Daming pirates

After Yan Siqi heard Yu Xiaotian's words, he was overjoyed. Originally, he was thinking of paying some money for the road and made the deal, but Yu Xiaotian waived his money for the road and pointed out a way for him.

There is a better way to ship goods. It turns out that there are so many shops on Nanyue Island, so why would he bother to go to Fuzhou to ship goods?

What's more, this is Nanyue Island, which is Yu Xiaotian's territory. Merchants receiving and shipping goods here must depend on Yu Xiaotian's face. If he has a good relationship with Yu Xiaotian, then he will ship goods here.

The price for receiving the goods will definitely be more reasonable than if he went to Fuzhou or Quanzhou.

So Yan Siqi immediately agreed and stood up to thank Xiaotian repeatedly. Yu Xiaotian saw that it was still early, so he asked Liu Wang to take Yan Siqi and several of his men to the shopping mall area to inquire about the market first.

In addition, tell the merchants that Mr. Yan is his friend, so they should take care of the price.

Yan Siqi thanked him again and then followed Liu Wang to the shopping mall area. At noon, Yu Xiaotian sent someone to host a banquet for Yan Siqi and his party, and asked him about his inquiries in the shopping mall area.

"Thank you so much for the hospitality, Mr. Yu! I really didn't expect it! The shopping mall area on Nanyue Island was so lively. After my brothers arrived, they couldn't stop leaving. I didn't know what to do for a while! Haha! These guys

The guy hasn't seen a woman in months, and he doesn't dare to smell a bit of scratching! Haha!

As for the price, the price of Maoshengyuan mentioned by Mr. Yu is indeed quite reasonable. To be honest with Mr. Yu, the price offered by Maoshengyuan to Yan is higher than the price offered by Mr. Lei from Fuzhou.

It’s much higher! If nothing else, if I, Yan, make shipments from now on, I’ll come here!”

Yan Siqi said to Xiaotian with a smile on his face.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that I, Yu, am still a bit thin-faced! In this case, I also welcome Brother Yan to trade here. Yu doesn't dare to say anything else, but as long as it is Yu's territory, Yu

You can guarantee the safety of Brother Yan’s property, and Yu can guarantee the transaction here. If there is any problem with the settlement, you can contact Yu!"

When Yan Siqi heard this, he was even more overjoyed, nodded in agreement, took out a gift list from his arms, and handed it to Yu Xiaotian.

"Master Yu, Yan came here to make trouble for the first time, and received such hospitality from Master Yu. Yan is really grateful. He has nothing else to express his gratitude to Master Yu, so he can only choose some worthless things on the boat.

I express my feelings, and I hope that the master will not dislike it and accept it with a smile."

Yu Xiaotian was not polite. After taking the gift list, he lowered his head and took a quick look. On the gift list, there were three hundred taels of grained silver, ten precision-cast Japanese knives, five Japanese iron cannons, folding fans, wood carvings, lacquer plates and other items, a large number of items.

Most of them are basically specialties from Japan. It is estimated that even the money was brought over from Japan by Yan Siqi and others.

Now these things were given to Yu Xiaotian by Yan Siqi as gifts.

Although Yu Xiaotian doesn't like Japanese swords, people who came from his era often think of Japan's war of aggression against China when they see this kind of sword. Countless people died under this Japanese sword.

, so Yu Xiaotian was born with a sense of resistance to this kind of Japanese sword.

But on the other hand, he had to admit that the Japanese sword was indeed a very good sword. During the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, China created very high sword-making skills, and the Tang sword, Mo sword and other swords were forged.

I dare not say that he is unparalleled in the world, but at least he can be proud of others.

After being punished by the Tang Dynasty, the little devils knew how powerful the Tang Dynasty was, so they sent a large number of foreign students (envoys to the Tang Dynasty) to come to our Datang Dynasty to learn various technologies and culture. As a result, they stole the casting skills of the Tang Dynasty swords.

The teacher went back.

It is a pity that after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty in Chinese history, there have been repeated wars in Chinese history. Many of the skills that the Chinese are proud of have been gradually lost in the long river of history in such chaotic times, and have not been able to

It has been passed down so that in this era, no one knows what the real Mo Dao looks like.

However, the method of making Tang swords was stolen by the craftsmen of the Little Devils and passed down perfectly. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, the quality of the swords made in China was already comparable to the Japanese swords made by the Japanese.

The considerable distance, coupled with the fact that the Japanese pirates rampaged wildly along the coast of China during the Ming Dynasty, caused huge losses to the people of the Ming Dynasty, so that when the people of the Ming Dynasty mentioned the Japanese pirates and the Japanese swords they used, as well as their fierce sword skills,

There is no mention of the change of color.

But it is undeniable that Japanese knives have become a very good commodity. Among the commodities exported by the little devils every year, Japanese knives are a very important commodity and are highly sought after by warriors in the Ming Dynasty. Even

Some scribes also like to hang them on the wall to show off.

As for the Japanese knives that Yan Siqi brought from Japan, it can be affirmed that they were basically made by good craftsmen. Giving Yu Xiaotian ten of them at one time was already quite a feat.

As for the other items on the gift list, the special one is the iron cannon produced in Japan. This Japanese iron cannon is actually a matchlock gun.

The first country in Asia to produce matchlocks was not China, but the Japanese. They came into contact with Western matchlocks earlier than Chinese craftsmen, and learned to make such matchlocks, called iron cannons, and equipped them with a large number of weapons.

During the War between Japan and Korea during the Wanli period, the Ming army suffered heavy losses from the Japanese iron cannons. If the Ming army's artillery had not had a great advantage, the battle would have been difficult to win.

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Nowadays, although the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have also imitated and improved the bird blunderbuss, and even the sharper Lumi blunderbuss and the multi-barrel musket thunder blunderbuss, the Japanese iron cannons are also well-known and are popular among pirates along the coast.

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This time Yan Siqi gave Yu Xiaotian five Japanese iron cannons at once, which showed that he was very sincere in making friends with Yu Xiaotian, otherwise he would not have given so many good things to Yu Xiaotian.

It's a pity that this kind of Japanese iron cannon has become synonymous with garbage in Xiaotian's eyes. If it were more than a year ago, if someone gave him a few of these guns, he would probably be grateful, but now

He has basically realized the self-sufficiency of muskets, and it is a flintlock gun that is beyond this era. Naturally, this kind of Japanese iron cannon is looked down upon.

Even the matchlock guns used by the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch are no longer rare for Yu Xiaotian.

But Yu Xiaotian still appreciates Yan Siqi's deliberate show of kindness. Both of them now want to make good friends with each other, and both of them are willing to cooperate with each other, so the next thing will be much easier to handle.

After Yu Xiaotian happily accepted the gift from Yan Siqi, he called his men to accompany Yan Siqi's men and drank from cup to cup. The atmosphere in the drinking hall was quite good, and they were both pirates, and their personalities were quite similar.

It was bold and generous, and now that people on both sides wanted to make friends with each other, naturally they drank the wine happily.

During the dinner, Yu Xiaotian also revealed part of his plan to explore the northern part of Taiyuan Island to Yan Siqi. Yan Siqi already knew that Yu Xiaotian occupied Jilong Bay, and he had already guessed that Yu Xiaotian and he had similar ideas.

They want to occupy a place on Taiyuan Island as their old camp.

Now Yu Xiaotian told him that in addition to Jilong Bay, Sea Wolf also occupies a place in the big river to the north. After Yan Siqi heard this, he nodded his head in agreement and expressed that he, Yan Siqi, was willing to do so.

He and Yu Xiaotian will cooperate in the future management of Taiyuan Island.

Moreover, Yan Siqi also said that he is willing to use the Bengang area where he is currently located, from the north of the nameless stream in the middle of Taiyuan Island, as the Sea Wolf's territory. Yan Siqi and his men will never reach out to that stream in the future.

Fish from the north.

The reason why Yan Siqi is willing to express his position in this way is that, in his eyes, the island of Taiwan is really too big. The area he currently occupies is already quite large and cannot be filled by tens of thousands of people. Even if he develops in the future,

No matter how big it is, it may not be able to occupy the entire island of Taiwan.

Therefore, instead of becoming enemies with Yu Xiaotian because of the territorial issue, it would be better to be more generous and directly divide the territory with Hailang on Taiyuan Island to avoid any conflicts between the two parties in the future.

Another reason is that after he came to Nanyue Island, he found that this group of sea wolves was more powerful than he thought. Not only did their ships have strong ships and powerful guns, but all the sea wolf tribesmen were also well-trained, and they were not ordinary people at all.

The pirates in the Ming Dynasty are comparable, so Yan Siqi really wants to be friends with Xiaotian, so that he can have more help. No one knows what will happen on the sea in the future. There are so many pirates along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. If he can make friends with the sea wolf

If so, it will undoubtedly be of considerable help to his future activities in the Taiwan Strait.

That's why Yan Siqi deliberately lowered his attitude and actively expressed his willingness to establish territorial rule with Sea Wolf and become friends with Sea Wolf in the future.

Yu Xiaotian thought about this and asked someone to get a rough topographic map of Taiwan Island. He found the location of a river on it, pointed it out and said to Yan Siqi: "Brother Yan! That big river you mentioned

Stream, is it this river?"

Yan Siqi looked at the map and found that the map was quite well drawn. It basically mapped out the general terrain of the entire Taiyuan Island, and some of the major rivers and mountains along the coast were also roughly marked. So he was quite surprised and searched carefully.

After taking his current position, he judged the location of the river pointed by Yu Xiaotian, and then nodded repeatedly: "Yes! It's this big stream! The local natives call it Dadu River. If Master Yu is willing

If so, how about we use this as the boundary?"

Yu Xiaotian touched his chin and laughed, nodded and said: "Brother Yan has a good sense! Haha! From this Dadu River to the south, there is a flat plain land, which is really suitable for reclaiming wasteland. Dadu River

To the north of Duxi there are mostly hills, and there are not as many open fields as there are in the south!"