In the second year of Chunhua, the upper reaches of the Songjiang River continued to be shallow, causing the port to move eastward, and it was inconvenient for large ships to enter and exit the Songjiang River, and the sea trade ships could only stay in Shanghaipu, a tributary of the Songjiang River, and this tributary was the Huangpu River.

The Huangpu River divides the whole Tangkou into two, divided into Pudong and Puxi, the geographical location here is very suitable for the wharf, as early as the Daguan period, the Huating County Decree has been written to the court, requesting the construction of the city in Pu and Tangkou in Shanghai, in order to facilitate trade.

After waiting for many years, I waited for a paper ban on the sea, and this paper ban on the sea made the plan of Puli County, Shanghai, completely fail.

The number of people in Shanghai Pu has dropped sharply, but there is still no shortage of people who take risks and venture to the sea, and Shanghai Pu is quite lively.

On the day when the official family of the Great Song Dynasty restored the Bosi of Jinkou City, Shanghai Puli wanted to establish a county, but I don't know which official of the Ministry of Officials turned it out, so Shanghai Puli County was newly put on the charter.

With the Huainan giant rich Chen family landing in Shanghai Pu! The construction of giant docks, ships, and wharves, the landing of the Yamen of the Municipal Shipping Division, and the development of Shanghai Pu can be described as changing with each passing day.

The right governor of Shanghai County is a student named Yan Shangao, who graduated from the Guozijian of Yingtian Academy after the official family ascended the throne and successfully passed the official examination.

At the same time, he also served as the director of the Municipal Shipping Department, and he was very concerned about the construction of Pudong Wharf, which was a political achievement!

After the three-year exam, he can remove the right word "right to know the county affairs", and he can be successfully turned into a regular.

This involves his career.

"Master Tian, the official family has arrived! How good is that! Yan Shangao looked at this holy decree from Bianjing with an anxious face, and his face was panicked.

They have the right to know the county affairs, and they may not receive a letter from the official family in their lifetime, and he has received a total of two orders from the official family, the last time he received the order was in November of the fourth year of Jingkang, about that day, Yan Shangao remembered it deeply, as if it was just a few days ago.

Tian Cailiang is Yan Shangao's master, strictly speaking, he should be regarded as Yan Shangao's staff.

The master has been there since ancient times, and the highest can be traced back to the history (meaning of secretarial) official of "Shiben Yellow Emperor".

All the masters of the Great Song Dynasty are also included in the assessment, but there is no salary, and the outstanding ones can become county officials, and when the county governor leaves office or is promoted, they can become the county governor. This is the rule set by Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, in order to prevent the real power of the county government from falling.

Tian Cailiang is Yan Shangao's classmate, during the national examination, he was a bad move, he didn't take the test, but his grades were relatively good, so he came to Tangkou to be Yan Shangao's colleague, if he passed the next official examination, this can also be regarded as his resume.

"Yan Zhixian, a few days ago, when the dockyard was delivered with 11,000 large ships, didn't the official family give you a commendation? A commendation edict is enough to get a good evaluation in three years. Tian Cailiang comforted.

This previous edict, it really didn't take a few days, and this second edict arrived again, in Tian Cailiang's opinion, this is the holy family! Yan Shan Gao is showing off!

Yan Shan sighed and said: "The official family knows the contradiction between the maritime merchants and the Japanese state, and wants us to collect the opinions of the maritime merchants, do we tell the truth, or do we embellish it a little?" ”

Tian Cailiang thought that Yan Shangao was showing off his saints, but when he heard that this was the case, he also frowned.

As for the maritime merchants, they also went to Tangkou to become the governor of the county and the bureaucracy, and only then did they know why the sea was banned.

At present, they are faced with an extremely important issue, that is, whether to deceive the king or not.

The crime of bullying the monarch will be included in the category of non-punishment, life and death are all in the hands of the official, and the cost of the crime is extremely high, not as simple as embezzling a few dollars and being investigated.

Don't deceive the king, according to the usual governing philosophy of the Great Song Dynasty, the law of the ancestors, and the logic of strong cadres, they may also become sinners.

"Touch it up." Tian Cailiang looked at his life with a sigh, and his heart was mixed. They are all students who have just left the country for a few years.

When they were too students before, they had already worked with the magistrate for several years, and they knew the court too well, if the truth of maritime commerce was known by the court, this newly emerging maritime trade would definitely come to an abrupt end.

Yan Shangao stood in the Ya of Pu County, Shanghai, which had just been built not long ago, pacing back and forth, the reason why he was the governor of the county was the acting magistrate, Shanghai Pu had not yet officially established the county, it was still in the preparatory stage, and it was about to end the preparations and enter the stage of examination and approval.

If the situation is reported truthfully, it will become extremely difficult for Puli County, Shanghai.

Yan Shangao slapped the table vigorously and said, "I have decided, report it truthfully, and everything will be judged by the Holy Judge!" ”

Tian Cailiang's eyes became a little sharper, and he asked sternly: "Have you forgotten the grand wish of swearing to work for the common people when we were in Yingtian Academy?!" For the sake of your own career, can Aneng destroy the ascendant Shanghai Pu in one fell swoop? Are you worthy of the people, worthy of the merchants, worthy of the seafarers who were born and died? ”

"You can naturally leave, you are the magistrate of the Great Song Dynasty official examination, and you can still be the magistrate of the county in another place, but who will make up for the damage caused to Shanghai Pu!"

Yan Shangao shook his head firmly and said, "I believe in the official family. The official family is also worth believing. ”

Tian Cailiang's eyes were a little shaken, and finally sat on the chair with a sigh, and said helplessly: "Then bet once." ”

Yan Shangao collected all kinds of information long ago, compiled into a book, copied it overnight, and wrote down the various acts of the maritime merchants into the notebook, which was very long, and it took Yan Shangao a whole night to write it, and personally sent it to the post station, and sent it to Beijing with an urgent plate.

Zhao Huan received an extremely heavy note from the magistrate, and he studied it for a long time before he understood Yan Shangao's various struggles and the current situation of maritime business.

Since the opening of the sea trade, the sea trade of the Great Song Dynasty has come directly from the underground to the ground, becoming more and more prosperous, and the income of the shipping division in Tangkou City is getting higher and higher, and even has a tendency to exceed Jinkou, which is within Zhao Huan's expectations.

The increase in tax revenue of the two cities is the main driving force for the growth of tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty.

But at sea, in addition to facing the wind and waves of the sea and the attacks of sea beasts, there is also an important enemy, that is, pirates.

There are bandits on the road, and there are pirates in the sea.

These pirates are doing a lucrative business, intercepting a large ship of 3,000 materials, which can keep a pirate for several years without opening a business.

In order to deal with the attacks of pirates, the maritime merchants set up their own "maritime trade guards" to protect merchant ships.

With escorts, weapons and ordnance are naturally needed.

The Great Song Dynasty forbade the creation of ordnance, especially bows and crossbows, and these weapons, in fact, were not very demanding on the technical side, so the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants chose to buy them in Champong, Wa Kingdom, and Goryeo, or build workshops to manufacture ordnance.

And according to Yan Shangao's investigation, the pirates who did not have the support of the merchants at the moment had long been beaten to scum by the guards armed to the teeth.

The weapons in the hands of these guards are so sophisticated that even Fan Ruwei's Fujian navy is greedy.

And after these "guards" experienced the initial liquidation of piracy, they turned into pirates themselves, and became a sharp weapon against business opponents!

Now it's a big brawl on the sea! This kind of fighting has also caused the weapons in the hands of these merchants to become sharper and sharper, and even the thistle cannons have been installed.

The officials were worried that the Wa State bullied the maritime merchants, but for the Wa State, the pirates owned by the maritime merchants were completely unable to deal with the Wa State.

Therefore, by definition, the actions of maritime merchants at sea are equivalent to rebellion!

Zhao Huan patted the note in his hand and said with emotion: "Sure enough, as soon as you enter the sea, it is the law of the forest that the weak eat the strong, and even the Japanese country can't bear it, no wonder Ping Shengqing said that the ships of the Japanese Kingdom to the Great Song Dynasty are not one out of ten, and feelings are not the pot of the sea." ”

"I'm still worried that the Japanese Kingdom will detain my maritime merchants, so it seems that I'm worried in vain."

When Zhao Ying heard what the official family said, he knew that the official family had fully understood the face of the maritime merchant who went ashore as a merchant and entered the sea as a bandit, and asked: "Forbidden sea?" ”

Zhao Huan shook his head and said, "Why forbid?!" They are legitimate merchants who pay taxes in the city! ”