The weather in Luzon is quite hot. Even in October, the Central Plains is already very cold. However, the daytime in Luzon is still like June, and it is only a little cooler at night.

It was lightly dawn and Zhang Chao had already gotten up.

There is only one Yacheng in Luzon now. Zhang Chao did not live in Yacheng, but built another small fort by the sea, built on a hill and condescending to the heights.

The castle is not big, and it is called the Luzon Palace by the military and civilians of Luzon. In fact, it is just a small fort with a circumference of only a few miles apart.

Get up, practice guns and arrows, then ride horses along the beach for a while, then go into the sea to swim and swim.

After returning from horseback, the dock by the Luzon River was already busy. The ships were moored at the dock on the river bank, and a group of indigenous laborers were unloading various cargoes from the ship.

Because the first batch of crops in Luzon had been harvested, the demand for food was greatly reduced. There was no need to transport grain from Liuqiu and Qinzhou and other places, which also reduced a lot of transportation pressure, and the ship could only transport more materials and tools.

Near the pier, rows of warehouses.

Not far away, there are many wooden houses. The rows of wooden houses are well planned. These wooden houses are relatively low, but the plan is neat, with drainage ditches, toilets, and even special places for bathing, as well as wells. In addition, there are Confucian Temple and schools.

At first glance, it seems to be a very good residential area.

In fact, this is just a living area for slaves.

Luzon City now has half of its population and is a slave.

But these slaves were not too miserable. They lived in this unified shed, each family had one. They worked every morning to do the assigned work, and came back in the evening. Their children were entrusted to the school.

The slaves had ten households, one card, one card, and one card, one card, and one card. The baojia joint position system was implemented, and they supervised each other. One person escaped and the whole family was held together. One family escaped and the whole card was held together. The parents of each ten households took turns to be the card leader, and each ten card leader took turns to be the card leader.

On the one hand, we are strict in managing and co-selected, and on the other hand, we are given basic treatment.

If you have food and a house, you won’t be beaten and scolded at will, and you can even enjoy a day of rest a week. However, for the escaped slaves, they are sent directly to the mine camp, and life is not so easy there.

In the slave camp in the mine, the labor force is extremely heavy, there is no rest, and there is even no wages, so even the family cannot be together.

Once you escape from the mine camp, you will be whipped if you catch it. If you catch it the second time, you will be executed directly.

In this case, these slaves in Luzon were quite obedient.

The indigenous people who surrendered to Luzon lived on the other end, and they were relatively free. The villages of these people were still preserved. They came here and only came to serve labor and went home after serving. Therefore, the houses here were only considered as their dormitory for building Luzon City, most of which were a room for several people.

Further north, there is the residential area of ​​Shanyi that migrated.

These Shanyi are regarded as more reliable, and many of them have been withheld for many years. Therefore, they have higher degrees of freedom, larger houses, and a small courtyard. Their work and salary are higher.

The best houses to live in are the Han people who moved from Central Plains and Liuqiu.

They live in the kind of courtyard houses, arranged neatly, like a townhouse. The place they live in is actually a planned urban area.

It’s just that the city wall has not been built yet.

Zhang Chao believed that Luzon did not have any powerful external threats for the time being, so he did not rush to build the city wall, but just planned to leave a seat.

The residential area of ​​the Han people is located in the east, south and west of the city, with a sea and river on one side, and there are docks on both sides, so the plan is mainly a commercial area. The Zhongcheng District is a school, etc., and the Yacheng City is located in the north of the city, which is considered an administrative center.

Although the city wall has not been built yet, the streets have been planned early. Four streets divide the city of Luzon into nine districts and also give Luzon eight gates.

In each district, there are four avenues divided.

Such a plan makes Luzon look particularly smooth.

At present, houses have begun to be built on the four main streets. The front row of shops are all on the streets, which have been sold and rented out while building.

It has taken shape.

Luzon City is actually more lively than the palace city on Zhang Chao Mountain, and he also likes it here. After exercising every morning, he will come here to have breakfast.

This breakfast shop that I often come to has no signature, and it is not even run in the store, but a stall on the street.

Luzon has no urban management, and no one cares about such a road-occupying business now. After all, this place is a big construction site.

Because her meals are good, many Han people eat breakfast here, which people are used to calling it Song Sao's breakfast shop. There are all kinds of pasta, porridge and rice here.

Zhang Chao prefers her seafood porridge, which tastes very fresh.

Near Luzon Bay, the seafood here is extremely cheap. A bowl of seafood porridge with prawns and shells costs only one cent. This bowl is very rich, and it is all big bowls, and the porridge is not rare. Anyway, even if Zhang Chao comes to exercise every morning, he will only eat two bowls to be full.

There are also big steamed buns and big buns in her house. One steamed bun is bigger than a fist. One meat bun is three-in-one, but it contains a lot of meat.

Mrs. Song's breakfast business is very good, and she even hired more than a dozen people to help her. She started making breakfast in the middle of the night and did not collect until half of the morning. She was not open at noon and afternoon, but in the evening, she started setting up stalls to make dinner and midnight snacks.

People who are busy all day, come to this stall to have dinner and chat with the sea breeze at night, which is really refreshing.

It is said that Mrs. Song is the family member of a Luzon non-commissioned officer. She originally just said that she had nothing to do and then set up a stall. Who would have thought that it was so popular that she earned more money every month than her non-commissioned officer husband.

Zhang Chao is a regular visitor here. He brought a few guards over here. Sister Song smiled and greeted her, without any special respect.

Everyone is used to this king being kind and amiable. He never puts on airs and can chat with anyone. "Seafood porridge!"

The other guards called their favorites, those from the north called buns and steamed buns, those from Guanzhong called noodles, and those from the south called rice noodles.

There was no clearance or protection, so everyone sat on the side of the road casually.

This street is full of houses and shops that are still under construction. There are no trees on the roadside, and there are no stone slabs on the road. It looks messy and dirty, gray, and it rains and muddy everywhere.

But the prototype of the entire city street has gradually emerged and is being improved day by day.

After breakfast and paying, Zhang Chao and his party rode their horses to Yacheng in the north of the city first.

The north of the city is the first place to be built now.

Near the Confucian Temple, all the yamen were first established and operated.

The State Council, the Judicial Court, the Military Affairs Council, and various yamen below, such as the Army Yamen, Navy Yamen, Supervision Department, Police Department, Court, Taxation Bureau, Commerce Bureau, Audit Bureau, Transportation Bureau, Agriculture Bureau, Education Bureau, Finance Bureau, Health Bureau, Finance Bureau, etc., there are really many yamen.

This street is therefore called Yaqian Street.

The second batch of Yaqian Street was built include many large commercial banks such as the House of Representatives, Chamber of Commerce, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and many guild halls.

The organizations of government agencies at all levels are being improved, and officials at all levels are also taking office.

The Secretary of State was Zhang Xingcheng, the former censor of the Palace, who was the former court. Zhang Xingcheng studied under the famous Hejian scholar Liu Xuan in his early years and was elected as a filial and honest person at the end of the Sui Dynasty. He served as the Sancong Yuanwailang in the Jewishi Terrace. After the fall of the Sui Dynasty, he served in the Zheng State established by Wang Shichong and was appointed as the Minister of the Duzhi.

Later, he was awarded the title of Shugu County Magistrate, and was changed to the title of Chencang County Magistrate because he passed the imperial examination. The chief examiner of that subject was Zhang Chao.

During the years of the Wude Dynasty, he had been serving in the local area. At the beginning of Zhenguan, he was transferred to the court and entered the Censorate to serve as the attendant of the palace. Because of his strict execution, he offended the powerful.

It was designed to be framed, but Zhang Chao found out his innocence.

Later, he was disheartened and went to the Imperial College to teach.

After that, Zhang Chao asked him to come out of the mountain and go to Liuke to help manage affairs. He had made great achievements in Liuke for several years. This time Zhang Chao came to Luzon and invited him over.

As the head of all officials in the Luzon country, the Secretary of State is equivalent to the Prime Minister of the Cabinet in the court. Zhang Chao also trusts him with this important task.

Zhang Xingcheng, who is already 60 years old, was the chief examiner of the imperial examination, so he always respected Zhang Chao as his teacher. This is also the unspoken rule formed since the imperial examination. Regardless of age, the same subject will be passed in the same year. The chief examiner is a teacher, and the candidate calls himself a disciple. If he fails, he is not qualified to be a disciple.

The Secretary of Internal Affairs is Fan Lubing.

Fan was the first magistrate of Penghu County and was later promoted to Liuqiu Governor. He and Zhang Xingcheng were the same Jinshi, and were considered to be the same year. He was also a disciple of Zhang Chao. He served in Liuqiu for many years, but now he has abandoned his public office and has come to Luzon. He was appointed as Secretary of Internal Affairs by Zhang Chao.

In history, both of them finally became prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty. Zhang was the prime minister of Emperor Gaozong, and Fan was the prime minister of the Wu Zetian period.

Although Luzon is small, it is now fully equipped with all internal organs.

All government offices, all major affairs, are almost all divided into internal and external affairs by these two.

"Will the king really not come to Beijing to celebrate this year?"

As soon as he entered the congress hall, Zhang Xingcheng asked.

"It takes too much time to come and return, so I won't go to Beijing this year."

"Will there be anything to do with the imperial court?"

"It's okay, many people wish I wouldn't go to Beijing, and even hope that I would die in Luzon Island in this life and not go out." Zhang Chao said with a smile.

"Who will the Chaoge sent to you this year? What local tributes are you going to send?"

"You two must not go there. There are so many things here that cannot be separated from you. Just send someone to it. As for local tribute, just give some coconut candy, banana slices, spices, and Luzon rice. Add two pieces of dog-head gold and one hundred kilograms of gold sand."

It’s not that Zhang Chao doesn’t return to Beijing, but that he really doesn’t have time, but that he wants to calm down his relationship with Cheng Qian. He hopes that he will not be in Beijing, so that Cheng Qian will feel less pressure and then be able to think seriously.

No matter what, Chengqian was the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!