Zhu Su listened to Wang Dabin's diligent introduction to the scenery of Lianzhou, and only smiled slightly, which was undeniable.

Although it seems that he is playing around and seeking scenery, Zhu Su has no interest at all when it rains in Lianshan and the night moon in Panchi.

When he looked at this Lianshan, he was thinking about whether he could eat the mountain by relying on the mountain, relying on the resource advantage to open up the situation in Lianzhou, so as to master the Tusi of all parties.

Speaking from the heart, Zhu Su's mood was too heavy all the way in Lianzhou City.

Lianzhou City is very tired, very tired. A rough estimate of the city's resident population is only a few thousand. Although it is the seat of a government, but in this city, there is a withered business and trade, few people, and the gate of the government is even covered with cobwebs. If it weren't for the presence of two princes and one prince, Zhu Su even suspected that this mansion would be directly abandoned and abandoned.

What does the government desolate mean? It shows that the people are the heads of the people, and even the daily disputes and frictions do not come to the government to complain......

The Tusi live in their own places, and in their lands, they have their own places to live and trade, and those who judge and judge do not need you to be in the Lianzhou Mansion. The Lianzhou government is naturally withering. The rule of the Ming Dynasty is in vain. The prestige of the imperial court is gone.

Lianzhou Tusi is still obedient, and it is not like Sizhou and Yunnan, where a group of barbarians will rebel at both ends in three days, which is why Zhu Su originally thought that the problem of Lianzhou should be relatively shallow. I didn't expect the shallow problem to be so severe.

Isn't it? The governor of a state and the four products should have been grandiose and grand. But the Wang Zhizhou in front of him, not only made a cameo appearance as a tour guide, but also made a cameo with relish, and even had a few treasures about the scenery in Lianzhou, and he didn't know how many times he had visited it...... This is enough to show that he, the governor of the state, is also dispensable in Lianzhou Mansion. Isn't it enough to show the seriousness of the problem?

"Lord Wang." Zhu Su interrupted Wang Dabin, who was talking endlessly and introduced him to 'Lianshan Shiyu', and said: "The scenery of Lianzhou should be experienced by yourself another day." There is only one thing, but this king is curious. ”

"Fang Cai, you and I have walked through this Lianzhou City superficially...... Why is this state capital so withered? This Lianzhou is also an ancient city, is there so few people? ”

Wang Dabin was stunned for a moment, and then there was a gloom in his eyes. "Your Highness, if we, the four-rank state official, insist that he knows a state, he is putting gold on his old face...... How can this Lianzhou have the weather that a state capital should have? Strictly speaking, it is not as good as a town and a township in the south of the Yangtze River. Or, Your Majesty will not revoke this Lianzhou Mansion and re-establish it. ”

"This Lianzhou is really my poor place in China. There are four people, one is called a customer, two is an easterner, three is a slang, and four is an egg household. ”

"The so-called customers, who live in Chengguo and understand Hanyin, are mostly businessmen; Oriental people, miscellaneous villages, understand the Min language, mostly farming; Those who are slang live in distant villages, do not understand Chinese, but cultivate for a living; The Tanhu is the cave where the boat dwells, only with the water tribe, and also understands the Chinese sound, and lives with sea pearl diving. ”

"In the city of Lianzhou, most of them are customers from other places, and there are not many such people. After that, the imperial court opened the sea ban widely, and in the city of Lianzhou, there were many businessmen who dragged their families and went to the sea with the big businessmen of their hometown. As for the Easterners......"

Since Zhu Su asked, Wang Dabin opened his mouth and told Zhu Su about the population composition of this Lianzhou Mansion, and standing here to talk, it was just right for him to rest.

Zhu Su listened attentively, this Wang Dabin is not all the prefect of the mud tire wood plastic, after raising filial piety, he can climb all the way to the position of the fourth grade, and he really still has some ability. Listening to what he said, Zhu Su's understanding of the situation in Lianzhou City has reached a new level.

In this Lianzhou city, there are many people and Tusi, who are distributed outside the city, or slash and burn, or pearl diving and fishing. These people built forts and were nominally subservient to the Ming Dynasty, but they were self-sufficient for hundreds of years and did not know the sun and moon outside the mountains.

In addition, there are merchants from other places, as well as the descendants of the Han people who migrated or "distributed to Lingnan" since the Qin and Han dynasties. Needless to say, the merchants mostly settled in the city, and their power was the weakest, and the trade here was not prosperous, so they wanted to do business, and they also went to various villages to collect mountain goods and sea pearls, and sold them to other places, and rarely operated in the city. As for the descendants of the Hakka Han people who have taken root here, there are also many villages, which have a history of 100 years and do not communicate with the outside world.

Although they were also Han Chinese, they had their own Tusi officials. It's really hard to say how much sense of belonging these people can have to Daming.

These Tusi of all ethnic groups are very obedient to the Ming Dynasty. But I can't talk about how respectful he is to the court. It's just a matter of living your own life behind closed doors.

"Lord Wang, has this withered state been like this since ancient times?" Zhu Su asked.

"Back to Your Highness, that's not quite true." Wang Dabin smiled, Xu asked where he was familiar, he answered fluently, and the bit of restraint and flattery on his face was also gone at the moment.

"The name here in the Han Dynasty is Hepu, famous for pearls. Therefore, Tang Taizong was the government of Lianzhou, and because of this, it was quite prosperous, and it should be promoted to the government. When Mr. Dongpo arrived in Lianzhou in the Song Dynasty, there were 100 shops in Lianzhou City, 1,000 residents, and the beautiful scenery was seen in the annals of history, and the brick wall was also built for Lianzhou City at that time. ”

"It's just that because the former Song Dynasty was weak and was attacked on all sides, Lian and Qin were often in the hands of the enemy, and the Han people gradually left. After the former Yuan wantonly plundered China, our Han people were like pigs and dogs, and this Lianzhou was even more deserted. ”

"Now that I have established a country in the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty is martial and wise, and in time, Lianzhou will be able to surpass the Tang and Song dynasties, and return to my Lingnan wall." Wang Dabin arched his hand in the direction of the northeast Yingtian.

Zhu Su automatically ignored Wang Dabin's last sycophancy, and carefully chewed the records of the past of Lianzhou City in his mouth.

It seems that if you want to revitalize this place, you still have to focus on the word "profit".

……

After returning to the house for a while, Zhu Su told the thinker of this trip that he thought that according to his thoughts, he might be able to mobilize the merchants of Nanyang and establish a port merchant market in Lianzhou City.

The problem of Lianzhou Mansion lies in the fact that many stone fort villages are surrounded by each other, and there is no negotiation between them, and even the state seat of Lianzhou City has become a fictitious place.

If you can let Nanyang merchants build a port in Lianzhou, with business profits as a medium, it may be able to make Lianzhou Zhuzhai Tusi gather in the city. Since it is in the city, the official government in the city will naturally have a role, and it will naturally make the entire Lianzhou together.

At that time, the status of the imperial court will be self-contained. In the future, he can slowly encroach on the power of the Tusi and set up rogue officials.

(End of chapter)