Chapter 132 Chu Cailao

As soon as Yu Xiaotian returned to Nanri Island, he learned a very bad thing. Two months ago, he sent three ships to Manila to trade with the Spaniards, preparing to buy another batch of saltpeter, sulfur, canvas and spices around Nanyang.

But when he returned to Nanri Island, he learned that their business had been ruined this time. On the way back, when they passed by Chaozhou Prefecture, they were intercepted by a group of pirates.

The three merchant ships of the sea wolf tried to escape, but were rounded up by the other party. In the end, one ship was robbed and one ship was burned. Only one ship finally escaped, causing casualties and nearly 40 members of the merchant fleet, less than 20 members, returning to Nanri Island with a small amount of saltpetre and canvas. .

Yu Xiaotian was furious as soon as he heard it. For such a long time, they have been bullying people. Where have they been bullied like this? So as soon as he returned to the wolf's den of Nanri Island, he got up when he heard about it and roared, "Who the hell did this? Have you figured it out yet?

Now Zhao Mazi is responsible for the activities of the merchant fleet. Because of Li Yi's cooperation, Yu Xiaotian's plan to let Zhao Mazi open shops on land changed the plan. Li Yi was fully responsible for Mao Shengyuan's business. Yu Xiaotian sent others to Mao Shengyuan to cooperate with Li Yi's business, which made Zhao Ma Zi also freed up his hand. After establishing the merchant fleet, Zhao Mazi took over this matter.

So Zhao Mazi can only explain this matter to Yu Xiaotian.

"The brother who came back has already said that it was Chu Cai's old men who hijacked our ship in Chaozhou this time! We have revealed our identity, but they still refuse to buy it and will ask us to stop the ship! Our people refused to stop the boat, which led to their siege!

At first, they only had four boats. We were not afraid of them. We also destroyed one of them and killed several of them. But later, they recruited more boats, and our people couldn't stand it. We had to find a way to break through, but under the outnumber of the crowd, we still broke two boats and dozens of brothers!" Zhao Mazi said to Xiaotian.

"Cu Cai Lao?" After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian immediately frowned.

Chu Cai has basically never heard of it before he came to this era, but after working in this era, his reputation can be said to be thunderous.

Chu Cai is always a very famous guy among some big pirates in the Ming coastal era. This man started much earlier than Zheng Zhilong. He was already a thief on the sea during the Wanli period. He was also a thief and a merchant. While doing business, he was a thief. He gathered thousands of people, and there were as many ships of various ships. Hundreds.

And their organizational form is different from that of the sea wolf. The sea wolf is a relatively well-organized group, listening to the management of Xiaotian from top to bottom.

However, pirate groups like Chu Cai Lao belong to a loose form of management. Chu Cai Lao is nominally the boss and spiritual leader of the group, but he still has many shopkeepers. These shopkeepers are composed of small pirate groups. The small shopkeepers have two or three ships, dozens of subordinates, large The shopkeeper may have dozens of boats and hundreds of men.

Usually, they are busy with their own affairs. Once Mr. Chu Cai, the big boss, wants to do a big job, he will notify these shopkeepers to gather, listen to his greetings, and follow him to do big work.

It is said that this person is the most powerful in Guangdong. In the first year of the Apocalypse, he gathered his men several times to attack Jieyang, Guangdong, but also fought against Haicheng and the government head-on.

With his strong strength, Mr. Chu Cai not only often hijacked ships at sea, but also attacked villages and even counties along the coast from time to time, which was a headache for the government. He sent troops to suppress him several times. Mr. Chu Cai either led his troops to avoid the officers and soldiers, or turned them into zero to avoid the officers and sailors.

In this way, the government had no choice but to watch this person arrogant at sea, but could not give enough strength to destroy him.

So Chu Cailao and his men are rampant on the southern coast of Guangdong and the coast of southern Fujian. No one can buy any face. As long as they like it, no matter who you are, they just want to hijack the ship.

Unfortunately, this time the sea wolf's merchant ships were targeted by them, so they won't care whose ships these merchant ships are. After all, Yu Xiaotian's sea wolf has not risen in Fuzhou for a long time, and its reputation is far from being so famous enough to make Chu Cailao and his men avoid them.

So it's not a big deal that Chu Cai's men robbed the sea wolf's boat this time. At least in their eyes, this is nothing.

After hearing that it was Chu Cai's old men who hijacked their boat this time, Yu Xiaotian unconsciously scratched his head a little, calmed his breath, slowly returned to the chair and began to calm down.

"The boss, Chu Cai is not someone else. I'm afraid we really can't offend them now. After all, we have to go south to do business in the future, and we have to go to Guangdong to buy iron every month, Manila and Macao to ship goods. Once we fall out with them, although we may not be afraid of them, our I'm afraid that the ship will be even more unsafe when it goes south in the future. Zhao Mazi shook his head and persuaded Xiaotian.

After listening to this, Yu Xiaotian felt that what Zhao Mazi said was also reasonable, but he always felt that he couldn't swallow it. They suffered such a big loss. If they didn't regain some face, it really didn't make sense. The most important thing was that after this incident spread, it would cause a psychological shadow on the sea woers. In the future, he will mention Chu Cailao. Such people can't afford to be provoked by sea wolves, so they have to hide.

The regulations he proposed to his subordinates at the beginning that they must fight against enemies are also completely violated. If he doesn't say anything if he presses this matter, then his men will have an excuse to avoid fighting against enemies in the future. They are powerful. If they can't beat them, they won't fight! Save trouble and make trouble for the sea wolf.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian believes that if he doesn't find a way to get some face back, he may have a very bad impact on his future development and may even cause irreparable losses.

He shook his head and said, "That's right, but have you thought about it? If we put up with this dumb loss this time, how can we explain it to our brothers in the future? If the brother is killed, it will be killed. Is it okay to give two pensions?

What will our brothers think in the future? If the brothers of the merchant fleet go to sea to do business in the future, will they directly fall on the sail and be slaughtered and knocked down?

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Liu Yidao immediately shot the case and said angrily, "What's wrong with Chu Cai? Aren't they just more people and boats than us? In the opinion of my subordinates, we can't lose our prestige and morale like this, and it won't be over!

What I have to say, since this matter has come out, we have to find it back! Although we don't have as many people on the ship as Chu Cai, and we don't have as many people as them, but we have good cannons and so many powerful firecrackers on our ship. We are afraid of their

The big boss took us to fight with them. Although he may not be able to destroy Chu Cailao like Zhang Hu and Chen Jiu, at least he also let them suffer losses and know the power of our sea wolves! Let them see our ship in the future, and first weigh whether we can rob our ship!"

Liu Yidao is now working under Xiaotian. Naturally, he has to consider the problem from the perspective of Yu Xiaotian. He belongs to the first series of the warships. Among the sea wolves, he is a warrior, so he has to be more aggressive.

His words immediately aroused the support of Ma Xiao and others. The leaders of the fleet immediately shouted at Yu Xiaotian to gather the fleet and go to Chaozhou to fight with Boss Chu Cai and kill Chu Cai and his men.

However, their opinions are to the left with the people of the board of directors such as Zhao Mazi and Li Gouzi. The council is mainly responsible for logistics and commercial affairs. They are not very interested in such fighting and killing. What they value more is silver, which is stable.

These martial artists said it lightly and gathered a fleet to brazenly go south to find the trouble of Mr. Chu Cai. How much does such an action involve? Nowadays, dozens of ships of the war fleet are mainly scattered outside to patrol and inspect the passing merchant ships. After all of them are recovered, who will do this work?

No one set up a card to check. Naturally, some people have to take advantage of the loopholes and do not pay the toll. If they don't pay the toll, the sea wolf will lose a lot. Moreover, more than 1,000 people and dozens of ships go south together, how much supplies will the council have to prepare? How many other merchant fleets will be dispatched to cooperate with the operation and provide them with support?

How much does this money cost? And now Yu Xiaotian is vigorously operating Jilong Bay, which opens another freshwater village. It is time to spend a lot of money. Now he suddenly gathers fleets and troops to go south to fight with Boss Chu Cai and spend a lot of money. Obviously, the council believes that they do not have the ability to support such a big action.

Internal and external calculation, if this battle is to be fought, it is likely that the gains will not be worth the losses in the end, and it may also cause greater difficulties for them to go south to do business in the future.

So the director believes that this matter can be turned into a small matter and a small matter. You often walk by the river. There is no one who doesn't have wet shoes. There can't be only those sea wolves in the world who rob others and don't allow them to rob their sea wolves!

So the two opinions are in front of Xiaotian, which is also very difficult for Yu Xiaotian, because if they fight, Zhao Mazi's worries are reasonable. Once they break up with Mr. Chu Cai, they will definitely keep an eye on the sea wolf's merchant ships going south in the future. Will they do their sea wolf business in the future?

In addition, Chu Cai is not Chen Jiu and Zhang Hu. This person is too strong and the water is too deep. Now no one can tell where Chu Cai's nest is. If you want to fight seven inches of snakes and kill Chu Cai Lao directly, you can't even find his nest. This battle is really difficult to fight.

And if this guy is annoyed, this guy will definitely take revenge. It is not impossible to gather a large number of his men to attack Nanri Island. At that time, he will face a fierce battle. This chance of winning is at most five or five, and it will seriously affect many of his established plans.

So it was quickly rejected by Yu Xiaotian to retaliate on a large scale, but according to the director's hall, it was not his character to eat this dumb loss at this time. So how should he deal with this matter? Yu Xiaotian touched his chin and thought about it not to let his men know that his surname was not easy to bully, and he could not make too much trouble to end it.

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