Daming pirates

The so-called payment on shore means that the merchants can find a way to directly hire a ship or use their own ship to transport the materials needed by Sea Wolf to fresh water or chicken coop. After arriving at the shore, Sea Wolf will pay according to the price.

money.

Although the price is somewhat more expensive than Sea Wolf's own transportation, it no longer has to occupy the shipping capacity of their own merchant fleet, and their merchant ships can do some long-distance trade, which is very profitable.

This can largely offset the increased cost caused by landed payment.

Moreover, the CIF price of sea wolf has a greater advantage than that on land. Nowadays, when land merchants conduct transactions, there is a common practice, which is to pay in three installments.

Payment during the Three Festivals refers to the three festivals of Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, and Spring Festival. Under normal circumstances, merchants purchase goods in large quantities, mostly on credit. Delivery and settlement are not carried out until the Third Festival. Sellers can only get their goods during the Third Festival.

of payment.

For merchants, this will occupy a large amount of funds and is not conducive to the turnover of funds. Some merchants have limited financial resources and may see that they can make money from some transactions, but they do not dare to occupy too much funds because they do not have enough funds.

If you don’t measure enough, you can only stare blankly and miss the opportunity to make money.

Including Hailang's own Maoshengyuan, they were also affected by this habit. When Maoshengyuan was seized, the amount of money owed to Maoshengyuan alone was as high as hundreds of thousands of taels. Although Li Yi closed the door,

Some collections were carried out, but most of the payments were not due during the Third Festival, and the merchants who owed the debts did not have much money on hand, so only a small part was recovered, and most of the debts have not yet been recovered.

Of course, there are also some cunning people among them. When they saw that the government was going to attack Sea Wolf, even if they had money, they would not pay it back. They wanted to see how things would develop next. These cunning people made a wishful thinking.

That is, once the Sea Wolf is wiped out by the government this time, they will not have to pay back their debts. This will be equivalent to a large amount of money falling out of thin air, and they will get it for free.

Yu Xiaotian is not worried about these debts, because he knows very well that as long as he completely hurts the government this time and lets the world see how powerful he is, naturally no one will dare not to pay back the money.

The premise is that he must win this battle. As for whether he can win this battle, Yu Xiaotian has no doubt at all.

Nowadays, the navy and army he has created by himself are not as large in strength as the officers and soldiers used by the Fujian government this time, but he can guarantee that all his men are elites. Compared with those officers and soldiers who are fighting at the fifth level,

It's not on the same level at all.

Whether it is the navy or the army, if you look at the world now, they are definitely the most well-equipped. Not to mention the navy, the cannons of various calibers accumulated over the past few years can be said to have armed the navy to the teeth. The Spanish fleet was even beaten by them.

The battle was completely defeated, not to mention the hastily rearmed Fujian navy. No matter how many ships they assembled, they could not do anything to the Sea Wolf fleet.

Speaking of Sea Wolf's army alone, although it is not large in scale now, with only about three to four thousand people, these army soldiers are basically all trained according to the training methods of modern armies, and their equipment is even more advanced.

Gradually, muskets are the mainstay, and the number of various musket equipment has reached 60 to 70% of the army, and the military units have also been improved.

Not to mention that Sea Wolf now has a secret weapon, which is the newly equipped rifled flintlock gun. If he is defeated by an army of Zhan Wu Zha level one with such equipment level, then Yu Xiaotian might as well just go for it.

Find a place to jump into the sea and commit suicide. There is no point in continuing to hang out.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian has not shown any worry at all in the past few months. Even his subordinates feel full of energy and are not worried about this war.

However, according to Yu Xiaotian's plan, Sea Wolf still behaved very low-key. Except for the patrol boats that controlled the fishing grounds, which still patrolled the major fishing grounds normally, the merchant fleet continued to operate according to the original plan, and the rest of the warships

Most of them were temporarily collected and stationed at Nanri Island and Tamsui for normal training, maintenance and repairs.

New ships are still being launched from the boathouse one after another and equipped into the navy. Old ships are also continuing to be sent to the slipway or into the dock at the Nanri Island Boathouse to undergo extensive modifications.

In addition, some workshops on Nanri Island that consumed a lot of water began to be shut down one by one after August, including the soap factory and the glass factory, two important workshops of Sea Wolf.

After landing, all the equipment in the factory was dismantled, including the workers and their families, and all were loaded onto ships and shipped to Taiyuan Island.

Considering that the important raw material of soap, grease, is currently mainly provided by Keelung Fort, the soap factory was all transferred to Keelung Fort for production, while the glass factory was all transferred to Tamsui City for resettlement. The first officer expanded the scale of Tamsui City Glass Factory.

As a result, these two current pillar factories of Sea Wolf have all been moved to Taiwan Island.

The reason for doing this is that Maoshengyuan was temporarily closed down by the government. As the general distributor of these two products of Hailang, after Maoshengyuan was shut down, even if the products are produced, they are temporarily unsaleable. Although Hailang.

The wolf can still be shipped in Guangzhou, but the sales volume has been greatly affected. The current output of the workshop in Tamsui City is enough to meet the needs. Therefore, the workshop on Nanri Island will be stopped first.

will be greatly affected.

In addition, these two industries consume relatively large amounts of water. Nanri Island itself is not very rich in fresh water resources. In the past, when Nanri Island had a small population, it was not obvious. However, now the number of immigrants on Nanri Island has increased significantly, and a large number of farmland has been reclaimed.

After coming out, the contradiction of water use began to become increasingly prominent.

Moreover, the Sea Wolf fleet often uses Nanri Island as its base, and the navy and army also have a large demand for fresh water, which makes the problem of lack of fresh water resources on Nanri Island increasingly prominent.

Soap factories, glass factories, and other workshops are water tigers that consume a lot of water, exacerbating the shortage of fresh water resources in Nanri Island.

Nanri Island itself is not suitable for large-scale industrial bases because of its relatively small area. Before, Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to dig out the first pot of gold here. Now he has obtained enough capital, and

With control of fresh water and chicken coops, Nanri Island is naturally not suitable to continue to serve as their base camp.

After repeated consideration, Yu Xiaotian finally decided to gradually move the workshops on Nanri Island out of Nanri Island, and most of them were moved to Taiyuan Island. For the other part of the military industry workshops, Yu Xiaotian thought of a better

The place is not moving for the time being and will be moved to another place in the future.

Taking advantage of this period, Yu Xiaotian ordered the soap factories and glass factories on Nanri Island to be closed down and moved all to Taiwan Island. All production, including the gunpowder workshops, was also stopped, and most of them were moved to Tamsui City.

The original gunpowder factory in Tamsui City and the workshop that made artillery shells and bullets were merged to form a large ammunition factory.

After all this trouble, the Nanri Island workshop area suddenly seemed a lot deserted, with only artillery and gun manufacturing remaining. Production was still maintained for the time being, and new cannons and muskets were continuously produced for Sea Wolf.

In addition, Sea Wolf also moved some immigrants who did not want to stay on Nanri Island. Every day, a boatload of goods and immigrants, as well as workers and their families, were shipped away from Nanri Island and sent to Tamsui City.

and Keelung Fort.

In the eyes of uninformed outsiders, Sea Wolf's demolition actions naturally turned into a hasty retreat. After the news reached the ears of Zhu Yifeng and other officials on land, it also gave them a sense of urgency.

The misconception is that Sea Wolf intends to abandon Nanri Island, which to a certain extent also misleads the official judgment and leads to wrong estimates.

As for the Sea Wolf's military preparations, they have already begun. After the reorganization, the three major fleets quickly launched targeted training. In the northeastern waters of Nanri Island, fleet integration training was conducted every day, and confrontation drills were conducted in groups.

, the atmosphere of preparation for war is very strong.

As for the Army, it has also launched targeted offensive and defensive combat training in the Tamsui City area. The soldiers in the Army, leading the new with the old, conducted many large-scale confrontational exercises in the military restricted area of ​​Tamsui City.

, tested their actual combat capabilities.

Although there are many new recruits among them, when these new recruits are incorporated into the company, under the leadership of veterans and with targeted intensive training, the new recruits have basically mastered combat skills.

Those captured Spanish infantrymen were sent to serve as instructors in the past few months, and they honestly taught some of the combat skills they had mastered to the Sea Wolf officers, and also passed on some of their

All Sea Wolf officers were informed of the combat regulations and specifications.

According to Yu Xiaotian's request, these Spanish sailors and infantry officers wrote out some of the Spanish military regulations they knew, compiled them into a book, and handed them to Yu Xiaotian.

After the interpreter translated everything into Chinese, I watched it carefully from beginning to end.

After reading what these prisoners wrote, he personally compiled it, took the essence and discarded the dross, and incorporated some of the rules and regulations implemented by the Seawolf Navy and Army before, and recompiled it.

Set of navy and army drills.

With the help of professional Spanish captives, the navy and army drills compiled this time are much more complete than before. After all, the officers among these captives have received relatively systematic education and training and are familiar with the Spanish army.

After adding in the organization and drill methods of Yu Xiaotian's understanding of other armies of later generations, the drill codes compiled were naturally much more complete than the military regulations used by the Spaniards.

To some extent, after combining the best military rules and regulations in the West in this time and space, the set of military regulations compiled by Yu Xiaotian can be regarded as the most complete and practical military regulations of this era. After being handed over to the officers of the navy and army to read through

After the discussion, some adjustments were made, and this new set of drills was officially distributed to the military and began to be implemented.