Chapter 440 Mulan
The thousand material Mulan boat set sail and went up the river.
From Xunzhou to Yongzhou, the river winds nine hundred miles, and the whole journey is navigable for large ships. Qin Lang's fleet can reach three hundred miles a day upstream on this river. It took three days to arrive at Yongzhou day and night. state.
The captains of the Feng family said that if it weren't for the nobles on board, in fact, they only needed to travel for two days in the past. If they went downstream from Yongzhou to Xunzhou, it would only take two days.
From Yongzhou to Guangzhou, Lingnan people call it Yushui, with a total length of more than 1,600 miles. When the wind is smooth, the boatman of Feng's family only takes three days, no more than five days.
The section from Xunzhou to Guangzhou is also called Xunjiang, and the section from Xunzhou to Yongzhou is also called Manjiang.
When you arrive at Yongzhou, there are two tributaries to the west, Zuoxi and Youxi, each of which is more than a thousand miles away.
Li Guangdu, governor of Yongzhou, led officials to meet him at the pier.
It was also the first time Qin Lang saw this handsome man.
Although Li Guangdu was dressed in a purple robe and looked no different from the Central Plains civil servants, he was an out-and-out handsome man.
However, the Li family, like the Gaoliang Feng family Longzhou Chen Jianing Yue Ning family, are actually Han clans who went south a long time ago. Through marriages with local slang leaders for generations, they formed a powerful and powerful force.
During the Sui Dynasty, Li Guangshi, the eldest brother of Li Guangdu, was the leader of the slang people in Guizhou at that time. During the Renshou period, Hou Mo and Chen Ying served as the governor of Guizhou and the military governor of the twenty-seven prefectures. Hou Mo adopted a strategy similar to Qin Lang's today against Li Guangshi and other scumbags.
Focus on appeasement, supplemented by force deterrence, kill a group and appease the group.
His policy in Lingnan made the barbarians pleasing, and Li Guangshi led all the streams to join him. Later, when the Sui Dynasty fell and Lingnan was in turmoil, Li Guangshi died of illness. Li Guangdu succeeded his elder brother and became the biggest marshal in Yongping County, that is, several states in the Xunzhou area.
Later, he joined forces with Li Xizhi of the adjacent Shi'an County to protect himself against other Lingnan lords. After five years of Wude, he belonged to Datang.
In the seventh year of Wude, Ning Changzhen, Feng Xuantan and others rebelled. Li Guangdu was the governor of Nanyin Prefecture at that time, and sent troops to crusade. After the war, he was awarded the governor of Yongzhou for meritorious service.
This time, Lingnan prefectures and counties were adjusted, Yongzhou was removed from the governor's office, and became an ordinary prefecture, and Li Guangdu was changed to be the prefect of Yongzhou.
Although the Li family is the leader of the slang in the Xunzhou area of Guizhou, like Chen Longshu, he is quite respectful to the Chang'an court.
Nor is Feng An so focused on actually separatist regime.
The imperial court transferred him to Yongzhou, and he did not refuse. After coming to Yongzhou, despite his influence among the slang people, he had a good relationship with the slang commanders here, and he was still doing well in Yongzhou. He is a person who is as capable as Li Xizhi and Feng An, but not as ambitious as Feng An.
This may also have something to do with the fact that the Li brothers rebelled and were defeated.
When Hou Mo was in charge of Guizhou, Li Guangshi rebelled against the separatist regime. Later, he was appeased by Li Guangshi and was honest for a while. After Hou Mo left, the Li family brothers made trouble again.
So the imperial court dispatched two generals, Zhou Fashang and Wang Shiji, to crusade against them. Meet with Yinzhou.
Li Guangshi gathered many savages and barbarians to fight. Wang Shiji's Lingbei army was not acclimatized and was trapped in Hengzhou for a while, while Zhou Fashang led Lingnan soldiers to fight alone. As a result, Li Guangshi lost three battles and three battles. captured, the stockade they stayed behind was also destroyed, and all their family members were captured.
Zhou Fashang issued an order at that time that as long as the barbarians came to surrender, they would release their wives, so thousands of people surrendered.
Li Guangshi fought trapped beasts, but was lured by Zhou Fashang to ambush him, and was defeated. In the end, Li Guangshi was beheaded and killed in the battle.
It was then that the two brothers Li Guangdu and Li Guanglue surrendered to the imperial court again. After that, they accepted the official position of the imperial court and led the Xidong people, and they dared not confront the Central Plains again.
Even after Yang Guangjiang was murdered, Li Guangdu listened to Li Xizhi's persuasion, and still used the official position of Yongping County Governor in the Sui Dynasty to protect himself and dare not stand on his own.
When Li Guangdu was young, he was also a stunned young man, but after being beaten by his elder brother Li Guangshi, he became mature and stable.
After surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, Ning Changzhen, Feng Xuan, Tan Dian and the others rebelled again, but Li Guangdu insisted on crowding the central government and refused to join them in making trouble.
This time Tan Dian united with Zhu Xidong to rebel, and even the barbarian kings from the left and right streams jumped up and down, but Li Guangdu remained unmoved.
He has even quietly mobilized troops. As long as the left and right Liangxi barbarian kings dare to openly cause chaos, he, the governor of Yongzhou, will lead his troops to fight against the rebellion, and support Qin Xuanxiang, who is patrolling the south of the sky, to put down the chaos.
"Xuanxiang, my old Li is just a barbarian. I don't know how to say big things, but I also know that people can't stand without faith. Since I belong to the court and swear allegiance to the emperor, I have to do what I say, and I can't go back on what I say. Right?"
Old Li Hei is thin and black, with a mustache that is very individual. Wearing a purple robe on him really highlights his might. It is hard to imagine that this old man who looks like an old master is actually a barbarian king.
Although he doesn't have strong muscles, he is also a person who can talk in Lingnan. Stamping his feet can also shake the whole Xunjiang River.
"I, Lao Chen, are getting old too. I'm in my sixties. I don't know how many years I can live. Some guys are always restless and want to make troubles, but I, Lao Li, don't want to make troubles. When I was young, I didn't Sensible tossing and tossing, now that I am old, I am even less willing to toss and toss."
"My old Li was very moved after hearing what Xuanshuai did and said in Guizhou and Xunzhou. In fact, our Lingnan has always been too chaotic. Many. When General Li Jing went south to Lingnan, he used his ability to suppress the people in Lingnan, but unfortunately General Li left soon, and there are people in Lingnan who are uneasy."
"If Qin Xuanxiang had come to the south a few years earlier, there would be no such **** in these years."
Actually, Li Guangdu said that there are many people in Lingnan who want to be the leader, but not many people. In fact, there are only a few people who are really capable and ambitious.
Tan Dian, Feng Xuan, Ning Daoming, Chen Longshu, etc. are not qualified to be compared with them.
But in just a few years, Ning Daoming died, and Ning Changzhen also died.
Li Xizhi entered the court twice and returned twice, Chen Longshu, Chen Shilue, Li Guangdu, etc. were frequently transferred, and Qiu He also entered the court.
Feng An was also called into the court.
So now who is against the imperial court?
Tan Dian wanted to turn against him before, but was easily appeased by Qin Lang.
Others, such as Feng Xuan, Xian Baoche, Ning Ju, etc., are at best ulterior motives.
"Li Gong, in fact, people in Lingnan are just straightforward and honest. I like honest people. There were some misunderstandings before, but now the misunderstandings have been eliminated. Tan Shishi, Feng Shishi, etc. are very loyal to the court. Policies such as sealing off and merging states are also very supportive.”
Qin Lang told Li Guangdu that he set up two prefectures on the left and right of the upper tributary of the Yongjiang River in the west of Yongzhou. These are two Zhengzhous. Liangjiang will also set up several official counties of the imperial court.
This is tantamount to ceding land from Yongzhou.
Yongzhou used to be very big. There were two streams on the upper reaches of the Yongjiang River, each with more than a thousand miles of land, all under the rule of Yongzhou, but there used to be barbaric land.
Even the mountains near Yongzhou are still barbaric.
But no matter what, those places in the past were allocated in Yongzhou after all, and Yongzhou was therefore a giant state with thousands of miles of land, but now it is quite a big change to take away those barbaric lands all at once.
But Lao Li is a real person.
"I resolutely crowd the court's decision, and I also support Qin Xuanxiang's decision."
Old Li's attitude made Qin Lang very happy.
Followed Li Guangdu into Yongzhou City, checked the archives and data of Xiayongzhou, and talked openly and honestly with Lao Li about the imperial court's core policy towards Lingnan.
"Guizhou has Li Xizhi, and now Yongzhou has you, Mr. Li, so I can rest assured."
"I will resolutely govern according to the policy of the imperial court. If I do something bad, Minister Xuan can remove me and replace me."
Stayed in Yongzhou for a few days.
Qin Lang really likes this place, it's already September, and the rice outside Yongzhou City is golden, and the farmers are busy harvesting rice, and it's another harvest season.
In the Nataotao Yongjiang River, wooden rafts are continuously flowing down the river from the upstream Zuoxi Youxi.
That is a giant and famous tree that Qin Lang sent people to cut down from Jiaozhou and Yunnan and Guizhou for the construction of the Daming Palace, and it went down the river along the upstream Zuoxi Youxi.
Rows of trees go down the river, arriving at Yongzhou and Xiaxunzhou all the way to Guangzhou.
Honghe also has wooden rafts that reach Jiaozhi, but in order to transport these logs back to Chang’an to build the Daming Palace as soon as possible, the wood picking officials inspected the site and suggested that Qin Lang should be divided into several routes. Yongzhou went straight down to Guangzhou, and there were also logging from Hunan, Jiangxi, Bashu and other places, passing through the Xiangjiang and Ganjiang Rivers to the Yangtze River, arriving in Yangzhou and then entering the canal to be sent to Guanzhong.
Through this kind of logging and transportation in multiple places, the transport capacity can be increased and congestion and delays can be avoided.
It was the first time Qin Lang saw these logs transported from the distant mountains, so he went to the riverside to look at them, and found that these trees were really big enough.
Listening to the **** officials carefully introducing the types of these trees, their length, diameter and other dimensions, Qin Lang was still very surprised.
Many trees are more than a hundred years old and grow in the remote mountains and old forests, but because the Emperor Chang'an wanted to build a palace for the Supreme Emperor, the officials traveled thousands of miles into the deep mountains and old forests to find trees, and hired many local mountain people Logging and sawing the trees, transporting them painstakingly from the mountains to the river, and then transporting them all the way here.
Some trees were actually cut from the mountains in Wu'an Prefecture, his fiefdom.
They cut down trees in the mountains at the source of the uppermost stream of Zuoxi, and then transported them down the river.
"Can you go all the way down the river from the upper reaches?"
"How can it be so easy? In many places on the upper reaches of the Zuojiang River, the shoals are very sharp, and the rafts have to be stretched in many places to pass. If you are not careful, you will suddenly hit the beach. At least the rafts will be knocked apart, and at worst, people will be cut off. We transported this batch of trees out of the mountain, and more than a hundred people died before and after."
Some were felled to death in the mountains, some were crushed to death by trees, some were attacked by wild animals, some were bitten to death by poisonous snakes, and many were crushed to death while transporting trees. The easiest one, but there are also many people who died in the dangerous shoal.
Hearing this, Qin Lang's heart was heavy.
He is the chief architect of the Daming Palace, and it was his idea to have people come to Jiaozhou to cut trees.
Although he proposed to enlist the public to serve in logging and transporting trees instead of paying for migrant workers to log and transport trees, he did not expect that it would also cause so many casualties.
"Has the injured worker been compensated? Will the compensation be able to support his parents, raise his wife and children?" Qin Lang told the official that compensation must be made, and these precious timbers must not be allowed to enter Beijing with blood, and cannot The Supreme Emperor of the Tang Dynasty lived in a Daming Palace built with **** beams and pillars.
(end of this chapter)