The next thing was relatively simple. A few days later, the daimyo arrived at Dazaifu. They were greeted by murderous soldiers of the Tang Army. In extreme panic, the daimyo had to sign a letter of allegiance and expressed their willingness to become dazaifu.
People of the Emperor of Tang Dynasty.
But this was just a transition. Half a year later, more than 30 county officials from the Tang Dynasty were in place. The Tang army arrested all the daimyo and their descendants for conspiracy to rebel, and sent them all to Tamna Island to be executed, and confiscated all their belongings.
Property and land.
As the officials took their seats and announced at the same time that the people of Jiuzhou Prefecture would implement the Tang tax system and be exempted from taxes and land rent for three years, the people on the island suddenly rejoiced and expressed their gratitude to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty for his kindness.
Japanese farmers' taxes are extremely heavy. They not only pay rent, but also taxes. After the implementation of the Tang Dynasty tax system, land rent and taxes do not need to be paid at the same time. If you rent the land of the original daimyo, which is now the government's land,
Then after three years, there will be no need to pay taxes. Only 20% of the harvest will be paid as land rent each year, and it can be reduced or exempted if there is a disaster.
If you rent land from other landlords, of course the other landlords will not bear the taxes and will still have to pass it on to the farmers in the form of highland rent. Generally, 50% of the harvest will be charged as land rent.
At this time, farmers have a choice. They can rent government land and enjoy low land rent and tax exemption policies, or they can work for the government. They can still make money to support their families without being farmers. The main tasks for the government are road construction and logging.
You can even go to Liaodong to farm, and you will be exempted from tax and land rent, and all the food will be yours.
As Jiuzhou Island was changed to Jiuzhou Prefecture, Emperor Li Ye appointed Qiao Bin as the first Prefectural Governor. At the same time, the Eleven Commands were changed to Eleven Counties, and they were officially merged into the Tang Dynasty.
The imperial court also repatriated all Japanese prostitutes from Chang'an and Luoyang back to their hometowns to join the army. They were also victims of human smuggling over the years, numbering seven to eight thousand. Their greatest advantage was that they could speak fluent Chinese, and their customs were completely
After the Tang Dynasty, they had a docile personality and generally looked young and beautiful. They were deeply loved by the soldiers stationed in the Tang army and married them one after another.
Scholar-officials in the Tang Dynasty would take prostitutes as their concubines, but they would never marry them as wives.
But it is not easy for ordinary people to get a wife, so they don't care about a woman's past, as long as she is good, and the soldiers in the army are from low-class backgrounds, so naturally they don't care either.
After marrying these Japanese women, and the court promised to give them land and tax exemption for three generations, the eight thousand soldiers were willing to stay in Kyushu Prefecture, start a family and have children here.
Of course, the seizure of Kyushu Island was not all smooth sailing. Three years later, the Kyushu Rebellion broke out, and the participants were mainly Kyushu landowners. The Tang army's low tax and rent system seriously damaged their interests, resulting in no farmers willing to farm land for them, and there were three grievances.
In 1998, a rebellion broke out. Ten thousand Tang troops suppressed it with an iron fist without mercy, killing thousands of rebel participants, confiscating the land and property of big landlords, and completely eradicating a major cancer that threatened the Tang Dynasty's rule in Kyushu.
At the same time, the land and mansions of these big landlords were distributed to 8,000 Tang soldiers who were willing to stay in Kyushu. All of these Tang soldiers were willing to stay in Kyushu only after they married women who had returned from the Tang Dynasty, started families and had children.
, they became the new landlord class in Kyushu and were crucial to stabilizing the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty began to build schools on a large scale and required all children to attend school. Five years later, the Tang Dynasty government officially implemented the full implementation of naming naturalization for the people of Kyushu, mainly with the five surnames of Li, Zhang, Zhao, Wang, and Liu.
These five surnames are mainly the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who stayed in Kyushu and their married families. For example, if a soldier's surname is Zhang, his wife also takes the surname Zhang, and then his wife's natal family follows Zhan Guang and changes her surname to Zhang.
Other lower-class people in Japan do not have surnames, and the county officials give them surnames. Generally, they have surnames such as Niu, Sheep, Zhu, Tian, Mi, Cai, Jing, Fang, He, Hu, Chai, Lin, Lu, etc.
An interesting thing happened. Originally, there were only a few hundred thousand people in Jiuzhou Prefecture, but when they were naturalized, they found that the population was as high as more than 500,000.
This is when a large number of Japanese people from other places poured into Kyushu with their families. They all wanted to become citizens of the Tang Dynasty, and they naturally got their wish. The court had regulations that as long as they participated in the registration during naturalization and swore allegiance to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, they could be recognized as citizens of the Tang Dynasty.
Commoner of Tang nationality.
Ten years later, the Japanese language declined and Chinese became the mainstream. Fifteen years later, Li Ge, a scholar from Hizen Prefecture, became the first local in Kyushu Prefecture to pass the Jinshi. Fifty years later, the traces of Japan have almost disappeared in Kyushu Prefecture.
Regardless of the inner identity of all the people, they all identified themselves as citizens of the Tang Dynasty and had nothing to do with Japan.
In the east of Japan, after the burning of Fujiwara Kyo, the Japanese royal family was almost completely wiped out, and all the troops directly under the imperial court were also destroyed. As Li Chengshi led the Tang army to evacuate Japan, Fujiwara Momokawa removed the former emperor's grandson, Prince Shirakabako, from Awaji.
The island welcomed him back, established him as the new emperor, and reestablished the imperial court.
But any political power must be based on strength. A court without military strength or financial support will not have any authority. This is especially true for Japanese society that only believes in strength but not morality.
When the new emperor ascended the throne, only seven of the fifty daimyo from across the country came to pay their respects, while the rest looked on with cold eyes.
In the second year, the great names of the five countries, including Nagato Sanguin, Iwami, Izumo, Boqi, and Inaba, went to Chang'an to pay homage to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. They were all canonized as county kings, and their countries were protected by the Tang army. After the news spread,
, caused a sensation in the Japanese countries, and each country sent envoys to Kyushu to pay homage to Qiao Bin, the governor of Kyushu in the Tang Dynasty, hoping that Mr. Qiao would recommend them to go to Chang'an for pilgrimage.
In the third year after the establishment of Kyushu Prefecture, the king of Iwami Province sold a piece of land in the northeast to Kyushu Prefecture. At the same time, Kyushu Prefecture bought Sado Island from Echigo Province. Soon Iwami Province and Sado Island discovered
Gold and silver mines were discovered, triggering a craze for mining exploration in various countries in Japan.
Ishigami discovered three silver mines successively and became Japan's largest silver producer. Especially on the land sold to the Tang Dynasty, the largest silver mine in Japan was discovered. An unprecedented large gold mine was also discovered on Sado Island.
Mine, Sado Island was renamed Jinshan Island.
As the Tang Dynasty began large-scale mining and smelting of the Iwami National Silver Mine and the Jinshan Island Gold Mine, the gold and silver smelting technology of the Tang Dynasty was also spread to Japan. From then on, the gold, silver and cypress produced in Japan
They were continuously transported to the Tang Dynasty in exchange for silk, porcelain and various daily necessities of the Tang Dynasty.
In the fifth year of Jiaxing in the Tang Dynasty, a conflict broke out between the Meinong Kingdom and the Echizen Kingdom over a border river containing gold sand. This was the Meinong River Incident. It started a thirty-year period of continuous conflict among Japanese countries to compete for gold and silver resources.
Turbulent times of war.
In five years, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty successively conferred nearly fifty daimyo inland and promoted the country to a vassal state, which had a profound political impact. Although the Japanese emperor and court still lasted for nearly a hundred years, in fact, they
The impact is limited to the Nara area.
A hundred years later, due to long-term incest, the reproductive capacity of the imperial family became weaker and weaker, until the last emperor died of illness, and the emperor became extinct. General Fujiwara Kasei announced the abolition of the emperor, proclaimed himself the Tenzo General, and led the army to conquer various countries.
Easily defeated by the 10,000 Tang troops from Kyushu Prefecture, the Fujiwara family was destroyed, and Japan entered the Warring States Period without a leader.
Thirty years later, the Tang Dynasty completely annexed Japan and began to implement the Kyushu prefecture model on Honshu Island. Decades later, Japan completely disappeared in the long river of history.
At the beginning of November, Guo Ziyi arrived in Chang'an. Along with him, there were nearly a thousand flat-bottomed tugboats, loaded with various spoils of the Liaodong battle. Bohai Kingdom, Khitan and Xi tribe, the richest among them was Bohai Kingdom.
, including seizing six thousand large boxes of gold and silver treasures from the Japanese fleet, and preparing the second and third batches of iron ingots, copper ingots, wood and various precious medicinal materials to be shipped away.
The trophies of the Khitan and Xi tribes mainly consisted of various skins and medicinal materials, including more than a million high-quality sheep skins, and tens of millions of cattle and sheep, which were left in the pastures of Liaodong and did not come to Chang'an.
Of course, Li Ye and the imperial court had already reached an agreement on the distribution of spoils of war. Half of the gold and silver treasures would be divided into the inner treasury and the left treasury. For other supplies, the imperial court would select some precious items and donate them to the emperor, while the rest would go into the national treasury.
Li Ye met with Guo Ziyi and the generals, and gave them heavy rewards. Among them, the commander-in-chief Guo Ziyi was granted the title of Prince of Fenyang County and Grand Master. However, Guo Ziyi repeatedly refused to accept the title of Prince of Fenyang. Finally, he was granted the title of Duke of Qi, granting 500 households and serving as Privy Councilor.
The envoy, Tong Zhongshu's family, was rewarded with a garden house in Chang'an.
The other generals were awarded high titles and given generous rewards.
In the imperial study, Li Ye met with Zhang Dian specially.
Zhang Dian was first one of the three hundred servants of the Pei family in Zhangye. He followed Li Ye to Suiye. Later, he was continuously promoted by Li Ye and became the king of scouts in the Tang Dynasty. Now he has become a prince.
"The humble minister Zhang Dian comes to see His Majesty the Emperor and wishes His Majesty long live, long live, long live!"
Li Ye smiled and waved his hands: "General Zhang, long time no see, please wake up quickly!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Zhang Dian stood up, as straight as a pine tree.
Li Ye smiled and asked: "How old is General Zhang this year?"
"Reporting to your majesty, I am twenty-two years old this year!"
Li Ye sighed, "Time flies so fast. Those who followed me back then were all young soldiers in their twenties, but now they are all middle-aged."
"Wei Chen can serve your Majesty for another thirty years!"
Li Ye smiled and asked again: "Has the general had any dealings with the Shiwei tribe in Liaodong?"
"Reporting to your majesty, when I was chasing Yelu Salade, did I have any dealings with Nanshi Wei?"
"What's it like dealing with them?"
Zhang Dian thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the people of Shiwei are very simple, but their nobles are generally arrogant and lack respect for the Tang Dynasty!"
"What about the Blackwater Mohe?" Li Ye asked again.
