Zhu Hongsan and Ma Mingyuan were waiting for Tong Yangjia's iron ore in their hometown, and the prefect of Tong, who was thousands of miles away, was also very depressed, he didn't expect that this iron mine was not easy to dig.

But this was not the case with Tong Yangjia more than a month ago, and it could be said that he was in high spirits at that time.

Tong Yangjia and Ma Jiyuan set off on the first day of October, and the journey was very smooth. Approaching the winter moon, the typhoon in the South China Sea has stopped, so a group of 20 large ships arrived at Leizhou Mansion on the seventh day of October.

After putting down more than 100 people from Ma Jiyuan here, the Tong Yangjia Brigade continued to hurry and came to the sea off Qiongzhou Mansion on the ninth day of October.

Hainan Island has been inhabited by people from the mainland since ancient times. It is recorded that from the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin general Zhao Tuo led an expedition of 400,000 troops to Lingnan to unify the vast area of Lingnan.

Guilin, Nanhai and Xiang counties were set up in the south, and hundreds of thousands of people from the Central Plains were relocated to their places. At this time, Hainan Island was under the jurisdiction of Xiang County. When Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, Qin Longchuan ordered Zhao Tuo to establish himself as the king of Nanyue, and Hainan Island was also under the jurisdiction of Nanyue.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the central government sent Lu Bode, the general of Fubo, and Yang Fu, the general of Lou Chuan, to lead the troops to quell the rebellion in Nanyue. Zhuya County and Daner County are set up on Hainan Island. It is under the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou Thorn History. These are the first two administrative place names of Hainan Island to be included in the territory of the motherland, marking the beginning of the direct rule of the central government over Hainan Island.

After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the place names of Hainan Island changed a lot, and the Southern Song Dynasty began to set up a prefecture-level management agency on Hainan Island. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and many soldiers and civilians on the mainland fled to Qiongzhou, which was the period when the population of Qiongzhou increased the fastest.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the world was unified. Zhu Yuanzhang upgraded Qiongzhou to Qiongzhou Prefecture, with 13 counties in Danzhou, Yazhou and Wanzhou under its jurisdiction, and changed the Nanhai Islands to Yazhou jurisdiction.

According to the first census in the 26th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 68,000 households and 298,000 people in Qiongzhou Prefecture. In the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng carried out a whip law, and the whole country re-conducted a land census, with a total population of more than 400,000 and more than 3.8 million mu of land.

Compared with the population of Guangdong provinces, Qiongzhou is second only to the densely populated Guangzhou and Chaozhou provinces, ranking third in the province.

And Tong Yangjia, as a parent official of more than 400,000 yuan, can he not be high-spirited. At the same time, he also had the guard given by Lord Feng, the governor of Liangguang, and the local garrison of more than 30,000 people in the whole palace and six places were subject to his control. Tong Yangjia is now counted as a soil emperor.

Looking at the warship that Hainan Wei came to greet outside, Tong Yangjia said to Tong Tuchang beside him: "Virtuous nephew, we finally got through this time." The lord has given us so much power, we must repay the lord well. ”

Tong Tuchang said: "Second uncle, the iron mine that the King of Chu said is there. How are we going to mine? ”

Tong Yangjia said: "Let's go to Fucheng first, the lord said that there are people mining now, and the local magistrate should know about it." ”

Tong Tuchang nodded after hearing this.

Hainan Wei's guide ship guided the twenty large sea ships into the dock in turn. Because the wharf of Qiongzhou Mansion is too small, only eight large ships can be docked at a time, so Tong Yangjia went ashore in advance and let the craftsmen who led the team go ashore one after another.

On the wharf, officials at all levels of Qiongzhou Mansion were waiting for the new prefect, and the first one was Lu Shiyuan, the same governor of Qiongzhou Mansion. Lord Lu was in a very bad mood today, originally the former prefect had promised Lu Shiyuan to recommend him as the next prefect when he left, but he didn't expect to be preempted by Tong Yangjia, who was born out of nowhere.

At the same time, Lu Shiyuan also knew that this newcomer to the prefect of Tong was very wild, and he was an official selected by the Ministry of Southern Zhili, that is, an airborne cadre. Such a person has an extremely hard background, and it is not something that he Lu Shiyuan can offend at all.

So Lu Shiyuan had to pretend that he didn't care, and he had to bring someone to the dock outside the city to greet him.

The first big ship docked, and Lu Shiyuan couldn't help but jump when he saw that these big ships were all warships of the Guangdong Patrol Seaway. I thought that the new prefect really had some doorways. You must know that the patrol channel is under the jurisdiction of the judge, and the political secretary in charge of civil affairs is not the same system, this prefect Tong can actually make the patrol channel, it seems that it is better to be careful.

At this time, the boat had already docked, and a thin old man got down from the gangplank, and this was the new prefect.

Lu Shiyuan is also a person who has been in the sea for a long time, and he is unhappy in his heart, but he does not show half a point on his face. stepped forward and arched his hand: "This is the new Qiongzhou Governor Tong?" The lower officials know Lu Shiyuan. ”

Tong Yangjia laughed and said: "Lord Lu, how can Tong Mou let his colleagues come to the dock to greet him, it's really damn good." ”

Lu Shiyuan hurriedly said: "There, it should be, it should be." After speaking, he began to introduce more than a dozen officials behind him. The front is the general judgment, and the back is the prefect's subordinate officials, who have experience, governors, zhaoma, school inspections, and prisons, and then the prefects of Qiongshan and Chengmai counties.

Qiongshan County is attached to Qiongzhou Prefecture, and Chengmai County is too close to the Fucheng, only twenty miles, so I also came this time.

Tong Yangjia met all the officials one by one. Then there was Tao Dayong, the commander of Hainan Wei, because Tong Yangjia had the control of Hainan Wei by the governor of Liangguang, so the guard was also a subordinate official of Tong Yangjia, and this time he also came to greet the new prefect.

After the introduction was completed, Lu Shiyuan was notified to accompany Tong Yangjia back to Fucheng.

The capital city of Qiongzhou was built on the edge of the Nandu River, and Lu Shiyuan introduced the situation of the capital city of Qiongzhou while walking. The foundation of Fucheng was built in the fifth year of Song Taizu's Kaibao, and the circumference of the city was three miles long.

In August of the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Sun Anzuo, a soldier of the military department, asked the imperial court for permission to open up the siege of the city. Hongwu five years of Wei commanded Zhang Rong from the northwest corner to the southeast corner to build, the circumference of the city is 600 zhang, 3 zhang 2 feet deep. There are three city gates, the east gate "Chaoyang", the west gate "Hue", the south gate "Jingnan", and the gate tower above each gate. There is no gate in the north, but there is a city tower, called "Wanghai Tower".

In the seventh year of Hongwu, 340 zhang of the city was added outside the east city, and the east gate "Chaoyang" was changed to "Yongtai". Hongwu was basically completed in ten years. The circumference of the city is 1,253 zhang, the height is 2 zhang 7 feet, the width is 2 zhang 8, the pheasant moat is 1,843, the shop is 57 rooms, the circumference of the moat is 1,287 zhang, the depth is 3 zhang 2 feet, and the width is 4 zhang 8 feet.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Hainan Wei commanded Sang Zhao to build an earthen city of 380 zhang outside the west gate of the city, as a sub-city, and opened three city gates in the west, south and north. In the ninth year of Chenghua, the deputy envoy Tu Di renamed the names of the three city gates, the east gate was called Tiren, the west gate was called Guiyi, and the south gate was called Dinghai.

In the thirteenth year of Chenghua, Chen Zhao built the earth city again, and built a fence and horse wall around the outer ring of the city. In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, the prefect Li Shen changed the sub-city to stone construction, but it was blown down by a typhoon not long after.

In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Cao Tianyou, the senator, and Zeng Shilong, the magistrate of Qiongshan County, built the sub-city again. After repairing, the sub-city is surrounded by 312 zhang, more than 1 zhang and 4 feet high, one zhang and one foot wider than the original, and there are 642 pheasants.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Jiang Yiming, the prefect, created the moon city outside the east gate, which is eight zhang wide and four feet high, and there are forty-two pheasants. Outside the south gate, the moon city is four zhang wide, one zhang and four feet high, and there are thirty pheasants.

Entering the castle, the government office is set up in the north and middle of the castle. From the establishment of Qiongzhou during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the Qiongguan Pacification Department of the Song Dynasty, the Qiongzhou Military and Civilian Pacification Department of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Qiongzhou Mansion of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were all located here. There is also the county office of Qiongshan County in the city, and the county government is in the southwest of the government office.

Hainan Island has been the place of exile of the central civil ministers since the Sui and Tang dynasties, and there are records that there are as many as seven officials at the prime minister's level who have been exiled to Hainan Island in the past dynasties, so the literary style in the city is extremely prosperous.

Temples, views, nunnery, towers in the city of Qiongzhou Mansion are lined up one after another, ancestral halls, temples can be seen everywhere. Sheji Temple, Kaiyuan Temple, Tianning Temple, Jade Emperor Temple, Chenghuang Temple, Lei Temple, Xuantan Temple, Zaojun Temple, Limu Temple, Mawang Temple, Taihua Temple, Fu Huibo Temple, Renxiao Temple, Xiaoyi Temple, Dongchang Temple, Sanxian Temple, Su Gong Temple, Wugong Temple, and so on.

Lu Shiyuan has been an official here for many years, and he has allusions to the scenery everywhere. It was very much a sight for Tong Yangjia's uncle and nephew.

The capital city of Qiongzhou is very large, with a population of about 100,000 people. You can't walk the whole city in one day. So after reading it everywhere, Lu Shiyuan asked: "Lord Tong, now at noon, my colleagues have prepared thin wine and mussels on the Wanghai Tower to catch the wind for the prefect." ”

Tong Yangjia is also an old man, so he can refuse the kindness of his colleagues, and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, Tong is not welcome." ”