With the morning sun rising and the seabirds flying low on the white waves, Hirado arrived. The fleet took about forty-eight hours from departure to arrival, and a naval battle took three hours, a speed that was unimaginable in this era.

Hirado is one of the large islands in the Matsuura Islands, located close to Nagasaki. In the old time and space, it was part of the city of Nagasaki. Today, it is an international port in East Asia with a daimyo dominating and a foreign trade that is not inferior to that of Nagasaki.

There are many small bays on this island, and foreign ships carrying goods travel to and from these bays.

Most of the people living in Hirado were descendants of the rampant Wako, whose ancestors had followed the ships of Chinese pirate merchants to the Ming coast every year less than a hundred years earlier, each time acting as a precursor to the charge.

The arrival of three ships completely different from this era immediately attracted the attention of most people in the harbor, and soon a small boat sailed out of the harbor and headed for the fleet.

It turned out to be a harbor guidance ship, and under the guidance of this small boat, three ships slowly docked and moored.

The maritime surveillance ship has no mast and is made of steel, which is amazing, and there are endless speculations, most people guess that it may be a paddle wheel, but this paddle wheel is too heavy, right?

After guiding the boat to the shore, two Japanese people came over to inquire about the intention, and learned that it was a ship from the Ming Dynasty, and they behaved quite friendly. Chinese merchants in this era were relatively popular in Japan. Especially in the era of Wang Zhi, the Ming people actually had extraterritoriality in Japan.

Wang Yue saw that the port in front of him was very large, from the outside and inside felt very spacious, the ships entered the port from the north to the south, the more they went in, the more ships there were, countless small boats shuttled back and forth between the big ships, there were traction boats, there were also some small boats to send supplies, and more large ships were moored on the trestle in turn, unloading or loading goods.

From the east and west of the field of vision, the east side of the high mountains are more, are some 300 meters to 400 meters of hills, but stretch into a piece, you can't see the edge at a glance, the west of the mountain becomes low, a large number of dwellings in the mountains or flat land presented, the port area is also in the west side, there are more than a dozen trestle bridges alone.

There are dozens of large ships of more than 100 tons in the harbor, more than 100 merchant ships of about 100 tons, and then there are hundreds of small ships of different sizes, and the smallest small ships can only carry a dozen sailors and a small amount of freshwater food, which should be a pure small transshipment or combat ship.

The harbor is so large and so many ships that it's almost dizzying.

After the three ships docked, a group of Chinese and Japanese businessmen surrounded them. It turned out that they saw that these three ships were very peculiar, and thought that there must be some new goods, so they came to try their luck.

Wang Yue's visit to Hirado this time also meant to advertise the products of the starting point city. Hirado is also an international port, and there are merchants from China, Japan, and Europe, so it is a good window.

So he ordered all kinds of goods to be displayed on the deck, and these things were the responsibility of the people who came with the starting city trading company.

In addition to various iron products, the largest item of goods brought this time was cloth.

In modern time and space, the Celestial Empire is the world's largest producer of clothing and cloth, so all kinds of cloth are endless, and the beginning of the industrial revolution is also related to textiles, so Wang Yue wants to establish sales channels, and then set up textile factories.

The fabrics produced by modern textile and printing and dyeing techniques are incomparable to this time and space, so they immediately attracted those merchants. These beautifully made, brightly colored fabrics were something they had never seen before, and they couldn't help but praise them, and they asked the staff next to them for the price.

A modern woven roll of cloth is five to ten times longer than a piece of cloth in this time and space. The price of the origin of Matsue fine cloth is one or two and a half dollars of silver per horse, and it is transported to Hirado for one or two or eight dollars per piece of cloth.

And the cloth brought by Wang Yue from the color and color and textile density, far stronger than Songjiang cloth, the shore price of Pinghu is only one or six dollars per horse, if you are willing to take the goods from Tianjin, as long as one or two or two dollars to each horse, each roll of cloth is marked with the number of meters, and the length conversion is not troublesome. Most of the cloth brought over this time is made of chemical fiber, and the price is uniform.

The price was so tempting that although I couldn't understand what the ingredients were, it still felt very high, so merchants were eager to buy it.

The sea surveillance ship was not a freighter, and this time it came mainly to display goods, and the quantity of each commodity was not large, and all the merchants were told that it was cheaper to get goods in Tianjin, and the difference in price ranged from 30 to 50 percent. Wang Yue's purpose was to divert these people to Tianjin and prosper the local trade.

The deck was bustling with activity, and another group of people were on the dock.

The leader is a sturdy young man, and most of the ronin samurai who are followed behind him are the head of the moon dynasty. He dialed the merchants in front of the stage, scanned the goods on the stand, and then looked at the maritime surveillance ship.

"Who's in charge here?" The young man raised his eyebrows and asked in a deep voice, using official dialect with a Hokkien accent.

Wang Yue threw the trivial matter of displaying the goods to the staff of the trading company, and the chief of staff, Li Zixiong, happened to be next to him with people to maintain order. Seeing him ask, he answered, "What is the matter with you?" ”

This young man saw Li Zixiong wearing a straight military uniform, although he felt weird, but he set off a tall and heroic spirit.

"Where did you come from? Why didn't you hang my Zheng family's flag? The young man's eyes widened.

Li Zixiong said in surprise: "We are from Tianjin, what is the Zheng family's order flag?" "He has been inland for a long time, and he knows very little about the sea.

The people who came with this young man all laughed, in their opinion, Li Zixiong was simply a novice on the sea, he didn't even know the Zheng family's order flag, so he dared to come to Pingdo, it was really ignorant and fearless, but this big iron ship made them feel extremely surprised.

Wang Yue, who was watching the street scene of Pinghu by the guardrail, was called over by Zhang Han, but he knew what the Zheng family represented.

"You are from the Zheng family in Fujian? Dare to ask this honorable name? Wang Yue glanced at these people with sharp eyes, after being a leader for so long, his bearing was gradually developing.

The young man led by Wang Yue heard Wang Yue say about the Zheng family in Fujian, and it seemed that this was a person who understood, and said, "My name is Zheng Lian." Since you know our Zheng family, you should know the rules of this sea, and all merchant ships coming to Hirado must fly the flag of our Zheng family. ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at Wang Yue with a smile, and his tone was very arrogant.

Wang Yue knew that if it hadn't been for him, they would indeed be a little arrogant.

The Zheng family now has thousands of ships, which are unmatched at sea. Especially now, Zheng Zhilong has been recruited by the imperial court with a very political vision, and by virtue of his status as an official of the imperial court, he swept away dissident forces on the sea and monopolized the foreign trade of Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

Today's Zheng Group controls all the sea control from Japan to the South China Sea and the East China Sea, and Zheng Zhilong is known as the King of the Fujian Sea. All ships trading at sea had to spend money to buy Ming Zheng's Ling Flag, which cost 3,000 taels of silver for one year, and without this flag, the probability of being intercepted in the East Asian Sea was more than 50 percent, and if it was off the coast of Fujian, it was 100 percent intercepted.

Later, even the Dutch in Taiwan had to secretly buy the Lingqi in the name of the Japanese ship.

The Zheng clan controlled the maritime trade and earned tens of millions of taels of silver every year.

(Thanks to the book friend for the reward)