Chapter 141: Lingnan's Development Plan
Seeing Uncle Wei's excited expression when he got the sea salt production method, Sun Xiangfu knew how easy his festival was to break.
"Lord Wei, this place for making salt must be arranged on an overseas island, and the salt produced must not be sold to the outside world, it can only be used to marinate salted fish, once it is discovered by His Majesty or the imperial court, this crime will be big."
Since Sun Xiangfu Xiangfu dared to hand over this headless transaction, he naturally had some precautions, sea salt was made, only salted fish, salted fish was pickled, and only sold to Yangzhou's sauce workshops, nominally, Yangzhou's soybean sauce workshops didn't know about salt-making, they just paid to buy salted fish.
"The old man knows that in a few days, the old man will summon Na Shen Tuyong to come over to arrange this matter, and Zhengming doesn't need to come forward to ······."
After chatting with Uncle Wei about some unnutritious words, Sun Xiangfu withdrew from his room, it was already bright and moony at the moment, but it was inconvenient to walk back to Baiyun Lake at night, so he wanted to go to his previous residence in Feng Mansion to rest, but was called to Feng An's study by the Feng Mansion housekeeper who had been waiting outside the door for a long time.
"I don't know what the Yue Gong called to come down to order?" Seeing the ceremony, Sun Xiangfu knelt down opposite Feng An's bookcase.
"Check it out! These are all these, I don't know what Zhengming thinks, how should the old man deal with it? ”
Piled up like a hill of letters, Sun Xiangfu visually measured that there were at least dozens of them, so he took one of them at random and opened it to read.
The content is very simple, ask about the authenticity of the matter of the eight stone valleys per mu, and ask for the land of Lingnan.
Moreover, after Sun Xiangfu opened several letters one after another, most of the contents were like this.
"It seems that this Lingnan miasma is about to become a treasure land."
Seeing that the content is roughly the same, Sun Xiangfu has no intention of continuing to read, and Wei Shuhuan, many people see the benefits, and forget the festival, Feng Ang has been an official in the Sui Dynasty for many years in his early years, as a Lingnan family, and Jiangnan, and even some big clans in the Huainan region also have some contacts, before, Feng Ang peddled the cane sugar produced in Lingnan to them, and now, the news of the eight stone valleys per mu was released by the imperial court, and those people were like mosquitoes that saw blood, and they pounced on them.
"Do you know why the old man descended to Tang in the first place?" Seeing Sun Xiangfu's joking appearance, Feng Ang's face was positive.
"It's short in the next wisdom, I don't know." Sun Xiangfu, a graduate student of plants, has never been very interested in history, as he said.
"At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the old man rose up together, and the old man was in a corner of Lingnan, watching the battle of the rebel armies on all roads, it can be said that no matter who wins the world, it is not difficult for the old man to get the title of the king of Nanyue, however, the old man finally chose Li Tang, who is not strong, and is willing to be a prince."
"Why?"
"Because other anti-Sui people from all walks of life just want to fight for power and profit, and become another power holder who can exploit the people of the world, and Li Tang is different, even when they were weak, they did not forget to practice benevolent government and cultivate the law, they really want to save the people in the world, the old man's Lingnan land is not enough to enter the world, only by complying with such a benevolent and righteous teacher can he die a good death."
"Yes!"
Sun Xiangfu listened to Feng An's words, and finally knew why the weak Tang Dynasty at that time would become stronger and stronger, so that heroes from all walks of life came to vote, there are many people of insight like Feng Ang in the world, they are really talented people, when a group of such like-minded and capable people gather, who can be the enemy?
"However, now the old man has got what he wants, he is extremely rich, but he only wishes, and it is difficult to achieve it in this life."
"Why?"
"Let the people of Lingnan, like the Han people, return to Wanghua, and no longer live the days of Ru Mao drinking blood."
Although Feng An's words were short, just a short sentence made his image instantly much taller in Sun Xiangfu's heart, no wonder Li Shimin gave Feng Ang such a high treatment in history, because he was worthy of it.
"Yue Gong is really a wise man in the world, and he is willing to help Yue Gong." Sun Xiangfu bowed down and bowed, and gave Feng Ang a serious salute.
Everyone who promotes national integration and national harmony is worthy of respect, and Sun Xiangfu is willing to salute such a person.
In fact, Feng Ang just said what he thought in his heart truthfully, and he didn't think it was such a lofty thing, Sun Xiangfu took him seriously and really saluted, which made him a little embarrassed, and said, "Isn't this just a matter of indecision, are you going to ask you." ”
"Yue Gong is hesitant, should he agree to give land to these people?" Sun Xiangfu pointed to the pile of letters on the desk.
"Exactly, if the old man gives them land, they will inevitably organize Han tenants to come to Lingnan to farm, and if there are more Han people in my Lingnan, the aborigines will be able to learn a lot of Han customs and farming techniques from them······"
Feng Ang said several points about the benefits of demarcating land for these people and letting them come to the land of Lingnan to farm, but Sun Xiangfu shook his head the more he listened.
"Has Yue Gong ever thought about the identity of these people who want to come to Lingnan? When they come to Lingnan, they will also ask the Yue Gong to allocate the best place for them to cultivate, which will make the aborigines have no good land to cultivate, and make their already poor living space smaller, which is not a long-term solution. ”
"Well, the layer you said, the old man is also worried, since the Han Dynasty, it is not that there are no Han officials who have tried to govern the land of Lingnan well, but no one has succeeded, the local environment is a factor, the main reason, but it is the reason for the rule of man, the Han people manage Lingnan, it is inevitable that the Han people are biased, the Yi tribe is oppressed, and they will definitely resist, the Yi tribe is autonomous, but they do not accept the Han king, so that the local area has been in a backward state, the old man is thinking, and he can't understand it." Feng Ang shook his head a little depressed and said.
"This thing has to be done slowly, according to the next point of view, this is a matter of going out, and coming in, Lingnan has many mountains, the road is long, but relatively speaking, it is not as difficult as Shu Road, why the development of Shu can follow the footsteps of Chang'an, but Lingnan is not! Or is it because the various tribes in Lingnan do not have the courage to go out.
The lack of commerce and the lack of exchanges are a major factor in the inability of the Lingnan people to quickly integrate into the Han people, and the second factor is that they cannot achieve the first factor because of the tribal division.
The people of Lingnan can't go out, and the Han people outside can't know more about here, so they naturally don't dare to walk in easily, such as overcoming the miasma, driving away mosquitoes, and dealing with some methods of fierce beasts, the Han people don't know, they only know that this place is dangerous, so they don't dare to come, which leads to the closure of Lingnan.
Therefore, the first direction of Yue Gong's efforts should be to break the control of the tribal leaders over the Yi people, let these Yi people go out, learn the culture of the Han people, bring it back, and spread it. ”
"How to break?" Feng Ang felt that what Sun Xiangfu said was reasonable, and asked.
"First requisition the young and strong from them in the name of hired workers, and give them certain benefits, I believe that these leaders should not have any opinions."
"And then?"
"And then these people who have been drafted, do you think they will still be willing to go back? In your workshop, they only need to pay a certain amount of labor, they can eat enough, and there are no poisonous insects and beasts to threaten their lives, why should they go back? Do you think the inhabitants of the Baiyun Lake Peninsula are still willing to return to their original tribes? Sun Xiangfu asked a series of questions, but it made Feng Ang thoughtful.
"But with such rounds of recruitment, how many workshops does the old man need to meet them? Moreover, if there are fewer strong men, it will be difficult for the tribe to survive, and those leaders will not agree to the requisition. Feng Ang asked.
"You can rotate! Let the young people in all the tribes take turns to work in the workshop, receive the education in the workshop, and after half a year, a year, go back to their original tribe, replace the next batch, and replace them in a few rounds, if you can do it, there should be no young people willing to listen to their leader.
Also, don't think that you can't accommodate those young people, your Lingnan Road, north, south, east and west is thousands of miles! How many good fields can be cultivated in this land of thousands of miles? To say the least, it's a million! Not counting the output of those seasonal melons and fruits, do you know how much wealth this Champa rice is produced in a year when it is planted and introduced in these fields? In the next place, when the time comes, you can leave half of the people to farm in Lingnan every year, and the other half of the people will travel to Chang'an by boat to learn Han culture. ”
"Uh······"
The world that Sun Xiangfu depicted to Feng Ang needs too much brain hole to imagine, Feng Ang can't imagine it for a while, but he thinks that it seems very feasible, the original inhabitants who were left in Baiyun Lake by Sun Xiangfu really don't have the slightest intention of returning to the original tribe, since the house on the peninsula was built, they will work in the fields for a while every morning before the sun comes out, and every afternoon after the sun goes down.
If there are hundreds or thousands of places like Baiyun Lake in Lingnan, then the whole thing will be easy to manage, after all, the population here is small. There is a proper place.
This is a model, just like Happy Village is for Datang, Feng Ang feels that he seems to have found a trace of context, which may be a way for him to change Lingnan, so he entered into contemplation.
Seeing this, Sun Xiangfu cautiously retreated from Feng An's study, there are only hundreds of thousands of people, it is not difficult to govern well, and it will not take long for the people here to have endless food, and after Sun Xiangfu's fleet is built, he will pull batches of Lingnan people to and from Chang'an, so that they can have a long insight, I don't believe that they will not yearn for the flower world outside, and will be willing to return to the tribe and accept the unreasonable rule of the leaders.
Moreover, when the Han merchants knew that the good fruits of Lingnan could be sold for a good price in Chang'an, they did not believe that they would not come to do business, and the Lingnan people did not need those landlords before they were fully civilized, but they needed merchants to inject vitality here.