May, Dragon Boat Festival.

Although overseas, Luzon still abides by various customs of the Han family, eating rice dumplings and dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival, planting mugwort and Changpu, and drinking realgar wine.

This year, the Governor's Office also held a grand and grand dragon boat race.

The first place has a total of 888 stakes, the second place has a total of 666 stakes, the third place has a total of 555 stakes, and the fourth to tenth place has a total of 300 to 100 stakes.

The other participating teams can also get a small participation reward.

Therefore, the Great Sands River in front of San Francisco is so lively that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are surrounded by spectators early on, and the teams that can participate are all selected by the primary selection, all of which are strong teams.

Qin Lang sat in the stands and was also very happy to see the scene where the people were happy together.

Although Luzon is still very backward today, everyone has a very good mental outlook, with a thriving and vigorous spirit.

Three-day long holiday for Dragon Boat Festival.

Officials, merchants, and even slaves all have three days off today.

Qin Jun handed Qin Lang a glass of wine, "This time we specially prepared a lot of wine in advance, but it seemed that there was not enough supply. The festive atmosphere was so good."

Qin Lang was sipping the iced beer and smiling. Luzon was a sparsely populated place with no shortage of fields, the plains were fertile, and the rain was good. Although there was a typhoon, the impact was not too great. Now the main households on Luzon Island, namely the Han people, are basically landlords.

Not to mention that there are many large families with a large number of land. Who does not have 1,800 acres of land for those knights?

Even though many fields are planted with various cash crops, sugar cane, cotton, abaca, mulberry leaves, etc., the Luzon grain planting red line still ensures Luzon's grain output, which is much greater than what Luzon needs today.

Therefore, Luzon has saved grain this year. Not only are every family full of grain stored, but all counties and townships have also built charity warehouses and corporations to store grain. The Governor's Office has also established Changping warehouses and reserve warehouses in various places.

In order to ensure food security and ensure the benefits of farming for most people, Qin Lang also specially asked Changping warehouse to increase the minimum grain purchase price, which is at least 20% higher than the grain price in the Central Plains.

I was not panicked when I had a small amount of food stored in the warehouse.

Therefore, when people grow grain, they are also more active when growing glutinous rice that is included in the economical variety. The price of glutinous rice is much more expensive than ordinary rice. This is a good raw material for brewing wine, and soft and glutinous rice is also suitable for pastries.

Luzon also implements a wine tax policy for wine. People have always had no tax on their own brewing and drinking. However, wineries that brew and sell wine, hotels and hotels that sell wine, need to obtain corresponding licenses. The tax on wine is actually not particularly high, but it is definitely much more expensive than ordinary food.

But after all, China has always had a wine culture, so the people still have a great demand.

In a festive atmosphere like today's Dragon Boat Festival, the sales of wine are very considerable. Luzon is already hot, and the Dragon Boat Festival has a tradition of drinking realgar wine. Therefore, among the many people who are watching the dragon boat competition today, almost all men, women, and young and old are drinking.

Men drink yellow wine, beer, or bayberry white wine, while women drink beer, fruit wine, wine and other things, and children drink sweet wine.

Wei Chang, who had just arrived in Chang'an, also held a glass of beer, "This Luzon feels like a paradise, and you can't see this atmosphere in Chang'an."

"Chang'an is the imperial capital after all, and the class differentiation is more serious. Luzon is invented, so the situation here is better."

It is mainly because Luzon is a new colony, and the immigrants have enjoyed the dividends. No matter whether they lived well or not before, they were at least a self-cultivated farmer with a lot of land after coming. Moreover, there is not such a serious government oppression and exploitation here. Work hard and food and clothing have been solved long ago. Even in Luzon's hot development, as long as you are willing to put some effort into participating in road construction and other projects during the slack season, or if young children at home work in workshops, you can make a lot of money.

I have food at home and cash in my hands, and the basic supply of daily necessities is sufficient, so this life is of course better.

Of course, our good days are still based on the hundreds of thousands of slaves in Luzon. Although these slaves received Qin Lang's care and specially issued a bill to give them basic guarantees, slaves are slaves after all.

Slaves filled every corner of Luzon, from workshops, mines, to manors, and families, most of the prices they created were entered into the hands of the Han people in Luzon.

For this reason, those newly immigrant Han people can live so well today.

In Luzon now, there is no war on the island, and there is no need to worry about the harassment of the natives. Although Luzon is still using troops on the other islands, this kind of military use is more like the three Luzon yamen in the rotation of combat and actual military training.

The specifications are relatively small, and small troops were sent to land on the islands in turn. They were completely textbook-like training, maritime transportation, landing at the mouth of the bay, establishing strongholds, and then sweeping the plains of the estuary, then gradually deepening, extending inward through the military station, and using both suppression and comfort.

When the surrounding area of ​​the river estuary fortress is basically cleared and stable, new immigrants will be moved to establish villages and cultivate land.

The Qin family was not in a hurry. Although they attacked many places, they always kept the war on a very small scale. The troops of the three yamen took turns to attack and strengthened them little by little through actual combat.

The Qin family also conquered one island after another and continued to expand their territory.

As the Qin family's army became stronger and stronger, it was now difficult for the natives to fight against the Qin family's army, and more and more natives began to surrender to the Qin family.

For these natives, Qin Lang gave a relatively modest solution. He actively accepted the clear land, changed the land and returned to the current, and issued a new legal tax order. In addition to accepting the natives, he also needed to draw the young and strong teams to form baojia and gang training to assist the Luzon army in encirclement and suppress the stubborn natives.

Children over six or under twelve are sent to Luzon Island where they go to school and boarding system to be assigned to boarding at homes next to the school.

The villages and communities that were stubbornly resisted and conquered, even if they surrendered, they would not be treated so well.

In response to these villages and communities that were conquered by resistance, the Qin family first distributed the upper Datu and warriors as slaves, and then the remaining tributers and slaves first distributed them to various Qin family manors or Luzon official villages, and assigned them to each manor for three years of teaching and labor.

During these three years, they had to learn Chinese and learn more advanced farming techniques. Those who perform well in three years can move to new places, establish new villages, and divide land, and become formal Luzon households.

These new native villages basically only retained the past family units, which were completely disrupted from the original villages and communities. After three years of training and labor reform, there was no need to worry about being unable to control it.

The Qin family in Luzon slowly but firmly continued to conquer the natives. On the newly conquered land, the Han people moved to the Han people and continued to enfeoff the knights.

The drums were sounded.

Countless dragon boats are racing on the wide Jinsha River. These dragon boats have flags on them, with their origins written on them, such as a certain prefecture, county, township, village, capital, brigade, or mine, or business.

Even these flags have names or names of products. Smart businessmen have known the effectiveness of advertisements, so they pay for sponsorships for the dragon boats that can enter the finals.

"I heard that the saints set up a new Privy Council and wanted to compete with the Political Affairs Hall to take charge of both civil and military affairs, and led the Changsun Taifu and other ministers to resign from the saints together."

Qin Lang just smiled.

If Changsun Wuji thought that resigning could scare Li Yin, he would be too underestimating Li Yin.

"Who knew that while the saint was resigned by his ministers, he also took the internal system of Taoism, saying that in order to better coordinate the national fiscal revenue and expenditure and return it to the court for money and profit, he had to concentrate financial power. Therefore, all the financial powers were in the Transport Department. The Transport Department had a salt, iron, strata, and the Ministry of Revenue Department, each with a deputy envoy. Each of the three departments had five bureaus, with a total of fifteen bureaus."

Qin Lang was shocked. He thought Li Yin's memory was really good. This was clearly some of the systems in the Northern Song Dynasty that he mentioned to the young prince in the East Palace a long time ago. At that time, he only talked about this. It is better to compare the three provinces and six ministries system of the Tang Dynasty. Unexpectedly, Li Yin kept remembering it and now it has been implemented.

The emperor strengthened the power of the Transport Department, which was actually to seize the power of the original Ministry of Revenue, Taifu Temple, Shaofu Supervisory, Transport Department and other financial and tax departments.

The Duzhi Department is in charge of the world's wealth, the Ministry of Revenue Department, the household registration, taxation, tea and wine monopoly, etc. The Salt and Iron Department is in charge of the goods in the mountains and lakes of the world, the affairs of the rivers and canals of the city, the mining and salt and iron, and even the manufacturing of military weapons.

It can be said that this new Transportation Department is worthy of being the name of the prime minister. In fact, it not only seized the power of the Ministry of Revenue, Taifu Temple, Taifu Supervisory, etc., but also seized the power of many imperial departments such as the Ministry of Works.

On the surface, Li Yin said that the East and West governments held two civil and military positions. In fact, Li Yin first took away the military power from the prime ministers and transferred it to the Privy Council, then turned around and split the financial and tax power from the Political Affairs Hall and handed it over to the Transportation Department.

Therefore, in fact, the current court structure is the new three-part structure of the Political Affairs Hall, the Privy Council and the Transportation Department. The Political Affairs Hall, the former highest central decision-making body, cannot control both military and finance.

Such a political affairs hall has been greatly weakened in its actual power.

Li Yin's reason is quite reasonable. The unity of financial power is conducive to national coordination, but this cannot cover up his intention to further weaken the essence of prime minister's power. The Transport Department and the Privy Council are no longer under the jurisdiction of the prime minister, but they are still under the jurisdiction of the emperor.

The power of prime minister was further weakened, but the power of imperial rule was further enhanced.

This is really Li Yin's personality.

Even if Li Shimin became the emperor, if the ministers opposed it fiercely, he would rarely force it to go on the horse and would definitely make a detour or even temporarily compromise, but Li Yin was just not good at it.

"Is the transshipment officer or Jia Runfu?"

"Well, the transfer envoy is still Sanlang's uncle Jia Runfu, the deputy envoy of salt and iron is Li Sixing, the deputy envoy of Duzhi is Tang Jian, and the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Revenue is Xu Shixu."

Qin Lang couldn't help but frown when he heard the names of the three deputy envoys.

Wei Chang smiled and said, "These three are all heroes of Taiyuan Yuan who were granted by Emperor Gaozu's first year of Wude. They were granted seventeen that year, but now there are not many left, but they are all found today."

Li Yuan's Taiyuan Yuan ministers were mainly Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing, Chai Shao, Changsun Shunde, Liu Hongji, and the warriors of Li Yuan. After Li Shimin's palace became a palace, they basically sat on the bench. There are still a few left, and they have not been valued in the Zhenguan Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, Li Yin appointed them as the three deputy envoys of the Transportation Department, and the young emperor did have ideas.
Chapter completed!