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Fang Hao quickly realized what this sentence meant.

Originally, he thought that it would not take long to reach Jeju Island, but after a delay of nearly a month, he set off with the ship.

The ship first headed east, to a place known as the "Liuqiu Jinshan", which is also said to be the stronghold of the Tokai Chamber of Commerce, but they were not allowed to leave the port and could only move within a fixed area. The ship loaded the cargo, replenished the fresh water, and headed north, taking advantage of the southerly wind from the spring, but it didn't take much effort to reach Jeju Island.

"See, under the seagulls, it is the City of the Five Kingdoms." Fang Hao's mouth is sweet, and with the care of big people, his relationship with the shipowner is not bad, so he can come to the bow of the ship to watch from a distance when he is about to arrive.

Many of the rest of the merchants on board are still being chased in the cabin and are not allowed to come out.

"Huh...... It's not small. Fang Hao looked over from a distance and was taken aback.

The scale of this Five Kingdoms City should be about the same size as Mingzhou City!

"That's right, 60,000 people live here, and it's also a big city in the Great Song Dynasty." The shipowner was quite emotional.

"Sixty thousand...... How can there be so many people? Fang Hao took a breath of cold air.

"I don't know where it came from, the Donghai Chamber of Commerce has the ability...... Hey, it looks like it's bigger than when I came here a year ago! ”

The shipowner was wrong in the first sentence, but the latter was right.

At this time, the city of the Five Kingdoms has a population of not only 60,000, but 100,000!

In the first half of last year, it was indeed about 60,000 people, mainly more than 20,000 people brought by Liangshanzhai, more than 20,000 Han people from Yanjing, plus Turen, Goryeo and a small number of Japanese, a total population of more than 60,000.

Of course, the total population of Jeju Island is not only this, but there are also a large number of natives and a small number of Han Chinese scattered elsewhere.

However, after the battle of the Liaohe River, the Chamber of Commerce escort team and the remnants of the Liao State controlled the Liaodong Peninsula, and a large number of people were moved from the peninsula to Jeju, and this winter was not very cold, at least the freezing time outside the Bohai Sea was very short, so more than 20 large ships continued to pick up about 50,000 Han people and more than 10,000 other ethnic groups from Liaodong.

Most of the rest of the people are women, and the purpose of the arrival is to solve the big problem of many singles on Jeju Island.

This is not the end, although the Song and Liao have reached a secret agreement, the Liao seized the Xia Hetao, handed it over to the Song State, and exchanged the land of Liaodong, but Xia has not yet been destroyed, and the land exchange has not been completed, so there are still twenty ships constantly transporting people from Liaodong to Jeju.

After a short period of rest, quarantine and training, these transported people were stuffed into various pastures, farms, mines, kilns, and workshops on Jeju Island. According to Zhou Quan's plan, within half a year, just let them eat, and according to their performance in the past half year, it will be decided where to arrange them next.

They also had no choice, Liaodong was now a place of war, facing the threat of the Jurchens at any time, and the contradictions between the Bohai people and the Han people were also intensifying. If you can go to a safe place, even if you want to leave your hometown temporarily, everyone is happy.

What's more, the Donghai Chamber of Commerce has a way to make them happy.

Led by the sailor, the boat finally came to shore, and Fang Hao's eyes swirled around the towering lighthouse, and then he fixed his eyes on the group of men and horses training on the edge of the dock.

After looking at it for a long time, Fang Hao took a breath, and there was a faint hint of firmness in his expression.

He understood why his father had asked him to come here.

This team of people should be the army of the Donghae Chamber of Commerce on Jeju Island, that is, Zhou Quan's private soldiers!

But what Fang Hao has seen in the southeast, adding up the forbidden troops from all over the southeast and picking out the most elite to form the same number of troops, in front of this team of people, I am afraid it will be a life in vain!

"No wonder my father is jealous of Zhou Quan, not to mention anything else, just with these horses, if they break into eastern Zhejiang, they will be more than ten times the officers and soldiers, and they can't help them, and the people and horses in my sect are ......"

Thinking of the rabble in his sect, Fang Hao couldn't help but smile bitterly.

After all, it is an underground sect, and it is not tolerated by the government, even if the leaders of various places train their families with large households, or the disciples who serve as the chief of the Lizheng in various places train the villagers, it is much worse than the forbidden army of the government.

Not to mention the elite in Zhou Quan's hands.

"Uncle Yu, these soldiers should be what you said, the elite guards of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce, right?" Fang Hao asked in a low voice.

Uncle Yu, the owner of the ship, looked over, and then said with a smile: "Where is this elite guard, it's just a patrol, they are not even B-level guards, they are just preparations, if they are tight in wartime, they will be transferred, and more often on weekdays, they are patrolled on the street." ”

Fang Hao felt that he had to hold it with his hands to avoid his jaw dropping.

He thought it was an absolutely elite unit, but it was just a patrol, not even a B-level guard, so it was rumored to be the elite of the A-class guard, and the elite special guard among the legendary elites, what kind of unrestrained character would it be?

Fang Hao didn't realize that this was just the beginning of his shock.

Immediately afterward, he was shocked again and again, and by the end of the day, he was numb.

But before that, he had to pass one level first.

"You're here to study?"

Looking at the application he had filled out, a small clerk at the port office looked at him suspiciously.

Fang Hao smiled and stuffed a small bag of things: "It's just here to study, please make it convenient." ”

As a result, before the thing was stuffed into the other party's hand, the other party had already jumped up: "Don't harm me, don't harm me, for the sake of you first coming to the Five Kingdoms City and not knowing the rules of the Five Kingdoms City, I don't report you, but you don't hurt me." ”

"What?" Fang was stunned.

It is a common practice to pay bribes to the officials, the officials are as clear as water and the officials are as smooth as oil, and those officials who have little or no money or even no at all, if they don't accept bribes, what do they live on?

"Jeju has the rules...... Oh, the law, unlike the Great Song Dynasty, your behavior is harmful to others and yourself, if I accept it, I am guilty, not to mention the punishment of dismissal, the person you bribe is also guilty, and you will be fined ten times the amount of the bribe, and those who report you and me can get half of this fine! The little official shook his head again and again, and then turned back and said, "You have all seen it, I have not touched the bag he stuffed with my hand, if the ICAC comes to look for me, you will have to testify!" ”

"Haha, don't worry, there are such ignorant people every day, in fact, you are kind-hearted, if I take his money and then prosecute him, I can get half of the bribe!" The person next to him laughed.

"I don't want this money, let's make a stable amount of money honestly." The clerk, known as the old steward, pouted.

After finishing speaking, he looked at Fang Hao again: "Since you come to Jeju, you must know the law of Jeju, and during your stay in Jeju, you must also obey the law...... You're here to study, this matter is a little troublesome, I haven't heard of the Five Nations Academy recruiting people from outside. ”

"This ...... If I can meet with the officials of your land, maybe I can, I can be accommodating, by the way, my father and Zhou Zhizhi have exchanged letters, so he sent me. ”

Fang was not stupid, and immediately moved out of Zhou Quan's signboard.

He was not afraid that the other party would find out that this matter was wrong, because he believed that the sooner the fact that he was Fang La's son was known by the upper echelons of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, the more helpful it would be for him on this trip.

Even if he is a hostage, he must always eat, drink and entertain well, and he will not be turned away.

Sure enough, as soon as he heard Zhou Zhizhi, the official surnamed Guan looked solemn: "Is this really the case? ”

"Nature is true!"

When the official with the surname Guan heard this, he asked him to wait a while, and went out for a while, and after a while, several people came over, and Fang Hao saw that it was the patrol he had just seen.

"That's him!" The official surnamed Guan pointed at Fang Hao: "I dare to pretend to be a relative and friend of Zhou Zhizhi, and I just tried to bribe me!" ”

As soon as he drank this finger, Fang Hao's heart was not good, and he almost instinctively turned around and ran away. But he was rushed up by those patrols, pressed straight to the ground, and then began to search his body skillfully.

Fang La's son, how could he have no self-defense on his body, and after a while, the two short blades were searched out and thrown in front of Fang Hao.

"Wronged, wronged, I didn't pretend...... My father did send letters to Zhou Zhizhi, and an uncle of my family visited Zhou Zhizhi several times......"

Fang Hao was about to scream, but someone stuffed his mouth with a rag: "Nonsense, the system has been said a long time ago, if someone claims to be his relatives and friends and asks for convenience, then it must be a liar, let's catch it!" ”

Fang Hao was dumbfounded, he was about to explain that he was not a relative or friend, but with a cloth in his mouth, he could only whine.

He was arrested and escorted out, and everyone who came to the pass was ridiculed, and the owner of the ship who came with him couldn't care about him at this time, so he could only desperately explain that he didn't know that this kid would pretend to be Zhou Zhi's relatives and friends, so as not to be affected by him.

Fang Hao's heart was full of horror, and he found at this time that some of his life experience in the Great Song Dynasty seemed to be completely useless in Jeju.

He didn't know if he would be tortured next, or even die in prison if he was arrested like this.

When he was dragged out of the door, he suddenly felt a tightness on his body, and the strength used by those patrols was a little stronger, and then they saluted one after another: "Your Highness! ”

"Your Highness!"

From the attitude and title of these patrols, it can be seen that there is a person with a great identity. But Fang Hao was firmly controlled, so he could only glance at it out of the corner of his eye, and found a few beautiful shadows flashing in front of him.

One of them suddenly stopped: "Who is this?" ”

The voice was crisp, like a yellow bird, Fang Hao was overjoyed, struggling desperately, hoping to attract attention. Holding him down, the patrol said respectfully: "Report to Your Highness, this person pretended to be a relative or friend, tried to bribe the officials of the customs office, and was arrested. ”

"Ah, someone dares to pretend to be Zhou Lang's relatives and friends, and his reputation is ruined, and he must be dealt with well...... Ah, don't care what I say, I can't help it, and I don't follow your rules. ”

The voice drifted over easily, and it also took away Fang Hao's hope, Fang Hao's expression was disillusioned, and he gave up struggling.

He resigned himself to his fate. (To be continued.) )