After the Qingzhou War, Gu Siyuan only lived in Chongzhou for a few days before leaving the inner circle of Jiangning and Huaidong. He also left this endless circle of right and wrong and took his wife to work in another place. In the past five years on the Chinese website, Gu Siyuan has successively
After being educated in Huipu and Yongtai counties, Gu Shaojun, who was then a dignified man, became the young master of Qingzhou and served as county magistrate for two times.
Compared with the young and frivolous Gu Siyuan who had been in Chongguan for eight years, at this time, Gu Siyuan was dark-skinned, thin and capable, with bright eyes and a short mustache on his lips. He stood in the courtyard with his hands and hands looking at the peach branches in the corner.
Seeing Lin Fu walking into the garden holding the Lord's hand, Gu Siyuan turned and bowed: "I bow to my lord..."
"How can such a set of false etiquette come from a family?" Lin Fu held Gu Siyuan in his arms and did not ask him to salute. He walked with Gu Siyuan to the garden in the corner of the courtyard. He saw Jun Xun, her mother Tang Gu, and Gu Siyuan's wife and son.
They were all sitting in the garden talking, and when they saw Lin Fu walking in, they all stood up.
Gu Siyuan's son, Gu Zhan, was the same age as Zheng Jun. He had a tiger-like head and a big head. He looked much stronger than Gu Siyuan, but he was taught by Gu Siyuan and was polite. He came over and saluted Lin Fu, his "uncle" - Lin Fu pulled Gu Zhan over and touched his neck.
Chui Tiao said to Gu Siyuan: "I have just returned to Jiangning from Haizhou. After I came back, I couldn't get away from myself. Fortunately, we are all a family and we don't need to be too particular about our movements. So I asked Jun Xun to host a banquet in this garden...
…It’s been aggrieved to have people stay in Zhejiang and Fujian all these years.”
"Siyuan doesn't feel wronged," Gu Siyuan said. "Only when you can do something down-to-earth can your mind calm down; otherwise, how can you meditate on all the mistakes and regrets in the past?"
"There is no need to mention the past too much..." Lin Fu waved his hand, greeted Mrs. Tang Gu, and asked Gu Siyuan to sit down with him in the corner pavilion in the garden. Gu Junxun, Mrs. Tang Gu and Gu Siyuanzhi
The wife was sitting in another corner pavilion in the garden talking, and it was not yet time for the banquet.
Even at this time, some people were talking about the fact that he supported Emperor Yongxing and abandoned the Gu family for his own personal gain, and that he abandoned his master and rebelled. Lin Fu didn't know if Gu Siyuan really thought everything through.
However, after experiencing the changes in Qingzhou, Gu Siyuan was indeed much calmer than before. Gu Siyuan returned to Pu after learning about Yongtai County affairs. He was pragmatic and diligent in governance and had real achievements. However, Lin Mengde and Sun Jingxuan, who did not want Gu Siyuan to stand out,
Gao Zongting and others also had to consider transferring Gu Siyuan to Beppu as a magistrate or magistrate after his term as magistrate of Yongtai expired.
Lin Fu thought about transferring Gu Siyuan to Guangnan.
Among the counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangning, the control over Guangnan is the weakest. On the one hand, Guangnan is remote, with both land and sea routes passing through Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi. On the other hand, Guangnan has a sparse population, with only more than 200,000 naturalized households.
Households, not even all counties like Haiyu, have strong or weak control over Guangnan, and have little influence on the central government.
However, Guangnan County has great development potential.
The Yuejiang River, also known as 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 land along its coast; 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 by developing the Guangdong River can we have a better foundation for the penetration and expansion of trade into the Champa State. Of course, the population of Guangnan County is sparse, which means there are few naturalized households, but the real
There are not many population resources.
Guangnan in the narrow sense includes the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi in later generations, and its area is larger than the two counties of Zhejiang and Fujian combined. There are only more than 20 naturalized households in Guangnan, with more than one million people, but in
There are a large number of Shanyue, Nanmiao, Southwest Yi and other tribes living among the mountains such as Wuyi Mountain, Wuling Mountain, Miaoling, Yuchengling and Qiongzhou Island. The Dingkou is estimated to be no less than 2 million.
In addition, going south from Guangnan is the old county of Ningzhou, which later became Yunnan and Guizhou provinces.
In the previous dynasty, Chen once established Ningzhou County to govern Yunnan and Guizhou, established the hereditary governor of Ningzhou of the Mongolian clan in Southwest China, and established 11 prefectures and 92 counties to govern the area. This can be regarded as officially bringing the Yunnan and Guizhou regions under the jurisdiction of the central government.
When the Yuan Dynasty was founded, the Meng family stole the Ning Prefecture and established it as the Shanchan state. When Shizong arrived, they surrendered and became a vassal state. However, because the road to Dianchi Lake was far away and it was very inconvenient to cross mountains and ridges to get there, Yue Shizong named the Meng family Shanchan state.
The duke of the country, Yong Zhen Yunnan and Guizhou. In fact, Yunnan and Guizhou have always been outside the control of the central government. They only collect some symbolic tributes every year to show the status of the suzerain state.
It is this former Ningzhou, today's Shanchan Kingdom. In the late Chen Dynasty of the previous dynasty, there were 300,000 registered Ding households. Since then, the central government has never obtained the population data of Shanchan Kingdom, and the number of Ding households is estimated to be more than 2 million.
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Lin Fu's first goal was to strengthen the control and development of Guangnan County, so that more than two million Miao and Yi people in Guangnan County could be registered as residents and strengthen their control; when the time was right, he would directly send troops to surrender.
Shanchan State restored the old county of Ningzhou and restored the central rule over the southwest Yunnan and Guizhou regions.
Of course, the first step is to strengthen the development and control of Guangnan.
Lin Fu intended to send Gu Siyuan out to know the affairs of Leizhou Prefecture and also to know Qiongzhou.
Qiongzhou, also known as Yazhou, is only more than thirty miles away from the city of Leizhou Prefecture through the strait. Lin Fu wants to move the government of Leizhou Prefecture from Leizhou Peninsula to Qiongzhou Island.
"Leizhou is very hot and the place is remote. However, if you want to govern Guangnan, you need to start from Leizhou to take care of Nanhai, Qinzhou, Yongzhou and Qiongzhou." Lin Fu sat in the pavilion and said to Gu Siyuan, "Leizhou is located in Guangnan, but
We are in a desolate place, and apart from Si Yuan, I don’t know who else I can trust with this important task..."
"My lord has entrusted me with my trust, and Siyuan dare not resign, as he will definitely live up to my lord's expectations." Gu Siyuan said.
At this moment, Gu Tianqiao poked his head out from outside the yard, looked at the people sitting in the pavilion talking, and then retracted his head.
Lin Fu laughed and scolded: "You are a monkey, probing your head, but you want to hide there..." When Gu Tianqiao first followed Gu Wuchen to Jiangning, he was still a simple young man of the Gu family, but his grandfather and Gu Wuchen's father were brothers, so he was taken care of by Gu Wuchen.
, he was promoted to Jiangning. But the simplicity of the past was gone. Now he was dressed in rich clothes, but his face was thin, so people called him Gu Houhou.
Gu Tianqiao, Lin Xuhong, Ye Kai, Xiao Mi and others are all representatives of the Dongyang Township Party. In fact, he is an indispensable figure behind Huaidong Bank and Heishui Shipping Company. Although he has not become an official, he does not want to be accepted.
The hard work of writing documents.
Gu Tianqiao was about to come in, stood outside the pavilion and saluted: "I am afraid that my lord and Si Yuan will discuss important matters of family and country that the people cannot know, so I don't dare to be rude..." Then he turned to the other corner of the garden and saluted Tang Gu, Gu Junxun and the daughters.
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"Siyuan, before you left Jiangning, did you think that Gu Houhou would be so glib?" Lin Fu teased Gu Tianqiao with a smile, kicked up a stool to Gu Tianqiao, and asked him to sit down with him in the pavilion.
"Brother Tianqiao, we haven't seen you for many years." Gu Siyuan no longer acted like a young master and met Gu Tianqiao as a gift, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.
Among the people who came to Jiangning from Dongyang that year, Gu Siming was despised and disgusted by Lin Fu and has disappeared. I am afraid that no one will see his old friend again. Gu Tianqiao does not seem to be an official, but judging from his casual behavior in front of Lin Fu,
In fact, it also represents his closeness to the Duke's palace; Yang Shi serves as a staff officer in the Jinghai Division and is a senior general at the deputy commander level, while Lin Fu is a hero among thousands of people, looking down on the world...
Without the pain of Qingzhou, Gu Siyuan would not admit the gap between him and Lin Fu; Qingzhou was defeated, his father drank poison to death, Ma Chao died in the battle, Yang Pu also drove his horse to the enemy and refused to live alone - this series of blows is called
Gu Siyuan saw everything clearly and shattered all his previous frivolity and arrogance. In these years in southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian, he also seriously reflected on the past.
Especially after the Qingzhou War, Lin Fu had laid a solid foundation in Huaidong, and then he won one victory after another, quickly spreading the Huaidong New Deal to eastern Zhejiang, southern Zhejiang, eastern Fujian, western Zhejiang, and Yizhou
; This allowed Gu Siyuan to see more clearly how deep the foundation Lin Fu had laid in Huaidong in his early years, and how efficient the military and political system he created was!
At this time, less than three years had passed since the war in East Fujian. The entire territory of East Fujian County had been irrecoverable, and Jin'an, Quanzhou, Zhangpu, Jieyang and other prefectures and counties had recovered their vitality. Starting from this year, after excluding the Nanyang maritime trade,
The taxes paid by Dongmin County to the central government will be restored to more than 1.5 million silver dollars.
Don’t look at the fact that 1.5 million silver dollars is not much; even when the She family was at its peak, the money and food drawn from Dongmin County every year was only twice that amount. In addition to the taxes paid directly to the central government, Dongmin County
Last year, millions of grains of rice were transported to the Jianghuai region through grain merchants and military purchases, and this year, this number can be doubled.
This year's taxes collected from Dongmin County and the grain purchased at fair prices will be able to make up for the central government's subsidies to Jiangxi and the two lakes regions - which means that after this year, with the further recovery of the Jiangxi and two lakes regions, the central government's annual income will
With rapid and steady growth, it may not take three to five years to organize the Northern Expedition and drive Yanhu out of the Central Plains.
Gu Siyuan thought: Lin Fu might abolish the Yuan Dynasty and establish a new dynasty before the Northern Expedition?
Gu Tianqiao didn't want Gu Siyuan to think so much, so he just responded with a smile and said: "It's not that we haven't seen each other for many years. I was afraid that I might not be able to stay in Jiangning for a few days and go to another place to become a high-ranking official. But after hearing the letter, I chased after you and called you lord for nothing.
I made a few jokes..."
"Siyuan will live in Jiangning for a while. In the future, county magistrates and officials above the county magistrate who are transferred to other posts will be transferred to Jiangning to study the new policies for at least three months before they can go to other places to serve. Chang Xue
Always new, always new, always learning, Si Yuan will have to live in Jiangning for three to five months," Lin Fu said, "But Gu Hou, I will drive out of Jiangning in the next two days!"
"I received a bad slap from Zhang Yubo in the early years, but I didn't cause any trouble again!" Gu Tianqiao burst into tears when he heard that Lin Fu wanted to drive him out of Jiangning.
"Don't cry like that. I want 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 to move to Jeju with my family..."
"What's going on!" Gu Tianqiao immediately felt like the sky was falling, and said with a mournful face, "Could it be that the master kicked Zhang Yubo to Jeju because he felt that my life in Jiangning was too comfortable, so he asked me to go to Zhang Yubo to suffer more.
Years of grievance?"
Listening to the commotion here, Gu Junxun and Tang Gu both looked over: the Privy Council and the Military Department did not want Gu Siyuan to stay in Jiangning for a long time; the only person in the Gu family who could move around Jiangning City was Gu Tianqiao.
; Lin Zhengjun also calls Gu Tianqiao "uncle" when he is in Jiangning - if Gu Tianqiao is expelled from Jiangning again, it means that although Gu Jun's room occupies the title of the main wife, it will not have anything in Jiangning
Backup.
"I am returning to Jiangning, and Hu Wenmu is following me. With my merits, it is possible for all the sons to be granted titles, and for the eldest daughter to be granted the title of princess, or for the eldest daughter to be granted the title of princess," Lin Fu ignored the others' nervousness and said to Gu Tianqiao.
, "I plan to ask for a reward from the Jeju County Lord on behalf of Jung-kun. I will kick him to Jeju. Why?"
"!" Gu Tianqiao was stunned and said in surprise, "This is asking Mr. Zheng to be the one who initiates the real seal!"
When the imperial family granted titles to the daughters of the clan, they were all false titles. For example, when Yuan Yan was granted the title of Princess Yangxin, Yuan Yan would not be asked to go to Yangxin to receive the vassal status at all; while Lin Fu intended to ask the eldest daughter Zhengjun to go to Jeju to become a vassal in the future.
Gu Junxun listened to what was said, and hurriedly came over and said: "Sealing Jizhou is a blessing that the emperor cannot bear. Fortunately, Yingxiu, Su Mei and the others made the matter clear last time, otherwise the princes would have thought that it was the concubine who had the child."
What kind of wishful thinking—don’t make any trouble this time!”
Gu Siyuan was also surprised. Although Lin Fu bargained with the Lin family and took the opportunity to set up a government meeting when he wanted to establish Zhengjun as the crown prince. This time, Lin Fu wanted to ask for a reward from the eldest daughter Zhengjun as the prince of Jeju.
But it didn't look like he was scaring them with a smile.
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 Zhengjun came of age so that Zhengjun could become a vassal in the future. If he didn't want to hand over the land of Jeju to the hereditary rule of Zhengjun, he would completely
There's no need to go to such trouble.
Lin Fu said: "This matter has been discussed with Zongting and Song Gong. After all, Jeju is adjacent to Goryeo and Fusang, and the central government cannot maintain so much military equipment in Jeju all the year round, and the military and administration cannot be controlled by the governor for a long time.
Therefore, it is necessary to establish a vassal and establish a noble minister to unite the people. However, in the future, the governors and governors will still be appointed by the central government. However, Jeju is close to Jiangning. If the prince establishes a vassal in Haidong, it will not be what the princes want, so I plan to wait for the government.
After you become an adult, you will go to live in Jeju..."
Gu Siyuan had some knowledge and knew that Lin Fu indeed had the ambition to establish a new dynasty, so appointing the eldest daughter as the political monarch in Jeju was a strategy for governing overseas enclaves in the future.
Overseas enclaves are far away from the central hub. Especially during the storm season, shipping to the East China Sea and Nanyang will be interrupted for three to four months. It is difficult for the central hub to effectively control overseas enclaves. To establish a vassal to govern overseas enclaves, the vassal town must have a certain degree of control over the local area.
In order to suppress the local covetousness, it is necessary to have governance power and even a certain amount of military power. However, Jeju is not too far away from Jiangning. If the son is granted the title of the actual vassal in Jeju, there may be some harm to the central government. Putting the eldest daughter
The king's entrustment to Jeju can not only strengthen his control over Jeju, but the eldest daughter and her direct heirs' damage to the center is very limited, so it is a compromise that can be accepted...