331, Pirates’ World [1/2]

After driving on the vast sand sea for several days, Yi Yun and Li Huamei finally arrived at Quanzhou Port. (--net)

In the normal world of Yiyun, Quanzhou is a super port with extremely developed maritime trade capabilities and a very important position in history. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Quanzhou was known as the "No. 1 port in the East" and is as famous as the "Alexandria" in Egypt. It is one of the twenty-four historical and cultural cities.

Yi Yun was full of anticipation to see the historical style of a super port, but when his boat arrived at Quanzhou Port, he almost stopped... He saw that on the empty coast, there was not even a big boat, and there was not even a fishing boat. The waves of the sand sea were slapped on the empty pier.

The pier here is quite atmospheric and has reserved many boat seats. However, because it is unmanaged, the pier has already looked very old. There is a mansion where the pier manager lives next to it. It is now in disrepair, and a big hole has been broken on the roof...

"Damn, why has it become like this here?" Yi Yun was shocked.

Li Huamei sighed: "This is caused by the sea ban... In the past, Quanzhou Port was once a bunch of merchant ships like Ningbo Port. However, hundreds of years ago, the country of Dameng issued sea bans several times, closed the ports and moved the people to the mainland, leaving only Ningbo Port, a port, responsible for foreign trade... So... this prosperous port gradually became like this."

"Sea ban?" Yi Yun seemed to have vaguely heard that this happened in his history, but he was not well aware of what the ban meant, and he only knew that it was stupid to do so.

Li Huamei smiled bitterly and said, "In fact, the original intention of the imperial court is to issue a sea ban, because Dameng Kingdom is a country with abundant supplies. Even if you do not trade with other countries, you can still be self-sufficient. The sea ban is issued to protect the residents of the coast and prevent them from pirates... The officials of Dameng Kingdom think that if the people on the coast are moved to the mainland, if pirates and Japanese pirates cannot grab the fishing village, they will naturally disappear. (--net)"

"A bunch of stupid guys!" Yi Yun cursed: "Doing this will only turn fishermen into pirates, and also make normal maritime merchants into pirates. And if you lose communication with the whole world, your level of technology and vision will become worse and worse."

Yi Yun's statement makes sense, because fishermen generally do not know anything except fishing. The court moved them to the mainland and gave them a piece of land, so they could farm. This idea is too naive! The actual result is that the fishermen are unwilling to move in and want to stay by the sea, but the court does not allow them to stay. The final result is that these fishermen become pirates... As for maritime merchants, it is easier to understand. If they are not allowed to be serious sea trade, they will smuggle and naturally become pirates.

"That's right!" Li Huamei spread her hands and said, "The court is kind to do bad things. If the big men of the court have the knowledge of you, the stupid sea ban will not be issued."

"Anyway, Quanzhou Port has been ruined, and there is no other use to say this." Li Huamei followed: "Fortunately... this time the emperor was in charge of the army and would definitely park here. They will renovate the wharf because the place where the emperor stationed cannot be too shabby."

Yi Yun nodded and said, "Our boats must be hidden. If they are parked in this port, on the one hand, they will be discovered by the emperor. At that time, she will have to think of some messy tricks to make trouble. On the other hand, the Dutch people's spies may also detect our two ships."

"This is simple!" Li Huamei smiled and took Yi Yun away from Quanzhou Port. He drove around the south coastline for a short time. He walked around a bay. She pointed to the raised islands at both ends of the bay and said with a smile: "These two bulges are called Jinwo Island, Shanwei Island, which just wraps the place where our ship is located. It is a natural good harbor. If you hide here, neither the emperor nor the Dutch should be able to find us."

Yi Yun also thought this place was great. Just as he was about to praise her, he suddenly saw that many ships had been moored in the small bay, about forty or fifty, some of which were large and small. However, the largest of these ships was not as big as Li Huamei's lucky ship... They were all small smuggling ships, some of which were Zheng Zhilong's dragon flag on their bows, and some had strange flags, such as skull pirate flags, such as a ceramic bottle flag, such as a tiger flag, such as a pure black flag.---On the Internet, it seems that Li Huamei is not the only one who knows this natural good harbor. The pirates who make a living on this sea know this harbor.

Li Huamei chuckled and said, "Welcome the prince to the lawless world of pirates!"

"Hey, there are no Japanese pirates among these pirates, right?" Yi Yun asked seriously.

"No! Who is the best Japanese pirates to be called pirates?" Li Huamei smiled proudly and said, "Japanese pirates are a group of waste, they like to steal the people on the land. We pirates are much more powerful than them. We have our own principles..."

"What principle?"

"Only grab those from the sea!"

Yi Yun: "..."

The two men's big blessing ship slowly entered the port. Yi Yun's ship was hung with the python flag of the Royal Da Meng Kingdom. The pirates obviously had no good feelings for this flag and ignored it at all. However, as soon as Li Huamei's "Fei Xiang Tiger" flag was lit, the pirates were obviously very proud of the face. Several ships took the initiative to make the channel open, allowing Li Huamei's ship to occupy a very good berth without any effort, and even Yi Yun's ship benefited from it.

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

"Well! I have made a name for myself in the sea over the years, and it depends on my brothers to help me!" Li Huamei said with a smile.

The two of them parked the boat, and someone on the boat next to him came out to say hello: "Boat Li, why did you come to Quanzhou? I heard that you are setting up a Wusong port near Shanghai Oasis, which made the news of the wind and water... Do you come here to have time?"

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

"Oh, is it for the Dutch?" the pirate laughed, "There is nothing important to do on this southeastern sea except the new Dutch."

Yi Yun was slightly shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but whisper: "The news that pirates are so well-informed is really nothing he doesn't know about the news on the north and south seas."

"This is not surprising at all." Li Huamei smiled and said, "Pirates formed a circle and communicated very quickly. Because everyone's ships were moving constantly, they spread the news everywhere. I brought you here, and I also wanted to find out more about the Dutch information here and master more things, which would not be harmful to us."

Chen Yuanyuan behind Yi Yun frowned a little unhappily. Her intelligence ability is very important to Yi Yun. She often prides itself on intelligence ability because Yi Yun cannot live without her, otherwise she will completely lose the intelligence system. Now Li Huamei jumped out to provide a large amount of intelligence, which made her feel that her presence was threatened. But in front of outsiders, she could not reveal the identity of the Sanjiang Pavilion Master, so it was difficult to jump out and speak, and she felt very uncomfortable.

At this time, Li Huamei greeted Yi Yun and said, "Prince, let's get off the boat and go to the shore to find information... In places where pirates gather, a small market is usually formed on the shore. Many pirates will sell the stolen things here at a low price, and there will be mobile bars and dancers to cheer up... Inquire about intelligence in such places, it is often twice the result with half the effort."

When Yi Yun heard this, the dancer cheered up and said happily: "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 they can be sent back with more details than my spy.

So the three of them got married and walked to the shore.

This appearance immediately shocked the pirates on the dock to watch. Yi Yun stood in the middle, wearing a young man's clothes, smiling with a smile on his face. On the left was the gentle, elegant and beautiful courtesan of the Qinhuai River, wearing stunning flowing clouds and water sleeves. On the right was the heroic and heroic pirate admiral wearing Western breastplate and a big red cloak.

The two beauties are with each other and their styles are completely different. It really makes everyone envious and jealous.

Fortunately, the pirates all know that "Fei Xianghu" Li Huamei is a casual person and has a Western style. She can also walk side by side with ordinary male friends, but she does not regard her as Yi Yun's woman. Her jealousy, envy, and hatred are slightly relieved.

The three of them got ashore and saw a strange small market on the shore. This small market was open-air, surrounded by city walls, bamboo fences, etc., but a completely open free market with many small stalls and vendors on it, but these vendors were all big and thick, and they were not good people at first glance.

Their way of selling things is also very simple. They do not shout like ordinary vendors, but pile up goods in a mess and sell them randomly. As soon as Yi Yun walked into the market, he saw a pirate buying things from another pirate.

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

"Oh, it turns out it's Li Laosi. OK, you can offer a price..."

"Ten taels of silver per pound!" Zhang Laosan stretched out five fingers and said.

"Okay! The deal is done! You pick it up on the ground yourself. I'll pile them all here, too lazy to subdivide them." Li Laosi waved.

Yi Yun Dahan next to him: "Damn it, are you making a mistake? You can buy porcelain for pounds? Isn't it sold by number or quality?"
Chapter completed!