It is already June of the seventh year of Yongshi. In Huanglong Port, the most western-sided Huanglong Port in Jiaozhi County, there are countless sailing boats.

Sitting in the official office of the port, Du Yue looked at several ships slowly entering the port, and the shock in his eyes was beyond words.

"Is this the gunboat transferred from the Beihai Tower Ship?"

Those ships were ships that Du Yue had never seen in his life.

The first feeling of seeing them is that it is spectacular and majestic!

The three-fold ship was made of giant trees that were cut down from Liaodong and from the deep mountains and forests of North Korea, and dried for three years.

The keel bone is made of iron wood from the distant jungle south of Jiaozhi.

But none of this is the key.

The key is that these ships have completely different sail structures from ships familiar to the world.

In the past, because Dahan's ships mainly traveled inland and inland rivers, few people cared about the sail design of ships.

For ships in the capital, they still use oars and oars to do it.

In other words, in order to attack Korea and to despise South Vietnam, the Supreme Emperor ordered people to build a fleet of tower ships suitable for sailing near the sea.

However, it was just a few sails added to the hull of the old building ship. The main power of the ship was still manpower to row.

That is, until recent years, with the Prime Minister of the dynasty, he ordered his confidant General Chang Hui to take charge of all land and sea affairs south of Fanyu, and to establish the Annan Protectorate. After taking office as the first Annan Protectorate, he was ordered by the Prime Minister, and this general who once made outstanding contributions in the Western Regions began to vigorously promote and encourage sailing technology.

Even subsidies for merchants to purchase new sailing ships for sailing, and various reward policies for new ones and small ones have been introduced, from reducing and exempting trade taxes to directly paying cash subsidies.

As a result, these southern ports flourished one after another.

For example, Fanyu Port has become the number one port in the southeast!

There are hundreds of ships of all kinds entering and leaving every day.

On the waterway southward from Fanyu, Annan Protectorate built hundreds of beacons that guide ships to advance and head.

So, even this small port that was originally just hanging south of Jiaozhi and close to the Rinan County quickly flourished and became a hot commodity.

Du Yue spent a lot of effort to find this job with his uncle who was the lord of Jiaozhi County.

In his position, he will plan his affairs.

Although it was a relationship, the Huanglonggang Chief was established by the back door. According to the official rank deputies system formulated by the prime minister of Chang'an a few years ago, it was only a ninth rank and a five-year-old official.

However, as a disciple of the Zuo Zhuan School, Du Yue was still very attentive and was very careful about his own job.

So, he knew that these ships that came from North Korea and Liaodong, from thousands of miles away, were revolutionary ships!

Especially his sails were so complicated that he couldn't understand them.

The huge canvas, suspended from a tall mast, soared straight into the sky, at least seven or eight feet high, and the area where the canvas is spread is more than ten feet wide.

Such sails are not only one side, but three sides, supported by three huge masts.

On the back of the ship, there is also a small triangular sail.

Under the sails, the triple hull is larger than a hill.

On the side of the hull, there seem to be many sealed hatches, and several hatches are exposed, and the muzzles cast in bronze give people infinite pressure.

Du Yue just looked at the muzzles and took a deep breath: "The legend is indeed true!"

"The Prime Minister actually sent the artillery to the ship..."

Du Yue has seen the artillery thing.

On the mountain on the south side of Fanyu Port, there is a fort built specifically to cover and defend Fanyu Port. Dozens of three-inch bronze cannons were installed on the fort.

The weapons cast by the artillery surveillance of the Shaofu are Fan Yu and the guardian saints of the entire southern part of the Han Dynasty.

With them here, both barbarians and unjust thieves will turn into powder in the thunder of the cannon.

Du Yue even witnessed the exercises and test firing of the fort garrison.

Dozens of cannons sprayed out flames and smoke, and shot iron balls weighing several kilograms out of hundreds of steps. The ones who were in the middle, whether they were humans, animals, earth and stones, were all broken.

Last year, the Zhan people in Rinan County rebelled.

After the king's army overcame, hundreds of people led by the rebels, including the leader, were escorted to Fan Yu, and then used ten cannons to kill them in front of internal and external subjects.

Afterwards, the meat dumps filled the entire execution ground.

As a result, the barbarians were shocked and the south was at peace.

From then on, no one dared to resist the King of Han.

Even the Funan Kingdom, which had always been dissatisfied with Wang Hua and invaded Sunan, finally bowed down and surrendered and sent envoys to pay their respects.

Du Yue has always heard that in the Beihai Tower Ship Governor's Office in the north, the Prime Minister had ordered people to build dozens of huge ships, form the Yingyang fleet, and even move artillery to these giant ships. Legend has it that one such giant ship can destroy the country, and ten can determine the world.

The Beihai Tower Ship owns dozens.

It is said that last year, King Liu Xu of Korea mobilized twenty Beihai Yingyang ships to destroy Fusang, which was separated from Korea by the sea, and established his territory as the fourth state of Han Dynasty. He wrote a letter to the Prime Minister and appointed his four sons on Fusang Island.

Now, I never expected that these huge eagle-roar gunboats would come to the most remote Jiaozhi County, the empire's south-facing south.

"They probably came for the Huns, right?" Du Yue thought to himself.

At the beginning of this year, merchants who returned from the south of the Sun and Funan reported to Fanyu's Annan Protectorate's Office that a new barbarian country was discovered in a foreign land that was thousands of miles away from the sea.

It is quite similar to the legendary body poisoning of the Huns after the migration of the west. They brought back local specialties and slaves, mostly spices, ivory, gold, silver, etc., which is the local slaves. It is surprising that they are all dark-skinned and short-sized Kunlun slaves.

This made people amazing, but also hyped up the prices of these slaves.

And from these servants, we learned about the Huns.

This year, this is the biggest news in the entire Annan Protectorate.

The Han Dynasty was naturally very concerned about the news about the Huns.

Since the first year of Yongshi, Wei Lu and Li Ling of the Western Xiongnu led the Xiongnu headquarters and Shule, Cheshi and Pule tribes to move westward. After the Han Dynasty settled the Western Regions, the Han family managed to immigrate and consolidate the Western Regions, while paying attention to and tracking down the trends of the Xiongnu people after the westward migration.

From the palace reports sent by the court, we can see that the Western Xiongnu have changed their appearance after they moved westward.

Now, the Xiongnu who moved westward no longer called themselves the Huns, but established a country and established a law, and established a country as Wei, and established a court according to the laws and regulations of the Han Dynasty.

It's just that there are two emperors in its country.

The left emperor Wei Lu led his headquarters and Shule and other servants to conquer and manage the body-drug. He had defeated the three Xihous of Yuezhi, and led his troops to conquer and robbed hundreds of countries including Fengdu.

The right emperor Li Ling led his troops westward, and it is said that Yan Cai, who had destroyed the west of Kangju, and sent troops to enter Anxi. His vanguard is said to have reached the west of Anxi, the strait of the sea, fought with the country in the far west, and won the reputation of "Zeus Whip".

And these news from various channels made the great man sneer and eager to try.

Especially students like Du Yue who have studied in the Imperial Academy are even more ready to go.

The defeated generals like the Western Huns could only move westwards with their tails, and could break through tens of thousands of miles, build such a huge territory, and gain countless wealth.

The King of Han Dynasty is naturally fine.

After expanding territory, blessing the descendants, splitting the land and becoming kings, I can see those marquis who became rich in the old years, who became rich because of the Huns and the Western Regions, who can tolerate the new generation?

A few years ago, Zhang Mingyuan, the far-far cousin of Prime Minister Yinghou, tied up tens of thousands of southwestern barbarians to the Western Regions in Shu County as "rasses and gangsters". He also clamored that the southwestern barbarians sent troops to the west from Kunming, and captured more than 100,000 local barbarians west of Kunming, and sent them to the Western Regions as slaves and maids.

As a result, the court announced that the county magistrate Zhang Gongmingyuan was good at common affairs and had good morals in governing the people, so he should consider merit.

He was granted the title of the Marquis of the Far West with a fief of 1,000 households. Now he is between the old Huns' servants and the Duwei of the Master of the Huns, and is known as the king.

Wang Andao, the governor of Jiaozhi County, who followed Zhang Mingyuan to cause trouble, Lu Fan, the governor of Rinan County, Lu An, and others, were also appointed as the waiter for their contributions in governing the country and their efforts to make state affairs.

Among them, Lu An was even twenty years old. He had just graduated from the Imperial Academy and was appointed as the magistrate of Xianglin County for only half a year, so he was able to wait for his merits.

People in the world call it: Half a year old marquis, two thousand stones per month.

Those who envy are like crucian carp trees crossing the river, and those who are jealous can line up from Huanglong Port to Chang'an City.

Du Yuezi is also average.

Even, he was more envious, jealous and hated than others.

Because, the Xianglin County Magistrate Lu An was also a classmate with him.

In the Imperial College, Lu An was a normal school student and was not a good person. He was even more humble when he was born. He was the son of a craftsman in Xinfeng County. His mother was just a peasant woman who sold tofu in Xinfeng County to subsidize her family income.

After dozens of generations, they were all farmers and Guizhou leaders.

However, he dared to gamble and fight. After graduating from the Imperial College, he voluntarily went to Xianglin County, Rinan County to manage the Han people, which may be a few hundred. The county was just a Tuzhai village with no roads, and there was a remote county surrounded by wild jungles.

But he was lucky. As soon as he took office, the prime minister was about to split the land in the Western Regions and immigrate to settle the border.

The lords and princes who were enfeoffed to the Western Regions were also lacking in manpower. Whoever gave them the man would be able to rise to the top.

Lu An was in Xianglin County and sent tens of thousands of local occupants to the Western Regions.

With the tens of thousands of people, this small county magistrate, who had jumped from a remote county magistrate of 500 stones to the county magistrate of Rinan County, with a rank of 2,000 stones, was named Xianglin Hou, and had a fief in the Western Regions that was said to have hundreds of hectares of fertile land.

Even the noble relatives in Chang'an City wanted to marry him, and Shangguan Jie, the Marquis of Wu'an, married his daughter to him as his wife.

This really made Du Yue's envious eyes open and his tongue bit off by jealousy!

"I can do it for the slash of soil and be named king!" He stood up, walked down the stairs, and led the officials to the port pier.

At this time, the giant ships that had come from thousands of miles had slowly docked on the dock, and shipboards fell from the giant ship.
To be continued...