Haibin Town, Pier Area, around 2 pm.

The winter sun is always so weak, and the sea breeze blows from the southeast, bringing a little chill.

In a small teahouse, the old but energetic old man Xia was talking endlessly about his youthful past.

And sitting in front of him was only an outsider who looked very young.

"I heard that the newly appointed consul is going to restart the dock, but I don't know whether it is true or false, but the action has been done. He has hired so many people. If it is a mysterious person, he doesn't seem to have any advantage."

Looking at the crowds of people on the dock area from afar, Old Man Xia showed emotion and memories:

"I haven't seen this scene for many years."

The young man curiously said, "You always talk about the situation back then, but tell me what the situation was back then?"

Old Man Xia was not in a hurry and poured himself a cup of tea to warm his hands.

He smiled and said, "Since you ordered the most expensive cat-leaf purple tea in my store, it's not easy to hear the story?"

"My old Xia is almost ninety years old this year. There are no other things, but there are too many stories in her belly."

"Don't worry, wait until I tell you slowly."

"That starts from more than 60 years ago, Tai'an, Huaqing and Lotus are competing for Haibin Town at the same time."

The story is long.

The afternoon is also very long.

Of course, Han Le was very patient. He kept sitting there, listening silently to the old thing that Old Man Xia said.

If it weren't for this old thing, he wouldn't have come to Haibin Town.

...

Haibin Town more than 60 years ago was different from now. It was probably the most glorious time in Haibin Town’s history.

At that time, shortly after the formation of the Yunzhou Federation, all major cities wanted to develop their own territory and power.

Longcheng is naturally no exception.

Since ancient times, maritime trade has been the most important business opportunity. After secretly learning and conceiving the business model between Kangcheng and Lucheng, Longcheng resolutely decided to set up a port city on the east coast and open a brand new route to the northeast.

That route was named Light of the East.

Once the Eastern Light is successfully opened, Longcheng will directly form a bilateral maritime trade mechanism with the two main cities of Kangcheng and Lucheng.

The three main cities have the meaning of alliance dominating the sea, and they can also learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses.

From a theoretical perspective, this is a win-win situation.

Everyone agrees with the launch of this project.

In the end, the messengers of Dragon City visited the coastline for a long time and finalized a very simple small village.

That was the Haibin Town at that time.

The reason is also very simple. Haibin Town has the most geographical advantages and is most suitable for building a port city and becoming a maritime transportation hub between Longcheng and other cities.

If Haibin Town is successfully built, then next, Longcheng will plan to build a fast railway with particle barrier protection throughout the process. The railway will cross Tai'an and reach Haibin Town.

At least between the three main cities of Longcheng, Kangcheng and Lucheng, human civilization will become more closely connected.

This blueprint looks very beautiful.

For this reason, Tai'an City, Huaqing City and Lianhua City did not leave any effort to compete for the ownership of Haibin Town.

After all, before this, Haibin Town only belonged to Tai'an in name, but was geographically close to both Huaqing and Lianhua.

After the project designated by Longcheng Qin was launched, a large number of people flocked to the small Haibin Town from Tai'an, Huaqing and Lianhua.

A passionate construction activity has begun.

In just half a year, with the high technology and manpower level of the three cities, under the guidance of the Dragon City Envoy, the pattern of Haibin Town has been formed.

In the concept of Longcheng, Haibin Town will become a city at least level 2 or above, and is affiliated with Longcheng's exclusive port.

This city can accommodate about hundreds of thousands of people, and the manufacturing and planting industry can be lacking, but fishing and commerce must be developed.

In fact, the situation back then was similar as Longcheng estimated.

When Haibin Town was in its prime, its population exceeded 500,000, three-quarters of which were migrants.

People from Tai'an, Huaqing and Lianhua were frantically competing for control of Haibin Town, but under the suppression of Longcheng, they were still relatively restrained.

"That's probably the best day in Haibin Town."

After drinking a cup of tea, Old Man Xia's face turned a little rosy and showed a wry smile: "To be honest, the housing prices in Haibin Town were soaring at that time. When I was young, I was fond of gambling. After losing a lot of money, I took the ancestral home to take out a lot of money. I took the money to gamble, and in the end I only had a little bit of money left. But I didn't expect that not long after, the ancestral home not only bought back the ancestral home, but also bought a small teahouse. Do you think it's amazing?"

Han Le asked softly: "What happened back then?"

"Did Longcheng suddenly decide not to do this project?"

Old Man Xia's eyes became blurred.

"The disaster that happened back then was not on land, but from the sea."

...

What Old Man Xia said about sea naturally does not refer to pirates.

When sailing on the sea, the ones you fear the most are naturally sea beasts.

Especially in this era of wild beasts, the wild beasts on the land are already terrifying enough, and in the ocean, there are countless unfathomable wild beasts waiting for people.

For example, on the route between Lucheng and Kangcheng, there were as many as sixteen sea beasts entrenched.

The strength of these sea beasts is very terrifying. The key is that the ocean is their natural home court, and humans naturally have a disadvantage.

Lucheng and Kangcheng were all masters at the beginning. It took more than three years to kill all the sixteen sea beasts. Forgive this, they themselves were also seriously injured.

At that time, there were not many pirates in the East China Sea area, but most of them were sea beasts.

In order to eliminate these sea beasts, Longcheng also invested a lot.

At that time, the most popular martial arts man in Yunzhou, He Qingzhi, the god of heavenly martial arts, took action personally, and took two other gods of heavenly martial arts and two legendary musicians to escort the new route!

The preparations in Longcheng have actually been very sufficient.

According to the experience of Kangcheng and Lucheng, any modern ship attracts sea beasts almost 100% in the East China Sea area, so the first large cargo ship they built was a three-masted sailboat modeled on a certain civilization in ancient times.

The same is true for a series of escort fleets.

Old Man Xia will never forget the cheers of the entire Haibin Town when the cargo ship named "Xinyuan" was launched.

The girls stood on the dock and cheered for them.

He stood on the deck, thrusting his chest up, with unprecedented scenery.

Even though he knew that the cheers were mostly for He Qingzhi, he didn't care.

As a sailor on the Shinyuan, he can also share that glory.

The Xinyuan and his frigates drove away from the port of Haibin Town with heavy cargo and headed towards Kangcheng.

He Qingzhi had walked this route three times before and killed seven amazingly powerful sea beasts.

Most people think that things are foolproof.

The first day was indeed smooth sailing.

The next day, they also successfully bypassed the Bone Burying Bay, the reef-crowded place.

On the third day, something happened.

...

"What happened?"

Han Le said curiously.

A strong look of fear flashed in Old Man Xia's eyes: "That day, I stood on the deck and witnessed the birth of the disaster with my own eyes."

"The sea surface is extremely calm, without even the wind, and the ship is moving very slowly."

"At dusk, everyone felt a palpitation in their hearts."

"We watched a huge bronze door slowly rise from the bottom of the sea and then open..."

"The sea beasts that have never been seen rushed out one after another! Their target is our fleet!"

"There is a force in the dark to destroy us!"

Old man Xia murmured.

The sudden bronze gate and a large number of sea beasts caught Xinyuan off guard.

Three celestial martial gods and two legendary musicians took action together and killed countless sea beasts.

That battle was fought from dusk to dawn.

All the frigates of the Xinyuan sank.

Finally, the Xinyuan itself was sunk by a suicide attack by a sea beast. At that time, He Qingzhi, the first heavenly god of Yunzhou, rushed to the sky and used the strongest sword in his life.
To be continued...