Daming pirates

During the Wanli period, Wuzhou and Zhongzuo Qianhusuo were at the forefront of preparing for Japanese wars, with official troops and warships stationed there for a long time. However, over the years, the coastal defenses here began to relax and became a paradise for pirates to carnival. Too many

With many ships entering and leaving the Moon Harbor, it has also become a big piece of meat that pirates compete for.

This used to be Chu Cai Lao's territory, but after Chu Cai Lao was defeated by Sea Wolf, he was forced to shrink his sphere of influence to the south. However, this area is still a place where they often move, but their control is not as good as before. Except for their

In addition to activities in this area, Yan Siqi also often travels in this area, including sea wolves that appear in this area from time to time.

In addition, this is also Xu Xinsu's main shipping location. The interplay of forces is very complicated. Everyone is eyeing the big piece of meat in Yuegang, hoping to eat it alone.

And Zheng Yiguan took a fancy to this and had long planned to take this area into his pocket. Even if he could not fully control this area for the time being, he also planned to use this place as his cash machine, and he would come here from time to time.

Get a handful here.

But his actions immediately attracted the attention of all parties. The appearance of a large number of pirate ships on the sea in this area could not be concealed from all parties here.

Chu Cailao, Yu Xiaotian, Yan Siqi, and Xu Xinsu all learned the news in a very short period of time. As soon as they heard that Zheng Yiguan was planning to invade Haicheng again, all parties reacted immediately.

Although Xu Xinsu had strong financial resources, his strength was not strong. He immediately began to transfer the goods from his shop in Haicheng, and notified the government to report Zheng Yiguan's movements.

After the Sea Wolf tribe learned about Zheng Yiguan's actions, they immediately became furious. Although due to various reasons, the Sea Wolf did not include this place under their actual control, leaving this blank space for all parties to go together.

I can share some profits, but I don’t want to be the public enemy of these colleagues.

But this area cannot be controlled by anyone. Everyone can make a fortune, but one family cannot monopolize it. Now Zheng Yiguan almost regards this place as his own territory. In half a year, he comes here to work for two big guys, Sea Wolf

How can the tribe tolerate this?

Especially Ma Xiao, who is currently in charge here, refuses to agree. Even if he is ready to repair Zheng Yiguan here, beat him and let him know who is the boss.

When he was preparing to assemble the first fleet of warships and prepare to sail from Meizhou Bay to Haicheng area, he received an order from Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian ordered Ma Xiao to leave Zheng Yiguan alone for the time being, and just let him go and make trouble in Haicheng. However, he could be allowed to set up an ambush on Zheng Yiguan's retreat when he evacuated Haicheng after he finished his work.

Come and take advantage of the situation, but don't interfere with Zheng Yiguan before he takes action.

Yu Xiaotian recently carefully analyzed Zheng Yiguan's current situation and discovered Zheng Yiguan's current dilemma. Although he is very strong, he is now a rat on the street.

He wants territory but has no territory. He may have many subordinates, but he is a wandering thief on the sea.

With such a big plate, there is no fixed place for them to move. It must be a lot of pressure for Zheng Yiguan. Therefore, in order to survive, Zheng Yiguan must lead his men to do big jobs, and he can choose the place.

There are indeed not many. There are many pirate forces on the sea in Guangzhou, and they are not weak. Among them, there are several large groups of pirates.

Now that Zheng Yiguan has passed, he will definitely become the target of public criticism. In addition, the strength of the Guangdong Navy is relatively strong, especially the Pearl River Estuary area is relatively tightly fortified. With the strength of ordinary people, it is difficult to rush to Guangzhou.

Although there are many people engaged in maritime trade in Chaoshan and other places, the oil and water are obviously not as big as those in Haicheng. This season is when ships gather in the Yuegang area to take shelter and rest. Haicheng gathers a large number of merchant ships and hoards a lot of wealth.

goods, so if Zheng Yiguan wanted to do it, he could only choose Yuegang.

Yuegang is the main place that the imperial court and the Fujian government are watching. Whoever struggles here will become a thorn in the government's side. This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian does not take Zhangzhou Bay into his pocket. At present, he is not in a hurry

This area needs to be included in his control area. With his current financial capacity, it is basically enough.

Once he takes control of Zhangzhou Bay, he will inevitably force other colleagues to have no food to eat, so he will definitely be regarded as a public enemy. In addition, the government will definitely regard him as a thorn in the side and will never be happy unless he is removed.

He really doesn't want to waste time with the Fujian government. He already gave the Fujian government a lesson last year. Now the new Fujian governor Zhu Yifeng has an unclear attitude and is intensively overhauling combat equipment. There is a high possibility that he wants to

To avenge the humiliation suffered by the government last year.

He is not afraid of Fujian officers and soldiers coming to conquer him, but such a fight would not make much sense, waste resources, and delay his plan to consolidate Taiwan Island. If he can avoid fighting, he still doesn't want to fight.

So Zheng Yiguan is tossing like this now, which is exactly what he wants. Let Zheng Yiguan toss in Haicheng. The more the tossing is, the more it is like putting himself on the fire, so he does not agree with Ma Xiao's rate.

The team went to intercept Zheng Yiguan, but asked Ma Xiao to calm down for a while. At most, when Zheng Yiguan evacuated, he could beat him up, take advantage of the gangsters, and get some benefits.

So Ma Xiao obeyed the order and gave up the plan to send troops to Haicheng, but still gathered the ships and troops, and was ready to cut off Zheng Yiguan's retreat at any time and prepare to ambush them.

What is different from Yu Xiaotian is Yan Siqi and Mr. Chu Cai. Although this is not Yan Siqi's territory, it is also the main place for his activities and sources of wealth. Yan Siqi heard that Zheng Yiguan was going to Haicheng to work in the big business, so he thought he would quit.

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Even if it was to retaliate against Zheng Yiguan, he couldn't let Zheng Yiguan go to Haicheng to make a fortune so arrogantly, so he immediately ordered dozens of boats and thousands of subordinates to kill Haicheng and prepare to go.

Looking for bad luck from Zheng Yiguan.

Not to mention Chu Cai Lao, when Ma Xiang went back to report the results of his trip to Nanri Island, Chu Cai Lao was overjoyed and immediately ordered a batch of artillery based on the list Ma Xiang brought back.

Because the heavy artillery of the Ganrasi people was too expensive, what he mainly needed at present were the cannons that could be used on the ship, so he only ordered three heavy artillery pieces and placed them in the Dazhai on Dongshan Island as a house guard against Zheng Yi.

The officials attacked his Dongshan Island.

The main cannons he purchased were basically monkey versions of twelve-pound light cannons, six-pound cannons, and monkey-version six-pound cannons. He could barely install these cannons on his ships, although these cannons were far inferior to those at sea.

The cannons used by Wolf are good, but compared with the cannons used by their peers, they are already very good and high-end goods.

In this way, within a short period of time, he could increase the combat effectiveness of his fleet and gain the strength to compete with Zheng Yiguan.

On the other hand, Mr. Chu Cai did not ask for many of the matchlock guns that Yu Xiaotian wanted to sell to the dry silk people. He only wanted a few dozen, and the equipment was given to his trusted subordinates, who were responsible for protecting his personal safety.

All the financial resources were used to purchase other cannons for use.

Chu Cailao immediately placed a big order, the monkey version of the No. 5 cannon. He immediately ordered ten. The abolished No. 3 cannon was also the six-pounder. He ordered twenty. The monkey version of the six-pounder.

Thirty guns, even old-style artillery such as the prisoner-killing cannon, because the price was relatively cheaper, he also ordered forty guns in one fell swoop.

Calculating this, he ordered hundreds of cannons from Sea Wolf at once, costing almost two hundred thousand taels of silver. After all, Mr. Chu Cai was an old sea dog who had been a pirate for many years. He had accumulated a lot of assets over the years. This hundred thousand taels

Two silver coins may seem like an astronomical figure, but in fact, to him, it is not enough to make him bankrupt.

What's more, Mr. Chu Cai won't take out all the money himself, because his organizational method is a shareholding method, which is more like a joint venture in later generations.

Although he has to take part of the money, the other shopkeepers also have to take part, otherwise he will not distribute these cannons to the shopkeepers.

Nowadays, it is hard to find anything in the market. Even if the shop owners of small stocks are rich, it is difficult to get them. Now that Mr. Chu Cai has opened up the relationship with Sea Wolf, how can they not dare to enter and buy it too?

Therefore, the individual stock shopkeepers also spent several thousand taels to ten thousand taels of silver according to their respective financial resources, and quickly collected the money. According to the wishes of each stock shopkeeper, they can also buy more, but for the time being, they will buy it first.

There are so many. If they are good after trying them, we will place additional orders.

In fact, Chu Cai Lao finally paid out less than 40,000 taels of silver, but after about half of the cannons arrived, they were to be installed on ships under his direct control. Chu Cai Lao also took advantage of his subordinates.

According to Hailang's requirements, the silver must be official silver. Chu Cai couldn't afford so much snowflake silver, so he could only discount some miscellaneous silver they had on hand, load it on a ship, and send it to Nan.

Japan Island.

Mr. Chu Cai is not afraid that after sending the silver to Nanri Island, Sea Wolf will swallow up his silver and refuse to give him the goods, because he knows that in addition to relying on robbery over the years, Sea Wolf's main source of financial resources is business. They Sea Wolf

Over the past few years, we have gained an excellent reputation in business.

Merchants who have dealt with Sea Wolf, whether they are large merchants or small traders, have never been deceived. The goods they sold to Sea Wolf on credit have never been in arrears at checkout, even when Sea Wolf's ships go out to sea.

If the goods are gone, the sea wolf will pay according to the price. I have never heard of a sea wolf swallowing someone's goods without giving any money.

Moreover, Hailang also sells a lot of things. Now everyone knows that most of the glass products on the market are obtained by Hailang, and the kind of soap that has been extremely popular among wealthy people recently is only

Produced by the Sea Wolf family, there are of course some rare items such as whale skins, bear skins, deer skins, deer antlers, etc. Sea Wolf also occupies a large share.

Many people come to Seawolf to get goods, and they must first pay a deposit before they can get the goods. However, for those who have paid a deposit, Seawolf has never swallowed their deposits, and all orders are delivered on time and in quantity.

So now Sea Wolf's reputation can be said to be almost golden. When it comes to doing business with Sea Wolf, businessmen all nod in praise, so you can definitely rest assured.