Peach Blossom Island Heavenly Taoist Temple.

This is a large and simple Heavenly Dao Temple. Because there are no permanent residents on Peach Blossom Island, almost all the residents are temporary. Whether it is the First Marine Brigade of the Nanyang Fleet of the Ming Navy, or the nearly 10,000 members of Jiangnan Yimen who are guarded by them, they are only temporary guests. Therefore, this Heavenly Dao Temple is also temporary. However, the Taoist aunt who presides over this Heavenly Taoist Temple is not an ordinary character, she is the "Chief Black-clothed Taoist Aunt" Xiao Ai who has just put on black clothes - the reason why she has such a nickname is because Xiao Ai's black Taoist robe was personally draped on her by Chen Dexing!

And sending Xiao Ai to Peach Blossom Island as the host of the Taoist Temple actually shows the importance that Chen Dexing and Mo Yingniang attach to "edifying" the children of Jiangnan Yimen. In Chen Dexing's view, there are many smart people among the children of Jiangnan Yimen. This kind of righteous door system, which is specially used to cope with the imperial examination, if we use the perspective of biology, is to artificially select and cultivate high-IQ scholars.

Almost all of the righteous men are born for the reading exam, everyone will study extremely hard, and in the end, those who can stand out and pass the Jinshi must be people with high IQs. And the smarter they are, the more they can become a jinshi when they are young and strong, so that their chances of leaving an heir will be far greater than that of other righteous men - righteous men pay attention to being a jinshi first and then begging for a wife, so many righteous men who have not been in the jinshi all their lives have not married a wife in the end......

So Jiangnan Yimen is a place where smart people gather! Chen Dexing, who was also born in Yimen, himself has a deep experience. Because his soul deeply felt the meaning of the word "smart". For example, in this life, he has a super memory, and he can hardly remember it.

But at the same time, he also has a deep understanding of what "high intelligence and low ability" is all about!

Therefore, what Chen Dexing needs to liberate now is not only the population and land controlled by the Yimen. There is also the thought of the righteous scholars.

And the way to emancipate the minds of wise people is naturally Mencius's way: first suffer their minds. Stretch their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin. Empty of their bodies, do what they do, so they are tempted to forbear, and poor are thinking about change...... That's right, if you are poor, you will think about change - if you are poor, your thinking will change!

Du Thirteen Sisters, who have changed from white rich and beautiful to white and poor, is a typical example of thinking about change when they are poor. After running away from home (if she still has a home), she plunged headlong into the Peach Blossom Island Tiandao Temple and signed up for a short-term school, which was a cram school.

Lived in the dormitory of Peach Blossom Temple. Sister Du Thirteen discovered that in this large and dilapidated temporary Taoist temple, there were already hundreds of runaway righteous men and righteous women! It was also divided into two classes for men and women, and they studied the Three Classics of Tiandao Sect with Daoists or Dao Gu, as well as the book "Introduction to Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry", which seemed to be preparing for the entrance examination of Tiandao Academy. There is really no shortage of smart people among the high-IQ scholars!

And if the Heavenly Daoist Sect wants to really prosper for a long time, it is inseparable from the participation of these smart people - most of the early Heavenly Daoist Taoists were born in Mingjiao, and those who don't sound good are the great gods of group jumping! It is enough to use them to confuse the wild Tartars of Liaodi, and to use them to encourage the illiterate poor Han people of the Northland.

But with the establishment of the Ming Empire. Tiandaoism was also given the responsibility of establishing a basic education system. Although the Ming Dynasty has a Ministry of Education, the funding of the Ministry of Education of the Ming Dynasty is far less than that of the Heavenly Taoism. Moreover, Chen Dexing relied on Tiandao to develop a new type of education from the very beginning. Now it is natural for the Heavenly Taoist Sect to open more "church schools", and in the future, they will also be asked to open "church hospitals".

These things. You can't rely on those Mingjiao-born gods, so you must bring in fresh blood! And these righteous men and women with a very solid cultural foundation and smart brains. It's the fresh blood that the Heavenly Daoist Sect needs—what else would it do? Don't look at what kind of Scientology Chen Dexing made a fuss, in fact, at least ninety percent of his subordinates are illiterate! Most of the remaining 10% also know a few baskets of characters. A real "high-level intellectual". Either a high-ranking military officer or a high-ranking civil official, or a teacher in the Heavenly Dao Academy. I don't have the time to do a wide range of new education.

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"My lord, what's going on with Jiangnan Yimen. How could I not know? ”

At the same time that Du Thirteen Sister started a new life, Chen Dexing was walking with his father on the shore of Dinghai Harbor. The military port was empty, there were not many ships or soldiers. Most of the fleets that had gathered in Dinghai Port were now scattered to Fujian, Guangdong, and the coastal areas of Zhejiang, and not many remained in Dinghai. Moreover, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, and except for the necessary sentry, the other soldiers are preparing for the holiday - in fact, it is a vacation and a good meal.

Chen Dexing also has no official business today. The war between the two provinces was slow, because every time a county was captured, military households had to be recruited and the land was redivided. It's all going to take a lot of work. If it is not fought like this, it will win over the righteous gate and take only the big city. It is not difficult to fight the two Zhejiang, but Chen Ming cannot take root in it, and there is no way to mobilize the manpower and material resources of the two Zhejiang provinces to open up the colony.

And the two Zhejiang Yimen are naturally part of human and material resources.

So Chen Dexing, who got free, talked to his father Chen Huaiqing about dealing with Jiangnan Yimen.

"My lord, do you remember the 'Tianzhu Covenant'?"

"Tianzhu ......" Chen Huaiqing nodded slightly, "It is said to be a good place, with a large land, a large population, and rich products, no less than Jiangnan!" ”

At this time, Tianzhu is actually China's most important trading partner! Europe is still in the dark Middle Ages, with limited spending power. Dashi was ravaged by the Mongols and was in tatters, and it also had little spending power. And Tianzhu was able to maintain his prosperity because the Delhi Sultanate repelled the Mongol invasion. The caste system characteristic of Tianzhu ensured that the upper rulers of Tianzhu had enough financial resources to consume, and at the same time allowed Tianzhu's handicraft industry to have enough cheap labor. And Tianzhu's territory is also large enough and the population is large enough, it is indeed a good place!

Of course, Chen Dexing will not forget that the glorious British Empire in history was built on the basis of the exploitation of India.

"Tianzhu is indeed no less than Jiangnan!" Chen Dexing nodded with satisfaction, Chen Huaiqing was able to say this, which showed that he had spent some effort studying Tianzhu. "But it's not easy to get your hands on Tianzhu."

"How's Tantra?" Chen Huaiqing asked.

Tianzhu is not a unified country, but a small world. Although Tianzhu is full of countries, most of the rulers are at least outsiders. Either the Aryans who first entered or the Celestials who later entered from Afghanistan or the Western Regions. The early Aryans were divided into two camps: Brahmanism and Buddhism. Therefore, Tianzhu has been a struggle between Tianfang, Brahmanism and Buddhism for hundreds of years. But the Buddhist kingdom of Bala fell a few decades ago. Therefore, Tianzhu's Buddhism is already on the verge of extinction, and it is the most in need of external support among the three major sects, so it is also the easiest to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty. That Dama Polo threw himself into Chen Huaiqing's arms regardless of the identity of the princess of Polo, and this is the reason.

"Tantra is indeed a bridge," Chen Dexing pondered, "but Tantra has the interests of Tantra, and they will support us when they don't enter Tianzhu, but once they enter Tianzhu, what they want is probably the Balo Kingdom." ”

He stopped and looked back at Chen Huaiqing, "Moreover, you don't have your own power, so there is no way to build a country." ”

Chen Huaiqing really doesn't have the strength of his own. Chen Dexing has Tiandaoism, a military army, and a maritime gentry, and the three pillars support a Ming Empire. But Chen Huaiqing did not have a group of his own, and in this respect he was even inferior to the warlords who had defected to Chen Dexing. Without his own group, Chen Huaiqing could only rely on Chen Dexing to allocate part of his strength to support his country.

But Chen Dexing is not willing to scatter his forces too much overseas at the moment. Because the core of Chen Dexing's three pillars is actually the sergeant soldiers, these first-generation military aristocrats are very capable of fighting, but it is not easy to cultivate, if a large number of feudal countries go abroad, Chen Dexing's own strength will be weakened.

Moreover, these people are still seeds, and they need to reproduce an upper class belonging to the Chen Ming Empire. At present, most of the knights are still fighting everywhere, and they have not yet taken root in various places, let alone multiply the second and third generations. Therefore, Chen Dexing did not have a large number of scholars and concubines available in his hands - these were troubles, and of course they were the driving force for expansion.

"Dexing," Chen Huaiqing understood what his son meant at this time, "Do you want me to use the people in Jiangnan Yimen for my own use?" ”

"How?" Chen Dexing asked rhetorically, "Are these people still available?" ”

Chen Huaiqing stroked his beard and thought about it: "There are 100,000 people in the righteous sect, and those with outstanding talents will naturally carry a lot of buckets. But for the Father's sake, how can they use it for his own use? ”

"Doorman." Chen Dexing replied with a smile. He already had a way, that is, let Chen Huaiqing and Chen Defang follow the example of the noble sons of the Warring States Period and raise customers. Wasn't this "scholar" the first to be a guest raised by the nobles of the Warring States Period?

"Meng Weijun has 3,000 guests, the adult is my biological father, and the eldest brother is my brother, so what does it matter if you raise 30,000 guests?"

30,000 visitors? If you count your family, that's more than 100,000 people! With these people, Chen Huaiqing and Chen Defang have their own strength! It's just that so many people, how much does it cost to raise a year?

Chen Huaiqing's face was slightly embarrassed, his old man didn't have so much money!

"The money for the guest is naturally from me, and one guest will be given thirty times a year! 30,000 visitors, I will make up a whole, one million. First of all, they will not die or live, and the location of resettlement will be selected as an island, one of Peach Blossom Islands, some of the Penghu Islands can also be resettled, and some more islands can be found along the coast of Fujian, and the resettlement funds will be given to 1 million yuan at one time. (To be continued......)