Daming pirates

But after mastering the technology of direct shipping, this situation can be greatly changed. As long as Seawolf opens this trade route, it can send ships to Japan in any season every year. In this way, they can soon

Control trade with Japan.

Think about the benefits of doing this. You can only go once a year in winter, but Hailang can make three trips a year. By the time other people's goods are ready and shipped to Japan, Seawolf's goods have already occupied the market.

Not to mention that Zheng Yiguan has become a lost dog now. Even if his strength remains unchanged and he continues to control this trade route, Sea Wolf can easily defeat him using this method.

Moreover, trade with Japan is currently a very profitable business. Japan now also produces silk. In addition, Japan has a lot of things for export. First of all, Japan is a silver-producing country. There are many silver mines in Japan, and there are also other related products.

There are many copper mines. Every year Japan exports silver and red copper. The red copper they produce also contains a lot of silver. After refining, in addition to obtaining pure copper, it can also be smelted from it.

A lot of silver was produced.

Moreover, Japan also exports a large number of Japanese knives. Japanese knives have always been very popular because they are well-made. Every year, Japanese knife makers export many Japanese knives and sell them to Southeast Asia or China, and the profits are considerable.

In addition, Japan also exports folding fans, Japanese silk and other products. These products are also very popular in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, as long as this trade route is opened, it can bring profits of at least one million taels of silver to Sea Wolf every year. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian said this

Considerable emphasis.

But he definitely couldn't go to Japan to do business in person, so he needed someone to do it. Sea Wolf didn't have such talent before, but now that he caught Xu Xinsu, he could just solve his problem, so Xu Xinsu was taken over by Yu.

Xiaotian pardoned the death penalty and took it back for his own use.

Just when the Sea Wolf was victorious, the Spaniards finally sent their compensation to Tamsui City. Since the defeat of Jilong Bay, the Spaniards had completely given up the idea of ​​continuing to be enemies with the Sea Wolf.

, although they delayed for so long this time before sending the compensation to Tamsui City, they finally fulfilled their agreement.

The reason why they took so long to implement the negotiated agreement was actually because they were waiting to see the outcome of this conflict between the Sea Wolf and Fujian officials.

The Spaniards feel that the Sea Wolf cannot pass this level this time. If the Sea Wolf cannot pass this level, then there is no need for them to fulfill the agreement they signed with the Sea Wolf. Once the Sea Wolf is defeated,

Then it will be very difficult. Even if they are not wiped out by the official army, other Chinese pirates will covet him and take advantage of his illness to kill him. In that case, the Sea Wolf will naturally not be able to block the route from Fujian to Manila.

route.

However, as the war here progressed, the Spaniards learned about the situation here through various channels. When they learned that the Sea Wolf first destroyed the Dutch fleet, and then defeated the navy and navy on Nanri Island,

The Marine Division annihilated most of the official warships, and now the Spaniards no longer dared to hesitate.

Although Yu Xiaotian had not led his troops to attack Waitou Bay at that time, the Spaniards immediately realized that the Sea Wolf had won this time, so they did not dare to delay any longer and immediately shipped the silver to compensate the Sea Wolf to Tamsui.

The city was delivered to Sea Wolf.

Yu Xiaotian also ordered Liu Laoliu, Fang An and others who were stationed in Tamsui City to fulfill their obligations and release a group of Spanish prisoners of war who were captured at the time.

Before these prisoners of war left, they had been squeezed out by Yu Xiaotian, basically squeezing out everything he wanted. Nowadays, these prisoners of war are of little use, and the Sea Wolf has also captured a large number of Dutch soldiers.

Sailors, even if these Spanish sailors are returned to the Spanish, Dutch sailors can completely replace them.

Therefore, the two sides also lifted the hostilities, and the Sea Wolf side also completely withdrew the smuggling ships that cruised on the route from Ming Dynasty to Manila, and opened up the trade route to Manila.

Shortly after the armistice at the end of the year, some merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty began to set sail from Weitou Bay and sailed to Manila to trade with the Spanish.

Of course, after Hailang took control of Weitou Bay, they also developed another huge source of income, that is, they began to collect sea tax in Weitou Bay.

The merchant ships that were controlled in Yuegang were first concentrated in the Kinmen and Zhongzuo areas. Before the war was over, Yu Xiaotian summoned the Tonghai merchants gathered in Haicheng and Quanzhou in Zhongzuo to make it clear that

They told them that their ships were prohibited from going to Moon Harbor for trade in the future.

In the future, whenever they want to go to sea for trade, they can only set out from Weitou Bay and conduct trading activities here. If they enter or leave Weitou Bay, they must pay taxes to Sea Wolf, otherwise Sea Wolf will ban them.

Go to sea.

Each ship must pay 1,500 taels of silver to Sea Wolf every year in order to obtain the right to go to sea. Whoever pays the money, Sea Wolf will issue a Sea Wolf traffic flag to the person. Of course, it is only for one ship. If some sea wolves

If the merchant has several large ships, he will have to pay Sea Wolf tens of thousands of taels of silver in a year.

This is a big burden for many maritime merchants, and of course it has caused a lot of opposition. However, Yu Xiaotian did not talk nonsense to them. He just said, "You can make up your own mind, pay the money, go to sea, and continue doing business."

If you don't pay, your boat will rot on the shore.

With these words, all the maritime merchants immediately withered, because even though they were unwilling, they could not refuse to agree. If they did not agree, it would be difficult for them to move forward in Fujian in the future, let alone talk about the maritime merchants. Although they had paid

The price is indeed not low, but compared to overseas trade, such taxes are still affordable for them.

So they had to pay, and this clause did not only refer to ships loading and unloading goods in Weitou Bay. Yu Xiaotian also sent messages to maritime merchants in other places in Fujian, no matter where they loaded and unloaded goods to sea.

All this money must be paid, not a dime less.

In this way, he actually brought all the smuggling merchants who were previously scattered along the coast of Fujian into his jurisdiction. Whenever a merchant ship was found without the sea wolf flag on the waters of Fujian, it was equivalent to

If you disobey Yu Xiaotian's order, Seawolf's patrol boat has the right to confiscate its cargo.

In fact, in history, Zheng Zhilong also adopted this method after taking control of Weitou Bay. Moreover, Zheng Zhilong was even more ruthless than Yu Xiaotian. He charged as much as 3,000 taels of silver for each large merchant ship, while Yu Xiaotian currently only

Charging one thousand five hundred taels of silver is actually quite a discount.

The reason why he currently only charges 1,500 taels of silver is not because Yu Xiaotian is any more merciful than Zheng Zhilong, but because so far, Sea Wolf's sphere of influence is mainly along the coast of Fujian and has not extended to Guangdong.

, so he gave these merchant ships a discount in half. Once one day, he brings the Guangdong coastal area under his control, then he will increase this amount to three thousand taels of silver.

Although each of these merchants felt heartache, they did not dare to say no to the sea wolf under the strong force of the sea wolf. So after the war just stopped, some merchants who were eager to go to sea took the initiative to

After paying the water and gaining the right to go to sea, they all sailed out of Weitou Bay and headed for their destination.

Some maritime merchants who were still waiting and watching saw that some of their colleagues had already paid to go to sea, so they did not dare to hesitate any longer, because they were all doing business. Who doesn't know that fast hands beat slow hands? Once they wait for a long time,

It takes too long, and when those colleagues who have paid in advance to go overseas have occupied the market, they will have no choice but to follow others and eat leftovers.

So no matter how heartbroken they were, the money was all handed over to Yu Xiaotian. After receiving the flag of passage from Sea Wolf, he began to go to sea for business.

However, although they, the maritime merchants, felt it was painful, after going to sea, they discovered the benefits of paying, because at this time, the patrol ships of Sea Wolf had completely controlled the routes on the main routes along the coast of Fujian.

Conduct inspections of passing ships.

With these sea wolf patrol boats patrolling the waterway, maritime merchants found that their navigation in this area has become much safer. Basically, they no longer have to worry about being harassed by pirates on this area's route, as long as they enter the sea

In the sea routes controlled by the wolf, they can easily and boldly hang up the command flag issued to them by the sea wolf and sail.

In this way, for them, the safety of navigation is improved, and it is not a big loss in the end. After all, if the Sea Wolf does not establish such an order on the sea surface of Fujian, there will be countless pirate forces on the sea.

Shen will be robbed by pirates, and the goods may be robbed. At worst, the ship, cargo, and people on the ship will be destroyed. In that case, it will be a disaster for maritime merchants. Just being robbed of a ship is enough.

They went bankrupt.

Therefore, if you put in the effort, there will naturally be rewards. After many maritime merchants figured this out, they naturally no longer resisted the Sea Wolf's efforts to extract money from them.

As these things gradually stabilized, Yu Xiaotian returned his energy to the island of Taiwan. By this time, the Dutch had been completely defeated by him, and he no longer had to worry about the threat of the Dutch, so he had previously

The plan to develop Dagou Port also began to be carried out immediately.

Nowadays, after this battle, Sea Wolf has gained a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and it is no longer as cramped as when it occupied the chicken coop and fresh water.

This time, the development of the Dagou Port area for land reclamation and farming was much simpler. In March, the first fleet heading to Dagou Port began to depart from Tamsui and sailed to Dagou Port.

This fleet consists of thirty cargo ships of various types. All the ships are large two-masted ships. At least for the coast of China, they are considered large ships. The displacement of each ship is more than 100 tons. The ships are filled with people and

supplies, and also transported three companies of army counterparts.