Richard Cromwell's performance under Li Junwei can only be expressed as remarkable, but his Puritan identity is rare under Li Junwei's command. The problem is that Cromwell is too old and is already sixty-six years old. He could have lived in France for at least twenty years. Who knows if he would be burping out because he was not adapted to living in the colonies?

"Your Highness, you mean that the Empire will open Jamaica to us in the future." Richard Cromwell asked carefully.

Li Junwei smiled and said, "You Puritans are not tolerated in England. Whether it is the state or the Catholic Church, they all regard you as heresy, but Puritans always have to have a place to go. Although the climate in the Caribbean is not so beautiful, it is also considered a rich place."

In fact, the Caribbean Sea is more popular than North America in this era, and all tropical crops produced in the Caribbean are best-selling products in Europe. Therefore, Cromwell was also very happy. For national strategies, the empire could not occupy all the colonies in the world. It was a fool of the enemy of the whole world. In the future, it would be impossible to kill all the British and French colonists in North American colonies. If there is a blockage, there must be some gaps. Giving the other party a place is better than driving them into the deep mountains and forests to fight guerrilla warfare. Besides, the Caribbean is tropical, and the empire itself does not like tropical colonies.

Richard Cromwell was appeased, but he also knew that although he was a Puritan and an Englishman, he could not be the same as the Puritans in North America, but had to be the same as the Empire to have a bright future.

After sending Richard away, the attendant walked in and asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, do you still want to see the exile representative?"

Li Junwei pinched his forehead and said, "See, arrange a table of lunch, and give that person one too."

Soon, in the small restaurant, a young man was brought in, and the shackles on his body were untied. This man was of medium figure and had a meticulous hair combed. **********. If he wasn't wearing a prison uniform, just based on his appearance, Li Junwei would have thought he was a middle school teacher.

This is the person Li Junwei saw when he came back from the small manor outside the city. He was the first batch of immigrants from the empire, with a total of more than 170 people, of which more than 40 were shipyard craftsmen recruited in Cape Town, and the rest were all exiled prisoners. What’s more surprising is that these exiled prisoners came from Australia, where the population was not so sufficient.

You should know that the Empire supported Australia's development in the early years to occupy this land, but before the founding of the country, it defeated the Dutch and no other country coveted this land. After the duck was cooked, it was not afraid of it flying. In the early years, Australia had two provinces, Longcheng and Western Australia, but in order to facilitate administration, it was only one Australian province. It has been developed for more than 45 years, but it has only a million people. It is considered the marginal area of ​​the Empire's overseas territory. Although the local area will not support it strongly, it will not bully Australia. Li Junwei really did not expect that the first batch of immigrants would be from the Australian province.

On the way back, Li Junwei saw that although these people were tied up in shackles, they looked very motivated, helping each other, shouting slogans and inspiring each other, and they did not surrender at all when facing the escorts. Originally, they thought they were some more extreme cult organization in China, but after reading the list information, they knew that the difference was that these people were exiled as rebellion.

The young man sitting in front of Li Junwei was named Fu Liye. Li Junwei could not imagine that this young man had a very legendary life. He was thirty-two years old in the Empire Shenjing. His father was an officer of the Empire Marine Corps. He retired with the title of brigade general and made great contributions several times, so he had the title of baron. His mother was born in a down-and-out scholarly family. Although he did not bring much wealth, he brought him good cultivation. His uncle was a famous textile businessman in the Empire, but he had no descendants. When Fu Liye was twenty years old, he was already a master's degree in economics at the Imperial National University. With the death of his father and uncle, he inherited the title and an objective wealth one after another.

It can be said that this rich second generation is a lucky man, but he did not graduate and became a successful businessman. According to the information, Fu Liye's early thoughts were very absent, and he also published articles criticizing the imperial system in college. After his uncle's death, Fu Liye took over his uncle's textile factory and met the workers who worked hard in the textile factory. It completely changed. He was determined to become a conscientious boss, increase various welfare benefits for the workers in the textile factory, and refuse to hire child labor, but he had no management experience, and his kindness led to the textile factory going bankrupt.

Later, Fu Liye devoted himself to the civil political movement, spoke out for workers and hired farmers, demanded that the country establish a welfare system, formulate more laws to protect workers, and required the establishment of trade unions, organize workers to unite and fight with business owners to obtain higher treatment. From the perspective of later generations, Fu Liye was definitely a person with advanced ideas, but the problem was that the empire itself had corresponding welfare systems and labor laws, but it did not reach the level recognized by Fu Liye. As for Fu Liye's proposal that workers should take charge of the enterprise with business owners and become shareholders, it was even more advanced and there was no feasibility in the existing conditions.

But Fu Liye, who had been defeated and fought repeatedly, did not retreat at all and continued to promote his ideas. Although the idea of ​​abolishing the private ownership system, working together and establishing an absolutely fair society can be supported by the exploited people in the lower classes of society, there is no room for practice at all, and he himself does not know how to practice it. This blind fantasy eventually led Fu Liye to the path of armed riots, and he was also imprisoned, lost his title, and consumed his family property.

If the judge who sentenced him was not sentenced to think that he had a "some degree of mental illness", perhaps Fu Liye would have been sentenced to death. But in the end, Fu Liye was sentenced to exile in Australia. Fu Liye was active in Shenjing and Beijing and Tianjin for several years and found that not only the imperial government suppressed him, but even the workers who he thought should be saved did not believe him. Fu Liye, who was exiled to Australia, entered a farm. However, after he stayed for a year, he led many exiled prisoners and labor reform prisoners to escape, entered the territory of the natives, and established a rural commune in the inland area where everyone was equal, implementing the principle of distribution of labor on demand for everyone.

However, this village community named Equalization Village lasted for less than three years due to indigenous attacks and scarcity of materials. A companion of Fu Liye once betrayed them and sold ten silver dollars. The commune was destroyed and everyone was sentenced to treason because Fu Liye once promoted the establishment of an Equalization Country and replaced the existing empire.

A judge in the Australian province once wanted to sentence Fu Liye to death, but unexpectedly, more than 100 of his companions said they would die in vain. Therefore, the proposal for the death penalty was abolished because local officials knew that the deaths of so many people would definitely attract the attention of Shin Kyung. The Australian province had such a large-scale treason, which obviously made officials' resumes more disgraceful. As the North American colony became the fief of King Yu, the immigration agency said that everyone wanted it, so the Australian magistrate simply exiled Fu Liye and his companions again.

Fu Liye has good eloquence and publicity skills. On the way he came, even some Navy and Marine Corps officials who escorted him would listen to his speeches. Some people showed considerable sympathy for these people, which caused panic in the fleet.

After learning about Fu Liye's life, Li Junwei remembered a group of fantasies mentioned by his father Li Mingxun. Although Li Junwei knew that Fu Liye's thoughts were almost impossible to achieve in his lifetime, and his method was even more operational, Li Junwei was still willing to give him a chance.

When Fu Liye saw Li Junwei, he immediately talked about his political philosophy. Li Junwei was confused when he heard it. After he couldn't stand it, Li Junwei stopped Fu Liye and said, "Mr. Fu, the concept of equality you advocate is undoubtedly correct. I believe many people will support your point of view, but I personally don't think that everyone can achieve equality. Assuming that it can be realized, then a person's moral level must reach a higher level than Confucius and Mencius, and he has no desires and selfishness, and is completely public. To be honest, I have never seen such a person in my more than thirty years of life. I can't be sure whether you are such a person. After all, more information says that you are a madman.

But I can be sure that you are an idealist, and what you advocate should be the future. My father said that all the progress of the political system in the world is reflected in the fact that more and more people can share power, and people can enjoy more and more equality and freedom. My father established the existing political system of the empire, but he did not think that the current political system is flawless, nor did he think that this is completely correct. It’s just that the empire was more advanced than the previous Qing Dynasty, Zhu Ming. In that era, power was controlled by feudal monarchs and landlords and literati. Now the citizens of the empire are qualified to participate in politics. Of course, this is still much different from what you advocate. But I want to tell you that ideals are ideals, reality is reality. You have found the future, but you have not found the way to the future. I would like to ask, suppose you have become the emperor of the empire and have the highest power, can you realize your ideals?"

Fu Liye was speechless by Li Junwei's words because the practice over the past decade has proved that what is correct may not be what the people need.

Fu Liye asked, "Your Highness, why did you ask me to give up?"

"No!" Li Junwei shook his head firmly and said, "The empire is full of inequality, but she still exists because it is much more equal than before. If you continue to exist, you need to be more and more equal. Freedom and other beautiful things are like this. Your ideal is great, but you have not found a way to realize your ideal, so I want to support you in a social experiment."

"What social experiment?"

Li Junwei pointed out the window: "This is a very rich land with infinite possibilities and you have many followers. Why not continue your experiments in the inland Australian country here and establish a new commune. I will give you land and various tools, and even provide you with a funding. You can implement it according to the concept you envision and find a way to achieve equality and freedom. You can treat this commune as a small country. If you can succeed, we can expand the experiment until it can be promoted to our empire as a sample."

"Really, are you willing to give me such a chance?" Fu Liye was simply incredible.

Li Junwei said: "Of course, the land here is idle anyway, but I have two requirements.

First, I know that you advocate equality, emperors and poor people, men and women, nations, races, religions, etc. But I don't think everything can be experimented with, so I hope that only the people of the empire and Indians who participated in the commune, not including the Anza and Gauls. In addition, religion is not allowed to be promoted in your experiment, and no religion can be allowed.

Second, you can succeed or fail, but when you think you succeed or fail, you have to write me a sincere report. I want to know where the success is and where the failure is, is it OK?"

Fu Liye rarely met an official figure who supported him, so he immediately agreed to these requests. Fu Liye finally asked: "Your Highness, do you think I will succeed?"

"I don't think you will succeed. Equality is a very lofty ideal, and it may take hundreds of years to fully realize it. For me personally, if I am a member of your commune, I will definitely be unqualified. You advocate that everyone work and allocate everything on demand. I am a lazy person. Since it is distributed on demand, what else can I do? Isn't it enough to eat ready-made ones?" Li Junwei said with a smile.

"It's mine. In Australia, I met a lot of people like this. But why do you still support it?"

Li Junwei replied: "Because I think that the development of productivity not only brings material abundance, but perhaps people's thoughts will also improve. But this is a very long process. Although your hope for success is slim, someone will always have to take the first step, right? Even if it fails, it will leave later generations with experience worth learning from."

Fu Liye fell into deep thought and finally said, "You are such a weird person. I thought I was eating a silly rice now."
Chapter completed!