A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1032 The common man is not guilty
"Will you return to Chang'an?"

"Definitely have to go back,"

In Luzon Castle, Wu Huaiyu felt Runniang's pulse. Her belly was already very big and she was already seven months pregnant. A few days later, when Wu Huaiyu went to Beijing, she would definitely not be able to come back in time to see the child born.

"This little guy is very strong and naughty. He never behaves in his belly."

"Yeah, I'm a puncher and kicker. I don't know what kind of martial arts I practice every day."

Huaiyu smiled and brought camellia oil and applied oil to her belly. She had been insisting on applying oil to her belly for the third time, but there were no flowers on her belly.

"You also need to eat more and supplement your nutrition. You see, you are seven months old, but your belly is just a little bigger, and there are no changes in other places."

"I can't get fat if I eat,"

Runniang has been with Huaiyu for ten years and has three children, but her figure still seems to be the same as before.

"You should stay in Luzon. Don't go back to Guangzhou. It's hard work going back and forth, and you can't stand the trouble because of your big belly. I'll call some people from Guangzhou to wait on you."

"This journey will be bumpy, so don't go."

Wu Huaiyu felt that this time the emperor summoned him back to Beijing, and it would probably not be a big deal. He might give him a few blows. After all, he escaped from his shell in Yazhou for half a year, and the emperor also knew about it.

Now I have to go to Beijing again.

Huaiyu smiled and said, "You are not afraid of hard work, but you also have to consider the children in your belly. They may not be able to withstand the hardship."

"I really envy you, Madam, for having a boy all your life."

Wu Huaiyu thought for a while, "If they want to go back to Chang'an, they can go back directly."

"Four men and one woman." Huaiyu said with a smile. "This baby of yours must be a kid, it's so mobile,"

However, she couldn't help but feel happy when she thought that Sanlang was very promising now, and her husband had even arranged a family property like Luzon for him.

"I can't give birth to Madam," Run Niang said, stroking her belly. She only had three babies in her belly, and Madam already gave birth to five.

Wu Huaiyu planned to return to Beijing in a few days. After all, it was already early December, and he had to hurry up, otherwise he would not be able to catch up with the Zhengdan Dynasty.

In a blink of an eye, the day came to leave,
Shuying and Aliu both wanted to follow them to Chang'an. They were from lower backgrounds and could not compare with other concubines in the mansion. Moreover, they had not yet given birth to a son and a half for Wu Huaiyu. In fact, they were very anxious. .

"You'll have to go back to Guangzhou after ten years, right?"

Asang and his wife were placed in Ludao by him. They have been separated for more than a year. Previously, Asang also said that he would bring his children to Luzon.
On this trip, I went to Ludao to see the couple, then from Ludao to Hangzhou Port, and then back to Chang'an via the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.

Fan Xuanfu's Chengxun is already a hundred days old, and the one born in early August is already in the twelfth lunar month, more than four months old.

Wu Huaiyu left all his concubines to go to Beijing last year and stayed there for more than half a year. He finally came back, but he didn't stay with everyone for a few days. He said he was touring Lingnan, and then went directly to Luzon, where he stayed for another half a year.

On this trip back to Beijing, he planned not to return to Guangzhou, but to take the Liuqiu route, departing from Luzon Port, and then stopping at San Francisco and Xinjinshan ports to go to Liuqiu Zhushan, which was the headquarters of the Wu family operating in the southwest of Liuqiu. New San Francisco Jr.

"If you don't go back to Guangzhou, everyone is waiting for you in Guangzhou."

Went around Zhushan and Anping in Liuqiu and returned to Ludao via Penghu.

"what?"

"I have prepared a gift for Twenty-two Lang, please help me bring it to Madam."

The two of them were disappointed, "We are not afraid of hard work and want to serve Alang more."

"You have it, you should take good care of the baby in Luzon. You have just become pregnant, move less and be more quiet, and pay attention to your diet. I will arrange for experienced maids and maids to serve you,"

The two of them were stunned at first, and then surprised.
His face turned red,

This happiness came a little too suddenly.

During the time they came to Luzon, they had to endure a lot of rain and dew. After all, there were only three of them here. Runniang still had a big belly. Wu Huaiyu also knew their thoughts and knew that they wanted a child, so he fulfilled their wishes and specially I counted the days and worked harder a few times.

His seeds are pretty good, and he recently ate more oysters.

In the early morning, Wu Huaiyu boarded a lucky boat and sailed north.

Runniang took Sanlang and her daughter Meigui to the pier to see them off, and Shuying and Aliu also came specially to see them off.

It’s the twelfth lunar month, but it’s still summer in Luzon.

At this time, Wu Huaiyu was still a little reluctant to return to Chang'an. It was too cold. Chang'an at this time should be wrapped in silver.

The journey was relatively smooth. Although the winter wind is blowing at this time, it is convenient for the ship to sail southward with the wind, but it can also be sailed against the wind. The sails of the Wujiafu ship have the ability to catch wind from all directions. The headwind can even run faster than the tailwind, but it requires more experience. Operated by the captain and master.

When docking at Xinjinshan and San Francisco ports for supplies, Wu Huaiyu also went into the city for a brief inspection.

It's developing pretty well.

The mining industry here in Xinjinshan is now very big and has grown in scale, especially gold mining. This time, the resources are rich and the mining volume is good. A large number of people come to pan for gold. Indeed, many people have become rich overnight. Some people have picked up gold nuggets. ,

Someone found a river with lots of gold sand,
In Xinjinshan Port, everyone seems to be talking about gold mining and getting rich suddenly. Everyone is caught up in this craze.

Things related to gold mining are very popular here.

In comparison, agriculture and fishery are tepid. Whether it is growing sugar cane, cotton, tea or hemp, although it is more profitable than growing rice, corn and peanuts, it still requires a lot of labor. Although The advantage is that the output is relatively stable, but it is indeed impossible to get rich overnight, and it is incomparable with gold mining.

It's almost the same in San Francisco.
The gold mines there are also good. There are also abundant timber resources, especially those that can be transported down the river. Transportation is convenient. There are many timber businesses. There are also many timber processing plants in the Port of San Francisco, and there are some shipbuilding industries. Advantage,
However, compared to Luzon Port, it is still far behind.

Luzon Port is now gradually leaving other ports behind, and the population is several times different.

However, after all, New San Francisco and other counties are also county towns. They have ports, guard river mouths, and large plains, and their development is still quite vigorous.
The stay was short, so I just walked around the county town, met with the county officials and the military attachés guarding the camp, and then arranged for the famous local chamber of commerce leaders and wealthy businessmen to meet and have a meal together, and then Wu Huaiyu left.

The ship passes through the Luzon Strait,

Enter the stream,

The imperial court still has two states in Liuqiu, one is Liuzhou and the other is Changtai. It is said that the emperor's palace for Wei Wang Li Tai has almost been built. It is quite grand and many craftsmen and people have been moved directly from the Central Plains.
Even the guards and guards were arranged directly.

Li Shimin and his wife really like this second son.
Next year, Li Tai will formally seek to establish Taizhou as a vassal, and he doesn't know if there will be any unintended consequences.

After the imperial court took over Liuqiu, the development was okay, but this was not entirely due to the imperial court. It was mainly due to the Wu family and many other nobles from the Central Plains who were racing to enclose the land here and immersed themselves in development.

Although the Wu family runs Luzon, they have not given up on Liuqiu, and even invested a lot here.

Not to mention Penghu, Anpingbao, Ningdong City, etc., the Wu family is now close to the south of Liuqiu in Luzon. The main business is Zhushan Port, which is basically owned by the Wu family.

It guards the mouth of Zhuoshui Creek, the longest river on Liuqiu Island, and also has a very fertile plain. When the imperial court was still developing in the middle of the island, the Wu family came to the south to develop, defeated many indigenous tribes, and successfully occupied this land. area.

Planting sugar cane in the plains to squeeze sugar, planting peanuts to squeeze oil, growing cotton for spinning, going into the mountains to cut down camphor to boil camphor, making incense in Zhushan, logging and building ships,

There is not even a county established here yet, nor a township.
Anyway, Liuzhou hasn’t taken control here yet, or it could be said that the Wu family, Liuzhou and the imperial court have reached a tacit understanding.

Give these pioneering aristocrats some more time to operate and take advantage of them.

In this way, it seems that the court has lost some benefits, such as taxes, land, minerals, etc., but in fact, such policies of the court have made many nobles and nobles willing to invest in development.
Conquering the indigenous tribes, developing land reclamation trade, and building docks and strongholds required a lot of initial investment. Liuzhou concentrated on running the central part of the island. The ancestors developed all over the island, bringing funds and population.

In turn, everyone has to go in and out of Anping Port, Ningdong City and other places, and the purchase and sale of various materials and commodities also have to go through Liuzhou, which also promotes the development of Liuzhou.

Why not do a win-win thing?

After a few years, the nobles and nobles have developed various places, and after the business has matured and stabilized, it will be a matter of course for the imperial court to establish prefectures and counties. And for these nobles and nobles, they have also received enough Time to enjoy the dividends of development,

Even if the imperial court comes to establish prefectures and counties, of course most of the various land, mines, ports, terminals and other resources they have already obtained will still be theirs.

Zhushan Port is better developed than New San Francisco in all aspects and has a larger population. It can fully meet the standards of a county.

But no one in Liuzhou or the court mentioned this matter now.
By default, the Wu family operates and develops here.
In fact, the Wu family is not the only one on Liuqiu Island. When Wu Huaiyu took the lead in running Liuqiu, although many relatives were not optimistic about it, but later when Liuqiu was established as a state and discovered the rich resources here, those people all followed suit. It came running like a fishy cat,

Countless nobles, nobles, and nobles, big and small, came to the place, each relying on his or her ability to compete for land on a first-come, first-served basis.

For example, the uncle Changsun Wuji's family went to the north of Liuqiu Island and surrounded a large piece of land. There were excellent harbors and fertile plains there. The uncle had a big appetite, and the family dominated a large area. The territory was not as big as the emperor's. Chang Taizhou Xiao was given to King Li Tai of Wei.

Now the indigenous tribes on Liuqiu Island, except for the Shengfan tribe in the mountains and the tribes on the plains, have basically been conquered.

They were either directly wiped out or defeated, and some small tribes were even frightened into surrendering.

In just a few years, countless indigenous tribes have been conquered.

Wu Huaiyu was not surprised when he heard this. In the past, Liuqiu Island had been closed for too long and was very backward in all aspects. Even Prince Funan, who was defeated in his own country, could bring his fleet to colonize and become king.
Facing the swarming aristocrats from the Central Plains, how can they resist?
Every husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime.

There is a dark forest law in the Three-Body Problem, which says that the universe is a dark forest, and every civilization is a hunter with a gun, trying desperately to hide itself while looking for others. Once the other party is discovered, it will be shot and eliminated. In this forest, other people are hell, and any civilization that exposes its existence will be quickly wiped out.

This law is essentially the law of the jungle where the weak eat the strong.
Liuqiu was discovered. He had abundant resources, but did not have strong enough strength to guard and protect himself. The natural outcome would be to be put on the dining table.

This is a feast for gluttons, and anyone with the ability will want to take a share of the pie.

The Wu family was just the one who discovered it first and acted one step faster.

(End of this chapter)