Chapter 1304 Imperial War
May, Dragon Boat Festival.
Although they are overseas, Luzon still abides by the various customs of the Han family. They eat rice dumplings and row dragon boats at the Dragon Boat Festival, insert wormwood Changpu, and drink realgar wine.
This year, Dudufu also held a grand and grand dragon boat race.
The first place has a total of 888 guan, the second also has 666 guan, the third has 555 guan, and the fourth to tenth place also has 300 to 100 guan rewards. .
The rest of the participating teams can also get a small participation reward.
Therefore, the Dajinsha River in front of San Francisco was extremely lively. Spectators gathered on both sides of the river early on, and the teams that could come to participate in the competition had also passed the primary selection, and they were all strong teams.
Sitting on the viewing platform, Qin Lang was also very happy to see the scene where all the people were enjoying themselves.
Today's Luzon is still very backward, but everyone's mental outlook is very good, and there is a kind of thriving and vigorous energy.
Dragon Boat Festival three-day long holiday.
Officials, merchants and even slaves have three days off today.
Qin Jun handed Qin Lang a glass of wine, "This time we specially prepared a lot of wine in advance, but it seems that there is not enough supply. The festive atmosphere is so good."
Qin Lang tasted the beer with ice and smiled. After all, Luzon is a place with a large land and few people. There is no shortage of fields. The plains are fertile and the rain is good. Although there are typhoons, the impact is not too great . Now the main households on Luzon Island, that is, the Han people, are basically landlords.
Not to mention that there are many big families who own a large amount of land. Who among those entrusted knights doesn't have a thousand or eight hundred acres of land?
Even though many fields are planted with various cash crops, such as sugarcane, cotton, abaca, mulberry leaves, etc., the red line of grain planting in Luzon still guarantees the grain output of Luzon, which is far greater than what Luzon needs today.
Therefore, Luzon now has a surplus of grain every year. Not only are every family’s grain warehouses full, but counties and townships in various counties and towns also have warehouses and communal warehouses to store grain.
In order to ensure food safety and the income of most common people from farming, Qin Lang also deliberately asked Changping Cang to increase the minimum purchase price of grain, which was at least 20% higher than the price of grain in the Central Plains.
There are three years' worth of grain stored in the warehouse, so don't panic.
So people are more active in growing glutinous rice, which is listed as an economic category, in addition to grain. Glutinous rice is much more expensive than ordinary rice. It is a good raw material for wine making, and the soft glutinous rice is also suitable for making pastries.
Luzon also implements a wine tax policy for wine. There has always been no taxation for people brewing and drinking. However, wine shops that brew and sell wine, and restaurants that sell wine need to obtain corresponding licenses. The tax on wine is actually not particularly high. , but it must be much more expensive than ordinary food.
But wine, after all, China has always had a wine culture, so the people's demand is still great.
In a festive atmosphere like the Dragon Boat Festival today, the sales of wine are very impressive. The weather in Luzon is always hot, and the Dragon Boat Festival has a tradition of drinking realgar wine. Therefore, among the many people watching the dragon boat race today, almost all men, women and children are drinking .
Men drink rice wine, beer, or bayberry liquor, women drink beer, fruit wine, wine, etc., and children drink rum.
Wei Chang, who just came from Chang'an not long ago, was also holding a glass of beer, "This Luzon feels like a paradise. You can't even see this kind of atmosphere in Chang'an."
"After all, Chang'an is the imperial capital, and the class division is more serious. The situation here is better when Luzon was first established."
The main reason is that Luzon is a new colony, and the Han people who immigrated here have enjoyed dividends. No matter how good or bad they were in the past, they are at least homeowners who own a lot of land after they come here, and there is nothing serious here. The government oppresses and exploits these things. With hard work, food and clothing have been solved long ago. Even in the hot development of Luzon, as long as you are willing to put in some effort, you can participate in some road construction and other projects during the slack season, or the young children in the family will participate in some projects. Working in a workshop can make a lot of money.
There is food at home, cash in hand, and basic supplies of living materials are sufficient. Of course, life is better.
Of course, in fact, everyone’s good life is still based on the hundreds of thousands of slaves in Luzon today. Although these slaves have been taken care of by Qin Lang and specially introduced a bill to provide them with basic protection, slaves are slaves after all.
Slaves filled every corner of Luzon, from workshops, mines, to manors, and families. Most of the prices they created went into the hands of Luzon Han people.
Because of this, the newly immigrated Han people have such an easy life today.
In Luzon now, there are no wars on the island, and there is no need to worry about the harassment of the natives. Although Luzon is still using troops on the outer islands, this kind of military use is more like Luzon's three yamen in rounds. Battle training, actual training.
The specifications are relatively small, and small groups of troops are dispatched in turn to land on the islands. It is completely a textbook-like military training operation, transporting by sea, landing at the mouth of the bay, establishing strongholds and fortresses, and then sweeping the plains at the mouth of the river, and then gradually deepening, passing through military depots and fortresses. Extend inward, suppress and use together.
When the area around the estuary fortress is basically cleared and stabilized, new immigrants will be relocated to build settlements and cultivate wasteland.
The Qin family was not in a hurry. Although they attacked in many places, they kept the fighting at a small scale. The various troops of Sanya took turns to attack and strengthened little by little through actual combat.
As the Qin family's army became stronger and stronger, it is now difficult for the natives to fight against the Qin family's army, and more and more natives began to surrender to the Qin family.
For these natives, the disposal plan given by Qin Lang is quite mild. Those who voluntarily belong to clear up the land, reform the land and return it to the locals, promulgate new laws and tax orders, and make the natives bear the same taxes as Han immigrants. The young and strong were selected to form Baojia and regiment training to assist the Luzon army in encircling and suppressing the recalcitrant natives.
Children over the age of six and under the age of 12 must be sent to the main island of Luzon, where they will study in school, adopt a boarding system, and be assigned to the home of Han immigrants next to the school for boarding.
Villages that stubbornly resist being attacked and conquered will not be treated so well even if they surrender.
For these villages that were resisted and conquered, the Qin family adopted the method of first enslaving the upper Datu and warrior classes, and then distributing the remaining tribute payers and slave classes to various Qin family manors. Or Luzon Guanzhuang, assigned to various manors for three years of teaching and labor.
During these three years, they have to learn Chinese, and also learn more advanced farming techniques. After three years, those who perform well can move to new places, establish new villages, grant farmland, and become official Luzon-organized farmers. household.
These new native villages basically only retain the old family unit, which is completely disrupted from the original village community. After three years of training and reform through labor, there is little need to worry about losing control.
The Qin family in Lu Song continued to conquer the natives slowly but firmly. On the newly conquered land, the Han people migrated, and the knights continued to be entrusted.
Drums burst out.
Countless dragon boats are galloping on the broad Jinsha River. Flags are erected on these dragon boats, which indicate their origins, such as a certain county, a certain township, a certain village, or a certain capital or a certain brigade. Or a certain mine, a certain firm.
Even these banners have the name of the company or product. Smart businessmen have known the effectiveness of advertising, so they have paid for the dragon boats that can enter the finals.
"I heard that the sage has set up a new Privy Council to compete with the political affairs hall to take charge of civil and military affairs. The eldest grandson, Taifu and other ministers have collectively resigned to the sage."
Qin Lang just chuckled.
If Changsun Wuji thought that he could scare Li Yin by resigning, he would be underestimating Li Yin.
"Who knew that the sage, while accepting the resignation of the ministers, imposed the internal system of Taoism, saying that in order to better coordinate the country's financial revenue and expenditure, in order to return the financial benefits to the imperial court, so the financial power should be concentrated, so the financial power is all in the transfer department, Under the Department of Transshipment, there are three envoy divisions, Yantie, Duzhi, and Hubu, each with a deputy commander, and each of the three divisions has five bureaus, with a total of 15 bureaus under its jurisdiction."
Qin Lang was speechless. He felt that Li Yin's memory was really good. This was clearly a long time ago. He had mentioned some systems in the Northern Song Dynasty to the young prince in the East Palace. At that time, he only mentioned this in passing, for comparison. Unexpectedly, Li Yin kept memorized the system of three provinces and six ministries in the Tang Dynasty, and now it is still implemented.
The emperor strengthened the power of the Transshipment Department, which actually took away the power of the original household department, Taifu Temple, Shaofu Supervisor, and Transshipment Department.
Du Zhisi is in charge of the world's wealth and wealth, and the Household Department is in charge of the world's household registration, tax registration, tea and wine monopoly, etc. The Department of Salt and Iron is in charge of the goods of the mountains and rivers in the world, the military affairs of the rivers and canals in Guanshi, the mining department, salt and iron, etc., and even the manufacture of military weapons.
It can be said that this new transshipment department is worthy of the name of the Minister of Finance. In fact, it not only seized the power of the Ministry of Households, Taifu Temple, Taifu Supervisor, etc., but even seized the power of many imperial departments such as the Ministry of Industry.
On the surface, Li Yin said that the two mansions of the east and the west are in charge of the civil and military powers. In fact, Li Yin first took the military power from the prime ministers and assigned it to the Privy Council, and then turned around and split the financial and taxation power from the political affairs hall. The right is handed over to the transshipment department.
Therefore, in fact, the current structure of the imperial court is a new three-point structure of the Zhengshitang, the Privy Council, and the Transit Department. The Zhengshitang, which was originally the highest central decision-making body, can neither manage the military nor finance.
The actual power of such a political hall has been greatly weakened.
Li Yin's reasoning is quite reasonable. The unification of financial power is beneficial to the overall planning of the country, but this cannot conceal the fact that he wants to further weaken the prime minister's power. The Transit Department and the Privy Council are no longer under the prime minister's control, but they are still under the emperor's control.
The power of the prime minister was further weakened, but the imperial power was further enhanced.
This is really Li Yin's character.
Even if Li Shimin is the emperor, if the ministers strongly oppose him, he will rarely force his horse, and will definitely make a detour or even temporarily compromise, but as for Li Yin, he prefers to be soft and hard.
"Is the transfer envoy still Jia Runfu?"
"Well, the transfer envoy is still Saburo, your uncle Jia Runfu, the deputy envoy of Yantie is Li Sixing, the deputy envoy of Duzhi is Tang Jian, and the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Households is Xu Shixu."
When Qin Lang heard the names of the three deputy envoys, he couldn't help but frowned slightly.
Wei Chang smiled and said, "These three people are all Taiyuan Yuanmou meritorious officials who were conferred the titles of Taiyuan Yuanmou after Gaozu Wude proclaimed himself emperor in the first year. Seventeen of them were conferred back then, and there are not many left now, but they are all found today."
Li Yuan's Taiyuan Yuancong heroes, mainly Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing, Chai Shao, Sun Shunde, Liu Hongji, warrior Xun, etc., are all Li Yuan's confidantes. After Li Shimin's palace change, they basically sat on the bench. There are still a few left now, and they were not reused in the Zhenguan Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, Li Yin appointed them as the three deputy envoys of the Transshipment Department. This young emperor did have ideas.
Judging from this momentum, it is estimated that Chaotang will be more interesting next time.
(end of this chapter)