A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 856 Wu Liuer

"Why did Alang suddenly fall in love with that deserted island in Yizhou?"

These days, many people have asked Huaiyu this question. They really can't understand that no matter how bad Jiangzhou is, it is still better than Yizhou. Besides cannibal savages, what else is there in Yizhou?

"Yizhou is not as good as Zhuyazhou."

Faced with these questions, Huaiyu just smiled.

At night, I spend time with my eldest wife. Fan Xuanfu is about to give birth, so Huaiyu spends more time with her.

Fan Xuanfu couldn't help but talk about this matter.

"I have twenty-five brothers, thirteen nephews, nineteen sons, and more than sixty sisters, daughters, nieces," Huaiyu said, lying on his side, looking at his wife and smiling, "There are so many Children need to be raised and trained, which requires a lot of resources, so I have to work hard."

"To be honest, Yizhou is really a hundred times stronger than Jiangzhou. It's a pity that neither the emperor nor the prince agreed to change the title. Fortunately, the teacher helped me speak. The prince had an order to move Yizhou to the foot of Lingnan Road. I was allowed to It’s cheap.”

Fan Xuanfu was also lying on her side, holding a pregnancy pillow designed by her husband, which made her with a big belly feel a lot more relaxed.

"What's there in Yizhou?"

"Yizhou is very big. It is about the same size as Zhuya County, which is jointly developed by Feng Xian and his family, or even a little bigger. You have to know that since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered South Vietnam, nine counties were established in Lingnan, and Zhuya and Dan were established on Hainan Island. It started in Erliang County and has been in business for more than 60 years.

However, later the Luo Yue people resisted fiercely and a great famine broke out in Guanzhong. Finally, the Western Han Dynasty withdrew from the island.

For the next five hundred years, Hainan Island was just a distant territory. It was not until Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties that Yazhou was established in Hainan itself.

Feng Rong's son Feng Bao married the female leader of the Xian family of Li people. With the Xian family, there were more than a thousand creeks on the island. Since then, Feng Xian and Hanli have joined forces to jointly develop Hainan Island. Now the four states on the island have developed most of the coastal plain area on the island and have begun to penetrate deeper into the hinterland of the island."

Huaiyu and his wife counted in detail the huge benefits brought by the marriage of the Feng and Xian clans and their joint efforts to develop Hainan Island.

It’s no exaggeration to say that there are mountains of gold and silver.

And to be honest, the Feng Xian family may not have developed even one-tenth of Hainan Island, and the potential is unlimited.

"Actually, I have also begun to participate in the development of Zhuya Island," Huaiyu told his wife with a smile. How could he let Hainan Island have such great resources?

After previously reaching a cooperation agreement with Feng Xian and his family on the development of Xuwen Port, he quickly proposed that he want to enter Zhuya Island. Feng Xian and his family were a little reluctant at first. They regarded Zhuya Island as their own. The garden is a forbidden place,

But Wu Huaiyu is not the kind of person who blindly exploits and robs. He has always been about win-win cooperation and mutual benefit. I am not the one who grabs the cake, I am the one who makes the bigger cake.

Feng Xian and his family have been developing Zhuya Island for several generations, but the speed is still a bit slow. Wu Huaiyu can bring policies and technology, etc.

After several rounds of negotiations, Huaiyu also showed his sincerity and strength, and has now reached a preliminary cooperation intention.

Many noble generals from the Central Plains led by the Wu family entered Zhuya Island, of course not to engage in real estate, but mainly to develop seaports, then shipbuilding, fishing, agriculture, and then minerals. Hainan Island still has a lot of valuable minerals. There are many gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin and other ores.

In addition, there are also very valuable things on the island, such as agarwood, ebony, rosewood, rattan utensils, kapok cloth, etc.

There is also a lot of land that can be reclaimed on the island, which is suitable for plantations and growing cotton, sugar cane, etc.

Wu Huaiyu and other cross-river dragons will not directly compete with Feng Xian and others for territory, but will march into the hinterland of the island, such as going deep along the Nandu River on the island to develop colonies, mine, log and colonize,

They have even chosen a location to build Qiongshan Village, which will be used as a base to be upgraded to Qiongshan County and Qiongzhou in the future.

The martial arts family of Zhuya Island and the nobles of the Central Plains will all have a hand in it.

But Wu Huaiyu is not only satisfied with this,

Compared with Zhuya Island, Yizhou is a treasure land that has not yet been developed at all.

He had previously found someone to learn about the detailed process of Zhengliuqiu in the Sui Dynasty and learned some of the inside stories.

For example, the Sui Dynasty defeated King Liuqiu and conquered Dongzhai, which was actually the colonial stronghold of Funan State across the sea to Liuqiu.

That little king was originally a descendant of the Funan royal family.

Funan is a large country in Indochina. It was founded in the first century AD and is still there today in the seventh century. It was just beaten to death by Chenla.

But from the first century to the seventh century, it was indeed glorious. This country's territory is in the southern part of the Indochina Peninsula.

In the past few hundred years, it has also experienced three dynasties, the Hun Dynasty and the Fan Dynasty that established the country, and the current Kochenru Dynasty.

The Kochenru dynasty has been in power for three hundred years.

Liuqiu Huansi Keji Douwang sailed out to colonize from the Funan Kingdom. After all, the Funan Kingdom was once the dominant power in the southeast. Although they are now defeated by the Zhenla Kingdom, they are so skinny that a camel is bigger than a horse. They are originally He is good at maritime trade, shipbuilding, fishing, etc., and has good war equipment and experience.

He ran all the way to Liuqiu Island, immediately attacked the island's barbarians, established a colonial stronghold, and became the king and hegemon here.

It's a pity that the Zhenla people knew their details, so they approached the Sui Dynasty and borrowed a knife to kill them.

However, after careful study of these insider details, later generations found that the lights of swords and shadows were quite exciting, but they were not worth mentioning in the official history of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Those historians in the capital would not study carefully whether Huan Si Ke Ci Dou was from Funan, nor what the translation into Chinese meant, nor would they explore their real names, nor did they care where they came from.

In their eyes, on Liuqiu Island, he is the barbarian king of the island.

If they refuse to surrender and pay tribute, then they will conquer across the sea, and then the Sui soldiers will kill the kings and princes, capture the princes, and bring thousands of men and women back to show off the prestige of our country and punish the barbarians. That is enough.

Wu Huaiyu was surprised when he learned about it carefully.

But in fact, the Sui army's conquest of Liuqiu only happened twenty-three years ago, and many people who participated in that war are still alive.

For example, the Ning family of Qinzhou participated in the Sui Dynasty's conquest of Linyi. Later, many of the Ning family who conquered Linyi were called to participate in the cross-sea conquest of Liuqiu.

Many people even acted as translators.

At that time, the Kunlun language spoken by Liu Qiu Huan Si Ke Ji Dou Wang and others was actually very obvious. People from the Central Plains referred to Nanyang people, including those from the Indochina Peninsula, as Kunlun people. They also called the slaves sold from there Kunlun slaves. They thought these people were dark and ugly, but they liked them to be docile and obedient.

Wu Huaiyu collected a lot of information and learned deeply that it was not only the Funan people who went to Liu to establish colonial strongholds, but also the Luzon Islands, Borneo and other major Southeast Asian islands. The indigenous forces from all sides were also moving back and forth. Moreover, in these peninsula and island countries, maritime trade is relatively prosperous. Tianzhu merchants trade and preach, and their influence is profound.

Until later the Arab maritime traders arrived,

Now that the Arab Empire has risen,

But the Persian Empire and the Byzantine Empire were still like two mountains standing in front of them.

The Arab maritime merchants have not been able to replace the Indian merchants and become the largest maritime merchant in Southeast Asia. Naturally, they have not yet been able to spread their religion to Southeast Asia, where Hinduism and Buddhism are still the dominant religions.

The people of Indochina and the Nanyang Islands are like a huge loose alliance, and they still have a lot in common in terms of culture and Chinese religion.

Since the Sui army struck like a thunderbolt, commanding more than ten thousand troops to attack across the sea, the Funan colonists on Liuqiu were considered to have suffered a disaster.

Although there were still some people left later, after more than twenty years, they were still insignificant and disappeared among the barbarians.

Wu Huaiyu was very confident that there was no need to send thousands of troops on an expedition. A random fleet of 1,800 people would be enough to build a stronghold on the island first.

Then you can start your business slowly, first doing business and trading, and then getting some people to build manors and farm fields. The stronghold will continue to expand and slowly encroach.

The colonists in the Age of Discovery all did this, or we don’t have to wait until later. Southeast Asian countries in this era, and even earlier, had already done this.

Huaiyu had even planned that the first step would be to build a fortress on the Penghu Islands and build a port and wharf, which would then serve as a transfer station for trade, a supply point, and even a haven for fishermen.

The bridgehead of Penghu is built, which can be used to advance, attack or retreat, and it also facilitates trade.

Then go to Tainan to land, occupy suitable ports, and build fortresses and strongholds, first along the coast and then inland, from south to north, from west to east, step by step.

This huge treasure house is enough for the Wu family to slowly gnaw at it for hundreds of years.

"It sounds so far away. Is it really worth spending so much effort?" Xuan Fu asked.

"Actually, it doesn't take much effort. We all told you to get a few boats in the early stage and get a few hundred people to go there."

"I'm not afraid of the islanders. After all, they are indigenous people and their numbers are powerful. Moreover, on this strange island, what if the acclimatization and soil are not suitable for them and there is an epidemic?"

Huaiyu smiled, this is just Liuqiu, and it is not the New World of America. It is not much different from Fujian. Just bring more medicine. And as long as you are familiar with the routes and waterways, Liuqiu is actually very close to Penghu and Quanzhou. close.

"Did you know that from Quanzhou Port to the west bank of Liuqiu, it can be reached in one day and night, or in three or four days at most. It is very convenient to travel there, unless it is affected by storms or heavy rains."

"It can be reached in a day and night, but it is so close. I heard before that it took the Soochow Navy a year from Jianye to Liuqiu, and that the Sui Army also took a month at sea from Chaozhou to Liuqiu. I thought it was deep in the East China Sea. "

“It’s not as close as Leizhou and Zhuya Island, but it’s really not that far away, so it’s very valuable for development and management and worth a try.”

Fan Xuanfu likes to listen to what her husband has to say, whether serious or not, he is always so charming and can never get enough of him.

"oops,"

Just as she was looking at her husband filled with joy, suddenly her amniotic water broke and she said, "Ms. sir, my water has broken and I'm about to give birth."

Huaiyu had been accompanying his wife these past few days, and he had already calculated the date and was mentally prepared. He immediately picked up his wife without any haste, and then called the maids and maids,

Boil water, boil water,

Prepare clean towels, clothes, and boil scissors in boiling water for disinfection.

Fan Xuanfu gave birth to her fourth child.

Very experienced,

I also had prenatal check-ups and the fetal position was normal.

After the amniotic water broke, the pain came quickly, and there was a rush. About half an hour later, there was a loud cry, and the daughter-in-law of the Wu family came into the world.

"Hurry up and bring your daughter to me."

The newborn daughter of the Wu family was still crying. Her little face was very white, but very wrinkled, making her look a bit ugly. Fan Xuanfu has always been looking forward to having a lovely daughter. He was thinking about giving birth to a daughter for the fourth time. But when he held it in front of him and took one look, he was stunned.

This child is too ugly.

"It's like this even after birth." Huaiyu hugged the baby and said to her.

Fan Xuanfu said helplessly, "The first three are also born ugly, but it doesn't matter that they are boys. This is a girl. I thought she would look better."

"It will look better if it grows longer," Huaiyu smiled and handed the child to the nanny. They would bathe and dress the child first.

Because the couple had a heart attack when they were discussing Liu Qiu, Huaiyu named her daughter Wu Liu after Wang Pang.

Wu Liu, Wu Shiba Niang, the eldest daughter of the Wu family.

The little girl took a bath, changed into a close-fitting and comfortable cotton dress, wrapped herself in a quilt, and fell asleep quickly.

Here Fan Xuanfu also cleaned up and changed his clothes and lay on the bed. Looking at the little one next to him, he felt very cute again.

There is no need for a girl to undergo a major transformation, she has already become more beautiful in just a moment.

(End of this chapter)