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In the first year of Guangming, Ji Xia.

Since Li Jing opened the sea to operate maritime trade, the maritime trade of the Qin domain has become increasingly prosperous. Dengzhou Port, located on the Shandong Peninsula, was originally one of the four major seaports of Datang, and it was the first port in the north.

Today, the ranking of the top ten ports in Datang has become Dengzhou Port, Lushun Port, Dalian Port, Qinwangdao Port, Qingdao Port, Tianjin Port, Haizhou Port, Guangzhou Port, Hangzhou Port, and Mingzhou Port. The ports in the territory of the Qin Domain accounted for seven of the top ten ports.

Especially in the past two years, the domestic war has been intensifying, and the domestic sales volume of Dengzhou's commerce has decreased significantly, and the Qin clan has to strengthen overseas trade, so the coastal port cities have become more prosperous. Since May, with the arrival of the summer monsoon, it has also brought countless ships sailing north with the monsoon, and Dengzhou Port has also entered the busy season earlier than in previous years.

Many of the merchants who had arrived here from thousands of miles away were horrified by the sight of such a port, which they had never seen in their life's sailing experience. The number and efficiency of the guide boats that wave flags to guide seagoing vessels in and out of port alone are so numerous and so efficient. The swiftness and dexterity of a butterfly through a flower are amazing. Not to mention those ocean-going fleets from all over the world. They had ships from the East. Some came from Liaodong and Haidong, some came from Silla, Dongying, and the Bohai Sea, as well as from many island countries in the South China Sea, as well as from the barbarian lands in the southwest of Jiaozhou, and more from as far away as Africa and the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and even the more distant Baltic Sea.

These distant merchants were amazed by the innumerable precious and exquisite oriental goods brought back to Europe by the ocean-going fleets of the Qin Domain and the ocean-going caravans of the Arabs, all kinds of glassware, ceramics, perfumes, silks, Tang Sancai, as well as clocks and watches with amazing craftsmanship, paper, and so on. All of them are commodities that can bring great profits. Seeing the popularity and high profits of goods from the East, the merchants of the land of Taixi formed ocean-going caravans to follow, waiting to return with goods full of goods from the East and make a fortune.

Although they have seen a lot of Datang seaports along the way, when they entered Dengzhou Port, they found that there was a mountain and a mountain high, and Dengzhou Port was really the most prosperous port in the world.

I can't count how many Han men in short clothes are working hard to load and unload, and I can't count how many dazzling goods come from. I don't know where the road will go. It was so spectacular and magnificent, that the merchants were shouting loudly in all sorts of languages. Almost no matter where the businessman comes from, the ends of the earth, the four corners of the world, it is not difficult to hear the familiar local voice from these noisy sounds. Behind these richly dressed shipowners, there were sturdy guards and servants in all kinds of attire, and many maritime merchants who were ready to leave their homeland in search of wealth, many of whom were from poor families, but who were already full of hope in the legendary adventure of getting rich overnight abroad, and who could not even afford to pay for the voyage, so they had to bargain with the owners for the sailors' fare, and in their faces there was only a resolute determination and a hopeful adventure.

In the bustling crowd of people on the docks, the customs officers in blue uniforms are particularly conspicuous, and countless pairs of eyes are watching their every move, and for many people, their decisions are often significant, and because of this, their inspection process seems to be harsh and critical, and all kinds of comedy such as flattery and sighs linger in their ears, they are all completely inaudible, and there is only that stereotypical expression on their faces. From time to time, their eyes would look at the sailor marines in the dock fortress not far away and the sailor warships anchored in the harbor, and then, the expression on their faces became more and more awe-inspiring and inviolable.

All incoming vessels are subject to customs inspection, and customs duties are then levied on the value of the goods.

Many merchants who have been to Datang, or whose ancestors have been to Datang, have found that in the past, they did not need to pay taxes when they came to Datang under the banner of tribute, or they only needed to pay a little tax to trade in Datang, but the good thing of trading in Datang is long gone. Although compared to the past, the customs officials of the Qin Domain today will not ask for benefits, but this tariff is not less.

Such an unusually busy and lively scene is often amazed and muttered to themselves, and many newcomers can't help but look up at the sky in amazement.

"Isn't it said that the Tang Dynasty is full of smoke and wars now? I heard that the strongest Qin clan in the world is also fighting with people everywhere, they passed through the port of Guangzhou, the first port of the Tang Dynasty in the past, a seaport that once gathered more than 200,000 merchants all year round, and now it is very solemn, and it has not recovered from the destruction of the war a few years ago. But in the north, in Dengzhou, the prosperity here is unimaginable that not far away, there are wars all over the place, and the smoke is continuous.

You can look at the countless ships in the port, such five-sail and seven-sail ships, as well as the countless fangs and warehouses near the port, let them be confused, the tops of those buildings are still shrouded in the white fog of the early morning, looming, but the city has already been wide open, and the lights are bright, so that people can see the mountains of goods inside from a distance.

But today, these are not the most eye-catching things in the early morning of the arrival season of the summer wind and the merchants, the people who come and go to this port, while busy, the corner of their eyes today can't help but look to the north on the side of the port, a group of soldiers wearing the blue and white uniforms of the Qin Domain's sailors stand with guns, isolating the area from the busy commercial port.

The people who were busy there clearly revealed an atmosphere of alienation from most of the people in this port, and their fleets of about 300 ships and ships were moored in the harbor. They were arrogant and mysteriously anchored in the restricted military area. Any vessel accidentally approached. will immediately attract the drive of the patrol naval division warships on the side.

The pinws who appeared on these ships. Miscellaneous affairs, water affairs, and by no means the sailors of ordinary merchant ships, did not make a loud noise, let alone laugh wantonly, they stayed quietly in their respective places, and meekly obeyed the commands of those who spoke the official dialect of Shandong.

Hundreds of sturdy men were busy loading boxes of goods and moving them off the ship, some big men's faces. There were also dreadful scars, they walked neatly, rarely spoke, and their expressions were very similar to those of the sailors next to them, but they were taller and even different in color, from the standard northern barbarians, to the lean Nanyangs, to the blacks of Africa, and to the fair-skinned, blond, deep-eyed, high-cheekbones of the Tessie.

It's hard to imagine. How did this group of sturdy men of various races come together? And so docile and obedient.

When some of the obviously precious boxes were brought ashore, followed by more bags of marijuana, it was obvious that they were grain.

More than 300 ships, loaded with too much cargo, they moved from morning to mid-afternoon, still moving.

Piles of goods were carried from the ship to the docks, piled up, and then transported to the warehouses in the docks through the railroad carriages on the docks.

The most surprising thing is that the goods they carried on the dock, in addition to exquisite boxes, mountains of grain, and even bundles of armor and flags, and even countless war horses were brought in at the back.

If it weren't for the soldiers of the Navy Division guarding at this time, such goods would have come ashore, plus the group of people transporting goods, I am afraid that they would have thought that there were pirates preparing to rob the dock.

There were also some maritime merchants who had just come from the Silla Sea Road in the Bohai Sea, faintly associating their identities from the men who carried the goods, and then by carefully identifying the flags in the fluttering mist, they could clearly see the big "Zhang" character on the scholars, and finally vaguely guessed their identities.

This is all the more amazing.

Since it was reported not long ago that the King of Qin was going to lead his army to the south to conquer the Hu people, the three feudal towns of Tianping, Yicheng and Xuanwu, which were closely related to the Qin Domain, each sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to Dengzhou Port to board ships and go to Tianjin to reinforce and support the King of Qin to meet the Hu people. Later, the twelfth and thirteenth disciples of the King of Qin, Yang Xingmi and Qian Biao, also led 10,000 and 15,000 soldiers and horses to the north respectively, passing through the port of Dengzhou to Tianjin, waiting for the dispatch of the King of Qin.

There is also news that even Yu Gui, the envoy of the Lingnan East Dao, Yu Qiu, the envoy of the Lingnan West Dao, and Zhang Rui, the envoy of the Fujian Observation Mission, and the envoy of the mighty army, are also preparing to transfer troops to the north to support the King of Qin.

The King of Qin personally conscripted, and the towns responded and took the initiative to send troops to support, which made the Qin people in Dengzhou Port extremely proud, which is the prestige of the King of Qin today.

However, the thoughtful officials and maritime merchants of Dengzhou Port knew in their hearts that the huge fleet in front of them would never be the fleet of the southeastern towns.

Those who are observant will notice that in the summer of each year, Dengzhou Port actually welcomes a large fleet with a banner and a shark flag under this banner. There was a person who used to follow the whitebeards in the Zhendong Sea Pirates, and later washed his hands and went ashore and transferred to the port to become a small official, and he still remembers that this flag represents a person, Zhang Yingying, the queen of the sea. He also knew some more secret things, such as the Jang Yingying, who now occupies the islands and coastal lands along the southern coast of Silla, and now has a new name, Cheonghae Queen Jang Yingying, who is called Silla Shuangjiao by the Silla people and the newly succeeded Silla Queen Jin Man. And he also knew that this woman who had great influence in Silla Hai was actually Li Jing's woman, and they even had a six-year-old daughter between them.

In the past few years, Jang Yingying, who inherited the power of the former king of the sea, Jang Baogao, received strong support from Li Jing, and took the Cheonghaejin Islands in the south of Silla as his base camp, taking advantage of the decay of the Silla Dynasty to openly oppose the king of Silla. After several years of operation, now Silla is full of civil strife, in a short period of time, the royal family is in turmoil, and three kings have been changed, Cui Yingying's Ching Hai Town is becoming more and more powerful, Princess Jin Man, who has the title of Princess Mandala, officially succeeded to the throne of Silla, but Zhang Yingying has established the Joseon Dynasty in Ching Hai Town, that is, the queen, and set up a six-year-old daughter as the crown prince, Princess Ching Hai.

The Queen of Silla and the Queen of Joseon stood side by side, and the situation on the Samhan Peninsula was tense, but at this time, Jang Yingying's huge fleet appeared in the port of Dengju, which couldn't help but make people wonder.

In Dengzhou Port, the little official was still in deep thought, when he heard a colleague pointing to the dock and said loudly: "Look at Lao Hei, the queen of North Korea's honor drive, and Princess Qinghai's honor car behind, oh my God, is that Princess Qinghai really the daughter of King Qin?" ”

He followed the direction and looked, and sure enough, he saw a group of brocade-clothed guards holding flags, golden drums, axes, and a woman with a crown in a chariot, slowly coming.

"Is that the Queen of Joseon? So young and beautiful."

"That's the queen of the sea, who is not so worthy of the king of Shangqin"

"What is she here for? With so many soldiers and horses, according to the sailors, the queen brought 20,000 men, even her maritime legion, which had repeatedly performed meritorious deeds and defeated the royal army of Silla several times! ”

The little official chuckled lightly and said proudly: "Of course, I want to go to the north, to follow His Royal Highness the King of Qin, to wipe out the Hulu, the husband to go to the battlefield, and the mother-in-law to help, isn't this normal?" (To be continued......)