Daming pirates

As for Chu Cai Lao temporarily abandoning Dongshan Island and retreating to the coastal area of ​​Chaozhou, Guangdong, this was also an agreement between Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cai Lao.

Although Yu Xiaotian now has Xiong Wencan as his backer in Fujian, and his status is relatively stable for the time being, Yu Xiaotian also understands the principle that the rabbit will die and the dog will be cooked, and the bird will be hidden.

If the Hailang family is the only one in the coastal area of ​​Fujian, then sooner or later it will become the object of the imperial court's fear, and the necessity of the existence of Hailang will definitely be greatly reduced. The Ming Dynasty has always been worried about the self-respect of military generals, and tried every means to restrict it.

Once it is felt that Yu Xiaotian's existence is no longer necessary, the imperial court and the government will definitely try every means to weaken and divide the sea wolf in the days to come. It is not impossible to kill Yu Xiaotian even if Yu Xiaotian sees it.

matter.

Therefore, raising bandits to respect themselves has become Yu Xiaotian's most realistic choice at the moment. Unfortunately, he did things a bit too badly before. Some of the famous giant bandits along the coast of Fujian have now been wiped out by him, even if they were

The individual forces that were not killed or annexed by him had no choice but to flee the coastal areas of Fujian, and either went north to the coasts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, or went to the coasts of Guangdong and Guangxi to survive.

Some pirates were even forced to leave their homes in desperation, and simply ran away with their men to Nanyang, where they settled down and continued their business of cutting off and robbing ships.

As a result, there are really few pirate forces that can pose a threat to the coastal areas of Fujian.

Nowadays, Chu Cailao and Yan Siqi are probably the last two pirate forces that can arouse the fear of the government. If he rushes forward in a hurry and annexes the two groups and kills them, then it is estimated that they will soon be

He became the object of Xiong Wencan's fear.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian finally adopted Lin Yiyang's suggestion to retain Yan Siqi's independence while also preserving part of Chu Cailao's strength.

On the surface, Mr. Chu Cai has temporarily withdrawn from the coastal areas of Fujian, but privately he still maintains secret contact with Yu Xiaotian. If necessary, Yu Xiaotian only needs to let go, and Mr. Chu Cai will head north in a big way and return to Fujian.

Coastal activities, this is probably the most realistic version of self-respect for raising bandits.

Of course, Xiong Wencan, as the governor of Fujian, was not aware of Yu Xiaotian's tricks. After he ordered Yu Xiaotian to expel Mr. Chu Cai away from the coast of Zhangzhou, only a few days later, Yu Xiaotian passed him the secret of the great victory.

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Can felt extremely happy about this great victory. This was his first harvest after recruiting Yu Xiaotian. He could finally write something special about it, so he wrote a memorial himself and reported it to the court.

Please take credit for Yu Xiaotian.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian did not invite any officers and soldiers from Fujian to participate in this operation, and he did not ask Xiong Wencan for more food and salary supplies. Instead, he basically used his own people and supplies to carry out this operation alone.

The matter is done.

Afterwards, Yu Xiaotian's subordinates captured more than 300 pirates and more than a thousand of Chu Cai's thieves. Yu Xiaotian did not deduct them and sent them all to the government for disposal.

This kind of credit will inevitably make people jealous, so officials from Zhangzhou Prefecture and Quanzhou Prefecture secretly approached Yu Xiaotian and wanted to share some of the credit. Yu Xiaotian was not stingy and gave them both a share of the profit.

After killing the thieves at level fifty, they also sent over a hundred captured thieves to each side.

Even in the battle report he submitted, he did not forget to give Cai Shanji a share of credit, and emphasized that Cai Shanji, the deputy envoy of Haidao, took command from the center of the curtain, which enabled them to achieve such a great victory.

When Cai Shanji heard the news, he was so happy that he opened his mouth from ear to ear. He mentioned to his wife and concubines many times in the house that although Yu Xiaotian was once a pirate, he actually knew how to be a good person. Invisibly, he thought highly of Xiaotian again.

A few minutes later, I also secretly remembered Xiaotian's behavior and decided to win over Yu Xiaotian in the future.

At this point, Yu Xiaocai finally established a foothold among the Fujian officials and became a well-recognized coastal defense general.

Of course, when Yu Xiaotian was doing these things, he naturally did not forget the management of Weitou Bay and the development of Dagou Port. When he was raised, he immediately recruited craftsmen in Weitou Bay and began to build a large number of various buildings.

Port terminal facilities.

He personally led people to survey the hydrological conditions and geological topography of Weitou Bay, and divided Weitou Bay into several ports according to the terrain. Among them, a lighthouse was set up at Weitoujiao, south of Fuquan Station, to provide easy access to and from Weitou Bay at night.

Instructions are provided for boats in the bay.

In addition, in the west of Weitoujiao, migrant workers were recruited to build a seawall that was more than a hundred feet deep into the sea, forming a bay that could shelter from wind and waves. On the inside of the bay, a pier with a total of five trestles was built.

It officially became the home port of the Seawolf Second Fleet.

In addition, several wharves were built inside Weitou Bay, specifically for merchant ships to berth and load and unload cargo. A wharf was also built on Kinmen Island and Xiamen Island each for warships to berth, making Weitou Bay officially a

The port's ability to connect to the sea can allow a large number of merchant ships and warships to dock and load and unload cargo.

As for Yuegang, since it was destroyed by sea wolves and under Xiaotian's lust, the former merchant ships no longer dared to trade in Yuegang and could only enter Weitou Bay to trade, making Yuetou

After Hong Kong suffered this disaster, it never regained its previous prosperity and fell into complete decline.

Many merchants in Haicheng County are watching Yuegang continue to be in such depression. It is no longer as prosperous as it once was, and no more merchants are pouring into Yuegang. With the government's own financial capacity, it is even less possible to rebuild the pier and other places that have been destroyed.

Various facilities were burned down, so many merchants who were originally entrenched around Yuegang had no choice but to abandon Haicheng and began to move to the Weitou Bay area of ​​​​Tong'an to look for new opportunities to make money.

Yu Xiaotian also took advantage of the situation. After careful investigation, he finally selected the site to build Anping City in another time and space. He set aside a large area and built a large wharf exclusively for mainland merchants.

Gather in this area and conduct transactions with maritime merchants so that more goods can be boarded and shipped to sea from here.

As a result, as long as someone takes advantage of the situation and is driven by the merchants' instinct to pursue profits, in just one or two months, a large number of merchants will flock to this area and begin to sell land and build shops, making this originally depressed area almost

It was said that it suddenly became lively overnight. A large number of laborers came here every day to find work. Shops were built one after another, causing the land price, which was not high at first, to rise in a short period of time.

Dozens of times as much.

As the instigator, Yu Xiaotian had already used both soft and hard methods to acquire all the land in this area into his own hands, but he just did not use his name. Instead, he put all the land in this area into his own hands.

Under the name of Zhao Mazi, whenever a merchant wants to purchase land to build a shop here, he must purchase the land from Hailang.

In this way, just the income from selling the land to merchants for building shops allowed Yu Xiaotian to make a lot of money, making dozens of times the amount of money.

In addition to here, Yu Xiaotian is also purchasing land on a large scale around Weitou Bay, because he knows very well that as long as Weitou Bay is built as a commercial port in the future, the surrounding land will definitely increase in value significantly, and multiple real estate transactions can still be made.

How could Yu Xiaotian let go of this opportunity for a windfall business.

Of course, acquiring land is not as simple as imagined. In addition to the business opportunities he sees here, of course there are also smart people who see business opportunities from the current situation. There are also people who want to buy land in this area, including local people.

Some of the original landowners were not willing to sell their land easily at this time.

But when Yu Xiaotian wanted to buy these lands, things became much simpler. Yu Xiaotian was not afraid of bringing more hatred to himself. He treated these landowners with both soft and hard tactics. He first bought them with money and offered a higher price.

It doesn't matter, as long as they are willing to sell it, but some of them are really blind and refuse to give up this piece of fat no matter what.

For some people who only own a small amount of land, Yu Xiaotian ordered the council to offer them a price far exceeding the market price for purchase, trying not to bully them. However, for those landlords who own a large amount of land, it can be

There are no such good conditions anymore.

As a result, these stubborn landowners were in bad luck. They didn't even need Yu Xiaotian's secret instructions. It was just a bunch of guys in the council responsible for acquiring the land who were talking crookedly. Some local ruffians immediately took action.

People would flock to their homes and start causing endless trouble for these landowners.

The local ruffians have all kinds of shady means. As long as they want to accomplish something, it is really not too difficult. In the past, these local ruffians could not afford to offend these landlords. These landlords are all local gentry.

, who has nothing to do with the government? A local ruffian

Under normal circumstances, you don't dare to provoke them. Otherwise, if they start talking, the government will send out agents to catch these gangsters and take them into the yamen. They will beat them until their skin and flesh are bruised. If the victim is still not satisfied, you can spend more money.

Money, if you beat him to death on the spot, there will be no consequences.

But things are different now. They have General Yu Shen to back them up. What else can they not dare to do? Even if these landlords and gentry go to the government offices to complain, now as long as they hear that they have taken advantage of General Yu Xiaotian

All the officials in Quanzhou avoided such things, how could they dare to touch the general's misfortune?

At first, some of the arresting officers in the government offices were not aware of the fishery involved. After collecting the money from the victim, they immediately ran to arrest the person. However, before they could catch the person back to the government office, they would be arrested.

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The people were bailed out with a guarantee letter, and a few blind guys even tried to secretly try to beat up the ruffians who were causing trouble. However, within two days, these blind guys disappeared inexplicably.