In addition, Guangzhou was also the seat of the Municipal Envoy and the Imperial Supervisor's Yuan, which were responsible for collecting and administering tribute and taxes from overseas countries.

Tang Li Zhaoyun: "The South China Sea is a ship, and foreign ships are also." Every year to Annan, Guangzhou. Shizi is the largest in the country, and the ladder is several zhang up and down, all of which are treasures. As far as the road is reported, the county is noisy. There is a chief of the Fan as the main leader, the city envoy uses his famous things, the foot of the lot, the forbidden treasures, and the merchants of the Fan have been imprisoned for fraud"

The so-called "Nabo Foot" means that a certain percentage of the import goods tax is levied on merchant ships, and the so-called "prohibition of rare goods" means that the government requisitions monopoly goods from imported goods, and prohibits merchants from privately trading monopoly commodities before the government requisitions them. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yiyun: "In the land of the South China Sea, there are gold, pearls, shellfish, armor, tooth repair, and rhino goods." These are all commodities that are levied by the government.

The so-called "Jinfeng" refers to the tribute offered by the envoys to the court, and by the way, he is in charge of and arranges the tributary affairs by sea, which is also a very oily job. These three constitute the main livelihood and authority of the city envoys, and they are also one of the important sources of income for the "private collection of the king" directly through the Ouchi Daying Inner Treasury.

In addition to the many land taxes listed in the two tax laws, the emperors used it as an additional source of revenue to finance the state's military expenditures, expenses, and rewards, and to balance the financial incursions. Even under the command of the three envoys known as "Ji Xiang" in the foreign dynasties, the household department, salt and iron, and degree branches and other yamen formed part of the four-yuan financial system of the late Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the profits of the city are so important to the treasures of the inner treasury and the national finances that when the Huangchao army captured Guangzhou and sought to be the envoy of the Lingnan Festival, the opposition of the court was very strong. The left servant shot at Cong Yun: "The treasure goods gathered in Guangzhou City, how can the thieves get it." It is also said: "The South China Sea has the benefits of the market, and the tribute is a pearl." If the thief owns it, the treasury will gradually be exhausted."

In a sense, this income directly into the internal treasury is also an important means for the emperors whose authority has gradually fallen since the middle and late Tang Dynasty to maintain their influence on the imperial court; Especially today's Tang Xizong, who is known as the "Polo Emperor" and "Goose Fighting Emperor" by later generations, it is best to have luxury amusement and frolic without asking about political affairs, and often reward huge thousands of dollars and spend all the internal and external libraries such as Zuozang and Daying; So much so that the eunuch Tian Lingzi, who held the power of the government, directly ordered the expropriation of the goods of the wealthy merchants in the east and west markets to be used.

Now that the righteous army has cut the money bag directly under the emperor so hard, it is no wonder that there will be no problems in the future.

Of course, most of these are not so easy to get hold of or can be used directly; As the saying goes, "no accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles; If you don't accumulate small streams, you can't become rivers and seas", just start with the easiest to start with and what you can do first.

One of the tasks arranged by Zhou Huai'an at the moment is to lead the team to sweep away the various ancestral halls and temples scattered in the Fanren Fang, although they have already been smashed and looted, but under the initial indiscriminate robbery, there are still many things that have been missed because they are not knowledgeable; Therefore, Zhou Huai'an is responsible for organizing professional manpower, identifying and separating the residual value of these places, and carrying out the process of scavenging and looting.

And the most abundant among them, is undoubtedly those Tianzhu people built the shrine, the shrine, it can be said that even a small shrine, are inlaid and wrapped with gold, silver and precious stones, and their gods are both many and miscellaneous, worship and worship of the types of names and large and small objects, is also scattered.

The second is the Persian Wo Temple/Fire Worship Temple, although it looks quite simple in appearance, but in fact, in order to worship the fire god and the supreme god, they use the best of the precious incense wood and incense, as well as a variety of exquisite gold and silver inlaid ritual vessels, most of which are made of large fire cages, water certificates, etc., which are difficult to find when sunk in the pool and fire altar.

Then there is the Jingmiao of the Great Qin people, as one of the heretical sects advocating idolatry, one of the exotic Sanyi religions that once thought that they had taken the upper route and were recognized and allowed to preach by the kings of the Tang Dynasty and the Emperor Taizong

Therefore, not only do there be all kinds of inscriptions written on the imperial father Aroke, the bright sage Venerable Mouse, the heavens leading the messengers, the twelve kings of the Tao, and even the Tang monarchs below Tang Taizong, including all kinds of exquisite gods and tablets in the Eastern soil style, they also have a large number of precious metals and gems made of magic vessels and worship objects, but the craftsmanship and appearance are much worse.

Among them, the poorest and most dilapidated is undoubtedly the Tianfang Temple of the Great Cannibal, except for some smashed-down patterned wall decorations, there is no gain. It wasn't without other gains, a dozen beautifully decorated scimitars were secretly swallowed by me, and all of them were used for other dough dots and gifts.

In the process of raiding the temples and shrines, they even found a few monasteries that ostensibly carried the name of the Pure Land Sect, but in private they practiced esoteric teachings, and gained a lot from them;

However, it is also natural to think that Guangzhou was originally one of the earliest maritime Silk Road and one of the starting points of the sea route for the spread of Buddhism, and many eminent monks and great masters including Yijing and Fa Xian have been here for a long time in history; At this time, the Tang Dynasty was the late stage when the three great scholars of Shanwu Fearless, Vajra Zhi and Bukong promoted and promoted the Eastern School of Buddhism Tantra; Therefore, even after the destruction of the Buddha by Wuzong and the forced return of a large number of forbidden monasteries, it is not surprising that one or two monasteries have survived in this port of overseas thoroughfare.

It's just that compared with the strange things that became cruel and abnormally perverted by the introduction of Padmasambhava to Tibet and the combination of local Bon religion, Tang Mi, who was in order to meet the needs of the missionary in the middle, actually focused more on the health preservation and intercourse techniques that the emperor would be equal to the upper class; Therefore, after the Fuso monk Kukai crossed the sea to ancient Japan to seek the Dharma, he inevitably went to the extreme of another marriage and funeral, and began to emphasize relying on the desires of the female body to sharpen his own liberation.

Of course, Zhou Huai'an's public statement in this regard is that these are all evil ways that are swaggering and deceiving under the banner of Tantra and doing illegal things to fulfill their selfish desires, and they are not the real purpose of Buddhism, so as many Yunyun should be killed.

During this period of operation and expansion, although there were still not many maritime merchants who came to Guangzhou for shipping trade, and most of them were relatively close to the merchant ships of Shui, Lu Zhenla, Linyi, Pio, Murifo and other places; But Zhou Huai'an also opened up two private and exclusive re-export/sale routes.

One is the route to the north, which is the smuggling route of the smuggling of incense and jewelry distributed by the Fujian ship merchant who went and returned, and the more than a dozen family ships he brought back.

One is the route to the west, which is used to distribute some Tang specialties that are under the control of the Fufeng Camp overseas, and is presided over by the self-proclaimed naturalized Fanlao Feikong, who is currently only able to travel between Leizhou and Hainan, and passively accept onshore transactions locally. However, with the bowing of the Annam Prefecture and the Jing Navy and the reopening of the port, there should be further expansion.

According to Fei Kong's sworn promise, as long as there is no obstacle from paying back the order, relying on his former connections and abilities, at least he can go directly to Wufang Tianzhu in one go; Then he slowly tried to go farther to rest and eat the business of the Great Food, and even arrived at the Yaksha countries rich in Kunlun slaves, or under the rule of Taixi Daqin.

In the residence of the Fury Wind Battalion Branch, Zhou Huai'an, who was receiving daily reports and account summaries.

"The cooperation assigned by the military government has arrived in the camp."

As a duty Yu Hou got Ge Cong Zhoutong report.

"Who are these people?"

Then, Zhou Huai'an saw a large group of people in the audience who looked a little strange.

"They're all."

Lin Yan, who was responsible for leading the team, took it for granted.

"It's all the bastards left behind by the generations of Fanhu who came from the sea. In the state city of the past years, almost all the streets are full. Most of those outcasts of prostitution. ”

"It's all men."

Zhou Huai'an looked at these groups with different expressions, and suddenly had some questions.

"If it's okay if it's a woman, there are those prostitutes who will adopt it."

Lin Yanbu smiled and said

"Only men are abandoned."

"It's only two or three people who can live to grow up. If you're lucky, you'll be taken in as a slave by a big family, which is a blessing."

According to him, even if these fatherless and motherless abandoned children can live to grow up, they still have a little foreign blood characteristics, so in the local social life, they will inevitably be implicitly discriminated against and rejected by the general public of some "non-my race", and can only be reduced to the bottom of the market for a long time, and make a living by operating some lowly industries;

Therefore, in this time the combination of the inside and the outside of the city of Guangzhou, they can be regarded as one of the hardest working groups. After the war, a special unit was specially organized, known as the dare to capture the battalion. The elite were selected to fill it, and the majority of the remaining eliminated were sent to Zhou Huai'an's men to serve as labor and coolies in a sense.

However, for Zhou Huai'an, their value is far more than that, as a corner of the city who has lived at the bottom of the market since childhood and is familiar with the inside and outside of Guangzhou, they obviously have more use.

Because of the shock caused by the banquet assassination, it led to the news that the Dasuo operation was being carried out in the Sanchong City of Guangzhou today, and the news that many homes were raided by Shunteng; It is said that in the morning market, just outside the eastern slope wall of Fanshan, hundreds of human heads have been cut off.

Therefore, Zhou Huaian also felt that he should take this opportunity to do something to ensure his own interests and the safety of the surrounding environment.