Tan Fook Harbor was a busy scene at this time, dozens of huge sea ships docked at the wharf, and the goods on the wharf were piled up, porcelain, raw silk, silk, cotton cloth, tea, rhubarb and other items were sorted and neatly arranged, and the wharf laborers were like hard-working ants carrying piles of goods from the wharf to the merchant ships from the wharf to the merchant ships like hard-working ants.

It's good to enjoy the shade with your back against a big tree.

Relying on its close relationship with the Nanyang sailors, the new blessed land is like a fish in water in today's 'world'.

I don't know how many ships have stopped here, and in a sense, it has even cut off part of Temasek's "authority".

You must know that the latter is the center of the whole South Seas!

Not only is it suppressed by the powerful Nanyang sailors, but it is also located at the eastern end of the Malacca waterway, directly controlling this golden waterway connecting the east and the west, and Temasek is the center of the whole Nanyang.

However, relying on its close and inseparable relationship with the Nanyang Naval Division, Sun Fook forced Temasek to voluntarily cede some of its authority and became a second-level cargo distribution center.

Just like now, porcelain, raw silk, silk, cotton cloth, tea, rhubarb and other items are sent to merchant ships one by one, but most of these merchant ships are short- and medium-distance sea vessels, and most of them only circulate in the South Seas. It is not an ocean-going merchant ship that actually crosses thousands of miles of oceans.

Other merchant ships, on the other hand, were carrying wagons of goods on board, ivory, spices, timber, saltpeter, sulphur, ...... everything, which were piled up on the docks and quickly pulled away by four-wheeled flatbed wagons, which could pull thousands of pounds of goods each, far more than two-wheeled carriages.

The sturdy warehouses around the harbor are their destinations. There were also large numbers of merchant ships from the mainland, wielding real money and buying large quantities of ivory, spices, timber and high-quality sulphur. saltpeter, even copper ingots, gold sand, tin blocks, etc.

It's like the relationship between the wholesale center, the commissary, and the average consumer.

The latter is far away from the former, and although it is not out of reach, no one runs to the wholesale market every day to buy something. The only way to do this is to go to the nearest kiosk and buy all the supplies you need.

The current pattern is like this, Sun Fook Kong is a 'commissary', and the merchants from the local area are the most ordinary consumers.

In the middle of the sea ships, there are some small ships shuttling among them, replenishing fresh water, vegetables, grain and other things for the merchant ships, and when the merchant ships loaded with goods are ready, the crew members are quickly in place, and after several customs officers have inspected them, they raise their sails and go to sea, and the vacated warehouses are quickly filled by the merchant ships waiting impatiently behind.

Here, every day there are goods of 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in and out, and even if many goods cannot be classified as imported goods, they can only act according to domestic tariffs, that is, 2%, but the annual tariff income here can reach as much as millions. In the spring and summer, a whole fleet of ocean-going ships sometimes arrives with items worth millions of silver dollars. Although few of these ocean-going fleets stop in Xinfu.

The development of the countries of the South Seas naturally cut off some of the ocean-going merchant ships going to China, just like the Tianfang people dealt with the Tianzhu people, I prepared the goods you need for you early, just in the South Seas, you don't need to go to China at all, you can get everything you want.

But this trade did not diminish China's prosperity in essence, because the porcelain, silk, rhubarb, cotton, tea, etc., they sold came from China itself.

Such a move will help the development of China's coastal trade and deepen the economic ties between China and the countries of the South Seas.

It is hard to imagine that three or five years ago, or seventy or eighty years ago, those thriving seaports were just small fishing villages, or simply barren land.

Another fleet arrived, and a loud bell rang on the docks, a signal to call in labor.

A fleet of ten sea vessels, each of which is an ocean-going sea-going ship, is subconsciously identified as an ocean-going caravan from the Central Plains, just like the Tianfang people and Tianzhu people have come to China, the Central Plains businessmen have also set foot in the Tianfang and Tianzhu world.

With such a large fleet, even if there is no cargo exchange with San Fook Port, the replenishment of water, food, wine and meat is enough to keep the entire wharf busy.

Representatives of those who sold ship goods arrived earlier, sorting from wood to canvas, hemp rope, hemp velvet, iron nails, tung oil, and so on. During the voyage of the fleet, it is inevitable to encounter wind and waves, and if you are unlucky, you will encounter storms and storms, and the ship can only be lucky to avoid a catastrophe, and the hull will be damaged. At this time, the pre-stockpiled materials will be used to repair the hull, which is quite expensive. After arriving at the port, the ship will inevitably purchase various materials on the spot.

In addition to these people, a group of vendors gathered on the dock, from marinated meat, fish and shrimp to fresh fruits and vegetables, from various beans, which are indispensable for Chinese navigation, to all kinds of alcohol.

The ship stopped outside the pier, and the customs officers and the coast guard took a small boat to the bottom of the ship at the head, and then went up to the deck along the suspension ladder left above. The attitude of these people is inevitably a little 'atmospheric', they are the tolerance of the government, unless they are ship owners with a big background, otherwise the ship owners can only hold their breath in the face of these people.

If you offend them, even within the rules, it can easily delay your customs declaration process by at least twice the time.

This phenomenon is more obvious in ports and terminals where the role is heavier.

But today, it was the turn of these officers who turned over the deck and held their breath. In front of him was a team of solemn sailors, with solemn military qualifications, and a military temperament spontaneously emerged. Not to mention that there are cannons on this ship.

In the current Chinese ocean-going merchant ships, artillery can be seen on many seagoing ships, but it is only a tiger squat cannon, not a 'regular artillery' such as five-catty guns and eight-catty guns.

After defeating the Chola Kingdom, Lu Qi's Western sailors had entered the Ceylon Kingdom, and the entire Tianzhu Sea Area became Lu Qi's control area. So who is it, although he hasn't completely hooked up with the heavenly world, it's not far off.

Under such circumstances, the process of strengthening the "self-defense force of sea vessels" within Lu Qi came to an abrupt end. The Tiger Squat Cannon has become the most important thermal weapon of China's sea vessels, and some of the three-catty and five-catty cannons that were originally sent out have also been withdrawn.

"You guys, you ...... "What kind of ship is this, how can there be cannons?"