Daming pirates

As soon as Yu Xiaotian returned to Nanyue Island, he learned a very bad thing. Two months ago, he sent three ships to Manila to trade with the Spanish, preparing to purchase another batch of saltpeter, sulfur, canvas and

Spices from Southeast Asia.

But when he returned to Nanyue Island, he learned that their business had been ruined this time. On the way back, when they passed through Chaozhou Prefecture, they were intercepted by a group of pirates.

Sea Wolf's three merchant ships tried to break out and escape, but were rounded up by the opponent. In the end, one ship was hijacked by the opponent, one ship was burned, and only one ship managed to escape. Nearly forty members of the merchant fleet were killed or injured.

There were less than twenty tribesmen who returned to Nanyue Island with a small amount of saltpeter and canvas.

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he was furious. They had been bullying people for so long. How could he have been bullied like this before? So he just returned to the Wolf's Den on Nanyue Island. When he heard about this, he took action.

He roared angrily: "Who did this ***? Do you know it yet?"

Zhao Mazi is now in charge of merchant fleet activities. Because of Li Yi's cooperation, Yu Xiaotian's original plan for Zhao Mazi to open a shop on land was changed. Li Yi took full charge of Maoshengyuan's business, and Yu Xiaotian

Others were sent to various places in Maoshengyuan to cooperate with Li Yi in managing Maoshengyuan's business, which freed up Zhao Mazi. After establishing the merchant fleet, Zhao Mazi took over this aspect.

Therefore, this matter can only be explained to Yu Xiaotian by Zhao Mazi.

"Brothers who came back have already said that the men who robbed our ship in Chaozhou this time were Chu Cai Lao's men in Guangdong! We have revealed our identities, but they still refuse to buy it and insist on us stopping the ship!

Our people refused to stop the ship, which led to their siege!

They only had four boats at first, and we were not afraid of them. We even fired cannons at one of their boats and killed several of their people. But then they attracted more boats, and our people couldn't stand it anymore, so we had to find a way.

We broke through the siege, but were outnumbered and still lost two boats and dozens of brothers!" Zhao Mazi said to Xiaotian.

"Mr. Chu Cai?" Yu Xiaotian frowned immediately after hearing this.

Before he came to this era, Mr. Chu Cai had basically never heard of him, but after he started working in this industry in this era, his reputation could be said to be well known.

Chu Cai Lao was a very famous guy among the big pirates in the Ming Dynasty. He started his career much earlier than Zheng Zhilong. During the Wanli period, he was already a big thief on the sea.

In order to rob, his subordinates gathered thousands of people and hundreds of various ships.

Their organizational form is different from that of Sea Wolf. Sea Wolf is a relatively well-organized group, and everyone is under the management of Xiaotian, the helmsman, from top to bottom.

However, pirate groups like Chu Cai Lao have a loose management system. Chu Cai Lao is nominally the boss and spiritual leader of the group, but he still has many shopkeepers under him, and these shopkeepers are led by a

A small pirate group consists of a small shopkeeper with two or three ships and dozens of men, while a big shopkeeper may have dozens of ships and hundreds of men.

Usually they are busy with their own affairs, but once Mr. Chu Cai, the big boss, wants to do something big, he will notify the shopkeepers under him to gather together, listen to his call, and follow him to do the big work.

It is said that this man was the most powerful in Guangdong. In the first year of Tianqi, he gathered his men several times ashore to attack Jieyang, Guangdong, and then also attacked Haicheng, making him an enemy of the government.

Relying on the strength of his men, Chu Cai Lao not only often robbed ships at sea, but also attacked villages, towns and even counties along the coast from time to time, which caused a headache for the government. Several times troops were sent to suppress him, and Chu Cai Lao either led his troops far away.

Escape, avoid the official army, or break into pieces and avoid the official army and navy.

As a result, the government had nothing to do with him. They could only watch this guy arrogant on the sea, but they couldn't muster enough strength to destroy him.

Therefore, Mr. Chu Cai and his men were very rampant in the southern coastal areas of Guangdong and southern Fujian. They would not buy anyone's face. As long as they took a fancy to you, they would just hijack ships regardless of who you were.

Unfortunately, this time the Sea Wolf's merchant ships were targeted by them. They didn't care whose ships these merchant ships were. After all, Yu Xiaotian's Sea Wolf had not been around for a long time in Fuzhou, and its reputation was far from big enough.

To the extent that Mr. Chu Cai and his men were forced to use the enemy as a weapon.

So this time Chu Cailao's men robbed Sea Wolf's ship was not a big deal, at least in their eyes, it was nothing at all.

After hearing that it was Chu Cai's men who robbed their ship this time, Yu Xiaotian scratched his head a little. He took a breath, slowly sat back on the chair, and began to calm down.

"Master, Mr. Chu Cai is no one else. I'm afraid we really can't offend them now. After all, we will have to go south to do business in the future, and we will go to Guangdong every month to buy iron, and we will also go to Manila and Macau to ship goods. Once

If we fall out with them, although we are not necessarily afraid of them, our ship may be even more unsafe when it goes south in the future." Zhao Mazi shook his head and advised Xiaotian.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian felt that what Zhao Mazi said was reasonable, but he still felt that this tone was a bit hard to swallow. They had suffered such a big loss. It would be unjustifiable if they did not regain some face. The most important thing is that this matter spread

After being opened, it will create a psychological shadow on the Sea Wolf tribe. When people like Mr. Chu Cai are mentioned in the future, they, Sea Wolf, cannot afford to offend them and will have to avoid them.

This rule that Yu Xiaotian originally proposed to his subordinates that they must fight when encountering an enemy is completely contrary to it. If he ignores this matter, then his subordinates will have an excuse to avoid fighting when encountering an enemy in the future.

He's so powerful, so if he can't be beaten, he won't fight! He'll save himself from causing trouble and causing trouble for the Sea Wolf.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian believes that if he does not find a way to regain some face from this matter, it may have a very bad impact on his future development, and may even cause irreparable losses.

He shook his head and said: "That's what I say, but have you ever thought about it, if we endure the loss of being dumb this time, how will we as a people explain to our brothers in the future? If a brother is killed, he will be killed.

Is it okay to give them both pensions?

What will our brothers think in the future? When our brothers in the merchant fleet go out to do business in the future, if they encounter a hijacking, will they just drop their sails and let others take them down? "

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Liu Yidao immediately jumped up and said angrily: "What's wrong with Mr. Chu Cai? Don't they just have more people and ships than us? In the opinion of my subordinates, we can't let this matter sink like this.

If you lose your prestige and morale, let it go!

Let me tell you, now that this matter has come out, we have to find it! Although we don’t have as many ships as Chu Cai and the others, and we don’t have as many manpower as them, we have good cannons on the ship, and there are so many

A powerful firecracker, afraid of their attacks,

The boss took us to find them to fight. Although we may not be able to kill Chu Cai Lao like we killed Zhang Hu and Chen Jiu, at least we will let them suffer a loss and know how powerful our sea wolves are! Let’s let them do it in the future.

When they saw our ship, they first considered whether they could rob our ship!"

Now that Liu Yidao is working under Yu Xiaotian, he naturally has to consider the issue from Yu Xiaotian's perspective. He belongs to the warship fleet and is considered a warrior among the sea wolves, so he has to behave more aggressively.

His words immediately aroused the support of Ma Xiao and others. Each of the leaders of the war fleet immediately clamored for Yu Xiaotian to assemble the fleet and go to Chaozhou to fight with Boss Chu Cai and kill him.

The majesty of Mr. Chu Cai and his men.

However, their opinions are to the left of those in the council such as Zhao Mazi and Li Gouzi. The council is mainly responsible for logistics and commercial matters. They are not very interested in such matters of killing and killing. They value it more.

It's silver and it's safe.

This group of warriors is putting it lightly. They assembled a fleet and went south to find trouble for Mr. Chu Cai. How big would such an action involve? Nowadays, there are dozens of ships in the war fleet, mainly patrolling and inspecting outside.

After all the passing merchant ships are recovered, who will do the work?

There is no one to set up a card check, so naturally some people will take advantage of the situation and not pay the toll. If they don't pay the toll, the Sea Wolf will suffer a lot. Moreover, once more than a thousand people and dozens of ships go south together, how much supplies will the council prepare?

How many merchant fleet ships should be deployed to cooperate with the operation and provide them with supplies?

How much will this cost? And now Yu Xiaotian is vigorously operating Jilongwan and has opened another Tamsui village. It is the time to spend a lot of money. Now he suddenly gathers the fleet and troops to go south to fight with the boss Chu Cai.

, and a large amount of money has to be spent. Obviously the council believes that they do not have the ability to support such a large operation.

Looking at both internal and external considerations, if this battle is fought, it is likely that the gains will outweigh the losses in the end, and it may also cause greater difficulties for them to do business southward in the future.

Therefore, the Board of Directors believes that this matter can be reduced to a small matter. If you often walk by the river, there will be no shoes that don’t get wet. We can’t be the only sea wolves in the world to rob other people, and we shouldn’t allow others to rob them!

Therefore, two opinions were placed in front of Xiaotian, which made Yu Xiaotian very embarrassed, because if there was a fight, Zhao Mazi and the others' worries were justified. Once they broke up with Chu Cai, they would definitely keep a close eye on him in the future.

Sea Wolf's merchant ships heading south, will they still be able to do business in the future?

In addition, Mr. Chu Cai is not a generation like Chen Jiu and Zhang Hu. This person is too strong and the water is too deep. No one can tell where Mr. Chu Cai’s lair is now. If you want to hit the snake seven inches away, just kill Chu Cai directly.

As for Cai Lao, we can't even find his nest. This battle is really hard to win.

And if he offends this guy, he will definitely take revenge. It is not impossible to gather a large number of subordinates to attack Nanyue Island. Then he will face a fierce battle. The odds of winning are, at most,

The number is five to five, and it will seriously affect many of his planned plans.

Therefore, a large-scale recruitment of troops to retaliate was quickly vetoed by Yu Xiaotian. However, according to the Council of Directors, it was not his character to suffer the loss of being dumb at this time. So how should he deal with this matter?

What? In order to let his subordinates know that his surname is Yu, he is not someone to be bullied, and he cannot make this matter too big to end. Yu Xiaotian rubbed his chin and thought about it.

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