A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 835 Everything is fine

In Guangzhou in October, it doesn’t feel cold at all.

Wu Huaiyu finally arrived in Guangzhou with his wife, concubines, and children. Foresta, A Liu, and Runniang and Er Pei, whom he had missed on the way, all came to greet him.

"Oh, there is such a big house in this city. Is this our home?" Fan Wuniang, the monk's maid, was pleasantly surprised. She thought that the conditions would be very difficult when she came to Guangzhou.

"Of course this place is not as good as the Jin Duke's Mansion in Chang'an," Forresta said with a smile. She was half the owner. She used to be a stay-at-home wife in Chang'an, but later she got her status and followed her to Guangzhou. Here, The edge is more familiar.

The current mansion is located in the sub-city of Guangzhou, covering an area of ​​dozens of acres. It is not as big as the Jin Guogong Mansion in Chang'an, and it is not as good as it is, but it is still well decorated.

Runniang told everyone that there was actually more than just this house in Guangzhou.

"Guangzhou is a very big city. It originally had three cities: Yacheng, Zicheng and Luocheng. Now it is expanding the Zicheng and building two outer cities in the east and west."

Yacheng sub-city, Luocheng, is a triple city, while the east and west cities were built outside under the auspices of the governor Wu Huaiyi.

The house in Zicheng was occupied by Fresta. Later, Huaiyu took A Liu in Yongzhou and brought him back to Guangzhou for resettlement. A Liu did not want to live in Fresta's Hu Ji house, so Huaiyu gave her a house in Yongzhou. A house was built in Luocheng.

In addition, Huaiyu naturally has his own envoy's residence in Yacheng, the innermost city.

There is also a large manor outside the city.

Before Huaiyu and the others arrived, Forresta lived in Zicheng Mansion, while Aliu and his teacher Dugu lived in Luocheng Villa.

As for Runniang and Er Pei, after they arrived, they built a large house near the Western Australia Inner Harbor in Xicheng.

A group of women were surprised when they heard this.

I wasn't tired at all on this journey, so I didn't want to sit idle as soon as I entered Guangzhou City. I immediately wanted to go shopping in Guangzhou City, and even asked Huaiyu when he would go see the sea.

"There's no rush. Let's settle down first and have a good rest before taking a boat to see the ocean."

Considering that Yacheng is smaller, the East and West cities are still under construction and are a bit noisy, and Luocheng is relatively chaotic, I finally decided to live in Zicheng.

Of course, Foresta was very smart and did not really regard this as her own territory. She respectfully asked the eldest lady Fan to bring other concubines to the place.

Wu Huaiyu sat at Zicheng's home for a while and then went to Yacheng.

He went straight to the Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou to find his brother Huaiyi.

"I heard that the saint is going to make you the hereditary governor of Jiangzhou? Congratulations!"

In the governor's office, Huaiyi came up with a smile and hugged Huaiyu. He already knew about the appointment as governor.

"This matter has also spread in Guangzhou?"

"Well, it was all published in the imperial newspaper. Which state or county in the world doesn't know about it? To be honest, I was a little shocked when I saw it. I didn't expect that His Majesty not only wanted to divide the clan, but also the ministers with different surnames." Huai Yi sighed and said,

However, the title of Shifeng Governor has nothing to do with him directly. Although he is now a Marquis of Qujiang County, he is only a virtual Marquis. He does not even have a real title of Shifeng or household, let alone a title of Shifeng.

"I am actually opposed to this matter." Wu Huaiyu said bluntly to his brother.

"Why object?"

"Because for the imperial court and the country of Tang Dynasty, this matter would do more harm than good,"

Huaiyi made him a cup of tea, "But for you, my fourth uncle, and our Wu family, it is a great blessing to have two generations of governorship, right?"

Huaiyu shook his head. On the surface it seemed so, but in reality it was hard to tell.

First of all, Wu Huaiyu felt that Li Shimin was the only emperor of all time, so it was impossible for him not to see such a big disadvantage in this matter, so either he was in a hot head or the emperor was deliberately fishing.

Furthermore, if the Wu family really gets the title of governor for two generations, then it will be a big tree that attracts wind and is easy to be attacked. At this stage, the Wu family does not urgently need these two hereditary governors. After all, the warrior Xun is now the prime minister of the dynasty, and Wu Huaiyu is also the official of Lingnan.

Not far better than the two governors,

After taking a few sips of tea, Huaiyu stopped talking about the matter and took the initiative to ask about the current situation in Lingnan.

It's been a few months since he left.

"Everything is fine. On the other side of the left and right streams in Yong Mansion, the barbarians in the Jizhou states are all under your control. The tricks you arranged before were powerful enough, but now the barbarians are constantly fighting among themselves.

Half of the rebel governors who were wanted by you have been killed and replaced by the governors below. However, most of these people were not proud for long. Many of them had just killed the former governor and replaced them, and they were immediately replaced by other governors. People attack,

There were those who were defeated, and there were those who resisted. In short, the Dongman tribes in Zuoyixi were reduced to a pot of porridge. After many tribesmen chiefs were defeated, they had no choice but to come and seek refuge with the imperial court. "

Speaking of this, Wu Huaiyi was very excited. He wished he could be the governor of Yong Mansion and command the battle in Zuoyouxi. Wu Huaiyu's move was really powerful. To capture the thieves, he first captured the king and pretended to attack Zuoxi, and then asked Xi Junmai to sneak attack Huang Jiadong in Youxi and destroy the leader of the rebel alliance.

Huaiyu deliberately besieged the city in Zuoxi for reinforcements. The two battles wiped out a large number of elite forces of the barbarians, leaving Zuoxi completely weakened and leaderless. Then Huaiyu suddenly stopped his march, but issued a proclamation, declaring that only the rebels would be held accountable. The other governors of the state did not pursue the case, and even if they could help the court to eliminate the rebellious governors, they would immediately replace them and confer them the title of new governors.

This caused the left and right streams to become completely chaotic.

Forced by the intimidation of the imperial army, coupled with their own ambitions, and the fact that the barbarians on the left and right are scattered, the current exciting situation of fighting among themselves has emerged.

"Now that you are back, do you want the autumn wind to sweep away the fallen leaves and completely end the turmoil in the left and right streams?" Huaiyi asked expectantly. "Why should I send troops to end the turmoil?" Huaiyu laughed loudly, "The current situation in Zuoxi River is very beneficial to the court. Let them fight in a nest first. No matter how they fight, both the barbarians and the barbarians will lose. We just sit on the mountain and watch the fight. "

Not only was Huaiyu not in a hurry to end the turmoil, he also planned to continue to stir up internal strife and make the civil war last longer.

Of course, the expedition camp to the south was not in a hurry to disband. It continued to advance slowly along the left and right streams, building forts and garrisoning troops. The left and right streams were like two chains. As long as the main lines of the left and right streams were opened, it would naturally radiate to the entire two stream basins. .

These Xiduo barbarians are fighting, and they can also take advantage of the situation to engage in slave trade with them.

The war between the barbarians in Zuoyouxi will produce a large number of prisoners of war. The barbarian market has always been prosperous because of its human trade. This war will only make the market more prosperous and further weaken the power of the barbarians.

During the civil war between the barbarians, the Tang people did business with them.

"Have Huang Cheng, Gong Xing, and Ning Shijing established a firm foothold in the three states of Hangxi?"

"With the imperial court at their back and the support of the conquest camp, there is no chance that they will lose their footing. Don't worry, they are like a fish in water now, and they are in trouble."

"Are you obedient?"

"Very obedient." Huaiyi smiled.

Wu Huaiyu nodded. It seemed that they were all smart people, and those who knew the current affairs were heroes. This would save them trouble.

"Brother, is everything going well in Guangzhou?"

Huaiyi picked up the tea cup, feeling a little helpless, "You have planned everything that can happen to me here, and I will just execute it according to your plan."

The main tasks of Huaiyi, the governor of Guangzhou, are the reconstruction of Sanchong Old City in Guangzhou, the expansion of the east and west cities, the dredging and expansion of the inner harbors of Nanhao and the east and west Aao, and the construction of the outer harbor.

The Guangzhou Dudu's Mansion is currently driven by three powerful carriages, with great power and rapid development. These three carriages are the trade of Guangzhou Port, the iron smelting of Foshan, and the copper smelting of Shaozhou.

"In the three quarters of this year, the number of Hu merchant ships sailing into Guangzhou Port has exceeded the total of last year, and was even twice that of the year before last," Huaiyi was still very excited when talking about this.

Wu Huaiyu knew the number of Hu merchant ships in Guangzhou Port in the past few years. He calculated in his mind and was surprised, "Could it be that there are already 4,000 Hu merchant ships entering Guangzhou Port this year?"

"More than four thousand, almost 4,500 ships."

After receiving the confirmation, Huaiyu was really shocked.

This number is not astonishing.

At the mouth of Fuxu in the southeast of Guangzhou, at the Bay of Huangmu, there is a Boluo tree in the temple, and next to the Boluo River, there is a Tanah Lot Temple, also known as the Boluo Temple, to worship the God of the South China Sea.

Maritime merchants worshiped the sea god here and then went to sea.

Similarly, when Hu Shang's ship arrived in Guangzhou, it also docked at this port.

After decades of expansion during the Sui and Tang dynasties, Fuxu Outer Port was now able to accommodate thousands of large and small ships.

Guangzhou is connected to the Haiyi Road, and the route reaches the Persian Gulf from Guangzhou. This route passes through the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. The West Pole is not only the Persian Gulf, but also the Red Sea and East Africa.

After Wu Huaiyu went south to Lingnan, he also exploited the southeast trade wind, organized merchant ships to sail to the northeast, and opened routes to Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

In the past two years, Wu Huaiyu was in charge of Lingnan and implemented a loose policy towards Guangzhou, encouraging and supporting maritime trade, focusing on the development of Guangzhou's trading port, so that today's maritime trade in Guangzhou Port has indeed soared.

The number of merchant ships coming to Guangzhou Port is increasing year by year, and the east and west goods are also gathering in Guangzhou Port.

Not to mention that a large number of Hu merchants began to do business and settle in Guangzhou for a long time, and there were also Fanfang in the Hu people gathering area, which was no weaker than the West Market in Chang'an.

“There are indeed many ships coming to Guangzhou Port now, including Nanhai Ship, Southwest Yi Ship, Haidao Merchant Ship, Fan Ship, Nanhai Fan Ship, Brahman Ship, Western Region Ship, Kunlun Ship, Kunlun Ship, Persian Ship and Lion State Ship, etc.

Now in the newly built Xicheng and Fanfang, a planned gathering area for Hu merchants, there are already more than 30,000 Hu people. "

Huaiyu was surprised again by this number, "More than 30,000 people?"

"Yes, but the liquidity is high. You also know that many maritime merchants have to wait for the monsoon, so when waiting for the wind, they will anchor at the port, sell and purchase goods, repair the ships, and wait until the monsoon starts before leaving the port. "

Ocean sailing these days does rely more on the monsoon. If you miss the monsoon, you have to wait for more than half a year.

"Although we have been working hard to build Guangzhou into the largest trading port in the Tang Dynasty, we must also strengthen the management of these Hu merchants and feudal lords, set up fanfang, and arrange the Hu merchants together. Although it is beneficial to management, we must also prevent these Hu merchants from gathering together. Later, he refused to obey the rules,

I would like to make some suggestions. Fanfang must strictly implement the laws of the Tang Dynasty, and no fanfang should have extraterritoriality. Secondly, those who come ashore are not allowed to carry weapons..."

Regardless of whether they are Fubosi, Black Kunlun, Nulinyi, Jingdian, or Dwarf, they must strictly abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

Hu Shangfan people were not allowed to live in the market with other people. They had to live in special fanfangs and were subject to strict supervision and management. They had to register for entry and exit, and even had to declare in advance.

Anyone operating or living in Datang must pay taxes in accordance with the law...

Huaiyi asked his brother, "Are the maritime merchants allowed to be naturalized and settled in the Tang Dynasty? Are they allowed to marry wives and take concubines in the Tang Dynasty? Are they allowed to buy land, build houses and buy properties in the Tang Dynasty?"

　Keep up the three updates, come on.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)