Chapter 427 Dog Head Gold
Guizhou.
Qin Lang has been staying here for more than half a month.
It is said that Guilin’s mountains and rivers are the best in the world, regardless of the water here, but the mountains here are indeed very unique, and the mountains here are like ink paintings.
Outside the city, there are many fields.
The rice in the paddy field has just been harvested, and the farmers are driving the **** buffalo and are raking the field again, preparing to plant the late rice.
The brutal chaos didn't seem to leave a trace.
However, after Qin Lang arrived, great changes have taken place here.
After he killed Cao Wuzheng and other people, the entire Guizhou officialdom underwent a major shake-up. The new officials were no longer those who had been in power for more than ten years, but replaced by a group of people who were more sympathetic to the court and more obedient.
After the change of officials in the prefectures and counties, township groups of thousands of people were also successfully formed. With this foundation, Qin Lang called the barbarians from the mountains and the leaders of the barbarians in Guizhou to Guilin several times to discuss matters.
No one dares not to come.
Qin Lang's reputation in Guizhou now is somewhat stronger than that of Li Xizhi in the past twenty years. After all, it is really unusual for the prime minister of the imperial court who can punish Cao Wuzheng to subdue the mountain barbarians.
Qin Lang convened these barbarians to discuss matters, not to ask them to pay taxes and serve in the army, but to continue to make three chapters with them to give them status recognition.
From Guizhou in Yongzhou to Ganzhou in the east, Qin Lang first established 15 barbarian autonomous Jimi counties in the Wuling Mountains, and then successively established more than a dozen counties in Guizhou, Rongzhou, Liuzhou and other states. All Jimi counties are for those barbarians to govern themselves.
In those mountains beyond the control of the imperial court, although these newly established counties belong to the Zhengzhou, the county magistrates are all served by barbarian chiefs who are strong in the local area and respectful to the imperial court. Set up townships, let the barbarians elect chiefs to serve as township officials, let them form native groups, obey and assist counties, maintain local law and order, patrol roads, arrest thieves and so on.
Qin Lang also specially organized several hearings to mediate some long-standing conflicts between Han and barbarians.
With Yuecheng Man’s forerunner, the effect of Qin Lang’s implementation is not bad.
The leaders and elders of the villages, big and small, came to the meeting. When they came, they would first give them some small gifts such as porcelain, sugar and wine, and then confer titles on these leaders, such as county magistrate, county lieutenant, joining the army, township head, Lizheng, Baochang, etc. official position.
Qin Lang gave face like this, which made these barbarians very happy.
Immediately afterwards, Qin Lang agreed with them to build a road into the mountain together, and agreed to build a market at the foot of the mountain where some barbarians gathered, so that it would be convenient for the mountain people to come and trade in the market.
And promised that the general mountain people barter and trade, and trade mountain goods, no tax will be levied.
Many civilian items such as salt and ironware are also prohibited from high prices, and even each market will send out a special order to prevent Han merchants and Han people from cheating mountain people.
The establishment of this market is the most popular among the mountain people.
They need many commodities such as salt and iron. In the past, it was inconvenient to trade. They had to go to prefectures and counties to trade. They were always bullied by Han merchants and even taxed by the government.
Their prices of mountain products are always lowered, and they are often not allowed to trade, which makes the mountain people very dissatisfied, and conflicts continue.
Now, Qin Lang has taken the initiative to let go and build the market in the mountainous area, which is of course a good thing for the mountain people.
In fact, there are many good things in the mountains, not to mention all kinds of hunting animals and prey, and there are also a lot of furs and furs, not to mention that they also have their own Gebu and mountain rice.
Qin Lang always believes that trading is actually the best way to open communication channels.
It is also win-win and mutually beneficial.
Because Guizhou is located on the Hunan-Guangxi Passage, there are a lot of goods here, and the price is not expensive. It is of course profitable to trade local mountain products with the mountain people.
However, in the past, many Han people deliberately suppressed the mountain people, lowered the prices of mountain products, raised the prices of many handmade goods, and even charged them tolls and market taxes to make a fortune and arouse the dissatisfaction of the mountain people.
Qin Lang led a group of pro-military troops to patrol the countryside.
The weather was still hot, and he was already tanned quite a bit. Fortunately, the Central Plains subordinates brought by Qin Lang had some unexpected gains after staying here for a long time. They had gradually gotten used to the climate here, and even got used to the Mosquitoes around, etc., most people have been subdued.
Diseases etc. are rare.
This is a good thing. With time to buffer the transition, compared with marching all the way to Jiaozhou, many diseases and casualties were significantly reduced.
"The fields here are very good. You can see that in many places, there is no need to build canals. It actually depends on the rain, which is enough for the rice water."
"After all, in the south, the weather is hot and there is plenty of rain." Qin Lang also sighed.
The summer harvest is basically completed, and the rice harvest is very good, which is a bumper year.
There are also some places where wheat is grown, and the yield is actually higher than that in the north.
And now these newly harvested fields can immediately plant another season of late rice, which really makes Qin Yong and others from the Central Plains very envious.
"These big buffaloes are very good. They are strong and strong, and they walk like flat ground in the paddy fields."
Qin Yong discovered that most of the people here raise buffaloes, and there are many buffaloes. In the Central Plains, the government prohibits the private slaughter of farm cattle, and ordinary people cannot eat beef at all.
In Lingnan, a lot of buffaloes are bred. Apart from plowing the fields, the buffaloes are also used for food. It is very common for people to kill buffaloes for meat here.
There are even many buffaloes that are not only sold to Lingbei for farming, but also sold for slaughter.
This phenomenon amazed Qin Yong and others.
"Generally speaking, although there are many mountains and hills in Lingnan, and less flat land, the population here is also smaller. Because of this, there are more buffaloes and cattle in Lingnan, and there are surpluses."
In many mountainous areas, many barbarians actually raise cattle, and they raise cattle from valley to valley.
"Those cows are really cheap." Ah Huang sighed.
"I think we should buy more buffalo and yellow cattle, and then transport them back to the Central Plains to sell. The Central Plains is in short supply of farming cattle. These cattle are all good animals after taking them back to the training plow."
"I think it's not bad to directly buy slaughtered cattle here and dry the dried meat to make meat floss." Dugu Yanyun said.
Qin Lang smiled and said, "Actually, there are many good things in Lingnan. Besides the buffalo, there are many good things in this mountain, such as a lot of spices. These are all good things."
Staying in Guizhou, Qin Lang's thousands of troops also stayed here. The early two thousand people from Chang'an, plus the two groups that came later, now the Qin family has brought in more than five thousand people from Chang'an.
The Qin family's technical strength is very strong, and these transactions are not bad.
The current profits are fully enough for these five thousand people, as well as the support expenses of the more than three thousand pro-army soldiers under Qin Lang, there is no need for Guizhou to provide them.
"Sanlang, the **** cow is here."
A pro-military came to report.
"Oh, what goodies did you bring?"
"A lot of ivory and rhino horns, a lot of tiger and leopard skins, a lot of medicinal materials, and some spices, gold and silver, etc."
Da Hei Niu suffered a big loss last time, but this guy is also smart, he didn't resist to the end, he corrected his evil ways in time, but got a good evaluation from Qin Lang, now he is the county magistrate of Yuecheng County, his brother Buffalo Ren Yuecheng county lieutenant, the two elder brothers are in charge of the administration and the village regiment.
After returning to the mountains, they quickly cleared up the one hundred and eight villages, quickly designated townships, appointed barbarian officials, and set up the Baojia system according to Qin Lang's request.
He immediately sent his son to Guizhou Prefecture to study, which was regarded as a hostage.
Then he took the initiative to create a household registration account book in the county, and sent a backup to Qin Lang in Guizhou. The household registration population of Yuecheng County is naturally the population of Guizhou, but they are included in the account books separately, and they are not taxed and sent to him.
But already off to a good start.
After that, Da Hei Niu led the barbarians to build roads in the mountains, took the initiative to build roads into the mountains, widened the mountain roads, and assisted in the construction of post stations and markets, which made them the first to open markets in the mountains.
One episode every five days, Han barbarian trade, making the mountains lively.
"So many things? It seems like a big deal." Qin Lang smiled. In fact, the climate of the current Tang Dynasty is relatively warmer than that of later generations.
In the Wuling area, there are still many elephants and rhinos living, let alone tigers, leopards and wolves.
Return to the city.
The two Hei Niu brothers were already waiting in the state office. When they met, they first bowed down respectfully and saluted, and then presented them with rich gifts, such as ivory and rhinoceros horns, and good things like dog head gold.
"I'll take these good things. I'll have someone give you an estimate later. It doesn't matter if you want to exchange goods or get a discount." Qin Lang didn't take their things in vain.
After some greetings, both parties were very polite.
"Why did you get so many good things this time, are you planning to exchange for something?" Qin Lang asked.
There is already a market in the mountains, even if it is rhinoceros horn, ivory tooth and dog head gold, there must be merchants who can eat it, but they transport it directly to Guizhou City, and they have traveled hundreds of miles all the way.
Da Hei Niu said that when he came this time, first he wanted to change some better farm tools, and second, he wanted to see if he could buy some weapons and equipment to go back. There are 200 members of their township regiment, and they are all the bravest boys in the tribe, but the weapons and equipment are very poor. behind. Seeing that the township barracks in Guizhou were well equipped, he also wanted to change some.
Qin Lang frowned.
But he still nodded, "The township group has a heavy responsibility for the peace of the party, and it does need some good swords, guns, bows and arrows. Your request is not too much. I can give you instructions and let Guizhou arsenal sell a batch to you. I just hope that after you get these weapons, you can guard the borders and keep the people safe for the Tang Dynasty, instead of thinking otherwise. You should know that even if you have the best weapons, if you have the slightest change of heart, the court can always To destroy the rebellion, you must not have the slightest wishful thinking!"
"We wish to be loyal to the court from generation to generation, and never dare to be half-hearted."
Weapons for 200 people, even if you give them leather armor, horizontal knives, spears and hard bows, it is nothing, let alone any threat to the court.
Qin Lang is willing to give it to them, and he is also a **** bull. They are very honest now.
Actually, although the Wuling Man and the Liao Man are very obedient to him at the moment, it is only because of his thunderous power before. However, many barbarians in the mountains, especially many slang and bureaucrats, are actually a little reluctant to obey orders.
Qin Lang also wanted to use obedient barbarians like Da Hei Niu to suppress those disobedient barbarians.
Qin Lang hoped to use these familiar people to open up the mountainous areas and bring those mountainous areas that were disobedient to kingship into the imperial court's rule. First, he established Jimi County, then opened mountain roads to set up markets, and finally asked the barbarian county magistrates to help establish household registration books. Clearing up the fields, etc., step by step, as long as the two sides communicate more and more, the barbarians will inevitably be affected in the end.
Compared with the huge difference in size between the two sides, in fact, as long as they don't block each other, within a few generations, the barbarians will never want to maintain their independence.
In the end, it will be a matter of course that the raw barbarians will become mature barbarians, the prisons will become Zhengzhou, and naturalization will become good citizens.
Shan Man called it Zhai, while Liliao people called it Xidong more often, taking Xidong as a unit, and the original meaning of Xidong is also obvious. Xi is a mountain stream and river, and Dong originally meant a flat land between mountains.
So Liao barbarians use streams as their unit, which actually refers to a stream or river, or a tribe gathered on a mountain plain.
The basic situation in south of the Five Ridges today is that there are large areas of plains, mainly occupied by Han people, but the mountainous areas are basically occupied by barbarians. In contrast, although the areas occupied by Han people are better, but in terms of land area, they are barbarians. They account for more.
If you want to discuss it in detail, it is probably that the Han people accounted for at most two points, but the barbarians accounted for eight points. Although the eighth part of the land occupied by the barbarians is actually far inferior to that occupied by the Han people, the land is vast after all.
Li Xizhi is still on his way.
Qin Lang is still temporarily prosecuting the governor of Guizhou, and he is also the envoy of Xuanfu. While waiting for Li Xizhi's arrival, Qin Lang keeps summoning the barbarians, Shanman, Ximan, Dongman.
Build mountain roads, set up markets, build post stations, and set up new counties.
Thirty-six Jilin counties.
This represents thirty-six relatively powerful Xidong Man tribe alliances, which add up to thousands of villages and 200,000 to 300,000 barbarians.
Under Qin Lang's open policy, they are not naturalized and taxed, and the market is released for them, and even signed some gold, silver, copper and iron mining cooperation agreements with these barbarian chiefs.
When the two sides no longer confront each other, the situation is actually very good.
The barbarians in the mountains eat cheap salt and can use a lot of high-quality sewing pots and bowls, and their useless cattle and sheep, fur, medicinal materials, etc. in the past have also become popular goods and can be sold very well. price.
The bazaar was built at the foot of the mountain, so there was no need to sell the goods again, and it would take ten days and a half months to carry the mountain goods on their backs, and the local soldiers established in the mountain patrolled the roads and guarded the mountain, so they didn't have to worry about bandits or It was other tribes blocking the way to rob.
The barbarian leaders who put on the green round-neck official robes have now turned into county magistrates and county lieutenants. Although the county magistrates don't even have salaries, they don't care about the little money. It's the Tang Dynasty's own person.
Going in and out of Guilin, going to and from the government, no one stopped and insulted them, and their children finally entered the state school in Guilin city.
The most important thing is that these barbarian leaders have generally made a fortune in trading, and they can also use salt, tea, wine and sugar, silk belts, gold ornaments and silverware.
Such a change really makes people lose their fighting spirit.
If such a good thing had happened long ago, who would still shout and kill all day long? What's the point of that?
President Qin Xuan is better.
Of course, there is also news that Li Shishi is going back to Guilin soon. Li Shishi is also a good person, but it would be better if Qin Xuanxiang didn’t leave. After a few days of comfortable life, they are still worried about policy changes.
(end of this chapter)