In addition, Guangzhou is also the seat of the city envoy and the Metropolitan Supervisory Yuan responsible for the collection and administration of tributes and taxes from overseas countries.
Li Zhaoyun from the Tang Dynasty: "South China Sea ships, foreign ships. Every year you reach Annan and Guangzhou. Shizi is the largest ship in the country, with a ladder and several feet up and down, all of which are jackpot goods. When the road is reported, the counties and towns are noisy. The leader, the city ship envoy, who used his famous things, accepted the ship’s feet, and banned rare things. Fan merchants have been imprisoned by fraud.”
The so-called "satisfaction" means to impose a certain percentage of imported goods tax on merchants. The so-called "prohibition of rareness" means that the government purchases monopoly commodities from imported goods, and merchants are prohibited from trading monopoly commodities privately before government purchases. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Xie's "Book Offerings to Cui Shang in the South China Sea" said: "The place for practical management in the South China Sea includes gold, beads, shells, shells, teeth repairing, and rhinoceros". These are commodities that are levied by the government.
The so-called "jinfeng" refers to the tribute offered by the Tibetan envoys to the dynasty. By the way, it manages and arranges maritime tribute affairs, which is also a very oily work. These three constitute the main livelihoods and powers of the city ship envoy, and they are also one of the important sources of income through the "personal monarch's private collection" of Da Nei Daying Neiku.
In addition to the many land taxes listed in the Two Tax Laws, the emperors of the past dynasties used to fund the country's military expenditures, funds and reward expenditures, and a large additional source of financial resources to balance the financial income. Even under the command of the three ambassadors of foreign dynasties known as "counting phases", the government offices such as Hubu, Yantie, and Duzhi formed part of the four-element financial system of the late Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the benefits of the city ship are so important to the internal treasury and the national finances that when the Huangchao army captured Guangzhou and sought to be the Lingnan Jiedu, the opposition of the DPRK was very strong. Zuo Pu shot Yu Congyun: "How can the thieves get the goods gathered at the Guangzhou Ship and Treasures Center". It is also said: "The South China Sea has the benefit of the city ship, the annual tribute Zhuji. If the demon possesses it, the national treasure will gradually become exhausted."
In a sense, this income that went directly to the domestic money was also an important means for the successive emperors who had fallen in authority since the middle and late Tang Dynasty to maintain their influence on the court; especially the current one is called "the emperor of polo" by later generations. The "Emperor of the Goose" Tang Xizong, it is best to play luxuriously regardless of political affairs, and give great rewards at every turn to spend all the interior and exterior of Zuozang, Daying, etc.; so that the power of the emperor and the emperor directly ordered the east and the west. The city expropriated (robbed) the wealth of merchants' wealth to recharge.
Now that the rebels have cut such a fierce knife on the emperor's direct purse, it is only strange that there will be no problems in the future.
Of course, most of these are not so easy to obtain or can be used directly; as the saying goes, "If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach thousands of miles; if you don't accumulate small currents, you can't become a river." This is the easiest way to start and can be done first. Things started to get better.
One of Zhou Huaian’s tasks is to lead a team to sweep the various ancestral halls and temples scattered in Fanrenfang. Although they have already been beaten and looted, they did not distinguish between them at the beginning. Under the indiscriminate looting, many things were missed because they did not know the goods; therefore, Zhou Huai'an was responsible for organizing professional manpower to identify and distinguish the residual value of these places, and to conduct a leak search process.
Among them, the most rewarding ones are undoubtedly the shrines and shrines built by the Tianzhu people. It can be said that you can't wait for even a small shrine to be inlaid and wrapped with gold, silver and gems, and their gods are both Many and complex, the types, names and sizes of worship and worship are also scattered.
Followed by the Persians’ Worm Temple/Fire Worship Temple. Although it looks quite simple in appearance, in fact, in order to worship the God of Fire and the Supreme Good God, the best products they use are precious fragrant woods and incense medicines, as well as various This kind of exquisite gold and silver inlaid sacrificial vessels are mostly in the form of large fire cages and water mirrors, which are difficult to detect when they are sunk in pools and fire altars.
Then there is the Jingmiao of the Daqin people. As one of the heretical sects that advocate idol worship, one of the foreign Sanyi religions who once thought that they took the upper-level route and was approved and allowed to preach by the emperors of the Tang Taizong descendants. He once enjoyed it in the middle earth. During a period of great beauty, the famous "Monster of Nestorianism popular in China" was left behind.
Therefore, there are not only the emperor Aloko (God), the sage of light Zun Momo (Jesus), the envoys of the heavens (archangel), the Twelve Dharma Kings (saints), and even the descendants of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty. The Emperors of the Tang Dynasty, among them, all kinds of exquisite divine memorial tablets in Eastern style, they also have a large number of precious metals and gemstones made of magical instruments and worship objects, but the craftsmanship and appearance are much worse.
Among them, the poorest and most dilapidated one is undoubtedly the big cannibal Tianfang Temple. Except for some patterned murals that have been smashed and knocked down, there is nothing to gain. It was not without other gains. A dozen beautifully decorated scimitars were secretly swallowed by me, and they were all used for other purposes of making dough and giving gifts.
In the process of searching for temples and shrines, I even discovered a few temples that were named Pure Land sects on the surface, but privately practiced esoteric teachings, and gained a lot from them;
However, it is only natural to think about it. Guangzhou was originally one of the earliest maritime silk roads and the sea route for the spread of Buddhism. In history, many eminent monks and virtues, including Yijing and Faxian, have been here for a long time; and at this time In the Tang Dynasty, it was the three great scholars of Shan Wu Dao, Vajra wisdom and Bukong who promoted and promoted the late period of Buddhism Tantric Eastern School; so even after Wuzong destroyed the Buddha and destroyed a large number of forbidden monasteries and forced them to return to the vulgar, they were one of the most popular ports in this overseas channel. It is not surprising that one or two temples survived in the land.
It’s just that compared with the later introduction of lotus birth to Tubo and the combination of the local Bon religion, which became cruel and abnormal, the Tang Mi, in order to meet the needs of midway missions, actually focused more on the health preservation of the emperor and the upper class. And the aspect of sex; therefore, after the Fusang monk Kukai asked for the Dharma and crossed the sea to ancient Japan, he inevitably went to another extreme in marriage and funeral, where there are no taboos in marriage, wine, and wealth, and began to emphasize the desire to sharpen his liberation by female sex and other physical desires. The way.
Of course, this Zhou Huai'an's public statement is that these are all evil spirits under the banner of tantric sect, doing illegal activities to fulfill selfish desires. It is not the true purpose of Buddhism, so as many as there are should be killed.
During this period of operation and expansion, although there are still not many maritime merchants who come to Guangzhou for ship trade, most of them are relatively close to Shui, Lu Zhenla, Lin Yi, Piao Guo, Shili Buddha, etc. Local merchant ships; but Zhou Huaian also opened up two private re-export/disposal routes.
One is the northbound route, which is the smuggling route of the famous Fujian shipping merchant-Solomon, and the dozens of family ships he brought back, as well as the fragrant medicine and jewellery sold by him.
One is the route to the west, which is used to distribute some of the specialties of Tang Dynasty that are under the control of Stormrage Camp overseas. It is presided over by the self-proclaimed naturalized Fanao Fat Kong. For the time being, it is only between Leizhou and Hainan. The local ability to passively accept landed transactions. However, with the lowering of the heads of the Annan Protectorate and the Jinghai Navy and the reopening of the port, there should be further expansion.
According to Fat Kong’s vowed guarantee, as long as there is no hindrance from returning the order, relying on his old connections and abilities, he can at least make the business go directly to the Wufang Tianzhu in one breath; and then slowly try to go further. Some of the businesses in the land of rest and food, and even arrived in the Yacha countries that are rich in Kunlun slaves, or under the rule of Taixi Daqin.
In the resident area of the Stormrage Camp branch, Zhou Huaian was receiving daily report and account summary.
"The joint force assigned by the military government has arrived in the camp..."
As an on-duty officer, he was reported by Ge Cong Zhoutong.
"Who are these people..."
Then, Zhou Huaian saw a large group of people who looked strange and strange.
"They are all wicked people..."
Lin Yan, who was in charge of leading the team, used a natural way.
"It's all the bastards left by the past generations of Fanhu who came from the sea. In the state of the past years, almost all the streets are... Most of the outcasts of prostitutes..."
"It's all men..."
Zhou Huaian looked at these groups with different expressions, and suddenly had some questions.
"It's okay if it's a woman, and those prostitutes will adopt it..."
Lin Yanbuya smiled
"Only men will be abandoned..."
"It's only two or three to be able to live to grow up. If you are lucky, it is a blessing to be taken as a slave and maid by a big family."
According to him, even if these outcasts with no father and no mother can live to grow up, they will have some characteristics of foreign ancestry. Therefore, in the local social life, they will inevitably be affected by some kind of "non-self" from the general public. The hidden discrimination and exclusion of "ethnic" has long been reduced to the bottom of the market, and live by holding some low-level industries;
Therefore, they can be regarded as one of the most hard-working groups in this combination of inside and outside. After the war, a corps was specially organized, known as the battalion. Choosing elites to fill them, and the majority of those who were eliminated were sent to Zhou Huaian's hands to serve as labor and coolies in a certain sense.
However, for Zhou Huai'an, their value is far more than that. As they have lived at the bottom of the city since childhood and are familiar with the corners of Guangzhou city, they obviously have more uses.
The shock caused by the banquet assassination led to the large-scale operation in the Sanchong District of Guangzhou, and the investigation of many people’s news. It is said that it has been cut down at the morning market just outside the wall of the eastern slope of Panshan Mountain. There are hundreds of heads.
Therefore, Zhou Huaian also felt that he should take this opportunity to do something to ensure his own interests and the safety of the surrounding environment. (End of this chapter)