Chapter 31 Monopoly Trade

Although Yu Xiaotian had shown his strong ability in land warfare and mountain warfare in the battle against Black Bear in Yong'an County, now when he saw that Yu Xiaotian's men were so fierce that he could achieve so many achievements in a row in various places on land, which really made them a little stunned. .

Look at other veteran Fujian officers and soldiers, compared with Yu Xiaotian and his generals, it is simply impossible to see.

Yu Xiaotian and his subordinates have frequent good news, while those veteran Fujian officers and soldiers have lost a lot. Even if the two sides don't need to compare, they will make a higher judgment.

After the news spread, when the veteran military generals in Fujian learned about it, they were a little ashamed, both admiring, jealous and full of helplessness. This person deserved to die and should be thrown away. Only then did they completely understand the gap between them and Yu Xiaotian and his men.

Think about the past, they also said that they would have a good comparison with Yu Xiaotian one day, but the current situation is equivalent to Yu Xiaotian slapped their big mouths heavily, and they had nothing to say.

In this way, with Yu Xiaotian's so many achievements at the bottom, Xiong Wencan is naturally much more righteous about Xiaotian's military expenditure and materials and equipment. Who makes Yu Xiaotian too capable? If there is a good thing, naturally it should be given by capable people first. This kind of tilt, even the commanders and envoys feel that there is nothing to do.

Xiong Wencan received such favors from Yu Xiaotian. Of course, he also paid for it. He tried his best to mobilized some grain and money and transferred it to Yu Xiaotian to make up for some of Yu Xiaotian's expenses. Although these money and grain can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket for the recent expenditure of the sea wolf, it represents Xiong Wencan's attitude after all. .

Yu Xiaotian thanked Xiong Wencan many times for this, and secretly returned part of the money that Xiong Wencan allocated to him to Xiong Wencan, which was full of Xiong Wencan's private bag, which made Xiong Wencan laugh even more happily.

And Fujian's rapid calming of the chaos caused by the disaster is naturally quite good news for the court. Although Chongzhen did not promote Xiong Wencan or Yu Xiaotian again because of this, he still left a quite good impression on Xiong Wencan and felt that Xiong Wencan was really a The capable member is much more reliable than the governors and governors of other provinces. He has really solved the problems for his emperor.

So the chaos caused by this drought in Fujian not only did not bring any negative impact to Xiong Wencan, but also let Xiong Wencan finally gain fame and fortune. On the one hand, he got the impression of a capable official from today's emperor Chongzhen. On the other hand, he also made a lot of money. Of course, Xiong Wencan is not a fool. He knows very well. Who brought him this? So far, Yu Xiaotian is truly regarded as his confidant and right-hand man.

With a flick of the finger, three years slipped through the fingers like a white horse passing through the gap, and the time reached four years of Chongzhen.

In more than two years, Yu Xiaotian led his troops under the command of Xiong Wencan to fight in the south and north of Fujian, successively wiped out more than ten mountain thieves in Fujian, and also wiped out more than a dozen pirates who rushed into the coast of Fujian.

Especially the export trade of raw silk in Fujian is completely monopolized by sea wolves. If the sea wolf group does not want some people to get a little raw silk, almost this person can't even get a raw silk out of Fujian.

The raw silk itself is the most popular goods in the sea trade. The sea wolf planted a large number of mulberry fields in the mainland of Fujian and let farmers raise a large number of silkworms, forming a large-scale silkworm breeding, while the sea wolf opened nest silk factories in Fujian to buy silk cocoon silk from the people.

Seawolf's silk raying factory learns from the experience and continuously improves the silk raying process, so that the quality of the raw silk made by Sea Wolf's silk raying factories is greatly improved compared with the past, and the price is naturally much higher than before.

At the end of the Apocalypse, sea merchants sold raw silk to the Dutch and Spanish, which was generally sold at the highest price of one hundred and thirty-one stone, but by Chongzhen's fourth year, the price of raw silk exported by sea wolves, first-class raw silk, almost reached 200 taels of silver, even if it was second-class. The price of third-class raw silk also exceeds 130 taels.

In the past, Fujian Province could only receive 200 stones of raw silk at most throughout the year, and most of them had to be purchased from Zhejiang. However, by the fourth year of Chongzhen, the amount of silk produced in Fujian had reached about 800 stones throughout the year, and the output was still gradually increasing significantly.

And planting mulberry fields does not occupy the original good fields. Mulberry trees are mostly planted on the hillside. In general, ordinary people can raise silkworms in addition to the original farmland and earn more income.

Yu Xiaotian strictly requires his subordinates to treat these silkworm farmers. In addition to setting a higher acquisition price, the funds of silkworm farmers are often insufficient. When they want to borrow some money to turn around, the interest given by the sea wolf is also far lower than the loan interest given by some rich people before.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian robbed the business of many rich people, cut off the wealth of many rich people, and made some unscrupulous people who used to rely on this wealth to hate him.

In three years, Chongzhen even appeared more than a dozen large households, secretly gathered money and hired dozens of outlaws as killers as killers. It was a pity that these killers underestimated Yu Xiaotian's ability too much. As a result, as soon as they wanted to do it, they were leftless by Yu Xiaotian. After the net was exhausted and forced to confess, he told the truth and sold their employers to Yu Xiaotian.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian was not polite and handed over the captured killers to the government. Xiong Wencan was furious and ordered a strict investigation. As a result, more than a dozen large families who raised money to hire the murderer were arrested. The master was executed by Ling Chi, and the rest were all beheaded, and their families were slaves.

In this way, although some rich people hate filial piety to the bone, they are helpless and dare not move any more crooked thoughts.

Of course, raw silk is only a commodity controlled by sea wolves. Other goods, such as tea, lacquerware, dyes, silk, porcelain and other goods that are relatively popular in the outside world, sea wolves are naturally involved in hunting. They have even established their own large workshops to carry out mass production, replacing those previously only ordered from other workshops. shi。

This has several benefits. First, the cost is greatly reduced, but the quality is self-controlled. Third, the product style can be adjusted at any time to produce the buyer's preferred style of products, so as to make more profits.

(Hehe, today I saw the reward of the Iron Hand and the Eagle Martial Brothers again! Awesome! I will try my best to code words, and thank the brothers who voted for the monthly vote again!)