With one hundred thousand guan in his waist, he rode down to Yangzhou on a crane.As early as the Han Dynasty, Yangzhou was actually considered an important town. When it was placed here in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, perhaps the people in the Central Plains seemed to be barbarians. After Wu Yue was destroyed by the Chu State, the King of Chu even publicly stated: "I am a barbarian!" But later, Yangzhou was different. The Han Dynasty had Jiangdu Kingdom, and several generations of princes and kings developed Jiangdu, and Jiangdu became more and more prosperous. The alluvial plain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has few Yue natives, the land is fertile, the transportation is convenient, and it has been developed during the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties. After so many years, it is naturally a first-class prosperous place.
Jiangdu is the most prosperous place under the rule of Yangzhou. Naturally, there are many rich people. Those merchants quickly sold their goods and made a lot of money. They originally discussed it and wanted to give Li Yue another gift. After all, they can be regarded as sheltering themselves and others all the way, which allowed them to go to the place smoothly, and when they arrived in Jiangdu, under the name of King Min, their goods were also sold at a good price, and the price was never suppressed.However, Li Yue confiscated it at all, and he didn't even plan to stay in Jiangdu more.
There is a saying that the gentle township is a tomb of heroes. Compared with the rich and gentle township like Yangzhou, most people will regard Lingnan as a fearful way.Even if it is the same in future generations, the more developed the economy, the more people flock to it, and the less developed areas, no matter how many policies you introduce, people just don't want to go.What's more, everyone still doesn't have the awareness of attracting investment and robbing talents.With Li Yue's status and status, even if he came to Lingnan, it would not be his turn to suffer, but the people below are different. When he was in Chang'an, it was actually hard to imagine what life in Lingnan would be like. The distance is not very far, Yangzhou and Lingnan are definitely two concepts of heaven and earth.Human nature is lazy and lazy, Li Yue doesn't want to test others, and he doesn't want to test himself, maybe if he stays in Yangzhou for a while, he will regret it when he arrives in Lingnan, so it's better to leave as soon as possible!
In fact, if you want to go to Fujian, the best way is to go down the river from here and go directly south along the coastline, but the navigation technology these days is really unreliable, like those who can run with a small sampan The Japanese who came to Datang did not know how many times shipwreck accidents happened. People like Li Yue are not 100% sure. Who would dare to let him go by sea? People want their heads to fall to the ground.Therefore, even if there are all kinds of troubles on the land route, they still have to go to Fujian along the official road honestly.
Fortunately, after so many years, the official road to Lingnan has been relatively well-built, at least a group of Yue people will not appear to block the road and rob.Li Yue took a light car this time, and he brought less than a hundred guards. Fortunately, he didn't bring too many things. The gifts he received in Luoyang before, he could deal with them in Jiangdu. I'd rather exchange it for supplies and have someone escort them to Lingnan, and I'm too lazy to keep these things that can't be eaten or worn. Other things like seeds don't take up much space anyway, so it doesn't matter if you take them along the way .Hundreds of people, seven or eight four-wheeled carriages, and more than 100 horses. Those Yue people would only come to rob such a team unless they were crazy. Isn't this the old birthday star who eats arsenic and is bored with life?
It may be late autumn in Chang'an at this moment, but the south side has just had some coolness. Li Yue was a southerner in his previous life. Of course, it is only Jiangnan, not Lingnan. However, he is quite adaptable to this climate. Yes, I even feel more comfortable than this season of later generations.Because of the greenhouse effect in later generations and the urban heat island effect, the temperature has always been on the high side. For example, in this season in later generations, everyone is still wearing summer clothes, and it usually takes a month before it really cools down.
If so, mosquitoes and the like are also very rampant at this time. Fortunately, Li Yue has made sufficient preparations in advance, brought various mosquito-repelling medicinal materials, and even made a batch of earth-made mosquito-repellent incense. It's also very simple. These days, incense is prevalent. It's nothing more than changing the spices inside to mugwort, mint, chrysanthemum leaves, orange peel and other herbs that have a certain mosquito repelling effect. In order to reduce costs, the spices used in the original Sawdust and the like are usually sandalwood wood chips, but here are ordinary wood chips and clay.Coupled with some mosquito repellent sachets, this kind of preparation is actually enough when the flower mosquitoes from foreign countries have not yet entered the Central Plains.
In this era, many diseases are actually caused by people's living habits, not to mention Lingnan, even in Guanzhong, there is a habit of drinking raw water. , Cultivating people's habit of drinking hot water is already a matter after the founding of the People's Republic of China.Before that, the people who drank hot water were actually only a small group of people in the upper class.Because only these people have enough conditions, they have time, money, and even manpower to heat hot water.These days are not later generations. It is very simple to boil hot water. An electric kettle can drink boiled water for a quarter of an hour at most. One letter, put a kettle, and after a while, a pot of boiling water will be boiled.Even those who burn tiger stoves in rural areas usually put a clay pot between the two pots and fill it with water. The residual temperature when cooking rice and pig food is enough to boil a pot of water.
But now, firewood costs money, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have enough firewood to use. It’s not because there is no place to cut firewood, but because there is no time to cut firewood, and they don’t live in the mountains, so they can cut casually. When the productivity is not developed enough, although most people do not have endless work every day, they still have to be busy for a long time every year. After chopping firewood, many of them would rather sell the firewood, and they dare not keep more.Moreover, they have to store enough firewood for the winter, and this thing takes up a lot of space, but the combustion efficiency is not very high, which is very pitiful.In addition, it takes time to boil water, and there is no kettle these days, who wants to drink water and has to light the fire first to boil the water?So usually just take a scoop, scoop a scoop of water in your own water tank and drink it directly.When I was thirsty while working outside, I just found a nearby creek or stream to drink water.
The north is actually better. Although there are some bacteria and even parasites in the water, it is not too serious after all. For example, in the south, water gu has always been prevalent. The so-called water gu is actually schistosomiasis.Generally, after being parasitized by schistosomiasis, in this era, there is really no cure.
Although Li Yue lived in the south of the Yangtze River in his previous life and had studied biology, he didn't know what to do after being infected with schistosomiasis. After all, at that time, this thing was almost extinct. Oleander is widely planted near the water. This ornamental plant is almost poisonous all over the body. Its flowers and leaves fall into the water, which can inhibit the growth of schistosomiasis.In addition, if you want to prevent this, you can't drink raw water directly.
When Li Yue sent people to Minyue before, he repeatedly told them not to be convenient on the road, and the water should be filtered with alum before being boiled before drinking. Now that he is in the convoy, naturally no one dares to disobey Li Yue. Yue ordered.Anyway, they actually brought a lot of gasoline and diesel along with them, and also bought a lot of charcoal in Jiangdu, so boiling water was actually not troublesome.Pay attention to cleanliness and sanitation in diet, and pay attention to driving away snakes and insects when camping, then there will generally be no problems along the way.
Nowadays, the Lingnan area is still relatively primitive. It is said that there are big insects and wolves in the mountains and forests. However, Li Yue has never encountered them in this journey. These tigers and wolves probably don't like to deal with large groups of humans. Well, when there are few people, they may not mind changing their diet, but when there are many people, except for small animals such as snakes, insects and birds, most of those predators will not appear in front of people.
The further south you go, even the official roads become rough and difficult to navigate. This is unavoidable. Even if these roads were opened up back then, under normal circumstances, a few people were recruited to repair and maintain them. The population is relatively large. It's okay to say that the denser places, some roads that are inaccessible, will be overgrown with weeds in a short time.Fortunately, not long ago, Li Yue sent people to transport the goods to Minyue, and there were signs of vegetation being destroyed on the road, otherwise, they would have spent a lot of time opening the road.
Lady Zhu began to feel sorry for Li Yue when she saw it: "This Lingnan is too desolate, Your Highness will have to work hard in the future!"
Li Yue is also deeply touched by this. Lingnan has been developed for at least so many years, and it is still like this now. Think about what those ancestors went through when they came here!To be honest, if Li Yue wasn't the clan prince, he wouldn't come to this kind of place if he was killed, that is, because of his status, he could drive other people to overcome difficulties, so he had the confidence to change Minyue, otherwise , he should go back wherever he came early, and honestly go back to Chang'an to hug Li Zhi and Empress Wu's thighs, isn't it good?
Of course, Li Yue definitely couldn't say that. He just said: "Nurse, you worked hard for two or three years at the beginning, and when you get on the right track, it will be fine here! If it is in other places, how can I build a mansion?" The majesty of the teeth!"
Mrs. Zhu really wanted to say, even in such a poor place, what prestige is it to be able to open a mansion and build teeth, it would be better to be a Prince of Taiping in Yangzhou!However, she has always known her identity, even though Li Yue has always respected her very much, she is just a slave.Now that Li Yue has made a decision, what she needs to do is to take good care of him and try not to let Li Yue suffer in such an environment.
Li Yue is also good-natured. Originally, there were maids serving Li Yue, but when these maids heard that they were coming to Lingnan, they were unavoidably afraid and didn't want to come. Li Yue was worried that they might not have a good life if they stayed in Chang'an. However, because of this, not only did they not ask them to come to Lingnan all the way, but they were also properly arranged.Those who had family members in Guanzhong gave them a sum of money to go back and marry. For those without family members, Li Yue entrusted Princess Xincheng and Princess Gaoyang to house them in the properties under their names.That is to say, there is not a serious textile workshop in Chang'an yet, otherwise, Li Yue can let them work as female workers in the workshop and support themselves.
The reason why Li Yue came to Lingnan was also because it was too difficult to do something in the north.Even if the status of women is relatively high nowadays, this is only limited to noble women. Why do noble women have a high status?They often have a generous dowry, are pampered by family members at home, and are financially independent after marriage. If the man wants to use the woman’s dowry, it will definitely be despised by others. As for the woman, on the one hand, their marriages often have equal status. It's not just about the husband and wife, but the alliance between the two families. Naturally, both parties have to be respected. Even after marriage, there is also enough autonomy.Therefore, these years, marriages are at odds, and there are also some divorces. In the end, everyone gets together and breaks up. If it is not for that reason, they will not directly tear their faces.After reconciliation, whether they remarry or are single, they have enough wealth to not only support themselves, but also live a more dignified life, so naturally there is nothing to say.
However, ordinary people's families are still typical men superior to women, otherwise, Mrs. Zhu would not have to sell herself into the palace to be a wet nurse.Women cannot be economically independent, so they have to rely on their natal family before marriage and their in-laws' family after marriage. Once something happens, as a woman, they are often victims.
When Li Yue was in Ningzhou, he ran a textile workshop and attracted a large number of young women to work in the workshop. Although the common people were actually very happy about it, it would definitely be different if they had one more earner in the family. Whether unmarried or married, women working in workshops have a certain right to speak at home.However, such behavior caused a lot of criticism in the court.In fact, what these people said was also reasonable. The imperial court encouraged childbearing. Regardless of men and women, if they did not get married after reaching a certain age, they would have to pay a poll tax. For ordinary people who have a heavy burden, adding a poll tax may become the last straw that breaks the camel's back.Therefore, when the age is about the same, even if there is not much dowry, they have to find a suitable person to marry off.However, the situation in Ningzhou is different. Everyone suddenly found that those families with unmarried daughters who can go to work are not in a hurry to discuss marriage with their daughters. The daughters can earn a lot of money at home in a month. After paying the head tax of the year, there is still some left over. These days, there is no separation, and the children have no private property. At most, the elders will give you some money for pocket money. Therefore, one more day when the daughter is at home is one more day's income, so , they will naturally not be in a hurry to get married.
Those who are married are not in a hurry to have children, because they will not be able to work for several months after they are pregnant. After giving birth, if there is no one at home to take care of the children, they will not be able to enter the workshop for at least several years. Although the common people are ignorant, they They also have their own shrewdness. They can still calculate this kind of account. Although many children are blessed, there is no need for children to have endless births. Two or three are enough, and the elderly can also bring them. , and does not delay the daughter-in-law at home to earn money.
As a result, the marriage rate and birth rate of the Zhuangzi in the workshop have dropped significantly, and as time goes by, this situation will only become more serious. Therefore, a group of people use this as an excuse to demand that the workshop not allow Hire female workers again.
Li Yue just felt that there was no fuck to say, what was this all about? For the sake of the so-called population growth, it was simply absurd to force women who could get rid of the shackles of the family and gain financial independence to return to their families. There are still a group of people in favor of such absurd thing.Even if Li Yue said that men are far less careful than women when it comes to weaving, they would not agree. They would rather women reuse those low-efficiency looms and continue to make that kind of cloth that is not of high quality at home. Willing to allow women to participate in industrial production.In other words, it was because the workshop belonged to Li Yue, and they couldn't make any profit from it, so they naturally wouldn't consider other things.
After going through such a thing, Li Yue lost interest in staying in Chang'an or in the north. Even in the early Tang Dynasty, which is presenting a flourishing scene, Li Yue already smelled a decadent smell. These people carry bright and bright banners, and what they say is high-sounding. In fact, these people are full of "cannibalism", so that they can maintain their status and the bullshit principles they regard as their standard.
Since there was nothing to be done there, Li Yue had no choice but to change places.Nowadays, places that are a little more prosperous in the Tang Dynasty cannot do without the influence of these people. Then, places like Lingnan, where the so-called gentlemen avoid them, are places where Li Yue can play a role.
Therefore, even though the environment here is relatively harsh, Li Yue still intends to make a good use of it and use his achievements in industrialization to beat those scumbags who only know those rotten principles.
With such a new year, when the guards suspected that Li Yue, a prince who had been spoiled and never experienced any hardships since he was a child, might regret it if he walked for a while, Li Yue persisted all the way to Quanzhou.
It is still good for Li Yue to maintain physical exercise all these years. Even though he is such a small body, he is a little tired after sitting all the way to Quanzhou, and he doesn't feel any discomfort.
At this time, it is almost early winter in the Central Plains, but it is just a little chilly here in Quanzhou. Here, there is no market for cotton-padded jackets. In the coldest season here, the temperature is equivalent to autumn in the Central Plains. Therefore, At most one jacket is enough.However, because of the sea breeze, the climate here is relatively humid, and there is more rain every year. Fortunately, there is actually very little precipitation in winter here, and many things to be done can be done just right.
In fact, when Li Yue arrived, many of the tasks assigned before were already on the right track.Like several brick kilns, porcelain kilns have been erected, and bricks and various utensils have been fired. The fuel used is not charcoal, but coal.
When he was in Ningzhou before, Li Yue asked people to look for coal mines, but they did not find coal mines, but instead found oil. As long as the structure of the kiln is adjusted, then the oil is not unusable. Compared with the almost open air here, dig a The oil that will flow out of the mine may be hidden deep in the ground, and mining the coal that may cost a lot of lives is not that important. Therefore, Li Yue did not delve into the matter of coal.
And when they arrived in Quanzhou, the people who had been in charge of mining in Ningzhou before found coal. Although it was only a small coal mine, at least at this stage, it was enough for them to use.Li Yue didn't know that, in fact, in places like Jinyang, some people have discovered the role of coal and started to use it for burning. However, this kind of raw coal that has not been processed is not natural anthracite, so it burns. The smoke is very large and has a peculiar smell, so only poor people will use it.Li Yue hadn't thought about it for a while before, but the headquarters of the old Li's family was actually the place with the largest coal reserves. After all, in his opinion, if the coal here had been discovered, it made no sense that Chang'an didn't know about it.
These miners are not professional, and naturally they don't know what is going on with coal in other places. They just heard what Li Yue said about the appearance of coal and the general method of use, so they followed what Li Yue said before. According to the treatment method, try to start coking.In fact, the method is very simple. Simply wash the coal, then put it in a rectangular sealed furnace made of refractory bricks, and ignite it until the gas inside is burned out, that is, coke.It is nothing more than a relatively large pollution, so later generations have long abandoned it, but these days, with the production scale and productivity of this era, if you abandon firewood and switch to coal, the forests that can be preserved are probably enough to deal with. The greenhouse gases produced by these coking are gone.
They now use treated coal and coke to fire bricks and tiles, ceramic glazes and the like, and even come up with new glaze patterns.In addition, they also started to investigate whether there are any copper-iron mines in the vicinity. If there are any, the shelves of various heavy industries will be set up here.
Li Yue was actually a little surprised by their efficiency. At first, he thought that it would take them a while to cheer up in such a remote place!Unexpectedly, not long after arriving at the place, they were already working in full swing.
Li Yue is not good at motivating people, so with a big wave of his hand, he handed out another bounty, which immediately won another round of cheers.
Li Yue didn't know that when these people came to Lingnan, they were really discouraged. After all, the environment here is really bad, but many times, people have to compare, compared with those barren hills before. Yeling, Quanzhou is just like heaven. Although there are mountains here, they are not big mountains. The scenery is quite beautiful. In the middle, there is a large arable plain. Compared with other places in Fujian Come on, the population density is actually much higher, and it is easy for them to recruit enough labor. In some respects, it is even easier here than in Ningzhou, because you don't need to deal with local officials.The local officials in Quanzhou are of ordinary background. If they were of higher background, they would not be sent to Quanzhou to be officials. Even if it is a relatively good place, it is dangerous to come all the way. It is said that some officials have not yet been able to take office. , died of illness on the way.Therefore, every time the imperial court selects and dispatches officials to these places, they generally can only choose those poor students with no background, or simply send them over whoever is not pleasing to the eye.Even so, it is not easy to find a suitable official, so that the tall one can only be selected from the short one, which is almost enough.
Correspondingly, the officials here are just desperately looking forward to being promoted, or even if they are not promoted, as long as they can be transferred to a place farther away from Lingnan, they are also happy.
However, this is really not an easy task. In the past dynasties, in fact, there were not many times when officials were truly governed, otherwise, there would be no such thing as running away from an official.In the imperial court, except for some more important positions, such as local officials, the official department has a lot of autonomy. Generally, the official department will report the name, and the above will look at it and pass it if it thinks there is no problem.The problem is that the emperor didn't know much about the officials below, and the names didn't match the names of the people, so generally this process was just a formality, and he didn't ask too many questions.
And what does the Ministry of Officials look for in selecting officials?Naturally, there are standards. The normal standard is evaluation, just like the performance evaluation of later generations. These days, there are different evaluation standards for officials. It is nothing more than the number of cases on your side, and the annual tax. In addition, just It depends on whether you can be a human being.Although it is not like the Ming and Qing Dynasties at this moment, there are some names such as ice respect and carbon respect, but such things as bribery have existed since ancient times and have never been cut off.As long as you show enough performance, then the official department will be a little more relaxed in the assessment, and the mid-level assessment will be changed to above-average or even above-average, then you will have a great chance to get out of the sea of suffering.But the problem is that those who are assigned to such poor mountains and rivers have little money in the first place, and it is difficult to get any financial performance here. Even, the so-called poor mountains and rivers bring out troublesome people. In this kind of place, the incidence of vicious cases is relatively high. If you don’t go, you don’t have money to give gifts, so it can only be a vicious circle. If you’re lucky, you’ll stay here forever. If you’re not lucky, you might be kicked to a more remote place after a few comments.
For example, Liu Meng, the governor of Quanzhou, was like this. He finally passed the Mingjing examination and worked hard as a petty official for more than ten years. The governor of Quanzhou died of illness, so he was "extraordinarily promoted" and quickly thrown here.
Originally, after Liu Meng arrived in Quanzhou, he still wanted to use his hands and feet to see if he could make some political achievements. As a result, the folk customs here are not simple and the transportation is inconvenient. Come on, under such circumstances, Liu Meng just gave up after struggling for half a year.Let's be a salted fish honestly, it's fine if you don't do it well!
But this time the imperial court actually sent a vassal king to Minyue, who directly ruled over the four prefectures of Minyue and chose Quanzhou as the residence of the Prince of Min. Liu Meng spent a lot of effort to find out about this freshly baked Min Wang's news, and then, he became excited.
This King of Fujian is not an ordinary vassal king. Unlike his brothers who are either funny, extravagant, or confused, this one is willing to do things, and can do things. No wonder the sage gave him the right to build a mansion .If he can take Quanzhou to a higher level, wouldn't he also be able to ascend to heaven?He doesn't have high requirements, he can just be transferred outside of Lingnan to be a governor. Even if he can't be a governor, he can accept a slight drop of half a level!Therefore, when the leading personnel of the Prince of Fujian's Mansion arrived, Liu Meng became attentive.
No matter what the Min Palace wants, as long as Liu Meng can cooperate, he will try his best to cooperate, especially seeing the people in the Min Palace looking like they are doing a big job, Liu Meng is also excited, he is not He also wanted to follow suit, he just felt hopeful.
After Li Yue arrived in Quanzhou, Liu Meng immediately summoned the officials from Quanzhou to visit him. In fact, when Li Yue came, he should have come to greet him. However, Li Yue did not announce the arrival time in advance. It was not an easy task for all the county magistrates to gather together, the main reason was that the transportation was inconvenient, so he had to wait until he was sure that Li Yue had arrived and lived in the mansion temporarily before he brought his subordinates to ask for an interview.
Li Yue didn't take Joe either. In a sense, although these officials were not appointed and dismissed by him, they could be regarded as his subordinates. Therefore, Li Yue behaved more politely. Of course, he was also observing. The virtues of the officials in Ningzhou have nothing to do with Li Yue anyway, so Li Yue doesn't bother to pay attention to them, but if the officials in Mindi are not reliable, then Li Yue has to think about it Come on, don't let me work hard on infrastructure construction here, pulling Yue people out of poverty and becoming rich, but looking back, a bunch of officials are holding back, making the people below have a hard time, and they are about to rebel directly. Isn't that too sad a little bit?
When these officials came to visit Li Yue, they were actually a little trembling. In fact, there are very few vassal kings of the old Li family who have a good reputation. Those who can really maintain a good reputation generally don’t come to the fief. Being in the fief means that the imperial power and themselves It doesn't matter anymore, so one by one can jump around in the fief. Although there are very few jumping repeatedly on the verge of death, most of them are not good guys. As clans, they need to be afraid There are very few things, and the court's request to them is that as long as they don't commit any heinous crimes, as long as they can be fooled about other things, the court will turn a blind eye to them.Like Teng Wang Li Yuanying, he built a Tengwang Pavilion in his fief, although it has been famous through the ages because of Wang Bo's "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion".But in this day and age, what price do you need to pay to build such a tall building?What's more, the Tengwang Pavilion mentioned by Wang Bo is already the third one he built. Not to mention the various materials that need to be consumed, just the labor, I don't know how much. Li Yuanying didn't spend much money during the construction of the Tengwang Pavilion. On the contrary, he took the opportunity of building the Tengwang Pavilion to exploit the people wantonly and forced them to perform hard labor. In the three Tengwang Pavilions, an unknown number of people died during the construction process due to overwork.In the end, Li Yuanying paid almost nothing.Just like Li Zhi treated Li Yue, the younger brother in name, Li Shimin loved Li Yuanying very much because he had killed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji before. In the end, most of them were fined three cups of wine, and the most serious punishment was to cut off two hundred households. Until Li Zhi ascended the throne, this man did not stop.
Li Yuanying is a typical example, and the others are not much better. In short, any vassal king with a bit of confidence is mostly a disaster when it comes to the locality.
Liu Meng told Li Yue just from hearsay, and he didn't know what Li Yue's style was, but after all, he had seen the world, so he was still calm on Li Yue's side. When the county magistrates faced Li Yue, They were a little nervous, most of them had no background, otherwise they would not have fallen to Quanzhou to be the county magistrate, so when facing Li Yue, they naturally had no confidence.
Although Li Yue's construction of the palace and so on is all spent money to recruit labor, but in their simple point of view, there is no prince who spends money like this, I am afraid that the money will be apportioned to them in the end, so a I was thinking in my heart, if Li Yue asked for money, how could they cry poorly!That's right, just crying for poverty, these officials didn't get any money, let alone give it to Li Yue.Quanzhou or Lingnan is not as good as the Central Plains. The people there are very patient, and they will not resist unless it is absolutely necessary. However, the people in Lingnan are tough. There is a connection, you made them upset, maybe they turned around and went to the mountains to find someone to make a fuss. It's not that the Yue people attacked the county town or even entered the county government in Lingnan. The imperial court sent troops to suppress it. Of course, the Yue people involved in the incident couldn't get any favors, and the officials who caused the civil uprising couldn't get any favors.
Fortunately, Li Yue never thought about scraping the land. To be honest, when the productivity was still very low, scraping the land could earn a few dollars. If he wanted to make money, Li Yue had a lot of ideas in his mind. It's low-level, but if you want to make money, the key is to let the local people have money first.Therefore, when Li Yue hosted a banquet for these officials, he began to inquire about their local conditions.
Jiangdu is the most prosperous place under the rule of Yangzhou. Naturally, there are many rich people. Those merchants quickly sold their goods and made a lot of money. They originally discussed it and wanted to give Li Yue another gift. After all, they can be regarded as sheltering themselves and others all the way, which allowed them to go to the place smoothly, and when they arrived in Jiangdu, under the name of King Min, their goods were also sold at a good price, and the price was never suppressed.However, Li Yue confiscated it at all, and he didn't even plan to stay in Jiangdu more.
There is a saying that the gentle township is a tomb of heroes. Compared with the rich and gentle township like Yangzhou, most people will regard Lingnan as a fearful way.Even if it is the same in future generations, the more developed the economy, the more people flock to it, and the less developed areas, no matter how many policies you introduce, people just don't want to go.What's more, everyone still doesn't have the awareness of attracting investment and robbing talents.With Li Yue's status and status, even if he came to Lingnan, it would not be his turn to suffer, but the people below are different. When he was in Chang'an, it was actually hard to imagine what life in Lingnan would be like. The distance is not very far, Yangzhou and Lingnan are definitely two concepts of heaven and earth.Human nature is lazy and lazy, Li Yue doesn't want to test others, and he doesn't want to test himself, maybe if he stays in Yangzhou for a while, he will regret it when he arrives in Lingnan, so it's better to leave as soon as possible!
In fact, if you want to go to Fujian, the best way is to go down the river from here and go directly south along the coastline, but the navigation technology these days is really unreliable, like those who can run with a small sampan The Japanese who came to Datang did not know how many times shipwreck accidents happened. People like Li Yue are not 100% sure. Who would dare to let him go by sea? People want their heads to fall to the ground.Therefore, even if there are all kinds of troubles on the land route, they still have to go to Fujian along the official road honestly.
Fortunately, after so many years, the official road to Lingnan has been relatively well-built, at least a group of Yue people will not appear to block the road and rob.Li Yue took a light car this time, and he brought less than a hundred guards. Fortunately, he didn't bring too many things. The gifts he received in Luoyang before, he could deal with them in Jiangdu. I'd rather exchange it for supplies and have someone escort them to Lingnan, and I'm too lazy to keep these things that can't be eaten or worn. Other things like seeds don't take up much space anyway, so it doesn't matter if you take them along the way .Hundreds of people, seven or eight four-wheeled carriages, and more than 100 horses. Those Yue people would only come to rob such a team unless they were crazy. Isn't this the old birthday star who eats arsenic and is bored with life?
It may be late autumn in Chang'an at this moment, but the south side has just had some coolness. Li Yue was a southerner in his previous life. Of course, it is only Jiangnan, not Lingnan. However, he is quite adaptable to this climate. Yes, I even feel more comfortable than this season of later generations.Because of the greenhouse effect in later generations and the urban heat island effect, the temperature has always been on the high side. For example, in this season in later generations, everyone is still wearing summer clothes, and it usually takes a month before it really cools down.
If so, mosquitoes and the like are also very rampant at this time. Fortunately, Li Yue has made sufficient preparations in advance, brought various mosquito-repelling medicinal materials, and even made a batch of earth-made mosquito-repellent incense. It's also very simple. These days, incense is prevalent. It's nothing more than changing the spices inside to mugwort, mint, chrysanthemum leaves, orange peel and other herbs that have a certain mosquito repelling effect. In order to reduce costs, the spices used in the original Sawdust and the like are usually sandalwood wood chips, but here are ordinary wood chips and clay.Coupled with some mosquito repellent sachets, this kind of preparation is actually enough when the flower mosquitoes from foreign countries have not yet entered the Central Plains.
In this era, many diseases are actually caused by people's living habits, not to mention Lingnan, even in Guanzhong, there is a habit of drinking raw water. , Cultivating people's habit of drinking hot water is already a matter after the founding of the People's Republic of China.Before that, the people who drank hot water were actually only a small group of people in the upper class.Because only these people have enough conditions, they have time, money, and even manpower to heat hot water.These days are not later generations. It is very simple to boil hot water. An electric kettle can drink boiled water for a quarter of an hour at most. One letter, put a kettle, and after a while, a pot of boiling water will be boiled.Even those who burn tiger stoves in rural areas usually put a clay pot between the two pots and fill it with water. The residual temperature when cooking rice and pig food is enough to boil a pot of water.
But now, firewood costs money, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have enough firewood to use. It’s not because there is no place to cut firewood, but because there is no time to cut firewood, and they don’t live in the mountains, so they can cut casually. When the productivity is not developed enough, although most people do not have endless work every day, they still have to be busy for a long time every year. After chopping firewood, many of them would rather sell the firewood, and they dare not keep more.Moreover, they have to store enough firewood for the winter, and this thing takes up a lot of space, but the combustion efficiency is not very high, which is very pitiful.In addition, it takes time to boil water, and there is no kettle these days, who wants to drink water and has to light the fire first to boil the water?So usually just take a scoop, scoop a scoop of water in your own water tank and drink it directly.When I was thirsty while working outside, I just found a nearby creek or stream to drink water.
The north is actually better. Although there are some bacteria and even parasites in the water, it is not too serious after all. For example, in the south, water gu has always been prevalent. The so-called water gu is actually schistosomiasis.Generally, after being parasitized by schistosomiasis, in this era, there is really no cure.
Although Li Yue lived in the south of the Yangtze River in his previous life and had studied biology, he didn't know what to do after being infected with schistosomiasis. After all, at that time, this thing was almost extinct. Oleander is widely planted near the water. This ornamental plant is almost poisonous all over the body. Its flowers and leaves fall into the water, which can inhibit the growth of schistosomiasis.In addition, if you want to prevent this, you can't drink raw water directly.
When Li Yue sent people to Minyue before, he repeatedly told them not to be convenient on the road, and the water should be filtered with alum before being boiled before drinking. Now that he is in the convoy, naturally no one dares to disobey Li Yue. Yue ordered.Anyway, they actually brought a lot of gasoline and diesel along with them, and also bought a lot of charcoal in Jiangdu, so boiling water was actually not troublesome.Pay attention to cleanliness and sanitation in diet, and pay attention to driving away snakes and insects when camping, then there will generally be no problems along the way.
Nowadays, the Lingnan area is still relatively primitive. It is said that there are big insects and wolves in the mountains and forests. However, Li Yue has never encountered them in this journey. These tigers and wolves probably don't like to deal with large groups of humans. Well, when there are few people, they may not mind changing their diet, but when there are many people, except for small animals such as snakes, insects and birds, most of those predators will not appear in front of people.
The further south you go, even the official roads become rough and difficult to navigate. This is unavoidable. Even if these roads were opened up back then, under normal circumstances, a few people were recruited to repair and maintain them. The population is relatively large. It's okay to say that the denser places, some roads that are inaccessible, will be overgrown with weeds in a short time.Fortunately, not long ago, Li Yue sent people to transport the goods to Minyue, and there were signs of vegetation being destroyed on the road, otherwise, they would have spent a lot of time opening the road.
Lady Zhu began to feel sorry for Li Yue when she saw it: "This Lingnan is too desolate, Your Highness will have to work hard in the future!"
Li Yue is also deeply touched by this. Lingnan has been developed for at least so many years, and it is still like this now. Think about what those ancestors went through when they came here!To be honest, if Li Yue wasn't the clan prince, he wouldn't come to this kind of place if he was killed, that is, because of his status, he could drive other people to overcome difficulties, so he had the confidence to change Minyue, otherwise , he should go back wherever he came early, and honestly go back to Chang'an to hug Li Zhi and Empress Wu's thighs, isn't it good?
Of course, Li Yue definitely couldn't say that. He just said: "Nurse, you worked hard for two or three years at the beginning, and when you get on the right track, it will be fine here! If it is in other places, how can I build a mansion?" The majesty of the teeth!"
Mrs. Zhu really wanted to say, even in such a poor place, what prestige is it to be able to open a mansion and build teeth, it would be better to be a Prince of Taiping in Yangzhou!However, she has always known her identity, even though Li Yue has always respected her very much, she is just a slave.Now that Li Yue has made a decision, what she needs to do is to take good care of him and try not to let Li Yue suffer in such an environment.
Li Yue is also good-natured. Originally, there were maids serving Li Yue, but when these maids heard that they were coming to Lingnan, they were unavoidably afraid and didn't want to come. Li Yue was worried that they might not have a good life if they stayed in Chang'an. However, because of this, not only did they not ask them to come to Lingnan all the way, but they were also properly arranged.Those who had family members in Guanzhong gave them a sum of money to go back and marry. For those without family members, Li Yue entrusted Princess Xincheng and Princess Gaoyang to house them in the properties under their names.That is to say, there is not a serious textile workshop in Chang'an yet, otherwise, Li Yue can let them work as female workers in the workshop and support themselves.
The reason why Li Yue came to Lingnan was also because it was too difficult to do something in the north.Even if the status of women is relatively high nowadays, this is only limited to noble women. Why do noble women have a high status?They often have a generous dowry, are pampered by family members at home, and are financially independent after marriage. If the man wants to use the woman’s dowry, it will definitely be despised by others. As for the woman, on the one hand, their marriages often have equal status. It's not just about the husband and wife, but the alliance between the two families. Naturally, both parties have to be respected. Even after marriage, there is also enough autonomy.Therefore, these years, marriages are at odds, and there are also some divorces. In the end, everyone gets together and breaks up. If it is not for that reason, they will not directly tear their faces.After reconciliation, whether they remarry or are single, they have enough wealth to not only support themselves, but also live a more dignified life, so naturally there is nothing to say.
However, ordinary people's families are still typical men superior to women, otherwise, Mrs. Zhu would not have to sell herself into the palace to be a wet nurse.Women cannot be economically independent, so they have to rely on their natal family before marriage and their in-laws' family after marriage. Once something happens, as a woman, they are often victims.
When Li Yue was in Ningzhou, he ran a textile workshop and attracted a large number of young women to work in the workshop. Although the common people were actually very happy about it, it would definitely be different if they had one more earner in the family. Whether unmarried or married, women working in workshops have a certain right to speak at home.However, such behavior caused a lot of criticism in the court.In fact, what these people said was also reasonable. The imperial court encouraged childbearing. Regardless of men and women, if they did not get married after reaching a certain age, they would have to pay a poll tax. For ordinary people who have a heavy burden, adding a poll tax may become the last straw that breaks the camel's back.Therefore, when the age is about the same, even if there is not much dowry, they have to find a suitable person to marry off.However, the situation in Ningzhou is different. Everyone suddenly found that those families with unmarried daughters who can go to work are not in a hurry to discuss marriage with their daughters. The daughters can earn a lot of money at home in a month. After paying the head tax of the year, there is still some left over. These days, there is no separation, and the children have no private property. At most, the elders will give you some money for pocket money. Therefore, one more day when the daughter is at home is one more day's income, so , they will naturally not be in a hurry to get married.
Those who are married are not in a hurry to have children, because they will not be able to work for several months after they are pregnant. After giving birth, if there is no one at home to take care of the children, they will not be able to enter the workshop for at least several years. Although the common people are ignorant, they They also have their own shrewdness. They can still calculate this kind of account. Although many children are blessed, there is no need for children to have endless births. Two or three are enough, and the elderly can also bring them. , and does not delay the daughter-in-law at home to earn money.
As a result, the marriage rate and birth rate of the Zhuangzi in the workshop have dropped significantly, and as time goes by, this situation will only become more serious. Therefore, a group of people use this as an excuse to demand that the workshop not allow Hire female workers again.
Li Yue just felt that there was no fuck to say, what was this all about? For the sake of the so-called population growth, it was simply absurd to force women who could get rid of the shackles of the family and gain financial independence to return to their families. There are still a group of people in favor of such absurd thing.Even if Li Yue said that men are far less careful than women when it comes to weaving, they would not agree. They would rather women reuse those low-efficiency looms and continue to make that kind of cloth that is not of high quality at home. Willing to allow women to participate in industrial production.In other words, it was because the workshop belonged to Li Yue, and they couldn't make any profit from it, so they naturally wouldn't consider other things.
After going through such a thing, Li Yue lost interest in staying in Chang'an or in the north. Even in the early Tang Dynasty, which is presenting a flourishing scene, Li Yue already smelled a decadent smell. These people carry bright and bright banners, and what they say is high-sounding. In fact, these people are full of "cannibalism", so that they can maintain their status and the bullshit principles they regard as their standard.
Since there was nothing to be done there, Li Yue had no choice but to change places.Nowadays, places that are a little more prosperous in the Tang Dynasty cannot do without the influence of these people. Then, places like Lingnan, where the so-called gentlemen avoid them, are places where Li Yue can play a role.
Therefore, even though the environment here is relatively harsh, Li Yue still intends to make a good use of it and use his achievements in industrialization to beat those scumbags who only know those rotten principles.
With such a new year, when the guards suspected that Li Yue, a prince who had been spoiled and never experienced any hardships since he was a child, might regret it if he walked for a while, Li Yue persisted all the way to Quanzhou.
It is still good for Li Yue to maintain physical exercise all these years. Even though he is such a small body, he is a little tired after sitting all the way to Quanzhou, and he doesn't feel any discomfort.
At this time, it is almost early winter in the Central Plains, but it is just a little chilly here in Quanzhou. Here, there is no market for cotton-padded jackets. In the coldest season here, the temperature is equivalent to autumn in the Central Plains. Therefore, At most one jacket is enough.However, because of the sea breeze, the climate here is relatively humid, and there is more rain every year. Fortunately, there is actually very little precipitation in winter here, and many things to be done can be done just right.
In fact, when Li Yue arrived, many of the tasks assigned before were already on the right track.Like several brick kilns, porcelain kilns have been erected, and bricks and various utensils have been fired. The fuel used is not charcoal, but coal.
When he was in Ningzhou before, Li Yue asked people to look for coal mines, but they did not find coal mines, but instead found oil. As long as the structure of the kiln is adjusted, then the oil is not unusable. Compared with the almost open air here, dig a The oil that will flow out of the mine may be hidden deep in the ground, and mining the coal that may cost a lot of lives is not that important. Therefore, Li Yue did not delve into the matter of coal.
And when they arrived in Quanzhou, the people who had been in charge of mining in Ningzhou before found coal. Although it was only a small coal mine, at least at this stage, it was enough for them to use.Li Yue didn't know that, in fact, in places like Jinyang, some people have discovered the role of coal and started to use it for burning. However, this kind of raw coal that has not been processed is not natural anthracite, so it burns. The smoke is very large and has a peculiar smell, so only poor people will use it.Li Yue hadn't thought about it for a while before, but the headquarters of the old Li's family was actually the place with the largest coal reserves. After all, in his opinion, if the coal here had been discovered, it made no sense that Chang'an didn't know about it.
These miners are not professional, and naturally they don't know what is going on with coal in other places. They just heard what Li Yue said about the appearance of coal and the general method of use, so they followed what Li Yue said before. According to the treatment method, try to start coking.In fact, the method is very simple. Simply wash the coal, then put it in a rectangular sealed furnace made of refractory bricks, and ignite it until the gas inside is burned out, that is, coke.It is nothing more than a relatively large pollution, so later generations have long abandoned it, but these days, with the production scale and productivity of this era, if you abandon firewood and switch to coal, the forests that can be preserved are probably enough to deal with. The greenhouse gases produced by these coking are gone.
They now use treated coal and coke to fire bricks and tiles, ceramic glazes and the like, and even come up with new glaze patterns.In addition, they also started to investigate whether there are any copper-iron mines in the vicinity. If there are any, the shelves of various heavy industries will be set up here.
Li Yue was actually a little surprised by their efficiency. At first, he thought that it would take them a while to cheer up in such a remote place!Unexpectedly, not long after arriving at the place, they were already working in full swing.
Li Yue is not good at motivating people, so with a big wave of his hand, he handed out another bounty, which immediately won another round of cheers.
Li Yue didn't know that when these people came to Lingnan, they were really discouraged. After all, the environment here is really bad, but many times, people have to compare, compared with those barren hills before. Yeling, Quanzhou is just like heaven. Although there are mountains here, they are not big mountains. The scenery is quite beautiful. In the middle, there is a large arable plain. Compared with other places in Fujian Come on, the population density is actually much higher, and it is easy for them to recruit enough labor. In some respects, it is even easier here than in Ningzhou, because you don't need to deal with local officials.The local officials in Quanzhou are of ordinary background. If they were of higher background, they would not be sent to Quanzhou to be officials. Even if it is a relatively good place, it is dangerous to come all the way. It is said that some officials have not yet been able to take office. , died of illness on the way.Therefore, every time the imperial court selects and dispatches officials to these places, they generally can only choose those poor students with no background, or simply send them over whoever is not pleasing to the eye.Even so, it is not easy to find a suitable official, so that the tall one can only be selected from the short one, which is almost enough.
Correspondingly, the officials here are just desperately looking forward to being promoted, or even if they are not promoted, as long as they can be transferred to a place farther away from Lingnan, they are also happy.
However, this is really not an easy task. In the past dynasties, in fact, there were not many times when officials were truly governed, otherwise, there would be no such thing as running away from an official.In the imperial court, except for some more important positions, such as local officials, the official department has a lot of autonomy. Generally, the official department will report the name, and the above will look at it and pass it if it thinks there is no problem.The problem is that the emperor didn't know much about the officials below, and the names didn't match the names of the people, so generally this process was just a formality, and he didn't ask too many questions.
And what does the Ministry of Officials look for in selecting officials?Naturally, there are standards. The normal standard is evaluation, just like the performance evaluation of later generations. These days, there are different evaluation standards for officials. It is nothing more than the number of cases on your side, and the annual tax. In addition, just It depends on whether you can be a human being.Although it is not like the Ming and Qing Dynasties at this moment, there are some names such as ice respect and carbon respect, but such things as bribery have existed since ancient times and have never been cut off.As long as you show enough performance, then the official department will be a little more relaxed in the assessment, and the mid-level assessment will be changed to above-average or even above-average, then you will have a great chance to get out of the sea of suffering.But the problem is that those who are assigned to such poor mountains and rivers have little money in the first place, and it is difficult to get any financial performance here. Even, the so-called poor mountains and rivers bring out troublesome people. In this kind of place, the incidence of vicious cases is relatively high. If you don’t go, you don’t have money to give gifts, so it can only be a vicious circle. If you’re lucky, you’ll stay here forever. If you’re not lucky, you might be kicked to a more remote place after a few comments.
For example, Liu Meng, the governor of Quanzhou, was like this. He finally passed the Mingjing examination and worked hard as a petty official for more than ten years. The governor of Quanzhou died of illness, so he was "extraordinarily promoted" and quickly thrown here.
Originally, after Liu Meng arrived in Quanzhou, he still wanted to use his hands and feet to see if he could make some political achievements. As a result, the folk customs here are not simple and the transportation is inconvenient. Come on, under such circumstances, Liu Meng just gave up after struggling for half a year.Let's be a salted fish honestly, it's fine if you don't do it well!
But this time the imperial court actually sent a vassal king to Minyue, who directly ruled over the four prefectures of Minyue and chose Quanzhou as the residence of the Prince of Min. Liu Meng spent a lot of effort to find out about this freshly baked Min Wang's news, and then, he became excited.
This King of Fujian is not an ordinary vassal king. Unlike his brothers who are either funny, extravagant, or confused, this one is willing to do things, and can do things. No wonder the sage gave him the right to build a mansion .If he can take Quanzhou to a higher level, wouldn't he also be able to ascend to heaven?He doesn't have high requirements, he can just be transferred outside of Lingnan to be a governor. Even if he can't be a governor, he can accept a slight drop of half a level!Therefore, when the leading personnel of the Prince of Fujian's Mansion arrived, Liu Meng became attentive.
No matter what the Min Palace wants, as long as Liu Meng can cooperate, he will try his best to cooperate, especially seeing the people in the Min Palace looking like they are doing a big job, Liu Meng is also excited, he is not He also wanted to follow suit, he just felt hopeful.
After Li Yue arrived in Quanzhou, Liu Meng immediately summoned the officials from Quanzhou to visit him. In fact, when Li Yue came, he should have come to greet him. However, Li Yue did not announce the arrival time in advance. It was not an easy task for all the county magistrates to gather together, the main reason was that the transportation was inconvenient, so he had to wait until he was sure that Li Yue had arrived and lived in the mansion temporarily before he brought his subordinates to ask for an interview.
Li Yue didn't take Joe either. In a sense, although these officials were not appointed and dismissed by him, they could be regarded as his subordinates. Therefore, Li Yue behaved more politely. Of course, he was also observing. The virtues of the officials in Ningzhou have nothing to do with Li Yue anyway, so Li Yue doesn't bother to pay attention to them, but if the officials in Mindi are not reliable, then Li Yue has to think about it Come on, don't let me work hard on infrastructure construction here, pulling Yue people out of poverty and becoming rich, but looking back, a bunch of officials are holding back, making the people below have a hard time, and they are about to rebel directly. Isn't that too sad a little bit?
When these officials came to visit Li Yue, they were actually a little trembling. In fact, there are very few vassal kings of the old Li family who have a good reputation. Those who can really maintain a good reputation generally don’t come to the fief. Being in the fief means that the imperial power and themselves It doesn't matter anymore, so one by one can jump around in the fief. Although there are very few jumping repeatedly on the verge of death, most of them are not good guys. As clans, they need to be afraid There are very few things, and the court's request to them is that as long as they don't commit any heinous crimes, as long as they can be fooled about other things, the court will turn a blind eye to them.Like Teng Wang Li Yuanying, he built a Tengwang Pavilion in his fief, although it has been famous through the ages because of Wang Bo's "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion".But in this day and age, what price do you need to pay to build such a tall building?What's more, the Tengwang Pavilion mentioned by Wang Bo is already the third one he built. Not to mention the various materials that need to be consumed, just the labor, I don't know how much. Li Yuanying didn't spend much money during the construction of the Tengwang Pavilion. On the contrary, he took the opportunity of building the Tengwang Pavilion to exploit the people wantonly and forced them to perform hard labor. In the three Tengwang Pavilions, an unknown number of people died during the construction process due to overwork.In the end, Li Yuanying paid almost nothing.Just like Li Zhi treated Li Yue, the younger brother in name, Li Shimin loved Li Yuanying very much because he had killed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji before. In the end, most of them were fined three cups of wine, and the most serious punishment was to cut off two hundred households. Until Li Zhi ascended the throne, this man did not stop.
Li Yuanying is a typical example, and the others are not much better. In short, any vassal king with a bit of confidence is mostly a disaster when it comes to the locality.
Liu Meng told Li Yue just from hearsay, and he didn't know what Li Yue's style was, but after all, he had seen the world, so he was still calm on Li Yue's side. When the county magistrates faced Li Yue, They were a little nervous, most of them had no background, otherwise they would not have fallen to Quanzhou to be the county magistrate, so when facing Li Yue, they naturally had no confidence.
Although Li Yue's construction of the palace and so on is all spent money to recruit labor, but in their simple point of view, there is no prince who spends money like this, I am afraid that the money will be apportioned to them in the end, so a I was thinking in my heart, if Li Yue asked for money, how could they cry poorly!That's right, just crying for poverty, these officials didn't get any money, let alone give it to Li Yue.Quanzhou or Lingnan is not as good as the Central Plains. The people there are very patient, and they will not resist unless it is absolutely necessary. However, the people in Lingnan are tough. There is a connection, you made them upset, maybe they turned around and went to the mountains to find someone to make a fuss. It's not that the Yue people attacked the county town or even entered the county government in Lingnan. The imperial court sent troops to suppress it. Of course, the Yue people involved in the incident couldn't get any favors, and the officials who caused the civil uprising couldn't get any favors.
Fortunately, Li Yue never thought about scraping the land. To be honest, when the productivity was still very low, scraping the land could earn a few dollars. If he wanted to make money, Li Yue had a lot of ideas in his mind. It's low-level, but if you want to make money, the key is to let the local people have money first.Therefore, when Li Yue hosted a banquet for these officials, he began to inquire about their local conditions.
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