Daming pirates

The intermediary proposed by Liu Laoliu was no one else. It was Yan Siqi who was also on the island of Taiwan at this time. Yan Siqi himself was from Haicheng, had been at sea for a long time, and was not weak at hand, although he may not be able to compete with Sea Wolf or Sea Wolf at the moment.

Chu Cai is old, but he currently has more than a hundred merchant ships and warships of various types, and he has no less than one or two thousand men under his command.

And his place is also very good. Yan Siqi's hometown is in the Taichung area. It is currently far away from the emperor and the imperial government can't reach it, so there should be no problem with safety.

Also, Yan Siqi, Yu Xiaotian and Mr. Chu Cai all know each other and have a good relationship. When he first learned that Yu Xiaotian and Mr. Chu Cai had a conflict, Yan Siqi asked Zheng Yiguan to come and try to mediate for them.

Later, because Yu Xiaotian wanted to fight Chu Cai Lao, Zheng Yiguan could only return without success.

Now if Yan Siqi is willing to act as an intermediary guarantor, Yu Xiaotian can rest assured, and Mr. Chu Cai probably doesn't have much opinion, so going to Yan Siqi's place for negotiation is undoubtedly a pretty good choice.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately agreed and sent someone to notify Yan Siqi, asking Yan Siqi if he would be willing to act as a guarantee and act as a middleman, and let Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cai Lao negotiate on his territory.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian also sent someone to send a message to Mr. Chu Cai, asking Mr. Chu Cai if he had any objections to negotiating on Yan Siqi's territory. If possible, he would set a date for the two parties to go to Yan Siqi's Dazhai to meet and negotiate.

After Yan Siqi got the news about Yu Xiaotian, he immediately agreed and expressed his willingness to act as an intermediary and let Yu Xiaotian and Mr. Chu Cai negotiate in his stronghold.

Don't interfere with the river, stop this fight.

Moreover, Mr. Chu Cai quickly replied, saying that he agreed with Yu Xiaotian's proposal and went to Yan Siqi's place to meet Yu Xiaotian, and agreed that the time would be April 13th to go to Yan Siqi's Dazhai together.

So two days in advance, Yu Xiaotian boarded the Fei Lang, the two-masted schooner, and took two Fei single-masted clippers, leaving Nanyue Island and sailing to Bengang, where Yan Siqi's old camp was located.

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Far away from Ben Port, Yu Xiaotian met Yan Siqi's sentry boat. After identifying himself, the sentry boat immediately took Yu Xiaotian's three ships back to their Ben Port.

Bengang is actually a stream that converges from Taiwan Island into the sea here. The mouth of the river is relatively wide and is suitable for ships to dock and land. A long time ago, other ships on land or traveling to and from the Taiwan Strait docked here to land and rest.

Some fresh water food.

The reason why Yan Siqi was called the King of Kaitai in history was because he took a fancy to this place. After escaping back from Japan with his men, he finally chose to land here, build a stockade, and immigrate from the land.

The area was developed for farming and mountain-sea economy, and at the same time, it also engaged in pirate business. Of course, it was also indispensable to engage in sea trade.

After Yan Siqi arrived here, the Bengang area gradually became lively. Villages were built by Yan Siqi, and many immigrants moved from Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places.

They used their money to buy cattle and farm tools on land and brought them here for the immigrants to use. Gradually, large tracts of farmland began to appear in this area, and it became like a civilized place.

During this year, Yan Siqi continued to immigrate here in large numbers, stepped up his efforts to expand his strength, and built nearly ten villages. Wharfs were built on both sides of Bengang River for ships to berth.

Even though Yan Siqi only had a dozen or so big ships when he arrived, in just one year, he used personal connections and strong means, either by robbing or buying, and also asked his brothers to recruit new subordinates from his hometown.

, now has nearly a hundred ships of various types, some of which are used for fishing at sea, some of which are specially used for pirate business, and some of which are specially responsible for sea trading.

In addition to farming, the immigrants on the land also hunted vigorously and sold the deer skins, leopard skins, wild boar skins and other skins they obtained on the land, or resold them to red-haired people to obtain financial resources and continue to invest in the immigration cause.

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Yu Xiaotian has been paying attention to these things, so he basically knows Yan Siqi's development very well.

But after half a year, when he came here again, he was still surprised by the scene here. The last time he came here, it was just a lonely and simple village. Now when he comes here again, the village is

Thousands of acres of farmland have appeared in the surrounding area. A lot of rice and other crops are planted in the fields, and there are even large areas of sugar cane. Moreover, many farmers can be seen busy in the fields from a distance.

It can be seen that Yan Siqi has really not been idle in the past year. He has made the place prosperous and prosperous. The original wild feeling has been replaced by a pastoral look. Even Yu Xiaotian has to admire Yan Siqi's ability in this aspect.

The ability to turn this place into such a scene in such a short period of time.

Moreover, Yan Siqi's strength has developed to such an extent in just one year, and he has become a force that cannot be ignored in the Taiwan Strait. This is why Yu Xiaotian admires Yan Siqi very much.

When Xiaotian's boat stopped beside the pier, Yan Siqi smiled and came over from the pier. After Yu Xiaotian walked down to the pier, Yan Siqi strode over with a smile on his face and bowed his hands to Yu Xiaotian.

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"It's been a long time since I've seen Brother Yu again! It's a rare opportunity today for me to have Yan as a host. I have to make a deal tonight. Our brothers are going to have a good drink and fight.

You two have enough drinking capacity!" Yan Siqi is a bold man with a loud voice. In addition, he and Yu Xiaotian have met several times. After a few drinks, the two of them have become very close to each other, so they seem to speak very casually.

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Yu Xiaotian nodded and said with a smile: "That's right! It's just that coming here this time has disturbed Brother Yan! Brother knows that Brother Yan has a good drinker, so he came here this time and specially sent Brother Yan twenty

Great wine!"

When Yan Siqi heard that so much good wine had been brought to him, he immediately smiled and nodded in thanks, but his eyes remained on the boat next to the trestle.

"What kind of ship is this? Why have I never seen it before? It looks a bit like a Thai-Western ship, but the sail seems to be the sail commonly used on our Ming Dynasty ships! Weird! It's really weird!" Yan Siqi is an old expert on ships.

Yes, after seeing the ketch that Yu Xiaotian was riding today, I was very surprised and curious.

Yu Xiaotian turned to look at the Feilang he was riding on, and said with a smile: "This is a boat built by the boathouse on my brother's own island. I wanted to imitate the large sailing ship of the Westerners, but it was a bit different. But

It's okay to use, and it runs pretty fast! It makes Brother Yan laugh!"

At this time, Yan Siqi's eyes fell on the two sloops that had followed Yu Xiaotian to the shore. He pointed at them and asked Xiaotian: "So, brothers, you also built these two boats yourself?"

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Yu Xiaotian replied somewhat triumphantly: "Exactly! Brother Yan doesn't know anything. I used to wander overseas in my early years and knew something about the shipbuilding of the Westerners. So for more than a year, I took my men to the boathouse.

The craftsmen inside wanted to imitate the ship types of the Westerners and build some of their own ships.

The ships of the Westerners have many advantages that we can learn from. Now their large sailing ships have already surpassed our Ming Dynasty's great fortune ships, so we might as well learn from the Yi people and learn some of their things for our own use!"

Yan Siqi looked at the three boats brought by Yu Xiaotian, listened to Yu Xiaotian's words, nodded in agreement, and suddenly asked: "If Brother Yu guessed correctly, these three boats may be the ones that Mr. Chu Cai recently brought."

Those ghost ships that my subordinates talk about so much!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "Haha! It is indeed these boats, but they are just a little faster. In fact, there is nothing special about them! It was only after Chu Cai's old men suffered several losses and spread rumors that these boats were passed on.

The sound of the boats is amazing! In fact, compared with those large sailing ships of the Westerners, these boats are not really powerful boats!"

Yan Siqi suddenly remembered the boat he encountered on his first trip to Fuzhou. At that time, he saw with his own eyes that the two sloop-like clippers that Yu Xiaotian had brought today suddenly appeared in the sky.

In front of their fleet, after observing their fleet for a while, they raised their full sails and quickly sailed away from their fleet.

But he found that the speed of the ship was much faster than any ship he had ever seen in his memory. He was very shocked at that time. However, he thought at the time that the ship he saw should be a Taishi ship.

I didn't expect that it was actually built by Yu Xiaotian and it was a clipper belonging to Sea Wolf.

When he saw this kind of boat again today, he realized that the boat he met that day was actually Yu Xiaotian's boat. What he didn't expect was that Yu Xiaotian was actually on the flying fish at that time.

On board the number, I met him from a distance.

Of course Yan Siqi can see the advantages of this kind of ship. Let alone anything else, just the speed advantage of this kind of ship is enough to make him proud at sea. Once someone owns such a fast ship, he can do anything at sea.

It's easier to get twice the result with half the effort than to pick up other slow boats.

If used as a warship, this kind of ship is obviously equipped with many guns, and relying on their high speed, it can easily capture the enemy ship. Once it encounters a strong enemy, it can also easily turn around and leave, leaving the enemy with only

Ability stares.

So he looked at the three boats owned by Yu Xiaotian and almost drooled. He quickly pulled Yu Xiaotian and asked: "Master Yu, do you build many boats like this now? If so, can you?"

Selling your love to Brother Yu for two?"

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