A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 298 Duan Yan Wang and Master Wu

The Li family's team has more than 300 people, a full-fledged army, and an elite veteran guard accompanying them, from Qinggangchuan via Dongchuan to Yanzhou Dingbian, a total of more than 400 miles.

Walk along the Dongchuan River, pass the Shizi River upstream, cross the loess beams, leave Gyeongju and enter Yanzhou, pass the mountainous area, and you will see the Mangmang Gobi Desert in Yanzhou.

The road from Huan County to Dingbian in Yanzhou via Dongchuan River is not easy, especially before crossing the watershed, there are deep ravines and dangerous valleys.

Fortunately, the east and west rivers, including Qinggang Gorge, have built post stations, beacon towers, and castles along the way, guarded by border town soldiers and beacon sons.

Duan Lun, governor of Gyeongju, has been sitting on the bench for several years since he was reported for treason and transferred back to Chang'an when he was in Yizhou.

After coming to Gyeongju, he selected soldiers and horses, trained soldiers, organized equipment, stockpiled food and grass, and personally led his subordinates to almost turn over the three states under his rule.

What kind of bandits and bandits, or a mountain fanhu who occasionally does business without capital, regardless of whether you are Han, Qiang or Shanhu, if you dare to rob and steal in his territory, or even occupy the mountains and become kings and grasses as bandits, there is only one end. He either died in the battle to suppress the bandits and siege the city, or he was captured as a slave after the defeat, and built cities and roads to reclaim wasteland and farmland.

Duan Lun was able to convince the barbarians in a short period of time in Yizhou and Nanning, not because of his handsome looks and sweet mouth, but because of the sharpness of the big knife in his hand, who has never heard of the whole tribe uprooting At that time, Duan Lun did not know how many slaves he sold to the Central Plains, in units of ten thousand.

Under the iron-blooded suppression of the bandits by Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan Duan, the Qinglingyan Road in Binning, especially starting from Huanxian County, was very difficult to walk, and the road was difficult to walk. For plundering, some of the goods were paid and they let them go, but some were unreasonable, and they wanted all the people and goods, and they also snatched them back as slaves.

But now, after a big knife, they are all honest, and even many fanhus fled to the territory of Yanzhou in fright.
Compared with Duan Lun's Thunder, the Governor of Gyeongju, Yanzhou is like rain.

The land will be distributed and the land will be granted, and even some settlement expenses will be given to you.

Even if you click on the city and the like, you are very polite, and you will not apportion indiscriminately, let alone arrest people to build cities and build roads to serve in the service.

The border market is still very lively, the key is fairness.

Everyone called Duan Lun Duan Yanwang and Wu Huaiyu Master Wu.

My lord, that's what Papa meant.

Being able to make those fanhus call daddy directly shows that Wu Huaiyu's policies in Yanzhou are quite popular.

Although Yanzhou also suppressed bandits and killed some at the beginning, the soldiers were led by the second general Su Lie Niu Jianwu. It's all leniency,

Yanzhou is mainly engaged in the economy. It is busy selling land, cultivating grain, building dams in salt ponds to dry salt, attracting merchants from all corners of the country to trade, and even recruiting some merchants and artisans from Chang'an Lingzhou to open workshops here and directly produce Many handmade goods, as well as some fur and medicinal materials traded by the Hu people, were directly processed in Yanzhou.

Not so much murderous.

We all smile when we meet.

Even the Turkic people who met with swordsmen in Shuofang Guanlong last year and killed them so red-eyed can still do business with Tang officials and people in Yanzhou with a smile on their faces.

Last summer, Yu Sheshe led tens of thousands of people to besiege Wucheng, and his subordinates often plundered and killed here, but now Yu Sheshe's confidants, the Sogdians, are driving cattle, horses and sheep here again and again. Instead of going to Lingzhou to trade, come to Yanzhou to trade.

It is because of Yanzhou's good salt and Lingzhou's excellent attitude.

Wu Huaiyu, the governor, told Yanzhou officials and people more than once that they should not be soft when fighting, but now is not the time to fight, and there is no need to have trouble with money.

When we open the market to do business, we have to greet people with a smile. Anyway, Yu Sheshe’s neighbors in the north brought cows, horses and alpacas. The more skins and medicinal materials they have, the more they earn. Merchants sell salt, tea, cloth, ceramics and other handmade goods Go and earn another fortune.

The money earned is also quickly turning into food reserves, weapons and equipment, a more complete Fengsui fortress, and an indestructible Great Wall defense line, filled with fortresses.

Now in Yanzhou, there are basically no thieves and bandits who occupy the mountains as kings. First, few of them have beaten Su Lie Niu Jianwu and his Yanzhou soldiers. A bandit for one day, a bandit for life, the government didn't give him a chance to start a new life, so he could only get into the black one by one.

But now here, there are many opportunities, and more importantly, the military governor gave them a chance to be a new person, as long as they go down the mountain to accept the recruitment and hand over their weapons, those who want to farm may divide the fields, those who want to herd can divide the pastures, and those who want to do business Or those who sell salt also support it.

Registered household Qimin, the past has been written off.

Such a good thing, in fact, few are willing to miss it.

Before that was no choice, but now they have a choice.

Some are stubborn and stubborn, but the end is not good. The stockade was breached, and their heads were hung on the border market of Baicheng. Who would dare to do those business without capital? They came out in the morning to grab their heads in the border market of Baicheng at night. The top of the city.

Su Lie didn't even give them a chance to stay overnight.

The cost of being a thief is so high that no one dares to do it.

As for Su Lie and the others, it was because Wu Huaiyu, the governor, gave them excellent equipment, generous rewards, and even accurate intelligence information.

Guarding the four major salt ponds, and guarding such a big border market, as long as Wu Huaiyu is willing to give them a share, they can make a living, and there is no need to take risks with their heads up.

In the past, no matter Liang Shidu or Li Daozong, they didn't pay attention to these people, and they would never give them a share, and they didn't even treat them as human beings. Many bandits were just honest tribes grazing and farming. Later, they were regarded as thieves by both sides, robbed and captured, and were taken into slavery. They had no choice but to become thieves and bandits.

However, Master Wu was able to send them a letter to recruit them and exterminate them conditionally. He did not do this when he was captured.

So now not only many Han people from Xiazhou came to defect, but also many Shanhu and Qianghu from Lingzhou and Qingzhou, and even some poor Han people from the border areas came.

The reputation of Wuda people is getting better and better, and the border market of Yanzhou is also getting more and more prosperous.

Livestock, salt grain, silk cloth and other goods on all roads have never stopped.

The border city of Baicheng now only collects points to collect taxes, and the samurai Kai is soft on the collection.

Li Sanniang and the others went to Yanzhou and came near the Great Wall line, and they also felt deeply. When they were in Gyeongju, they still felt chills. Although the road was safe, they always felt uncomfortable.

But here, I can feel a different kind of relaxation, as if I have arrived in the hinterland of Guanzhong.

"Is this actually Yanzhou that the Wu De Dynasty has never really controlled since the founding of the Tang Dynasty?" The guards of the Li family couldn't help but marvel.

"I used to come here to fight wars. It wasn't like this at that time. I often couldn't even see a ghost. Why is it so lively now?"

Li Sanniang is also riding a horse, dressed in men's clothing outside, very heroic.

"There are four major salt ponds here. The best salt in the Guanlong area is produced here. The output is large and of good quality. Now that there is no threat of war, the border market will flourish again, and it will be different immediately."

"But Yanchi has always been there, it wasn't so prosperous before."

Although there were four major salt ponds in Yanzhou in the past, there was no border market in Yanzhou. The salt in Yanzhou was even smuggled to Lingzhou for distribution. The salt in Yanzhou actually helped Lingzhou to prosper over the years. Wedding dress, although Lingzhou has many other advantages, such as geographical transportation, such as the Yellow River water transportation, such as its military town and so on.

However, although there was salt in Yanzhou before, it was completely attached to Lingzhou.

But now, Wu Huaiyu has revitalized Yanzhou's salt, and even directly set up a border market here to attract merchants with salt. Lingzhou's salt, Hetao's livestock, and even Shuofang's slave smuggling are now directly distributed here.

The effect of this is huge.

In the past, it was just Yanzhou, with no market, just some resources, but now these resources have brought out the market, which is completely different.

"Wu Shouyang is really capable, so young, so amazing."

Many people in the Li family also admired this young man, and even felt a little faintly proud. After all, Wu Shouyang was very powerful, and he was also the disciple of their Patriarch.

Seeing that Li Sanniang was in a daze again, Si Qin sighed, "I really envy Siqi, how could I immediately follow Shouyang Gong at a glance?"

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Yanzhou State City, Wuyuan City.

Wu Huaiyu had just returned from the border city of Baicheng, and held a meeting with the officials of the state government to deal with many accumulated affairs.

"Recently, more and more people have come to vote. Now not only are there many Fan Hus from Xiazhou, but also many Han people. There are even people from Qingzhou and Lingzhou to vote. Not only Fan Hus, but also Han people. Few, even some are still making good householders.”

Wu Huaiyu is not uncommon. People go to high places and water flows to low places. The environment in the frontier is relatively poor. Although the land is vast and sparsely populated, the arable land is actually the same. Most of it is concentrated in the hands of a few people, missing the first and second waves of the founding After the land is distributed, it becomes more and more difficult for the people behind to get the land.

But as long as you have entered the household registration system, regardless of whether the imperial court has allocated land for you, as long as you have to pay rent, transfer, and obedience, middle-aged men have already begun to obey miscellaneous Yao.

If a hundred acres of land can be allocated, the burden of rent adjustment is not too heavy, but if there is no land, or if there is not enough allocation, then the tax has not changed, and the burden is very heavy.

Now Yanzhou is very hot, and the policies offered are good, so many people directly abandon their citizenship and escape, and they want to come to Yanzhou to open another account.

In fact, most of the people in the past, after losing their land for whatever reason, most of them also wanted to flee their citizenship. They either went to work for black households in the city, or went to join the powerful landlords as landlords. them.

Of course, if they had the chance, they would actually not want to be black households, because it is difficult for black households to have a bright future, and it is just a temporary harshness.

"We still have the old rules, regardless of the past, as long as you come to surrender, you will be treated as refugees and resettled."

Although this may cause dissatisfaction in Youzhou, and may even lead to a lawsuit, after all, the registered population is a very important resource. If you accept people from other people's families, others will escape from their households, affect their political performance and even be punished.

"My lord, we have recruited people too quickly recently, and now there are not enough fields and pastures in Yanzhou,"

Wu Huaiyu sold a lot of land before, and allocated a lot of land for military settlements, public farmland, employment fields, school fields, etc., and some of them were made into official settlements and attracted businessmen to farmland.

The rest of the land is first come, first served, one hundred acres.

This is indeed a great benefit to those who came first, regardless of whether they were from Yanzhou before, as long as they come, one adult will be worth one hundred acres.

After all, the land is limited.

Yanzhou is a frontier land, mostly dry land and the amount is only about [-] hectares. After such a division, it has almost been divided.

Even those pastures and woodlands are almost finished.

Taking advantage of Liang Shidu's forced migration, Wu Huaiyu took the opportunity to carry out a wave of redistribution after regaining Yanzhou, but the distribution was over.

"It's over so soon?"

"We have little land in Yanzhou." Zhang Chengde, the magistrate of Wuyuan County, said. In fact, the main reason is that Huaiyu sold a lot of land, more than 5 hectares. He sold [-] hectares at a time, and the nobles and powerful people rushed to buy them. A piece of a thousand acres is no more than a thousand plots.

In addition, there are a lot of land occupied by the public army and the army, so there is really not much left.

"Since this is the case, we will not allocate land to people who already have household registration in Lingqing and other prefectures for the time being. We can accept them as customers and become tenants or salt workers, traders, workers, etc. here, and the land cannot be allocated to them. Yes, but as long as they have a legitimate business here, they can register as customers here, and after obtaining customer registration, they can also purchase homesteads..."

"As for other people, the Han migrants who came to vote will be given [-] mu of permanent employment for each member. If there are more than three members in the family, and only one member of the family, they can give another [-] acres of land.

It's still the same old rule, first come, first served.

Those who have not been allocated land can also settle down voluntarily, or register as customers. "

Wen Fu came up to report.

"Our [-] Han united soldiers in Yanzhou are already full, and the other [-] Fan Hucheng are also full."

"It's all filled up so quickly?"

"If you click on it, you can give priority to land and pasture, and you can also get some benefits such as settling allowances. Everyone is vying to sign up. Now that the order is full, many people even want to join."

Huaiyu waved his hand, "Since the recruitment is full, forget it. Our Yanzhou is only this big. Now there are one thousand state soldiers, one thousand town soldiers, two thousand native soldiers, and two thousand city soldiers. That's enough. Any more We can't afford it either."

"The newly recruited Tutuan and Chengbang must receive a month's training first, then go home, and then train in batches in their spare time. Although they are local militiamen, they must also have certain combat effectiveness and cannot be empty-handed. As a display, we are Border State, although the current situation is good, but war may break out at any time, we must be prepared."

Wu Huaiyu clapped the board with a few words.

Even if the first wave of great welfare in Yanzhou is over, those who came first were assigned to the fields and pastures, and those who came later have no chance. buddy.

This is the opportunity, fleeting.

Of course, those who seized this wave of opportunities to obtain the means of production of fields and pastures will surely lose their fields and pastures for various reasons, and be annexed by powerful landlords. This is inevitable, yes historical law.

After two or three hundred years, this kind of merger will reach a limit, and then the whole society will collapse, and the new dynasty will replace the old dynasty, and a new big distribution will be carried out on the ruins, and the movement will continue.

It may be unfair to those who came later, but they still have another chance right now, which is the fall of Xia Suiyin's Liang Shidu puppet regime.

After the fall of the false beams, there will be another major redistribution.

Then we can only wait for the court to defeat the Turks and regain Fengzhou and Shengzhou in Hetao. At that time, it can be allocated again. After that, it can only be the Western Regions or Liaodong.

There are fewer and fewer opportunities for such redistribution.

After the meeting, Li Deju came over, "Erlang, Sanniang has come to Yanzhou, let's go to my place and sit down."

(End of this chapter)