Chapter 1350 Reasonable and beneficial
"Sanlang, if you don't, forget it! Let's raise the banner on the side of the Qing emperor, break into Luoyang City, embrace Qin Wangxian as the emperor, eliminate the demon atmosphere, and reform the government!"
The young Qian Xiaowu made an admonition.
Qin Lang just chuckled.
Qin Lang did not reprimand Xiaowu's rebellious words. The Qian family belonged to the Qin family's loyal retainers. Qian Dexing, his brothers, concubine brothers, and a group of nephews were even more loyal to the Qin family. When they first opened up Wu'an, Later, when Luzon was conquered, countless children of the Qian family were at the forefront, and several of them were even killed and seriously injured.
The Qin and Qian families later got married, and the interests of the two families were even more tightly bound.
Nowadays, young people like Qian Cunwu, especially the second and third generations of the Qin family's retainers, have only the Qin family and Lu Song in their eyes, and there is no emperor long ago.
This trend, Qin Lang is actually aware of it, and he also knows that it is the result of the intentional guidance of those old retainers of the Qin family, and he did not deliberately stop it.
But when it comes to fighting against the Qing emperor, Qin Lang has no plans.
To raise troops is to rebel.
In fact, up to now, Qin Lang also understands the thoughts of many retainers in Lu Song. Thinking of everyone conquering and managing Lu Song, the court did not spend a single soldier, did not support a little money, and did not even send officials to help manage it. One-third of Luzon's taxes were collected, and the Qin family also paid tribute to the emperor every year.
Over the past few decades, how much blood has the court sucked from Wu'an and Luzon?
Everyone has long been dissatisfied.
In particular, Lu Song was originally overseas. After a long time, everyone had the idea of Qin Lang becoming king on his own. This king is not a king appointed by the court, but an independent king like Linyi King and Japanese King, who can maintain the clan. However, he no longer has to pay taxes to the imperial court, and he has the final say on state affairs, military economy, etc.
After all, Luzon was brought down and managed by everyone, so why should the court **** blood like this?
However, when Qin Lang was educating his children and grandchildren, he always emphasized that Luzon was the territory of the Tang Dynasty. In terms of paying tribute, he never defaulted on or concealed any omissions. The deep-seated reason for this is that Qin Lang has always since the original intention.
Expand the territory for China, spread the Han civilization, and go further, instead of always thinking about internal struggles.
What he wants is a certain degree of autonomy, but he doesn't want to completely break away from the Central Plains court.
This kind of thinking is actually not understood by the Qin family.
From another perspective, although Luzon is developing very fast, it cannot be separated from the Central Plains. Once Luzon really wants to move towards complete autonomy, or even confront the Central Plains, it will actually be useless. Let alone the Central Plains crusade, Even if it is blocked, it may be difficult to develop rapidly in the future once it returns to before liberation.
Qin Lang didn't want to close the door on the island and become a local emperor.
So no matter how you look at it, the Qin family can't rebel, and they have to find a way to maintain the current relationship.
The emperor repeatedly attacked the Qin family. Qin Lang did not mention rebellion, let alone doing things along the coast, nor did he stop paying tribute and taxes.
His choice was to convene the Nanyang Ten-National Alliance to form an allied force to attack Huyue. At this time, Qin Lang still formed an allied force to assist the imperial court in its southern expedition, rather than dragging its feet to sabotage.
What should be done is not ambiguous, but the strength that should be displayed is also not ambiguous.
"Go and tell the generals of the coalition forces that 20% of the spoils captured by Michen this time will be used first, 10% will be paid as a tribute to the emperor, 10% will be given to the imperial court's southern expedition army, and the remaining 80% , our ten families will divide it equally.”
"Why?" Xiaowu was dissatisfied.
"Young people, take a long-term view, don't be short-sighted, and have a pattern."
"But the imperial court has already come to pick peaches, and we have been taken advantage of, so we want to share the benefits with them?"
Qin Lang smiled.
Look up and look into the distance.
Dark clouds piled up in the sky, and it looked like it was going to rain again.
The rainy season in this Pyu country is really annoying. It feels like the sky is not sunny, it is humid and hot, and many soldiers have skin diseases.
A coalition commander like Qin Lang is quite comfortable. He was very comfortable in the cabin of Dabao before, but he is even more comfortable after entering Yougang and entering the city.
Yougang is a very large city. The biggest feature is that there are countless Buddhist temples here, which are numerous, large in size, large in scale, and very beautiful. The architectural level of Pyu is very high.
The products here are rich, and there are trade benefits, wealth accumulation.
After the allied forces invaded, they robbed all the Buddhist temples. After robbing all the floating wealth, they began to rob those Buddha statues, and took away all the gold-plated, silver-plated and cast-copper ones.
Many exquisite Buddha statues and utensils, only the valuable precious metal layer on the top was cut off, and then the damaged inner statues were left.
The once lofty Buddha fell to the dust at this time.
The monks who claimed to be their spokespersons were also chained and put on slave ships.
Qin Lang did not stop this kind of invasion and destruction of Huyue culture and religion, which itself is also part of history.
The collision and conquest of civilizations and beliefs.
This is the law of the jungle and the inevitability of history.
Just like the centuries-old rule of the Pyu Kingdom, it was also based on their conquest of other tribes and vassal states.
Currently, Yougang has returned to calm, and the population in the city has also decreased a lot.
The nobles either fled or were captured, and the monks were also considered useless, and most of them were reduced to slaves and sent to the ship.
The monastery was destroyed.
Qin Lang didn't expect that the emperor would reward him with this city, so now he plans to make some adjustments.
Giving land to more native poor people, establishing a more complete administrative organization, and at the same time starting to restore the local business economy.
Although it was still depressed for a while, it is indeed slowly returning to life.
Qin Lang even built many porridge sheds here, gave porridge to the poor, re-compiled household registration files for them, and even opened a bank branch in the city, and began to issue low-interest loans to merchants and ordinary people. To help them resume production and economy.
I originally thought of grabbing it and leaving, but now I have to plan for long-term management.
Although the emperor was a little surprised to entrust Yougang to the Qin family, it is far away from the Central Plains after all, and it is only the southwest corner of the thousand-mile coastline in Piaonan. s help.
Qin Lang plans to increase his efforts to manage this port and build it into a strategically important port for the Qin family west of the Strait of Malacca. In the future, after the imperial army conquers the entire Pyu country and opens up the channel with Yunnan, this port will definitely be prosperous and able to bring huge economic returns.
What's more, Yougang has the best teak in the world, and has extremely rich teak resources, which can provide great help to the Qin family's shipbuilding industry.
The coalition forces are planning the next round of attack. They plan to take advantage of the new defeat of the Pyu country, and at the same time, before the imperial court's expeditionary navy arrives, and before the land camp in the north goes south, they plan to make a few more big ones.
This time the Michen Kingdom was destroyed, and indeed a lot of good things were snatched.
But who thinks too much?
Qin Lang has no objection to this, as long as he is prepared, he will continue to rob if he can. The expeditionary force now has more than 20,000 people, not to mention a native alliance army of more than 40,000 people has been reorganized.
The goal of the coalition forces is also very direct, which is to rob.
No one wanted to occupy this place for a long time, even if Qin Lang didn't say that the land should belong to Datang beforehand, they probably wouldn't want it.
They were even a little surprised that Qin Lang planned to occupy and operate Yougang for a long time.
But seeing that Qin Lang had really started to operate Yougang, the representatives of various countries wavered again, and even wanted to build a fortress or a port along the coast.
Finally, Qin Lang personally convened a meeting of representatives from various countries.
After talking with them for a long time, an agreement was finally reached, that is, Qin Lang allocated a piece of land to each of the nine other countries in Yougang to build a square area for them, so that their countries would park in Yougang for supplies or operations in the future. Yougang is set as a free port to facilitate the trade of goods from various countries.
Grabbing and leaving is very different from running a trading port for a long time.
Qin Lang had no choice but to select some smart and capable people from the Lu Song vassals and officials who accompanied the expedition to appoint them.
As usual, one of Qin Lang's sons was the chief official of Yougang, because the imperial court had set up the Michen Governor's Mansion here, and Yougang and its surrounding areas were designated as Dinghai Prefecture by the imperial court.
Give the first son of Qin Lang the title of governor of Haizhou.
Now Qin Lang has appointed Changshi, Sima, and Liucao of Dinghai Prefecture to participate in the military, and plans to set up a naval town here, govern a state town army, and form a native regiment to train troops.
It is necessary to repair the city wall, strengthen the defense, expand the port and wharf, and even build a naval barracks, build forts and post roads outside the city, and start building villages.
It's not easy anyway.
"Your Highness."
"Since the distribution of security orders was issued, more and more natives are coming here every day. If this continues, won't all the land we confiscated from monasteries, nobles, etc. be distributed to those natives?"
Xiaowu came in to report covered in sweat.
Qin Lang felt that he was capable and young and willing to work, so he had been conferred the post of Ding Haizhou Bing Cao Can and appointed him to stay behind.
The cub sells the land and doesn't feel bad. Qin Lang is now vigorously fighting the local tyrants in Yougang to divide the land. Qin Lang is not polite to the original upper-level nobles, officials, powerful, monks, etc., anyway, these people will not support them. Own.
So this time, it will be solved at once. The coalition forces will first thoroughly loot, grab everything and then catch them all, and then Qin Lang will reclaim the land.
Recovered fields were partly classified as official fields, which were used as public fields for government offices, school fields for prefecture and county studies, social studies, etc., as well as military fields for garrison troops, and work fields for officials.
Of course, there is also a part of Wangzhuang of the Qin family, Yongyetian of the Shifeng governor, and Xuntian of the garrison soldiers.
In addition to these, Qin Lang also gave a part of it to the remaining officials and soldiers, and gave them fiefdoms.
What was left, Qin Lang took it out and distributed it to the natives who came to join him.
Divide the land according to the size, each strong man will be granted 10 mu of land, a family will be given 20 mu of land as a base, and the maximum grant will be 30 mu of land.
Swear an oath of naturalization, change the name of the Han Dynasty, grant the land, and then abide by the laws of Dinghai Prefecture, pay rent, tax and serve in the military. For the natives who still believe in Buddhism, Brahman and other religions, an additional tax of tenths is levied, but if they abandon their old beliefs and accept Sinicization, they can be exempted from paying this tax of tenths.
freedom of religion.
But for preaching, building temples, ordaining, etc., strictly follow the rules of Luzon.
Although Qin Lang made a lot of rules.
However, the native adherents sent out from Yougang publicized to the native people in various places the Qin family’s recruitment order in Yougang, telling them to come here to become naturalized and vote for the Qin Dynasty. There are many people here.
In the past, the upper class of Michen Kingdom exploited the lower class people very ruthlessly. The rules and taxes set by the Qin family were too generous for them, not to mention that they could divide the land and grant land?
The people flocked one after another, eager to take an oath of naturalization, wanting to be allocated land immediately.
What is it to change your Han name and give up your religious beliefs?
Originally, many poor people believed in religion because life was too hard and they could not see any hope. They believed in religion in order to hope for the last bright hope. Now that old beliefs can be exchanged for so many benefits, who would not want to.
Besides, if you are a devout believer, the Qin family will not force you to give up, but will give priority to granting land to those who give up their old beliefs and accept Sinicization.
And those who don’t give up their old beliefs still have the opportunity to line up for the team to share the land, but they will have to pay a tax of 10% in the future.
As long as you are firm in your faith, the tithe is also worth it.
Qin Lang underestimated the number of poor people among those natives, and also underestimated the superior attractiveness of the conditions of the Qin family, more and more people came.
Qin Lang just smiled.
What are you afraid of?
Anyway, one person is granted ten acres of land, and a family is granted a maximum of thirty acres of land. There are not many fields granted, and the vicinity of Michen is the Great Delta Plain.
"All comers are not rejected, and the land is given priority to those natives who have given up their old beliefs and accepted Sinicization, and priority is given to those families with several members."
In Qin Lang's view, this kind of family with two children is obviously more stable and easier to manage.
"For those who are single or unwilling to give up their old beliefs, you can recruit them to work in our workshops. We will need a lot of people in the ports, workshops, etc. in the future."
Although recruiting as a worker has no land, it is still a job and can support the family.
"You can also recruit as tenant farmers, lease the official land to them for farming, or directly recruit Guanzhuang and Wangzhuang as servants."
"I always feel that it is too cheap for these people to directly allocate land to them."
Qin Lang chuckled.
"We will operate Yougang for a long time in the future. If Yougang is to develop and prosper, it is inseparable from people. Only enough population can supply Yougang's material needs, and provide enough labor for the docks and workshops of Yougang."
"Anyway, we snatched these fields, so there is nothing to be reluctant about. Before the court comes, let's recruit more people first."
"I just think that we can actually use the robbed people as slaves to work for our manor and workshop, which is cheap and easy."
Qin Lang shook his head.
"Slaves must also be used, but it is impossible to use all slaves. We only plan to operate a port here, and it is unlikely that immigrants will come here in the future. Therefore, in the long run, it is beneficial to relax some conditions appropriately. The land recruited now The people at the bottom of the people, we distribute the land, they will benefit from it, and they will remember us well, and at the same time, they can also become our high-quality tax source and military source.”
How to use a minority to rule the vast majority, especially when it is ruled by a foreign race, is actually very learned, and slavery alone cannot last for a long time.
Absorb a group of low-level natives, let them become Xinyougang people, or even new Luzon people, and let their interests be tied to the boat of Luzon, which is consistent with the interests of the Qin family. This is undoubtedly better.
Yougang is far away from Luzon, just like Yecheng, Lion City, Saigon and other places. In fact, the Qin family cannot immigrate and rule. The Qin family is still seriously underpopulated even on Luzon Island, so they can only send a small amount of people from Luzon. Officials came to rule the local indigenous development.
Qian Xiaowu nodded.
"Your Highness, if the imperial court attacks and destroys the Pyu country, what should we do if they want to take away Yougang, just like they did with Wu'an back then?"
"Responsible and reasonable!" Qin Lang said flatly.
(end of this chapter)