Chapter 33: The Prisoner

The coastal area of Fuzhou, which has been lively for half a year, has calmed down again after the Sea Wolf Gang defeated the Jianglong battle on East Itch Island.

After the dust of this battle settled, they all understood what choice to make, and also understood who was the real boss on the sea in Fuzhou for a long time to come.

Those businessmen who watched the limelight extended their olive branches to Yu Xiaotian at this time, and Nanri Island, which was originally almost unattended, has now become a pilgrimage place for businessmen.

After Yu Xiaotian took over Nanri Island, he chose a fairly large place near the sea on Nanri Island as a place for future merchants to stay, but before the first battle of Dongqi Island, except for Li Yi to show his cooperative relationship with Yu Xiaotian, he circled a place here, as the Li family's business inn, and no maritime merchant came here to buy land.

But after learning that the sea wolf defeated the mixed river dragon on East Itch Island, and forced the mixed river dragon Chen Jiu to leave Nangantang, obediently retreated to Funing's side, and was forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty for the sea wolf, these sea merchants understood what they should do next.

Yu Xiaotian had already passed the news to these maritime merchants through various channels, Dalian Island was too small, and it was not suitable for use as a commercial port, Haitan Island was big enough, but nominally it was still under the actual control of the government, only his Nanri Island, not big or small, although it was nominally a place under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou Prefecture, but in essence it was a place outside the country, and no one could control him, so only Nanri Island was the most suitable place as a commercial port.

In fact, the maritime merchants are well aware of these advantages, otherwise no one would have tried to do business on Nanri Island when the Sharks took control of Nanri Island before.

It's just that Zhang Hu didn't know this way of making money before, and he never believed his word and went back on his word, so that such a business was only in the bud and could never develop.

Now the reason why they hesitate is that they are still worried that this Yu Haiwolf will be as untrustworthy as Zhang Hu at the beginning, and spend money to build their business inn on Nanri Island, and if Yu Haiwolf is unhappy in the future, their money will be wasted, and they are in the tiger's mouth, and it is too late to run.

Moreover, some time ago, the mixed river dragon went south to make trouble, and put on the idea of extending the scope of the power to the entire coastal area of Fuzhou, most people can't see the future trend of the situation clearly, and most people are not very optimistic that the sea wolf can clean up the mixed river dragon, so they dare not easily set foot on Nanri Island.

But now the situation is different, the situation has become very clear, this Yu Xiaotian with a strong attitude, not only won the mixed river dragon, but also beat the mixed river dragon very badly, well-informed soon got the news, although the mixed river dragon was able to return to Funing Prefecture, but most of the men he brought, but most of them stayed in Fuzhou, killed by Yu Xiaotian, and caught.

Unexpectedly, even Chen Qian, the younger brother of Chen Jiu, was caught alive by the sea wolf in the battle of East Itch Island, and all kinds of ships brought by the mixed river dragon were also in the battle of East Itch Island.

As a result, for a long time, the mixed river dragon has been unable to recover its strength, and it will no longer dare to easily invade the sea on this side of Fuzhou again.

Therefore, for a long time in the future, if the government does not use the army to attack the sea wolf again, then this sea wolf will undoubtedly become the overlord of the coastal area of Fuzhou.

If they don't listen to Yu Xiaotian's words, then they also know very well that their business will not be able to be done in the future.

So under such pressure, they quickly made a wise choice, and began to take the initiative to go to Nanri Island to contact, and sent people to the island to see the place, choose the land, pay the money to sell the land, and began to establish their business on Nanri Island.

As for whether Yu Xiaotian can be trustworthy in the next step, they can only wait and see for the time being, hoping that Xiaotian can be a trustworthy person and act better than Zhang Hu!

It barely took half a month, and there was a lively scene on the plot of land that Yu Xiaotian had planned on Nanri Island as a commercial land, and many people were busy like ants in this place, and there were even many ships transporting wood and building materials, flying the small orange flag issued by the Sea Wolf Gang, coming and going between the land and Nanri Island.

A large number of people have also appeared on the temporary dock, which was originally deserted, and they are busy starting to build a new semi-permanent wooden pier for more ships to dock conveniently.

As a result, two docks were formed on Nanri Island, one for the Seawolves' own ships to dock, and the other for commercial use.

The outlines of the barracks began to take shape in the hands of these ant-like craftsmen.

Although the sea wolf and the mixed river dragon fought such a huge battle on East Itch Island, it did not have a great impact on the officials on land.

Of course, the official also soon learned the news of the Sea Wolf Gang's victory over the mixed river dragon, but the government was still happy to hear about it, although the government openly forbade businessmen to do business at sea, but secretly supported it, and it also involved a lot of their interests, and they did not want to see the mixed river dragon, an outsider, toss the coastal area of Fuzhou too much.

What's more, after killing Zhang Hu, this Yu Haiwolf was also very interested in taking on the service that Zhang Hu had given them before, and it did not affect their interests, so they were secretly willing to see no more major changes on the sea surface of Fuzhou, and let Yu Xiaotian, a newcomer, control the coastal area of Fuzhou, which was much stronger than Chen Jiu, the dragon of the mixed river.

Therefore, although the official attitude is that this matter is just a fight between pirates, dogs bite dogs, and the more killed, the better, but secretly many official people in Fuzhou are still willing to see the Sea Wolf Gang win the final victory.

So when they learned that the Seawolf Gang finally won a big victory, some people in the secret official also asked people to congratulate Xiaotian, including the current Fuzhou prefect Lu Wenheng, who also took this opportunity to tell Yu Xiaotian again that after the big victory, he would cause trouble on the coast of Fuzhou.

Therefore, after this battle, Yu Xiaotian not only gained material gains, but also hidden gains in all aspects, more than the spoils obtained.

As for the other gains from this battle, I have to mention that after the battle of Dongitch Island, plus the previous sneak attack battle, they destroyed a total of six boats of the mixed river dragon (excluding those small fishing boats with sloops), and captured six boats of the mixed river dragon, which almost caused Chen Jiu to bring more than half of the ships brought to Fuzhou.

The six captured ships are basically ships that can be used as war ships, including a fortune boat, two sea cangs, a double canopy boat, two bird boats, one of the sea cangs ship is relatively damaged, although it is not sunk, but even if it is repaired, it can no longer be used for fierce combat, at most it can be used as a transport ship, but the remaining five ships, basically the hull and structure are relatively intact, a little repair, you can continue to use.

As a result, the number of available warships under Yu Xiaotian's command increased once again, to more than twenty, which greatly strengthened his strength.

In addition, he also captured a total of more than 200 subordinates of the Mixed River Dragon, including more than 20 large and small leaders, and the rest were ordinary minions.

In addition, they also seized a large number of various materials from the hands of the mixed river dragon, the value of which was preliminarily estimated, and the value of the goods obtained was not less than 10,000 taels, some of which were transferred by Yu Xiaotian to Liu Yidao and several other peers, as a reward for their coming to the sea wolf gang this time, so that they were all happy to lead their subordinates back to their respective lairs.

In addition to the goods, they also captured more than 20 guns of various types in the mixed river dragon, no less than 100 small firearms such as firearms, and hundreds of catties of ready-made gunpowder, enough to arm the captured ships, and at the same time can also strengthen the firepower of other ships.

Because Nanri Island has a ready-made stockade, Yu Xiaotian can no longer give up here, so he left Ma Xiao on Nanri Island, and used Nanri Island as the rudder of the Sea Wolf Gang in the future, making it a node of the Sea Wolf Gang in the northern part of the Fuzhou Sea, and Ma Xiao will lead several ships to stay here for a long time in the future, on the one hand, it can go straight out of the Minjiang River estuary, and plunder in this area, and on the other hand, it also controls the sea passage from south to north in the north of Fuzhou.

When Yu Xiaotian dealt with the affairs of Nanri Island, he returned to Nanri Island with the fleet, and when he passed the desert island to the east of Haitan Island, which he temporarily used as a prisoner camp, the fleet docked next to this small desert island.

When they landed on the small desert island, the scene they saw could be said to be a little ridiculous, only to see a group of hungry green-eyed, tattered guys, like a group of flowers, one by one hurriedly greeted them, hula knelt a large area, and made all kinds of begging for mercy.

The first group of people to be thrown into this little desert island have been here for almost twenty days, and then new captives have been transported here and thrown onto the island, and every time the sea wolves transport new captives here, they will drop some food for the captives on this island.

The captives on this small desert island rely on these very limited food to sustain their lives, and there is very little fresh water on this small desert island, only a few stone crevices on the island will seep out some slightly salty fresh water, which is barely enough to sustain dozens of people, but when the number exceeds more than a hundred, even fresh water becomes a problem.

These days, these gang of Chaojiang Dragon's subordinates are living like years on this small desert island, worrying about food every day, trying their best to find anything that can be stuffed into their mouths, filling their shriveled bellies, and everything that can be eaten on the island is basically eaten by them.

It turns out that there are still a lot of seabirds on the island, but now they only have bird feces and bird feathers, and even the crabs and shellfish that are abundant on the beach are almost cleaned by them.

There was no shelter on the island, so they had to find the simplest materials to build shelters for themselves, sheltering from the blazing sun and the occasional heavy rain.

After more than half a month, these people have been tossed and ghosted, and in a few days, it is estimated that these guys will be eaten by hunger.

There are more than a dozen people who can't stand it, so they rely on their own good water quality, during which they tried to swim out of here and escape to Haitan Island, but it is estimated that few can get away with swimming to Haitan Island, and they are either drowned or eaten by sharks on the way.

When the hungry green-eyed fellows saw the sea wolf's fleet approaching, they no longer had any thought of resisting, and only thought about getting out of here so that they could have a full meal.

After more than 20 days, there were more than a dozen weak or injured people, because of the shortage of food, and they did not have the strength to compete with others, but they failed to survive, which means that when Xiaotian brought the fleet, they had already died on the island, if Yu Xiaotian left them here again, it would not take ten days, and at least half of these guys would starve to death.