Mingdu Mansion, outside the gate of Tiandao Academy, is crowded.

This morning, instead of attending classes as usual, the students and teachers of the academy came to the street outside the school gate en masse—under the leadership of the two vice presidents of the academy, Mo Yingniang, Kong Yu, and Lu Shihu.

They are here to see off their dean, their teacher, Chen Dexing, the king of Ming!

The college, which was later called the first real university in human history, now has only 88 teachers (including Chen Dexing himself) and 456 students (55 of whom are also teachers, what a strange combination). However, it is the place where Chen Dexing, who is out again, is most concerned. In his view, the less than 500 people here are the real hope and future of the country.

Because Chen Dexing could rely on "primitive" gunpowder weapons and military aristocracy to conquer the world - perhaps the whole world, perhaps most of the world. But he had no way of guaranteeing that his empire would last long after his death.

Even if he implemented Zhou-style feudalism and aristocratic democracy, there was no guarantee that this empire and the overseas feudal states under the empire would survive into the 21st century. The only thing that can make the empire stand for a long time is, in Chen Dexing's view, only science! Leading scientific and scientific innovation capabilities!

This is how the empire has remained strong in the era of capitalism and industrialization. Although Chen Dexing himself will certainly not see that day, he is still willing to do his best to lay a solid foundation for future scientific progress.

From the training of the fake army and the opening of the military academy with the camp. He began to lay the foundation for the establishment of this Heavenly Dao Academy...... Kong Yu, who is now also the vice president of the academy, is the first batch of students of the Suiying Military Academy, and Lu Shihu, who is serving as the full-time vice president, also attended classes at the Suiying Military Academy for a long time. Other than that. Chen Nufa, Chen Chongguan and other eleven Chen fake sons who served as teachers in the academy were also trained by Chen Dexing all the way through the use of the military academy, the junior military academy and the military academy.

Although these people have very shallow scientific knowledge in later generations. Except for Kong Yu and Lu Shihu, none of them have any scientific talent (not very smart). But it is enough to be a guide for future scientists.

Among the students of the academy, Chen Dexing has found at least two extremely talented young people, Guo Shoujing and Meng De. They now know each other and have become friends and teachers and students of each other - the relationship is chaotic. However, it is not uncommon in the Heavenly Dao Academy created by the grass. Meng De was in the preparatory mathematics class taught by Guo Shoujing, and Guo Shoujing enrolled in metallurgy and was a student of Meng De.

In addition, it needs to be mentioned that Mo Ying Niang, the most powerful of the Eight Heavenly Dao Envoys, is also studying in the preparatory department of the Heavenly Dao Academy. He is also a professor of theology (Department of Heavenly Dao). Chen Dexing's new favorite Xiao Ai was also arranged to study in the preparatory department of Tiandao Academy......

At this moment, the street outside the academy was already crowded with people, and in addition to the students of the academy, there were the families of military generals and businessmen living in Dalian City (a city under the jurisdiction of the Ming Prefecture). Since Dalian City is the commercial area of Mingdu Prefecture, there are many merchants on the street. Most of them were foreign merchants who had only recently moved to Mingdu, and when they heard that the king was going to lead the army on the expedition, they all rushed to see the demeanor of this demigod who had descended from the sky.

The up-and-coming coastal city of Mingdu is growing at a breakneck pace. With the consolidation of Chen Dexing's rule on the Liaodong Peninsula, the Ming capital's status as the commercial center of Liaodong was quickly established. The furs and horses of Liaodong, as well as the recent appearance of fine ironware, became magnets for merchants of the Song, Tang, Japanese, and Goryeo kingdoms.

And after living in Mingdu for a while. Most foreign businessmen will unconsciously like the first good city in Beiming. And not just because of the high profits that furs, horses, and ironware can bring. It's because Mingdu is a fairly safe place for merchants. As long as they spent 200 yuan to buy themselves a gentry status, they could have the right to vote and to be elected. Able to vote for the councils of Mingdu Prefecture, Lushun County, Jinzhou County and Dalian City. In this way, the safety of their lives and property is extremely guaranteed.

In particular, the council of Dalian, the commercial center of Mingdu, where merchants gathered, was almost determined by the votes of the gentry. Although the chishi was a sergeant with a broken arm (many officers who retired due to injuries. were all absorbed into politics by the Fuxing Society), but most of the parliamentarians were businessmen who were plundered by Chen Dexing from Qingyuan Mansion before. The councillors have the power to elect and impeach the magistrate. It can also determine the level of the city tax!

The taxation of the Northern Ming Dynasty is divided into central tax and local tax, of which customs duties and toll taxes (including taxes for merchant ships passing by sea and caravans passing on land) and local tax packages (that is, tax packages issued to commercial cities). The exact amount is negotiated between Tran and the city council, and is usually half of the city's total customs duties and tolls) are central taxes. Municipal taxes and real estate taxes (including land taxes) are all local taxes. The collection and expenditure of local taxes are subject to parliamentary supervision. In a sense, the parliament is the food and clothing parents of the officials, and the gentry and gentry are the food and clothing parents of the parliamentarians! If the gentry and gentry were bullied by the officials of Mingdu, they could go directly to the councillors to talk!

Therefore, in Mingdu, the social status of the gentry with votes is not low, and they are certainly not the target of arbitrary bullying by lower-level officials. Those officials who break the county and destroy the prefect, and even can make people bankrupt with a little means, are not in the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, Mingdu was very safe for Han merchants who could buy the status of a gentry...... It is easy to confuse the Han with the Koreans and the Japanese, after all, Chen Dexing did not unify China, and could not establish household registration for the Han people in the territory of the Western Yuan, Eastern Tang and Southern Song Dynasty. Therefore, many Japanese and Korean merchants, as long as they can speak fluent Chinese (both Japanese and Korean maritime merchants can speak Chinese), get a Chinese surname for themselves, make up an ancestral hometown, they can settle in Dalian, and then buy a gentry status, buy a piece of land to build a house, and they can live in Mingdu with peace of mind.

And recently, Tiandao Qianzhuang, which is controlled by Tiandao, has opened a branch in Mingdu, not only doing flying money (remittance), money exchange and money lending, but also absorbing deposits, and opening an annual interest rate of 3%, although it is not high, but it is better to be safe! It was guaranteed not only by the state credit of the Northern Ming Dynasty, but also by the Heavenly Taoism (in the eyes of the people of the 13th century, the credit of the sect was far greater than that of the government). For many maritime merchants, smugglers, robbers and thieves, and even retired red prostitutes who want to wash their hands, it is really a good choice to settle in the four cities of Dalian, Ganghwagang, Shenjiamen and Jeju Port in Beiming. Spend 200 guan to buy an identity, and then spend a few hundred guan to build a house, and save your savings for many years in the Tiandao money village to eat interest. You can rest easy for the rest of your life!

As a result, the city of Dalian in Mingdu Prefecture has prospered at an astonishing speed in less than two years.

"Daddy, look, our GIs are here!"

On the second floor of a new restaurant called Su Zixuan diagonally opposite Tiandao Academy, all the guests crowded to the window facing the street, stretched their necks to look out. The owner of the restaurant, Su Yan, who originally opened a wine shop in Mingzhou, was also his daughter, who had just applied for the preparatory department of Tiandao Academy (because of Mo Yingniang and Xiao Ai, the Tiandao Department of Tiandao Academy recruits girls), and Su Zikui, who was waiting for the release of the list, was pulled to the window.

Su Yan, a scholar who looked quite down-and-out when he was in Mingzhou, is now also wider, put on silk clothes, opened a restaurant three times and three times, and bought a gentry status, not all for safety, but for the convenience of going abroad - civilians who are registered in Beiming cannot go abroad casually, unless they are sailors and have a guarantee from a big commercial house. And most of the scholars have military service, and it is also difficult to go abroad. Only the gentry came and went as they wanted.

Su Yan, who has made some money by making wine and selling wine in the past two years, bought a gentry status, just to go to the Southern Song Dynasty to bring his wife, younger brother and grandmother to the Ming Dynasty to enjoy happiness and take care of the restaurant business by the way - the money in the Northern Ming Dynasty is very profitable, and the officials are also well-behaved, but they are not as good as the Southern Song Dynasty, and the labor is too short. Therefore, many businessmen who bought the status of gentry will return to their hometowns to pull people.

"Ah, is it cavalry?" Su Yan glanced out the window, and saw the soldiers and soldiers of the brigade leading the horses, forming a team, striding from the direction of Lushun County.

"That's not cavalry, it's mounted infantry." The little girl Su Zikui had already converted to the Heavenly Dao Sect, and she also applied for the Heavenly Dao Department (Theological Academy) of the Heavenly Dao Academy, so she naturally regarded Ming Jun as her own. Speaking of the Ming Army, his little face was full of pride. "Most of our Ming generals are sergeants, with granges, serfs, and horses in every family, and they can bring their own war horses when they go out to fight."

"It's a sergeant soldier...... Su Yan looked at these lively sergeant soldiers, but he had an indescribable feeling. If it weren't for these people, he would still be with his wife in Mingzhou now, selling wine while studying, maybe he would have been admitted to the Jinshi.

"The Sergeant is here!"

"What a good man, I don't know how much stronger than Song Bing!"

"It would be nice to hit Gangnam when you hit it......"

When the soldiers came in high spirits, the guests in the restaurant began to sigh at each other.

"Look, look! His Royal Highness King Ming has arrived, hey! Those soldiers wearing armor and riding on horses are the guards of the Ming King! ”

"Hey, what kind of armor is that, why is it cold and shining, isn't it steel armor?"

"That's steel armor, what kind of plate armor is it, what medium carbon steel is it made of, a pair of armor is more than 30 catties, all made of good steel!"

"How much does that cost?"

"It's almost a thousand, only we have such ironclad soldiers in the whole world! It seems that this time we will be able to wipe out the Tartars, and those who will enter the Central Plains and dominate the world in the future will definitely be our Daming! ”

"Yes, it must be our Daming!"

Let's be Ming! This is the heartfelt name of the gentry and gentry to Beiming. Because they all know that this Beiming is not the surname of King Ming's family, but the gentleman and gentleman have a share! (To be continued......)