Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1110 Three Kings of the South China Sea
The prosperity of Nanhai City does not look like a place in the south of the Five Ridges at all.

Although it is still far behind Huainan Jiangdu and Jiangnan Jiangning, Nanhai City can make every Central Plains person who comes here think that they are still in the Central Plains.And it can make every barbarian who comes to this city, and even Hu merchants from overseas, marvel and praise.

Li Jing has the title of appeasement envoy of the Three Paths of Lingnan, making him the well-deserved King of Lingnan.With the newly established soldiers of the 72nd Battalion of the South Yamen of the Three Ways of Lingnan, Li Jing has a lot of confidence.

After the rebellion was put down, the Ning family was uprooted, the Feng family and the Chen family were also suppressed, and Li Jing became a person who stomped his feet in the south of the Five Ridges and made waves in the South China Sea.

And Nanhai City not only has the Nanhai City Shipping Department, but also the Royal South Sea Fleet as its headquarters, and the Royal Shipbuilding Bureau has set up a branch here, and several shipbuilding-related workshops are being established.

Li Jing sent alliance invitations to the chiefs from all walks of life, and few who received them dared to neglect. After all, Li Jing had been passed on by someone. If he didn't come, he would be regarded as disloyal to the court and harboring evil intentions, and he would turn around. Bring troops to quell the chaos.

And those who are willing to come will be awarded official ranks by the imperial court, and they will also mediate the grievances and grievances of the various ministries for them, and draw boundaries for them, which is very tempting.

Chiefs from all over are coming.

Nanhai City is becoming more and more lively every day. Although the Nanhai Port Wharf is not in the city, a Shili Commercial Street has been built along the wharf, which is extremely lively.

Here is known as the sea market, all kinds of pearls and elephant teeth from Lingnan, all kinds of spices from Kunlun Sea, frost sugar from Tianzhu, orchid slaves from Persia and Rome, Persian carpets, etc., and all kinds of things from the Central Plains. The exquisite products are simply dazzling.

Not to mention those restaurants, restaurants and tea shops along the street, they are reluctant to leave after tasting it.In addition, there are many brothels and Chu houses, in which there are Persian girls, Roman women and Silla maidservants from all over the world, with various skin colors, various appearances, various costumes and various attires, which are simply ecstasy.

There is even a unique gambling shop here, and even a legal business that has been issued a business license by Li Jingte. Whether you are a commoner or a wealthy businessman, you can try your luck here. Get rich overnight, of course, there are also people who lose everything overnight.

The barbarians in the mountains have never seen such a world. Some people have been to South Sea City before, but it is not so lively.

With my eyes, I saw that everything was a rare and good thing, and I wanted to buy it.

All kinds of delicacies, even if you eat them for a year, you may not repeat them, not to mention there are so many beauties, and there are all kinds of exciting gambling games.

Li Jing's handsome mansion is in Nanhai City.

It was a very luxurious house, but it was not built by Li Jing, it was just built by the former eunuch. Nanhai is an important Lingnan port, and it was already very rich in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Every person who came to Nanhai to work Officials can earn a lot of money if they stay for a few years.

As the saying goes, even if you don't cut off a piece of pork with your hands, your hands will be covered with oil after a few years.The yamen has money, and besides putting it in their own pockets, the officials will of course repair the yamen that they will stay for a few years.

So after one term after another, the yamen actually occupied an extremely wide area.Before the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the prefect simply spent a lot of money and a lot of manpower to build the Yamen into a Yamen City, side by side with the original Nanhai City.

So there are two cities in Nanhai, and now, with the rise of Dock Haishi Street, the local people call Nanhai three cities.

These three cities have three masters.

The owner of Yacheng is naturally Li Jing, the conciliator of economic strategy, and the owner of the outer city is Guo Chengen, who is called Eunuch Guo by the locals.

Guo Cheng'en was the envoy of the Nanhai Shipbuilding Department.

The imperial court currently has seven major city bureaus, and the city bureau is quite special. Although it is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it is also managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the municipal envoys of each city bureau are managed by eunuchs sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is not affiliated with the local yamen.

The reason why the Shibo Department is under the management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and eunuchs are appointed as the city ship envoy is that the Shibo Department not only collects customs duties on the ships that come to trade, but also collects export duties on the exported ship goods.

At the same time, the Shibosi also represented the court, purchased a certain amount of foreign goods, and managed the items that merchants paid tribute to the emperor.

At the same time, the city ship envoy also had the duty to transfer local money, food and taxes for the imperial court, and also had the duty to supervise local officials.

For this reason, all city ship envoys are served by eunuchs and are not subject to the restraint of local officials.

Because the Nanhai City Bosi Yamen is located in the outer city, people call Guo Chengen, the Shibo envoy, the Lord of the Outer City, because he is not controlled by Li Jing in Nanhai, and even supervises Li Jing instead.

As for that sea city, although it has no city walls and gates, the common people are used to calling it a port city.

The owner of the port city is Niu Chaoen, the trade envoy of the Royal South China Sea Caravan, who is also an eunuch.Niu Chaoen is the leader of the Royal South China Sea Caravan. He manages and operates the South China Sea Caravan for the emperor and is responsible for foreign trade.Not only that, he is also in charge of the docks and workshops of the South Sea Branch of the Royal Shipbuilding Bureau.

Even the entire dock ten mile port city is actually almost the property of the royal caravan.

He has more than 100 large and small ships under his command, and the guards of the fleet alone have 5000 people. Except for the guards who follow the ships who are often on the ships in the sea, there are often more than [-] guards in the port city of Nanhai.

They were guards, but the guards of the royal caravan were all retired from the Beiya Forbidden Army, and some of them were even transferred from the original regiment, and their training and equipment were no worse than those in the original Forbidden Army.

With such a force, this Eunuch Niu Chaoen became the actual third in command of Nanhai City.

He is in charge of trade, and also has the duty to monitor Li Jing and Guo Chengen.

Especially the power under his command is a sharp knife directly inserted by the emperor in Lingnan.

Today, in Li Jing's commander-in-chief's mansion, the three South Sea city lords had a rare gathering.

"Recently, the chiefs of Xidong have arrived one after another. Most of these barbarians have never seen the world. If you offend the two of you, please forgive me." Li Jing held up tea.

"What is Wei Gong talking about? The three of us are all working for His Majesty. Wei Gong, you are the commander-in-chief. One of us is in charge of the customs of the city and ships, and the other is in charge of sea trade. We all perform our duties." Guo Chengen hehe smile.

The two eunuchs are only fifth rank, but the Duke Li Jing dare not underestimate them.

In comparison, these two people are still the emperor's personal, and their relationship with the emperor is even much closer than himself.

"Mr. Niu, can you please organize some merchants and engage in a trade exchange with these Xidong barbarians. It's best to let them have a taste of the sweetness."

"That's no problem, I don't have anything else in hand, but you said that you can get all kinds of goods, whether they are from overseas or from the Central Plains, Wei Gong, just open your mouth and make a list, and I will call you right away." .”

And Guo Chengen also said, "The things in the hands of these barbarians are actually some good things. I can buy some for the court then."

"Guo Gong, in the past, the barbarians had to pay tribute to the emperor every year, so I decided not to let them pay tribute this year."

Guo Chengen frowned. In the land of Lingnan, whether it is a chief or a merchant, the tribute to the emperor must be managed by him.Now Li Jing bypassed him and directly said that the barbarians would not pay tribute.

"Wei Gong, why didn't you discuss this matter with our family first?"

"Guo Gong, this is also His Majesty's previous will. We will no longer force the natives of Lingnan to pay tribute, and we will gradually collect taxes normally in the future."

"What Duke Wei said is correct, but if there are native barbarians who voluntarily pay tribute, you and I can't stop their devotion and loyalty."

Li Jing could only smile wryly, and no longer insist on this matter.

"Anyway, this time the barbarians are called to come to the alliance, I hope the two father-in-laws can help."

"Don't worry, we've made it clear that we won't hold you back, and we're all doing things for saints." Niu Chaoen said with a smile.

Li Jing thanked the two of them hand in hand, indeed, as long as the two of them don't hold back, that's enough.

(End of this chapter)