Lord of the House

After the Qingzhou war, Gu Siyuan only stayed in Chongzhou for a few days, then left the core circle of Jiangning and Huaidong, and also left this endless circle of right and wrong, and took his wife to work in a different place. In the past five years, Gu Siyuan has gone out to the two counties of Huipu and Yongtai successively. From the dignified Gu Shaojun and the young master of Qingzhou, he has honestly served as two county magistrates.

Compared to the youth and frivolity of the eight-year-old Chongguan, Gu Siyuan at this time has a dark complexion, thin and capable, bright eyes, a short moustache on his lips, and he stands in the courtyard with his sleeves up looking at the peach branches in the corner of the courtyard.

Seeing Lin Fu walking into the garden with Zheng Jun's small hand, Gu Siyuan folded his body and said, "The servants meet the lord..."

"Family, why is this false ceremony?" Lin Fu held Gu Siyuan in his arms and did not ask him to do the salute, and walked with Gu Siyuan to the small garden in the corner of the courtyard. He saw Jun Xun, her mother Tang Gu, and Gu Siyuan's wife and son. , all sitting in the small garden talking, watching Lin Fu walk in, they all stood up.

Gu Siyuan's son Gu Zhan, the same age as Zhengjun, has a head and a head, and is much stronger than Gu Siyuan, but he taught Gu Siyuan a courtesy, and came over to salute Lin Fu, the "uncle" - Lin Fu pulled Gu Zhan and touched his neck He bowed his beard and said to Gu Siyuan, "I also just returned to Jiangning from Haizhou, and I couldn't get away from it after I came back. Fortunately, you and I are all family, so you don't need to be too particular about walking, so I asked Jun Xun to treat you in this garden. ... I've been wronged by people in Zhejiang and Fujian all these years."

"Siyuan doesn't feel wronged," Gu Siyuan said. "If you can do something in a down-to-earth way, your heart will be calm; otherwise, why can you meditate on the past and regret all kinds of mistakes?"

"There's no need to talk about the past..." Lin Fu waved his hand, greeted Tang Gu, and asked Gu Siyuan to sit down with him in the corner pavilion in the garden. And Gu Junxun, Tang Gu, and Gu Siyuan's wife were sitting and talking in another corner pavilion in the garden, before it was time for the banquet.

Even at this time, some people were discussing that he supported the Yongxing Emperor and abandoned the Gu family, because of his own power and personal interests, and because he abandoned his teacher and betrayed him. Lin Fu didn't know if Gu Siyuan was really thinking about everything. Belly, but Gu Siyuan, who has experienced the change in Qingzhou, is indeed much calmer than before. Gu Siyuan went out to know the affairs of Huipu and Yongtai counties. He was pragmatic and diligent in governance, and he had real achievements. He did not want Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan, Gao Zongting, etc., who did not want Gu Siyuan to be in his early stage. He was transferred to Beppu as a judge or prefect.

Lin Fu was thinking of adjusting Gu Siyuan to go to Guangnan.

The counties under Jiangning's jurisdiction have the weakest control over Guangnan. On the one hand, the road in Guangnan is remote, and the land and sea routes must pass through Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi. On the other hand, Guangnan is sparsely populated. The control is strong or weak and has little effect on the center.

However, Guangnan County has great potential for development.

Yuejiang, the Pearl River in later generations, is actually the third continental river after the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, with tens of millions of acres of fertile soil along its banks; from Leizhou, Guangnan County to the south, it is the second largest island after Yizhou Island. Qiongzhou Island.

Even if we only talk about Nanyang commercial and colonial affairs, only after the development of the Yuejiang River can we have a better foundation for the penetration and expansion of trade with the Champaign (now Vietnam). Of course, the population of Guangnan County is sparse, and the number of naturalized households is rare, but there are not many real population resources.

In a narrow sense, Guangnan includes the later provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the area is larger than the two counties of Zhejiang and Fujian combined. There are only more than 20 households and more than one million people in Guangnan naturalized households, but there are a large number of Shanyue, Nanmiao, Southwest Yi and other ethnic groups living in the mountains of Wuyi Mountain, Wuling Mountain, Miaoling, Yuchengling and Qiongzhou Island. Dingkou is not estimated to be less than two million.

In addition, from Guangnan to the south, there is the old county of Ningzhou, that is, the later provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou.

In the previous dynasties, Chen once set up Ningzhou Prefecture to govern Yunnan and Guizhou, established the hereditary Ningzhou provincial governor of the Southwest Yi Meng clan, and established eleven prefectures and ninety-two counties to govern the land, which was regarded as the official incorporation of the Yunnan and Guizhou areas under the central jurisdiction.

When Yuanyue established the country, Montessori steals Ningzhou as Shanchan country, and when Sejong came, surrendered to Shun and attached it as a vassal state. It was only because the Dianchi Lake was far away, and it was very inconvenient to climb over the mountains and ridges, so Emperor Yue Shizong named the Montessori Duke of Shanchan and Yongzhen Dianqian. In fact, Yunnan and Guizhou have always been outside the central control, and only a few tributes are collected symbolically every year to show the status of the suzerain.

It is this former Ningzhou and today's Shan Changuo. In the late Chen Dynasty, there were 300,000 registered households. After that, the center has never obtained the population data of Shan Changuo, and Dingkou is estimated to be more than 2 million.

Lin Fu's first purpose is to strengthen the control and development of Guangnan County, so that the Miaoyi and other ethnic groups in Guangnan County, estimated to be more than 2 million, will be incorporated into households to strengthen their control; when the time is ripe, they will directly send troops to surrender. Shan explained the country, restored the old county of Ningzhou, and restored the central government's rule over the southwestern Yunnan and Guizhou regions.

Of course, the first step is to strengthen the development and control of Guangnan.

Lin Fu intends to make Gu Siyuan go out to learn about the affairs of Leizhou and Qiongzhou.

Qiongzhou, also known as Yazhou, is only more than 30 miles away from Leizhou Fu Yecheng.

"Leizhou is extremely hot and the area is desolate. However, to control Guangnan, we need to start from Leizhou, so as to take into account Nanhai (now Guangzhou), Qinzhou, Yongzhou (now Nanning) and Qiongzhou," Lin Fu said while sitting in the pavilion with Gu Siyuan, " Leizhou is located in the middle of Guangnan, but it is located in the barren heat, apart from you, Si Yuan, I don't know who I can take responsibility for..."

"The lord is entrusted, and Si Yuan does not dare to say no, and he will definitely live up to the lord's expectations." Gu Siyuan said.

At this moment, Gu Tianqiao stuck his head out of the yard, looked at him sitting in the pavilion and talked, and shrank his head back again.

Lin Fu laughed and scolded: "You Gu monkey, probe your brain, and want to hide there..." When Gu Tianqiao entered Jiangning with Gu Wuchen at the beginning, he was still a simple young man from the Gu family, but his grandfather and Gu Wuchen's father were brothers, and he had to be taken care of by Gu Wuchen , brought into Jiangning. It's just that the simplicity of the year has disappeared. At this time, the clothes are rich and the face and cheeks are thin, so people call him Gu Monkey.

Gu Tianqiao, Lin Xuhong, Ye Kai, Xiao Mi and others are also representatives of the party in Dongyang Township, and they are indeed indispensable figures behind Huaidong Bank and Heishuiyang Shipping Society. The suffering of the case and the form of labor.

Gu Tianqiao was about to come in, stood outside the long pavilion and said: "I'm afraid that the lord and Si Yuan will discuss important family and country matters that the common people can't know, so I don't dare to be abrupt..." Then he turned and saluted the daughters of Tang Gu and Gu Junxun in the other corner of the garden. .

"Siyuan, before you left Jiangning, did you think Gu Monkey would be so glib?" Lin Bie laughed and teased Gu Tianqiao, raised his foot and kicked a stool in front of Gu Tianqiao and asked him to sit down with him in the pavilion.

"Brother Tianqiao, I haven't seen you for many years." Gu Siyuan no longer took the young son's stance and greeted Gu Tianqiao, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.

All the people who joined Jiangning from Dongyang back then, Gu Siming had disappeared because he was spurned and hated by Lin Fu, and he was afraid that no one would see his old friend again. In fact, it also represents his closeness with the government of the country; Yang Shi served as a military staff officer in the Jinghai Division, and was a senior general at the deputy commander level, while Lin Fu was a hero among thousands of people who looked at the world...

Without the pain of Qingzhou, Gu Siyuan would not admit the gap between him and Lin Fu; Qingzhou was defeated, his father died of poison, Ma Chao died in battle, and Yang Puyi was unwilling to live alone before driving his horse to the enemy—this series of blows is called Gu Siyuan Seeing everything clearly, he shattered all his previous frivolity and conceit. In these years in southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian, he also seriously reflected on the past.

Especially after the Qingzhou war, Lin Fu had already laid a solid foundation in Huaidong, and after that, one after another, the new policy of Huaidong spread rapidly to eastern Zhejiang, southern Zhejiang, eastern Fujian, western Zhejiang and Yizhou. It made Gu Siyuan more clearly see how deep the foundation Lin Fu laid in Huaidong in his early years, and how efficient the military and political system he created!

At this time, less than three years had passed since the war in East Fujian, and the whole of East Min County had already recovered. Jin'an, Quanzhou, Zhangpu, Jieyang and other prefectures and counties had recovered. Starting this year, after excluding Nanyang Sea Trade, the taxes paid by Dongmin County to the center will be restored to more than 1.5 million silver dollars.

Don't look at the small number of 1.5 million silver dollars; even when the luxury family was at its peak, the money that was simply extracted from Dongmin County every year was only twice that amount. In addition to the taxes paid directly to the center, Dongmin County also sent millions of stone grains to the Jianghuai region through grain merchants and military purchases last year, and this year, this number can be doubled again.

The taxes drawn from Dongmin County this year and the food purchased at a fair price will be able to make up for the central government’s subsidies to Jiangxi and the Lianghu region—which means that after this year, with the further recovery of Jiangxi and the Lianghu region, the central revenue will be rapid. With a steady increase, it may not take three or five years to organize the Northern Expedition and drive Yan Hu out of the Central Plains.

Gu Siyuan thought to himself: Maybe Lin Fu will abolish Yuan and establish a new dynasty before the Northern Expedition?

Gu Tianqiao didn't want Gu Siyuan to think so much in his heart, he just responded with a smile and said, "It's not that I haven't seen you for many years. I'm afraid that you won't be able to stay in Jiangning for a few days, and you will go to another place to become a high-ranking official. The lord made a few jokes..."

"Siyuan still has to live in Jiangning for a period of time; in the future, officials above the county seat, magistrate, and magistrate, who are transferred to other positions, must be transferred to Jiangning to study the new policies. Chang Xin, Chang Xin and Chang Xue, Si Yuan must live in Jiangning for three or five months," Lin Fu said, "It's Gu Houyou, I'm going to kick you out of Jiangning in the next two days!"

"I got a bad face from Zhang Yubo in the early years, but I didn't cause you any more trouble!" Gu Tianqiao immediately burst into tears when he heard Lin Fu want to drive him out of Jiangning.

"Don't cry like this, I want to ask you to go to Jeju, it's not a poor place," Lin Fu scolded with a smile, "It only takes three or five days to return to Jiangning from Jeju, this time I hope you and your family will move to Jeju..."

"What's this for!" Gu Tianqiao immediately looked more like the sky was falling, and said with a sad face, "Could it be that the lord kicked Zhang Yubo to Jeju and felt that I was living too well in Jiangning, so he asked me to go to Zhang Yubo to suffer again. How many years of grievances?"

Listening to the movement here, Gu Junxun and Tang Gu both looked over: the Privy Council and the military do not want Gu Siyuan to stay in Jiangning for a long time; Gu Tianqiao is the only person who can walk in Jiangning city. ; Lin Zhengjun also called Gu Tianqiao "uncle" in Jiangning - if Gu Tianqiao was expelled from Jiangning again, it would mean that although Gu Jun's family occupied the status of the main room, there would be no backup in Jiangning. .

"I'm going to Jiangning, and Hu Wenmu told me that with my merit, it's okay for the sons to be awarded the title, the eldest daughter to be the prince of the county, or the prince of Kaishu to be the prince of the county." Lin Fu ignored the nervousness of the others and talked with Gu Tianqiao. He said, "I'm going to ask for a reward from the ruler of Jeju for the ruler. What do you think I kicked you to Jeju for?"

"Ah!" Gu Tianqiao froze there and said in surprise, "This is asking Zhengjun to be the founder of the real seal!"

The emperor's family and the clan's daughter are all false titles. For example, Yuanyan's title of Princess Yangxin would not ask Yuanyan to go to Yangxin to receive the vassal; while Lin Fu intends to ask the eldest daughter, Zhengjun, to go to Jeju to become a vassal in the future.

Gu Junxun listened to the words, came over quickly, and said, "Following Jeju is also a blessing that the monarch cannot afford; last time, it was fortunate that Yingxiu and Su Mei explained the matter clearly, otherwise the princes thought it was a concubine. What kind of wishful thinking - don't make any waves this time!"

Gu Siyuan was also surprised. Although UU Reading www.uukanshu.com said last time that he wanted to establish the ruler as the heir, it was Lin Fu who bargained with the people of the Lin family, and took the opportunity to set up a government meeting. You ask for a reward from Jeju Jun, but it doesn't seem like a joke to scare them.

Lin Fu asked Gu Tianqiao to go to Jeju first. To put it bluntly, he wanted Gu Tianqiao to lay a solid foundation in Jeju before the political ruler came of age, so that the political ruler could become a clan in the future. If you didn't want to hand over the land of Jeju to the ruler, there would be no need to bother.

Lin Fu said: "This matter has been discussed with Zongting and Duke Song. After all, Jeju is adjacent to Goryeo and Fusang, and it is impossible for the center to maintain so many military equipment in Jeju for many years, and the military and government cannot be controlled by Dufu for a long time. Therefore, it is necessary to set up vassals and vassals to realize the unity of the people. However, in the future, the governors and officials will still be appointed by the central government. However, Jeju is very close to Jiangning. When you become an adult, you will live in Jeju for a long time..."

Gu Siyuan had a little understanding and knew that Lin Fu did have the ambition to establish a new dynasty, and entrusting the eldest daughter to the government of Jeju was a strategy for governing overseas enclaves in the future.

Overseas enclaves are far away from the hub, especially during the storm season, when the East China Sea and the South China Sea will be cut off for three to four months, making it difficult for the hub to effectively control the overseas enclaves. To set up a vassal to govern an overseas enclave, the vassal town must have certain governance power over the locality, and even a certain military power, in order to suppress the local coveted heart. However, Jeju is also not too far from Jiangning. Fengzi controls the real domain in Jeju, and maybe there will be some damage to the center. Conferring the eldest daughter's political monarch as a vassal in Jeju can not only strengthen the control of Jeju, but the eldest daughter and her heirs, the damage to the center is very limited, but it is a compromise that can be accepted. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter