Chastity Layman

  Chapter 1237 Luzon

   An envoy came from Luoyang.

  At this time, it is the early winter of the 20th year of Zhenguan, and the Central Plains has begun to snow, but Luzon is still like a midsummer.

  Yin Anguo saw that the destination was in sight, and his heart became excited again.

  Yin Anguo, who is dressed in a scarlet robe, is actually only seventh-rank in his job, but he is a founding minister, and this time he came to Luzon, the first foreign land of the Tang Dynasty, so he was bestowed with a scarlet robe silver fish. When leaving, the prince specially called him into the palace and gave him many instructions face to face.

  Although Luzon is overseas, Wei Guogong, the feudal Luzon, is a role model for young disciples like Yin Anguo. Yin Anguo's grandfather was Yin Kaishan, one of the twenty-four meritorious officials invited to the Lingyan Pavilion, who was one of the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty.

  The Yin family is the Yin family of Chen County, a family of generations. Yin Kaishan's father was the secretary Cheng of the Sui Dynasty. He started his career as the county magistrate of Taigu. Moved to Marshal Li Shimin of Weibei Road, Changshi, united with Liu Hongji to station troops in the old city, defeated Jingzhao Taishou Wei Wensheng, conferred the title of Chen Jungong, moved to the prime minister's house, followed Li Shimin to conquer Xue Ju, was defeated and removed from the army, everyone pacified Xue Rengao, and restored the official title , Congping Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande were granted the title of Duke Xun.

  In Wude, he served successively as Shangshu of Daxingtai Military Department of Shaanxi Province and Minister of Officials. He was a confidant general of Qin Wang Li Shimin, but died early in Wude five years ago. But Li Shimin has always kept this general in mind, so when he was in Zhenguan, he kept chasing after him, and invited him to Lingyan Pavilion who died young.

  The Yin family was originally from the Southern Dynasties and lived in Chen Jun. The grandfather of Yin Kaishan, Yin Buhai, was Chen Si Nongqing of the Southern Dynasty. Later, the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen and moved to Guanzhong. The Chen family has always been famous for its literature.

  Yin Kaishan was also the magistrate of Taigu County as a Jinshi in the imperial examination at the earliest. Later, he also served as a civilian under the command of Li Yuan and his son, but he was also good at riding and shooting.

   is a rare all-rounder capable of both literary and military skills, but it is a pity that he died young.

  Yin Kaishan, who died young, didn’t even have any heirs. The imperial court adopted Yin Yuan, the son of his younger brother Yin Qinzhou, as his heir, and Yin Anguo was the son of Yin Yuan.

  When it came to Yin Anguo, the Duke of Xun Guo also failed to inherit it, and was downgraded to Duke Chen.

  Before receiving the mission and coming to Luzon, the young Yin Anguo had just finished his studies in the Imperial College and was an official in the Political Affairs Hall.

  Express Lu Song to supervise the casting of money and supervise casting, and the post is under the seventh rank.

  From the back of the hall, he was appointed as a seventh-rank official, and he rose rapidly. However, because the Luzon Governor's Mansion is an outsider's seal, all official positions are allowed to be recruited by themselves, and the rank is regarded as quality. For the same grade, if you go to the imperial court to be appointed, you have to go down three levels to use it.

  However, the job of supervising casting is a bit different. This is an official sent by the imperial court to Luzon, not Luzon himself, but after all, it is an official of a foreign fief.

  Officials at the back of the hall are important, and external releases are generally reusable.

  In Yin Anguo's view, Luzon was originally an unremarkable overseas wilderness, but it was all because of Wei Guogong, so the emperor and the prince attached great importance to it.

   Luzon is rich in gold, silver and copper, and it has recently been heard that there is a huge Japanese copper trade, so the imperial court paid attention to it and specially set up a money supervisor in Luzon.

  Give Wei Guogong Qin Lang a coin furnace.

This is not only a kindness to the honorable minister Qin Lang, after all, since the founding of the country, those who can be given furnaces to make money are all first-class ministers and favorites, and secondly, it is also because Lu Song made money. existed before. Now that the official establishment of a supervisor to make money is also an acknowledgment of the existing facts, and at the same time, knowing that the benefits of making money in Luzon are very important, the special commissioner regulates the supervision.

   This time when he was out of Beijing, Yin Anguo was also ordered to stop by his ancestral home in Chen Jun to worship his ancestors, and to visit his uncle Jiyang County Viscount and former Jeju Sima Yin Qinzhou who was recuperating at home due to illness. This was his father's biological father and his biological grandfather.

Yin Qinzhou also attached great importance to his grandson's appointment this time. He told his grandson that his elder brother Yin Kaishan and Qin Qiong were both officials in the Qin Palace, and they had a good relationship. At that time, Yin Kaishan's official position was far above Qin Qiong. The minister of the Ministry of War of Daxingtai, Qin Qiong is the guard of Qin Wangfu, and Yin Kaishan takes good care of Qin Qiong.

Therefore, after Yin Kaishan died of illness, Qin Qiong also devoted himself to helping the Yin family. At the beginning of Zhenguan, Yin Kaishan was able to posthumously present the Shangshu Zuo Pushe, deserve to enjoy the Gaozu Taimiao, and later be able to go to Lingyan Pavilion. people contributed.

  In the past few years, the Yin and Qin families have moved less. This time Yin Anguo went to Luzon to take up the post. He had to handle the errands assigned by the prince and maintain the relationship with Duke Wei.

Before leaving, Yin Qinzhou gave him a large sum of money and asked him to take his two young grandsons to Luzon, saying that he would use the money to buy more land there. Song's future looks bright.

  Just looking at Wu'an Taiping today, we can know that the future of Luzon can be expected in the future.

When Yin Anguo and his two cousins ​​got off the boat, jumped onto the pier in San Francisco, looked at the people of Wei Guogong who came to welcome them in person, and looked at the high city wall, he completely understood what his uncle said about Luzon's promising future. agreed.

  Before I came here, I really didn’t expect Luzon to have such a scale.

  Look at the white sails dotted in the San Francisco Bay. There are hundreds of boats parked in the port, and the wharf is full of hard workers, with cars and horses passing by constantly.

  By the pier outside the city, there is a long street several miles long, with countless shops standing on both sides.

  Although it is not comparable to the industrial and commercial cities and commercial ports of Xu, Yang, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Fu, Quan, Guangzhou, and Jiaozhu when he came to the south, it is indeed full of vitality.

  He even discovered that among the ships in the port, there were actually many sea-going ships of Hu merchants, sailing ships of various shapes and shapes, and groups of Hu merchants of various shapes.

   On the way here, he had done some homework. He knew that although Luzon had not been developed for a few years, Wei Guogong Qin Lang was doing his best to develop it. It was the first time that a large gold mine was discovered here, and it was mined and panned for gold, attracting two to three hundred thousand gold prospectors.

  Relying on the rich gold and silver mining here, Luzon also quickly developed a gold and silver processing and trading industry, but now it seems that this is not the only thing here, otherwise it would not be able to attract so many Tang and Hu merchants.

  He also heard that Luzon has thousands of miles of fertile fields that are not inferior to the Guanzhong Plain. Qin Lang had previously recruited immigrants to settle down, and within a few years attracted countless people to come and settle down. However, the imperial court has now issued an immigration restriction order, and the immigration in Luzon should be greatly restricted, but looking at the people with the old and the young on the big sailboats on the pier, it seems that they are Han immigrants from the Central Plains.

  Qin Lang smiled and stepped forward.

  Yin Anguo hurriedly paid respects.

   "My next official Lu Song casts money and supervises casting Yin Anguo. I pay my respects to Duke Wei."

Qin Lang took Yin Anguo's hand, "Our two families are family friends, why should we be more polite? When we come to Luzon, we have returned to our own home. Back then, my father and I worked together in the Eastern Palace. Your father's family has a long history of education and literary talents. Fantastic, it's a pity that heaven is jealous of Yingcai and died of illness early."

Although this is a polite remark, Yin Anguo is still very happy. His father is actually just a dude. He adopted his grandfather to inherit the title of duke of the country and won the world title. However, his grandfather is dead and he has no talents. As a petty official in the East Palace, I just dawdled around, usually like to be romantic, lustful, greedy and lustful, I did no evil, but I didn't have much talent, I could barely be synonymous with elegance in brothels and teahouses, and echoed a few lines of poetry. .

  Follow Qin Lang into the city, and listen to Qin Lang introduce this brand new city to him all the way.

As the capital of Luzon, the city of San Francisco is very young and has less than ten years of history, but the city is very prosperous and lively. As an external fief managed by the Qin family, the management of the Qin family here is better than that of Wu'an The government has to pay more attention.

   After all, the effort here can get more benefits, and if it is me, I am afraid it will be the same.

  The fiefdom of Wu'an Prefecture is like renting the land of the imperial court, while Luzon Prefecture is like being a landlord, of course it is different.

  With the establishment of the Luzon Governor's Mansion and the victory in the counterattack against the siege of the Luzon Island, the legitimacy and security issues of Luzon have been resolved and guaranteed, so there is no need to worry about the development of Luzon.

In the past two years, no islands can threaten the Qin family anymore, and they can't even get close to the Qin family's territory. The islands have been surrounded by the Qin family all the way, or retreated into the mountains in the northeast of Luzon Island, or retreated to the southeast. up the peninsula.

  But Yin Anguo discovered that Luzon's military security is still very strong.

  There are navy ships patrolling the bay, there are also guards on the coast, and there are gatekeepers at the city gate. The south gate of San Francisco is called Zhengyang Gate. There is also an archery tower on the city gate.

  The gate of the city is opened under the arrow tower, which is rare in the Central Plains. There are ninety-four arrow windows on four floors, which is extremely hideous to look at.

   Outside the city are densely built and deep ditches, and the city is towering with towering archery towers.

  The inside and outside of the city are also patrolled frequently, and the interrogation is strict.

  San Francisco is divided into Wai Luo City and Inner Ya City. Inner Ya City is not actually a city within a city, but on the north side of the outer city. The two cities are connected, but separated by a city wall and gate.

  Neiya City is smaller than the Outer City, and when the two cities are superimposed, it looks like a Lu character.

  The south gate of Neiya City is more closely guarded, with guard posts and environmental protection, and the weather is strict.

  He observed and looked at the attire of these soldiers along the way, and found that they were all wearing iron cloth clothes, which were brand new and neat, and upon closer inspection, he found that these iron cloth clothes had different colors and were clearly divided into several groups.

  The soldiers are also young and strong, with high spirits. They look like brave soldiers, which amazed him. He didn't expect that there are such strong soldiers in Luzon.

   As a descendant of Xun Qi, Yin Anguo also served as a guard of the three guards of the inner government, so he is no stranger to military affairs, and he can tell at a glance that this army is not simple.

   This kind of military doesn't exist in Chenzhou, his hometown where he just visited.

Like the emerging Central Plains cities, Luzon has cities and cities, but there are no square walls, only square gates and street markets. This young city can be planned more rationally, with neat and wide streets lined with trees. , the ditches are clean, and there are even public toilets and garbage rooms every section along the street. Even though the weather here is hot, there is not much smell.

  There are shops on both sides of the street, and there are many pedestrians on the road.

  Qin Lang led Yin Anguo and his party all the way to the Inner Yamen City.

   Set up a table and burn incense to welcome the will.

  Yin Anguo then stood at the top, facing the members of Lu Song, and read out the imperial court's will. There are three main purposes. First, the imperial court formally established a city ship department in Luzon to be in charge of Luzon's port and city ship trade. The governor of Luzon, Qin Lang, also served as the Luzon city ship secretary and city ship envoy. The imperial court sent two members The officials of the Shibo Department, namely the judge and the prison officer of the Shibo Department, are all served by eunuchs and come with them.

  The second decree is that the imperial court set up a money-minting supervisor in Luzon, and gave Qin Lang a money-making furnace. This is to grant Luzon a license to mint coins, allowing them to mint coins, so that it is no longer a private mint. The imperial court asked Qin Lang to appoint Qian Jian's officials, but only sent one supervisor, Yin Anguo.

The third decree is the latest detailed regulations on immigration policy. The imperial court and Luzon have discussed several rounds before and reached a lot of agreements. For example, Luzon immigrates up to 3,000 families from the Central Plains every year. It is not allowed to immigrate from important areas in the Central Plains, the important military areas of the border, or from sparsely populated places such as Xiazhou and Xiaxian counties. There are also a series of restrictions on the immigration of special households such as government soldiers, united soldiers, and craftsmen. This purpose is to make a final decision on the previously discussed matter about Luzon's exchange of slaves for immigration quotas. The imperial court agreed that Luzon would export slaves to the Central Plains in exchange for a corresponding increase in immigration quotas.

  Basically, a slave is exchanged for an immigration quota.

   Regarding these three decrees, Qin Lang actually knew about them in advance. Basically, before Yin Anguo left the city gate of Luoyang, he already knew the court's decision through his own relationship.

The establishment of the Luzon Shipping Department is a manifestation of the imperial court’s active supervision of Luzon. The imperial court’s policy towards Luzon is mainly from the prime ministers of the Zhengshitang, because there are Xu Jingzong and Cui Dunli in the Zhengshitang. , Changsun Wuji has always had a good relationship with him, so in general, the policy is still more caring for Luzon, and there is no intention of too much interference and restriction.

  Before the emperor ordered to restrict immigration, Xu Jingzong helped to deal with it, leaving a window.

  Now the court mainly strengthens the supervision of Luzon, and does not directly interfere.

  The establishment of the Shibo Department and the Casting Supervisor are all to strengthen supervision and regulation.

The Shibo Department is mainly in charge of trade, and Qin Lang concurrently serving as the Shibo Envoy also shows that the imperial court has no intention of controlling this institution. Luzon.

  The magistrate of the city ship department is mainly responsible for the purchase of ship goods, receipt and payment of money and goods.

  For the goods of Hu merchants who come to Hong Kong, the judge represents the imperial court and has the right to participate in the verification of the goods. This is the inspection of the goods by the customs. Tariffs were withdrawn from the earliest ten points, and then revised again and again.

  At first, no matter what kind of goods, 20% of the tax was levied, and even at the beginning, 2/10 of the goods were directly taxed, and they could make a fortune by handing over.

  However, until now, the customs tax has been changed again and again. Now the basic tariff is ten taxes and one tax, but there are different additions and subtractions for some goods. For example, some luxury goods have higher taxes, while the taxes on things that the court needs are lower. For example, three points for tortoiseshell and sumac, and two points for pearls and borneols.

  Generally, the price is assessed and taxed after inspection.

  (end of this chapter)