Daming pirates

As more and more passing merchants took the initiative to pay "tolls", Yu Xiaotian's slightly dry pocket began to become full again.

When he has money in his pocket, he will naturally be more generous with his actions. Some of the rewards he owed to his subordinates were also cashed in and distributed to his subordinates.

In the past, when the Sea Wolf tribe stayed on the island, their life was very monotonous. They had no place to spend their money. When they had nothing to do, they could only gather together to gamble for fun.

Now that Yu Xiaotian has set up a high reward system, this group of people has spare money, so a problem arises. When this group of people has nothing to do, they gamble even more intensely.

In addition, businessmen also discovered this business opportunity. One businessman secretly set up a casino in the shopping mall area of ​​Nanri Island and recruited the Sea Wolf tribe to come and gamble.

There were even businessmen who opened restaurants and bars in the shopping mall area, attracting wealthy Sea Wolf tribesmen to go there for entertainment. What surprised Yu Xiaotian the most was that two more brothels on land also came after hearing the news.

The owners of these two brothels went to Nanri Island to buy a piece of land and built two brothels. They brought a dozen prostitutes from each house on the mainland and placed them in the brothels to attract business.

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The shopkeepers of these two brothels have really good vision. They know that where there are businessmen gathered, there will be such demand. At the same time, the Sea Wolf tribe has money in their hands and they are also big consumers. It is very profitable to make money.

Yu Xiaotian is willing to see such a situation, because the more this happens, the more it means that the commercial development of Nanri Island has increased. At the same time, he knows very well that, let alone their current status as pirates, even if they become

A regular army cannot prevent this kind of thing.

In this era, gambling and buying sex are not shameful things, and they are allowed by the secular world. Officials and rich people, even those self-proclaimed scholars, who is not promiscuous? He cannot be judged by the moral standards of future generations.

Ask the subordinates of this era, not to mention that although it is explicitly prohibited in later generations, in fact it is still semi-open underground.

Where there is demand, there is a market. Rather than banning it, it would be more effective to regulate and regulate these industries.

What's more, he is not an immodest moral pioneer. Lustfulness is a man's nature, and he is no exception. This is not something that can be controlled. In the past, there were more men than women in the Sea Wolf tribe, and there was no way to vent their energy and leisure.

There were a lot of fights when there was nothing to do, so when Yu Xiaotian was at Treasure Island, he bought a few prostitutes as a kind of welfare.

But now his plate is getting bigger and bigger, and the few prostitutes he has are no longer able to meet the needs of his men. Asking him to kidnap good girls to serve as prostitutes is against his moral bottom line, so now some people are coming to the island to start a business.

The brothel solved his problem.

He might as well leave this matter to the market to decide. A bunch of energetic guys always need a place to vent their energy, and visiting a brothel costs money. If you don't have money, you can only stare. This can also be effective.

He stimulates his subordinates to work harder in exchange for more rewards and rewards, so for him, it is a good thing for him to have people open restaurants, restaurants and brothels.

But this has also brought some negative effects. After all, the people who opened this kind of thing are outsiders. It is inevitable that some people in the Sea Wolf tribe will talk fast. When they drink too much or are intoxicated, they will say things that should not be said.

In this regard, Yu Xiaotian once again issued an order, strictly ordering his subordinates to mention matters related to the Sea Wolf when spending money in these places. Once found, the minor will be grounded for half a year to two years and not allowed to leave the station, and the worst will be punished as betraying the Sea Wolf.

, that's a big deal that could lead to a whipping if it's not serious, or losing your head if it's serious.

In addition, he asked Liu Laoliu to find a way to select a few new-faced subordinates and sneak them into these wine shops and brothels to conceal their identities and monitor the words and deeds of his subordinates in these places.

At the same time, he implemented a licensing system for such industries. Without his permission, such establishments were not allowed to be opened on the island. For businessmen secretly opening casinos, he directly vetoed it and did not allow anyone to open a casino on the island.

A casino is opened on the island to prevent some gamblers from losing their minds and doing anything.

If a casino is needed, he is not willing to let others earn this kind of money. It is better for him to earn this kind of money himself, so under his secret instigation, the Council came forward and opened a special casino on the island.

, for the entertainment of the Sea Wolf tribe.

There are rules in the casino: no credit or loan is allowed. People who enter the casino can only pay in cash. If they don't have money, they leave immediately. This saves some people from incurring huge gambling debts and spending half their lives paying them off.

In short, the second half of the third year of Tianqi was a critical time for Nanri Island to move from remoteness to prosperity. Various industries that could only exist on land before began to spring up on Nanri Island like mushrooms after a rain.

After hearing the news, some colleagues in the surrounding area couldn't help but feel lonely. They began to bring ships here to ship goods when they had nothing to do. While shipping goods, they also spent some time on Nanri Island.

This kind of behavior also brought a lot of profits to Yu Xiaotian. He imposed heavy taxes on these special industries on Nanri Island, and also limited their prices. While ensuring that they could make money, they would not be allowed to gobble them up.

These huge wealth.

Although these merchants are very unhappy about Yu Xiaotian's practice of imposing heavy taxes on their industries and interfering with their prices, they have no choice. This means that half of their management rights are handed over to Yu Xiaotian. Everything depends on Yu Xiaotian.

Xiaotian behaves with his face.

Even the prostitutes they brought had to be seen by a doctor before going to the island to pick up customers. They also had to be re-examined regularly every month. Sick prostitutes were not allowed to engage in this business on the island.

But on the other hand, although Yu Xiaotian interfered a lot with them, it still gave them the opportunity to make money. They had to admit that the consumption power on the island was still quite high. While Yu Xiaotian intervened strongly in supervision,

, they still have considerable profits.

So no matter whether they are happy or not, there is no doubt about making money. No one has any grudge against money. If you want to make money here, you must abide by other people's rules. These businesses can only obey Yu Xiaotian's instructions.

Looking at the prosperous Nanri Island, Yu Xiaotian's mood became better and better, and he became more and more energetic. He was busy all day long, either visiting the shopping mall area or going to the reclaimed farmland.

Wandering around, I would visit the fishing villages on the island from time to time.

In order to solve the problem of salt consumption on the island, it turns out that the salt used on Nanri Island is basically boiled salt. Seawater is boiled in a large pot and the water is evaporated to obtain sea salt. However, more and more people on the island use salt boiling method.

In many cases, this method of boiling salt is no longer suitable.

Boiling salt not only consumes too much labor, but also has a low yield. It also destroys the limited vegetation on the island and requires a lot of fuel. It is not economical and does not produce much benefit.

So Yu Xiaotian found a few people who knew how to dry salt, selected a site on the island, and opened a salt drying field. The salt drying field is actually not complicated. He chose a suitable location to open a salt field, and introduced the seawater during high tide into the salt field to use sunlight.

Exposure to the sun causes water to evaporate.

When the salt concentration of seawater reaches a certain level, high-concentration saltwater is introduced into the crystallization tank and continued to be exposed to the sun, which can crystallize the salt in the seawater. After scraping it out and drying it, you can obtain coarse salt.

Salt was a very important commodity in this era, mainly in the hands of the government and the court, and the profits were extremely considerable. This also gave rise to salt lords who specialized in smuggling salt, taking risks and secretly selling private salt to obtain huge profits.

Salt lords usually collude with officials and businessmen to convert official salt into private salt through the officials who control the salt, and then traffic it to remote areas and sell it at high prices.

However, Nanri Island is currently an independent land, nominally under the jurisdiction of Xinghua Prefecture, but in fact, in the past two hundred years, the government has not really exercised effective control over this place, and even the control was only for a short period of time.

, most of the time is in a state of alienation.

Nowadays, Nanri Island is under the jurisdiction of Xiaotian's sea wolf, so it is naturally a land of alienation. After the salt field is opened, the salt production of Nanri Island will surge. As one of the important commodities in this era, salt can also provide sea food.

The wolf brings an additional income.

As long as he lets people spread the news, there will be salt lords who will take risks and come here to buy sea salt. It can be said that as long as there is goods, they will not worry about not being able to sell it. Moreover, if they come here to buy salt, there are sea wolves on the waterway who can guarantee that they will be escorted there.

The mouth of the Minjiang River is safer than on land, so you won't have to worry about sales when the time comes.

Yu Xiaotian not only requested to dry the sea salt, but also made a request to the council. While drying the salt, he also had to find a way to find someone to convert the coarse salt into a part of refined salt. This would only increase the cost, but the profit would be far greater.

Much higher than selling coarse salt alone.

Even if it is sold on land in Fujian, the supply of refined salt is still in short supply. There is no exploitation by officials, and the price is also very advantageous. Therefore, boiling some refined salt can allow Hailang to obtain greater returns.

Naturally, the Yantian matter has received strong support from Li Gouzi, Zhao Mazi and others in the council. Now they all admire Xiaotian's idea of ​​​​making money. A Nanri Island can actually allow Yu Xiaotian to do so much.

With this trick, it seems that if this continues, Nanri Island will really have "unlimited money potential"!

At the end of November, the weather has completely turned cold again, but Nanri Island is more than ten times more lively than half a year ago, especially the commercial area. Although I dare not say that there are now rows of various shops, but

At least it looks like a market town.

A total of twenty-three merchants have settled in the Nanri Island Commercial Area. There are more and more ships coming and going on the pier. Some of them come here specifically to sell goods, and some of them load and ship goods from here. In short, compared with half a year ago, there are more merchants here.

It was like a completely different world. People who had been here before felt a bit like they were dreaming when they saw this scene.

A complete boathouse was completely restored at this time. More than a hundred craftsmen were busy in the boathouse. More than half of the craftsmen were forcibly kidnapped by Wang Hong from the boathouse in Meizhou Bay.

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Wang Hong took four boats and raided the boathouse at night. This time they failed to defeat him again. No one informed the shopkeeper of the boathouse. He had no idea that he was about to be destroyed.

So when Wang Hong led people into his cabin, he was still having a sweet dream on the bed with his concubine in his arms. Before he could understand, someone chopped him off with a knife and sent him back to the west in his sleep.

, even his concubine was kidnapped back to Nanri Island. Dozens of craftsmen in the boathouse had no time to resist or escape, so they were all beaten and stuffed into the boat one after another, and they were pulled back to Nanri Island.

island.

Wang Hong was a land-grabbing master. Seeing that things were going well, he didn't make too much noise. He simply led his men to search the boat house again before leaving.

Because they knew what Yu Xiaotian wanted, in addition to plundering all the property of the owner of the boathouse, they did not even leave behind many of the tools in the boathouse, and took them all back to Nanri Island according to the order.