Chapter 314: Trends in the Government
Just when Yu Xiaotian was busy paying attention to the migration of his sea wolf industry and the relationship with the land government during this time, there was a news from Yan Siqi's side, which made Yu Xiaotian have to shift his attention to their side again.
This news from Yan Siqi is about Zheng Yiguan, a brother of a sea wolf who was mixed in with Yan Siqi, and recently brought back a piece of news through a merchant ship from a sea wolf to Yan Siqi's territory.
This news said that something happened to Yan Siqi recently, Zheng Yiguan got a news half a month ago, and suddenly rushed back to Japan, after inquiry, the brother of the sea wolf learned that Zheng Yiguan's father-in-law Li Dan, on the way back to Hirado, Japan from Macao in August, suddenly fell ill and died.
Because Zheng Yiguan was his adopted son and was quite trusted by Li Dan, the people on the ship immediately found a way to send the news to Taiyuan Island and notify Zheng Yiguan.
After Zheng Yiguan learned the news, he immediately took Mifune's men that night and set sail to Hirado, Japan.
Originally, when the torture hall got the news, it didn't pay much attention to it, and felt that Zheng Yiguan's matter was not very related to the sea wolf, but because Yu Xiaotian had explained to them, everything about Yan Siqi and Zheng Yiguan had to inform him as soon as possible, and the person in charge of intelligence collection in the torture hall told Yu Xiaotian about it.
After Yu Xiaotian learned the news, he was a little confused.
Because he used to be more interested in Zheng Zhilong and Yan Siqi, so he learned some about their deeds, according to his previous understanding, Yan Siqi as a generation of kings, although ambitious, but not lucky, he took a dozen boats of brothers, ran to Taiwan, vigorously recruited troops and horses, originally wanted to achieve a career, but he did not carry on this cause.
Because after Yan Siqi arrived on the island of Taiwan, in less than two years, probably more than a year later, he became seriously ill because of heavy drinking, so that he died of a violent illness in Taiwan in his thirties.
Later, because of his outstanding ability, Zheng Yiguan was elected as the new boss by Yan Siqi's brothers and took over Yan Siqi's position.
Soon Zheng Yiguan's father-in-law Li Dan also died, Li Dan was a famous maritime merchant in this era across the seas of China, Japan and the Ryukyu Kingdom, said to be maritime merchants, in fact, this era are all pirate groups, they both wantonly plundered the sea on the one hand, and at the same time took care of maritime trade, going back and forth between Japan, the Ryukyus, the Ming Dynasty and the South Seas, and the Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese and even the British to do business.
Li Dan was undoubtedly one of the largest maritime merchants of this era, with hundreds of ships under his command and more than 10,000 people who relied on him for food.
The reason why Zheng Zhilong rose quickly on the sea, became a tyrant on the sea, and later even controlled the entire China Sea, in fact, the most important reason is that he is Li Dan's righteous son, and at the same time inherited the mantle of Yan Siqi, making him the largest pirate leader in the Chinese sea in a very short period of time.
But now after getting the news, Yu Xiaotian was a little confused, because as far as he knew, Li Dan should have died after Yan Siqi, and Zheng Zhilong inherited Li Dan's inheritance after inheriting Yan Siqi's mantle first, making him immediately become a tyrant on the sea.
But this news overturned Yu Xiaotian's previous cognition of this matter, and Li Dan died in front of Yan Siqi, so it seemed to be out of the original historical development.
The reason why Zheng Yiguan got the news and hurriedly took people out of Bengang was to run back to Pingdo to snatch the inheritance left by Li Dan in the name of mourning.
So it is basically certain that this time, if Zheng Yiguan has no accident, he should be able to obtain most of Li Dan's inheritance, especially Li Dan's fleet and previous subordinates, which will basically belong to Zheng Yiguan.
But this is a problem, Zheng Yiguan is working under Yan Siqi during this time, which can be regarded as Yan Siqi's miniordinate, but as soon as Li Dan dies, once Zheng Yiguan inherits most of Li Dan's inheritance, then Zheng Yiguan's strength will greatly exceed Yan Siqi, Yan Siqi does not die, Zheng Yiguan will no longer be able to inherit Yan Siqi's mantle, and Zheng Yiguan, who will surpass Yan Siqi in strength, will have any changes in the relationship with Yan Siqi in the future?
Yu Xiaotian couldn't figure it out this time, history has come here, it seems that because of his appearance, a butterfly effect has begun, and Yan Siqi may have changed his fate trajectory because of his appearance.
In this way, what will happen on the sea next, Yu Xiaotian can't continue to predict.
After Yu Xiaotian learned the news, he was confused for a while, and then calmed down and began to sort out this aspect of things, wanting to sort out another clue from it.
After thinking about it, he couldn't predict what changes would happen between Zheng Yiguan and Yan Siqi in the future, but in short, he could confirm one thing, once Zheng Yiguan inherited Li Dan's mantle, I am afraid that he would no longer willingly succumb to work under Yan Siqi, in that case, I am afraid that his subordinates would not be satisfied.
Next, there is a great possibility that Zheng Yiguan will break away from Yan Siqi and become a force alone, and Zheng Yiguan's strength may also get unprecedented growth in the short term, and what impact it will have on his sea wolf in the next step, Yu Xiaotian can't predict.
So Yu Xiaotian immediately instructed Liu Laoliu to instruct the fine work to stay on Yan Siqi's side, and closely observe various things between Yan Siqi and Zheng Yiguan during this time, and strive to get the news over there as soon as possible.
As the weather gradually cooled down, the relationship between the land government and the sea wolf began to become more and more tense.
When Fujian governor Zhu Qinxiang first came to take office, he wanted to use the sea wolf, but because of Fujian's lack of financial resources, he was unable to mobilize a large number of officials, troops and warships to suppress the sea wolf in a short period of time.
However, because Zhu Qinxiang could not raise enough military salaries and grain in a short period of time, he could only let all localities take a defensive position to guard against the attack of the sea wolves.
However, the effect of this was very poor, and it was impossible to prevent the elusive sea wolf tribes, and although the coastal areas strengthened their defenses, they still could not prevent the sea wolf tribes from landing and harassing them.
Therefore, Zhu Qinxiang felt a great loss of face and was deeply ashamed, and in the past few months, he secretly raised funds vigorously, and ordered Zhang Jiace, deputy commander-in-chief, and Yu Zhigao, deputy commander-in-chief, to strengthen military training, and at the same time ordered various places to renovate warships and raise funds to build new warships.
In the past few months, although the coastal areas of Fujian have tended to be calm on the surface, there are undercurrents surging in secret, and the activities of the officials and soldiers have also stepped up a lot, and some water camps that have not renovated their warships for many years have begun to acquire new warships and recruit some new soldiers.
These things are also under the surveillance of the sea wolf, Yu Xiaotian actually knows that he and the government have already settled down, and the government's attack on his sea wolf is a matter of time, it is just a matter of time.
In this regard, Yu Xiaotian did not hide it from the leaders of the sea wolves, and informed them of this incident in advance, so that they all knew in advance that these guys in the province had nothing to do during this time.
And the leaders of the sea wolf, after learning about this, did not feel too nervous, because they know too much about the official army, now the official army, especially the naval division, the warships are in tatters, and the number is insufficient, although there are cannons, but they are also mostly some old cannons, and even some cannons equipped with water battalions, or they were cast during the Xuande and orthodox years, which is really old-fashioned, and although the sea wolf is said that the ships are definitely not as many as the Fujian government, they are expensive in the elite.
All of the Seawolf's warships were all new ships less than five years old, most of them were new ships of about one to three years, with strong hulls, and after certain modifications, most of them were equipped with more than three guns, and most of them were new six-pounder guns, and the worst of them were Franc cannons, even the smaller and worst patrol ships were equipped with newly cast short-barreled six-pounder guns and some newer bowl guns or small Franc cannons.
Therefore, the combat power of the Seawolf Navy has an absolute technical advantage over the sailors of the official army, and at the same time, the training of the sailors of the Seawolf Department is far more than that of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division, no matter what, the Seawolf seems to have no reason to be afraid of them.
So for this news, the sea wolf people don't feel too nervous, but some people have some taboos about starting a war with the government, after all, the golden sign of the Ming Dynasty has been hanging for more than two hundred years, and the prestige is still there, and some of the sea wolf people feel that they are enemies with the government, and they are not very psychologically advantageous.
After all, fighting with peers and the government is not a conceptual thing, fighting with peers at that time to fight for territory, but if you start fighting with the government, it will be a rebellion.
As a result, some people are more or less afraid of this, especially some of the soldiers who have been recruited along the coast, and some soldiers whose families are still on land and have not moved to Nanri Island or the territory of the sea wolf, are even more worried about this.
For this reason, Yu Xiaotian went to the sailors and war barracks many times, cheered up these subordinates, and told them that it was not that he Yu Xiaotian wanted to rebel and make trouble, but that the government forced them, they just wanted to make a living on this sea, but the government couldn't see them living freely, wanted to calm them, and let them live back to their previous hard life.
Therefore, they are enemies with the government in order to keep their jobs and food outlets, if they allow the government to bully them like this, they will definitely be beaten back to their original form in the future, and the days of being well fed and clothed like now, as well as being paid and rewarded, are gone forever.
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