According to incomplete statistics, in the early years of Zhenguan, the silver flowing into the Tang Dynasty from overseas was about one billion taels, and the gold was 300 million taels, and the plundered population was more than one million, and countless materials and jewels flowed into the Tang Dynasty from here, becoming a century of great development. (Excerpt from "The History of the Development of the Tang Dynasty")

Quanzhou, originally a branch belonging to Lingnan Road, in the second year of Zhenguan, Niu Jinda and Xu Yang returned from overseas hand in hand, was independently assigned together, Zhenguan three years, Fengzhou was withdrawn, under the jurisdiction of Nan'an, Putian, Longxi three counties, this three-sided bad sea, the Tang Dynasty was later known as the first port of the Tang Dynasty harbor, which and Ryukyu Island across the sea, and the narrowest place in the strait, is only more than 200 miles. If the sea conditions are good, you can cross the strait by a small sampan.

The speed of Quanzhou's development is simply jaw-dropping, Quanzhou's inner road is a large number of merchants from Chang'an, Luoyang, and Youzhou, while Ryukyu Island is now full of fishing boats and ocean-going ships seeking overseas exploration, forming a huge chain of interests between them, and these two groups of people are also located just on the dividing line of the Taiwan Strait......

The weather on the sea today is good, the wind is very small, and the sun above the head radiates a warm light, bringing a warm warmth to this somewhat cold winter. A convoy of four merchant ships was sailing on the sea, and judging by the direction they were traveling, it should be heading towards the port of Quanzhou.

A seagull picks up a fish from the sea. Draw an arc through the air. Fly down to the mast of a merchant ship. Savor fresh sea fish while enjoying the view from the deck of a merchant ship.

The crew members of the merchant ships were all dressed as Tang people, and all of them were men in the prime of life, all of them were armed with horizontal knives, and they looked like ordinary sailors at all. On the bow of the ship stood two men, who seemed to be the owners of the fleet, and the one on the left was a broad-hearted, fat-bodied, kind-faced merchant. is looking at the goods below with a big belly and a smile, and the other is a burly man, the temperature at sea in winter is still very low, but this man is only wearing a single coat, with the placket open, revealing the muscular chest muscles, and the new and old scars on the chest are vertical and horizontal, which looks extremely terrifying.

"Big brother, the quality of our goods this time is so high, we will definitely be able to sell them for a big price. This time, the eldest grandson's family must add some more annual fees. The big man said to the fat merchant with an excited face. It's about to be in Quanzhou. As soon as these goods are sold, the business they have worked so hard to pull will be completed.

"I didn't expect it to be such an easy deal to catch slaves from Southeast Asia. It seems that the business opportunities that our brothers saw in the newspapers were really right. The fat merchant stared at the dozens of brown-haired natives under the cabin and said with a smile.

When the big man heard this, he also showed a look of fascination, and said with a smile: "I thought that this overseas expedition was a job of licking knives, but I really didn't expect that those natives were so weak, and if I wanted to say, if it wasn't for the fact that the ship couldn't be loaded, I would like to directly capture the people of the whole island and sell them for money." ”

When the fat merchant heard this, he actually shook his head and said, "Brother, after this vote, we will almost no longer be able to do slave hunting." ”

"Why?!" The big man was surprised.

The fat merchant sighed lightly: "Do you know why the imperial court didn't listen to Quanzhou some time ago?" Daozhì is now rampant with all kinds of gangs, and slave hunting has always been squeezed by major forces, that is because the Tang Dynasty is at war with Tuguhun, have you read the latest issue of the newspaper, Li Jing and Li Ji broke Tuguhun and captured the leader of Tuguhun alive on the edge of Qinghai, Fuyun, and is now rushing to Chang'an to restore his life, I heard a high-ranking housekeeper in Changsun's house say that once Li Ji and Li Jingjunshen return to Chang'an, the first target of His Majesty's rectification is the numerous gangs and various interest groups in Quanzhou. The eldest grandson's family would draw out all the slave hunters, and the housekeeper advised me to get out as soon as possible to avoid being killed. ”

After the fat merchant finished speaking, the big man showed a frightened look, but in the end, he still held back his unhappiness and said indignantly: "Then big brother, if we don't do this business, where are we going next?" ”

When the fat merchant heard that his brother had misunderstood, he hurriedly explained: "I said brother, I didn't mean that we don't do shipping anymore, we just don't catch slaves, we can still go and plunder those goods, gold and silver, but we can't do slave hunting." ”

The big man suddenly realized, but grinned again: "That's good, in my opinion, there is no difference between captives and captives............

"Boy, I heard that you are not lightly ill, why, without the wind and waves at sea, are you a little unaccustomed!" Familiar voices can be heard from afar.

Xu Yang shook his head with a smile, sat up from the bed, and waited for this old acquaintance to come to the door.

Sure enough, the door was slowly pushed open, and a strong figure appeared in front of Xu Yang.

I have to say that the seaside is really a place to exercise people, Niu Jinda's angular face is blown by the sea breeze more and more tough, and his eyes are becoming more and more sharp, and the original wheat-colored skin has been tanned, and it is a little unrecognizable.

"That's not it, I haven't been on a boat for a long time, and I've forgotten what it's like at sea." Xu Yang also smiled and joked, this mentor and friend has really not seen him for a long time, and now when he meets him, he feels extremely happy.

Niu Jinda smiled, "I heard that you also gave birth to a baby, and there is nothing to bring to the beach, this time Ben will bring a whole whale and give it to him as a gift." ”

Xu Yang also sneered, this is really the first time I have seen the whale.

"Well, I got the kindness." Xu Yang smiled slightly, "But, Uncle Niu, why are you back now?" Xu Yang said, and showed a curious look.

When Niu Jinda heard this, his face also became stern, and he said: "Quanzhou, the sky is about to change............

It's hard to imagine that a year ago it was a poor fishing village, with only a dozen or so fishermen's families scattered along the coast. Since the Tang Dynasty's ocean-going fleet came here once, Quanzhou has begun to undergo earth-shaking changes.

Originally a village of only a dozen fishermen, dozens of businessmen come to look for opportunities and development every day, and with the popularization of overseas news knowledge in the "Datang News", more and more people have begun to pay attention to the overseas where they heard that there is gold everywhere.

The original family couldn't resist the temptation in the end, and began to go to the sea one after another, sending the young children of the clan to Quanzhou to try their luck.

Originally, in the eyes of the Tang people, Lingnan was an uncivilized place, full of wild beasts, and poisonous snakes, but now, it is a place full of opportunities to get rich overnight.

The small fishing village has welcomed tens of thousands of visitors in a short period of time, and where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. In the same way, where there are people, there is buying and selling.

Inns and restaurants were the first places to be built, followed by various places of commercial activity, and bazaars, trading houses, and shops seemed to be established overnight.

The big families began to form gangs, and the small businessmen also began to form groups, and everyone made money, but everyone wanted to earn more than each other, so the contradictions appeared irreconcilablely, and fights and brawls became commonplace, but here the emperor was far away, and even the Thorn History Mansion of Quanzhou was more than ten miles away from the sea, so those interest groups were more and more undesirable, and there was often friction between them for a little benefit.

Niu Jinda is in charge of managing overseas affairs, but he now finds that overseas affairs and transactions seem to be somewhat out of his control, and the lack of manpower is on the one hand, and on the other hand, because the overseas interests are too huge, they have a huge attraction to those businessmen, and no matter what punishment is made, there are still people who will take risks.

Therefore, Niu Jinda came to Xujiazhuang this time, and he was ready to listen to Xuyang's construction before he was going to face the saint, how should he manage this overseas...... (To be continued......)

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