Chapter 174 Official Visit

After playing with the Zhou sent by Mr. Chu Cai, Yu Xiaotian ordered Nanri Island, including sea wolves, to enter a state of alert. At the same time, he ordered the merchant fleet to temporarily stop taking the waterways around Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Chaozhou, take a detour from the route far from the coast, and bypassing this area. If there is a last resort, it must take this With the words, it is not allowed to hang any signs of the sea wolf, hide their identity, and avoid becoming the object of revenge by Chu Cai's old man.

In addition, as an outpost at the southern end of Nanri Island, a small fleet of five patrol ships has been added to strengthen the monitoring of the southern waters of Nanri Island. Once Chu Cai commits a big attack, it can provide a certain degree of early warning for Nanri Island, so that the wolf cave on Nanri Island can be done. Well prepared.

As for the sea wolf's warships, they are all on high alert, continue to maintain a state of training on the east coast of Nanri Island, and can be dispatched at any time to attack a large number of people from Chu Cai.

Even Fang'an on the other side of Danshuizhai Village was told to raise the vigilance of Danshuizhaizhai and send a 50-man team of soldiers and four fast ships to strengthen the defense force there. In addition, the newly cast 12-pound cannon and several six-pound guns were also transported to Danshui with the fleet. On the other side of the village, it was strengthened to Fang An.

As for the side of Jilong Bay, Yu Xiaotian is not worried. Now the fortifications of Jilong Bay have been basically completed or have been used for the first time. If Chu Cai always wants to think about where to go, the two forts at the mouth of the bay are enough to drink a pot.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian did not really fight alone. He sent people to send news to small-share counterparts such as Feng Xi and Nine Lives Meng Jie who were active in Fuzhou. They were also asked to pay attention to Chu Cailao's movements in the near future. If they wanted to, they could come to help the sea wolf in advance, and he would thank him again after the event. We.

Even on Yan Siqi's side, Yu Xiaotian sent someone to inform them and asked Yan Siqi to help pay attention to Chu Cai's situation. Once he finds that Chu Cai's situation has any changes, please be sure to send someone to let them know.

Nowadays, Yan Siqi is developing rapidly in the area of Bengang. Taking advantage of his identity as a person from southern Fujian, he sent his men to southern Fujian to recruit a large number of immigrants to ship to his place for expansion. There is a tendency to expand his hands and feet.

And during this period, Yan Siqi and the sea wolf are very close. They often send ships to Nanri Island to trade and transport the specialties they have recently obtained in the area of Taichung to Nanri Island for sale. Yu Xiaotian asked Mao Shengyuan to basically collect all the orders and gave them a good price, which became Yan Siqi's to some extent. Selling points and owners.

However, Yan Siqi did not put all his treasures on Xiaotian. After all, they are peers, and there are also competitive factors at the same time. Yan Siqi has made friends with many giants in the coastal area, and there are many ways to ship. After he occupied the Bengang area, he took advantage of more than a dozen large ships and hundreds of people at hand while driving. Expand their territory while plundering at sea and doing business.

With his good popularity and many ways of relationships, Yan Siqi's strength developed very rapidly after running back to Taiwan Yuan Island from Japan. According to detailed news, by the beginning of February of the New Year, Yan Siqi had recruited thousands of immigrants from the land and began to expand in the Taichung area. In addition, he also recruited people from the Ministry. Hundreds, more than 20 ships have been robbed, and the number of large ships under its command has soared to more than 30. The number of subordinates has reached about 1,000 people, which is not small on the surface.

There is another very important news, that Zheng Yiguan, who had not appeared for a long time, took several boats and the former subordinates of Li Dan to Bengang and threw himself under Yan Siqi's account at the end of last year.

In history, some people once thought that Li Dan and Yan Siqi were the same person, because their experiences were very similar, but it turned out that they were not the same person. After Zheng Yiguan arrived in Japan, he first met Li Dan, worshipped Li Dan as his godfather, and began to do business with Li Dan.

However, Li Dan and Yan Siqi also know each other and have a good relationship. Later, Zheng Yiguan also met Yan Siqi with Li Dan. Yan Siqi also appreciated Zheng Yiguan as brothers like Li Dan, so Zheng Yiguan is obviously Li Dan's adopted son and the number one person under Li Dan. In fact, he is also the same as Yan Siqi. There is also a deep friendship.

Since the Dutch withdrew from Penghu last year, Li Dan had basically nothing to do with the Dutch, and Zheng Yiguan had nothing to do, so Li Dan took Zheng Yiguan back to Japan. At the end of last year, Zheng Yiguan was idle in Japan, so he took a few boats to Taiwan Yuan Island and found Yan Siqi, temporarily Help Yan Siqi work here.

At this time, Li Dan also encountered a difficult thing, that is, there was some friction between Li Dan and the British.

Yu Xiaotian has no way to know what it is, but when Zheng Yiguan came to Nanri Island a few years ago, Yu Xiaotian learned something about this from Zheng Yiguan.

Unfortunately, Yu Xiaotian knew little about the historical data in this regard. In the past, he only knew people like Li Dan and Yan Siqi and knew more or less about them, but he had not read the detailed historical materials, so there was no way to know more about Li Dan.

Overall, Yu Xiaotian and Zheng Yiguan got along relatively well at this time. After all, there was not much conflict between the two sides. They did their own things and had some intersection of interests with each other. Yu Xiaotian also took this opportunity to send a person to the board of directors through Zheng Yiguan. It is the compassionate people that the Dutch are building now call it the city of Rejalan and have a relationship with the Dutch.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian began to collect some raw silk and other goods that the Dutch dreamed of, which was initially established by the procurement network, and began to be sold to the Dutch at a high price. In the past few months, a total of 50 stone raw silk has been delivered to the Dutch, which made the Dutch begin to look at the sea wolf with new eyes and began to It is regarded as a partner that can cooperate.

Moreover, the Dutch also learned about Yu Xiaotian's strength through Zheng Yiguan and sent people to contact Yu Xiaotian, hoping that Yu Xiaotian would help them intercept past merchant ships around Fuzhou and make them go to Genoa to trade with the Dutch, instead of trading with the Spaniards in Manila.

Yu Xiaotian did not immediately agree with the Dutch, because now he is happy to become a target of both sides between the Spanish and the Dutch. He doesn't want to offend either side for the time being, so that he can get more benefits.

Through this relationship, now Yu Xiaotian can not only purchase saltpeter from the Spaniards, but also the Dutch agree to provide saltpeter to Yu Xiaotian at a preferential price, and even the iron urgently needed by Yu Xiaotian. The Dutch also said that they could find a way to solve it for Yu Xiaotian.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian got another way to obtain iron, making his weapons industry on Nanri Island safer. If something happens in Guangdong, he will cut off the supply of goods. Of course, there are also many large and small private sectors in Fujian in this era. In order to diversify the purchase channels, Yu Xiaotian has also continuously expanded the purchase channels of iron materials in Fujian in the past year. Now it has begun to be linked to a private iron farm in Zhenghe County, where to purchase more than 2,000 catties of iron materials every month.

At present, the sea wolf has stored nearly 100,000 catties of iron on Nanri Island alone, which can maintain the needs of Xiaotian's weapon industry for a period of time. In addition, Yu Xiaotian considered not putting eggs in a basket. In addition to storing iron materials on Nanri Island, he also began to store iron in Jilong Bay and Danshui Village. A large number of reserves of iron materials. Once something happens to Nanri Island, as his large rear base, it can continue to ensure his needs at any time.

On the whole, Yu Xiaotian and Yan Siqi get along well. Although they are not allies, they are definitely friends. Now they are facing each other with Chu Cailao, and naturally they have to inform Yan Siqi.

After hearing the news of the feud between Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cai, Yan Siqi sent Zheng Yiguan to Nanri Island to meet Yu Xiaotian to learn more about the reasons for their resentment this time.

In mid-February, Zheng Yiguan came to Nanri Island by boat and met Yu Xiaotian, who was preparing for the war. Yu Xiaotian saw Zheng Yiguan coming at this time, so he invited him to a private study to interview him to show his close relationship.

As soon as Zheng Yiguan saw Yu Xiaotian, he asked bluntly: "Master Yu, I don't know why you have made such a deal so much this time. Can you tell me that you don't hide it from the head of the family. My godfather and Chu Da have a good relationship, and I also know him well. If it's not a big deal, I'm willing to give it. Please mediate with the two masters!"

After listening to it, Yu Xiaotian thought about it for a moment. From Zheng Yiguan's words, he could hear that Zheng Yiguan was really not given for nothing. Although he followed Li Dan in Japan, he was also very familiar with the sea around Fujian and Guangdong over the years. It can be seen that this guy is very sociable, and the road is really similar. Dang Kuan actually has a friendship with Chu Cailao. Although there is Li Dan's relationship here, it can also be seen that Zheng Yiguan really pays great attention to making friends. No wonder he can achieve a great career, which is also inseparable from his daily accumulation.

And at present, it seems that Zheng Yiguan is still very good to him. This time, he came here in a hurry and showed a worried look at the first meeting. Obviously, he was worried about him. Yu Xiaotian was really a little affectionate.

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