Daming pirates

Time is like a fleeting horse, always slipping past people unknowingly when they are busy. For Yu Xiaotian, a few months can almost be regarded as a blink of an eye.

It's autumn.

In the past few months, due to the increasingly tense relationship between Hailang and the government, the merchant trade on Nanyue Island has been greatly affected. In the originally bustling merchant area, some merchants, under pressure from the government, left the island.

The store was evacuated.

But for this situation, Yu Xiaotian has no better way to solve it. He currently does not have the strength to attack certain state capitals in Fujian on a large scale, so he cannot force the government to bow to him.

However, he sent his men to raid the coast of Fujian in large numbers before, which still sounded an alarm to the government and made the current governor of Fujian Zhu Qinxiang understand the power of his sea wolf. As a result, Zhu Qinxiang had no choice but to do anything in the next few months.

Dare to take the idea of ​​Nanyue Island again easily.

Fortunately, he stopped as soon as he got along with Yu Xiaotian. He only let his men continue to attack the shore for about a month and then stopped. This gave Prime Minister Zhu Qin a step forward and did not force him to become angry.

, summoned a large number of Fujian officers and soldiers to launch a campaign to suppress the Sea Wolf.

Taking advantage of the calm period between the two parties, Yu Xiaotian accelerated the transfer of industries in the Nanyue Island Workshop District. After a few months, these Nanyue Island workshops have basically completed the industrial transfer.

Although the various workshops on Nanyue Island have not stopped working, more than two-thirds of the craftsmen here have been diverted to Tamsui City and Jilongzhai.

Nowadays, Nanyue Island is no longer the foundation of Sea Wolf's industry. Instead, Tamsui City has taken over the position of Nanyue Island and has become Sea Wolf's most important industrial base.

A large number of workshops have sprung up in Tamsui City, both inside and outside the city, and each workshop has begun to put into production.

The industrialization of Tamsui City has also driven the shipping industry. With the demand for raw materials from various workshops, so far, Seawolves still need to purchase these raw materials from land, especially the iron materials used in the production of weapons. They are

Things that must be solved from land.

After two years of hard work by the Board of Directors, Seawolf no longer needs to rely on Guangdong for the purchase of iron materials. There are already many iron-producing places in Fujian, and the quality is quite good, whether it is government-run or private.

In the iron yard, Sea Wolf has secretly established a relationship with them. Almost every day, iron materials are shipped from all over Fujian and Guangdong and shipped to Sea Wolf's territory.

In the past, these iron materials were transported to Nanyue Island. Now Tamsui Village and Jilong Village have also become the terminals for raw materials. Every day, ships transporting goods sail into Jilong Bay and Tamsui River and dock at the docks.

Loading and unloading cargo.

Before Yu Xiaotian came to this era, he knew more or less about the ancient smelting industry, but he did not know the specific annual iron output in various parts of the country during the Ming Dynasty. He only had wishful thinking that the ancient labor force and technical level

Low, even if the Ming Dynasty had the best smelting technology in the world, the national iron output in a year would not be too high.

Therefore, he has always had a sense of crisis, fearing that the iron materials he used to make cannons would be in short supply, or that he would not be able to buy them with enough money.

But as his sea trade business grew, he realized that his worries were actually a bit ridiculous, because over the past year or so, he had learned that in Guangdong alone, in this era, in one year,

Various iron smelting plants and iron mines can smelt tens of thousands of tons of pig iron and wrought iron. Together with the iron yards and iron mines in Fujian, it is enough to meet the needs of Sea Wolf in one year.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's previous worries were basically unnecessary. As long as he had money, someone would be willing to sell him iron materials. As for where he would use it, almost no one had asked about it, so that now

Yu Xiaotian even relied solely on purchasing iron materials from Fujian to meet his cannon-casting, gun-making, and shipbuilding needs.

But even so, Yu Xiaotian still insisted on the council to buy more iron materials. As long as someone is willing to buy it and the council still has money, they can just buy it. Originally, Sea Wolf did not need so much iron material, but considering that

At present, the relationship between Sea Wolf and the government is getting more and more tense. I don’t know when, the government may order to cut off some iron materials, causing Sea Wolf to be short of iron materials in a short period of time, so Yu Xiaotian ordered the Council to

Allocate enough funds as much as you need, and reserve iron materials in large quantities to prepare for emergencies.

So in the past few months, Hailang has stored hundreds of tons of pig iron and wrought iron, which is enough for him to use for a period of time.

Don’t think that a few hundred tons of iron is already a lot. In fact, these hundreds of tons of iron are not much when piled together. At best, it only fills up a warehouse that is not too big. If it is pulled by a large truck in later generations, it will not be used much.

The car can be pulled in one go.

Considering safety issues, these iron materials were all transported to Tamsui Village and Jilong Village for storage during this period. Even the dozens of tons of iron materials previously stored in Nanyue Island were left aside for temporary use.

In addition, they were all transported to Danshui Village by Yu Xiaotian.

In the past few months, in addition to relocating industries, Sea Wolf has also made considerable progress in expanding its troops. According to Yu Xiaotian's plan, Sea Wolf has recruited a total of more soldiers in these months.

More than a thousand new recruits were recruited, plus Chu Cai Lao's men who were captured last time, about 600 people were selected and incorporated into the new camp.

Calculated in this way, in the past six months, Sea Wolf's tribe has increased by nearly 40%, so that by September of the fifth year of Tianqi, the total number of Sea Wolf's tribe reached nearly 5,000 people.

Moreover, compared to Sea Wolf's five thousand people, compared with Mr. Chu Cai and several big bosses at sea, all of his nearly five thousand subordinates are under his direct management, rather than using the same methods as they do.

Loose management, call them together when they are in use, divide them into small groups when not in use, and everyone is busy in their own way.

Sea Wolf adopts unified management, which is an absolute pyramid-shaped management method. All power is ultimately in the hands of Yu Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian can directly control a small pawn at the bottom. In this way,

His control over his subordinates is much greater than that of his peers.

But relatively speaking, the burden on the Sea Wolf is much heavier. The size of this tribe of nearly 5,000 people requires tens of thousands of taels of silver every month just for salary expenses, in addition to their food, clothing, housing and transportation.

, all of them have to be paid for by Xiaotian. Every month, these expenses will cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, otherwise it will not work.

Fortunately, the Sea Wolf Group now has various businesses. On land, it now has a large business called Maoshengyuan, and there is also a medicine store. In August, under the manipulation of Li Yi, the Board of Directors again

He and Li Yi opened a bank, and the Board of Directors also began to get involved in the two industries of restaurants and prostitutes.

In the past two months, the Council sent people to open several restaurants and restaurants in Fuzhou City, Xinghua Fucheng, and Funing City.

These land-based transactions can basically earn Sea Wolf tens of thousands of taels of silver every month without any problem.

Sea Wolf has two separate businesses: glass and soap, and now its output is increasing day by day. Even so, their products are still in short supply. Even things like soap have attracted the attention of the Thai people, and they have begun to think of ways to do it.

Purchased from Maoshengyuan Branch in Guangzhou, as a fashionable product, it was shipped back to Europe and sold at a high price. It is said that they sold it for one to five taels of silver, and after shipping it back to Europe, the sales price could even be ten times higher.

Above, the price is ridiculously high, but some European nobles, especially the ladies, are still flocking to them.

Therefore, the net profits earned by these two industries every month are tens of thousands of taels.

There is also the sea trade business of Sea Wolf. Now Sea Wolf has captured some of Chu Cailao's ships. After sorting them out, some of them were used as warships and left to a few sub-fleets. The remaining large ships were

Ships, such as Fu Chuan and Guang Chuan, were handed over to the merchant fleet.

The size of the merchant fleet has now exceeded one hundred. Except for some of these ships that have recently been busy with the relocation of the Sea Wolf industry, the remaining ships are at sea every day, busy doing business from north to south.

The ships of the merchant fleet have now spread all over the Southeast Asia, doing business in Batavia, Manila, Dadi, Champa, Sriwijaya, and Siam. There are even two ships that have sailed to the Indian Ocean as explorers.

, ran to a certain place in India, and brought back a lot of spices, Indian cotton cloth, and a lot of ivory from the local area. After returning, he made a lot of money.

The merchant fleet that the council belongs to brings back huge profits to Sea Wolf every year. This gives Yu Xiaotian enough financial resources to recruit troops, build cannons, and build ships and buy ships.

Boat.

In order to meet Sea Wolf's growing demand for ships, Sea Wolf has begun to extend its tentacles further to the Guangdong coast in recent months. Based on those few Feihao fast ships, it sent a group of light ships southward.

When they arrived in the Guangdong area, they even reached the coast of Guangxi, where they began to conceal their identities, imitate Western smuggling ships, and engage in serious piracy business.

They specifically selected suitable ships to attack along the coasts of Guangdong and Guangxi. In addition to robbing cargo, their main goal was to rob ships. In the past few months, they had snatched back twenty, thirty, three hundred and four hundred pieces of cargo from the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi.

There were about a hundred large-scale ships, mostly Fuzhou and Guangzhou. After they sailed back to Nanyue Island, they were slightly repaired, given a new coat of paint, and then transformed into ships of the Sea Wolf, which were incorporated into the warships.

among fleets and merchant fleets.