Chapter 896 Vassals of Vassals
Qin Lang returned to the fief, although he was just passing by and could only stay for a short time, but all the old vassals of the Qin family in Wu'an Prefecture had arrived early, and they all came to see the lord.
The pier failed to pick up Qin Lang, and he was still a little puzzled.
Fortunately, Anong in the Dudu Mansion quickly informed everyone that Duke Wei will officially meet with Zhuhui tomorrow morning, so everyone rushed home again and prepared separately.
As soon as the four watchmen's bangzi rang, all the big mansions in Taiping City were brightly lit. Wu'an Prefecture had been enfeoffed for several years, but Qin Lang had been absent for many years. Now that he finally came, everyone rushed to see him.
When Qin Lang planned Taiping City, he adopted the design of the inner and outer city plus the east and west sides, plus the wharf area not enclosed in the city wall, and Weigong Fort in the north of the city. city design.
The innermost city is Yacheng, also known as Yacheng. The two yamen of Wu'an Prefecture Dudufu Yamen and Wu'an Prefecture Yamen work together under the same brand. In Yacheng, there is also a special tooth army stationed in Yacheng.
The outer city is also called Luocheng, which is actually a residential area and a commercial circle. In the outer east city, there is Taiping East City, which was set up in imitation of Chang'an East City. Each has its own manor territory, but considering that they often come to Taiping City for business, they have reserved a house.
In addition to the East City and the residences of nobles, there are several schools in the Outer East City.
In the outer west city, there is the West Market, which is also known as Fanfang Fanshi. This is a residential area and Hu merchant market planned for Hu merchants. It is unified in one area, which is easy to manage and convenient for the trading of foreign goods. wait.
The wharf area is also called the port area. It is also a warehouse area, a warehouse area, and a concentration area of workshops. A large number of handicraft and commercial workshops are concentrated in this area. Although it is not protected by the city wall, there are also walls and gates. There are special patrol teams, etc., which are actually very safe.
In comparison, Beicheng is actually the smallest. Beicheng is called Weigong Fort, and it is actually Qin Lang's residence. Although there is also the Dudu Mansion in Yacheng, it is equivalent to an official residence, and Weigong Castle in the north of the city is completely Qin Lang's private residence.
Although it is not big, it is actually a very majestic and strong castle with an independent defense system, which is very strong. It is only small compared to Taiping City. In fact, this Weigong Castle covers an area of 300 mu, and the actual building area is also More than 100 mu, with more than 300 rooms, more than a dozen courtyards, much larger than the 200-mu Weigong Mansion, which occupies a quarter of a square in Chang'an Pingkangfang.
Especially because it is located in the south of Lingnan, Qin Lang is the lord here, so the castle is built very high, not the kind of tall buildings that are subject to various restrictions in Chang'an City.
Standing on the top floor of the main castle, one can even have a clear view of the entire Taiping City and the port, even the coast more than ten miles away.
The entire Taiping City is planned as a whole, and it has been under construction and expanded continuously. Because the open space has been planned in advance, and the channels have been preset, so that the entire city has always been a large construction site, but there is no such thing as a large construction site. Messy feeling.
Qin Lang's Weigong Castle is progressing even more slowly because the owner is not around. So far, only the main castle building has been completed, and there are still many places that have not been completed.
However, it does not hinder Qin Lang's residence.
In the outer east city, a group of retainers got up early. It was not yet dawn at this time, and the night breeze was cool, but it was very comfortable. There are many luxury houses in this urban area. The homesteads reserved at the beginning are very large. The smallest piece is five acres, and most of them are ten acres.
A house of ten mu, a garden of five mu, a pool of water, and a thousand poles of bamboo.
It has to be said that Qin Lang's consideration at the beginning was quite thoughtful. This can be regarded as a welfare treatment for his retainers, but it is relatively inexpensive. After all, at the time of planning, the whole Taiping was just a fishing village. Badlands are worthless.
Over the years, the retainers either served in the prefecture or guarded the territory. They paid great attention to Qin Lang's house in Taiping City. Each family spent a lot of energy and money building the house. Up to now, the residential area of Shangdong City , became the richest aristocratic district in Taiping.
Mansions of houses, either in the style of Chang'an's capital, or in the appearance of Luoyang, the eastern capital, or in the style of Guangling and Yangzhou, are all beautifully built.
It also adds a scene to Taiping City.
In the summer night, the servants of each family held up lanterns with their titles and duties written on them, and inside were candles of whale oil, a specialty of Wu'an Prefecture.
Wu’an was a martial artist. Although there are few horses in Lingnan, most of these vassal knights and warriors from the Central Plains are mostly riding tall horses.
No one rides in a car, let alone rides an ox or a mule. There is no such thing as a sedan chair. In Chang'an, only those highly respected veterans can get the emperor's special decree to sit on it. Otherwise, who would dare to let it sit? People carry it away?
The doors of the mansions opened, and the vassals mounted their horses one by one, and gathered in the street with their servants, and greeted each other when they met their neighbors.
This scene is a bit like the scene of officials in Chang'an City visiting court.
Wu'an Prefecture has developed well in the past few years, and the secular feudal system has basically stabilized. Most of these knights from Wu'an Prefecture, who came from the children of the nobles of the Central Plains, have accumulated a family business here. I don't want to give up these easily.
Previously, everyone was beating the barbarians fiercely in the north, but the emperor issued an edict and forcibly took away several places on the east, west, and north sides of Wu'an Prefecture. Many knights couldn't think about it for a while. It was taken from the hand, and now the imperial court said it would be taken away, and no one felt uncomfortable.
But after Qin Lang spoke, this matter must be complied with, and there is no need to discuss it.
Duke Wei made a speech and offered some compensation measures, and finally everyone reluctantly accepted it.
This time Qin Lang passed by the fief, and everyone came to see him. In fact, he still wanted to complain to Qin Lang face to face, and ask carefully if this matter would happen again. Everyone worked so hard, no one thought that Shi Chang'an's edict would make everyone's hard work go in vain.
Especially now that the Juding Man has been beaten away, the left and right Xi Man have been completely attached to the natives, and the imperial court has changed to Zhengzhou, and the clan heroes have been entrusted to Yongzhen in the future. This makes some retainers feel that the imperial court has picked fruit of suspicion.
The imperial court thought that Wei Gong had great meritorious deeds, and Tetween entrusted his four sons with a county in Wu'an prefecture. The future of the state is unpredictable.
Everyone was very brave when they fought against the barbarians, and they were all willing to work hard to build fiefdoms, and they were also willing to spend their capital and money. Now that this family business is hard-won, everyone wants to get a promise from Qin Lang.
In fact, everyone is a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, but since the Central Plains went south, the **** of these wealthy families have actually been separated from the Central Plains and their families, and even from the Tang Dynasty. They came to the wilderness, started from scratch, and worked hard to start a business , All of this is done by myself.
It is five thousand miles away from Chang'an. The former home and the imperial court are already very far away for them. Now Wu'an Prefecture is where everyone's immediate interests are connected. Qin Lang, the lord, is their backbone.
Even ordinary people know an old saying, whoever takes care of who serves them. They are the people of the Tang Dynasty, but they are also the retainers of Duke Wei Qinlang. The tax income they enjoyed was actually given to them by Duke Wei from his own one-third of the two-third of the tax.
There are also fiefs and villages assigned to them, fields, mines, forests, waters, etc. These are all given to them by Qin Lang, not directly granted to them by the court, so of course they will only be recorded on Qin Lang.
In Wu'an Prefecture, Qin Lang's words are more effective than the imperial court's.
This is a very real situation.
Although Qin Lang is only a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, the hereditary fief of Wu'an Prefecture is not an independent kingdom divided out, and the Qin family only enjoys the position of the hereditary governor of Wu'an Prefecture, but other official positions are actually conferred by the imperial court. , but the current practice is that Qin Lang recommends it, and the court will not reject it.
But everyone still thinks that Wu'an Prefecture belongs to the Qin family. They are not only officials of the Tang Dynasty, but also ministers of the Qin family.
Qin Lang is actually very clear about the details here, and he didn't want to make some things too high-profile. For example, when he was in front of Taiping Port, he learned that the pier was full of vassal knights and warriors who came to welcome him. So he deliberately changed into a green shirt and quietly got off the boat and went ashore.
The retainers still wanted to meet, but Qin Lang didn't want to make it too high-profile, and he didn't want to have something like Wu'an Prefecture's morning court, but Wu'an Prefecture wanted such a scene, even if it was a ceremony. However, they want to deepen the concept of the Wu'an Qin clan, especially the status of the main minister.
Even Qin Yong, Qin Yong, Huang Biao, and Zhang Chao's confidantes came to persuade them in the middle of the night last night, saying that Qin Lang didn't come once in a few years, and now that he is here, he still doesn't want to see everyone, so that everyone will be alienated in the future, Wu An The current atmosphere of unity in the state will dissipate.
Everyone will become more suspicious and uneasy.
And this time, apart from the vassals from the Central Plains who went south with Qin Lang to visit Qin Lang, in fact, the **** chiefs from various places in Wu'an who conquered and recruited after going south, the Han tycoons who immigrated here in the early years, these original local snakes, Now it is basically considered to be gradually integrating into Wu'an Prefecture, but they have no idea in their hearts, they have been at a loss all the time, Qin Lang is here, they must come to visit, and want a reassurance, if Qin Lang doesn't If you are willing to see them, they will be even more uneasy, which is also extremely detrimental to the development of Wu'an Prefecture.
After all, although these land snakes are suppressed, they are not weak in their own strength, especially the slang barbarians in many mountains, where they are the bosses.
The chaos in Juding last year brought about a huge change in the whole of Lingnan, and a new era began. Everyone in Wu'an Prefecture wanted to ask for a letter from Qin Lang, and hoped for reassurance. At this time Can Qin Lang say that he didn't see everyone because he was worried about something?
"We have made great achievements, we have made great achievements, we are upright, we neither steal nor rob, three do not plot chaos and four do not rebel, why should we hide and cower?"
"It's been so many years since the land in Wu'an Prefecture was given to Saburo, and now so many of our brothers and horses are following Sanlang. After finally showing up, Sanlang finally showed up. Why don't we have a good chat with everyone?" Old Matou Now in Wu'an Prefecture, he is also one of the three giants left behind. He is no longer that wretched old horse head in Chang'an, and he speaks very domineeringly.
"We are still waiting for Saburo to talk to everyone about future plans. Our Wu'an Prefecture is getting more and more prosperous, so of course we have to work together!" Qin Yong also had the same attitude.
Under their overnight persuasion, Qin Lang finally had no choice but to agree to this matter whether he agreed or not, it seemed that all the vassals in Wu'an Prefecture would come to pay homage together.
It's almost five o'clock.
Qin Lang stood on the top of the main fort of Weigong Castle, watching the fire dragon meandering towards Weigong Fort, and said helplessly to Qin Yong, Huang Biao, Qin Yong, Anong, Yang Jiyuan and others beside him, "Actually, after the chaos in Juding was settled, the dust has settled in Lingnan. It can be said that within ten years, there will be no major changes in policy. Everyone is actually worrying too much."
Yang Jiyuan of Lang Son's long white beard was blown wildly by the summer wind, "I think Sanlang's words are true. I heard that the imperial court is going to fight again in the north, and they still want to hit Xue Yantuo in Mobei and Goguryeo in Liaodong." Lu, these two Hu Kes are also very strong, and it is true that they will not have the energy to stare at the south for the time being."
"But our loss last time was not small. We expanded thousands of miles for the imperial court. In the end, we also lost Gaoping, Xin'an, Qiujiang and other places. Those are all good places, especially Gaoping. This is where Sanlang went to the northwest. The point of the expansion, Sanlang's heart aches, right?" Yang Jiyuan lifted whichever pot he didn't open.
Qin Lang was blowing the cool breeze, but his mood was not affected by Yang Jiyuan, a cheap old father-in-law. If he had just received the emperor's decree, there were turmoil in his heart, and the emperor mercilessly rejected him as soon as he tried it. Even at a critical moment like Pingman.
But now that time has passed, Qin Lang has long thought about it. Gaoping, Xin'an, and Qiujiang are gone, and Beijiang and Qixi have also been added. The original development was a bit of a side ball, and it was not fully accepted by the court. Yes, that is also the emperor's mercy.
It's important not to be too greedy.
Be greedy for small things but lose big things.
"Duke Yang, do you have any objections to Your Majesty's giving me a favor and granting Lang Son the title?" Qin Lang asked.
At the beginning, Qin Lang subdued the Yang family in Lang Son Wu, promised that Lang Son would still belong to the Yang family in the future, and proclaimed his kindness to the imperial court as earl and magistrate of Lang Son county, but within a few years, the emperor issued an edict to divide Qin Lang into one The son was granted the title of Marquis by the county magistrate of Lang Son, and Yang Jiyuan, the former county magistrate, was conferred the Sima of Wu'an Prefecture, and the title of earl remained unchanged.
It can be said that Yang Jiyuan was very annoyed by this incident, but he was a little helpless, after all, the Emperor Chang'an issued an edict.
But there was always a fire in his heart, so he provoked Qin Lang intentionally or unintentionally, but Qin Lang pointed at the vital point, which made Yang Jiyuan speechless.
"Mr. Yang, we are all in the same boat. Only by working together can we ride the wind and waves in the sea!"
(end of this chapter)