Tianjin Port.

There was a thick ice a mile along the coast, more than one foot thick, and the port entered an ice age of about three months.

Qin Lang sat in the Tianjin teahouse with his sleeves and listened to books. Since the emperor passed away and returned to Tianjin from the Liaodong Sea, the imperial guards have temporarily stationed in Tianjin.

The rise of Tianjin was in the Sui Dynasty. After the construction of the Grand Canal, a city was established at the intersection of the South Canal and the North Canal, known in history as the Sanhui Haikou. When the Tang Dynasty unified the world, especially after the Daxing of the industry and trade since Zhenguan, Tianjin, as an important seaport in Hebei, quickly flourished.

The imperial court also established important salt fields and salt warehouses here, and it also became an important commercial port for commercial goods from north to south. Marine ships entered the port and then entered the Grand Canal along the river.

It was already the twelfth month of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan. The King of Goguryeo sent a prince to the Tang Dynasty to apologize, claiming to be a minister of dirt, paying money, and asking the Tang Dynasty to withdraw from Liaodong.

But how could the Tang Dynasty agree to this request? In fact, after the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty withdrew from the city of Anshi, another side army also heard the news. The navy army led by Niu Jianhu accumulated profits, Shicheng, Daxing and Bozhuo, and once again captured the empty Wugu City.

Niu Jinda and other generals arrived, and the Goguryeo army was even more afraid and retreated across the Yalu River.

Millions of Goguryeo people in Liaodong could only hide in various mountain castles.

If the Tang army had not voluntarily evacuated, only more than 20,000 troops were left behind. With the power of the Tang army, especially the danger of the thunder shattering Anshi City, the entire Liaodong could have been almost decided. After losing several major cities in Liaodong and its main force, the remaining fortress and mountain cities would be unable to resist at all.

Qin Lang stayed in Tianjin Port and couldn't be quiet. Several wealthy families in Hebei came to visit every day. Li Boling Cui, Zhao County, Luqinghe, Fanyang, the four major geniuses were local snakes in Tianjin Port. They used to occupy a large share of the salt, grain, fur, livestock, medicinal materials, and trade with the countries in Haidong.

After the emperor personally led the army to sweep Liaodong with the power of thunder, these wealthy families rushed towards him like cats that smelled fishy.

Everyone knows that Liaodong has changed, and the Tang Dynasty is about to take over the entire Liaodong. Everyone knows what such a few thousand miles of fertile land means.

Those are countless fertile grain fields, pastures, countless mines, cattle and horses, who doesn’t want to get the moon first when approaching the water?

The Cui family of Boling relied on their kinship with the Qin family and diligent in walking with Qin Lang, and did not regard himself as an outsider. Although Qin Qiong was gone, Qin Lang still had to maintain this relationship.

This year, the Tang Dynasty died of illness one after another. Cen Wenben, the two prime ministers Li Daliang, were many people staring at this position. Cui Dunli, the Minister of War, and Cui Gan, the Minister of the Yellow Gate, were all qualified to go further.

The prince Chengqian was in Dingzhou and was now rushing to Tianjin to visit. During the Eastern Expedition, the prince performed well and was in an orderly manner.

Regarding the fact that the number of prime ministers in the Chaozhong Political Affairs Hall is small, Chengqian also sent someone to mention it to Qin Lang. Chengqian wanted to promote Xu Jingzong to the Political Affairs Hall, and Xu Jingzong was also among the ones who stayed behind this time. He didn't know why his relationship with the prince has made great progress and has gained the trust of the prince.

Changsun Wuji also came to Qin Lang, and he wanted to recommend Chu Suiliang to take over the Hanlin Grand Secretary vacancy left by Cen Wenben. In exchange, he was willing to support Qin Lang to recommend one person to replace the right vacancies left by Li Daliang.

Around the key positions that were vacant in the center, the Eight Immortals of all parties are now crossing the sea, showing their magical powers, and are all trying to win over Qin Lang, hoping to get the support of Qin Lang, the favorite minister of the emperor.

Although Qin Lang had mostly met these people, he only said that he would not be able to help with such a big deal, but he was willing to do his best.

In fact, Qin Lang returned to the court this time, not seeking to go further, but was thinking about how to escape from the cicada.

Qin Lang actually didn't have much thought about these things in the court.

The emperor has been stationed in Tianjin these days and has not rushed to return to Luoyang. He has been studying Liaodong with Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji and others, and is studying the issue of awarding merits and granting land to honor ministers and soldiers in Liaodong.

Qin Lang had no intention of participating either.

For him, the emperor's plan to award medals and enfeoffments was actually a detailed or popular version of the previous life feudal system. The previous life feud was limited to the meritorious officials or above of the Duke and the royal family, but now it is necessary to popularize all the honorary officials who have received the honors.

However, the honorary officials received much less honorary land, ranging from a few hundred acres to a few thousand acres.

Of course, even the twelfth-class honorary officials can get the honorary land, and then the ninth-class title of the Tang Dynasty can naturally get a larger title.

But these are not very attractive to Qin Lang.

With such a large area of ​​foreign land as Luzon, how could the hundreds or thousands of acres of land in Liaodong attract him?

"Why are there cheers in front?"

"It seems that the prince of the regent has arrived in Tianjin!"

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On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the prince arrived in Tianjin in Dingzhou. The emperor wore the brown robe and met the prince and fulfilled his original promise.

"My son asks the saint to give this robe to treasure!"

Li Shimin agreed with a smile.

The father and son have been together for several months, and they will see each other again. The relationship is very good, and many of the previous estrangements seem to have disappeared.

Walking at the imperial banquet that night.

All the heroes and officials were given a banquet.

Tianjin City has abundant supplies and the imperial banquet is also very abundant.

Wei Zheng, the Minister of the Secretariat who came with the prince, did not advise the emperor to be extravagant. Who would have a bad atmosphere when the emperor personally conquers Liaodong?

Compared to such great victory, what is this to recover Liaodong City, which has been lost for more than 200 years?

What's more, as a landlord in Hebei, who was stingy in Cui, Lu, Zheng and Li families? Especially when the emperor showed his power again, each family was competing for financial resources. They donated countless supplies to Xing, showing their loyalty to the emperor one by one.

These wealthy gentry who had been for thousands of years were extremely gentle in front of the emperor at this time, and were as gentle as cats, constantly rubbing under the emperor's feet, and even turning over to reveal their belly.

Several families now do not have the idea or courage to confront the emperor. They are just thinking about how to get themselves into the decision-making center of the Tang Dynasty.

With five surnames and seven families, there is no seat in the Tang Dynasty's Political Affairs Hall, how can you dare to be called a clan?

Although they have supported several prime ministers through marriages over the years, how can they compare to their own family members to become a prestigious?

For a phase, they do whatever it takes.

It’s a pity that Li Shimin has seen through these ideas long ago.

The amazing king deliberately caught fishing fish from five surnames and seven families, using them and suppressing them, just to prevent them from getting what they wished.

However, Qin Lang also knew that the Li family emperor suppressed the Guandong gentry for a few years. In history, in the era of Emperor Gaozong Wu Zetian, the last kill of the Guanlong clan was completed, completely destroying them into the dust, and once completely trampling the five surnames and seven families into the mud.

However, it won’t take long before the five surnames and seven families finally completed a counterattack with the imperial examination system. From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, none of the five surnames and seven families entered the center and became prime ministers, to the later half of the prime ministers were five surnames, from the five major gentry to the later eight major gentry, they almost monopolized the position of prime ministers, and the politics of the aristocratic family reached its peak in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

This is due to the system.

If the world is peaceful, it will inevitably gradually become the world of civil servants and officials.

The imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty created the further strength of the famous gentry that had been around for thousands of years. Only in the imperial examination system of the Song and Ming dynasties did the old gentry unsustainable, but formed a new literati class and was no longer characterized by family clans.

At the banquet, a group of upstarts of military meritorious scholars and the Guanlong gentry in Shandong were clearly sitting on both sides, but everyone was talking about the land of Liaodong.

The new Zhenguan system did not suppress annexation, and the nobles and famous families all loved land and liked annexation.

However, in recent years, the cost of land mergers in the Central Plains has become increasingly high, and the high land transfer deeds and rents are all restricting their mergers and expansion. But now that such a large piece of cake has appeared in Liaodong, who can still hold back?

The nobles and clans are powerful and powerful, but no one likes to deposit money in the bank or throw it into a cellar and get moldy. They prefer to turn the money earned by industry and commerce into land, and only land makes them feel the most at ease.

Even if the cost of land holding is getting higher and higher, deeds, land taxes, charity grain, and storing stakes into a mu, they cannot dispel their passion.

Whether it is a new noble, an old family, or a noble family, which family is not a landlord?

Even if there is a peaceful harvest this year and the grain in the fields is not valuable, everyone is not interested in the output on the surface of the land, but they are interested in the foundation of the land. The grain produced in the land can only be regarded as an additional dispensable income.

Land is as important as people.

Nowadays, aristocratic families like to grab land, but they buy people. Buying slaves everywhere is higher in the short term than hiring workers, but the long-term benefits are higher, so every family buys people.

Which family of those great nobles is not the slaves of thousands?

Although the court did not completely restrict slave trading, just through some laws, the cost of holding was increased, but it could not withstand everyone's enthusiasm.

The land policy that does not suppress annexation stimulates not only the nobles and powerful people, but also stimulates the court's external expansionism.

The land prices in the Central Plains continued to rise, so a large number of people at the bottom sold the land they had, chose to settle in the border area, re-given the land, and obtain sufficient equal land. In some more remote border areas, they can still grab land. As long as you can reclaim land, you will be yours.

On the other hand, the large-scale merger of the Central Plains also promoted the urban economy and prospered the industrial and commercial industry. A large amount of manpower entered the industry and commerce. Many skilled craftsmen simply gave up farming and became industrial workers completely.

The current Tang Dynasty shows some strange scenes under the prosperity of its present prosperity.

In the Central Plains, the manors of the nobles and powerful people were successively built, with large manors everywhere, mainly planted in manors. There were few small scattered lands, and the flowers blooming urban industries and commerce were also extremely prosperous, with industrial workers who had abandoned land everywhere.

In the border areas, there are a large number of people who have moved out of their hometowns to become an emerging border landlord with sufficient land, and work hard here for free.

In the surrounding areas of the Tang Dynasty, the Hu Rong barbarians are now becoming a member of the Tang Dynasty. They quickly merged into the Tang Dynasty. The nomadic tribes have also begun to divide pastures and designated nomadic people. The mountain barbarians have also moved down the mountain to start farming, and even entered workshops.
Chapter completed!