Chapter 736: Enfeoffing the Wu Family (Thanks to jly69)
After having a light meal at Li Jing's house, I agreed with Li Deji to go to Lingnan together.
Li Dejiang is very willing to go to Lingnan. Now that he has left Liumenmen and has a casual job in Beijing, he is so idle that it hurts.
He didn't ask for any good errands to go to Lingnan, and Wu Huaiyu arranged it as he pleased. The main reason was that he wanted to go to Lingnan to join in the fun.
Wu Huaiyu returned home and had dinner with his wives and concubines in the evening. Looking at his children, he smiled and said, "I am going to Lingnan this time. I plan to buy some property in Lingnan."
"You can arrange this Alang." Fan Xuanfu didn't care about this. People in her hometown of Jingxiang and Anlu were called barbarians. What's there to care about in the south of the Five Ridges?
"I have an idea. Now that we have many sons in our family, we will buy some properties in various places in the future, and then let them draw lots. Whoever draws will get a piece of the property in the future."
He now has eighteen sons. The eldest son will naturally inherit the family business. As for the other sons, Wu Huaiyu thinks they can each have their own.
Then the other legitimate sons inherit the industries in the core points of the Central Plains. For example, the second legitimate son inherits the property of Henan Road, and the third legitimate son inherits the property of Hedong Road.
For the others, draw lots. If you draw Lingnan, you will inherit Lingnan. If you draw Annan, you will inherit Annan. If you draw Nanzhong, you will inherit Nanzhong. If you draw Qianzhong, you will inherit Qianzhong. If you draw Jiannan, you will inherit Jiannan.
In this way, although there are many sons, they are spread out and develop in one direction.
In the long run, for the whole family, there is no need to put all eggs in one basket, and the cunning rabbit still has three holes.
Just like the Feng Ang family, when the Northern Yan Dynasty crossed to the south to join the Song Dynasty, didn't they also develop very well in Lingnan? Another example is the Cuan family in Yunnan, which was also a large Han family that moved south during the Han Dynasty.
After Wu Huaiyu finished telling his wives and concubines,
As a result, everyone was stunned.
After a long time, it was Fan Xuanfu who spoke up first, "You have the idea to let your son go to Jiaozhou, Erhai, Yiwu, Liaoxi and other remote places to establish a separate family and settle down? Isn't this the same as being exiled?"
"Why is this an exile? As a father, how can I exile my own son? I will buy them properties, farms, shops, manors, slaves, etc., not to mention money, silk, food, etc.
Of course, even if you go to various roads, it does not mean going to the wilderness. For example, if you are assigned to Lingnan East, then you will settle in Guangzhou. If you are assigned to Annan, then you will settle in Jiaozhou.
That is also a big city.
It was assigned to Jiannan and settled in Yizhou. It was assigned to Jiangxi and settled in Hongzhou..."
Having said that, a group of women find it difficult to cope with this, especially when they look at the older children around them. The older one is only over three years old now, and the younger one is even still breastfeeding.
Even if Wu Huaiyu said that he would start preparing now and live there after they get married, the mother still found it difficult to accept it.
"They will also study in the future and become officials when they grow up. Why do they want to scatter the various ways?"
"This has nothing to do with studying and becoming an official. In the future, when they get old and become officials, they can go back."
"Why does Alang think so often? People are crowding towards the capital, which is at the feet of the emperor. How come Alang wants to scatter his son to the wild corners of the country?"
What Wu Huaiyu was thinking was that by dividing the disciples and establishing their own sects, it would not only reduce internal strife, but also allow them to develop externally, not to mention having multiple insurances to avoid being taken over by one pot if something happened.
To be honest, not many of these top honorary relatives from the early Tang Dynasty have really been passed down.
For example, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Pei Ji, Li Ji, Changsun Wuji... these top honorary relatives all fell in political struggles, implicating the entire family.
For example, Li Ji's coffin was dug out because his grandson's rebellion against Wu Zetian failed.
Although the capital was prosperous, the closer it was to the emperor, the more unsafe it became.
On the contrary, those wealthy families who migrated south in the corners of the country were often able to serve as local emperors in those small places for hundreds of years.
The Yang family moved to Bozhou in the late Tang Dynasty. From the late Tang Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Tu emperor reigned for more than 700 years.
The Cuan family also ruled Nanzhong for more than four hundred years.
Even the Mu family of the Ming Dynasty ruled Yunnan for three hundred years.
Wu Huaiyu asked him to bring a stack of paper, tore up seventeen pieces of paper, and wrote Lingnan East, Lingnan West, Annan, respectively on three of them.
The remaining fourteen sheets are blank,
They all pile up and become confused.
He asked his sons' biological mothers to catch them for them.
Only the eldest son Wu Chengsi does not need to be arrested, and the other sons each receive one.
A group of women reluctantly came up to arrest him.
"Open it and see who catches it."
Wu Huaiyu looked at everyone,
This is equivalent to the enfeoffment of the Wu family, the first enfeoffment of the three Lingnan provinces.
Fan Xuanfu gave birth to two sons, and the eldest son did not need to be arrested. She also helped the seventh son to arrest one. Under Huaiyu's urging, Fan Xuanfu opened the note nervously.
"empty."
Fan Xuanfu looked at the empty note and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Huaiyu asked Gao Hui'an to open her note. She was Wu Erlang's biological mother. She was very nervous and her hands were shaking when she opened the note.
I didn't open it for a long time, but Wu Erlang Chengye couldn't wait any longer and actually grabbed the note and opened it quickly.
There was writing on it, but he didn't recognize it.
When Gao Hui'an saw the words above, he almost fainted.
Wu Huaiyu took the note from Erlang and it said Annan.
"Aye, what's written on this?"
Huaiyu pinched his cheek and said, "Annan, Erlang, Aye will buy you a house in Annan. When you grow up, you will set up another house in Jiaozhou, Annan."
From now on, your team will be called Wu Jiaozhou Fang."
Gao Hui'an looked pale, Jiaozhou, that's too far away.
The child found it interesting that Wu Erlang knew where Jiaozhou was, and kept saying yes. Wu Erlang, a man from Chiyang County, was engaged to Changsun Wuji's daughter. He held the note and jumped with joy among his brothers and sisters.
Feeling proud.
Wulang Chengyou's mother, Fan Wuniang, helped him move to Lingnan East, and later settled in Guangzhou to set up his own business. This boy also held up the note and jumped and shouted along with Erlang.
"Guangzhou room, I will be Guangzhou room from now on."
The third person drawn was Banu. She drew Lingnanxi for her son Thirteenth Lang and will settle in Guilin in the future.
The other women breathed a sigh of relief.
Gao Huian, Fan Wuniang and Banu were dejected.
Wu Huaiyu had no choice but to comfort them, "I'm just letting them buy property there, not letting them go there now."
They said a lot of nice things, but it didn't seem difficult for them to understand Wu Huaiyu's thoughts.
"I will give three of them, each of them a 10,000-acre field in Lingnan, open mines and salt fields for them, build them manors, buy shops, and I will buy them slaves... I will never lose money to them, it's all
my son!"
Fan Xuanfu didn't care about this. Although her son was the eldest son, it was appropriate to distribute some family property to the other brothers.
"Alang,"
The maid reported that Shi Shouxin had something urgent to report outside.
Wu Huaiyu came to the front yard.
"Alang, the Lingnan horses are rushing to report that the Douzhou barbarians are raising their flags to rebel.
The barbarians in Nazhou raised their flags to rebel,
The barbarians of Benzhou raised their banners to rebel,
The barbarians of Uiju raised their flags to rebel,
The barbarians in Yuzhou raised their banners to rebel."
In the mountains of Lingnan, the barbarians from the five states united to raise flags to rebel. More than 20 counties rebelled, and the bandits claimed to have 200,000 people.
"The five counties of Douzhou, together with the city, have all fallen into the hands of thieves."
Wu Huaiyu was not surprised after hearing this.
"I thought they would have to wait until spring before they could unite. After struggling for more than half a year, the anti-rebellion flag was finally raised."
The barbarians captured Douzhou, but Wu Huaiyu did not panic.
Anyway, this Douzhou, which was the former Nanfuzhou, has never been truly stable since Chen Longshu established it. It had been captured by barbarians before, and Funanzhou had to send Longzhou to govern for several years.
It is no secret that the Luo Dou barbarians have been working together to raise troops. Originally, Chen Longshu planned to join forces with Li Guangdu and Hou Junji to send troops to suppress the attack.
However, the imperial court abolished the governor's office of Nanyin Prefecture and transferred the governor Li Guangdu to the court. Chen Longshu, the governor of Nanfu Prefecture, was transferred to the governor of Rongzhou.
Even Nanfuzhou was transferred to Gaozhou Governor's Office, and Hou Junji was even transferred to Yongzhou as Governor.
The original plan has been scrapped.
the next day,
The emperor summoned Wu Huaiyu to appear in court.
"Luo Doudong rebelled,"
"I also heard about it."
"How do you think it should be solved?"
"You can first pass the order to Hou Junji. He is still in Guangzhou. Let him go to Longzhou immediately to mobilize the Chen family's troops in Longzhou and enter Douzhou to quell the chaos.
Then let Feng Zhidai, who is in Beijing, return to Lingnan immediately and return to Gaozhou to mobilize troops for suppression."
"I will also gather troops and horses here immediately. When the troops and horses are assembled, we will go to Lingnan."
Li Shimin thought for a while, "Can Hou Junji mobilize the Chen family's troops in Longzhou?"
"You can ask Chen Longshu to write a letter and send it to Guangzhou to Hou Junji with the imperial edict."
Li Shimin thought for a while,
"Forget it, let's let Chen Longshu and Feng Zhidai rush south immediately and mobilize their own troops. Chen Longshu is responsible for pacifying the Zhizhou and Yuzhou rebellions, and Feng Zhidai is responsible for pacifying the Luo, Dou and Bian three states."
This time the imperial court will transfer a lot of troops to Lingnan.
The main one is the Sixth Army Town of the Sixth Dudu Prefecture, with half of the 30,000 people at 15,000, and then the 12 Tongjun Prefectures with 14,400, followed by naval and coastal inspections.
"I will transfer 30,000 people to you first. Please change the original plan. Half of the six military towns in the Sixth Governor's Mansion do not need to be adapted from Lingnan. All of them will be transferred from Guanlong.
More than 14,000 troops from the twelve Tongjun Prefectures will be transferred later. These troops will be selected at Shannan Road, Jiangnan Road, Huainan Road, and then go south together with their families."
The emperor asked Wu Huaiyu, "If I give you 30,000 people first, can you stabilize the situation in Lingnan?"
"Thirty thousand people are enough,"
Li Shimin smiled and said, "These 30,000 people are soldiers from the Guanlong and Henan Prefectures. They will be returning after one year of garrison in Lingnan. You must take good care of them."
"The navy also has to select from the south of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, and it has to build warships. When the ships are built, the sailors are almost trained. Then they will go to sea by boat and go to Lingnan along the coast."
The monarch and his ministers were talking about this,
But everything was calm and calm. The barbarians from the five states in the mountains of Lingnan and Yunkai raised their flags to rebel, but neither of them was in a hurry.
The emperor had great trust in Wu Huaiyu and sent 30,000 soldiers from the Central Plains to send him south.
The 30,000 soldiers who went down to Lingnan were not actually going to Luo Doudong and other barbarians. These elite soldiers were there to keep an eye on Feng Ning, Chen Xian and other handsome and wealthy chiefs.
There is a rebellion of barbarians in the five states. This rebellion must first be fought by Feng Zhidai, the governor of Gaozhou, and Chen Longshu, the governor of Rongzhou.
Each of them put down the rebellion under his jurisdiction,
This is the certificate they want to submit!
When Wu Huaiyu arrives in Lingnan with 30,000 Central Plains soldiers, if they haven't handed over the certificate of surrender, things will not be that simple by then.
The rebels claimed to number 200,000.
But who will take them seriously?
"Since they call themselves 200,000 people, let Feng Zhidai and Chen Longshu each hand over the heads of 10,000 rebels!"
