A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1021: Awarding the title to the general
moi island,

Wu Huaiyu officially changed its name to Maye Island and established the fifth county in Luzon Prefecture, Maye County, which administered the two ports of Maye and Buffalo.
It was renamed Ma Ye because of the island’s specialty abaca.

In fact, the most valuable local products on the island should be gold and copper, and other valuable products include yellow wax, tortoise shell, betel nut, pearls, etc.

Even the baby buffalo is quite a rare thing.

"Alang, the awarding ceremony is ready," Ya Bing came in to report.

Wu Huaiyu watched Sanlang sign and seal the order for the establishment of Maye County, then patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, it's time for you to award everyone the honors."

Wu Chengzhi put away the seal and asked his father, "Why is it called Maye County?"

"The sounds of Moyi and Maye are similar. In addition, the abaca industry on this island has also made great achievements. It also has a certain foundation here. Most of the Panlaka women are good at making mats, carpets, ropes, nets, and clothing from abaca. We can support the development of this industry,"

"Education is about teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. When we govern a local area, we must also develop according to its resources."

Although Maye Island does not have the three major plains like Luzon Island, it does have a large plain. It is feasible to develop abaca weaving. In addition, growing sugar cane, cotton, and tea are more promising than growing food. Food can sustain the island. Just be self-sufficient and plant some wine. There is no need to plant more.
There is no shortage of land in the Luzon Islands, and the climate is suitable for planting, so there will be no shortage of food. However, if too much food is produced, it will be unlucky to sell it.

The highest one is the Tiaodang Gong. He is the only one in the army who is awarded the fifth rank.

"Don't worry, Luzon Prefecture's autonomy will not be affected."

They do not belong to Luzon State, nor do they belong to the Luzon Army. They are considered guest generals this time.

One carries a sword, a spear, a bow and arrows on his back,

The only one in the entire army who has the dancing skill, Thirteenth Brother deserves the title. "

Lu Song has its own system, but it also follows the method of the Tang Army, except that Lu Song's officials, ranks, honors, etc. are appointed, dismissed and rewarded by himself.

Wu Huaiyu patted Li Keyong and said, "In the battle of Moyi Castle, you led the charge of eighteen elite cavalry and directly routed thousands of enemies.
This is exactly the result of jumping into the enemy's position when facing the enemy in front of the enemy. The enemy has not delivered the target yet, but the vanguard advances forward and is trapped in a fortified position. The enemy is defeated. "

There were only a thousand people, but there was already an astonishing momentum.
Li Keyong, Gao Kan, Shi Shouxin and other generals came to greet him.

Fifth-class personal merit, this award is a transfer. Fourth-class merit, second-level award.

The fiery red uniform makes him stand out, even domineering.

He even thought of shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
Luzon is located deep in the South China Sea,
He felt as if he had become the third prince of the Dragon Palace.

The second meritorious service of a pioneer is awarded in the third rank, and the first meritorious service of a pioneer is awarded in the fourth rank.

The bright red uniform, even the bright red forehead,

Wu Chengzhi put away his seal and handed the signed order to an aide, feeling a little excited.

Today is the day to award medals to the officers and soldiers who have achieved personal military merit.

Together they form a pleated hakama, which is more convenient for marching and fighting. Common people also like to wear it for convenience.

The Luzon soldiers who went on this expedition were all here, and they all put on clean and neat red uniforms.
The bright red military uniform is worn on the body, with pleats at the top and hakama at the bottom, and a cowhide belt cinching the waist. This set has been the standard military uniform since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is even popular among the people.
The two trouser legs are made very fat, so a belt is often tied around the knees. The pleats on the upper body are relatively tight-fitting, with a long body and small sleeves.

The Battle of Moi Island,

However, in today's era, we don't pay much attention to camouflage. Soldiers have to stand out, show force, and be majestic.

Li Keyong was praised very much, but he still humbly said, "I am just Alang's tooth general, not the Luzon Army. This dancing skill cannot be tolerated."

The soldiers also wore red foreheads and turbans.

Wu Huaiyu and his son appeared,
The soldiers saluted neatly.

Especially when thousands of soldiers in fiery red uniforms are together, it is extremely impactful.

The father and son went to the military camp and school grounds.

Wu Huaiyu patted the thirteenth adopted son and said, "You are a military attache of the imperial court and a general of our Lingnan Military Army, but this time you have made a real contribution in Luzon, even if you are a guest general. , you deserve this honor and reward.”

"How does it feel to be a governor?"

Gold and copper mines will always be exhausted, but abaca cotton weaving, sugar cane sugar making and brewing can develop in the long run.

The Tang army fought very easily, but the Luzon army performed very well in the first battle. However, the most outstanding ones were not the Luzon army, but Li Ke's Gao Kanshi and Wu Huaiyu's tooth generals.

In Luzon, which is evergreen all year round, it is indeed more conspicuous.

The benefits of conferring honors go beyond these.
Even if you get the lowest rank, you will be awarded the title of Military Cavalry Lieutenant, and you will be treated as a seventh-rank officer, and you will have the qualifications to be an official.

Wu Huaiyu was startled by Lao San's words. He looked around at the officers and soldiers of the Luzon Army and found that they looked a bit like big lobsters.

Chengzhi smiled and stepped forward, "Brother Thirteen's heroic demeanor that day made me stunned. This time in the battle of Moyi Island,

"Let's go, the soldiers who have made meritorious service are waiting for you."

Wu Huaiyu took Chengzhi to the general platform,
Today this is also the awarding platform.

This time, I chose one person for the Dancing Skill in the battle on Moyi Island.
Li Ke truly deserved his name for this feat. Anyway, no one raised any objections when the merit list was announced. The scene when this guy led eighteen cavalry to repeatedly attack the natives that day was so impressive.

The Eighteen Cavalrymen were able to attack with the momentum of thousands of troops.

"Aye, look at the officers and soldiers of the Luzon Army, they look like a group of lobster soldiers."

The general rewards for the officers have been distributed. If one wins in the battle, everyone will receive a second-class reward, three bolts of silk and four stones of rice for each person, and there will also be money and food for personal military merit.

According to the transfer of honors, the most basic benefit of becoming an honorary officer is that the honorary officer has a permanent field. The lowest military cavalry officer is awarded sixty acres. The honorary land is a permanent industry, but it can be inherited by descendants.

"Very good." Wu Chengzhi smiled at his father.

Wu Chengzhi felt that they looked like a group of prawns with teeth and claws, the kind of lobsters that can often be seen here in Luzon.

The Military Cavalry Wei Xun, which lasts for five years, can be awarded to casual officials by simple selection.

Those who have not obtained the title of Disciplined Officer are still civilians, but they have certain privileges. For example, the title of Honored Officer can be awarded the title of Land. The second is that in terms of criminal law, the treatment of honorary officials is the same as that of official officials and casual officials. If their family members commit the crime of exile or less, they can be reduced by one level. In addition, they are still qualified to serve as subordinates.

Honored officers also have the privilege of being exempted from conscription, and they only need to go to the Ministry of War and prefectures and counties to serve.

The law prohibits Baiding from bigamy, but honorable officials can take concubines.

Afa stood excitedly among the soldiers waiting for the award, his face flushed and his body trembling.

"Don't be so excited, right?" said the leader of the black bear team next to him.

"It's not that I'm excited. I might have malaria. I'm getting cold and hot at times, and I'm fluctuating here and there."

"Then go to the medical camp quickly."

"No, how can I be absent from such an important award ceremony?" Afa persisted even though he felt uncomfortable.

The team leader thought about it and felt that he would definitely not be willing to let him go at this time. "Then hold on. If you really feel uncomfortable, just say it quickly."

"Ah."

Afa also didn’t expect that he would suffer from malaria at such an important moment.

But he gritted his teeth and persisted,

Today was an important day for Scorpion. During the battle that day, Ah Fa and his team were very lucky. They intercepted and captured more than 500 people. Ah Fa drew lots and it was their turn to escort the prisoners back.

On the way back, he was cursing and he happened to encounter a group of fleeing enemies.
There were hundreds of people on the other side, but Afa and the others were only a group of ten people, and they were holding more than 500 prisoners.

As a result, Ah Fa didn't panic or run away. Instead, he roared and took the lead in attacking the hundreds of fleeing enemies. What was even more strange was that those hundreds of people turned around and ran away.
Just like this, ten people chased hundreds of people,
Then Afa stabbed several of them and captured the leader of the enemy. The one he captured was an elder from a big family, and he also chopped down two clan leaders.

The elder was captured and had no choice but to surrender.

Afa also asked the elder to ask the others to surrender. In the end, more than half of the hundreds of people surrendered, and the rest ran away.

But even so, this is still astonishing, especially after the prisoners were escorted back to the camp, and the translators found out that there was an elder in each of the two groups of prisoners, and there were seven family heads in the other group. Later, the prisoners were also captured in the other group. He killed three clan leaders and asked Afa to kill two clan leaders.

As soon as this result comes out,

Wu Huaiyu was even slightly shocked.
This team leader named Afa is really a fierce one, and he is extremely lucky.

After the war, in terms of merits and deeds, Afa also received the second merit of being a pioneer.

In this Battle of Moyi, the number of Luzon Army participants was only over a thousand, so only one person was able to perform the Dancing Skill, and only two and four of the Second and Second Vanguard Skills were awarded.

Afa won the second merit of a pioneer and was awarded the third rank.

Malaria attack, alternately cold and hot, shaking all over, very uncomfortable, Afa insisted, this is the highlight moment of a small seaman who grew up on the sea, and he does not want to miss it.

Under the gaze of countless soldiers,

On the general stage,

Wu Huaiyu took off his sword and gave it to Wu Sanlang.

"This horizontal sword was given to me by Your Majesty. Today I will give it to Saburo again,"

This is a sheath-type ring-head horizontal knife, which is very beautifully made and very sharp.

"Thank you!"

Chengzhi knelt down and took it solemnly.

Huaiyu helped him stand up.
Wu Chengzhi showed this horizontal sword to everyone,

The young man loudly said to the officers and soldiers, "Today, I will use this sword given by Duke Wu to award honors and titles."

Point general,

award,

Official title.

"Please give me your national surname and come to power!"

The first person to be awarded the title was Li Keyong. Although he was not a member of the Luzon Army, he accepted Wu Huaiyu's persuasion and came to the stage to accept the title of Luzon Prefecture.

A Taoist priest came out and read loudly.

This Taoist priest looks very young, but he was given a golden crown and purple robe.
"Who is this person? He has a golden crown and purple robe?"

"You don't know this? This is a Taoist disciple of Duke Wu, the successor of Longmen Temple of Louguan Taoism, and the abbot of Luzon of Longmen Temple."

"Isn't the abbot the master of the monk temple?"

"Wrong, Fang Zheng is originally a Taoist, but Taoism pays attention to pure cultivation, and most of the places for cultivation are in deep mountains or jungles, so there is a theory of jungles in the ten directions.

The abbot is the person in charge of Shifang Conglin. Our Duke Wu’s teacher, the land god Xiaoyao Zi, wrote in his Qi Ti origin that the abbot is the leader of the human and heaven religion, the master who saves the world, performs the righteousness of the Dragon Gate, and supports the compassionate navigation of the sea of ​​suffering. To be the model of Quanzhen and the program of the school of law cannot be established without a qualified teacher. "

That person also knew about Louguan Taoism, Longmen Sect, Xiaoyaozi, etc. After all, Lu Song belonged to the Wu family, and Wu Gong, the father of the governor Wu Chengzhi, everyone knew that he came from Louguan Longmen and was the true descendant of Xiaoyaozi, the hidden immortal on land. disciple. Wu Huaiyu is also the head of the contemporary Longmen Sect, and is respectfully called Qingyangzi or Qingyang Zhenren by the monks.

Luzon now attaches great importance to and supports the Longmen Sect, but the Longmen Sect is different from the Taoist sects in the Central Plains.

The Louguan, Maoshan and other sects in the Central Plains all emphasize secluded cultivation, but now the Longmen sect in Luzon and Liuqiu practices worldly cultivation.

Taoist churches were established in prefectures, counties, towns and even ports and wharves, with their respective abbots in Luzon and Liuqiu.

Zhuangzi, Chapter of the World, says that Fang means Tao, and Book of Rites, Ben Zhongzhi says, Zhang means length.

The abbot, now the archbishop of the three Longmen dioceses of Luzon, Liuqiu and Zhuya, all wear purple robes.

Under these three purple-robed archbishops, there are red-robed abbots, each presiding over a parish.

The young purple-robed Taoist on the stage is Ye Fashan, a true disciple of Wu Huaiyu of the Longmen Sect and the current archbishop of the Longmen Diocese of Luzon.

Below him are the five counties of Luzon, each with a red-robed abbot.

Below the red-robed abbot, there is a green-robed hall master in each township, and further down there are green-robed deacons.

The Longmen Sect is already very different overseas. Under Wu Huaiyu's request, it has reformed secularization and is more active in preaching. The Three Pure Heavens, Haotian God, Queen Mother, Dragon King of the Four Seas, anyway, the sky is full of gods.

In overseas places like Liuqiu, Luzon, the Longmen Sect developed very rapidly. It was even called the God-worshiping Sect or the Longmen Sect because of worshiping Haotian God.

As the head of the Longmen Sect, Wu Huaiyu also became the highest pope.

The three abbots of Lu Song, Liu Qiu, and Zhu Ya were all direct disciples of Wu Huaiyu, and were also known as the Archbishops in Purple Clothes.

Li Keyong strode onto the awarding platform.

Ye Fashan said loudly, "Kneel down and accept the title!"

Li Keyong knelt down on one knee in front of Wu Chengzhi, and Wu Chengzhi pulled out the sheathed horizontal sword that Wu Huaiyu had given him and had been used by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

The sword light is cold and cold,

The young Marquis of Luzon would put a horizontal sword on Li Keyong's shoulder and lightly strike it three times.

"On behalf of Luzon, thank you for your bravery and loyalty,"

"You are hereby awarded the fifth rank of Luzon Military Merit, and you are given the title of Luzon Cavalry Commander. You are regarded as a subordinate of the fifth rank, and you are given four hundred acres of land."

The words fell,

A Luzon tooth soldier next to him brought a tray with a medal on it.

This is a medal in the shape of a shield. There are five silver stars on the bronze shield. The bronze shield medal also has a red silk ribbon.

Another tooth soldier picked up the medal and hung it around Li Keyong's neck.

Wu Chengzhi once again stood in front of Li Keyong, who was still kneeling on one knee, "In the name of the Guardian of Luzon, I grant you the honor of Knight of the Holy Shield of the Knights of the Holy Shield of Luzon, and grant you the knight's fief of 700 acres." manor."

Two more tooth soldiers came forward,

This time, he was holding a set of weapons and equipment, including light armor, iron helmet, battle robe, horse spear, copper mace, horizontal sword, horn bow, arrows, and shield.
There are nine pieces of equipment in total, and two war horses will be distributed later.

The full equipment of a cavalryman.

The Knights of the Holy Shield, also known as the Knights of the Bronze Shield, is one of the four newly established knights in Luzon. The four major knights are not Luzon's new cavalry, but an honorary system composed of decorated soldiers.

Ranking one to three officers, you will be awarded the title of a member of the Knights of the Iron Lance, or you will be granted a knightly fief of one to three hundred acres.

Fourth to sixth rank officers were awarded membership of the Knights of the Bronze Shield and received a knightly fief of 500 to 900 acres.

Ranks seven to nine are awarded as members of the Knights of the Silver Sword, and rank ten to twelve are awarded as members of the Knights of the Golden Banner.

Knights of the four major knighthoods are honorary titles and enjoy certain privileges. For example, in addition to their honours, they can also have knightly fiefs. This title is lifelong.

Along with the fief, there is also a set of knight equipment.

Li Keyong raised his hand and followed the purple-robed bishop to swear to Ye Fashan,

"I give the national surname Li Keyong,
I swear to heaven to make my will clear,
I will swear allegiance to the Tang Dynasty and protect Luzon. I will not be afraid of powerful enemies.
Always be loyal to the Tang Dynasty and honor Luzon! "

Wu Chengzhi raised his sword, "Be loyal to the Tang Dynasty and protect Luzon!"

(End of this chapter)