Daming pirates

For more than ten days in a row, Sea Wolf did not go out to sea for plunder. Yu Xiaotian temporarily focused all his energy on training newcomers and managing Treasure Island.

Warehouses and new houses were built one by one, and various living facilities began to be gradually improved. For the sake of sanitation on the island, Yu Xiaotian ordered Li Gouzi to build facilities at their residence and on the affiliated islands.

Among the public toilets, special toilets for women were built on the main island, and they were regularly sprinkled with quicklime obtained from the Li family to kill maggots.

In addition, he also built a bathhouse near the spring, using local materials and stones from the island and branches of shrubs. He strictly ordered the people on the island to bathe regularly to keep their bodies clean and save money.

Diseases are transmitted by parasites such as fleas.

Furthermore, he also directed people to dig drainage ditches in the residential areas on the island to discharge domestic sewage directly into the sea, and did not allow domestic sewage to accumulate in the living areas.

In addition, considering the issue of guarding, Yu Xiaotian also planned to build a wall fortress around the residential area on the island, as well as guard facilities such as an arrow tower and a lighthouse. However, such a plan is currently difficult to implement because they have limited materials on hand.

Although there are endless stones on the island, there are still not enough manpower. The wood and lime to bind the stones need to be purchased from the mainland. They cannot complete such a project in less than a few months.

As for the personnel, after the newcomers completed the first period of obedience awareness training and isolation and quarantine period on the island, he began to bring the selected newcomers to the ship, and ordered them to follow Hu Cheng and Crazy Meng on the ship according to the division of labor.

, familiarize yourself with the operation of the ship and the way of fighting on the ship.

Most of these people are not from coastal fishermen and are not very familiar with the operation of ships and life at sea. Some of them are even severely seasick. If you take them out to rob ships without adaptive training, you will basically let these people die.

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Yu Xiaotian made it clear that since he brought these people here to join the gang, he would not treat them as expendables and drive them to take risks regardless of their life or death.

The newcomers also found Yu Xiaotian's statement acceptable. People don't think they have a long life. Yu Xiaotian valued them so much, but it made them feel like they were treated as human beings. Therefore, they were more obedient after boarding the ship.

Didn't cause much trouble.

Like Li Dazui, many people have gradually accepted this fate, and have begun to feel that this kind of life is easier than their previous days of wandering around with a full meal. The only thing that makes them feel a little uncomfortable

What’s so cool is that there are so many rules here.

This guy at the helm seems to be a maniac about rules by nature. There are rules for eating, drinking, sleeping, and sleeping. Everything must be done in accordance with the rules. If you are not careful, you may be punished. It is just a courtesy to go to the toilet, but unexpectedly

Even the shoes they wore had to be placed in a designated place when sleeping, and they were forced to take a bath with cold water every two days. Things like these were irrelevant, which made them a little confused.

But it's not enough not to follow the rules. After a few lessons, these newcomers gradually became able to adapt to the various rules here and began to get used to doing everything according to the rules.

Seeing that the day was approaching the end of September, Yu Xiaotian finally took the boat out to sea again and started a new round of hunting operations. They continued to choose the target area on the sea near the southern part of Haitan Island because it was separated from Fuzhou.

It is within the direct controllable range of the navy, and it is also a place that merchant ships from the north and south must pass through. There are many passing ships, and the chance of finding a target is relatively high.

Therefore, according to Liu Laoliu and the Li family, many pirates in the surrounding areas have selected this area as their target area. It is the hunting ground for pirates all year round. Of course, if you go further south, to the west side of Nanri Island

, the harvest may be better, but right now it is the area of ​​influence of Shark Zhang Hu. Small pirate groups like Sea Wolf are not yet able to compete with Zhang Hu, so they can only choose to be slightly farther away from Nanri Island.

This narrow sea area serves as their hunting spot.

These novices, who were going to sea for the first time, began to look nervous and a little excited after leaving Treasure Island. This made the old people of Xiaohuang Island who had done it twice despise their performance, but many people

But I forgot that when they first came out, they might have been worse than these guys. Anyway, now they consider themselves veterans and have become arrogant.

But for Xiaotian, he was much more confident when he came out this time. After all, he brought about thirty people with him this time. Even though half of them were newcomers, his strength was still greatly increased.

At present, the number of soldiers on his ship, that is, soldiers, has reached nearly twenty. He can finally further refine their responsibilities and designate full-time gunners, archers, and gunmen, so that the division of labor among his men can be achieved.

Be more detailed and professional.

And once he starts taking action, the number of people he can command to rush to the front has more than doubled. Against ordinary merchant ships, they have an absolutely overwhelming advantage in numbers, and the chance of successfully hijacking the ship has also increased exponentially.

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Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian came out this time, he was confident and took the boat straight to the safari area and began a three-day cruise.

They didn't seem to have much luck in the first two days. They didn't come across a ship that was worthy or suitable to start with. They only encountered an empty ship leaving Fuzhou for Quanzhou.

After catching up, the other party immediately announced their surrender without any resistance, and let them board the ship to search. As a result, in addition to finding a few swords, guns and dozens of taels of silver, they ended up empty-handed and had to let go.

He captured this merchant ship and allowed them to continue southward.

This result greatly discouraged the people on the ship. As a last resort, they could only continue to cruise on the sea, looking for the next target.

But their luck came on the third day. They found two ships on the sea at the same time, one of which seemed to be overloaded, so Yu Xiaotian immediately selected this overloaded ship to start.

After a chase, they finally caught the boat. However, after boarding the boat and taking control of the boat, they were disappointed. It turned out that the boat was not a long-distance traveler.

It was a ship transporting wood from Chaozhou Prefecture to Fuzhou Prefecture.

There was no money on the ship. There was only a little food prepared on the ship and a small amount of scattered goods. They were not worth much. Even the owner did not escort the ship. This result made everyone disappointed. They knew that they had chosen the wrong target this time.

, but I heard from the boatman on the boat that another boat they let go was loaded with a lot of spices, pearl agate and silver, but they made a mistake and chose this one instead.

Timber boat, Madman Meng was so angry that he just wanted to kill someone to vent his anger.

Yu Xiaotian was also very disappointed. Looking at the ship's timber, he could only admit that he was unlucky. He knew that they still lacked experience, otherwise they would not only look at the load of the ship and ignore the cargo that might be loaded on the ship.

At this point, Yu Xiaotian wanted to let them go, but then he changed his mind.

So Yu Xiaotian ordered all the boatmen on the boat to be tied up, and they were thrown directly into the cabin one by one, locked up, and asked people from his own boat to take over their place. The two boats together escorted the boat full of wood and headed towards

They sailed towards the shore. After dark, they found a random place and left the boatmen on the shore. Then they boarded the two boats and started to return home to Treasure Island.

Although this shipload of wood is not worth much, it is also an urgently needed material for them. They will continue to operate on Treasure Island for a longer period of time, and they will not be short of wood for anything they do.

Moreover, most of the wood on this ship is teak, which is an excellent wood for shipbuilding. It does not warp or crack under the condition of being exposed to the sun, rain, dryness, and humidity; it is water-resistant and fire-resistant; it can resist termites and different sea areas.

The teak wood is eaten by sea worms and is extremely resistant to decay. It was originally produced in Southeast Asia and is not available in Fujian or Guangdong. After asking the boatman on the boat, I found out that these teak trees were purchased by their boss from a maritime merchant in Chaozhou Prefecture.

It was transported to a shipyard in Fuzhou area for shipbuilding purposes.

The rest of the wood is mostly mahogany, which is mostly produced in Southeast Asia. It is either used for building ships or making expensive furniture. After careful calculation, the value is not small, and this ship was also used by Yu Xiaotian.

I fell in love with it. Although the shape of this boat is not that of Fuzhou or Guangzhou, it is a flat-bottomed boat similar to a sand boat. Although it is not suitable for long sea voyages, it is very suitable for offshore or relatively large rivers.

For transporting large materials, it is not easy to be stranded because of its shallow draft. Although the speed is relatively slow, it is not suitable for use as a pirate ship, but it is more suitable for transporting bulk goods.

Moreover, this ship was relatively young and could be used for a relatively long time. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to take possession of this ship and its timber.

The wood will be used to repair their boats in the future, and the ones that are no longer needed will be taken to the Li family in exchange for money. The other boats can be kept by them, and they will specialize in the Dalian Island line on Treasure Island in the future for shipment and use.

It's less eye-catching and makes it easier to conceal their identity.

So Yu Xiaotian simply ate all the cargo brought by the boat. After all, they gained a lot from this trip, and they didn't spend much effort. They also allowed the newcomers to practice their courage, so this time they came out with results.

Not bad.

But just when they were about to return to Treasure Island, they saw a plume of smoke appearing in the sky in the direction of Treasure Island from a distance. The man on the mast who was responsible for the lookout suddenly screamed: "No!

It’s over! Our island is on fire!”

Yu Xiaotian and everyone else's hearts tightened suddenly, and they rushed to the bow of the ship...

(He continues to yell shamelessly: Where are the red tickets, brothers? Hehe)