In the spring of the ninth year of the summer calendar (566 AD), March

Although it is not early spring, it is still relatively late in the summer, and the sun has not yet risen, but the sky is slightly bright, and the huge port outside Pingyang Castle (Tokyo) in the East China Sea is already very noisy.

Boats crowded the huge port, and a large number of fishing boats were docking at the fishing port next to the commercial port, all of whom were fishermen from the East China Sea who had gone out to sea in the middle of the night last night to sell the hard-caught fish at a good price in the morning market.

And some sea ships going back and forth between the East China Sea and Sanqi, Nanchen and other places, in order to be able to rush more during the day to the next port early, are already lighting a fire to eat, just waiting for the day to be completely bright before setting off.

Although the profits of the merchants who go to sea are very profitable, but in the case that the quality of the ships is far inferior to the ships of the Xia Kingdom in the East China Sea, going to sea is a fight for their lives, and it is always safer to sail during the day than at night.

The ports of the maritime countries are always extremely busy places, and the people living in and near the ports have long been accustomed to such a busy and noisy life, and it can even be said that they like such prosperity, because the market here is not inferior to Pingyang City, which is more than ten miles away.

Although the port of Binh Duong Castle is not the best in the entire East China Sea, it is still one of the top two ports in the East China Sea due to its vast and abundant Pyeongma River (Kanto Plain) and its geographical advantage of being located in the north-south transportation hub of the East China Sea counties.

The number of ships coming in and out of such a bustling port every day is a large number, so the people here are already accustomed to foreign ships in the port, but today the busy people in the port were surprised to find ten strange ships after dawn.

It is said that these ships are strange because these sailors on the ships who are obviously not warships are actually some sailors and soldiers, and the other part are ordinary sailors, and there are even a large number of Taoist priests wearing Haotian Daomen costumes walking around on them.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and people clearly saw that there was still a banner of Haotian Daomen hanging on the mast of one of the ships, and there were obviously a large number of water warfare weapons on the deck of the ships, and there were still many young and strong laborers carrying materials to the ships at this time.

A young man with a few pimples on his face wondered, "What are these ships for?" I think there are a lot of Taoist priests above? ”

At this time, a middle-aged man passing by heard it, glanced at the young man and explained a little proudly: "You still don't know, right? These ships are preparing to go to the place called Fusang to the east of the ocean, and these masters of the Haotian Dao Sect are all preparing to go there to preach Dafa! ”

The young man was obviously a newcomer, and when he heard the middle-aged man's explanation, his eyes widened and he wondered: "No, I've heard of any charts left by Xiao Liang Futu monk Huishen in the past, but I just thought it was a rumor, is there really such a place?" ”

At this time, another young soldier passing by in the patrol clothes of the port explained: "It must be true, these things were told to us by the little marquis himself, and the people of Fusang are also exactly the same black hair and yellow skin as us, and it is said that they are the descendants of the White Emperor at the beginning!" ”

At this time, it can be seen that the young man who first asked questions was a common man from the Central Plains who had recently immigrated to the East China Sea, so he did not worship some things about Wang Ze too much, but had a trace of suspicion, and as a young patrol soldier, he grew up in a cottage, so he admired Wang Ze very much.

This is also a significant feature of the current East China Sea society, considering the impact of a large number of immigrants on the localization of the East China Sea society, and may even reduce the loyalty of the people, so in the past two years, Wang Ze has no longer been as crazy as in the past.

At this time, Wang Ze had to rejoice, because of the war in the land of Sanqi, the vast majority of the people who moved to the East China Sea were from the land of Sanqi, and these people had the same language, eating habits, and social customs, so they could be well integrated together, and there was no big difference.

In the past four years, even if the rate of immigration has been slowed down, the population of the entire Donghae has increased to more than 2.1 million without delay, of course, these refer to the number of Han people and naturalized people who have already obtained Han people's qualifications, and if we add some Heishui people, Begisanos, Kuyi people, and some Baekje and Silla people who have not yet obtained national qualifications, the population of the entire Donghae will almost reach 2.5 million.

Because the original immigrants from Pingmachuan were mainly the old immigrants who moved from Wang Ze at the earliest, the loyalty of these people to Wang Ze is unquestionable, and only a very small number of ordinary people migrated later, and they became city residents as craftsmen with certain skills, living near the county town and port of Pingyang.

Looking at the ten big ships on the berth, the people in the port talked a lot, some people felt that it was too dangerous to take so many ships and so many people to go to a strange place tens of thousands of miles away, and now that so many Bejiwild people who have not yet been naturalized near the Tongjiang River have not been naturalized, these Taoist priests are still in the mood to preach elsewhere, it is really not right. Good Chinese

Therefore, some people disagree with the behavior of these Daomen Daomen, but there are also some hardcore believers of Haotian Daomen who are very supportive of such actions, they feel that since Huishen of the Futu Sect can reach Fusang with some disciples, then why can't the Daoist of Haotian Daomen?

Haotian Daomen has cultivated many hardcore believers since it was established in the cottage of Changguang County, and now it has cultivated many hardcore believers for more than ten years, as long as these believers can suppress the Futu Sect, it is a good thing, so as long as it is done by the Daomen, it must be right.

When some of the not particularly committed believers questioned the action, the hardcore believers were very upset, and an argument soon ensued.

Just when some of the people were arguing and quarrelling, someone suddenly found that the soldiers of the brigade entered the port in a neat line, and quickly controlled the port berths near the ten ships.

So someone shouted: "Look, it's the avant-garde, it should be the little marquis who is coming soon!" All of a sudden, the hearts of the people in the port were on fire.

In the past two years, although Wang Ze has also gone down to various villages from time to time to contact ordinary people, he is already the lord of a country after all, so he is also strict in terms of protection, and it is difficult for ordinary people to easily see Wang Ze on some occasions as in the past, so at this time, the people in the port are also excited when they hear that the little marquis is coming.

Not long after, a convoy of horse-drawn carriages came from the ten-zhang-wide road leading to the pier in Binh Duong County, and because of the wide and flat avenue and the fact that there was no shortage of horses in Donghae, these carriages were all four-wheeled carriages.

These carriages were also developed by the students and teachers of the Mechanical Institute and the craftsmen of the workshop over the years, and although there are many restrictions on the rugged islands of the East China Sea, because of the flatness and vastness of the Heima River, there is still a huge volume of goods in the market.

The richly decorated four-wheeled carved royal blue silk covered carriage has more than ten cars, a team of soldiers in iron armor are guarding on both sides of the horse team, and dozens of strong soldiers are guarding each car before and after.

When all these gorgeous carriages came to the dock and were stable, and all the people in the carriage came down, some old immigrants who were familiar with high-level officials in the port were all stunned.

Among the people who saw him off, needless to say, the highest status was naturally Wang Ze, Wang Ze was accompanied by a ten-year-old boy, many people knew that it was Wang Ze's second brother Wang Hui, he had been in the East China Sea for more than three years, and he had been following Wang Ze's side for several years.

But Wang Ze didn't come down directly at this time, and actually helped an old Taoist priest with white hair to get out of the car, and after seeing the old Taoist, the young inspector suddenly took a breath and said: "Amazing, the old immortals who haven't gone out much in the past two years have come to see them off, I don't know if they want to send the disciples of the old immortals away!" ”

Wang Ze and the middle-aged Taoist priest supported Liu Qing as they walked towards the fleet, and waved to the surrounding people, causing the surrounding people to cheer.

Behind Wang Ze and the old immortal Liu Qing, followed by Yang Ku and Liu Xin, Liu Xin was also picked up by Wang Ze when he took Wang Hui to the East China Sea, and Cao Blacksmith and others came with him at that time, anyway, these people are also a bit wasteful in Wang Yong's place, and it just so happens that Wang Ze is short of people here.

In addition to these people, there were dozens of other Donghai officials who came to see them off, and it can be said that Donghai is the first time to organize such a big farewell, and the one who was sent off was none other than Liu Qing's fourth disciple Chen Duan.

Although this brother Tai established the local sect system in Yizhou, but the mission to the Southern Dynasty ended in failure, and finally returned to the East China Sea in discouragement, but Chen Duan was not the kind of person who could sit still after all, and he was very adventurous, and after pondering for a long time in the East China Sea, he finally made a request to Wang Ze.

That is, he is going to lead a part of the fanatical Haotian Daoist monks to take a sea ship to Fusang, where Huishen had arrived, to spread the divine light of Haotian God, so that the descendants of the White Emperor and Miao there can return to the ancestral source of China again.

When Chen Duan made this request to Wang Ze, Wang Ze was stunned, even until the early 20th century, it was a long journey to the Americas by steamship, let alone to go to the Americas at this time.

Although Wang Ze's whaling fleet has discovered the Kuril Islands, Kamchatka Island, and the North-Zemlya Islands (Aleutian Islands) in the process of whaling, they have also set up some bases on them, and a few exiles live there.

However, the continent of the Americas further afield was not prepared at all, and the distance from the Northland Islands to Fuso, that is, Mexico in later generations, was 20,000 miles, so it was also a great challenge.