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It is an ancient port, and in early times, it became a trading center, and even a port of departure for the Champa kingdom to worship the Ming Dynasty. In 1615, the Portuguese settled here and established a trading house, which in turn became the center of their trade with the Ming Dynasty, thus introducing Europeans.

Due to the ban on the sea in the Ming Dynasty, private individuals are not allowed to go to sea, although this ban is now in vain, but there is no such trading center formed along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, so the location of this cargo distribution center fell overseas, in the East China Sea is the port of Manila, and in the South China Sea is the port of Feifu.

In particular, under the influence of the rebellion of Nanzhili, the sea smuggling in the north was stopped for a time, especially now, and the three kings of the East China Sea are entrenched, so that the maritime trade was cut off for a time, and the port of Feifu was even more prosperous. Spaniards, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and other countries all come here to buy Chinese goods.

In the whole Feifu Port, the most are still Chinese, and the long-term trade has allowed them to buy houses and land here, settle down, and become the earliest overseas Chinese in Vietnam.

There are the largest number of Chinese here, and the time of breeding here is also the most recent, so the entire Feifu Port urban area is directly divided according to different ethnic groups in China, including the Hokkien Gang, the Guangdong Gang, the Teochew Gang, the Hainan Gang, and the Hakka Gang. The Hokkien Association, the Guangzhao Association, the Chaozhou Association, the Qiongfu Association and the Chung Hwa Association were built as the Five Gangs Association. The hall building is majestic and magnificent. In the hall, Mazu, Guan Gong, and General Fubo are enshrined, and cigarettes are filled all year round.

This day, early in the morning.

Fei Fu Harbor had just woken up from his slumber, and the heads of the various guild halls were up and moving. Although it is a port in Quang Nam, most of the people who are in charge of foreign ship trade and other affairs are overseas Chinese. Article 7 of Zhu Shunshui's "Chronicle of the Servant Service in Annam" states: "The person who is in charge of the affairs of the Tang Dynasty and the prime minister's ships is in charge of the uncle." ”

After waking up in the morning, the Chinese captain also got up from the official residence and patrolled the harbor, which was his favorite thing to do, and he felt a sense of accomplishment when he watched countless ships under his management and a large amount of money flowing in.

As he was making his rounds, he suddenly noticed a strange ship coming in, judging from the shape of the sides of the ship's sides, it looked like an armed merchant ship of Westerners, with gun windows and a small deck on the surface.

The port of Fauff was a trading port, so naturally there was no reason to refuse entry to the port, and besides, as far as a ship was concerned, the ship did not think that he could do anything, so he did not care.

It's just that what really cares about him is that on this medium-sized armed merchant ship, there is a strange flag, which is a pattern composed of a sun and a moon. Seeing this picture, the ship couldn't help but think of Daming.

In some of the names of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers like to use the word sun and moon double wheels, so when they go outside the Ming Dynasty, they can't help but think of it when they see such a pattern and banner again.

Later, the man who disembarked from the ship surprised him even more, it turned out to be a Portuguese. Due to the various transactions and in-depth cooperation with the Nguyen lord, the Portuguese have a high status here, and can easily influence the change of the ship, so he is very sensitive to these people.

At this moment, I saw a Portuguese man disembarking from the ship, and he didn't care about anything else, and kept staring at him, he had a kind of bathtub, and this Portuguese man probably came to find him. Because the area where he docked was the area where the Chinese lived.

Sure enough, after asking a few people, the Portuguese came directly to him, and the first thing he said when he saw him was, "Hello Chinese, it's like this, there is a fleet that wants to stay here, because of the huge number, I am afraid of causing misunderstanding, so I will come to say hello as an outpost of the other party." ”

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay, just come in." The ship felt that the other party was making a little fuss, wasn't it the fleet, what kind of thing he hadn't seen, would he be surprised?

"Thank you, Mr. Gun." The Portuguese guide smiled, said nothing, turned and went back to the boat, and the boat sailed out.

The ship shook his head, and after a somewhat bored look, he went back to his lodgings. As the manager of the entire port's foreign trade affairs, he has a lot of work, including tax collection, which is very complicated, and he does not have so much time to spend on the port.

However, not long after he sat down, one of his subordinates ran in in a panic and shouted, "My lord, it's not good, there is a fleet, what a big fleet." ”

"So panicked, what kind of system, this is Feifu Harbor, guarded by cannons, what fleet dares to come here to make trouble." The ship reprimanded, straightened his clothes, and hurried to the docks. If this kind of thing happened, he, as the captain of Ferry Harbor, must have to go over and deal with it.

Just when he came to the port, he was also dumbfounded, stunned to look at the endless stream of ships sailing into the port. The hundreds of lucky ships in front are nothing, although it is rare to see so many Chinese-style merchant ships coming at one time, but except for the number of them, there is nothing unusual.

What is really surprising is that it is the fleet lined up behind the Fu Boat, although the running window is not open, but the vigilant posture allows everyone to see that if something happens to the Fu Boat in the dock, then they will open fire.

This huge fleet has eleven huge warships, and there are a few small warships around it, constantly roaming to protect these large warships.

He has also seen all kinds of warship fleets of Westerners, but he has never seen such a large number, let alone such a huge warship, just counting the closed windows on it can be daunting.

"What kind of fleet is this ....... .....?" The ship stammered left and right. As a foreign trade manager, he is not a bare-bones commander, and he has not only 50 all-sharp soldiers under his command, but also 70 other soldiers (soldiers), which are all important forces for him to collect taxes and maintain law and order.

Moreover, in this port, there are also forts built by the Nguyen lords, troops stationed, and a group of musketeers of the Portuguese here, and the defense force can be described as strong. However, the ship estimated that in the face of such a large number of gunboats, I am afraid that the port could not be defended at all.

As long as this fleet is shelled, it is estimated that the port of Fifford will be destroyed.

When they heard the leader's question, they wanted to pat themselves on the back, but they all looked at each other, and none of them knew the origin of this fleet.

"Oh, Mr. Captain, didn't I tell you that there is a fleet of ships coming into the port for trade, please don't be nervous, don't misunderstand." Suddenly, a strange tone of Chinese appeared in his ears, and when he looked at it, it was the Portuguese who had just greeted him, but he didn't expect him to be able to understand Chinese, and he spoke it well.

"Hello, sir, this is the fleet you are talking about, it is really too large ........" The ship replied very politely. The other party's question reminded him of what happened half an hour ago. His heart lowered slightly, since it was brought by the Portuguese, then it should not be an enemy.

"And, these gunboats .......," he said, gesturing to the battleships that were on guard outside.

"There's nothing I can do about it, their commander is a stubborn old fellow, and he won't say anything about sailing into the harbor, saying that he is afraid of an ambush. Damn, there will be some ambush in this port of Fafo! The Portuguese cursed.

However, Shen Yourong, who was a little overkill, didn't care about these at all, as long as he could hold his fist to the battleship of the naval fleet without fail, it was nothing to be an old stubborn.

The incident in Ningbo Port made the entire navy a little noisy, and they didn't dare to talk about the ship sailing into an unfamiliar port, they would rather work hard and be tired, but they also had to manage the entire fleet well.

"And which country's fleet is this?" The ship asked again, if he didn't figure this out, he would be afraid to do business in the future. I am afraid that the country's fleet will suddenly appear and act as a pirate and rob him of all his essence.

Who knows, the question that the ship thought was normal was exchanged for a surprised look on the Portuguese face, "Don't you know that flag?" ”

"Flags?" The ship looked at it very strangely, he knew that Westerners have national flags and would fly them on their ships, so this fleet is also Westerners? When the ship looked around, all it saw was that all the ships had a flag with a sun and moon motif on them.

Could it be that this is their flag?

"Is this the sun and moon pattern?" The ship asked suspiciously, he knew the flags of all the Westerner countries, but found that they found nothing, and this was not the flag of those famous countries.

"You really don't know?" The Portuguese asked again in surprise, "This is the flag of the Ming Dynasty, and this time it is their naval fleet." ”

Da Ming! Da Ming! Da Ming!

When the Portuguese gave the answer, these two words kept echoing in his mind, and he was stunned on the spot, this was actually his own home fleet.

He has been rooted in this Feifu port for three generations, but even though he has not been back once, he still has a deep sense of pride in the powerful country in the north. When a person walks outside, every country in Nanyang is polite to you because your motherland is strong, can you not be proud of your motherland?

At the moment when the ship was stunned, hundreds of medium-sized ships poured in, crowding the sea area in all the harbors, but fortunately, it was considered when the port was built, so it was extraordinarily spacious and could accommodate it. After that, they went down a lot of water from the boat, and they moved their bodies while looking curiously at their surroundings.

Of course, not all of them came down, and there were still many people left on the ship to guard them, even if they were in the port, they had to send troops to guard them.

[Author's digression]: I went to work, I couldn't come back at night, and I kept going to work, so I'm updating it now.