A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 857 New people replace old ones

May,

The plum blossoms are falling and the wind is blowing up the ships.

The bayberry forest is full of red and the sky is full of red. At first I suspected that each one is worth a thousand gold.

The lychees in Guangzhou are also red, like newborn chickens. The red color starts from the fruit base and slowly spreads to the surroundings. Pick one and peel off the shell. The flesh is crystal clear, and it tastes sour and sweet.

It tastes like first love.

In this sweet and sour season, countless sea-going ships ride the trade winds northward and dock at Guangzhou Port.

The city of Guangzhou also became completely noisy.

Wu Kuan was delighted to have a daughter at this time and held a full-moon banquet. All of a sudden, guests from all over the world gathered at the Yacheng Embassy in Guangzhou, with loud gongs and drums and red flags waving in the air.

Countless people lined up to give gifts.

There is also a lychee forest in the backyard of the Yacheng Ambassador's Mansion.

The red lychees are all over the branches, and the fruits are abundant. The yield is very high. Wu Huaiyu picked off a handful and gave it to Cheng Chumo. Chang Sun Chongniu saw Wu Wu Shisheng and several others.

"It is said that the most delicious lychees in Guangzhou are produced in this small lychee forest in Yacheng Ambassador's Mansion. It is indeed well-deserved."

The fruit is large, fleshy, crystal white, and sweet.

The taste is slightly sour, refreshing and appetizing.

Huaiyu smiled and said, "Do you know why this piece of lychee is so delicious?"

Huaiyi also picked a handful and explained with a smile, "This is all because when you held the lychee tribute a few years ago, you selected the most delicious varieties from all over Lingnan, and then invited experienced local fruit farmers to , transplanted a lot of them and had people take good care of them,"

This lychee garden is not big, but the lychees here are also the lychees that come to Beijing every year.

The emperor, the emperor, the queen and the prince of Chang'an could eat lychees from this garden every year.

"You may think that this lychee garden is not big, but the fruits here are very precious. The best fruits are sent to the capital every year, and the palace and the princes and nobles enjoy them first. The rest are hard to find, so they must be reserved in advance. "

We are all top nobles from Chang'an, so we know this.

In May and June, lychees from Lingnan are sent to Beijing as tribute. If you want to eat fresh lychees, you have to work hard to deliver them in the shortest possible time, otherwise the fruits will spoil.

To keep it fresh and fragrant, you not only have to work hard, but also use many special methods, such as custom-made double-layer urns. For example, you can cut the branches and fruits from the bottom of the tree, put them in the urn, and cultivate the branches with soil.

In addition, a double-layered copper box is added to the outside of the double-layered urn, and ice cubes are placed in the box, which can be replaced at any time. If there is really no ice on the road, you can only use saltpeter to make ice to ensure that it is kept fresh at low temperature.

A fast horse can deliver at most two boxes of about a hundred lychees. A lychee tribute express requires many people and horses, and it has to be relayed along the way. One trip costs at least a thousand dollars, which means that ten horses can arrive in Beijing and a thousand lychees can be delivered. Just fragrant lychee.

If you pay for one, it will cost you thousands of dollars.

Of course, this is the fastest and freshest. If the time is slower, the lychees will not be as fresh and the cost will not be so high.

For example, if you pick lychees directly and put them in a box with ice for delivery, you can carry more, but the taste when delivered to Chang'an will not be as good as the previous one.

After the previous kind of lychees were sent to Chang'an, the branches and leaves of the lychees were still alive, let alone the fruits, as if they were still growing on the trees.

Of course, even if you order fresh lychees, they are still very expensive, and they are so rare that most people cannot eat them. The most they can eat is some dried lychees, which are very expensive.

In Chang'an, fresh lychees are a real luxury product.

Unlike in Lingnan, they are almost tired of eating.

But even in Lingnan, the tribute lychees from the Wu Huaiyu Ambassador's Mansion had to be sold by the piece.

"I'm going to Jiangzhou with an order in a few days. Will Changsun Dalang come with me?" Huaiyu peeled the lychee very skillfully. With a squeeze of his hand, the shell opened in half along the crack, revealing the white and tender inside. of pulp.

Sweet and sour.

"The handover has been completed in Qinzhou. After coming to Guangzhou to attend the full moon banquet of Lian Shuai's daughter, I will return to Chang'an. If Lian Shuai is going to Jiangzhou in the past few days, it will be a good idea to go with him."

Changsun Chong's term of office has not yet ended, but his wedding is approaching.

The wedding is scheduled for early September.

Changsun Chong is now returning to Beijing to make preparations. After all, he is marrying the emperor's eldest daughter.

When the emperor prepared the dowry for his daughter Princess Changle, he made the dowry much higher than that of his younger sister Princess Yongjia. This caused Wei Zheng and others to persuade him that it was not in line with etiquette, and the emperor became angry. Later, after the queen persuaded him, he ostensibly followed the advice. Like flow,

But in fact, in the past two years, the emperor continued to add makeup to his daughter.

Wu Huaiyu has already received the news that Princess Changle's wedding this year will be very grand and grand, and the dowry will be very generous. Anyway, it will be several times more than that of Princess Yongjia, the imperial sister who also got married this year.

The princess has a settlement of three thousand households, but this is a false title.

In fact, a princess's real title is usually only granted to three hundred households, and this real title is not actually awarded until she gets married. However, Princess Changle's real title was directly given to a thousand households, and it has not yet been approved. In place.

As for the imperial sister Princess Yongjia, she still only had 300 households with real titles, and she only received them after her wedding.

Even Changsun Chong, the consort, received an extraordinary reward. He was appointed as the governor of Qinzhou and served as secretary, young eunuch and consort Duwei.

The governor of Qinzhou was from the fourth rank, and the secretary, the young eunuch, was from the fourth rank. It looked like he was downgraded one level, but before Changsun Chong, he was a middle doctor from the fourth rank.

He was appointed as the governor of Qinzhou. He was originally a high-ranking official. He came here to gild. Now he has been working for two years. At the same time he was promoted to secretary and junior prisoner, he was promoted to a senior official, which is the upper level of the fourth rank.

Upgrade three levels. There is only one step left to enter the third level.

Others can only envy, envy, and hate this person who has been promoted.

But I have a good father, a good aunt, a good uncle, and a good cousin wife.

My father has a real seal of 1,300 households, and my wife has a real seal of 1,000 households. Aren't these all his?

Wu Huaiyu was still a little bit reluctant to let go of his eldest grandson Chong Hui. Although this top-ranking nobleman made people envious and jealous, he had a good character and was quite capable in doing things. He was not the kind of person who was good at everything but failed in everything.

During his more than two years in Qinzhou, what satisfied Wu Huaiyu the most was that he was able to obey Wu Huaiyu's arrangements and implement Lingnan's strategic policy. Although the eldest grandson also had private affairs in Qinzhou, everyone was like this. As long as it was within the rules, no matter what the rules, It caused so much anger and resentment that no one actually said anything.

Young Master Changsun is a person who knows how to behave. Such people are rare. People can obviously rob him, but they still abide by the rules.

After he left, the imperial court directly arranged for Wei Shuxie to be the governor of Qinzhou. Wu Huaiyu felt a little helpless.

He originally wanted to arrange for someone of his own, but the emperor appointed him.

This Wei Shuxie also had a great background. He was a Jingzhao Wei family and Zhenguanchu cousins ​​​​who lived together in Shangshu Province. Wei Shuqian was a member of the Ministry of Punishment, Wailang, Wei Jiwu was a doctor, and Wei Shuxi was a doctor in the Kubu. He was known as Sanliesu.

You know, as a rule, uncles and brothers are not allowed to be Langguan in the same province, but the emperor made an exception because he wanted to make a family happy.

Wei Shuxie's official career was very smooth. Five years ago, he was only a fifth-rank official. However, there was internal strife in Lingnan. The emperor specially sent Wei Shuxie and Li Gongyan to visit Lingnan to comfort Feng An and others. Zhidai and other descendants of the Lingnan chieftains brought them back to Chang'an.

Wei Shuxie rose through the ranks and was now appointed as the governor of Qinzhou.

What's more fortunate for him is that when Chang Sun Chong was the governor of Qinzhou, Qinzhou was a lower state. Due to the previous rebellion of the Ning family, the governor's office of Qinzhou was dismissed and Qinzhou was demoted. But now that Wei Shuxie came, Qinzhou was promoted to Zhongzhou.

His governorship was directly promoted to the fourth rank.

This time Wei Shuxie went south with his old partner Li Gongyan. Li Gongyan, the minister of the Sanqi outside the Yuan Dynasty, was appointed as the governor of Guizhou. This Guizhou is not Guizhou in Guizhou Province. It was originally Nanyinzhou (Guigang) and was the governor's palace in Lingnan. one.

Now renamed Guizhou, it is located to the north of Qinzhou, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yujiang River, and to the north of the Qianjiang River. The Governor's Office was once established here, and the location is still relatively important.

Wei Shuxie and Li Gongyan came to Lingnan and served as governors of these two states. It was a bit sudden. These two people had nothing to do with Wu Huaiyu, but they were definitely closer to Wei Ting. After all, they were a family.

Li Gongyan was once a member of Dou Jiande. He was the long history of his general Cao Dan and worked with Wei Zheng. He also has an identity, the Li family of Zhaojun, and the prime minister Zhang Liang knows that he is now the dog of the Li family of Zhaojun.

Their arrival will make Lingnan more complicated.

Knowing that this may be the emperor's deliberate intervention in Lingnan to prevent Wu Huaiyu from gaining too much power in Lingnan.

Wu Huaiyu didn't even have a reason to object. If he really objected, it would be hard to explain.

It's a pity that Young Master Changsun is gone. Otherwise, this guy would have been a good partner. He never had any big ambitions and didn't want to compete for dominance.

But after Wei Shuxie and Li Gongyan came, the two governors may not be so obedient.

While eating lychees, which cost at least a thousand yuan each in Chang'an and were not available without status, several people chatted about Huaiyu's trip to Jiangzhou.

When Cheng Chumo Niu saw Wu Wu Shisheng and others, they envied Wu Huaiyu. Although their fathers were also Dukes of the country, even if Cheng Chumo's father was a real world title governor, he was not as good as Wu Huaiyu who earned a world title himself.

"Jiangzhou is a good place, especially now that Daquling has been opened, the Ganjiang River and the Xianjiang River are connected, and Jiujiang reaches Guangzhou directly. It is a golden trade road. Jiujiang will definitely become Shangzhou in the future. Maybe it will be the next Jingzhou. You guys The Wu family's hereditary governor of Jiangzhou became prosperous,"

"The descendants will be prosperous and wealthy for generations to come,"

Several people are envious. Just one-third of the tax income is enviable.

Jiangzhou now has more than 17,000 households, one-third of which is 6,000 households.

In the past, the maximum number of households that could be sealed off was 1,500, but in fact, only two-thirds of the rent was paid, which was equivalent to the total sealing of 1,000 households.

Comparing the two, Wu Huaiyu, the hereditary governor of Jiangzhou, is equivalent to six 1,500 households, which lasts for generations.

As for the previous real seals, as a rule, the next generation would be reduced to the first level of seals, and the real seals would be one-third of the city, unless there was a special decree not to reduce it.

Cheng Chumo patted Huaiyu without anyone noticing, "You asked me why you submitted a letter before to exchange Jiangzhou for Yizhou. What do you think?"

Huaiyu smiled and said, "Yizhou is also very good. It is an unexplored treasure basin. Seriously, I will recruit a team of people later to form a pioneering fleet to go to Yizhou. Are you interested? ?”

Cheng Chumo shook his head, "I'm not interested."

"You also know that I, Aye, have been granted the title of hereditary governor of Puzhou. Puzhou is located in Shu, sandwiched between Yi and Chongqing. Fujiang and Neijiang flow on both sides, with Suizhou in the north and Zizhou in the south. It looks good. But it’s quite remote there. There are Whirlpool Mountain in the northwest, Tieshan Mountain and Yerong Mountain in the southwest. That place is full of mountains and barbarians.”

"Not long ago, the Jingzhou Mountain Tigers had just been pacified, and when I, Aye, was the governor of Luzhou in my early years, I killed hundreds of people during the suppression of the Tieshan Mountain Tigers."

The Cheng family plans to mobilize the resources of the Cheng family to go to Puzhou and run the business well, but they have no energy to take care of Liuqiu Island for the time being.

　I don’t know why the last chapter was banned, it was so difficult.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)