Chapter 418 The Way of Change(1/2)
Lu Wenluo toured various places in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xinghua Army and Jianzhou, and only took less than five days.
Lin Douyao personally met him, with a very high etiquette. He set off a cannon and opened the middle door. Although he was a entourage, it was still very rare to use such etiquette to welcome a group of soldiers.
Lu Wenluo was very calm.
If the pacifiers who were all the way to meet him in person, ordered Lu Wenluo to be exempted from courtesy and join hands to enter the government office, Lu Wenluo would be so scared that he fainted and would never forget such a scene in his life.
At this moment, I was just a little excited and proud of being a member of the Nan'an Prefecture Army.
Of course, I am even more proud of you.
Because Lu Wenluo knew very well that all the courtesy and everything at present was because the Nan'an Hou Mansion defeated tens of thousands of pirates in a dignified manner, destroyed their fleet, and captured a large number of ships.
The power of Nan'an Marquis' Mansion has overwhelmed and crushed the forces of all sizes on Fujian Road. This is the fundamental reason why Lu Bu was welcomed with super high etiquette.
From Quanzhou, it was unsparkled, then it went to Xinghua Army, and then returned to the Fuzhou port to board the ship. At this time, there were quite a few ships on the sea. Many merchant ships who took refuge continued their journey. The hard sails of the Fuzhou ship, the soft sails of the Persian ship, that is, the Tianfang ship, were all open, and the sea was calm. In summer, it was a season of frequent typhoons, but there were no strong winds recently, so the merchant ships quickly set sail, hoping to drive back the time they had been delayed during the shelter.
Fishermen have more boats. Most of their boats are sailing and oars, or they may be equipped with oars. Most of these boats are fishing several miles off the sea, and some boats travel dozens of miles away, even to Penghu, where there are more fish and easier to catch.
Although the fish industry is rich in resources in this era, there are many fishermen in the offshore areas, and the competition is fierce. In addition, the methods and methods of fishing are of course far less than those of later generations. The good things that are like the radars that are opened and trawling and trawling to get are not present in this era.
Fishermen need to judge, observe, and then go down the net. Sometimes they gain a lot, and sometimes they get nothing.
Lu Wenluo found a small fishing boat with a single sail on the shore, with five or six fishermen on it. He gave five stagnant of money and asked these people to send him to the Dongfan.
However, the boat boss refused the generous price and was only willing to collect three guan and was satisfied. These fishermen naturally recognized the Lubu envoy and were full of awe of Lu Wenluo.
"To be honest," said the boss of the boat: "If I hadn't been fishing for many days, I wouldn't be able to lift the rice at home, I wouldn't be able to take a penny. I killed more than 20,000 pirates in the Dongfan, and calmed my Fujian roads and seas, so that everyone could continue to trade. How kind of kindness would I not be grateful? If I don't know how grateful, would I still be an individual? I just have no choice but to collect three stagnant money, wait for a month, and be able to sell the fish for money, it would be enough."
Lu Wenluo couldn't do it either. He encountered too many such things along the way.
Restaurants do not charge money, restaurants do not charge money. If you buy some small things and go back to the Dongfan, you will not charge money.
He detoured by his home outside Nan'an Town, and the whole village was sensational. Thousands of people cheered and bowed on both sides of the road, cheering for Lubu who went out of the Lujia Village. On the spot, hundreds of strong men expressed their desire to follow Lu Wenluo back to the Dongfan to join the army. The elders also begged, and Lu Wenluo's glory moved countless poor families.
You should know that before this, Lu Wenluo was just an ordinary farmer, but now his heroic posture and majesty as he walked with Lu Bu were enough to make these ordinary people admire him.
More families expressed their willingness to move to the Dongfan. After this war, the Dongfan felt that the security was still above Fuzhou. With such a strong army and fleet stationed, people were originally very moved and wanted to go to the Dongfan to serve as an official household for the Nan'an Hou and open enough fertile land. Fujianese are not afraid of going to sea, venturing, or leaving their hometowns. Now the Dongfan is attractive enough. A large number of poor families are willing to leave, and local governments will not come forward to stop them. Even pure warriors like Lu Wenluo felt that the Dongfan will usher in a period of rapid development.
Lu Wenluo felt deeply what the honor of a soldier is and what glory is, everything he experienced is.
Because he was favored, trusted, and even felt the admiration of many young ladies, Lu Wenluo even went to the tavern less. One was afraid that drinking would miss the business, and the other was that he was afraid that it would damage the image of the Dongfan soldiers. As for the gambling house, Lu Wenluo was heartbroken when he passed by. Originally, he wanted to use this business to secretly gamble for a few games, but he could imagine that kind of scene. When he tied up a horse in the gambling house, a group of gamblers cheered at him and gave him chips for free, and everyone would fight to lose to him on purpose. This method of gambling is better than not to gamble.
Now, on the shaking fishing boat, Lu Wenluo felt this profound change again. He stayed for a while, and there was a look of disbelief on his face full of hair. After a while, he told the boat owner: "We are just on orders, and everything is the merit of the Marquis of Nan'an."
"Of course, of course!" Everyone on the boat said: "Now, who doesn't know that Nan'an Hou is the stars from the sky to protect my safety on Fujian Road!"
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Lu Wenluo's boat set off in the morning and reached the bank of Huaxi when the sun was high in the afternoon.
Everything in the port is as old as before, and the original long tower has been filled. In a few days, it seems that the previous long tower, horse-resistance, deer antlers, and arrow towers have never existed.
It was still a long embankment, lighthouse, trestle, warehouse, and brick and stone buildings as usual, but when you were docking, you could clearly see some arrow holes and guns inserted into the building, and it was not time to take them down.
In addition, the remains of the war are the wreckage on the sea. There are already paddle boats dragging the floating wrecks and dragging the wrecks to the north shipyard. The rigging, iron tools, sails, and wood on these ships can be used. The cost of restoring the entire ship is too high and not worth it. However, if there are some wrecks that are not damaged too seriously, they can be used by the craftsmen in the shipyard to practice their hands.
A large number of small boats of pearl pickers were still active, with many items piled up on the brick and stone embankment on the shore, and many officials were standing on the shore, as if they were counting the items they had caught.
The water quality of the pearl pickers is very outstanding. Even locals in Fujian have to admire these people. They stand at the bow of the boat, jump into the sea without hesitation, swim under the water like big fish, and then gradually dive into the deep water.
Ordinary people cannot sink, unless they pick up an iron anchor or a huge rock on their ankles.
Lu Wenluo stared at the pearl-picking people. These people jumped down and floated up from time to time. Some people were holding objects in their hands, and most of them were empty-handed.
It has been salvaged here for three days, and it is estimated that all the fish can be recovered have been recovered. Many pearl pickers swam around the bottom of the water to help the oars tie up the wreck and drag the wreck away from the sea. They have little work left.
All the pearl pickers had no frustration or anxiety about having to finish their work. They were very happy and active. Lu Wenluo knew that Junhou had promised to recruit these people as sailors, or to go ashore to farm, or do anything in the Dongfan. The treatment would definitely not be as profitable as the pearl pickers, but they did not have to bear the risk of drowning at the bottom of the water at any time, nor would they die early. These pearl pickers had already seen the life of the Dongfan, and they were of course very happy.
The Dongfan lacks manpower, even fishermen are short. If all of these people are fishing in the lower reaches of Nan'an River or Huaxi River in small boats, it will also be a supplement to the source of meat on the island.
Even sheep, cattle, and ducks are needed to sheep, and to lay ducks.
The boat did not reach the pier and directly docked on the shore. Lu Wenluo paid the money and held a long pole in his hand and jumped directly from the bow of the ship to the dock of the stone foundation.
Everyone saw Lu Bu Envoy, and Xu Zixian was at the dock, and everyone led Lu Wenluo to Xu Zixian.
"I've met the Lord."
"No gift." Xu Zixian's body has completely recovered. He is in a good mood, his face is full of smiles, and the people around him have almost the same expression. Everyone has a relaxed and comfortable look on their faces.
There are piles of things fished out of the sea water on the dock, and some antiques from overseas are not very attractive. Some collectors who collect overseas treasures in the Wei Dynasty may be interested in this. They don’t know how much these antiques can be sold, and Kong He has some headaches and don’t know how to enter the account.
In addition, there are bronzes, armors, weapons, and these materials, especially those strong armor, which are quite popular.
The armor and mail were neatly arranged. After counting, someone had already wiped the sea water from the beef tendon, and then applied oil after drying it. He put it in the arsenal and waited for distribution to the soldiers of each battalion.
The Nan'an Prefecture Army was seriously lacking in armor. This time, if the pirates were equipped with hundreds of armor and mail before the war, the casualties of the soldiers would be greatly reduced.
Since it is obvious that the income of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion will increase a lot in the future, Xu Zixian has decided to equip each soldier with better scale armor. It is very good to tamp the armor, and it is relatively easy to forge and penetrate the bundle, but the gap is large and the weight is the same as the scale armor, so the protection ability is far less than that of the scale armor.
Each soldier wears iron armor, horns, necklines, arm guards, heart guards, shin guards, mesh boots and iron gloves, which are the most standard outfits of heavy infantrymen.
Every knife player and long-slinger will be armed like this, and the cavalry will mainly use breastplate, strengthening protection while trying to be lighter.
Archers and crossbowmen mainly use armor and mail. They generally do not fight in battle and do not need to wear too thick armor, which will affect the movement of opening the bow and shooting.
The piles of armor attracted everyone's attention. As for the silk, gold and silver, jewelry, and copper coins on the ground, not many people paid attention to it.
Of course, these things were entered into the Nan'an Prefecture Treasury, and then paid military salaries, made armor, bows, crossbows, and ships. Everyone understood this. The Nan'an Hou Mansion had been as fair as possible. The soldiers knew that they would serve the Nan'an Hou Mansion. The land, official households, fleets, and even every citizen, official, and soldiers belonged to the Nan'an Hou Mansion.
The land reclaimed by everyone was not considered public land, but from the court's law, their land income was actually part of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion.
From soldiers to officials, and then to the people, everyone knows that the king will exchange all the gold, silver and copper coins for the materials needed on the island, such as more oxen, horses, sheep, chickens, pigs, various tools, and farm tools, and hire more craftsmen to build more houses.
Junhou’s residence was built by his future father-in-law, but he himself was reluctant to spend money to build such a magnificent residence.
On the island, everyone knew that Nan'an Hou would spend every penny in the place where he should be used. Although he did not have coarse clothes and food, he never squandered and wasted.
The extravagant life of the great merchants and nobles in Fuzhou Prefecture would never have appeared at the Dongfan at this time.
The situation of unity on Dongfan Island is of course closely related to Xu Zixian's advocacy. From the frugal servants and simplicity of the top and bottom, the efficiency of the officials, the courage to fight for the soldiers, and the hard work of the people, the hard work of the people, the overall advocacy, and this is also the best situation when the group was first established.
Xu Zixian asked Lu Wenluo with a smile: "Why are the important things for the compassion envoy Lin?"
"The handsome minister said nothing." Lu Wenluo thought for a while and said, "It's cloudy and foggy. I haven't thought of a word of honesty now."
Xu Zi first looked at the people around him, including Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian, Fang Shaoqun, Chen Zuocai, Qin Dongyang and others, and smiled on their faces.
Last night, Xu Zixian held a military and political meeting in the Houfu Villa's villa, of course, to discuss the situation on Fujian Road in the future.
Everyone had different opinions. Li Yi, Kong He and others, including Qin Dongyang of the military, were all polite and believed that they should continue to develop in the Dongfan, do their job well, slowly observe the situation on the Wei side, and then take the opportunity to enter Fujian Road, consolidate the foundation and then seek development.
Some people, such as Fang Shaoqun, Chen Daojian, Liu Yi and others in the military, mainly young generals who were born in young generals, and believed that the opportunity was not to be missed. Now the reputation of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion on Fujian Road is at its peak. If the Changwen Marquis Mansion is used to open up the situation and capture a certain mansion, such as Zhangzhou, there will be a stronger foundation in Nan'an Marquis Mansion, grab the territory, appoint their own generals of the Xiang army, eliminate the old Xiang army, and bring the army to Zhangzhou to completely control the situation in Zhangzhou.
Appoint officials who are close to the Nan'an Marquis Mansion to control local wealth, move Zhangzhou's manpower to the Dongfan, reduce local pressure, and reduce the number of labor taxes that are as numerous as ox-haired, and the entire Zhangzhou will completely fall into the control of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion within half a year.
If Lin Douyao cooperates, then the two sides can cooperate. If Lin Douyao does not want to cooperate, he can first use this war to buy more censors in the capital and concentrate firepower to impeach Lin Douyao. Especially the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion takes the lead, stripping off the local military merits this time from Lin Douyao and impeaching them will make the appeaser unable to rest in his position and will soon have to be removed from office.
Once a new appeasement envoy is replaced, the court will find that it is more difficult for the new appeasement envoy to control the place, and will face more troubles and blame, and then have to change another one.
From Zhangzhou to Xinghua Army, and then to Tingzhou and Shaowu Army, it is likely that within a few years, the Nan'an Marquis Mansion will be able to completely control all the prefectures outside Fuzhou City.
At that time, even if King Zhao and the Pacifier could control Fuzhou, what's the point?
There are more than one million overseas immigrants in dozens of prefectures and counties on Fujian Road, and many large merchants who are rich enough to rival the country. There are hundreds or thousands of sea ships in the port of Quanzhou at any time, providing tens of millions of taxes to the court every year.
Such a place was included in the control, which means that the Nan'an Marquis Mansion not only had the power to protect itself in troubled times, but also had the power to strive for hegemony.
Of course, no one would say the later thoughts. People can see that the court will be in more trouble in the future and may enter a chaotic world, but now there are only some clues that cannot be confirmed and cannot be used as evidence.
However, the judgment of Lin Douyao is correct. This old bureaucrat has fallen into a distracted chaos when he encounters the current situation.
Lin Douyao didn't know how to deal with the next trouble, or there was no conclusion. Of course, he could only be vague about the people sent by the Nan'an Marquis Mansion and would not have any real statement.
Sometimes, a sentence or two, or a letter can solve many problems and troubles.
"How is Fuzhou City?"
"The Yang Dafu and Zheng Ti Zheng Zheng's envoy received their subordinates." Lu Wenluo said happily: "The people in the city are extremely happy. They all praise Junhou, the Grand Duke, and Ti Zheng. They are the same. They all praise Junhou as the Dinghai Sword of Fujian Road."
"These two adults have been regarded as a kindness to me."
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In fact, Ricci gradually got closer to Xu Zi because of King Qi. At first, he still supported him, but later he coexisted, and now he already has the meaning of dependence.
As for Yang Shiwei, of course, this Fuzhou mansion will not rely on his own. He only works with public intentions and is old and obviously can't do it for too long.
"Did King Zhao see you?"
"No, no one has come forward at the Grand Governor's Office." Lu Wenluo said: "I want to ridicule them, but unfortunately I don't have this opportunity."
Xu Zixian sneered and said to everyone: "If Uncle Wang could see Lu Bu's envoy, I could still look up to him. I could win or lose, so I would be considered a good man."
Without saying a word, Fang Shaoqun chuckled and said, "It can be regarded as a father-son relationship."
This is to ridicule the emperor with the same temper. He is impatient and has a thin face. He does not take on the burden. He will rob him if he has made mistakes. He will blame him if he has made mistakes. The father and son of King Zhao are really carved from the same mold.
"What's the situation in Jianzhou?"
"It's even worse." Lu Wenluo said in a deep voice: "From Nan'an, Shuikou, Gukou, all the way, passing through the county town to the capital city, there were many hungry people and refugees, miners were displaced, and there were groups of idle people everywhere. The group training was alive, and checkpoints were set up everywhere, waiting for Ruoming to grab them. The mines stopped, factories everywhere were also stopped, business closed, shopkeepers and friends were idle. Jianzhou was not like this a year ago. In less than a year, it had become a ghost on earth."
The Kong He family was originally moved to Shuikou by Jianzhou. He heard this and said angrily: "What exactly should Wang Yue do? What is the benefit of him if he keeps making trouble like this?"
To be continued...