The battle on the grassland has not ended yet. Far to the south of China, in Kinmen, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian, a fleet of the People's Navy escorted the troop transport ships slowly sailed southeast. The People's Navy's targets are the Penghu Islands 300 miles away and the Dongfan behind the Penghu Islands.

From historical records, we can see that the ancients had already known the existence of the Eastern Banner. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty was called "Yingzhou", the Three Kingdoms Period was called "Yizhou", and the Sui Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty was called "Liuqiu".

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were many names for the Eastern Federation, such as "Jilong" (referring to the northern part of the Eastern Federation), "Beigang" (commonly known as the coast of the western part of the Eastern Federation), "Daozheng", "Taiwan", and "Taiwowan", which the Ming court called "Dingfan".

During the Xia and Shang dynasties, the Eastern Band belonged to Yangzhou among the Jiuzhou. When the book "Shangshu Yu Gong" was written, the Eastern Band was already within the jurisdiction of China.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the Lord of Wu, Sun Quan, "sented general Wei Wen, Zhuge Zhi to float ten thousand soldiers on the sea... and received thousands of people from Yizhou." Chen Ying, the prefect of Danyang of Eastern Wu, recorded in detail the production and life forms of the Eastern Band at that time.

The contact between the mainland and the Eastern Fan increased during the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang of Sui sent Zhu Kuan, Chen Leng and others to Liuqiu three times. From the late Tang and early Song dynasties in the 9th and 10th centuries, Han people settled in Penghu.

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, there were already a considerable number of Han people in Penghu. After the Han people opened up Penghu, they began to develop to the East and brought advanced production technology. In the middle of the 2nd century, the Southern Song Dynasty assigned Penghu to the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County, Fujian Road, and sent troops to guard it.

The Yuan Dynasty further strengthened its management of the Eastern Federation. Yuan Shizu sent personnel to the Eastern Federation Xuanfu and set up a Penghu Inspection Department in Penghu, which was affiliated to Tong'an County, Quanzhou Road, Fujian. Although the Eastern Federation was not directly incorporated into it, it was the first official establishment of China in the Eastern Federation area.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was still established, until it was abolished due to the implementation of the maritime ban in 1387 and the residents were moved to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou areas. In 1563, the Penghu Inspection Department was re-established.

The People's Army listed Dongfan as Dongfan City, which is temporarily under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province. If necessary in the future, Dongfan will be listed separately in the province.

In terms of population, the population of Dongban is currently only a few tens of thousands, and it is only a small and medium-sized county in China. If Dongban is set as a city, it can be seen that the People's Army attaches great importance to Dongban.

There are two main points in the People's Army's attention to the East Banner. The first point is the understanding of the top leaders of the People's Army, namely the land of the East Banner.

The total area of ​​Dongban is about 36,000 square kilometers, roughly divided into five major terrains: mountainous land, hills, basins, plains and terraces. Arable land accounts for 24%, that is, 8,600 square kilometers/13 million mu of arable land. Currently, the entire Guangdong Province only has 35 million mu of arable land. The land in Dongban is enough to support about 5 million people of one million families.

Such a large area of ​​land cannot be easily let go. It should be noted that the soil of these arable land in Dongban is fertile, warm and moist, which is very conducive to farming. The agricultural production efficiency is very high, and it can be cooked from two to three times a year.

Chinese people are unwilling to leave their hometowns where they gave birth to them, but they also depend on the situation. As long as there are enough benefits, they can immigrate to a farther place to live a better life.

Compared with the cold north in winter, the climate in Dongfan is undoubtedly better. The People's Military Government has prepared a plan to immigrate to Dongfan. As long as the user's family is willing to immigrate to Dongfan, adults can get ten acres of land, and minors can get five acres of land, and the worst is medium-sized land.

On the land of China, the People's Army formulated the rules of four acres of land for adults and two acres of land for minors. Most areas can be implemented normally, but some places with few fields and large populations cannot do so. The local people's military government can only re-dividend according to the land area and population of the land. In fact, the best choice is to migrate the excess population elsewhere.

Just doubling the allocated land is enough to make a small number of people excited. The People's Military Government also plans to allocate a big cattle on average for every few households to help farmers cultivate land.

Even the People's Military Government plans to let immigrants move in with their luggage, and the houses are built and a few furniture are installed. Primary schools and schools across the country must be built well before they are popular. Immigrants only need to move in with a greeting, and there are spacious roads between villages and cities to connect.

The People's Military Government has formulated a plan to immigrate to the Eastern Band, but it will take at least a year to officially start implementation. Before that, there were too few people living in the Eastern Band. The People's Army needed to actually occupy the Eastern Band first, establish military strongholds in various important areas of the Eastern Band, and then mobilize a large number of coolies to the Eastern Band to build cities, roads, villages, etc.

It is easier for the People's Army to occupy the Eastern Federation. There are not many enemies in the Eastern Federation. The total population of the entire Eastern Federation is only tens of thousands, and it is mainly indigenous people and is distributed throughout the Eastern Federation.

Of course, it is easier to occupy the Eastern Fan initially, but it will be a lot of trouble to completely control the Eastern Fan. There has been no development of the Eastern Fan in all dynasties, and there is no decent road.

The People's Navy first occupied the Penghu Islands, then circled around the East Bank, chose the right place to land and establish a dock and military stronghold, and then built a town or even a city based on the military stronghold, and then built roads and villages to the East Bank with the town and the city as the center.

Once the immigrant population increases greatly and the development level of Dongfan increases, we can take the last step and connect various towns and cities on the Dongfan with roads.

In addition to the fertile land of Dongfan, there is another thing that only Fang Nan knows. Western countries have entered the era of great navigation. In the future, there are even Western countries that intend to capture Dongfan. It is impossible to determine whether Western countries will want to occupy Dongfan earlier because of the emergence of the People's Army.

The People's Army needs to prepare for the Eastern Federation first. The fleets of Western countries come from afar. Even if the fleet is stronger, it is impossible to capture the Eastern Federation. With the current combat effectiveness of the People's Army, no enemy can defeat the People's Army in land warfare.

Next, the People's Army will invest more resources in the development of the navy. With the efforts of the ship project team, the world's first ship can already sail on the water for a long time without any problems.

Seeing the research progress of the ship, Fang Nan told the ship project team about the propeller and asked them to conduct research.

The ship project team has almost adopted transparent ship technology. It will be easier to study dark ships using propellers at this time.

In the future, the People's Navy will mainly equip dark ships and warships, traversing the sea. No matter how sailing ships develop, they will be limited by wind direction.
Chapter completed!