Wanli 1592

Chapter 1260 Yuan Yan Arrested
This year is my third year as Luzon Prime Minister.

It will be four years soon.

Yuan Yan has always clearly remembered the day and time of his tenure as Prime Minister of Lu Song Dynasty. Yuan Yan is not the same as the general value of this position that has been retained since the Burmese period.

At the beginning, when Xiao Ruxun had only three orthodox scholars under him, Chen Longzheng and his father Yuan Huang, Xiao Ruxun resolutely taught him the important task of Lu Song Guoxiang, which shows how much Xiao Ruxun values ​​and expects from him.

In the past few years, Yuan Yan has been conscientious and hardworking. Even after the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, he never begged Xiao Ruxun to transfer himself away from the hot border of the empire, and still spent his days here.

In fact, he doesn't want to leave here. Although it has been developed for several years, it has a relatively good infrastructure and a pretty good climate. The crops can be grown three times a year. It is an important granary for Daqin, and it is important when the land of Shenzhou is short of food. supply base.

Moreover, there was an endless stream of businessmen coming and going, including not only Chinese, but also Koreans, Ryukyu people, and people from the major vassal states in Southeast Asia.

There are even Hongmaoyi and Huangmaoyi who came here from the continent of Europe. They all come here to do business, buying spices, Daqin porcelain, silk and other items.

The commercial trade here is prosperous, the income is extremely high, and the annual tax can also account for a good proportion of the central fiscal revenue.

As the actual person in power of this overseas province called the country that actually belongs to Daqin, Yuan Yan has made great contributions.

Xiao Ruxun led troops to conquer this place, cleaned up too many unfriendly aborigines here, introduced the residents of the Central Plains to live and develop, and set a blueprint for the general direction, and Yuan Yan was responsible for the implementation.

In fact, it also proved that Yuan Yan lived up to the expectations of Xiao Ruxun and Yuan Huang, and built Luzon very well.

Another point is that the Luzon controlled by Xiao Ruxun at the beginning is two-thirds of the Luzon developed by Yuan Yan now.

Over the past few years, on the basis of Luzon controlled by Xiao Ruxun, Yuan Yan led the garrison to continue to develop southward, and successively developed several small islands with or without people. The resources are very rich and the soil is very fertile, which is very suitable for reclamation Grow rice and fruit.

Yuan Yan was very happy to classify these islands as food growing areas, fruit growing areas and some spice growing areas.

In his vision, Luzon will be built into a super-large warehouse, with a lot of food and fruit cash crops, so that many people will come here to do business, collect more business taxes, and revitalize this once barren archipelago.

And he did.

Through continuous development and cultivation, the land in Luzon was slowly and firmly held by the Han people. The natives who were willing to naturalize knelt on the ground and accepted the canonization of Daqin. They became citizens of Daqin and learned Chinese from Daqin. The Han etiquette and the way of farming make life very good.

And Yuan Yan, who was unwilling to naturalize, was not relentless. With the support of Xiao Ruxun, he launched several small-scale wars of extermination.

Sixteen or seven tribes that were unwilling to cooperate were wiped out, and the captives that their people deserved to be killed were used as hard labor, anyway, they were used as waste.

Under the arrangement of a series of policies by Yuan Yan, Luzon gradually radiated considerable vitality. As the most important granary and commodity replenishment base in the interior of the Great Qin, Luzon gradually occupied a high position in the economic activities of the Great Qin.

Especially since the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, a large number of merchants from Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong went to Luzon by boat to buy things and bring them back to sell, or resell them to other vassal states, earning a lot of money. Luzon has become an inseparable part of the Great Qin. In part, the status is not lower than that of Myanmar.

And to be honest, Yuan Yan didn't envy those central officials. In his opinion, those central officials followed Xiao Ruxun later, and their qualifications were not enough.

Only him, his father Yuan Huang and Chen Longzheng were the first to follow Xiao Ruxun. Now Chen Longzheng is in charge of locust control beside Xu Guangqi, who is regarded as the future chief assistant of the Great Qin Dynasty, and his future should be comparable to Chen Longzheng.

More importantly, the post of Prime Minister of Lu Song Dynasty was appointed by Xiao Ruxun in the pre-Ming Dynasty, which has a different meaning. In the end, he might be directly included in the central government as a senior official, instead of going to other places to accumulate qualifications.

Of course, Yuan Yan is not without worries. The reason why he has been staying in Luzon is also to consider for his father Yuan Huang.

Yuan Huang has been refusing to recognize Xiao Ruxun's status since the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty. He has always thought that Xiao Ruxun was rebellious and claimed to be an old man of the Ming Dynasty.

The great purge in the first year of Longwu scared Yuan Yan out of his wits, thinking that Xiao Ruxun was going to attack Yuan Huang, but in the end, Yuan Huang was alive and well, in good health, delicious and fragrant, and kept writing to Yuan Yan In the letter, he angrily reprimanded Xiao Ruxun for his cruelty and bloodlust.

Say something like "I'm really blind", "I really didn't see Xiao Jixin's wolf ambition", "If I were 20 years younger, I would have to rebel", etc., which made Yuan Yan terrified.

Yuan Yan also wrote to Yuan Huang more than once to let Yuan Huang realize the reality, but Yuan Huang just refused to agree and ignored, and insisted on continuing to reprimand Xiao Ruxun, insisting on remembering Ming in his heart, but refused to recognize Xiao Ruxun's Daqin.

According to Yuan Yan's original idea, Yuan Huang should be in the position of Wang Xijue today, and the No.1 chief assistant of Daqin's cabinet should belong to Yuan Huang. Nature is limitless.

But Yuan Huang's series of performances made Yuan Yan unable to go back to Beijing, so he could only stay in Luzon and give silently. I hope Xiao Ruxun can treat Yuan Huang better and make Yuan Huang happier after seeing his dedication.

Of course he also has some Yuan Yan towards Yuan Huang, but Yuan Huang is his father, so what can he do?

He can only hope that Xiao Ruxun can accommodate Yuan Huang's existence for the sake of his previous love, so that he can die peacefully and pursue the dream of Daming.

That's what he expected.

He also believed this from the bottom of his heart, so when the black kings of the Central Investigation Department appeared in front of him, read out an investigation report on Yuan Yan's corruption and dereliction of duty, and wanted to escort him back to the capital for trial, he was Dumbfounded, his mind went blank.

He never expected that he would be corrupt and dereliction of duty.

The conscience of heaven and earth, he has been in Luzon for more than three years, has he ever been corrupt and dereliction of duty?

When Luzon was poor and white, he led people to build it bit by bit. Now Luzon has just developed and has some money. Where did the corruption and malfeasance come from?

He couldn't understand, didn't know what was going on.

Why did the people from the Central Investigation Department come to arrest him?How did he commit a crime?It is inexplicable, why is he going to be brought back to Beijing for trial when he is acting as Lu Song's prime minister?

(End of this chapter)