Countless wandering knights whose lives were not ideal, as well as illegitimate sons of certain families, began to search for all kinds of news about overseas.

At the same time, the imperial court issued an edict requiring all coastal counties to search for information about people from overseas.

Mo Shang also received Liu Hong's order to lead the Research and Development Department to begin studying the compass, an essential tool for navigation.

On the other side, dozens of small ships arrived at a harbor belonging to southeastern Mahan.

The first to land on the shore was a small group of soldiers carrying Han flags, numbering only twenty.

These people were the Imperial Guards whom Liu Hong had been eagerly anticipating, who were going to the Dog Slave Kingdom to read the imperial edict.

More than a year ago, after these Imperial Guards landed in the Kingdom of Dog Slave, the King of Dog Slave received them with the highest honors and accepted the edict of the Emperor of Han without hesitation, and selected dozens of women to offer to the Han Dynasty.

Just as the Imperial Guards were preparing to return home, the neighboring kingdom of Laji suddenly sent people to invite the Imperial Guards to read the edict of the Han emperor, wanting to offer beautiful women to the Han dynasty.

The Imperial Guard soldiers were also bewildered; they never imagined that someone would be so eager to offer a woman to them.

What a bizarre place, what a bizarre country.

Afterwards, the soldiers of the Imperial Guards discussed the matter and decided that since the soldiers dared to send it, they would dare to accept it. They then set off for the Kingdom of Laji.

After enjoying a few days of heavenly treatment in Laji Kingdom, the Imperial Guards received an invitation from Laji Kingdom's neighboring country.

And so, the twenty-odd Imperial Guard soldiers, stopping and starting, toured the entire archipelago. When they finally left, they were surprised to find that although the archipelago was not large, it actually contained more than twenty countries.

(This archipelago is Kyushu Island, which is closest to the Three Kingdoms.)

According to records, if you include Honshu and Shikoku to the north, there were more than a hundred countries in the area at that time. This doesn't even include Hokkaido, the northernmost island, which was inhabited by a group of wild people at that time.

These countries all had the same plan: to receive investiture from the Han emperor, just like the Dog Slave Kingdom, so they could curry favor with the Han.

Because there were so many countries to visit, the Imperial Guards were delayed in returning home.

After landing, the Imperial Guards soldiers, carrying over three hundred beautiful women and a large amount of tribute from the country, headed towards Lelang County.