Chapter 42 Han Xiufen’s Nanyang Academy

It was very simple when Liu Mingliang arrested people. The soldiers only needed to blow up some big trees to trap the Song Dynasty residents living on the top of the tree. However, preventing them from committing suicide was a very headache.

Since a young woman planted her head from a tree and planned to commit suicide, she was caught by the soldiers under the tree with fishing nets, he could only take steps forward, first grabbing the naked children with a net bag with a long pole, and then threatening the surrender with the children, so that he could achieve the goal of capturing all of these people.

Even so, these people are still extremely desperate...

From Liu Pei's mouth, Han Xiufen figured out what these people had experienced in the past four hundred years.

There are only 427 people left in the team of tens of thousands of people.

This is the journey of the Song Dynasty's remnants fighting on Java Island over the years.

Moreover, most of the remaining people were women and few men, especially those who were adult men like Liu Pei were left with only nine, and all the children in this team of survivors came from these nine men.

Han Xiufen believes that if this team of survivors continues to develop like this, within thirty years, this team of survivors will completely disappear.

However, these people are still proud. Even when facing the danger of extermination, they still refuse to intermarry with the wild people on the island, and they are even more unwilling to join them and live an isolated life in a tropical rainforest.

Their lives are actually battles!

Going to the beach to dry salt will cause you to die at any time, and going to hunt under trees will cause you to die at any time. Even if you hide in the canopy, you will die at any time when you encounter a strong storm.

This is why there are so few men in this team.

However, what shocked Han Xiufen the most was that all these people were literate, and many women were even considered great scholars, especially Jiugong, who was only forty-seven years old and had white hair. After chatting with Han Xiufen, Han Xiufen was respected as a god.

The most trophy collected from their residence was not food or supplies, but books—all kinds of books, although some of them were already ruined, could be seen, and these books were carefully protected.

The nine duke named Lu Hong, and he was calm about the past of the Yashan tragedy that Han Xiufen asked about. He laughed at the legend of 100,000 literati going to the troubles in history books, just saying that the past cannot be pursued.

People should look forward. If they always carry the past, they will be difficult to make progress.

After discovering this, Han Xiufen's attitude towards these Song survivors became more and more kind, and his treatment was mentioned again and again.

When these people changed their clothes made of coconut leather fibers and put on the blue shirts of the Ming Dynasty representative scholars, two rays of light burst out from Han Xiufen's eyes. She found that the difference between savages and humans was just a piece of clothing.

Of course, this sentence is only aimed at these people. If some Javanese savages are caught, they will still be a monkey even if they wear the crown.

Han Xiufen was very satisfied. With these people, she could have set up a Nanyang Academy in Java.

After Jiugong and his party made it clear that Han Xiufen and his party were indeed the king's army, and suddenly realized that they had no worries about food and clothing, they plunged into their understanding of the new world.

"In this way, my Ming Dynasty has regained Tokyo, Yanyun, Daming Mansion, Guanzhong, and even extended his arms to the Western Regions like the Han and Tang Dynasties?"

"It's so. I took a three-foot sword to His Majesty and drove out the Tartars and restored the rivers and mountains. The great Ming troops came out of Yanyun to conquer the Mongolian tribes. After several battles, there were only a few left of the Mongols.

Our army went out of Yumen Pass and marched westward. We were invincible. The army had not stopped at the Tianshan Mountains, but was still sweeping the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.

The descendants of the Jin people in the north have restarted between the white mountains and black waters. They have risen from the rise of the emperor and fought with the descendants of the Jin people for dozens of battles. Now, the descendants of the Jin people have given up Liaodong and North Korea, and go north. Even if they retreat to the North Sea, they can't escape the punishment of our Ming Dynasty."

"In this way, what if I am a martial emperor today?"

"No, today I am a child of the Guanzhong family, and even the master of the Guanxue lineage. The Yushan Academy, which was created, has long been famous all over the world. In the second year of China, it even proposed the concept of the whole nation to receive education. Now it is being implemented in our land of China, and schools in various places are springing up like mushrooms after a rain, and are emerging in groups.

Our army has been gaining from Nanyang and has been devoted to the cause of teaching and educating people. However, a lot of the military's construction has also been delayed and lagged behind the cause of teaching and educating people."

"Okay, okay, open up people's wisdom and do not take selfishness first. If you are a holy king today, you don't know how old your Majesty is today?"

"Just thirty years old!"

"Can you be healthy?"

"I've been walking and shooting archery on weekdays and practicing martial arts diligently, but I've never heard of any hidden diseases."

"Okay, did you have a prince born? Did the prince pass through smallpox?"

"Your Majesty has two sons and one daughter. The eldest prince is now fourteen years old. The second prince and the eldest prince are the same age as the eldest prince, and they are both very healthy."

Jiugong stroked his beard and said, "There are fewer princes. Your Majesty will be the concubine of Dona, so it is better to give birth to more princes."

Han Xiufen looked at the Jiugong and shook his head and said, "Your Majesty has only two queens so far. You can claim to be one queen and you can win the harem for thousands of five. The two queens are his harem for three thousand. It seems that there is no plan to expand the harem."

"But the queen is jealous?"

"No, Your Majesty joked with his ministers, and both queens made him overwhelmed, so he had no time to take care of him."

"It's not good to be a emperor like this, each has its pros and cons. However, I am planning to open a museum in Nanyang to teach my disciples. I wonder if the general can agree?"

Han Xiufen smiled, and she was very happy.

He bowed to Lu Jiugong and said, "As long as Jiugong has this intention, Han will allow everything that Jiugong asks. Even if it is beyond Han's ability, my Majesty will be his backer. Jiugong will do his best."

"Okay, I have learned from the Great Song Dynasty Imperial College and founded a school. Of course, it should not be small, and it should not be ignored. Please ask General Han to give the Emperor Ming Dynasty a copy and correct the name of my Nanyang School."

Han Xiufen smiled and said, "What's the problem? Someone will send a warship and order them to set off at night to rush to the country. I believe that after the construction of our Nanyang Academy is completed, His Majesty's edict will arrive as scheduled."

Lu Jiugong picked up the teacup, sniffed the fragrant tea deeply, poked his fingers and gently dipped it in the teacup. Then he bounced his fingers and popped out a few drops of tea, and whispered: "The bitterness is over, and it is not worth the 400-year-old life."

The conversation with Lu Jiugong made Han Xiufen extremely happy. It was really important for her to start a large school in Nanyang. With a university, many officials familiar with Nanyang affairs would be produced in Nanyang.

If this university can truly develop, it will be of great benefit to the empire consolidating its rule in the South China Sea.

Therefore, before the search project of Java ended, the Javanese people called it "the city of victory" and "glorious fortress" in the northwest of Java, Jagarda, the Dutch called it "Batavia", and the Ming people in Nanyang called it "The Third Lantian City" that the Ming people in Nanyang began the construction of Nanyang Academy.

This time, she is preparing to invest 300,000 Javanese and 20,000 Nanyang people in the Ming Dynasty to invest in the construction of this academy.

As for the cost of building this academy, Han Xiufen could raise the cost by selling the Dutch East India Company's governor in the South China Sea and more than 4,600 captured Dutch people.

Building a Nanyang Academy is a major event that Han Xiufen is thinking about. As for Earl Renn, he was just a prisoner.

The Strait of Malacca has been completely blocked by the Ming First Fleet. Whether on land or on oceans, the warships of the Dutch East India Company, which escaped from Java by chance, have no other way of survival except for destruction.

After isolating the Strait of Malacca, the contact between the Ming Dynasty and Europe was completely in Han Xiufen's hands. She did not think that the Dutch East India Company would send a huge fleet to the South China Ocean to find her trouble for a director.

At the same time, the First Fleet of the Ming Dynasty also needed to find a heavyweight Western noble to start the attack to declare the Ming Dynasty's determination to rule the South China Sea.

After discussing with Lu Jiugong, Han Xiufen directly found Earl Rennes and said openly: "Mr. Earl, I need a lot of money now to build a great university.

And you know that the assets of the First Fleet of the Ming Navy belong to the state, and the state never allows the Ming army to engage in any commercial activities. That is to say, I am now missing a freely-disciplined and huge amount of money. I wonder if Earl Renn has any good suggestions.”

Since Count Rennes was captured alive by his daughter, he has not received any abuse. Not only has he been abused, Zhang Chuanli even found Count Rennes' servants from the prisoner-of-war camp and was responsible for serving him.

Therefore, in addition to looking a little haggard today, the overall mental state is not bad.

"Dear Count Han, you are the supreme commander of the Ming Empire in Nanyang. So, I can ask you a prudent question, are you not even allowed to use the money to build a school?"

Han Xiufen said: "This is the rule of the Ming Empire. Even a general like me who is far away from the Ming Dynasty's local area must abide by some basic rules and regulations. The money in my warehouse belongs to the Ming Empire and I cannot use it easily.

But with you, I believe I will receive enough funds to build an exquisite academy. I think the total amount of this funds is 200,000 taels of gold, which is the ten million silver coins of sea sailing ships minted by your Dutch East India Company.”

Earl Renn shook his head and said, "I am not worth so much money. Even if Earl Han counts the 4,600 captured employees of the Dutch East India Company, it is not worth so much money.

Earl, be more practical, one million silver coins from sea sailing ships are actually enough for you to build a brilliant university.”

Han Xiufen said expressionlessly: "Okay, it seems that we can't continue with good negotiations. I think Colonel Leonie, whom I under my command, will definitely achieve my wish from you."
Chapter completed!