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The priest hid behind an overturned bullock cart. When the local auxiliary soldiers cleaned the battlefield, he knew he couldn't hide, so he jumped out and shouted: "I am an astrologer, don't kill me, I am willing to surrender!"

The priest was dragged to see Deng Youzhang, and the guy immediately bowed down: "God bless the great outsider!"

"Are you an astrologer? Are you the greatest under the king?" Deng Youzhang asked.

The priest replied: "There are also noble ministers."

This country has a position similar to a prime minister, which is held by several big families in turn. In fact, they are the descendants of the founders of the country.

Deng Youzhang asked carefully and decided to kill all the big families living in the capital.He said to the priest again: "I can spare you from death, but you must obey."

The priest quickly said, "I will be obedient."

Deng Youzhang said: "You must always tell everyone that their ancestors came from China, because they have been forgotten for too long. As long as you learn to speak Chinese, you can find the roots of your ancestors and become Chinese. You are also Chinese!"

"I am Chinese!" The priest nodded hastily.

Deng Youzhang led troops to Antananarivo, and there were indeed a lot of people here.The size of the city is small, but there are countless dwellings outside the city, and the style of the houses made Deng Youzhang feel like he was in Java Island.

To capture the capital, the first thing is of course to occupy the royal palace and government offices, and obtain the documents and files of a country.

Sure enough, there is a national account book here. Although the Arabic alphabet is used, it is different from the Arabic script. It is a brand-new script based on the Arabic alphabet, just like the difference between English and Latin.

All the nobles and men in the city were killed by Deng Youzhang.

He set out to relocate the Governor's Mansion, and decided to set up a school here to adopt more orphans to learn Chinese.These adopted sons are the backbone of the future, and they must be relied on to rule various places and assist the Chinese and their children to control the entire island.

However, before the capital was moved, local rebellions began.

Some of the great nobles who were killed by him served as officials in other cities.Hearing that his clan had been killed, he started rebelling one after another, and even gathered an army of [-], wanting to take back their capital.

Deng Youzhang was not in a hurry to wipe out, waiting for the rebels from all walks of life to converge, so that it would be easy to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

More than ten miles away from the city of Antananarivo, He Wenpeng brought dozens of old brothers and hundreds of adopted son troops to a beautiful night attack.

Hundreds of elites attacked enemy camps at night, set fires everywhere, and tens of thousands of enemy troops trampled on each other - the country's elites have long since disappeared, and all the mobs who came came.

After the situation was completely resolved, the officials sent by the imperial court were finally brought to Antananarivo.

Antananarivo has been renamed Xinguangcheng, because many old brothers' hometowns are in Guangdong.

Chapter 1020 [Jin Wang is very close]

Although Zhao Han broke the boundary between officials and officials, since the imperial examination was on the right track, it has become more and more difficult for officials to become officials.

After graduating from elementary school and taking the examination for junior officials in the county, that belongs to the lowest level of officials.

After graduating from middle school, the official examination in the state capital is slightly higher.

After graduating from university and failing to pass the Jinshi exam, at first they could be released as ninth-rank officials, but now they can only be sent out as officials.But you can directly serve as a first- and second-class official, and after three to five years, at most six or seven years, you can basically be promoted to a ninth-rank official.

Officials with only a primary school diploma, unless they have excellent practical ability or have connections in the family, they will not be able to be a real official in this life, and promotion to first-class official is already the limit.

Officials with a high school diploma will have a special test of their talents and chances.Generally until retirement, the ninth-rank official is the top of the sky, but there are overseas consulates and the Protectorate!

Scholars are reluctant to go to those remote and bitter cold places, unless they can become high officials.

How can it be possible for someone not to feel resentment when he finally passed the imperial examination and was sent to Tibet to do the eighth or ninth rank?Vietnam and Myanmar are okay, at least the conditions are not so bad.

Therefore, the imperial court has a policy to let the chief officials of the provinces, prefectures and counties register the first-class officials who are willing to risk their lives, and the list is sent to the capital together with the taxes of the provinces every year.

The first-class officials are a hurdle, and they are promoted to officials, but it is very difficult to cross.

Teng Wenlong has been a first-class official for eight years and has changed three positions. Although the real power is getting bigger and more lucrative, but life and death just can't go up.He was already in his 30s, and while he was still alive, he registered to give it a try.

He was actually selected. You know, there are many first-class officials who are willing to risk their lives, and they all have excellent resumes. Whether they can win the prize depends entirely on luck.

But knowing where he was going, Teng Wenlong couldn't laugh or cry.

Neither to Tibet, nor to Heilongjiang, nor to the Mongolian grasslands.Even Malacca and Chittagong are fine, what the hell is Malacca?

Falklands, that is, Madagascar, is a transliteration from the indigenous language.

The Arabs, Portuguese, and French have given this island many names, such as Moon Island, Vazamba Island, Ma Island, Da Island, etc. Zhao Han thinks transliteration is the most convenient.

If there is a loss, there is a gain. The Falkland Islands are remote and the salary is high.

Teng Wenlong was directly promoted from the first-class official to the sixth rank, and became a seventh-rank official.But he has to serve for six years. If counting the round-trip journey, it will take seven or eight years to return to China, and he will be in his 40s by then.

Teng Wenlong also brought several subordinates, who were also promoted from the first-class officials, and the lowest ranks were all promoted from the eighth rank.

The fleet docked, and there was not even a serious port.

A Chinese living in Malagasy Island was in charge of managing this simple port. After meeting him, he said: "Shangguan, please sail the boat to the north. There is a port there called Marenga. It means that there is a river in Renjia Port, which can go directly to Xinguang City where the Governor’s Mansion is located.”

Teng Wenlong asked suspiciously, "Isn't the Governor's Mansion on the west side?"

The man explained: "We have conquered the capital of a small indigenous country, and many old brothers have moved there. I am not in a hurry to leave. After this port is abandoned, I will take over the nearby salt field. Hey, my ancestors have been salt workers for generations. I never thought that one day I would be able to open a saltworks by myself.”

Not only does this guy own the salt field, but the nearby indigenous people (mostly fishermen) are also under his jurisdiction.He also has five adopted sons, who form a five-person private army, who can recruit indigenous people at any time and pull up a miscellaneous army of three to four hundred people.

Compared with those city lords, he didn't feel aggrieved.

Because only the west coast of the island is suitable for boiling salt, and he owns the only sea salt field on the island.As for Xinguangcheng, the natives eat rock salt, which doesn’t taste very good, and the old brothers prefer sea salt.

Teng Wenlong chatted with this person for a while, and then boarded the boat and headed north under the guidance of the guide.

The sea-going ships sent by the imperial court were also equipped with many small boats, and the supplies were loaded and traveled along the river, enjoying the unique exotic scenery along the way.

"Mountain...mandrill?"

Teng Wenlong used binoculars to observe the two sides of the river, and suddenly a ghostly thing came into view, which really shocked him.

"Show me." Cao Yue said hurriedly.

Cao Yue also came to Mashima to serve as an official, but he was only promoted to the seventh rank, because his official resume was not as good-looking as Teng Wenlong's.

Teng Wenlong handed over the binoculars and reminded, "It's scary."

Cao Yue watched for a long time with a binoculars, and finally found a strange animal.

It seemed to be a monkey, with white hair on the breast, forehead, cheeks, and ears, and the rest of it was black.It looked like a ghost at first glance, no wonder Teng Wenlong thought it was a mandrill.

Uh... Madagascar lemurs.

Suddenly, more lemurs appeared, watching the human ships in groups.They opened their mouths and made a hoarse sound of "hohohohohoho". The calls of hundreds of lemurs gathered together and echoed on both sides of the valley.

The sound is very penetrating, and it can be directly used as the background sound effect of ghost movies.

"Being his mother, I have goosebumps." Hao Shan from the eighth rank shrank his neck and said.

Lin Xiaotian, who was in charge of guiding them, took out an earthen jar and said, "Masters, I forgot to give you this. It's fine to wipe on your body, even on your clothes. Mosquitoes won't bite after wiping it on, and it can also prevent malaria."

"Malaria prevention? This is a good thing." Teng Wenlong was surprised.

There are more than 13000 kinds of herbs in the Malay Islands, and most of them are unique to the island.

Like the medicinal juice in Lin Xiaotian's jar, this plant is everywhere on the island. When the spring is crushed, the juice can be extracted, which can kill the adults and larvae of Anopheles mosquitoes, which are the carriers of malaria parasites.This medicine has no detailed name in later generations, and the juice is purified and called "RDO No. [-]".

There are also indigenous doctors on the island, and these are often part-time by shamans.

The naval doctor who drifted to the Falklands had all the skills but no medicine to use, because he didn't know most of the plants on the island.By chance, the military doctor discovered that wizards could cure diseases, so every time they conquered various tribes, they must capture wizards alive to ask them for medical skills.

There are not only herbs for treating malaria, but also herbs for treating colds, toothaches, and more.

In the past ten years, military doctors have recognized hundreds of kinds, and their medical skills are getting better and better, and the child mortality rate is also decreasing year by year.

Lin Xiaotian explained the situation, and Teng Wenlong asked, "Are there a lot of this kind of herbal medicine in the Maldives Islands?"

"It's everywhere." Lin Xiaotian said.

Teng Wenlong smiled and said, "It can be shipped to China, not to mention preventing malaria, but preventing mosquito bites is very useful."

Lin Xiaotian said: "The fresh grass has to be squeezed into juice. I'm afraid it won't work after a long time."

Teng Wenlong said: "Then transplant the grass to the country."

Obviously, they don't know what invasive species is.When this thing arrives in China, it will probably grow everywhere.

After passing the hilly area, it enters the plateau area.

"Huo, that kind of tree is so strange." Cao Yue pointed to a bread tree and said.

Lin Xiaotian introduced: "We are called hozen trees, and monkeys often pick fruits from the trees. This kind of tree is also full of treasures. The fresh leaves can be used to cook soup, the dried leaves can be used as seasoning, and the fruits can also be used to fill the stomach. The seeds can be used to extract oil, and the tendons of the bark can be used to weave cloth and make ropes. Old Chen... Well, Doctor Chen learned from the wizard that the fruit, leaves, and bark of the hozen tree can cure malaria."

Teng Wenlong couldn't help laughing and said, "There are quite a lot of malaria cures in the Falkland Islands."

Baobab fruit, vitamin C content is three times that of oranges, calcium content is 50% higher than spinach!

All kinds of strange animals and plants opened Teng Wenlong's eyes along the way, and he suddenly felt that being thrown here was not too bad.

The closer you get to Xinguang City, the more it looks like a civilized world.

Both sides of the river are cultivated areas. The natives here not only know how to grow rice, but also dug many diversion channels.They weave linen and baobab bark cloth and sell them to underdeveloped tribes in exchange for other living materials.The craft of pottery is also very mature, and the carpenter is also quite proficient, and can build a "big boat" with 30 people.

If it continues to develop, it is estimated that sea-going ships can also be built, and they will be able to communicate with Africa and India.

The reason why the navigation technology is not lit is not that the technology is not in place, but the problem of regional distribution.The most suitable places for farming are concentrated in the central plateau, and they don't rely on the sea at all.In the coastal area, the tropical rainforest climate in the east and the savannah climate in the west are not suitable for the development of human civilization.

Arriving in Xinguang City, Deng Youzhang came out to greet him with a group of old brothers.

After some exchanges, Teng Wenlong was invited into the city and asked as he walked, "How many people are there under your rule?"

Deng Youzhang shook his head and said, "What we can directly govern are the cities and surrounding villages. The farther places are all tribal autonomy, and the population cannot be counted at all."

"Then how many people can you count?" Teng Wenlong asked.

Deng Youzhang said: "There are about 3 to 4 people. There are more than [-] people in Xinguang City and its surrounding areas alone. This is what is left after the war just now. What is the constitution of the imperial court?"

Teng Wenlong said: "You are still the governor, and none of the magistrates and county magistrates you appoint will be changed. I will bring a group of officials to act as your deputy. There are also officials who specialize in supervising the gold mines. Mr. Xun Mine will also give you Brought two."

"Your Majesty is wise." Deng Youzhang finally breathed a sigh of relief, the court did not directly send anyone to pick peaches.

Teng Wenlong also said: "Your Majesty asked Falkland to build a seaport. The imperial court will send two ships, and the shipping officials will be dispatched from China. From now on, the supplies from Falkland will no longer be brought from China, and they can go directly to India to trade with King Jin." .”

"King Jin?" Deng Youzhang didn't understand.

Teng Wenlong explained: "The king of Jin is the king of Jin. The prince born by His Majesty was entrusted to a small country in the south of India."

Deng Youzhang and the old brothers around him were all silent after hearing these words.

They also have stargazers who know how to calculate latitude and longitude, and they also have nautical charts to know how close southern India is to the Mashima Island.

If they were disobedient and angered the imperial court one day, King Jin could directly send troops to kill them.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away, but King Jin is not far away.

Chapter 1021 [Financial Sufficiency]

In the 24th year of the Republic of China, 4362 AD, and 1665 AD, Zhao Han was 48 years old.

Qian Qianyi died of illness at home.

Song Yingxing is critically ill.

Pang Chunlai was critically ill.

Huang Shun, the governor of the rear army stationed in Beijing, asked to return to the south to recuperate because of a serious illness.Hu Dinggui was transferred from Shenyang to Beijing to take over the entire northern military, and Wan Sitong, the deputy governor of the rear army, was promoted to Shenyang.

In the previous year, the national annual income was 7960 million taels (including local and provincial interceptions).

其中，农业税3479万两（占比43.7%），工商税1735万两（占比21.8%），关税2452万两（占比30.8%），海外领递解中央294万两（占比3.7%）。

Not only has the national finance increased, but the structure of fiscal revenue has also undergone tremendous changes.

Ten years ago, agricultural tax accounted for more than 60%, and now it has dropped by more than ten percentage points, but the total amount of agricultural tax has actually increased steadily.

However, industrial and commercial taxes, tariffs, and overseas revenues are all increasing rapidly, and the tariffs of more than 2400 million taels are really scary.

The increase in industrial and commercial tax year by year is due to the promotion of steam engines.Textile, mining, smelting and many other industries use steam engines more and more frequently.Of course, the continuous increase of the national population is also one of the main reasons for the prosperity of industry and commerce.

If there is too much produced, it must be sold.

In Japan, Korea, the Western Regions, Southeast Asia, and Southeast Asia, international trade is almost monopolized by Chinese businessmen.

Even the purchase channels of spices from Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia are dominated by Chinese merchants, and European, Persian, Arab and Indian merchants can only purchase and transship them from Chinese merchants.Unlike European countries, Zhao Han did not force small countries to grant monopoly rights, and it was purely Chinese businessmen who competed for it.

Chinese merchants are too involved, not only competing with foreign businessmen, but also competing with their own people, constantly increasing the purchase price of spices and tobacco, and those small countries earn more by selling local products.

With the expansion of the Indian and American markets, tariffs have skyrocketed again, and more industrial products have been exported, especially textiles.

Due to the excessive expropriation of the Mughal emperor (the Hindu merchants were slaughtered as pigs), coupled with the alluvial accumulation of cheap cotton cloth in China, the traditional Indian textile industry in the Ganges River Basin has actually been in a semi-collapsed state.After Aurangzeb ascended the throne, religious persecution was so severe that many Hindu businessmen even fled the Mughal land with their families and moved to Chinese ports to make a living.

However, the development of the American market has improved the life of the American people, but it has destroyed the Dutch textile industry.