Daming pirates

After looking at it, Ma Xiang felt that the price was really not cheap, but after all, when he came here, he had been mentally prepared that he would be killed by the sea wolves. In addition, looking at the prices offered by these sea wolves, they were not outrageous.

, such a price is considered the market price, but even if they had money before, they had no place to buy it, there was no market price!

Sea Wolf has spot goods. Even if it is not spot goods, it can be delivered to them within two months, and the quality cannot be chosen. It can only be as good as this, so the price offered by Ma Xiang to Sea Wolf is not high.

She said she couldn't stand it, so after haggling with the sales staff at the Council Hall, she finally settled on the unit price.

The unit price of these guns remains unchanged, but each gun comes with thirty to two hundred kilograms of gunpowder depending on the size of the gun. In addition, each gun comes with five pure iron solid shells, which is equivalent to giving it to Ma Xiang.

An offer.

Ma Xiang was already very satisfied with this, because in his opinion, Yu Xiaotian did not hide anything from them, and actually took out the good things, even the captured heavy artillery of the dry silk people was put away.

Come out and let them choose and buy, which really gives them a huge face.

This time they killed Master Zhou and gave Yu Xiaotian a generous gift. It seemed to be worth it. Otherwise, they would not have been able to get these killer weapons anyway.

However, Ma Xiang did not decide on the spot how many cannons he would need, because he had to go back and discuss this matter with Mr. Chu Cai to see how much Mr. Chu Cai wanted and how much money he could raise, even though he was the general manager of the old camp.

, but this kind of thing still requires Chu Cailao to speak up.

After all, when he came this time, he didn't have high hopes. He just came to explore the way and test Yu Xiaotian's attitude. But he didn't expect that things would go so smoothly this time, so Ma Xiang was very happy.

We stayed at Nanri Island for dinner, then returned to Nanri Island to say goodbye to Yu Xiaotian, thanked him profusely, and boarded the boat back to Dongshan Island that afternoon.

Zheng Zhilong's life has been really difficult in the past six months. First, he was forced to flee Bengang because he failed to rob money. He gained a reputation as a treacherous man. Sea wolves also killed several ships and many of his men.

Then Yan Siqi, whose strength had greatly increased, raised an army to attack and fought with him in the Penghu area. Although he did not suffer a big loss, there was nothing he could do against Yan Siqi.

Furthermore, he wanted to grab a piece of land in Fujian or along the coast of Guangdong, but he had a head-on conflict with Mr. Chu Cai. In the past few months, the two sides had been fighting fiercely. He was not able to kill Mr. Chu Cai in one fell swoop, but it was only preliminary.

Gained some upper hand.

He wanted to take revenge on Hailang and sent people to intercept Hailang's merchant ships on the waters of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. However, he had just started taking action and before he could take advantage of it, Hailang sent several fast boats and attacked them one after another.

The ship he left alone actually killed many of his men and ships, and also robbed several of his cargoes, resulting in a considerable loss.

Of course he knew that Sea Wolf's fast boats were difficult to deal with. Sea Wolf used this kind of boat in the past, causing Chu Cai Lao and his men to have trouble sleeping and eating, so he had to restrain himself and ordered his ships not to move alone.

This reduces a lot of profits. It is very difficult to move freely in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. You have to be careful everywhere and don't dare to be careless.

It turned out that he didn't want to get into such trouble with Yu Xiaotian's sea wolf. He thought he had some friendship with Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian also praised him very much. But what he didn't expect was that Yu Xiaotian was there.

Between him and Yan Siqi, he chose to side with Yan Siqi without hesitation, openly classifying him as an enemy.

He invited people to Nanri Island many times to negotiate peace with Yu Xiaotian, but he was flatly rejected by Yu Xiaotian. He also told the messenger that what Yu looked down upon the most was that he, Zheng Yiguan, had committed such a crime. Just now

With his strength greatly increased, he tried to kill his master. Yu Xiaotian would never associate with someone like him, so he gave up on this idea.

Zheng Yiguan was very depressed about this. He didn't know when he had offended Yu Xiaotian, causing Yu Xiaotian to treat him so unkindly that he turned against him without any warning.

But Zheng Yiguan is a very smart man. After thinking about it carefully, he saw what Yu Xiaotian was thinking. How could Yu Xiaotian have any sense of justice?

Yu Xiaotian simply saw that Zheng Yiguan's strength had soared, and he was afraid that if Zheng Yiguan continued to grow bigger, he would become a strong enemy of his Sea Wolf in the future, so he used Yan Siqi to contain him.

When he came forward, he relied on Yan Siqi's power to restrain Zheng Yiguan at every turn.

This move is really powerful. Yu Xiaotian can be said to kill two birds with one stone. On one hand, he controlled Yan Siqi in his hands and used Yan Siqi as a gunman. On the other hand, he used the cannons they produced to steal Yan Siqi's money bag.

Kong, while reaping huge benefits, also gave him Zheng Yiguan a strong enemy, and even completely ruined his Zheng Yiguan's reputation.

Now when colleagues at sea mention his name Zheng Yiguan, many of them will spit and curse. Even some people who have been friends with him for many years, after he became famous, in order to avoid suspicion

, and no longer associate with him.

There is also Xu Xinsu, who is entrenched in Quanzhou and firmly controls the raw silk supply in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places. He is also his enemy at every turn, cutting off all transactions with Zheng Yiguan, and also taking advantage of his friendship with the Dutch.

The Dutch were no longer willing to deal with him, Zheng Yiguan.

It can be said that Zheng Yiguan did not eat the mutton, but instead made a mess. The standard stealing chicken failed to lose the rice. Now he is like a rat crossing the street, and everyone is shouting to beat him.

It turned out that he thought that after he accepted Li Dan's inheritance, he would immediately become a hegemon in China's maritime world, and then he could travel sideways in Fujian and Guangxi.

When he went to work hard, he found that things were not as simple as he thought.

Yu Xiaotian has become a huge stumbling block in his life. He can be seen everywhere, which makes him look disgraced now. He can clearly feel that the subordinates who follow him have begun to change recently.

I feel a little impatient.

If he couldn't change the status quo in the future, then he didn't doubt that his subordinates might fall apart and find their own way out before long.

So in the near future, he must find a way to break this deadlock, gain a piece of territory, and let his subordinates taste the benefits.

For this reason, during this period of time, he spared no expense and purchased twenty or thirty cannons from the Folangji people. He also acquired a batch of other artillery pieces from some relevant connections on land to strengthen his armaments.

A fight with the boss Chu Cai, and he is also planning to do a big job in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou to replenish the funds spent.

It is not an easy task to feed nearly ten thousand men and hundreds of ships. Even if we don’t mention the salaries, just eating and drinking so many people will cost a lot of money in a day. Plus, there are also salaries.

At the end of a month, without tens of thousands of taels of silver, it would be impossible to play.

However, during this period, Zheng Yiguan felt a little powerless, because under the siege from several parties, he did not have a reliable territory of his own, and did not have a stable and reliable source of income. In the past few months, he had been unable to make ends meet, and with the constant

Zheng Yiguan was overwhelmed by the loss of ships and manpower, and the payment of pensions and the purchase of cannons and guns.

This is because you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are. Although it seems good to have a lot of people on the boat, it is even more fun when you spend money. If you don’t let these thousands of people eat, drink and make a fortune, they may become a time bomb at any time.

It is possible to be counterattacked by this power of your own.

Zheng Yiguan now knows that this boss is not easy to be a boss. If he is not careful, he may be killed. This has made his temper become much more violent recently. If his subordinates do anything offensive, he will

kill.

Fortunately, the cannons he recently purchased from the Fo Langji people were finally delivered, and he managed to install them on the ships controlled by some of his reliable confidants. This immediately restored a lot of his confidence, and he began to prepare for a big fight.

This time he decided to go to Haichengyue Port to do something big.

After all, Moon Harbor is now the only port officially open to the sea. Although many pirates are eyeing this area, there are not many who are really capable of doing big business.

The last time Zheng Yiguan led his people to do a job here, they gained a lot. In addition to robbing a lot of goods, they also tied up a lot of meat tickets. Some of these meat tickets were wealthy merchants.

, this piece alone has squeezed out a lot of redemption money.

Only by doing a big job now and letting his subordinates enjoy the benefits can he stabilize their restlessness. Otherwise, it may be difficult for him to effectively control these subordinates.

So he gathered all the shopkeepers together and began to make arrangements. This season is now the season where typhoons are common. In order to avoid risks, many maritime merchants do not go to sea much during this period, so Haicheng gathered there

He has captured thousands of various ships. If he succeeds this time, not only can he make a lot of money, but he can also replenish the ships that have been lost recently. In addition, he can also coerce some fishermen to join the team and replenish his personnel.

So under his intensive preparations, in mid-June, he finally started to launch. Groups of ships under Zheng Yiguan began to converge towards the Haicheng area and occupied Wuzhou, which was later known as

of Wuyu.

Wuzhou is the gateway to Haicheng and Tong'an, and is also the only way in and out of Yuegang. It is adjacent to Xiamen Island on the left, which is where Qianhu is located in the middle.

(My friend came over to play today. I spent the whole morning and had a few drinks at noon, but was knocked out on the spot! The update is late, please forgive me. What’s more, sadly, my eyes have been hurting for the past two days. I went to the hospital for a checkup in the afternoon.

, I found a small thing growing inside my eyelids, and I need a minor operation to remove it. I guess I will have to be a one-eyed dragon for several days after tomorrow! Woohoo! I am such an unlucky child!)