The Tamsui River is now very lively, in addition to a lot of sea wolf warships resting here, there are also many merchant ships docked on the shore, and there are some merchant ships that do not belong to the sea wolf, also berthed here, in turn, according to the instructions, parked next to the pier trestle, loading and unloading some goods.

With the cessation of the war in Fujian, the sea surface of Fujian has also calmed down, the maritime merchants who have been holding back for a few months, have hurried to the sea, began to busy doing their business, these months have been delayed, so that they have suffered a lot of losses, if you don't hurry up, the wind direction will change, miss this opportunity, it is estimated that this year's business has been delayed.

Therefore, the sea surface along the entire coastal area of Fujian suddenly began to get busy, and merchant ships, all loaded with goods, sailed away from various hiding ports like bees out of their nests, and began to rush to their destinations.

Of course, some of them are merchant ships that have business dealings with the sea wolf, but their destination is the sea wolf's Tamsui Village and Keelung Port, their ships are loaded with all kinds of materials that the sea wolf urgently needs, after a few months of war, although the sea wolf has gained a lot, but the consumption is also huge, many raw material reserves, now it has been exhausted, if it is not replenished, many workshops of the sea wolf, it is estimated that it will be suspended.

So this is also one of the reasons why Yu Xiaotian is eager to end this conflict, because even if he takes advantage of it, the workshop cannot be stopped, otherwise it will have a great impact on his future development.

Therefore, the end of this conflict is necessary for both the government and him, and his main source of wealth in the future will also depend on these coastal merchants, and if it is finished one day later, he will make a lot less silver.

Because now he has actually controlled Weitou Bay, and has actually controlled most of the routes along the entire Fujian coast, in the future, Fujian's merchant ships want to go to sea to do business, and it is difficult to move an inch without paying him money, even if it is a merchant ship from other places, when passing through the coastal area of Fujian, they must honestly pay the sea wolf to buy the road, otherwise, it is difficult for them to guarantee that they can sneak over from the sea of Fujian quietly and silently.

With this alone, Yu Xiaotian no longer has to worry about the problem of money, the ridiculous thing is that such a huge source of wealth, but it has been directly ignored by the entire Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, the reason why the Song Dynasty was so rich to an eye-popping extent is largely because the Song Dynasty has always opened up maritime trade, and there are city divisions in various places to manage merchants and ships who go to sea trade.

Even after the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the weak Southern Song Dynasty still relied on the taxes collected by the sea trade to maintain its operation, and fought against the Jin State for more than 100 years, and then in the face of the iron hooves of the Mongol army, it lasted for decades before it was destroyed.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, it was immediately destroyed by the Manchu Qing Tartars, and it was swept away in a mere ten years, which to some extent had a lot to do with the fact that the Ming Dynasty did not attach importance to maritime trade and depleted its financial resources.

If the Ming Dynasty has understood that people see this clearly, even at this time, as long as the sea ban is completely opened, and taxes are collected from merchants, the Ming Dynasty can completely ease up, at least the financial resources will become much more relaxed, and it will not increase the salary every year.

It's a pity that there has never been an emperor in the Ming Dynasty, and he can clearly realize this, and they all cling to Zhu Chongba's legacy back then, and resolutely do not open the sea ban, so naturally it is impossible to make this money, so that now it can be said that it is cheaper than Yu Xiaotian.

Through this method, Yu Xiaotian can accumulate a huge amount of wealth in a short period of time, and he can be completely rich and rival the country, what else is there to do with money?

So this kind of business, one day less is an astronomical loss, not to mention that the government can't hold on, Yu Xiaotian feels painful when he thinks about it.

After hearing that Peter had come to Tamsui City with the ship, Yu Xiaotian summoned Lin Yiyang and the important members of the council hall to wait for Peter's arrival.

And Peter sat in the dinghy, and after sailing along the Tamsui River into the mouth of the river, his eyes were no longer idle, in fact, he knew that the sea wolf controlled the Tamsui area later than their Dutch control officers, but at present, their Dutch control officers were still a small castle, and a dock with imperfect facilities, and a few simple artillery forts, in addition, the range of their activities could not exceed ten kilometers away.

But now come to Tamsui to see, from the river, you can see a large area of farmland on the bank, as well as dotted villages and forts, the shore is full of immigrants busy with the work at hand, and even he saw some places, there are a few spinning windmills, in a trance, I feel that here, there are actually some of their Dutch countryside, because they have built a lot of windmills in the Netherlands.

But he didn't expect to see a windmill that looked like their hometown on the side of Tamsui, which made Peter amazed, and at the same time had to be amazed by the achievements of the sea wolf here.

Although most of the sea wolves are Ming people, there are certain factors of time and place, and it is natural for them to develop faster than them, and it is understandable that the human resources are more abundant than them, but this gap is also too big, so that the two sides are not on the same level at all.

He couldn't help but sigh slightly, and said to himself in his heart, what a person is more popular than a dead person! Compared with this Yu Xiaotian's achievements, he is simply compared to the light of the rice grains and the sun, this time they really underestimated Yu Xiaotian's strength, so that it led to such an uncontrollable result in front of him, did he really want to take his subordinates, abandon Dayuangang, and retreat to Batavia in a gloomy manner? Thinking of this, Peter couldn't help but sigh again.

As he got closer to the sea wolf's Freshwater City, Peter's eyes widened, because as he approached Freshwater City, he had already seen some tall masts on the bank of the river to the east of Freshwater City.

This kind of mast is not what kind of mast is used by Chinese-style Kron ships, but there are some crossbars on the mast, only Western-style plywood ships have such masts, which is related to the fact that they use soft sails and must use this kind of mast, and the appearance of so many masts in front also shows that there should be many Western-style galleons docked here.

Where did the Seawolf get so many Western-style galleons? It was another question mark that flashed through his mind.

But he soon thought of what this was for, because he immediately thought of the conflict between the West Banks and the Seawolves at Chicken Coop Bay last year, where the West Banks were also beaten by the Seawolves, and it is said that only one main ship was able to finally escape the battlefield and run back to Manila.

So there must have been a West Bank ship captured by the sea wolves at that time, and among these ships, there were their captured ships.

In addition, this time, the fleet brought by Waite was wiped out, and it was inevitable that one or two would be captured by the sea wolves, so it is not surprising that the sea wolves now have a few Western-style large plywood boats.

But when the sea wolf has a few large plywood boats, the matter becomes serious, and under the influence of one another, the strength of the sea wolf will increase a lot, with only a few large plywood ships, looking at the sea in the Far East, there is basically not much strength to deal with them.

Even if they Dutch want to retaliate, I'm afraid they will transfer six or seven warships like last time, and it is impossible to deal with the sea wolves, the sea wolves can easily withstand their company's fleet with only these captured warships in their hands, plus the sea wolves' many Kron ships, I feel numb when I think about it.

In this situation, even if the company wants to take revenge on the sea wolf, if it does not concentrate most of the available combat power of the entire company, it is estimated that it will be difficult to contain the sea wolf, but is it possible to concentrate these forces? They have other interests to protect, where can they give up those and devote all their strength to revenge against the sea wolf!

So Peter thought about it, but he couldn't think of an idea to keep the big man, so he could only shake his head dejectedly, and no longer think about it, thinking about it in vain, and then it depends on what conditions the sea wolf proposes.

The docks of Tamsui City were not much more lively because of the arrival of the Dutch mission, except for a trestle that was cleared by the infantry of the sea wolves for the Dutch to dock in small boats, there were not even a few people to greet them, and the other people who should be busy on the trestle just looked sideways at this side, and they should be busy with something, as if this kind of thing did not seem to them to be too concerned.

Such a scene made Peter once again have a strong sense of frustration, although he came here to negotiate as the defeated party, but after all, behind him stood the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch State, in the current world, their Dutch strength at sea is second to none, even the British who have just defeated the Spaniards, they are very afraid of the Dutch.

But he did not expect that he, the Dutchman, who was the governor of one side, would be treated so coldly in front of this Chinese pirate, and the thought of this made Peter feel a serious sense of frustration, and even a little anger.

But after thinking about it carefully, he still suppressed the anger in his heart, because as a representative of strong and powerful forces, Peter knew the laws of this world better than many people, and the strong were kings, no matter where they were in this world, they were all common laws.

Since they were defeated by the Dutch, then they should have the consciousness of the vanquished, and as the defeated side, they still want to be respected by the other side, which is a luxury in itself.

(My son was finally discharged from the hospital, and today I finally don't have to be so nervous, I slept lazily in the morning, and I was tired!) Hehe! It's a little late for the update, so bear with me! In addition, special thanks to zhao55555 and wdj1972 for their tips! Rest assured, this month is guaranteed to update two chapters, and there will never be a mistake! ）