A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 922 Pay tribute

One batch after another of prisoners was sent.

Wanda, the governor of Liuzhou, was smiling all day long. When Wu Huaiyu said that he would wipe out the island barbarians, he really meant sweeping all the tribes. The thirteen major tribes in the surrounding area wiped out twenty-one of the nine tribes in one go.

Now there are only a few tribes left among the nine tribes, and the other four tribes that did not participate are also trembling at this time. Wu Huaiyu invited them to watch the battle before, but they naturally did not come.

But now as the dust of the war has settled,

Not only were the six thousand 'warriors' from the nine divisions and twenty-one divisions wiped out, but all their strongholds had also been wiped out.

No one knows whether these Tang people will continue to send troops to attack them.

In panic, all the tribes and branches sent people over.

He also brought many gifts such as deer skins, animal meat, and rice.

When people from each tribe came, Wanda asked his officials to take them to visit the construction site of Liuzhou City, which was being built.

Liuzhou City is planned to be very large, but for the time being there is only one phase of the project, which is Dongcheng, also called Dongning City. This city is not very big, and the outer city will be expanded in the future. Dongning City will then be the inner city. City, or sub-city.

Even though Dongning City is not big, in the eyes of the island barbarians, such a rammed earth city is still enough to intimidate them.

Regardless of whether you were a leader, an elder or a witch doctor before, you all have the same identity here, a prisoner.

"Go back and tell your leader what I said to the governor."

What's more, bringing them here to visit also allows them to see the captives of the defeated tribes.

More than 10,000 men, women, and children from the 21 tribes now work here.

The chiefs, witch doctors, etc. of the tribe sat together.

Each of them looked solemn. They had not joined the attack alliance before. Each had their own reasons, but they were also afraid of those people coming from the sea.

These leaders still remember that a few decades ago, many ships came to the sea, and many dark-skinned people came down who claimed to be from the Funan Kingdom. They were also familiar with those Funan people, because Funan ships often came to trade in the past, but that time He picked up many ships and began to attack them when they came up.

After defeating them, the Funan people became king and built cities. Many tribes were defeated and forced to surrender. They built cities for them, hunted and farmed for them, and paid heavy taxes.

Many supervisors stared at them with whips. If they didn't work hard and were lazy, they would just be whipped.

"How about we move away?"

Later, another large fleet came with tens of thousands of troops. This time the man who came claimed to be a general of the Emperor Daye of the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains, and wanted the Funan king to surrender to the Sui Dynasty and pay tribute.

The Funan people refused, so the Sui army attacked. The two sides fought fiercely, but in the end the Funan people were defeated. The king and the prince were killed, the prince was captured, the royal city and the two major cities were burned, and thousands of people were captured.

"That noble man claimed to be the governor of Liuzhou under His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, sent to govern the people of Liuqiu Island,"

Someone you can’t afford to mess with.

The people who came now also claimed to be sent by the Emperor of the Central Plains, but they were from the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The leaders could not tell the relationship between the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but they knew that they could not afford to offend them.

But there are not many people who support this proposal, because there are many tribes in the north, and they are not weak in strength. There are few people in the mountains, but the tribes there are more fierce and barbaric, and they are definitely not easy to mess with.

Organize households and people, pay taxes and serve,

This is the only option for the tribes on the island.

Someone asked, every piece of land has an owner. If you enter other people's territory to hunt, war will break out, let alone if you want to build a home on other people's territory.

"Move north, or move east to the mountains,"

"Where to move?"

Especially after the disastrous defeat of the Pabra clan, it made them understand even more.

Those who obey will prosper, those who go against will perish. Wanda did not say this directly, but the meaning was revealed.

"It's the same sentence. Liuqiu has been an inseparable part of China since ancient times. I think back then..." Wang Da gave a long speech, talking about Liuqiu Island very early. It used to belong to China, so we are here now, not to invade or bully you or anything like that, but to reaffirm His Majesty the Emperor's right to rule.

Wanda said, and gave the tribe many gifts, including silk, porcelain, tea, sugar, wine, salt, and even several exquisite horizontal knives, as well as a set of the Nine Confucian Classics and the Four Taoist Classics.

The envoy returned to the tribe with these exquisite gifts. While showing off the many exquisite gifts given by the nobles from Haixi, he also reported in detail what he had seen along the way and the messages passed down by the nobles from Haixi.

"Your Excellency asked us to report the population, mountains, forests and fields of our tribe within one month. He also said that this year we can be exempted from taxes, but starting from next year, we need to pay taxes according to two taxes, but we will be given three and a half years of preferential tax treatment.

He also said that we should set up townships in our area, with tribes called townships and clans called li. The tribe leaders should be appointed as township elders, village chiefs and village chiefs.

He also said that he would set up a store in our village to purchase local products and sell salt, cloth, tea, wine, groceries, etc. We are welcome to trade in Liuzhou City in the future, and he also said that the price will be more cost-effective than before..."

The tribal envoys who had visited the construction site were even more respectful when they came to see Governor Wang again.

The old patriarch pulled out a horizontal knife that was given to him, looked at it for a long time, and finally tried it out. It was able to cut cattle hides and stab wooden stakes. It was far more powerful than their weapons.

After a few wry smiles,

"Don't move,"

"We are neither moving north, nor east, nor south. We will stay here. This is our territory passed down from generation to generation,"

"But we can't defeat those people."

"We don't have to fight them,"

"Clan leader, you can't trust those people. If they don't come to fight now, they can do it later. Who can trust them?"

The clan leader sheathed his sword, "You all know that the Tang people defeated 6,000 people with 2,000 people, and immediately wiped out all 21 villages. They killed and captured more than 10,000 people in such a short period of time. , but do you know how many casualties they had?"

The news brought back by the envoy was that only dozens of people from the Tang Dynasty died.

This news is unbelievable, but the envoy saw with his own eyes that the Tang army was training on the beach, and there were indeed no less than two thousand soldiers.

The scary thing is not that the Tang people won more by fighting less, nor that they were able to quickly wipe out the villages of the 21 tribes after winning.

The really scary thing is that the number of casualties they paid to win this battle was less than a hundred. He killed hundreds of people and captured more than 10,000 people, but only a few dozen of them died.

In the battles between their tribes, sometimes dozens or hundreds of people died in large conflicts.

In other words, the Tang people have not lost any strength at all. Since they have the ability to wipe out twenty-one of the nine tribes so quickly, then if they really want to continue fighting, they don't have to stop at all.

There are only a dozen clans left, and even ten thousand people cannot gather together. If we really have to fight, it will be easier than last time.

But the Tang people did not come to fight, but offered good terms.

Organize households and people, provide money and pay taxes.

The conditions are much better than when the Funan people came before.

"But why should we pay taxes and tribute to them?" Some people were unwilling.

The old patriarch narrowed his eyes. His grooved face and tattoos all showed that he was a brave warrior. Although he was old now, his prestige was still there.

"The Wild Boar King of the Pabra Tribe has the same idea as you, but what about now? I heard that his hands and feet were chained with iron chains, and he fished stones from the sea to build castles for the Tang people. His fate was worse than that of a dog.

His wife and children are equally miserable,"

"Do you think you are stronger than the Wild Boar King? Or do you think our Asu tribe is stronger than the Pabra tribe?"

The young man fell silent.

"Tomorrow, I will go to the beach in person to meet that noble man and have a talk in person."

Everyone was silent,

They have no other choice,

As long as those Tang people are really willing to leave a way for them, they have to accept it even if they are unwilling.

Unless they are willing to be destroyed like those tribes.

In the next period of time,

The Tang army stopped dispatching and stayed in the seaside camp. They trained for half a day every day and then built the city for half a day.

Dongning City was built very quickly.

There is another Anton Castle not far away that is being built faster and is almost completed.

Anton Fort and Dongping Fort face each other across the inland sea, and they seem to be standing guard with swords on their sides guarding Dongning City.

Houses are also being built in Dongning City.

Wu Huaiyu is still wandering,

He was busy planning for the Wu family's business to open commercial villages in Liuqiu. The first batch of twenty villages, one hundred thousand acres of land, was arranged for Qianjintang and other twenty businesses under the Wu family's name to come and reclaim the land.

You can pick any land, cattle, farm tools and seeds are not a big problem, but people are still the bottleneck.

Fortunately, businesses such as Wu's are now very big, and semicolons are popping up all over the place, allowing each semicolon to recruit workers locally. In the early stage, it was difficult to directly attract people to settle here.

But it's much easier just to recruit workers.

In particular, it can be less direct. First, recruit farm workers and provide various generous benefits, and then reveal that the Fuzhou Governor's Office will come to farm.

If the tasks are spread out, a business will need at least fifty hired villagers. It is actually very easy to recruit ten or eight for one semicolon. Of course, if you can recruit more, the more the better, and there will be rewards for recruiting more.

Anyway, the bottom line is that this spring we will open 20 commercial villages with 100,000 acres of land, and at least 1,000 strong laborers must be obtained first. The Wu family's twenty villages, each with 5,000 acres of land, only plan to plant 500 acres of rice, and another 500 acres of sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, soybeans and other miscellaneous grains. The remaining 4,000 acres will be planted entirely with sugar cane and cotton.

In particular, sugarcane is the most important crop. In the future, sugarcane flowing here will become an important export commodity. This is a pillar industry to be built.

So here Wu Huaiyu had to be busy asking various businesses to recruit people to buy cattle and purchase farming tools, and here he had to start preparing to build a sugar workshop.

In the afternoon,

Wu Huaiyu welcomed another fleet at Anping Port, and a large number of people boarded the pier.

Among these people are the Shouzuolang family members who came from Ludao, Shanyue slaves sent from Longxi, and hired workers from the Central Plains. There are even a small number of people who have heard about various welfare propaganda about land allocation and land allocation here. The poor people in the coastal areas of Fujian and Vietnam want to give it a try.

Wu Huaiyu personally went to the pier to greet them, and also prepared brown sugar hot water and freshly baked steamed buns to welcome them.

The governor Wang Da came over from Dongning City on the opposite side by boat. As soon as they met, he said hurriedly, "It's done.

The remaining eleven tribes of the four tribes in this area, plus the remaining four tribes of the nine tribes, have all surrendered,"

"The chiefs of the fifteen tribes all came, bringing many tributes such as deer skins and rice, as well as maps and population numbers of their respective tribes..."

"They are willing to accept all our conditions, are willing to open households, and are willing to pay taxes..." Wanda said excitedly, even dancing a little. He was so excited because it meant conquering this area. Finally, Liuzhou has really established its foothold and can develop with peace of mind.

Wu Huaiyu just smiled slightly after hearing this, knowing everything was under control.

(End of this chapter)