Daming pirates

"By the way, Xiaotian, half a month ago, a man named Zheng who claimed to be a friend of the big boss came to our Nanyue Island and asked to see you! But you happened to go to Jilong Bay, and he learned that

Since you were not here, I left a letter, and in addition I left five hundred taels of silver and three hundred pounds of copper as a thank you gift for you!" Now, only the only one who can directly call Yu Xiaotian Xiaotian is

His father-in-law was Liu Laoliu. Liu Laoliu remembered this and asked someone to fetch a letter and gave it to Yu Xiaotian.

When Yu Xiaotian heard that the surname was Zheng, he knew who it was. Besides Zheng Yiguan, who else could come here to give him a thank-you gift at this time?

So he took the letter, opened it, and read it. Sure enough, it was written by Zheng Yiguan. Zheng Yiguan once again expressed his gratitude to him in the letter and expressed his admiration for Xiaotian.

, saying that he was very sorry not to be able to see Yu Xiaotian this time.

Zheng Yiguan also said in his letter that he was going south to the Penghu area to meet his adoptive father Li Dan. If Yu Xiaotian wanted to do business with the red-haired people in the future, he would be willing to help Yu Xiaotian do business with them.

God will help him. When he comes back, he will definitely come to see Yu Xiaotian and so on.

In addition, in order to show Xiaotian's kindness to him and his men last time, he went back and told Li Dan. Li Dan was very grateful and asked him to send him a small thank you gift to show his sincerity.

After Yu Xiaotian read the letter, he smiled and asked someone to put the letter away, and said: "This man is a powerful person. Although he is still unknown now, I am afraid he will achieve great things in the future!

In the future, whether I am on the island or not, if this person comes, I will give him warm hospitality, but remember, he cannot be allowed to see our workshop area, especially the gun and glass factory, and the soap factory.

See you."

Liu Laoliu nodded and took note of this matter.

"Is there any news from Penghu? Also, how is the situation on the southeastern sea recently?" Yu Xiaotian then asked Liu Laoliu.

Liu Laoliu replied: "It is said that the official army in Penghu has sent hundreds of warships and more than ten thousand officers and soldiers to besiege Hongmao City in Penghu. The Hongmao people have been having a hard time recently and have begun to think about retreating. Now it is said that

We are still discussing with the government on what to do next!

However, it is said that although the official army has a large number of troops, it has never been able to break through Hongmao City because the firearms in Hongmao City are extremely sharp. It is also said that although the government and army navy warships are equally numerous, the Hongmao people's warships are equally strong and powerful.

, traveling to and from the sea is like entering an uninhabited land, and the army and navy have never been able to cut off its sea passage, so that the war is still in a stalemate so far!

However, some of the ships that often appeared in the southeast direction some time ago have become much less frequent during this period. According to your instructions, we have strengthened our patrols on the southeastern sea surface, and there have been no such ships during this period.

conflict."

After Yu Xiaotian touched his chin and thought for a while, he sighed and said: "The government is considered useless. With ten times the enemy's strength, it still can't even take Penghu! It can't even control the Red-haired Man's waterway.

, it can be seen that the Daming Navy is indeed too weak now!

But if it goes as I expected, this battle should basically be over. The red-haired people are trapped in Penghu, but they can hardly make a profit. They are here to do business. If this continues for a long time, they cannot hold on!

Therefore, they will definitely withdraw from Penghu in the near future to end this meaningless war of attrition. They have recently told our brothers that once the Battle of Penghu is over, there should be less conflicts with the government! Lest the government take the opportunity to attack us!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

After Yu Xiaotian thought for a while, he said to his subordinates: "Since we are not short of money in the near future, it is time to add more manpower! I plan to build a camp on Nanyue Island, based on the original new camp.

Expand it and recruit 500 to 1,000 more sailors and soldiers! Increase our strength!

In addition, the number of our ships has increased a lot recently. We can select the available ones and eliminate or sell them, leaving a dozen strong ships to add to our various fleets.

As for the soldiers, in addition to the recent captured people, I plan to recruit a group from the island and surrounding fishing villages, and recruit another group from existing immigrants and from the mainland to strengthen our strength!"

Liu Laoliu and others also raised their hands to support this. Now their territory is much larger, but their manpower has not increased much, and the number of ships has not increased much, making it difficult for them to allocate manpower and ships when working.

I felt that since Yu Xiaotian himself did not mention the troop expansion plan, they had already prepared to propose this plan when Xiaotian came back.

Now that Yu Xiaotian has taken the initiative to increase manpower, they naturally will not object. Even Li Gouzi and Zhao Mazi from the Board of Directors, who have always been called misers, also expressed support for this.

Seeing that everyone supported the matter, Yu Xiaotian handed the matter over to Liu Laoliu, who first sent craftsmen to renovate the original new camp and expand the barracks to a size that could accommodate a thousand people.

Expand the original camp three times outward, erect a fence around it, and start recruiting people.

The high treatment of the Sea Wolf tribe is now obvious to all. Although they are thieves, they do not act recklessly. What they have done in the Fuzhou area in the past year has won the hearts of the coastal fishermen.

Yu Xiaotian also sent people to kill several famous fishing tyrants in the Fuzhou area, making the fishermen in the Fuzhou area live a much better life than before. Therefore, when the fishermen now mention the sea wolf, most of them secretly raise eyebrows.

Give a thumbs up.

Especially in the fishing villages on Haitan Island, there used to be many pirate gangs here, and their lives were very sad. After Yu Xiaotian defeated the Shark Gang, he began to sort out the small groups of pirates in this area, and either annexed them or

They broke up and the people's livelihood on Haitan Island improved a lot.

In addition, Donghai Village had already become a die-hard supporter of Sea Wolf. As soon as the announcement of Sea Wolf's manpower expansion was announced, many young fishermen in the fishing village became excited.

Because they have all heard about the generous treatment of the Sea Wolf tribe, and know that if they work in the Sea Wolf, as long as they work hard, although they will not get much salary every month, in fact they will still have a lot of extra reward income.

, it has only been a year, and many members of the Sea Wolf tribe have already saved a lot of money, settled down on Nanyue Island, and married wives.

In the past, fishermen did not dare to marry their daughters to pirates. Now, seeing that the Sea Wolf tribe has abundant financial resources and asks people to be matchmakers, and the Sea Wolf has a good reputation, many fishermen have now changed their attitude and started to marry pirates.

They are willing to marry their daughters to Nanyue Island, and even the whole family has moved to Nanyue Island to settle down, so that the population of Nanyue Island has been growing recently.

Seeing how well the Sea Wolf tribe is doing, many young fishermen are a little jealous. These fishermen have no patriotism to begin with. In their minds, they will follow whoever treats them well.

Who has one heart?

The government has always been indifferent to fishermen like them. When they think of them, they are taxing and exploiting them. The fishermen have been harmed by pirates. When they appeal to the government, the government immediately disappears and becomes mute. They never

He stood up for them, so when it came to the government, few fishermen would not criticize him.

Nowadays, Yu Xiaotian's sea wolf has established a new order on the sea surface along the coast of Fuzhou. The ones who benefit the most are these fishermen. In the past, when they went to sea to fish, they always had to be wary of their catch.

If you use it to sell it, you will be exploited at all levels by the government and fishing tyrants, and you will be harmed by small groups of pirates from time to time.

However, in the past six months, this situation has undergone great changes under the auspices of Sea Wolf. Several fishing tyrants were killed, which frightened other fishing tyrants to restrain themselves a lot. Small groups of pirates were killed one by one by the sea wolf.

When wolves are annexed or expelled, fishermen are no longer as frightened as usual when they go fishing.

So when they heard that Sea Wolf was recruiting people, the young people in many fishing villages within a hundred miles around became excited. They discussed with their families that they wanted to go to Nanyue Island to feed Sea Wolf and earn some money for their families.

money.

The older fishermen are definitely not very willing to do this. After all, the reputation of pirates is deeply rooted in their hearts, which means that they are bad people. Even if they have received the favor of Sea Wolf, they are not willing to let their descendants become thieves from now on.

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Therefore, the older fishermen mostly disagree with the younger generations' demands, but some younger fishermen are no longer willing to listen to the discipline of their fathers or clan leaders. Some young fishermen simply collude secretly, secretly get a small boat to go to sea, and go straight to Nanyue.

Go to the island.

Ever since Sea Wolf started spreading the news that he was recruiting his subordinates, almost every day several or even dozens or dozens of young fishermen would come to Nanyue Island to apply for the job.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian specially set up a recruitment station on the pier to receive these people who came to apply. He sent a few literate men to register their names and place of origin, and then asked the doctor to give them

Check their pulse and body, and those who pass the test will be sent to the training camp and handed over to the coach there, who will start training them in isolation.

In addition, Sea Wolf also recruited a group of young men from land immigrants through other means, smuggled them to Nanyue Island by ship, and directly put them into training camps to train them.

With Yu Xiaotian's order, this matter was fully rolled out on Nanyue Island. From then on, the Sea Wolf recruit training system was formally formed, making the Sea Wolf tribe more formalized.

The recruits were divided into sailors and soldiers based on their different strengths. In the training camp, they were also divided into two groups for different professional trainings.