A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1026 Little Luzon

Wu Chengzhi stood on the deck of the fortune ship and was attracted by the blue water in front of him.

This sea is so beautiful.

The water is clean, the corals are beautiful, and it’s summer all year round.

"Is that Little Luzon County?"

"Well, it's also named Little Luzon Peninsula. It has the third largest plain in Luzon Island,"

"The third largest plain? How big is that?" Wu Chengzhi knew that the Luzon Plain was astonishingly large, covering an area of ​​more than 30 million acres, and the Jinjiang River Valley Plain in the northeast of Luzon also covered an area of ​​20,000 acres. This third largest plain should not be too small.

"Seventy-five thousand hectares," Wu Huaiyu told his son.

This third largest plain is only one-fifth of the Luzon Plain and one-third of the Jinjiang Valley Plain. It sounds much smaller than the first two.

But there are still 75,000 hectares or 7.5 million acres. If one household is granted 100 acres of land, it can accommodate 75,000 households.

Wu Huaiyu had already set his sights on Cebu Island in the middle of the Visaya Islands. According to reports from businessmen and Taoist priests who went to trade and preach,
Cebu Island is very long and narrow, with no mountains, dense forests, or fertile plains. However, it is surrounded by blue waters and excellent harbors. The island is rich in dwarf mangoes, guavas, hexagonal bananas, etc.
The climate here is pleasant, the scenery is beautiful, and there are the most beautiful beaches.

Little Luzon, half fire and half sea water.

It consists of seven large islands including Cebu and hundreds of small islands. Historically, the Portuguese Magellan sailed from Spain to Southeast Asia and discovered this beautiful and quiet island Cebu on the way.
Wu Huaiyu wants to open up the route to the Spice Islands.

However, there are many fishing villages on this island.

The county seat of Little Luzon is located at the foot of Mayon Volcano in the Gulf of Albay.
Albay Bay is a very good and excellent harbor, and Mayon Volcano is very tall and has an almost perfect cone-shaped mountain. It is regarded as a sacred mountain by the tribes here.

The Little Luzon Plain covers an area of ​​75,000 hectares, but only accounts for one-third of the peninsula.

It is volcanic ash that makes the Bicol Plains so fertile.

The Wu family established the fourth county seat in Luzon Prefecture here, not only because it has the third largest plain, but also because this is the southern tip of Luzon Island.
To the south are the Vaishya Islands.
Vaishya is the name of the largest indigenous race in that archipelago. It is said that they are the earliest aboriginal people here. The Panrakha people on Moi Island only migrated from the south by boat in the past thousand years. At that time, they were still with Vaishya. The Sheye people fought in the war and did not gain any advantage, so Panlaka and other outsiders crossed the archipelago and continued north, finally settling in places such as Moyi Island.

This island can establish the next stronghold of the samurai family, or even establish a sixth county, becoming a base camp for conquering and ruling the Visaya Islands, and even becoming a transit point to the Spice Islands.

This mountain seems much more majestic and beautiful than Mount Fuji in my childhood.

Little Luzon Port has also become an important stop for the future spice route, especially the forward base for the military to open up the Visaya Islands.

Their strength may even be higher than that of the arrogant and arrogant Panlaka clan.

You can see the volcano towering into the clouds from a distance.
The volcano is named Mayon Volcano. It is said that it was named after a Mayon tribe at the foot of the volcano.

The Visaya Islands are composed of many islands, and they are just sandwiched between the two large islands of Luzon and Mindanao in the south. The Visayas together are half the size of Luzon.

The ship sailed into Albay Bay, which was named after the Albay tribe, a nearby indigenous tribe, and is now called Little Luzon Bay.

Then there is no way around the Visaya Islands and Mindanao, nor on the Visayas.

"It's quite far away. Little Luzon County is 1,200 miles away from Greater Luzon Port. But don't think that Little Luzon Peninsula is small. It has a long and uneven coastline and several excellent deep-water bays. There is also a larger sub-peninsula,
It has both the third largest plain in Luzon and the volcanic highlands. It has fertile land, abundant water sources and abundant rainfall. It has great potential for development. "

The entire island is more than 400 miles long from north to south, and the widest point from east to west is only more than 80 miles.

Perhaps because of the good climate and other conditions, although there are no large plains here, there is a large population. There are many Vaishya villages with a population of more than a thousand, and even tribal towns with a few thousand people.

Wu Huaiyu looked at the volcano. The mountain indeed showed a perfect cone. The most peculiar thing was that no matter which angle it was viewed from, it showed almost standard geometric symmetry.

"Didn't Aye say that this place is far away from Luzon and is just a long and narrow peninsula?"

That volcano is actually an active volcano. It will emit fire and smoke from time to time. Therefore, volcanic ash often falls on the Little Luzon Peninsula.

This volcano is too high and is shrouded in clouds and fog all year round. If you want to see the whole thing, you have to be lucky.

The Wu family father and son are very lucky today.
The weather is fine,

The entire volcano showed off its majesty to the new fleet.

Little Luzon County is built on the shore of the bay at the foot of the mountain.

The water is blue and clear,
It's already September, but it's still hot here. Wu Huaiyu feels that the solar terms calendar of the Central Plains is not applicable here.
Anyway, he couldn't feel the slightest hint of autumn.

"The Double Ninth Festival will be in a few days. I think we and I can climb that volcano." Mayon Volcano was renamed Little Luzon Volcano because of the arrival of the Wu family, and some people also called it Wugong Mountain.

"Where are the Mayong tribe and Abaier tribe here?" Wu Chengzhi asked.

The ship enters the port,
I saw many friendly Han Chinese faces, as well as some unfamiliar barbarians. They were mainly the dark-skinned Kunlun people from the South China Sea, but they didn't look like the natives of Luzon.

Wu Huaiyu admired the beautiful scenery of Little Luzon Bay,
Beautiful coastline, azure waters, white sandy beaches, and coconut trees swaying in the wind.
Of course, the most distinctive feature is the large volcano in the distance.
This must be the deepest local impression for countless people traveling to and from Luzon. This will become the business card of Little Luzon.
"The Mayon and Abaier tribes used to have one at the foot of the mountain and the other at the seaside. They were both large tribes with more than ten villages and more than ten thousand people."

Wu Huaiyu shook his head when he said this.

When the Wu family first came here, they also traded with them and gave them a lot of Tang goods as gifts. These exquisite Tang goods made these tribes marvel and like them.

At the beginning, they did not trust the Wu family;

But I want to trade,

So for the first few transactions, the ship first sent some crew members to the tribesmen on the shore to serve as hostages, and then the tribesmen sent some people on the ship to inspect the goods.

We’ll discuss the deal after we’re optimistic about the goods.

After the two parties completed the transaction on the shore, the goods were brought back to the tribe, and the crew and hostages were returned.

After several times, some trust was established.

Afterwards, the Wu family took advantage of the situation and proposed to buy land and build a trading station to facilitate transactions, but in the end the natives were only willing to rent a piece of land for temporary trading.

After that, the Wu family built their own wharf and a small trading station on the shore. The two parties traded more frequently. This was basically the way the Wu family had opened up the situation in Liuqiu and other places in Luzon before.

It's just that the development process here is a little different.
First, Ma Rongbu wanted to trade and buy more and more Tang goods, but there was nothing they could sell. Rice, copra, mangoes, bananas and other items were not valuable, and corals, turtle shells, pearls, etc. were also limited.
The Mayong tribe cannot bring anything to trade;
But they were unwilling to give in, so they planned to attack and rob.

It's a pity that their primitive weapons, backward tactics, and generally being extremely short and thin are no match for the Wu family's merchant ship escorts.
After fighting several battles, the Wu family directly counterattacked the Mayong tribe.
Unable to defeat the Mayon people, they turned to the Abair people for help. They were both neighbors and in-laws. The Abair people on the bay were eventually involved in the war.

The two sides fought back and forth for a while,
With reinforcements from the Wu family and the arrival of another fleet, they finally defeated the two tribes and directly occupied this area. The Wu family expanded the docks, built fortresses, established towns, and began to trade with more tribes.
Later, the fourth county in Luzon, Little Luzon County, was established.

Today's Little Luzon County covers the entire peninsula and has established four lower-level strongholds.

As for the Mayon and Abair clans, a small part escaped, most were captured, and some died in battle. Many of those captives were transported to Moyi, Xinjinshan, and San Francisco for mining, and some were sent to The farmland of the villages in the three plains has gone.

There are not many slaves left here in Little Luzon. Although there are many slaves here, they were sent from New San Francisco and Luzon.

Such laborious exchange of slaves is also to facilitate the rule and prevent the slaves from resisting. After all, Luzon is so big now, and the Wu family does not have many manpower in various places. Therefore, after defeating the local tribe, the captured slaves will generally not stay in the local area.

"Have all the tribes in Little Luzon been conquered?"

"It couldn't have gone so smoothly."

After wiping out the Ma Rong and Abair tribes, the Wu family has officially established a foothold here, showing off its fangs and muscles. Other tribes do not dare to invade easily, but no one can Be willing to surrender.

Little Luzon was not in a hurry to attack and conquer, but first stabilized the territory, sent more manpower, established fortresses and strongholds, and had a good period of cooperation with other tribes.
The two parties only trade, not fight.

Everyone takes what they need, and the water from the well does not interfere with the water from the river.
The Wu family gained a rare period of development, and now they have one city and four forts, and today's Little Luzon County.
But it won’t always be calm, there will always be ups and downs.

Wu Huaiyu brought Saburo here this time, which also means that the peace here will be broken.

The garrison camp in Little Luzon will be stationed, and there will be other towns and garrisons.

If the army is strong and the horse is strong, then it is natural to expand and conquer the outside world.

"Be polite before fighting,"

"Let's send people to send messages to the tribes on the Little Luzon Peninsula and ask them to submit to the Marquis of Luzon,"

"As long as we organize households and people, pay taxes and serve in the military, then everything will be easy."

After receiving the notice, give them one month to consider, reply within one month, and send their children to the county to 'study', pay the first tax, and select the first batch of people to serve, then the Wu family will be granted the title of Luzon. As a guardian, they recognize their status and protect their property.

"If they refuse to surrender in a month, then beat them until they surrender." Takesaburo clenched his fists and said.

Wu Huaiyu was a little surprised that at such a young age, Lao San already had a bit of a princely temperament, "Be polite before fighting, but remember one thing, never underestimate the enemy at any time, even if a lion fights a rabbit, use all your strength."

(End of this chapter)