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In the winter of the tenth year of Jiading, Quanzhou.
Zhao Chongdu, the newly appointed port chief, and Zhen Dexiu, the magistrate, held a wind prayer ceremony at Jiuri Mountain. Xu Wei, the widowed daughter-in-law of Kuang Mingshan, the owner of the "Qingyu Kiln", gathered at the foot of the mountain with many merchants and asked to see the chief official to avenge those who died in the "Shun'an" shipwreck.
The wind praying ceremony was interrupted, but Zhao and Zhen were not angry but happy. They saw an opportunity to rectify the long-standing shortcomings of the Quanzhou Shipping Department...