Chapter 478: Rules at Sea
The Tang clan came to Chaochang to establish a trading base for the family, but in the end, the land bought at a high price could only be built into a wild village.
Although the commander sent by the Cloud Council has repeatedly emphasized that the Nangang Wharf will be the direction of Chaochang's vigorous development in the future, it is really difficult to make the commander's words convincing because of the desolate location where there is not even a fishing village at this time.
But Tang Yao still left behind with the Tang clansmen, and found craftsmen and workers from Chaochang and began to build a village.
As the days passed, such a big thing as the establishment of a stronghold by the Longxi Alliance did not stir up a little wave like water dripping into the sea, and even the Cloud Council, which was very guarded against the Tang Clan, let down its vigilance when it saw Tang Yao really start to build a village honestly.
Nangang Wharf is indeed the direction of development, but to develop Chaochang City to this point, it will take at least twenty or thirty years, what is there to urgently.
Of course, the Tang family can also choose to increase investment, continue to expand the Nangang wharf and eventually border the outer city of Chaochang, which is better, Chaochang can have today's scale, relying on the sea to embrace all rivers, there is tolerance.
The twelve wealthy families of the Cloud Council are rejecting the Tang clan who came to Chaochang's existing territory to fight for food, but if the Tang clan came to Chaochang to make the cake bigger, then they only have 10,000 welcomes, and hope that the more such families the better.
The arrival of the Tang clan did not stir up a single wave, but the sudden appearance of several pirates in the South China Sea changed the pattern of Chaochang's sea routes.
As the largest port of the Endless Boys, Chaochang's trade with foreign continents is all by water, but not every merchant ship can have a fierce realm powerhouse, most of them are more than a dozen teams of elites, and it is great.
After all, it takes more than ten months to trade once, and even if it is short-distance and fast, it will take half a year, and it is really impossible to invest such high-end force as the fierce realm on the fleet guard.
Because the real threat to the fleet of ships in the open sea does not come from man-made disasters, but from the changeable sea conditions and celestial phenomena, if there is really a dangerous situation that threatens the fleet, it is difficult for a fierce and powerful person to change the situation, to a certain extent, there is no difference between having and not being.
And there is no need to worry about man-made disasters, because the bandits rampant in the endless South China Sea were originally supported and nurtured by the family, in order to monopolize the waterway.
After all, the matter of fighting is also to be divided into majors, and ordinary water bandits who fall into the grass are also murderous in some small rivers and rob some passenger ships and cargo boats, but when it comes to a place like the Endless South China Sea, the realm of transformation is a little insufficient, after all, the family fleet moves more than a dozen elite squads with tacit understanding, even against the wandering warriors in the fierce realm.
And a wandering martial artist must be able to cultivate to the fierce realm, and only when his braincase is broken will he come to the Endless South China Sea to be a pirate, after all, once a martial artist breaks through the fierce realm cultivation, there are too many choices he can make.
Therefore, although the endless South China Sea on the surface is raging with bandits, the families of Chaochang secretly know what is going on, and they follow some rules, so they are naturally safe.
For example, when the wealthy clan united the fleet to Chengzhou, the small clan should not immediately organize the fleet to follow and want to share some soup to drink, otherwise it is easy to meet pirates.
The same is true of trade, the wealthy clan naturally has no taboos, but the small clan has a series of taboos, and the cruelty of Chaochang is.
No one will remind you that when you find the Passover, the pirates have already come to you.
Of course, it is not so much because the pirates with black flags are not cruel, but because the "mistakes" of the small family fleet are not enough to kill the clan.
So in most cases, the small fleet only needs to hand over half (sometimes seventy) of the supplies before it can pass smoothly.
Of course, you can also try to resist, and then the pirates will fly the red flag, which means that if the battle is lost, they will plunder the fleet without mercy, and the fleet will undoubtedly be slaughtered.
In addition to some famous pirates in the endless South China Sea, there is also the Chaochang fleet that patrols day and night, radiating southward from the Chaochang port to ensure the shipping route.
While supporting the pirates to set the rules of trade in the South China Sea, he organized a fleet to ensure the safety of the shipping lanes.
It is in this two-pronged approach that the wealthy businessmen of Chaochang have become richer and richer in the past 20 years, while the small businessmen can only pick up some leftovers of the wealthy families, but it is better than standing still.
But in the past two months, many of the fleets of Yahang have found that the food of the wealthy families has become more and more ugly, and the small and medium-sized fleets of Yahang have encountered pirates one after another.
This new group of pirates did not raid other merchant ships, as if they had recognized them, and only extorted and attacked these slave fleets.
It's not that I didn't want to resist, but what makes people feel ridiculous is that the leader of this fresh-faced pirate team is actually a martial arts master, and the crew is also all mortal elites, which is almost equivalent to showing his identity to the blackmail target.
After all, apart from Chaochang's group of bastards who were blinded by money, who would be able to easily use such force to throw it at sea, and also be able to clearly and accurately explore their routes.
When there was such a discovery, the slave hunting fleet of the small and medium-sized tooth line naturally couldn't raise any thoughts of resistance, even if they were angry, they mostly paid the money.
A very small number of people who had the courage to resist naturally drove away the one-man canoe Wu Zong with the advantage of being outnumbered, but the hull of the ship would also suffer different degrees of heavy damage.
When these brave captains returned to Chaochang, calculating the cost of medicine for the injured warriors and looking at the quotation for repairing the hull, they would always secretly regret it, because compared to what they lost, it was better to pay the pirate in the first place, at least this loss was smaller.
Because of the appearance of this martial sect-level pirate, the cost of catching slaves in Chaochang's small tooth shop has greatly increased, and it is almost difficult to maintain competitiveness in a fierce tooth shop like Chaochang, and reducing the price means losing money, but if you don't reduce the price, these slaves can only rot in their own hands.
Although it had long been expected that with the reduction of the demographic dividend, the wealthy families of Chaochang would make some moves, but no one expected that this action would come so quickly.
After looking back, the few dental shops were helpless, and they understood that this was the top few that were cleared, although at this time the Nancheng dental shops seemed to be in full swing, but in fact, they were all supported by the cheap population of Longzhou.
Not to mention that the frozen soil in Chengzhou has begun to regain its vitality, it is only said that the Longxi Tang clan did not hesitate to rescue refugees in Longzhou for the sake of Wang Xun's benevolent and righteous archway, and determined that the tooth shop business would not last long.
The biggest disadvantage of the alliance is that, once the interests are like-minded, everyone will quickly gather together to form a striking force, and once there is a risk or bad omen, some of the coalition will quickly want to escape.
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