In the forty-second year of the Xia calendar, the whole spring and summer of the country was filled with a warm atmosphere, not only because the Xia State had completed the rewards for the meritorious soldiers during the Sui Empire and the Turkic Wars, but countless soldiers were allocated hundreds or even thousands of acres of land, or other types of rewards.

In addition to the old generals who fought with Wang Ze before, there were also Liu Xin, Yang Ku, Xiao Jing, Lu Wen, Pu Yangxun, Fan Wenzhong, Zhuo Ran and a number of outstanding scholars who contributed their lives to the Xia State.

Of course, it is impossible for these Wenchen to go to sea to start their own country in their old age, but their sons or grandsons can create this foundation for them, which can be regarded as Wang Ze's reward for these old people who have worked hard all their lives.

The number of feudal princes is so large, and even includes Han Zheng, Wang Kai, Wu Yihe and other big treasurers who have presided over the Northern Commercial Bank, Donghai Commercial Bank and Nanyang Commercial Bank for decades.

The reason why the feudal princes this time caused more movement than the previous two feudal divisions was that in addition to the greater number of feudal feuds, it was also because the previous two feudal princes could not be obtained without military merits, and this time there were not only meritorious civil servants, but even merchants.

What makes all the people of Xia even more excited is that in addition to the feudal princes, Wang Ze also formally established the title system within the Xia Kingdom, and all the feudal lords are below the earl, from viscounts, barons, lords to knights, and those who can obtain the feudal kingdom must be marquis or above.

Among them, the knights belonged to the people, and according to the Qin Dynasty system, they were divided into twelve ranks, each of which enjoyed a certain amount of power, but this power was mainly in the supervision of the government, not a privileged class higher than the other citizens.

After the turmoil of the whole spring, Wang Ze issued a decree to divide a total of nearly 100 vassal states of different sizes, except for more than 30 of these vassal states that were divided into the interior of Kunlunzhou, and more than 30 of the others were distributed on the west coast of Tianzhu.

Almost all of the remaining more than 30 vassal states were concentrated on the east coast of Yingzhou, that is, the eastern coastal area of South America in later generations, which was probably the relatively rich area of Argentina.

When dividing these vassal states, Wang Ze said to Han Zigao, Ji Xiang and others with emotion that in fact, when they divided the princes for the second time, they veterans could be on the wheel, but because the Xia State was still facing the threat of the Sui Empire and the Turks, it was inseparable from their support.

Therefore, the Xia State is actually indebted to these people, so whether it is a few princes or principalities in this group of princes, they will receive a large amount of support from the Xia State, and the most direct manifestation is that the Xia State will use the power of the state to recruit and transport people for these vassal states.

The princes of the first rank of the public can receive the support of 100,000 people in the Xia state, and the Hou state can receive the support of 30,000 to 50,000 people according to their rank, and there are also a large number of construction materials, weapons, livestock, horses, agricultural tools, and basic technology.

In addition to Wang Hui, Wang Yu, Zhu Rui, Cheng Chong, and Zheng Kui, the first batch of countries established, the other vassal states did not receive much support, after all, the Xia country at that time was not rich, and the main thing was that there was really a lack of people at that time.

Therefore, even if these newly divided vassal states have been established for a short time, they are not known how many times stronger than the second batch of vassal states at the beginning, and if these princes can concentrate on management, they may not be able to create a good situation.

It's easy to promise anything, but when you do it, you can't wait to slap yourself a few times, Wang Ze is like this, it's easy to promise support for the vassal states, but when you do it, you find that you still haven't prepared enough.

Not to mention anything else, there are nearly three million people in the nearly 100 vassal states who need to migrate, even if the most powerful sea ship in the Xia Kingdom is used, one can only carry more than 800 people at a time, after all, it is an ocean voyage that cannot carry more people.

Then three million people need at least three thousand seven hundred and fifty such ships, and if you add the various materials they need, this number needs to be at least doubled, but Wang Ze can only transfer a thousand such ships at most, and any more will seriously affect the normal economic operation of the Xia Kingdom.

Fortunately, there was good news from the Zhenhai Shipyard at this time, they had successfully built large steam engines suitable for ocean voyages, and these large sea ships could be converted into steam ships, so that the speed of the sea ships could be greatly increased, and the number of ships could be reduced by half.

In this way, Wang Ze finally had a lot of peace of mind, and the route from the Xia Kingdom to the west coast of Tianzhu and Kunlun Continent through the South Seas could be quickly launched, but the more than thirty vassal states that were divided into Yingzhou would be too troublesome, because the distance between them and the Xia Kingdom was almost the farthest distance on the planet, almost on the other side of the earth.

After decades of preliminary construction, from Xia to Yingzhou, you can start from Zhenhai, pass through the island of Kampassana (Kamchatka Peninsula), the Northland Islands (Aleutian Islands), and then gradually go south along a series of bases on the west coast of Penglaizhou (North America) of Xia Kingdom, and you can safely reach the east coast of Yingzhou.

It's just that this long distance across the Pacific Ocean is really daunting, and it takes at least a year to go back and forth, and it is far from an easy task for the Xia Kingdom to transport all kinds of materials and people needed by more than thirty vassal states.

At this time, Mi Ke, who had led the voyage of Taoist Chen Duan, suddenly stood up, and he put forward a suggestion of his own to Wang Ze, he thought that since the original voyage had proved that the whole world was spherical.

Moreover, according to the analysis of more than 20 years of sailing experience, Yingzhou and Fangchangzhou in the east of the ocean are not too far away from Kunlun Continent in the west of the Western Ocean, and according to the current speed of steam ships in the Xia Kingdom, it will only take more than 20 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean further west of Kunlun Continent.

In this way, the Xia fleet could go southwest from Wanghai City (Aceh) and pass through the Bixia Islands (Chagos Archipelago) in the south of the Pearl Islands, and reach the Falklands (Madagascar Island) and the Nankun Viceroyalty (South Africa), which were already the overseas territories of the Xia Kingdom.

It takes more than 20 days to walk west from the Nankun Governorate District to the east coast of Yingzhou, which is basically not much longer than the voyage on the west coast of Kunlunzhou, and it is the territory of Xia Guo that has been operating for decades along the way, so it is very safe to walk.

Another suggestion is a bit risky, but in Wang Ze's view, there is also a great possibility of implementation, that is, to reopen a route from Xia to Yingzhou.

This new route can first follow the sea route from the Xia Kingdom to Yanfu Zhou (Australia), first go south from the Xia Kingdom through Ryukyu and Yizhou, and reach the east coast of Luhan, and then turn southeast to the northern waters of Ilian Island and finally reach the west coast of Yingzhou through a series of islands such as Fiji, Tulowa, Samoa, Society Islands, and Easter Island.

Nowadays, there are also several small Xia settlements on the west coast of Yingzhou, which are actually exile points, from where they go south along the west coast through Tierra del Fuego to the east coast of Yingzhou.

The distance of this road is actually about the same as taking the Western route, but it is nearly half the distance than the plan of taking the Northland Islands, although there are many unfamiliar seas in the middle, but what makes Wang Ze most excited is that he can use this opportunity to gradually occupy many islands in the southern Pacific Ocean.

If this route is done well, it will not only greatly increase the existence and strength of the Xia Kingdom in the South Pacific, but also take this opportunity to revitalize Yan Fuzhou, which has always been tepid, and the New Zealand Islands in the future.

Oh, New Zealand has now become the new Qingzhou of the Xia Kingdom, this archipelago has one of the best pastures in the world in the future, there are nearly 30,000 Xia people, as well as tens of thousands of Turkic herdsmen grazing cattle and sheep here, and the beef and mutton produced here are also very popular with the people of the Xia Kingdom.

Mi Ke suggested several different routes that made Wang Ze so difficult to choose, and later it was Cheng Xueyan who said something that made him suddenly enlightened.

Cheng Xueyan laughed at him: "Since Your Majesty needs a world of balanced development, why do you keep thinking about a shipping route, although these routes have their own advantages and disadvantages, but they all need Your Majesty's support in the places they pass along the way!" ”

Wang Ze suddenly found that he patronized and supported the development of various vassal states, so it would inevitably affect the strength of Xia in the three continents of Penglai, Fangzhu and Yingzhou, and only the local territories of Xia and these vassal states made progress at the same time, in order to ensure the spread of Han civilization at the same time, to ensure the interests of Xia itself.

After figuring out this link, Wang Ze finally ordered the use of steam ships to run the Western Ocean and the South Pacific route at the same time, and the northern route through the Northland archipelago was also launched at the same time, and a large number of sea ships without steam engines still traveled along this route to and from the sea area between Penglai Island and Xia Kingdom.

Compared with the west coast of Yingzhou and Fangchangzhou, the natural conditions of the west coast of Penglaizhou are actually very good, especially the passage of the North Pacific Warm Current, so that the coastal area here, even the coastal area of Alaska in later generations, will not be too cold.

In addition, because this is also the earliest area where the Xia Kingdom arrived and developed, so far there are at least 500,000 Han people on the west coast of Penglai Continent, and if you count the naturalized indigenous tribes, there are even millions of people under the rule of the Xia Kingdom.

This is already the most powerful area of the Xia Kingdom in Penglai Continent, and the population of Fangzhang Continent in the central part is much smaller, and the only more than 200,000 people are basically concentrated in the East and Wanghai Cities established in the Panama Canal Zone in later generations, as well as around the Guiyi City in southern Mexico.

In the south, Yingzhou is the farthest away from the Xia Kingdom and the conditions are the worst, so the people here are basically exiled, even after decades of development, there are only about 100,000 people so far.

With the great division and migration of the Xia Kingdom, the migration of millions of people lasted for more than three years, which not only brought a strong impact on the Xia Kingdom and the major vassal states, but also had a certain impact on the international political pattern of hundreds of thousands of years in later generations.

Later historians, of course, praised Wang Ze's actions, claiming that they spread the most advanced Han civilization and promoted the great integration of peoples around the world.

Of course, Wang Ze will not know about the comments of his future life, but he will have to solve a lot of trouble this time.