Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 490

Shanyang's spring plowing work is very busy, especially this year, the farmers' children have opened up and planted medicinal fields that no one has tried before. For various herbal crops, they and Sun Xiangfu have to follow up almost the whole process. The side sent more than 2000 students to the medicine field to help. In mid-May, the thousands of acres of medicine fields that were replanted from the flower fields outside the city finally began to emerge. At this time, Sun Xiangfu finally received the battle report from the Northeast .

To his surprise, Yuangai Suwen did not die in the hands of Li Shimin in the end, but died in the hands of the people of Goguryeo. The strong city of Pyongyang was rebelled by the people of Goguryeo without letting the Tang army spend a single soldier. It was breached, and Yuan Gai Su Wen plundered the entire Goguryeo, and the wealth obtained was also used by Li Shimin as a popular project, and distributed to those young men who turned against each other and incited Yuan Gai Su Wen to recruit from various places. The common people, the surrendered generals who overthrew his rule over Pyongyang City, and those who actively helped to promote the benevolence and righteousness of the Tang Dynasty, so that the Tang army could smoothly take over the various local states and counties of Goguryeo.

Afterwards, Li Shimin held a grand military parade under the city of Pyongyang. Nearly 30 soldiers of the Tang army who marched east attended the parade. The kings of Silla and Baekje, who came to watch the ceremony, received them by their side.

Half of the young and strong soldiers of these two small countries were killed by Yuan Gai Su Wenkeng under the city of Yanjin. They had almost no resistance against the Thirty Tang Army. Therefore, Zhang Gongjin led the troops to take over the military administration of the two countries smoothly. Power, with the generals of the Tang army as the main structure, has undergone a major change in the management systems of the two countries.

In fact, Li Shimin was very annoyed by the actions of these two countries before. It is a typical scumbag type. He did not kill the two kings this time because of his own reputation. Like the lord of a small country in the Western Regions who surrendered, he conferred the title of county magistrate and marquis, and gave them a salary of several hundred guan every month to let them live in Chang'an.

After everything settled down, Li Shimin announced the establishment of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate to manage the entire Northeast and the Korean Peninsula. , The loser manages the military of the entire Korean peninsula, with [-] soldiers from the Tang Army and [-] soldiers from Silla, Baekje, and Goguryeo, forming the Andong Army.

Heishui Protectorate Mansion, with Cheng Mingzhen as the protector, has [-] Tang troops, [-] Mohe troops, and [-] Goguryeo descendants. Heishui Army manages the east of Kaiyuan, the old land of Mohe tribe, and [-] people along the northern coast. Yuli's Heishui Mohe and many ethnic minority tribes border the ghost country of the European plate.

Dongyi Dufu, the guardian is Zhang Jian, with [-] Tang troops under his banner, three tribes, Qidan, Shiwei, a total of [-] tribal troops, and Dongyi army composed of [-] Goguryeo soldiers. , Mengbu, Khitanbu, and part of the original northern part of Goguryeo.

As for Xincheng, Liaodong, Anshi, Jishi, Beisha and other important population towns that were close to Hebei Road, they were all placed under Hebei Road, the defensive fortresses were demolished, and prefectures and counties were set up for governance. The population here is relatively large, and the degree of Sinicization is relatively high. , it no longer needs to be managed as a special zone for ethnic minorities.

After drawing out several major population towns along the Hebei Road, there are about 300 million civilians and 18 troops under the rule of the Anton Dadu Hufu. Zhang Gongjin has become a senior official at the governor level of the Datang State Road, actually managing the population and military strength The most governors, this is also Li Shimin's affirmation of his contribution to the Eastern Expedition.

Su Dingfang was transferred by Li Shimin from the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate to become the Anton Protectorate. Then, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate side lacked a senior general who commanded the front army. After coming over, he served as the deputy governor of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate and the commander-in-chief of the military of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate.

This is tantamount to fulfilling Niu Jinda's rank issue in advance before he returned to the court for the big award. You know, before Su Dingfang was just the captain of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate Zhechong, the governor of the Anbei Army, and did not add the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate. The title of deputy governor, once this position is increased, Niu Jinda will no longer be inferior to the general of the Sixteenth Guards, and his rank is also the third rank. Moreover, after Li Shimin returns, his title of duke may not be lost. .

After everything was arranged properly, Li Shimin inspected the land of the two small countries of Silla and Baekje, and asked Hou Junji to lead the main force except for the remaining troops to return to Chang'an by land. Yu Chigong, Zhang Liang, Liu Hongji, Duan Zhixuan and other ministers went south by sea boat and inspected various parts of Lingnan. When they returned, they would visit Jiangnan and Huainan along the way.

Anyway, it takes more than three months for the main force to go back from Pyongyang by land. It takes less than a month for him to go to Lingnan by sailing boat, and it takes less than a month to go from Lingnan to Chang'an. In the gap of more than a month, I will take a look at Lingnan, Jiangnan, Huainan, and counties along the canal.

Li Shimin, who went out to sea for the first time by boat, felt somewhat uneasy. The sea is an existence that the ancients feared. Moreover, he was born in the north. When the fleet went south, his skin felt wet all over his body. Damn, the strong sunlight on the sea in summer has tanned his skin a lot, but fortunately, this kind of big sailboat is fast enough. After the fresh energy of riding the wind and waves in the past few days, he only endured a dozen or so. One day, we arrived at Guangzhou Bay.

"Unexpectedly, it took less than 20 days to travel from the northeast to Lingnan by sea."

"Your Majesty doesn't know, the distance from Beisha Port to Guangzhou is only more than 4000 miles by sea. Our five-sail waterwheels and fast boats are all warships, and they don't carry heavy cargo. You can travel fifty or sixty miles, sailing day and night, five or six hundred miles a day, the reason why you walked for nearly 20 days is that the wind direction was wrong for a few days, and you still checked the cities with harbors along the way.

If you travel in a straight line, these ships can really carry heavy grain and cargo, and travel from Liaodong to Jiangnan and Lingnan. In fact, you can go there every ten days, and you can go back and forth in a month. The loss of transportation is several times lower than that by land , Often [-] shi of grain was transported from Jiangnan or Lingnan, and when it arrived at Laizhou Port or Beisha Port, only more than a hundred shi of grain was lost for the boatmen. "

Empty boats with full sails, sailing in the wind, running on the sea, it is naturally very fast, Zhang Liang is the most knowledgeable ship among the senior generals of the Tang Dynasty, after he received a batch of this new type of warships from the Weinan Shipyard, for the past I don’t like those warships anymore. Since the shipyard started production last year, the shipment of water ships has been very large. Now, half of the Datang Navy has replaced such new ships. Called invincible at sea.

Also participating in the southern tour were Li Jing, Li Daozong and others who had been to Lingnan. Among them, Li Jing was the person who pacified Lingnan for the Tang Dynasty. Looking at the new Guangzhou Bay Wharf, they couldn't help sighing, "The scene of Lingnan is full of prosperity. It was a hundred times that year."

What is the concept of a hundred times?
It can be seen from the number of sailboats docked in Guangzhou Bay.

There are at least thousands of large ships docked at the berths dozens of miles along the coast, with or without water wheels, warships, and fishing boats. Among them, there are at least hundreds of Wanshi ships.

The shipyards are not limited to Weinan, and the shipyards in Lingnan are also not small. Moreover, they are specialized in competing for sailing on the sea. They manufacture large ships with high sides and many sails. In terms of style, they are quite different from the ships manufactured by Weinan Shipyards, but As far as the speed of sea navigation is concerned, it is even better than the water steamers made in Guanzhong. Because of the high side of the ship, those large cargo ships have a kind of large sail that can be flexibly deployed to the two wings of the hull. When the wind is down, the speed is terrifying. .

On the pier, even with the scorching heat, Feng An, who came to welcome Li Shimin, and hundreds of thousands of Lingnan soldiers and civilians were very enthusiastic. They have no shortage of food now, and their bodies are much stronger than before, and all of them are wearing clothes. New clothes, even, there are many people wearing cool silk materials, and most of them still have the habit of wearing gold and silver.

When the warships of the army docked at the port one after another, they handed over all kinds of melons and fruits from Lingnan, many of which were suppressed with cold well water. A refreshing one.

"Chen Feng An, welcome Your Majesty..."

"Welcome Your Majesty..."

When Li Shimin stepped down from the big ship, he was surprised to hear the four words "Welcome Your Majesty" neatly spoken in Chinese by tens of thousands of people.

Don't underestimate such a small action. It takes a lot of time and energy to train hundreds of thousands of people of various ethnic groups in Baiyue who can't speak Chinese to this level. Li Shimin was a little moved by these four words.

Feng An personally helped Feng An, who bowed down, said, "Thank you, Feng Qing, to welcome you."

Then, he bowed his hands loudly to the crowd of Lingnan people, "Thank you, elders and elders of Lingnan, welcome..."

Li Shimin never forgets that he came to Lingnan to reap the hearts of the people, so his words and actions are very kind and heart-warming.

Following Feng An's leadership, he walked directly among the people in Lingnan, tasted the melons and fruits they raised with their hands, and praised them for their hard work and simplicity. In the past few years, he has provided food and salt for Guanzhong and the entire Tang Dynasty. , sucrose and other shortages of supplies, shaking hands with some of the elders, greetings, etc., tossed on the pier for an hour or two before repeatedly persuading the people to go home, and then sat on the seat arranged by Feng An. Drive to Guangzhou New Town.

The driver is a very spacious open-top four-wheeled carriage, which can accommodate many people. Li Jing, Wei Chi Gong and others are naturally qualified to accompany the driver, and of course, there is also Feng An.

"Your Majesty, on my own initiative, I built a palace for you in the city, and I hope you don't dislike it."

"Xinggong? Hehe, Feng Qing has learned a lot from Sun Zhengming!" Li Shimin said with a smile.

Since Feng An dared to call it a residence and invited him to live in it, it must be that the house was well repaired!Li Shimin likes such naked flattery very much. Anyway, Lingnan is rich now, and if it is convenient to travel in the future, he doesn't mind coming and living here more. Wang Hua, if he did it, wouldn't it prove that he is stronger than Qin Huang Han Wu?

The carriage traveled quickly on the straight and wide concrete road. When he saw the tall city walls of Guangzhou, Li Shimin felt a strong smell of Sun Zhengming.

Because Shanyang and Dingxiang also have this kind of architectural style, not to say that Sun Xiangfu has a preference for building tall city walls, but because, in this period, the tall and strong city walls can make the people living inside feel more at ease.

Of course, the overall design and architecture of Guangzhou City was originally created by the construction team under Sun Xiangfu. In all aspects, practical and useful designs will naturally be used in this city.

(End of this chapter)