The intermediary proposed by Liu Laoliu is not a bystander, it is Yan Siqi who is also on Taiwan Island at this time, Yan Siqi himself is a Haicheng person, and he has been at sea for a long time, and the strength at hand is not weak, although he may not be able to compare with the sea wolf or Chu Cai Lao at the moment, but he currently has more than 100 merchant ships of all kinds, and his subordinates are not less than two thousand people.

And his place is also very good, Yan Siqi's nest is in the Taichung area, and it is now a place where Emperor Tiangao is far away, and the imperial court and government can't hit it, so there should be no problem with safety.

There is also the fact that Yan Siqi and Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cailao all know each other, and the relationship is also okay, when he first learned that Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cailao had a conflict, Yan Siqi also asked Zheng Yiguan to come and try to mediate for them, and later because Yu Xiaotian wanted to have a hard fight with Chu Cailao, so in the end Zheng Yiguan could only return in vain.

Now if Yan Siqi is willing to act as an intermediary guarantor, Yu Xiaotian can rest assured, and Chu Cailao should not have many opinions, so it is undoubtedly a pretty good choice to negotiate with Yan Siqi.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately agreed, sent someone to inform Yan Siqi, and asked Yan Siqi if he was willing to take a guarantee from it to be the middleman, and let Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cailao negotiate on his territory.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian also asked people to send a letter to Chu Cailao, asking Chu Cailao if he had any opinions on negotiating on Yan Siqi's territory, if he could, set a date, and the two parties would go to Yan Siqi's Dazhai to meet and negotiate together.

After Yan Siqi got the news of Yu Xiaotian, he immediately agreed, saying that he was willing to act as an intermediary guarantor, and let Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cailao negotiate in his big village, and it was best for the two sides to negotiate down, and in the future, the well water would not interfere with the river water, and stop this fight.

And Chu Cai Lao also replied quickly, saying that he agreed with Yu Xiaotian's proposal, went to Yan Siqi's place to meet Yu Xiaotian, and agreed to go to Yan Siqi's Dazhai together on April 13.

So two days in advance, Yu Xiaotian boarded the Flying Wolf, that is, the brig, and left Nanri Island with two flying sloops and sailed to Bengang, where Yan Siqi's old camp was located.

At a distance from Bengang, Yu Xiaotian met Yan Siqi's sentinel ship, and after identifying himself, the sentinel ship immediately sailed back to their Bengang with Yu Xiaotian's three boats.

Bengang is actually a stream that converges here from the island of Taiwan to enter the sea, the mouth of the river is relatively wide, suitable for ships to moor and land, long ago there were other ships on land or to and from the Taiwan Strait to dock, land here and rest to replenish some fresh water food.

The reason why Yan Siqi is known as the king of Kaitai in history is because he took a fancy to this place, and after fleeing back from Japan with his subordinates, he finally chose to land here, and established a stockade, immigrated from the land, opened up farming in this area, developed the economy of mountains and seas, and also did pirate trading, of course, it was indispensable to do trade through the sea.

After Yan Siqi arrived here, the Bengang area gradually began to be lively, villages were established by Yan Siqi, and from Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places moved a lot of immigrants, Yan Siqi while doing pirate business, with the money to buy cattle and farm tools on land, transported here for immigrants, gradually this area began to appear a large area of cultivated farmland, became like a civilized place.

During the year, Yan Siqi continued to immigrate here in large numbers, stepped up the expansion of strength, and built nearly ten villages, and built wharves on both sides of Bengang Creek for ships to berth.

Don't look at Yan Siqi's only a dozen big ships when he came, but it was only a year, he used his connections and strong means, either by robbing, or by buying, and asked his brothers to recruit new subordinates from their hometowns, and now he has nearly 100 ships of all kinds, some of which are used for fishing at sea, some of which are specially used for pirate trading, and some of which are specifically responsible for sea trading.

In addition to cultivating the land, the land-based immigrants also vigorously hunted, sold the deer, leopard, and wild boar skins they had obtained to the land, or resold them to the red-haired people, so as to obtain financial resources and continue to devote themselves to the immigration cause.

Yu Xiaotian has been paying attention to these things, so he basically knows Yan Siqi's development well.

But after half a year, when he came here again, he was still surprised by the scene here, the last time he came, it was just a lonely and simple village, and now when he came here again, there have been thousands of acres of farmland around Dazhai, and a lot of rice and other crops are planted in the fields, and even a large area of sugar cane, and there are many farmers busy in the field.

It can be seen that in the past year, Yan Siqi has really not been idle, and the business here is prosperous, and the original sense of barbarism has been replaced with a pastoral color, and even Yu Xiaotian has to admire Yan Siqi's ability in this regard, and in such a short period of time, this place can be renovated into such a scene now.

Moreover, Yan Siqi's strength has developed to such a point in just one year that it has become a force that cannot be ignored in the Taiwan Strait, which is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian admires Yan Siqi very much.

It doesn't mean that Xiaotian's boat stopped next to the trestle, Yan Siqi greeted him from the dock with a big smile, and after Yu Xiaotian walked down to the trestle, Yan Siqi strode over with a smile on his face, and bowed to Yu Xiaotian.

"It's been a long time since I've seen Brother Yu! It's rare to have this opportunity today, let Yan come to be the east, I have to say it first tonight, our brothers have to drink happily, and fight the amount of alcohol we have! Yan Siqi is heroic and has a very loud voice, plus he and Yu Xiaotian have met a few times, and after a few drinks, the relationship between the two of them is already good, so it seems that he speaks very casually.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and smiled: "That's as it should be!" It's just that this time I came here, but I bothered Brother Yan! Brother Zhilu said that Brother Yan had a good amount of wine, so this time he came over and specially sent twenty jars of good wine to Brother Yan! ”

As soon as Yan Siqi heard that so much good wine had been sent to him, he immediately smiled and nodded his head in thanks, but his eyes still remained on the boat next to the trestle.

"What kind of ship is this? How come I've never seen one? It's a bit like a Tessie ship, but this sail seems to be the most commonly used sail on our Daming ship! Blame! It's weird! Yan Siqi is an old connoisseur of ships, and after seeing the brig that Yu Xiaotian was riding today, he was very surprised and curious.

Yu Xiaotian turned his head to look at the Flying Wolf he was on, and said with a smile: "This is a boat built by the boat liao on my brother's own island, I want to imitate the galleon of the Taixi people, but it is a bit different, but it is okay to use, and it runs very fast!" Let Brother Yan smile! ”

At this time, Yan Siqi's eyes fell on the two sloops that followed Yu Xiaotian for berthing on the shore, pointed at them and asked Xiaotian: "Then these two boats are also built by yourself, brothers?" ”

Yu Xiaotian replied a little triumphantly: "Exactly! Brother Yan didn't know that he had been adrift overseas in his early years, and he knew a little about the shipbuilding of the Taixi people, so for more than a year, he led the craftsmen in the shipyard under his command to imitate the ship type of the Taixi people and build some ships by himself.

The Taixi boats have a lot of advantages for us to learn from, and now their galleons have already surpassed our Ming Dafu ships a lot, so we might as well learn from the Yiren and learn some of their things for my use! ”

Yan Siqi looked at the three boats brought by Yu Xiaotian, listened to Yu Xiaotian's words, nodded yes again and again, and suddenly asked: "If the foolish brother guesses correctly, I'm afraid these three boats are the ghost boats that Chu Cai's old subordinates have talked about recently!" ”

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "Hehe! It's really these boats, but they're just a little faster, and there's nothing special about them! It's just that after Chu Cai's old subordinates suffered a few losses, they used false rumors to blow these boats into a god! In fact, these ships are not really some powerful ships compared to those galleons of the Tessie! ”

Yan Siqi suddenly remembered the boat he encountered on the first trip to Fuzhou, when he saw with his own eyes that the clipper that looked like the two dhows brought by Yu Xiaotian today suddenly appeared in front of their fleet, and after observing their fleet for a while, he raised his full sails and quickly sailed away from their fleet.

But he was shocked when he found that the speed of the ship was far faster than all the ships he had ever seen in his memory, but he thought that the boat he saw should be a ship of the Taixi people, and he did not expect that it was actually built by Yu Xiaotian and people, and it was a fast ship belonging to the sea wolf.

Today, when he saw this kind of ship again, he realized that the boat he encountered that day was actually Yu Xiaotian's boat, and what he didn't expect was that Yu Xiaotian was actually on the Flying Fish at that time, and he had a distant face-to-face with him.

Of course, Yan Siqi can see the benefits of this kind of ship, don't say anything else, just talking about the speed advantage of this kind of ship, it is enough to laugh at sea, once anyone has such a fast ship, what to do at sea is twice as effective as other ships with slow speed.

If they are used as warships, they are obviously equipped with many cannons, and relying on their speed, they can easily take down the pursuing enemy ships, and once they encounter a strong enemy, they can easily turn around and leave, so that the enemy can only stare dryly.

So he looked at Yu Xiaotian's three boats, and his saliva was almost dripping, so he hurriedly pulled Yu Xiaotian and asked, "Yu Dangjia, do you build a lot of this kind of boat now?" If it is too much, can you sell it to two foolish brothers? ”

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