Chapter 1435 Dianyue Donghui
In recent years, Tang merchants have scoured a large amount of gold, silver and precious metals from various countries. Even copper and iron materials have become more popular exchange items for Tang merchants. The outflow has been serious, and even the copper, iron, fur, etc. are almost tossed.
This has led to all countries wanting Tang goods, but they can't come up with exchange items.
"Copper and iron materials, fur medicinal materials and dyes, cotton and linen materials, and slaves can all be exchanged for trade. We can always find what we need, but they can pay for it."
Qin Lang's answer to the question raised by the chief steward was very straightforward. If there is no gold and silver, then use raw materials. If raw materials are insufficient, slaves are fine.
Anyway, Luzon lacks all kinds of raw materials, and even more lacks slaves. Compared with various raw materials and slaves, Qin Lang doesn't like gold and silver settlements much.
However, there is no shortage of money in the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, but the practice of the court is not to trade directly with gold, silver or copper coins, but to barter, export for import, and various handmade goods. Lang is also acceptable.
For example, silk embroidery from Suzhou and Hangzhou, even ironware from Foshan, Guangzhou, and some high-end military equipment are all good things. After the Qin family trades them, they can be sold to Southeast Asian countries, or even Western countries. And make a lot of money.
Even for Luzon’s own use, it can meet the consumption of Luzon’s high-end market.
"I heard that the imperial court has begun to plant pepper, cinnamon and many other spices in Hainan Island, Sanjiang, Lishui, and Yunnan and Vietnam."
Qin Lang didn't care when he heard this. Since spices are such a big profit, and some places in the southwestern part of Datang have the conditions to grow them, how could they let such a good thing go.
Even Qin Lang knew that growing tea and pepper in Luzon, there were more smart people in the court, and there were many powerful wealthy families, so planting spices was a matter of time.
Qin Lang also doesn't have the ability to stop others, so he doesn't worry about it. Besides, it will take time for them to form an industrial scale. Even if the scale increases by then, the South China Sea Spice Alliance headed by the Qin family has a lot of advantages. Qin Lang has now built a good moat with low prices.
The local spice planting in Datang may not have too much impact on them. At worst, the price will be lowered when the competition becomes stronger.
Xu Jingzong smiled and said, "Sanlang previously arranged for Qin Qilang to go to southern Tibet to serve as the deputy envoy of the Yunnan and Yue Jiedu and the military envoy of Donghui Town. It seems that he came prepared."
The Dianyue Jiedushi is the land of the Little Brahman, Daqin Brahman, Arakan, and part of the land in East Tianzhu that the original king Xuance crossed the Daheishan (Naga Mountains) to conquer. Born in the historical records of the Han Dynasty.
At that time, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty wanted to open a southwest passage from Shu to Shendu, that is, Tianzhu. Later, he was blocked by Kunming Man in the area of Erhai Lake, but he failed in the end. But at that time, the Han Dynasty heard that Kunming Man was not far to the southwest. A country that rides elephants is called Dianyue, so records are left.
After the establishment of the Dianyue Jiedushi, it became a military town in the southwestern part of the imperial court. From the southern foot of the Himalayas to the vast land east of the Ganges River in the Bay of Bengal and west of the Naga Mountains, it was under the command of this military town. It is connected to Xichang Road in the north and Lishui Road in the east.
After Wang Xuance returned to the court and entered the Shu government, the first Jiedushi of Dianyue Township was appointed by Qin Lang himself. He recommended Li Fengjie, the son of the old man Li Daliang, to the imperial court to go out of Dianyue Township.
Li Daliang is the prime minister of Zhenguan. Back then, he and Qin Lang traveled from Fengzhou to Jiaozhou, and finally to the court, and they worked together very well. Although his son Li Fengjie was worse than his father, after all, he was a young general with good basic qualities. He was supported by Qin Lang. , also achieved the rank of general of the third rank, and no one objected to his transfer to Yunnan and Vietnam as the first Jiedu envoy. After all, the situation there was much better than that in the Western Regions.
The core of Dianyue Town is the later Bengal Plains, a seaside fishing village in the original Arakan Kingdom. Under the construction of Qin Lang, it was standardized as a large port in Dian, and finally named New Fuzhou, where Donghuijun Town was established.
After several years of suggestions, Donghui Port has become very lively. It has not only become the military and economic center of the Dianyue Road, but also an important port for maritime trade. Especially the Qin family invested a lot here, and Qin Lang also sent several The children and grandchildren came to guard.
In the end, he sent his seventh younger brother Qin Yandao to Donghui Port. After staying in Donghui Port for three years, now Li Fengzhang is going to the court to ask for credit for Qin Yandao. Promoted Qin Yandao to Wu Guogong, Deputy Envoy of Dianyue Dao Jiedu, Military Envoy of Donghui Town and New Governor of Fuzhou.
Qin Yandao married the daughter of the late Duke of E State, Chi Baolin, and she still has abilities. However, there are no major enemies in Yunnan and Vietnam. The southern and eastern Indians across the Ganges River are divided by warlords. , I can't take care of myself, but the three destroyed countries, Arakan, Little Brahman, and Great Qin Brahmin, were able to settle down in the Tianzhu War in the past.
Those who belong to the honesty are more polite for the time being, just asking to register as a household, to serve in the service and pay taxes, and for their children to go to school.
Both Li Fengjie and Qin Yandao are the sons of generals, and they have both abilities, but they are not as fierce as Qin Jun and Cheng Chumo, so guarding Yunnan and Yue, they are not as powerful as the Western Regions, and they behave more conservatively.
Even Li Fengjie, the Jiedu envoy, was very keen on enclosing land in Yunnan and Vietnam, busying himself with cotton, jute, and sugar cane plantations, and even started planting spices such as pepper now. , But he actually created a garrison army of 100,000 people, all of whom were recruited from the tribes, plus the children of the Yunnan Yue Army as the managers of the garrison army, there are army garrisons everywhere.
The produced jute, cotton, sucrose, etc. are conveniently transported to Donghui Port, and then sold to Qin Lang’s descendants in Donghui Port through Qin Yandao’s relationship, and then transported back to Luzon by sea ship for processing.
The 100,000-strong Fanren Tuntian Legion was actually the tenants of the Dianyue Army. They specialized in farming, and Li Fengjie gave them a share, which was no different from renting out tenants. The difference was militarized management, and even enclosing the land by the Dianyue Army , Provide seeds, animal power, purchase output, etc.
It’s doing quite well.
The Yunnan-Vietnam Army occasionally went into the mountains to clear up some disobedient barbarians, that is, legal robbery and slave capture. Some of the captured slaves were sent to the military camp, and some were auctioned off in Donghui Port.
With this set of actions, Li Fengjie also realized the self-sufficiency of the Yunnan-Vietnam Army. They did not need the imperial government to allocate funds to support the army. They could also pay the surplus tax to the imperial court and pay tribute to the emperor every year.
The Dianyue army also distributed bonuses and welfare benefits to themselves every year. They lived very chicly. Not only did they enclose a lot of fields, but they also distributed slaves. The families of the soldiers settled in Dianyue and became slave manor owners. Even some of the early local chiefs who knew the current affairs and attached themselves now live a very chic life. They also planted sugarcane, cotton, and jute.
With good output and sales channels, the income of the chieftains has increased greatly, and the prosperity of Donghui Port has brought a large number of Tang goods, which are much cheaper than in the past.
After all, although it used to be the Silk Road of the poisonous road in Shu, there was only the dangerous tea-horse road, and the goods were transported by ponies, donkeys and mules in Shu, or carried by people on their shoulders. The goods were transported from Bashu and other places. It has increased a lot, and the supply is not enough, resulting in less goods and higher prices.
But now a large amount of goods are transported by sea to Donghui Port, and then transported along the river to the inland. The price is much cheaper than in the past, and the chieftains have also upgraded their consumption.
Even the lifestyle of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty became popular, drinking morning tea, playing polo and hunting, and even holding poetry, singing and tea parties.
In Donghui Port, there are children of Hu Chieftains all over the place. They were sent to study by them on their own initiative. In fact, they were used as protons. Go back, they are not willing to go back.
So in the past few years, there have been more and more fans in Donghui Port, and even many chiefs have come to buy houses and houses, and go shopping here.
Li Fengjie has to be said to be a talent, and his ability to fight is average.
However, he led the Yunnan-Vietnam Army to a different development principle. Although the Yunnan-Vietnam Road is like an overseas enclave, it has a good climate, fertile land, and excellent coastal deltas and large alluvial plains. It is very fertile, even in the mountains to the east, there are many valleys in the mountains.
Not to mention, it is connected to Xichang and Tubo in the north, and can also be connected to Niboluo. It is connected to Lishui and Sanjiang in the east, and can lead to Jiannan and Central Guizhou. As the passage to the sea for these two inland areas, it itself is Has a strong trade attribute.
But in the east, Tianzhu split into civil wars, and they didn't have time to pay attention to the Tang Dynasty. They even rushed to trade with the Yunnan-Vietnam Army. The Dianyue Army sold their frosting sugar, jute, etc. to the Dianyue Army.
Dianyue has the potential to become a regional center, especially Donghui Port, which is developing very rapidly. It is connected to the coastal ports of Lishui Road in the east, the major cities of Tianzhu in the middle and upper reaches of the Ganges River in the west, and the lion country, a major maritime trade country in the southwest. Donghui is developing rapidly. It became an important port for east-west maritime trade, and Li Fengjie devoted himself to making money, which was very successful.
He made a lot of money by himself, and more than 20,000 Yunnan-Vietnamese troops also made money. Even his family members became landlords and small wealthy owners of manors. He also had a good prestige among the barbarian tribes who conquered the Three Kingdoms. Everyone was willing to worship him.
This method of subduing others without fighting is indeed rare today. Compared with Qin Jun and his three towns in the Western Regions, they killed at least 200,000 rebellious Western Turkic Sogdians in the Western Regions, and captured several With 100,000 prisoners, Li Fengjie, who has never fought a war, is a strange thing.
At least Wu Shisheng, the Lishui Jiedu envoy of Lishui Road on the east side of the Great Black Mountain, controls a larger territory than Li Fengjie, occupies a better geographical location than Li Fengjie, and has more than 30,000 troops under his command, which is stronger than Li Fengjie. .
But Wu Shisheng was guarding Lishui, and the development of the original Piao country was not as good as that of Li Fengjie. Not to mention that the tribes in the mountainous areas have not yet been conquered, even in several large river valleys and coastal plains, people rebelled from time to time. Haikou has never been peaceful.
(end of this chapter)