Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 908 You, You...

Xinfu Port is a busy scene at this time. Dozens of huge sea-going ships are docked on the pier, and the goods on the pier are piled up like mountains. Porcelain, raw silk, silk, cotton cloth, tea, rhubarb and other items are neatly arranged in different categories. , One by one, the dock workers are like hardworking ants, moving piles of goods from the dock to the merchant ship from the trolley.

Leaning against the big tree is good for the coolness.

Relying on the close relationship with the Nanyang Navy, Xinfu Land is able to get along like a fish in water in today's 'world'.

I don’t know how many ships come and go here. In a sense, it even cuts off part of Temasek’s “authority”.

You must know that the latter is the center of the entire Nanyang!

There is not only a powerful Nanyang navy to suppress it, but it is also located at the eastern end of the Melaka waterway, directly controlling this golden waterway that communicates east and west. Temasek is the center of the entire Nanyang.

However, relying on its close and inseparable relationship with the Nanyang Navy, Xinfu forced Temasek to voluntarily give up part of its power and became a second-level cargo distribution center.

Just like now, porcelain, raw silk, silk, cotton, tea, rhubarb and other items are sent to merchant ships in carloads. However, most of these merchant ships are short- and medium-distance sea ships, and most of them only sail around various countries in Southeast Asia.Rather than a real ocean-going merchant ship that travels thousands of miles across the ocean.

The opposite is true for other merchant ships. Dock workers are unloading the cargo one by one. Ivory, spices, wood, saltpeter, sulfur... everything is available. After they are piled on the dock, they are quickly packed one by one. A four-wheeled flat carriage can pull thousands of kilograms of cargo, which is much more than a two-wheeled carriage.

And the tall and sturdy warehouses around the port are their destinations.There are also a large number of local merchant ships sailing here, waving real money and buying large quantities of ivory, spices, wood and high-quality sulfur.Saltpeter, even copper ingots, gold sand, tin nuggets, etc.

This is like the relationship between a wholesale center - a small shop and ordinary consumers.

The latter is far away from the former. Although it is not out of reach, no one goes to the wholesale market every day to buy something.Then you can only go to the nearest canteen to buy all kinds of materials you need.

The current situation is like this, Sun Fook Kong is just a 'shop', and merchants from the local area are the most common consumers.

In the middle of the sea ships, there are some small ships shuttling among them, replenishing fresh water, vegetables, food, etc. for the merchant ships. After the inspection of the personnel, they raised their sails and went out to sea. The vacant positions were quickly filled by the impatient merchant ships behind them.

Here, goods worth a hundred thousand or even several hundred thousand taels of silver dollars come in and out every day. Even though many goods cannot be classified as imported goods, they can only be subject to domestic tariffs, which is 10%. However, the annual tariff revenue here is very high. It can reach as many as one million.Every spring and summer, sometimes a whole fleet of ocean-going ships arrived, carrying items worth as much as one million silver dollars.Although these ocean-going fleets rarely stop in Xinfu.

The development of Nanyang countries has naturally cut off some ocean-going merchant ships going to China. Just like how the Tianfang people dealt with the Tianzhu people, I have prepared the goods you need long ago. It is in Nanyang. You don’t need it at all. If you go to mainland China, you can get everything you want.

But this trade did not essentially reduce China's prosperity, because the porcelain, silk, rhubarb, cotton, tea, etc. they sold all came from China.

Such a move, on the contrary, will help the development of China's offshore trade and deepen economic exchanges between China and Southeast Asian countries.

Although it is hard to imagine, those prosperous seaports were just a small fishing village or a barren land three to five years ago, or seven or eighty years ago.

Another fleet arrived, and a loud bell sounded on the pier, which was a signal to call in the laborers.

A fleet of ten ships, each of which is an ocean-going ship, was subconsciously identified as an ocean-going caravan going out of the Central Plains, just like people from Tianfang and Tianzhu who came to China one after another. Merchants also set foot in the world of Tianfang and Tianzhu.

With such a large-scale fleet, even if there is no cargo exchange with Xinfu Port, the supplement of water, food, wine and meat is enough to keep the laborers at the entire terminal busy.

Representatives of merchants selling ship goods came earlier, sorting from wood to canvas, hemp rope, hemp wool, iron nails, tung oil and so on.During the voyage of the fleet, it is inevitable to encounter wind and waves. If you are unlucky, you will encounter violent storms and rough seas. Even if the ship is lucky to escape, the hull will be damaged.At this time, the materials stored in advance will be used to repair the hull, which will cost a lot.After arriving at the port, the shipping side will inevitably purchase various materials on the spot.

In addition to these people, a group of vendors gathered on the wharf, ranging from marinated meat, fish and shrimp to fresh fruits and vegetables, from various beans, the "ingredients" that Chinese people cannot do without, to various Drinks, they have everything.

The ship stayed outside the pier, and the customs officers led the coast guard to the bottom of the pawned ship in a small boat, and then boarded the deck along the hanging ladder lowered above.The attitudes of these people are unavoidable. They are government servants. Unless they are ship owners with a big background, the ship owner can only hold his breath when facing these people.

Offending them, even within the scope of the rules, can easily delay your customs declaration procedures by at least double the time.

This phenomenon is more obvious in ports with heavier roles.

But today, it was the turn of the officials who turned over the deck to hold their breath.In front of them was a group of solemn sailors, with awe-inspiring military resources, and a soldier's temperament emerged spontaneously.Not to mention that there are cannons on this ship.

On the current Chinese ocean-going merchant ships, artillery can be seen on many sea-going ships, but they are just tiger squatting cannons, not "regular artillery" such as five-pound cannons and eight-pound cannons.

After defeating Zhu Luo, Lu Qi's Western Navy has entered Ceylon, and the entire Tianzhu sea area has become Lu Qi's control.Then who knows, although he hasn't hooked up to Tianfang World completely, it's not too far away.

Under this circumstance, Lu Qi's internal process of strengthening "self-defense force for sea vessels" came to an abrupt end.The Crouching Tiger Cannon has become the most important thermal weapon of Chinese sea vessels, and some three-pound cannons and five-pound cannons that were originally sent out have also been recovered.

"You, you..." What kind of ship is this, why are there cannons?

(End of this chapter)