Daming pirates

Sea Wolf made money quickly, but everyone who dealt with them also knew that they spent it quickly. In the second half of the fourth year of Tianqi, Sea Wolf spent almost all of its money secretly recruiting immigrants along the coast.

Moreover, Hailang also semi-publicly announced that for those who are willing to immigrate to Taiyuan Island, each family will be given three taels of settlement allowance, a set of farm tools, and every three families will be given a cattle, and the land they expand will be their own. First,

The annual tax is fully exempted, and the tax is halved in the second and third years. At the same time, you can also get the protection of the sea wolf.

At first, the publicity effect was not very good. Although Sea Wolf has gained a good reputation in the Fuzhou area in the past two years, and the coastal people have not been seriously harmed by it, and its actions have even benefited many fishermen, they still bear the burden after all.

Despite their reputation, many people still don't want to believe them.

But by the end of the fourth year of Tianqi, the situation began to improve. The reason was not that the people changed their attitude towards Sea Wolf, but that someone confirmed Sea Wolf's honest attitude to them.

The first batch of immigrants who were deceived and tricked into settling on Nanyue Island. After settling in Nanyue Island for more than a year, they gradually discovered that although this group of sea wolves were pirates, they behaved very differently from other pirates.

He kept his word and treated immigrants like them with great care. After arriving at Nanyue Island, although they did not dare to say that they had no worries about food and clothing, their lives were getting better day by day, which made them feel that they were finally looking forward to this life.

So these people were instructed by Hailang to pay to send them back to their hometowns, and promoted Hailang to recruit landless villagers from the same hometown to immigrate to Taiyuan Island to cultivate land.

After someone came forward to speak out, the matter became much easier to handle. The people were more willing to believe the word-of-mouth from fellow villagers. Now that they saw some fellow villagers returning to their hometowns, and they looked much more prosperous than before, they began to be tempted.

Many modern people actually don’t quite understand the ancient people’s fanatical pursuit of land. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, social conflicts were accumulating and had reached a very high level. Land annexation had also reached a very serious level. A large number of

Land has been occupied by the powerful through various means, turning a considerable number of farmers into landless farmers.

The farmers' thinking is very simple, that is, having a piece of land of their own is better than anything else. This has penetrated into the bones of the farmers.

They have worked hard on land for decades. Not only can they not afford to buy land, they cannot even keep the land they owned before. Now they know that someone is willing to give them land for free farming, and the reclaimed land will be credited to their names.

, such a temptation is so great that modern people cannot understand it.

In the eyes of many farmers, in order to obtain a piece of land of their own, they can give up everything for it. In addition, some people secretly showed up and encouraged them to apply for the army, so gradually more and more landless farmers began to express their willingness

Go try it.

Nowadays, Hailang is very experienced in doing this kind of thing. They have set up coastal or detailed operations in many places on land. After receiving the news that someone is willing to immigrate to Taiyuan Island, they will go and take the initiative as soon as possible.

Contact them, then take them to the coastal area and hand them over to the people staying on the shore.

If these immigrants save enough, they will fill up a boat and ship it immediately. They will first be sent to Xiaoyue Island in the north of Nanyue Island. On the island, these immigrants will undergo a unified physical examination and then be quarantined for about a week. Sea Wolf

The originally promised resettlement allowance and various farm tools will be distributed to them. At the same time, a steward will be temporarily selected among them to serve as their spokesperson, responsible for managing these immigrants on behalf of Sea Wolf.

Of course, if Sea Wolf talks to these immigrants, he will also talk to these managers, and the treatment he will give them will be relatively better.

Generally speaking, before these immigrants were sent to Jilongwan and Tamsui Village, in addition to the necessary simple quarantine, they were not just allowed to rest at the temporary transfer station. Yu Xiaotian also arranged for a special person to take advantage of these days to inspect these immigrants.

The immigrants instilled some sense of obedience and told them that after arriving at the new immigration point, they must follow the instructions of the sea wolf. One is to avoid conflicts with the old local immigrants, and the other is to learn to protect themselves.

For these immigrants, after Yu Xiaotian considered it for a while, he finally decided to implement semi-military management for them, and learned from the Baojia system of later generations to manage the immigrants.

The Baojia system can still play a relatively good management role in this era. If these immigrants from all over the world do not have an effective system to manage them, they will probably be in a mess when they arrive at the new immigration point.

, there will be endless internal fights among each other, so we don’t want them to develop in a down-to-earth manner.

Therefore, the implementation of the Baojia system is a very good way to manage these immigrants. The basic unit of the Baojia system is a household. Each household has a head of household. Ten households are divided into one A, and a head is elected.

, the top ten are the first guarantor, and the person sent by Sea Wolf serves as the guarantor and is responsible for the management of this guarantor.

In principle, new resettlement sites are based on bao units. Each bao has exactly 100 households, forming a larger resettlement village. Each household has one Ding, as the first Ding, who works on the farm during weekdays. During leisure time, the villagers must carry out the work under the leadership of the Bao Chang.

In military training, if something happens, Jia and Ding need to take up arms and be led by the chief of Jia and dispatched by the chief of security to defend their immigrant village.

In this way, an immigrant village has a reserve force of about a hundred people at any time, and with the assistance of other young people in the village, the self-defense capability of an immigration point is quite good. As long as the wall is built, these new immigrant villages can have

Quite strong ability to protect oneself.

This kind of armor-preserving system is very helpful for the Sea Wolves to control the immigrants on their current territory. If the Sea Wolves need to expand their army in the future, they can even directly recruit Jia Ding into the army. These immigrants will be the resources for their future expansion of the Sea Wolves' army.

The immigrants have benefited from the life that Sea Wolf has given them, and have formed a community with Sea Wolf in terms of interests. Naturally, they will also be of the same mind as Sea Wolf, and they will not worry about not helping Sea Wolf in the future.

Therefore, the immigration to Taiyuan Island was fully rolled out by the end of the fourth year of Tianqi. By the end of the year, Sea Wolf had already immigrated nearly 2,000 people to Tamsui River, forming four large-scale settlements around Tamsui Village.

The immigration settlement has become the backbone of Danshui Village.

Overall, in the past few months at the end of the fourth year of Tianqi, Hailang's work in Jilong Bay and Tamsui Village was fully rolled out, and the progress can be said to be quite good.

But at the end of the year, the sea in Chaozhou and Quanzhou became less calm. Starting from the beginning of November, several ships of unknown origin suddenly appeared on the sea south of Quanzhou, causing a stir in this large area of ​​water.

A bloody storm.

As for the sudden appearance of these ships of unknown origin, Chu Cai Lao and his men were probably the most depressed.

Because after a period of time, they gradually discovered that these strange-looking boats were specifically targeting Chu Cai Lao.

In less than a month from the beginning of November to the beginning of December, Mr. Chu Cai and his shopkeepers actually lost more than a dozen ships to these ships of unknown origin.

At first, Mr. Chu Cai didn't care much about this matter. He felt that the sea was so big and there were so many people doing their job. These boats must also be their peers, but they just fished their hands into his territory.

But it was only after he heard that his men had lost several ships one after another that he realized that these ships of unknown origin were probably not as simple as he thought. These ships seemed to have come specifically for Chu Cai Lao.

, specially selected the ships belonging to his old subordinate Chu Cai to attack.

Only then did Mr. Chu Cai start to pay attention to these boats that appeared inexplicably on his territory. He sent people to start collecting information about these boats of unknown origin, intending to capture these boats and take a look.

Who on earth dared to go to his land to cause trouble for him?

However, the information collected made Chu Cailao scratch his head a little. He wanted to take revenge, but found that things were not as simple as he thought.

Because he had never seen these ships, he only heard from his men who escaped their attack that these ships were like ghosts and difficult to deal with.

No one can tell exactly how many such ships they have. In short, these ships look strange. These ships have long and narrow hulls, low sides, straight sides, only one mast, and soft sails. They have surprising characteristics.

The speed of the ship is far different from that of the Ming Dynasty. It looks a bit like a Taixi ship, but it feels a little different, because they have not seen a Taisi ship before, but they have never seen anything similar.

This kind of ship.

The hull of the ship that attacked them was not as big as the big ships used by the Thais. It looked like it was about 150 to 200 ships, but the speed of the ship was very fast, and it could be said that it came and went like the wind on the sea.

, and also extremely flexible.

These boats always move in two or three together, specially picking old Chu Cai's men to launch surprise attacks when their boats are left alone. Moreover, they never make any sense. Once they appear, they immediately launch an attack without any courtesy at all.

What chance do you leave for Chu Cai’s old subordinates?

What's even more frightening is that in addition to being fast, these boats are also equipped with many sharp Hongyi cannons. These cannons on their boats not only hit far, but also hit very accurately. But in Chu Cai

The old ship fired a cannon from two hundred paces away, and the cannonballs hit hard and accurately.

Often when Chu Cai Lao's men encountered them, they were almost unable to fight back. In just a few moments, the ship's planks were broken, the mast collapsed, and even the ship was destroyed and people were killed.

What makes Chu Cai Lao even more confused is that these ships don't seem to care much about the goods on his ships. If they can rob them, they will rob them. If they can't rob them, they will simply fire on his ships.

Destroy it and then fly away.

This made Mr. Chu Cai confused. What were these unidentified ships trying to do? Why did they not care about the wealth, but only wanted to destroy his ships?

After much deliberation, there is only one reason for the other party to do this, and that is revenge! He must have offended someone, Chu Cailao. Now they don't want to break up with him in person and play tricks on them. In this way, they can deal with them.

They retaliate.

Thinking of this, Chu Cai Lao was so angry that he was furious. Now looking at the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, although he Chu Cai Lao dare not say that he is the number one pirate, but his peers who are similar to or exceed his strength can basically be beaten with just one slap.

You can count them.

Who the hell is so bold and dares to use this method to retaliate against him? So when Chu Cai reached the twelfth lunar month, he really couldn't sit still and ordered his shopkeepers to start gathering their subordinates and go to sea with all their strength.

Patrol these ships specifically targeting them, try to find a way to catch them, and find out who ordered these ships.

In short, Chu Cai was almost driven crazy by these inexplicable boats.