Yizhou Island, also known as Daliuqiu (later Taiwan Island), and Xiaoliuqiu are known as important transit ports in the East China Sea and even ocean continents. Therefore, there are dozens or even dozens of flights almost every day. Voyages to and from various places along the coast of the mainland are continuous throughout the four seasons.
And this is only the result of official operations under the name of the transportation divisions of various places affiliated to the imperial court; the Karasuma Sea Falcon ship that Jiang Tian boarded was one of the many official ship routes from Lianghuai to Yizhou. As for the number of private exchanges between people, it is even more countless.
For example, among the shirtless watermen and boatmen on this quite old Qianliu Falcon boat, there are many naturalized people of various ethnic groups or mixed-race descendants with different skin colors; they are responsible for the hardest labor at the bottom, There was only a little time to get on deck and breathe.
And among the two to three hundred passengers. There is also a public that includes three religions and nine schools, including young students and older scholars who sing harmony, monks in gray clothes who preach and Taoist priests in crane cloaks. There are also vendors who do business directly on the deck, selling water and food, or jugglers who perform live performances.
Investigating its origin, it is also one of the legacies and achievements left by the senior time traveler for future generations when he was still alive. When Emperor Kaiyuan was in the middle of Shu, in order to win over Liang Gong, who led the army and escorted the emperor, he married Yang Taizhen's adopted daughter Aman and his granddaughter.
The royal granddaughter who was given a marriage was the Princess Yong who later became an important supporter of Duke Liang. It was the two large islands of Yizhou and Hainan that Emperor Kaiyuan had promised as dowry. As the saying goes, you have no joke, let alone against the most difficult hero in the world like Liang Gong.
Therefore, after many twists and turns, King Qin's army regained Guanzhong and went to Beijing under the leadership of Liang Gong; he also dispatched his trusted men to formally take over and start operating the two large islands of Hainan and Yizhou. Among them, Hainan has a very early history of civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, it has 5 states and 22 counties.
The Yizhou Island is completely deserted, with only Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period and Emperor Yang of the former Sui Dynasty sending troops to land nearby. There are only some wild and ignorant native savages on the island; they cultivate slash-and-burn farming and eat each other. So everything was re-opened after many obstacles and obstacles.
But fortunately, after Liang Pingping put down the Anshi Rebellion, he obtained a large number of prisoners of the Central Plains rebels and their families, and became the first batch of pioneering manpower on the island. Later, he continued to move from conquest to war on all sides, and a large number of young people migrated here from the destroyed Nanzhao, Piao State, Tubo and other places.
Coupled with the mountain people and Tu nationality nearby Fujian Road, they formed the main labor force for the initial land reclamation in Yizhou. Later, with the great expansion outside the territory and the South China Sea, Yiju became a transit hub for large-scale immigrants from Silla, Wa, Bohai and other places to overseas, and it became more and more prosperous ever since.
But the real big development will have to wait until the fourth generation of Emperor Guanfu, who was assisted by Liang Gong; with the exploration of the distant seas, Tai'ao (Australia), Xiao'ao (New Zealand), and Beiju Luzhou/Xinzhou (North America) In the era of great discovery and expansion, Yizhou has since become the hub for governing the East China Sea.
Therefore, in a sense, this is an island filled with the descendants of naturalized immigrants of all ethnic groups; there are tribesmen from the Ryuki Kingdom and Kushuo Land in the far north, as well as people from as far away as Xinzhou/Northern China on the other side of the East China Sea. There are the survivors of the Yin people in Juluzhou; there are even white-clothed untouchables from Fusang and Silla.
For this reason, the Jingzhao family of the Liang family in Chang'an, after discussing with the other two families (Xixia and Nanhai), officially submitted it to the court for approval; a family line was once again divided among Liang Gong's disciples, named Concubine Lin (Su). The fourth son of Xi) established the Donghai Office, which was second only to Nanhai.
The origin of this side concubine Lin is not simple. It is said that her grandmother was a talented woman in the Wu Zhou Dynasty and the female secretary of the Zhongzong Dynasty; Shangguan Wan'er, known as the heroine prime minister. It is said that he should have been sentenced to death during Tang Long's coup, but Liu Youqiu, who was responsible for the execution, was greedy for sex and risked his life to replace him.
Because Lin's talents and appearance resembled those of his ancestors, he was deeply favored by Liang Gong and was able to give birth to his fourth male heir. Eventually, the Tonghai/Donghai Gongshi lineage flourished in Yizhou Island and is passed down to this day. After more than ten generations of development, one prefecture, seven states and 44 counties were established on the island.
Most of the prefectures and counties are located on the coastal plain in the east of the island. It is located in Dongning Prefecture and its seat Tianxing City in the middle of the coastal plain, as well as Taiping Prefecture, Changxing Prefecture, Nanping Prefecture, and Beiping Prefecture; Changhua Prefecture is located in the mountainous area of the island, and Yilan and Xiongshan Prefecture are located on the west coast of the island.
And among these government-established prefectures and counties, which are like inland, there are many large and small territories of clans, vassals, and ministers under the name of Donghai Gongshi; as well as a large number of farms and allotments of vassals at all levels. Therefore, the local government offices were governed by the dual system of state, county and vassal residence.
Because it is located at an ocean and offshore shipping hub, the island's commerce and maritime trade are extremely developed, and the coastal plain is also rich in rice, jicama, sugar cane, tobacco and other cash crops. Therefore, they have settled here for a long time and have a population of millions, even more than Hainan Island.
Therefore, according to the records provided by the Zongfan Yuan, the Yizhou Island itself, which is directly controlled by the Tonghai/Donghai Official Office, provides various vassal tributes worth five to six hundred thousand yuan every year; this does not include those miscellaneous annual tributes. Festival festivals, irregular contributions to the Ouchi and Jingzhao families.
In addition, there are various miscellaneous tax revenues allocated by the imperial court on the island such as shipping, customs, and official services; it can be said that the East China Sea is the richest place. Therefore, the Tonghai Gongshi, together with the Jingzhao family, the Nanhai Gongshi, and the Daxia Royal Court, formed the so-called vassal vassal system of one family and three families "daily pastors at home".
Although there are some other regional vassals/official houses with different surnames, such as the Haidong Xue family that Kodak Ya will inherit; and the many vassal princes that the Western Kingdom of Daxia has re-confessed outside the territory; but the distant relatives of the courtiers and vassals in the country are sparse. In terms of position, the three families of the descendants of Liang Gong were always headed.
Therefore, like the Imperial Court of Daxia outside the founding territory, or the Nanhai Gongshi that expanded overseas, the Tonghai Gongshi also had a slightly lower-standard inner court/vassal system. And maintain the establishment of tens of thousands of vassal soldiers, Yi Cong and patrol sea camps; maintain the order of governance in the surrounding local waters.
It can be said that anyone who wants to make a difference on Yizhou Island cannot bypass the existence of Tonghai Gongshi. But fortunately this time, Jiang Tian did not act in a restricted official capacity, but as an individual in the usual sense. On the other hand, he also did corresponding homework before coming.
For example, the previous generation's head of the palace/Tong Haigong was a quite romantic figure; after a routine audience with his vassal, he stayed in the capital for several years without returning. Then he often held open meetings in the mansion, exchanged concubines and maids with fellow feudal lords, and recruited women from all ethnic groups.
As a result, his long absence from the feudal residence caused several of his younger brothers and sons to develop alienated feelings; when he suddenly suffered a stroke after having fun during a carnival, an explosion broke out in the feudal residence on Yizhou Island. A bloody and cruel internal battle...
Finally, before the situation spread and involved all the branch families and vassals on the island, the imperial court decisively ordered troops to be sent from western Zhejiang to intervene; only then did the civil strife that might break out decisively be quelled. The military envoy who led the troops to intervene and calm the situation at that time seemed to be the current governor of Yangzhou.
Therefore, in the end, the imperial court found and appointed an illegitimate son born to the previous lord of the feudal lord and the otaku woman raised in Pingkangli. He returned to Yizhou under the escort of the official army to inherit the family business; Became the current feudal lord. However, the performance of the current feudal lord is lackluster.
Especially since the Empress Dowager Yao and Shun exempted this generation of feudal lords from the obligation to meet regularly many years ago, they basically stayed on the island to manage their own one-third of an acre; except for the daily ritual negotiations with those Donghaichen clans, In addition, there is little communication with other offices.
As his heir, the contemporary Crown Prince Tonghai was also rumored to be born with congenital deficiencies and was frail and sickly. He rarely appeared in front of his ministers since he was a child; even after the adult crown ceremony, he was unable to go to the capital to accept the vassal academy and the imperial examination. The registration and pedigree establishment of the vassal council.
However, the person Jiang Tian needs to secretly negotiate/investigate this time is the 19th house, a distant branch of Tonghai Gongshi, who has lived in the territory of Lanxi County for generations; he is also the target of this marriage with the Shen family in Gyeonggi. Shen Yizhi's sister Shen Xin was married to the heir of this contemporary Lan Xibo.
This is also one of the many relatives of the Shen family in Wuxing, whose ancestral home is Liangzhe, who had intermarriages. But the problem seemed to lie with the team that came to pick up the bride on Yizhou Island. Shen Xin, who was sensitive and delicate, could see some clues and signs that allowed Shen Yizhi to escape.
I thought that since I was far away from the coast, I could ask for help from the same people in Wuxing's hometown. As a result, he fell into the hands of his former close pen pal, the confidante "Qiu Ji" who they had met to travel to Jianghuai together after getting married. In other words, he didn't believe this conclusion until the last moment.
However, according to the schedules and test records that Jiang Tian obtained from the underground cave base run by Ma Jin that had not yet been burned, these people did more than he realized. For example, the use of veterinary drugs to induce birth in livestock allows the lycanthrope to have sex with aliens until death without realizing it.
Just to give birth to a deformed mutant with a certain rare probability. And someone like Shen Yizhi, who obviously belongs to a famous family with a stable inheritance; he is even regarded as a rare seed source, and is used to conduct seed pregnancy experiments with various women injected with catalytic agents...
There was a sudden uproar on the boat, interrupting Jiang Tian's meditation. But it was a scaled-down version of the Flying Fish Clipper, approaching quickly with great grace on the sea; and a flag with a harpoon and a shield intertwined was floating on the ship's mast, representing the identity of the inspection ship of the nearby Penghu Inspection Department.
(End of chapter)
