"Singapore, the legendary most prosperous city in the South Seas, is finally about to be seen!" Yu Chenglong sat on the bow of a ferry, looking out at the coastline that had loomed ahead. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the ferry approached the shoreline, Jackie Chan saw a thriving seaside city in front of him, and on the shore, there were white, red and pale yellow buildings in the distance. On the hillside by the sea, along the hillside are beautiful white houses, those houses are Chinese-style, the roofs are all shiny blue or green glazed tiles, the walls are snow-white, and from a distance, those buildings are very comfortable if they are inhabited.

In the harbor, ships of all styles come and go, including Western-style soft sailing ships, Oriental-style lucky boats, a very small number of Arabic-style galleys, and Eastern and Western warships.

When Jackie Chan was fascinated by the ships with masts in the harbor, a small boat suddenly passed by his ferry, and the speed of the boat was very fast, as if it was flying. Yu Chenglong took a closer look at the boat and found that the boat was very peculiar, it was actually two hulls! The sails look like soft sails, but they are neatly hung in pieces, not the pieces of canvas that are hung up like Western-style sailboats, but the whole side of soft sails.

The boat was very fast, passed by the ferry, and disappeared in a few moments.

"There is such a fast ship!" Yu Chenglong sighed.

Yu Peng said: "That's a catamaran fast sailboat, although it is a small boat, but the cost is as good as a thousand-material warship!" Because of the high cost, it runs fast. ”

"What a waste!" Yu Chenglong's eyes widened, "Use the silver to build a big ship of a thousand materials, build such a small boat with a hundred materials!" Just to run fast! What's the use of running fast on such a small boat? No one can carry more, and he cannot carry goods. ”

Yu Peng laughed and said, "Who said it's useless? It's expensive, but it's worth the money! The average ship, from us to Guangzhou, takes a month. It takes seven days for such a small boat! The boat runs along the coast, and it only takes two days to send military intelligence from Guangzhou to Hangzhou! This kind of small boat is specially used for communication! ”

"I see!" Yu Chenglong nodded, "This is equivalent to an eight-hundred-mile rush at sea!" It's much faster than the 800 miles on land! It's like traveling 2,000 miles a day! ”

Since Yu Peng said that, Yu Chenglong also understood, the cost of 800 miles on land is actually not low, every 20 miles to change a horse, change horses without changing people, and often people who deliver letters are tired to death. The catamaran clipper at sea, on the other hand, will not be tired of people and horses, and it is still fast.

When Jackie Chan's ferry entered the harbor, he found that in addition to Western-style soft sailing boats and Chinese-style lucky boats, there were very few Arabic-style galleys.

"It seems that there are very few big food boats?" Yu Chenglong asked.

Yu Peng replied: "Since the defeat of the Rumi Kingdom to the Spaniards in the naval battle of Rebanto that year, the Rumi Kingdom has basically given up shipping, and the maritime trade routes are basically controlled by the Europeans. In the Indian Ocean, there are big cannibal ships, but there are only a few pirate ships. The shipping of the Rumi country is basically scrapped. ”

In fact, there is another point, Ottoman Turkey does not attach importance to the Indian Ocean, although the Battle of Rebanto was defeated, but the naval strength of Ottoman Turkey is not weak, and they are all Western-style warships, the problem is that Ottoman Turkey's navy is mainly active in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, and there is almost a vacuum in the Indian Ocean.

The national policy of the Ottoman Turks has always been to move westward, treating the countries bordering the Mediterranean as imaginary enemies. In addition to this, Russia to the northeast of Ottoman Turkey developed, and Ottoman Turkey had to guard against them.

Ever since the defeat of the Turkish Navy to Spain, the Indian Ocean has been a vacuum, opened up by white Westerners, and now the Indian Ocean is almost controlled by white men. However, with the rise of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming fleet also appeared in the Indian Ocean and had the power to compete for hegemony with the Western colonizers.

Yu Jackie Chan's ferry boat sailed slowly in the harbor, and standing on the bow of the boat, you could see the prosperity of the city. Yu Chengchan praised the city's prosperity: "It's much more prosperous here than Guangzhou!" It's amazing! ”

The boat docked on the pier, and Yu Chenglong got off the ship.

Landing ashore, Yu Chengchan can feel how prosperous the city is.

In fact, Wang Xinyu has not been to Singapore for more than two years, and if he does, he will be surprised by the earth-shaking changes here.

The changes here are too great, and there are all three-storey buildings on the shore, with Chinese-style buildings, Western-style buildings, and Arabic-style buildings. The city has been transformed into what it was later looking like, with separate commercial, residential, administrative, dock and industrial areas.

In the cities of China, commercial areas and residential areas are not separated, such as Nanjing, Hangzhou and Beijing, the commercial streets of these cities, the front is the storefront, the back is the courtyard of the resident, and most of the storefronts are bungalows, except for restaurants and song and dance studios and other buildings, the others are basically bungalows.

However, in Singapore, the commercial area is more than three floors, often the first floor is a storefront, the second floor and the third floor are occupied, generally living in the upper floor of the commercial area, most of them are dormitories, living shop owners, shop guys, and some are rented out to outsiders; Restaurants, bars, and dance studios are all shops on the first and second floors, and the third floor is where the owner and his buddies live.

The commercial area along the Singapore River is 12 miles long, and there are dozens of small boat wharves along the line, which are used to load and unload groceries, rice grains, livestock, fruits, vegetables, fish, wood, stone, iron, porcelain, silk and cloth, gold, jade, pearls and stones, fine wines and other utensils. Relying on these wharves, there are commercial markets. Small boats are used to connect large ships, and the goods sent directly to the river.

The boat dock is at the back door of the store, and the goods delivered ashore can be directly moved into the store's warehouse for storage.

Further inside, there is a commercial street without a river, which is mainly a dining and entertainment area, but some of the shops are close to the sea, and even have their own sea boat docks. Walking on this brightly lit commercial street, people of all colors come and go, and there are a lot of white ghosts here.

Yu Jackie Chan walked into a song and dance workshop with great interest, only to see that this is a building with a mixed style of Chinese and Tianzhu, the appearance is Chinese, the inside is a Tianzhu-style layout, a large stage in front of the song and dance workshop, and rows of wine tables below.

On the stage, there are performances by bewitching Tianzhu singers, Persian women performing songs and dances, and Annam women. Watching the wonderful performance on stage, the white sailors in the audience let out bursts of excited applause. (To be continued.) )