After passing through Jili State, the road to the north was again divided into two main roads at a place called Seokseong, which went north to Liaojun and east to the Yalu River valley, and finally crossed the Sasu River (present-day Taedong River) and entered the Silla Domain.

We continued northward, passing through large patches of plains and valleys, and finally out of the border between the Governor of Kianan Prefecture in the middle of the peninsula and the Anshi Prefecture in the north.

The endless mountains and hills are finally beginning to diminish and disappear. And more rivers and basins appeared in front of us. The winding road winds through the mountains, and the winding mountain road with large ups and downs begins to become gentle and straight.

And after entering the area of Xinchang County (near present-day Haicheng, Liaoning), another prefecture that the Da Luo clan now possesses, the Governor of Liaocheng Prefecture,

Along the surging branches of several large rivers, large areas of fertile fields and villages and towns are also frequently presented in our field of vision.

It's just that the popularity of chatting about Luoluo during the period is still a little insufficient, and in this spring, which should be the most busy season for farming, it shows a certain taste of loneliness.

Only when the caravan arrives, will there be a certain vitality and vitality in front of the occasional and brief array of wagons with the villagers who have come out with the old and the young.

But if you look closely, there are still a small number of adult men, and there are many people with mobility problems or disabilities. There are even many people who are scarred and don't seem to be able to be caused by ordinary accidents and ordinary accidents in life.

Most of the vassals and feudal families who came out to receive and meet along the way were elderly.

In many cases, most of them will stand on the wall of the castle or the city together with their relatives, watching and looking at them with a complex and different expressions and eyes. The team I brought with me, even after a long journey, still maintained relative morale and spirit, and the military appearance was at its peak and the armor was distinct.

Even, sometimes there will be a few inexplicable cold treatment and indifference, but when they can't hide, they send an inconsequential representative to perfunctory; Or even the politeness on the basic name, I don't want to maintain it more. Almost disappear when you show your face in the crowd, and even the simple process of introducing your origin and name is saved.

It's a bit confusing. Could it be that there are still some controversies and disagreements within Anton Roche's family about inviting me to watch and help?

Compared with the main branch of Ding Buwang, the first two generations began to decline, and it was only in my generation that the South China Sea Fuyuan Prefecture Roche was greatly revitalized; Anton Roche, which has been developing in the north, can be said to have many branches.

Therefore, the various voices within the family must be much more complicated than those of the same clan in the south. This is obviously something I need to be aware of and a potential factor that I can't be prevented from.

I wrote down these accounts and thoughts in my diary.

During this unhurried journey, I will also take the opportunity to rest and enjoy the scenery, and arrange for people to carry out simple exploration and mapping along the way.

On the one hand, it is to secure the back road, just in case of intelligence gathering; On the other hand, it is the evaluation and preparation of future prospects.

In later generations, the Liaodong Peninsula had many famous mineral deposits, including both coal and iron. Therefore, in later generations, such as Benxi, Anshan, etc., are all well-known brands in the industrial system of the Republic and the underground reserves of iron ore alone account for 22% of the country.

Like the Benxi Dataigou iron ore discovered in later generations, the single scale is known as the world's largest cloud cloud.

Moreover, whether it is coal or iron ore, there are quite a few rather shallow distributions. Therefore, in the vicissitudes of the sea and rain, in ancient times, a corner of the ore vein was gradually exposed, and finally became an open-pit mine that could be directly mined by manpower.

Therefore, the local area has a long history of iron smelting, and it can even be traced back to the Qin and Han dynasties. However, due to the limited scientific and technological level and means of mining and prospecting of the ancients, the degree of development and utilization is still quite limited.

In addition, there is a considerable amount of other minerals such as diamond, borax, jade, talc and other minerals produced in the local area, which is also an important source of output and external income under the leadership of Da Luo.

It is also one of the warmest and wettest places in Northeast China, but without the support of large-scale mechanized input agriculture and fertilizer industry in later generations, it is difficult to form a sufficient output scale by relying on those traditional crops.

The system of local management of the Da Luo clan is still the traditional clan system, and it is only slightly different and adjusted from the islands and continents in the South China Sea.

Since Taixing changed the Yuan Jinglong, in order to distinguish the system of the dynasty and the princes, it is divided into virtual jue and real yi, and the virtual jue is the daily example of the imperial court, which is given to the fake land in Kyushu, and then compared with the number of food yi, it is given by the imperial court's wealth, and it is called the national jue.

In the past 100 years, from the Taixing period to the Baoying period, the princes of each surname who have been divided into feudal domains, and the first generations of the generals and clans who continue to be divided are collectively referred to as feudal lords.

According to the titles of the first generations of each dynasty, from the bottom up, they are called the big and small lords, the scholar domain, the male domain, the sub-domain, the Bo domain, the Hou domain and the public domain, and at the top is the very small number of royal surnames that have been recognized and posthumously recognized by the national dynasty, and they are qualified to be called the national king, the public office, the king and the king.

His descendants are collectively referred to as the crown prince, the prince, the prince (the eldest son), the prince (second), the prince grandson, the grandson, etc., and so on.

And these large and small princes and vassal lords usually use their surnames as the country name or domain name, so they have derived a variety of strange names, such as the two feudal clans of the north and south.

However, the position of the prince is extremely respectful, and since the short-lived flash in the pan during the Xianqing period, there has been no real award. Moreover, it was only an expedient measure to repair and bring closer the somewhat alienated extraterritorial vassal relations in order to posthumously recognize the Liang kingdom of Great Xia, which had been a fait accompli for many years.

For example, in the forehead system of the Tang Dynasty, he had long held the authority of the Nanhai Governor's Office, and the predecessor of the Liang of the National Dynasty, the Liang clan of the South China Sea, which managed the system of overseas tributary vassals, was the leader at the top.

It was not until the founding of the Southern Dynasty that the Great Liang Dynasty maintained the pattern of the four major offices to manage the overseas vassals on behalf of the country.

Moreover, with the increasing authority of the imperial court and the strengthening of external control, the power and positions of the four major offices were gradually shrunk and reduced, and became somewhat unworthy of the name.

Therefore, the powerful factions that really have regional influence are those who have survived through successive generations of reductions and withdrawals, and those who still survive at all levels.

They often had enough territorial depth, output, and population to support and maintain the corresponding feudal soldiers, and they could secretly wrestle with the center of the imperial court or openly bargain to maximize their power; On the one hand, they are connected to each other and intrigue with each other to play balance, and on the other hand, they can also lead the retainers to continue to open up the wilderness and expand the territory and family business.

Just like today's Anton Da Luo, even if it has begun to weaken and decline, it still holds the title of the two major governors of Jian'an and Liaocheng in the south and the authority to manage the princes.

Once upon a time, Xiao Luo, who is now cramped in a corner of West Borneo and only has the name of Eight Leaves, used to be a similar existence that could barely be compared to it.

Within the division of the feudal domain, it is to some extent a retrospective of the princely system of the Zhou rites: except for the smallest scholar domain in terms of pattern and rank.

As the princes under the prince, the marquis, the uncle, the son, and the male: there are also, the third class of the upper middle and lower qing, the upper doctor, the middle doctor, the lower doctor, the sergeant, the sergeant, the corporal, and the mortal doctor, a total of nine ranks, as the rank and rank of the subordinates.

If the territory is large enough, then divide the left and right into the inferior. Compare the official status and treatment of the upper and lower ranks of the nine grades in the Tang Dynasty, and then take this as the basis and premise to serve as the acting officials at all levels.

Therefore, there are usually two sets of internal and external systems of retainers and acting officials under the feudal domain, which are represented by several stewards and deputies, who are responsible for the daily operation and management of the affairs of the clan and the subordinates.

If the territory is large enough and the feudal affairs are busy, in addition to the family lord and the ruler, there are also derived from the rank of the family elder and the yuansu, as the assistant and counselor of the patriarch and the lord of the domain, or sit on the side of the town, or be responsible for the affairs of the degree.

However, according to their respective rank and the size of the title, the corresponding level and number of settings are also strictly limited.

Like the Luo family in Fuyuan Prefecture, it is only a special establishment of the founding feudal clan with a maximum of one upper doctor, one middle doctor, three lower doctors, and ten third-class scholars, so as to correspond to the internal system of three pipes and five Cao.

However, in the northern land, where the etiquette collapsed and the authority of the imperial court declined, especially the geographical forces that had long been in confrontation with the Northern Dynasty in the land of Andong, they would not be too particular.

Therefore, the Anton Da Luo clan, which was a real domain for a long time, and directly or indirectly owned six or seven states, the specifications, ranks, and establishment of the retainers were also a lot more than those of the distant sect in the south. There are as many as seven elders like Luo Sijin,