Daming pirates

Although if Hailang sells grain to Jiannu, he will gain extremely high profits. Nowadays, the price for Jiannu to purchase grain has reached as high as more than ten cartloads of silver. It costs only one stone to transport the grain from the south to Liaodong by sea.

You can earn at least ten taels of silver from grain. If you put a hundred tons of grain in a boat, one person can earn tens of thousands of taels of silver.

However, Yu Xiaotian strictly ordered the men in charge of this matter not to sell a grain of grain to the Jian slaves, but only tea, salt and other commodities were allowed to be sold to the Jian slaves.

The Jiannu did not know how to make salt, and the weather there was very cold and the cost of boiling salt was very high. Therefore, the salt they consumed mainly relied on imports, so salt was also a commodity they needed very much.

Although the Jiannu did not consume much tea, their allies, the Mongolian tribes, needed salt and tea very much. After the Jiannu got the salt and tea, they sold it to the Mongolian tribes.

They can also earn a lot of profits, so these two commodities are quite popular among Jiannu slaves.

However, things like glassware and soap, which are still considered luxuries at present, are not needed by the Jiannu slaves. The number of their nobles is limited, and even if they want it, they only need a very small amount. In addition, in order to solve the problem of eating, Huang Taiji strictly prohibited the import.

Luxury goods are for personal enjoyment, so these Sea Wolf's flagship products have become useless among the items used in the slave trade.

However, some daily-use ceramics and the like are still relatively popular. In order to further open up trade channels and earn more profits from the slaves, Yu Xiaotian thought about it again and again, and finally approved that he could export a small amount of Indian cotton cloth or

The currently unsalable Songjiang cloth in the south was given to the Jiannu slaves.

Jiannu, who was living in the cold Liaodong, still welcomed things like cotton. As a result, trade between the two sides immediately started in full swing. There were often ships coming from the south, stopping in the Denglai area.

He made a stop and then continued sailing north to the Liaodong area to trade with Jiannu.

But in exchange, it was unrealistic for Jiannu to use all his real money to buy these things, because Jiannu didn't have that much cash on hand, so the two parties finally negotiated and Jiannu gave up part of the cash to buy them.

For supplies, the rest of the payment was exchanged for some iron ingots and Liaodong specialties such as tiger bones, deer antlers, ginseng, Korean ginseng, mink skins and other specialties. In terms of price, the price negotiated by Jiannu was not high.

Drugs like ginseng were in great demand during the Ming Dynasty. In all the medicine shops in the south, ginseng is basically available at a price but not in stock. The price of a pound of ginseng is as high as a hundred taels of silver. It is difficult to buy just one ginseng.

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However, the price agreed by Hailang and Jiannu, a pound of ginseng, was only seven taels of silver. After shipping it back to the south, they could immediately earn more than ten times the profit.

Therefore, this kind of trade is also very cost-effective for Hailang. In addition, Hailang traders also proposed that live mouths can be exchanged. One stone of grain can be exchanged from Jiannu for two Han slaves. For such a request,

Jiannu Huang Taiji thought about it again and again, and finally agreed.

Every time the Jian slaves entered the customs, a large number of people would be taken captive, and most of them were women and mostly young and strong men. They were all good laborers. However, due to the lack of food outside the customs, the quality of life of these slaves who were taken out of the customs was extremely poor.

It is not easy for slaves to feed them. Even if you give them the worst food, it must be something edible.

Therefore, Jiannu did not care much about exchanging people for salt, tea, cotton, cloth and other items, so the two parties also reached an agreement in this regard. Every month, Jiannu would provide hundreds of people to the Sea Wolf personnel who used to trade, and then

They were transferred by Sea Wolf back to Denglai or Jeju Island for resettlement.

When these slaves who were exchanged returned to their homeland inside the Pass, many of them burst into tears. When they were outside the Pass, they were treated as slaves who were inferior to pigs and dogs, and their food was not even as good as that of dogs.

They are not even as good as pigs, let alone well-dressed. Quail clothes are always good, but many people even wear no clothes to cover their bodies in the severe cold.

Now after being exchanged by Sea Wolf, although they are still slaves, everyone has obtained new clothes and can wear them warmly. Although the food they eat is still multigrain cakes, it is already better than when they were outside the customs.

Many people in heaven still feel like they are dreaming until this moment and cannot believe that this is real.

Even being a slave to a new master like Sea Wolf is a thousand times better than being a slave to Jiannu. Therefore, after they were brought back, they were all grateful to their new masters like Sea Wolf and behaved extremely respectfully.

These people are regarded by Yu Xiaotian as the seeds for future counterattacks in Liaodong. Everyone here has a deep hatred for Jiannu. As long as they are well maintained and trained into an army, they will go out to attack Jiannu.

Sometimes, these people will never show mercy.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian specially approved the establishment of a new military camp on Jeju Island, specifically responsible for recruiting these Liaodong Han people who had been gathered from outside the customs and Shandong areas, and training them into a northern army, just waiting to be put into the northern battlefield in the future.

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Jianu probably never imagined that the slaves they had traded with Hailang would become their gravediggers in the future. If Huang Taiji knew that Yu Xiaotian was planning this, he would probably beat him to death.

He, he would never make such a deal with Sea Wolf.

Of course, doing business with the Jiannu was not smooth sailing. Many of the powerful people among the Jiannu were quite arrogant and vicious. Many Han merchants who had done business with them in the past had their goods shipped outside the customs. Many people's goods were stolen by these Jiannu.

It is normal for slaves and nobles to embezzle and lose all their money. It is even normal for people to commit murder and swindle goods.

Therefore, in the early days, the ships that used to carry out trade also encountered some difficulties from the slaves, and there were even cases where the slaves tried to rob the ships and goods.

Sea Wolf's cargo ship is not a vegetarian. The people on board are all naval reservists. The ship is equipped with many small and medium-caliber artillery, and is also armed with many muskets.

When something like this happened, the captain of the ship would not sit still and wait for death. When he gave the order to fire, the guns on the ship fired all at once, knocking off the slaves who were trying to rob the ship's cargo and throwing their bodies on the ground.

Jiannu learned his lesson immediately. He knew that this sea wolf could not be offended. They had sharp cannons. If you wanted to gain advantage from them, you would have to pay the price with blood. After the incident, Jiannu Huang Taiji heard that

After hearing the news, they immediately sent people over to investigate. When they learned that it was their people who were plotting evil, they became furious.

Finally, a group of sea wolves came here and were willing to do business with them, but some people wanted to seek personal gain from them. Doing so might cut off this trade route, so Huang Taiji immediately ordered the execution of the leading guys, which was considered a complete victory.

Suppressed those slaves who tried to plot against Sea Wolf's ships.

And since this incident, whenever Sea Wolf's ships docked for trade, Huang Taiji ordered the slave-building troops stationed at each trading point to provide protection and supplies for Sea Wolf's ships.

For the people on Seawolf's ships, it's great.

Although for Xiaotian, the profits earned by this trade route are not significant among the profits he earns every year, it has also enabled Yu Xiaotian to initially build an intelligence network in the Liaodong area.

To some extent, we can collect some information about the slave establishment.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, the slaves sent troops to break through the customs and go south to the capital to raid. To some extent, it had something to do with the sea wolf trade. In order to exchange for more supplies from the sea wolves, they had insufficient cash on hand, and there was no money available for trading.

There are not many live births in the country, so we can only think of ways to grab those from the Ming Dynasty.

This prompted Jiannu to send troops to break through the pass as soon as Huang Taiji ascended the throne in the ninth year of Chongzhen, and rushed into the pass to plunder.

This year, the slaves entered the customs and robbed hundreds of thousands of people in the capital area. In addition, they also had various goods. If converted into cash, it would be more than 700,000 taels of silver.

Under such circumstances, although there were increasing waves of impeachment against Xiaotian between the government and the public, Chongzhen was currently so overwhelmed by the slave-building and refugee armies that he had no energy to think about how to deal with Xiaotian, so this case

The matter just dragged on.

When the tenth year of Chongzhen arrived, Yu Xiaotian made a statistics on the troops on hand. At present, the strength of the three fleets of Yu Jiajun's navy has reached more than 20,000 people, and the number of medium and large warships has exceeded 300.

, and coupled with various anti-smuggling ships and smugglers, such as fast and light sailing ships, as well as fishery surveillance boats at sea responsible for monitoring fisheries and collecting taxes, the number is as high as nearly a thousand.

Now the first fleet of the Sea Wolf has been officially renamed the Northern Fleet in the Yu Family Army. Under Yu Xiaotian's order, the fleet was moved to Fushan Suo, which is later Qingdao Port, and has truly formed.

In order to control the northern coastal area, the area of ​​responsibility includes the entire Shandong coast, the Bohai Bay area, North Korea and even the sea area around Jeju Island. They are all under the control of the Northern Fleet, and they are responsible for handling any matters.

The Second Fleet is responsible for the coastal areas of Fujian, Zhejiang, and South Zhili. The fleet's home port remains in Weitou Bay for the time being, but it actually controls the Dongtou Islands off the coast of Wenzhou Prefecture, and stationed a detachment there to

Based on the Dongtou Islands, it controls the coast of Zhejiang.

In addition, the Zhoushan Islands outside Hangzhou Bay are now actually controlled by the Yu Jiajun. It was once a gathering place for pirates, and it was also a gathering place for maritime smuggling in Zhejiang. There are many pirates' lairs on the island.

There is also a black market that has formed spontaneously and is completely outside the control of the government on land.

So a few years ago, Yu Xiaotian gave instructions to the navy and began to infiltrate there. Soon, in the name of a group of pirates, he rose up in the local area and quickly killed a large number of pirates gathered there, and brought all kinds of forces there together.

After integrating them, the entire Zhoushan Islands was controlled by Sea Wolf. It was not until they completely completed control over there that some people knew that the group of pirates who had recently emerged there turned out to be Sea Wolf's people.

But it's too late.

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