Chapter 142 Make a big profit

During the Wanli period, Yuzhou and Zhongzuo Qianhu were at the forefront of preparing for the Japanese, with officers and warships stationed for a long time. However, over the years, the coastal defense here has begun to relax and become a carnival paradise for pirates. Too many ships enter and exit the Moon Harbor, and it has also become a big piece of fat meat for pirates.

In the past, this was Chu Cailao's territory, but after Chu Cailao was defeated by the sea wolf, he was forced to shrink his sphere of influence to the south. However, this area is still the place where they often move, but their control is not as good as before. In addition to their activities in this area, Yan Siqi also often activities in this area, including sea wolves. It will also haunt this area from time to time.

In addition, this is also the main shipping place of Xu Xinsu. The forces are very complicated. Anyone can stare at the big fat meat of Yuegang and hope to eat it alone.

And Zheng Yiguan took a fancy to this and had long planned to put this area into his pocket. Even if he could not fully control the area for the time being, he also planned to use this as his ATM and come here from time to time.

But his actions immediately attracted the attention of all parties, and a large number of pirate ships appeared on the sea in this area, which could not hide the forces here.

Chu Cailao, Yu Xiaotian, Yan Siqi and Xu Xinsu all learned the news in a short time. As soon as they heard that Zheng Yiguan was ready to invade Haicheng again, all parties immediately reacted.

Although Xu Xinsu has strong financial resources, his strength is not strong. He immediately began to transfer the wealth in Haicheng's shop and notified the government to report Zheng Yiguan's movements.

After the sea wolf members learned of Zheng Yiguan's action, they immediately became furious. Although for various reasons, the sea wolf did not include this place under their actual control, leaving this gap so that all parties could divide themselves and did not want to be the public enemy of these peers.

But this can't be anyone's control area. Everyone can make money, but they can't be monopolized. Now Zheng Yiguan is almost treating this place as his own territory. How can the sea wolf department tolerate it if he has been here for half a year?

Ma Xiao, who is in charge of this side at present, won't agree. Even if he is going to repair Zheng Yiguan here, knock him on him and let him know who is the boss.

When he was preparing to gather the first fleet of warships and prepare to go from Meizhou Bay to Haicheng, he received an order from Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian ordered Ma Xiao not to care about Zheng Yiguan for the time being and let him let go of Haicheng, but he can be allowed to set an ambush on his way back when he evacuates Haicheng after Zheng Yiguan finished his work, but don't interfere with him before Zheng Yiguan started to do it.

Yu Xiaotian recently carefully analyzed Zheng Yiguan's current situation and has found Zheng Yiguan's current predicament. Although he is very strong, he is now a street mouse. Everyone shouts to fight. If he has no reputation and no territory, he has many subordinates, but he is a thief on the sea.

There is no fixed territory for their activities on such a large plate, which must be very stressful for Zheng Yiguan. Therefore, in order to survive, Zheng Yiguan must take his men to do big tickets, and there are really not many places he can choose. There are many pirate forces at sea in Guangzhou now, and they are not weak. Among them, there are several large pirates.

Zheng Yiguan will definitely become the target of public criticism in the past. In addition, the strength of Guangdong sailors is also relatively strong, especially the well-defense area around the Pearl River Escture. With the strength of ordinary people, it is difficult to rush to Guangzhou.

Although there are many people doing maritime trade in Chaoshan and other places, the oil and water are obviously not as big as Haicheng's. This season is the gathering of ships in the Yuegang area to shelter from the wind. Haicheng has gathered a large number of merchant ships and hoarded a lot of goods, so if Zheng Yiguan wants to do it, he can only choose Yuegang.

And Yuegang is the main place staring at by the imperial court and the Fujian government. Whoever toss here will become a thorn in the side of the government. This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian does not put Zhangzhou Bay in his pocket. At present, he is not in a hurry to incorporate this place into his control area. With his current financial ability, he has basically That's enough.

Once he controls Zhangzhou Bay, he will have to force other colleagues to have no food to eat, then he will definitely regard him as a public enemy. In addition, the government will definitely regard him as a thorn in his eyes, and he will never be happy if he is not removed.

He really doesn't want to spend time with the Fujian government now. Last year, he had taught the Fujian government a lesson. Now Zhu Yifeng, the new governor of Fujian, has an unclear attitude and is working hard to repair his war tools. It is very likely that he wants to avenge the humiliation of the government last year.

He is not afraid that the Fujian army will come to conquer him, but it is not very meaningful to fight like this. It is a waste of resources and delays his plan to consolidate Taiwan Island. If he can fight, he still doesn't want to fight.

So Zheng Yiguan is tossing like this now, which is exactly what he wants. Let Zheng Yiguan toss around in Haicheng. The more to tosss, the more it is, the more it is equivalent to putting himself on the fire. Therefore, he does not agree with Ma Xiao to lead a team to intercept Zheng Yiguan, but to let Ma Xiao a little peace and not be impatient. At most, when Zheng Yiguan withdraws, he beats him. Dude, just eat black and get some benefits.

So Ma Xiao gave up his plan to send troops to Haicheng, but he still gathered ships and troops and was ready to cut off Zheng Yiguan's retreat at any time and fight them in an ambush.

Different from Yu Xiaotian are Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao. Although this is not Yan Siqi's territory, it is also the main place for his activities and financial resources. Yan Siqi heard that Zheng Yiguan wanted to go to Haicheng to do big tickets. Even if he didn't do it, even if it was to revenge on Zheng Yiguan, he could not let Zheng Yiguan swagger so much. When he got rich in Haicheng, he immediately ordered dozens of boats and thousands of subordinates to kill Haicheng, ready to find Zheng Yiguan's bad luck.

Not to mention Chu Cailao, when Ma Xiang went back to report the results of his trip to Nanri Island, Chu Cailao was overjoyed and immediately ordered a batch of artillery according to the list brought back by Ma Xiang.

Because the price of the heavy cannons of the Gan Lasi people is too high, what he mainly needs is the cannons that can be used on the ship, so he only ordered three heavy guns and put them in the village of Dongshan Island as a house to prevent Zheng Yiguan from attacking his Dongshan Island.

The cannons he mainly bought are basically the monkey version of the 12-pound light cannon and the monkey version of the six-pound cannon and the monkey version of the six-pound gun. Although these guns are far from good as the cannons used by the sea wolf, they are already very good and advanced goods compared with the cannons used by his peers.

In this way, he can improve the combat effectiveness of his fleet and gain the strength to compete with Zheng Yiguan in a short time.

On the contrary, Chu Cai didn't want much of the musket guns that Yu Xiaotian wanted to sell to them. As long as he had dozens of them, the equipment was given to his own trusted servants to protect his personal safety, and the main financial resources were used to buy other cannons.

Chu Cailao immediately opened a big order, the monkey version of the No. 5 gun. He immediately ordered ten, and the abolished No. 3 gun, that is, the six-pounder cannon. He asked for 20, the monkey version of the six-pounder gun, and even 40 old guns such as the anti-gun. Because the price was relatively cheaper, he also ordered 40 guns in one fell swoop.

After this calculation, he suddenly ordered hundreds of cannons from the sea wolf, which cost almost 200,000 taels of silver. After all, Chu Cai is an old fur seal who has been a pirate for many years. Over the years, he has hoarded a large amount of money. This 100,000 taels of silver seems to be an astronomical figure, but in fact, it is not enough for him. He went bankrupt.

What's more, Mr. Chu Cai will not take out all this money by himself, because his organizational style is the way to buy shares, and it is more like a later joint venture company.

Although he wants to take out part of the money, he also needs to take out part of the other shopkeepers, otherwise he will not share these cannons with the shopkeepers.

Now that it is difficult to find a cannon on the market, and even if the small stock shopkeeper is rich, it is difficult to get it. Now that Chu Cai has opened up the relationship with the sea wolf, how can they not dare to buy it?

Therefore, individual stock shopkeepers also took out thousands to 10,000 taels of silver according to their respective financial resources, and quickly collected the money, and according to the wishes of each stock shopkeeper, they can buy more, but for the time being, they buy so much first. If you try it well, they will place additional orders.

In fact, Chu Cailao finally took out less than 40,000 taels of silver, but after about half of the cannons arrived, they were to be loaded on the ship under his direct control. Chu Cailao also took advantage of his subordinates.

According to the requirements of the sea wolf, this silver must be silver. Chu Cai can't get so much snowflake silver at the moment, so he can only discount some of the miscellaneous silver on hand and load it on a ship and send it to Nanri Island.

Chu Cai was not afraid that after sending the silver to Nanri Island, the sea wolf swallowed his silver and did not give him goods, because he knew that in recent years, in addition to robbing, the sea wolf's main source of financial resources was still to do business. In recent years, their sea wolf has gained an excellent reputation in terms of business.

Merchants who have dealt with sea wolves, whether they are big merchants or small vendors, have never been cheated. The goods they sell to sea wolves on credit have never been owed by the time of checkout. Even if the sea wolf's ship goes out of goods, the sea wolf will pay according to the price. They have never heard of sea wolf swallowed others once. The goods are not given silver.

And sea wolves also sell a lot of things. Now everyone knows that most of these glass products on the market are made by sea wolves, as well as the kind of soap that has been sought after by rich people recently, which is only made by the sea wolf family. Of course, there are also some rare goods such as whale skin, bear skin, deer skin, deer antler and so on. Seawolves also account for a large share.

Many people ask the sea wolf to get the goods, and they must pay the deposit before they can get the goods. However, those who have paid the deposit, the sea wolf has never swallowed the deposit, and all the orders will be delivered on time and in quantity.

So now the reputation of the sea wolf can almost be said to be a golden signboard. When it comes to doing business with the sea wolf, the merchants all nodded and praised it, and they can absolutely rest assured.