The journey went very smoothly.
Nanyang at this time was still very different from modern times.
It was a truly exotic custom.
Ji Qingqing, Zhao Xuanyi and his party were all amazed during their trip.
Not to mention them, the accompanying women from the Zhang family and other families who had never been to Nanyang were equally amazed.
They looked around with their eyes wide open and chattered in excitement.
The variety of spices, wood carvings, palm oil, pearls, corals, special ingredients and other specialties here are even more dazzling.
Ji Qingqing selected many and bought what he liked.
It was a rare trip, so he had to be happy with his purchase.
Every time he went to a certain place, Yu Liu and others would go back and forth to carry goods to the ship countless times.
The accompanying female family members are all not short of money.
When they see the princess making a big purchase, they also follow suit.
Regardless of whether it is useful or not, they will buy everything the princess buys anyway.
The princess's taste is definitely not bad, and there will always be some use after buying it. no Besides, women naturally like to buy, buy, buy.
When the fleet set off from the last stop and returned, everyone was a little reluctant to leave.
Even though Nanyue doesn't pay much attention to the rules and etiquette, in general, it is still the same.
For example, if the female family members were not to accompany Princess Han this time, they would not be able to accompany the fleet to Nanyang.
After this time, it is basically impossible to come again.
The fleet did not stop on its way back and headed straight for the port of Sanmen City.
Unexpectedly, not far from the border of Nanyang, this morning, I was surrounded by a group of pirates.
If it weren't for the fact that King Han and Princess Han were on board, the palace guards would have been extremely vigilant, and they would not even have known that the pirate ships were approaching.
Although the pirate ships were several times smaller than the merchant ships they were traveling on, they were more numerous and more flexible.
There were six ships in total, and there were at least forty or fifty people on each ship.
The offshore fleet has always been tepid and has little development, and it has something to do with pirates.
Along the way from southern Guangdong and Fujian to Nanyang and Dongyang, there are at least four groups of pirates, large and small.
The most powerful of them is Haiyan Luo who lives on Hailong Island.
In addition to the main island of Hailong Island, he also owns another base called Changshe Island.
The momentum of the formation is echoed from head to tail, and it is the hegemon in this sea.
Merchant ships coming and going must pay a certain fee to pass safely.
Otherwise, just leave it to fate and wish for good luck.
If you don't encounter pirates, it's just luck.
If you do, the loss will be much more than the fees paid.
But there are exceptions.
If you are unlucky, even if you pay the fee, you will still be robbed.
Even worse, the labor force and maids on the ship will also be kidnapped by the pirates.
You say that if pirates are reasonable, they are no longer pirates.
Even if they are the overlords of the sea, there is nothing the court can do about it.
Even if they are unreasonable, so what?
Sometimes they even brought people ashore to loot and plunder.
What does robbing a merchant ship mean?
It is not that local officials have not reported to the court, nor have they not been encircled and suppressed, but the sea is vast and the pirates are very cunning.
It is not so easy to succeed.
After a lot of effort, the imperial army was exhausted and battered, and the pirates were reduced to pieces. , hiding and entrenched in the vast sea, taking advantage of the imperial army's unpreparedness, he opened his bloody mouth, exposed his fangs and took a fierce bite, tearing off a large piece of meat, and hit the imperial army hard.
At this point, the encirclement and suppression issue will be over.
The capital city is too far away from the south, and most people look down on it.
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They always think it is a barbarian and uncivilized place.
They don't care about what happens to the south at all.
They don't think the pirates are anything special, and they don't care about their annihilation at all.
Don't care.
In their view, local officials just need to take precautions, so why bother to bother with matters at sea?
Since the capital city has this attitude, although the local government wants to make a difference, after all, maritime trade is very profitable, but with these damn pirates tossing around, it is impossible for this trade to develop.
Moreover, these pirates do not follow the rules and regulations at all, and do whatever they want.
Although they live in peace most of the time, there are always a few times every year when they come ashore to do evil.
They burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil, causing great losses to the people and making local officials very angry.
Not only did they have to appease and settle the people for reconstruction, which required large expenditures, but at the same time their political performance was damaged and they had to be scolded.
The court downgraded the officials and blamed them for their incompetence as officials.
It can be said that local officials are suffering from both sides and feel aggrieved.
They also want to make a difference, but such a big thing is not something they can accomplish if they want to.
It requires money and people, and local officials have limited authority.
What can they do?
But the imperial court did not agree to the encirclement and suppression.
If something happened in the local area, it was their responsibility, and they could not blame the imperial court.
The coastal towns in southern Guangdong and Fujian can only live with all kinds of dissatisfaction and complaints year after year.
There is no other way except to pray for God's blessing.
But right now, God doesn’t seem to bless me anymore.
Because the Zhang family had already paid the fees for these two ships going to Nanyang, they didn't want to be surrounded again now.
The female relatives had already turned pale with fright and were trembling all over.
They were hiding in the cabin crying and shivering one by one.
Ji Qingqing and Zhao Xuanyi were talking, and they were startled when they heard the movement outside.
"Pirate" Ji Qingqing felt nervous.
No one else has such luck.
So because she comes here so rarely, is she going to get a complete set of everything?
Even pirates come to join in the fun.
"Don't be afraid, you stay here, I'll go out and take a look."
Zhao Xuanyi held her shoulder and patted her lightly, smiling lightly.
Unexpectedly, Ji Qingqing said: "I also want to go out with you to have a look."
Zhao Xuanyi: "" Ji Qingqing took his arm and said with an embarrassed smile: "I'm not afraid.
With you and so many guards, officers and soldiers here, it will be no problem to escape unscathed no matter what."
"No, you stay in the room first and don't mess around."
Zhao Xuanyi couldn't help crying or laughing, and said decisively: "Qing'er, don't mess around."
After saying that, he ordered Yu Liu and others to take good care of the princess, and hurried out.
Ji Qingqing smiled and had to give up.
Two to three hundred pirates outside were divided into six ships and surrounded the two merchant ships, approaching them.
Although merchant ships are many times taller and more spacious than pirate ships, how could pirates take them seriously?
Merchants are very profitable, and the merchant ships are full of goods and very few people.
According to normal conditions, the total number of people on the two merchant ships is only a hundred people.
One hundred sailors, porters, handymen, plus a few stewards and shopkeepers, etc., in the eyes of the pirates, they are all lambs without claws to be slaughtered, let alone a hundred people, even if there are twice as many people as them. , they are all useless caigua: