With the passion to crush the world, he embarked on a journey north, but he was only newly promoted when he arrived at the North Day. If it is said that the endless land at the mouth of the Kowloon River is so barren at the mouth of the Kowloon River that it is just a pity for the patriarchs, then the more densely populated ports that you see along the Malay Peninsula to the north have gradually changed everyone's minds, whether it is the fertile land that can not be seen at a glance, or the densely packed warehouses and shops in the harbor, they are all significant marks of the South Seas, but in the end, it is the development of commerce that brings a greater feeling, even if it is just a few simple shops made of thin wooden boards, but it cannot hide the vitality of these places。

Merchant ships began to appear frequently on this northward route, and the currents were equally smooth during the southwest monsoon season, and the merchant ships of the Dutch, English, Spaniards, Portuguese, and even the natives of the South Seas were less than ten times their number, but the merchant ships of these countries eventually felt like they were gradually intertwined, forming a sparse but open network that brought everything in the South Seas together.

Along the way, Fu Xiaofei did not forget to raise his vigilance, the Dutch and British East India Company trading houses were built in Pattani, and they have been in operation for more than 15 years, from the Malay Peninsula to the large and small ports of Siam, which are now counted as the sphere of influence of these two Protestant countries.

Cambodia is a special presence, with the legend of King Baron Raja IV that he seems to have planned to abdicate, and his successor, the forty-five-year-old Prince Punha Nong, seems to be ready to accept the devastated country, and even before the New Year, he has set a new honorific title for Ji Zheta II.

Perhaps the new king, who was in the prime of his life, would devote his energies to dealing with Siamese control and dealing with his wife, Annam's maiden family, and to reinforcing British trade with the Dutch and balancing their conflicting interests with the Portuguese. But even since more than 100 years ago, after the capture of the national capital Angkor, the royal family moved all the way south, the plain at the mouth of the Kowloon River has never been able to enter the field of vision of Phnom Penh, which is a fertile field that even the Annam Ruan clan who is so eager to invade and occupy the city in the south has not noticed, but in the eyes of the Senate it is a huge piece of fat, so under the neglect of all parties, Fu Xiaofei and his partners successfully completed the investigation task here.

Further north, the Portuguese had already begun to gain a clear advantage on the trade routes of Indochina, and Nguyen Phuc Yuan, the Duke of Nguyen Quoc Nguyen, relied on the Portuguese's arms and advisers to defend the Trung clan in the north. Fu Xiaofei was not sure whether the military victory of the Great Song army in Borneo had reached such a distant place, but fortunately he did not encounter suspicious 'care' from ships of various countries of interest along the way.

Perhaps the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty was not as far-reaching as the Senate expected, or perhaps it was just that the retro style of the two tribute ships was not overly eye-catching.

In short, the most feared part of the voyage passed.

All the way from south to north, Pahang, Kelantan, Pattani, Phan Lang, Hoi An. Although not every port will be anchored, the impact is still not small, which is not to say how developed the South Sea countries are, but such a comparison, Borneo can only be regarded as an inconspicuous place even in the South Seas. Whether it's the sprawling trading community of merchants from all over the world in Pattani, or the large-scale porcelain workshops of Nguyen's generals outside Phan Lang Harbor, or even the granaries of King Pyongan of the Lê Dynasty on the seashore outside Hoi An City, they prove to the travelers that the South Seas should not be underestimated.

Even though the coverage of satellite communications is already out of the north of the Kowloon River Estuary, fortunately, there is also a shortwave radio station as a means of communicating with Borneo, and Kim Yeon-taek is also an expert in this area, which is one of the reasons why he was selected for the list this time.

Short-wave radio station, an ancient technology born in the first half of the twentieth century, is most suitable for the spleen and stomach of Lao Jin, a communication technology enthusiast, and the very small power can continue to meet the needs of long-distance communication by relying on two people to generate electricity by hand, although it is not as efficient as satellite and long-wave communication, but it is the most feasible and affordable method at present, fortunately, the ionization environment of this time and space is quite excellent, and there is no interference in the weather along the way, and the only external influence worth worrying about has been completely eliminated.

Jin Yanze once said to Fu Xiaofei when he was fiddling with the radio station at sea that even if the equipment on the ship is driven to Japan or even the Bering Strait, it can also guarantee the connection with Brunei, and the 80-watt shortwave radio station is made by Jin Yanze himself in order to ensure stability and reliability, and there are three sets of hand-built radio stations on board for insurance.

Because of the existence of the radio station, the mood of the group can be adjusted in time, and it is quite stable along the way. From the limited communication capabilities of the radio, they were able to learn about the progress of the Senate in Borneo, and of course it was all good news.

After the arrival of the southwest monsoon, the number of merchant ships coming from Jawa to the ports under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty doubled several times compared with previous years, and the working group of naturalized civilian cadres began to go deep into the interior to establish a stronghold, and preparations for the Machen raid were also in full swing......

The news from the homes of the Fubo soldiers on the ship was regularly reported to the soldiers, which played a good role in stabilizing the morale of the army.

After releasing from Hoi An Harbor, the fleet headed for Hainan Island by the usual tributary sea route, which was now quite busy, and once again led the traversers into desolation until the fleet reached the sea off Yazhou.

The party replenished freshwater food in Yazhou, and Pan Daxi, who had become the new governor, warmly received the Bo mud mission, which had not paid tribute for many years. The pronoun of the state affairs was removed, although he was still only an official in a lower state, but it was his efforts to maintain that the Yazhou state city was not lost, and now his prestige in this place is much higher than in the past, but he is also a person who has a heart to do things, and has a good conversation with Fu Xiaofei and others.

It was also from Yazhou that Fu Xiaofei and his entourage learned in detail about the Li Rebellion in Qiongzhong, and then went to Sanya Bay and Yulin Port to investigate hydrology, which was the most important place in Hainan to investigate, and the only military conflict broke out in the north there.

The big ship docked in Sanyali to map and replenish, there is a village next to Sanyali, the villagers are all the remnants of the city of Zhancheng who fled from the sea in the past, the remnants believe in the Great Food Sect, and they are fierce on weekdays, and they want to rob when they see the ships of foreign trade, but they are beaten by the sergeants of the Fubo Army who have just landed on the shore, and kill seven or eight people on the spot. After this, the fleet was cautious again, passing through Nanshansuo, Wanzhou, Huitong County, and Qinglansuo along the way, and finally entered the Guangdong Ocean, and when the convoy passed through the Yangshan of Qizhou, the tribute ships of Siam had just arrived in Guangzhou one step ahead of them.

Fu Xiaofei didn't know what happened to the Siamese Gong Envoy in the City Ship Division, but he also knew the benefits of being convenient with people, not to mention that the language could be understood, so he was also comfortable in the face of the officials who patrolled the sea lane, and a little filial piety won the unanimous praise of the City Ship Division and the officials who patrolled the sea, and the Siamese people who came one step ahead of them got more care.

This point can be known just by looking at the accommodation arrangements in Huaiyuan Station.

Huaiyuan Station is outside the Taiping Gate of Guangzhou New Town, Fu Xiaofei is well pointed, up to the Qing army Yamen steward, down to the flattering command officials in the post house, he has made friends one by one, the left is just some ordinary small gifts, plus the line is kind to people, and even the tooth people in the street outside the post are familiar with the tribute envoys from the Bo Ni country in a few days.

Although the Huaiyuan post is outside the city, but because it is a dense place of commerce and trade, the street is also paved with granite, and Fu Xiaofei and several people have spent half of the time in the post house outside this small street of more than 60 zhang, whether it is business or news, this place is quite convenient, and now the elders and the tribute envoys from various countries in the post are familiar with each other.

The two ships were all docked in the port of Huangpu, and each ship left a veteran to live with the soldiers of the Fubo army, and only a few people who disembarked to the Huaiyuan Post were entouraged. The activities in the port were limited, but fortunately, these soldiers were selected from the middle of the Fubo army, and they could listen to discipline.

It was already about to enter winter, and everyone came all the way to the north, and after the exposure in the South China Sea, the climate of Guangzhou seemed much closer.

As for food, since the crossing, Fu Xiaofei has never seen such a prosperous place as in the city of Guangzhou in this plane, with restaurants and tea shops lined up one after another. The inn can also provide a variety of food, and what surprised him was that many local women were helping out in the kitchen, which seemed to be inconsistent with the situation of women in Daming that he had known before. In contrast to Nanyang, the signage here is clearly more complete, and the shops value the description of their goods, and similar cases were only occasionally seen outside a few Chinese shops, at least until they entered Annam.

Benefiting from the long-term peace, even outside the Taiping Gate against this side of the city wall until Huaiyuanyi, there are still dense houses and shops and scattered streets and alleys on the ground, standing on the second floor of Huaiyuanyi and looking east, only the green roof tiles that can only be seen here and the Yicheng that separates the house from the Pearl River in the south are reminding everyone that they have come to a higher level of civilization. Just like the customs that were connected by wooden boats and iron cables in the inland waterways before entering Guangzhou, they often had to wait half a day to get released.

The greatest feeling that Daming brought to Fu Xiaofei and the veterans who came with him in the professional and military division of labor was order, and who else came to the dynasty with the supreme temperament.

Even in front of the big cities of Annam such as Fan Lang and Hoi An, Fu Xiaofei can maintain his composure, although such a country will definitely not be as bad as the optimistic estimates of many elders, but if there is a three-to-five-year operation, the army and navy have just been on the wave, and the senate at that time asked itself that it should have the strength to destroy the country of one or two thousand times.

But when you think about such a behemoth as the Ming Dynasty, it is another state of mind, at this time and here I am afraid that there is no overseas Yi people who can have come to China this time to understand how much weight only one Guangdong occupies in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and what extent has the entire China reached.

Maybe three or five thousand elite soldiers can run rampant on the mainland, but what about conquest?

Based on Fu Xiaofei's calculations, ten years - can it be?

Perhaps the only thing that can make Fu Xiaofei gain a little confidence is the proud sanitary conditions under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the officials who received it were especially good for the sake of smiling faces and silver, the one hundred and twenty rooms in the post were all allocated to them, but after all, they were all nearly two hundred years old, although they were repaired several times, they were finally old, not to mention that the drowning place in this building was really filthy, even if there were many unpleasant profits in the use of toilets, they had to settle down.

Although there are also dung stores in the streets and alleys of the city that collect and distribute them to farmers on the outskirts of the city from time to time, they still cause a lot of mosquitoes and flies to fly. It's still late autumn, and if it's really a scorching summer, then I can't say what it's like, and it's uncomfortable to think about it, so it's no wonder that I heard the gossip of the officials at the post station, and when I got to the scorching summer prison, the lighter prisoners had to be released and return home, and I was afraid that the old men who were suffocated in the prison would not look good on their faces.

Because the patrol office is still in the old city, today Fu Xiaofei and Gu Ziming are walking at the west gate in the north, but there is a return camp outside the urn city at the west gate, and the camp is full of so-called officials, that is the color eye soldier who voted for the Ming Taizu back then, and later followed Taizong Jingnan, and when Chenghua followed the Nanjing Hui army leader Yu Shifu and Ma Heima, they were sent south to pacify the Yao Rebellion, and then they were stationed in the four camps in Guangzhou. This dignitary is brave and good at fighting, but he has one thing that people are disgusting, that is, he likes to smear his body with the blood of his bare chest, and often the smell of fish arrives first before people arrive.

When he passed the west gate, he saw several dignitaries-like figures in a restaurant outside the urn city, indulging in wine during the day, and Fu Xiaofei was still impressed by the fishy smell from afar......

He was thinking that the southern frontier of the Ming Dynasty was actually guarded by this group of Yi people, but he heard a voice that seemed to be gradually real from far and near.

"The official you handed over has already seen it."

One sentence pulled Fu Xiaofei's mind back, but it was Tian Shengjin, who was sitting at the top, who was talking to him.

Master Tian had a smile on his face, "Very well written......