Twenty days after Zhao Xing, the king of Pingxi, published the "Words of the Commandment to All the Clansmen" in the old nest of Crouching Tiger City. Cho Jin-bang, who is in Lelang-gun, Samhan Peninsula, received the newspaper.

It's an impressive speed of delivery, and it all starts with the recent opening of a golden sea route.

The starting point on the western side of the route is Crouching Tiger. The enterprising merchants of the Jin Kingdom purchased a large number of commodities from the Crouching Tiger City, passed through Huguan into the area controlled by the Xiongwu Army of Jizhou, and then went north to bypass the mainland Ze to Zhangshui next to Fucheng, and took a small boat downstream in Zhangshui to reach the big wharf at the mouth of the sea, and then loaded the goods onto the big ship and went to sea. The fleet sailed eastward to the Liaodong Peninsula to the county of Qishi (present-day Jinzhou, Dalian), and after a short rest, set sail again and sailed eastward to Zhanchan County in Lelang County, where it sailed upstream from the mouth of the Lieshui (Daedong River) to the mouth of the Le Lang River and finally arrived at the seat of Lelang County (present-day Pyongyang, North Korea).

Parallel to this golden route to the north was a shorter, intermediate route that sailed east from the seaport of Dongmu County, Dongnae-gun, Cheongju (near present-day Weihai, Shandong) to Seoul (present-day Seoul, South Korea) on the lower reaches of the Han River. This route was opened half a year earlier than the northern route, and it was developed and operated by the Fenzheng Battalion of the Jin State Navy Division stationed in Qingzhou Liaocheng.

If we talk about the longest cross-sea route, it is naturally the southern route from Yuzhousan Military Port in Donghaequ County, Xuzhou to Dongseungguo (Jeju Island) and Glory Bay. This route has been open for several years, and it has always been operated by the Fenxian Battalion of the Jin State Navy Division stationed in Qu County.

These three routes connected the northern, central, and southern parts of the Samhan Peninsula with the Han Empire, respectively, and not only became the main route for Zhao Xing to transport people and prisoners to the peninsula, but also brought huge profits to the merchants and sailors of the Jin Kingdom who traveled between the two sides of the strait.

Merchants transported large quantities of grain, seeds, pigs, cattle, sheep, cloth, production tools, daily necessities, books, medicines, and other goods from Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou to the Samhan Peninsula for sale, and when they returned, they loaded their ships with timber, ginseng, animal skins, and Chinese herbal medicines. This time and again, you can make a lot of money.

The large troop carriers of the Jin Navy Division were basically not used in normal times, so they undertook the transportation tasks of the three routes as cargo ships. In order to ensure the safety of each route, and also to train the officers and men of the naval division, when each batch of transport convoys set sail, the naval division will send several warships to guide and escort them. This can not only reduce the risk of the transport fleet encountering bad sea conditions and running aground, but also allow the sailors and warships that have no battle to fight for the time being to take turns to go to sea for training.

According to Mi Zhu's suggestion, the Jin State Sailor set up a special business organization, which was managed by Mi Zhu's selection of talents who were proficient in business and finance. Don't look at the small number of people in this small organization, but they have really earned a lot of income for the Jin State Water Master.

With a steady stream of funds to supplement the military expenses of the water division, ships with larger sizes, longer ranges, and higher safety factors were manufactured and launched, and all kinds of weapons and equipment on board were more advanced and complete. In time, it is also expected that the Jin navy will go south to Jiaozhou along the coastline and go to the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Malacca.

Compared with the relatively mature and stable Dongrong (Donghai to Glory Bay) route in the south, the Eastern Han (Dongnae to Seoul) route in the middle and the Bohai Dynasty (Bohai Sea to North Korea) route in the north are still in the stage of trial operation with military transportation as their main task.

Seoul in the lower reaches of the Han River has just begun to be built, although tens of thousands of Qingzhou people have been relocated here and begun to settle down after Liu Dai's flickering, but after all, this place is too close to the Zhan tribe and the crowded Mahan and Chenhan tribes, and it will still need the Montenegrin army to stay and protect for a while.

Although Joseon Fortress on the shore of Yeolsu was the seat of Lelang County for many years, Cho Jin-pong felt that the layout of the city was too small to play its role as an important town in the northern part of the Samhan Peninsula in the future.

According to Zhao Xing's latest instructions, the entire Samhan Peninsula has been named Yeonju, and its territory is counted from the east and south of Daelyeong alone to the south of Kaixuan Bay in the south. If the territory area of Yanzhou is larger, it is larger than Qingzhou and Xuzhou. With the official naming of Yanzhou, Cui Yan was also officially appointed as the pastor of Yanzhou by the King of Pingxi.

It stands to reason that King Pingxi was not the emperor of the Han Dynasty and had no right to appoint his subordinates as state ministers. However, the entire Samhan Peninsula was originally occupied by the Samhan tribe and the Zhan tribe except for Lelang County, which was originally occupied by the Samhan tribe and the Zhan tribe, and now it has almost all been taken by the Montenegrin army under the command of King Pingxi, so it has nothing to do with the Han Dynasty at all. This Yanzhou belonged to the territory of the army of the king of Pingxi from the beginning, and naturally the king of Pingxi should appoint officials to govern it.

Besides, Yanzhou does not include Lelang County, and the Filthy tribe has not yet been conquered, so the court bigwigs in Luoyang do not know the current situation on the Samhan Peninsula at all. Even if they knew, what would they be able to do with King Pinxi?

The naming and establishment of Yanzhou is of great significance to Zhao Xing himself. This is not only that he has opened up a new territory for future generations, but more importantly, the reason is that Zhao Xing has made Yanzhou ruthlessly branded with the mark of the Han people through the means of Han migration, local indigenous domestication and relocation, and it will be difficult to leave the embrace of the Han Empire from now on!

Although there were no air routes and railways to connect Yanzhou with the interior of Dahan at this time, the three sea routes opened one after another were enough to undertake the mission of connecting the two places. The pace of life at this time was so slow that a newspaper arriving by sea twenty days later was already admirably fast, that one would not feel at all how slow the fleet was to travel between land and sea.

Although sea traffic can be affected by sea conditions and weather, because the distance between these three routes is not too long, and the east, north and west are surrounded by land, the possibility of the fleet getting lost is almost zero. If coupled with the guidance and escort of the Jin State Navy, as long as it is not artificially closed and locked in the sea in the future, then it is certain that convenient sea transportation will play an increasingly huge role.

Although Yanzhou is mountainous, there are also plains with abundant water and soil for agricultural cultivation. In particular, rice can be planted in large quantities in the southern part of Yanzhou, and as long as the masters of the Jin Academy of Agricultural Sciences find out the water and soil conditions in Yanzhou, they will quickly guide the local farmers to plant high-quality and high-yield rice.

After solving the food problem, Yanzhou will become a bridgehead for Zhao Xing to cross the Tsushima Strait and subdue the Japanese slave kingdom in the future.

On the map, the crossing of the Tsushima Strait is even shorter than the voyage from Donglai to Lushi County (from Yantai to Lushun). Because Tsushima Island is like a huge bridge pier connecting Yeonju and the Japanese slave country, as long as a large military port is built on Tsushima Island, it is really easy to land on the Japanese slave country.

The reason why Zhao Xing, the king of Pingxi, has not sent an army to land in the Japanese slave country until now is only because the number of troops under his command is limited, and the population resources are limited, so he can't take care of it for a while.