Subsequently, the results of the interrogation of these thieves and prisoners on several other ships also came out; The thieves encountered on the sea this time were actually a consortium of several large and small bandits gathered from the south after the accidents in Annam and Guangzhou one after another; Among them, there are not only bandits born in Annam, but also Tianzhu and Zhenla people who wander from outside the territory, and even a small group of Sri Buddha who died.

The leader of the most powerful force in the center is Tong Binglong, a water governor who rebelled under the command of Zhuge from the Qianhuan Dynasty that had just been overthrown in Zhancheng. He was also the unlucky man who was sunk by the biggest thief ship.

Zhou Huai'an also got more news about the South China Sea vassal states.

For example, Indravaman I, who now rules most of the Champa and Lam Ap kingdoms (the Kowloon River Plain where Ho Chi Minh City is located), was usurped by military generals, who embraced Mahayana Buddhism and banned the original Brahmin faith, and used Avalokiteshvara of the South China Sea as the royal guardian. However, in places such as Gudjlo (present-day Nha Trang, Vietnam), there were still remnants of the Zhuge clan who revered the Zhuge clan in their strongholds to fight against them.

Under the rule of the famous Angkor Dynasty, although four generations of rulers have passed, the rebellions of the subject states and city-states of Chenla are still rising one after another. It also created many exiles who went to sea.

The death of the powerful city of Sumatra also did not stop, and the nine powerful people in the country overthrew the lord of the country and made the royal family weak, and continued to attack and invade the local area; Therefore, many natives who trade in the trade have directly become robbers who rob the sea.

As for Annam itself, because the official authority represented by the imperial court was defeated by the rebels, it had to be invited and annexed to Canton; In the same way, problems and riots have gradually caused local order to fall into disarray, and they have begun to lose their deterrent and binding force, and naturally they have taken advantage of the chaos to breed all kinds of pirates and robbers who have tried to rob past merchants.

One of the emerging bandits, nicknamed "Fly Tiger", was the leader of these foreign pirates; As a result, the bandit group had been operating on the surface for several months, targeting smaller or lone ships, and had made a fortune to establish hiding places nearby and harbor owners to sell their stolen goods on the shore.

It's just a pity that this local pirate was on the few boats that were responsible for meeting and intercepting at the beginning, and finally ran away from two of them; I didn't catch a specific job. Zhou Huai'an also did not have the will to continue the pursuit, after all, there was still a serious matter of going to Annan in front of him, and it was really not appropriate to make more extraneous branches.

Moreover, the nearby islands are towering and the hydrological waters are unknown, and this kind of sea ship is also quite unfriendly to the existence of such a large sea, and if you really have no preparation, you will only be doing death or giving meat to people with black eyes.

It's just that after this Kunlun ship did not listen to the advice and went to sea again, it didn't take long to encounter organized pirates; This is a bit interesting, you must know that small groups of pirates working alone are not unusual, but it is not a simple matter to gather so many bandits from different geographical and ethnic backgrounds to reasonably attack a certain target.

This also made some of the thoughts and ideas that Zhou Huai'an had been thinking about suddenly have some new clues.

Then, after half a day of sailing along the coast, you can already see the Grand Port of Jiaozhou, which is located at the mouth of the Linh River in Hue, Vietnam. According to the article of Li Daoyuan of the Northern Dynasty, "The Water Jing Note: Warm Water" records: "In the middle of the day, the scenery (shadow) on the head should be under the body, and the scenery is compared"; Ruchun said: "Therefore, it is a famous county compared to Jing". It is used to describe this unique local scenery perspective, and this is the origin of the name of Hong Kong.

Since the Han Dynasty received Nanyue, there have been records of overseas trade, and the Song and Qi dynasties of the Jin and Southern Dynasties have followed the old. In the Tang Dynasty, it became more and more prosperous, and all maritime merchants or monks who sought Dharma sailed to the South China Sea and Indian countries, and most of them were here "before the whole sail and dagger". When returning to China, it was the second largest port in the South China Sea after Guangzhou in the Tang Dynasty.

It is also one of the famous contemporary shipbuilding production areas, which is one of the main goals of Zhou Huai'an's scheme. It's hard to say anything else, if this Jiaozhou port can be occupied, it will represent a variety of long-term and stable interests and gains.

It's just that it seems that this time I met Haikou, and I didn't consume all the good and bad luck of the accident, even in a distant place, I can see several black smoke rising from Jiaozhou Port.

In my first impression, this is a huge port area scattered on both sides of the trumpet-shaped estuary and spanning several of the river banks; Therefore, the most conspicuous ones are undoubtedly all kinds of dense turns, stacked like heavy obstacles, and stand on stilts and wooden houses on sandbanks and water; There are also long and short trestle bridges that are as dense as centipedes probing into the sea; and the thick and thin rivers scattered among them, as well as the willow leaf boats that swim back and forth like fish;

Then, behind the port area and the market, on the land on both sides of the river mouth that suddenly shrank, there were large areas surrounded and separated by grid wooden walls, bamboo and wood scaffolding, thatched-roof earthen walls or various folk houses with heavy tiles; In the middle of the song, between the green banana bushes and flowers and trees, from time to time there are pagodas, cornices, wart roofs and so on unique to temples and ancestral halls, but it has a quite obvious Tang style.

Beyond the city of Qiangang and Fangqu, it is surrounded by large areas of low hills overgrown with trees and shrubs, as well as manors and villages with many paddy fields and fruit forests on both sides of the river. Under such gradual changes inside and outside, it constitutes a unique and beautiful scenery on the Indochina Peninsula. Only now the landscape has been dusted.

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Riots are taking place in the port at the mouth of the river, with many looting and setting fires, and others breaking into the houses and looting the merchants who thought they were fat sheep. And Lin Shenhe, who used to belong to the baggage team, could only hold the blade and bring his companions and buddies together, guarding behind the door blocking the sundries, helplessly sitting back and watching all this happen.

Even if those thieves set fire to the freight yard not far away, or slashed open one after another cages and bags that were wrapped and ready to be loaded on the ship, occasionally someone would come and bang on the door, but they could not open it and left without any reaction; However, he also had to encourage and comfort his men.

"A few things are burned, just make sure people are okay."

"As long as there are people, as many goods can be replaced, this is what the virtual master said."

"Is that the one who is now in charge of the affairs of Guangfu?"

"Amitabha, that's really blessed by God."

Hearing this name, the faces of the companions and the guys hiding in the barn also became much better; There are also people who take the initiative to explain and comfort the family members they brought over.

Compared with several major local characteristic products, in fact, Jiaozhou Port relies more on relay entrepot trade and the prosperity and prosperity brought by the local shipbuilding industry. Therefore, when the upstream Guangzhou Port was closed and closed to shipping, Jiaozhou Port was inevitably affected by the recession and suffered a lot of depression.

Fortunately, the ports of Guangzhou under the rule of the rebels were reopened to trade under the auspices of someone, and the port of Jiaozhou, as a transit place, was able to recover a lot of market prosperity; And Lin Shenhe, who was born as a small businessman, felt that he had little room for action in the logistics team; also volunteered to act as the eyeliner and tentacle secretly sent by the rebels, and came to this Jiaozhou Port with an old business;

As the principal of the warehouse and the rice seller, he began to collect various local prices, people's livelihood conditions, population and products, and other related things in this port where the flow of people, goods, and news intersected. I have also witnessed the process of the slow recovery of Jiaozhou Port in recent months, as well as the trend of the gradual collapse of local order and binding force.

First, there were scattered pedestrians and caravans who were robbed of the road, and then there were stripped naked corpses, and they were all abandoned on the road; So no one dared to walk in the night. Then many of the local wealthy and businessmen also fled to the port city; In the process, they also began to gather together in broad daylight to rob the road, or to ambush in the mountains and forests not far from the harbor.

So much so that sometimes standing on the fence outside the port city, you can hear the miserable howls of the pedestrians who have been mutilated by them, and the voices of pleading and begging for mercy. As for the only remaining tax collectors and group exercises in the port city, they simply have to wait and see, or there is an inexplicable force that restricts them not to do anything superfluous; Eventually, a large number of residents in several nearby towns related to Minato Ward began to flee in droves.

At this time, the eyes of those ragged bandits also began to blatantly appear outside the walls of the port city; Because there is news that there is no longer any local power that can restrain them, those local groups related to the big wealthy families have been gathered to besiege the city of Jiaozhou; And even if they didn't have enough force left, the bunker they built was enough to make ordinary bandits helpless; But ordinary people outside the dock fort or in some villages farther away are not so lucky.

With the influx of a large number of people, this originally extensive land and water port city has also become cramped and chaotic, and even full of all kinds of security problems; First there was a looting incident with no food and no food, and then a targeted raid on the door at night; Then, after the rapid expansion, the residual authority and the apparent order maintained by the tax collectors and regimental training were completely shattered by an inexplicable infighting.

As it has evolved, it is clear that even the refugees who have fled have joined the frenzy of unbridled robbery. Thinking of this, Lin Shenhe couldn't help touching his buttocks, which was still faintly painful, which was the result of being shot down by a stream of arrows when he took people out to meet those related households and employees.

"Damn."

He cried out suddenly with hatred, for he saw through the crack that the mob had been ignited in the yard not far away; If you don't rush out to extinguish it or cut it off, I'm afraid that it will burn to your hiding place.

He couldn't help but clench the shakuhachi horizontal knife in his hand and said behind him.

"I need a few daring...

Then I heard some kind of inexplicable whistling sound like a tidal wave, mixed with the faintly familiar sound of flutes and whistles.

(End of chapter)