Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1435 Dianyue Donghui
In recent years, Tang merchants have scoured a large amount of gold, silver and precious metals from various countries. Even copper and iron materials have become more popular exchange items for Tang merchants. The outflow has been serious, and even the copper, iron, fur, etc. are almost tossed.

This has led to all countries wanting Tang goods, but they can't come up with exchange items.

"Copper and iron materials, fur medicinal materials and dyes, cotton and linen materials, and slaves can all be exchanged for trade. We can always find what we need, but they can pay for it."

Qin Lang's answer to the question raised by the chief manager was very straightforward. If there is no gold and silver, then use raw materials. If there are insufficient raw materials, slaves are fine.

Anyway, Luzon is short of all kinds of raw materials, and even more short of slaves. Compared with all kinds of raw materials and slaves, Qin Lang doesn't like gold and silver settlements much.

However, there is no shortage of money in the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, but the practice of the court is not to trade directly with gold, silver or copper coins, but to barter, export for import, and various handmade goods. Lang is also acceptable.

For example, silk embroidery from Suzhou and Hangzhou, even ironware from Foshan, Guangzhou, and some high-end military equipment are all good things. After the Qin family trades them, they can be sold to Southeast Asian countries, or even Western countries. And make a lot of money.

Even some for Luzon's own use can satisfy the consumption of Luzon's high-end market.

"I heard that the imperial court has begun to plant pepper, cinnamon and many other spices in Hainan Island, Sanjiang, Lishui, and Yunnan and Vietnam."

Qin Lang didn't care when he heard this. Since spices are so profitable, and some places in the southwestern part of Datang have the conditions to grow them, how could they let such a good thing go.

Even Qin Lang knew that growing tea and pepper in Luzon, there were more smart people in the imperial court, and there were many powerful and powerful families, so planting spices was a matter of time.

Qin Lang also doesn't have the ability to stop others, so he doesn't worry about it. Besides, it will take time for them to form an industrial scale. Even if the scale increases by then, the South China Sea Spice Alliance headed by the Qin family has a lot of advantages. Qin Lang has now built a good moat with low prices.

The local spice planting in Datang may not have too much impact on them. At worst, the price will be lowered when the competition becomes stronger.

Xu Jingzong smiled and said, "Sanlang previously arranged for Qin Qilang to go to southern Tibet to serve as the deputy envoy of the Yunnan and Yue Jiedu and the military envoy of Donghui Town. It seems that he came prepared."

The Dianyue Jiedushi is the land of the Little Brahman, Daqin Brahman, Arakan, and part of the land in East Tianzhu that the original king Xuance crossed the Daheishan (Naga Mountains) to conquer. From the historical records of the Han Dynasty.

At that time, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty wanted to open a southwest passage from Shu to Shendu, that is, Tianzhu. Later, he was blocked by Kunming Man in the area of ​​Erhai Lake, but he failed in the end. But at that time, the Han Dynasty heard that Kunming Man was not far to the southwest. A country that rides elephants is called Dianyue, so records are left.

After the establishment of the Dianyue Jiedushi, it became a military town in the southwestern part of the imperial court. From the southern foot of the Himalayas to the vast land east of the Ganges River in the Bay of Bengal and west of the Naga Mountains, it was under the command of this military town. It is connected to Xichang Road in the north and Lishui Road in the east.

After Wang Xuance returned to the imperial court and became the Shufu, Qin Lang personally appointed the first governor of Dianyue Township. He recommended Li Fengjie, the son of old man Li Daliang, to the imperial court to go out of Dianyue Township.

Li Daliang is the prime minister of Zhenguan. Back then, he and Qin Lang traveled from Fengzhou to Jiaozhou, and finally to the court, and they worked together very well. Although his son Li Fengjie was worse than his father, after all, he was a young general with good basic qualities. He was supported by Qin Lang. , also achieved the rank of general of the third rank, and no one objected to his transfer to Yunnan and Vietnam as the first Jiedu envoy. After all, the situation there was much better than that in the Western Regions.

The core of Dianyue Town is the later Bengal Plains, a seaside fishing village in the former Arakan Kingdom. Under the construction of Qin Lang, it was standardized as a large port in Dianyue, and finally named New Fuzhou, where Donghuijun Town was established.

After several years of suggestions, Donghui Port has become very lively. It has not only become the military and economic center of the Dianyue Road, but also an important port for maritime trade. Especially the Qin family invested a lot here, and Qin Lang also sent several The children and grandchildren came to guard.

In the end, he sent his seventh younger brother Qin Yandao to Donghui Port. After staying in Donghui Port for three years, now Li Fengzhang is going to the court to ask for credit for Qin Yandao. Promoted Qin Yandao to Wu Guogong, Deputy Envoy of Dianyue Dao Jiedu, Military Envoy of Donghui Town and New Governor of Fuzhou.

Qin Yandao married the daughter of the late Duke of E, Chi Baolin, and she still has some abilities, but there are no major enemies in Yunnan and Vietnam, and the southern and eastern Indians across the Ganges River are all ruled by warlords, and the situation is in a chaotic war. , I can't take care of myself, but the three destroyed countries, Arakan, Little Brahman, and Great Qin Brahmin, were able to settle down in the Tianzhu War in the past.

But when Datang came over from the east to attack the natural danger of Dahei Mountain, they could only raise their hands and surrender. After several years of rule, the natives of Dianyue Dao are basically quite honest now, and dishonest tribes are all suppressed by Dianyue. The Vietnamese army wiped it all out, directly captured people as slaves, and burned the village.

Those who are honest and attached are more polite for the time being, just asking for registration of households for all the people, service and tax payment, and children going to school.

Both Li Fengjie and Qin Yandao are the sons of generals, and they have both abilities, but they are not as fierce as Qin Juncheng and Cheng Chumo, so guarding Yunnan and Yue, they are not as powerful as the Western Regions, and they behave more conservatively.

Even Li Fengjie, the Jiedu envoy, was very keen on enclosing land in Yunnan and Vietnam, busying himself with cotton, jute, sugar cane plantations, and even now started planting pepper and other spices. The military strength of the Yunnan and Vietnam Army was only more than 2 , But he actually came up with a 10-strong Tuntian Army, all of which were composed of tribal Fans conscripted, plus the children of the Yunnan-Vietnam Army as the managers of the Tuntian Army, and there are military settlements everywhere.

The produced jute, cotton, sucrose, etc. are conveniently transported to Donghui Port, and then sold to Qin Lang’s descendants in Donghui Port through Qin Yandao’s relationship, and then transported back to Luzon by sea ship for processing.

The 10-strong Fanren Tuntian Legion is actually like tenants of the Yunnan-Vietnamese Army. They specialize in farming. Li Fengjie gave them a share, which is no different from renting out tenants. The difference is militarized management, even enclosing the land by the Yunnan-Vietnam Army , Provide seeds, animal power, purchase output, etc.

It's doing quite well.

Occasionally, the Yunnan-Vietnam Army went into the mountains to deal with some disobedient barbarians, that is, legal robbery and slave capture. Some of the captured slaves were sent to the army, and some were auctioned off in Donghui Port.

With this set of actions, Li Fengjie also realized the self-sufficiency of the Yunnan-Vietnam Army. They did not need the imperial government to allocate funds to support the army. They could also pay the surplus tax to the imperial court every year and pay tribute to the emperor.

The Dianyue army also distributed bonuses and benefits to themselves every year. They lived a very chic life. Not only did they enclose a lot of fields, but they also distributed slaves. The families of the soldiers settled in Dianyue and became owners of slave manors.Even some of the early local chiefs who knew the current affairs and attached themselves now lived a very chic life. They also planted sugarcane, cotton, and jute.

With good output and sales channels, the income of the local chieftains has increased greatly, and the prosperity of Donghui Port has brought a large number of Tang goods, which are much cheaper than in the past.

After all, although it used to be the Silk Road of the poisonous road in Shu, there was only the dangerous tea-horse road, and the goods were transported by ponies, donkeys and mules in Shu, or carried by people on their shoulders. The goods were transported from Bashu and other places. It has increased a lot, and the supply is not enough, resulting in less goods and higher prices.

But now a large amount of goods are transported by sea to Donghui Port, and then transported along the river to the inland. The price is much cheaper than in the past, and the chieftains have also upgraded their consumption.

The way of life of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty has even become popular, drinking morning tea, playing polo and hunting, and even holding poems, songs, tea parties and tea parties.

In Donghui Port, there are children of Hu chieftains all over the place. They are sent to study on their own initiative. In fact, they are used as protons. Go back, they are not willing to go back.

So in the past few years, there have been more and more fans in Donghui Port, and even many chiefs have come to buy houses and houses, and go shopping here.

Li Fengjie has to be said to be a talent, but his ability to fight is average.

However, he led the Yunnan-Vietnam Army to a different development principle. Although the Yunnan-Vietnam Road is like an overseas enclave, it has a good climate, fertile land, and excellent coastal deltas and large alluvial plains. It is very fertile, even in the mountains to the east, there are many valleys in the mountains.

Not to mention, it is connected to Xichang and Tubo in the north, and can also be connected to Niboluo. It is connected to Lishui and Sanjiang in the east, and can lead to Jiannan and Central Guizhou. As the passage to the sea for these two inland areas, it itself is Has a strong trade attribute.

But in the east, Tianzhu split into civil wars, and they didn't have time to pay attention to the Tang Dynasty. They even rushed to trade with the Yunnan-Vietnam Army. The Dianyue Army sold their frosting sugar, jute, etc. to the Dianyue Army.

Dianyue has the potential to become a regional center, especially Donghui Port, which is developing very rapidly. It is connected to the coastal ports of Lishui Road in the east, the major cities of Tianzhu in the middle and upper reaches of the Ganges River in the west, and the lion country, a major maritime trade country in the southwest. Donghui is developing rapidly. It became an important port for east-west maritime trade, and Li Fengjie devoted himself to making money, which was very successful.

He made a lot of money by himself, and more than 2 Yunnan-Vietnamese troops also followed suit. Even his family members became landlords and small wealthy owners of manors, and they could also have a good prestige among the barbarian tribes who conquered the Three Kingdoms. Everyone was willing to worship him.

This method of subjugating soldiers without fighting is indeed rare today. Compared with Qin Jun and his three towns in the Western Regions, they killed at least 20 rebellious Western Turkic Sogdians in the Western Regions, and captured several dozen Li Fengjie, who had never fought a war with tens of thousands of people as captives, was a wonder.

At least Wu Shisheng, the Lishui Jiedu envoy of Lishui Road on the east side of the Great Black Mountain, controls a larger territory than Li Fengjie, occupies a better geographical location than Li Fengjie, and has more than 3 troops under his command, which is stronger than Li Fengjie. .

But Wu Shisheng was guarding Lishui, and the development of the original Piao country was not as good as that of Li Fengjie. Not to mention that the tribes in the mountainous areas have not yet been conquered, even in several large river valleys and coastal plains, people rebelled from time to time. Haikou has never been peaceful.

(End of this chapter)