A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 700: Night Visit from Uncle Guo
Qin Family White Deer Manor,

In the evening Huaiyu played chess with Qin Qiong.

Qin Qiong's chess game was mediocre, but he still regretted it.
"I heard that you sold all the land in Bianzhou and gave all the land in Guanzhong to your wives, concubines and children?" Qin Qiong snatched back a cart, rearranged it, and asked while thinking about how to go.

"Aye also likes to hear about it now?"

"What's going on? Is this what you meant above?" Qin Qiong now stays in the countryside every day and doesn't care about the affairs of the court, but the matter of Huaiyu selling land has become a bit popular outside.

"Is it related to Hou Junji?" he asked again.

Huaiyu shook his head, "It has nothing to do with the person surnamed Hou, but it has something to do with his teacher. Wei Zheng has been shouting about limiting the land in the court recently. The last time I met the saint, the saint mentioned to me by the way that I now have too much land. ,"

Qin Qiong held the chess piece and remained silent.

After a long time, he said, "I'm not in Chang'an now, so I don't really care about outside affairs. What's going on this time?"

Qin Qiong also owned a lot of land. The Qin family was originally a powerful man in Shandong and one of the best in Licheng. He was an official for generations and became a famous general in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Whether he followed Lai Hu'er, Zhang Xutuo, and Pei Renji to serve the Sui Dynasty, or Later, he joined Wagang Li Mi, or followed Wang Shichong of Luoyang, or then joined Li Tang.
Everyone is very kind to Qin Qiong.

After joining Li Tang, Li Yuan admired him very much, respected his reputation, and granted him rewards again and again, including gold, miscellaneous colors, fields, and even the county lord to renew his string.

In Prince Qin's Mansion, Li Shimin appreciated the most powerful general even less.

The Qin family now has a lot of land and fields.
Of course, he is not concerned about the land now. He is more concerned about Wu Huaiyu, a righteous son and a dignified prime minister. Even if the land is over-occupied, it is not a big deal. If he is brought up to make an issue, it will definitely be just a superficial reason.

"Actually, it's not that big of a deal. Your Majesty was indeed persuaded by Wei Zheng to be more concerned about limiting the land, and I happen to occupy more land. I am also willing to set an example."

Qin Qiong felt much relieved after hearing this.
"Then you are really willing to give up?"

"There is nothing to be reluctant to part with,"

Wu Huaiyu said he had done it, but the actual operation was not so honest. Most of the land in the border states was transferred to the Wu family's business names and became merchant villages. Of course, Wu Huaiyu also promised that if the imperial court would reward the soldiers for their meritorious service in the future, Field, click on the military field of Fu Bing to lack land, and the Wu family will cooperate with the land acquisition.

Corresponding regulations will also be issued within the Wu family business. If the shopkeepers and clerks of the business perform well, they will be eligible to transfer land in the business.

This is all in line with the court's policy.

Of course, whether it is land acquisition by the court or land transfer to company employees, it must be bought and sold at market price.

Qin Qiong smiled.

"Actually, there should be land restrictions, but in reality it doesn't have much effect."

The aristocrats, officials, powerful families, and wealthy people would not be allowed to buy land, and now the court does not have any excess public land that can be used to grant land to the landless and land-deficient people.
Then the imperial court's policy is ultimately a rootless tree.

Should the imperial court spend money to buy land and then distribute it to the people?
How is this possible.

Wu Huaiyu's land expropriation was just a temporary supplement to the fact that there was no land to be awarded to the selected soldiers, and there was no land to reward the soldiers for their meritorious service.

Otherwise, the government military system will collapse immediately.

But this method is also difficult. In the final analysis, it is too unrealistic for the court to spend money to buy land to divide the fields and reward the land.

"I am just a warrior, not someone who has read the books of sages like Prime Minister Wei," Qin Qiong shook his head and did not comment on Wei Zheng's policies, but said that he was willing to cooperate if the court needed it.

"Actually, foster father, you don't have to worry. It's very difficult to actually implement this. If it can't be implemented, we can just express our stance when it's time. There's no need to worry."

Qin Qiong shook his head and smiled.

"Brothers Yan Dao Huai Dao Shan Dao are not young anymore. It's time to start studying. When you are free, you can also teach these brothers."

"Okay." Wu Huaiyu agreed happily.

Before the game of chess was finished, Qin Qiong ended their chat early,

"you should go to bed soon too."

Although they are adopted father and son, they are not suitable for talking in the middle of the night.

As soon as Huaiyu returned to his room, Changsun Wuji brought a box of tea. "I know Erlang likes to drink tea. I have a nice bag of tea here,"

The tea that Changsun Wuji brought was from Shu. It was his uncle Gao Shilian who sent it to Beijing. It was not a stone flower, but a seed left by Marquis Wu.

Huaiyu looked at it and saw that it seemed to be Pu'er tea.

"It is said that when Wu Hou conquered the barbarians in the south, he planted tea trees in Nanzhong. The local barbarians respected Wu Hou as the ancestor of tea. They took care of the tea trees for generations. The more they planted, the more the tea trees grew. Some of them were still there for hundreds of years, so they were called It’s the tea king tree.”

"These teas are produced by the Mengshe people. There is no way to harvest and make them. The Mengshe people cook them with pepper, ginger and cinnamon and drink them."

Huaiyu likes to drink tea. Changsun Wuji brought this tea. It was indeed Yunnan tea. It was a large-leaf tea or an ancient tree tea. Sun-dried green tea was bitter and strong, but after fermentation and aging, the strong taste was reduced. The miscellaneous flavor disappears and becomes mellow, sweet and smooth, with a unique aroma.

The Wu family is now world-famous for its loose tea production, and holds a leading position.The Wu family now harvests tea from Yunnan and makes it into black tea, both loose tea and cake tea. The fermented cake tea is Pu'er.

The Wu family also has Dianhong black tea.

The tea that Changsun Wuji brought was not from the Wu family. It was purely traditional tea made by Meng Sheman himself. It was also loose tea and was very primitive.

"Is Meng Sheman obedient now?" Huaiyu asked with a smile.

Mengshe Man, also called Mengshe Zhao, was located around the Erhai Lake in Cangshan Mountain, Dali, Yunnan. There were six small countries that were not weak in strength, and they were called Liuzhao. Mengshe Zhao was located in the south of all Zhaos, so it was also called Nanzhao.

Today's Yunnan and the Tang Dynasty are also called Nanzhong or Nanning. For hundreds of years, the Tu emperor was the Cuan family.

After the Sui Dynasty conquered the Cuan family several times, and even captured King Cuan and his son and demoted them to Chang'an as palace slaves, the Cuan family fought internally and split into the east and west Cuan families.

In the Yunnan area under the leadership of the Cuan family, in addition to the powerful Han clans like the Cuan family who had moved south since the Han Dynasty, there were also many black and white barbarians.

Meng Shezhao claimed that after Ailao, Benwuman was a different species.

"Meng Shezhao and the Baizi Kingdom of Baiman have been at war for many years, and the Cuan family can't stop it. Zhang Lejin of Baizi Kingdom asked to unite the Baiman tribes, and persuaded the Cuan family to send troops to attack, but Longjia of Meng Shezhao alone couldn't stop it. enemy,
He asked for help from the Governor-General of Yizhou."

Changsun Wuji did not expect that Wu Huaiyu also knew about the small country of Nanzhao, so he also laughed and said that Nanzhao was very powerful in the Erhai area and was a little overlord.
It is said that they were originally from the Shelong clan of the Ailao king. Shelong means big tiger. Later, they took refuge and moved to Xielong. This was originally the Ailao territory, but it was set up as Xielong County by the Han Dynasty and placed under Yizhou.
Later, when the Han Dynasty withdrew, it was occupied by powerful chiefs.

The arrival of the Shelong clan, supported by the Ailao people, and their power continued to grow, and now a tribal alliance with the Shelong clan as the center has been formed. It is called Mengshelong, or Mengshe, and Zhao, which actually means king locally. .

Zhang Lejinqiu is the leader of the Baizi Kingdom in the Baiman tribe. It is said that during the Shu Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang made Baizi Wang Renguo's fifteenth grandson Longyouna the leader, gave him the surname Zhang, and built Ningcheng on Baiya, named it Ningguo, and erected iron pillars. , it was passed down from the 32nd generation to the [-]th generation grandson Zhang Lejinqiu, who was named the leader and general.

Mengshe State and Baizi State are on the border. One is a Wuman and the other is a Baiman. The two families are in constant conflict. In the end, it almost triggered a war between the Wuman and Baiman under the leadership of the Dongxi Cuan clan. Finally, the Yizhou Governor's Office came forward and
As the governor of Yizhou and the governor of Yizhou, Gao Shilian personally mediated the dispute. In the end, Meng Shezhao and Bai Ziguo reconciled.

Zhang Lejinqiu even betrothed his daughter to Xinuluo, the son of Longjiadu, the king of Mengshe, who matched the two surnames.
Gao Shilian went to court, and both families sent their children to pay tribute to the capital.

"Xinuluo is currently in His Majesty's Ten Thousand Cavalry Camp. He is a very tough young man."

Huaiyu nodded after hearing this result.

The current Mengshe Kingdom is actually at most a small overlord on the Erhai Lake. When it came to the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the imperial court deliberately supported the more obedient Mengshe Kingdom to contain it, and even suppressed the Cuan family who had been the emperor of Yunnan for hundreds of years. Finally, Nanzhao replaced him,
But the Nanzhao Kingdom is not a good person. They wavered between Tang and Tubo, and even stabbed the Tang Dynasty several times. Although they were sandwiched between the two superpowers of Tang and Tibet, they were still very good. It did not fall, and even occupied Jiaozhou for a time, opened up the Red River outlet, and even expanded to Indochina, occupying many places.

The Shelong clan of the Mengshe barbarians are quite capable. They are not the kind of local tyrants who hide in the valleys to show off their power. They are very active in communicating with the Central Plains.
From Duan Lun to Dou Gui, and then from Cheng Yaojin to Gao Shilian, the powerful people in Nanzhong are actually any family. Many of them are aristocratic families with hundreds of years of history, and many of them are even those who have joined forces with the big Han Dynasty families who went south. The new Han-Barbarian family has been intermarriage between Chinese and barbarians for generations. They belong to the kind of wealthy family that has been transformed into barbarians, but it still retains some differences.

The Rushelong tribe now has close contacts with Yizhou and Jiaozhou, as well as the Tang Dynasty officials, military, and powerful forces on both sides, and the tea-horse trade route is becoming more and more prosperous.

Just like Changsun Wuji brought this tea, it is a major specialty commodity in Mengshe country's foreign trade.

Take this tea and make a pot,
The tea is definitely good tea. It is a rare large-leaf tea from an ancient tree over a hundred years old. It has a very strong taste, even a little bitter, but has a long aftertaste.

Wu Huaiyu drank tea and was not in a hurry to ask about the reason for his visit. He knew that Changsun Wuji would most likely organize Gao Shilian to return to the court and regain his prime ministership. He himself could not regain his prime ministership, so he wanted his uncle to come back as soon as possible.

It has been five years since the reign of Zhenguan. If they sit down on this cold bench again, the Changsun family and the Gao family will really be in trouble.

Especially today, I saw Qin Qiong and the crown prince's eunuch, Wu Huaiyu was originally the prince's young master, and Tang Jian, the confidant of Emperor Yuanmou, had become the prince's young master.

How could Changsun Wuji not be anxious?

Wu Huaiyu actually did not object to this matter.

(End of this chapter)