After flying for three hours, the plane landed on Anping Island. There is a small city on Anping Island, hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, and at the same time, there is also a base for the East China Sea Fleet, which is a coastal defense point of the Tianqi Empire.

Changxia Island is still more than 1,000 kilometers away from Anping Island, Zhang Yue and others did not wait for a regional plane once a week, took the checked luggage, and directly boarded a business jet arranged by the Zhao family, and did not even leave the airport, and flew directly to Changxia Island.

After two hours, I finally arrived at Changxia Island, and when I stepped off the plane, I was greeted by the tropical atmosphere, sunshine, palm trees, sea breeze, and white sand beaches as far as the eye could see.

A middle-aged man in his forties greeted him.

"Uncle Thirteen, why did you come in person. Zhao Qinghe recognized that it was the uncle of his own family, and he didn't dare to slack off.

"Haha, I haven't seen you in three years, come and see how our little phoenix is doing. ”

The middle-aged man is called Zhao Xijin, who is the same generation as Zhao Qinghe's father, and is now the manager of the fiefdom of Changxia Island.

Zhao Qinghe smiled a little shyly and introduced Zhao Xijin: "This is Wu Manmei, you should know Uncle Thirteen." This is Zhang Yue, my classmate from the Jidao Academy, and he and Sister Manmei came here to inspect medicinal herbs. ”

"Welcome, Manmei, you are a rare guest, I heard that you are going to come here to investigate, I ate a few more bowls of happy rice yesterday, we have a partial place here, except for fish and shrimp, there are no other specialties, if there are some medicinal herbs produced, the life of the islanders can be better." ”

"No problem, I came this time to bring great news to Uncle Zhao, I guarantee that you won't be able to sleep after hearing it. ”

"Oh, niece Manmei, that's what you said, if the news isn't good enough, I won't do it. Zhao Xijin smiled and let everyone get into the car.

The cars here are more special, with large, flat roofs, which are solar-powered, and two such solar cars pull the group to the Doge's Palace.

Changxia Island is the fief of Zhao Mengshan's grandmaster, his title is Dinghaihou, when he was canonized, Zhao Mengshan directly chose the most remote Changxia Island in the sea area, in his words at the time, the warrior is armed with force, when the territory is safe and the people, and guards the frontier for the country.

Zhao Mengshan made great achievements in the war twenty years ago, his fief is a real fief, that is, the personnel, finance, administration, judicial and other powers of the entire territory are all under him, and the empire only retains the right to garrison troops and the right of final judicial adjudication, and the people in the fief have the right to move out freely.

Zhao Mengshan has a lot of affairs, and it is impossible to be resident in Changxia Island, so he generally entrusts his own children as acting governors, and the current acting governor is Zhao Xijin.

The name of this acting governor sounds majestic, but in fact, the area of Changxia Island is okay, more than 600 square kilometers, but the population is only more than 10,000, which is not as good as a township in the interior.

Changxia Island is vast and sparsely populated, and the Governor's Mansion occupies a large area, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and occupies the entire shallow bay. Because the trees on the island are precious resources, the Governor's Palace is made of local materials, using a kind of white striped stone produced on the island, and the entire Governor's Palace is a white stone building, which is extremely beautiful under the blue sky and clear water.

It was getting late, and Zhao Xi set up a dinner party in the Governor's Mansion today.

The dishes are all local specialties, mainly all kinds of seafood, with several kinds of vegetables produced on the island, the wine is brewed with coconut water, there is a special fragrance, the degree is not high, Zhao Qinghe and Wu Manmei have made an exception to drink a little.

In the chat at the banquet, Zhang Yue said less and listened more, and gradually learned about some of the situation on Changxia Island.

The Tianqi Empire occupies nearly half of the territory of the Central Continent, covering an area of more than 20 million square kilometers, and is the undisputed number one power in the world. To the east of the Central Continent, in the vast sea area called the East China Sea by the Tianqi Empire, there are countless islands, the largest of which has an area of more than one million square kilometers, and there are hundreds of countries distributed on these islands, which are called the Hundred Countries of the East Ocean by the Tianqi Empire.

The 100 countries of the East have a combined area of more than 10 million square kilometers and a population of 1 billion. The forces of various countries are intricate, some are close to Tianqi, and there are also old enemies like Dongyi.

Dongyi is the largest country in the East, with an area of 2 million square kilometers and a population of nearly 300 million, and was the sworn enemy of the Tianqi Empire in two world wars. The country is located in the north-east direction of Changxia Island. It can be said that Changxia Island is an outpost that monitors Dongyi. Although more than 20 years have passed since the war, every time the relationship between the Tianqi Empire and Dongyi is tense, Changxia Island will follow the wind for a while.

This time, the Zhao family sent more than one martial artist to Changxia Island, but a dozen people, but only Zhao Qinghe in the Zhao family's lineage, and the others were all side branches and recruited martial artists. With so many martial artists supporting Changxia Island, it is not to deal with the threat of Dongyi, but to start the annual fishing flood.

Changxia Island is dominated by fishery, most of the more than 10,000 people on the island are related to fishery, and the large yellow croaker fishing flood in December every year accounts for almost half of the island's annual output, which is the most important month.

Every year in December, the fishing boats of Changxia Island will go out in a big way, the route of the fishing flood will change every year, where the fishing school swims, the fishing boats will chase it, the sea conditions around Changxia Island are complicated, there are more than a dozen neighboring countries including Dongyi, and there are no very clear boundaries in the sea areas under the jurisdiction of each country, even if there is, the fishermen are at sea in order to track the fish, where do they care.

December of each year is also the time when the conflicts and frictions between fishermen in various countries are most serious. As the ruler of Changxia Island, the Zhao family naturally had to support their own people, and even did not hesitate to send martial artists for this purpose. In the fight between the fishermen, no hot weapons will be used, just some fishing tools, high-pressure water guns, etc., and the side with a martial artist will naturally take advantage.

Zhang Yue felt a little amused when he heard this, in order to compete for fish, even the martial artist had to go into battle, he couldn't help but ask: "Is there a martial artist among the fishermen on the other side?"

"Yes, why not, there are people in Dongyi. Zhao Xijin said with a smile: "But now is not like a few years ago, the martial artists are generally not in the fishing boats, they all follow the coast guard boats, and when they hear that the fishing boats are at a loss, they will drive over to support them." ”

"Uncle Thirteen, let's talk about pirates. Zhao Qinghe said.

And the pirates? Zhang Yue suddenly came to his senses.

"Well, to the east of our Changxia Island, is the sea area where the Huli Volcanic Islands are located, you should have all heard of the ghost sea area, this is there. ”

Zhang Yue was taken aback, and he didn't expect that the famous ghost sea area was just east of Changxia Island.

"Of course, the Ghost Sea is a general name, with a total area of several million square kilometers, and we are only leaning on the edge of the Ghost Sea here. Because there are many islands and reefs in the ghost sea, ships and planes often deviate, and detection instruments often fail, and it is a three-way zone where the forces of the Eastern countries are intertwined, so it has become a pirate den. Normally, fishing boats don't enter the sea area casually, but during the flood season, sometimes fishermen don't care about the danger, and in the last four or five years, fishing boats have been hijacked by pirates every year. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Xijin suddenly became angry and slapped the table hard.

"Especially last year, there were incidents of pirates killing fishermen, and this year we are asking for more manpower to crack down on these damn pirates. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yue finally fully understood the reason why Changxia Island needed the support of martial artists, and supported the fishermen, plus fought against pirates.