A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 533

In the second year of Zhenguan, winter.

It's snowing first and the sun is half a day, and the eaves are still dripping with plum blossoms.

"Today is really a great day, hurry up and welcome the newcomers."

Yang Muyun looked at the fine weather with clear snow and clear clouds and said with a smile, "But don't forget the old one when the new one takes over the door,"

It is also a beautiful event in Youzhou that Fan Yang Lu's family and Shanhou Gao's family married their daughters together to enter the Governor's Mansion today.

Especially the Lu family of Fan Yang, who intends to make a big fuss. Although she is a concubine born to a concubine, her standard is not lower than that of a married woman.

Lu Chengqing couldn't come back in Beijing, so Wulang Lu Chengye still took care of everything.

Today, Lu 35 did not get married in the Lu Mansion of Lulongfang, Luocheng, Youzhou, but sent off his relatives from his hometown Fan Yang, which was a hundred miles away. Jiningfang in the east of Luocheng, Zhouzhou to see off relatives.

Fortunately, Lu Shi didn't intend to really ask Huaiyu to go to Fan Yang, more than a hundred miles away, to pick up the bride, otherwise the journey would take a few days.

They sent their dowry to the Lu's Manor by the canal outside the city in advance. They all put on red makeup a few days in advance, and they traveled northward in red and colorful colors. Everyone knew about the noise.

Lu 35 also arrived at Lu's Manor three days ago, which is still ten miles away from Youzhou City.

Today there will be another ten miles of red makeup.

Wu Huaiyu rode a horse to meet his relatives in the afternoon.

It has to be said that the Lu family's event was very grand, and it was even more lively than the marriage of the eldest daughter of the eldest son of the family. Not only were the six great clans from Youzhou invited, but even the seven families with five surnames in the Kanto region were invited.

The scene was scary.

Wu Huaiyu is also very clear about the thoughts of the Lu family. Sending a concubine as a concubine, but still paying millions in dowry, not to mention making such a noise, it is really giving Wu Huaiyu a lot of face. This is actually declaring to the outside world, The Lu family, which is located in Youzhou, has now formed a close alliance with Mr. Wu, who is from Youzhou, and even shows Lu's obedience and cooperation with the court.

Of course, Wu Huaiyu must take Lu's face seriously.

North of Luocheng, Youzhou.

This is the North City of Youzhou, a concentrated commercial area and handicraft area, which used to be open in the morning and closed at night.

Since Wu Huaiyu came, he also began to demolish the walls. First, he demolished the square walls in the north gate to create the Tanzhou Commercial Street.

Tanzhou Commercial Street was built very quickly. Wu Huaiyu personally invited merchants, and many merchants from Chang'an and Shuofang came here. Now Tanzhou Street has a lot of shops and industries, and all kinds of goods are dazzling.

For rice, there are white rice, rice, japonica rice, etc. For silk cloth, there are large silk, new silk, small silk, colored silk, silk brocade and colorful silk, small colored silk, and Futou. , cloth line and so on.

Silk weaving, silver metallurgy, porcelain, wine making, book engraving, printing and dyeing, leather, felt, medicinal materials, etc. have significantly improved.

Not only industry and commerce are more prosperous, but also catering, entertainment and leisure are also on the rise.

There are many restaurants, restaurants, teahouses and even brothels on Tanzhou Street.

The Shuofang Guild Hall is located on Tanzhou Street, close to Beishi. This hall is not an ordinary shop restaurant, but was built by Shuofang merchants Tang Fengxiao, Peng Laizi and other Shuofang merchants. It is convenient for Shuofang merchants and tourists to stay here. Organizations are also business liaisons.

Shuofang's officials, family members, businessmen, and scholars in Youzhou came to the guild hall or temporarily rented out for a short stay, or met relatives, banquets, or took care of fellow villagers, contacted fellow villagers, exchanged business information, and negotiated business.

Since the establishment of Shuofang Guild Hall, a large number of Shuofang merchants called by Mr. Wu have been gathered quickly. There are also some officials, merchants, and scholars originally from Shuofang who often come to gather.

Compared with the general guilds of the same industry, this new type of hometown guild hall has stronger cohesion, and it is not limited to a certain industry of industry and commerce.

Today, Wu Huaiyu accepted Fan Yang's Lu family and Shanhou Gao's daughter as his concubines. Tang Fengxiao and Peng Laizi, the officials of the Shuofang Guild Hall, said early that they should prepare some gifts to congratulate Duke Wu.

Everyone is very active. Although Wu Huaiyu is not from Shuofang and has not worked in Shuofang for a long time, the destruction of Liang Shidu and the rectification of Shuofang have had a great impact on everyone. Many of you here have benefited from Wu Huaiyu. Only then will they come upon hearing the call.

"This Fan Yang Lu family is really shameless. She is obviously a concubine as a concubine, but she is doing the same thing as the eldest daughter of their family named Fang Dazong getting married."

"They have given out tens of millions of dowry, isn't it appropriate to have some ostentation?"

Kunlun Nu and Peng Laizi sat upstairs in the clubhouse drinking tea and chatting.

"Is there really a dowry of tens of millions?"

"It can be fake. This is what Fan Yang Lu himself said. I have inquired about it. All kinds of dowries are indeed worth tens of millions. All kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, silk, brocade, satin, fur and silk cloth are not mentioned, and others have ivory and pearls. Emeralds, and light goods like spices are plentiful,

Not to mention the field slaves, cattle and horses, etc., there are many houses and shops, and there are workshops by the way. This is indeed a big deal.

Anyway, the current Prime Minister Fang Xuanling married his wife Lu Shi back then, and that Mrs. Lu did not have such ostentation and dowry. "

Fang Xuanling's wife, Lu Shi, was also from Fanyang Lu Shi. When she was young, she was elegant in nature, graceful in appearance, and a real lady of a famous family. Later, she married Fang Xuanling, Fang Xuanling of Qinghe Fang Shi, Lu's in-law.

The Fang family in Qinghe can be traced back to Sikong Fangzhi in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the time of Fang Zhan, the eighth ancestor of Fang Xuanling, he followed Murong De to cross the land of Qingqi in the south because he was the Taiwei of Houyan.
For hundreds of years, the Fang family has been in government and government. Fang Xuanling’s great-grandfather and great-grandfather were prefects for several generations. He also planned to restore the Northern Qi Dynasty with his relatives and friends, but he was unsuccessful, and he did not serve in the Northern Zhou Dynasty again. It was not until the Sui Dynasty that he became the governor of Sili and moved his family to Chang'an.

Fang Yanqian married the Li family of Longxi as his wife. Although she was the governor of Qi County at that time, she was no more than a censor and was even demoted to a county magistrate. However, Fang Yanqian was a famous talent at that time. famous.

Fan Yang Lu's marriage of his daughter to Fang Yanqian's son is also a normal marriage, there is no such thing as a marriage, and this Mrs. Lu is not born in Fang's direct line.

"However, although Mrs. Lu's family is not a direct descendant, she is also a direct daughter. No matter how much this Lu 35 is favored by his brothers at home, his biological mother is only Mrs. Xiao's married cousin. Being a concubine and being a concubine, Lu Shi is really disregarding face for such a big show."

Kunlun slave Tang Fengxiao laughed.

"Fan Yang Lu knows that Mr. Wu is so good, so he lowered his profile like this. Is Mr. Wu's concubine something that ordinary people can do?
Look at whose family Wu Xianggong's concubines come from?
The righteous granddaughter of Yongkang Gong Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War, the nieces of Fan Xing, the general manager of Suizhou, the grandniece of Duan Decao, the general of Zuowuwei, the two granddaughters of Tan Guogong Qiuhe, and the third granddaughter of Yun Dingxing, Guide County Gonggong ,

The others, such as the Cao family, the Tang family, the Han family, the Pei family, the Gao family, etc., were at least the daughters of a powerful party, and even the two Gao families who used to sweep the Ye court in the palace, their fathers were all anti-kings in the late Sui Dynasty. "

"Even if Mr. Wu's other house is the outer room, it's very big. Banu, who is far away in Chang'an, whose father is now the emperor of Persia, and Mrs. Yang from Youzhou, who is the princess of Huainan in the Sui Dynasty and was once Tuli. Khatun of Khan..."

Tang Fengxiao's own niece is also Wu Huaiyu's concubine. It is his elder brother Tang Fengyi who was originally the governor of Yuezhou.

Tang Fengyi now has to write letters to his son-in-law Wu Huaiyu to greet him and give gifts during the holidays. Wu Huaiyu is too lazy to pay attention to all kinds of flattery, and he has never even met him.

Tang Fengyi was also one of the six major families in Lingzhou. He also worshiped the governor of Yuezhou in Wude, and he was also a marquis. Wu Huaiyu accepted his daughter as a concubine, but he didn't give him any face. This was even before he was demoted.

"That's why, don't look at our Mr. Wu's background, the Wu family in Taiyuan can be regarded as a second-rate noble family at most, but now that the limelight is so strong, even Fan Yang and the Lu family have to curry favor."

"I don't think it's entirely because of Wu Xianggong's favor and power, but because Wu Xianggong has both talent and ability. Fan Yang Lu's family is not stupid, and they can develop with Wu Xianggong's Lu family."

"Hahaha, that's true, but not everyone in Youzhou is as knowledgeable about current affairs as the Lu family, and they are always a little bit pessimistic."

"Are you talking about the Xi people or the Khitan people?"

"Or the Sogdians?"

"It's all the same. There are still a lot of frogs sitting in the well watching the sky, but it's not the Xi people who have made more trouble recently. Do you think the Chaohe, Tanghe, Puhe, Liuhe, and Qingshui rivers are newly included in my Tang Dynasty? , such a commotion, is it because those small tribes refuse to leave, or is it because King Xi secretly ordered it?"

Cripple Peng sneered twice, "What's the difference? Anyway, Mr. Wu has reached an alliance with King Xi, not only in Jinlianchuan, agreeing on the boundary, but also putting the agreement on paper. The alliance between Jinlianchuan and Tang Xi was just a joke ?
During this period of time, my Tang Dynasty sent many people and horses, and those boundary pillars and steles erected on the new border were also erected in vain? "

"Anyway, Mr. Wu has given them a deadline to move out of Tang soil before the end of the year. By the beginning of the third year of Zhenguan, those Xi people who are still in Tang soil will be deemed to have chosen to belong to the Tang Dynasty. At that time, they will be registered as naturalized households and have to pay taxes. Serving in the military, if you dare to resist, it will be regarded as a separatist rebellion,
It's enough to send troops to wipe them out, are we still afraid of these people, and still think that too many slaves will be captured then? "

Tang Fengxiao felt that this matter might be behind the back of Xi Wang Kedu. He didn't dare to reject Wu Huaiyu's demarcation line face to face, but secretly he did not cooperate and provoked those small tribes on the border to riot and resist.

"These small tribes don't need to worry. I'm afraid that when we send troops, the savers will use this to talk about things and start a war,"

"Even if the people who can be saved call on the five tribes of Xi to send troops to fight against our Tang Dynasty, you think that the military minister will be afraid, and at worst they will fight together. At that time, it will be the same as the Northern Wei or Northern Qi, and they will fight against King Xi's tooth tent in Huzhenhe River and capture him [-]. Take the captives and rob him of hundreds of thousands of livestock and return them to Youzhou. At that time, they will make a fortune. How many years of rent adjustment, household tax, and free warehouse grain will be collected in the land of eight states in Youzhou Prefecture to collect so much?
It might even be possible to wipe out the Xi Department directly at that time, and set up a governor's mansion or set up five Jimi states in its territory. "

"Let's make a fuss, the bigger the fuss, the better. That's why I'm famous for my teacher."

"However, the weather is cold now, so we must wait until Mr. Wu is finished as a bridegroom, or even after spending the new year in Youzhou City before sending troops."

"Let's go, we can't be late for Mr. Wu's concubinage banquet. The six surnames in Youzhou and the five surnames in Guandong have all come. We can't lose our courtesy."

Cripple Peng smiled and said that he didn't look down on those ignorant Xibu on the newly expanded border.The few river valleys acquired by the new expansion are quite a lot of land. Mr. Wu has already announced the military settlement plan. The total plan is 150 settlements, which is a full [-] million mu. Can Xi Ren occupy the land on paper?

What's more, some of the land in these river valleys has been sold cheaply to powerful nobles such as the Fan Yang Lu family. The interests of these Youzhou local snakes are consistent with the imperial court. .

(End of this chapter)