Chapter 809 Five Houses
The Guangzhou meeting lasted for half a month.
"Since Emperor Qin opened Lingnan, Hanwu pacified Fujian and Guangdong, and widely distributed Enxin, this is the beginning of Guang. From the Jiaozhi Governor, then to the division of Guangzhou, and then to the establishment of the road in this dynasty, the Lingnan Road was first divided, and then Lingnan was divided. There are two roads in east and west, and then expanded to three roads in Guangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong…”
After half a month of negotiations, various interests were exchanged and compromised, and there were even hidden threats. Qin Lang was so busy that he didn't have time to sleep, but he finally reached an agreement that was satisfactory to all parties.
"The sage sent an angel from Chang'an to pass down the edict. In the land of Sanguang in the south of the Lingnan, the Lingnan Jinglue envoy was set up to take charge of Sanguang. In addition to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou and the Protectorate Mansion in Annan, the new Governor's Mansion in Yongzhou and the Lower Governor's Mansion in Rongzhou were added. Mansion, the Mansion of the Lower Dudu of Guizhou."
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Qin Lang's announcement of the emperor's decree was surprising.
According to the latest will of the emperor, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou was originally in charge of Lingnan, East, West and Guangxi, but now it only governs Lingnan East Road.
Annan Metropolitan Protectorate still governs Guangnan Road.
Guangxi originally had the Guizhou Governor's Mansion, but now Yongzhou Mansion and Rongzhou Mansion have been added, and the Yongzhou Governor's Mansion is also in charge of the Guizhou and Rongzhou Mansions. In fact, the capital of Guangxi has been moved to Yongzhou.
Since the Qin Dynasty opened Lingnan, Guilin has always been the core of Lingnan, and once surpassed Guangzhou's status, but now the emperor actually moved the center of Guangxi Road from Guizhou to Yongzhou in the south, instead of Guilin, which is close to the Central Plains. The intention is very deep.
Jianzhi Rongzhou was originally just a small state, located on the border of Guangdong and Guangxi, east of Yunkai Mountain and south of Xijiang River. Rongzhou is just a small state, especially in the area controlled by the strong bureaucrats in the mountainous area. Tandian used this as a base before, competing with the Feng family for Luodou Cave and so on.
Many people think that it is unreasonable for Rongzhou to set up a capital governor's mansion. It should be Wuzhou, an important inland river port on the Xijiang River, to set up a capital governor's mansion.
Qin Lang was well aware of the emperor's intention, and he was the one who made the proposal to the emperor.
There are five governor's mansions in Sanguang, large, medium and small, but Guangdong and Guangnan only have one each, while Guangxi has three governor's mansions. The reason is naturally that the **** and barbarians in Guangxi are more powerful now, and the imperial court is more powerful. Weak, the addition of the governor's office is also to deploy the frontier army here. The governor and governor is in charge of both civil and military affairs, and he pays attention to his military duties.
Rongzhou Dudufu is in charge of the states in the east of Guangxi Road, Guizhou Dudufu is in charge of the states in the north of Guangxi Dao, Yongzhou Dudufu is in charge of the west and south of Guangxi, and also governs Guangxi and Rongfu.
The six prefectures of Rong, Teng, Wu, Yulin, Guizhou, and Xunzhou are all under the Rongzhou Dudufu.
The imperial court will set up six military mansions under the governor's mansion in Rongzhou, and move and select 5,000 mansion soldiers. In addition, an army of Ningyuan Army was set up under the Rongfu, with an army of 3,000, and there were guards, towns, and forts under it. And set up 6,000 united soldiers, 1,000 for each state.
The governor of Rongzhou is the lower governor from the third-rank position, elected by the prime ministers of the government affairs hall of the imperial court, and elected by the emperor.
The imperial court set up an envoy of the five prefectures of Lingnan on top of the three provinces and five prefectures. The emperor ordered Qin Lang to be the envoy of the five prefectures of Lingnan, the governor of Guangzhou, and the governor of Guangzhou. Envoy, Guangdong and Guangxi Observation Envoy and other envoys.
Now Qin Lang's official position is to go to Lingnan with the title of Prime Minister Pingzhangshi, serving as the economic envoy of the five Lingnan prefectures, the governor of Guangzhou and the governor of Guangzhou.
The position of Jinglue envoy is roughly the same as that of the previous envoys, pacification envoys, and consolation envoys. It is a temporary envoy. It is usually awarded to a military commander who leads the army to appease the people and other related civil affairs. etc.
This time, the emperor gave Qin Lang, the manager of the five prefectures, a clear delineation of responsibilities.
In charge of the military, equivalent to the highest military officer at the frontier theater level, supervising the military brigade, appeasing the border, commanding generals, and announcing well-being.
This is a military chief officer position.
This is also because Lingnan is now divided into three provinces, and the imperial court added two mansions on top of the original three mansions to form a pattern of three mansions and five mansions. Previously, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou only ruled the two provinces, so this time a special addition was made. The mission is to redesign the entire Lingnan, Sanguang, and Guangxi regions into an entire war zone to facilitate overall planning.
In fact, the authority of the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion in Guangzhou has been weakened, from the management of Guangdong and Guangxi to only the management of Guangzhou. However, because Guangdong is well developed and has a high status, it has not been reduced to the Governor’s Mansion of the Central Metropolitan Government. Moreover, the management of the five prefectures has been set up in Guangzhou, and the Metropolitan Governor has concurrently served as the governor. .
The responsibilities given to Qin Lang by the emperor mainly focus on strategy, publicity and disposition. The word disposition is placed at the end in the imperial decree, but it is a great power.
The full name of the imperial court's various investigation envoys is the interview, observation, and disposal envoy. Disposition is the right to dispose of officials, and the evaluation, promotion, reward, and demotion are all within the scope of their powers.
Qin Lang is now in charge of the three departments, in charge of the military, and has the power to dispose of officials.
Compared with the Metropolitan Superintendent, the economic and strategic envoy has a post, and is an informal permanent office officer. It is a temporary post, similar to the leader of a certain working group, a certain inspection team, and the leader of an inspection team. It is possible It will be undone after all.
The main reason is that the imperial court wanted to make a big move on the current situation in Lingnan, and specially appointed Qin Lang, the prime minister, to coordinate and command the overall situation.
There are three routes in Lingnan, five prefectures are set up, and the rest of the original commanders and other positions of the local chieftains are all canceled this time, which can be regarded as the formal determination of the division of Lingnan.
At the same time, the emperor also approved Qinlang's proposal to further merge and abolish some prefectures. Lingnan merged from more than one hundred prefectures to thirty-six Zhengzhous.
Some of the Jimi prefectures originally controlled by the Li commanders were mostly changed to Zhengxian this time. In Zuoxi River and some remote areas on Hainan Island, some Jimi prefectures were retained, and a total of 36 Jimi prefectures were retained.
A large number of states were reduced to counties, and many former slang people controlled areas, and many new counties were opened up.
Originally, there was no chief official at the first level of Datang Township. The system of one township and five li was implemented.
And this time, Qin Lang directly added township chiefs, township offices, and inspection offices in each township. One was in charge of civil affairs, and the other was in charge of public security.
In the countryside, Baojia and Baogongfang are set up separately, and there are joint defense teams.
A group of Han chieftains were appointed as governors, county magistrates, township heads, and security chiefs. On the one hand, the governors and guards of the five prefectures were all appointed by the imperial court, and Qin Lang also took the opportunity to officially launch Lingnan. The five prefectures set up a package plan of government soldiers, frontier troops, and united troops.
At the same time, each of the five prefectures set up an army, and under them there were troops, guards, towns, guards, etc., with a total of 20,000 frontier troops.
United soldiers will train one thousand in each state, for a total of forty-eight thousand.
Before Zhenguan, there was not a Zhechong prefecture in Lingnan. Later, some officers and soldiers were stationed in Guangxi, Guangxi, and Guangxi. Now the imperial court is officially starting the garrison plan in Lingnan, and the prefecture, border, and township soldiers are complete. Even the military expenses have been allocated. The frontier army military expenses, the imperial court and the local government are each responsible for half, and the township soldiers are responsible for one third by the local prefectures, counties, five prefectures, and the imperial court.
Fu Bing is awarded land by the five prefectures, exempted from taxes, and the five prefectures and the imperial court are each responsible for half of the usual training expenses.
The regiment training is basically led by handsome and powerful people from all over the country, and it is also adapted from their former private soldiers and troops. One-third of the government soldiers moved from the Central Plains, and two-thirds were selected or recruited locally.
Part of the frontier troops were rotated from Zhechong Fuzhong in the south of the Lingnan, some were rotated from the Central Plains, and some were recruited from the local united soldiers in the south of the Lingnan. The clothing, food, equipment and horses of the frontier army are all in the charge of the imperial court and the five prefectures.
With this structure set up, Qin Lang, the economic and strategic appeasement envoy of the five prefectures, can be considered to have grasped the land of Sanguang in the south of Lingnan.
"Everyone, Lingnan has a lot of gold, silver, copper and iron, and it also benefits from trade in coastal commercial ports. Therefore, if we want to develop, we can't just grow some rice, which can't support our families. Moreover, many places have more mountains and less land, so we rely on mountains. You have to eat mountains, and you have to rely on the sea to eat the sea.”
"I told you earlier that we will build more than a dozen large coastal trading ports along the coast, and more than a dozen inland water transport and trading ports on inland rivers such as the Xijiang River. In addition, we also need to rely on our local high-quality resources. Establish our own advantageous industries."
"For example, we have a lot of iron in Lingnan, and Guangdong iron mines are mostly concentrated in Luoding, Longzhou, Yunfu, Duanzhou, Zhenchang, Qujiang, Shaozhou, Huaiji, Guangzhou, Yangjiang, Enzhou and other places. There are many high-quality iron mines in various places, but now mining Insufficient, the smelting is not a climate scale, it can only be simply mined, roughly processed into iron ingots, and sold to the Central Plains of Lingbei for thousands of miles. We do the hardest and most tiring work, but we get the least. remuneration."
Qin Lang's words made everyone nod their heads.
For example, Tan Dian, Chen Longshu's family, and the area around Luodou Cave, which the Feng family had been fighting for before, is a gathering place for the sluts. There are high mountains and dangerous fields, but there are many high-quality iron mines. The mines have always been simply exploited by local slang people, and they can't be sold for much money.
It is really annoying to beg for food while guarding the golden rice bowl.
"I have a plan. Let's join forces, raise funds and buy shares, and introduce excellent craftsmen from the Central Plains, as well as mining and smelting equipment, so that we can increase the mining of iron ore. Then the iron ore mined from various places will be roughly processed. Along the rivers of various places, it flows into the Xijiang River, and finally gathers in Guangzhou."
Qin Lang took out a map and pointed to Lingzhou Mountain on the edge of Panyu, Guangzhou. This is a large sandbar that burst out near the mouth of the Pearl River. This sandbar has accumulated over time, like a giant island, and it is still growing every year. The possibility of a new land.
"I plan to build an iron smelting and processing center here, and set up a special iron smelting town called Foshan Town."
The iron materials mined and roughly processed in various iron mines are transported by inland waterways to Lingzhou Mountain outside Guangzhou at the mouth of the Pearl River, where they are processed and cast into various ironware, and then sold from Guangzhou Port, which can be sold domestically in the Central Plains or It can be directly supplied to Lingnan, and can also be exported overseas through Guangzhou Port.
"The choice to build Foshan Town in Lingzhou Mountain is for the purpose of concentration."
Industrial concentration forms a scale, improves the industrial chain, reduces costs, and improves efficiency. Some people understand this, and some do not.
However, many people can see that Qin Lang has great ambitions. Only the iron mines in Guangdong are distributed in the mountains around Guangzhou, which are relatively scattered, but they may be concentrated in Guangzhou through the inland water network, and Guangzhou has the advantage of a seaport.
Needless to say, iron smelting requires a lot of fuel. In the past, iron smelting was done by cutting firewood and burning charcoal. An iron factory can only be built in the mountains because the fuel demand is too high. If it is not built in the mountains, the fuel cost will be too high.
Now Qin Lang wants to build an iron smelting center in Guangzhou because he has a solution for fuel, which is to transport coal by sea from the big carbon field in Wu'an Prefecture, and use coal to smelt iron.
In the future, charcoal can even be processed into coke to make steel. Compared with charcoal smelting iron and steel, coal undoubtedly has greater advantages, especially the coal in Wu'an Prefecture is the largest coal mine in the entire Lingnan, and even the entire Tang Dynasty. Or an open pit mine.
It would be a pity not to take advantage of such good conditions.
Guangdong Iron Mine, Guangzhou Seaport, Jiaozhou Coal, these three together, can integrate a huge coal and iron industry.
Of course, this industry is too big, and Qin Lang is not capable of eating it all by himself. Whether it is upstream, midstream or downstream industries, all aspects of Lingnan are involved, so he needs all parties to join forces and make money together.
The most important point is that most of the iron mines in various countries are located in the deep mountain areas controlled by the savages, and it is also a place that is difficult for the imperial court to touch. With the help of joint iron smelting, let these scorpions who control the most upstream iron mines, They have also joined this big industry. Qin Lang believes that letting them share the benefits is also a good way to break the traditional isolation and penetrate into the areas controlled by these bureaucrats.
Qin Lang carefully observed the handsome men who came to the meeting, and found that all of them really listened to their eyes, but it was obvious that these people were not in a hurry to express their opinions, they were undoubtedly very cautious, and wanted to know what was going on in this cooperation? What kind of cooperation method is it, and how much benefit can they get from it.
Less, these people will definitely not do it.
No one is willing to make wedding clothes for others.
Guangdong has many irons, and Guangxi has many golds.
And gold, silver, and copper are often associated.
A Xijiang River runs through Lingnan from east to west. This golden waterway can transport iron materials from Guangxi to Foshan. Similarly, coal from Jiaozhou can also be transported to the inland along the Xijiang River.
Foshan does not produce iron or coal, but Foshan has the most important transportation facilities for the development of coal and iron industries, and has the advantages of commerce and trade.
Overall planning and integration can form a powerful iron smelting industry, and even have a stronger smelting and marketing advantage than the Central Plains.
Once the pie that Qin Lang drew is really made, then everyone present here will benefit.
Whether it's the scumbags who occupy the iron mines but can't make any money, or the Han Chinese tyrants guarding the big port, or the aristocrats and nobles who went south across the river, etc., everyone who has money will give money, and those who have mines will get mines. , Technology with technology, sales channels with sales channels, integrated together, a big coal and iron industry appears, who will compete with it?
Historically, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Foshan was famous all over the world for its iron smelting industry as one of the four major commercial towns in the world. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, iron smelting in Foshan could only be smelted with charcoal, which was greatly restricted.
Looking at the excited handsome and powerful men, Qin Lang smiled. This cake is not bad, and with such a big profit prospect, everyone is more respectful and obedient to Qin Lang, the Lingnan Economic Strategy.
(end of this chapter)