After the Qingzhou War, Gu Siyuan only lived in Chongzhou for a few days, and then left the core circle of Jiangning and Huaidong, and also left this endless circle of right and wrong, and took his wife to serve in a different place. In the past five years, Gu Siyuan has successively known the two counties of Huipu and Yongtai, and from the dignified Gu Shaojun and the young master of Qingzhou, he has honestly served as the two magistrates.

Compared with Chongguan's eight-year youth and frivolity, Gu Siyuan at this time had a dark face, thin and capable, bright eyes, a short mustache on his lips, and stood in the courtyard with his sleeves to look at the peach branches in the corner of the courtyard.

Seeing Lin Jian walking into the garden with the little hand of the political monarch, Gu Siyuan turned around and bowed: "The subordinate knocks to see the lord......"

"A family, where did you come up with this set of false etiquette?" Lin Jian hugged Gu Siyuan, did not ask him to salute, and walked with Gu Siyuan to the small garden in the corner of the courtyard, and saw Jun Xun and her mother-in-law Tang Gu, as well as Gu Siyuan's wife and son, all sitting in the small garden talking, watching Lin Jian walk in, they all stood up.

Gu Zhan, the son of Gu Siyuan, is the same age as Zhengjun, with a tiger head and a tiger brain, and looks much stronger than Gu Siyuan, but he taught Gu Siyuan to be polite, and came over to salute Lin Zhan, the "uncle" - Lin Zhan pulled Gu Zhan, touched the drooping hair on his neck, and said to Gu Siyuan: "I also just returned to Jiangning from Haizhou, and I can't get out of it after I come back, but fortunately, you and I are a family, and you don't need to be too particular about moving around, so I asked Jun Xun to treat you in this garden...... Calling people in Zhejiang and Fujian all these years is also wronged you. ”

"Si Yuan doesn't feel wronged," Gu Si Yuan said, "If you can do something down-to-earth, your heart can calm down; Otherwise, how can we meditate on the past and regret all kinds of mistakes? ”

"The past, don't mention it too much...... Lin Jian waved his hand, asked Tang Gu to say goodbye, and asked Gu Siyuan to sit down with him in the corner pavilion in the garden. And Gu Junxun, Tang Gu and Gu Siyuan's wife were sitting and talking in another corner pavilion in the garden, and it was not yet time for the banquet.

At this time, some people also talked about the fact that he supported Emperor Yongxing and abandoned the Gu family, for his own power and selfishness, and for the abandonment of his teacher, Lin Jian didn't know if Gu Siyuan really thought through everything, and people's hearts were separated from their bellies, but Gu Siyuan, who had experienced the changes in Qingzhou, was indeed much calmer than before. Gu Siyuan knew about the affairs of Huipu and Yongtai counties, was diligent in governing government affairs, and did have real achievements, even Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan, Gao Zongting and others, who did not want Gu Siyuan to come out, had to consider transferring him to Beppu to serve as a general judge or prefect after Gu Siyuan's term of office as governor of Yongtai County expired.

Lin Jian thought about transferring Gu Siyuan to Guangnan.

The counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangning have the weakest control over Quang Nam. On the one hand, the road in Guangnan is remote, and the land and sea routes have to pass through Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi, on the other hand, the population in Guangnan is scarce, and there are only more than 200,000 naturalized households, not even as Haiyu County, and the control over Guangnan is strong or weak, and the impact on the center is not great.

However, Quang Nam County has great potential for development.

The Guangdong River, that is, the Pearl River in later generations, is actually the third continental river after the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, with tens of millions of acres of fertile land along its shores; To the south of Leizhou, Quang Nam County, it is Qiongzhou Island, the second largest island after Yizhou Island.

Even if we only talk about the commercial affairs of Nanyang, it is only after the development of the Yue River that we can have a better basis for trade penetration and expansion in the Champa Kingdom (present-day Vietnam). Of course, Quang Nam County has a sparse population and few naturalized households, but the real population resources are not a lot.

Guangnan in the narrow sense includes the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi in later generations, and the area is larger than the two counties of Zhejiang and Fujian combined. There are only more than 20 households and more than one million people in Quang Nam, but there are a large number of Shanyue, Nanmiao, and Nannanyi people living among the mountains such as Wuyi Mountain, Wuling Mountain, Miao Ling, and Yucheng Ridge, as well as on Qiongzhou Island, and it is estimated that Ding Kou will not be less than 2 million.

In addition, from Guangnan to the south, is the ancient county of Ningzhou, that is, the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou in later generations.

In the previous dynasty, Chen set up Ningzhou County to govern Yunnan and Guizhou, established the hereditary Ningzhou Thorn History of the Southwest Yimeng clan, and set up 11 prefectures and 92 counties to govern its territory, which can be regarded as officially bringing the Yunnan-Guizhou region under the jurisdiction of the center.

When Yuanyue established the state, the state of Mengshi was established as the state of Shanxi, and by the time of Sejong, it was reduced to a vassal state. It's just that because the Dianchi Lake is far away, over the mountains and mountains, it is very inconvenient, and Yue Shizong named Meng Shi as the Duke of Shanxi, and Yongzhen Yunnan and Guizhou. In fact, Yunnan and Guizhou have always been outside the central control, and only some symbolic tribute is collected every year to show the status of the suzerain.

It is this former Ningzhou, now Shanxian State, in the late period of the former dynasty and Chen, there were 300,000 registered households. Since then, the central government has never received any more information on the population of Shan, and Dingkou estimates that it will be more than two million.

Lin Bin's first purpose was to strengthen the control and development of Quang Nam County, so that more than 2 million Miao Yi and other people in Quang Nam County could organize people into households and strengthen their control; When the time is ripe, he will directly send troops to subjugate the state of Shanzhou, restore the ancient county of Ningzhou, and restore the center's rule over the southwest Yunnan and Guizhou regions.

Of course, the first step is to strengthen the development and control of Quang Nam.

Lin Jian intended to make Gu Siyuan know the affairs of Leizhou and Qiongzhou.

Qiongzhou is also known as Yazhou, and Leizhou Fuyecheng is only more than 30 miles away from the strait, Lin Tie is to move the government of Leizhou Mansion from Leizhou Peninsula to Qiongzhou Island.

"Leizhou is very hot and the place is deserted, but to govern Guangnan, you need to start from Leizhou, so as to take into account the South China Sea (now Guangzhou) and Qinzhou, Yongzhou (now Nanning) and Qiongzhou," Lin Jian sat in the pavilion with Gu Siyuan, and said, "Leizhou lives in the middle of Guangnan, but it is located in the barren summer, except for you, I don't know who I can pay the heavy responsibility to......"

"The lord trusts him, and the heir does not dare to resign, and he will live up to the expectations of the lord." Gu Siyuan said.

At this moment, Gu Tianqiao poked his head out of the courtyard, looked at the pavilion sitting here and talked, and retracted his head again.

Lin Lian scolded with a smile: "You Gu monkey, probe your brain, and want to hide there......" When Gu Tianqiao first followed Gu Wuchen into Jiangning, he was still a simple young man of the Gu family, but his grandfather and Gu Wuchen's father were brothers, and they were taken care of by Gu Wuchen and brought into Jiangning. It's just that the simplicity of the year is gone, and at this time the clothes are gorgeous, but the cheeks are thin, so people call him Gu Monkey.

Gu Tianqiao, Lin Xuhong, Ye Kai, Xiao Mi and others are all representative figures in the Dongyang Township Party, and they are really indispensable figures behind Huaidong Qianzhuang and Heishui Foreign Boat Society.

Gu Tianqiao walked in, stood outside the long pavilion and said, "I'm afraid that the lord and the heir will discuss the important affairs of the family and the country that the small people can't know, so I don't dare to ......be abrupt," and turned around and saluted the Tang Gu clan and Gu Junxun in the other corner of the garden.

"Si Yuan, before you left Jiang Ning, did you think that Gu Monkey would be so flamboyant?" Lin Jian laughed and joked with Gu Tianqiao, raised his foot and kicked a stool to Gu Tianqiao, and asked him to sit down with him in the pavilion.

"Brother Tianqiao, I haven't seen you for many years." Gu Siyuan no longer took the young son's frame, and greeted Gu Tianqiao, and he also felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

The people who entered Jiangning from Dongyang back then, Gu Siming disappeared because he was spurned and disgusted by the forest, and he was afraid that no one would see the old man again; Gu Tianqiao didn't seem to be in the office, but looking at his casual performance in front of Lin Lian, it actually represented his intimacy with the Guogong Mansion; Yang Shi served as a staff officer in the Jinghai Division, a senior general at the level of deputy commander, and Lin Jian was a heroic lord among 10,000 people who looked down on the world......

Without the pain of Qingzhou, Gu Siyuan would not admit the gap between him and Lin Lian; Qingzhou was defeated, his father died of drinking, Ma Chao died in battle, and Yang Pu also drove his horse to the enemy and was unwilling to live alone - this series of blows made Gu Siyuan see everything clearly, and crushed all his previous rashness and conceit.

Especially after the Qingzhou War, Lin Jian had laid a solid foundation in Huaidong, and then there were great victories one after another, which quickly spread the Huaidong New Deal to eastern Zhejiang, southern Zhejiang, eastern Fujian, western Zhejiang, and Yizhou; So that Gu Siyuan can see more clearly how deep the foundation Lin Jian laid in Huaidong in his early years, and how efficient the military and political system he created!

At this time, less than three years have passed since the war in eastern Fujian, and the entire territory of Dongmin County has been restored, and Jin'an, Quanzhou, Zhangpu, Jieyang and other prefectures and counties have recovered their vitality. Starting from this year, after excluding the Nanyang Maritime Trade, the tax paid by Dongmin County to the center will be restored to more than 1.5 million silver dollars.

Don't look at one and a half million silver dollars, which is not much; Even when the luxury family was at its peak, the money and grain extracted from Dongmin County every year was only twice as much. In addition to paying taxes directly to the central government, Dongmin County also sent millions of stone rice grains to the Jianghuai region through grain merchants and military purchases last year, and this number can be doubled this year.

This year's taxes drawn from Dongmin County and the grain purchased at parity will be able to make up for the center's subsidies to Jiangxi and the Lianghu region - that is, after this year, with the further recovery of Jiangxi and the Lianghu region, the center's annual income will increase rapidly and steadily, and perhaps it will not take three or five years to organize a northern expedition and expel Yanhu from the Central Plains.

Gu Siyuan thought to himself: Lin Jian may abolish Yuan before the Northern Expedition and set up a new dynasty, right?

Gu Tianqiao didn't want Gu Siyuan to think so much in his heart, so he just responded with a smile and said: "It's not that I haven't seen you for many years, I'm afraid that you won't be able to stop in Jiangning for a few days, and you will go to other places to be a high-ranking official, but I heard the letter and chased after me, and asked the lord to make fun of it for nothing......"

"Si Yuan will live in Jiangning for a while; In the future, officials above the county governor and county governor level will be transferred to Jiangning to study the new policy, and they will have to be transferred to Jiangning to study the new policy for a period of no less than three months before they can go to other places to take up posts. ”

"I was beaten by Zhang Yubo in the early years, but I didn't cause any more trouble for you!" Hearing that Lin Jian was going to drive him out of Jiangning, Gu Tianqiao immediately cried and lost his face.

"Don't cry like this, I want to ask you to go to Jeju, and it's not a poor place," Lin Jian scolded with a smile, "It's only three or five days to return to Jiangning from Jeju, and this time I want you and your family to move to Jeju......"

"What a reason for this!" Gu Tianqiao immediately seemed to be more like the sky had fallen, and said with a sad face, "Could it be that the lord kicked Zhang Yubo to Jeju and felt that I was living too nourishing in Jiangning, so he asked me to come to Zhang Yubo to suffer grievances for a few more years?" ”

Listening to the movement here, Gu Junxun and Tang Gu all looked over: the Privy Council and the military department did not want Gu Siyuan to stay in Jiangning for a long time; The characters who can move around in Jiangning City are Gu Tianqiao; Lin Zhengjun is in Jiangning, and he also calls Gu Tianqiao "uncle" - if Gu Tianqiao is expelled from Jiangning again, it means that although Gu Jun's room occupies the name of the main room, there will be no backup in Jiangning.

"I will return to Jiangning, Hu Wenmu told me that with my merits, it is okay for all sons to be knighted, eldest daughters to be crowned county kings, or special cases to be crowned county lords," Lin Jian ignored the nervousness of the others and said to Gu Tianqiao, "I plan to ask for a reward for Jeju Junjun for Zhengjun, what did you say I kicked you to Jeju?" ”

"Ahh Gu Tianqiao was stunned and said in surprise, "This is to ask the political monarch to be the initiator of the real seal!" ”

The imperial family is a feudal concubine, all of them are fictitious, such as Yuan Yan sealing Princess Yangxin, and she will not ask Yuan Yan to go to Yangxin to accept the domain; And Lin Jian deliberately asked the eldest daughter Jungjun to go to Jeju in the future to become a vassal domain.

Gu Junxun listened to the words, hurriedly walked over, and said: "Sealing Jeju is also a blessing that the monarch can't afford; Last time, it was good that Yingsleeve explained things clearly to Su Mei and them, otherwise the princes would still think that the concubine had some wishful thinking - this time there must be no more waves! ”

Gu Siyuan was also surprised, although the last time he said that he wanted to establish the Zhengjun as the prince, Lin Lian bargained with the Lin family and took the opportunity to set up a public meeting, this time he saw that Lin Lian said that he wanted to ask the eldest daughter Zhengjun for a reward from the Jeju Junjun, but it didn't seem like a joke to scare them.

Lin Jian asked Gu Tianqiao to go to Jeju first, to put it bluntly, he wanted Gu Tianqiao to lay a good foundation in Jeju before Zhengjun became an adult, so that Zhengjun could go over to become a vassal in the future. If you didn't want to hand over the land of Jeju to the Jeongjun hereditary, there was no need to think about it at all.

Lin Jian said: "This matter has been discussed with Zong Ting and Song Gong. After all, Jeju is adjacent to Goryeo and Fusang, and the center cannot maintain so many military equipment in Jeju for many years, and the military and government cannot be controlled by Dufu for a long time, so it is necessary to set up a vassal and a noble secretary to strengthen the people's cohesion, but in the future, the governor will still be appointed by the center; However, Jeju is close to Gangnyeong, and if the feudal prince is set up in Haedong, it is not the wish of the princes, so I plan to go to Jeju to live in Jeju for a long time when Jungjun becomes an adult......."

Gu Siyuan had a little understanding, and knew that Lin Jian did have the ambition to establish a new dynasty, and the title of the eldest female ruler in Jeju was a strategy for governing overseas enclaves in the future.

Overseas enclaves are far away from the hub, especially during the storm season, and the East China Sea and South China Sea will be cut off for three to four months, making it difficult for the hub to effectively control the overseas enclaves. To set up a feudal domain to govern overseas enclaves, the feudal town must have a certain amount of administrative power over the local area, and even have a certain amount of military power, in order to suppress the covetousness of the local area. However, Jeju is also not too far from Jiangning, and Fengzi is in Jeju to control the real domain, so maybe there will be some harm to the center. Placing the eldest daughter in Jeju would not only strengthen the control over Jeju, but the eldest daughter and her heirs would have limited encroachment on the center, so it was a compromise and acceptable choice.