Chapter 173 Show weakness

The so-called onshore payment, that is to say, let the merchant find a way to directly hire a boat or transport the materials needed by the sea wolf to fresh water or chicken cages with their own boat. After arriving at the shore, the sea wolf will pay the price.

Although the price is more or less expensive than the sea wolf itself to bear the transportation, it is no longer necessary to occupy the capacity of their own merchant fleet, and their merchant ships can do some long-distance trade, which is very profitable and can greatly offset the cost increase caused by CIF payment.

And the wolf CIF price has a greater advantage than that on land. Nowadays, when trading between land merchants, there is a practice, that is, three sections of payment.

Three-section payment refers to the three festivals of Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Spring Festival. Generally speaking, merchants purchase a large number of goods, mostly on credit. When the three-sections are reached, the delivery and settlement is made. Sellers can only get their payment during the three-sections.

For businessmen, this will occupy a large amount of capital, which is not conducive to the turnover of funds. Some merchants, because of their limited financial resources, sometimes some businesses can make money, but because they do not have enough funds, they dare not occupy too much capital, so they can only stare and miss a good opportunity to make money.

Including the sea wolf's own Maoshengyuan, it is also quite affected by this habit. When Maoshengyuan was sealed up, the payment owed to Maoshengyuan alone was as high as hundreds of thousands of taels. Although Li Yi carried out some collection before closing the door, most of the payment was not in the hands of merchants who owed during the three sections. I can't take out too much money, so only a small part has been collected, and most of the debts have not been recovered.

Of course, there are also some cunning people. When they see that the government wants to attack the sea wolf, even if they are rich, they will not return it. They want to see the extent of the next situation. These cunning people have made a wishful calculation, that is, once the sea wolf is wiped out by the government this time, then they will not be in arrears. It must be returned, which is equivalent to a large amount of money falling out of thin air and picking up cheaply for nothing.

Yu Xiaotian is not worried about these debts, because he is very clear that as long as he completely hurts the government this time and let the world see his strength, naturally no one dares not pay back the money. The premise is that he must win the battle. As for whether he can win this battle, Yu Xiaotian does not A little doubt.

Nowadays, although there are not as many officers and soldiers used by the Fujian government this time, he can ensure that his subordinates are all elite, which is not at the same level compared with those officers and soldiers who fought against the five scum.

Whether it is the navy or the army, it is absolutely the most well-equipped in the world. Not to mention the navy, the cannons of various caliber accumulated in the past few years can be said to have armed the navy to its teeth. The Spanish fleet has been defeated by them, not to mention hastily rearmed. Fujian sailors, no matter how many ships they gather, they can't do anything about the sea wolf fleet.

Although the size of the sea wolf's army is not large now, with only about 3,000 or 4,000 people, these army soldiers are basically trained according to the training methods of the modern army, and the equipment is gradually based on *, and the number of various * equipment has reached 60% to 70% of the army. The arms have also been sounded.

Not to say, the sea wolf still has a secret weapon, that is, the newly equipped lintinder gun. If at such a level of equipment, he is defeated by the first-level officers and soldiers of the five scum, then Yu Xiaotian will simply find a place to jump into the sea and pull himself down and continue to mix it. It's meaningless to go.

So Yu Xiaotian has not shown any concern at all in the past few months. Even those subordinates are full of anger and don't worry about this war.

However, according to Yu Xiaotian's plan, the sea wolf still performed very low-key. Except for those patrol boats that control the fishing grounds still patrolling the major fishing grounds normally, the merchant fleet continued to operate according to the original plan, and most of the other warships were temporarily collected. Chen stationed in Nanri Island and Danshui. Normal training and maintenance.

New ships are still constantly being put into the water from the shipyard and equipped into the navy. The old ships also continue to be sent to the platform or into the docks in the Nanri Island Boat House for substantial transformation.

In addition, some workshops with relatively large water consumption on Nanri Island began to be shut down one by one after August, including two important sea wolf workshops, soap factories and glass farms, which have been shut down, and the equipment in the factory has also been dismantled, including the workers and their families. It was shipped and transported to Taiwan Yuan Island.

Considering that the important raw materials and oils of soap are currently mainly provided by Keelung Castle, all of the soap factory have been transferred to Keelung Castle for production, while the glass field has been all transferred to Tamsui City for resettlement. The first deputy expanded the scale of the freshwater City glass field, so that all the two current pillar factories of sea wolves have been transferred. Moved to Taiwan Island.

The reason for doing this is that Maoshengyuan was temporarily seized by the government. As the general distribution of these two products of Sea Wolf, after Maoshengyuan was shut down, even if the current product is produced, it is temporarily unsalable. Although Sea Wolf can still be shipped in Guangzhou, the sales volume has been greatly affected. Xiang, the output of the current workshop in Tamsui City is enough to meet the needs, so stopping the workshop on Nanri Island first will not be greatly affected.

In addition, the water consumption of these two industries is relatively large. The freshwater resources of Nanri Island itself is not very rich. In the past, when the population of Nanri Island was small, it was not obvious, but now the number of immigrants in Nanri Island has increased significantly. After a large number of farmland has been reclaimed, the contradiction in water use has become increasingly prominent.

Moreover, the sea wolf fleet is often based on Nanri Island, and the demand for fresh water of the navy and army is also large, which makes the problem of the lack of freshwater resources in Nanri Island increasingly highlighted.

Soap factories, glass farms and other workshops are water tigers that consume a lot of water, which exacerbates the shortage of freshwater resources on Nanri Island.

Because of its small area, Nanri Island itself is not suitable for a large-scale industrial base. Previously, Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to dig the first bucket of gold here first. Now that he has won enough capital and control fresh water and chicken cages, Nanri Island is naturally not suitable for them to continue to serve. It's the base camp.

After careful consideration, Yu Xiaotian finally decided to gradually move the workshops on Nanri Island out of Nanri Island, and most of them to Taiyuan Island. In addition, Yu Xiaotian thought of a better place to move for the time being and will move to another place in the future. One place.

Taking advantage of this period, Yu Xiaotian ordered to stop the soap factory and glass field on Nanri Island and move them all to Taiwan Island, including gunpowder workshops, and stop production. Most of them moved to Tamsui City to merge the original Tamsui City gunpowder factory and the workshop for making shells to establish a large scale. The ammunition factory.

After such a toss, the Nanri Island workshop area suddenly became much more lonely, leaving only cannons and shootings, and production is maintained for the time being, constantly producing new cannons and * for sea wolves.

In addition, the sea wolf also moved away some immigrants who did not want to stay on Nanri Island. Every day, there will be a ship of cargo and immigrants, as well as workers and their families, which are shipped from Nanri Island and sent to Tamsui City and Keelung Fort respectively.

The demolition operation of the sea wolf naturally turned into a hasty retreat in the eyes of unwitting outsiders. After the news reached the ears of Zhu Yifeng and other officials on the land, they also gave them an illusion that the sea wolf intends to give up Nanri Island, which to some extent also misleads the official judgment. It gave rise to a wrong estimate.

As for the military preparation of the sea wolf, it has already begun. After the reorganization of the three fleets, they quickly launched targeted training. In the northeast sea of Nanri Island, they carried out integrated training of fleets every day and carried out confrontational drills in groups. The atmosphere of preparation was very strong.

And the army has also carried out targeted offensive and defensive combat training in the area of Tamsui City. The soldiers in the army have carried out many large-scale confrontational exercises in the military forbidden zone of Tamsui City to test their actual combat ability.

Although there are many recruits among them, when these recruits are incorporated into the company, led by veterans and targeted intensive training, the recruits have basically mastered their combat skills.

In these months, the captured Spanish infantry were sent to serve as instructors, honestly imparting some of their combat skills to the sea wolf officers, and also informed some of their combat regulations and norms to the sea wolf officers.

According to Yu Xiaotian's request, these Spanish sailors and infantry officers wrote out some of the Spanish military norms they knew, compiled them into books, and handed them over to Yu Xiaotian. After Yu Xiaotian translated them into Chinese, they carefully watched them from beginning to end.

After reading what these prisoners wrote, he personally compiled it, took the essence from it to remove its dross, and incorporated some rules and regulations implemented by the sea wolf navy and army before, and reorganized a set of navy and army exercises.

With the help of Spanish captive professionals, the navy and army exercises compiled this time are much more complete than before. After all, the officers among these prisoners have received more systematic education and training, are familiar with the formation and training methods of the Spanish army, plus Yu Xiaotian's for future generations. After learning about other armies, the regulations compiled are naturally much more complete than the military regulations used by the Spaniards.

To some extent, after combining the best military rules and regulations in the West in this time and space, this set of exercises compiled by Yu Xiaotian is already the most perfect and practical military norms in this era. After handing it over to the officers of the navy and army for reading and discussion, they made some changes a little. This new set of exercises was officially issued to the military and began to be implemented.