Ananda is an ordinary fisherman in the kingdom of Koshali, who has a three-zhang boat of his own and two fishing nets, and is considered to be a good group of people in the small seaside town of Koshali.

Before the kingdom's coast was blocked, he went to the sea once a day, and then he could pick up hundreds of catties of various aquatic products and send them to the restaurants in the city.

Although this is a little hard, in addition to paying taxes to the official lord every month, you can also leave a lot of silver taels.

But when the coast was blocked, life became more difficult. When several ships that went to sea were blown up and sunk by the fleet of Great Xia, no one dared to go to sea again.

But he was forced to make a living, and he couldn't stop his fishing career. If he doesn't fish, his two wives and a bunch of children will have nothing to eat.

He observed for a long time, and finally determined that as long as the ship did not leave the bay and the waters of Awaji Island, it would not be attacked.

Therefore, every day before dawn, he took his eldest son out to sea and cast a net in the bay, although this harvest was far less than that outside the bay, but at least there was some gain.

With fish comes income, and the north coast is not a grain producing area, and there is no abundance of Nanjing in the southwest. After the lockdown, prices skyrocketed, the price of these fish became higher and higher, and in the first few months, his income was higher than before.

But the good days soon passed, and the prolonged lockdown made it impossible for ordinary people in Koshari to afford the high price of food, and those concerned fled to other places.

In the past, the old men had an income every day, so they didn't care about spending a little more, but now they have no income, and they have to find another livelihood.

Many have set up convoys to transport supplies by land to other regions, and many more have stayed here without the means to spend them.

Most of the restaurants in the city are also closed, and Ananda is just fishing, and most of them are also robbed.

But as long as the boat was still there, the family wouldn't be hungry. In order to protect his family's boat, he and his eldest son slept on the boat every day, and parked the boat on the sea not far from the shore, for fear that when they woke up one day, their boat would be gone.

Early that morning, just after dawn, he and his eldest son woke up from the boat and began to pack their nets again to catch two nets.

Although he can't sell his fish every day, the old man also allows him to pay fish to deduct his taxes, and only by honestly paying half a boatload of fish a day can they continue to enjoy their protection.

Suddenly, his eldest son, Abe, screamed in horror. "Father, look!"

Ananda raised his head, and saw a fleet of people in the distance on the sea like a forest on the sea.

Unlike in the past, when there were only two or three ships, there are now a hundred ships on the surface.

Ananda was shocked and muttered, "Has this day finally arrived?" Great Xia's fleet is here! ”

He didn't care about packing up the nets anymore, and began to hoist the sails vigorously, and commanded: "Don't clean up, I'll drive the boat to the shore at once, you go and pick up your mother and younger siblings, and we'll hide for the time being." ”

On the sixth day of the second month, the fleet arrived in the eastern part of Palembang with the help of the trade winds from the north, and the scenery here was already significantly different from that of the Ming Dynasty, and many sailors who had never been to the south looked curiously at the land to the west.

The flotilla sailed along the eastern side of Sumatra, not far from the mainland, and was able to clearly see the contours of the mainland.

The smaller tonnage ships in the fleet, who were closer to the mainland, and who occasionally came across large villages, would send punts ashore to find out what was going on.

There is no shortage of generalists in the envoy's fleet, and many Fujian people who work hard in Nanyang also know the local dialect. In the Nanyang region, language is not an obstacle.

The majority of Sumatra was populated by Madura and Malays, and most of the tribes became allies of the Bactrian people, with Chai Mingyuan, the king of Bactria Fu, as their leader.

The Bactrian people taught them to grow rice, and even cotton, which solved their long-standing shortage of food and cloth.

In the face of the Sundans in the southeast and the two small states they founded, Ceylon and True Wax, Gansheng actively participated in the ethnic and territorial contradictions between them and the powerful Koshari kingdom established by the most populous Javanese, and actively mediated disputes between them.

Most of the islands in Indonesia are the territory of Koshari, which has been ruled by the Suharto family for more than 200 years. They once offended Nanjing, the city of Nanyang Prefecture established by Bactria Bactria Prefecture, and after being defeated by the Bactria army with Duan Shuchang as the general, they attacked Ceylon and True Wax many times, Ceylon and True Wax could only surrender to the Great Xia Empire, and after being willing to become a vassal of Great Xia, they were protected by the Nanyang Mansion of the Great Xia Empire.

For this reason, they also recognized the dominance of King Fu Chai Mingyuan in northwestern Indonesia, and used King Fu as a bridge between them and Bactria .

Therefore, although the population that King Fu can control in Indonesia is not large, his dominance on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is currently very stable.

Gan Tang looked at the information about the countries in Nanyang in his hand, and sighed after a long time. "The area I really want to occupy next is the port of Singapore, but unfortunately the Dutch got there first, and now we are allies, it's a pity."

Guo Zhang and the others who sat under him were sweating profusely. Based on these words alone, they found that this king of Xiangyang was not inferior to the emperor of the Xianbei people in the north in terms of his interest in fighting.

Gan Tang smiled again: "Fourth uncle, they have already done a good job, we just need to increase our support for them in the name of Great Xia." ”

In the evening, the multinational combined fleet had arrived in the Kalimata Strait, and except for the Xiangyang Wang, which was too large to approach the coast, other ships could dock close to Nanjing (Palembang).

It was getting late and couldn't dock, so Gantang's flagship didn't dock and waited for dawn tomorrow to dock.

However, a herald boat picked up King Fu, Li Gong, Gan Sheng, Guan Zheng, and a group of tribal leaders of the natives, who were greeted on the shore, and arrived at Gantang's flagship.

Among them, it is Gan Sheng, who is fifty years old this year, is the most excited, the Gan family has ushered in a unicorn since Gan Feng died in Zhennanguan, and the continuous emergence of the Gan family's elite is a guarantee to ensure the longevity of the Gan family in Daxia.

And the Fu King Chai Mingyuan took advantage of the situation during the vigorous suppression of Arab merchants after coming to Nanyang, and had a tax on gold mines, accumulating a lot of family funds, which was also a help to ensure the stability of his son's position in Daxia, and Chai Mingyuan was still very grateful to Gan Tang here.

According to the customs of Great Xia, as the biological father of the emperor, although the title is the same as that of Gan Tang, he should not have been on the ship to greet him in person, but in terms of the status of the Gan family in Great Xia, in order to envelop this first family of Great Xia military merit, he still came in person.

Duan Shuchang and Deng Yu set up guards in Ceylon and Zhenwax respectively, and Wang Jiao organized spring ploughing in Medan County in the north, but did not come to greet him this time.

In today's Indonesia, Bactria occupies the Strait of Malacca and Singapore across the sea from Sumatra, but also the third largest island in Indonesia, Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world, with an area of 473,400 square kilometers, a tropical rainforest climate, the island has dense tropical vegetation, fertile land, water flows, and countless fertile fields. The environment is pure.

Gan Sheng and Wang Jiao successively established eight counties on this island: Medan, Jambi, Riau, Palembang, South Sumatra, Bangka-Belitung, Bengkulu and Lampung.

In addition to being the largest city in Palembang in the southeast, one of the largest bases was set up in Medan County, near the northwest of the Strait of Malacca, to serve the fleet of ships sailing at sea and observe pirates.

A group of people waited for the flagship, except for the soldiers and sailors, most of the Westerners who followed Gan Tang to greet them.