Chapter 1466 Entrusting Ten Thousand Islands
"The glorious Tang Dynasty, the vastness of Southeast Asia.
My king Tweeted to distribute the land and ennobled us, and we were enshrined by grace, and we will never forget it from generation to generation.
I will watch from now on until I die.
Obey my king's order and guard the frontier for my king.
I will do my duty faithfully, fight with my followers, pay tribute on pilgrimage.
I am the sword in the king's hand, the guardian of the islands, I will resist the storm in the sea, guide the lost sailors, and defend the Kingdom of Luzon to the death!
I dedicate my life and honor to my king, as I do, and for generations to come.
I will keep in mind the twenty-four words of knight motto..."
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Luzon Knights Fort, Knights Square.
Qin Lang sat there and bestowed swords and conferred titles on his vassals. Each of the dukes who got the title held the "Three Rites" in their hands and swore allegiance to the king.
"What a lively scene!"
Ah Huang, who was conferred on Xinkuaiji Island in the Shaoxing Islands, looked at the scene and sighed, "I can't even recognize these piles of boys."
Qin Lang handed a cup of coconut juice, "Are you satisfied with the new Kuaiji?"
"Satisfied, why not satisfied, it is much bigger than Qin Cunxiao's Xinzhangqiu, and it is almost three times the size of his island. Sanlang also takes too much care of my old Huang."
This island is at the northeast end of the Shaoxing Islands. It is separated from Luzon Main Island by Maya Island. It is also an important route from Luzon to Borneo Island. Although it is not as lively as Princess Harbor in the center of the archipelago, it is more than 100 miles long. , more than fifty miles wide.
Compared with Maye Island in the east, which was entrusted to Qin Lang's third son, this island is indeed very different. The island is basically dominated by mountains, but after all, there are some flat land suitable for farming. It is rich in resources and is on the waterway. As long as it is well developed, it still has good potential.
In addition, there are gold mines here.
There are many gold mines in the Luzon Islands, which are the third largest gold reserves in the world in later generations.
"I plan to borrow the land of Knights Castle tomorrow before I die, and give favors to my children and grandchildren first before dividing up the fiefdom. I will divide the family first, so as to save my children and grandchildren from fighting among themselves when I stretch my legs. jokes from time to time."
Old Huang was a horse thief when he was young, married wives and had children, and even snatched many good women and girls to go up to the mountain to be the wife of the village. No matter what the troubled times are, there is no good end, and the children have not survived.
Later, he followed Qin Lang to Wu'an, married the Yang family in Langshan, and married Yang's daughter, but the old tree blossomed. Afterwards, he took in many young concubines, and the children were born one after another. He was over a hundred years old. , the eldest son is also in his fifties, with more than ten sons and more than thirty grandchildren, which can be regarded as a thriving population.
Qin Lang was sucking coconut juice, Lao Huang had more than a dozen sons, some of them were pretty good, they had worked for the Qin family these years and made some contributions.
Qin Lang also conferred fiefdoms on them before, and this time Qin Lang also conferred fiefdoms on them. There were three viscounts, five barons, and the others were awarded knight titles.
Even some of his grandsons received knighthoods and knighthoods.
Because of his special relationship with Qin Lang, Ah Huang has also made great achievements. He himself was granted the title of Marquis by the imperial court. This time, Qin Lang gave him a new Marquis of Kuaiji and a county magistrate.
"How do you plan to divide?"
"Those who have the ability will naturally get more points, and those who are not able to be awarded a knight title, just give one or two pieces of the knight fief manor. Of course, if they don't even have some riding and shooting skills, I don't bother to give them the knight title. It’s enough for Luzon to give them some fields, shops, shares, etc., so that they don’t have to worry about food and clothing, and don’t bother with the rest.”
According to the new enfeoffment law in Luzon today, Qin Lang, as the king, can enfeoff the princes, that is, the princes below the king, the male princes, the fifth-rank princes, and the lower ranks.
Below the fifth rank, Balang Bawei is a class, which is equivalent to the ministers entrusted by the Zhou Dynasty in the past.
Balang Bawei is below the fifth rank, the king can be named, the fifth rank princes can also be granted, and the fief can be hereditary.
The warriors are equivalent to the improved version of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. They are professional soldiers selected by the Luzon military. After they are selected to become warriors, they will be granted a warrior fief. Hereditary, it needs to be recovered after death.
Masters have feudal fiefs, which are awarded after meritorious service and honors. This can be hereditary, but feudal fiefs cannot be exempted from taxes.
Except for the king, the fifth-class princes and the Eight Langs and Eight Lieutenants cannot confer knights and knights, but they can all confer knights.
The feudal vassals can give favor to titles lower than their own titles, but the titles at all levels, Lang Wei, etc. must at least have a basic fief matching, and they cannot be granted empty titles. For example, to confer a knight, at least 500 acres of land must be conferred , can only be more or less.
If the princes are willing, you can grant all your lands to the king, and the king can't control it, but you can't grant empty titles.
The enfeoffment of Luzon allows the princes to also enfeoff. The most important thing is that this kind of enfeoffment is also beneficial to the Luzon royal family.
There is another very special thing about the entrustment this time, that is, in Luzon main island, Qin Lang only entrusted knights and other third-class fiefs, not fifth-class princes, not even a first-class official like Balang and Bawei. , the biggest reason is to preserve the Luzon standard system, so that the royal family always holds the most critical area.
At the same time, Qin Lang did not distribute the developed ports outside the main island. These ports are directly controlled by the royal family.
For example, all the large and small islands of the Shaoxing Islands have been sealed off, but the more important Princess Harbor on the archipelago is designated as the territory directly under the royal family along with the surrounding land. Similarly, overseas trading ports and colonies have not been closed this time, and they are also included in the territory directly under the royal family.
The fiefs of Qin Jun, Qin Lun, and Qin Xiaozhong belonged to special fiefdoms. Their feudal titles were kings, and the entire three major islands belonged to them. However, Qin Lang did not enfeoff any of the three's descendants again. Instead, it was reserved for the three of them to extend their grace to the three islands.
The large and small fiefdoms and territories previously entrusted by Luzon are still equivalent to knight fiefdoms, warrior fiefdoms are still warrior fiefs, and honor fiefdoms are still knight fiefdoms.
After this re-enfeoffment, Luzon formed the four major classes of the king, the fifth-class princes, the eight-man and eight-weiqing doctors, and the three scholars. However, unlike the enfeoffment system in Western Europe at this time, the enfeoffment system in Luzon basically continued. The enfeoffment system of the Zhou Dynasty, that is, enfeoffment layer by layer, are all princes.
The feudal system represented by the Frankish enfeoffment is my vassal's vassal, not my vassal. They cannot leapfrog management, and even have almost complete administrative, taxation and judicial power over the fiefdom.
But after Luzon's enfeoffment this time, he did not release such a large amount of power.
Even the territories of the fifth-rank princes, or even the three special feudal kingdoms, do not have the right to make legislation, and must abide by the laws and taxation systems implemented by Luzon, and Luzon itself must abide by the laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty. .
One more thing, the judicial power basically only has the general civil judicial power, and the criminal judicial power and even some important civil cases are also under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Luzon.
Taxation is also the responsibility of the Kingdom of Luzon, with the assistance of the local lords, and finally the share that the princes deserve is redistributed to them.
The military sector also has limited power.
Even in the territory of the princes, the Kingdom of Luzon also has the right to set up castles, ports, beacon piers, lighthouses, post stations, warehouses, etc. according to military needs. The soldier talisman and transfer order.
"We have more than 10,000 large and small islands in Luzon, and this time we have divided a lot." Lao Huang sighed, "However, it is estimated that some places will not develop in a while."
Qin Lang doesn't care, he also knows that after all, Luzon now implements the Luzon Island Standard System, focusing on the development of Luzon, and other places are only developing key ports on the route, so the new San Francisco in Luzon is extremely prosperous, and the Central Plains are also The village is everywhere, very lively.
But the farther south you go, the colder it is. Even the two peninsulas of Luzon Island, Yancheng Peninsula and Macheng Peninsula, among them, Yancheng Peninsula is close to San Francisco, but Macheng Peninsula is far away from the central area. It's not very good, so until now only a few port towns have been developed, and other places are just some mining area development and some plantation manors on the plains.
Even if Qin Lang enfeoffed so many princes and vassals in one go this time, it is estimated that there will still be many people who would rather stay on the main island of Luzon to develop. After all, they have houses and manors here and even participate in industrial and commercial manufacturing and trade. Compared with the industries here, the outer islands entrusted to them are really not worth mentioning.
But Qin Lang believes that this is a foundation after all, and if you take time to manage it slowly, you will always be able to get up.
Not getting up now does not represent the future.
Even Ah Huang's new Kuaiji Island has an area of more than 13,000 hectares and is well managed. It will not be a problem for the island to develop a population of 50,000, 100,000, or even more in the future. Song is also near, there are still good mineral resources here, this is a good piece of land.
Even if there are manors and land outside, those lands are only general ownership. No matter how big the manor is, there are no other additional powers on the land, such as administrative, judicial and taxation.
But the land on the fief has these additional powers.
All the descendants of the Qin family got fiefdoms this time, and every male who was born got a piece of fiefdom. The largest fiefdom was Qin Jun's Dongsheng Kingdom, which was as big as eight Luzon Islands.
Of course, the larger Nanshan Island and the equally huge Xihe Island and Borneo Island also entrusted some descendants and retainers to the past this time, and there is still no development there, so the fiefdom must be enlarged. .
These remote fiefdoms may still be troublesome and burdensome for them now, because according to the system of enfeoffment, princes, captains, scholars, and different classes all have to undertake military tasks. The core of this task is to train a corresponding number of soldiers for the king according to the corresponding titles and fiefdoms, and when the king conscripts, send troops to the expedition, and even lead the troops to the expedition.
(end of this chapter)