Daming pirates

As for some people who swore that they had seen the two large plywood boats they captured on Nanri Island, this matter can also be discussed. Isn’t it possible that they were broken Taishi boats that Sea Wolf bought with money? Such a story was made up

, want to show off their military power.

There is another point that they think makes no sense. They have only heard that the Ganrasi people occupied Greater Luzon and built a Manila city there. Over the years, the Ganrasi people have not often raided Fujian like the red-haired people.

Along the coast of Guangdong, many merchants often go to Manila to do business. The Gan La Si people are full of food. Why go to Taiyuan Island to fight the sea wolves? This matter makes no sense. Good Gan La Si

If Silk is not staying in Luzon, there is no reason to go to Taiyuan Island.

When people say this, the battle between Sea Wolf and the Ganlusi people on Taiyuan Island turns out to be a myth. Maybe it was made up by Sea Wolf to bluff people.

Moreover, this statement was immediately supported by many people, because in their subconscious mind, it was impossible for the pirates' combat power to defeat the Taixi fleet. The Taixi ships were as tall as buildings.

In the minds of these people, it is simply a symbol of invincibility. With so many ships from the army, navy and navy, they can only be defeated. How can the sea wolf defeat these Thais with only its own strength?

fleet!

Moreover, among the rumors, some people say that the Taixi people have one or twenty large plywood boats. This is even more impossible. Even if the sea wolves come out in full force, how can they defeat others with how many boats they have? The most important thing is

They believed that the Ganrasi people had no reason to fight with the sea wolves, and they had no overlapping interests on Taiyuan Island.

Even if Sea Wolf occupies a place on Taiyuan Island and settles for farming, the Taixi people will let the coast as long as the Ming Dynasty, and the rich place be much better than the land occupied by Sea Wolf. Even if they want to rob it, they will not.

The reason is to go to Taiyuan Island to seize Sea Wolf's territory!

In addition, according to the rumors, even if the fleet of the Ganrasi people really cannot defeat the fleet of the Sea Wolf, with their strong ships and powerful guns, how can they still be defeated if they can't defeat them? The worst is to just walk away.

As for the whole army being beaten to death by the Sea Wolf, after they analyzed it in this way, few people really believed it anymore.

Tian Youren immediately determined the nature of this matter, thinking that this matter must have been fabricated by Sea Wolf himself. Even if this matter is true, then the Taixi fleet may not be as large as the rumors, maybe there are so many

One or two ships passed by Taiyuan Island and accidentally ran into Sea Wolf's fleet. Sea Wolf wanted to take the opportunity to rob them, so a conflict broke out, and the Ganrasi people suffered a loss.

However, Sea Wolf deliberately publicized it afterwards with ulterior motives, deliberately exaggerating the strength of the Ganrasi fleet in order to show off their so-called military power.

Of course, it cannot be said that the Sea Wolf is vulnerable, because last year, the Sea Wolf first defeated Chu Cai Lao, then bombarded the Puxi Institute, burned the Nanri Water Village, and basically controlled everything from the north of Quanzhou to the sea in southern Zhejiang.

, other pirates don’t dare to get involved easily, it can be seen that the sea wolf is indeed quite powerful.

These staff members discussed for several days, and tried to collect a lot of information about Hailang and Zheng Yiguan to weigh the matter. However, after many discussions, these staff members gradually came to a unified opinion.

, that is, not to trouble Zheng Yiguan for the time being.

The main reason is that Zheng Yiguan and his men currently have no fixed location. Even if they send troops to suppress them, it may not be easy to find him. Relatively speaking, the Sea Wolf is entrenched on Nanri Island, making it easier to find him.

But they also believed that the Sea Wolf was not easy to deal with. To attack Nanri Island this time, they had to use a large number of troops and mobilize enough warships to win.

At the same time, before the war, they want to blockade Nanri Island and prohibit Sea Wolf from doing business on land. In addition, merchants are not allowed to trade with Sea Wolf anymore, so that Sea Wolf can obtain food, iron and other materials on land, and cut them off first.

The source of income on which to make a living.

Once the matter was determined, Tian Youren and his staff provided Zhu Yifeng with a plan. This plan was divided into two steps. The first step was to seal down Maoshengyuan Company, which was closely related to Sea Wolf.

The reason is very simple. Although Mao Shengyuan has never said that they are Hailang's agent on land and are Hailang's business. In name, they are just the business of Fujian businessman Li Yi, but in fact everyone knows that Maoshengyuan is just a businessman.

He bought a piece of Li family skin, which was actually Sea Wolf's business on land.

It is very simple to understand this. Maoshengyuan now sells glass, soap, deerskin, dragon oil and other items on land in large quantities. These things are basically made by sea wolves. There is no airtight wall in this world.

A large number of high-quality glass products poured out of it, as well as the kind of fragrant soap that can be used for bathing. Nowadays, everyone knows that they are made by Sea Wolf.

So far, only Maoshengyuan is operating the wholesale of these goods. If you want these things, you have to go to Maoshengyuan for wholesale. Maoshengyuan also sells goods and has a firm control over the supply of goods.

At the same time, Maoshengyuan also sells various goods. These goods can be seen as stolen goods at a glance. They should be things stolen by pirates at sea. In addition, Maoshengyuan has been selling large quantities of deer antlers, deer skins and other items in the past year. In the past, Maoshengyuan

There are not many of these things in the south, and the main source of goods comes from Liaodong, but now there are a lot of goods from Taiwan Yuan Island.

Sea Wolf happens to occupy a place on Taiyuan Island and can easily obtain these things. Of course, Yan Siqi will also ship some goods, but not as much as Maoshengyuan. So a discerning person will know that Maoshengyuan is actually

Sea Wolf established a shipping company on land.

Furthermore, in addition to selling these goods, Maoshengyuan also purchases large quantities of raw wrought iron, wood, grain, cloth and other basic living materials. The purchase volume is very large. Who can they sell these goods to? Only Sea Wolf will need it.

So many things, because in the past two years, they have also purchased a large number of people on land and recruited immigrants to farm in a place called Tamsui City on Nanri Island and Taiyuan Island.

Therefore, these staff believe that in order to deal with the Sea Wolf, they must first cut off their financial resources and access to resources, that is, they must first seal up Mao Shengyuan and arrest Li Yi who is at the Fuzhou headquarters.

Zhu Yifeng obviously followed the advice of these staff, and immediately sent people to inform the local governments, ordering them to seal down the Maoshengyuan branch opened there.

A storm quietly began to blow on land in Fujian in July.

But the worst thing the Ming government did in this era was that they didn't know what secrecy meant. Although this time Zhu Yifeng learned the lesson when Prime Minister Zhu Qin went to suppress the sea wolf with great fanfare, and ordered his staff to keep it secret.

, this matter must not be publicized in advance.

But among these staff, including some servants in his governor's office, these people would not care about Zhu Yifeng's instructions. As long as they were willing to spend money, they wanted to learn from them what was going on in the governor's office.

, is a very simple thing.

During this period of time in the governor's office, it was one of the places that Hailang paid the most attention to. Overtly, there was Mao Shengyuan, and secretly there was another line arranged by the execution hall, all of whom were paying close attention to Zhu Yifeng's movements.

After Zhu Yifeng came to power, he overhauled combat equipment, repaired warships, rectified military affairs, and raised funds. These things all showed that Zhu Yifeng wanted to do something big, most likely to prepare for the Sea Wolf.

Therefore, despite the fact that the Sea Wolf has not made any large-scale raids on the coastal areas in the past six months or so, it has been keeping a close eye on Zhu Yifeng's movements.

So Zhu Yifeng had just arranged for Tian Youren to convene his staff to discuss whether to deal with Sea Wolf or Zheng Yiguan first. That night, Li Yi and Sea Wolf Punishment Hall's informants on land immediately learned the news.

That night, two of Zhu Yifeng's staff and several government servants and servants of the inner government received a large sum of money. When two days later, the staff put forward a plan and suggested taking action against Mao Shengyuan and Li Yi, Li Yi

He Xingtang's secret agent immediately learned the news.

Just when Tian Youren and the others had just submitted their plan to Zhu Yifeng, all Maoshengyuan began to be busy. Various materials stored in the warehouses were immediately shipped to Nanri Island, and some needed materials were shipped to Nanri Island.

For the goods sold on land, we immediately began to urge the ordering party to pick up the goods. The goods that could not be picked up immediately were immediately distributed to Jinshen and peer firms who often dealt with Maoshengyuan and established a good cooperative relationship.

In just two days, the goods in various Maoshengyuan branch and main warehouses were basically cleared out and became empty.

In addition, there is still payment to be collected. Maoshengyuan will immediately start to collect the payment. If the payment cannot be recovered in a short time, it will be put aside for the time being.

Of course, the news about the governor's office cannot be hidden from many merchants and some gentry who do big business. They usually have many transactions with Mao Shengyuan and have mutual arrears with each other.

During these two days, Li Yi also immediately began to liquidate with these commercial firms, writing off part of the mutual accounts that could be written off, and exchanging those that could not be written off between the firms, and transferring the debts and

The creditor's rights are transferred to remove Maoshengyuan from the triangular debt, ensuring that the business partners who deal with them will not suffer losses due to the seizure of Maoshengyuan.

In this regard, these merchants and gentry who have business dealings with Mao Shengyuan admire Hailang very much. They feel that Hailang is really trustworthy in doing business. If it were another company, after hearing the news, they would definitely ignore the outstanding accounts.

, just abandon the stall and leave, leaving the creditors unable to find a place to collect their debts.

However, Li Yi still tried his best to settle some of their arrears as much as possible first, so as to prevent these business partners who had cooperative relationships with them from suffering losses.

But even after offsetting some accounts, part of the accounts still had to be settled in cash. After an inventory, just to pay these arrears, they needed to pay another five to sixty thousand taels of silver.

Yu Xiaotian also got the news immediately, and immediately became furious and cursed Zhu Yifeng as a confused official!