Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 498 Liu Yong's experience as an official

People with their own ideas are always a little arrogant. Previously, Zhou Wuxue was inevitably a little conceited, thinking that other students were not as smart as himself. However, when he knew that the court had already started to implement the things he proposed, he realized that, After all, I am just a fledgling young man, and my thinking is not ahead of the court princes, so I have nothing to be proud of.

With this kind of comprehension, his eloquent and eloquent momentum weakened in an instant, and Sun Xiangfu, who felt his obvious change, knew that from now on, he should put himself in the position of humbly learning.

If someone wants to learn, he will naturally find some opportunities to teach, and he said again, "When we have a good idea, how to realize it is the embodiment of our political ability, even for things like road construction. Small things that seem relatively simple, in fact, will encounter a lot of trouble when it is actually done.

Not to mention, to truly realize the situation in which the emperor takes turns ruling in the four capitals mentioned by Zhou just now, it needs to solve not only the problem of road traffic, you can imagine that when the emperor was in Lingnan, the west How difficult it is for Suiye City to send a message to Lingnan, which is tens of thousands of miles away.

However, as long as we find the right direction and know which aspects can gradually solve this problem, we will be able to realize it one day.

I have listened to many of the suggestions you gave just now. Generally speaking, as a student of Hongwenkan, you are still concerned about current affairs. I am quite satisfied with this. However, what you study in Hongwenkan is only theoretical. The knowledge is not much different from the official training of the Ministry of Officials.

And when you take up the actual position, you will find that the theoretical knowledge that can be taught by precepts and deeds is just the basic knowledge that an official must learn. To sit in a higher position and truly realize your own ambitions, you still need to use your brains, ponder more, and ask your seniors more humbly.

There are many people sitting here, all of whom have served as county magistrates or even higher-level local officials in remote multi-ethnic areas. Let you see the gap between reality and theory, and the gap between the past and the present, so that everyone can think about it. In the future, how should our court officials specifically govern which remote areas and let the surrounding barbarians Gradually surrendered to Wang Hua. "

In the past few years, the political system of the Tang Dynasty has transformed from passively solving problems in the past to actively discovering and solving problems. Making plans in advance is what all yamen must do now. This, This makes all officials have to use their brains to think and have ideas for the future.

But the ethnic minority areas are different. It is not a place where you can implement a good idea immediately. Those people lack the understanding and tolerance of the Han political system, and they don’t have the idea of ​​obedience to the emperor they don’t know at all. Let all officials sent to ethnic minority areas face a difficult problem first, how to gain their trust and make them listen to you.

Under Sun Xiangfu's gaze, Liu Yong came out first and said, "Just now you were talking about emigration, changing customs, and so on. In fact, for those of us who have been officials in frontier areas, it is simply a joke.

Do you understand the meaning of the word 'barbarian'?

I guess I don't understand it, but I will tell you about my experience as an official in Danzhou, so you will know what a 'barbarian' is.

Everyone knows that there are three states on the entire island, and there are less than 5000 aborigines. Among them, Danzhou has a population of about [-], distributed in seven or eight areas with a radius of two to three hundred miles, and is in a state of tribal autonomy.

The so-called Danzhou City is a small village fort built on a sandy fence. It is said that this small fort was built by Feng Gong after Sun Dudu went to the island in the first year of Zhenguan. , is also the population of more than a hundred households that Feng Gong sent to develop the coconut industry. To put it bluntly, a state city is not as good as a larger village in Guanzhong. What is the state city called?

After I took office in Dan County, I found that there are coconut trees everywhere, not to mention processing them into expensive coconut sugar, but those who are only responsible for picking, collecting, transporting, and sending them to Mr. Feng back to Guangzhou by boat Processing can also earn a lot of wages, at least, more than most farmers in Guanzhong earned in the second year of Zhenguan.

When I, under the guidance of the coconut picking workers that Mr. Feng left on the island, went to various tribes of Liaoren and Yiren, trying to persuade them to work together to start this industry, guess what happened? "

"what happened?"

Many students were attracted by Liu Yong's story and asked in unison.

"When I first went to the first tribe, I was hijacked by them. My official robe, official hat, fish charm, and even the loincloth were all taken away by them."

"Ah! No way! To rob the imperial court officials, those hunters don't want to live anymore?" Many scholars made up the picture in their brains, and said a little depressed.

It would be a sad reminder if they were also sent to serve as officials in such a place.

"Think about it, I'm a student of Hongwenguan, a Qipin county magistrate appointed by the imperial court, and I was stripped of my clothes in the first day of junior high school. I don't even have a fig leaf. !"

Many young students asked, "What happened next?"

"Simply, when I went to find them at the beginning, I kept a careful eye in my heart and asked my companion who went with me to stay behind to see the situation, so my companion should go back and report. Two days later, Mr. Feng's subordinates Sergeant, exchange me for two bags of food."

"And then?"

Now that everyone saw that Quanxu came back and was about to be promoted, Liu Yong, who went to Anxi Dadu Protectorate to be the governor of the state, naturally knew that there must be a turnaround in the future. They now want to hear how Liu Yong turned around.

"And then! I asked the generals under Mr. Feng who exchanged me with food why the locals were like this. The captain told me that many Liaoren tribes were like this. People, or beasts, are regarded as their own prey. I was unlucky and was regarded as prey by them, so they locked me there to feed mosquitoes for two days, and gave me pig food every day .

Moreover, they also told me that Mr. Feng sent troops to take them all down earlier, and disciplined them, but it was useless, they only claimed the land.

Later, Duke Feng stopped sending officials here, because they were sent by the white faction, but only from time to time, and giving them some rations, clothes and other things made them less hostile to the people under Duke Feng. I no longer dare to kill foreigners who enter their territory at will, so they can easily exchange me with two bags of grain.

And I advised me not to provoke them in the future. These savages have been like this for hundreds of years. Unless you subdue them with knives and guns like subduing wild animals, otherwise, they will not communicate with us properly. "

"Afterwards, I began to think, since Duke Feng gave them food, and they all accepted it, so they would no longer be hostile to the people that Duke Feng sent, so if I also gave them food, would they not be hostile to me anymore? "

"So, unwilling to come back in such a disheveled state, I started to do it. Of course, this is also because my official robe and fish charm are still in their hands, and I want to get them back.

I first asked Mr. Feng's subordinates to pull down the fleet of coconuts and sent several hundred shi of grain to Dan County.Every time, my servant and I each carry a bag of grain, go to their tribe, and give it to them for free.In this way, I only went to each tribe five or six times, and within two months, they were no longer hostile to me and robbed me, and they were looking forward to my passing every day.

Even, the Liaoren tribe that robbed my official robe and fish talisman returned those things to me. For them, these things are not edible or drinkable, and they are actually not very useful.

After that, I don’t send food, I put the food a little bit outside their territory, and let their own people carry it back, and then I put it a little farther away every time, until one day, they carried the food and carried it back. In any village in Dan County, I entertained them with a table of rich and delicious food.

and then.They began to form a group to carry food in the village fort, and ate food. Due to the complete lack of language, our communication was very difficult, but gradually, we could understand some meanings of each other.

Soon, the hundreds of stones of grain were eaten up by everyone. It happened that Mr. Feng’s boat arrived in Danzhou to pull coconuts to deliver grain. The food was handed over to me, and the next day, I saw mountains of coconuts outside the village fort. "

"Is this okay?" Many students were almost overwhelmed by the experience Liu Yong told, and they all opened their mouths.

"Of course not. I went to Danzhou to lead the people of Danzhou to become rich. I wanted to help the court civilize the barbarians and create wealth. How can I just use them as simple labor and let them eat Woolen cloth!

As they come to the village to deliver coconuts more frequently and eat more and more delicious food, they become more and more dissatisfied with their original life. In the past few months, I have also made various gestures, You can communicate more with them by doing movements. You may not know that due to the strong sense of territory, the seven or eight tribes in Danzhou alone have three or four languages ​​that they cannot understand each other. .

Later, after a while, I began to teach them how to grow Champa rice, build houses that can withstand the strong wind and rain on the island, and brought them out of their damp cave dwellings. After that, some villages were formed, and, in order to use Coconuts are exchanged for more food. At my call, they learned from us and built many carts for transporting coconuts. In Dan County, they built a warehouse for storing coconuts. Finally, they built a tall wall to form a The city was comparable to a small county in the Central Plains, and because they had to guard the coconuts they picked in the warehouse in the city, they gradually began to walk out of their territory and live in the city.

When I came back at the beginning of the year, half of the population of each of the seven or eight tribes in Danzhou lived in the city, bringing the permanent population of this small county to more than 3000. Mr. Feng felt that this scale was enough to support a production The coconut candy workshop was established, and the subordinate artisans were arranged to build workshops, and people from various tribes were recruited to do the work.

A few days ago, on the boat that sent coconut sugar from Lingnan to Guanzhong, I saw a boatman who used to pull coconuts in Danzhou. From his mouth, I learned that Danxian can now produce a boat every two months. Good coconut sugar, and it is a boat of three thousand stones, the price of a catty of coconut sugar can be sold for more than 100 cash in Chang'an, and one stone is at least sixteen or seven. The selling price can reach almost 1 guan. After deducting their wages, food, clothing and other inputs, on average, they can create at least 20 guan of net income for the Lingnan Dudu Mansion every month. .After a year, that's more than [-]! "

Using thousands of uncivilized people to create an income of nearly 10,000+ per year for the court, how to say, this seems like an unrealistic story, but it just happened, no wonder, the court will promote this All the seven-rank county magistrates, directly promoted to the fifth-rank state governor, people, indeed have such credit, if someone who has a bad temper and doesn't like to use his brain to solve problems becomes this official, he will probably be robbed After finishing, they will come back immediately to invite soldiers to wipe out these Liaoren tribes.

(End of this chapter)