According to historical records, Yazhou City was an earthen city before the Song Dynasty, and the brick wall was built in the fourth year of Qingyuan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1198), and the city site was expanded in the sixth year of Shaoding (1233), and the three gates of the east, west and south were opened.

The ancient city was later expanded by the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties and became a large-scale fortified city in southern Xinjiang.

Huang Daopo, a famous female weaver at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, lived in Shuinan Village, Yacheng for nearly 40 years, spreading textile technology to the local Li people.

Yazhou City is also known as "the ghost of the scholar", the Song Dynasty's Ding Wei, Zhao Ding, Lu Duoxun, Hu Quan, the Yuan Dynasty's Wang Shixi, the Ming Dynasty's Wang Ge, Zhao Qian and others have all been introspective here, have suffered.

The literati and scholars, sages and scholars, dignitaries and celebrities of the past dynasties, and the merchants of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and other developed regions stayed and settled down, which had an important impact on the prosperity of Yazhou City.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, Yazhou City had the grand occasion of "the sound of string recitation, the sound of Li people's things, and the eunuch tour of the capital of Xiaosu and Hangzhou".

At this time, many foreign merchant ships were unable to land in the mainland for trade due to the sea ban, so they chose to land on Hainan Island.

For example, in the seventh year of Hongwu, "there were people who paid tribute, falsely claimed that the boat was damaged by a wind and drifted to Hainan", but in essence, it was a pretext for foreign businessmen to conduct commodity trade in Hainan.

These foreign merchant ships drifted to Hainan during the sea ban period, and became an important part of Hainan's maritime trade during the sea ban period.

At the same time, Hainan, as a transit point for Southeast Asian countries to pay tribute, often assumes the responsibility of assisting and protecting the boats, and Yazhou City often has foreign merchant ships docking.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to the frequent activities of the sea ban and the sea bandits, although there was no city ship agency in Hainan, it was stipulated that only foreign tributary ships could enter the country, and authorized sea ships from all over Hainan to use Guangzhou as a tribute road to enter the country, so all parts of Hainan were also licensed as the port of foreign tribute ships, and the imperial court also sent special officials to manage related affairs, and later most of them were handled by local officials.

Since then, the rise and prosperity of various ports on Hainan Island has also directly reflected its development and changes in foreign trade.

Only according to Wanli's "Qiongzhou Mansion Chronicles", the Wanglou Port of Yazhou has the grand occasion of "the tribute ship of the Fan State is anchored here, and its mast is like a forest".

This Wanglou Port is an important stop in the voyage of the Hantang Group, and in their fleet, there are even maritime merchants who have been opening branches in Yazhou City, which obviously shows that this commercial activity is still planned and organized.

Hai'an 1 and Hai'an 2 can easily reach ten knots with a completely tailwind, but this is useless in escorting, their supply ships can't keep up, not to mention, the merchant ships of the Ming and Portuguese can't keep up, and in the same situation they have a maximum of six knots, of course, merchant ships never fight for speed.

Captain Sun Yu thought this was a good opportunity to practice, and he discussed various tactical drills with Wang Cheng, the captain of the Hai'an 2, on the intercom.

The two sailboats sometimes rush forward together, sometimes turn together, sometimes intersect in pairs, but they still mainly practice the movements in the headwind.

Captain Wang Cheng said loudly: "Old Sun, old Sun, I understand the true meaning of manipulating a sailboat!" ”

Captain Sun Yu rolled his eyes, this strange guy had something to say.

He had to reply according to the routine and said, "What? ”

"It's a K!"

“K？”

"Yes, just adjust the sails and swing the rudder quickly. So we haven't made full use of the pot camel machine, and only used it as the power to lift the sail and hoist, which is too wasteful! ”

Captain Sun Yu muttered, "Then you mean to keep the pot servo burning?" Director Wu Jie didn't say anything ......"

Captain Wang Cheng said: "Everyone is groping for it...... As long as it can't be sunk, let's toss hard! ”

"Phew, phew! Unlucky guy! ”

"Haha!"

The Wanglou Port of Yazhou City is a natural harbor, there is a record of opening the port here since the Tang Dynasty, but the development of nearly a thousand years, the scale level here is still not surprising, but it can still let the ocean-going sailing ships dock a little, no need to moor the ship for transfer, in that natural harbor, there are still some tattered wooden trestle bridges, and some large sailing ships are also docked.

When this fleet appeared in the harbor, the docks were in a hurry, and many people came out of the large and small wooden houses on the shore, with broken knives and guns, and some of them launched two cannons.

In this group, there were more than a dozen people wearing the uniforms of Ming people, carrying standard knives under their waists. The rest were dressed in tattered linen.

Captain Sun Yu put down the binoculars and thought, this is a fucking poor place.

The Hantang Group's ocean-going fleet slowly approached the dilapidated wooden docks.

According to the plan in advance, everyone will make up for it here again, and by the way, the planned things will be done.

The Anhai Brigade of the Hantang Group wants to build a coal and water supply station here, buy a piece of land, build a house and the like. Of course, at the same time, it should be combined with the commercial station, and the scale is not small.

After everyone got to the dock, the dozen or so officials came forward with an official who had come in a hurry, and they were followed by a large group of people.

The person in charge of the trading station and the supplement station here is a small merchant hired in advance, and he is extremely enthusiastic about this job that can be used for both private work and public work.

He bumped up first.

Captain Sun Yu, Captain Wang Cheng and the captain of the relief boat also got off the dock, and everyone smoked on this noisy dock, enjoying the stability and peace of landing.

In the distance, the official was pointing at his fingers, and the future stationmaster of Yazhou City had been nodding and bowing, and then some captains of other merchant ships also went up, turning into a group of people nodding and bowing.

Captain Sun Yu said: ", the Ming is gone, and a petty official is still so awesome." ”

Captain Wang Cheng said: "Inertia, you can't change it, you see them pointing at us and talking!" ”

The three of them looked together and saw that the official was jumping in the direction of the three of them.

"What's wrong?"

As soon as they wanted to go over, they saw the stationmaster of Mingren trotting over and said, "Captain Sun Yu, Wang Dianshi said that we will be charged an additional 30% of the berthing fee, and Hai'an No. 1 and No. 2 will also be collected as merchant ships." ”

Captain Sun Yu thought for a while and said, "Why did he add it?" ”

"Wang Dianshi said that the merchant ships we are waiting for are all over the specified size."

"Originally there was such a rule?"

"As is customary. But I said that Haian No. 1 and No. 2 were not merchant ships, and he didn't believe it, and if he didn't hand them over, he would have to go on board the ship to inspect them......"

Captain Sun Yu looked at Wang Dianshi, who was holding a knife in his hand and holding his chest in the distance, and thought, I can knock you to the ground with one hand.

But he said, "Okay, we'll all do what he asks, but we have to issue a ticket." ”

Akito arched his hand and said, "Naturally, according to custom, they will give a receipt. ”

In the Ming Dynasty, there were three types of county-level administrative units: officials, officials, and servants.

Officials: leading comrades, officials on the register (mainly produced by the imperial examination, some can be inherited in the shadow, and a few can contribute a large amount of money to donate to the official), and the salary is paid by the government.

The county order (secretary of the county party committee), the county secretary (executive deputy county), the chief secretary (the director of the government office), the history of the canon (the director of the public security bureau), and the patrol inspection (the director of the development zone in the county) are non-existent. In a word, only these four people are officials.

Large counties will add one or two counties or inspections.

Officer: The head of the six rooms. Those who have a fixed number can never be promoted to an official; The authority is equivalent to the current deputy section level.

Servitude: no establishment, no salary (there may be subsidies), it is to fulfill obligations for the government, it is equivalent to compulsory soldiers, miscellaneous work, tiring work, and beating work, which are basically done by them, and belong to temporary workers.

Master: A private secretary hired by the county at his own expense. Of course, there is no establishment, no financial expenditure.

Therefore, if you really compare it with the world on that side, this Wang Dianshi is really not a petty official.

No one cares how they negotiate.

Captain Wang Cheng asked Captain Sun Yu to accompany him to the market in Yazhou City to buy a few chickens.

Captain Wang Cheng is a person who loves the sea, but is allergic to seafood.

After he retired from the navy of the world, he once went to a seaside city in the northeast to eat seafood, and after eating, he suddenly vomited and leaked, lost more than ten catties of meat, and sat down to the root of the disease.

Captain Sun Yu said: "Okay, you can still go to the Northeast to eat seafood......

", I'm going to pull orders, I'm as tired as a donkey."

Ma Jun, the director of the Relancha Hospital Center, once showed him and said: "Some people are fine when they eat seafood, but when they eat stale seafood, a large amount of histamine-like substances are produced after the seafood is spoiled, and it will cause allergies after being absorbed by the human body. ”

"Fresh, absolutely fresh...... I checked it with my own eyes. ”

"Then you're an example, and you haven't eaten it again?"

"I don't dare to eat it, and it's okay for me to be a navy who doesn't eat seafood."

Dean Ma Jun shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's up to you, but I feel that you may have an overreaction to psychological stress and eat river fresh?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with that, if you don't eat seafood, you won't eat it."

As a result, Captain Wang Cheng's meals were biased towards terrestrial and river creatures, and their Hai'an No. 2 as a whole has become like this, what kind of officer can bring out what kind of soldiers, and what kind of captain can bring out what kind of ship.

Therefore, there are subtle differences between Haian 2 and Haian 1 in terms of food, which in turn affects others.

After paying the money, the people on the merchant ships slowly came down, and even the sailors of the two Portuguese merchant ships came down, and everyone did everything.

Yazhou City is more than two kilometers away from here, and Captain Sun Yu and Captain Wang Cheng walked away in a hurry, and the two of them were not conspicuous in the crowd on the shore.

There were no guards at the gates.

Aren't they afraid of pirate sneak attacks? The old sea wolf who accompanied him smiled and said, "Captain Sun, aren't they defended at the docks?" ”

Captain Sun Yu thought about it for a while, yes, when those people saw the merchant ship, they reacted quickly enough, and they gathered all at once, but the combat effectiveness was too poor.

Once in the city, they walked around the market with the men in charge of the merchant ships.

An ordinary Ming city is far less big than Xiamen, and the brick houses are quite neat, but the wooden planks and bamboo shantytowns are still a little messy, and there is a smell of rot in the air.

There are still a lot of shops on both sides of the market, most of them sell spices and dried seafood, and there are not many people shopping, but they are chaotic.

The old sea wolf smiled and said, "There are often maritime merchants from Hoi An, Jiading, and Siam passing by here, so there are many spices. ”

Captain Sun Yu listened to the accents of the people here, and most of them were Hokkien accents, mixed with Cantonese dialects.

The old sea wolf smiled and said, "Two adults, when you arrive in Hoi An, the same will be true there. ”

Well, it's best to have no linguistic entanglements.

Captain Wang Cheng took a fancy to two cages of chickens, but the dealer actually asked for four cents of silver, damn it, this is higher than the price in Taiwan!

The old sea wolf smiled and said in Xiamen dialect in southern Fujian: "How about we have three points and one all?" ”

The peddler looked down and thought for a long time, and said, "If it's a horse ticket, you can ......."

Captain Sun Yu and Captain Wang Cheng glanced at each other and smiled without saying a word.

The old sea wolf smiled and argued with the other party about the exchange of the local silver and horse tickets, and at last the price was agreed, and the peddler happily took up the pick to follow them.

Captain Sun Yu and Captain Wang Cheng looked at the things on the market again, there was really nothing, and they could still see some products of the Hantang Group, and there were even celluloid decorations, and some Li women picked them up there.

Everyone went back.

At this time, the stationmaster of Mingren, who was going to run errands, suddenly ran over with a bloody face and cried: "Captain Sun, help the security team!" ”

He ran over and knelt on the ground.

The two hurriedly pulled him up and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Security Brigade help!"

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