed over to the state. To give an inappropriate example: resolutely oppose national taxation, we must take the local tax, and the local government will keep the part that the local government needs after collecting the tax, and then hand over the other part to the state. Then how much money can be handed over to the central government)

"Think about it, if you give in to them, if you take care of their interests and become one with them, even if my Zheng family can win the world, how many days can I sit in this world?" The foundation is rotten, can the house still be strong?

"As for your eagerness?" Zheng Sen laughed, "When I come back from Luzon, I'll take you to Dayuan for a walk." ”

Only after going to the big man can Zheng Ping understand why Zheng Zhilong dares to be so unscrupulous.

Even in Zheng Sen's eyes, Zheng Zhilong's actions were not urgent at all. If it were him, he might have already led troops to land in Denglai and fought with the Manchu Tartars. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's behavior was not impatient at all in his eyes, but dragged on a bit.

With the base of the big man, don't look at the red hair It hasn't been long to get out, but it's really important for the Zheng family.

The recruit training camps are full of trained recruits, and they are the Zheng family's biggest capital. And when you see a line of soldiers standing neatly in front of you, when you feel the sincere love of these soldiers, you really don't feel any danger in speeding up a little faster.

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The entire Luzon was engaged in a purging war, which dragged down Zheng Zhilong's energy a lot. As mentioned earlier, the Bangbangya people are widely distributed.

Intense construction and hectic clean-up warfare were the main themes of Luzon at the moment, and as the war progressed, groups of Bangbangya people who had broken their backbones were sent to construction sites and new plantations.

The Lingayen Bay in front of you is one of them.

The work on the land is tiring and dirty, and the Bangbangya people who come here are no longer people, they are just laborers.

However, Zheng Zhilong was merciful, and he announced to the captives that as long as they served the Zheng family for five years without any illegal record, they would be freed and some symbolic severance pay. However, according to Zheng Sen, I am afraid that at least half of the people here will not be able to survive to that day. The harsh environment, the heavy work, the poor food, and the rampant diseases all erode their health, and even if they were lucky enough to survive the five years of their life, most of them would not survive for a few more years when they returned.

This world is so cruel.

And they don't deserve pity.

Look at Lingayen Bay, this is where Lin Feng came to Luzon to gain a foothold, and the blood of the Chinese once completely stained this place red. There is a part of the Bangbangya people inside.

Lingayan Bay is close to the mainland, and at the same time, it is a rare large-scale port in the northwest of Luzon, so it was the first to enter Zheng Zhilong's eyes.

The Zheng brothers are on the construction site at the moment, so I don't know how many Bangbangya people are working.

Zheng Ping's attention was no longer here.

Of course, he knew about the big guy, and he knew the so-called Taoyuan Governor's District, but he had never been as curious about the big guy as he was at this moment. What's out there? Can his eldest brother's tone be so tough?