Lu Wenluo toured around Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xinghua Army, and Jianzhou, and it took less than five days in total.

Lin Douyao personally received him, the etiquette was extremely high, and he opened the middle door with a cannon, although he was a Lubu envoy, it was still too rare to use such etiquette to greet a regimental training soldier with such a etiquette to appease him all the way.

Lu Wenluo was very calm.

If more than two years ago, he had been personally received by the pacification envoy all the way, so that Lu Wenluo would be exempt from courtesy and enter the official office hand in hand, Lu Wenluo would have fainted in fright, and he would never forget such a scene for the rest of his life.

And at this moment, it is nothing more than a little excited, and I am deeply proud to be a part of the Nan'an Army.

Of course, he is even more proud of the prince.

Because Lu Wenluo knew quite well in his heart that all the courtesies and everything at the moment were because the Nan'an Hou Mansion had defeated tens of thousands of pirates in a dignified manner, destroyed their fleets, and captured a large number of ships.

The power of the Nan'an Hou Mansion has overridden and crushed the large and small forces on Fujian Road, which is the fundamental reason why Lu Bu Envoy was greeted with super high courtesy.

From Quanzhou dripping out, and then to Xinghua Army, and then back to Fuzhou port on the ship, at this time the sea ships have been quite a lot, many refuge merchant ships continue their journey, the hard sails of the Fu ship, the Persian ship that is, the soft sail of the Tianfang ship are open, the sea is calm, the summer is the season of typhoons, but there is no strong wind recently, so the merchant ships are hurrying to set sail, hoping to take refuge in the delay time to drive back.

The fishermen have more small boats, most of their boats are sails and oars, and most of these small boats are fishing for a few miles offshore, and some small boats go dozens of miles away, even all the way to the Penghu area, where there are more fish and easier to catch.

Although the fish industry is rich in resources in this era, there are many fishermen in the coastal areas, and the competition is quite fierce, and the means and methods of fishing are of course far less than those of later generations.

Fishermen judge, observe, and then cast nets, sometimes with a lot of money, sometimes with nothing.

Lu Wenluo found a small dhow and sail on the shore with five or six fishermen on board, and he gave five pieces of money to these people to send him to the Eastern Domain.

The captain of the boat, however, refused this lucrative price, and was satisfied with the three times, and the fishermen knew the Lubu envoy and were full of awe of Lu Wenluo.

"Tell me the truth." Boat Lao Dao: "If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't fish for many days, and I couldn't open the pot if I didn't have rice at home, I wouldn't be able to collect a penny." The generals killed more than 20,000 pirates in the Eastern Domain, pacified the sea surface of my Fujian Road, and everyone could continue to trade and fish. If you don't know gratitude, are you still a person? It's just that there is really no way, collect three times of money, enough to wait for a month, and be able to catch and sell the fish for money, it is enough. ”

Lu Wenluo can't do it, he has encountered too many such things along the way.

Restaurants don't charge money, restaurants don't charge money, and they don't charge money when they buy some small things and go back to the Eastern Domain.

He made a detour to pass through his home outside Nan'an Town, the whole village was a sensation, thousands of people cheered on both sides of the road, cheering for the Lubu envoy who went out of Lujia Village, and there were hundreds of strong men on the spot who said that they would follow Lu Wenluo back to the Eastern Domain to serve in the army, and the fathers and elders also pleaded, Lu Wenluo's brilliance made countless poor families moved.

You must know that before this, Lu Wenluo was just an ordinary farmer, but now his heroic posture and the majesty of holding the Lubu Sutra are enough to make these ordinary people awe and admire.

More families expressed their willingness to move to the Eastern Domain, after this war, the Eastern Domain gave people a sense of security still above Fuzhou, there was such a strong army and fleet stationed, originally people were quite tempted, wanted to go to the Eastern Domain to Nan'an Hou as an official household, open up enough fertile land, Fujian people are not afraid of going to sea, not afraid of breaking through, not afraid of leaving their hometown, now the Eastern Domain is attractive enough, there will be a large number of poor families willing to leave, and the local government will not come forward to stop it, even Lu Wenluo, a pure martial artist, has felt, The Eastern Domain will usher in a period of rapid development.

Along the way, Lu Wenluo felt deeply, what is the honor of a soldier, what is glory, everything he has experienced is it.

Because he was embraced, trusted, and even felt the admiration of many little ladies and big girls, Lu Wenluo even went to the tavern less, one was afraid of drinking and missing business, and the other was afraid of damaging the image of the soldiers of the Eastern Domain, as for the gambling house, Lu Wenluo was heartbroken when he passed by, originally he wanted to take advantage of this official business to secretly gamble a few handfuls to have a good time, but he could imagine that kind of scene, when he tied his horse in the gambling house, a group of gamblers cheered at him, and then gave him free chips, and everyone would compete to deliberately lose to him, this kind of gambling method, It's better not to gamble.

Now, on the rickety fishing boat, Lu Wenluo felt this profound change again, he was stunned for a while, and there was a look of disbelief on his long-haired face, and after half a sound, he said to the old man: "We are just acting on orders, everything is the merit of Nan'anhou." ”

"Of course, of course!" Everyone on the boat said: "Now on Fujian Road, who doesn't know that Nan'an Hou is a star descending from the sky, protect me on Fujian Road!" ”

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Lu Wenluo's boat departed in the morning and reached the bank of Huaxi in the afternoon when the sun was high.

Everything in the port was the same, the original long base was filled in, and for a few days, it was as if the previous long base, rejection of horses, antlers, and arrow towers had never existed.

There are still long embankments, lighthouses, trestles, warehouses, and buildings made of masonry and stone, but when you land on the shore, you can still see some arrow holes and throwing guns stuck in the buildings, and you haven't had time to take them down.

In addition, the remnants of the war are the wreckage of the sea, there are already paddle boats dragging those floating shipwrecks, towing the shipwrecks to the shipyard to the north, the rigging, iron, sails, and wood on these ships can be used, the whole ship repair cost is too great, it is not worth it, but if there are some shipwrecks that are not too badly damaged, they can be used by the craftsmen in the shipyard to practice.

A large number of pearl divers' boats were still active, and there were many items piled up on the masonry embankment on the shore, and many officials were standing on the shore, apparently counting the items they had caught.

The pearl divers are very good at the water, even the locals of Fujian have to admire these people, they stand on the bow of the boat, do not hesitate to jump into the sea, like a big fish swimming under the water, and then can gradually dive into the deep water.

Ordinary people can't sink unless they pick up an iron anchor or boulder on their feet and neck.

Lu Wenluo glared at these pearl divers, these people jumped down and floated up from time to time, some of them were holding items in their hands, and most of them were already empty-handed.

It has been salvaged here for three days, and it is estimated that all that can be caught has been fished, and many pearl divers swim around under the water, helping the paddle boat tie up the wreck and tow it away from the sea, and their work is running out.

There was no frustration or uneasiness on the faces of all the pearl divers, they were elated and quite active. Lu Wenluo knew that the prince had promised to recruit these people as sailors, or go ashore to the fields, or do anything in the Eastern Domain, and the treatment would definitely not be as lucrative as pearl diving, but he would not have to bear the risk of drowning underwater at any time, and he would not die early, and the life of the Eastern Domain These pearl divers had already seen it with their own eyes, and they were of course quite happy.

If all these people were to fish in small boats in the lower reaches of Nan'an Creek or Huaxi, it would also be a supplement to the island's meat source.

Even herding sheep, cattle, and ducks requires a lot of manpower.

The boat did not reach the trestle and docked directly at the shore, and Lu Wenluo paid the money, and jumped directly from the bow of the boat to the pier of the stone base with a long pole in one hand.

Everyone saw Lu Bu's envoy, and Xu Zixian was at the dock, and everyone led Lu Wenluo to Xu Zixian.

"I've seen the prince."

"Excuse me." Xu Zixian's body has fully recovered, he is in a good mood, his face is full of smiles, and the expressions of the people around him are almost the same, and everyone is relaxed and comfortable.

There are things fished out of the sea on the dock, some antique artifacts from overseas, not very attractive attention, there may be some collectors of Dawei who collect overseas treasures will be interested in this, these antiques don't know how much they can be sold for, Kong He has a bit of a headache, and he doesn't know how to enter the account.

In addition, bronze, armor, and weapons were very popular, especially those with strong armor.

The armor and chain mail were neatly arranged, and after the counting, there were already people wiping the seawater from the tendons of the ox, waiting for them to dry and then applying oil, and storing them in the arsenal for distribution to the soldiers of the battalions.

The Nan'an army was seriously short of armor, and this time in a fierce battle with pirates, if these hundreds of armor and chain mail were equipped before the battle, the casualty rate of the soldiers would be much lower.

Since the income of Nan'an Hou Mansion will increase a lot in the foreseeable future, Xu Zixian has decided to equip each soldier with better scale armor, which is very good, and it is relatively easy to forge and pierce the bundle, but the gap is large, and the weight is the same as that of scale armor, and the protection ability is far less than that of scale armor.

Each soldier wears iron armor, a hood, a necklace, arm guards, heart guards, shin guards, net boots, and iron gloves, which are the most standard heavy infantry attire.

Every sword player and captain will be armoured in this way, and the cavalry will be dominated by cuirass, which will be as light as possible while strengthening its protection.

Archers and crossbowmen are mainly pierced and chainmailed, and they generally do not fight hand-to-hand combat, and do not need to wear too heavy armor, which affects the action of firing bows and arrows.

The piles of armor attracted everyone's attention, but as for the silk, gold and silver, jewelry, and copper coins all over the ground, not many people paid much attention.

Of course, these things are put into the treasury of Nan'an Mansion, and then issued into military salaries, made into armor, bows, crossbows, and ships, everyone understands this, Nan'an Hou Mansion has done as much as possible to be fair, and the soldiers know that they serve Nan'an Hou, land, official households, fleets, and even every people, officials, and soldiers, theoretically belong to Nan'an Hou Mansion.

The land reclaimed by everyone is not counted as public land, but from the perspective of the imperial court law, their land income is actually part of the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

And everyone from the soldiers to the officials to the common people knew that the prince would exchange all the gold, silver and copper coins for the materials needed on the island, more ploughing oxen, horses, sheep, chickens, pigs, all kinds of tools, agricultural tools, hiring more craftsmen, and building more houses.

The residence of the prince was built with the help of his future father-in-law, and he himself was reluctant to spend money to build such a magnificent mansion.

On the island, everyone knew that Nan Anhou would spend every penny where it should be used, and although Jun Hou himself was not coarse and poor, he never squandered it.

The extravagant life of the wealthy merchants and nobles in Fuzhou will never appear in the Eastern Domain at this time.

This situation of concerted efforts on the Eastern Domain Island is of course closely related to Xu Zixian's advocacy, from the top to the bottom of the frugal servants and simplicity, the officials are efficient in performing official duties, the soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and the people are hard-working, of course, it is related to the overall advocacy atmosphere, which is also the best situation when the group was founded.

Xu Zixian smiled at Lu Wenluo and asked, "Does it matter what the envoy of Lin appeases?" ”

"The handsome minister didn't say anything." Lu Wenluo thought for a while and said, "The clouds and mountains are covered in fog, and I haven't come up with a word of truth now." ”

Xu Zixian looked at the people around him, Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian, Fang Shaoqun, as well as Chen Zuocai, Qin Dongyang and others, all of whom had smiles on their faces.

Last evening, Xu Zixian held a military and political meeting in the courtyard of the Hou Mansion, of course, to discuss the situation on Fujian Road from then on.

Everyone has different opinions, Li Yi and Kong He and others, including Qin Dongyang of the military, are all heavy-minded factions, and they think that they should continue to develop in the Eastern Domain, do their own things well, slowly observe the situation on the side of the Great Wei, and then choose the opportunity to enter the Fujian Road, lay a solid foundation and seek development.

Some people, such as Fang Shaoqun, as well as Chen Daojian, Liu Yi and others in the military, mainly young generals who were born as young generals, think that the opportunity cannot be lost, and now the prestige of Nan'anhou Mansion on Fujian Road is simply in full swing, if you use Changwenhou Mansion to open up the situation and catch a certain mansion, such as Zhangzhou, where the foundation of Nan'anhou Mansion will be firmer, grab the territory, appoint their own Xiang army generals, eliminate the old Xiang army, bring the government army to Zhangzhou, and completely control the situation in Zhangzhou.

Appoint officials who are close to the Nan'an Hou Mansion, control the local financial resources, move the manpower of Zhangzhou to the Eastern Domain, reduce the local pressure, and reduce the excessive miscellaneous labor taxes, and the entire Zhangzhou will completely fall under the control of the Nan'an Hou Mansion within half a year.

If Lin Douyao cooperates, then the two sides can cooperate, if Lin Douyao does not want to cooperate, he can first use this war to buy more imperial history in Beijing, and concentrate firepower to impeach Lin Douyao, especially the Nan'an Hou Mansion to take the lead, strip the local military merits from Lin Douyao this time, and then impeach him, which will make it difficult for this pacification to settle down and soon have to go to office.

Once the new pacification envoy is replaced, the imperial court will find it more difficult for the new pacification envoy to control the place, and will face more troubles and blames, and then it will have to change again.

From Zhangzhou to Xinghuajun and then to Tingzhou, Shao Wujun, it is likely that within a few years, Nan'anhou Mansion will be able to completely control all the state capitals outside Fuzhou.

At that time, even if King Zhao and the pacification envoy were able to control Fuzhou, what was the point?

There are dozens of prefectures and counties on Fujian Road, there are more than one million overseas immigrants, many large merchants who are rich and rival the country, and there are hundreds or thousands of sea ships in the port of Quanzhou at any time, providing tens of millions of taxes to the imperial court every year.

Such a place is included in the control, which means that the Nan'an Hou Mansion not only has the power of self-protection in the troubled times, but also has the power to forge ahead and compete for hegemony.

Of course, no one will say the latter thoughts, and people can see that the imperial court will fall into more trouble in the future, and it is very likely to enter troubled times, but now there are only some clues, which are not yet certain, and cannot be used as evidence.

However, Lin Douyao's judgment is correct, this old bureaucrat has fallen into a confused chaos when he encounters the current situation.

Lin Douyao didn't know how to deal with the next trouble, or it was inconclusive, and of course he could only be vague about the people sent by the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and there would be no real statement at all.

Sometimes, a sentence or two, or a letter, can solve a lot of problems and troubles.

"How's it going in Fuzhou City?"

"Yang Dafu, Zheng Ti's criminal envoys have all met with their subordinates." Lu Wenluo said happily: "The people in the city are very jubilant, they all praise the prince, the mansion, and the punishment, and the same, they all boast that the prince is the Dinghai Shenzhu of Fujian Road." ”

"These two adults are kind to me."

Zheng Liqi actually got closer to Xu Zixian because of the relationship between King Qi, at first it was still a partnership, and then it coexisted, and now it has the meaning of dependence.

As for Yang Shiwei, of course this Fuzhou mansion will not be attached, he only does things with public intentions, and his body is old, so it is obvious that he can't do it for too long.

"Did King Zhao see you?"

"No, no one in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has come forward at all." Lu Wenluo said: "I still want to ridicule them, but unfortunately I don't have this opportunity." ”

Xu Zixian sneered and said to everyone: "If my Uncle Wang can see Lu Bu, I can still look down on him, and I can win or lose, so I can be considered a good man." ”

The others were silent, only Fang Shaoqun chuckled lightly and said, "It can be regarded as a father-son inheritance." ”

This is the same temper that ridicules the Son of Heaven, impatient and thin-faced, does not bear the burden, grabs it if he has merit, and blames him too much, King Zhao, the father and son, is really carved out of a mold.

"How's the state going?"

"It's even worse." Lu Wenluo said in a deep voice: "From Nan'an, Shuikou, Gukou, all the way through, through the county seat to Fucheng, there are many hungry people along the way, the miners are displaced, and there are groups of people who have nothing to do. The mines stopped, the factories stopped, the trading houses closed, and the shopkeepers and men had nothing to do. It wasn't like this a year ago, and in less than a year, it has become a ghost in the world. ”

The Kong He family was originally moved to Shuikou by Jianzhou, and when they heard this, they said angrily: "What is Wang Yue going to do, what good is it for him to make such a mess?" ”

Xu Zixian said: "The place is rich, the Quartet is peaceful, and what is the matter with the local government officials?" The place was ruined and there was trouble everywhere, and Wang Yue had the opportunity to grasp the military and political power in his hands. The more power he grabs, the greater the benefits he will get. As for the exhaustion of Jianzhou, it is a matter for the successor anyway...... This is the trouble of the imperial court, what does it have to do with him? ”

Li Yi nodded and sighed: "This dynasty has been too lenient with civil officials in the past thirty or forty years, before Taizu came to Renzong, there was no crime against the rules of doctors, not practicing martial arts, dereliction of duty, greed, fraud, fatigue and incompetence and other crimes, all of them can be impeached, personal relatives are appointed, there are major cases of cultural and educational immorality in the local area, or theft cases, etc., officials must be impeached and punished." After Renzong, he pursued the crimes of the military generals, and indulged in the general crimes of civil officials, incompetent, tired, and did not care, even if he was greedy and robbed, at most he was exiled. In this way, the officials are not afraid of the law of the country, but Renzong has a benevolent word, which is not a good thing for the officials of this dynasty. After arriving in Wenzong, Chengzong was ridiculous, Wen Tian was martial, and the rule of officials was even more unspeakable. Wang Yue was an official, and he was honest and self-disciplined in the first 20 years, but now he has become like this, not because he sees that the national law will not do anything to him. Even if he is forced to rebel against the whole territory of Jianzhou, the court will remove him from his post at most, and the money he makes will not be confiscated, and he will not chase the words since he was born, and he will still be given the post of palace envoy when he goes home, or he will retain the honor and rank, and he will still be a gentry, which is where Wang Yue's confidence lies. ”

Fu Qian was a little puzzled and said: "The rule of officials in this dynasty was originally not bad, why has it been getting worse in the past 30 years?" ”

Everyone turned their eyes to Fang Shaoqun at this time, which had become a subconscious action.

The longer this person has been in Nan'an Hou Mansion, the more convinced everyone is of this person's wisdom and skills, especially his family education has a long history, and his foundation is deep, and some laws, allusions, and stories are all handy.

"This is actually related to Donghu entering the Kou." Fang Shaoqun smiled slightly and said: "The monarchs looked at the actual records of Wenzong in this dynasty, and found that the Son of Heaven was becoming more and more lenient with officials from all walks of life, and it became a story. The reason is simple, since Renzong, the taxes collected by the dynasty have become less and less, and if the local officials do not work hard to collect taxes and add more miscellaneous duties, it is almost impossible to maintain the annual amount of 100 million guan, so the imperial court can only be lenient with local ......"

Xu Zixian nodded, Fang Shaoqun's opinion was similar to his, in general, the imperial court used the leniency of civil officials to buy people's hearts, so that officials could serve, and at the same time as handing over to the imperial court, local officials could also take the opportunity to reap benefits.

Qing officials get political prestige and are more likely to be promoted, while ordinary officials get gray income, that is, benefits that everyone recognizes.

Corrupt officials will get a bad reputation, and the official position will not last long, but they will not be held accountable, this is the method of the imperial court.

The current dynasty is different from the former Tang system, but there are similarities, that is, there is not much left of the local festival, and the financial power is taken over by the center, which makes the local officials have no incentive to collect taxes at the local level.

Before and after Wenzong, the decline in taxes was extremely serious, compared with the high level of 160 million guan, the main reason is that the tax avoidance of the elite is much more serious than that in the early Wei period, and the second is that the disasters in the past few decades have been serious, in addition to natural disasters, the harm of the Donghu invasion, the rise of piracy, and the damage to industrial and commercial trade and agriculture are quite serious.

If it weren't for the leniency of officials for corruption and lawlessness, it would be tantamount to the means of distributing dividends to officials, and I am afraid that the tax amount of Great Wei would have dropped to less than 100 million yuan long ago.

"Isn't this drinking to quench your thirst?" Kong He said angrily: "No wonder the people have become more and more difficult in the past few decades, the imperial court does not want to start from the system, but uses this method to make the officials work hard, let them eat the people, it is simply a bastard." ”

"It is very difficult to change the legal system, how can this kind of unspoken rule be easy and effective?" Xu Zixian smiled bitterly: "I have already figured out this matter, and I don't dare to say it for a while, because I am afraid that Xuanping will not be able to stand it." ”

Kong He said: "Now I understand, there were not many corrupt officials before, not self-discipline, but officials who were still motivated, and wanted to obtain a higher official position and leave a name in history, and now the Great Wei is more and more like the end of the dynasty, and there will be more and more officials like Wang Yue." Since Dawei is dying, it doesn't matter who the new master is, let's get enough benefits for my family first, Junhou, am I right? ”

Xu Zixian smiled bitterly and nodded, Kong He was originally a smart person, and he didn't have anything to do before, but with a little dialing, Kong He had already figured it out.

Of course, such a big national policy cannot be completely implemented as Xu Zixian and Fang Shaoqun said, but most of this matter was secretly discussed between the Son of Heaven and the important ministers decades ago, and gradually implemented.

The effect is also good, the world is in an uproar, war, pirates, rogues, natural disasters, and many unfavorable factors combined, the imperial court can still earn more than 100 million yuan, which shows that local officials are indeed urging all kinds of taxes with their hearts.

As for how many miscellaneous taxes were added and how many officials and officials were enriched, it is difficult to calculate this figure.

Under such a heavy tax, it can be described as "the method of decaying the world, doing everything you can, peeling off the skin and destroying the body, doing everything, and balancing the blood." ”

This is the reason why the industrial and commercial sea trade of the Great Wei Dynasty is developed, but the people are getting poorer and poorer, and the center is not rich. What may have been a stopgap decision at the time is now a big deal.

"I hope that the prince can take over the power of Fujian Road as soon as possible." Kong He was originally a steady faction, but at this time, he couldn't help but say solemnly: "The sooner the prince takes power, the sooner the officials of Fujian Road can be clarified." ”

"It's not as easy as Kong Xuanping thinks." Xu Zixian said to everyone: "The time has not yet come, and there are many events on the island, don't worry, let's leave it at that." ”

This is Xu Zixian's clear statement, no matter whether everyone is rushing forward or advancing steadily, but no one speaks up to defend again, Fang Shaoqun's throat moved twice, after all, he still held back.