Jiaozhou.
As soon as Li Chao's ship sailed into the Zicheng River Port in Jiaozhou, known as the Sweet Port, Yang Shidao, the Xuanfu envoy of Guangnan and the assassin of Jiaozhou, was waiting there.
"The envoys of Zhenla, Funan and Champa are all in Jiaozhou and have been waiting for a month."
Li Chao pinched his chin, "Let me guess, is it Funanguo who came to us to ask for help and borrow troops, hoping to send troops to attack Zhenla together with Datang" And Zhenla wants to ask us to destroy Funan together."
Yang Shidao opened his mouth wide and was extremely surprised.
This King Zhao went to the deep mountains and old forests for more than a month, almost isolated from the world, how could he come out, but he knew better than him about Zhenla and Funan.
"Then the king of Zhao knows what the envoy of the city of Zhan came to do" Li Chao smiled, "Zhenla Kingdom and Linyi are feuds, and there have been wars many times.
Now that Funan and Zhenla are at war, Lin Yi must have joined forces with Funan to fight against Zhenla, and the envoys of Linyi must have wanted to join forces with us to deal with Zhenla. ” Yang Shidao gave a thumbs up, "King Zhao is really tall, and he knows the land of the Southern Barbarians well. ” Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty calls the area outside the Tang control of the Indochina Peninsula the land of the Southern Barbarians.
Many people don't know much about the situation in this southern barbarian land, and even the Guangnan Provincial Propaganda Envoy like Yang Shidao is also unclear about the neighbors in the southwest.
However, Li Chao still knows more than them.
Chenla, the Cambodia of later generations, was once a subject country of Funan, in all the ancient kingdoms of Southeast Asia that once existed, Funan is one of the more extensive land, its jurisdiction is roughly equivalent to the entire territory of Cambodia in later generations, as well as southern Laos, southern Vietnam and southeastern Thailand, and has many subject countries in the surrounding area, Chenla was one of its subject countries.
"There was a record of Zhenla in the Sui book, saying that the country of Zhenla was in the southwest of Linyi country, and it was a sixty-day boat ride from Rinan County.
The surname of the country is the surname of Chali" "King Zhao has a good memory" "Let's go, let's go into the city first."
Li Chao was also not interested in standing on the dock all the time.
The group went ashore and entered the city and went directly to Li Chao's house.
As soon as they returned home, Hongxian and Siniang greeted them.
They worked hard to take a car and a boat from Hanjing, and finally even crossed the ocean to the south, but after arriving in Lingnan, they didn't have much time to accompany Li Chao.
From Qinzhou to Jiaozhou, Li Chao threw them here and went to Fengguo, and they went for more than a month, and they only came back in November.
"Saburo seems to have lost weight."
Hongxian looked at Li Chao with some resentment.
Li Chao reached out and pinched her face, "You've just lost weight, but it's good to be thinner."
As soon as I came back, I had to take a bath and ask someone to prepare hot water for me. ” Hongxian immediately said, "I'll go and prepare." ” The hot water in the bathroom was ready, and the red line simply drove the maids away, most of these maids were Lingnan women, and even some Kunlun female slaves, all of them were as black as charcoal, and their heads were big, and they showed two rows of big white teeth with a smile, which was very scary.
She didn't want to let these lowly slave girls take advantage of it.
"I didn't expect your massage technique to have grown, it's quite comfortable, and the strength is just right."
Li Chao was lying in the bath, enjoying the massage of the red line, and he moaned comfortably.
Li Chao snorted comfortably, but the result made Hongxian's face redder and redder.
I haven't been intimate for a long time, the heat is rising in this room, and Li Chao is lying there naked, the strong muscles, and the voice, making the red line feel uncontrollable.
After all, she is also a woman who has given birth, not as good as when she was a girl.
This hand pinched and pinched, and I couldn't help but go down, from massage to stroking.
Li Chao was originally comfortable, but found that his hand was getting weaker and weaker.
And all the way down, I can't help but chuckle.
Hongxian was awakened by laughter, blushed, and angrily poured water on Li Chao's face.
"Stinky girl, it's against you, look at my husband, how I clean you up."
Li Chao grabbed her arm and pulled it hard, and the red line was pulled off the bath with a bang, splashing a pool of water.
The clothes on his body were immediately soaked, revealing a delicate figure.
Li Chaoyi grasped it, "Well, it seems to have grown up a lot." ” Red Line was weak.
"Lang Jun, it's almost time for the slave family" After taking a fragrant bath, Li Chao was refreshed, and the red line was no longer able to change her clothes, and finally Li Chao called two black slave girls to come over to serve him and dress and comb his hair.
When Li crossed the door, the red line didn't have the strength to get up.
Flower hall in the front yard.
Cheng Qian had already bathed and changed clothes, and was drinking tea and chatting with Yang Shidao at this time.
There are also several officials next to him, including the three envoys of Quang Nam Province, the newly arrived speaker of the Quang Nam Assembly, and the envoys of Quang Nam City.
The envoy of the city is a eunuch, the speaker of the parliament is a minister, and the customs commissioner is a military general.
This is also a relatively interesting combination, Quang Nam Province is not a small place, not only Jiaozhou, but also several states in the south.
The southern border of Quang Nam Province is bordered by the state of Lam Eup, which is roughly the southern boundary of Ha Tinh Province in later Vietnam.
Although it is far away from the Central Plains, there is a big port of Jiaozhou after all.
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In the south, Tang Prefecture has even crossed the Chang Son mountain range on the east-west border between Vietnam and Laos in the future, and has gone deep into the Mekong River in the west.
I have to say that the Central Plains Dynasty is not very powerful, for so many years, although there have been intermittent in the middle, but for the territory of Jiaozhi, it can be said that it has never stopped developing and stabilizing.
"What are you talking about," Li Chao smiled and sat down.
The city envoy said that he was talking about the affairs of the city company.
Datang has set up a city shipping department in all coastal roads, which is specifically responsible for maritime trade and ports.
Datang has a unified and complete set of regulations on the market shipping system, and their main responsibility is to issue official certificates to sea merchants, that is, to go to sea.
Certificates are issued according to the goods declared by the merchant, the people on board, and the place to go.
Ships were sent to inspect to prevent the entrainment of weapons, copper coins, gold and silver coins, as well as female mouths and fugitive soldiers.
Cheng Qian listened very carefully, and he was very interested in these new things.
The envoy of the city was a eunuch from Hanjing, and his grade was not low, a eunuch of the fourth grade. can come to the local market to be a market envoy, this is a fat difference, even if there are various provincial envoys and Xuanfu envoys to supervise them, but even if they are not greedy, they will be rich and flow oil at will.
In the past, there was a legend in Guangzhou, that is, the history of Guangzhou Thorn, as long as you go to the west of the city, you can earn 30 million yuan. 30 million dollars, but 3,000 yuan.
After a trip, you can receive 3,000 yuan from the merchant, which shows the high income.
The city envoy was about forty years old, white and fat, and I heard that he was quite dutiful, not greedy.
"In addition to issuing official certificates, our city shipping department also has to read the ships returning to the port and collect taxes on the import and export goods.
The goods are valued at customs and then taxed.
The tax consists of a tariff of 20 per 20 for goods, as well as a ship tax, which is levied on the size of the ship.
In addition, for some goods, there are additional levies. ” "Even for some imported goods, our market envoy has the right to buy, that is, to buy certain goods transported by ship at market price.
In addition, after the levy, these goods must also be issued by us with a certificate before they can be sold elsewhere. ” The official eunuch chuckled and explained to the prince that the power of the city department is still very large, and now the ports receive a lot of taxes every year.
Collecting customs duties, shipping taxes, and overtaxing certain goods, and even directly buying and selling certain goods to earn the difference, etc., a large amount of money.
Of course, all this money also went into the treasury of the imperial court, not into the emperor's treasury.
The customs under the Municipal Department of Shipping is the specific office of the subordinate department, which evaluates all kinds of goods, collects taxes, collects smuggling and so on.
"King Zhao, how do we reply to the request of the Three Kingdoms of Linyi Zhenla Fuyu" Yang Shidao turned back to the topic and asked Li Chao.
When it comes to foreign countries, especially wars, Yang Shidao still can't make decisions.
And if you ask the imperial court, it will take a lot of time to go back and forth.
"Zhenla Ben Funan vassal country, the king sent envoys to pay tribute in the twelfth year of the Great Cause.
When Lin Yi was in the Sui Dynasty, he boldly invaded Jiaozhi, which led the Sui Dynasty to send an army to conquer and break through its royal capital and return.
Li Chao said slowly.
Funan used to be the overlord of the Indochina Peninsula, but now it has declined.
The former subject country dared to fight Funan.
Originally, Zhenla used to be very respectful to the Central Plains, but they have not paid tribute for many years.
As for this Lin Yi, he had attacked Jiaozhi in the southern part of the Central Plains before.
Li Chao said this, and Yang Shidao immediately understood Li Chao's attitude.
To put it bluntly, these Southern Barbarians are all dog-eat-dog.
In fact, in the southwest of Jiaozhou, there are not only the three kingdoms of Zhenla, Buyeo and Linyi, these three countries are only the strongest, and between the three kingdoms, there are also countless small countries, most of which are dependent on the three kingdoms.
Now Zhenla is powerful, and wants to swallow the old lord Funan, Zhenla's neighbor and feud will unite with Funan to fight against Zhenla.
Now that the three parties are in a mess, they are a bit indistinguishable, so they all want to seek the support of Datang.
However, the attitudes of these two sides towards the Tang Dynasty are also somewhat different, Funan and Linyi are united, but their strength is not as good as Zhenla, so they really want to ask the Tang Dynasty to send troops to help the war.
And Zhenla just hopes that Datang will not interfere.
"Do you know that there are more than 20,000 families in the city of Yiyana, the royal capital of Zhenla?"
Li Chao said suddenly.
There are more than 20,000 households, which is a population of 1120,000.
Cheng Qian was surprised, "There really is so much population.
"A city with a population of more than 100,000, there are not many in Datang, this is still a situation that has only existed after the prosperity of industry and commerce in several major port cities in recent years.
"When their king went to court, he sat on a bed of spices and seven treasures, and hung a tent of colored wood, and a wall of ivory and gold, and the shape of a hut, which sparkled like a red jade when it swayed.
And before him there was a golden censer made of gold. ” "The slippers worn by the king were made of ivory.
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He wears a Gubei Zhaoxia robe, a colorful dress around his waist and abdomen, hangs down to his calves, wears a Jinbao flower hat on his head, his body is covered with pearls, his feet are wearing leather boots, and his ears are hung with gold rings. ” "The custom of the Zhenla country is that the son of the king's wife cannot be the heir to the throne.
And on the day of the king's accession to the throne, all the brothers were to be tortured at the same time, to make them disabled, to have one finger cut off, some to have their nose cut off, and to be distributed to remote areas, to provide for their subsistence and not to be allowed to become officials. ” "They think their right hand is clean, but their left hand is dirty" "The kingdom of Chenla reveres ghosts and gods, and they offer a god called Bradoli, and the sacrifice is made of human flesh, and the king kills people every year, and sacrifices human flesh to the ghosts and gods at night."
Cheng Qian was already dumbfounded when he heard this.
The customs of this Zhenla country are too cruel and barbaric.
"Teacher, I think we should crusade against Zhenla" Cheng Gan said. t1706231537: