Lu Yan stayed in the Wenshan Hall of Linshuo Palace until Xia Zhi, and hurriedly read through the official letters, mostly about the two battlefields of Yi Ding and Cheng De. Seeing that there was no "news", he got on his horse and ran to Huichuan Township. Dengcun Residence - No bathing tomorrow, no need to go straight, what are you going to do if you don't go home?
Lu Yan's ancestral home was Anci, Youzhou, and he was a fellow townsman with Han Yanhui. He was a former lower-level bureaucrat of the Youzhou shogunate. After the Great Xia captured Youzhou, as one of the few locally-born officials who remained in office, Lu Yan was appointed as a military officer in the Beiping Prefecture. He was still a minor official. .
Lu Yan had been an official in Youzhou for many years. He had a house in Tongmafang in the city and a village in the countryside of Jixian County. He was already a full-fledged native of Fucheng.
Huichuan Township is eight miles southeast of Fucheng, and Deng Village is right next to it. It will be there in a short while.
After arriving at the head of the village, he dismounted his horse and led him on foot. Along the way, he met people in the village and greeted him with a smile without any airs.
"Guan Lu." As he approached his door, a new owner from next door came out to say hello.
"Who are you?" Lu Yan looked up and saw that the house that had been under construction for several months seemed to have been completed. The owner had never appeared before, but he finally saw it today.
"The villain Tu Lubu is a Khitan," the master replied.
"Tulubu? Could it be that he is a member of the Tulubu tribe among the eight tribes of Khitan? How can he be named after a tribe?" Lu Yan asked curiously.
"No." Tu Lubu smiled bitterly and said: "The villain lost his parents when he was young, and his elder brother left him alone. He went out to survive hard. Later, he studied Chinese characters and regulations with a Bohai scholar, and when he had time, he practiced some martial arts and became a stick master for others. , barely making a living. This name was chosen randomly, and over time, it became known as that."
"Do you have a last name?" Lu Yan asked.
"I was once a follower of Aogu Yulu Jiangu. He went to Yingzhou and was given the surname Yelu." Yelu Tulu said without replying.
Lu Yan looked at his age. He seemed to be fifteen or sixteen years old. He sighed secretly and said, "Have you settled down in Jixian now?"
"Exactly." Yelu Tulubu said: "Ao Gu has been canonized as Jieyu by the saint. She was honored by her followers, and all her crimes were pardoned. She was released to Jixian County and settled as a citizen."
"Since you have studied literature, you should choose a serious name." Lu Yan felt somewhat sympathetic when he heard this.
He lost his parents when he was young, but he did not give up on himself. On the contrary, while making a living, he tried every means to learn literature and practice martial arts. With such an ambition, what could not be accomplished? Lu Yan admired such motivated young men, regardless of Han or Tibetan.
"I don't dare." After holding it in for a long time, Yelu Tulu Bu jumped out and said two words.
"Why?" Lu Yan advised: "If the young man still wants to make progress in the future, he will not be able to do it without the name Yelu Tu Lu."
Tu Lubu was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "Actually, I already have a name. Aogu gave me the surname Yelu, and the saint gave me the name Quanzhong."
"This..." Lu Yan was a little surprised: "I didn't expect you to have seen a saint."
The expression on Yelu Quanzhong's face was very complicated. Lu Yan had never thought that a young man of fifteen or sixteen could be so sentimental.
"I've seen it." Yelu Quanzhong said lonely: "The medical officer of the Imperial Medical Office took Yelu Jieyu's pulse and confirmed that she is pregnant. The saint was very pleased, and Yelu Jieyu took the opportunity to intercede for us. The saint summoned her, and during the banquet Give me the name Quanzhong.”
"That's it." Lu Yan nodded, then looked at the newly built house next to him and said, "The emperor's grace is so great that he has given you a lot of wealth."
The house is actually quite good. Although there is only one entrance, it has three rooms, a kitchen, a woodshed, and a livestock shed on both sides.
Inside the livestock shed, there were actually two cows and a dozen sheep tied up.
The door of the house is open, and some furniture can be seen faintly, which is quite complete.
This is a huge reward! It seems that the saint loves the newly conferred Yelu Jieyu very much, and even her entourage also has rewards - well, maybe only a few people are rewarded, after all, not everyone is qualified to be a saint
Named.
Hearing Lu Yan say "the emperor's kindness is so great", Yelu Quanzhong smiled bitterly.
This is actually a shame!
In the Battle of Yingzhou, Li Cunxiao's army of more than ten thousand was defeated and routed for hundreds of miles. The brothers of the Gao family turned against each other before the battle, killed Xiao Shilu, the Jiedushi envoy, and surrendered Yingzhou.
Killing commanders and rebelling is common in the Central Plains, but for the Khitan, it is really shocking. Many people are unwilling to explain the underlying reasons, but Yelu Quanzhong has already figured it out: the Han people simply look down on the Khitan, and even if they defect to the Khitan,
It is also a temporary expedient. As long as there is a chance, they will invest again.
With these two things, isn’t it shameful enough?
Okay, if that's not enough. Then the great shaman Yulu Jiangu, as the biological sister of Abaoji, was occupied by the Xia emperor, slept with her day and night, and even became pregnant with the enemy's child. Is it shameful enough?
Yelu Quanzhong is a Khitan after all. Seeing his hometown and his compatriots turning into such horrible things, it would be a lie to say he is not heartbroken.
Lu Yan seemed to understand Yelu Quanzhong's distress and said: "There is still a long way to go, so please take it seriously."
The Khitans were saddened by the decline of their tribe, and as a Yan people, so was Lu Yan. But as he said, the road is still long, and people have to look forward. It doesn't look like they will go backwards now.
On the contrary, he is very skillful and has already shown his friendship to the scholars in Cangjing and Youzhou towns. Lu Yan can't hate him anymore and even wants to join...
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The sky is high and the clouds are clear, and the autumn wind is just right.
After breakfast, Lu Yan led the horse and rode alongside his eleven-year-old son Lu Qi.
When Zhong Jingxian, the governor of Yingzhou, passed by Deng Village, he liked the child very much and was willing to accept him as his disciple and teach him carefully.
It was a great blessing that his son was favored by a famous master in Wei Bo and Cangjing. Therefore, although his son was still young, Lu Yan was still determined and asked his servants to escort him to Liucheng to worship him.
Enter the sect of Zhongxian.
It's time to set off today.
Yelu Quanzhong got up early in the morning and repaired ditches in the fields.
There was a lot of work and it was very tiring. When the sun went up, he sat on the ridge of the field to rest.
Seven or eight families of immigrants from Xiazhou came to the village. They did not see anyone outside, and they called Yelu Quanzhong "Little Khitan", joking with him, and sometimes lending him farm tools and teaching him new farming methods.
"The young man has so many livestock at home, so things are easy." A black-faced man patted his shoulder and said: "One acre of land can raise more than ten sheep. If you feel tired, you can plant pasture.
After that, just drive the sheep in to graze, and it won’t be a problem to raise more than ten. If you work hard and cut the grass to feed, you may be able to raise fifteen. Don’t underestimate the difference between these five. In five or ten years, you will be able to raise more than ten sheep.
How much more do you earn than others? You will have to marry a wife in the future, so you should be more diligent at this time."
Yelu Quanzhong listened silently.
The black-faced man's name was Yue Sanlang. He dressed as a Han Chinese and spoke Chinese, but his huge earrings said it all: this guy who thought he was Han was actually a Party leader.
Yue Sanlang talked about farming in a clear and logical manner, many of which Yelu Quanzhong had never heard of before, which made him doubtful. Looking at the thick calluses on Yue Sanlang's right hand, palm, left and right index fingers, and middle fingers, he was not a martial artist who had been playing with bows for many years.
No one believed it.
Is it reliable for this kind of person to tell you how to farm and raise livestock?
"What? You don't believe me, young man?" Yue Sanlang talked for a long time. Seeing that there was no movement, a surge of anger appeared on his black face, and he said: "This is what a saint has to teach the immortal method when meeting an immortal, and then teach it to everyone. I
I have helped my father and brother at home for many years, and I have seen and experienced it with my own eyes. In the bitter cold land of Xiazhou, how much food and meat could I get? It was simply not enough to eat. What about now? It is not a problem to make a full stomach. If it were not for the death of my father, I would
Even though I was kicked out by my brother and sister-in-law, I didn’t want to leave Xiazhou.”
Yelu Quanzhong was suffocated, he was afraid that the black-faced man would hit him.
Judging from his many years of struggle to survive in the Eight Tribes of Khitan, this guy has definitely killed people. He is not a kind person, but he is in awe of his superiors and calls him a god.
"Young Khitan doesn't believe it, but I do." Tu Er came over and said with a smile.
Yue Sanlang glanced at Tu Er, and patted him vigorously with his big palm-like hands to show his appreciation.
Tu Er is a Mohe person. He migrated from the Zhuozhou Mountains and is said to be a member of the Mohe Tudiji tribe in the early years of the former Tang Dynasty.
At that time, Liu Heitai rose up in Hebei and was extremely brave. Taizong Li Shimin led the army to conquer, but it was difficult to win for a while. So he sent people to contact the eight tribes of Sumo Mohe Tu Diji who had moved in during the Sui Dynasty, and ordered them to go south from Youzhou to Ding.
Prefecture, harassed Liu Heitai's grain road and achieved great success.
The chieftain was given the surname Li and was granted the title of Duke. The second generation Li Jinxing had "thousands of servants" in Youzhou, and his momentum was already huge.
During the Great Xia Dynasty's invasion of Youzhou, some of the Mohe descendants surrendered, some were exterminated, and some were forcibly moved to Hubei Province. There were five or six families of Mohe people resettled in Dengcun, and most of them didn't even have a name. They were registered as households.
During the Qi Dynasty, people were not allowed to use "Tu Diji" as their surname, and they were ordered to take Chinese names.
The officials who checked the household registrations found it troublesome, so they uniformly recorded Yi Tu and Tu's second surname, then asked the family's ranking, wrote it down and handed it over - that's how Tu Er came to be.
"Okay!" Yue Sanlang was overjoyed and said: "In the future, you can just follow my instructions on how to grow wheat, grass, and raise livestock. You won't suffer any losses if you keep it. If you see any benefit in the future, just treat me to a bowl of wine."
"Definitely, definitely." Tu Er replied hurriedly.
He believed in Yue Sanlang for no other reason than this guy could fight. People who can fight must be capable, so it was right to trust him.
"Actually, Yue Sanlang is right." Lu Yan's voice suddenly sounded.
I saw him dismounting, stepping on the ridge of the field to the edge of the field, looking around, and said: "There are tracts of good land. The imperial court tried its best to connect everyone's land into one, just to promote some new ones."
Things. I met a lot of students from Kansai Agricultural Studies in Fucheng, and I will soon go to the counties to start agricultural studies and supervise production. This year, I went to Yingzhou and behind the mountains and plundered a lot of livestock. It is estimated that they will all be distributed gradually.
.Yue Sanlang, since you are familiar with the three-crop rotation system, you should teach it to everyone, but don’t keep it to yourself.”
"What are you talking about, official?" Yue Sanlang said with a smile: "Dengcun is my family, so naturally we have to help each other. In the future, when we go into battle, we will have to fight for our lives together. We are all on our own."
"In a few days, five families of Yingzhou Khitan people will be resettled in the village. Please don't bully them." Lu Yan said again.
Yelu Quanzhong was shocked and asked hurriedly: "Yingzhou Khitan?"
Lu Yan glanced at him and said: "That's right. The imperial court has issued an edict to move the Khitan captives to Yingzhou and Shanhou into Linyu Pass. The ten prefectures of Lulong and the three prefectures of Cangjing have been resettled, and even Yingzhou in Hubei Province has been resettled.
The three prefectures of Fu'an and Fu'an are all within the resettlement scope, with a total of more than 10,000 households."
"In this case, wouldn't there be no Khitan in Yingzhou?" Yelu Quanzhong asked.
"There will be no more." Lu Yan nodded and said: "Yingzhou is the Zhengzhou of Daxia. The imperial court has decreed that the poor people from the four prefectures of Cao, Song, Hua, and Bian should settle in Yingzhou. In the former Tang Dynasty, except for Yingzhou,
Outside the military town, there is only one county, Liucheng. Five new counties were established in Daxia, so it is natural to fill up the household registration."
Zhengzhou is Zhengzhou, not comparable to Jisuzhou. In Yingzhou, it seems that the imperial court is going to take serious action. It has sent famous civil servants like Zhong Jinxian to serve as governors, launched a large-scale immigration, and established new counties and townships.
, the work was done more thoroughly than in the former Tang Dynasty, and the determination was very obvious.
"During the former Tang Dynasty, there was only one county in Yingzhou with thousands of households. What was the saint going to do..." Yelu Quanzhong murmured.
Lu Yan glanced at Yelu Quanzhong with some pity and said: "Yingzhou is connected to Andong Mansion in the southeast and Bohai State in the northeast. Andong Mansion has been in good order for several years, and the people are happy. Bohai State admires the Chinese style and is enlightened.
It is very deep, has cities all over the place, is densely populated, and even Youzhou has heard of the rice it produces. The young man is a smart man, so he should know what he means."
In short, the Bohai State has five capitals, ten prefectures and three solo prefectures, with a population of more than one million in household registration, but the actual situation is unknown. There are varying degrees of Chineseization in various parts of the country, and farming is the mainstay, supplemented by herding and fishing.
The Yiying system was also copied from the former Tang Dynasty and had good conditions for abolishing vassals and setting up counties.
In agricultural areas, the imperial court would send officials to manage them. The grasslands and pastures should be released as needed, and they would not be held directly. Lu Yan figured it out as soon as Prince Fengsheng came out.
As the connecting channel between Bohai State and Guan Nei, Yingzhou must be well managed. The conditions may not have been met before, but now that Liaoze is gradually silting out land, it can be tried.
"Actually, many Khitan people have recently escaped from Hedong and begged the imperial court for surrender. They are all members of Wu Kui, Tuju and other tribes. They were stranded in Hedong back then, but now they can't stay any longer." Lu Yan added: "Today, I'm going to
With the ambition of Khan, he regarded him as an innocent son, and ordered him to move to Xiangyang and settle in various counties. Xiaolangjun is a very human being, and it is time to move on. I see that you study hard and make progress. If there is anything unclear about the meaning of the scriptures in the future,
You can come to me for inquiries and I won't refuse. There are some books at home. If you want to borrow them, feel free to come and get them. After studying for a few years, you may try to take the exam. In the Qingming Dynasty of the New Dynasty, ordinary scholars took the exam, which was not as difficult as the previous dynasty.
, there is still a chance.”
"Thank you so much, officer." Yelu Quanzhong bowed solemnly and said.
Lu Yan accepted it calmly and said nothing.
Lu Qi looked at it curiously, then turned his head again. His mind had already gone to Liucheng.
