The independent forces that stand in the troubled times are always more flexible in their minds.

Fuso is the kind of country where the land is narrow and barren, and the population is large, and the daimyo warlords there are all small ships and good goods, and there are many temptations, and you can always meet one or two guys who are willing to take the risk and exchange some much-needed supplies.

"It seems to work, but it's going to be a problem." Li Feihu said with a smile: "And the profit is definitely not high." ”

He doesn't seem to care much about the Fuso market now.

"Just do me a favor." "I need a lot of sulfur. ”

"Tianzhu also has good sulfur."

"That's too far, and the price is too high."

"That's right." Li Feihu nodded.

This little favor still has to be helped, and Xu Shiyang has given him a lot more benefits than this.

"If my eldest brother agrees to let me be the big shopkeeper, I will let your Luo Hai Dog ......, no, Luo Haitao will take the position of Li Feibao's big cabinet."

李飞虎 says:

"I kind of understand, just rely on myself, even if I become the big treasurer, this son can't sit steadily, I need someone else's help to contain the next Li Feibao or something."

After killing Li Feibao, with a little trimming, the Qi Provincial Water Division can reach the scale of about 70 ships, and it seems that there is a little less to make a big cabinet, but with the addition of cannons, the strength surpasses that of ordinary large cabinets.

To be reasonable, there are three fewer people in the original thirteen cabinets (Li Feibao, and the two people who were caught by the imperial court), and even if Luo Haitao is added, there are only 11 people.

"One more thing."

Xu Shiyang continued:

"If I can really reach an agreement with Li Feilong, then except for the unsuccessful Japanese invaders, my side of the sea will no longer be threatened, and if the transportation on the Jiangnan side is handed over to you, most of my fleet will be vacated."

"What are you going to do with them?" Li Feihu asked.

There are so many ships, it's too wasteful to be empty, isn't it?

"I have my strategic goals, but before that, I'm going to let them go whaling first, one is to practice their hands, and the other whale is a good thing for me."

Xu Shiyang's fleet could only rely on its firepower advantage to fight against the Li family's fleet in the coastal waters, and once they arrived in the far sea, except for a few old fur seals such as Luo Haitao, the other captains were rookies, and it was easy to have problems.

For the future maritime strategy, Xu Shiyang needs a large number of captains who can be familiar with the open sea, and Li Feihu may be able to provide some help in this regard, but it is never better to seek others than to seek himself, so it is better to take advantage of the fact that the army has not yet taken shape, and send the navy out to practice.

On the East Asian side, the most frequent places for whales are the Bering Sea and the Whale Sea (the ancient Chinese name of the Fusang Sea), both of which belong to the category of open sea for the fleet of Qi Province, and the sea conditions are much more complicated than the coastal waters of Qi Province, but they are not so bad that they will kill the ships in proportion.

Whaling over there, in addition to training sailors, Xu Shiyang hopes to obtain a large amount of whale oil and whale meat.

The taste of whale meat is not good, but it is meat after all, which can provide a lot of protein, which is of great help to improve the physical fitness of Qi Province people.

In fact, after the end of World War II in another plane, the Fuso people relied on large-scale whaling to replenish the people's protein source, which helped greatly to alleviate the post-war famine.

Now Xu Shiyang doesn't have such a powerful whaling ship, nor does he have refrigeration technology, but if he scatters some more ships, he can always get good results.

Besides, Xu Shiyang doesn't need the whaling fleet to kill tens of thousands of whales a year like the Fusang people of another plane.

He doesn't even have that many people to eat so much whale meat.

As long as Xu Shiyang's whaling fleet can bring him 50 to 100 whales a year in his free time, he will be very satisfied.

"Whaling." Li Feihu said in an indifferent tone: "Okay, our Li family also hunts whales, but we don't catch much, Brother Xu, if you have more whale oil, you can sell it to me, this thing is also very valuable." ”

"You also hunt whales?"

Xu Shiyang used to think that there was no tradition of whaling in China.

"There is whaling on the Taidao side and Nanqiong's side, and Nanqiong's whale oil is also a tribute, which is very famous."

"That's good, I'm going to need a lot of whale meat, and then I'll sell you the excess whale oil, which can be considered barter."

"However, it takes a lot of salt and spices to bring whale meat from me." Li Feihu said with some embarrassment: "If you buy salt from the official, the price is ......." ”

"I've got cheap salt here." Xu Shiyang seized the opportunity to quickly promote his fist products: "How much you want, how much you want, big discounts." ”

"Really?" Li Feihu was a little unconvinced.

Two or three years ago, Qi Province had to go to Jiangnan to buy salt.

I don't buy it now, but I think it's enough for my own use, right? How many can be sold?

"Really, when did I lie?" Xu Shiyang explained: "I have a lot of salt here, not to mention anything else, if I go all out, hundreds of thousands of stones will not be a problem, and it will be more than my grain." ”

"Are there really that many?"

Li Feihu was surprised:

"Then why didn't Brother Xu sell the salt to the Goryeo or Fusang people?"

"They are also close to the sea, will they be short of salt?"

"Of course not."

In fact, not to mention the lack of salt in Fuso, Goryeo, another time and space, even the Japanese emperor before World War II, who was already semi-industrialized, had to import a large amount of salt every year.

Yes, you heard it right, impoverished imperialism, as an island country, even imports salt!

"If Brother Xu has a large amount of salt that can be exported, Fusang is estimated to be able to better open up the market."

Li Feihu pondered and said:

"However, there may be some trouble on the Goryeo side, and they usually import some tartar salt to fill the amount. Well, let's do it, if Brother Xu has plenty of salt in his hand, how about selling me 30,000 stones first? ”

"No problem!" Xu Shiyang agreed.

After the adoption of the salt drying method, the products of Qi Provincial Salt Industry Company have become the only materials that Xu Shiyang has the ability to export in large quantities, but it is a pity that Xu Shiyang has no market.

The Jiangnan side still trusts Huai Yan more, and everyone in the north actually buys salt from the Jurchen Tartars!

Including the Muguls, they also need to take out a large number of horses, cattle, sheep and livestock every year to exchange some high-priced salt with the Jurchens.

This made Xu Shiyang, who was very short of horses, feel a little jealous.

According to the information provided by Li Feihu (relayed by the Koreans), there are salt farms in Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, Jinzhou and other places, and the output is very rich, and these salts are not only an important reward for the Tartars to win over the subordinate tribes, but also one of the most important export materials for the Tartars.

Upon learning of this information, Xu Shiyang made up his mind a strategic determination to control southern Liaoning as soon as possible.

In addition to the fact that southern Liaoning is close to the sea and can rely on the sea route to advance to avoid the huge consumption of land supplies, if he can control southern Liaoning, Xu Shiyang can also gain a great economic advantage.

Because almost all of the salt farms of the Tartars are in southern Liaoning, the destruction of the salt source of the Tartars is of great benefit to the disintegration of the economic base of the Tartars, and also helps the salt of Qi Province to replace the market that originally belonged to the Tartar salt, which is a good thing for Qi Province.