Daming pirates

Yu Xiaotian didn't expect that he spent money so much, but after thinking about it, he found that it was indeed the case. In the past six months, he had been working crazily on Nanri Island. He had built a large area of ​​various workshops, all of which were money.

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In addition, he did not pay too much attention to various expenditures. Whenever he felt it was necessary, he would just let the council spend it with a big stroke of a pen. Unexpectedly, he would cause the Sea Wolf's fiscal deficit after going through such troubles. If he continued to go through such troubles,

It is estimated that he will declare bankruptcy in less than three months.

He briefly looked through the accounts, closed the account book, pushed the account book forward, leaned back on the chair, and began to worry.

"Isn't the business at Maoshengyuan good? You should be able to get some money back in the near future! Right?" Yu Xiaotian counted the possible income on his fingers.

Zhao Mazi shook his head with a black line on his face and said: "Maoshengyuan's business is indeed good, but the big boss can't count on it. Don't forget that the big boss made the deal with the Li family in the first place and will continue to invest 5,000 taels in Maoshengyuan.

The silver is used as the principal, but now only two thousand taels are given to Mao Shengyuan. The remaining three thousand taels were said to be paid out from our payment and dividends last time!

After deducting another three thousand taels like this, it would be good to get back two thousand taels of silver. Now the iron workers, gunsmiths, and shiphouses on the island are all asking for iron. These two thousand taels of silver are not enough to buy iron in Guangzhou.

Materials for use!”

"What about tolls? Isn't the income from tolls good now?" Yu Xiaotian focused on tolls again.

"That's it, the amount of money collected every month now amounts to several thousand taels. However, the island supports too many craftsmen. In addition to supporting our brothers, this money also needs to pay for the work of the craftsmen. At the end of this month,

We need several thousand taels of silver, and the money is just enough at most!" Li Gouzi took up the topic again and answered Yu Xiaotiandao.

Yu Xiaotian counted on his fingers and found that there was really nothing to gain. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly slapped his head and said: "By the way, where is the glass mirror? Have you given the glass mirror to Mao Shengyuan?"

Zhao Mazi nodded and said: "The twenty glass mirrors made a few days ago were just sent to Maoshengyuan, Fuzhou, and there is no news of their return yet!"

Yu Xiaotian became happy now, stood up and said: "That's easy! I can guarantee that these twenty glass mirrors will be sold at a good price! In addition, if you give me a few days, I can also give you

You guys have come up with something new. During this time, you are harvesting seaweed and burning the ashes with seaweed. How is the progress now? I forgot to ask about this in the past two days!"

Li Gouzi replied: "A lot of plant ashes have been accumulated during this period! However, the plant ashes burned by seaweed are all on the east coast. The person in charge of this matter told me today that a lot has been accumulated. At Liulichang

If you can’t use it anymore, ask me if you want to stop! Otherwise, there will be no place to put it!”

"Don't stop! Don't stop! You need as much plant ash as you need. If you can't use it for the time being, you have to continue burning it! I'm afraid I'll use a lot more in the future! I'll use a lot tomorrow! This time I'll get you something that can make you rich.

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By the way, there is also the matter of tolls. I think it is almost done. From next month, the tolls will be doubled on the original basis. In the past, the tolls we collected were too cheap. It was considered a discount period some time ago.

, now the discount period is up! If you don’t want to pay, you can! Let them wish for themselves when they go to Fuzhou in the future!" After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian's mood suddenly improved, and his mind seemed to be better.

He also suddenly became more flexible and began to give instructions to Li Gouzi and Zhao Mazi.

When Li Gouzi heard this, his eyes widened and he asked in shock: "Double it? Is it too much?"

Yu Xiaotian shook his head and said: "Not much! Not much! In the past, a boat cost twenty or thirty taels of silver, and we paid them three months a season. This was too cheap for them! Now we ask them to pay eighty to one hundred taels of silver a season, which is not too much.

! For one trip, even on the smallest boat, they would earn at least seven to eight hundred taels of silver. This amount of money is nothing!

Let me tell you, it is still low. The territory we control now is not big enough. If it were bigger, there would be people willing to pay no matter how high the price was!

What has Hun Jianglong been doing these days? Have you sent someone to find out? The last time we dealt with this old boy, he was severely injured. He must have hated us to the bone for a long time! I guess this guy won't let it go. I'm sure

He will come back and seek revenge on us!

So instead of waiting for him to come to the door, we should keep an eye on him and give him a reason for us to take action and deal with this old boy completely!

Aren’t we short of money? This old boy has probably saved a lot of money on Shuangfeng Island over the years, so we might as well use it to spend it first!

The larger the territory we control, the easier it is to collect the toll money. The south is too chaotic now, and it is not convenient for us to go there, but Funing is our hometown, and Hunjianglong is our old friend. Rather than give in

He’s occupying the manhole and won’t poop, so why not let us go over and take care of the sea in Funing and benefit the fishermen, right?”

Li Gouzi and Zhao Mazi were both sweating after hearing this. Now they discovered that Yu Xiaotian is not an honest person. Although he looks very loyal on the surface, he is not as simple as they thought!

It turns out that this guy has been thinking about Hun Jianglong's territory for a long time. He didn't say it before because he was not strong enough. Now after half a year of hard work, Sea Wolf's strength has increased dramatically under his leadership. He already has the strength to conquer Hun Jianglong.

The dragon has been destroyed, and now he is still talking so grandly. To put it bluntly, he still covets the sea around Funing Prefecture.

And what Yu Xiaotian said is right. The larger the sea area controlled by the sea wolves, the greater the benefits they can obtain. Now they only control the waterway from the north of Meizhou Bay to the mouth of the Minjiang River.

They had to pay them tolls. If the sea area they controlled was wider, the maritime merchants would have to pay them more tolls.

On the surface, this kind of thing seems to be at a disadvantage to the maritime merchants. However, when the imperial government cannot effectively provide protection to the maritime merchants, and Mingri also restricts merchants from going to sea to do business, if the small pirate forces of the maritime merchants are allowed to run wild

If it goes rampant, it will cause greater harm to maritime merchants, and the higher the price that maritime merchants will pay when they go to sea.

On the surface, Yu Xiaotian blackmailed the maritime merchants, but in fact he established an order in the area under his jurisdiction, so that after the maritime merchants paid a certain price, the cost of doing business at sea was relatively reduced. In essence,

It still allows maritime merchants to gain more benefits. This is why maritime merchants are willing to pay Hailang a certain toll when passing through the Fuzhou area. What the maritime merchants want is to be able to control the cost.

Get safety when passing through this area.

What Yu Xiaotian did was not killing the goose to lay eggs, but actually releasing the water to raise fish, allowing more maritime merchants to conduct maritime trade under the rules he established.

If Yu Xiaotian could one day control the sea lanes along the entire coast from south to north, not only would it not necessarily be a bad thing for maritime merchants, but on the contrary, a more orderly maritime trade rules could be established.

Now that Yu Xiaotian is short of money, it is certainly not a bad thing to focus on Hun Jianglong's territory. This will be of great benefit to Sea Wolf in the future. Li Gouzi, Zhao Mazi and the others will naturally not object.

What's more, they used to live on Xiaohuang Island in Funing. It was Hun Jianglong's men who forced them to flee to Fuzhou. Now Yu Xiaotian wants to take them back and fight them back.

Naturally, they welcomed us with both hands and feet to regain control of the seas of Huangdao and Funing.

Zhao Mazi even recalled what Yu Xiaotian said when he led them to evacuate Dahuang Island, "Sooner or later we will come back!"

Now Yu Xiaotian is going to fulfill the promise he made to these people who came out of Xiaohuang Island!

"Hun Jianglong has been hating us since he was defeated back to Funing. According to the news from there, he has been recruiting troops in Funing during this period and vowed to avenge this arrow.

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Although they didn't provoke us much during this period, and they didn't touch our boats passing by Funing, news came from Xizuo that Hun Jianglong was actually waiting for an opportunity, and planned to go south again when he had enough strength to capture us all.

Fight them all!"

Li Gouzi said to Xiaotian.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian burst out laughing: "Haha... This Chen Jiu is such a lovely person! It's just right that he holds a grudge so much. I want to see how capable he is!

Inform Ma Xiao for me and ask him to pay more attention to Chen Jiu's movements in the north in Nangantang and strengthen the vigilance in Nangantang to prevent Chen Jiu from sneaking up on them!

If Hun Jianglong doesn't dare to attack us now, then you can find an excuse for us, let Chen Jiu provoke us, and give us a reason to go against him!

One more thing, I want to build a stronghold in Jilong Bay, where Taiwanese members live. In the future, I will need a lot of manpower to go there. From today on, people coming from land will no longer stay on Nanri Island for the time being. We will gather a boat and we will go there.

Send a boat to Jilongwan! But remember, we must ensure the supply of food and we must not let them stop!

What should be supplied to them, we have to sell iron to them, so that they can build our stronghold with peace of mind. In addition, we will find some clever craftsmen on the island and send them there so that they can lead these people to build the stronghold. I will come back later.

Let’s go there again to determine the location for building the village!

This is related to our century-old plan. Don’t put it off just because you think you are short of money. If you don’t have enough money, I will just find a way for you!”

Both Li Gouzi and Zhao Mazi felt that their heads were a little big. Yu Xiaotian's stall was too open, which made them a little overwhelmed. With their abilities, it was really difficult for them to preside over so many things.

, but now they can only bite the bullet and push forward.

So the two of them nodded and agreed, and after discussing some things with Yu Xiaotian, they left and started working.

And Yu Xiaotian also got up and went straight to the glass field.

(Thank you all brothers for your support! Today, I would like to express my special thanks to the anti-hole bricklayer, littlebear, Fahao Xingkong, and Wasteland Wolf brothers for their rewards, especially the huge rewards from Fahao Xingkong brothers! Life is endless, and updates are endless!

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