Chapter 36 Overseas Expansion (IV)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 36 Overseas Expansion (IV)

One year later

The third year of Hanzhong Yuan

August

Changle Palace in Chang'an

late at night

"Your Majesty, it's time to rest soon." Concubine Tang replaced the burning oil lamp beside the emperor, lit a new oil lamp, waved his hand to back the palace maid next to him, and personally brought hot tea to the emperor.

"These are all book books sent by officials from various counties and states this year. I will naturally fall asleep after reading it. You can go back first." The emperor's voice was very gentle, not as majestic as in the court. He would not make airs privately like me, and he looked at the book books on the table with concentration.

These books register the population, land, merchants, and financial situations of each county, county, and even village. They are important basis for the Chang'an court to formulate relevant policies. However, no relevant systems have been formed. However, every few years or more than ten years, when the emperor is free, he will order the county and state to report the situation in the county once, and then adjust the tax and other policies of each county and state according to the reported situation.

For the plan book without problems, the emperor would write praise words on the bottom blank space to express encouragement. For the plan book with problems, the local county government will again check the population and land, and submit the plan book to Chang'an again.

Looking at the plan books submitted by the counties and states on the bamboo slips, the emperor lamented and looked at the somewhat dark palace.

"Your Majesty?" Concubine Tang next to her was very caring.

"There are few wise officials in the counties and states in the world." The emperor shook his head. The plots he looked at were more or less problematic, but the problems were not too big. Based on his understanding of these counties and state officials, what happened in the local area could be roughly guessed.

While shaking his head, it was the turn of Liaodong County's plan book. As he looked at it, he realized something was wrong.

"There has not been a major disaster in Liaodong, nor has it been harmed by the rebels of the seven countries. How did the land and population decrease so much?" The emperor, who felt something was wrong, ordered an eunuch to get the Liaodong plan book ten years ago. After comparison, he found a big problem. The entire Liaodong had a population of ten thousand and 300,000 acres of land less than ten years ago.

"Take the plots of each county reported by Liaodong County this year." After discovering that there was a problem with the population and land of Liaodong County, the emperor asked a eunuch on the side to get the more detailed counties and towns of Liaodong County.

"No." The eunuch agreed and soon received the plan books from the counties in Liaodong County.

Generally speaking, the emperor would not look at the county's plots carefully. There were more than a thousand counties in the world, and each one could not finish reading. He could only look at the counties and states. After discovering that there were problems with a certain county, he would then look at the reporting situation of each county in the county.

After some review, the emperor realized that almost every county in Liaodong had problems. For example, the Zhang family in Wen County, Liaodong reported that there were only 1,000 acres of land in the plot book, but a certain palace maid in the palace was from Wen County, Liaodong. The emperor once accidentally heard the palace maid talking about the Zhang family in Wen County, Liaodong. His family raised three or four hundred slaves and maids.

Three or four hundred servants and maids, can this be afforded by a poor family with only a thousand acres of land?

For example, the Li family in Fang County, Liaodong reported 500 acres of land, but most of the Fang County officials' list are from Li's surname, so it would not be a coincidence? If it is not a coincidence, then can this be a strength that a family with only 500 acres of land have?

There is also the Wang family in Dashi County, Liaodong, who is quite honest and has reported two thousand acres of land. However, it seems that this Wang family in Liaodong has heard of it before?

When I was reading the book of Dashi County, the emperor's memories of a few years ago began to emerge, but it was too long and very vague. I always felt that I had talked to a concubine a few years ago about the Wang family in Liaodong, but I couldn't remember it.

If you can't remember, you won't think about it anymore. Then you can arrange for the consent to go to Liaodong to conduct a secret inspection.

After thinking about this, the emperor began to continue to review the plans of other counties and countries.

On the side, Concubine Tang, who had long learned to write, watched the emperor put the plan book of Dashi County aside, and was also thinking in her heart.

The Tang family and the Wang family are also familiar with each other. Their brother Tang Daniu now lives in Wangjiazhuang. He hugs the Wang family's maid and is having fun every day. The Wang family also gives her various gifts every year, and she has to help her anyway.

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Wei's North Korean siege to the sea

A merchant ship flying the "King" flag sailed from the sea into the river. The natives of North Korea along the coast were panicked and thought it was a fleet of Han coming to attack North Korea.

Several Korean soldiers guarding the place quickly rode back to the king's dangerous city on fast horses and reported to their king that the Han people had invaded.

"It's been ten years, a full ten years! I'm finally back to Liaodong! I don't know if the troops of the seven countries have entered Chang'an City? Maybe my Wang family has become a hero of the new dynasty!" A thirty-year-old man at the bow of the boat sighed to the sky, his face full of vicissitudes of life.

He went out to sea to find the Japanese archipelago king Taiyang. He returned to Liaodong this time and passed by North Korea, preparing to grab the Wei Dynasty. Anyway, it was impossible for the Wei Dynasty to travel far to Liaodong to take revenge through the sea.

"When we do this, what if the King of Wei's North Korean attacks?" On the other side, Wang Roujing, who is already twenty-seven years old, has less cute temperament and has a lot of maternal love and aura that is like a mother. At this moment, she is holding the arm of the man beside her and snuggling against the other party, and is very concerned.

"Don't worry, I've asked someone to inquire before. North Korea's king Wei is critically ill. The whole country of North Korea is busy preparing for a mourning and has no time to guard here." Wang Taiyang smiled confidently, then touched the black hair of the woman beside him and continued to add: "Besides, I'm just robbing some Korean villages along the Lieshui River. I won't go deep into the Wangxing area, and there will be no trouble."

"I've come here. Before returning to Liaodong, it's better to plunder some Korean natives to go back to be serfs, just treat it as a meeting gift for Taihao's cousin." Taking deep breaths of the air on the North Korean land, Wang Taiyang felt very comfortable. He stayed in the Yinmin Islands for too long. He felt that he was about to leave a civilized society and was about to be assimilated by the Yin Shang people who had the advantage in numbers.

Over the past decade, they crossed the Korean coast from Liaodong, led the Yin people to develop on the Yin Min Islands. After that, they finally repaired their ships and could sail far away. So they continued to set out eastward to find a large island between the Sanhan and the Japanese archipelago, and named it the Amami Island.

The reason for this is that Yan was once the capital of the Shang Dynasty, and later moved the capital to other places by Pan Geng. At the same time, Yan State was also the most important internal princes of the Shang Dynasty, resisting the Dongyi for more than a hundred years.

After that, they continued to sail eastward and finally found the Japanese archipelago mentioned in the teachings of their ancestors.

It was said that it was an island, but it was actually very vast. His ship sailed along the coastline of the Japanese archipelago for several months but had no end. Finally, he had to return to the Yinmin Islands. Before returning, he also captured dozens of indigenous Japanese as specimens.

Recalling the hardships of finding the Japanese archipelago, the ship finally docked. After the sailors dropped the anchor, Wang Taiyang put on his armor and rode out of the ship with armored war horses, leading ten personal soldiers and twenty Yin warriors to land on the shore.

"The Wang family's personal soldiers, wearing armor, and log in with me!"

"Brothers of Yin, hold the long spear in your hands tightly and follow behind your personal soldiers."

Not far from where the ships docked was a Korean village built by the river.

“￥#@%…#￥…￥#”

“#@%#￥…￥…&%￥”

The Koreans in the village were panicked, some clever ones had already run into the mountains and forests, while most of them were reluctant to leave their bottles and jars at home, and they also encountered robbers from the sea for the first time, so they were not vigilant, just simply closed the doors and windows, and sat in the house tremblingly and thought they could be safe and worry-free.

"Kill the one who escapes first!"

Wang Taiyang took the lead and rushed forward on a war horse and killed a North Korean indigenous villager who was trying to escape into the mountains.

"Uh--"

The North Korean indigenous man was pierced through his back by a spear and fell to the ground and died immediately.

“%#￥%…#￥”

The village was filled with wailing sounds that were incomprehensible. In order to prevent the indigenous Koreans from hiding in the dark and unable to find them, Wang Taiyang also ordered his personal soldiers to ignite the entire village with fire and force out the hidden indigenous Koreans with fire and smoke.

Things that are valuable or useful in the village are taken away, such as jade, grain, pearls, agate, animal skin, cloth, silk, silkworms, indigenous women, indigenous strong men, etc.
Chapter completed!