Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1284
East China Sea.

Liuqiu County, Penghu County.

The sea outside Penghu Harbor is surging, and the water in the harbor is as quiet as a lake. It is only [-] miles east of Liuqiu Island and less than [-] miles west of the mainland.

The inland sea surrounded by three islands forms Penghu Bay, which is about 24 miles long from north to south and about [-] miles wide from east to west.

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

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

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

Cheng Mingzhen, the prefect of Liuqiu, temporarily acted as the admiral of the East China Sea Fleet. As a newly established naval fleet, Cheng Mingzhen owns [-] large treasure ships and [-] armed merchant ships.

In Penghu Port.

Cheng Mingzhen summoned his fleet officers to discuss matters.

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

"Everyone, this is the sand table in Jian'an County, Jiangdong Province."

Jian'an County, Qin was Minzhong County, and Jian'an County was established when Sun Wu of the Three Kingdoms, until now.Jian'an County is very large. The east of Wuyi Mountain is all Jian'an County, and its land is as wide as the Central Plains.But there is only one county in such a large place, and even this county was not a real first-level division until the time of Sun Wu of the Three Kingdoms.

Minzhong County in the Qin Dynasty didn't even have a county below it, so it couldn't be called an effective rule at all.

"Speaking of which, Jian'an County is quite peculiar. It is located on the eastern coast. This is the settlement of the early Fujian and Yue aborigines. At the end of the Warring States Period, the King of Yue was defeated by Chu and entered Fujian. There will be no palaces built."

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

"Later Qin unified the world, abolished Wuzhu Minyue King, established Minzhong County, and demoted Wuzhu as county chief. This was the first administrative unit established by the Central Plains Dynasty on the east side of Wuyi Mountain, but in fact the Qin Dynasty never had one. Any effective management by the imperial court is just a fiction, and there is no specific record of the county government, which is even worse than Qin's rule of Lingnan."

Later, Liu Bang replaced Qin Jianzhi and restored Wuzhu as the king of Minyue. Later, he forcibly relocated the civilians of the Minyue royal family to Jianghuai on the grounds that the Minyue folk customs were strong. The Minyue people gradually declined and assimilated into the Han. There has never been real and effective control over Fujian, and even a county has never been established.

Until Sun Ce abolished Houguan and Duwei in the Eastern Wu Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, he established Jian'an, Nanping, and Hanxing counties on his land, implying the Jian'an period, the peace of the south, and the revival of the Han Dynasty. Together with Houguan County, it became the earliest truly formally established four counties here. county.

This is also the first time that this area has a county-level division.

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 really started to set up county rule. This was hundreds of years later than Lingnan Jiaozhi and other places in the south, which shows the particularity of this place.

It took hundreds of years for the Han people to go down the Minjiang River and reach the mouth of the Minjiang River. It took hundreds of years to barely establish four counties and several stronghold cities.

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

Soochow separated Jiangdong and faced the threat of Wei and Shu, so they had to continue to open up to the south. Not only Jian'an and other counties were formed into Jian'an County, but also Shaowu, Sui'an, and Jiangle were newly established to make Jian'an County under the jurisdiction of The ten counties basically covered the whole territory of Fujian in later generations.

From Jian'an County to the Sui Dynasty, the boundary has not changed much.

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

The Soochow Wu continued to increase the development of Jian'an County, continuously migrated people in, implemented policies such as garrisoning troops in the fields, and even sent people from Jian'an across the sea to Liuqiu Island to farm and grow grain.

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

During 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, thus forming three major regions: southern Fujian, northern Fujian, and eastern Fujian. At that time, it was stubbornly resisted, suffered heavy losses, and the city was broken for a long time, and the Sui army Tu Jian'an.

Later, there was a great rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River, and the local tyrants in Jian'an also rose one after another. After the Sui army suppressed them with all their strength, they cleaned up the local tyrants.After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, only Jian'an County was established in Fujian, and it was divided into four counties: Minxian, Jian'an, Longxi, and Nan'an. It can be seen that Fujian suffered heavy losses during the Sui Ping period.

Before the Soochow of the Three Kingdoms, the Central Plains had almost no effective dominance over Fujian. Although it had defeated the indigenous forces who ruled Fujian, it was only a military conquest, but no effective rule had been established. Even a county was never established.

When Soochow arrived, Soochow developed to the south, and the development of Fujian was strengthened. Through the Minjiang River, cities and villages began to be established. Especially at this time, the development of sea waterways made Soochow begin to reach Fujian from the sea. Along the coast, with the seawater traffic route, Soochow's development of Fujian was greatly enhanced. 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 behind the Central Plains.The key reason is that the land roads are impassable, and the Wuyi Mountains stretch across, closing Fujian and making Fujian a very closed area.

Fujian, which has eight mountains, one water and one field, even after passing Wuyi Mountain, the territory is still full of mountains of various sizes, dividing Fujian into small closed areas.

After Fujian was established in Sui Ping, when the prefecture was dismissed and the prefecture was established, Fujian was established as Quanzhou, with only four counties under its jurisdiction, and a total of [-] households.

In such a large place, the population has only been around [-] households for a long time. It can be said that the locality is indeed very backward.

"Everyone, now Jian'an County is under the control of Shen Faxing's Jiangdong Road. Jian'an has been stable in the past few years, but it is still very backward." Cheng Mingzhen tapped his fingers on the table, and the reason for talking about Jian'an with his subordinates today is because of the emperor's will.

Now the imperial court is fully supporting foreign trade, and attaches great importance to the Silk Road in the Western Regions and the Maritime Silk Road. However, there is a long section of the Maritime Silk Road that passes through Shen Faxing’s territory, from the Yangtze River Estuary to Yuanjiang Estuary (Shantou), along the coast too long.

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

Both the Ryukyu and Donghae teams were established under this strategy.

Now the construction of Liuqiu County is not bad, and it is advancing steadily. There are intermittent battles with the natives, but they have been advancing inland and winning steadily.Now that the natives are far away in the deep mountains and dense forests, Cheng Mingzhen has seized a large amount 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 around and started to focus on Jian'an County on the other side of the sea.

(End of this chapter)