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"The little brother He Jinrong has met two noble people..." Soon, the ship joined the huge fleet outside the port. On the largest wide ship, He Jinrong met the noble person who made a promise last year, Shi Hong.

"Why do you have to be too polite. This is your Sanlang's official document. As long as you arrive at Kalamba Port, your Sanlang will be the right doctor of Quanzhou Maritime Affairs. In addition to raising the master, you are the left doctor and your Sanlang have the greatest official position, the sixth rank!" Shi Hong smiled sincerely on his face, and reached out to take a wooden box, which contained several pieces of paper covered with bright red seals, and metal official talismans, and handed them to He Jinrong.

"Thank you for your kindness, and I have brought the thirty-three members of the He family to thank you!" He Jinrong saw the small pieces of paper, and his eyes immediately flashed with a greedy light. Although he didn't recognize the words on it and didn't know what the official talisman should look like, these pieces of paper looked so expensive and didn't look fake. He Jinrong took the copper official talisman and rubbed it for a long time. Then he remembered that Shi Hong was still in front of him, and he knelt on the deck like worshiping Mazu, kowtowing several times to Shi Hong.

"Hahahaha... He Zuotou invites us, we will be a family in the future. The fleet passes by Quanzhou every year, and when it comes, he also asks the right doctor to take care of him." Shi Hong was very satisfied with He Jinrong's performance. After stroking his beard and receiving a big gift, he pretended to help him.

"I dare not, I dare not, the He family will follow the lead of Master Shi in the future. I wonder if I can set sail?" He Jinrong didn't dare to wait for Shi Hong to help him, so he got up, with an unconcealed excitement on his face, and wanted to show his ability immediately. Let Shi Hong see if this official position is not given for free.

"Okay, okay, set sail, set sail, you are on the territorial waters of my big ship, they all obey your command, go..." Shi Hong smiled even brighter when he saw He Jinrong's flattered look.

"Brother Shi... Is this person reliable?" After He Jinrong rushed to the helmman below the stern building to explain the direction, Zhao An, who had been standing next to him without saying a word, came over and muttered in Shi Hong's ear.

"Brother Zhao, please rest assured. I have already greeted the Fuzhou Tongzhe. Apart from those who are out of the sea, the He family has been monitoring the two of them. When we come back, I don't believe that he will not even want a few grandchildren at home. But Brother Zhao's concerns make sense... Xiaoliu!" Shi Hong put away the smile on his face and changed into the dead face again. He whispered some of the backup plans he had arranged. After saying that, he felt that it was still not safe, so he shouted in a low voice.

"Sir... the little one is here." A black-faced man immediately appeared beside Shi Hong.

"You go and take two people and stare at him. Even if you eat and sleep, you can't leave a step. Do you understand?"

"I understand..." After hearing Shi Hong's order, the black-faced man didn't say a word of nonsense, and turned around and went downstairs.

The Port of Malacca, September and October are the busiest seasons. At this time of year, each year, one fleet after another, with different sizes. No matter where you go, you basically have to dock at the port, and you should pay taxes and replenish the supply. On the dock day and night, there are hundreds of slaves pulling various simple wooden pulley cranes to load and unload cargo for the sea ships docked on the dock, transporting supplies and fresh water.

At the same time, hundreds of vendors will place various food stalls on the open space in front of the pier, and they will welcome merchants and sailors who come down from the big boats. As long as one tenth of them sit down and eat something, they will make a smile. Walking further inside, there is a long street with red and green lanterns hanging, which is the favorite place for merchants and sailors.

The houses with red lanterns are all places for eating flowers and wine. They are filled with young girls from Southeast Asian countries and even food and food, Persia. For sailors who have been running on the sea all year round and don’t know when they won’t see the sun on one day, as long as they have money in their pockets, they can’t help but get in and enjoy it. As for whether these women are beautiful and ugly, and whether they fit the aesthetics of the Song people, it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that they can sleep steadily with their warm bodies here, relax and relax, and they are willing to spend money. Without this kind of spiritual adjustment, sailors will be tossed by the sea.

Houses with green lanterns are regular hotels. These places generally only provide food, accommodation and small-batch cargo storage, which is specifically designed for scattered maritime merchants. Some people have to live here for two or three months, first buy and sell some goods from the merchant fleet from the north, and then wait for them to come back from the west and then buy some. They will stay until the end of the year before leaving the port of Malacca and return to their country to sell for half a year, and come back next autumn.

Standing on the east and west sides of the dock is the warehouse area of ​​the Strait Company, which contains large quantities of goods and has nothing to do with ordinary merchants. Only large sea merchants of sufficient scale will rent these warehouses to store excess goods, which is equivalent to treating this place as a transit station. In front of the warehouse area, almost flush with the dock are two fortresses, all made of granite and cement, round like two thick chimneys.

However, these two chimneys were covered with small doors of two feet square. The familiar maritime merchants knew what was hidden behind these doors. They were all artillery, which could directly block the waterway in front of the port from west to east. This was the military fortress of the Jinhe Empire. No one could approach them easily and avoid them a few dozen meters away. The soldiers inside were not easy to meet. Once they stepped into the white line around the fortress, there would be sharp whistles on the fortress. If they didn't go out, they would wait to be shot into a hedgehog by crossbow arrows.

At this time, the Port of Malacca was still the same, but the sea boats anchored in the port were several times more than in previous years, almost filling the waterways on the south side. There were very few fleets coming from the north. Even if one came a few days later, it was a small fleet of nearby countries. The large sea boats with copper coins came more than a month in advance, and they had been parked here and no longer traveled westward. There were still many large fleets going directly to the Port of Penang and even Kalamba in the west.

The things loaded on these sea boats are also different from those in previous years. In addition to cargo, they are more of people and the families of sea merchants. So this year's housing prices in Malacca, Penang and Kalamba Ports have immediately increased, and it is not enough to live in this way. Fortunately, some sea merchants have their own properties in the port, otherwise everyone would have to set up tents in the open air.

They did not come out for tourism, but came to avoid disaster. The Song Dynasty maritime merchants and the Song Dynasty court had a quarrel, and they united to stop the market! These families were brought out to avoid disaster before the strike. Currently, the Malacca Port is the headquarters of the maritime merchants, including the Strait Company. Several major forces, or the major maritime merchants who took the lead in responding, live in the castle of the port owner, receiving messages sent by the Clippers every day, and then arrange hundreds of maritime merchants to engage in some short-distance route business.

A strike is a strike, but it does not mean that all the maritime merchants are unemployed. According to Wen Hao, a strike is a long and arduous struggle. Don’t expect to make the court surrender in one or two days. Maybe it will take half a year or a year. Anyway, if you want to win the final victory, you have to endure it first. But the strike has been strike and there is no income. How can you endure it? It doesn’t matter, the strike is just a city in Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Fuzhou, and it has not stopped the whole world. You can’t traffic in the Song Dynasty, you can also switch to other countries.

This was basically impossible if it was in the past. In other countries, some people operate their own maritime business, and it would be a good thing for a few foreign ships to come. The merchants who came too many families would be unhappy. However, after more than ten years of operation by the Strait Company and the Jinhe Empire, the Southeast Asian waters and the Indian Ocean have been integrated, and maritime trade activities have increased dozens of times. No country dares to draw lands and protect the prisons. Whoever dares to do this, those big warships with rat-head flags will come to their doors soon. They usually bomb first and then talk, which is very reasonable!

These offshore trades alone cannot satisfy the appetite of so many big Song merchants. Their ships are too large and there are many. Often, the cargo of a ship is enough to meet the needs of a small coastal city, and maybe even exceed them. What should I do? It doesn’t matter, the Strait Company showed its foundation at this time. Just a few days after the strike began, the Strait Company announced a major news that the company was preparing to open a new route to Dashi! And it was not a port, but it was two merchant fleets at once, four or five ports.

This is definitely a great good news for the maritime merchants who are not full and cannot starve to death. The longer the voyage, the greater the profit! This truth may not be obvious in later generations, but in this era, it is an absolute truth, and this big is not a small size, but a big geometric multiple.

Although there is no silk, porcelain and tea produced in the Song Dynasty that can be sold, the Jinhe Empire has white sugar, matches, high wine, whale oil, soap, glass, and iron. These things are no less popular than traditional goods in the Great Cannibal side, and some things have higher profits because the cost is very low.

Hong Tao played the role of the mastermind in this matter. On the surface, the Jinhe Empire did not express its support for the maritime merchants or the Song Dynasty court, and it seemed to be completely unrelated. In fact, through the mixed-race monster of the Strait Company, the Jinhe Empire has been closely linked to the interests of the maritime merchants. If the maritime merchants win this time, the Jinhe Empire will gain more benefits in the Song Dynasty; if the maritime merchants fail this time, not only will the pit that Hong Tao has dug for ten years be filled in instantly, but the commercial interests of the Jinhe Empire will also be greatly affected.
Chapter completed!