After several days of high-speed driving on the vast Dasha Sea, Yi Yun and Li Huamei finally arrived at Quanzhou Port. k update

In the normal world of Yiyun, Quanzhou was a super port with extremely developed maritime trade capabilities, and it also had a very important place in history. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, Quanzhou was known as the "largest port in the East", and the "Alexandria" of Egypt was equally famous, and it was the "Maritime Silk Road", one of the 24 famous historical and cultural cities.

Yi Yun was eager to see the history of a super port, but when his ship arrived at Quanzhou Port, it almost froze...... I saw that on the empty shore, not even a big boat could be seen, not even a fishing boat, and the waves of the sand sea were lapping wave after wave on the empty dock.

The dock here is quite well built, with a lot of space reserved for ships, but because it is unmanaged, the dock is very old, and there is a mansion where the dock manager lives on the side, which is now in disrepair, and there is a big hole in the roof......

"I'm rubbing, why is this happening here?"

Li Huamei sighed: "This is caused by the sea ban...... In the past, the port of Quanzhou was also lined with merchant ships like the port of Ningbo, but in the last hundreds of years, the country of Dameng issued several sea bans, closed the port, and moved the people to the mainland, leaving only the port of Ningbo to be responsible for foreign trade...... Thereupon...... This bustling port is slowly becoming like this. ”

"No sea ban?" Yi Yun seemed to have vaguely heard that this kind of thing had happened in his own history, but he didn't learn history well, and he didn't know exactly what this ban meant, only that it was stupid to do so.

Li Huamei smiled bitterly: "In fact, the original intention of the imperial court to issue a ban on the sea is good, because the Great Meng Kingdom is a country in the Celestial Empire, and it is rich in materials, even if it does not trade with other countries, it can be self-sufficient." The ban on the sea was issued to protect the inhabitants of the coast from pirates...... The officials of the Great Meng Kingdom thought that if the people along the coast were moved to the interior, pirates and pirates would not be able to grab the fishing village, and they would naturally disappear. ”

"A bunch of fools!" yelled Iyun, "doing so will only turn the fishermen into pirates, and the normal maritime merchants into pirates." And without communication with the whole world, the level of science and technology and vision will become worse and worse. ”

Yi Yun's argument is reasonable, because fishermen are creatures that probably can't do anything but fish, and the imperial court will move them to the interior and give them a piece of land, so that they can farm? This idea is too naïve! In fact, the result is that the fishermen are unwilling to move inward, and want to stay on the beach, but the court does not allow them to stay, and the final result is that these fishermen are turned into pirates...... As for the maritime merchants, it is easier to understand, if they are not allowed to do serious maritime trade, they will smuggle, and naturally become pirates.

"That's right!" Li Huamei spread her hands and said: "The imperial court has good intentions to do bad things, if the bigwigs of the imperial court have such insight as yours, the stupid sea ban order will not be issued." ”

"In short, the port of Quanzhou is dilapidated, and there is no other use in saying this. Li Huamei followed: "It's okay...... This time, the emperor will definitely anchor here, and they will renovate this pier when the time comes, because the place where the emperor is stationed must not be too shabby. ”

Yi Yun nodded and said: "The two of us have to hide, if we also stop in this port, on the one hand, it will be discovered by the emperor, and then she will have to think of some messy tricks to toss, and on the other hand, the Dutch spy may also detect our two ships." ”

"This is simple!" Li Huamei smiled, took Yi Yun out of Quanzhou Port, drove along the coastline to the south for a while, and went around to a bay, she pointed to the small islands raised at both ends of the bay, and said with a smile: "These two protrusions are called Jinwoyu Island and Shanwei Island, which just wrap the place where our ship is located in it, it is a natural harbor, hiding here, the emperor and the Dutch should not be able to find us." ”...,

Yi Yun also thought that this place was great, and was about to praise her a few words, when suddenly he saw that there were many ships moored in the small bay, about forty or fifty, some large and some small, but the largest of these ships was not as big as Li Huamei's lucky boat...... They were all small smuggling boats, some with Zheng Zhilong's dragon flag on the bow, others with strange flags, such as the skull pirate flag, such as a ceramic bottle flag, such as the Tiger flag, such as the pure black flag. It seems that Li Huamei is not the only one who knows this natural harbor, but the pirates who are begging for a living on this sea know this harbor.

Li Huamei chuckled and said, "Welcome to the lawless pirate world!"

"Hey, there are no pirates among them, are they?" asked Iyun earnestly.

Li Huamei smiled proudly: "The pirates are a group of waste, they like to rob the people on land, we pirates are much more powerful than them, we have our own principles......

"What principle?"

"Only the sea!"

Evan: "......"

The two of them slowly entered the harbor, and Yi Yun's ship was hanging the python flag of the royal kingdom of Dameng, and the pirates obviously didn't have a good impression of this flag and didn't pay attention to it at all. But as soon as Li Huamei's "Scarlet Tiger" flag was displayed, the pirates were obviously very face-saving, and several ships took the initiative to get out of the way, so that Li Huamei's ship occupied a very good berth without much effort, and even the ship with Yiyun was also stained.

"Tsk, I found out that your name can be exchanged for food at sea. Yi Yun couldn't help but sigh.

"Well, I have made a name for myself at sea over the years, all thanks to the help of my brothers!" Li Huamei said with a smile.

After the two of them parked the boat, someone on the boat next to them came out and greeted him: "Ship Master Li, why did you come to Quanzhou? I heard that you are doing something near the Shanghai Oasis in Wusong Port, which has caused a lot of trouble...... Do you have time to hang out with us?"

Li Huamei responded with a smile: "I have something urgent to deal with when I go south this time!"

"Yo, is it for the Dutch?" the pirate laughed, "and there is nothing else to do on the southeast sea, except for the new Dutch." ”

Yi Yun was slightly shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but whisper: "This pirate is so well-informed, it is really the news of the north and south seas that he doesn't know." ”

"It's not surprising at all. Li Huamei said with a smile: "Pirates form a circle of their own, and news is exchanged very quickly, because everyone's ships are constantly moving, so they spread news everywhere." I brought you here to inquire more about the intelligence of the Dutch here, and to grasp more things, which will not be harmful to us. ”

Chen Yuanyuan, who was behind Yi Yun, frowned a little unhappily, her intelligence ability is what Yi Yun relies on very much, and she is often proud of her intelligence ability, because Yi Yun can't do without her, she has to have her, otherwise she will completely lose the intelligence system. Now this Li Huamei jumped out and planned to provide a lot of information, which made her feel that her sense of existence was being threatened, but in front of outsiders, she couldn't reveal the identity of the Sanjiang Pavilion Master, so it was not easy to jump out and speak, and she was very uncomfortable.

At this time, Li Huamei beckoned Yi Yun and said, "Lord, let's get off the boat and go to the shore to find information...... In places where pirates gather, there is usually a small market on the shore, where many pirates sell their loot at a bargain price, and there are mobile bars and dancing girls to entertain them...... Searching for intelligence in such a place often results twice the result with half the effort. ”

When Yi Yun heard this, the dancing girl was happy and said, "Go, let's go right away!"

Chen Yuanyuan thought in his heart: I want to see what kind of information the people here can provide, and whether it can be more detailed than the one sent back by my spies. ...,

So the three of them got together and went to the shore.

This appearance immediately shocked the pirates on the dock, and saw Yi Yun standing in the middle, wearing a boy's clothes, smiling and smiling. Standing on the left is the gentle, beautiful and generous Qinhuai River Oiran lady, wearing stunning flowing clouds and water sleeves. On the right, there is a pirate admiral standing in a heroic posture, wearing a Western chest armor and a big red cloak.

The two beauties are accompanied by each other, and the styles are completely different, which really makes everyone envious, jealous and hateful.

Fortunately, the pirates all know that "Scarlet Tiger" Li Huamei is informal, quite Western-style, and ordinary male friends can also walk side by side like this, but they don't see her as Yiyun's woman. The feeling of jealousy, envy and hatred was slightly lessened.

The three of them went ashore, and sure enough, they saw a peculiar little market on the shore, this small market was open-air, not surrounded by walls or bamboo fences, but a completely open free market, with many small stalls and vendors, but these vendors were all five big and three thick, and they were not good people at first glance.

The way they sell things is also very simple, not shouting like ordinary vendors, but piling up goods in a mess and selling them indiscriminately, and as soon as Iyun entered the market, he saw one pirate buying something from another.

"Hey, Zhang Laosan, you have robbed a lot of porcelain this time? Sell me some! I happened to be in the porcelain business recently. ”

"Yo, it turned out to be Li Laosi, okay, you make a price......"

"Ten taels of silver a catty!" Zhang Laosan stretched out five fingers and said.

"Okay! Deal! Pick them up on the ground yourself, I'll pile them all here, too lazy to break them down. Li Laosi waved his hand.

Yi Yun next to him Khan: "I wipe, is there a mistake? Buy porcelain and sell it for two catties? Isn't it sold by number or quality?"

Li Huamei said with a smile: "Pirates sell things like this, pay attention to pleasure, simple, not like ordinary merchants bargaining, but also look at what quality content, they are robbing things anyway, just trying to exchange money as soon as possible and be happy." ”