East China Sea.

Liuqiu County, Penghu County.

The sea outside Penghu Port is surging, and the water inside the port is as quiet as a lake. It is only 80 miles east from the Liuqiu Island and less than 300 miles west from the mainland.

The inland sea surrounded by three islands forms Penghu Bay, which is about twenty-four miles long from north to south and about sixteen miles wide from east to west. The water in the bay is more than three meters deep. The water in the bay is as quiet as a lake, making it an excellent wind shelter anchorage.

In particular, the Penghu Islands are located in the center of the strait and guard the key to the East China Sea, which is the key to the East China Sea.

After the imperial court officially established Zhengjun on Liuqiu Island, the Penghu Islands were also classified as county under the county.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial court established a new East China Sea Fleet, and Penghu became the fleet's military port.

Liuqiu Prefect Cheng Mingzhen temporarily served as the admiral of the East China Sea Fleet. As a newly established naval fleet, Cheng Mingzhen owned twenty treasure ships and forty armed merchant ships.

Inside Penghu Port.

Cheng Mingzhen summoned his fleet officers to discuss matters.

In front of everyone, there was a pair of sand trays, which were relatively simple.

"Everyone, this is the sand table of Jian'an County, Jiangdong Road."

Jian'an County was the county of Minzhong. It was established in the reign of Sun Wu during the Three Kingdoms. Until now, Jian'an County was very large. To the east of Wuyi Mountain, it was Jian'an County, with a vast land as wide as the Central Plains. However, such a large place was only one county, and even this county was actually a real first-level division until the reign of Sun Wu during the Three Kingdoms.

During the Qin Dynasty, there were no counties under the county, and it was not considered effective rule at all.

"This Jian'an County is quite unique. It is located on the eastern coast. It is a settlement of the early Minyue natives. At the end of the Warring States Period, King Wuzhu of Yue was defeated by Chu and entered Fujian. He became King Yue of Minyue, and built Wuzhu Palace in the south of Jian'ou River."

Speaking of the neighbors opposite the strait, Cheng Mingzhen couldn't help but laugh. This is indeed a very strange place.

"Later, Qin unified the world, abolished Wuzhu's King of Minyue, established Minzhong County, and surrendered Wuzhu as county chief. This was the first time that the Central Plains dynasty established an administrative unit in the east of Wuyi Mountain. But in fact, the Qin Dynasty had never had any effective management by the imperial court, but it was just a false statement. There was no specific record of the county government, and it was even worse than Qin's rule over Lingnan."

Later, Liu Bang replaced Qin Jianzhi and re-established Wuzhu as the King of Minyue. Later, he forced the civilians of the Minyue royal family to Jianghuai on the grounds of strong customs. The Minyue people gradually declined and assimilated to the Han Dynasty. However, until the end of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty did not have any real and effective control over the Fujian area, and even a county was not established.

It was not until Sun Ce of the Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms that abolished Hou Guan Duwei and established the three counties of Jian'an, Nanping and Han Xing with his place, which meant that the south was pacified and the revival of the Han Dynasty. Together with Hou Guan County, it became the earliest four counties that were officially established here.

This is the first time this area has a county-level district.

And at this time, it has been hundreds of years since the Qin and Han dynasties.

It was the first time that the Central Plains dynasty began to establish a county rule, which was several hundred years later than the southeastern Jiaozhi and other places. It shows the particularity of this place.

Over hundreds of years, the Han people went south along the Minjiang River and reached the mouth of the Minjiang River. It took hundreds of years to barely establish four counties and have several strongholds.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were in conflict.

The Eastern Wu ruled Jiangdong and faced the threat of Wei and Shu, so he had to continue to explore the south. Not only did Jian'an and other counties establish Jian'an County, but also established Shaowu, Sui'an and Jiangle, and the Jian'an County under the jurisdiction of the ten counties, basically covering the entire Fujian region in later generations.

Jian'an County has not changed much from then to Sui Dynasty.

Wuyi Mountain to the west and the sea to the east.

The Eastern Wu continued to increase the development of Jian'an County, continuously migrated the population, implemented policies such as military farming and garrisoning, and even sent people to cross the sea from Jian'an to Liuqiu Island to cultivate grain.

Jian'an County (Fuzhou) along the coast has also become the largest shipbuilding base in Wu State.

In the Western Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Jian'an County was once divided into three counties: Jian'an, Jin'an and Liang'an, and thus formed three major areas, southern Fujian, northern Fujian and eastern Fujian. However, later, the Sui Dynasty unified the north and attacked Chen in the south. When it attacked Jun'an County, it was stubbornly resisted and suffered heavy damage. It destroyed the city over time and the Sui army massacred Jian'an.

Later, when Jiangnan rebelled, local tyrants also rose up one after another. After the Sui army suppressed them with all their might, they purged the local tyrants. After Yang Guang ascended the throne, only one county in Fujian was established, and it was also the four counties of Min County, Jian'an, Longxi and Nan'an. It can be seen that the local area suffered severe damage when the Sui Dynasty pacified the Fujian area.

Before the Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms, the Central Plains had almost no effective rule over Fujian. Although they had defeated the indigenous forces that separatisted Fujian, they were only military conquests, but they did not truly establish effective rule. Even a county had never been established.

When the Eastern Wu arrived, the Eastern Wu developed to the south, and the efforts to develop Fujian were strengthened. Through the Minjiang River, cities, Tunzhuang and other cities began to be established. Especially at this time, the development of sea waterways led to the Eastern Wu also arrived from the sea along the coast of Fujian. With the seawater transportation route, the Eastern Wu greatly enhanced the development of Fujian. In just a few decades, ten counties were established in Fujian.

From then until the end of the Sui Dynasty, although the development of Fujian continued to move forward, it was far less than that of the Central Plains. The key reason was that the land was blocked and Wuyi Mountains stretched across the country, closing the Fujian area, making the Fujian area a very closed area.

Even if you pass Wuyi Mountain, there are mountains of all sizes, which are divided into small and small areas, splitting the Fujian area into small and closed areas.

After the Sui Dynasty, when counties and prefectures were abolished, Fujian was established as Quanzhou, with only four counties under its jurisdiction, and the total household registration was only 12,000 households.

In such a large place, the population is only about 10,000 households for a long time, which can be said that the local area is indeed very backward.

"Everyone, Jian'an County is under the control of Shen Faxing's Jiangdong Road, Jian'an has been stable in recent years, but it is still very backward." Cheng Mingzhen tapped the table with his fingers. Today, the reason for talking about Jian'an with his subordinates was that the emperor's will was the emperor.

Now the court fully supports foreign trade, and the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road attach great importance to it. However, the Maritime Silk Road now has a long section of territory that needs to pass through Shen Faxing, from the estuary of the Yangtze River to the estuary of Yuanjiang (Shantou), which is too long along the coast.

Now the emperor has set up a new East China Sea Fleet between the Bohai Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet. The purpose is very obvious, which is to strengthen control over this section of the East China Sea.

Both Liuqiu County and Donghai County teams were set up under this strategy.

Now the construction of Liuqiu County is pretty good, and it is progressing steadily. The battle with the natives is intermittent, but they are always advancing inland and winning steadily. Now the natives are escaping from deep mountains and dense forests, Cheng Mingzhen has seized a large number of plains along the eastern coast of Liuqiu Island, and he is not in a hurry to continue to advance.
Chapter completed!