A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 746

May night,
In the wooden house in Baqiu Town on the Ganjiang River, after the incident, Forresta took a pillow to prop her up, and then laid her face on Huaiyu's violently rising chest.

"Are you leaving here tomorrow? I've fallen in love with the clear water and beautiful water here, and I can't bear to leave."

Huaiyu stroked her hair and chuckled.

"Yulang, I feel like I will be able to plant it this time."

The night is cold as water.

The night in the small building was quiet and comfortable, even a little cold. Huaiyu pulled the quilt and covered the two of them.

"I'll count the days for you, today is indeed a good day,"

"It has been more than two months since I traveled south from Chang'an. It has been the happiest time in my life. I really want to keep going like this."

"How about you stay here first? The Wu family also has a lot of properties here. I will arrange for someone to take good care of you."

Wu Huaiyu has indeed been on the road for a long time. It is now the Dragon Boat Festival, and the situation in Lingnan is about to enter the next stage, so Wu Huaiyu naturally has to make his debut.

"I don't want it, I'll follow Yulang."

The famous female shopkeeper Hu Ji in Chang'an is as gentle as a kitten. For the past two months, being able to be by this man's side every day is indeed extremely happy for her. She has gained something she has never experienced before. She even thought that if he died suddenly like this, it might be a good thing.

the next morning,
Wu Huaiyu finally speeded up his journey and resumed his pace of traveling hundreds of miles a day.

Go down to Jizhou and enter Qianzhou,
Walking along the Gan River,

Basically, we take the waterway by boat. Except for a few sections of riverbanks such as Wan'an Beach, which are dangerous, the journey is relatively smooth, and marching by water is also relatively easy.
Wu Huaiyu was even more relaxed. On board the boat, he gave lectures to the officers in the martial arts hall of the accompanying camp, taught the military doctors and nurses in the medical school of the accompanying camp, and even taught classes in the engineering training camp.

There is a lot of time left,
There wasn’t much business on the road, and most of the business was undertaken by his shogunate.
He spent a lot of time fishing and spending time with Foresta.

Dahu County, Dahu Mountains.

Get off the boat and take the land route instead.

Wu Huaiyu was walking on the Meiguan Road in Daquling. This road is also famous in Chang'an. It was he who supported Huaiyi's construction. Now walking on this road, he couldn't help but sigh.

The scenery in the mountains is very beautiful. Although it is not the spring when the mountains are covered with mountain flowers, nor is it the late autumn when the mountains are red, or even the winter when the mountains are covered with ice and snow, the green mountains are also very beautiful in the summer.

"There are many plum trees on Meihua Ridge. It's a pity that we came in the wrong season, otherwise they would have bloomed all over Meihua Ridge, and the scenery would have been absolutely beautiful."

At this time of summer, Meiguan Road was very lively.

Since Wu Huaiyi opened up the Meiguan Road and restructured the Lingnan trade route, it has become the most important trade road in Nanling.
Especially one end connects to Ganjiang River and the other side connects to Beijiang River.
Most of the population migration, army mobilization, business travel, and even the envoys of the Hu Shang vassal who landed at Guangzhou Port to go to Chang'an passed through this time.
Meiguan Road is about six feet wide and paved with stones.

The cliffs on both sides are lush with trees and green mountains.

This road is now also an important post road to and from Nanling. There is also a Meiguan Pass built on Meiling.

"Mei Guan was once called Qin Guan,"

The Qin Dynasty opened mountain roads and built three passes in Wuling, namely Hengpuguan, Yangshanguan and Huangjigu Pass, which opened three tunnels connecting the north and the south. Hengpuguan was built on the top of Meiling, so it was also called Qinguan later.

However, this pass had been abandoned for hundreds of years, until Wu Huaiyi received the guidance of his brother Huaiyu to rebuild the pass and reopen the golden trade route.

This project is quite huge, especially for this relatively backward place. It connects Lingnan Road and Jiangnan Road. On one side is Shaozhou in Lingnan and on the other is Qianzhou in Jiangnan. It is particularly difficult to build this project. difficult.

Wu Huaiyi was able to achieve success in the first place because Wu Huaiyu had both a vision for this pattern and the support of the power in the court, who was able to help him formulate a detailed and complete plan, and then reported it to the court to impress the court.

The imperial court directly allocated funds for this road, and Wu Huaiyu brought many nobles and nobles to help, and it was quickly completed.

Now, in just a few years, on this Meiguan Road, there are many pavilions, long and short, and pavilions and pavilions for ten and five miles. There are many department stores and ants walking shoulder to shoulder to pick up the burdens of passers-by.

When Wu Huaiyi was the governor of Shaozhou, he planted many more plum trees on both sides of Meiguan Road, making the Meiguan Road more beautiful.

This road is now crowded with merchants and goods like rain.
It is the busiest commercial road between the Central Plains and Lingnan.
The development of Shaozhou has led to the reconstruction of Meiguan Road, and the busy construction of Meiguan Road has further promoted the development of Shaozhou, and even made Guangzhou Port more lively.

Meiling, Meiguan.

Standing at Meiguan Pass, you can see the mountains and small mountains at a glance.

To the north is Zhangshui, Dahu County, Qianzhou, Jiangnan West Road, and the Central Plains.

To the south is Zhenshui, Shaozhou, Lingnan Road, Guangzhou and the South China Sea.

When Wu Huaiyu arrived at Meiguan, it was already late May.

Doulu Huairang, the governor of Shaozhou, came here with a group of officials from Shaozhou to greet him.

When you reach Meiguan, you will enter the boundary of Lingnan.

"Erlang, you are walking very slowly on this journey. It has been two months since I arrived in Shaozhou."

Doulu Huairang stepped forward with a smile and opened his arms to welcome him.

The two brothers hugged each other, "How is it? Are you still used to it in Lingnan?"

"It was early March when I left Beijing, and Chang'an was still very cold in the morning and evening. As soon as I passed Nanling, it was already very cool when I arrived in Shaozhou. Lingnan is very nice, and I like it very much."

Doulu Huaiyu said with a smile, "The only bad thing is that there are so many mosquitoes here, they are so many, big and poisonous, and they can bite you a lot. I have never been to Lingnan before, so I didn't know mosquitoes were so powerful. On the first day after I came to Lingnan, I... I was so exhausted that I didn’t put the mosquito net in place when I slept. As a result, the next morning, I was not only covered in bumps, but also had red envelopes all over my face.

I didn't know that mosquitoes could target red packets all over my face, and even if I returned the packet, the red spots would not go away for two days. "

"Hahaha."

Huaiyu laughed,
He had never been to Lingnan in the Tang Dynasty before, but he had been to Guangdong many times before and was really impressed by the mosquitoes in Guangdong.

Mosquitoes in other places generally don't stare at faces, but mosquitoes in Guangdong won't give this face.

"I have prepared a banquet to welcome Erlang."

The banquet prepared by Prince Consort Doulu was very sumptuous.

Shaozhou is very rich now, and his role as governor is very beneficial. Eighty percent of the copper in the Tang Dynasty now comes from the Danquan Copper Factory in Shaozhou. The lead and silver mining and smelting here are also very strong.
In addition, the imperial court established the largest mint in the Tang Dynasty here.
This makes Shaozhou very popular now. Not only are there many mines, miners, and smelting sites, but they also collect a lot of taxes. There are even many workshops that Shaozhou has invested its own money to build, which are also very popular.

The influx of a large number of industries and people has also led to the development of farming here.

"The recent chaos in Lingnan has not affected your Shaozhou, right?"

"No, Shaozhou used to be poor in the mountains and valleys, but under the governance of the two governors of your Wu family, it has now taken off. In Lingnan Road, it is definitely second only to Guangzhou in wealth. If it weren't for you, Erlang, who deliberately took over many iron smelting industries, They were all arranged to go to Foshan in Guangzhou, and now those Feng Tie Industries in Foshan are all in Shaozhou, and Shaozhou can get even richer."

"Guangzhou and Foshan have the benefits of rivers and seas, so it's better to put them there."

Of course, the iron smelting industry first requires a large amount of iron ore, crude iron materials, etc., and also requires a large amount of charcoal and coal as fuel. The other is the production of smelted iron products, as well as the processing of raw cast iron products, which are very important for transportation. There is greater demand.

Foshan arose entirely because of Wu Huaiyu’s original industrial plan.

During the Sui Dynasty, Panyu County was changed to Nanhai County to inherit the name of Nanhai County.

Just when Wu Huaiyu made plans to develop iron smelting and foundry industries in Guangzhou, the villagers of Nanhai County, Guangzhou started construction at the selected location and dug out three bronze Buddhas. So they moved the Tapogang where the Buddha statues were dug out. It is called the mountain of Buddhism and named Foshan.

In just three years,
Foshan has become the largest iron smelting and foundry town on the outskirts of Guangzhou. Iron materials from Yunnan and Guizhou are collected along the river, and coal from Jiaozhou is also shipped by sea.

The iron pots and kettles produced here are exported and sold domestically through Guangzhou Port, Meiguan Road, Xijiang Road, etc. The name Guangguo Guanghu is famous all over the world.

Although Shaozhou failed to retain this big industry, it was still an earth-shaking change compared to the past. Not only did the local yamen become rich, but the local people and even the barbarians in the mountains followed suit.

The chiefs of the Wuling Barbarian Tribe followed suit and started mining. Whether they formed a partnership or started a small mine on their own, they all took off under the pressure of the past few years.

As for this guy, who would be willing to fight and kill all day long if his conditions were good?

In the past, the barbarians in Wuling had strong folk customs and many bad customs from the mainland. In fact, they were poor, had a harsh living environment, and were squeezed out.

Therefore, human trafficking has always been common in Wulingman. Not only all kinds of sales, but also serious cases of theft and human trafficking. In many places, there is even a situation of giving birth to children for sale, some of which are not yet born. , he had already pointed his finger at his stomach and sold the child.

Some children were sold in advance even before they were conceived.

Those people are so poor, not to mention going down the mountain to steal, rob, and so on.

Sometimes when faced with natural disasters or something like that, tribesmen would simply join forces to attack states and counties to plunder money, food and people.
But now that the conditions have improved, coupled with the vigorous educational propaganda and severe crackdowns by the two governors of the Wu family, theft and robbery have been greatly reduced, and even human trafficking has also been reduced a lot.

This time there was a lot of chaos on the Yunkai Mountains, with many barbarians rebelling.

But the tribal mountain people in Wuling basically have no participation, especially those in Shaozhou, whether it is Dahu Mountain or other mountainous areas.

It was very calm.

The tribal chiefs here are busy mining or doing business. They are wearing silks and satins, pearls and gems, and they have begun to live a good life with their wives and concubines in groups. Who will play with you? rebel.

Those guys are very submissive to the Shaozhou Governor's Yamen now.

"If Erlang needs us, Shaozhou, to send troops to help suppress the Yunkai Dashanlihu rebellion, we can call on these tribes and mountain people to join the army. Thousands of people can be recruited casually. If it is not enough, we can also temporarily recruit Wanba from various mines. Thousands."

Huaiyu smiled and said, "There's no need to do that. Let's recruit the mountain people and miners from Shaozhou and let them mine."

"Really? I heard that there has been chaos over there recently."

Huaiyu was very calm and calm. In fact, Chen Longshu and Feng Zhidai had already gained the upper hand before. The fight forced Tandian Fusan and others to make peace. Originally, Feng Chen and the others had already negotiated recruitment.

But as soon as he reported it to Wu Huaiyu, he rejected it.

He set out extremely harsh recruitment conditions. As soon as those conditions were reported back to Yunkai Mountain, the Lihu barbarian rebels had no way to retreat and had to start fighting again.

At the critical moment of life and death, the Lihu barbarian rebels also tried their best, and the war became a stalemate again.

Whether it was Tan Dian, who claimed to be the governor of the five states of Yunkai Mountain, or the governor of Gaozhou, Feng Zhidai, or the governor of Rongzhou, Chen Longshu, they all suffered a lot of casualties during this period of fighting.
Huaiyu pointed at the soldiers and horses marching on Meiguan Road in the north of Meiling.

Countless elite soldiers from the Central Plains are coming like dragons!

(End of this chapter)