This is the Great East China Sea," Captain Lin Chuanqing said steadily, "that is, the outer harbor of Yulin, and the long bag-shaped anchorage that goes inside is the inner harbor." ()”

The whole Yulin Port is surrounded by mountains, blue sea, white sand, blue sky, coconut grove, the scenery is very beautiful, and it is a complete original ecological appearance.

"Yazhou is the main coconut producing area in Hainan, and we can get a big profit here!" Wang Luobin looked at the dancing coconut trees in the bay, and countless products flew in front of him, from harmless soap to nitroglycerin, which was ready to tear people to pieces.

"Wang Gong, I think you are now comparable to the Japanese devils entering the village." Lin Chuanqing laughed a few times, then picked up the walkie-talkie and called:

"Xiao Meng, check the tide gauge, is it low tide and full tide now?"

"It's starting to ebb and flow!" "There is still an hour and seventeen minutes to reach the lowest tide. ”

"Commander Chen, Wang Gong, let's anchor first." Lin Chuanqing said, "It is better to wait for the lowest tide level before entering the port, there are several reefs and low sand, and you can see it at low tide." ”

"Haode, just wait a minute." Chen Haiyang said as he ordered the two ships of Zhenhai and Hangzhou to drop anchor through the walkie-talkie and wait for the tide to lower further. "All the naval cadets will measure the water depth, wind direction, and wind speed, and they will be responsible for piloting the port in a while!"

"Let these torturers lead the way?" Lin Chuanqing doubted.

"The hydrological conditions and reef conditions of Yulin Port are the easiest, so it's good for them to practice their hands." Chen Haiyang said, "Now that we have time, let's discuss what we are going to do after landing." ”

"Do the same thing as in Changhua: set up a base and investigate resources." Wang Luobin was confident, "This place is our main source of dried coconut, and if we want to break the monopoly of Qiongshan merchants on dried coconut, we must directly set up a trading base here." ”

"You have to send someone to Yacheng to find out what is true."

"I'm afraid Yazhou won't be as smooth as in Changhua. It was an important base of government rule in the southern part of Hainan Island. Wang Luobin didn't seem very confident.

Yazhou has a registered population of nearly 20,000, which is comparable to Lingao County. Since the Tang Dynasty, this place has been the place of exile of eunuchs, and there is a Shuinan village outside the city of Yazhou, which has always been a place where foreign officials settled. Therefore, there are not only many gentry families here, but also deep-rooted, some of which have been passed down locally for more than 20 generations. To open up the situation here, I'm afraid it will take a lot of brains.

"I don't think it's a big problem," Chen Haiyang spread out the map, "According to the information of the intelligence department, most of the population of Yazhou is concentrated near Yacheng, and Yacheng is the ruling core of the government. Yacheng is here—" he pointed to the map, "that is, the Yazhou Bay area we passed through yesterday, by land to Yulin, a straight-line distance of more than 60 kilometers, this area is basically deserted. We're setting up a base here and won't interfere much. ”

"What about the Ming army's patrol ships?" Wang Luobin asked. He remembered that according to the history books, the Ming army had garrisons patrolling around here.

"We're not going to build a castle and hang up the banner in a grand way." Chen Haiyang said, "Build a small fortress -- this thing is everywhere in this time and space. A few more indigenous people were sent to respond. There is no reason for the Ming army to deal with us. If we really want to start fighting, a few patrolling ships will not be able to break our fortress, and if we concentrate a large number of men, we will just take advantage of our communication superiority, mobilize superior forces, and defeat their main force in one fell swoop. ”

As they discussed what to do after going ashore, Mondstadt shouted, "Ten minutes until the lowest tide." ”

"Arrival."

This time, instead of putting down the hang-up, they put down the rowing boat and used manpower to paddle and pull the big ship into the port, and the work of piloting and observing the port was completely carried out by the naval cadets.

By this time, the tide in the bay had reached its lowest, and the reef and sand had risen out of the water, and from the stern tower, you could see the reef not far from Kamishima without a telescope. To the northwest of Kamishima, there is an underwater reef line that is almost a full length long.

The fleet has been sailing to the entrance of the inner harbor of Yulin Port, the whole inner harbor is in the shape of a long pocket, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is the buffer water area of the outer harbor and the sacred island as a shield in front, the interior of the port area is open, the water depth is enough to anchor 10,000-ton sea vessels, and the hydrological conditions are very superior.

So good that the admirals of the self-house garrison, who had hardly been out to sea in the past, could see that this was a suitable naval base. It's all going to be discussed on Twitter:

"It's great to have this place as a naval base."

"The ironclad fleet cruises Southeast Asia from here, patrolling my thousands of miles of sea frontiers—"

"What kind of ironclad fleet do you want to go to Southeast Asia? A couple of colonial cruisers will suffice! ”

"Yes, the colonial cruiser in my mind must be: a hybrid of sails and steam engines, unarmoured, long-range, and at least one large-caliber gun for shore bombardment, to clean up the disobedient natives. By the way, the cabin space must also be large, which can carry at least one company of marines and the necessary artillery, and can go ashore at any time to suppress riots. ”

……

The rowing boat made its way to the inner harbor while measuring the depth of the water.

"That's Yulin City over there." Mingqiu pointed to a clearing on the west side of the Inner Harbor. On the east side of the inner harbor, there is a relatively large wooden village to protect the municipal government, according to Ming Qiu's recollections, this should be Anyoule City. In terms of scale, there are about 100 people. There are also a number of large and small boats moored on the shore.

"Let's stop at Kao and go to the east side, there are people here who can inquire about things."

So the fleet dropped anchor under the city of Anyule. Seeing that two large ships were coming, the people who were moving around the stockade poured into the stockade, and before their dinghy KAO approached the shore, the entire vicinity of Anyule City was empty.

"This place seems to be frequented by pirates."

Everyone got off the boat and landed on the shore, all the way to the front of the village, Wang Luobin called the indigenous interpreter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who came with him to shout, and the two sides talked back and forth for a long time, and the people in Anyoule City opened the gate of the village and let them in. This place is a large village where Han and Li live together. Because there are often ships going to the South Seas to take shelter from the wind on weekdays, and sometimes they can catch floating goods that are shipwrecked at sea, people have settled here since the Tang Dynasty, because this is an anchorage in Zuihou before the ships go to the South Seas, and the wealth and demand brought by the ships have slowly formed a town over time.

The person in power in Anyule City was a gentry named Hu Xun. After the tried-and-true gifts of the crowd: a small mirror, sugar, and soju, his attitude softened a lot. According to Hu Xun, he is a descendant of the Hu family in Shuinan Village, Yazhou.

"Could it be that the old gentleman is the descendant of Mr. Xuan, disrespectful! Disrespectful! Wang Tao, who accompanied Wang Luobin ashore, pretended to be surprised. Because of his amateur storytelling, he was quite talented in dialect speaking, and learned several dialects commonly used in the local area. This Hu Xun speaks the local official dialect - Hainan vernacular, which is the easiest to understand.

At this time, Hu Xun was very proud, and even called "insulting the ancestors", and his attitude towards everyone was a little better, so he mentioned what they had to do here?

Wang Tao followed the routine of the previous Xianghaode, saying that they were merchants who specialized in Nanyang trade, and because of the turmoil and danger along the way, they wanted to buy a piece of land in the local area to build a few stackhouses, build a manor, and use it to stock up on goods and rest.

Hu Xunlian said: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." "There's not much else here, but there's a lot of wasteland. If someone is willing to build a house, he, a local armor, will naturally have an extra income. Although the appearance of these people does not look like a good class, especially those two big ships, which are obviously forbidden, but even if they don't rob or kill, what are they doing illegally? This kind of local wealthy family, all of them have practiced a chameleon's good kung fu.

After leaving the house, Mondstadt asked Wang Tao, "Who is Mr. Xuan?" ”

"Mr. Tan An is the famous Hu Quan," Wang Tao had no choice but to explain again when he saw Mondstadt's ignorant appearance, "he was exiled to Hainan because of the impeachment of Qin Hui. ”

"It's such a person." Mondstadt was in awe.

Wang Luobin laughed: "You are also touting him, this Hu Quan did not die in Hainan, and later went back to his hometown in Jiangxi, how could he leave descendants here." ”

"He calls himself Hu of Shuinan Village, obviously intending to show that he is a descendant of Hu Quan, and I will take the opportunity to hold him without losing anything."

Everyone went to the street of Anyule City to take a turn, this place is quite prosperous, although there is only one street less than 500 meters, but there are all kinds of shops on both sides, because this is a place where Zuihou can rest before going to the South Seas, many ships or in order to avoid the wind, or waiting for the wind letters, are here for a long time, over time, all kinds of sound and lust dogs and horses are readily available, even a brothel has one.

Wang Luobin noticed that there are a lot of blacksmithing shops here, and when he inquired, the consumers were mainly the nearby Li people, and there were also ships anchored here, which would also be used when repairing ships.

Wang Tao said: "It seems that the Tiandu iron ore has been discovered. ”

"The Tiandu iron ore itself should not have been discovered, but Yazhou has been famous for iron production since ancient times." Wang Luobin said.

Mingqiu said: "When I went to Yacheng Town in the past, there was an iron street there, all of which were blacksmith shops, and the earliest one was said to have come from the Southern Song Dynasty. ”

"It seems that there are a lot of sporadic iron ore here." Wang Tao went to the blacksmiths again to inquire where the pig iron they used came from, and the answer he got was that it was all transported from Yazhou.

"That's good." Wang Luobin said, "If the local aborigines have already mined the fields, we will have to carry out violent demolition." ”

"It's not easy even if you don't have an appointment, right? I remember that the government has always been opposed to such things as mining and will ban them forever at every turn. ”

"But they can't help it."

Over the next few days, the traversers rowed their rowboats to map the entire coastal terrain near Yulin Port and revise the map. He also conducted a field survey of the site of Yulin Fort, and Zuihou selected a vacant lot on the west bank of Yulin Port, which was later the location of the Yulin base, sheltered from the wind, fresh water, and flat terrain