The old man only nodded slightly, and did not say much.

Since the last time Chen Ande returned to Dongpu with the assistance given by the Ming Court to the Ming people of Dongpu, the Ming people up and down Dongpu were all cheering.

In order to express his gratitude to the Ming court in Luzon, Chen Shangchuan specially asked Chen Ande to go to Luzon again.

Not long after Chen Ande left Dongpu, there was news that Guangnan wanted to send troops to Dongpu to suppress the Ming people.

The merchants and envoys of Dongpu who learned of this news fled to Luzon one after another, and were no longer willing to return to Dongpu.

And Chen Ande is also over the age of six, but the old man who is in his last years, even if he goes back to Dongpu, he can't save anything, so he has to stay in Luzon.

Now the Ming court has set up county societies in Luzon, and a large number of Nanyang Chinese have come to Luzon.

As the Han population grew under the control of the Ming court, the number of women and children gradually increased.

The Ming court then opened academies and martial arts halls in Laoag and Wigan, and it was also co-organized with the Sihai Chamber of Commerce and other non-governmental organizations, and Chen Ande also took this opportunity to devote himself to folk education.

Unlike the Qing court, Liu Yu directly abolished the Baguwen and began to introduce Western studies, such as astronomy, geography, medicine, and foreign languages such as Dutch and Spanish.

In order for the Ming people of Luzon to be able to open their eyes to the world.

Chen Ande also personally wrote a Western travel diary, writing down in detail what he saw and heard in Europe, the countries, people and lifestyles he met in Europe, and made them available to students in various colleges in Luzon to read.

The lack of civil servants in the Ming court in Luzon was an unfortunate thing, but it was also a blessing.

As a result, the Ming court had to appoint local Fanren officials when managing the land of Luzon and establishing county societies, such as many official positions in the household department, and even entrusted merchants from all over the world.

However, the lack of civil officials also made the Luzon Ming court unaffected by Confucian culture.

At the same time as the introduction of Western astronomy, geography, and medicine, the Baguwen was abolished, and the progress of the Ming court was extremely smooth.

Now, the Ming Court and the Four Seas Commercial Bank and other non-governmental forces have jointly established the academy, with a total of 200 students in each period.

In the seowon, there is no need to learn the tedious and useless Bagu Wen, but to learn Western astronomy, geography, medicine, Dutch and other foreign languages.

Because of its cooperation with the four seas, the academy has even set up a special business school.

The Ming court not only set up academies for the Han people, but even set up schools specifically for the local Tubang people.

It also stipulates that every Fanren boy between the ages of 13 and 16 of the princely tribe must attend the school of each county community.

And the children of the chieftains and nobles of the various princely states could even enter the academy to study with the Ming students.

The establishment of the academy was an important symbol of the Ming court's new education in Luzon.

When students studying in the academy step into officialdom, they will also push the gears of history with a more inclusive attitude and rich insights, so that the Ming court can go on a journey that has never been seen in history.

"I was really surprised that my lord was willing to let the East India Company open a trading house in Luzon." Gore looked at Liu Yu with admiration.

Everyone knows who the big names behind the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce are.

Nowadays, Luzon's sea routes and mountain trade are almost monopolized by the four seas, and a steady stream of silver flows into the pockets of the four major trading houses.

Now Liu Yu actually asked the East India Company to open a commercial hall in Luzon, isn't this stealing money from the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce?

If it was the Ming Court's purpose of suppressing the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, it would be understandable.

But the problem is that the big man behind the four seas is Liu Yu himself, isn't this cutting off his right-hand man?

Not only is it a wealthy businessman from the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, but even Gore doesn't understand why Liu Yu did this.

"Why?" Liu Yu smiled.

"In the past, the officials and generals of our Ming court had to choose the Su family's cloth workshop to buy the Su family's cotton cloth, but the Su family's cotton cloth was greatly inflated because of the reduction of raw silk cotton transported from the mainland by land and sea merchant ships, and when the Western woolen wool flowed into Laoag, the rich merchants and officials in the city all liked all kinds of Western woolen wool, and finally forced the Su family cloth workshop to improve the fabric, and even the price gradually reduced to the normal range."

After listening to Liu Yu's words, Sir Gore also understood Liu Yu's good intentions.

"You are not Han, I don't know that we Han people prefer to guard the one-third of an acre of land in front of us, and never pay attention to the land outside." Liu Yu shook his head, his expression a little complicated.

"As far as the Ming people in Nanyang are concerned, most of them are farmers who have lost their land and can't survive in the coastal areas of China, fishermen come to Nanyang to beg for a living, even if they are Chinese businessmen who come to Luzon to do business, most of them have no silver to earn in the mainland, and finally have no choice but to take their family property to Luzon in the south, wanting to get opportunities here."

"If they can live comfortably in China, do you think they will come to Nanyang desperately?" Liu Yu looked at Sir Gore and asked rhetorically.

"No, it won't." Gore nodded.

"In the past, the Chinese in Luzon lived under the butcher's knife of the Spaniards, trembling and living a trembling life, not daring to go beyond half a step."

"And when the Ming court occupied northern Luzon, the Ming people who were sheltered gradually became emboldened, and monopolized the trade in northern Luzon with force and silver.

"There were even a few princely chieftains who came to me to complain that the merchants of the Ming Court had seized their land." Liu Yu stood up and walked to the window of the hall and looked at the bustling crowd outside the window.

"What do you think I should say to these merchants, they only care about the silver taels in front of them, and they guard the one-third of an acre of land in front of them, just like pigs that eat in the same pen day after day, and if you don't let a few pigs in, it won't go outside to grab food."

Sir Gore nodded nondeniably.

"As early as Marco Polo's writing, your East is full of gold, and in order to get rich overnight, countless European bankrupts, outcasts, and gamblers got on the treasure ships of the ocean and came to the East, during which many of them died of disease and death against pirates."

"If these bankrupts and gamblers could live comfortably in Europe, then Europa's merchant ships would not have reached every corner of the world." Sir Gore said calmly.

"So you want our East Indian merchants and goods to circulate in the Luzon market, so that you merchants will have to open up new markets, and even take food from our East Indian merchants." Sir Gore burst out laughing.

"But pigs, that's not the right analogy."

"Our merchants of the East India Company are vicious wolves, and you Chinese merchants are but poor sheep." Sir Gore laughed and laughed, his words revealing contempt and disdain for the Chinese businessmen.

Liu Yu does not deny that for today's Four Seas Commercial Bank, the East India Company is indeed an unsurpassable peak.

But there is still a long way to go, and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce will eventually go out of Luzon and even out of the South Seas.

Planting the merchant flags of the four seas on every piece of land.

In Luzon and even in the South Seas, it was a kind of collision and tempering to let the merchants of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce compete with the merchants of the East India Company.

If the Four Seas Merchant Company did not want to be defeated by the East India Company, then the merchants would inevitably learn from the trade and business management of Western merchants, and would introduce better and cheaper goods.

Isn't this a good thing for the people of Luzon?