Fortunately, the territory of the merfolk is quite safe, at least the merfolk do not have the word piracy, and those who really come out to rob are human pirates.

Sometimes the trade fleet turns into pirates, and they don't care about the risk as long as the profits are big enough.

In the vicinity, the speed of the fleet slowed down significantly, and in front of it was a large maritime stronghold, or rather an artificial island, with a rather large area, called "Treasure Island".

Within the boundaries of the "Golden Sea", there are very few large islands, all of which are small coral reefs, such as these large islands, which are all artificially built.

The main investors are not the mermaids, but they attract investment, but the people who contribute money and efforts are human businessmen, which can be regarded as borrowing chickens to lay eggs.

Even so, once such an investment project is released, the competition is extremely fierce, and human businessmen are willing to contribute money and efforts in exchange for a certain priority.

And "Treasure Island" is the largest artificial island in the nearby waters, and it has been built for many years, and the Jiang family also has a certain share in it, so it naturally occupies a priority.

In the original sailing plan, this was a very important stop on the return voyage, and the Jiang family's agent on the island should have already prepared all the goods and supplies, and only waited for the fleet to return to take them.

Soon, at dawn the next day, the fleet sailed into the waters near Treasure Island and waited for a routine inspection by the Merfolk Patrol.

This is also the rule of the "Golden Sea", regardless of whether it is an artificial island invested and built by humans, anyway, as long as it is in this sea area, it is the territory of the mermaid tribe, and it naturally needs to be controlled by the mermaid tribe.

At the beginning, there were some people who objected, but the merfolk were not moved at all, as long as they were disobedient, they would either be expelled or suppressed.

Merchants, thousands of miles to seek wealth, although the mermaid clan's requirements are tough, but in terms of business, things are not so excessive, so in the end, they all compromised.

But as long as it is a stronghold, most of the security matters are handed over to the merfolk to handle and manage, that is, some affairs within the artificial island will be handed over to the human race.

Such a tough stance ensures the absolute control of the merfolk over the "Golden Sea", especially in the western seas, which is the hinterland and rear of the merfolk clan, and the security issue cannot be neglected at all.

On deck, all the crew members were asked to come out and line up to be boarded by merfolk patrols.

Chen Mu and the other temporary workers are standing on the outermost side of the deck, and they should be the first to be inspected later.

The two brothers stood beside him, followed by five people in the team, and the others stood in front and back, standing in several rows barely sheltering from the wind and rain, highlighting Chen Mu's status as the eldest brother.

is different from the taciturn younger brother, the elder brother of the two brothers turned out to be a chatter, who had worked very hard before, and only after taking refuge in Chen Mu did he reveal the essence of chatter.

Chen Mu didn't bother him, but was happy to listen to his beep, mainly because he could learn a lot of information, such as many things about the ocean-going trade fleet, which were told to him.

At this time, seeing the mermaid patrol approaching the Fulong, the chatter began to beep again, and complained: "Alas, the mermaid clan doesn't know what kind of wind it has been pumping recently, and it has made such a stirring up of the people, isn't it just that they lost a treasure, and it's not that the queen was given something by someone, as for working hard and hurting money like this?"

Chen Mu almost rolled his eyes wildly, and said in his heart Lao Tzu is not wronged, what a queen, baby, Lao Tzu has never seen it at all, and he has never even been to the royal city of Na Laoshi, how can he commit these crimes, it is pure nonsense.

But it's not strange to complain, according to him, in the past, the patrols of the mermaid clan were all spot checks, and it was rare to have such a comprehensive inspection as now.

Come to think of it, there are many fleets coming and going, especially on large artificial islands such as Treasure Island, which is a very popular trading base, and the trading fleets are endless.

Even now, there is a long queue on the sea next to it, and it is a fleet of ships waiting to be inspected, and there is no end in sight, and I don't know how many days and nights it will take to be able to complete the inspection and be allowed to enter the island.

Fortunately, the Jiang family has priority on the island, and "Qingfeng Xulai", as a fleet under the Jiang family, naturally has the privilege of cutting in line, otherwise he has to honestly go to the side and line up.

To be honest, this is all caused by Chen Mu, otherwise if it were a spot check, it would be impossible to line up like this.

There is no way, the mermaid race itself is not a thriving race, and the pressure on the border defense is great, occupying a lot of military power.

In the internal waters such as "Treasure Island", manpower is a bit stretched, and the patrol team never absorbs humans, all of them are mermaids, so the manpower is very limited.

The recent start of the comprehensive inspection, the workload is several times larger than the previous spot checks, and the inspection is still very careful, which is naturally more time-consuming.

The fleets that passed by were full of complaints, but the merfolk had an unusually tough attitude, and unless they did not enter the island, they had to be fully inspected.

In desperation, most of the fleet gave in and could only line up outside, and a few fleets did not enter the island at all, but those were very few.

In particular, popular bases such as Treasure Island are the distribution centers for goods, and the scale of trade is very large, and many fleets must pass through.

If you don't enter the island, you are even likely to lose a large part of your profits, the lesser of two evils, and in the face of profits, the time spent queuing is not worth mentioning.

On the other hand, even if you don't enter the island, even if you don't enter the islands along the way, not to mention the matter of supplies and goods, you still can't avoid a comprehensive inspection, because at the final exit checkpoint, you still have to accept the forced boarding and inspection of the mermaid border guards, and you will definitely not be able to escape.

Speaking of the border guards of the mermaid clan, it is definitely a ruthless character, and the front-line battlefield in the eastern sea area naturally does not need to be mentioned, it is a place where there is a perennial fight, and it is impossible to see blood every day, if you are not ruthless.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the mermaid clan has arranged three lines of defense here, with layers of checkpoints and strongholds.

There don't seem to be many artificial islands on the sea, but under the bottom of the sea, that's the world of the mermaid race, it is said that the real Skynet is magnificent, not negligent or leaky, and there are many psychic sea beasts cruising in the sea, unless it is a flying fleet, it is impossible to leak through.

In fact, there are not no fleets that can fly, and when Chen Mu was in the Eagle Country before, he always wanted to take a floating boat, which was a serious spaceship.

However, there is only one main reason why the ocean-going trade fleet does not use floating boats, and that is that the climate and environment at sea are too treacherous.