Daming Haikou

Although this trip to Dalian Island did not fully achieve their goal and get all the things they wanted, Yu Xiaotian was quite satisfied with the result of this trip. He also knew that there was nothing so cheap in this world, and everything Let his wishes come true, but the performance of Li Yi, the treasurer of the Li family, gave him a preliminary understanding and confidence in this Li Yi.

Li Yi is not as simple as he appears on the surface, this is Yu Xiaotian's feeling after a banquet, although he doesn't know how big Li Yi's business is, but he doesn't believe everything Li Yi said.

These two things, saltpeter and sulfur, are not something ordinary people can easily get. Although Li Yi shirked it, he still agreed to get some saltpeter and sulfur for them. It can be seen from this that this person actually has a very wide road ahead, but the two sides are just starting now. When it comes to dealing with each other, Li Yi is just keeping a secret.

As for the blunderbuss he wanted, the matchlock guns from Portugal, Spain, or the Dutch, and the iron cannons, in fact, he had no hope at all right now, and the Li family could get them for him immediately.

He still understands the truth that the meal needs to be eaten bite by bite. It is actually quite normal for both parties to keep a hand. After all, he himself is also saving a hand for Li Yi right now.

The last time they robbed the Fuzhou Zhao family's boat at sea, they actually got a few stones of sulfur and saltpeter from the boat. In addition, from the carpenter who brought them back, he also learned that the Zhao family's boat was actually made in Japan. They traded with the Japanese from the Ryukyu area, sold porcelain, silk, paper, tea, etc. to Japanese merchants, and then took raw silk, copper, sulfur, etc. from the Japanese merchants and returned to Fujian. Buying and selling, you can also get a lot of silver at the same time.

So Yu Xiaotian and the others robbed the Zhao family's boat last time, and the biggest harvest was not the silver, but the sulfur and some saltpeter on the boat, and some copper pieces, which were very important to them, and they never sold them again. It was given to the Li family, but it was kept on Treasure Island.

He already had sulfur and saltpeter on hand, but adding these two things to the list was actually a test for the Li family. Although Li Yi shied away at first, he agreed to raise some sulfur and saltpeter for them. This shows that the Li family actually has a lot of secret ways, otherwise they would not have agreed to supply them within ten days.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian and Li Yi are very generous on the surface, but in fact, they each have a hand in the dark.

However, through this trip to Dalian Island, Yu Xiaotian, Li Guanshi and Li Yi exchanged, and also heard a lot of useful news, especially about the situation of colleagues in Funing Prefecture and the coastal area of ​​Fuzhou. The steward did not hide it, and told Xiaotian a lot about their situation, so that Yu Xiaotian had more or less a foundation for various forces in the sea in this regard.

Because the Li family is also engaged in sea business, and they all have to deal with people of all ages, so they are more familiar with the sea situation than Liu Laoliu.

From what they said, Yu Xiaotian now knows that there are at least 40 or 400 groups of pirate forces operating in the coastal areas of Fuzhou and Funing Prefecture, and there are as few as them. There are three or [-] people, and the boats range from one to two. The slightly larger gang has about a hundred people, and the number of boats is about three to five. The largest group is the one in Funing Prefecture. The known Hunjianglong Chen Jiu has more than [-] men and seven or eight ships. The other group is Zhang Hu, nicknamed Shark, who is active in the coastal areas of Fuzhou. He has nearly [-] men and ships. There are as many as ten.

However, the two groups of Hunjianglong Chen Jiu and Shark Zhang Hu are incompatible. The two groups of forces use Huangqi Bay as the boundary, and each controls a piece of sea area, which has become their exclusive ten-mile area. There are many conflicts between them.

Now the Treasure Island where Yu Xiaotian and the others are located is actually within Zhang Hu's sphere of influence. Many times they will be restricted by Zhang Hu. When encountering Zhang Hu and his boat, Li Yi specially told them , You must avoid one or two, and don't conflict with them, otherwise, with their current strength, it will be difficult to get along in this area.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian and the others basically understood their current situation, and Yu Xiaotian couldn't help being a little upset. He thought that going to sea to be a pirate should be a wild business, but he didn't expect that there are actually forces in the sea So intricate, too, and not at all as free as he first thought.

This makes them have to be more careful in the future, otherwise, it may be difficult for them to get along in this area.

But Yu Xiaotian is not the kind of person who retreats in spite of difficulties. Now that he brings this group of people, there must be no turning back. Although they haven't disturbed the whole Fujian yet, they are burdened with serious cases and want to go back again. Honestly finding a place to be a good citizen is definitely not enough, so now he can only bite the bullet and lead this gang of men down this road, expanding their strength as soon as possible, otherwise, little people like them Shrimp, if you are not careful, you may be swallowed by a big fish.

The word "dangerous rivers and lakes" seems to be really not covered. Now he knows that no matter what he does, the big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat shrimps, and their current standard is one in the sea. Little shrimp!

After returning to Treasure Island, bags of food were unloaded on the island, and after adding the food that Li Yi had sent to Zhao Mazi, their food ration problem was finally solved. It is enough for them to eat for two or three months without any problem.

Although the risk of doing this business is not small, but when holding a big bowl full of rice, this group of people still feel very satisfied, they finally don't have to eat those unpalatable food mixed with potato shreds and a little bit of pickle every day Instead of brown rice, you can eat white rice with your belly open. This alone makes many people feel that even if they take a little risk, it is worth it.

For these poor and frightened people, their desires are very easy to satisfy. Although Yu Xiaotian didn't give them much money, they didn't have much opinion about it, because even now Yu Xiaotian People gave them some silver, and they had no place to spend it on this small Treasure Island, not to mention that Yu Xiaotian didn't hide it from them, and made public the amount of property they had recently acquired, and told them The environment is also informed to everyone.

Yu Xiaotian told this group of people that he is not stingy about dividing up the money, the most important thing right now is to develop their strength as soon as possible for the money they have already got, otherwise, even if everyone shares more Money, they can't keep the money, sooner or later they will have to take advantage of others, after Yu Xiaotian's words, everyone has nothing to say.

But after returning to Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian still gave everyone a red envelope, which contained varying amounts of broken silver, which was regarded as the salary for this group of people.

From the very beginning, Yu Xiaotian had already made up his mind that in the future, he would implement a salary system among his subordinates and carry out corporate management, which could lay the foundation for him to expand his power in advance.

In his opinion, being a pirate and starting a company are almost of the same nature. Both need a sound organizational structure and formulate corresponding systems to ensure that the organization can operate according to the system without too much trouble. On one point, its importance is even more important than making weapons. Only by doing this well first, can the development be accelerated step by step in the future, otherwise, it may lead to internal chaos in the future.

Regarding the salary system proposed by Yu Xiaotian, Liu Laoliu, Ma Mian and others felt that it was very new. In their view, they were just a bunch of pirates. Everyone eats when they have food, drinks when they have wine, and spends money when they have money. Well, if there are women, everyone can just play with them. For many years, people in their industry have been doing this, but Yu Xiaotian actually proposed to pay the big guy, which is really new.

So everyone including Ma Lian including Liu Lao Liu didn't take it seriously at the beginning, thinking that doing this is too much trouble, it would be more convenient not to use it, but Yu Xiaotian still insisted on his opinion, and took time out, He explained the benefits of doing this to Ma Mian and others in detail. Ma Mian and the others couldn't understand the organizational structure, but they could understand that Yu Xiaotian did this for their future benefit, and after thinking about it, they found it reasonable.

Yu Xiaotian told them that in the future they can't always have only twenty or thirty people, it's easy to handle now, and the rich can spend it, but what about more people in the future?We can’t continue to do this, so instead of giving money to everyone regardless of their superiority or inferiority, it’s better to pay them. Moreover, Yu Xiaotian made it clear that this salary is only the most basic. According to the individual division of labor, effort and contribution, additional rewards will be given for hunting. The amount of rewards should far exceed the base salary, so as to ensure that everyone can get a reasonable income.

After everyone listened to it, they felt that what Yu Xiaotian said was also true. In their business, it is impossible for everyone to rush to the forefront. If the big guys all get the same money, the soldiers who are responsible for the hard work will definitely be unhappy, so Yu Xiaotian's idea of ​​basic salary plus rewards is good, so Ma Lian and the others agreed.

After getting the red envelope, this group of people became happy. At any rate, they did this and finally got the money. Although the money they got was not a lot, it was the first time they got money, so everyone was quite happy , One by one carefully put away.

But Yu Xiaotian didn't collect all the remaining money, but took out 300 taels of silver and handed it to Liu Laoliu, because Yu Xiaotian promised to take the goods on the Liu family's ship, Some of the money will be given to the families of the dead boatmen on Liu's boat. Although the situation has changed now, Yu Xiaotian has not forgotten this matter. He still follows the original promise and allocated the money separately. As a relief to those people.

Everyone had nothing to say about this, but felt that Yu Xiaotian was a man of his word and worthy of their trust.

Liu Laoliu thanked Yu Xiaotian, and after thinking about it, he collected the money. Right now, it is not convenient for them to send money to these people on land, so they can only think of other ways. To the families of those boatmen.

(Special thanks to Taste Book Friends for giving us a big red envelope for the Year of the Snake! Thank you for the cold wind!)