However, after mastering the art of direct navigation, this situation can be greatly changed, and the sea wolves can send ships to Japan at any time of the year as long as they open up this trade route, so that they can quickly control the trade with Japan.

Think about the benefits of this, people can only go once a year in winter, and the sea wolf can run three times a year, and when other people's goods are ready and sent to Japan, the sea wolf's goods have already occupied the market, not to mention that Zheng Yiguan has now become a water dog, even if his strength is undiminished and he continues to control this trade route, the sea wolf can easily defeat it by using such a method.

And trade with Japan, at present, is a very profitable business, Japan now also produces silk, in addition to Japan for export there are a lot of things, first of all, Japan is a silver-producing country, Japan has a lot of silver mines, in addition to a lot of associated copper mines, every year Japan exports silver and red copper, and the red copper they produce, there is also a considerable amount of silver, after refining, in addition to obtaining pure copper, you can also refine a lot of silver from it.

And Japan also exports a large number of Japanese swords, Japanese swords because of the well-made, has always been very popular, every year Japanese swordsmiths, will export a lot of Japanese swords, to Southeast Asia or China for sales, the profit is also considerable.

In addition, Japan also exports folding fans, Japanese silk and other products, which are also quite popular in Daming, so as long as this trade route is opened, it can bring at least one million taels of silver to the sea wolf every year, so Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to this.

But he definitely can't go to Japan to do business in person, which requires a person to do this, the sea wolf didn't have such a talent before, and now he has caught Xu Xinsu, which can just solve his problem, so Xu Xinsu was pardoned by Yu Xiaotian for the death penalty and taken it back for his own use.

Just when the sea wolf won a big victory, the Spaniards finally sent their compensation to Tamsui City, and the Spaniards completely gave up the idea of continuing to be the enemy with the sea wolf since the defeat of Chicken Coop Bay, although they delayed for so long this time to send the compensation to Tamsui City, but after all, they finally fulfilled their agreement.

The reason why they delayed for so long to fulfill the negotiated agreement was actually to wait and see the outcome of the conflict between the Sea Wolf and the Fujian officials.

The Spaniards feel that this time the sea wolf can't get through this hurdle, if the sea wolf can't pass this hurdle, then they don't need to fulfill the agreement signed with the sea wolf, once the sea wolf is defeated, then it will hurt the muscles and bones, even if it is not wiped out by the official army, it will attract the covetousness of other Chinese pirate peers, take advantage of his illness to kill him, then the sea wolf naturally has no way to block the route from Fujian to Manila.

However, with the progress of the war here, the Spaniards learned about the situation here through various means, and when they learned that the sea wolves first destroyed the Dutch fleet, and then defeated the naval and land divisions of the official army on Nanri Island, annihilating most of the official ships, the Spaniards no longer dared to hesitate.

Although Yu Xiaotian had not led his troops to attack Jintou Bay at that time, the Spaniards immediately realized that this time the sea wolf had won, so they did not dare to delay any longer, and even the silver compensated for the sea wolf was loaded and transported to Tamsui City and delivered to the sea wolf.

Yu Xiaotian also ordered Liu Laoliu, Fang An and others who were sitting in Tamsui City to fulfill their obligations and release a group of Spanish prisoners of war who were captured at that time.

Before leaving, these prisoners of war were actually almost squeezed out of oil by Yu Xiaotian, and basically squeezed out everything he wanted, and now these people are of little use, and the sea wolf has also captured a large number of Dutch sailors, even if these Spanish sailors are returned to the Spaniards, they can completely let the Dutch sailors replace their role.

Therefore, the two sides also lifted the state of hostilities, and the sea wolf side also completely withdrew the smuggling ships cruising on the route from Daming to Manila, and opened the trade route to Manila.

Soon after the armistice, some Ming merchant ships began to set sail from Wai Tau Bay and sailed to Manila to trade with the Spaniards.

Of course, after the sea wolves took control of Wai Tau Bay, they also opened up another huge source of wealth, that is, they began to collect sea taxes in Wai Tau Bay.

At the beginning of the control of the merchant ships in the port of the moon, they were first concentrated in the area of Kinmen and Zhongzuo, and before the end of the war, Yu Xiaotian summoned these merchants gathered in the area of Haicheng and Quanzhou in the middle left, and clearly told them that in the future, their ships were forbidden to go to the port of the moon to trade.

In the future, if they want to go to sea to trade, they can only start from Wai Tau Bay and carry out trade activities on this side of Wai Tau Bay, and they must pay taxes to the sea wolves when they enter and leave Wai Tau Bay, otherwise the sea wolves will prohibit them from going to sea.

Each ship has to pay 1,500 taels of silver to the sea wolf every year to get the right to go to sea, whoever pays the silver, the sea wolf will issue a sea wolf pass flag to whom, of course, it is only one ship, if some maritime merchants have a few big ships, then a year, to pay the sea wolf 10,000 taels of silver.

This is a big burden for many maritime merchants, and of course it has caused a lot of opposition, but Yu Xiaotian doesn't talk nonsense with them, and puts aside the next sentence, you can do it yourself, pay the money to go to sea and then do business, if you don't pay the money, just wait for your ship to rot on the shore.

With this sentence, all the maritime merchants immediately wilted, because although they were unwilling, they could not not agree, if they did not agree, they would not be able to move an inch in Fujian in the future, let alone the matter of going to the sea, although the price paid was really not low, but compared to the sea trade, such a tax was still bearable for them.

So they also had to pay, and this article did not only refer to the ships that loaded and unloaded in Weitou Bay, Yu Xiaotian also sent news to the maritime merchants in other places in Fujian, no matter where they loaded and unloaded the goods and went to sea, this money had to be paid, and not a dime was missing.

In this way, he actually brought into his jurisdiction the maritime merchants who had been scattered in various places along the coast of Fujian, but anyone who found a merchant ship in the waters of Fujian without the Sea Wolf Order Flag was tantamount to disobeying Yu Xiaotian's order, and the Sea Wolf's patrol ship had the right to confiscate its cargo.

In fact, in history, after Zheng Zhilong controlled Weitou Bay, he also adopted this method, and Zheng Zhilong was even more ruthless than Yu Xiaotian, he charged as much as 3,000 taels of silver for each large merchant ship, while Yu Xiaotian currently only charges 1,500 taels of silver, which is actually quite favorable.

The reason why he only collects 1,500 taels of silver at present is not that Yu Xiaotian is much more merciful than Zheng Zhilong, but because so far, the range of the sea wolf's power is mainly in the coastal area of Fujian, and has not been extended to Guangdong, so he has given these merchant ships a discount, once one day, he will also include the coastal area of Guangdong into the control range, then he will raise this kind of pumping to 3,000 taels of silver.

Although these maritime merchants felt pain one by one, but under the strong force of the sea wolf, they did not dare to say no, so after the war just stopped, some maritime merchants who were eager to go to sea took the initiative to pay the pump, obtained the right to go to sea, and sailed away from Waitou Bay one after another, and sailed to their destination.

Some of the maritime merchants who are still on the sidelines, when they see that some peers have already paid the money to go to sea, so they dare not hesitate anymore, because they are all doing business, who does not know the truth that the fast hand is slow, once they wait too long, and wait for those colleagues who pay the money in advance to go to sea, the market is occupied, and then they can only follow others to eat leftovers.

So no matter how painful they were, the money was still handed over to Yu Xiaotian, who received the order flag from the sea wolf and began to go to sea.

However, although they felt that the sea merchants felt a lot of pain, after going to sea, they found the advantage of paying money, because on the main route off the coast of Fujian, at this time, the patrol ships of the sea wolf had completely controlled the routes everywhere and inspected the passing ships.

With these sea wolf patrol ships patrolling the waterway, the maritime merchants found that their navigation in this area has become much safer, basically no longer have to worry about being attacked by pirates on the route in this area, as long as they enter the sea area controlled by the sea wolf, they can easily and boldly hang the flag issued to them by the sea wolf to sail.

After all, if the sea wolf does not establish such an order on the sea surface of Fujian, the pirates on the sea are as powerful as cattle hairs, and they will be robbed by pirates if they are not careful, and the goods will be robbed at the lightest, and even the ship with the goods, including the people on board, will be finished.

Therefore, if there is a pay, there will naturally be a return, and after many maritime merchants have figured this out, they will naturally no longer be so resistant to the sea wolf's pumping of them.

As these things gradually stabilized, Yu Xiaotian put his energy back on the island of Taiwan again, and at this time the Dutch had been completely subdued by him, and he no longer had to worry about the threat of the Dutch, so his previous plan to develop the port of Dagou also began to unfold.

Now the sea wolves have gained a lot of manpower, material and financial resources after this battle, and they are no longer as cramped as when they occupied the chicken coop and fresh water.

In March, the first fleet of ships heading to Dagou Port began to sail from Tamsui to Dagou Port.

This fleet consisted of thirty cargo ships of various types, all of which were large two-masted ships, at least on the coast of China, each with a displacement of more than 100 tons, loaded with men and supplies, and transported three companies of army counterparts.