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

In the past few months, because of the increasingly tense relationship between the sea wolf and the government, the trade of the merchant house on Nanri Island has been greatly affected, and some merchants in the originally lively business inn area have been forced to withdraw the merchant inn from the island under the pressure of the government.

But for such a situation, Yu Xiaotian has no better way to solve it, he does not have the strength to attack some state capitals in Fujian on a large scale at the moment, so he can't force the government to bow down to him.

However, he sent his subordinates to attack and harass the coast of Fujian before, which still sounded a wake-up call for the government, so that the current governor of Fujian, Zhu Qinxiang, understood the power of his sea wolf, so that Zhu Qinxiang did not dare to easily attack Nanri Island in the next few months.

Fortunately, he accepted it when he saw Yu Xiaotian, and he only let his subordinates last for about a month before he stopped, which made Zhu Qinxiang also have a step down, and did not force him to be annoyed and angry, and summoned a large number of officials and troops in Fujian to attack the sea wolf.

Taking advantage of the calm period between the two sides during this time, Yu Xiaotian stepped up the transfer of industries in the Nanri Island Workshop Area, and 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 Tamsui City and Jilongzhai.

At present, Nanri Island is no longer the foundation of Seawolf's industry, and Tamsui City has taken over the status of Nanri Island and has become the most important industrial base of Seawolf.

A large number of workshops have sprung up inside and outside the city like mushrooms after a rain on the side of Tamsui City, and one after another has begun to put into production.

The industrialization of Tamsui City has also driven the shipping industry, and with the demand for raw materials in various workshops, so far, the sea wolves still need to purchase these raw materials from land, especially iron materials for the production of weapons, which they must solve from the land.

After two years of hard work, the sea wolf now no longer needs to rely on the purchase of iron in Guangdong, Fujian has a lot of iron production places, and the quality is also quite good, whether it is a government or private iron yard, the sea wolf has secretly set up a relationship with them, almost every day there are iron materials from Fujian and Guangdong all over the ship, transported to the sea wolf's territory.

In the past, these iron materials were transported to Nanri Island, but now Tamsui Village and Jilongzhai have also become the terminal of raw materials, and every day ships carrying goods sail into Jilong Bay and Tamsui River, dock at the wharf to unload their goods.

Before Yu Xiaotian came to this era, he more or less knew some things about the ancient smelting industry, but he was not very clear about the specific iron output of all parts of the country in the Ming Dynasty for a year, and he just wishfully believed that the level of ancient labor and technology was low, even if the Ming Dynasty was in the world at that time when the smelting technology was better, the national iron output in a year would not be too high.

Therefore, he has always had a sense of crisis, for fear that there will be a shortage of iron materials for his cannons, or that he will not be able to buy them if he has money.

But as his business in the sea trade became bigger and bigger, he found that his worries were really a bit ridiculous, because over the past year or so, he had learned that Guangdong Province alone, in this era, in a year, various ironworks and iron mines can smelt tens of thousands of tons of pig iron wrought iron, plus the iron yards and iron ore in Fujian, it is enough to meet the needs of the sea wolf in a year.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's previous worries were basically unnecessary, as long as he had silver in hand, someone would be willing to sell him iron materials, as for where he was used for it, almost no one asked about this matter, so that now Yu Xiaotian even relied on buying iron materials in Fujian alone, which could meet his needs for cannon casting, gun making, and shipbuilding.

But even so, Yu Xiaotian still insisted on letting the council hall buy more iron materials, as long as someone is willing to buy it, and the council hall still has silver, just buy it, originally the sea wolf does not need so much iron, but considering that the relationship between the sea wolf and the government is becoming more and more tense at the moment, I don't know when the road is, the government may order to cut off some iron materials, resulting in a shortage of iron materials for the sea wolf in a short period of time, so Yu Xiaotian ordered the council hall to come up with enough funds during this time, how much to need, and a large number of iron reserves in case of emergency.

So in the past few months, the sea wolf has stockpiled hundreds of tons of pig iron and wrought iron, which is enough for him to use for a while.

Don't think that a few hundred tons of iron is already a lot, these hundreds of tons of iron are actually piled together, there are not many, at best, it is just to occupy a warehouse that is not too big, and if you use the big trucks of later generations to pull it, it will not take a few cars to pull it all at once.

In consideration of the safety of these iron materials, during this time, all of them were transported to Tamsui Village and Jicoop Village for storage, and even the dozens of tons of iron materials stored before Nanri Island, in addition to leaving temporary enough, were also transported to Tamsui Village by Yu Xiaotian.

According to Yu Xiaotian's plan, in the past few months, the sea wolf has recruited a total of more than 1,000 new soldiers, plus the subordinates of Chu Cailao, who were captured last time, about 600 people were selected and incorporated into the new battalion.

In this way, in the past six months, the number of people in the sea wolf has increased by nearly forty percent, so that by the time the sea wolf reaches the fifth year of the apocalypse, the total number of people in the entire group has reached nearly 5,000 people.

Moreover, the 5,000 subordinates of the sea wolf, compared with Chu Cailao and several bigwigs on the sea, his nearly 5,000 subordinates are all under his direct management, rather than the loose management adopted like them, which is called together when it is not used, and divided into small units when it is not used, and each is busy with his own work.

The sea wolf adopts unified management, which is an absolute pyramid-shaped management method, and all the power is ultimately in the hands of Yu Xiaotian, who can directly control the head of a pawn at the bottom, so that his control over his subordinates is far greater than that of his peers.

But relatively speaking, the burden of the sea wolf is much heavier, the scale of the nearly 5,000 people, every month, the expenditure of the salary, it will take tens of thousands of taels of silver, in addition to their food, clothing, housing and transportation, all of which must be spent due to filial piety, and these expenses will need tens of thousands of taels of silver every month, otherwise they will not be able to play.

But fortunately, the current Seawolf Group already has a variety of businesses, Lu Shang now he has the large business name of Mao Shengyuan, and there is also a medicine store, in August, under the operation of Li Yi, the Council Hall and Li Yi opened a money bank, and the Council Hall also began to intervene in the two industries of restaurants and prostitution.

In the past two months, the council hall sent people to open several restaurants and brothels in Fuzhou City, Xinghua Fucheng and Funing City.

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

And the sea wolf has two unique businesses of glass and soap, and now the output is increasing day by day, even so, their products are still in short supply, and even the soap has attracted the attention of the Taixi people, and they have begun to find a way to purchase from the Maoshengyuan branch in Guangzhou, as a fashionable commodity, shipped back to Europe for high-priced sales, it is said that they are shipped back to Europe at a price of one or two to five taels of silver, and the sales price can even be increased more than ten times, the price is outrageously high, but some European nobles, Especially those noble ladies, they still flock to it.

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

There is also the sea trade business of the sea wolf, now the sea wolf will capture some of Chu Cailao's ships, after picking them up, some of them are used as war ships, reserved for the use of several sub-fleets, and the remaining some large sea ships, such as ships such as Fu ships and Guangzhou ships, are handed over to the merchant fleet.

The size of the merchant fleet has now exceeded 100, and except for some ships that have recently been busy with the relocation of the seawolf industry, the remaining ships are at sea every day, busy trading from north to south.

The ships of the merchant fleet have now traveled all over the South Seas, trading in Batavia, Manila, Da Nila, Champa, Sriwijaya, Siam, and even two ships as a way to explore the Indian Ocean, and have gone to a certain place in India, from which they have brought back a lot of spices, Indian cotton cloth, and a lot of ivory, and have made a lot of money after returning.

The merchant fleet to which the council belongs to the council hall brings back a huge profit to the sea wolf every year, which makes Yu Xiaotian have enough financial resources, recruit troops and horses, cast cannons and guns, and build ships and ships on a large scale.

In order to meet the growing demand for ships from the sea wolf, the sea wolf began to extend its tentacles to the coastal area of Guangdong farther in recent months, based on those few flying fast boats, sent a group of light ships, went south to the Guangdong area, and even arrived at the coast of Guangxi, where they began to conceal their identities, imitate the smuggling ships of the West, and started the business of serious pirates.

In the past few months, they have snatched back twenty or thirty large sea ships with 300 to 400 materials from the coastal areas of Liangguang and Guangzhou, most of which are lucky ships and Guangzhou ships, and after sailing back to Nanri Island, they directly trimmed them slightly, put on a new paint, and then changed their appearance, and became the ships of the sea wolf, which were incorporated into the warship fleet and the merchant fleet.