Tang Qi Tan

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Daliu Island in Yizhou, also known as Daliuqiu (Taiwan Island in later generations), is known as an important transit port in the East China Sea together with Xiaoliuqiu, and even in the oceanic continents. Therefore, there are dozens or even dozens of voyages almost every day. The voyages to and from the coastal areas of the mainland and other places continue in four seasons.

And this is only the result of official operations under the name of the local transportation companies affiliated to the imperial court; the sea falcon ship Karasuma that Jiang Tian took is one of the many official ship routes from Lianghuai to Yizhou.As for the number of private exchanges, it is even more innumerable.

For example, among the shirtless sailors and boatmen on this rather old ship, there are many naturalized people or descendants of mixed races with different skin colors; There was only a little time to go on deck to catch my breath.

And there are two or three hundred passengers.There are also people from all three religions, including young students and senior scholars who sing harmony, gray-clothed monks who preach, and Taoist priests with crane cloaks.There are also small vendors who do business directly on the deck, peddling water and food, or jugglers performing live skills.

The root cause is also one of the legacy and achievements left by the predecessor of the traverser when he was alive.At that time, Emperor Kaiyuan was in the middle of Xingshu. In order to win over Liang Gong, who was leading the army and escorting him, he married Yang Taizhen's adopted daughter, Aman, along with his granddaughter.

And the emperor's granddaughter who was given to marry was Princess Yong, who later became an important supporter of Duke Liang.It was the two big islands of Yizhou and Hainan that were promised by Emperor Kaiyuan as dowry.As the saying goes, you are not joking, let alone targeting Liang Gong, the number one hero in the world.

Therefore, following the twists and turns of Qin Wang's army, after the recovery of Guanzhong and Shangjing under the leadership of Liang Gong, he also dispatched cronies to officially take over and start operating the two large islands of Hainan and Yizhou.Among them, the history of Kaihua in Hainan is very early, and there are 5 states and 22 counties since the Western Han Dynasty.

The big island of Yizhou is barren, only the Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period and the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty sent troops to land nearby.There are only some ignorant native savages on the island; they slash and burn and eat each other.So later on, everything was re-opened after a long and difficult road and overcoming obstacles.

But fortunately, after Liang Gong pacified the Anshi Rebellion at that time, he obtained a large number of Central Plains rebel prisoners and their families, and became the first batch of pioneers on the island.Later, they continued to move from conquest to other parties, and moved a large number of young men from the perished Nanzhao, Pyu, and Tubo to this place.

Coupled with the mountain people and Tu people who lived near Fujian Road, they constituted the main labor force for the initial land reclamation in Yizhou.Later, with the expansion outside the region and the South China Sea, Yizhou became a transit hub for large-scale immigrants from Silla, Japan, Bohai and other places to go overseas, and it has become more and more prosperous since then.

But the real big development will have to wait until the fourth generation of Tianzi Guanfu, assisted by Liang Gong; with the exploration of the distant seas, Da'ao (Australia), Xiao'ao (New Zealand), and Beiju Luzhou/Xinzhou (North America) The era of great discovery and expansion; Yizhou has since become the hub that governs the East China Sea.

Therefore, in a sense, this is an island full of descendants of naturalized immigrants of various ethnic groups; there are tribesmen from the Liugui Kingdom and Kushuo Land in the far north, and people from Xinzhou/North Island on the other side of the East China Sea. The survivors of the Yin people in Juluzhou; there are also white-clothed untouchables in the hometown of Fusang and Silla.

For this reason, the Jingzhao family of the Liang family in Chang'an formally reported to the court for approval after discussing with the other two lines (Xixia and Nanhai); The fourth son of Xi's family established the Donghai Office, which is second only to the Nanhai branch.

And the origin of this side concubine Lin is not simple. It is said that her grandmother was a talented woman in Wu Zhou Dynasty and the female secretary of the Zhongzong Dynasty; Shangguan Wan'er, who is known as the female prime minister.It is said that Tang Long's coup should have been given to death, but Liu Youqiu, who was in charge of the implementation, was greedy for his beauty and risked his life to replace him.

It is also because Lin's talent and appearance resemble his ancestors that he was deeply favored by Duke Liang; he was able to give birth to his fourth male heir; finally, the line of Tonghai/Donghai Gongshi multiplied in Dadao, Yizhou, and has been passed down to this day.After ten generations of development, a prefecture, seven prefectures and 44 counties were established on the island.

Most of the prefectures and counties are located on the coastal plain in the east of the island.Both Dongning Prefecture and Tianxing City, the government office, located in the middle of the coastal plain, as well as Taiping Prefecture, Changxing Prefecture, Nanping Prefecture, and Beiping Prefecture; Changhua Prefecture located in the middle mountainous area of ​​the island; and Yilan and Xiongshan Prefectures located on the west coast of the island.

And among these inland-like government prefectures and counties, there are also many large and small territories of branch clans, sub-vassals, and ministers under the name of the Donghai government;Therefore, the governance of local offices also adopts the dual system of states, counties and mansions.

Because it is located in the ocean and offshore shipping hub, the island's commerce and sea trade are extremely developed, and the coastal plain is also rich in rice, jicama, and cash crops such as sugar cane and tobacco.Therefore, the number of people who have settled here for a long time and multiplied is in the millions, even exceeding that of Hainan Island.

Therefore, according to the records provided by the Suzerain and Vassal Academy, the Yizhou Dadao itself, which is directly controlled by the Tonghai/Donghai Office, provides various vassal tributes at a price of 60 million yuan every year; this is not counting those miscellaneous annual festivals Sacrifice, an irregular contribution to Ouchi and Jingzhao's family.

In addition, there are various miscellaneous tax revenues allocated by the imperial court on the island, such as ships, customs, and officials;Therefore, the Tonghai government, together with the Jingzhao family, the Nanhai government, and the Daxia royal court, constituted the so-called "one family and three families" system of princes and foreign feudal vassals who "represented the sea".

Although there are some other regional vassals/officials with different surnames, such as the Haidong Xue family that Dada Ya will inherit; In terms of positions, one family and three families descended from Duke Liang are always headed.

Therefore, like the Great Xia Royal Court outside Jianguo’s territory, or the Nanhai Office that conquered overseas, the Tonghai Office also had a slightly lower-standard inner court/vassal system.And maintain the establishment of tens of thousands of vassal soldiers, Yi Cong and Xunhai battalions; maintain the rule and order of the surrounding local waters.

It can be said that anyone who wants to make a difference on the big island of Yizhou cannot get around the existence of the Tonghai Office.But fortunately this time, Jiang Tian is not acting in a restricted official capacity, but acting as a person in the usual sense.On the other hand, he also did the corresponding homework before coming here.

For example, the former head of the public office/Tong Haigong was quite a flirtatious figure; after the routine audience with the ministers and vassals, he stayed in the capital for several years without returning.Then they often held a naked meeting in the mansion to exchange concubines and maidservants with fellow feudal lords;

As a result, after not returning to the mansion for a long time, several of his younger brothers and sons were dissatisfied. A bloody and cruel internal battle...

Finally, before the situation spread and involved all the branch families and vassals on the island, the imperial court decisively ordered troops from the west of Zhejiang to intervene; this decisively quelled the possible civil strife.At that time, the military envoy who led the troops to intervene and calm the situation seemed to be the current governor of Yangzhou.

Therefore, in the end, it was the imperial court who found out and designated a foreign house gentleman (illegitimate son) born to the former feudal lord and the housewife raised in Pingkang, to return to Yizhou to inherit the family business under the escort of the officers and soldiers; become the current feudal lord.However, the performance of the current feudal lord is lackluster.

Especially since the Empress Dowager Yao and Shun specially exempted this generation of feudal lords from the obligation of regular audience visits many years ago, she basically stayed on the island to manage her own one-acre three-point land; except for the daily routine etiquette negotiations with those Donghaichen feudal In addition, there is little communication with other offices.

And as his heir, the contemporary Tonghai son was also rumored to be born with congenital deficiencies, frailty and sickness, and he rarely showed himself in front of his subjects since he was a child; The registration and genealogy of the Fanfuyuan.

However, the object of Jiang Tian's secret negotiation/investigation this time is the distant branch of the Tonghai government office, who lived in the No. 19 house in the territory of Lanxi County for generations;Shen Yizhi's younger sister, Shen Xin, was married to this contemporary Lan Xibo's heir as his wife.

This is also one of the many family relatives of Wu Xingshen, whose ancestral home is in Liangzhe, who had intermarried.But the problem seems to be the team that came to pick up the bride on the big island of Yizhou; Shen Xin, who is sensitive and delicate, saw some clues and signs that made Shen Yizhi escape.

I thought that I could ask for help from Wu Xing's family members when I was far away from the coast.As a result, she fell into the hands of her former confidant pen pal, "Chou Ji", a confidante who traveled with Jianghuai together after they made an appointment to get married.Or he didn't believe in this conclusion until the last moment.

However, according to Jiang Tian's unburned schedule and test records obtained from the underground cave stronghold run by Ma Jin; these people have done more than he realizes.For example, using veterinary medicine for livestock to make the lycanthropist, unconsciously, try their best to copulate with a different kind until they die.

Just to give birth to deformed mutants with a certain rare probability.And like Shen Yizhi, who obviously belonged to the bloodline of a famous family with stable inheritance; it was even regarded as a rare source, and various females who were injected with catalytic agents were used to carry out breeding experiments in the style of exhausting the pond...

The sudden uproar on the boat interrupted Jiang Tian's meditation.It was a miniature version of the Flying Fish and Clippers, and it was approaching quickly on the sea. On the mast, there was a flag with a harpoon and a shield fluttering, representing the identity of the inspection ship of the nearby Penghu Inspection Department.

(End of this chapter)