The treaty stipulated that the two sides would conduct normal commercial activities and sell the Gehe Delta area to the Tang Western Company for 5,000 taels.

Subsequently, the Tang Empire officially sent tax officials and administrative officials to this place, and officially named the region Gehe Prefecture.

However, although the power to collect taxes belongs to the supreme Ministry of Taxation, and the official also nominally has the administrative right to manage the land, but according to the Western Trade License, Datang Western Company has the actual administrative management power of the land, well, to assist in the management model.

Today's Gohe State is the largest stronghold of the Tang Empire, or more precisely, the Tang Western Company on the eastern coast of India, and the starting point of trade with the eastern part of India.

However, it is worth noting that during this period, the Portuguese also had a large number of colonies on the east coast of India, and Ceylon was actually under the control of the Portuguese.

To the north of Ceylon and south of the state of Go, the Portuguese also controlled four other colonies.

In fact, the Portuguese also relied on the above five colonies to blockade the east coast of India, if the Tang Western Company secretly came to India to trade, it would be nothing, but after establishing a colony with great fanfare, then the Portuguese would definitely not sit idly by.

At the end of last year, the Portuguese gathered a large number of pirates and some local indigenous princes to try to expel the forces of the Tang Western Company from the eastern coast of India, and the Battle of Ceylon broke out.

In the end, after a fight between the two sides, there was no winner or loser, and the two sides were not actually official acts, everyone was a businessman.

The Tang Western Company is a trading company, and these Portuguese merchants are actually just merchants, and they can't win this war, and the war costs a lot, so after this battle, it's over.

But the resulting continuous skirmishes have continued, making this the most dangerous sea in the eastern part of India.

Without the escort of warships, even the merchant ships of the Datang Western Company would not dare to venture into danger easily!

Tong Shangchao knew very well what kind of situation he would face after crossing the Indian Ocean and arriving on the eastern coast of the Indian Ocean, so when his fleet crossed the Indian Ocean and was about to arrive on the eastern coast of India, he ordered the lookout sailors in the fleet to open their eyes and search the nearby sea.

The route they took was relatively remote, crossing the Indian Ocean from the northern part of the Andaman Islands, and then heading straight to the Gohe State, which can be said to be the exclusive route of the current Tang Western Company.

Because they are the only ones who need to go to the Goe state, and the Portuguese merchant ships will not go to the Goe state, they generally bypass the Goe state and go directly to the southeastern coastline of India, which is controlled by the Portuguese.

But the fact that their merchant ships are not coming does not mean that their pirate ships will not come.

This is just like the warships of the fleet of the Datang Western Company, which often go to the coastline of Ceylon when there is nothing to do!

However, this time Tong Shangchao and their luck were good, after arriving on the eastern coastline of India, they did not encounter any other ships, and arrived in the state of the river Ge peacefully.

When he saw the land in the distance and a fast patrol ship heading towards the fleet, Tong Shangchao breathed a sigh of relief!

Just looking at the fast patrol ship, he knew that it was the company's exclusive fast patrol ship, not only with the black tiger flag hanging on it, but also thought that this kind of fast patrol ship was a specialty of Datang shipbuilding: flying shear schooners!

The bow of the flying clipper coupled with the unique Datang style longitudinal sail, once such a ship type was launched, it became the darling of the navy's fleet of the Tang Western Company because of its ultra-fast speed, although this kind of ship is currently limited by technology and difficult to make bigger, and its use is relatively limited, except for fast, there are almost no other advantages.

However, the Navy and the Datang Western Company use it as a fast communication ship and patrol ship, and the ship is small, and it is not a problem if it can't carry any cargo, as long as it is fast.

Before the fast patrol ship in front arrived, it sent a flag, asking the fleet to report its identity, and at the same time lowered its sails and closed the gun window for interrogation.

Nowadays, Datang Western Company and the Portuguese have a big quarrel, and Datang Western Company is also afraid that the Portuguese will engage in a sneak attack by a few new Datang ships.

You must know that although the new type of ship of the Tang Dynasty was invented and built on a large scale by the Tang Dynasty, the Portuguese have been floating on the sea for so many years, and they are naturally not stupid, and they began to try to imitate this new type of ship in Malacca many years ago.

Therefore, it is not very safe to determine the identity just by looking at the type of ship.

As for flags or something, it's even harder to say.

Even the black-haired and black-eyed people on the ship are difficult to distinguish, and not only the Tang Dynasty people in this world are black-haired and black-eyed, people in many parts of East Asia are such people, and there are more pirates.

The pirates are not divided into the Tang people and the Fuso people......

Well, this is also an important factor in the fleet of the Datang Western Company disguised as pirates to attack the merchant ships of other countries, and it can be denied with a cheeky face so far.

In the waters of Southeast Asia and even the waters of India, there are more pirates in the East!

In recent years, with the rise of the Tang Dynasty, it is not only the Datang Navy and the Datang Western Company, but also the Datang pirates......

These pirate gangs, which had been formed in the pre-Ming Dynasty, were once attacked by the Tang Navy, but they also grew stronger with the prosperity of maritime trade in East Asia.

The Tang Dynasty, Fuso, Annam, Koreans, and other natives of East Asia, even Indians, West Asians, and even Europeans who came from afar, gathered together for money, thus forming a huge group of pirates active in the seas of East Asia and the Indian Ocean.

These pirates are not divided into countries and nationalities, and it is normal for a pirate gang to have Tang people and Portuguese!

And these pirates, in fact, are quite a headache for Portugal and the Tang Empire, people are real pirates, not an official warship dressed as pirates, this robbery, but whether you are the merchant ship of the Tang Western Company or the merchant ship of the Portuguese or some other messy country and indigenous merchant ship.

When they see a merchant ship, they rob it!

But at the same time, there are also a lot of political problems, because whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Portuguese, they actually support some pirates to fight each other.

When the issue of pure piracy involves politics, it means that it is almost impossible to get rid of pirates, but not only is it impossible, but these pirates are more and more and more arrogant.

In the coastal areas of the Tang Empire, the waters of Malacca, Ceylon and other areas where the Tang Navy and the Portuguese Navy have relatively strong control, these pirates naturally dare not go wild, but in some remote sea areas, people don't have so many scruples, and it is not unheard of to attack colonial ports.

So now Datang Western Company, whether it is in the waters of Southeast Asia or the Indian Ocean, it is not only guarding against the Portuguese and local natives, but also guarding against pirates.

Therefore, even if Tong Shangchao's fleet arrived, the garrison force in Gehe Prefecture would not react at all, and also sent a fast patrol ship to investigate, and only after confirming their identities did they guide them into the port.

The fleet began to slowly approach the coast and sail towards the port, and at this time, Tong Shangchao also found that the Gehe Prefecture on land had changed greatly compared to when he came last year.

There seems to be a lot more buildings on the shore, and the biggest change is that there are a lot more berths in the small port, and the battery in the port is also larger.

"It's really a change every year!" How Tong Shangchao sighed!

Standing next to Tong Shangchao at this time was the liaison officer of a company fleet of the original fast patrol ship, this liaison officer was only a sixth-class employee, roughly relative to the rank of captain on the navy side, at this time he also respectfully said to Tong Shangchao: "My lord, the changes in our Gehe Prefecture in the past year are indeed not small, since the establishment of Gehe Prefecture, the adults have requisitioned a lot of local natives for expansion, in addition to the urban area, the biggest project is the wharf and fort!" ”

"After a year of construction, our battery was completely completed two months ago, and now it is enough to deploy more than 40 large-caliber guns, but the number of artillery is not enough, and many gun positions are empty, just waiting for you to bring artillery from China!"

Tong Shangchao said: "Don't worry, this time we set out from China and brought more than 50 large-caliber guns, and it is estimated that in addition to replenishing the fleet, we should be able to free up a lot of them to be deployed on this battery!" ”

"That's great, with these artillery, our batteries will be able to exert greater power, and when the time comes, it will be up to those barbarians to dare to invade our Gehe Prefecture!"

When Tong Shangchao was talking to him, the fleet had already continued to slow down, and under the guidance of many small tugboats, it began to prepare to anchor close to the dock.

Before he got off the ship, he just saw that there was already a crowd of people on the dock, and he didn't have to guess to know that these were all dock workers who were ready to unload the goods as soon as possible, and these dock workers were all local natives, and there were many armed employees of the company holding guns to supervise the work.

He knew that most of the local natives were very lazy, and they didn't hold a gun with a bayonet on the side to supervise the work, and these natives dared to be lazy to show you every minute.

Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that the company does not pay them!

Because most of these people were recruited from the neighborhood!

And the Tang Dynasty recruited foreign people and never gave money!

At the same time, he was also on the other side, and saw a group of people who were obviously dressed differently from the others, and as soon as the ship docked, he saw this group of people coming up to greet them, several of whom he recognized, and they were all important people in the Gohe Prefecture.