"Xindenzhou, it's here!"

I woke up from my sleep with a sore head that was a legacy of the celebration I had had celebrated with the passengers on the boat last night for the upcoming journey. At first, I thought it was just a dream that I didn't wake up. Ever since the Red Victory entered the New Bohai Bay, people could be heard shouting that Xindenzhou had arrived almost every day, but every time it was still just above the vast sea. Ever since I decided to set foot on the Red Victory in Sintengju, I've grown accustomed to the monotony of long journeys at sea.

But this time, the buzzing voices outside told me that this was not a dream, nor was it a 'lying military situation', but a real arrival in Xindengzhou!

I struggled to my feet, got dressed, and tried to get out of the cabin and get to the deck right away. Out of the hatch, the passage was crowded with many passengers who were as anxious as I was to get to the deck right away, all of them wanting to see the new state of Denden, which had already heard so many rumors in Middle-earth, and which had another name—the Golden Peninsula. It is rumored that gold is everywhere here, and there are opportunities to get rich overnight. It's a haven for adventurers and a new home for immigrants.

Since Emperor Wu swept away the feudal domains, unified the world, and established a new Tang Empire, the maritime trade of the Tang Dynasty has become more and more prosperous. Bohai Bay, Yangtze River Estuary, Hangzhou Bay, Vietnam Bay, and other large ports, with the time, location, people, under the full management of the imperial court, the scale and weather are far from comparable in the past. In the past, the Bohai Bay area in the north was prosperous, and only Hangzhou Bay was prosperous in the southeast, but in recent years, the imperial court has made every effort to manage the southeast coast, making it gradually prosperous from north to south.

New Bohai Bay. It was originally a huge bay in the South China Sea surrounded by Champong, Chenla, Bagan, Srivijaya and Malacca in the southern region of Annam.

However, in the twentieth year of the Dragon Age, it had already been renamed the New Bohai Bay, and the countries of Champa, Zhenla, and Bagan to the north of the bay have now become the southern territory of the New Tang Empire.

In the third year of the Dragon Era, the Zhuyuan State of the Tianzhu Continent sent troops to attack Ceylon, Bagan, and Malacca in the South China Sea, intending to invade the Nanyang region. The powerful power of the Golden Peninsula in the South Seas and Jinzhou Island, Sriwijaya, sent troops to meet the battle. During the war between the two sides in the South China Sea, Emperor Wu, who had just leveled the provinces of the northwest steppe and was respected as the supreme khan by the chiefs of the Western Regions, seized this opportunity and sent a large number of elites from the Supervision Department to infiltrate the South Seas to escape and divide the two warring countries, and assassinate the generals and nobles of both sides. Eventually, the war grew bigger and bigger, and almost all the island and land countries in the South Seas were involved.

Note is the southern dynasty of Tianzhu. In recent years, the power has increased greatly, has unified the southern part of Tianzhu, its people are warlike, the dynasty has 60,000 war elephants, each war elephant is seven or eight feet high, carrying huts. The warriors fought from afar with bows and arrows, and they defeated their opponents again and again. In the third year of the Dragon Age. Under the rule of the Zhulin Dynasty, it has ruled over 15 million people, and its strength far exceeds that of Srivijaya.

However, most of the territory of Sriwijaya is on the island, and the capital is Palembang, Malay Island, opposite the Golden Peninsula, and its maritime military strength should not be underestimated.

A Tianzhu land powerhouse, a South Sea Overlord.

Under the covert intervention of the New Tang Empire, the two major forces fought more and more, and when the war lasted for three years, by the sixth year of the Dragon Age, both sides were exhausted. Lose both. At this time, the New Tang Empire finally completed its preparations for war, with the order of Emperor Wu. The 200,000 Tang troops advanced by land and water, and went south in two routes.

100,000 infantry troops attacked Nanzhao from Hunan, Guangxi, and Vietnam, while another large army consisting of 50,000 sailors and 50,000 marines marched down the coast of Annam.

No one expected that as soon as the New Tang Empire in the Central Plains unified Middle-earth, it would quickly intervene in the South Seas and send such a huge army.

At the beginning of the war, the Tang army did not directly deal with Zhulin and Sriwijaya, but sent troops to attack Sriwijaya on the grounds that Srivijaya had hurt the Tang Dynasty's maritime merchants who were trading in the South Seas. Megan, the commander of the General Staff Academy, who was the marshal of the 50,000 sailors and marines in command of the Southern Expedition at that time, took the initiative to contact Zhu Yuan and proposed a joint crusade against Srivijaya. It was even promised at that time that after the destruction of the Three Buddhas, the Golden Peninsula would be returned to the Tang Dynasty, and Jinzhou Island would be returned to the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, the country was mired in the quagmire of war with the Three Buddhas, and it was difficult to ride a tiger, and it was impossible to advance or retreat. When he received the proposal of the Tang Army, he couldn't help but be moved. And many of the magnates received large bribes from the Tang Dynasty and sang about this alliance. In the end, Zhu Yuan and New Tang joined forces to attack Sriwijaya.

In the eighth year of the Dragon Age, the Three Buddhas perished.

In the ninth year of the Dragon Age, Nanzhao perished.

In the same year, Xing hurriedly boarded the Golden Peninsula to receive the fruits of victory, but was ambushed by the Tang army, and 50,000 soldiers and horses were annihilated. The Tang Empire launched a full-scale war against the Zhu Yuan State.

From the ninth year of the Dragon Age, this war was fought until the eighteenth year of the Dragon Age. The Empire's expeditionary force not only eventually destroyed the Zhuyin Kingdom, but also marched south from the Sanchuan and Guangxi provinces in the southwest of the empire, and finally fought along the coast in the south. The sailors have been operating in the South Seas for many years, and they have completely conquered the South Sea Islands, and even established a port base on the remote southern barren mainland island.

The bay originally controlled by Sriwijaya was renamed Xinbo Bay, the Golden Peninsula was renamed Xindengzhou, and Jinzhou Island was renamed New Lushun.

The Strait of Malacca, which was originally located between Xintengzhou and Xinlushun, has also been renamed the Golden Strait. After the Qin Domain took control of the South Seas, after many years of operation, the scale and weather here far exceeded the times of the Three Buddhas, and it has become the busiest and most crowded port in the South Seas, and it can even be said to be the busiest port in the entire Tang Dynasty, surpassing Dengzhou and Hangzhou.

Especially this year, although the Lantern Festival in the 20th year of the Dragon Age has just passed, the winter trade winds that blow from north to south since November last year are the best time for ships to go to the South Seas every year. Riding the winter trade winds from the southeast coast of the Central Plains, some southeast ships in the south set sail at the earliest after the Lantern Festival every year. As the winter monsoon begins from November to March, a large number of Central Plains ships will ride the wind south. And in June and September, the summer monsoon begins, and a large number of ships head north.

During the monsoon breaks from March to June and September to November, a large number of ships are also anchored in the ports near the Golden Strait.

Because the strait is windless all year round, it is also the best safe haven, and has even become the largest maritime trade transit point between the East and the West.

At this time. The dormant nature of the Strait should be moved by the times, and the Golden Strait has entered the busy season earlier than in previous years, with sailing ships of all sizes in the harbor coming in and out, day and night, lining up through the Imperial Customs and sailing through the Strait.

My name is Shi Jingtang, and I was born in Baima Township, Yizhou, Hebei Province in the first year of Guangming Dynasty (880) of the former Tang Dynasty. My father was not from Hebei Province, where he lived in Yizhou. He was originally a Shatuo person who lived in Daibei, and his ancestors moved from Shazhou in the distant Western Regions, and served under Li Keyong, the king of Shatuo, in his early years, and later joined Emperor Wu. When the million was disarmed, he was discharged from the army and turned into a civilian official, becoming the mayor of Whitehorse Town. I am 25 years old, and my father is currently the criminal envoy of Yizhou. The New Tang Empire now has 48 provinces and 360 states, and my father served as one of the troika of states. He can only be regarded as a middle-level official.

However, my father also had the title of founding son, which was an honor that many provincial officials did not necessarily have. My mother was also a Northlander, but that didn't stop me from being an Imperial citizen. I studied martial arts with my father, entered school at the age of six, and at the age of ten was able to enter the Spartan training camp of the Empire's most prestigious school. Until he was twenty years old, that is, five years ago, and the fifteenth year of the Dragon Age. I officially entered the Imperial ** Middle School and became a deputy of the Imperial ** team with the rank of second lieutenant.

In the fifteenth year of the Dragon Age, the war between the Empire and the Zhuyuan Kingdom had come to an end. The war in the south has settled for a while, and the military center of gravity of the empire has shifted to the northwest. The first time I joined the army, I fought against the Tibetans. But at that time, I was just in charge of sweeping the tail, as early as the end of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo, which had been weakened, had long since lost the courage of the past, and internal contradictions continued, and it was already torn apart. The empire spent ten years training a legion adapted to highland warfare, and finally swept away all the Tibetan tribes in one fell swoop. In that battle, I didn't get much of a chance to show my skills. However, after the battle against Tibet that ended in the sixteenth year of the Dragon Age, I was still successfully promoted to lieutenant and officially became the leader of the team.

In the sixteenth year, he marched with his army to the Western Regions, but due to the annexation of Khotan, it attracted a rebellion from the Uighurs in Western Prefecture, followed by the intervention of the Black Khans west of the Green Mountains.

The Black Khan Dynasty was a branch of the Turkic peoples. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Uighurs fell into civil strife, and three tribes began to move westward, one of which was the Ganzhou Uighurs, one was the Western Uighurs, and the other was led by the Khan Pang Teqin to the west of the Qarluq tribe in the Chu River region. Both the Uighurs and the Qarluq were Turkic branches, and the Later Ponteqin subjugated the Qarluq and other Turkic tribes, and together they established a unified dynasty known as the Qarakhanid Dynasty, also known as the Black Khan Dynasty because of their black clothes and black flags. The newly established dynasty was a centralized state of the two khans, a powerful state, and a shaman and Zoroastrian cult.

After the establishment of the New Tang Dynasty, they immediately made an expedition to the Hexi Corridor and destroyed the Uighurs in Ganzhou in one fell swoop, which made the Black Khans, who were also Uighurs, very dissatisfied. When the new Tang Dynasty destroyed Tibet and continued to expand westward, they finally could not sit still and tried to annex the state of Khotan, and when the state of Khotan was finally annexed to the empire, they finally went to war against the Tang.

This war was nothing to the Empire, but it changed me completely.

The initial war went well, and after a year of fighting, we recaptured Khotan, defeated the Western Uighurs, and even won several battles with the Black Khan. At that time, I had been promoted to major and became a deputy battalion commander of the infantry army. Just when I thought the war was coming to an end, the Black Khans brought in a stronger ally.

The sixth grandson of the Sassanid Emperor of Persia, who had been destroyed by the Arab Empire, in the Transoxianan region, the newly established Persian Samanid dynasty. This is a military power next to the Western Regions and Tibet, and although this newly established Persian dynasty like the New Tang Dynasty is ostensibly dominated by black-clothed food, they are an out-and-out military power.

At the beginning of the eastward expansion of the Arab Empire, there was a great war with the Tang Empire in the Western Regions Hengros, and finally the Tang army was defeated because of the defection of the Qarluqs, and later because of the Anshi Rebellion, the Anxi soldiers and horses withdrew to the Central Plains, and the Tang Dynasty had no chance to fight the Arabs again. Today, the Black Khan Dynasty and the Samanid Dynasty arose together in the Western Regions, separating the east and west of the Green Mountains. Originally, they would have been natural opponents. But because of the empire's westward expansion, both dynasties felt strongly threatened.

They, eventually, joined forces.

The Samanid Dynasty, although it was a new dynasty, they did deserve to be a military power.

Emperor 'Emir' Ismaili of the Samanid Empire. Root. Ahmad, the second ruler of this dynasty, ruled the Transoxiana region after the fall of the Tahir dynasty in 873. Year 874. His son, Nasr. Ibn . Ahmad was appointed governor of the Transoxiana region by the Caliph, the beginning of the Samanid dynasty. And Ismaili. Root. Ahmed was the younger brother of Nasr and the first emir of this dynasty, the true founder of the dynasty.

He single-handedly built an elite iron cavalry, the Ghulam Guard.

Ghulam, in fact, was an army that had been circulated in Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia as early as the Middle Ages, and originated from the Persian language. Meaning trained slave. It was a professional elite army that was formed by the historical Turkic-Persian empires of the Samanid, Ghaznavid, Qarakhanid, Seljuk, and Khorezmian empires. Ghulam is generally divided into court ghulam and general ghulam. The court Ghulam was responsible for the security of the capital and the central government, while the general Ghulam was responsible for the security of local high-ranking officials.

Slave soldiers have a long history, as early as the era of slavery, armed slaves accompanied the slave owners' armies to fight, but highly specialized military slaves were the product of the rise of Islam, and the originator of this method was the Arab Empire, during the Abbasid dynasty of the Arab Empire, the caliph kept a group of slave guards by his side. Responsible for the personal security of the caliphate, this was the earliest prototype of the Qulam army, which was more common during the Caliph's al-Murtai Suimu, but later the slave army grew in size and stripped the power of the Abbasid dynasty.

Around the time of the first year of the Tang Dynasty. The newly established Samanid dynasty revived the declining ancient Persian culture and merged it with Islamic culture. A completely new Persian civilization was formed. Therefore, the Samanid Dynasty not only established a postal officer system to supervise the basic situation of local officials and guards, but also institutionalized, systematized and perfected the slave soldiers in the Abbasid era, thus creating the Ghulam military system and becoming the source of the famous Ghulam army.

The members of the Ghulam were mainly Turkic, and the Samanids expanded the Ghulam mainly through the slave trade. In addition, prisoners of war are an important source. Instilled in Persian culture and values, Islamic teachings, and the art of horsemanship from a young age, Ghulam grew up to serve as soldiers and garrison the dynasty. Those who accumulate merit can be promoted to officers. The monarch's Ghulam could then be a general, a high-ranking official in a government department, or a general with military power. The nobles began as personal guards and gradually became their stewards, retainers, and bodyguards.

The Samanid Dynasty was a martial arts dynasty in Iran, and the Ghulam had a very high social status in their country, although they were still called slaves, they actually enjoyed great honor, and the emirs, the central and local nobles also trusted Ghulam very much, and were willing to spend money on them, and established a perfect training and promotion system for them. The Ghulams usually wore silk, and their dresses were even more colorful. The belt is made of gold as the base, and it is embellished with various treasures to show luxury. The equipment is decorated with real gold and silver, and some are carefully carved and then inlaid with jewels. During the war, the whole body was draped, the body was covered with heavy armor, the war hammer sword was sharp and shiny, the armored war horse was heroic, and a set of armor was mighty and majestic.

I once thought that the Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous in the world. The warriors of the world are none other than Tang Qi.

But now I have to admit that those Samangulam are an iron cavalry that can compete with the Tang cavalry, especially the Ghulam Guards, which are the elite of the elite. They fought bravely and fearlessly to death, and although they were called slaves, these Turks enjoyed great honor.

In Hengrus, the battlefield between the Tang Anxi army and the Arab Empire, the Western Expeditionary Army of the New Tang Empire defeated the Black Khan light cavalry and forced them to retreat here, where they joined forces with the Samanid Ghulam. We had fought the Samanid army before, but it was only a small part of the advance army, and they were not Ghulam.

80,000 Imperial Expeditionary Army, 60,000 Black Khan Army and 50,000 Samanid Army fought at Hengrus.

It was a big battle that I don't want to remember until now, although the big battle with fewer enemies, the emperor ** still won the final victory, but that victory was a tragic victory. It can even be said that this was the first victory in the history of the army pioneered and established by Emperor Wu with heavy casualties. The 80,000 Imperial Expeditionary Army almost completely annihilated the Black Khan's Uighurs and Qarluqs and 60,000 Turgish soldiers and horses in that battle, but the 50,000 Samanid troops, especially the 10,000 Ghulam Guards, sat back and watched our sweep of the Black Khan's army at first, and they just sat back and watched. So much so. The generals of the Western Expeditionary Army thought that the Samanid army had abandoned their allies because they saw that the situation was not good.

I thought so at the time, because if it weren't for that, then the Samanids should have come to the rescue when we attacked the Black Khans on the left. But they didn't, so everyone thought it was over. But when I cut off the head of a Qarluq cavalry centurion. Thinking that they would finally avenge the blood hatred of the imperial warriors who were betrayed by their ancestors more than a hundred years ago, the Samanids, who had been immobile for a long time, went out at a time that no one could have imagined.

They ignored the Black Khan soldiers and horses who had been completely defeated, and they didn't care about the emperor ** who had already won a great victory on the left flank, so they rushed forward without hesitation.

I clearly remember that at that time, because of the defeat of the Black Khan Army, the queue of soldiers and horses was a little chaotic, and the formation was very long.

It was a bitter battle, and the Samanids used 60,000 Black Khans as bait to betray their allies. Deliberately given to us to eat, so that our formation changes. Then, a sudden sortie. It is a pity that these ghulams, although conceited, are too conceited. The emperor ** is not so easy to get along with, although the formation is scattered. But in the face of them, no one retreated.

On that day, I broke all the two knives I had with me. I changed three horses, two riding spears, and used iron bones, steel whips, and brass maces, and my three bows and two crossbows, and six grenades, which I had already used up against the Black Khan.

I can't remember how many people I killed in that bloody battle for two days and one night, but it seems that I killed more than ten. However, most of them were Black Khan soldiers, and there were only about three Samanid soldiers who died under my command, and Ghulam. There is only one. It was an officer of the Ghulam Guards, a tall Turkic slave officer. Until now, sometimes I still can't understand how the black-clothed Turkic soldiers of the Black Khan Dynasty and the Turkic slave guards of the same black-clothed and black-flag are so different.

The battle ended with the victory of the Emperor, the Samanids underestimated us, and they finally went away with hatred, 50,000 Samanids, and in the end only 20,000 retreated to the west of the Green Ridge. They walked in disarray, but unfortunately we were no longer able to chase after them. After the victory, after the inventory, there were less than 30,000 left, and everyone was injured, and there were more than a dozen wounds on my body at that time. To this day, I still have to thank the brothers of the emperor's emergency hospital kit and the field medical battalion and the stretcher team, and I also have to thank the first aid knowledge I learned in the Spartan training camp, which allowed me to save my life under such a serious injury.

After that battle, Emperor Wu sent another 50,000 forbidden troops to support, and the supplemented Western Expeditionary Army wiped out the entire Western Regions from the east of the Green Mountains to the Jinshan Mountains in one fell swoop, and the Western Uighurs and the Black Khan Dynasty were all destroyed, and only a few troops crossed the Green Mountains and fled to the Samanid Empire.

I knew that the Empire would fight Samanid one more day, but I couldn't do it again.

At the end of the war, I was awarded the Order of Valor and the Order of the Eagle, the title of Imperial Baron, and the rank of colonel.

However, unfortunately, although I returned from Xijiang and recuperated in Xijing Chang'an for a long time, my body was still seriously injured and no longer suitable to stay in the army, so I had to retire and return to my hometown. The imperial court gave me two choices, one was to become an instructor, that is, I could choose to go to a military school or a Spartan training camp, or I could change to a civilian position and return to the local service as my father did.

But in the end, I didn't choose either way, I chose to completely take off my official uniform and return home.

In the twentieth year of the Imperial Dragon Era, the crown prince has been established as a prince for twenty years, and has also been observed by Emperor Wu and hundreds of officials for twenty years. The fifty-three-year-old Emperor Wu was very satisfied with the thirty-two-year-old crown prince Li Dezhao, and the whole court was also very satisfied with this crown prince who was canonized as the eldest son at the age of twelve. No matter from which point of view, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was once his senior in the Spartan training camp, is extremely negative to be a father, and even many people say that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is simply out of the same mold as His Majesty the Martial Emperor, and he is completely His Majesty the Martial Emperor when he was young.

Because of this, this year, Emperor Wu finally issued an edict to canonize the crown prince to supervise military and state affairs, and let him supervise the country and assist in handling state affairs.

At the same time, Emperor Wu issued an edict, feudal princes.

This edict of Emperor Wu can be described as shocking to the world.

Over the years, the princes have participated in training camps since childhood, joined the army when they became adults, and then transferred out of the army after five years. Returned to Shenjing and entered the country to study. All the princes were in the capital, and none of them remained in the army and places, and although the princes were all crowned kings, none of them were in the country of vassals. Originally, the whole world thought that Emperor Wu might want to follow the example of the former Tang Dynasty and not seal the princes.

No one thought of it. It turned out that the Martial Emperor was not unsealed, but he was just waiting before.

He was waiting to see if the crown prince was really suitable. He was waiting, waiting for the princes to come of age.

Now, in the twentieth year of the Dragon Age, the eldest crown prince is thirty-two years old, and the rest of the princes are mostly in their twenties and thirties. After studying in the Guozi Prison, they are all ready.

As soon as the "Edict of the Feudal Princes" was promulgated, the princes were immediately divided, from the kingdom to the county, and the emperor divided all the princes over the age of twenty. In addition to his great martial arts, Emperor Wu is most praised by the people of the world for the prosperity of his descendants. The fifty-three-year-old Emperor Wu now has more than 100 concubines and beauties in the harem, and there are more than 300 princes and princesses. There are one hundred and eight princes alone. This time, seventy-two princes were divided at once.

However, what surprised the people of the world even more was that Emperor Wu not only divided the princes, but also divided the princesses, and the first batch of one hundred and eight princesses who had already married were also among the princesses, and they would divide the principality.

This time, the feudal princes of the imperial court were all sealed in Nanyang, as well as the still barren Aozhou. In addition to the Golden Peninsula and Malay, as well as several large islands such as Borneo and Java, they belonged directly to the empire. Listed as a province, the small islands of the South Seas were divided into vassals. The fief of the kingdom is 100 li, and the area is roughly equal to the territory of a county. The county is half of the county. The princess country is roughly equal to a township in the Central Plains.

According to the edict, the fiefs of feudal princes, regardless of size, were called states, kingdoms, counties, and principalities. The imperial court is the suzerainty of each feudal state, and each feudal state enjoys autonomy, and the military, economic, and internal affairs of the feudal country do not interfere with the imperial court, but the feudal state sets its own laws, which must be based on the laws of the imperial court. In addition, the imperial court does not garrison troops in the feudal country, and the feudal state has the right to build its own army, but the feudal ** team shall not exceed the quota, and the kingdom shall have a maximum of 5,000 troops, 3,000 counties, and 1,000 principalities. In addition, each feudal state had to pay 30% of its tax revenue to the imperial court every year. The feudal kingdom has been passed down from generation to generation, and the new monarch must report to the imperial court for canonization.

Although the Nanyang Islands seem to be a wild place in the eyes of some people in the Central Plains, most people have already changed this kind of gaze. In recent years, the Nanyang maritime trade was extremely prosperous, and the imperial court immigrated to Nanyang and the southwest coast in large numbers, so to speak, the crops here are three crops a year, a large amount of barren land, as well as many rich minerals, and convenient waterways, so that more and more people rush to the Nanyang. Although the development of the Northeast is not yet saturated, it has been developed for decades, and many good lands and mountains are occupied by those who come first, and it is not so cost-effective to go again.

On the contrary, the Nanyang Islands and the southwest coast and even the Tianzhu Continent are the treasures of the last development, and who doesn't want to come here to earn the first pot of gold in their lives, or even build a family here. The imperial court divided the first batch of feudal states in Nanyang, which can be said to be absolutely satisfactory to these princes and princesses. Close to the Nanyang Trade Route, although only the island country is shared, even if you only grow rice, sugarcane, cotton and other crops, it is enough to have a good income. What's more, relying on the sea to eat the sea, doing ocean trade, and even transit trade, can definitely make a lot of money.

Since the New Year, merchants along the entire coast of the Central Plains have made a fortune. North to Lushun Dalian, Seoul Pyongyang, Qinwang Island, Tianjin, Dengzhou, Qingdao and then to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Mingyue Prefecture, more than 100 feudal states, almost all the coastal ships that can be bought, and even with a large number of other commodities and materials, were all bought out by these feudal states, stimulating the major workshops to receive a large number of orders, and the workers had to work overtime to catch up with the production.

I, the baron of the Empire, was also stained with light after the marquis decree was issued. According to the edict, the princes and princesses can all be feudal and state-built, and we, the nobles of the empire, can also obtain a fief on the frontier of the empire.

Although compared to the feudal kingdoms of the princes, the fiefdoms of the nobles were subject to many restrictions. But it also makes a nobleman like me overjoyed, since the former Tang Dynasty, the aristocracy has almost no real fiefdom, and even the food is just a fictitious fief. But with the rapid expansion of the empire today, the emperor has also begun to generously reward the heroes with real money and silver fiefdoms.

I was knighted for the Empire, so I was among the first to receive a fief. My fief is twenty miles in circumference, on a small island to the east of the island of Malay, opposite the Golden Peninsula, and according to the official in charge of the imperial court, it is a very good piece of land, a flat land. Although it is still a wasteland, as long as I recruit some people, I can even grow sugar cane or rice when I cultivate it. The circumference is twenty miles, and if it is square, then there are five miles on each side. If all of them were reclaimed for land, it would be equivalent to nearly 10,000 acres of land. Such a rich reward made my father and I very excited. My father was a viscount of the Empire, and his fief was forty miles in circumference, which was thirty-seven thousand five hundred acres. Although this place is far away from a small island in the South Seas that we have never been to tens of thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, it is enough to make our father and son very happy.

After receiving the official fiefdom book, I immediately set off for the south. This time I will go to the island of my own fiefdom and reclaim him, and reclaim my father's fiefdom as well, since the land is ours. He can't be left idle any longer. I brought with me about a few hundred gold coins from my own bounties and military salaries over the past few years, and my father gave me some more, making up a thousand gold dragons. I believe that with this money, I will be able to reclaim these two pieces of treasure land, and even build two estates. Father said. When he is old in the future, he will go to Nanyang Caiyi to retire.

But when I arrived at the port, I found out how many people were going to Nanyang at this time. I changed ports several times in a row. But I couldn't buy a ticket to Nanyang, and in the end, I luckily met a familiar one. The owner of the Red Victory, Li Deyi, the king of Fufeng County, was my classmate in the training camp that year. He was glad to see me, and when he heard that I was going to the South Seas, he pulled me on his ship. He was also one of the first princes to be feuded, and he was a very talented prince, but his mother was just an ordinary family talent. Therefore, his title is only a county king. As I spoke, I learned that his fief was very close to my fief.

Although my fiefdom is my fiefdom, it is not the same as a fiefdom. My fief is in a province under the direct control of the imperial court in Nanyang. But not on the big islands of the province, but on the small islands around the big islands. It's not far from Li Deyi, but I don't have those independent privileges in the estate, everything has to be governed by the laws of the empire, and even half of the annual output of the mining has to be handed over to the empire. But to have such a fiefdom, all the nobles, including me, are very happy.

Although Li Deyi's mother is just a talented person who does not have the support of a strong mother's power, Li Deyi went to Nanyang, Emperor Wu and the Empress, as well as the Empress Dowager and the Crown Prince, still gave the county king a battalion of forbidden troops, although there are only 500 people, but it is an elite forbidden army, plus their families, relatives and friends who are willing to go to Nanyang, there are thousands of people. Coupled with the craftsmen and civilians they recruited, as well as sailors, this southbound team was huge, with a population of nearly 10,000 and more than 20 ships.

In addition to the future people of the nearly 10,000 new Fufeng Country, these 20 or so boats specially given by the Martial Emperor are also full of all kinds of materials from grain to farm tools, ploughing cattle, war horses, medicinal materials, books, etc., once they go to the South Seas, it may be difficult to return to their homeland again. I also bought a lot of seeds, farm tools and other supplies along the way, and brought them with me.

"Xindenzhou, it's here!"

Another shout of excitement was heard, and the crowd on deck erupted in cheers. After months of sailing, this group of people who came to the South Seas far from their homeland finally arrived at the legendary Golden Peninsula full of gold - Xindengzhou.

I finally squeezed onto the deck, and past the black crowd, I faintly saw a different color for months besides the blue sea and blue sky, the color of the land, and it was not an island, it was a real stretch of coast.

"New Dengzhou, New Dengzhou!" I heard the sailors on the ship respond loudly with loud voices, these sailors are experienced veterans of the South Seas, and their voices proved that we have indeed arrived in Xindengzhou, which immediately attracted the people on the fleet of more than 20 ships to shout excitedly: "Xindengzhou, Xindengzhou!" ”

Everyone's excited cries overwhelmed the wind and the waves, and in their shouts, I saw Li Deyi, the king of Fufeng County, turning his head and looking in the direction he came.

I stood silently and looked back.

In addition to the blue sea and blue sky, there are only white sails, seabirds flying in the air, and white waves. In addition to these, I can't see anything else, let alone the old country that has long been gone.

The blue sky is clean, from now on, the hometown, the ocean is far away!

He turned back and faced ahead, where, under the new sky, was a new home!

ps: It's finished, thirteen months, more than 300 days and nights, at this moment, when it finally comes to an end, there is a lot of reluctance in my heart, and some readers say that there are still many unfinished places. But after thinking about it for a long time, writing so far, it is enough.

PS2: After finishing this book, you may have to take a few days off before you think about starting a new book. At present, there is an idea, and the next book may probably be written about the time of the Sui Dynasty, I hope everyone will like it then.

PS3: The Golden Peninsula, i.e. the Malay Peninsula. Golden Island is the island of Sumatra.