After Seawolf began to be able to produce steel in small batches, it was undoubtedly great news for the entire Seawolf industrial system, and the problems that could not be solved by materials were now gradually solved because of the availability of steel.

Although there are still problems such as high consumption, unstable quality and high operational danger in soil blast furnace steelmaking, nothing can be perfect in the initial stage.

At least through this kind of local steelmaking, so that a large number of craftsmen understand how steel is smelted, and gradually improve the process in the future, sooner or later, a more perfect steelmaking technology can be developed, and open-hearth steelmaking will naturally not be too far.

The acquisition of steel has also made the strength of the Sea Wolf's army and navy much stronger, especially the Army, because of the use of steel barrels, the Army rifled guns can be produced in large quantities, making the Sea Wolf's firepower output distance show a leap forward.

In order to test the combat effectiveness of the army that used rifled guns on a large scale, Yu Xiaotian launched two anti-bandit operations in Fujian, one of which was a battle, he only invested two infantry companies, both of which used wolf-tooth rifles, and a team of 500 people, facing an enemy nearly ten times their size, just a few rounds of volleys, completely defeated a local bandit in Fujian, shooting and killing nearly 1,000 enemies, including the bandit leader, who was also shot dead in front of the battle.

And the two infantry companies of the sea wolf actually suffered less than ten casualties in the battle, and they were basically caused by the bruised bandits who pretended to be dead when they were cleaning up the battlefield, and when they were fighting head-on, the sea wolf did not suffer any casualties, such a result made everyone dumbfounded, but Yu Xiaotian was not surprised at all.

As Yu Xiaotian's foothold in Fujian becomes more and more stable, his strength is getting stronger and stronger, but what makes many people feel a little incomprehensible is that Yu Xiaotian has never pocketed the sea surface in the Liangguang area.

During this period, the admirals of the Sea Wolf Navy thought that the conditions were ripe for them to go south to attack the two seas, and they could effortlessly sweep the two seas and control the entire southern sea surface in the hands of the sea wolves.

However, such proposals were all rejected by Yu Xiaotian without exception, and the sea wolf's navy was not allowed to reach out to Guangdong, but only secretly supported Chu Cailao and Yan Siqi to operate on the sea around Guangdong.

These two groups of people are secretly supported by Xiaotian, whether they are ships or firepower, they have become quite strong, and when facing opponents of the same level, they naturally take a great advantage, so since entering the sea around Guangdong, they have achieved quite fruitful results, and each of them controls a large area of the sea, and the sea north of Guangzhou Bay is now almost controlled by their two groups.

Although on the surface, it has little to do with Yu Xiaotian, but the Seawolf Group has had quite frequent business contacts with Guangdong over the years, in addition to shipping a large number of commodities to Guangdong, it also has to transport a large number of raw materials and materials back from Guangdong.

Before the sea wolf did not control the sea surface of Guangdong, many sea wolf merchant ships in the coastal area of Guangdong, will often be attacked by large and small pirates, although the sea wolf's merchant ships also have strong combat effectiveness, such hijacking operations mostly ended in failure, but there will still be some ship losses.

Moreover, the sea wolf does not have a safe haven that it actually controls in Guangdong, and once the ship encounters a storm at sea, it often becomes the prey of hostile forces.

But after Chu Cailao and Yan Siqi went south, this situation was changed, Chu Cailao and Yan Siqi both occupied some territory, controlled a number of safe harbors and shipping routes, when the merchant ships of the sea wolf went to the Guangzhou area to do business, they could basically get the escort of both of them along the way, and in case of a storm, they could also choose the nearby safe harbor controlled by the two sides to avoid the storm, so that the ships of the sea wolf to Guangdong to do business began to become much safer.

As a result, the cost of the sea wolves going south to do business has been greatly reduced, making their business in Guangdong bigger and bigger, making a lot of profits, and the financial resources can be said to be rolling in.

In addition, it should be mentioned that after Yu Xiaotian completely controlled Weitou Bay, he also completely controlled the sea trade in Fujian, and controlling the sea trade in Fujian was equivalent to controlling the trade with Japan.

Although Zheng Yiguan used Li Dan's network to control trade with Japan before, after Zheng Yiguan was driven out of Fujian by Yu Xiaotian, Zheng Yiguan also lost the supply of goods from Fujian, and he could not organize enough supplies to be shipped to Japan for trade in winter.

However, Yu Xiaotian got an excellent opportunity instead, using the identity of Xu Xinsu and two or three businessmen who had the power to trade with Japan, and took the opportunity to start opening up the channel of trade with Japan and shipped a large number of goods to Japan.

Although Zheng Yiguan had a lot of power in Japan and had a lot of connections, the Japanese were also very realistic, and soon learned the news that Zheng Yiguan had lost power in Fujian, and found that Zheng Yiguan had been unable to ship a large number of goods to Japan since the winter of the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

So these original Zheng Yiguan's related households quickly changed the wind direction and began to contact the sea wolf, because they were very realistic, who could transport the goods to Japan, who was the best partner, because they, the Japanese businessmen or families, also relied on these goods to make money.

In addition, they also want to export some goods out of the country, Zheng Yiguan is obviously unable to eat the goods in their hands, so they naturally have to find a way to find another buyer, and this buyer is naturally only the Seawolf Group.

Therefore, since the end of the sixth year of the weather, the sea wolf has gradually opened up trade with Japan, and has also extended its tentacles to North Korea, becoming the actual controller of trade with Japan.

Zheng Yiguan naturally will not let go easily, because trade with Japan has always been regarded by him as a forbidden general, and now although he has been driven out of the coast of Fujian, but he still does not want to give up this lucrative business, even in the case of rebellion, he still continues to lead the fleet to the Ryukyu Islands to set up ambushes, ambushing the fleet of sea wolves to Japan.

In the past few years, the two sides will fight on this route every year, at first Zheng Yiguan can also cause some trouble and losses to the sea wolf, but by the end of Chongzhen's third year, Zheng Yiguan's ambush has become much less, because of the years of fighting, so that Zheng Yiguan did not take advantage of a star, it can be said that it is a practice that harms others and is not beneficial to himself.

In addition, he gradually discovered that even if he did this, he could no longer change the sea wolf to replace him in controlling trade with Japan, and if he continued to do so, there would be no benefit at all except for making his subordinates complain, so he could only stare dryly and accept his fate.

And Yu Xiaotian is not afraid of Zheng Yiguan cutting off the Ryukyu route at all, because now the sea wolf's navigation skills have been greatly improved compared to before, in the past, when Ming maritime merchants went to Japan, they had to rely on the needle road along the Ryukyu Islands as a landmark marker to find the direction and sail to Hirado, Japan and other places for trade.

However, after the sea wolves defeated the Spaniards and the Dutch many times, they gained many prisoners of war, and these Western navigators had already mastered more advanced navigation skills, and no longer needed landmarks as a guide to sail, and could use their navigation skills to determine the position and direction of the sea more accurately, and sail directly to the destination.

The Sea Wolf ordered many captives to serve as instructors in the Sea Wolf's navy, and purchased or imitated a number of Western navigation instruments and equipped them on ships, so that the Sea Wolf's merchant fleet could no longer take the route of the Ryukyu Islands, and could sail directly to Japan from any place in Fujian.

In the past, merchant ships could only set sail in the autumn to trade in Japan and go to Japan for trade, and returned to Daming in the spring of the second year, only one trip a year, so that the profits have been quite rich, but the sea wolf has improved the navigation positioning skills, and now many merchant ships no longer need to take the Ryukyu route, according to the needle road to Japan.

They can go directly to the sea and go straight to Japan from any place along the coast of Chinese mainland, so as to save two-thirds of the distance and time, and in a year, they can run at least three times, or even more, so that a large number of Chinese goods can be dumped into Japan, and the sea wolf makes a lot of money in this business.

Even some of the merchant ships of the Sea Wolf have to transport some goods from Zhejiang or Songjiang Prefecture to Japan, and these goods used to be transported to Fujian first, and then re-distributed and loaded on the ship, so that they can be transported to Japan by the Ryukyu route, which increases a lot of capacity costs during the period, but now the cargo ships of the Sea Wolf can be loaded in Zhejiang, and sail directly to Japan after being filled with goods, eliminating the cost of intermediate transshipment, so that the price of the Sea Wolf's goods can be lower, so that it completely defeats other competitors.

Then there is the sea wolf since the second year of Chongzhen, there is a ship on the way to Japan, passing through Jeju Island in North Korea, although Jeju Island is not valued by the Korean royal family, it is not very rich, and it is not a commercial transit base, it is usually very unpopular, mainly as a place for exiled prisoners in Korea, the island is mostly some official slaves, living on the island for generations, living an extremely poor life.

However, Jeju Island has a considerable resource, that is, it is a horse breeding farm in North Korea, the island has a large number of grass beaches, and the climate is also very suitable for horse breeding, so Jeju Island is mainly used as a pasture, and a lot of war horses must be paid to the North Korean government every year.

However, those North Korean officials, powerful and wealthy businessmen on Jeju Island are actually very good at planning for themselves, secretly replacing the good horses on the island with bad ones, and then secretly selling them for huge profits.

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