Chapter 863 Commodity Fair

There are also many small harbors in the bay for boats, and more than 1,600 large and small islands are scattered in the bay. Some of the two mountains are close to each other, and one is divided in the water; Some of the peaks overlap and are strange. It's like a bonsai on the sea, it's a spectacle.

On the west side of the bay, near the promontory of Thang Long, between the jaw of the dragon's mouth and the jewel, there is also a small passage connecting to the open sea, which is now the entrance and exit of luxury yachts, and on the slopes of the beautiful inner bay beach on the side of the passage, villas have been built and become a beautiful commercial town.

Not far from here there is an island that produces pearls that are particularly bright, round and have a beautiful halo.

Legend has it that in the dark, the shells at the bottom of the sea open together, allowing the pearls contained in their bodies to absorb the essence of the moonlight.

Fishermen passing through this sea area often see a jade halo formed by the luster of pearls on the bottom of the sea, enveloping the entire island.

That island was named Yuhalo Island, and now this beautiful town not far from it has also received a beautiful name - Yunzhou.

Yunzhou and Yezhou, one east and one west, occupy both ends of Halong Bay.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, before the celebration in Jiaozhou was over, Su You brought Shi Wei, Su Hui, Zhang Qi, and Li Shunju here.

A large number of maritime merchants are waiting for them, many of whom are still maritime merchants from Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou.

The Song maritime merchants had the most sensitive sense of smell, and before the battle of Jiaozhi was over, they had already started trading on several large islands outside Halong Bay, and now they were even more anxious.

The scene in front of him gave Su You the feeling of being in a different world, and the situation of the first eyebrow fair that year was exactly the same in today's Yunzhou.

But the funny thing is that he went from behind the scenes to the front of the scenes.

There are also many foreign maritime merchants who came this time, in addition to the neighboring Champa and Chenla, there are also Dashi, Danliumei, Bagan, Srivijaya, Japo, Keshali, Boni, Mayi, and Luzon.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but the colony chosen by Su You, Meizhou, the newly opened open sea territory of the Great Song Dynasty, is right in the center of the great circle surrounded by the countries of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Now there are more than 30,000 men there, so this time Su You is not only soliciting business, but also declaring the sovereignty of the Great Song Dynasty and rebuilding a new order in the South China Sea.

Putting on a purple robe and putting on a hood, Su You and Li Shunju sat side by side, and met with the envoys of various countries one by one.

The envoys were accompanied by escorts, all of whom were people who drank blood on the cusp of the South China Sea in the early years, and to put it bluntly, they were Song pirates and bandits.

After Su You asked the maritime merchants to issue a notice, all the island owners went out one after another, and Su You knew that there were so many people in the Song Dynasty who were begging for a living in the South China Sea.

These people are very familiar with the water conditions, wind direction, islands and reefs, and sea routes in the South China Sea, and they also have their own dens for selling stolen goods, that is, the countries of the South China Sea.

After these people came to the city to report to the city, Su You gave them a Jiaozhi household registration, which can be regarded as the Great Song Dynasty.

Then Li Shunju awarded them three classes of borrowed loose officials, and these people were transformed again and became the great Song military ministers.

Although it was the lowest-ranking official position among the military ministers, it made these people grateful, and after they returned, they trembled and brought their former stolen goods partners to conduct business investigations, and became the foreign liaison of the Great Song Dynasty, named "Yinban".

Su You also sent a science and engineering survey team to accompany them to measure the accurate latitude and longitude of various countries in the South China Sea, record navigation diaries, sea depth contours, and improve nautical charts.

Today, the map of the South China Sea countries in the hands of Su You and Wang Shao is no longer the kind of random drawing, and it is almost the same as the map of Southeast Asia in later generations.

At the same time, more comprehensive intelligence has been collected and a clearer understanding of the situation in the South China Sea has been obtained.

In the South China Sea, Srivijaya and Japa are two larger countries, and the people of the country are brave and ruthless, and they are feuding.

Sriwijaya once occupied Chenla, and now that Chenla has become independent, the relationship between the two countries is not very good.

Several relatively mild countries, to the east of the South China Sea, Luzon, Mayi, Ryukyu and Boni, were more deferential to the Great Song Dynasty.

These countries regarded the Great Song Dynasty as their suzerain, and their purpose was only to seek the goods of the Great Song Dynasty. The Great Song Dynasty has always given tribute materials from the preferential return, and there is no more cost-effective business than this.

Many countries even set out from several large cities to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, and some of the smaller countries recorded in the history of the Song Dynasty were actually different cities in the same country.

Wang Shao was extremely indignant about this, but Su You told him not to be impatient, and everything had his own arrangements.

The fourth road of Sichuan Gorge, at the beginning of Suyou's birth, was already a land for thousands of people to cultivate and eat, and the contradiction between land and population was very prominent.

The development of terraced fields has alleviated some of the contradictions, but today, almost 30 years later, the contradictions have begun to appear again.

The same is true for Liangzhejiang Road.

Although the contradictions have been alleviated again after the development of Taihu Lake and Jinghu Lake, it is the hermits and displaced people who have benefited the most.

However, for those with small assets, there is less and less arable land at home.

There is also the rise of mechanization of science and engineering, which has caused many small workshop families to also encounter trouble.

Under such circumstances, people with good intentions secretly guided and quietly established two population smuggling channels on Liangzhejiang Road and Chuanxia Fourth Road.

The land passage, along the southern land Silk Road, from Wangzhou to Dali, and then from Dali along the Ancient Tea Horse Road to Jiaozhi.

And on the sea, this is through Mingzhou Port, set sail when the winter moon is favorable, and search all the way to the population of Fujian Road, Guangnan East Road, and Guangnan West Road, and come to Jiaozhi County.

As long as they go ashore and arrive in Jiaozhou, there will be officials who are specifically responsible for the resettlement of immigrants, who will register their places of origin and specialties and enrich them to various places.

Most of the craftsmen stayed in Jiaozhou, most of the farmers went to Meizhou, and most of the homeless proletarians were arranged to the industrial and mining areas of Yezhou and Tiezhou.

Among these people, there are also new technicians hired by Sitong Firm from Liangzhejiang Road and Shuzhong with high salaries.

Shu Gong, in today's Great Song Dynasty, is already synonymous with leading skills and countless high-quality products.

Su You wants to build Yezhou into a large-scale industrial base, and Jiaozhou, similar to the thirteen lines of Guangzhou that appeared in later generations, has become a handicraft processing base.

The arrival of these craftsmen has brought the level of craftsmanship in Jiaozhou to a big step, and now Su You and Li Shunju sit on the pear chair, the red sandalwood carved screen behind them, and all kinds of gorgeous furnishings in the hall of the Yunzhou branch of the city of Bo, so that many small envoys think that they have come to the Great Song Palace.

Around the Yamen of Yunzhou Branch, there is a newly built "post house", imitating the construction of new apartments that are now popular in Bianjing City, the appearance is like those exquisite buildings on Liangzhejiang Road, but the inside is a variety of convenient and comfortable new facilities, a large number of ceramics, the use of copper pipes, so that the earthen buns from afar are jaw-dropping.

To the accompaniment of silk bamboo and piano, the feast begins, with delicate painted jade porcelain, sago, sweets, various delicacies, sake, fruit wine, ...... Let the guests feel like they are in a fairyland, and their minds are in a trance.

In the center of the metropolitan hall, there are a variety of representative commodities of the fair, among which the most fascinating thing is the various gemstone treasures processed with the latest technology.

The red sapphires selected by Li Shunju were polished by senior artists from Meishan, with the kind of facets, reflecting the charming color and fire, and with a variety of ingenious gold and silver base modeling ideas, they constitute exquisite works of art.

One of the most conspicuous large sunflower rings, red as pigeon's blood, and the light reflected in the sun like fire, attracted countless eyes.

There is also a different way of sanding.

A necklace, made of a golden cloud in a symmetrical pattern, is set with a blue gemstone in the center, which is polished into a smooth egg surface, indigo blue in the sun, completely transparent and without blemishes, like a small deep sea.

The most amazing thing is that in the center of this gem, at the top of the arc, there is a six-pointed star.

The focus of the six-pointed star is in the center of the gemstone, and the starlight is perfectly flexible, clear and bright, and can also move according to the angle of view and the light of the viewer.

Nowadays, the most precious red sapphire in the Great Song Dynasty is called "cat's eye", and the starlight in the center is like the pupil of a cat at noon, with only one light.

The star gemstone is three at equal angles, constituting a magical six-pointed starlight, which is far more gorgeous and precious than a cat's eye.

This type of gemstone requires a high level of cutting and polishing and angle, and can sometimes cause a starlight shift if the design is not done at an exact angle, or in order to preserve the maximum volume of the stone.

But this sapphire does not have this problem, it is flawless, and the accessories are designed very simply, because any superfluous decoration can no longer attract the attention of others around it.

The exquisite metalworking technology and mirror gemstone processing technology of Shugong, as well as the aesthetic cultivation of the Song people, make this necklace a treasure of the town.