Chapter 105 First Transaction with the Spaniard
On this trip to Jilong Bay, Yu Xiaotian stayed in Jilong Bay for more than a month. When he returned to Nanri Island, the situation here was booming and there was no big mess.
In the more than a month since he left here, all the work on Nanri Island has continued to advance, and all departments have their respective duties, which has not been delayed because of his absence.
This is the advantage of the system. As long as the system is set, the head of the family will have to keep an eye on it every day. Through Yu Xiaotian's unremitting efforts, today's sea wolf is like an assembled precision machine. As long as it has the motivation and does not need to interfere with it, it will run on its own, even if there are some minor problems. It will not affect the overall shutdown.
According to the old custom, as soon as Yu Xiaotian returned to Nanri Island, he summoned his men and told everyone about his trip to Jilong Bay. Everyone heard that a fort had been built on Jilong Bay and killed a large group of local natives, and they were also happy for Yu Xiaotian.
Yu Xiaotian told everyone that they would be arranged to go to Jilong Bay in batches. After all, it is now their territory of sea wolves. If their leaders don't know what it looks like, it's a little hard to say.
Liu Laoliu smiled and said, "Of course! Although I haven't been to Chickenlong wan yet, I can probably tell from the big boss that it's really a good place! Everyone wants to go there and see it as soon as possible!"
"It's not a good place. There is too much rain there. It rains in three days, but the terrain is good, easy to defend and difficult to attack. After the island outside the mouth of the bay is built on the fort, I'm afraid it will be more difficult to attack the bay again! The key there is to get stuck in the waterway to Japan in the east, and you can come quickly to the west, attack, retreat and defend, which is the reason why I spare no effort to rectify there!
By the way, is there any news from Wang Hong? Did Chen Jiu find it?" Yu Xiaotian stopped this topic and began to care about Chen Jiulai, who ran away some time ago.
This time, Ma Xiao caught Yu Xiaotian's words, hugged his fist and got up and said, "Congratulations to the big boss, Hexi is the big boss!"
Yu Xiaotian was overjoyed when he heard this and quickly asked, "Oh? So Chen Jiu has been caught?
Ma Xiao nodded and said, "That's good! After being defeated by the big boss, Chen Jiu was panicked like a homeless dog, hiding everywhere in Funing, trying to collect the remnants and intend to rise again!
However, Wang Sange kept a close eye on his brothers over there. During this period, he caught a lot of Chen Jiu's men, forcing Chen Jiu not dare to show up or close the original remnants.
And his nest was held by the big boss. He asked for money but no money, and no food. He hid from Tibet all day long and lived by stealing chickens and dogs!
And Ponson and others were shocked by us and did not dare to help him, and even spared no effort to help us clean up the remnants of Chen Jiu.
So Chen Jiu felt that he could no longer hang out on Funing's side, so he took his men to go north, but he happened to meet our two ships patrolling there.
After the brothers on our two ships found Chen Jiu, they immediately sent someone to recruit nearby Pang Sen to help the battle, while directly intercepting their way. What a fight, they killed Chen Jiu on the spot.
Chen Jiu's younger brother Chen Qian saw his brother's death and had no intention to fight again. He threw his brother's body into the sea and died, and Chen Jiu's men had to surrender to us!
When Ponson came over, only one boat under Chen Jiu was able to escape, and the remaining two boats were captured by us and had been towed back to Shuangfeng Island.
When Third Brother Wang heard the news, he sent a ship back and sent the news back on the same day!"
After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian was quite sad about Chen Jiu's ending. At least Chen Jiu is also a man. For so many years, he has been rampant on the sea in Funing, and there are few opponents. However, after meeting him Yu Xiaotian, Chen Jiu was unlucky. After the two wars, he beat him back to his original shape.
Before he died, he really felt a little like a tiger falling into the sun, and finally died in the hands of his subordinates.
"When did Chen Jiu die?" Yu Xiaotian asked after sighing.
"Nine days ago! We also got the news five days ago!" Ma Xiao continued to answer.
"How many remnants and ships of Chen Jiu have been captured recently?" Yu Xiaotian continued to ask.
"A total of six ships were seized, three of him were burned, and several boats were rumored to have escaped from Funing. Wang Sange sent back the news that nearly 200 people under Chen Jiu had been arrested. After demobilizing more than 100 of them who were forcibly kidnapped according to the method of the original head of the family, there were about 100 people left. Now it has been sent back to Nanri Island and has been put into the isolation camp, waiting for the big head to come back and fall!" Ma Xiao then continued to answer.
Yu Xiaotian patted the armrest of the chair and laughed and said, "Wang Hong did a good job. He completely cleaned up Chen Jiu's remaining forces so quickly! In this way, Chen Jiu will never be our trouble again!
I just didn't expect that the two brothers were deeply affectionate, and Chen Qian would live and die with his brother! It's rare! Lamentable, lamentable! It's admirable!
By the way, how are the bankers behind the two Chen Jiu now?
Yu Xiaotian has not forgotten the two gold owners behind Chen Jiu. Now he spends a lot of money, and he can't do it without finding some money. Most of the sea merchants in Fuzhou have established a certain contact with their sea wolves. They are a little embarrassed to do it and lose credibility, but Funing is not considering the scope.
Ma Xiao shook his head and said, "During this period, Wang Sange has not free his hands to deal with them. These two Chen Jiu's bankers are now afraid of death. They have sent people to Shuangfeng Island many times to make up and want to pay money to settle the matter, but Wang Sange did not have the instructions of the big boss and did not see them.
These two families are now hiding in their village and dare not come out. They have also invited a lot of nurses to protect them. According to details, they also ran to Funing City with their wives and children and dared not come out.
"Oh? They are really cautious! Did they run away from the monk? Can their business be stopped? I don't believe it!
Send someone to inform Wang Hong to keep an eye on the ships of their two families. As long as they go to sea, they will take them for me. From now on, they will never run business at sea again! In addition, take a chance to take down their Zhuangzi and let everyone know that those who are against our sea wolves will not have a good end!" Yu Xiaotian frowned and said.
Ma Xiao immediately got up and responded to the order, and immediately passed on Xiaotian's order to Wang Hong stationed on Shuangfeng Island.
Turning his head and asking about other businesses, Li Gouzi then gave Yu Xiaotian a general introduction to the business situation when he was away recently.
Since Chen Jiu was cleaned up, the waterway distance controlled by the sea wolf has more than doubled compared with before. Sea merchants are very happy about this. Although Yu Xiaotian has tripled the toll, most of them still readily accept it, and more ships have begun to take the initiative to pay for the road. In the past month, the toll alone has been offset by the income of the previous six months.
So with this alone, the sea wolf's fiscal deficit has basically been completely reversed. Now it is not only enough for them to spend, but also begin to have a surplus.
After hearing the news, Yu Xiaotian was very gratified and also felt the importance of the territory. By effectively controlling a larger territory, he could harvest more funds. Moreover, now the sea area controlled by sea wolves is not the real golden waterway of China. If there is one day, he can develop his power to a wide range. If it's in the east, then he will really have a lot of money!
After all, the most busy maritime traffic today is in the sea area south of Zhangzhou Prefecture, where they are still far away. In addition, large pirate groups were also mostly active in the south of Zhangzhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty, precisely because of the large number of ships there.
However, Yu Xiaotian also knows that although he has the strength to go south and compete with those big peers, after all, he is still involved in the need to divide considerable energy and manpower to run the salesman, and Funing's sea has just been taken by him, and he needs to stabilize before he can draw strength to go south.
So at present, although he is very greedy for the fat meat in the south, there is no better way. He can only do it step by step and step to strive for a more solid foundation. After his strength is strong enough, he will go south and seize a larger territory in one fell swoop.
On the whole, he is relatively satisfied with his current situation. What he is not satisfied with is that he feels that there are really few helpers who can be alone, otherwise he can do more.
But he can't be too anxious about such a helper. He can only gradually find some useful talents under his own hands and cultivate them carefully, so that he can one day become a unique talent. In addition, he also needs to find more talents from other places for his use.
So when he thought of this, he said to Li Gouzi, "Your governing hall has done a good job recently, but your pressure is really not small. Recently, you have come up with a way to inquire about whether there are any people who are good at management and are just unlucky. You might as well find some such people and add them to your governing body. In this way, Uncle Li and Uncle Zhao will be much easier!
By the way, has the ship sent to Manila come back?
"I'm back! I just came back. Zhang Feng, who went this time, brought back a piece of good news. The dry silk people over there heard that we could not need silver, just saltpetre. They were very willing to do our business, and this time they received all the goods we sent and returned a boat of saltpeter to us! About 10,000 catties, less than 20,000 catties, enough for us to use for a long time!
They said that if we want a large amount, they can prepare more saltpeter for us. After half a year, we will have as much as we want! As long as we send them more raw silk and tea, we can exchange their saltpetre!" Zhao Mazi, who was in charge of this matter this time, quickly replied.
Yu Xiaotian sneered and said, "This dry Lath man is actually Spanish!" Their country is called Spain, which is one of the earliest Thais to rise above the sea, and there are many places around the world.
They have occupied a lot of places. In some places, there are a lot of saltpeter mines, and they can't use them up at all! So of course they are willing to do our business. Nowadays, their saltpetre is not easy to sell. Of course they are happy to hear that we want it!
However, the price they gave us is too high. The ship of goods we sent this time can buy them at least 50,000 catties of saltpeter according to the price they gave us, but they only gave us less than 20,000 catties of saltpeter. They are too smart!
This business is not very cost-effective!"
(Today, my baby daughter is much better and has been updated. In addition, I would like to thank Nanbo Wang's friend for not being stingy rewards!)