A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 853 Exchange of Yizhou in the Sea for Jiangzhou

"In the spring and first month of the second year of Huanglong in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, generals Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi sent tens of thousands of soldiers to the sea to seek Yizhou and Danzhou."

"In the third year of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, Sui Yu's cavalry captain Zhu Kuan and his naval commander He Man responded to Yang Guang's order and went into the sea to visit foreign customs. They arrived at Liuqiu. Due to language barriers, they captured a native and returned."

"In the sixth year of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, Chen Leng, general of Wu Benlang, led 10,000 Dongyang soldiers, marched south along the coast to Ngee'an County, joined the servant army obtained during the conquest of Linyi, and set out from Chaozhou to Liuqiu..."

Guanzhong,

Qizhou, Jiucheng Palace.

In early March, the emperor and the queen visited Jiucheng Palace again, leaving the prince in Beijing to supervise the country.

This time, the emperor left all eight prime ministers in Chang'an, except for his uncle Changsun Wuji, as well as Qin Qiong, Yang Gongren, Chen Shuda, Yuwen Shiji, Changsun Shunde, Liu Hongji, Li Xiaogong and other elders.

The conditions for the camp were very good, and the queen's condition had improved greatly. Even Li Shimin felt much more relaxed.

The emperor and a group of senators lived happily hunting and drinking tea.

Li Shimin was a little surprised when he read Wu Huaiyu's latest letter.

"Your Majesty, Yizhou and Liuqiu seem to be the same place, right?" Yang Gongren said.

"Well, it's just east of Zhang, Quan and Fuzhou, separated by hundreds of miles of strait," Li Shimin replied.

"Then Liuqiu Island is not next to Lingnan. Why did the Duke of Jin suddenly mention this place? Could it be that the Duke of Jin has taken a liking to this island?"

Chen Shuda is from the south, but he knows more about Liuqiu Island.

"This Liuqiu Island is not small. It is probably as big as Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou combined."

"Is there a land of three states?"

And Li Xiaogong talked about another incident, "In the sixth year of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang sent General Chen Leng to cross the sea to conquer Liuqiu. He set out from Chaozhou and wandered on the sea for a month before arriving at Liuqiu."

"Don't you mean it's only a few hundred miles apart?"

"That's because Chen Leng's fleet is not familiar with the route. I think back to when the State of Wu sent people to search for Yizhou. They set out from Jianye and finally arrived at Yizhou Island, but it took a whole year."

At that time, Soochow was the weakest among the Three Kingdoms, so Soochow wanted to expand its territory and increase its population. It not only sent a fleet to find Yizhou and Ganzhou, but also later sent people to explore Hainan Island, and even opened a route to Liaodong to establish an alliance with the north. relation.

After Wei Wen and others found Yizhou and landed, they found that the island was good. It had a mild climate and fertile land as the rumors said.

It's just that the local high-mountain barbarians are not very friendly, and they come to drive them away wearing animal skins and carrying various backward weapons. Although the Wu army is the weakest among the Three Kingdoms, it can still divide the world into three parts.

The Wu army easily defeated the barbarians and drove them back to the mountains.

Wei Wen and others began to establish a stronghold, set up camp, and began to reclaim wasteland and farmland. Remembering that King Wu was here to recruit troops for the expansion of the territory of Wu, they sent people to talk to the barbarians, and also sent gifts and communicated with the barbarian tribes. After establishing a good relationship,

The Wu army built a city and farmed in Yizhou. More than 10,000 people worked hard, but the climate was not suitable for them, and the soldiers got sick. The fleet did not bring much medicine, and many of the soldiers died quickly.

After staying for a year, Wei Wen finally couldn't hold on any longer, so Wei Wen returned with the remaining people. When he left, he also found a way to bring thousands of Yizhou barbarians back for business.

This greatly failed Sun Quan's expectations. Under Lu Xun's attack, the last guards Wen and Zhuge Zhi were beheaded, and Sun Wu stopped developing Yizhou.

But after that, the mainland also became aware of the situation in Yizhou. Although there was no official development, many merchants began to go to Yizhou for trade.

Official records of Yizhou say that Yizhou is located in the southeast of Taizhou. The land is frost-free and snow-free, the vegetation is immortal, and it is surrounded by mountains. The savages live in the mountains, and each is their own king, dividing the land and the people. Everyone has their heads shaved, men have their ears pierced, and they have their hair cut and tattooed.

The land is fertile, and they grow grains, fish and hunt. They also say that the whole family sleeps on a big bed and they don’t shy away from having sex.

He can weave fine cloth, dye patterns, and use deer antlers and bluestones to sharpen them as weapons.

After killing people, they leave their skulls and sing like wolves and dogs howling.

They are just a bunch of savages anyway, but the production level is actually pretty good.

By the time of the Sui Dynasty,

Zhu Kuan arrived at Liuqiu and went to Zhaofu Island to pay tribute to the Sui Dynasty. However, the tribes on other islands each claimed their own territory as kings. They knew that there was a mainland to the east of the sea and that there were big countries there, but why did they want to ride the wind and waves? adventure to pay tribute to you?

Yang Guang was most excited about his success and was very unhappy when he was rejected.

At that time, Sun Quan was only concerned about the land and population of Yizhou and wanted to expand the territory and increase the tax base of soldiers. He sent more than 10,000 people to venture there and run the business for a year. Later, he found that he was losing money and never mentioned it again.

Yang Guang wants to build a great cause.

Although Yang Guang had not yet conquered Goguryeo at this time, he had already conquered Linyi and captured its royal capital, defeated Yiwu, overthrew Tuyuhun, and the Turks had surrendered to the Sui Dynasty.

Just when he was about to attack Goguryeo, if Xiaoxiao Liuqiu dared not to fear the Sui Dynasty, he would send troops to attack them and kill them. It was a good time to practice his skills first. Chen Leng and the others were not familiar with the route, so they circled the sea for a month before arriving at Liuqiu. After landing, the people in Liuqiu thought they were businessmen from the Han region and were quite enthusiastic.

When the Kunlun people in the Sui army, who were proficient in Liuqiu language, contacted them, they found out that it was the previous group who came to appease the people who asked them to pay tribute, and they immediately rejected the condolence message again.

So Chen Leng and Zhang Zhenzhou led their troops to attack the barbarians who refused to obey Wang Hua.

Liuqiu Wang Huansi was quickly defeated in Kejidou. The Sui army captured Dimotan Cave and killed Xiao Wang Huansi Laomo.

Later, the Sui army took advantage of the victory and attacked. Although King Liuqiu resisted desperately, he was still defeated by the Sui army. Boluo Tan Cave was captured and King Liuqiu was beheaded.

The Sui army achieved the purpose of their expedition, beheading the kings and kings, and captured Liuqiu Prince Island Chui, as well as thousands of men and women. Finally, they burned the royal city and returned to the dynasty victoriously.

Chen Leng's cross-sea conquest was purely for the sake of Yang Guang's face. They dispatched more than ten thousand troops, spent countless money and food, and even killed many soldiers.

As a result, they left after the battle, neither staying to occupy the captured land nor settling for settlement.

Economically speaking, this is definitely a huge loss.

However, things are actually not that simple. The name of King Liuqiu, "Huan Si Ke La Dou", and the name of Xiao Wang, "Huan Si Lao Mo", actually mean leader in Tianzhu language, and are not their real names. The translation is probably "憍陈" Such as a certain king of the dynasty.

In the second year of Tianjian in Nanliang, the Kingdom of Funan sent envoys to pay tribute. Emperor Wu of Liang directly called King Funan by name in his edict as "King of Funan, Chen Ruyuanxievarman".

The Dimedan where the little king Liuqiu lives is another translation of the old capital of the Funan Kingdom, Viyadapura, which means hunter city. The Polotan where the great king lives comes from the Buddhist scripture "Great Wisdom", which means "Hunter City". Cross the Busch River to get to the other side.

Therefore, the kings and kings killed by the Sui army, as well as the two cities they conquered, were not entirely natives of Liuqiu Island. They were more likely to come from the overseas colonies established by the prince of Funan.

This situation was not uncommon at that time. There was frequent maritime trade between the Nanyang islands, and some royal families went to other islands to establish states. Some even after the defeat of island states, they went to sea to other islands to establish states again, and even later Many of them were killed and returned to restore their country.

When the Sui army conquered Linyi, the Zhenla Kingdom on the Indochina Peninsula annexed most of the Funan Kingdom. Many of the southerners brought back by the Sui army after they attacked Linyi were Zhenla and Funan people. Later, He took them to conquer Liuqiu.

Most of Funan's territory was annexed by Chenla, and its national power was weakened. It was also a common tradition for some royal families and nobles to sail to other islands.

The Sui army would later conquer Liuqiu, and it was possible that the Zhenla people who had contact with the Sui army tried to instigate it. The Zhenla people used the Sui army to attack the forces outside Funan to prevent them from coming back in the future.

The Hindu colonial stronghold of Funan Kingdom on Liuqiu Island was attacked and destroyed by the Sui army.

Wu Huaiyu’s letter to the emperor about Liuqiu is very long.

From the Eastern Wu Xunyi Island in the Three Kingdoms to the previous Sui Dynasty's cross-sea conquest of Liuqiu, it was said that Liuqiu was very large and the indigenous people on the island were weak. However, the land was fertile and the climate was mild, making it an undeveloped treasure land.

It is only a few hundred miles away from Zhangquanfu, but it is as big as the three states of Zhangquanfu.

Wu Huaiyu proposed the development of Yizhou Liuqiu and said that he had mastered the route from Guangzhou to Liuqiu. Of course, the most important thing was,

It was Wu Huaiyu who proposed a deal,

He was willing to lead the army across the sea to conquer Liuqiu for the Tang Dynasty, open up territory for the imperial court, and after capturing Liuqiu, establish Liuzhou for the Tang Dynasty.

Wu Huaiyu asked to be granted the title of Liuzhou.

Feng Jiangzhou was replaced by Feng Liuzhou. This request was really unexpected.

Although Yizhou is large, it is overseas. Jiangzhou is also Zhongzhou, with a population of nearly 20,000 households. Although it is in the south of the Yangtze River, it is in an important position in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The two important waterways and trade routes of the Yangtze River and Ganjiang River are not as good as the end of the Yangtze River. It is a large overseas island of barbarians, and I don’t know how many times stronger it is.

In the emperor's heart, not to mention Liuqiu, which was still in the hands of the barbarians, even Hainan Island, which already had four prefectures in Yadan, could not compare to the governor of Jiangzhou for a lifetime.

Changsun Wuji said, "Wu Huaiyu has always opposed His Majesty's system of granting the title of governor. Now that he has asked to change the title to Yizhou, I am afraid that he will oppose it again in order to make progress."

"Your Majesty, the granting of Yizhou to the world really seems to treat the meritorious officials harshly, and it seems to be demoted and relocated."

"Yizhou is further offshore than Danzhou."

All the elders felt that Wu Huaiyu definitely didn't really want to go to Liuqiu, and that he was just opposing the system of Shifengshishi.

Qin Qiong sat next to him and didn't say much, even when he talked about his adopted son.

"Uncle Bao, do you also think that Huaiyu is complaining and aggrieved? Do you think that my great hero is migrating?"

Qin Qiong stood up and said, "Your Majesty, Huaiyu's letter doesn't look like he is complaining, but it seems like he really wants to do something practical for the court.

Unexpectedly, this Yizhou is actually larger than Hainan Island. The imperial court established four states on Hainan Island. Now the Feng and Xian tribes are vigorously developing the island.

I feel that although Yizhou Island is not as convenient as Hainan Island to communicate with the mainland, its potential is not small. If it can be captured, cultivated, managed, and settled to farm, there may be great potential.

Huaiyu also has a sincere heart! "

(End of this chapter)