The ancient dou village is 90 miles east of Fanyu City. The South China Sea Temple on the south sea is loud and gongs are loud. Wang Yuwen Wen of the Xiyang Dynasty of Zhou State is presided over the ceremony to celebrate the renovation of the temple. Officials and citizens are burning incense and praying together, praying that the gods will bless the people who go out to sea to come back smoothly and safely.

Navigation is an extremely risky activity. Even in the era of great navigation that later generations talked about, the death rate of crew members during long-distance navigation is more than half. If it weren't for the attraction of huge profits, no one would be willing to take the risk of voyages.

Ships sail in the vast sea. Diseases, storms, tsunamis, and reefs will cause the ship to sink. Once they encounter shipwrecks, there are very few people who can survive. Therefore, whenever the ship is about to be released, the crew will burn incense and pray in the South China Sea Temple in Gudou Village, hoping that the gods will bless them to return safely.

Gu Dou is about ninety miles away from Fanyu, so why do foreign ships have to be moored here? So the crew have the habit of burning incense and praying in the temple?

Yuwen Wen couldn't understand this problem at first, because there were a large number of ships moored in Fanyu Port outside Fanyu City, so why there was no temple there, but the temple in a small village ninety miles away was so popular.

The reason is very simple, because Gudou is the outer port of Fanyu. Due to the different hydrological conditions, Gudou Port has become an important auxiliary port of Fanyu Port, and most of the sea ships entering and leaving Fanyu Port will dock here.

The place where Fanyu is located is Guangzhou in later generations. Because the river flows into the sea, the water level in its port area is shallower than that of the ancient dou port. If some sea boats draw too deep, it will be extremely inconvenient to enter and exit Fanyu Port.

The sea ship entered Fanyu from the outer sea. Before the Gudou waters, it traveled from south to north. The channel was wide and deep. When it arrived at the waters between Gudou and Fanyu, the channel was from east to west. It would be inconvenient to use the wind.

The waters from Fanyu to Gudou are funnel-shaped, and the tide and floods are urgent, while the waters east of Gudou are more than twice as wide as the river surface is suddenly wider and the tide and floods become weaker. Therefore, the waters of Fanyu are called "small sea", while the waters of Gudou are called "the sea".

Every spring and summer, when the southeast wind blows, ships sailing from distant Persia, India, Lion Kingdom and other foreign lands are loaded with heavy cargo to Fanyu. At this time, the ships are quite drenched, so many ship owners choose to berth at Gudou Port, and after unloading some of the cargo, the hull floats on its body and then sail towards Fanyu.

Or just trade here, so as the foreign port of Fanyu, Gudou has flourished with Fanyu Port since the Jin Dynasty. Although it is just a village, in fact, there are many merchants from all over the country, and the residences are lined up one after another, and the popularity is very strong.

When autumn comes, the north wind gradually rises, and the sea ships that are about to return home are loaded with cargo and leave Fanyu Port and come to Gudou Port to moor, waiting for the arrival of hyacinth here. Once the north wind or northwest wind is strong, they set sail and sail into the sea, which is to spread the ocean.

The starting point of Tonghaiyi Road is Fanyu, but strictly speaking, the starting port is not Fanyu Port but its outer port, the ancient dou port, so the ancient dou Temple in Ancient Dou will be incense. This is also the reason why Yuwen Wen allocated manpower and material resources to repair the Nanhai Temple.

This temple was probably built in Liang, and the local people called it the "Pora Temple". Pola is the Brahmin, and was named the Pora Kingdom during the Liang period. In other words, this South China Sea temple worships foreign gods.

Most of the sea ships that travel abroad are foreign ships, and of course there are many crew members on the Ridge. They worship the god of foreign land to bless themselves with safety in the sea. I don’t know whether it will be effective. However, the so-called “believes will be effective, and if you don’t believe, you won’t work”. What crew members actually need is a kind of spiritual sustenance.

In this era, there was no belief in the sea god of Mazu. Because the prototype of Mazu Lin Moniang was a figure in the Northern Song Dynasty, Yuwen Wen understood the behavior of the crew members worshiping the fan god. At this time, he was sweating profusely and was speechless when he looked at the fan god.

The style of the statue is very different from the style of the local statue in the Central Plains. The statue was covered with hands and looked south. When Yuwen Wen saw this statue for the first time, he was extremely jealous. However, considering that the statue was respected by the crew members, he gave up to avoid adverse effects.

However, more than one person had the same opinion as him. Not to mention the soldiers who followed him to the south, even the local people thought the statue of the god was very special, so they called it a nickname, called "Fan Gui Wangpolu".

In later Cantonese, foreigners were called "ghosts" and had similar effects to the current word "fangui". Yuwen Wen only felt that the word "fangui" was really...

"King, the smell of this wooden pineapple is really unbearable. Can you not eat it?"

"Don't eat it? The pineapple tree formed from the wooden pineapple tree in front of the Polo Temple can keep the boat calm. The crew members' most rare treasures, but they don't eat them?"

"Well, king, it's really hard for officials to swallow this."

"Oh, everyone is watching. You, the Guangzhou General Manager, dislikes Mu Pineapple so much, let the crew see it and hurt in their hearts!"

Yang Ji gritted his teeth and swallowed the wooden pineapple in the dish. His expression looked like he had just eaten a soaked shit, but it was still fresh and steaming. Yuwen Wen then ate his portion in one bite.

The smell of the wood pineapple fruit is a bit special. Like durian, it polarizes diners. People who like it taste like a lot of praise, and people who don’t like it want to vomit after smelling it. Yang Ji belongs to the latter and Yuwen Wen belongs to the former.

After talking to the local elders for a moment, Yuwen Wen walked out of the temple, looking at the sea more than a hundred steps away, looking at the sea that was quite promising and sighing. Yang Ji walked to his side and saw that there was no one beside him, and asked in a low voice:

"King, what's the situation in Yecheng?"

"Yecheng is nothing, it's just that the Qingyan area is a little uneasy, and some people want to be Liu Ju or Li Hong." Yuwen Wen sneered and changed the subject: "How about it, what do you think of that nursery rhyme?"

"The Maitreya Sect and the White Lotus Sect have lasted for thousands of years. But if the current situation is just a disease of scabies, I just don't know what the situation in the north is. If it can involve the energy of the prime minister, it would be great."

"Since Antulu has specifically informed him that he is worthy of our attention, I really hope that this person surnamed Liu or Li can involve the Prime Minister's attention and let us gain more time."

Yuwen Wen took out a note from his arms, looked it up and kneaded it into a ball, threw it into a copper incense burner in front of the temple and burned it. This was the news that it had just been delivered to him last night, and it spanned nearly four thousand miles away.

The pigeon that took off from Yecheng flew to the pigeon loft in Xiyang, Huangzhou that day, and the pigeon that took off from Xiyang the next day also arrived in Nanchang, Jiangzhou that day. This is the route of flying pigeons that Yuwen Wen has been planning for many years, so the success rate is very high.

But the journey to deliver messages was not so easy, because it was entirely up to messengers riding horses or taking a boat, so it took thirteen days to get from Nanchang to Fanyu. Considering that the distance between the two places was more than half a rugged road, it was considered fast.

The news from Yecheng, in addition to the important news that the princess and the prince are safe in Yecheng, was accompanied by news revealed by the Sogdian Antulu, accompanied by a nursery rhyme.

Yuwen Wen was speechless after reading the nursery rhyme. After thinking about it with Yang Ji, he felt that someone in Qingyan was "what does it matter to me", but what he was concerned about was his wife and children.

We haven't seen each other for almost a year. If it weren't for the raging miasma of Lingbiao, he really wanted Yuchi Chifan to join Fanyu, but the daughter of the princess went to Yecheng. Yuchi Chifan happened to accompany him and went back to her parents' home to visit relatives.

With his family in Yecheng, Yuchi Chifan and his son were very safe, but Yuwen Wen felt that since Antulu had specially reported the news, he might not be underestimated. He was worried that his wife and children would be affected on their way back to Xiyang.

After all, those ambitious ambitions are expanding their power through cult means. Some people have already thought about making auspicious things in Xiyang, saying "Maitreya's birth". This is true in Huangzhou on the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains. So can Yuzhou on the north side, the boundary of Henan, be spared?

"Don't worry, the government's control is still good now, and the garrisons in various places are very strong. There are no natural disasters in Henan. I think there is still basic order." Yang Ji advised, "It's just that there may be trouble in the Qingyan area."
Chapter completed!