Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 286 Zhou Hu
When Bai Tu saw the news sent back by Fu Yang, he was also puzzled - Jia Xu actually accepted Zhang Chunhua as his student? This was not his nature!
Aren't you afraid of attracting other people's attention by rashly accepting such a "flashy" student?
Unless... Zhang Chunhua threatened his life?
However, Bai Tu didn't have any opinion on this. On the contrary, the news of another reinfection made Bai Tu a little depressed - Qu Yi was still not found.
After the fall of Fuyang City and the collapse of the Dafu Mountain defense line, Qu Yi and the remaining halberd soldiers evacuated the battlefield and their bodies were not found. The Fuyang army also searched for a while but found nothing.
Bai Tu was a little disappointed about this, but then he thought that if Qu Yi could return to the northern battlefield and make things difficult for Cao Cao, it would be a good idea...
At this moment, Bai Tu's golden seal trembled, as if there was some special message, so he hurried to Cheng Ji's mansion.
In addition to Jinling Ji, Yu Ji's projection was also there. Usually, Yu Ji would always stay in Jinling Ji's Chengji Mansion, which even made Bai Tu wonder if Yu Ji's hobbies had changed in the long years since the death of the Overlord...
Although the General's Mansion was growing stronger day by day, Jinling Ji's mind was also recovering, and occasionally a gleam of intelligence could be seen in her eyes, no longer as dull as when she just "let everyone know about it".
The so-called urgent matters were just "urgent reports". Bai Tu had previously set up several types of news reports to alert people of urgent matters.
Since six signal towers were built around Jinling, the speed of reporting directly to Ji Mansion in the city is faster than that of a general sending a letter.
This time the news came from the east - news about Gan Ning's fleet!
Since it was related to the maritime industry, Bai Tu had always set the news of Gan Ning's fleet as "key attention". At this time, Gan Ning had been at sea for four months. The plan was to send Guan Ning and Lu Xun all the way to Yizhou, and then go north along the sea route to Liaodong. More than two months ago, he received the news that Gan Ning had last docked in Wujun.
Compared to the first time I went to Yizhou, the second time I was familiar with the sea route. It only took me one and a half months to travel from Piling near the mouth of the Yangtze River to Yizhou and back!
If the route can be further clarified, the time can be further compressed. By simply calculating the ship's speed and distance, it can even be possible to make a round trip in a few days. However... in reality, with current technology, positioning at sea is difficult.
For example, in history, Zhuge Zhi first discovered Yizhou a year after he set sail...
Going north to Liaodong by sea is actually less difficult than looking for Yizhou. If all else fails, you can always go along the continental shelf.
And because it can sail near the coast, it can send a small fleet back to deliver news at any time...
However, it has only been two months, and counting the time it took to send the letter back, this news should have been sent back a month ago. Naturally, it was not that the main fleet had arrived in Liaodong, but... Gan Ning happened to discover "Zhou Hu", which is Jeju Island in later generations, so he sent someone back to report.
Considering the time it takes for the ships to return to Qu'a, if all went well, Gan Ning's main fleet should have arrived in Liaodong by now.
According to the information sent back, Gan Ning's main fleet arrived at the location of "Zhou Hu" a month ago and discovered the Tamra Kingdom here - this was the Chinese name given by Bai Tu after seeing it.
Compared to Yiju which was still in the tribal stage, Zhouhu, or Jeju Island, had now become a unified kingdom.
Although the smelting and planting techniques were relatively primitive, they had already become a system and had their own writing system. They were a civilization that gave equal importance to planting and animal husbandry.
In addition...Gan Ning discovered that the navigation technology of the Tamra Kingdom was more "developed" than planting and animal husbandry.
Of course, it is more reflected in the "software", that is, some navigation technology. As for shipbuilding... it is still very primitive!
Zhouhu are the people of the Three Han in the southern part of the Goryeo Peninsula. They were given this name - Gan Ning took a long time to sort out the logic before he realized that these people were "Zhouhu". Unlike the Yizhou that was isolated from the world, the Zhouhu people now not only had their own kingdom, but also had sea exchanges with the Three Han.
Historically, during the Three Kingdoms period, the ships of the Tamra Kingdom were even able to reach the Central Plains. Especially starting from the Western Jin Dynasty, the people of the Tamra Kingdom gradually became keen on trading with the Central Plains and the Three Han. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, the Tamra Kingdom was also one of the countries that frequently paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty. It was also at that time that the Tang people began to translate their country as "Tamra" or "Sheluo".
Therefore, although the technology of the Tamra Kingdom is not very advanced and its agriculture and animal husbandry are also very primitive, it has a relatively good understanding of the ocean.
Therefore, Gan Ning directly hired the local Zhouhu people and the Three Han people in Zhouhu to serve as guides and continue sailing northward - they were familiar with this route!
Precisely because the Zhouhu people had connections with the Samhan people, and the Samhan people had connections with the Han people, Gan Ning was not without means of communication with them. He could even find Samhan merchants who understood Chinese in Zhouhu.
After all, the northern part of the Korean Peninsula (not Goguryeo, but a sensitive place name) is still the Four Han Counties - even if the control is reduced, at least Xuantu and Liaodong are still controlled by the Han people, and Lelang and Daifang counties are still nominally under the control of Gongsun Du. The ruler of the Buyeo Kingdom, which is interspersed among them, is still Gongsun Du's son-in-law. In addition, facing the threats from the Xianbei people in the north, the Goguryeo people in the northeast, and the Three Han people in the south, the Buyeo Kingdom is very dependent on Gongsun Du.
Compared with Yizhou, Zhouhu at that time had a higher level of cultural literacy and was also easier to communicate with.
Seeing that Gan Ning's fleet still had weapons and armor, and even without a direct confrontation, they directly invited Gan Ning to the royal capital.
At that time, the ordinary Hu people lived in animal skin tents in the summer and caves in the winter. Only in the royal city could you see stone houses.
Gan Ning's identity as a Han general was also recognized by the people from the Three Han who were doing business here, and he was soon treated as a guest of honor in the State of Tamra .
after all……
Even if this fleet is divided into two and fights again, the remaining ones are enough to destroy Tamra in two rounds.
It was precisely because of the communication and even the discovery of the Three Han people that Bai Tu believed that Gan Ning should have arrived in Liaodong.
Gan Ning's report this time was mainly to report his attitude towards Zhou Hu.
Because the Zhouhu people had dealt with the Three Han people before, they had also heard of "Han". When they saw Gan Ning's fleet, although it was their first contact, they rationally avoided a conflict.
Gan Ning went to Liaodong for trade, so he naturally brought a large amount of food, brocade, silk, and... farm tools and weapons!
They unloaded one-tenth of the goods at Zhou Hu. Although it did not include weapons, it was enough to intimidate the opponent's "Star Lord".
In Juhu, or the Kingdom of Tamra, the king is called "Star Lord" and the general is called "Prince", who are the top rulers in the kingdom.
Except for the royal capital, the living conditions of local people were similar to those of the "savages" in China during the Spring and Autumn Period, and were still under a semi-tribal culture.
The items traded were mainly honey and slaves - of course, according to the rules of the General's Mansion, if the slaves were brought back to the area under the control of the General's Mansion, it would be automatically deemed that the indentureship had been terminated and a ten-year contract had been signed.
Gan Ning had no intention of taking anything back. Apart from the honey, he mainly asked for, or rather leased, a port and nearby land from the "Star Lord", and promised that after the Han army was stationed there, more goods would be traded every year.
At first, the star lord and the general were a little reluctant, but while Gan Ning was training outside the capital, he privately assured the star lord and the prince that if the people of the Three Han had any ideas about their kingdom in the future, the upright general of Han could mediate on their behalf...
