East China Sea.

Liuqiu County, Penghu County.

The sea outside Penghu Port is surging, the water in the port is as quiet as a lake, here is only 80 miles away from the big island of Liuqiu in the east, and it is only less than 300 miles away from the mainland in the west.

The inland sea surrounded by three islands forms Penghu Bay, which is about 24 miles long from north to south, about 16 miles wide from east to west, the water depth of the bay is more than 3 zhang, the water in the bay is as quiet as a lake, and it is an excellent sheltered anchorage.

In particular, the Penghu Islands are located in the center of the strait, guarding the key points of maritime traffic in the East China Sea, and are the key to the East China Sea.

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

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

Cheng Mingzhen, who was the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, was a newly established naval fleet, and Cheng Mingzhen had 20 large treasure ships and 40 armed merchant ships.

Inside the port of Penghu.

Cheng Mingzhen convened his fleet officers to discuss the matter.

In front of everyone, there was a sand table, which was relatively simple.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the sand table of Jian'an County, Jiangdong Province."

Jian'an County, Qin is Minzhong County, and Jian'an County was set up in the Three Kingdoms Sun Wu until now. Jian'an County is very large, east of Wuyi Mountain, all are Jian'an County, and its land is as wide as the Central Plains. But in such a large place, there is only one county, and even this county is actually a real first-class division until the time of Sun Wu of the Three Kingdoms.

During the Qin Dynasty, Minzhong County did not even have a county below, so it could not be called effective rule at all.

"Speaking of which, this Jian'an County is still quite peculiar, located on the eastern coast, which was the settlement of the early Minyue aborigines. At the end of the Warring States Period, the king of Yue Wuzhu was defeated by Chu into Fujian, became the king of Minyue, and built the Wuzhu Palace in the south of Jianouxi. ”

Speaking of this neighbor across the strait, Cheng Mingzhen couldn't help but want to laugh, this is indeed a very strange place.

"Later, Qin unified the world, abolished the king of Minyue, placed Minzhong County, and reduced Wuzhu to the county magistrate, which was the first administrative unit set up by the Central Plains Dynasty in the east of Wuyi Mountain, but in fact, the Qin Dynasty never had any effective management of the imperial court, but it was just a fictitious establishment, and there was no specific record of even the county governance, and it was not even as good as Qin's rule over Lingnan."

Later, Liu Bang replaced Qin Jianzhi and re-established Wuzhu as the king of Minyue, and then forcibly relocated the civilians of the Minyue royal family to Jianghuai on the grounds that the Minyue people were strong, and the Minyue people gradually declined and assimilated into the Han, but until the end of the Han Dynasty, the two Han Dynasty never had real and effective control over Fujian, and even a county was never established.

Until the Three Kingdoms of Eastern Wu Sun Ce abolished the Houguan Duwei, and established the three counties of Jian'an, Nanping and Hanxing with its place, implying the meaning of Jian'an period, southern pacification, and the revival of the Han Dynasty, together with Houguan County, it became the earliest real formal establishment of the four counties here.

This is also the first time that this area has been divided at the county level.

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

The Central Plains Dynasty was the first time that the Central Plains Dynasty began to rule counties, which was hundreds of years later than the Lingnan Jiaozhi and other places in the south, which shows the particularity of this place.

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

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

Eastern Wu seized Jiangdong and faced the threat of Wei and Shu, so it had to continue to open up to the south, not only Jian'an and other counties to form Jian'an County, but also newly established Shaowu, Sui'an, Jiangle, so that Jian'an County has ten counties under its jurisdiction, basically including the entire territory of Fujian in later generations.

Jian'an County has also been in Sui since then, and the boundaries have not changed much.

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

Soochow continued to increase the development of Jian'an County, constantly relocated the population, implemented policies such as garrisoning the tuntian, and even once sent people from Jian'an to cross the sea to Liuqiu Island to grow grain.

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

To the Western Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Jian'an County was once divided into Jian'an, Jin'an, Liang'an three counties, so the formation of southern Fujian, northern Fujian, eastern Fujian three major regions, but later Sui unified the north, the south to attack Chen, in the attack on the county of Anjun was stubbornly resisted, suffered heavy losses, broke the city for a long time, the Sui army slaughtered Jian'an.

Later, the Jiangnan rebellion, Jian'an local strong and powerful also rose one after another, and after the Sui army suppressed it with all its might, the local powerful forces were purged. After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, only one county of Jian'an was set up in Fujian, and it was four counties of Minxian, Jian'an, Longxi and Nan'an.

Before the Three Kingdoms of Eastern Wu, the Central Plains had hardly established effective domination over Fujian, and although it had defeated the indigenous forces that had seized Fujian, it was only a military conquest, but it did not really establish effective rule, and even a county was never established.

When it came to Soochow, Soochow developed to the south, intensified the development of Fujian, and began to set up cities, Tunzhuang, etc., especially at this time the development of sea waterways, so that Soochow also began to arrive at the coast of Fujian from the sea, with the transportation route of seawater, the development of Fujian was greatly enhanced, and in just a few decades, ten counties were established in Fujian.

After that, until the end of the Sui Dynasty, although the development of Fujian continued to advance, it was far less than that of the Central Plains. The key reason is that the land route is impassable, and the Wuyi Mountains are continuous, which encloses the Fujian land and makes the Fujian land a very closed area.

Eight mountains, one water and one field, even after Wuyi Mountain, but the territory is also large and small mountain ranges, dividing Fujian into a small piece of closed land.

After the Sui Pingdi and Fujian land, when the county was set up as a state, the Fujian land was set up as Quanzhou, and only four counties were under its jurisdiction, with a total of only 12,000 households.

In such a large place, the population has only been about 10,000 households for a long time, which can be said to be very backward.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that Jian'an County is under the control of Shen Faxing's Jiangdong Province, Jian'an has been stable in recent years, but it is still very backward." Cheng Mingzhen tapped his fingers on the table, talking about Jian'an with his subordinates today, the reason is that there is the emperor's will.

Nowadays, the imperial court fully supports foreign trade, and the Western Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road attach great importance to it, but the Maritime Silk Road now has a long section to pass through Shen Faxing's territory, from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the Yuanjiang Estuary (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, and the purpose is obvious, that is, to strengthen the control of this section of the East China Sea.

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

Nowadays, the construction of Liuqiu County is not bad, steadily advancing, and the battles with the natives are intermittent, but they have been advancing inland, and they have been victorious. Now that the natives are far away from the 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 advancing for the time being.

So now he turned his head and began to focus on Jian'an County on the other side of the sea.