Chapter 579: The Situation of Other Fiefdoms

After Wu Xiongying took over the territory, he had no chance to relax at all.

While reorganizing the future official guard of his territory, he personally followed them and allocated them housing and residential land.

After ten days of busy work in the territory, Wu Xiongying finally got most of the things in order.

Then he took his father, younger brother, wife and brother, accompanied and escorted by a team of soldiers, to visit other surrounding fiefdoms.

The first is the "state of Gena", which is the original city of Girona in Spain, next to the county of Firo.

Originally, Hena County could indeed be regarded as a state town, and Firo County could have been regarded as a county under Hena State.

Now the two sides are also the same as the local states and counties of the Ming Dynasty, and they are merged at the same level at the administrative level, and they are also under the jurisdiction of the higher-level "Basa Province".

Barcelona, also known as Barcelona, is now the core capital of the imperial court.

The total area of the Hena region is almost 2,000 square kilometers, a quarter more than the county of Firo.

There is also more arable land and reclaimable area than in Firo County.

Moreover, there are more than 100,000 people in the city of Hena, plus the residents of the surrounding rural towns, the total population is more than 300,000, which is almost twice the size of Firo County.

This has caught up with the county seat in the Central Plains region of the Ming Dynasty.

The lord of the Hena Prefecture is a state prince, and his title and fief are just one level higher than Wu Xiongying.

However, the situation of Hena Zhouzi is completely different from that of Wu Xiongying.

Wu Xiongying is a 21-year-old captain who will continue to serve in the army in the future.

The son of Hena Prefecture is a fifty-year-old major Zhenfu, who was promoted to lieutenant colonel and then retired directly at the same time as he was given the title of Governor of the Prefecture, and then directly retired in Hena Prefecture.

The older officers in the original army of the Ming Dynasty will retire on a large scale after this war.

According to the level of military rank, the size of contribution and merit, and the level of the three main conditions such as the length of service in the army, different levels of titles, fiefdoms, and pensions are given.

When Wu Xiongying came to Hena, he greeted Henazhou in advance.

When Wu Xiongying and his party arrived, Hena Zhouzi asked one of his sons to lead the team to the station in the city to greet him.

Hena himself waited in advance in the main hall of the manor where he lived.

The current status of the son of Hena Prefecture is of course nominally a grade higher than that of Wu Xiongying as a whole, but the current actual power has not opened up the gap.

After all, they are all lords of a county-level jurisdiction, but the area and population of the urban area are twice as different.

But considering the future development, Hena Prefecture has completely reached the upper limit, and Wu Xiongying's future is currently very bright.

Coupled with the fact that the fiefdoms of the two are adjacent to each other, future generations will have to deal with each other frequently, and it will be troublesome if the relationship is stiff.

Therefore, Hena Prefecture attaches great importance to Wu Xiongying's visit.

I arranged for my son to take the initiative to go out to greet him, and the welcome event was arranged very sincerely.

The two sides met in their own manor, and Hena Zhouzi chatted with Wu Xiongying's family very enthusiastically.

very affectionately called Wu Zhiyuan a virtuous brother, and called Wu Xiongying a virtuous nephew.

Hena's son is now a state son, and when he retired, he had the rank of lieutenant colonel, and he was one level higher than Wu Xiongying in terms of both knighthood and military rank.

The age is also fifty years old, several years older than Wu Zhiyuan, and no one thinks it is inappropriate to call Wu Xiongying a virtuous nephew.

Hena Zhouzi constantly praised Wu Xiongying for his youth and promising, and constantly talked about the heroes who are young and young, and the future is limitless.

The sedan chair carried people, Hena Zhouzi was polite, and Wu Xiongying's father and son were equally polite.

He praised the outstanding contribution of the sons of Hena, the children and grandchildren, and the good health.

He also said that they would be neighbors in the future and take care of each other.

This is all due righteousness, and the son of Hena Prefecture is naturally full of promises.

In this way, the two sides gradually turned to the topic and began to talk about the situation in the territories of both sides.

Because the son of Hena Prefecture is old, he belongs to the age when he is about to retire, so the inheritance of the fief has been increased by one more generation.

There can be three generations of outer domains and four generations of internal domains.

The time of inheritance of the feudal states canonized by the Ming Dynasty is not exactly the same, but will be adjusted according to the merit and the age of the parties.

Yang Yuchun, the older prince of Poland, was rewarded with three generations of foreign vassals and five generations of internal vassals.

And it is counted from Yang Yuchun's son as the first generation.

After the end of the war, Yang Yuchun also retired directly and retired completely.

But even so, the actual inheritance time of the vassal kingdom of Hena Prefecture may not be as good as that of Wu Xiongying's Fei Luo County male.

Henazhou is fifty years old, the eldest grandson is in his teens, and Wu Xiongying is just coming of age now.

Hena's son is not fully retired yet, so he starts with himself.

By the time the third generation, that is, his own grandson succeeded to the throne, Wu Xiongying's son may not have succeeded to the throne.

However, both sides feel that the final time should not be much different, and the gap between the top and bottom is not more than ten years, which is obviously deliberately arranged by the imperial court.

At the same time, after Wu Xiongying talked to Hena Zhouzi, he realized that he had inadvertently missed something.

These new vassal monarchs have no special ideas about how to arrange the property and immigrants of their territories.

The Provisional Overseers and Thousand Households arranged by the Imperial Court will provide a standard guidance plan to the territory.

Each county received at least 1,000 Ming soldiers, and each state received at least 1,500 soldiers.

Each soldier was allocated at least one existing house and at least two hundred acres of land.

Finally, a certain amount of property and cash rewards must be distributed directly.

The canton of Hena has directly adopted this standard scheme.

Hena's opinion on this is not huge, but it is not completely absent.

1,500 soldiers directly divided 300,000 acres of land, directly accounting for half of the existing and reclaimable land in the Hena region.

But the son of Hena also knew that the immigration of these Ming soldiers of the same clan was the foundation of his security as a lord, and he could only accept this arrangement.

Raising soldiers is originally about spending money and resources, and giving land directly is the simplest and crudest solution.

After hearing Wu Xiongying talk about the planning of the development and construction company in Feiluo County, Hena Zhouzi suddenly felt that his eyes lit up.

In this way, most of the assets were nominally divided, and the lord seemed to have only taken only thirty percent of the profits.

"But in fact, all the assets and land management rights are actually still in their own hands?

"The dividends of the three components to the management personnel, the parties will also think that they are given by the lord!

"The people of Songjiang Prefecture are born to do business, which is really worthy of the name......"

After hearing this, Wu Xiongying couldn't help but smile and shook his head and said:

"Although the decision-making power is in hand, I can only take 30% of the profits, and actually divide 70% of the assets.

"In exchange, the supreme management and decision-making power is actually centralized in the management of local assets, so as to avoid the ordinary big soldiers below from sitting on the mountain."

After thinking about it, Hena said:

"Even if the distribution of wealth is indeed less, such an arrangement can indeed be considered a clever trick.

"It can make the situation in the territory more stable, and it can also make the lord's ability to control his subordinates and soldiers more powerful.

"I'll also think about it later, and see if I can build such a company according to the arrangement of my nephew."

Wu Xiongying felt that Hena Zhouzi was really interested, and he was not an old stubborn who did not accept all kinds of new plans, so he patiently explained the details of his vision.

The discussions between the two sides were very devoting and very speculative.

When both sides had finished drinking a cup of tea and the servant had made up for it again, the two sides changed the subject without getting enough of it.

Something else that was equally important was discussed.

Henazhouzi began to listen to whether Wu Xiongying was married, and asked if there were any marriageable young men and women on the Wu family's side.

In fact, there is no need to ask if there is one, Wu Xiongying's two younger brothers are next to him, but Hena Zhouzi has to be a little tactful.

Then the two parties began to understand the situation of both families.

Hena Zhouzi felt that Wu Xiongying had a bright future.

Although his children can only marry his younger brother and sister now, Wu Xiongying, as the eldest brother, has to take care of his younger brother and sister.

Wu Xiongying and his son also felt that the family of Hena Prefecture and his own family were also a good match.

His future potential may be greater, but after all, he has not achieved higher achievements now, and he is a cut below Hena after all.

The patriarch of Henazhouzi seems to be quite good at being a person, not an old stubborn.

Therefore, both sides have the intention to continue to enhance the relationship.

So start to get to know each other more deeply and be ready to arrange for the right children to make an appointment to see each other.

Wu Xiongying and his entourage lived in Hena Prefecture for three days, and after saying goodbye to Hena Prefecture, they continued to visit the next neighbor's fiefdom.

Further south in the canton of Hena were the fiefs of several squires and townsmen.

Wu Xiongying also went over to greet them, and then learned something different.

The fiefdoms of the squires and townsmen were only a few dozen square kilometers, and the total population was usually only 10,000 or even a few thousand.

The commanders usually only arranged a flag for them, and there were only thirty to fifty Ming soldiers.

Moreover, unlike the state and county, which have a hard minimum placement target, the squires and villagers can choose whether to keep these soldiers or not.

It seems that the commander of the embassy does not expect these soldiers to have strong combat effectiveness at all, but it is simply developed for the purpose of placement, and it can maintain law and order.

Therefore, at the same time, on the township fiefdom of a group of squires and villagers, a thousand households directly under the command of the envoy were set up.

At the same time, a number of townships were also organized into a county and handed over to the already established Barça Province under its jurisdiction.

If there is a real riot in the local area, the Qianhu Office near them will be responsible for suppressing it, and the Bassa Prefecture in charge of them will be responsible for cleaning up and punishing them.

But even so, more than one of these squires and townsmen did not want these soldiers.

They felt that the Taixi people under their rule had been completely frightened by the Ming Dynasty, and they did not dare or have the ability to resist at all.

Even if there is a small-scale mess, the uncles and brothers he brought from his hometown family can deal with it.

It may also be precisely because of the traditional family system, a settlement can easily pull out dozens of strong men.

That's why they felt that the soldiers of a banner arranged by the imperial court were meaningless.

Instead, it is necessary to divide the land and assets of the fiefdom.

Wu Xiongying and his party, when they listened to these gentlemen's complaints, just smiled and comforted them.

When everyone was completely surrounded by foreigners, all the Ming people were of the same race.

Moreover, in the future, they will all have to live here for generations, and if they have no foreign surname Ming people in their fiefdoms except for their own families, their children will be troubled in marriage.

Some felt that what Wu Xiongying said made sense, so they accepted this reassurance.

A very small number of people feel that this kind of argument is meaningless, and their own family can be married to other nearby township lords, but it is just a little troublesome.

But because of Wu Xiongying's identity, they didn't say it openly.

Wu Xiongying didn't stay in the territory of these township lords, basically staying in one place for a day.

After seven days of running and visiting seven squires and countrymen, he finally left these areas and headed for the city of Barcelona.

With a population of almost one million, the city is divided into two sub-districts, surrounded by two undivided suburban counties.

These lands and populations will be under the direct control of the Copa Prince, which is being established in Aragone.

The Aragonese Commander arranged a garrison of guards here, and they were treated the same as the soldiers of the new lord's fiefdom below.

First of all, they will be given a house and possessions, but not land for agriculture.

Because Barcelona is already an industrial city, most of the population lives in the city, and these soldiers go down to farm the land, and they can't effectively control the city.

However, they are able to receive dividends from Barça Asset Management, which is very similar to Wu Xiongying's Firo County Development and Construction Company.

Wu Xiongying's future residence is in Barcelona City, and Wu Xiongying can even get a stake in Barcelona Asset Management.

It's just that there are more people here, and their positions are not high, so the amount of shares is relatively small.

Wu Xiongying was pressed for time, so he did not stop in Barcelona City.

Continuing south along the coast, he visited the new nobles of the other two county-level fiefdoms, and then visited a county lord in the interior.

Finally, in late December, he returned to his fiefdom.

Then begin to prepare for the first New Year in the fiefdom.

Wu Xiongying was ready to take the two predetermined concubines brought from Daming.

Wu Xiongying's parents began to keep in touch with several nobles of the same rank who had visited before.

Wu Xiongying and Wu Zhiyuan have a good impression of their neighbor Hena Zhouzi, but they still have to shop around for blind dates.

So after visiting and coming back, I first selected a few new nobles with a good impression, and continued to communicate with them in depth to prepare for further understanding.

Prepare for the children to find a chance to meet formally after the Chinese New Year.

At this time, people in the vast majority of the world have also started their own year-end activities.

Although the royal families of the Taisi are still there, and even the countries of France and Spain are still there, they have only moved to Mozhou.

But all of them have become vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and they are no longer a completely independent country.

Then all their official time will use the new imperial calendar of the Ming Dynasty.

Compared to the rather complicated lunar calendar, they naturally adopted a new solar calendar that was more official and similar to their original Western calendar.

The New Year has naturally become the beginning of spring every year.

It was the first New Year after the end of the new war, and many people's identities were turned upside down during the year.

When it comes to the Chinese New Year, naturally some people are happy and some are worried.