Chapter 269 Visiting Bengang

The middleman proposed by Liu Laoliu is not someone else, but Yan Siqi, who is also on Taiwan Island at this time. Yan Siqi himself is a Haicheng man. He has been wandering at sea for a long time, and his strength is not weak. Although he may not be able to compare with sea wolves or Chu Cai Lao at present, he also has more than 100 merchant ships at present. There are no more than 2,000 people in the hands.

And his place is also very good. Yan Siqi's nest is in the Taichung area. At present, it is a place where the emperor is far away, and the imperial court can't fight, so there should be no problem with safety.

In addition, Yan Siqi and Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cailao met, and the relationship was also good. When they learned that Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cailao had a conflict, Yan Siqi also asked Zheng Yiguan to come and try to mediation for them. Later, because Yu Xiaotian wanted to fight with Chu Cailao, Zheng Yiguan had nothing in the end. And return.

Nowadays, if Yan Siqi is willing to act as an intermediary guarantor, Yu Xiaotian can rest assured. Mr. Chu Cai should not have many opinions, so it is undoubtedly a good choice to go to Yan Siqi's place to negotiate.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately agreed and sent someone to inform Yan Siqi, asking if Yan Siqi would be willing to be the middleman, and let Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cai negotiate on his territory.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian also asked Chu Cailao to send a letter and asked Chu Cailao if he had any opinions about going to Yan Siqi's territory for negotiations. If possible, set a date for the two sides to go to Yan Siqi's village to meet and negotiate.

After receiving the news from Yu Xiaoqi, Yan Siqi immediately agreed and expressed his willingness to act as an intermediary guarantor. In his village, it is better for both sides to negotiate. In the future, the well will not violate the river and stop the fight.

And Mr. Chu Cai also replied quickly, saying that he agreed to Yu Xiaotian's proposal to meet Yu Xiaotian at Yan Siqi's place, and agreed to go to Yan Siqi's village together on April 13.

Two days in advance, Yu Xiaotian boarded the flying wolf, the twin-masted schooner, took two flying sloops, and left Nanri Island to the direction of Bengang, where Yan Siqi's old camp was located.

Far away from Bengang, Yu Xiaotian met Yan Siqi's sentry ship. After revealing his identity, the sentry ship immediately took Yu Xiaotian's three ships back to their stupid port.

Bengang is actually a stream that converges from Taiwan Island and enters the sea. The estuary is relatively wide, which is suitable for ships to berth and land. A long time ago, there were other ships on land or to and from the Taiwan Strait, where they landed and rested to supplement some freshwater food.

The reason why Yan Siqi was called the king of Taiwan in history is that he took a fancy to this place. After escaping from Japan with his men, he finally chose to land here, build stockades, immigrate from the land, open up farming in this area, develop the mountain and sea economy, and also do pirate business, of course. It can't be a trade through the sea.

After Yan Siqi arrived here, the Bengang area gradually became lively. Villages were established by Yan Siqi, and many immigrants were moved from Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places. While Yan Siqi was doing pirate business, he used the money he got to buy cattle farming tools on land and transported them here to provide immigrants. Gradually, a large area of arable land began to appear in this area, becoming like a developed land.

During this year, Yan Siqi has continuously immigrated here in large numbers, stepped up the expansion, and built nearly ten villages, and built docks on both sides of Bengang Creek for ships to berth.

Although Yan Siqi came with only a dozen large ships, but in only one year, he used connections and powerful means, either by robbing or buying. In addition, he asked his brothers to recruit new men from his hometown. Now he has nearly 100 boats of various boats, and some of them are fishing at sea. Some ships are specially used to trade pirates, and some ships are specially responsible for sea trading.

In addition to ploughing the fields, land immigrants also hunted vigorously, selling the obtained deer skins, leopard skins, wild boar skins and other leathers to land, or resold them to red-haired people to obtain financial resources and continue to invest in the immigration business.

Yu Xiaotian has been paying attention to these things, so he basically knows the development of Yan Siqi.

But after half a year, when he came here again, he was still surprised by the scene here. When he came last time, it was just a lonely and simple village. Now when he comes here again, more than thousands of mu of farmland has appeared around the village, and a lot of land has been planted in the fields. Rice and other crops, and even large sugar cane, and many farmers can be seen busy in the field from afar.

It can be seen that in the past year, Yan Siqi has really not been idle. He has changed the original sense of barbarism into a pastoral color. Even Yu Xiaotian has to admire Yan Siqi's ability to rectify this place into such a scene in such a short time.

Moreover, Yan Siqi's strength has developed to such a point in just one year, and it has become a force that cannot be ignored in the Taiwan Strait, which is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian admires Yan Siqi very much.

It doesn't mean that Xiaotian's boat stopped next to the trestle. Yan Siqi greeted him from the dock with a big smile. After Yu Xiaotian stepped down to the trestle, Yan Siqi strode over with a smile on his face and bowed to Yu Xiaotian.

"I haven't seen Brother Yu again for a long time! It's rare to have another opportunity to let Yan do it. Tonight, I have to make a deal first. Our brothers should have a good drink and fight with our drinking capacity!" Yan Siqi is heroic and has a loud voice. In addition, he has met Yu Xiaotian several times. After drinking a few drinks, the friendship between the two has been good, so his words seem to be very casual.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and smiled, "That's right! It's just that I came here this time, but I bothered Brother Yan! Brother knew that Brother Yan had a good drinker, so he came here this time and specially sent 20 jars of good wine to Brother Yan!"

As soon as Yan Siqi heard that he had sent him so much good wine, he suddenly opened his eyebrows and smiled and nodded repeatedly to thank him, but his eyes remained on the ship next to the trestle.

"What kind of ship is this? Why have I never seen it? It's quite like a Thai ship, but this sail seems to be the common sail on our Daming ship! Weird! It's really weird!" Yan Siqi is an old connoyan about ships. Today, he was very surprised and curious after seeing the gannet on Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian turned his head and looked at the flying wolf he was riding and smiled, "This is a boat built on my brother's own island. I want to imitate the Thai sailboat, but it's a little different, but it's okay to use. It runs very fast!" Let Brother Yan laugh!"

At this time, Yan Siqi's eyes fell on the other two dhows that followed Yu Xiaotian who moored for the shore. He pointed to them and asked Xiaotian, "So these two boats were also built by your own brothers?"

Yu Xiaotian replied proudly, "Exactly! Brother Yan didn't know that he had drifted overseas in the early years and knew more or less about the shipbuilding of the Taisi people, so for more than a year, he took the craftsmen in the boat house to imitate the shape of the Taisi people and build some boats by themselves.

Thai ships have many advantages for us to learn from. At present, their big sailboats have already surpassed our Daming Dafu ships, so we might as well learn from the Yi people and learn some of their things for my use!"

While looking at the three boats brought by Yu Xiaotian, Yan Siqi listened to Yu Xiaotian's words and nodded repeatedly. Suddenly, he asked, "If Brother Yu guess correctly, I'm afraid these three boats are the ghost boats that Chu Cai's old men have talked about recently!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "Ha ha! It's true that these boats, but it's just a little faster. In fact, there's nothing special about it! It was only after Chu Cai's old men suffered several losses that they spread rumors and blew these boats into their minds! In fact, these boats are really not powerful compared with the big sailboats of the Taixi people!"

Yan Siqi suddenly remembered the ship he met on his first trip to Fuzhou. At that time, he saw with his own eyes the fast ships that looked like the two samarans brought by Yu Xiaotian today. Suddenly, he appeared in front of their fleet. After observing their fleet for a while, he raised sails and drove away quickly. Their fleet.

But he found that the ship was so fast that it was far faster than all the ships he had seen in his impression. At that time, he was very shocked. However, he thought that the boat he saw should be a Thai ship. He did not expect that it was actually built by Yu Xiaotian with people and belonged to the sea wolf.

When he saw this kind of ship again today, he realized that the boat he met that day was actually Yu Xiaotian's boat, and what he didn't expect was that Yu Xiaotian was on the Flying Fish and met him from afar at that time.

Of course, Yan Siqi can see the benefits of this kind of ship. He doesn't say anything else. The speed advantage of this kind of ship alone is enough to be proud at sea. Once anyone has such a fast ship, everything on the sea will get twice the result with half the effort compared with other slow ships.

If you act as a warship, this kind of ship is obviously loaded with many cannons, and relying on their fast speed, you can easily take down the enemy ship. Once you meet a strong enemy, you can easily turn around and leave, so that the enemy can only stare.

So he looked at Yu Xiaotian's three boats, and his saliva was almost flowing down, so he quickly pulled Yu Xiaotian and asked, "Yu Dangjia, do you build many such boats at present? If there are more, can you sell two pieces of love to the stupid brother?

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