A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 502

Golden autumn October.

Yanzhou.

Tudiji and his son came with Wu Huaiyu and his party. There are cattle and sheep everywhere, and it is peaceful.These Sumo Shuimohe people who used to live in the Songhua River Basin mainly fished, hunted and grazing water and grass. Because of dissatisfaction with the Goguryeo people, they moved westward to the Central Plains.

The Taogu Mountain area where I live today is west of the Chaobai River.

Liaoxi County, the seat of Yanzhou, is where the Huaihe River flows into the Chaobai River.

This place is very good, not far from the north is a mountainous area, here is a plain, suitable for farming and animal husbandry.

Now Li Keyong has become Wu Huaiyu's adopted son, his personal attendant, and warmly introduced his family to Wu Huaiyu.

This place seems to be their feudal country, and the Mohe tribe basically still maintains the old customs, but besides the Mohe people, there are also a large number of Han people, Xi people, and even Khitan people. The losers immigrated.

On the other hand, most of the Han people were refugees and starving people in the early wars, and now many of them are tenants of the Mohe people, or even slaves.

Tudiji alone has thousands of servants and many tenants.

One person in Tudiji has more than a thousand hectares of land, which are basically cultivated by Han tenants.

The registered population of Yanzhou is not large, but the actual population is large.

"Cut your braids when you have time. You are also ten years old. Now is the year of the chief horn. In a few years, you will have to tie your hair at the age of 15. The sage will give you a national name. You will stop calling yourself a Hu. , to learn Chinese etiquette, change customs, "

"Please foster father cut it off for me now!"

Although Li Keyong was young, he grew up in Youzhou and even went to school in Youzhou. Not only did he speak Chinese well, but his thoughts were also relatively Chinese, which was different from his father's generation, and even from his dozen or so children. Each brother's concept is very different.

He really hates his braided hair. The Han students in Youzhou City tie up two corners, but he and some Hu nationality teenagers have braided hair, braided hair, or braided hair, so they are often laughed at by classmates. .

The so-called tribal traditions are no match for the civilization aspirations of the Central Plains.

However, Tudiji and the others were attached to the Central Plains. They have been loyal for many years, and they still wear braided hair. Changed the clothes of the Han people, tied their hair and wore a crown, but was rejected by Yang Guang.

Turkic Khan is not qualified to change clothes and tie his hair. Tudiji can only be regarded as a small leader, and of course he is not qualified.

From Yang Guang's point of view, it may be that they are originally Hu people, who have just been attached to or just surrendered, and are not real Chinese people, so they have to be distinguished.

Wu Huaiyu was a little surprised by the boy's happiness.

"Aren't you reluctant?"

"I go to school in Youzhou, and many classmates laugh at me for dragging my pig's tail,"

When Han teenagers are eight or nine years old, they are called Zongjiao teenagers, because they divide their hair into two halves and tie a small knot on the top of the head, like two horns.

Only the Hu people like to wear all kinds of strange hairstyles. For example, the Turkic people are used to braiding their hair, while the Khitan people are used to shaving their hair. They shave their hair or not. Men are used to shaving both the top and back of their heads, leaving their temples. It's like artificial baldness.

Children are generally shaved all around, leaving only a small piece on the top of the head.

Even the Khitan women have the same shaven hair, shaved bald on the top of their heads, with strange hairstyles left around.

The Mohe people like to braid their hair, leaving a small braid at the back of their heads, and some tribes even shave off other hairs.

Braiding is actually a tradition of Donghu and other tribes.

Donghu is an ancient nation, from Shang Dynasty to Han Dynasty, after more than a thousand years, Donghu was defeated by Xiongnu, Donghu tribal alliance collapsed, and all tribes became slaves of Xiongnu.

Some of the surviving tribes retreated to Wuhuan Mountain and became the Wuhuan tribe, and some retreated to Xianbei Mountain and became the Xianbei tribe.

During the Han Dynasty, Wuhuan moved to the south twice and gradually grew stronger, but it was always under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty. The various tribes did their own things and failed to form a unified alliance. This scattered, assimilated by Han and Xianbei.

However, Xianbei retreated to Xianbei Mountain and was ruled by the Huns. After the Huns split, they began to get rid of their control. After the Huns were forced to move westward, Xianbei took the opportunity to occupy the grassland.

Xianbei rises and runs rampant for a while.

Many powerful tribes developed, such as the central Xianbei Rouran who once ruled the grassland, and the Tuoba Xianbei who later established the Northern Wei Empire, and the eastern Xianbei mainly Yuwen Xianbei, Duan Xianbei, Murong Xianbei, etc., and some Xianbei who moved westward, For example, it was the Murong Xianbei Department that established Tuyuhun, and the Qifu Department and Bald Hair Department that moved to Longyou, Hexi.

Today's Khitan and Kumoxi belong to the same species, originating from the Yuwen Department of Xianbei, belonging to another species of the Yuwen Department. The original species is naturally the Yuwen family who later established the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

The Yuwen Department of Xianbei is the product of the combination of the Xiongnu and the Xianbei. When the northern Xiongnu withdrew from the Mongolian plateau, there were still many Huns who did not leave. Later, they were renamed Xianbei and gradually merged with the Xianbei people.

Today's Shiwei is actually a Xianbei who stayed in his hometown.

However, Li Ke used their Mohe clan to have nothing to do with Xianbei and Huns. The ancestor of Xianbei was Donghu, and the ancestor of Mohe was Sushen.

Sushen, Donghu, Suijiu and the ancient Han are the four ancient tribes in Northeast China.

From Songhua River to Heilongjiang, the vast Baishan Heishui area has always been the activity area of ​​Sushen people. From Sushen to Yilou, they have always been relatively primitive and backward. They fish, hunt, graze, farm, and generally raise pigs. They eat pork and wear pigskin. , did not change until the Tang Dynasty.

Since the Han Dynasty, the power of the Central Plains Dynasty has spread as far as the Korean Peninsula, and various forces competed in the Northeast. Although it brought wars, it also brought civilization and technology, and the Mohe people developed rapidly because of this.

Historically, after the Mohe people destroyed Goguryeo in the Tang Dynasty, they also established the Bohai Kingdom, which was called Haidong Shengguo. In the late Tang Dynasty, the Bohai Kingdom was destroyed by Yelu Abaoji of the Liao Kingdom.

The Sushen family was called Jurchen in the Liao Dynasty, and they continued to resist. Later, Wanyan Aguda came out and established the Jin Dynasty.

The Jin destroyed the Liao, oppressed the Mongols, and the Mongols destroyed the Jin,

Later, the descendants of Jurchen rose up, established Houjin, and then changed to Manchu Qing.

One of the four major tribes in Northeast China, also known as Yai, its descendants are mainly Buyeo and Goguryeo. The king of Baekje was established by the former King of Buyeo who went south. Similarly, the current Goguryeo Kingdom is also the former Buyeo Kingdom. established by the prince.

Among the descendants of several ancient tribes, Goguryeo is now the strongest, Mohe is relatively scattered, and Shi Wei, a descendant of Donghu, has the least sense of existence.

"What book are you reading now and what do you want to do in the future?"

"Reading the Spring and Autumn Annals and Books of Poetry, as well as the Analects of Confucius and the Classic of Filial Piety, I want to be a general in the future, accusing thousands of troops and destroying Goguryeo for the court!"

Wu Huaiyu laughed loudly, "Ambition,"

Peach Valley Mountain, Liaoxi City, Yanzhou.

Wu Huaiyu shaved Li Keyong's hair and changed clothes, and Tudiji led all the children and the leaders of the eight tribes to watch the ceremony together.

Cut off the braids, remove the left leather gown, and replace it with a right gown with a round collar. Before the age of crowning, there is no need to wear a crown. Wu Huaiyu gave Li Keyong a jade pendant and a sash belt.

Putting on a round-neck gown, black leather boots, a sash belt, and a jade pendant around his waist, Li Jin, who shaved off his pigtails and bare his head, was able to use his luggage, and he no longer looked like a barbarian.

Li Keyong saluted Wu Huaiyu and handed him tea.

Today is also the ceremony for Wu Huaiyu to formally accept Li Keyong as his adoptive son. All the officials and generals from Youfu, as well as all the Mohe tribes in Yanzhou, watched the ceremony together.

After Li Keyong shaved his hair and changed his clothes, Li Tudiji, who gave the country's surname, immediately asked Wu Huaiyu to shave his hair and change his clothes.

Wu Huaiyu expressed his appreciation for this.

Ever since, Tudiji immediately asked Huaiyu to shave his braids.The long braid he had kept for many years was covered with pearls, jade and precious stones, and he gave it up without hesitation at this time.

shave,

Easy to wear.

He couldn't wear a crown on his bare head, so he tied it with a fur head, and changed into a purple robe and jade belt bestowed by the court. With a beard and a pot belly, Tu Diji immediately changed his mental outlook, from a mink braid to a wild boar. Ya's tribal chieftain turned into a mighty senior official of Tang Dynasty.

The leader took the lead, and the rest of the tribal leaders also shaved their hair and changed their clothes.

The yamen hall in Liaoxi City, Yanzhou, suddenly felt much more pleasing to the eye.

Take advantage of the good atmosphere.

Wu Huaiyu made a small request, saying that due to wars and so on, the registration of household registration and farmland has often stopped. Now that he has come to Youfu to take up the post, the first thing to do is to reorganize the household registration and clear the farmland.

Master Guo Xing was also a fine old fox, he immediately understood what Wu Huaiyu meant, and he didn't find any reason to shirk it, so he patted his chest to show his cooperation, starting from Yanzhou.

"I heard that Duke Yi has been very benevolent these years. He gathered many refugees who were forced to be displaced by war and famine, let them open up wasteland in their own territory, and even leased their own land to them."

After a long praise, Wu Huaiyu made a small request, hoping that the tenants of the Mohe people in Yanzhou should be included in the household registration of the imperial court and listed as customers, and according to the practice in Zhengzhou, the tenants of the Mohe people such as Tudiji should be rented out. Land, simply give the permanent tenancy rights to those tenants, and they will receive fixed rents in the future.

They don't even need to collect the rent by hand. In the future, the Governor's Mansion of Youzhou will do it for them, manage and collect the rent for them, and just collect the rent and hand it over to them.

This statement came out.

The atmosphere in the Yanzhou Inspector's Office seemed a little stagnant.

Many Mohe nobles expressed their dissatisfaction.

Before someone stood up to object, Tudiji had already stood up with a smile, "Shaobao treated me very well. Although we people have moved westward for more than [-] years, we really don't know how to cultivate the land. Now Youzhou The Dudu Mansion helped us manage it, we are very grateful,"

Tu Diji took the lead in expressing his position, and directly handed over a thousand hectares of land under his name to the Youzhou Dudufu, let them manage it, and handed it over to the customer for permanent farming, and then he would enjoy the benefits, earning tens of thousands of shi a year Renzi is.

The old fox is very smart and knows the times.

Enclosed for many years, the privilege is great, but now the situation changes.

At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were actually regulations for those who were attached to the fanhus of various countries. As long as they were naturalized, they would also be taxed in the ninth class of household registration. Households, below the eighth grade are the next households.

The first household is taxed with ten coins, the second household is five coins, and the lower household is exempted.

For those who have been attached to Guanjing for more than two years, the upper household will lose two sheep, the second household will have one household, and the lower household will have one household in total. Where there are no sheep, the white sheep will be estimated and light goods will be discounted.If there is a conquest, they are ordered to bring their own saddle horses, and after more than [-] days, they will not lose sheep that year.

Those who give birth to a son, that is, with the common people, are not allowed to be a foreigner.

In the north, the attached fanhu and the registered household Qimin also have to pay taxes and serve in the service. There are both household tax and Ding Fu. The upper household Ding tax is ten silver coins. This refers to Xizhou silver coins. The household tax is 32 Wen, and the second household is one hundred and sixty, and the next household such as eighty-nine is exempt.

Ding tax loses sheep, Shanghu Ding loses only two sheep,

However, although they are all collected on a household-by-household basis, they are also collected on a dime basis. No matter the household tax money is not lost, if there are more people in the household, then more will be paid.

Of course, tribes like the Tudiji in Yanzhou have moved inland for many years, and basically have not paid any serious taxes. At most, they are collected when they go out.

The Tang Dynasty has been established for so long, and Tudiji basically paid some land tribute, just like Lingnan people, they never really paid taxes.

Now Wu Huaiyu not only wants to take away their permanent tenant management rights for their fields, but also starts to levy taxes on them.

It is even emphasized that from the time when they were attached to the first emperor, those born after that will no longer be treated as aboriginal households, but directly follow the normal standards of Tang people, that is, according to the official tax and military adjustment method. Serve and so on.

Tudiji's unusual cooperation, no matter what request Wu Huaiyu made, he would answer it with a smile all over his face.

Those who know current affairs are Junjie.

(End of this chapter)