Hai Dayu stretched his body for a long time, then raised his hands and waited for a long time, but the familiar shaking feeling never came as promised.
He was stunned for a long time, until he started to hear rustling sounds around him, and he suddenly reacted.
This is not the small broken boat he had in southern Fujian, but Kunming County in Jinzhou, the southern prefecture of Goryeo Mountain.
Kunming County is located in Sichuan City, later known as Nanbang, about 1,670 kilometers west of Fushan. It is a beautiful seaside city.
But now, Sichuan City, still called Kunming County, is quite poor.
Although it is a county, there are only 1,100 registered households, about 5,900 people, most of whom are fishermen, and a few are farmers. There are only about 700 or 800 people in Kunming County.
Of course, this poverty is relative to future generations. In the eyes of Hai Dayu, this territory that belongs to him is quite wealthy.
Every year, the catch alone falls into his hands, weighing over a thousand kilograms, and the total coarse and fine grain can amount to ten thousand shi.
After excluding the tribute paid to the king, he was left with about 85,600 shi of grain and 700 to 800 jin of fish.
This tax is not light, because the land that can be sealed is not good land.
Based on the average output of one thousand two hundred kilograms of grain per person per year, this territory can only produce a total of sixty-five thousand kilograms of grain.
A tax of 10,000 dan was collected from the 65,000 dan of grain, which was a tax rate of almost 15%. If catches were included, it would be almost 18 to 19%.
This tax rate is much higher than the 7% levied by the Tang Dynasty in China, and also higher than the current average of less than 5% by Zhang Zhou in the Central Plains.
But at the same time, the Tang Dynasty's 7% was also collected during the peace period. After the Anshi Rebellion, if it was counted as the mess of military men from various places, it could almost reach 20%.
But upon further comparison, the tyranny of almost 30% that the wealthy families of Goryeo originally imposed in Kunming County appears to be quite benevolent.
Under this 18% tax rate, the average Korean can still have more than 800 kilograms of food left a year, or two kilograms or three taels per person per day.
Since there was not much rice grown in Korea at this time, after shelling and removing the remaining seeds, there was still almost two kilograms left.
But this is an average number. In reality, one kilogram a day for the elderly and the weak can almost hang their lives. Therefore, men and healthy women who have to participate in heavy physical labor can reach about two and a half kilograms a day.
These grains, plus some fruits and vegetables and the occasional animal meat and seafood, can barely make enough to eat without considering making clothes, diesel, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, or getting sick.
From this we can also see what kind of life these low-level Goryeo sticks lived under the squeeze of the original Goryeo wealthy family.
However, the current 'super-low' tax rate stipulated by Murong Nobunaga is to win people's hearts, break the local rule of the Goryeo wealthy family, and facilitate him to stabilize the grassroots. It is not certain what will happen in the future.
In the city of Kunming, Hai Dayu was very satisfied. He was alone. The food and catches were enough for him to support two high-level retainers (housekeepers) and a guard of fifty or sixty people.
At the same time, because it is close to the seaside, you can also get some salt to supplement the economy, which can also be considered as extra income, so life is still good.
But there is a premise that Hai Dayu cannot have too many wives and children. Once there are too many, he, the Kunming Lord with 12,300 dan, will probably become a pauper.
In the current plan of Murong Nobunaga, the princes and uncles below the king can be directly addressed by title. For example, if Hai Dayu is an earl, he can be called Kunming uncle.
But he is just a viscount, so he can't be called Kunmingzi strangely, so the viscount and baron are collectively called Jun. In Bang language and Japanese language, they are commonly called Kaka!
And Hai Dayu was able to rise from a commoner to the distinguished Viscount Kunming Lord Hai Kaka, not only because he was willing to fight with his life, but also because of his luck, which is really good.
During the naval battle of Haeryeong Island, his stern ship stopped a small boat, and it turned out that there happened to be General Anlang, the second-ranking figure of the Goryeo Navy, who had just fallen into the water and was rescued.
So Hai Dayu boarded the boat with a harpoon, killed two Korean sailors, and captured the big fish with his colleagues.
Later, in the water battle on the Imjin River, Hai Dayu fought bravely and boarded the enemy ship first. After boarding the ship, he hammered General Zhonglang of Goryeo's Imjin River Navy to death with his first hammer.
This kind of luck is truly unenviable. Who knows what kind of idiot the unlucky Navy lieutenant is, how he could appear in the front row as a senior officer.
So, while the third brother Hai Sanxia was just an inspection envoy, and the second brother Hai Erxie was nothing but waiting for the king to conquer Japan, Hai Dayu was already a feudal lord with an income of more than 10,000 shi. .
The woman behind him is still young and very elegant. She is the daughter of the former magistrate of Kunming County and can speak some simple Tang pronunciation.
The county magistrate of Kunming County died unknown where he was during the resistance a few months ago, so after Hai Dayu was sealed to Kunming County, he took over everything from the original magistrate, including his house, money and daughter.
If it weren't for the fact that the county magistrate's wife was a little old and the two concubines had run away long ago, Hai Dayu wouldn't mind sleeping with him.
The woman was naked, a little afraid but very careful to dress the fish in the sea.
In the past, he was just a big fish in the sea who was not even allowed to go to the shore. How could he have ever been treated like this? Looking at the touching body of the woman in front of him, his heart couldn't help but sway.
He was about to push the woman down on the bed when suddenly there was a banging on the door, and a broken gong voice sounded loudly:
"Sea King, if you don't come in, hurry up and come out. You have to go to Jinzhou today to meet Mao. If you're late, you'll be punished."
Hai Dayu was startled, and suddenly remembered that today was the big day for the vassals like them to report to Jinzhou Yingmao in the north.
King Murong created three viscounts, two barons, forty-three inspection envoys, and more than 200 households of soldiers in the entire Shannan Mansion.
In order to manage these large and small vassals, a Shannan Prefecture Observation and Disposal Envoy was established in Jinzhou, the capital of Shannan Prefecture.
It is used to coordinate the payment of tribute, military service, and labor service by the vassals of Shannan Prefecture, mediate conflicts between them, and gather their guards for training every month.
Hai Dayu hurriedly put on his clothes and walked out. Standing outside was a slender man with a horizontal knife on his waist.
This is Hai Dayu's original boss, Fire Chief Wang Ashui of Henghai Town, the water army.
Along with Wang Ashui, there were ten sailors from Henghai Town and ten horse infantry from Zubu, Khitan and other tribes from thousands of households in the grassland.
They came to see Hai Dayu take office and help him stabilize the place.
Because there were 6,000 young people under Hai Kaka's rule, and 2,000 strong men alone. If Hai Kaka came to take office alone, he might be beaten to death.
So Bafu specially sent twenty fully armed soldiers to build up momentum for Hai Dayu. They would not leave until Hai Dayu could grasp the situation.
Seeing the big fish coming out of the sea, Wang Ashui's eyes showed an extremely envious look.
They were soldiers from Henghai Town of the Forbidden Army. They only came to support Murong Nobunaga in his attack on Goryeo, so they could not become vassals under Murong Nobunaga.
I, Zhang Shengren, have considered all aspects. He just wants people like Wang Ashui and envy people like Hai Dayu.
Only in this way, after Wang Ashui returns, will he be full of envy and exaggerate about how glorious it is to be a vassal outside, with endless enjoyment of fine wine, beauties, delicious food and good horses, etc.
With their publicity, those poor and unruly stupid boys in China will have the motivation to run away.
And even if he could, Wang Ashui couldn't, because he was quite unlucky. Not long after the battle on Hailing Island, he fell into the sea due to a mistake in jumping gangs. Even his life was picked up by luck, so he had no merit. Isn't it enough? Be knighted.
Before Hai Dayu could say anything, Wang Ashui waved his hand, and a dozen soldiers surrounded Hai Dayu. They all pretended to say congratulations to Hai Kunming for his promotion, congratulations to Kunming Jun for taking his bride, etc.
But to sum it up, it means the same thing. You, the big fish in the sea, are now rich and powerful. We brothers are envious, jealous, and hateful. If we don’t eat a few rich meals, we will not be able to suppress the sour water in our hearts.
When Hai Dayu was in his hometown, he was a poor man who even cried when a mouse saw him! He didn't want to reward his brothers so much, but he started crying about poverty as soon as he opened his mouth.
But Wang Ashui didn't give him this chance. He covered Hai Dayu's mouth and shouted to the soldiers around him with a smile: "Kunming Jun has a reward, and the fat sheep has enough wine!"
After the shouting, a group of people happily shouted thanks and ran to kick and beat the city's stick people to help them pull out fine white rice and fat and juicy chunks of pork from Haidaiyu's warehouse. The thick salted fish looks very salty at first glance, and the bleating little fat sheep.
Not to mention fresh sea fish, octopus, shrimps, crabs, etc., they can directly ask the fishermen under Hai Dayu to bring them to them.
"Wine, where's the wine? Where's the wine you gave me, Mr. Kunming?" A majestic divination-blocking man looked at the big fish in the sea and howled with a grin on his face.
Although Hai Dayu's mouth twitched with distress, he had no other way to deal with these bandits. He could only wave his hand and ask the Korean housekeeper beside him to quickly bring some wine from the treasury.
He hoped in his heart that these living bandits would be well fed and drink enough to go on their way quickly, without delaying his journey to Jinzhou Yingmao.
(End of chapter)
