Luzon.
Around the Temple of Literature, which was built after the landing, Luzon City now has some rudimentary shapes.
A small wooden village about a perimeter of a mile was built out of coconut trees.
The Temple of Literature has also been expanded.
The rest of Luzon could be built later, but the Temple of Literature was the cornerstone of the Luzon Kingdom and the core of culture.
Of course, it had to be built and expanded first, still using coconut trees and coconut shells as building materials, and the carpenters from the Tang Dynasty showed their superb craftsmanship.
A courtyard with three entrances before and after was built, and the main hall was dedicated to Confucius, the king of Wenxuan, and it was a three-story building.
In addition, there are several houses, which are dedicated to the four saints, ten philosophers, and seventy-two sages, as well as lecture halls and other houses.
Next to the Temple of Literature is the Wu Temple, which is comparable in size.
This is the spiritual holy place of the officers and soldiers, the temple is dedicated to Jiang Ziya and the four saints, ten philosophers and seventy-two generals, and Zhang Chao is also enshrined in it as one of the four saints.
In front of the two temples, there is a square, which is the central point of this small city.
Extending left and right, it is the East and West Streets, and the various yamen are on the East and West Streets.
As for Zhang Chao's palace, it has not yet been established.
Zhang Chao thinks that there is no need to rush, take your time first.
The organizational structure of the Luzon Kingdom was similar to that of the Principality of Luzon, with the State Council, the Judicial Yuan, the Military Council, and the House of Representatives under the king.
The chief of the State Council is the secretary of state, and there are also deputy secretaries, and there are six departments of officials, soldiers, households, rites, and criminal workers, and twenty-four divisions under the six departments.
The Judicial Yuan has the Office of the Inspectorate, the Police Agency, and the courts.
The Military Affairs Yuan has the General Staff, the War Department, and the Navy Department.
The Parliament has an upper house and a lower house.
Zhang Chao also set up an internal affairs bureau to assist him in governance.
The basic structure is similar to that of the imperial court, and the government affairs of Luzon are the same as those drafted by the secretary of state, then approved by the secretary of the interior, and rejected by the parliament.
When he came, Zhang Chao took 3,000 soldiers and transferred 3,000 soldiers from Liuqiu.
Together with the personnel mobilized from Dahua Shipping, Sihai Shipyard, Nanyang Company, etc., Zhang Chao has now preliminarily completed the organization of the army of Luzon.
The navy now has a fleet of 3,000 men and three sub-fleets.
The army has 5,000 men and has three regiments and nine battalions.
However, now after the formation of the Luzon Navy and Army, the first task is not to fight, but to build.
The army was responsible for building cities and cultivating fields, while the navy was responsible for fishing.
Of course, in my free time from farming and fishing, I also take a little bit to wander around.
It is still the first to salute and then to soldier, first find the natives, then go to visit, send some gifts, and then formally offer to let them belong to Luzon, accept the Luzon court to organize the people, and let them join the Luzon household registration. disagree Then fight, the combat effectiveness of the Luzon army is still very strong, and often a platoon can wipe out a village.
In larger villages, it is enough to have a company.
There are also some well-informed and more intelligent people who know that this Luzon king is not easy to mess with, and express their willingness to join him.
For them, Zhang Chao is still very generous.
Register first, then join the family register.
However, when registering, I encountered a problem.
None of the natives here have surnames.
Even the names are a mess.
As a result, the soldiers or clerks who went to register had to give them surnames.
Generally, it is taken according to some local geographical features or something, of course, many people have taken a clever idea, and directly took out the surname of Datang and chose one for them.
So, these indigenous villages around Port Luzon.
On the official registration form of the Kingdom of Luzon, it became Wangjiatun, Zhangjiabao, Liujiacun, Lijiaji, and Zhaozhuang In addition, there are countless names such as Xibian Village and Yamamae Village.
The surnames were chosen, but their names were too awkward.
So the government personnel asked them to take a Chinese name, and they could not change it in the future, they could only use this Chinese name, and in the future, they would have to use this for household registration books, identity cards, passes to go out, temporary residence permits, etc.
"Zhao Gouyu, Zhang Goudan, Wang Dazhui, Liu Shishi, Li Heiyu" They were incorporated into the household register and became Luzon nationals, and then the Luzon court divided land boundaries for them and granted them fields.
Of course, their children were to be sent to Luzon City.
Part-time work and study, using work to cover their tuition and room and board expenses.
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Later, the natives also had to pay taxes to the Luzon court and serve twenty days a year.
If the service is overdue, the tax can be reduced.
Zhang Chao breached the refusing indigenous villages, captured them, and then reduced them to official slaves, allowing them to join the labor of building the city of Luzon and the port of Luzon.
Those women were sent to work in some new workshops, such as fishery processing factories, coconut processing factories, etc.
And those children, who are too young, are centralized and managed, and let people teach them to learn Chinese characters and Chinese, and do some simple handicrafts.
If it's a big one, it's a part-time job and a study.
Compared to the Shanyi of Ryuqiu, their treatment is even worse.
At least children there have access to free and compulsory primary education, but here they still have to work and study.
On the first day, merchant ships came to Luzon from Liuqiu, Quanzhou and other places, bringing in ships of various building materials and grain.
Many recruited craftsmen also came with the ship.
But immigration is rare.
Most of the people who came were mainly from the mountains of Liuqiu, and there were very few Han people.
Some Han Chinese came, not to immigrate, but to hear that there was gold in Luzon to pan for gold and make a fortune.
Zhang Chao also welcomed these people.
There are now several gold mines in Luzon, and the closest gold mine to Luzon is the one where a lot of doghead gold has been found.
It is one of the easiest open-pit gold mines to mine, and there is even a lot of placer gold washed out by streams.
The gold mine belongs to Zhang Chao, and those who come to pan for gold can go to the mine to mine and wash, and the gold they dig out must be sold to the Zhang family, and the Zhang family buys it.
Of course, the purchase price will not be very high, but if you are lucky, you will definitely be able to make a fortune.
On the one hand, Zhang Chao recruited people to come and pan for gold, and on the other hand, he also began to announce the land policy of Luzon, which could be bought and sold freely, and the first purchase and sale of land from the government did not need to pay deed tax, and the subsequent transactions required to pay deed tax.
Land prices are cheaper.
An acre of land is only a few hundred dollars.
Anyone can buy it, but there is an additional rule that the land must be cultivated and planted, and if it has been left unused for two years or more, the Luzon court has the right to confiscate it.
This is to prevent those rich people from hoarding land at low prices, which is not in line with Zhang Chao's needs.
Zhang Chao sold the land in order to attract people to come over to cultivate the land and attract the population.
For this reason, there are even great discounts for land within 100 acres.
If he is willing to immigrate directly and settle in Luzon, Zhang Chao will even grant land to the new immigrants for free according to the standard of 100 mu per ding.
At present, the Luzon army has broken through hundreds of small villages and captured more than 50,000 indigenous Luzon slaves, of whom nearly 20,000 are young and strong.
There are also hundreds of villages that belong to the indigenous people, with a small population of about 100,000.
The progress is still very smooth, there are about 3,000 gold diggers who have come, and about 10,000 Yi immigrants from Liuqiu, and even fewer Han immigrants, only more than 1,000 at present.
Now Zhang Chao is introducing a policy aimed at encouraging the newly established 8,000 soldiers of the Luzon Army to relocate their families.
In order to attract them, they moved their families to settle down.
Zhang Chao is also very bloody.
Regardless of the old and young, it is directly counted according to the Ding mouth.
Each family was given 100 acres of land, and if slaves were brought in, each slave was given 20 acres of land.
The land allocated by the soldiers' families and immigrants after ten years of cultivation becomes private property, and it is no longer recovered after death, and can be bought and sold freely.
Even for the first ten years, it was exempt from land endowment.
For Zhang Chao, Tian Fu only collects a few dollars a year.
He has sufficient financial resources to subsidize this piece, and what he has now is money, but what he lacks is population.
The islands of Luzon, Boni, and Makassar have a total of more than 20,000 large and small islands, and the territory of Luzon can be described as quite large.
For the time being, we can only develop Luzon Island first, first establish the royal capital of Luzon here, and then develop southward.
Fortunately, it is close to Liuqiu, the base camp of the Zhang family, and it is not far from Qinzhou Port, another southwest base camp of the Zhang family, and there are safe routes.
Grain and other material resources are constantly being transported, so that the development of this place can be said to be an engine.
The only deficiency is the deficiency of the Han people.
Indigenous people were brought in captives every day, and the port of Luzon is now a huge construction site.
There are no less than 100,000 people in the indigenous Luzon and Ryukyu mountains alone.
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These people speak a variety of indigenous languages, with only a little Chinese, and they rely on a very small number of Han Chinese to direct them to build cities and reclaim land and open mines.
If it weren't for Zhang Chao's 8,000 Luzon troops, he wouldn't have been able to control this situation.
If there are no more Han people coming, then with the continuous increase of natives, after Zhang Chao's Luzon royal capital is built, I am afraid that there will be natives everywhere, and he feels his scalp tingle when he thinks of that scene.
There are too many natives, and then it will not be him who assimilates the natives, but the natives who assimilate him.
The Luzon Plain, which is hundreds of miles long, has fertile land, a good climate, and plenty of rain.
Zhang Chao plans to plant part of the grain, which can meet the needs of Luzon Island, and the rest of the land is planted with sugarcane, which can be squeezed for sugar and deep processing.
To make coconut sugar and the like, in short, the demand for sugar is still very large.
Now Datang's sugar can be said to be well-known in the East and the West, with both the huge domestic demand market for sugar in the Central Plains and the huge foreign trade market in Europe.
Sugar production is far from saturated, and with the climate of Luzon, growing sugar is much more cost-effective than growing grain.
And he is even ready to cultivate and grow tea in Luzon, if tea can be grown here, with the abundant land resources here, then a huge tea garden will be built, just like the British built tea plantations in India in history, but it is very cost-effective.
In addition to rice, sugarcane, and tea, all kinds of spices and hemp cannot be grown here, and sugar processing, hemp textile processing and other industries can be used in the future.
When the conditions are ripe, then the iron and coal mining can still be carried out on the steel project.
And the excellent port of Luzon Bay, as well as the good ports scattered all over the coast of Luzon, is very promising for the development of shipbuilding here.
It's good to be anything, but there is a shortage of people, especially the Han people, and there is a shortage of all kinds of craftsmen and scholars who can write and know how to manage.
There are no presiding officers in the kingdom of Luzon, and the secretary of state and the secretary of the interior are all vacant. t1706231537: