Chapter five hundred and sixty-eight in the official business
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Li Linfu and Wang Zhi were walking on the straight road in front of Xingqing Palace. The Prime Minister's face was not very good. This was the first time in his life that he almost failed to control the situation. Although the situation was under control now, something made him unhappy.
However, many people escaped his pursuit and became one of the uncontrollable factors that made it difficult for him to control.
The right prime minister has repeatedly lowered his requirements for his comrades. Corruption and harming the people does not matter, nor does amassing money. The only rigid standard is that the official position must come from his family. With the most fundamental interest relationship, they will unite closely under his
Around him, most of the officials in Chang'an City now come from his family, and all officials who have not passed through his network will be suppressed by him.
The ten military envoys in border towns were related to the emperor's safety, so the appointment of the ten military envoys was tightly controlled by Li Longji. No matter how favored Li Linfu was, he could not exceed this authority.
For this reason, Li Linfu tried to influence the Jiedushi envoys in other ways, or promoted them before they were promoted to Jiedushi envoys. Gao Xianzhi, An Lushan and others were more or less favored and influenced by the Right Prime Minister.
They have supported each other for a long time.
Li Siye now occupies a high position in Longyou. Naturally, he cannot treat him as non-existent. Just like the ambitious son named An Lushan, it is not easy for him to offend everyone, so he must get involved with them and use each other to achieve his goals.
The goal.
Sometimes ideals are beautiful, but reality is very ugly. Sometimes if you want to control the situation or the overall situation, you have to make compromises. This principle applies to Li Linfu, and it also applies to Li Siye.
On the sixth day after Li Siye presented the suona and music, Li Longji ordered that a mansion be built for him in Chang'an City. It seems that only An Lushan was able to enjoy this honor before.
In order to ensure that the cunning rabbit has three holes, he did not reveal the old residence in Xinchangfang that he had bought earlier. The new residence is in Guangfufang on the right side of Zhuque Street in Chang'an City Street. There seems to be no famous officials in this place, at least until now.
, Li Siye has the highest official position. This is good, at least when he lives in the village from now on, he doesn't need to visit any noble people, and he doesn't need to look at anyone's face.
Before the mansion was built, Li Siye lived in a house arranged by Micha Gan. The emperor sent people to issue decrees and granted him seven or eight positions of talisman. In particular, the interview envoy, the herdsman envoy and the recruiting envoy.
Although the envoy is only a position, he has great power. The envoy supervises the criminal laws and examinations in various states and counties. The examinations largely determine the future of the officials. The entire Longyou Road is under his jurisdiction. The Longyou Group
The scope of the pastoral envoy's jurisdiction is not large, and he only maintains it among a few pastures, but he has jurisdiction over the supply of all military horses on Longyou Road. At times like this, it is only natural that he should give some favor to the Beiting Jiedu Envoy.
matter.
As for the scope of duties of the Longyou Recruitment Envoy, Li Siye went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to check. Since there was no such official position before, Li Siye had to find the right to explain and subordinates himself. There were many officials in the Ministry of War who had held this kind of official position of escorting soldiers.
One day, he finally understood that these three official positions were of greatest help to him, that is, he could legitimately arrange for people to operate the trade route from India to Yangguan, complete the preliminary road paving completed by Dai Wang, and officially transport pepper, sandalwood, etc.
Spices are imported as bulk goods.
Nowadays, there is no such thing as customs. He does not need to spend a penny to import from Tianzhu. Even in the plunder and harvest of raw material areas, they are difficult to detect and have no sense of prevention.
This was truly a golden age for doing business with Indians. Buddhism was in decline in India, and Brahmanism, which followed the caste system, became popular. The past wars had ended, and India had fallen into a peaceful era of multiple city-states and multiple forces.
Yes, when they were divided into small countries, there would be a long period of peace. On the contrary, when Ashoka, Maurya and others unified the country, they were in a period of war for a long time.
According to Dai Wang's information, the population of these countries is rising steadily, and a larger population means more business profits.
In the west, he needed Indians, but on the trade road from Qixi to Chang'an, he needed many Hu merchants like Michagan to connect and operate.
Among the Central Asian Hu people in Chang'an City, the largest number is the Central Asian Shang Hu people. The Sogdians themselves are a commercial nation, and "profit lies in everything." The economic prosperity and stability of the Tang Dynasty attracted a large number of Hu Shang people to come east, and many people
Came to the Chang'an area of the capital. At that time, Chang'an had two cities, the East and West, which were both commercial areas and where the Hu people were more active. Among them, the Dongdong City was located near the residential area of nobles and bureaucrats, and its "street market contained 220 goods."
Along the way, there are mansions on all sides, with treasures from all directions, all accumulated. The Wannian County household registration was reduced to Chang'an, and most of the residences of the ministers and below were east of Zhuque Street. The honors and honors occupied by the mansion were collected by the merchants, and most of them returned to the Western Market."
.Despite this, there are also many Hu people's shops in Dongshi, such as Biluo shops and Huqin sellers. Regarding Biluo, Volume 8 of "Tang Yulin" says: "Bi family in Fanzhong, Luo family likes this flavor." Xiang Da
The teacher believes that there is Bi State more than a hundred miles west of Anguo, and its people often come to China for trade. Therefore, the so-called Bi Luo comes from Bi State, so it is named after Bi Luo. Bi Luo should refer to the pilaf that is popular in Xinjiang and Central Asia.
On June 27, the third year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty (AD 843), "at midnight, a fire broke out in Dongshi. More than 4,000 houses in twelve rows west of Caomen in Dongshi were burned, as well as official and private property, gold, silver, silk, medicine, etc.
"There must be many barbarian shops among them."
However, the largest concentration of merchants and merchants should be in the West City. The so-called "merchants gather in the West City, and most of them return to the West City". Its "stores in the city are like those in the East City." Chang'an County has more than 40,000 households, more than 10,000 years ago.
"There are so many floating houses that we can't count them." (Note: Volume 4 of "Tang Liangjing Chengfang Kao" "Western Market" section is revised below, pages 117-118.) There are clothing shops, silk shops, and restaurants in the city.
, restaurant, fish restaurant, wine restaurant, ferocious restaurant, Persian mansion, etc. (Note: "Tang Liang Jing Cheng Fang Kao" attached (Qing) Cheng Hongzhao "Tang Liang Jing Cheng Fang Kao Supplement", pp. 208 ~ 209; "Updated Tang Dynasty"
Volume 4 of "Tai Ping Guang Ji" Volume 4 "Added under the article "Western Market", pages 210-212.) Most of the Hu people from Central Asia and the Western Regions live here. Volume 402 of "Taiping Guang Ji" records many anecdotes about the Hu people buying treasures
The thing mostly refers to the Hu merchants in the West City. Qian Yi's "New Book of the South" says: "The Hu people in the West City value mussel pearls but despise shé pearls. Those who spit out shé pearls are only distinguished by the Hu people." (Note)
: (Song Dynasty) Qian Yi: "New Books of the South", Jibu, Zhonghua Book Company, 1958 edition, page 57.) In addition, Liu Su's "New Accounts of the Tang Dynasty" Volume 9 also records: "There was a family in Jinchengfang in Zhenguan who was robbed by Hu
, but could not be captured for a long time. At that time, Yang usurped the throne of Yongzhou Governor, and all the barbarians who surveyed the capital city were prohibited from questioning. Yin Yi, a member of the judicial army, said in his judgment: "There are thousands of thieves, and there are many frauds. There are also Hus wearing Han hats."
, Han people wear beard hats, and they also need to be covered by Han people, and they are not allowed to search directly in the barbarians. Please pursue and ban the barbarians in the West City, and please don’t ask. 'The Russian fruit has been stolen." (Note: Written by Liu Su (Tang Dynasty), Xu Denan, and Li Dingxia point out
(Compiled by: "Being Good", Volume 9, "New Accounts of the Tang Dynasty", published by Zhonghua Book Company in 1984.) It can be seen that the West Market is the largest concentration of Hu merchants.
In addition to Shanghu, there are also some Central Asian upper-class figures who are active and settled in Chang'an. Most of them are members of the Central Asian royal families who were taken hostage in the Tang Dynasty and their descendants, as well as some converts from Yiyi. There are also some religious (xiān)
) leaders of Christianity, Nestorianism, etc., and those who became rich through business. After these people entered the Tang Dynasty, they were canonized by the Tang Dynasty and enjoyed various preferential treatment. There are not many historical records about where these people lived, and it seems difficult to judge. However, the Tang Dynasty
Central Asians who served as officials in Chang'an were often given houses for them to live in. After their death, their colleagues and descendants often erected monuments and inscriptions for them, and the inscriptions often mentioned the place where they lived. We have some unearthed from Chang'an today.
Some clues may be found in the epitaphs and related historical materials about the Hu people in Central Asia (Note: Except for Li Su and Belus, who are Persians, the characters listed below are all Hu people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu.)