"By the way, Xiaotian, half a month ago, a person surnamed Zheng who claimed to be a friend of the big boss came to our Nanri Island and asked to see you! But you happened to go to the side of Jilong Bay, and when he learned that you were not here, he left a letter, and left another five hundred taels of silver and three hundred pounds of copper, saying that it was a thank you gift! Now the only person who can directly call Yu Xiaotian Xiaotian Xiaotian is his father-in-law Liu Laoliu, Liu Laoliu remembered this incident at this time, and asked people to take a letter and hand it to Yu Xiaotian.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian heard that his surname was Zheng, he knew who Lu Dao was, except for Zheng Yiguan, who else could come here to give him a thank you gift at this time?

So he took the letter and opened it and watched it, sure enough, it was written by Zheng Yiguan, Zheng Yiguan expressed his gratitude to him again in the letter, and expressed his admiration for Xiaotian, saying that it was a pity that he could not see Yu Xiaotian this time.

Zheng Yiguan also said in the letter that he was going south this time to go south to meet his father-in-law Li Dan, and if Yu Xiaotian wanted to do business with the red-haired people in the future, he would be willing to pull the strings and help Yu Xiaotian with this, and when he came back, he would definitely come over to meet Yu Xiaotian Yunyun.

In addition, in order to show Xiaotian's leniency to him and his subordinates last time, after he went back and told Li Dan, Li Dan was very grateful, and asked him to send a little thank you gift to show his heart.

After Yu Xiaotian read the letter, he smiled and put the letter away, and said: "This person is a powerful person, although he is still unknown, but I am afraid that he will achieve a great cause in the future!" In the future, whether I am on the island or not, if this person comes, he must be hospitable, but remember, he must not be allowed to see our workshop area, especially the guns and the glass and soap fields. ”

Liu Lao Liu nodded and wrote down the matter.

"Is there any news from Penghu? Also, what is the situation in the southeast sea recently? Yu Xiaotian then asked Liu Laoliu.

Liu Laoliu replied: "It is rumored that the official army in Penghu has sent a hundred warships and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers to besiege the red-haired city in Penghu.

However, it is said that although the official army has a large number of troops, but because the firearms in the red-haired city are extremely sharp, they have never been able to break through the red-haired city, and it is rumored that although there are also many warships of the official army and naval divisions, the warships of the red-haired people are also strong and sharp, and they come and go on the sea as if they are in a no-man's land, and the officers and navy have never been able to cut off their sea passages, so that the war is still in a stalemate so far!

However, some of the ships that had been haunting the southeast for some time have become much less during this time, and according to your orders, we have strengthened our patrols of the sea in the southeast, and there have been no more conflicts with our colleagues during this time. ”

Yu Xiaotian touched his chin and thought for a while, then sighed and said: "Speaking of which, the official government can be regarded as a nest, with ten times the enemy's strength, but it has never even been able to take Penghu!" Even the red-haired man's channel can't control it, and it can be seen that the Great Ming Water Master is indeed too weak now!

But if it is not as I expected, this battle should basically be over, the red-haired people are trapped in Penghu, but they are rare, they are here to do business, they can't hold on for so long!

Therefore, they will definitely withdraw from Penghu in the near future to end this meaningless war of attrition, and tell our brothers in the near future that once the battle of Penghu is over, there will be less conflict with the government! lest the government take the opportunity to attack us! ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

After thinking for a while, Yu Xiaotian said to his subordinates: "Since we are not short of money in the near future, it is time to increase the number of people!" I plan to build a camp on Nanri Island, and I will expand it on the basis of the new camp and recruit 500 to 1,000 sailors and soldiers! Boost our strength!

In addition, the number of our ships has increased considerably recently, and the remaining ones that are available can be eliminated or sold, leaving a dozen sturdy ships to fill our various fleets.

As for the troops, I think that in addition to the recent flying captives, I plan to recruit a group from the island and the surrounding fishing villages, as well as another group from the existing immigrants and land, to strengthen our strength! ”

In this regard, Liu Laoliu and others also raised their hands to support, now their territory is much larger, but the number of people has not increased much, and the number of ships has not increased much, so that when they are working now, they are a little overstretched, Yu Xiaotian himself did not mention the plan to expand the army, and they were already ready to put forward this plan when Xiaotian returned.

Now that Yu Xiaotian has taken the initiative to increase the number of people, they will naturally not oppose it, and even Li Gouzi and Zhao Mazi of the Lian Council, who have always been known as Scrooge, also support this.

Seeing that everyone supported this matter, Yu Xiaotian handed over the matter to Liu Laoliu to preside, first sent craftsmen to renovate the original new camp, expanded the barracks to a scale that could accommodate less than 1,000 people, and expanded the original camp outward by three times, erected a fence around it, and then began to recruit people.

The high treatment of the sea wolf tribe is now a matter for all to see, although they are thieves, but they are not nonsense, what they have done in the Fuzhou area in the past year has won the hearts of the coastal fishermen.

Yu Xiaotian also sent people to kill several well-known fishermen in Fuzhou, making the life of the fishermen in Fuzhou much better than before, so when the fishermen mention the sea wolf now, most of them secretly want to give a thumbs up.

Especially those fishing villages on Haitan Island, there were many pirate gangs here before, and they were very sad, after Yu Xiaotian defeated the Shark Gang, he began to sort out the small groups of pirates in this area, either annexing them or breaking them up, which made the livelihood of the people on Haitan Island much better.

In addition, the previous Donghai Village has already become a die-hard supporter of the sea wolf, and as soon as the sea wolf's recruitment was announced, the hearts of the young fishermen in many fishing villages were alive.

Because they have all heard about the generous treatment of the sea wolf tribes, they know that they work in the sea wolves, as long as they work hard, although they can get a small salary every month, but in fact they have a lot of extra reward income, and it has only been a year since many sea wolf tribes have saved a lot of silver, settled on Nanri Island, and married wives.

In the past, fishermen did not dare to marry their daughters to pirates, but now they see that the sea wolf tribe has a lot of financial resources and asks people to talk about matchmaking, and the reputation of the sea wolf is also good, many fishermen have now changed their attitude and are willing to marry their daughters to Nanri Island, and even the whole family has moved to Nanri Island to settle down, so that the population of Nanri Island has been growing recently.

Seeing that the sea wolf tribe is doing so well, many of the young descendants of the fishermen are a little red-eyed, these fishermen can't talk about patriotism, in their minds, whoever is good to them, they will have the same heart.

When the government treats them fishermen, it has always been indifferent, and when I think of them, it is to collect taxes and exploit them, and the fishermen have suffered from the scourge of pirates, and when they ask the government, the government immediately disappears and becomes dumb, and never stands up for them, so when it comes to the government, there are few fishermen who do not scold.

Now the sea wolves in Xiaotian have established a new order on the sea surface along the coast of Fuzhou, and it can be said that these fishermen have benefited the most.

But in the past six months, this situation has changed a lot under the auspices of the sea wolf, the fishing tyrants have been killed, and the other fishing tyrants have been restrained a lot, and a small group of pirates have been swallowed up or expelled by the sea wolves, and the fishermen are no longer as frightened as usual when they go out to fish.

Therefore, when they heard that the sea wolf was going to recruit people, the young descendants in many fishing villages within a hundred miles around the country became alive and discussed with their families that they wanted to go to Nanri Island to join the sea wolf for food and make some money for their families.

The older fishermen were certainly reluctant to do this, after all, the deep-rooted reputation of pirates in their hearts meant that they were bad people, and even if they received the favor of the sea wolf, they were not willing to let their children and grandchildren become thieves from now on.

Therefore, the older fishermen did not agree to the demands of the juniors, but some of the juniors were no longer willing to listen to the discipline of their father or patriarch, and some young fishermen simply colluded secretly, secretly got a small boat and went straight to Nanri Island.

After the sea wolf began to spread the news that he had begun to recruit his subordinates, several or even a dozen or dozens of young fishermen ran to Nanri Island to recruit almost every day.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian specially set up a recruitment station on the wharf to receive these people who came to vote, sent a few literate and hyphenated subordinates to register their identity names and places of origin, and then asked Lang Zhong to check their pulses and bodies, and those who passed were left to be sent to the training camp and handed over to the coaches there, so that the coaches began to isolate them for training.

In addition, through other means, the sea wolf also recruited a group of young people from the land immigrants, smuggled them to Nanri Island by boat, and directly put them into the training camp to train them.

With Yu Xiaotian's order, this matter was fully spread on Nanri Island, and since then the system of recruit training for sea wolves has been officially formed, making the sea wolf tribes more in the direction of regularization.

The recruits were divided into two parts, sailors and soldiers, according to their different strengths, and in the training camp, they were also divided into two groups for training in different specialties.