In the morning, it was cloudy, and a large number of people gathered on the banks of the Luo River in the south of Luoyang City. The King of Chu and Prince Yuwen Weigan bid farewell to their parents and family here, and then headed south, entered Jingxiang through the Sanya Road, and then headed south into Lingnan West Road.

The wandering son was traveling far away, and the loving mother was reluctant to leave. Empress Yuchi Chifan held his son's hand and repeatedly told him that Yuwen Wen could not even get in touch with the words, feeling a little embarrassed.

Looking up at the sky, I saw a group of geese flying south. Now the autumn is clear and the weather is cool. It is the time for migratory birds to fly south for winter. This time, it will not be the spring of the following year to return north.

Yuwen Weigan served as the Lingnan Road Observation Envoy last year. He walked around the territory of Guizhou General Administration, Rongzhou General Administration, and Yongzhou General Administration. Now he is heading south again, but he is not coming back soon.

Because he wanted to guard the Lingnan West Road, he had been there for many years.

Yuwen Wen, who made this decision, was lowered in momentum when facing the tearful Yuchi Chifan, so he could only serve as a background.

Yuwen Weigan was the second son of Yuchi Chifan. According to Yuchi Chifan's idea, the second son went to Lingnan, which was full of smoky mistresses, and was exiled. If there was a three-length and two-length shortcoming, it would be apart from yin and yang, so he was unhappy in his heart.

But if you are not happy, you have to be happy, because Yuwen Wen will never be disturbed by this kind of interference in making decisions. He believes that the prince should shoulder heavy responsibilities and fulfill his obligations to defend the imperial power and leave the border.

Now that the mother and son are saying goodbye, Yuwen Wen turned his gaze to Luoshui on the side, watching the gurgling water, and his thoughts fly to the south thousands of miles away.

Lingnan West Road is the Guangxi area in later generations. Today, Lingnan West Road is extremely difficult for the imperial court to effectively rule, because there is no direct political, economic and cultural foundation here.

If you really want to make a difference, it is normal to require large-scale land reclamation and immigration, and you need to do a lot of things, and at least last for decades of investment, so that you can initially achieve basic administrative jurisdiction.

Not only that, many tribes such as Li, Liao, Dong, etc., who live in this vast area will not be honestly waiting for the Central Plains court to be incorporated into the people. It is conceivable that various changes will break out from time to time, consuming a lot of energy from the court.

In order to solve this problem, you can choose to follow the "historical process" and set up a banished state, and appoint local chiefs as local officials, as long as these people obey the court on the surface.

Then the ban system gradually evolved into a chieftain system. The court continued to disintegrate the power of chieftains in various places according to actual conditions. When the time was ripe, it "changed the land and returned to the current", turning the hereditary local officials into appointed by the court, and regularly rotated the resignation.

Therefore, Guangxi area was finally under actual control of the court.

A good process and a method that has been proven to be feasible and effective in history, but there is a small problem, that is, it is time-consuming.

How long does it take?

One thousand years.

Yuwen Wen could choose to follow the "historical trend" and conquer the Lingnan West Road area, but he felt that since artillery appeared hundreds of years in advance and there were powerful weapons such as steam engines and steamships, there was no need to waste great time.

Therefore, the development of Lingnan West Road does not require the old path.

The national strength is limited, and it is necessary to develop a region, provided that the benefits obtained after developing this region are positive. Then change your thinking and the difficulty of developing Lingnan West Road will be different.

Many problems are solved by using Lingnan West Road as a super large sugarcane plantation and developing it as a dumping market for salt, iron products and handicraft products.

The army equipped with muskets and artillery took steamships to sweep the major water systems along the Lingnan West Road. The subsequent pioneering regiment settled in Xintiandi and opened plantations.

At the same time, merchants can also "sweep" the major water systems coastal areas and trade with chiefs who are willing to cooperate with various places.

The sugar produced in plantations in various places is transported through water, plus the income from caravans in business, and gathers jealous profits, which stimulates more people to enter Lingnan West Road, open up more plantations or settle down and do business.

Those banished states that do not pay rent and tax were useless to the court, but the plantations and trade bases that could pay a lot of commercial tax were chickens that lay golden eggs.

Trade bases will develop into towns, attracting more immigrants to settle down. When plantations of all sizes develop, their desire for cheap labor will naturally lead to the rapid development of Shengkou trade.

Slave hunting teams of all sizes will spontaneously go deep into various places to sweep away the barbarians. In the empty places, more plantations can be opened or more immigrants can be placed.

This is a new type of expansion aimed at opening up plantations and establishing a product dumping market. It completely follows the human instinct for pursuing huge profits, and is supplemented by strong ships and powerful guns, which can greatly shorten the process of a thousand years.

Yuwen Wen doesn't know how much it can be shortened.

But in order for this policy to be implemented, he needed to send his son to guard the Lingnan West Road, hold military and political power, and once there is a change, he would immediately mobilize troops to quell the chaos, so as not to have anyone played the trick of raising a bandit and self-respecting.

This is not a feudal division but an envoy, named "Lingnan West Road Administration Commission", so there will be no actual feudal state. The governor's office is located in Liuzhou, Gui, Rong and Yong, the three general managers waiting for the dispatch.

The governor's office is assigned to the corresponding assistants, and the assistants are assigned to the newly implemented qualification system. In the newly implemented qualification system, working at Lingnan West Road is a good opportunity to quickly get senior seniority. These officials have a five-year term in the governor's office. They will return to Chang'an when they expire, not exile.

In order to prevent the prince guarding the West Road of Lingnan, the disguised separatist ruled in disguise. The time limit for his delegation was also limited, and it lasted for eight years. When the time came, he returned to Chang'an, which was not a disguised exile.

Then the prince or royal family took office in turn, fulfilled their obligations and served as examples, and went to a smoky land to serve the country.

Therefore, the best candidate for the first Lingnan West Road administration was King Yuwen Weiqian, the legitimate prince.

First of all, Yuwen Weiqian ranked fourth in his family. Dalang and Yan Wang Yuwen Weihan served as the general manager of Youzhou, guarding the land of Youyan, and carrying the important task of monitoring Hebei, so of course he could not move.

Erlang Yuwen Weicheng was the prince, so he was not allowed to talk; Sanlang, Wang Yuwen Weining of Wei served as the general manager of Bingzhou and guarded the important land of Jinyang, but he was also unable to move, so the next one was Silang Yuwen Weiqian.

Secondly, Yuwen Weiqian went to Lingnan West Road and knew very well about the situation there. After returning, he raised concerns that the border tyrants might raise the enemy and respect themselves.

Yuwen Wen is of course very happy that his son is knowledgeable, and the young Yuwen Weiqian needs exercise, so going to guard the Lingnan West Road is a good opportunity to exercise.

Moreover, as the elder brother, Yuwen Weiqian should also go to Lingnan to clear the land and lay a solid foundation for his younger brothers to come to Lingnan to "rotate". Eight years are enough for Yuwen Weiqian to make a good political achievement, and it will also prevent him from living in Chang'an and becoming a waste after spending a long time.

Once the term of office is over, Yuwen Weigan can return to Chang'an and rely on real political achievements to take the lead and accept new appointments. No one can find fault at that time.

This is Yuwen Wen’s arrangement. He not only wants his son to undergo training, but also takes care of the mother and son’s feelings. He will not let his son marry the frontier and will never come back in his life.

When Yuchi Chifan heard that his son had only been to Lingnan for eight years, he felt a little calm, but at least he was not in tears.

Now, the mother and son are reluctant to leave, but Yuwen Wen still can't interfere. He looked around and looked at his sons and nephews, and finally his eyes fell on his younger brother.

At the end of spring this year, the minister Yang Su died of illness in Chang'an. Yuwen Wen ordered a grand funeral for his glory and was posthumously appointed as the chief supervisor of Xiangzhou.
Chapter completed!