Beizheng's current miserable, seemingly good 'state revenue' is entirely based on the deprivation of normal business activities and the exploitation of the people.

The price of salt in Beizheng alone is 2.5 times that of Guangzhou, and the price is as high as four cents [Chinese dollars] a catty, while the price of salt in China has been maintained at the price of one and a half to one and a half per catty for a long time.

And this process is quite short, and a lot of government monopolies have been created in a very short period of time.

This era is not the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty playing with salt and iron monopoly two thousand years ago. How long did the people of Annam not know about the government monopoly? The sudden introduction of such a system made the people of course unhappy.

This is like China in the 21st century, the night before it was still free to buy and sell, and in the blink of an eye, the country started to shop with 'tickets', do you see that the people will give you a national boil?

It's just that the people of Beizheng didn't have to resist. Since they are powerless to resist, they can only endure in silence.

Then the grain, salt, sugar, iron, cloth, medicinal herbs, tobacco, fish, meat and so on in the Beizheng market began to silently increase the price. Of course, the cheapest ones are the officials and businessmen in Beizheng who collude with each other, and only the common people are unlucky.

But it was not Beizheng that Chen Ming first decided to eat, but Beizheng's neighbor Remnant Qing Sanjie.

People play bigger, and Confucianism is 'the same as the world'. Before the reforms, the economic lifeblood of their territory, such as grain, cloth, salt, iron, sugar, gunpowder, etc., was in the hands of Chinese merchants, who became puppets on a string.

The three heroes of the remnant Qing Dynasty no longer expect to be ****, and even they feel that they have no 'future'. The difference in strength between the two sides is too big, so big that China only needs to stretch out a small thumb to easily crush Chen Jie, Yang Zhengjie, and Wu Xiongguang.

It's as if the difference between a small bug and an adult has made people lose the motivation to resist.

Judging from the fact that Chen Han asked them to play 'Confucian Datong', it is obvious that Chen Ming did not take them seriously at all, but just thought that they were just experiments.

And even so, in this case, Sanjie is also happy to come 'whatever he wants'.

'Confucian Datong' is really a good magic weapon for dealing with Confucian children, and no one who is deeply influenced by Confucianism can resist it.

And most importantly, the Manchus had proved the fact that the ancient model of agrarian society in China in the past was to be improved. Because Chen Han used his own establishment to prove the former's mistakes.

So how can it be improved? In order to make it rejuvenate in the new change?

As a disciple of Confucianism, Sanjie also hopes that he can explore a way out of the dark in the dark.

In this world, regardless of whether it is a feudal dynasty, a tribal alliance, or a republic, any kind of political system, any kind of academic thought, or political concept, its ultimate goal is to make the country to which it belongs, the country and the people, happy.

A country that cannot withstand external attacks, cannot stand militarily on its footing, and cannot militarily maintain a country's political concept of independence, self-determination, and stability, is not qualified.

Chen Han has been established for twelve years, and counting the previous years, they have a series of political schools for a long time. And these political schools have been established for so many years, and it is impossible not to study the change of dynasties and the rise and fall of dynasties in history. What's more, there is still such a thing as a paper in China now, and there is such a thing as a newspaper.

There are many people who aim their pen at the Northern Song Dynasty of the 'Wenhua Prosperous Era' and the late Ming Dynasty of the 'Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty'.

In addition, when the new Confucianism and the old Confucianism were arguing, the party struggle between the Northern Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty was also a major basis for the former to attack the latter. Although Chen Jie, Yang Zhengjie, and Wu Xiongguang are firm in their beliefs, they are not stupid, ignorant, and stubborn people.

They also absorb knowledge from the outside world, and they are also well aware of the flaws of the past model, and Confucianism is inherently discriminatory against engineering. This has become a much-criticized shortcoming of Confucianism after the Manchu Dynasty collapsed with Chen Han's guns.

In fact, the three heroes of the remnant Qing Dynasty who are carrying out changes according to the version of 'Confucian Datong' are really playing with some brains.

Chen Ming's 'technical guidance' for the 'Three Heroes of the Remnant Qing Dynasty' is completely an adjusted version of the 18th-century concept of the Red Dynasty + the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in general, it is three points, the people's commune/collective farm, the planned economy, first heavy and then light.

Chen Jie and the others only moved the plan slightly, and completely copied it.

No way.

First, they have not yet formed a complete political concept, and the idea of economic development is naturally unsystematic; Second, some of the suggestions given by Chen Ming still have a certain attraction after removing the background of the times.

The original division of land by the Turkish Communist Party was not really in line with the Confucian idea of Datong, and the well-field system, which was highly admired by Confucius, was a system of state ownership of land in ancient Chinese society, rather than private ownership. But Sanjie also has to learn lessons from history, such as Wang Mang's reform lessons. Therefore, the people's commune with the public ownership of land as the main body, or it can also be called a collective farm, is faintly consistent with the Confucian concept. The planned economy is also very affirmed by the three masters, because it allows their 'power' to evolve and develop according to their ideas, and the final priority is also very realistic.

If we do not develop steel, munitions, and heavy industries first, there will be no basis for the existence of the small force of Sanjie.

These points are too much in line with the psychology of the 'three heroes'.

It's just that what surprised Chen Ming was that the common people of Annan, who had not experienced the baptism of the times, were a little too slippery.

Hanoi is not as good as Bac Thanh, although Hanoi is an absolute land of fish and rice, but most of the control area is continuous mountainous, and because of the trauma of the war, Hanoi's food production is not able to meet its own needs.

The reason why Chen Ming's troops attacked Beizheng was because although Beizheng was very oppressive to the people, the land in Beizheng was more suitable for agricultural planting, and at least the food needs could be guaranteed in the territory. However, the Hanoi Governor's Government needs to import grain from abroad every year.

But because of the big pot of rice, just like a series of things that the rabbit encountered at the beginning, the waste of food, the grinding time at work, the food shortage and low production efficiency caused by the lack of work, etc., are all things that Sanjie wanted to solve but could not solve after discovering the problem in time.

In the short term, it is not obvious, but when the time is extended to three or four years, the pressure of hundreds of thousands of mouths makes Hanoi Ru shoulder a Mount Tai on his shoulders.

This is because while the demand for food is increasing, the production of food in the areas under Hanoi's control is shrinking. And after the explosion of what started as mining, metallurgy, and logging, production soon reached a bottleneck and plummeted month after month.

On top of that, although Hanoi's key mining, smelting and logging industries have absorbed a lot of manpower, many of them have gone to Lang Son along with the three heroes, while the local people of Annam have not benefited much.

The former is engaged in labor, and in terms of metallurgy and military industry, Hanoi needs a lot of resources from Nanjing, and the latter is not pie in the sky, it needs to pay money. And if there is no money, they will exchange it for grain, metal, and wood.

Originally, the situation in Hanoi in the first two years was quite good. Whether it is agriculture, industry, fishery, or forestry, there has been great progress, but in the ninth year of Chengtian, the indicators have been decreasing month by month, which has made Chen Jieyan have a lot of headaches.

Hanoi didn't feel that the route problem was wrong, because the joy of the first two years of financial growth by leaps and bounds was something that the three heroes really couldn't forget, and it still popped up in their minds from time to time.

In just two years, they had a steel plant, a metallurgical plant, a gun factory, a gun factory, and a gunpowder factory, and even built a medium-sized shipyard of their own. This refreshing feeling of rapid improvement in strength makes Sanjie remember it vividly.

Moreover, the reversal of the situation now, in the eyes of Sanjie, is completely due to the moral standard of the Annan people, not the fault of the 'line'.

If those Annamite people, and of course the Chinese who fled with them from the north into the mountains, could maintain the style of hard work and not arrogance and rashness of the beginning, Hanoi's strength and situation would certainly not be the same as it is in front of them.

Rather, it will continue to grow by leaps and bounds, as it did in the first two years.

Think about Hanoi's soft and hard power, if it rises one step at a time like it did at the beginning, how powerful their power will be in the past few years.

It's just that Nanjing won't give them any more time.

For Chen Ming, the problems exposed by Hanoi's reforms in recent years can be summarized into a thick stack of research materials.

The line of 'Confucian Datong' is clearly flawed, and it is difficult to solve it on its own.

Hanoi's punishment for a series of situations can be described as harsh, but it is useless.

As for the low moral standard of the common people in Annam, it can be explained by a Confucian theory: Cang Liao knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing.

Why is the common people of Annam generally showing low morality? That's because their granaries aren't yet full, and their food and clothing aren't yet satisfied. And how can we have enough food and clothing?

Looking at the current international situation and world environment, it is obviously not enough to rely on the old ways of Confucianism.

Without the rise of Chen Han and the expulsion of Westerners, I don't know when the foreigners will hit China. Can Annam, Siam, Japan, and North Korea still maintain their independence and national rights and interests?

Don't forget, the Spaniards in the late Ming Dynasty came up with a plan to conquer China. Although this is ridiculous and ignorant, this plan was accompanied by a series of naval battles along the southeast coast at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and all of them revealed the great ambitions of the Europeans.

The Battle of Humen in Ming Ying, the Battle of Xicao Wan in Ming Portuguese, the Battle of Tuen Mun in Ming Portuguese, and the Battle of Luo Wan in Ming Heliuluo......

I really don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it.

The largest naval battle of Liuluo Bay took place in the sixth year of Chongzhen. When the Ming Dynasty was about to fall, Zheng Zhilong's more than 150 warships, a total of 11 main warships against the Dutch Navy, as well as the flagship Fort Mid and a Chinese junk ship Dagou, in addition to 50 pirate ships brought by the pirate Liu Xiang. In the end, Zheng Zhilong won a decisive victory, and the thriving sea coachman dispelled the idea of further invasion of China, and the influence of the Chinese maritime group completely enveloped the entire eastern seas.

From the perspective of later generations, the greatest significance of this war is not that the Zheng Zhilong group has achieved hegemony over the entire East Asian seas, making it "unique to the interests of the South China Sea", and "sea ships are not allowed to order the flag of the Zheng clan and cannot come and go." Each ship earns 3,000 gold, and the annual income is 10 million, and Zhilong uses it to enrich the enemy country." The greatest significance is that the Dutch dispelled the idea of invading China and preserved China's interests.

Think about the impact of the defeat of the Zheng family in the Battle of Luowan, how will the Ming Dynasty be affected by the extinction?

Didn't the British also intervene in India when the Indian maharaja was in a mess?

Therefore, in Chen Han's current history textbooks, the Battle of Liuluo Bay has been praised to a very high status by the Ministry of Culture and Education, and it is not weaker than Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan.

The situation in Hanoi is constantly deteriorating, and sporadic riots began in the second half of last year, and many Annam natives fled to Guangxi. Some labor export companies openly sell 'Annan daughter-in-law', and you can buy a decent girl for only a small amount of 100 yuan.

This is obviously not half attractive to Chinese families with good economic conditions.

But there are poor people everywhere, and even if China continues to emigrate for a long time, there are still large numbers of poor people on its own side. For example, those miners in Hongji City, 100 yuan, a month's salary is less, buying a woman does not have to marry her, as long as they can take care of the housework for them at home, laundry and cooking, so that tired miners can have a hot meal and soup when they come home from work, this is enough.

And this situation is not limited to Hongji City, there is a large market in China as a whole. And where there is a market, there is supply and demand, and I don't know how many indigenous women in Annam have been bought by the labor export company openly and honestly throughout the country over the years.

In the spring of this year, Guangxi again seized many indigenous people from Annam, who had secretly crossed the border.

Tensions in Hanoi have reached a point where they need to degenerate.

Because the Military Intelligence Bureau was very active here in private, it provoked a fire for the already tense situation in Hanoi, and also gave Nanjing an excuse to flip the table.

……

"Burn it! Burn it! ”

In the night, a dark-skinned, middle-aged native in his thirties and forties stood in front of a burning timber reserve and muttered to himself.

He was rickety, hunched over, as if there was a great pressure on his shoulders. The raging fire illuminated his countenance, and his usually honest face was revealing a hideousness that was completely out of proportion to his appearance.

The middle-aged man's right hand is missing two fingers, and the wound has healed, but the others are obviously very unsatisfactory. The ephedra shirt on his body has long been stained with various stains so that he can't see the original color, and one of the shoes on his feet also shows three toes.

Why is it a shoe?

That's because he had one leg left, and the other leg was a log post.

The middle-aged man is a lumberjack, but a sudden accident not only makes him lose two fingers, but also a leg.

If it is in China, if it is Chinese, and there is such a serious accident, then the capital party must accompany a sum of money. However, the middle-aged people are indigenous to Annam, and the main employers of the newly developed logging industry in Annam are Chinese, but the capital side is the local magnates + businessmen of various forces.

After the middle-aged man was so seriously injured, not to mention the bereavement payment, he didn't even get a cent of the excess salary. finally healed his injury, and the family was surrounded by walls, and he spent all his efforts to continue.

Of course, the middle-aged man hated the lumberyard where he had worked.

Then under the domination of inexplicable forces, driven by money, the middle-aged man did not hesitate to fall in love with this lumberyard. Of course, the result was sad, several disturbances, and the middle-aged man was beaten by the thugs of the lumberyard and could not take care of himself. If it weren't for the fact that there was money to be made secretly, at least the money would be enough to buy his ruined life, and the middle-aged man would dare to continue to embarrass this logging plant.

If people kill him, it's like stepping on an ant.

And as the matter spreads, there is obviously an inexplicable force behind the trouble, and the 'timing' is finally brewing.

Then the last 300 yuan was in hand, and the middle-aged man's family left the local area the day before yesterday. The middle-aged man, who had eaten and drunk well at home for a day, set a fire tonight that would burn the whole of Hanoi......