Chapter XVII: Sin City Although Coconut Harbor looks very prosperous, but as the saying goes, the back of the light is black, and the back of endless splendor often hides sin and killing, Coconut Harbor is such a city, and even darker here in Coconut Harbor - there is a very famous saying: 'The day belongs to the government, and the night belongs to sin.'
So much so that sometimes even the back side cannot hide the sin, and even the day is often patronized by the darkness.
This is a paradise for the wicked, almost hundreds of murders occur here every year, and there are more incidents such as Jianyin kidnapping, countless outlaws gather here, gangsters, black markets, bounty hunters, fugitives, pirates, human traffickers, smugglers, etc. abound, these outlaws bring endless chaos and killing to the city, so that people are killed almost every day for various reasons, and even the Luzon Metropolitan Protectorate has to set up a special corpse collection team, to dispose of the remains of those who died on the streets......
Absolute Sin City.
According to Datang's public security assessment last year, Coconut Port ranked first in the ranks of the people - the penultimate ......
Therefore, although Coconut Harbor provides millions of taxes for the imperial court every year, the imperial court does not have a good impression of this place, let alone a supportive policy, and even the imperial court intends to resettle the immigrants elsewhere, but in the end it was stopped by Li Zhen.
In fact, there is a historical reason why this place is so chaotic - Luzon was originally developed at the same time as the South Seas, and it was also a place of immigration at the same time.
But after all, man is a continental animal, and between the huge peninsula of the South Seas and the small archipelago of Luzon, which is isolated overseas, more people still choose the South Seas, so that the number of immigrants in Luzon has been unsatisfactory for a long time.
Even if the government used various methods to promote the goodness of Luzon everywhere, it was almost said that it was full of gold, but most of the people just wanted to have a stable life, and it was enough to have a field of their own, and as for the gold everywhere was not their greatest need - it was the best if there was any, and it was nothing if there was no, as for letting them risk their lives to make money, except for those natural adventurers, most of the people would not accept it, unless they were forced to have no choice.
It is this strange mentality that has led to the fact that Luzon has not even been able to recruit the initial number of immigrants, and at the beginning there were indeed merchants who transported workers here, but the number was not large, and most of the workers went back after making money, and once when the Luzon Protectorate was officially established, it was even more sparsely populated.
As a result, the Luzon authorities had no choice but to transport a large number of slaves and criminals from the Tang Dynasty, and these criminals were unruly people, including some death row criminals and robbers......
When such a person came to Coconut Harbor, in addition to some anger, what was left was endless chaos - not to mention that even the most ordinary workers dared to cross the ocean to Luzon to make money in this era, and who was not a rebellious person?
Even the most ordinary workers were not easy to do, most of them had fought against the natives of the jungle, and it can be said that ninety percent of those who first moved into Luzon had blood on their hands.
The character of a city is usually determined by the character of the first inhabitants, and when the majority of the city's population is criminals or strong-minded, it is understandable that it becomes a capital of crime.
Not only are there pirates wandering overseas here to stop and sell their goods, but even in the local area, there are a large number of gangs and black markets established, and smugglers regard this place as a paradise, and it is so normal that black eats black here, and even dead people are commonplace, and even dead people here will not be reported to the court - most of the dead are scum anyway, they are originally damned people, and if they die, they will die, and no one cares about them.
Of course, not all places in the whole coconut port are filled with endless chaos, in fact, the whole coconut port is divided into six areas according to different functions, and these six areas are very different because of their different functions, so the security environment is also very different.
Area 1 is the port and the wharf, which is one of the most chaotic places in the whole coconut port, the struggle between the dock gangs, grabbing land, resources, and younger brothers......
For their own profits, the parties are fighting each other, the gangs are trying to control the place, the smugglers are trying to support the agents here, in short, there is chaos on the docks, there are fights in the daylight, and no one will come near the ordinary residents unless they have to.
Area 2 is also close to the port, but it is much safer because it is an industrial area and a shipbuilding area, and the artisans and their families are all here, and they are jointly protected by the Metropolitan Protectorate and the Navy District, and no one dares to make trouble here.
Area 3 is also near the port, which is the seat of the Metropolitan Protectorate and the naval base, and it is the safest place in all areas of Coconut Harbor where either military personnel or military families live.
Area 4 is the commercial district, and it is also the largest of all the areas, covering an area of more than 10 square kilometers, which not only contains local products, but also goods from all over the world, including gems from black Africa, and the variety of items is very rich, even if it is not much worse than Lingnan.
However, because the profits in the commercial area are too large, the major forces have intervened here to seize the market, but because the supervision of the metropolitan government and the army is too strong, no one dares to make trouble here.
Area 5 is also a commercial area, but different from Area 4, this is a real black market, and it is also the largest black market in the entire Nanyang Islands, covering an area of more than ten square kilometers, second only to Area 4, there are all kinds of goods, black money, black goods, smuggled goods, human auctions, weapons trading, etc., and even the largest auction house here has sold a cannon, which is a rare thing, for this cannon, those black merchants almost broke their heads, In the end, it was auctioned off at a high price of 100,000 taels.
Area 6 is a slum, is a gathering place for poor workers, in fact, people who live here are not good people, and it is also the most chaotic place in the whole Coconut Harbor, killing people in broad daylight is too common, no one cares at all, and at the same time, it is also a gathering place for some dark organizations, gangster lair, hunter organization branch, smuggling organization's warehouse, weapon factory black den, etc., most of them have set up their lair here, it can be said that everyone who lives here is not sorry to die.
However, although the Metropolitan Government has divided it into six areas, in the eyes of those who live in Coconut Harbor, there are only two areas in the entire Coconut Harbor - one is illegal and the other is legal
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