A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 731 Duke Songping
early morning.

Wu Huaiyu woke up in Gao Twelve's room. When he opened his eyes, he saw Gao Twelve's mother leaning on her side and staring at him with her face on her hands.

"You woke up early and I snored in my sleep?"

"No, it's just that you are going to Lingnan again soon, and I want to see you more." Gao Twelve said with a smile, "You slept soundly,"

She liked to watch him sleeping soundly, quiet and beautiful.

Although I have been married to Huaiyu for more than two years, I still feel that I have not seen enough of each other. Perhaps it is because I have less time to spend alone together.

Wu Huaiyu sat up with a smile, hugged her over and kissed her twice, which made her face flush. She was still not used to him being so passionate.

"You come south with me."

"But I can't bear to leave Shiliu Lang." Gao Ruyi nestled in his arms, liking this warm embrace so much. Youyan's famous swordsman Gao Shiliu was like a little raccoon cat at this time.

She really wanted to go to Lingnan with her, but the child was too young.

Moreover, the imperial court has its own system. Officials from outside are not allowed to bring relatives and guests to their posts, nor are they allowed to occupy fields and houses, build mills, and compete with the people for profit.

In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin issued an order to relax some conditions, allowing children under the age of 19 to follow their father and brother's official position.

The parents of foreign officials cannot be left alone, nor can their children over 19 years old, or even their wives.And even if they take office in other places, these children are subject to many restrictions.

"Don't worry, your brother is coming with me too."

Gao Rong and Gao Ning's cousins ​​were also transferred to Lingnan by Wu Huaiyu this time, not only to take advantage of the opportunity to get promoted, but also to make themselves more trustworthy.

"Thank you Alang." Gao Twelve hugged him and nodded his head in his arms.

Gao Rong and Gao Ning were also famous for their bravery behind the mountains, and they also made great contributions in the Northern Expedition to the Turks. However, after all, they had only returned to the Tang Dynasty for a short time, and the two of them only held six-rank official positions.
This time, Wu Huaiyu also promoted the virtuous to the lower ranks. He summoned the two cousins ​​to Chang'an and took them to Lingnan, and promoted them to the fifth rank.

Taking advantage of this east wind, I changed my scarlet robe in one fell swoop.

"Will anyone say anything?" Gao Twelve was a little worried.

"Don't worry, there are more people going to Guanlong Shiwanxia Lingnan this time. As for the 96 prefectures of the Sixth Governor's Office, Guang Changshi and Sima each have one hundred and two.

It was too easy for Wu Huaiyu to arrange two people from the fifth rank to Gao Rong.
Moreover, these two brothers were already capable of fighting and had made meritorious service in the Northern Expedition. As soon as Wu Huaiyu's transfer list was written, the Political Affairs Hall approved it directly, and there was no objection from the emperor.

Not to mention these two brothers, Wu Huaiyu wanted to send the kite to Gaowei and go south, but they didn't have any objection.

Gao Twelve hugged Wu Huaiyu and couldn't bear to let go.

As a result, the two of them became affectionate again. By the time they went out, it was already late. The maids in Gao Twelve's outer room all looked at the two of them with smiles on their faces, which made Gao Twelve blush.

After Wu Huaiyu washed up, he practiced the Vajra Kung Fu first as usual.

Eating breakfast and reading the newspaper.

The Beijing News, jointly produced by the Chongxian Hall of the East Palace and the Bureau of Economic Affairs, is now getting better and better, and its influence is growing. It has even been changed from the original issue of every five days to every other day.

Today's front page, as expected, is about Wu Huaiyu and Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Ping Zhangshi, paying homage to Lingnan Road to observe and interview the deposed ambassador, and taking charge of the matter.

There were a series of appointments later, such as Hou Junji as the governor of Yongzhou, Chen Longshu as the governor of Rongzhou, Changchong as the governor of Sun Qinzhou, Cheng Chumo as the governor of Lianzhou, etc.

Watch while eating.

The front page was not interesting to Wu Huaiyu. It was all content that he had known for a long time. The sections at the back were more interesting. The Beijing News was talking about hot topics. There was also a Lingnan column at the back, from Lingnan geography to humanities.

For example, the indigenous Liao people in Lingnan are actually two types of indigenous people who are very different. The Li people are mainly indigenous people who live in the plains at the foot of the mountains. They and the Liao people come from the same people as the Luoyue-Wuhu and Nanyue people in Xiou. It's a Baiyue branch.

The Liao people live close to the mountains, mainly in mountainous areas.

The Li people live in river valleys and plains, and are good at fishing in boats and living by water.

The Liao people lived in the mountains and cultivated slash-and-burn farming. They hunted in the mountains and ate all kinds of insects.

One is fishing and farming, the other is farming and hunting.

After the Yongjia Rebellion in the Central Plains, there was a great southward migration of Han people for more than [-] years. Han people continued to influx in the south of the Five Ridges. The Li people living in the plains had long been in close contact with the Han people who migrated south, and were greatly affected.

So now, the slang and the bureaucracy are gradually divided. The slang people can also be called familiar barbarians, and the slang barbarians are called raw barbarians.

For example, the Xian family, who have been married to the Feng family for generations, are Li people. In recent years, the Xian family has led the Li people to develop Leizhou Peninsula and Qiongzhou Island with the Feng family, and they have continued to move south.

The Xidong barbarians in the mountains of Luodou states, also known as the Xue people, echoed and merged with the Wuling barbarians who came south from Jiangxi, Hunan.

The Central Plains people despise the Lingnan natives and do not call them slang, but raccoon dogs.The Book of Han even said that the people of Luo Yue were no different from livestock and were not worthy of being established in counties and counties.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, western Guangdong has basically been the hereditary territory of the leaders of the shoguns. The officials sent by the imperial court are also unable to give orders. Therefore, the policy has always been to establish their chiefs, subdue them, and use the barbarians to rule the barbarians.

Wei Zheng was also a supporter of this policy. He believed that Lingnan, except for the Guangjiao and Guangxi areas, was simply barbaric, and the court did not need to exert effort to rule. Those unruly raccoon barbarians would rebel if you restrain them a little. ,
It's better to guard Guangzhou and other key towns, and slowly plan for them to influence and penetrate slowly. It's too hasty to do it all at once.

Huaiyu continued to read the newspaper,
There were actually people advertising Jibei cloth, and the price was not cheap. He knew what Jibei cloth was at a glance. It was actually made of kapok.

Kapok is not the Gaochang cotton grown by the Wu family today. The Gaochang cotton grown by the Wu family belongs to African cotton, which is the kind of cotton grown in later generations, with longer fibers.

Kapok, also called Panzhihua or Hero Tree, is a tall tree with fibers inside its fruit, but its cotton fibers are very short.
There are many kapok trees in Lingnan. Li people have mastered the technology of weaving with kapok very early, which is to wet it first. In this way, the fibers of kapok expand and become stronger. They can be spun like silk and dyed into patchy cloth. Li people call the kapok tree For the ancient vine,
There are many Jibei cloths for sale in Guizhou, and they are quite famous.
Gui cloth is as white as snow, Wu cotton is as soft as clouds, the cloth is heavy and thick, and the fur has residual warmth.

By the Song Dynasty, the hand-woven brocade they woven from kapok was called Tongjin, and it became one of the four famous brocades in the world, with more than 20 patterns.

At this time, Jibeibuli already had many brocade patterns.

Now that Lingnan is so popular, some businessmen with a keen sense of smell have begun to hype Guibu, hoping to sell it at a high price in Chang'an.

It just so happened that the cotton fabrics of the Wu family were very popular right now. Even the emperor, prince, and queen wore cotton clothes, and the civil and military nobles of the whole dynasty naturally followed suit.

Guibu was thicker and thicker than Wujia cotton, so they also changed the name of Guzhongteng to kapok, and Jibei cloth was also called kapok.

Huaiyu smiled,
I think this is not a bad thing, and kapok cloth and Wu family cotton cloth are actually two different things, so there will be no competition.

"My lord, Duke Songping is here to visit."

Duke Songping is the new governor of Rongzhou, Chen Longshu. The title of Duke Songping is a hereditary title in their family and has been passed down for three generations.

"Invite him to the flower hall. I'll go there after eating."

Wu Huaiyu continued to eat breakfast and read the newspaper, and found that the Beijing News also had some introductions about Chen Longshu, the governor of Rongzhou.

The Longzhou Chen family went to Lingnan later than the Feng Jianing family.
Chen Longshu's grandfather, Chen Fanian, was originally from Yanling in the Central Plains, that is, Yingchuan, Henan. He was an important minister and consort of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasties. He later came to western Guangdong and served as the governor of Xinzhou and Shizhou. He lived in Longzhou, and his territory included the junction of Guangdong and Guangxi on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Xijiang River. most areas.

He controlled Fuxidong and won the support of local officials. He was also named Songping County Duke for his meritorious service. Therefore, the Chen family of Longzhou, the Feng family of Gaoliang and the Ning family of Qinzhou became the three chiefs of Lingnan.

During the Liang Dynasty, the entire western Guangdong region was ruled by the Chen family of Yingchuan. In addition to Chen Fanian of Longzhou, there were also Gaoyao Chen Baxian and Cangwu Chen Tan. Chen Fanian's son Chen Fozhi also served as the governor of Luozhou.

They controlled the entire middle reaches of the Xijiang River Basin.

Chen Fanian and Chen Baxian were both from the Chen family, so they had a close friendship. When Li Ben rebelled in Jiaozhou, Chen Fanian followed Chen Baxian to put down the rebellion. Chen Baxian came from a humble background, and he was very attracted to the Chen family of Longzhou, who was born in the Chen family of Yingchuan.
After Chen Baxian established the Chen Dynasty, Chen Fanian died. Chen Baxian let his son Chen Fozhi inherit the title and official position, and later made Chen Fozhi the prefect of Nanjing.

During the Chen dynasty, the Chen family of Longzhou also entered its peak period. With courtesy from the Chen dynasty, its reputation, prestige, and power continued to increase, and it became the largest wealthy family in the middle reaches of the Xijiang River. The Chen family of Longzhou was naturally grateful to the Chen dynasty.

After the Sui Dynasty destroyed Nanchen, Wei Guang became the general manager of Guangzhou. Mrs. Xian Tai, the head of the Feng family, returned to the Sui Dynasty and sent her grandson to lead an army to welcome the Sui army into Guangzhou.

Chen Fozhi joined forces with Wang Zhongxuan to rebel against the Sui Dynasty and surrounded Guangzhou, triggering a civil war among the three powerful families. Chen Fozhi died in the battle, and his son Chen Longshu was supported by the chief Tandian and sent to Ning Menglina in Qinzhou.Ning Mengli was born in the same year, month and day as Empress Chen. He believed that he was handsome and worthy of being the emperor. He did not want to serve the Sui Dynasty.
Chen Longshu also persuaded him to send troops to attack the Feng family, but in the end Ning Mengli surrendered to the Sui Dynasty.

The Longzhou Chen family fell into a low ebb in the Sui Dynasty. It was not until the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Sui Dynasty and Chen Longshu returned to the Tang Dynasty together with Ning Mengli's son Ning Changzhen that the Longzhou Chen family began to return to their hometown of Longzhou.

However, Tan Dian, the leader of Li Xie there, was no longer willing to be led by the Chen family. Chen Longshu had no choice but to be loyal to the court and use the power of the Tang Dynasty to start a war with the barbarians in Luodoudong. He opened five counties in Douzhou and established Nanfuzhou. However, Soon he was driven out by the Li barbarians. In the second year of Zhenguan, he teamed up with Li Guangdu, the governor of Nanyin Prefecture, to recapture Nanyin Prefecture again, but the Li barbarians still refused to accept it.

Wu Huaiyu looked at the content in the Beijing News and combined it with the information he knew.
We came to the conclusion that although the Chen family in Longzhou was once the most powerful family in Lingnan, it had long been defeated. Now the most powerful family is the Feng family.

After the demise of the Nanchen family, the Feng family knew the current affairs and returned to the Sui Dynasty. Taking advantage of the Chen family's decline in Longzhou, they also quickly seized the Chen family's territory, such as Luozhou, Liangde and other places.

Chen Longshu returned to the Tang Dynasty for ten years and returned to his hometown for many years, but the Chen family in Longzhou failed to revitalize. He could not even control Tandian, Fusan and others who were Chen's former subordinates.

Now the imperial court issued an edict to let Chen Longshu go to Rongzhou as the governor, and to change the name of Nanfuzhou to Douzhou and add it to the Gaozhou Governor's Mansion. In fact, it was assigned to the Feng family.

Chen Longshu is definitely not willing to give in, but so what.

Even if he was promoted to the governor of Rongzhou, Chen Longshu would be transferred from the Longzhou base camp.

Just like Ning Chang, Zhen Ning Daoming, who died after their rebellion was defeated, although their titles were still inherited by their sons and they were also given the post of governor, they were transferred away from the Ning clan's headquarters such as Qinzhou and Nanyue Prefecture.
There are so many chiefs in the 96 Lingnan prefectures. Once they are transferred to other places, regardless of their position, they have actually lost their real power.

After eating, rinse your mouth.

Wu Huaiyu came to the living room.

The three people in the hall stood up to greet them.

"The lower official Chen Longshu brought his dog Puguang and Jiyuan to pay homage to Mr. Wu."

(End of this chapter)