After being divided into Banten Island, his title also became 'Viscount of Wandan', which is also the second batch of nobles with title prefixes in the Tang Empire in addition to the two princes of Qi and Zhao.

In the previous imperial title system, except for the titles of princes and county kings, which were preceded by prefixes, the remaining clan nobles and meritorious nobles did not have any prefixes for their titles.

For example, Hao Bonian, who is a duke of the empire, but is only a duke, did not say that it was a duke or anything like that, because their previous noble titles did not have any fiefs.

But now, after Wang Shanxi obtained the fief, he could use the name of the fief as the prefix of the title and call him Viscount Wandan.

And this is also officially recognized, when the Tang Dynasty newspaper announced this separation, Wang Shanxi was also called Viscount Wandan, which is an official noble title, not just a mature word that people agree on.

Viscount Banten, that is, after Wang Shanxi was crowned, soon took some of the children of the Wang family and his staff, as well as some hired and immigrants, as well as more than 100 armed guards from the hired 'Baishui Bodyguard Company', and boarded the ship to Banten.

This is not to say that the empire stipulates that nobles must go to the fiefdom, in fact, Wang Shanxi can also not go, he can stay there if he likes to stay, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't go to Banten in this life.

However, since they all have fiefdoms, Wang Shanxi is worried about his fiefdom in his heart, which is a huge Bandan Island, and it is also the most developed place in Bandan Mansion, the overseas territory of the Tang Empire.

Although the Tang Empire's Banten Province theoretically had a large area, it actually controlled only most of Banten Island and the eastern part of Suman Island, and then added the southern part of Borneo.

The entire Banten Island is planned as Banten Island, which is under the jurisdiction of Banten Province, and has jurisdiction over Dongdan County, Zhongdan County and West Dan County.

The above three counties belonged to Wang Shanxi's fiefdoms, and most of the private land he received was located in Zhongdan County, where many places were still occupied by local natives.

No matter what the situation on Banten's side is, it can't stop Wang Shanxi's determination to shift the entire family's focus to Banten Island!

This time, he planned to go to Banten with some of his clansmen and hired employees first, and the first step was to establish the Viscount's Palace, and then to recover the land that the Holy Son of Heaven had given him and was still in the hands of the barbarians.

If you want to do this, you can't rely on some of his people, even the recruited immigrants, and as for some of the staff and employees, it's even more unreliable.

The strength that was really ready to reclaim these territories was the roughly a hundred or so employees he had hired from the Whitewater Bodyguard Company.

Whitewater Bodyguard Company is a relatively large and powerful bodyguard company in the empire today, mainly engaged in VIP protection, caravan merchant ship escort and other businesses.

This important officer protection, to put it bluntly, is an ordinary bodyguard, mainly for the domestic market.

And the merchant fleet guard, this is actually aimed at the overseas market, nominally to protect merchant ships and caravans, but overseas, basically the employer does whatever he wants.

Many overseas trading companies like to hire their armed guards, who can protect ships on weekdays, and can also engage in some low-intensity military operations when they arrive in the area, fighting a dozen local indigenous kingdoms and so on.

In the past, many overseas trading companies basically organized armed personnel to engage in trade, and later the restrictions on armed merchant ships in China became more and more restrictive, which coincided with the fact that Whitewater Company had a strong military background, or simply said that the bodyguard company composed of retired military personnel carried out caravan escort business, so many overseas trading companies simply hired the armed guards of these bodyguard companies.

These armed guards of the Baishui Company hired by Wang Shanxi are a team formation, and the cost is very expensive, not only to bear their employment costs, but also to bear the combat costs and subsequent axe cutting.

However, although the cost is high, the combat effectiveness is also absolutely guaranteed!

The personnel inside are all veterans, and they are also veterans of the Marine Corps, some of these retirees are for high salaries, and some are simply in pursuit of the feeling of returning to the battlefield, that is, they have entered the Whitewater Company as a mercenary.

These people are all veterans, although there is only one team, but under the same strength of the battle, an infantry team of the active army is estimated to be really unable to beat them.

It's just that although there is a team of Baishui mercenaries accompanying him, Wang Shanxi still knows that with this person, it is almost impossible to completely wipe out the remnants of the natives in Zhongdan County, and when the time comes, he will have to let the local garrison in Banten help.

The army of the Tang Empire is in Banten Mansion, but it has the establishment of a Banten garrison regiment, and the navy also has a Banten fleet and a marine regiment stationed, and the strength can be described as extremely strong.

Although these forces are more used to defend against the Portuguese, it is not uncommon to divert some of them to fight the natives.

What Wang Shanxi has to do is to push the local garrison to carry out a big sweep, and the remnants of the indigenous forces on Zhongdan Island will be cleaned up.

In this way, the huge piece of land, which occupies a full tenth of Banten Island, can become the real private property of the Wang family.

For this, he is ready to pay a huge price!

Boarding a sail merchant ship of a trading company that had a cooperative relationship with the Wang family's industry, Wang Shanxi officially took hundreds of people to Banten Province.

They set out from Shanghai and then arrived in Guangzhou, where they were replenished with coal, water, and food, and then sailed directly into the depths of the South China Sea.

With the steam engine as the foundation, plus the many captains of the empire, they are basically familiar with the South Sea waters, and they can be reached by the eyes.

With the steam engine as a foundation and familiarity with the local seas, more and more ships are choosing to sail directly into the center of the ocean instead of relying on the coastline to shorten the voyage.

Of course, this requires big boats, and those small boats may not be able to adapt to the wind and waves in the depths of the ocean!

The ship hired by Wang Shanxi is more than 600 tons, a typical 680 ship type, this 680 ship type, is basically the main merchant ship of the Tang Empire running the ocean, because the cargo capacity and speed are OK, and more importantly, the technology is mature, any medium-sized shipyard can build it, which also leads to an extremely low price.

Low price, good performance, so even many trading companies like to buy this kind of ship for trading.

Even those shipping companies along the coast have purchased many ships of this class for transportation.

This has also led to the fact that this typical ship type is now about to flood, and more than half of the Datang merchant ships running on the ocean are basically this type of ship.

And then there's the smaller four-five-zero type eight!

As for the ships that reach more than 800 tons or even thousands of tons, they are still relatively few for no other reason, the purchase price is expensive, and the maintenance and use costs are also expensive.

After Wang Shanxi's ships penetrated deep into the South Seas, they ran all the way south, using sails as power when the wind was downwind, and steam engines as power if the wind was not in the right direction.

After reaching Cam Ranh Bay for resupply, they turned around and headed for Banten Island, not Malacca, a Portuguese-controlled port.

This is not to say that Malacca is dangerous, in fact, although the Portuguese are fighting to the death in the Indian Ocean and the Tang Western Ocean Trading Company, and there are fierce conflicts in many fields, they maintain the same view as the Tang Empire in maintaining normal trade between the two sides, that is, the war can be fought, and business must be done.

Therefore, the Portuguese have always welcomed the merchant ships of the Tang Empire to Malacca for trade, but if the merchant ships of the Tang Empire want to enter the Indian Ocean through Malacca, the Portuguese will not be happy.

Nine times out of ten, they will make trouble in the Malacca waterway, and the most common thing they do is to play the pirate in the Strait of Malacca, killing people and robbing ships without negotiation.

The reason why Wang Shanxi and the others did not go to Malacca was purely because the road was relatively far away and they were not on the way.

Although the merchant ship was a trading company and carried a lot of goods on it, the trading company was originally going to transport these goods to Banten, and then planned to go to Malacca to buy goods when they returned to the sea.

Today, Banten has become one of the three major ports in the South China Sea!

The first big port, naturally Malacca, this can't be helped, people's geographical location is unique, and the Tang Empire has not completely fallen out with the Portuguese, so many merchants of the Tang Empire trade with the Portuguese and other Indian, Safavid and Ottoman merchants, and many still choose to trade in Malacca, which is simple and convenient.

The second largest port is naturally the port of Banten, which was basically used by the Tang Empire's own ships, in addition to the merchant ships of the Spaniards and other European countries that occasionally came to the seas of East Asia to anchor and trade.

It is also an important trading and supply port for the Tang Western Trading Company, whose fleets to India, as well as West Asia and Africa, basically depart from the port of Banten and then cross the Sunda Strait into the Indian Ocean.

In addition, in order to reduce shipping costs, improve the operation cycle of ships, on the other hand, it is also to calm the anger of many domestic trading companies against the monopoly of Western trade by Datang Western Trading Company, so Datang Western Trading Company will now directly transport or transport to China except for some special goods, and most of the general cargo transactions are carried out in Banten Port, which is also the basis for Banten Port to maintain prosperity.