Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 471 Feng An's Sincerity

Regarding the situation in Jiaozhou, a responsible official reported that it is regarded as a vassal state of Datang, but it is not yet a territory directly under Datang. Strictly speaking, it is not Datang's own territory, but a franchise area.

In the fifth year of Wude, the governor's office of Jiaozhou was set up, and Feng An was the chief governor.

More than 100 years later, Datang set up the Annan Protectorate in Annan.It can be said that Jiaozhou has only one word from the end of Han Dynasty to the end of Sui Dynasty, chaos!

It was so chaotic that even Feng An didn't want to take care of it, and it was because there was no oil and water there, and every time he sent troops, it was a waste of military expenses.

"My soldiers, take the lead!" Liu Mu said again.

Feng Ang slapped the table heavily and smiled: "Brother, you are a guest from afar, and the soldiers under you have also worked hard all the way. I will take care of this myself."

"Then, I'm just a little bit careful that my brother will accept it. Three thousand swords and three thousand breastplates." Liu Mu generously gave some equipment to Feng An.

This reaction also made Feng An feel Liumu's thoughts on Annan.

Willow wants Annan, so how big is this spice business, at least it is at the wool level.

"Monkey Annan is very, very, very restless. So, I have a plan." Liu Mu took out the plan that his staff had prepared long ago.

Feng An took it and took a look.

Simply sum it up in a few words, comfort, prove and discuss, and discuss merit.Then divide the Annan people, some of them help them get rich, and then let the rich Annan people replace the Tang people to manage the rest of the Annan people.In the end, it slowly became the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Datang.

"Zhi Dai, Lei Hu. Go and make Jiaozhou City more comfortable, then clean up Aizhou and arrange for our officials to go there." Feng An began to order, and arranged for his subordinates to prepare for the battle.

Liu Mu also said to Su Dingfang: "Bring five hundred soldiers and one thousand auxiliary soldiers to assist in the battle."

Liu Mu only said to help in the battle, Feng An had no reason to refuse, and there were only five hundred soldiers, so he had to give this face.

Feng An ordered people to set up wine, while arranging an attack on Jiaozhou outside.

Su Dingfang returned to Liu Mu's side again: "Mr. Lang, the Duke of Yue just told his subordinates that the focus is on the mountainous area west of Jiaozhou. There are agarwoods there. As for grass fruits and other things, the Duke of Yue obviously doesn't pay much attention to them."

"Don't worry, it will be hard for him to give me this face." Liu Muxin said that this is a normal reaction. Feng An is a generation of heroes, and he believes in himself only by a few words. Liu Mu doesn't think he has such a strong reaction. halo.This trust needs to be achieved step by step. First, let Feng An see the real benefits.

Su Dingfang added: "However, one of his subordinates mentioned a small dragon incense tree."

"Xiao Longxiang?" Liu Mu had never heard of this.

Su Dingfang didn't understand either: "It's just a tree. The tree is twenty feet high, and the resin has a strange fragrance. They think that this thing is worth at least half of the value of agarwood, so the cleanup in Aizhou is for this kind of tree in the western mountain forest of Aizhou. .”

"Shen Tanlong Musk." Liu Mu said to himself.

Su Dingfang didn't know much about spices, so he didn't answer.Liu Mu continued: "When you go to Jiaozhou, be careful. The soldiers from the north may not be able to adapt to the climate here. There are also poisonous insects and miasma to be careful of. The small things we brought so that the soldiers can give some to the soldiers who go with them Let's make friends."

"Yes, I'll keep an eye out."

Su Dingfang is very good at fighting. He knows that since the Han Dynasty, there have been records about the geography, climate, environment and other issues in Lingnan and Shunan.It is true that the Northern Army will not acclimatize to the environment when they come here, and the chance of getting sick will be much higher.

Su Dingfang left to discuss with Feng Zhidai about sending troops.

Liu Mu went to find Dugu Lanruo on the pretext of changing clothes.

"Ma'am, have you heard of Xiao Longxiang?" Liu Mu asked directly.

"I've heard that in the former Sui Dynasty, there was a man named Lin Yiguo who paid about [-] catties of tribute. I heard that it was the top spice."

"Isn't the top spice Shen Tanlongmusk?" Liu Mu asked.

Dugu Lanruo replied: "So, this is called Xiaolongxiang. But how to get the spice..." Dugu Lanruo stopped: "Hold the qin, put down the fruit in your hand, and ask the spice who came from the palace. division."

"You don't need to ask, I know Xiaolongxiang. Ye Siniang also gave me a chance to give her a catty when I went to Lingnan. I heard that Tianzhu merchants also sold the spice in Chang'an, but it was not as good as Linyi's tribute. The Tianzhu merchants sold it. fragrant."

"Don't talk nonsense, find someone to ask for details immediately."

Baoqin put down the fruit in his hands, wiped his hands and hurried out.

Dugu Lanruo then asked Liu Mu: "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

"I was thinking, after we go back to Chang'an, how about I use agarwood to build you a house, called the Chenxiang Pavilion."

Dugu Lanruo couldn't stop laughing, and it took a while to pat Liu Mu several times: "You're going to laugh me to death, if we build a house with agarwood, I'm afraid that if we are impeached in Chang'an City, several houses will be piled up so high.

Liu Mu grinned but didn't smile.

The reason why Liu Mu mentioned using agarwood to build a house is that he saw in history books that Concubine Yang Guifei had an agarwood pavilion, and Yang Guozhong seemed to have built a house with agarwood.

Thinking about it now, this Yang Yuhuan family is the real scourge.

Liu Mu and Dugu Lanruo were chatting and joking, and Baoqin called the perfumer in the palace. After saluting, the perfumer said to Liu Mu: "The dragon in Shentanlongmusk mentioned by the son-in-law refers to ambergris. This little dragon incense It should refer to Bingxiang, there is a record in the palace, there is a tree that is twelve to twenty feet high, and it grows to a huge tree that is thirty feet high."

The perfumer explained this spice in great detail.

"My son-in-law, the original dragon of Shentanlongmusk refers to this kind of incense, and some people call it dipteroincense. After the discovery of ambergris, the dragon incense among the four incenses was changed, so this is called Xiaolongxiang. Also reasonable."

"Is it precious?" Willow asked.

The perfumer thought for a moment: "If you ask the maidservant to answer, rare things are more valuable. If you can pay tribute to Linyi in the previous Sui Dynasty, you may not be as cheap as high-grade agarwood. This incense does not exist in the Tang Dynasty, and Linyi Kingdom has already been destroyed. "

"Linyi." Liu Mu repeated the name, and after thinking for a long time, Liu Mu came back to his senses: "I know where it is, and I probably know where this spice can be found."

The perfumer said that Datang did not, because Yunnan and more than half of Guizhou in later generations do not belong to Datang.

The dipterocarp tree is found in the tropics, so it can only be found in the southeast peninsula.Linyi is Champa, also known as Champa.So if you want to really find this kind of spice, you need Feng An to go further south along the coastline, maybe you can find this kind of tree in the primeval forest.

When Liu Mu returned to the front hall again, he saw Feng An and others had all returned.

Even Lei Hu and Feng An's son Feng Zhidai, who had been dispatched to prepare troops, also came back.

(End of this chapter)