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209. Ningbo Shengjing [2/3]

209, Ningbo Shengjing 23

From the Jinshan Wharf and heading straight to the south, Yi Yun first transformed his profession into a "24-hour self-house guard" and used the "Otaku". After a long stay in the Jiashan Oasis, his proficiency of the "24-hour self-house guard" has exceeded 90. It takes him not many days to advance, which makes him feel ecstatic. What second-level profession will this magical profession be after it is promoted, which makes him feel extremely yearning.

The only pity is that this profession is too slow to practice, so you can only practice 1 in a day, and you cannot leave your home at twenty-four hours after using it, which is very unfavorable to do things. It is only best to practice when riding a boat, because the boat is home, and practicing is very convenient when the home can move.

In order not to lose direction, Yi Yun used the "Otaku", and quickly changed his profession to a first-level "traveler merchant". This profession can correctly grasp the southeast, southwest and north at any time and will not get lost.

The Golden Melis was sailing and sailing fast on the sea. The Hangzhou Bay in Jinshan is more than 70 miles wide. It took a day for the sea boat to cross the Hangzhou Bay, and land began to appear in the south. On this day, Yiyun did not dare to practice "Okuan" anymore because he could go ashore at any time.

Yi Yun saw a green spot on the land ahead from afar. Before Luo Le Hair Hair could be introduced, Chen Yuanyuan smiled first: "That is Cixi Oasis, famous for making porcelain. Although the porcelain made here is not as famous as Jingdezhen, it is also very powerful, especially at celadon."

Yi Yun nodded and said, "This oasis is close to Ningbo, so the porcelain here must have been ordered by Ningbo merchants long ago. It is impossible for us to get the goods here."

"That's right!" Chen Yuanyuan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you are so hiding and you know so clearly about business matters."

"Hey!" Yi Yun smiled without saying a word. Will you tell you that this is common sense for future generations?

The Golden Melis began to move south along the coastline. Yiyun saw many square lattices by the sea, which looked a bit like fields, but there were no crops inside, only a lot of sea sand was placed inside and exposed to the sun...

"What are you doing?" Yi Yunqi said.

"This is drying salt..." Chen Yuanyuan smiled and said, "Snap up the sea sand in the sea and put it in the salt field to expose the sun. Whenever the wind blows, the dried sea sand will float away and leave the salt in the salt field. The coastal people use this method to make salt and sell it to private salt dealers. Private salt dealers sell the salt to the mainland to make a lot of money. The salt merchant Shi Wenliu we met last time was doing this."

"Is it very much for selling private salt to make money? Let's go and do it too." Yi Yun was overjoyed.

"This... is illegal." Chen Yuanyuan smiled and said, "I am a law-abiding citizen and dare not do this. As a prince, you should take the lead in abide by the law. If the prince sells private salt, this cute country will not know what chaos is like."

"Tsk!" Yi Yun said crookedly: "Apart from my cousin Han Daosi and Zhao Yunxuan, I have never seen a serious prince. The Da Mengguo has been in chaos for a long time. Oh, no, although Han Daosi and Zhao Yunxuan do not do bad things, they are not serious, and they are not reliable. Speaking of which, the most reliable prince in the Da Mengguo is me!"

Luo Lemao next to him tilted his mouth and complained: "You are the most serious prince like this? The big country is indeed over."

After passing Cixi Oasis, he continued to move forward along the coast. The sea began to become lively. From time to time, huge sailboats passed by Yi Yun and his ships, one bigger than the other. Yi Yun always thought that he was riding on this sea boat, but after seeing these ships, he realized that his ship was a very small ship.

After walking for a while, a fleet began to appear around, with more than a dozen ships in a team, and large white sail shadows were walking in groups, with sail shadows all over the sky.

Luo's leg hair began to get nervous and asked the water bandits to prepare their weapons.

Yi Yundaqi said: "Why are you so nervous?"

Luo Lemao laughed and said, "You don't know what's going on at sea. The sea is a lawless place. A kind businessman may become a pirate at any time without the government management. Our boat is small and it is very likely to be targeted by a strong boat."

"Oh!" Yi Yun immediately understood that in fact, during the Age of Discovery, most of the merchant fleets on the sea were also pirate fleets. They usually do serious business and occasionally get a robber. Anyway, no one knows what happens on the sea. If you encounter other caravans on the sea, as long as you judge that others' combat power is not as good as Yi Fang, you will likely go up and grab it.

When you return to China, who knows whether the goods you shipped back were snatched or bought?

This is a world that absolutely speaks based on your strength. No matter you, Wang Hou, when you arrive at the sea, only cannons and swords can help you speak. Everything else is nothingness. Yi Yun’s identity as a prince is useless on the sea...

Yi Yun was not nervous at first, with the protagonist's halo, but when he saw the ships passing by were bigger than the other, he began to get nervous and slowly walked to the next to the bow cannon, thinking: If anyone comes to steal me, I will change my job and become an artillery to bombard him.

Just as I thought of this, an extremely huge Spanish sailboat sailed by. This sailboat was more than three times larger than the Golden Melis on which Yiyun was riding. The huge hull was like a water sturdy barge. The extended sail was towering into the clouds. Yiyun glanced at him and there were twenty cannons on the one-sided side string of this Spanish sailboat. If the other side string was included, there were more than forty cannons, plus the first cannon and the stern cannon, which was close to fifty.

"Damn it!" Yi Yun was shocked: "You're cheating! I only had two cannons on my ship. If there was a gun battle, I would be bombarded to ashes in an instant."

Luo Lemao said with a heavy expression: "That's right... Prince, the sea ship technology of our big cute country is more than one street worse than that of Westerners. If a naval battle occurs, we will definitely lose... Fortunately, our ship is small, so people will not be interested in robbing such a small ship. It is close to Ningbo Port. Robbery here will cause bad effects, and Westerners will not do anything randomly."

Yi Yun nodded, feeling unhappy: "Doesn't this mean we still rely on the boat to look down on the little ones and save our lives? Damn, no, how can I trade in seas in the future? It seems that I have to make more money, and I also want to build a sailing boat."

Although Luo Lemao said that Westerners would not come to rob their boats, his expression was still very serious. As an old water bandit, he knew that there was no fairness in the world on the water. He could only bully the small and the weak with the strong. As the weak side, he should never take it lightly. All the fifty water bandits under his command were nervously holding weapons and ready to deal with the conflict at any time.

Fortunately, the Golden Melis is too small. This Spanish sailboat really doesn't take Yi Yun and others seriously. It just rowed a hundred meters away and did not come up to provoke it. However, a few blonde and blue-eyed heads stretched out from the strings of the ship and joked at the small boat on Yi Yun's side. Although Yi Yun couldn't hear it, he could guess that people were laughing at their boat.

Yi Yun raised his middle finger at the Spaniard in dissatisfaction: "When I have a big ship, I will bomb you all into the sea to feed the fish."

After sailing south for a while, I entered the gray turtle ocean. The coastline on Yiyun's right had completely turned green. The huge Ningbo oasis finally came into view. The first thing that caught Yiyun's eyes was the numerous sails that were so numerous that were endless. On the shore of the oasis, from north to south, countless sail shadows were unfolding in a mess, including big and small, high and low. There were white sails, gray sails, yellow sails... There were hard sails, soft sails, triangular ones, and four corners...

The high and low masts are dense like forests, even denser than the trunks in the forest. Large tracts of seabirds are flying and jumping on the sails, and crisp birds are heard from time to time.

Below the mast are all kinds of sea ships, most of which are the blessed ships of the Dameng Kingdom, from small to large, filled with docks. There are also many Fusang-style passes in the middle, exactly the same as the one that Yi Yun came.

The largest ship is a Spanish sailboat from the West. These huge sailboats are hundreds of feet long and more than thirty feet wide. The hull is long and narrow, with a huge impact angle at the bow, a boat tower at the stern, and dozens of Flang machine cannons on both sides of the side of the ship. These terrifying monsters seem so majestic in Ningbo Port. All the ships next to them are one shorter, and the number of cannons and the hull is several streets away from the Spanish sailboats in terms of the number of cannons and the sturdyness of the hull. Fortunately, there are not many such monster-class ships in Ningbo. Yi Yun used the "Far-Looking" skill to carefully observe, but he did not find more than ten. It can be seen that Spain does not have sufficient combat power on the sea nearby.

There were people on every ship in the port, and many large ships leaning on the shore were loading and unloading the goods. Yiyun saw someone carrying large bags of silk and porcelain to transport them to a huge Spanish sailboat, but there was no cargo in the Spanish sailboat.

The country of Dameng is rich in supplies and basically does not require foreign products, so these Spanish merchants can only spend money in Ningbo, but cannot make money in Ningbo... This is a very distressing thing for them. In the historical time and space where Yiyun is located, the Westerners ultimately did not find suitable goods to sell to the Chinese, so they had to send the poison of opium, which was the poison... directly led to the subsequent ban on smoking and the opium war.

As soon as Yiyun's Golden Meli arrived outside the port, a very small wooden boat flew up and came up. There were four people on the boat, three of whom were rowing. One of the leaders shouted: "I am the inspector of the Ningbo Oasis Maritime Department of the Great Mansion of the Great Mansion... Your ship needs to undergo temporary inspection..."

"Xiami?" Yi Yunqi said: "Machining Department? What's the matter?"

Chen Yuanyuan next to him quickly whispered: "The Maritime Trade Office is a yamen established by Dameng Kingdom, which is specifically responsible for managing Ningbo's shipping trade. Simply put, it is the yamen. This yamen is usually managed by eunuchs."
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