Daming pirates

Although Yu Xiaotian had already demonstrated the strong abilities of his soldiers in land warfare and mountain warfare during the battle against Blackbeard in Yong'an County, but now when he saw that Yu Xiaotian's men were so fierce,

That they could achieve so many military exploits in succession in various places on land was really a bit astonishing to them.

Looking at the other veteran Fujian officers and soldiers, they are simply incomparable when compared with Yu Xiaotian and his soldiers.

Yu Xiaotian and his men were reporting good news frequently, while the old Fujian officers and soldiers were losing one after another. Even if there was no competition between the two sides, they were still judging each other.

After the news spread, when the veteran generals in Fujian learned about it, they were all ashamed and a little embarrassed. They were both admired and jealous, and full of helplessness. This man deserves to be compared with others, and goods should be thrown away when comparing goods. Only then did they completely

Understand the gap between them and Yu Xiaotian and his men.

Thinking back on the past, they had boasted that one day they would compete with Yu Xiaotian, but the current situation was that Yu Xiaotian slapped them hard, and even slapped them until they had nothing to say.

In this way, with Yu Xiaotian's so many achievements at the bottom, Xiong Wencan naturally became more confident in favoring Xiaotian in terms of military expenditures and materials and equipment. Who made Yu Xiaotian too capable? If there is a good thing, he must first do it.

Only capable people are given. This kind of inclination makes even the people in the Commander-in-Chief feel that they have nothing to worry about.

Xiong Wencan received such kindness from Yu Xiaotian, and of course he reciprocated the favor. He tried every means to mobilize some food and money and allocated it to Yu Xiaotian, which somewhat made up for some of Yu Xiaotian's expenses. Although this money and food could only be used for Sea Wolf's recent expenses.

It's a drop in the bucket, but it represents Xiong Wencan's attitude after all.

Yu Xiaotian thanked Xiong Wencan many times for this, and secretly returned part of the money allocated to him by Xiong Wencan to Xiong Wencan, lining Xiong Wencan's personal pockets and making Xiong Wencan secretly chuckle with joy.

Fujian has so quickly calmed down the chaos caused by the famine, which is naturally quite good news for the current imperial court. Although Chongzhen did not promote Xiong Wencan or Yu Xiaotian again because of this, he still expressed his gratitude to Xiong Wencan.

It left a very good impression, and I felt that Xiong Wencan was really a capable person. Compared with the governors of other provinces, the governor was much more reliable in his work, and he really solved the problems for the emperor.

Therefore, the chaos caused by the severe drought in Fujian not only did not bring any negative impact to Xiong Wencan, but actually made Xiong Wencan gain both fame and fortune. On the one hand, he gained the impression of a capable official in the current emperor Chongzhen.

He also made a lot of money. Xiong Wencan was certainly not a fool. He knew very well that he could do this and who brought it to him. At this point, he truly regarded Yu Xiaotian as his confidant and right-hand man.

With a snap of his fingers, three years slipped through his fingers in the blink of an eye, and it was the fourth year of Chongzhen.

In the past two years, Yu Xiaotian, under the command of Xiong Wencan, led his troops to fight in the south and north of Fujian, and successively wiped out more than ten groups of bandits entrenched in various prefectures in Fujian, and also wiped out ten groups of bandits at sea.

Yu Gumao rashly broke into the pirates causing trouble along the coast of Fujian.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian was finally promoted to the rank of Chief Military Officer of Fujian due to his meritorious service, and became the number one general in Fujian under the upright Xie Longyi. Of course, Xie Longyi was just older, and in terms of military merit, he was far less powerful than Yu Xiaotian.

Although Yu Xiaotian was nominally among the Fujian military generals and his status was lower than Xie Longyi's, both sides were general military officers, and Yu Xiaotian actually controlled much more troops than Xie Longyi.

In the past two years, although Xie Longyi also led troops to fight, he had few successes. Although he was not convicted for this, he still suffered a big psychological blow. By the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen, he basically stopped taking care of things and did not care about anything.

No matter how he personally led the army into battle, most of the wars in Fujian were basically left to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian also really flattered Xiong Wencan, allowing Xiong Wencan to achieve outstanding political achievements in Fujian in the past few years. Even among the governor-level officials in the entire Ming Dynasty, his political achievements were definitely at the forefront.

He was highly regarded by Chongzhen.

Although Xiong Wencan and Yu Xiaotian have offended many people in Fujian over the years, and have been impeached many times by their colleagues or so-called Qingliu for this, Xiong Wencan has managed the affairs of Fujian really well, although he has been criticized frequently.

, but his status in Fujian has always remained unchanged, just because Chongzhen favored him, which made his status very stable.

Of course, Xiong Wencan also knew how he got this. If Yu Xiaotian hadn't always kept his head straight and acted effectively, solving many difficult problems for him, otherwise he wouldn't have been so successful in the past few years.

Things always go smoothly in Fujian.

Even Yu Xiaotian did a lot of dirty work for him. He secretly sent people to kill several political opponents for him without anyone noticing, and they did it in a flawless manner, leaving no trace behind at all. This also made Xiong Wencan in Fujian.

Xiong Wencan's status was so high that by the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign, few people dared to act opposite Xiong Wencan anymore.

Xiong Wencan was also very kind to Xiaotian. He gave him a favor and repaid him with a plum, and provided convenience to Yu Xiaotian in every aspect. Every year, Fujian's military resources, food and salary basically tilted towards Yu Xiaotian, even if he didn't dare to say

Yu Xiaotian always responds to his requests. At least basically, as long as he can do it, Yu Xiaotian's benefits are indispensable.

Yu Xiaotian completely controlled all the ports along the coast of Fujian and turned the entire Weitou Bay into the largest commercial port in the Ming Dynasty. Almost all merchant ships in Fujian set out from Weitou Bay if they wanted to go to sea to do business.

As long as these merchant ships are not directly under Sea Wolf, each ship will have different sizes according to the size of the ship. They must pay a large fee to Sea Wolf every year in order to obtain the traffic order flag issued by Sea Wolf. Otherwise, they will be unable to move on the Fujian Sea.

, there is no way to trade overseas.

From this income alone, Seawolf Group's annual income can reach millions, which does not include Seawolf's own merchant fleet and Seawolf's various self-operated businesses.

For more than two years, Hailang's business has spread throughout Fujian and even Guangdong and Guangxi. In Fujian and even every town, there are branches of various businesses run by Hailang.

Sea Wolf is involved in all businesses, and controls almost the entire sea trade business in Sea Wolf's hands.

In particular, the entire raw silk export trade in Fujian is completely monopolized by Hailang. If the Hailang Group does not want some people to get a little bit of raw silk, almost these people will not be able to get even a single piece of raw silk out of Fujian.

Raw silk itself is the most sought-after commodity in the sea trade. Hailang planted a large number of mulberry fields in the mainland of Fujian and allowed farmers to raise silkworms in large numbers, forming a large-scale mulberry silkworm breeding industry. Hailang opened nest silk factories in various parts of Fujian.

Common people buy silkworm cocoons and reel them into silk.

Seawolf's silk reeling factories have learned from various places and constantly improved the silk reeling technology. As a result, the quality of raw silk produced by various seawolf silk reeling factories has been greatly improved compared to the past, and the price is naturally much higher than before.

At the end of the Apocalypse, the raw silk sold by sea merchants to the Dutch and Spanish was generally sold for a maximum price of one hundred and thirty liang and one stone. However, in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the raw silk exported by Hailang,

The price of first-grade raw silk per stone is almost two hundred taels of silver, and even the price of second- and third-grade raw silk exceeds one hundred and thirty taels.

In the past, the whole province of Fujian could only receive at most two hundred stones of raw silk throughout the year, most of which had to be purchased from Zhejiang. However, by the fourth year of Chongzhen, the annual silk production in Fujian had reached about eight hundred stones.

And the output is gradually increasing significantly.

Moreover, planting mulberry fields does not occupy the original fertile land. Mulberry trees are mostly planted on hillside. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people can raise silkworms in addition to the original planting farmland and gain additional income.

Yu Xiaotian strictly requires his subordinates not to treat these silkworm farmers too excessively. In addition to setting a higher purchase price, often when silkworm farmers lack funds and need to borrow some money for turnover, Hailang gives

The interest rates for borrowing are also much lower than those offered by some wealthy people in the past.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian robbed many wealthy people's business, cut off many wealthy people's financial paths, and made some unscrupulous people who used to make a fortune hate him.

In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, more than a dozen big families appeared. They secretly pooled money and paid heavily to hire dozens of desperadoes to act as killers. They wanted the killers to secretly kill Yu Xiaotian. But unfortunately, these killers underestimated them.

Due to Yu Xiaotian's ability, as soon as he wanted to take action, Yu Xiaotian's men killed every one of them. After being tortured and forced to confess, they revealed the truth and sold all their employers to Yu Xiaotian.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian was not polite to such people and handed over the captured killers to the government. When Xiong Wencan heard this, he became furious and ordered strict investigation and punishment. As a result, more than a dozen large families who had pooled money to hire killers were all arrested.

, the person in charge was executed by Lingchi, and the rest had their homes confiscated and executed, and their families were made slaves.

As a result, although some wealthy people hated Xiaotian deeply, they were helpless and did not dare to have any evil thoughts.

Of course, raw silk is only one kind of commodity controlled by Hailang. Other products such as tea, lacquerware, dyes, silk, porcelain and other products that are relatively popular to the outside world are naturally involved in Hailang, and he even established his own large-scale workshop.

Carry out large-scale self-production, replacing the previous method of only ordering from other workshops.

There are several advantages to doing this. First, the cost is greatly reduced and the quality is controlled by oneself. Third, the product style can be adjusted at any time and the buyer can produce products with a style that the buyer prefers, thus making more profits.

(Haha, today I saw the rewards from brothers Tie Shou Youqing and Ying Zhiwu again! Awesome! I will work hard to code, and I would like to thank the brothers who voted for me again!)