As more and more passing maritime merchants took the initiative to pay the "toll", Yu Xiaotian's slightly shriveled pockets began to fill up again.

If he has money in his pocket, he will naturally be more generous, and some of the rewards he owed to his subordinates before will also be cashed in and distributed to his subordinates.

In the past, the sea wolf tribe stayed on the island, life was very monotonous, there was no place to spend money, and when they were idle, they could only gather to gamble for fun.

Now Yu Xiaotian has set up a high reward system, which has made these people have spare money in their hands, so the problem comes out.

In addition, merchants also discovered this business opportunity, and some merchants actually secretly set up a casino in the shopping inn area of Nanri Island, recruiting the sea wolf tribe to gather people to gamble for money.

There are even merchants who have opened wine shops and restaurants in the business inn area, recruiting rich sea wolf people to go for recreation, and what surprised Yu Xiaotian the most is that there are two more brothels on land, and they also heard the news.

The shopkeepers of these two brothels went to Nanri Island to buy a plot of land, built two prostitutes, and brought a dozen prostitutes from each house on the land, put them in the brothels, and solicited business.

The vision of the shopkeepers of these two brothels is really good, and there is such a demand in places where businessmen gather in Zhilu Road, and at the same time, the people of the Sea Wolf Department have money in their hands, and they are also big consumers, so this money is very profitable.

Yu Xiaotian is willing to see such a situation, because the more this is the case, the more it represents the increase in the degree of commercial development of Nanri Island, and at the same time, he knows very well that not to mention that they are pirates now, even if they become a regular army, they can't stop this kind of thing.

In this era, gambling money and buying prostitution are not disgraceful things, and the world is also allowed, officials and rich people, even those who boast of being high-ranking scholars, who does not prostitute themselves? It is impossible for him to demand the moral standards of this era from the moral standards of the future, not to mention that although the later generations prohibit it openly, in fact, the underground is still semi-open.

If there is demand, there is a market, and instead of banning it, it is better to channel and regulate these industries more effectively.

What's more, he is not a moral pioneer who does not enter the oil and salt, lust is the nature of men, and he is no exception, this is not something that can be controlled by control, in the past, the sea wolf tribe had more men and fewer women, and there was no way to vent their energy, and there were many things to fight when they were idle, so when Yu Xiaotian was on Treasure Island before, he bought a few prostitutes as a welfare.

But now that his plate is getting bigger and bigger, the only few prostitutes can no longer meet the needs of his subordinates, so let him kidnap a woman from a good family to act as a prostitute, which violates his moral bottom line, so now someone has come to the island to open a brothel, which will solve his trouble.

He simply left this kind of thing to the market to decide, a large group of energetic guys, always need a place to vent \ energy, and it costs money to visit a brothel, and there is no money to stare dryly, which can also effectively stimulate his subordinates to work hard in exchange for more rewards and rewards, so for him, it is a good thing for someone to open a wine shop, restaurant, and brothel.

But this also brought some negative effects, after all, it is outsiders who open this kind of thing, and it is inevitable that some people in the sea wolf tribe will have a quick mouth, and when they drink too much or prostitute themselves, they will say things that should not be said.

In this regard, Yu Xiaotian ordered again, strictly ordering the subordinates to mention the internal affairs of the sea wolf when they consume in these places, and once it is discovered, they will be grounded for half a year to two years and not allowed to leave the station, and the worst will be punished according to the betrayal of the sea wolf, which is a major matter of being whipped at the light and losing the head at the worst.

In addition, he asked Liu Lao Liu to find a way to select a few of his subordinates with fresh faces, mix them with sand and mix them into these wine shops and brothels, conceal their identities, and monitor the words and deeds of his subordinates in these places.

At the same time, he implemented a licensing system for such an industry, and without his permission, he was not allowed to open such a place on the island, and he directly vetoed the fact that some businessmen secretly opened casinos, and no one was allowed to open casinos on the island, so as not to let some gamblers lose their eyes and do everything.

If he needed a casino, he was not willing to let others earn this kind of money, it was better for him to make this kind of money himself, so at his secret instigation, the council came forward and opened a special casino on the island for the amusement of the sea wolf tribesmen.

The casino has rules, no credit, no money, people who enter the casino can only settle the bill in cash, and if there is no money, they will get out immediately, and some people in the province owe huge gambling debts for this, so that they can't pay it off for half their lives.

In short, the second half of the third year of the Apocalypse is a critical time for Nanri Island to move from desertion to prosperity, and various industries that were previously only possible on land have sprung up on Nanri Island.

When some of the surrounding colleagues heard the news, they couldn't help but be lonely, and began to bring ships here to ship when they were idle.

This behavior also brought Yu Xiaotian a lot of profits, and he imposed heavy taxes on these special industries on Nanri Island, and also limited their prices, ensuring that they could make money while not allowing them to swallow these huge fortunes.

Although these merchants are very unhappy about Yu Xiaotian's practice of imposing heavy taxes on their industries and interfering in their prices, there is no way, which means that half of their management rights are handed over to Yu Xiaotian, and everything depends on Yu Xiaotian's face.

Even the prostitutes they brought in had to be seen by Lang Zhong before they went to the island to pick up customers, and they had to be re-examined regularly every month, so that sick prostitutes were not allowed to engage in this profession on the island.

But on the other hand, although Yu Xiaotian interfered with them a lot, after all, he still gave them the opportunity to make money, which they had to admit that the island's consumption power was really not low, and while Xiaotian strongly intervened in supervision, they still had considerable profits.

So whether they are happy or not, there is no doubt about making money, no one has any enmity with money, if you want to make money here, you have to abide by the rules of others, and these merchants can only obey Yu Xiaotian's orders.

Looking at the prosperous Nanri Island, Yu Xiaotian's mood is getting better and better, and his motivation is getting more and more full, and he is busy all day long, either to check the business area, or to the cultivated farmland, and from time to time he will go to the fishing village on the island to see.

In order to solve the problem of eating salt on the island, it turned out that the salt used on Nanri Island was basically the method of boiling salt, boiling seawater in a large pot to evaporate the water to obtain sea salt, but in the case of more and more people on the island, this way of boiling salt is no longer suitable.

In addition to consuming too much labor, the yield is too low, and at the same time, it also destroys the limited vegetation on the island, which requires a lot of fuel, which is very uneconomical and does not produce much benefit.

So Yu Xiaotian found a few people who knew how to dry salt, selected a site on the island, and opened a salt drying field, which was not complicated, choosing a suitable location to open a salt pan, and introducing seawater into the salt pan at high tide with the help of sunlight exposure to evaporate the water.

When the salt content of seawater reaches a certain level, the high-concentration brine is introduced into the crystallization pool and continues to be exposed, so that the salt in the seawater can crystallize, and after scraping it out to dry, you can get coarse salt.

In this era, salt was a very important commodity, mainly in the hands of the government and the imperial court, and the profits were extremely considerable, which also gave birth to salt barons who specialized in smuggling salt, to take risks and secretly pour private salt to obtain huge profits.

Salt barons are generally colluded by officials and businessmen, and through the officials who control the salt, they convert official salt into private salt, and then sell it in remote areas at high prices.

However, Nanri Island is now a place outside the country, nominally under the jurisdiction of the Xinghua Prefecture, but in fact, in the past two hundred years, the government has not really exercised effective control over this place, and even if it is controlled, it is very short, and most of the time it is in a state of being an outsideland.

After the opening of the salt pan, the salt production of Nanri Island will surge, and salt, as one of the important commodities of this era, can also bring an additional income to the sea wolf.

As long as he lets people spread the news, there will be salt lords who will take risks and come here to buy sea salt, it can be said that as long as there is goods, there will be no worries about not being able to sell it, and to buy salt here, there are sea wolves on the waterway to ensure that they will be escorted to the mouth of the Minjiang River, which is safer than on land, and it will naturally not worry about sales at that time.

Yu Xiaotian not only asked to dry the sea salt, but also asked the council hall to find a way to convert the coarse salt into a part of the refined salt at the same time, and increase the cost more, but the profit obtained is much higher than selling the coarse salt alone.

Even if it is sold on land in Fujian, refined salt is still in short supply, and there is no exploitation by officials in the middle, and the price also has a great advantage, so boiling some refined salt can make the sea wolf get a greater return.

The matter of Yantian has naturally also won the strong support of Li Gouzi and Zhao Mazi and others, and now they are very impressed by Xiaotian's idea of making money.

At the end of November, the weather had completely cooled down again, but Nanri Island was more than ten times more lively than half a year ago, especially in the area of the shopping district, although I dare not say that it is now lined with various merchants, but at least it looks like a market town.

A total of 23 merchants settled in the Nanri Island business inn area, more and more ships come and go on the wharf, some come here to sell goods, and some are loaded and shipped from here, in short, compared to half a year ago, this place is like a change of day, so that people who have been here before, looking at such a scene, have a bit of a dream-like feeling.

A perfect shipyard was also completely restored at this time, and more than 100 craftsmen were busy in the shipyard, more than half of which were forcibly kidnapped by Wang Hong from the shipyard in Meizhou Bay.

Wang Hong took advantage of the night to bring four boats to raid this ship, this time they did not pounce again, no one to report to the shopkeeper of this ship, he did not know that he was about to be destroyed.

So when Wang Hong led people to rush into his ship, this guy was still holding the concubine in bed and dreaming, before this guy understood, someone chopped it off, and sent him back to the west in his sleep, and even his concubine was tied back to Nanri Island together, and dozens of craftsmen in the ship's liao had no time to resist or escape, so they were also wiped out, and they were stuffed into the boat and pulled back to Nanri Island.

Wang Hong, this guy is even more of a master of scraping the ground, seeing that things are going well, he didn't alarm too much, so he simply took his subordinates to search in the boat before leaving.

Because they knew what Yu Xiaotian wanted, in addition to looting all the family wealth of the owner of the ship, they didn't even leave many tools in the boathouse, and took all the orders back to Nanri Island.