Chapter 308 Raising Soldiers with Business

Time is like a white horse. It always slips away from people unconsciously when people are busy. A few months can almost be regarded as a blink of an eye for Yu Xiaotian, and it has entered autumn.

In the past few months, due to the increasing tension between the relationship between the sea wolf and the government, the business stack trade on Nanri Island has been greatly affected. In the originally lively business stack area, some merchants withdrew the warehouse from the island under the pressure of the government.

However, Yu Xiaotian has no better way to solve this situation. At present, he has no strength to attack some state governments in Fujian, so he can't force the government to bow to him.

However, before, he sent his men to disturb the coast of Fujian, and still sounded an alarm to the government, let the current Fujian governor Zhu Qinxiang understand the power of his sea wolf, so that Zhu Qinxiang did not dare to hit Nanri Island easily in the next few months.

Fortunately, he stopped when he saw Yu Xiaotian. Such an attack on the shore only made his men last for about a month, and then stopped, which made Zhu Qinxiang also have a step down, which did not force him to be angry and summon a large number of Fujian officers and troops to suppress the sea wolf.

Taking advantage of the calm period between the two sides, Yu Xiaotian stepped up the transfer of industries in the Nanri Island workshop area. After a few months, these Nanri Island workshops basically completed the industrial transfer.

Although the workshops on Nanri Island have not stopped, more than two-thirds of the craftsmen here have been diverted to Danshui City and Chicken Village.

At present, Nanri Island is no longer the foundation of the sea wolf industry. Instead, Tamsui City has taken over the position of Nanri Island and become the most important industrial base of sea wolves.

A large number of workshops have sprung up inside and outside the city like bamboo shoots in Tamsui City, and workshops have been put into production.

The industrialization of Danshui City has also driven the shipping industry. With the demand for raw materials from various workshops, so far, Sea Wolf also needs to purchase these raw materials from the land, especially iron materials used for military production, which are what they must solve from the land.

After two years of efforts, the sea wolf no longer needs to rely on Guangdong for the purchase of iron materials. Fujian has many iron-producing places, and the quality is also quite good. Whether it is an official or a private iron farm, the sea wolf has secretly connected with them, and there is almost every day. Fujian and Guangdong are loaded and transported to the territory of sea wolves.

In the past, these iron materials were transported to Nanri Island, but now Tamsui Village and Jilong Village have also become the terminals of raw materials. Every day, ships carrying goods enter Jilong Bay and Tamsui River and dock to unload goods.

Before Xiaotian came to this era, he knew more or less about the ancient smelting industry, but he was not very clear about the annual iron production in the whole country in the Ming Dynasty, but wishful thinking that the ancient labor force and technical level were low, even if the Ming Dynasty was compared with the world's smelting technology at that time. Under better circumstances, the national iron production will not be too high in a year.

So he has always had a sense of crisis, fearing that there will be a shortage of iron materials he uses to cast cannons, or if he has money to buy it.

But as his business became bigger and bigger, he found that his worry was really a little ridiculous, because for more than a year, he learned that in Guangdong alone, in this era, various ironworks and iron ore can smelt tens of thousands of tons of iron ores in this era. Raw iron, together with the iron field and iron ore in Fujian, is enough to meet the needs of sea wolves in a year.

So Yu Xiaotian's previous worries are basically unnecessary. As long as he has silver in his hand, someone is willing to sell him iron materials. As for where he is used, almost no one has asked about this matter, so that now Yu Xiaotian can even rely on the acquisition of iron materials in Fujian alone to satisfy his gun casting and gunmaking and Shipbuilding and so on.

But even so, Yu Xiaotian still insists on letting the director's buy more iron materials. As long as someone is willing to buy it, the director's hall still has money, just buy it. Originally, the sea wolf does not need so much iron materials, but considering that the relationship between the sea wolf and the government is becoming more and more tense, I don't know when the government may drop it. The way to cut off some iron materials caused the sea wolf to lack iron materials in a short period of time, so Yu Xiaotianling took out enough funds to reserve a large amount of iron materials during this period of time to prepare for emergencies.

So in the past few months, the sea wolf has stored hundreds of tons of raw iron, which is enough for him to use for a period of time.

Don't think that hundreds of tons of iron are already a lot. These hundreds of tons of iron are actually piled together, not much. At best, it occupies a warehouse that is not too big. If you pull it with a big truck of later generations, you can pull it up in less than a few cars.

Considering the safety of these iron materials, all were transported to Danshui Village and Jilong Village for storage during this period. Even dozens of tons of iron materials previously stored on Nanri Island were transported to Danshui Village by Yu Xiaotian in addition to being temporarily enough.

In the past few months, in addition to industrial migration, the sea wolf has also made considerable progress in the expansion of troops. According to Yu Xiaotian's plan, the sea wolf has recruited more than 1,000 new people in the past few months, plus the subordinates of Chu Cai, who were captured last time, and roughly About 600 people were incorporated into the new camp.

In this way, the number of sea wolves has increased by nearly 40% in the past six months, so that the total number of sea wolves has reached nearly 5,000 by September of the fifth year of the apocalypse.

And compared with Chu Cailao and several sea bosses, the 5,000 subordinates of the sea wolf, all of his nearly 5,000 subordinates are directly managed by him, rather than the loose management adopted by them. They are gathered in time and divided into small units when they are not needed, each busy.

The sea wolf adopts unified management, which is an absolute pyramid-shaped management method. All power ends up in the hands of Yu Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian can directly control the bottom pawn. In this way, his control over his opponents far exceeds that of his peers.

But relatively speaking, the burden of seawolves is much heavier. The scale of nearly 5,000 people needs tens of thousands of silver per month. In addition, their food, housing and transportation are all due to filial expenses. Every month, these expenses require tens of thousands of taels of silver. Otherwise, you won't be able to play.

However, fortunately, the current Seawolf Group has all kinds of businesses. On land, he now has a large business called Maoshengyuan, and there is also a pharmacy. In August, under the operation of Li Yi, the governing hall and Li Yi opened a bank, and the governing hall also opened He began to intervene in the two industries of restaurants and prostitutes.

In the past two months, several restaurants and brothels have been opened in Fuzhou City, Xinghuafu City and Funing City.

These land transactions can basically earn tens of thousands of taels of silver for the sea wolf every month without any problem.

And the sea wolf has two unique businesses, glass and soap, and now the output is increasing day by day. Even so, their products are still in short supply. Even soap has attracted the attention of the Taixi people, and they have also begun to find ways to purchase from Maoshengyuan in Guangzhou as a fashionable commodity. Returning to Europe for a high price*, it is said that after they return to Europe at the price of one or two to five taels of silver, the price of sales can be more than ten times, and the price is ridiculously high, but some European nobles, especially those ladies, are still attracted to it.

So the net profit earned by these two industries every month is tens of thousands of taels.

There is also the sea wolf's maritime trade business. Now the sea wolf has captured some of Chu Cai's old ships. After picking them up, some of them are used as warships and left for several fleets, and the remaining large sea ships, such as Fu ships and Guangchuan, have been handed over to the merchant fleet.

The size of the merchant fleet has now exceeded a hundred. In addition to some ships that have been busy with the relocation of the sea wolf industry recently, the rest of these ships are at sea every day, busy doing business from south to north.

The ships of the merchant fleet have now spread all over the whole South China Sea. They have been trading in Batavia, Manila, Dani, Champa, Sanfoqi and Siam. There are even two ships as a way to explore. They have sailed to the Indian Ocean, ran to somewhere in India, and transported back a lot of spices and Indian cotton cloth from the local area. There are a lot of ivory, and I made a lot of money when I came back.

The merchant fleet that belongs to this council brings back profits to the sea wolf every year, which makes Yu Xiaotian have enough financial resources, recruits to buy horses, builds guns, and builds ships.

In order to meet the growing demand of sea wolves for ships, sea wolves have begun to extend their tentacles to the farther coastal areas of Guangdong in recent months. Based on those flying fastships, they sent a group of light ships, went south to Guangdong, and even arrived along the coast of Guangxi, and began to hide their identity there. Imitation of the Western looting of private ships, he started a serious pirate business.

They specially selected suitable sea boats in the coastal area of Guangdong and Guangxi. In addition to the robbery of goods, the main goal was to grab the ship. In recent months, they have recovered 20 or 30 sea boats with a price of 300 to 400 materials from the coastal area of Guangdong, most of which were lucky boats and wide boats. After sailing back to Nanri Island, they directly After a little repair and new paint, it was changed into a sea wolf ship and was incorporated into the battle fleet and merchant fleet.