Chapter 1262 Deathbed summons
If the son had figured this out by himself, he would have beaten the **** a long time ago, but since it was proposed by Duke Wei, and Duke Wei is already doing it, let’s try it first.
The family is discussing changes while eating.
After all, Li Gongzuo has a lot of experience outside. His bargain is to divide the dozen or so slaves in the family into four or five households, marry a pair of young male and female slaves, and then add one or two old and young slaves to form a family and divide them among them. A hundred acres of land will be cultivated and managed by them.
But while managing the land assigned to them, they also have to take on the tasks here, such as cleaning up the household utensils and the yard before the owner gets up in the morning, or making breakfast in advance, and even At night, I have to be responsible for guarding the courtyard, taking care of cattle, horses, night grass, etc.
In general, the work here should not be delayed, but the field must also be taken care of, not only must plant the land given to them, but also help manage the public land left by the Li family.
In fact, the biggest difference from the present is that the slaves will be divided into four or five groups in the future, and the fields will be divided into land and public land. If the slaves can work hard, they can not only pay the rent on the land, but also get an extra grain for themselves. , which is their private property.
Of course, it depends on the actual situation.
But since his son insisted on doing this, Old Li had no choice but to agree to give it a try.
"If you want to exchange slaves with another family, will others be willing to pay deed tax and transaction tax?" Lao Li felt distressed, this is another expense.
However, Li Gongzuo thought it was worth a try. Cooking and washing in the kitchen at home, cleaning and serving the house, the old and the young slaves of several families will take turns to do it, and the young and strong male and female slaves can concentrate on taking care of the fields.
"Ada, I will go to Baekje to fight soon. If it goes well, I might get a lot of rewards, or get some slaves. If there are more slaves, the land at home can be planted."
Li Gongzuo’s family now has more than 1,000 mu of land, but because some of the land requires rotation and intercropping, in fact, about half of it is planted, half is cultivated and half is rested. Two or three seasons.
At that time, the fields needed more labor, and it was not enough to rely on their own people. Besides, Li Gongzuo also felt that it was difficult to get rich by farming alone. To make money, he had to rely on the location of Ningyuan Port and do some business. But what to do, he has no idea now.
What he is thinking now is also preparing for the battle of Baekje, hoping to make meritorious service at that time. It would be best if he can be awarded an honorary officer.
"A group of slaves are so expensive." Old Li muttered.
"Isn't gold expensive? A strong slave is more expensive than a horse. Those craftsmen and slaves are more valuable. Even if they are maidservants, those who are young and can give birth are very valuable. If they have cooking skills, they may be able to embroider or The ones that look good are more valuable, if our family buys a cow, you, Da, are like treasures."
Old Li thinks about it, but this is the case.
Maybe it's because my mentality has changed since I came here?
The family has more than a thousand acres of land. Although they can't cultivate all of them, at least the family has indeed solved the problem of food and clothing. No matter how cheap the food price is, at least they can eat enough, right?
Although at the beginning, they were not used to eating rice, and thought that millet and millet in the northwest were delicious, but it was the same after getting used to it. No matter how unaccustomed to eating rice, it was better than eating thinner rice than before. When the crops are green and yellow, they often have to eat porridge with wild vegetables, which are all wild vegetables but not a few grains of grain in them.
Not to mention the time of famine, it all depends on God's survival.
There are white rice and fat fish here, a real land of fish and rice.
He can command slaves and maidservants, and there are cattle and horses at home.
Although the house is a little crude, it is spacious.
Their fortress in Ningyuan is basically an immigrant from the Central Plains. Every family has a lot of fields, and even every family has cattle, horses and slaves, and many of their slaves used to be the masters here.
In the past, most of the immigrants lived a mediocre life, even poor people. Thanks to Qin Lang's blessing, they were able to gain a foothold in this fertile new land and become superior people.
Of course, they also contributed to this kind of life. For example, the old Li's family has today's life, which is also due to the second son, who also took his life here to fight the aborigines of the island.
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Gray dawn, dark sky.
In Lusong Xinjinshan Yamen City, Qin Lang sat in his study without changing his posture for a long time. He has been doing this since he opened the letter.
This is the early autumn of the 21st year of Zhenguan.
The Second Eastern Expedition Campaign has already started the skirmish. Shi Niu Jinda, who has not been appointed as the Governor of the East, seems unwilling to be lonely. He also seems to have obeyed the military order of the imperial court. Started fighting against the Goguryeo people on the front line of the Yalu River.
Niu Jinda harassed Goguryeo's defense line on the Yalu River, and then attacked from the sea unexpectedly. After occupying some coastal islands such as Phi Island, he used it as an offensive base, and frequently circled behind the Yalu River defense line. Unbearable.
However, Niu Jinda's attack seems to be just that, and he has no further plans. However, what makes the Goguryeo people more troublesome is that Niu Jinda's harassment is just the beginning. Governor Shi also escorted Liaodong Xi, Qi, Qi, Shiwei, Mohe and other great generals of the Tang Dynasty. They each brought an elite cavalry.
Yuan Gaisuwen, who was in power in Goguryeo, had to fully mobilize troops and horses to reinforce the defense line of the Yalu River, but because of Datang's strong sea control, he had to divide his troops to stay in Pyongyang and the coastal areas.
But Silla cooperated with Niu Jinda to attack Goguryeo in summer.
This made Yuan Gai Suwen in a panic, facing enemies from all sides.
But these are just the appetizers for the Tang army, because the Tang army will really attack Goguryeo with the 200,000 elite Tang army led by Prime Minister Li Ji.
Niu Jinda, Zhufan, or Silla, etc., are actually just to exhaust the Goguryeo army, and even prevent them from fully harvesting summer harvest and autumn planting.
When Li Ji led his army to arrive, Niu Jinda and the others had almost walked the Goguryeo people.
But Goguryeo had to guard against it again, because the strength of the Andong army and the various soldiers led by Niu Jinda was not weak. If he was not careful, Niu Jinda would not be polite to kill the upper peninsula first, and even invaded Pyongyang.
This is a deadlock. Today's Goguryeo no longer has the confidence to resist the Sui army. After several rounds of strong attacks and consumption in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, coupled with their own internal struggles, the current Goguryeo is about to collapse.
What's more, Baekje and Wa Kingdom, which were originally counted on, can't be counted on now. Tamra and Gaya have now begun to harass Baekje. What's more, Datang has made no secret that they are going to send troops ten times. Wan directly attacked Baekje's military plan. This kind of publicity made Baekje ignore Goguryeo's request for help.
One sentence from Datang made Baekje and Goguryeo fight on their own.
As for the country of Wa, Prince Katsuragi secretly visited Qin Lang of Lu Song Dynasty and signed the 21 Tangjin Treaty. At this time, he is busy studying the teacher of Datang, so how can he care about Goguryeo and Baekje?
It’s just that in history, in the water battle at Baijiangkou in Tang Dynasty, the Japanese army was defeated. Almost the whole army was wiped out and sank to the bottom of Baijiangkou. It was also after this battle that the Wa Kingdom was awakened, and it no longer dared to be arrogant to Datang. Since then, it has formally comprehensively and seriously reformed and learned from Datang in all aspects.
But in this time and space, the country of Wa has been taught how to be a man by the old master of Datang in various ways before, so the country of Wa began to recognize the strength of Datang in advance, and started to innovate early, so now it does not want to be involved in the peninsula at all. shit.
Even if Baekje and Goguryeo frequently sent envoys to the Wa country, and even Baekje was willing to surrender to the Wa country, the Wa country was unmoved. It was not brave but stupid to fight knowingly that it could not be defeated.
After a summer, the situation has become more and more favorable to Datang.
It can be said that Datang has actually won more than half of the battle before the official start.
But Qin Lang was in a daze in the study today, not because of these.
The emperor summoned Qin Lang to go to Qizhou.
For this Eastern Expedition, the emperor does not plan to go there himself, but he plans to move to Qizhou, which is close to Donglai, and plans to pay homage to Mount Tai again.
He wrote a long letter to Qin Lang.
The emperor told Qin Lang very sincerely that if he died, maybe this would be the last time their ruler, minister and son-in-law saw each other. The emperor said a lot, very sincerely.
Qin Langxin, because of the information he has, the emperor is indeed dying. Whether he can persist until the end of the Eastern Expedition is not certain. The emperor may not last until the new year.
At this time, the emperor summoned him to go north, and wanted him to go back and prepare to assist the new emperor to succeed him. Li Shimin told Qin Lang that the auxiliary administration team he had prepared for Chengqian was basically stable, but he had always reserved a place for him, and he had to go back. .
Ma Zhou died, Xiao Yu died, Fang Xuanling died, Gao Shilian also died.
Now the only truly prestigious old minister in the court is Changsun Wuji. Although Li Ji entered the court, he had to command the Eastern Expedition. Therefore, at this critical moment, Li Shimin needed Qin Lang to return to the court.
He appreciates Qin Lang's talent and believes in his loyalty even more.
Looking back on this journey, Li Shimin sighed that God did not give him another ten years, or even nearly ten years. The emperor was actually suffering from illnesses and was unable to govern the country well. Otherwise, he thought he should be able to lead the Tang Dynasty to a higher level. Steps, at least Goguryeo was wiped out a few years ago, not until today.
Originally, the emperor should not send a large army to conquer Liao at this time. After all, when the old and new emperors are handing over, it is also the time when the interior is most unstable, but Li Shimin does not intend to stop conquering Liao. Even if he dies, he also hopes to take Goguryeo as planned and Baekje.
Regarding the stability of the court, he hoped that Qin Lang could go back. With Qin Lang and Changsun Wuji leading the political affairs hall, the transition would be stable.
At the end of the letter, the emperor even rarely threatened Qin Lang that if Qin Lang did not follow the order to go north, he would abolish the Luzon Dudufu. The emperor was very aware of Qin Lang's small thoughts, and knew his utterly vulgar selfishness, wanting to be a free king overseas.
If Qin Lang can follow the order to go north and assist Chengqian to succeed to the throne, Li Shimin doesn't care about it, but if Qin Lang refuses to come out at this critical time, then he will not be polite to Qin Lang.
Qin Lang believes that the emperor will do what he says, and he is indeed such an ordinary person, always thinking about his fief, who can't understand the emperor and ministers, but everyone can't figure out why Qin Lang is so obsessed with this.
The people who went to the frontier these years are actually poor people in the Central Plains. They have no land and no money, so they go to the frontier to get bored, and the picture is the field.
But the gentry tycoons have been moving to the capital these years, because the capital is the center of the world. Even those wealthy families in Chang'an in the past have almost moved to Luoyang now. Only by guarding the capital can they occupy more resources. Only then will there be more opportunities to enter the center.
Instead of always thinking of running to the edge of the country like Qin Lang, or even going overseas in one breath.
Even in exchange for a free fiefdom, in their view, it is not worthwhile.
Only Qin Lang would be so persistent, and would regard these as treasures.
Li Shimin also saw very clearly that Qin Lang's actions made Li Shimin feel that this son-in-law is no longer a threat, and that he will be an important help to Chengqian rather than a threat, because Qin Lang has put the roots of the Qin family all these years ago. All moved overseas.
Let out a long sigh.
Tian Khan, is the curtain about to end?
For a long time, this man has been pressing on his head like a big mountain. No matter how much the emperor doesn't ask about political affairs these years, no matter how much he cultivates Dao Fu Dan, the pressure on him will not change.
But now that the emperor is really about to end, Qin Lang is still a little bit reluctant.
After a long time, Qin Lang finally stood up.
He rang the brass bell on the table.
"Next."
"Order to go on, I will set off the day after tomorrow to Dengzhou Port."
The attendant was surprised, the decision was so sudden.
"Do you need to let the two thousand sailors going north to set off early?"
"No, the Navy's original itinerary remains unchanged."
"Then how to arrange the task of accompanying guards, should they be transferred to the squadron or go to Shangliudu as escorts?"
Qin Lang said, "I'm going to Dengzhou Port to land, and then go to Qizhou Taishan to meet the emperor. There is no need to mobilize the crowd. The number of accompanying people should not exceed fifty, and twenty guards will do."
"The number of guards is too small." The attendant advised.
"Why do I bring so many guards to the emperor? Make arrangements!" Qin Lang shook his head and let out a long sigh.
From Luzon to Dengzhou, there will be no danger along the way. And when meeting the Son of Heaven, if there is danger, even bringing thousands of people along is not safe.
So, it's better to just take it lightly and keep it simple.
Besides, he didn't believe that Li Shimin summoned him and would try to mess with him.
(end of this chapter)