Daming pirates

As for the recruitment of soldiers, Yu Xiaotian left it to others to take care of it. After the experience of recruiting soldiers last time, the work of recruiting soldiers for Sea Wolf this time was much simpler. Many people along the coast of Fuzhou already knew about Hailang.

The wolf is very powerful, and he also envies the treatment of the Sea Wolf tribe, so recruiting troops will not be very difficult.

In addition, they can also easily recruit a group of young refugees who can serve as soldiers from some refugees on the condition that they have enough food to eat. In short, Yu Xiaotian does not need to personally deal with this matter.

As for the new recruits after they are recruited, and before the recruit training camp in Tamsui Village is established, these new recruits will be sent to the eastern part of Nanyue Island, the temporary camp in the bay where the Sea Wolf fleet gathered before, for a period of isolation.

Their physical fitness will be checked and necessary cleaning procedures will be carried out. The first recruited personnel will also be sent to Tamsui Village in advance to be invested in infrastructure construction to solve the problem of insufficient labor there.

After arranging the recruitment of soldiers, Yu Xiaotian began to arrange the division and transfer of the workshops. Although Yu Xiaotian had proposed to gradually separate the workshops and move them to Jilong Village and Danshui Village in the early stage, because the craftsmen did not

I was too willing to leave Nanyue Island, so the matter was delayed for some time.

So Yu Xiaotian asked the craftsmen to go to Tamsuihe chicken coops in batches to visit the conditions. Now the craftsmen have basically rotated to the two places to have a look, and some of them are satisfied with the conditions in the two places.

, most people are willing to go to Tamsui Village.

The considerations of the craftsmen are also reasonable. Although the Jilong Bay area is a natural fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is a problem, that is, it is rainy in the Jilong Bay area. In later generations, it is known as the Rain Harbor.

It rains more than a hundred days, which has a lot to do with the local terrain. Winter is relatively cold and not very popular.

Therefore, after looking at the two places, the craftsmen were more willing to go to Tamsui Village to work, so Yu Xiaotian based on the local conditions, set up the main workshop in Tamsui Village, while leaving a cannon casting workshop in the chicken coop.

Artillery can be produced locally to meet the needs there, but the scale is relatively small.

Outside Jilong Bay is a very good fishing ground, so Jilong Bay will also become the most important fishing port for sea wolves in the future. A large number of fishermen will be moved there to live, and the catches will be salted and processed on site.

You can reserve them to meet your own needs, or you can resell them on land to make money.

In addition, there are many mountains and forests around Jilong Bay, and the wild animal resources are quite rich. It is also a good hunting place. You can also develop a hunting business and obtain a lot of skins, especially deer skins, wild boar skins, leopard skins and other skins. Nowadays,

It is a hot commodity nowadays and a very profitable business.

However, Jilong Bay is not very suitable as a shipbuilding base due to climate reasons, so the boathouse can only be temporarily located in Tamsui Village.

Therefore, the amount of relocation project this time is also very large. The artillery operation will be divided into three. A few people will move to Jilongzhai to establish a small-scale artillery operation, and some people will move to Tamsui Village to establish a larger-scale artillery operation.

The gun-making workshop was divided into two, and one half was moved to Tamsui Village to reopen a gun-making workshop. From now on, it will gradually take over Nanyue Island and become the most important weapons production place for Sea Wolf.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian has a new idea about industrial structure. In the past, he advocated the production of various weapons and armors by himself, but now he feels that this is not a good idea, such as knives, guns, axes, hooks and forks, and bayonets.

The technical content of such items is relatively low, and ordinary craftsmen can create them as long as they are not pursuing high-quality products.

If all these tasks were done by Sea Wolf's own craftsmen, although the cost would be lower, it would take up too much human resources, so when he adjusted the industrial structure this time, he decided to do something and not do something.

Outsourcing these low-tech products and no longer letting Seawolf's own craftsmen create and produce them, but choosing some blacksmith shops or iron yards on land and ordering them directly from them, is very important for these products.

The blacksmiths and iron fields on land are undoubtedly a good thing, allowing them to profit from them, but Sea Wolf can spare more blacksmiths and invest them in the production of cannons, continue to increase the production of cannons, and meet its own needs as soon as possible.

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In addition, he also discovered that gunfire was a prohibited item for the government and court in this era, and it was very difficult to purchase it on land. The profits were very high. It would be unjustifiable if he did not do such a high-profit business.

So he also made a new decision that surprised everyone, that is, in the future, Sea Wolf will start doing such a business. Unless it is a clear enemy, otherwise, as long as someone wants it, he can sell it to them.

Get huge profits.

As soon as he said this decision, he was immediately met with unanimous opposition from his subordinates, who expressed that they would never accept such a decision. Nowadays, these self-produced cannons of Sea Wolf are the foundation of their foothold. How can they be sold easily?

For others, if one day someone uses the cannons they made to deal with their sea wolves, what's the point?

Therefore, this matter must not be done, not even to the extreme. In short, whether it is the money-hungry council, the Navy, or the leaders of all aspects of the war army, they all collectively expressed their opposition, and even felt that Yu Xiaotian was anxious

I was so anxious to make money that I came up with such a crazy idea.

Listening to the group of guys below who were noisy like a bunch of noisy ducks, Yu Xiaotian smiled and let them make noisy noises below. He then lighted a cigarette and took a few puffs.

The people below had enough quarreling, and gradually began to turn their attention to Yu Xiaotian again. Seeing Yu Xiaotian's expression of being an old god, they began to feel that they had done something wrong and made a mistake. Otherwise, Yu Xiaotian would also

He was not so calm, so all the noisy guys he met shut their mouths.

Yu Xiaotian put out the cigarette in his hand in a glass ashtray, and said with a smile: "What? Have you had enough noise? Are you no longer arguing? It's okay, keep arguing! I can wait! You guys keep coming!"

At this time, everyone felt that something was not going well, so everyone raised their objections again and waited quietly for Yu Xiaotian to speak.

Seeing that no one was talking, Yu Xiaotian lowered his face, glanced at everyone below coldly, and said in an angry tone: "Why don't you stop arguing? Have you listened to what I said? I

Before I finished speaking, you jumped out one by one, what do you think this place is? Do you think this is a market? How presumptuous!"

When everyone heard this, they all felt Yu Xiaotian's anger, so they did not dare to neglect, and quickly stood up with a cheer, and bowed their heads to apologize to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian saw that this group of people had been calmed down by him, so his expression calmed down a little, and he waved his hand and said: "That's it! Everyone, sit down! If you have any opinions in the future, at least wait until I finish speaking.

It’s not too late! I, Yu, am not a person who listens to good advice, and I will not hold a discussion here. No one is allowed to object to my opinions!”

Everyone nodded quickly and said, "I am guilty!"

"Okay! Just admit your mistake! It's not too late to listen to what I have to say!

Nowadays, everyone knows that artillery and muskets are difficult to obtain. The imperial court is currently using troops against the slave-building Tatars in the Guanning area, and there is chaos in She'an in the south. There are very strict controls on artillery and muskets and other sharp weapons. Whether it is merchants sailing on the sea or us

My colleagues wanted to beg for food at sea, so they tried their best to buy various cannons and muskets!

So now it is hard to find a gun on the market, and the Taixi people have dominated this business and made a fortune. An iron cannon made by the Japanese and a firecracker made by the Taixi people can be sold for dozens of taels of silver.

Even a broken bowl-mouth gun is currently worth more than a hundred taels of silver, and it is still priceless!

Is this kind of business profitable? Of course it is! I asked the Council to build a flintlock spear that we currently use. Taking into account all the iron materials, charcoal, and labor, it only costs three taels of silver, but

If a musket like ours were sold on the market, it would be worth at least thirty taels of silver!

I heard news last year that Fo Langji sold thirty red Yi cannons to the imperial court and made tens of thousands of taels of silver. Even the Luzon bronze cannon, which is currently on the market, costs one to two thousand taels of silver.

, and these Luzon cannons would explode from time to time, so even if you have money, you still can't buy them.

So far, we have been able to cast various types of Hongyi cannons in large quantities. Even the No. 3 cannon that we use most now is worth at least 500 to 800 taels of silver. This is still the lowest price. If we

If you are ruthless enough, even if you ask for a thousand taels of silver, there will still be people who come to us with money to buy!

But how much silver do we need to cast a No. 3 cannon? The best wrought iron on the market now is only three cents per kilogram, and the best pig iron costs less than sixty bucks. To build a No. 3 cannon,

Throwing away various expenses, the cost is only a few dozen taels of silver, which is already high.

(Yu Xiaotian classified the artillery produced by Sea Wolf, positioning the six-pounder gun as the No. 3 gun. In addition, he trial-produced an eight-pounder gun that was more powerful than the six-pounder gun and named it the No. 4 gun. The original 12-pounder howitzer was also the short-range gun.

The gun was named the No. 5 gun, the twelve-pounder was renamed the No. 5 long gun, and so on. Each type of artillery had its own code name. In this way, their names for the guns can be unified in the future.)

If we are willing to sell it, the money earned from one cannon will be enough for us to build ten more cannons. Why should we ignore such a good business? Do you think we are already rich now? Don't think about it.

Is there a way to make money?"

Yu Xiaotian scolded these subordinates with raised eyebrows.