After entering the city, Zhou Shiren saw some Song people dressed in brocade clothes. In the past, he had done business with the Song people, so he was familiar with the Song people's clothing.

"Are there a lot of Song people in this city?" , Zhou Shiren asked the guide.

"Are you talking about Han Chinese?" , the guide asked rhetorically.

"Han Chinese?" , After thinking about it, Zhou Shiren also felt that it was right. Under the rule of the Song State, they were all Han Chinese, and it is not impossible to say that they are Han Chinese.

"There are more than a dozen Han families in the city, and there are more than 100 people. They are all merchants of Sriwijaya, and after the opening of Karachi, they moved over! The guide knew everything about Karachi, so he told the story.

"Sriwijayaya? Is it the Three Buddhas who once sent tribute to the Song State? Zhou Shiren was not convinced. The Three Buddhas paid tribute to the Song State, or the Great Song Dynasty did not suffer a major change, and the Jin State was not established before the matter. He also heard it from his ancestors! Later, the Song Kingdom lost the Central Plains and lived in the south of the Yangtze River, and he didn't know about the envoys sent by the three Buddhas.

"I don't know much about that. The Srivijaya is an island country in the east, and there are fifteen subject countries under it, and all the merchant ships passing through it have to pay tolls to them. This is not insurance, sometimes there are merchant ships are robbed, losing money and losing lives. The guide didn't have a good impression of the three Buddhas, and talked about the evil deeds of the three Buddhas.

This made Zhou Shiren's heart tighten! If the sea is so dangerous, then taking a ship back to China is not a life and death.

Seeing Zhou Shiren's nervousness, the guide said with a smile: "Don't be afraid of objectivity!" The three Buddhas are no longer what they used to be. Our Dayuan's navy went to Manraka (Malacca) and shook around, and the Srivijaya people were afraid. ”。

It's still a thing of the old days!

At the beginning, the navy was not long in formation, and the training time was not long. One day, the navy was training in the waters east of Ceylon and happened to save a merchant ship that was being pursued by pirates.

The owner of the ship, a merchant of the Great Yuan, saw the navy of the Great Yuan, and immediately cried and complained about the atrocities of the Srivijaya people who took advantage of the strait to plunder the merchants in the port of Manraka.

This Manraka is the Malacca of the Hereafter. At this time, the small island on which Singapore was located was still a desert island, and the port was located near the city of Malacca.

Speaking of which, it is not a day or two that the Sriwijaya people have robbed past merchants. Dayuan was on a large scale on land, and he did not have too much energy to operate on the sea. So a lot of things will pass with one eye turned a blind eye.

However, on that day, the navy and the sea area where Sriwijaya was located were not far away, and it was only a few days to set off immediately.

So the captain of the navy immediately led the trained officers and men to pounce on Manraka with murderous spirit.

Due to the lack of any defense, when the Dayuan navy arrived at the port of Manraka, the Sriwijaya people there could not figure out the origin of the Dayuan navy. After that, there was another bombardment, which completely reduced the city of Manraka built on the water to ashes.

In order to have a deterrent effect, the navy also arrested and killed all the local visible Sriwijaya people. The heads were also cut off, piled up into a high Jingguan, which made people unbearable to look at directly.

"That's all about the Three Buddhas?" , Zhou Shiren couldn't believe it.

"How so?! The Sriwijaya sent thousands of sailors to attack. But under the cannon of our Dayuan naval army, they all went to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish. Speaking of which, the guide proudly pointed to the big boat docked on the coast.

They were two frighteningly large ships, and they could be seen from such a distance.

"That's the treasure ship of our Great Yuan Navy, I heard that it can be driven on it!" Because it is a military ship, it has a designated place to dock at the port. Martial law has also been set up in the surrounding area, and no idle people are allowed to approach. But the volume is too big, so no matter how much such a ship is hidden, it can't be hidden.

"This... This... Am I not dazzled? How can there be such a big sea vessel? In his impression, the sea ships should be similar to the ships in Dengzhou Port, only as big as seven or eight ordinary houses connected together. This is still relatively wide, and the smaller ones are only one or two feet high, which is not shocking.

The guide looked at Zhou Shiren's reaction, felt very comfortable, and explained with a smile: "The guest officer is not dazzled! There are several such treasure ships, and we have several more in Dayuan. I heard that when the Sriwijaya fought with us, a large part of the ship was crushed by our treasure ship. ”。

Needless to say, Zhou Shiren can think of that picture. Underneath a treasure ship like a reckless beast were the wreckage of countless broken boats. There are also many Srivijaya people floating on the water, crying and shouting for help.

Afterwards, they were led by a guide and stayed at an inn in Karachi.

Compared to Malu and Puhua, Karachi is less orderly. People of all kinds of costumes and colors drove ox carts and horse-drawn carts through the streets, and red scarf soldiers with red sleeves directed traffic at the intersection. The people who spoke different languages spoke words that he did not understand, and there was a vivid image of the market.

Karachi is also a port city, and there are many people coming and going. From the ancient countries of the East to the east coast of Africa, there are merchant ships that stop here. Zhou Shiren saw Kunlun Nu, whose skin was as black as charcoal, helping to move goods at the port.

There are also Xiyi people with white skin and no color, who work as slaves for some wealthy local merchants.

He stayed in Karachi for a long time, mainly because the local merchants heard that the navy would escort merchant ships, so they all waited for the navy to go with them.

On that day, the seaside was crowded with boats. If it weren't for someone with him, Zhou Shiren would really have lost his way in this dense ship.

Stepping on the deck under his feet, he felt unsteady in his heart. After all, it was the first time to go to sea by boat, so it was inevitable that I would be a little nervous.

The owner of the ship was the Hucha Sa people, located in the Jijarat region of India in later generations. Originally, it was a local princely state. After establishing Sindh County, Da Yuan expanded to the east. The small country that was spicy was directly destroyed by Dayuan.

Its territory was also incorporated into Sindh and is now a county within its jurisdiction.

Not long after becoming a common man of Dayuan, the owner of the ship was still dressed in the traditional costume of the Hucha people. If this happens in a mainland city like Malu, it will be necessary to ask the teacher for the crime.

In the end, Dayuan has strict regulations on the clothing of the people.

However, the local Hucha people had little resistance to Dayuan's rule. Because in addition to collecting the prescribed taxes, Da Yuan will not interfere too much in their lives. And because of the development of commerce and trade in Dayuan, they also benefited from commerce. Like many Hu Cha spicy people, they entered Da Yuan's ship to beg for a living.

Although it was a little harder, it took a little longer. However, as long as you make a successful trip, you can get a good reward. Therefore, on the ships of the Dayuan merchants, it is very common for the crew of Hu Cha to be spicy.

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