This is the Dadonghai Sea," Captain Lin Chuanqing said while holding the wheel steady. "This is the outer harbor of Yulin, and the long bag-shaped anchorage further inside is the inner harbor. [No pop-up novel website]"
The entire Yulingang is surrounded by mountains, with blue sea, white sand, blue sky, and coconut groves. The scenery is very beautiful and has a completely original ecological appearance.
"Yazhou is the main coconut producing area in Hainan. We can make a big profit here!" Wang Luobin looked at the dancing coconut trees in the bay. Countless products were flying in front of his eyes, from soaps that are harmless to humans and animals to ready-to-use soaps. Nitroglycerin ready to tear people to pieces.
"Wang Gong, I don't think you can compete with the Japanese invaders entering the village now." Lin Chuanqing laughed a few times, then picked up the walkie-talkie and called:
"Xiao Meng, check the tide table. Is it low tide or high tide now?"
"The tide is beginning to ebb!" Mondhui reported. "We have one hour and seventeen minutes until we reach the lowest tide."
"Commander Chen, Gong Wang, let's drop anchor now." Lin Chuanqing said, "It's better to wait until the lowest tide before entering the harbor. There are several reefs and low sand here, which can be seen at low tide."
"Okay, just wait for a while." Chen Haiyang said through the walkie-talkie, ordering the Zhenhai and Hangzhou ships to anchor and wait for the tide to drop further. "All the naval cadets are going to measure the water depth, wind direction, and wind. They will be responsible for piloting the ship into the harbor later!"
"Let these brats take the lead?" Lin Chuanqing questioned.
"The hydrological conditions and reef conditions in Yulingang are the simplest. Let them practice their skills." Chen Haiyang said, "Now that we have time, let's discuss what we are going to do after landing on 6."
"We are doing the same thing as we did in Changhua: setting up a stronghold and investigating resources." Wang Luobin is confident. "This place is our main source of copra. To break the Qiongshan merchants' monopoly on copra, we must directly set up a trade here." stronghold."
"We need to send someone to Yacheng to find out the truth."
"I'm afraid Yazhou won't go as smoothly as in Changhua. This is an important government base in southern Hainan Island." Wang Luobin didn't seem very confident.
The registered population of Yazhou is nearly 20,000, which is comparable to that of Lingao County. This place has been a place where officials were exiled since the Tang Dynasty. There is Shuinan Village outside Yazhou City, which has always been a place where officials from outside settled down. Therefore, the gentry families here are not only numerous but also deeply rooted. Some of them have been passed down locally for more than 20 generations. It would take a lot of thinking to open up a situation here.
"I don't think it's a big problem," Chen Haiyang spread out the map, "According to the information from the intelligence department, most of Yazhou's population is concentrated near Yacheng, and Yacheng is the core of the government's rule. Yacheng is here -" He Pointing at the map, "That's the Yazhou Bay area we passed yesterday. Take Route 6 to Yulin. The straight-line distance is over 60 kilometers. This area is basically deserted. We will set up a base here and it will not cause much interference. "
"What to do with the Ming army's patrol ships?" Wang Luobin asked. He remembered that according to historical records, the Ming army had garrison patrolling the area.
"We don't want to build a castle and hang up the flag grandly." Chen Haiyang said, "Build a small fortress - these things are everywhere in this time and space. Then send a few natives to deal with it. There is no reason for the Ming army to do this. Deal with us. If we really want to start a fight, the few patrolling ships will not be able to open our fortress. If we gather a large group of people, we can just use our communication advantage to mobilize superior forces and defeat their main force in one fell swoop."
While discussing the work after landing, Mond shouted: "The lowest tide will be in ten minutes."
"Enter port."
This time when entering the port, instead of putting down the hang-up machine, the rowing boat was put down and the ship was towed into the port by manual oars. Piloting, observation and other related tasks were entirely performed by naval cadets.
At this time, the tide in the bay has dropped to its lowest level, and the reefs and sand are all rising out of the water. From the stern of the ship, without a telescope, you can see the reefs not far from the island. To the northwest of the island, there is almost a whole chain of underwater reef lines.
The fleet sailed all the way to the entrance of the inner harbor of Yulin Port. The entire inner harbor is in the shape of a long pocket, surrounded by mountains on three sides. In front of it is the buffer waters of the outer harbor and the island of God as a shield. The interior of the harbor area is open and the water is deep enough to anchor a 10,000-ton class. For sea-going ships, the hydrological conditions are very favorable.
It was so superior that even the home-guard admirals, who had rarely been to the sea in the past, could see that this was a suitable naval base. At this moment, everyone was discussing among themselves:
"This would be a great place to be a naval base."
"The armored fleet cruises Southeast Asia from here, patrolling our thousands of miles of sea territory——"
"What kind of armored fleet do we need to go to Southeast Asia? A few colonial cruisers are enough!"
"Yes, the colonial cruiser in my mind must be: a hybrid of sails and steam engines, without armor, long range, and at least one large-caliber gun for shore bombardment to deal with disobedient natives. By the way, the cabin space also needs to be It is large and can carry at least one company of the 6th Marine Corps and the necessary artillery, and can go ashore at any time to suppress riots."
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The rowing boat headed towards the inner harbor while measuring the water depth.
"That's Yulin City over there." Mingqiu pointed to an open space on the west side of the inner harbor. On the east side of the inner harbor, there is a municipal government protected by a relatively large wooden village. According to Mingqiu's memories, this should be the An Amusement Market. Judging from the scale, there are about a hundred families. There are also some large and small boats moored on the shore.
"Let's park on the east side. There are people here who can inquire about things."
So the fleet anchored under Anyu Market. Seeing the arrival of two large boats, all the people who were active around the stockade rushed into the stockade. Before their small boats could reach the shore, the entire area around Anyu Market was deserted.
"It looks like this place is frequented by pirates."
Everyone disembarked from the boat and walked ashore, walking all the way to the front of the village. Wang Luobin asked the native interpreter from the Foreign Affairs Department who came with him to speak. The two sides talked back and forth for a long time before the people from Anyu City finally opened the gate of the village and let them in. This place is a large village where Han and Li people live together. Because ships sailing to the Southeast Asia often come here to take shelter from the wind, and sometimes they can pick up floating cargo from shipwrecks at sea. People have settled here since the Tang Dynasty, because this is the last anchorage before ships sail to the Southeast Asia. With the coming wealth and demand, a town slowly formed over time.
The powerful figure in Anyu Market is a gentry named Hu Xun. After traveling through the crowd and giving him the tried-and-tested gifts: a small mirror, sugar and soju, his attitude suddenly softened a lot. According to Hu Xun, he is a descendant of the Hu family in Shuinan Village, Yazhou.
"Could it be that the old gentleman is a descendant of Mr. Dan'an? I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Wang Tao, who followed Wang Luobin ashore, said with pretended surprise. Because he is an amateur storytelling speaker, he is quite talented in dialects and has learned several commonly used local dialects. Hu Xun spoke the local Mandarin—Hainan vernacular, which is the easiest to understand.
Hu Xun was very proud at this time. He even called them "insulting our ancestors". His attitude toward everyone became a little better, and he asked them what they were doing here.
Wang Tao followed the plan he had made in advance, saying that they were businessmen specializing in Southeast Asian trade. Due to the turmoil and dangers along the way, they wanted to buy a piece of land locally to build a few warehouses and build a manor to store goods and rest.
Hu Xun even said: "Easy to say, easy to say." There is not much else here, but there is a lot of wasteland. If someone is willing to build a house, this local Baojia will naturally be able to earn more money. Although these people don't look like kind-hearted people, especially the two big ships, which are obviously prohibited, but since they don't rob or kill, what kind of illegal activities are they doing? All the rich people in this place have mastered the skills of a chameleon.
After going out, Mond asked Wang Tao: "Who is Mr. Dan'an?"
"Mr. Dan'an is the famous Hu Quan." Seeing Mond's confused look, Wang Tao had no choice but to explain, "He was exiled to Hainan for impeaching Qin Hui."
"He is such a person." Mond was in awe.
Wang Luobin laughed: "You are flattering him too. Hu Quan did not die in Hainan, but later returned to his hometown in Jiangxi. How could he leave descendants here?"
"He calls himself the Hu family of Shuinan Village. He obviously intends to prove that he is a descendant of Hu Quan. I will take the opportunity to praise him without losing anything."
Everyone walked around the streets of Anyou City. This place was quite prosperous. Although there was only one street less than 500 meters long, there were many shops on both sides, because this was the last stop before heading to Nanyang. In this place, many ships stayed here for a long time either to take shelter from the wind or to wait for the weather. Over time, all kinds of sensual and erotic things were available, and there was even a brothel.
Wang Luobin noticed that there were many blacksmith shops here. When he inquired about it, he found that the consumers were mainly the nearby Li people. There were also ships moored here, which were also used when repairing the ships.
Wang Tao said: "It seems that the Tiandu Iron Mine has been discovered."
"The Tiandu Iron Mine itself may not have been discovered, but Yazhou has been famous for its iron production since ancient times." Wang Luobin said.
Mingqiu said: "When I went to Yacheng Town in the past, there was a blacksmith street there, which was full of blacksmith shops. It is said that the earliest people came here in the Southern Song Dynasty."
"It seems that there are a lot of scattered iron ores here." Wang Tao went to the blacksmiths to ask where the pig iron they used came from, and the answer he got was that it was all shipped from Yazhou.
"That's good." Wang Luobin said, "If the local indigenous people have already mined the fields independently, we will have to carry out violent demolition."
"Isn't it easy even if we don't have a plan? I remember that the government has always been opposed to mining, and they always want to ban it forever."
"But they can't help it."
In the next few days, the travelers rowed boats to survey and map the entire coastal terrain near Yulin Port and corrected the map. We also conducted on-site surveys for the location of Yulin Fort, and finally selected an open space on the west bank of Yulin Port, which was later the location of the Yulin Base. It was sheltered from the wind, had fresh water, and had flat terrain! ~!
