Yu Xiaotian hated the Manchu Tatars since he was a child, and after these Manchu Tatars entered the customs, they brought profound disasters to the Chinese, destroyed a large number of brilliant cultures left by ancient China, brought China into the abyss of humiliation, and even left a great influence on China until the 21st century.

So now that he has come to this era, if there is a little chance, he doesn't want to see the day when the Manchu Tartars enter the customs, but unfortunately he has no ability to influence the direction of history at the moment, so he can only watch the giant wheel of history move forward according to the original trajectory, but he is powerless to stop it.

This is probably the fundamental reason why Yu Xiaotian has been sparing no effort to develop his strength after coming to this era, and the most fundamental reason is that sooner or later, he wants to change the course of this history and save Chinese civilization from the Manchu Tatars.

Therefore, at the end of last year, although he concentrated his efforts on dealing with Chu Cailao's affairs, after learning about the Dongjiang Army's business, he still sent people from the Council Hall to take the opportunity to purchase a few boats of grain and transport it to the Dongjiang Army after the sea ice thawed along the coast of Liaodong after the New Year.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian is definitely not arrogant enough to think that his strength can affect the course of history, but he just wants to establish contact with the people on the Dongjiang Army side in this way, and understand the situation in Liaodong more deeply.

In addition, the Dongjiang army does have the good things they need in their hands, since the Jiannu rebellion, the Ming court openly forbade the Ming merchants and Jiannu to conduct any form of trading, although secretly a large number of Jin merchants are still making a windfall, secretly colluding with Jiannu, transporting a large amount of grain out of the customs, solving the problem of Jiannu's demand for food, and also providing a large amount of military food for Jiannu, but such a ban still played some role, at least at the moment in the southern medicinal materials market, ginseng, Korean ginseng, Tiger bones and other items have become extremely scarce goods, and only a few people can get some from the Jin merchants or the Dongjiang army.

Moreover, these ways are only in the hands of a very small number of people, and these medicinal herb dealers are hoarding goods, and the prices of these northern specialties are currently extremely high, and it is difficult to find them.

The sea wolves also have a demand for these medicinal materials at present, and through Maoshengyuan, they have also secretly established their own medicine shop, so they also need such things.

Yu Xiaotian would definitely not consider trading with the Jiannu Tartars at the moment, so the only way to get these things was to solve them from the hands of the Dongjiang Army.

However, Mao Wenlong's business reputation of the Dongjiang Army is obviously not very good, Mao Wenlong in order to raise food, gave a lot of empty checks to many patriotic businessmen, so that many businessmen went bankrupt, he has heard of this, so although he wanted to give Mao Wenlong a little help, but he was not generous enough to send a large amount of grain to Mao Wenlong.

After this year, he sent people to Liaodong with a few boats of grain, just to get on the line with the Dongjiang Army first, and use a few boats of grain to exchange some ginseng, tiger bones and other Chinese medicinal materials from the hands of the Dongjiang Army, of course, animal skins are also good commodities, such a trade can still be done, even if the Dongjiang Army really defaults on the debt, he is a big deal is to lose a few boats of grain, such a loss is still bearable for him, the right is to help Mao Wenlong a little, and make a little bit of meager effort, which can be regarded as making him feel somewhat comforted.

And he believes that Mao Wenlong will be willing to do business with him if he knows his name as a sea wolf, he has now decided to do arms trading, and the Dongjiang Army is undoubtedly a good buyer, it is estimated that after Mao Wenlong learns the news, he will definitely welcome him to Liaodong with both hands and feet.

In addition to the affairs of Liaodong, Yu Xiaotian took advantage of the typhoon in the past few days to sit down and sort out his plans for the future.

After a day's rest, his Lin staff officer drank some rice porridge, finally relieved himself, recovered his spirits, and braved the rain to watch the chicken coop village, especially when he saw the special wall of the chicken coop village and the built fort, Lin Yiyang was even more admired by Xiaotian.

The wall of the chicken coop village is basically built according to local conditions, local materials, and stone directly mined locally, unlike the wall in other places, which is mostly built with wood, and basically all stone is used.

Although the wall is not high, but it is very strong, the stone joints of the wall are glued with lime clay, although it is not as strong as the cement of later generations, but it is already quite good, and it can withstand the bombardment of ordinary artillery in this era.

And the wall of the chicken coop village is also the polygonal fortress structure used, there are enough perforations and the room of the hidden soldiers on the wall, which are connected by the passage, through the perforation on the wall, you can form an effective cross fire under the wall, and a small number of defenders can effectively defend the village, but for the attacking side, it is not easy to attack the wall.

It is difficult for the attacker to find the weak point of the wall, and it is impossible to effectively exert the firepower of heavy artillery, and if you attack by personnel alone, it is difficult to effectively attack the wall without ten times the strength of the defender, and even so, the attacking side may have to pay a very heavy price.

What's more, Yu Xiaotian also built two forts at the mouth of Jilong Bay, which displayed many heavy guns, and the smaller fleet wanted to attack the bay, and in the face of the firepower of these two forts, they would basically be completely destroyed.

Therefore, even if Jilong Bay can't be said to be solid at the moment, at least it is not something that anyone can take if they want to, it can be seen that Yu Xiaotian has begun to plan here a long time ago, and has invested a lot of money to operate this place to the current scale.

And according to Lin Yiyang's observation, now the sea wolf tribe here has also begun to build a fort at the mouth of the bay on the east side of Jilong Bay, once this fort is completed, then it is equivalent to completely blocking all the waterways into Jilong Bay, and this Jilong Bay can basically be said to be worry-free.

After looking at the situation in Jilong Bay, Lin Yiyang was full of emotion, and he was sure that the game of chess played by Yu Xiaotian was really not small, he was not just satisfied with being a group of pirates who gathered on the sea, and with such an ambitious person, Lin Yiyang also began to be full of confidence.

At the invitation of Yu Xiaotian, Lin Yiyang also took the opportunity of the past two days to rest in the chicken coop village, and the two of them sat in the chicken coop village and chatted about the current trend of the world.

For the current future of the Ming Dynasty, it is obvious that people like Lin Yiyang cannot have a clear understanding, especially people living in the south, who cannot personally experience the current situation faced by the people in the north.

However, Lin Yiyang still has a clear understanding of the current serious land annexation problem in Daming, because he is also a direct victim of this kind of thing, and he hates it.

However, when Yu Xiaotian mentioned the northern Jiannu, Lin Yiyang showed scorn, and did not think that Jiannu would become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, at best, it was just a disease of ringworm.

In the view of a scholar like him, although Jiannu has made a lot of trouble over the years, but after all, the number is small, and the Ming Dynasty has a dangerous handle to be narrow, although the Ming army has been fighting with Jiannu over the years, making Jiannu wreak havoc in Liaodong, but it is rampant at most.

The Ming Dynasty has a jurisdiction of thousands of miles, and there are many generals, and it only takes one day to fight a blow to completely defeat Jiannu, which is not enough to worry about at all.

Yu Xiaotian was quite speechless about this, because Lin Yiyang's thoughts represented the thoughts of the vast majority of people in the Ming Dynasty in this era, who lived in a relatively peaceful hinterland, and did not know the ferocity and power of the Lu Dao Jiannu, let alone the suffering of the Han people in Liaodong.

In their eyes, Jiannu has always been just a group of clowns who jumped off the beam, not the opponent of Da Ming at all, even if Jiannu is very arrogant at the moment, in their opinion, it is just rampant, and there is no need to worry too much at all.

Yu Xiaotian shook his head and said, "Mr. Lin, you are so bad!" I'm afraid Da Ming is not as strong as you think right now!

Not to mention far away, let's just talk about the extravagant rebellion that is currently raging in Sichuan, Yunnan! I'm afraid it's been four or five years since the Lu'an Rebellion started, and the rebels didn't count the killings, first besieging Chongqing, and then besieging Guiyang, forcing the army and the people to cannibalize each other!

And the imperial court sent troops to suppress it, but it failed again and again, can it be said that the Ming Dynasty has no soldiers? Why has it never been able to eradicate it? Poisoning the place for years?

The Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty of the Hongwu year! Nowadays, there are many malpractices in the Ming Dynasty, military generals are greedy for life and afraid of death, and civil officials are tyrannical! When the dynasty has traitors in power, eunuchs control the government!

Originally, with the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, Jiannu should indeed be nothing, but the imperial court used people inappropriately, so that the civil and military forces poured into each other!

The Dongjiang Army in Liaodong fought alone, but it never got enough support from the imperial court, even if the limited food and salary allocated by the imperial court was still half lost on the way and fell into the private pocket of the official.

In this way, how can the soldiers be allowed to use their lives?

The thousand-mile embankment collapsed in the anthill! Although Da Ming looks very powerful on the outside, in fact, the inside is already full of moth-eaten holes, and it can't withstand any wind and rain!

Recently, before I set off, I heard that there was a civil uprising in Shaanxi, and there was a great drought in Shanxi for many years, but the imperial court did not care about it, and did not think about relief at all, so that there was a tragedy of cannibalism in many places, but the imperial court still refused to reduce taxes, and the people had no way to make a living, so they could only rise up!

I'm afraid Mr. Lin is going to say that this is just ringworm scabies! But if this continues, the officials will force the people to rebel, and the spark can start a prairie fire, once one day the people are forced to be helpless and have to survive from the thieves, the world is afraid that it will be completely chaotic!

At present, it can be said that it is the first clue, but it has not attracted enough attention from the imperial court!

But I can make a bet with you, if within five years, you will definitely see a large number of riots in the north, and if there is no chaos in five years, I will wash my hands of gold from now on, and from now on I will live on land as a good citizen! ”

After Lin Yiyang listened to Yu Xiaotian's words, his brows furrowed, from Yu Xiaotian's words, he seemed to feel that Yu Xiaotian was very optimistic about the future of Daming, and he had never heard of the things in Shaanxi, he didn't know why Yu Xiaotian was in the Fujian Sea, but he was still concerned about things so far away.

All in all, when he chatted with Yu Xiaotian intermittently in the past two days, he could clearly feel that Yu Xiaotian was not optimistic about Daming at all, and even thought that Daming Building would collapse, as for when it collapsed, it was just a matter of time.

But so far, although there is a rebellion raging in the southwest, and there is rampant slave construction in the north, but on the whole, there does not seem to be a greater chaos in the Ming Dynasty, Lin Yiyang can't figure out why Yu Xiaotian is so optimistic about the future of the Ming Dynasty, insisting that the situation in the Ming Dynasty will get worse and worse.

He can't deny that after nearly three hundred years, the Ming Dynasty is indeed riddled with serious illnesses, maladministration, anger and resentment everywhere in the world, and many local people are not happy, but in his opinion, these things are not irreparable, as long as the emperor can work hard, Wenchen is attentive, military generals use their lives, and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years is still there, it will not reach the point of chaos in the world.

So for Yu Xiaotian's assertion, Lin Yiyang didn't take it to heart, but he just felt that Yu Xiaotian was too unfounded, he was a pirate leader, although he was quite far-sighted, but how could he understand the judgment of the general trend of the world better than him, a scholar? So he didn't take Yu Xiaotian's words too seriously and laughed at them.

Seeing that Lin Yiyang didn't pay attention to his words, and even despised him a little, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and a little angry, but after thinking about it, he felt that he couldn't be so angry at all, not to mention that Lin Yiyang would have this opinion, I'm afraid that even if he said it to the first assistant and important ministers of the current dynasty, no one would take his words seriously, and might even treat him as a delusional madman.

After all, Daming has the foundation of more than 200 years here, even if there is a little problem, in the eyes of many people, it is just some ringworm scabies, no big deal.

What's more, Lin Yiyang is just a scholar living at the bottom, although he can be said to have a wide range of knowledge, and he can be regarded as having some insight compared to some of his peers around him, but his position determines that he cannot have a very wide vision, let alone see the future situation clearly.

Even if it is Yu Xiaotian himself, if he is not from the next generation, it is impossible to have this kind of vision, now there are few people who can see the future direction of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the current emperor is still alive, no one can imagine, his life is less than two years left, and no one can guess that the next one will be the Ming Emperor, and it is the Chongzhen Emperor who will single-handedly destroy the Ming Dynasty.

So at this time, when Lin Yiyang talked about these things, Lin Yiyang didn't take it for granted, which is also for the sake of his face as the boss of the sea wolf, Lin Yiyang didn't laugh at him for worrying about the sky, if someone else said these things, it was estimated that Lin Yiyang would be sprayed to death on the spot.

So Yu Xiaotian simply changed the topic and stopped talking to Lin Yiyang about these things, he had already said what he should say, so he could only wait for time to verify his words, and then he believed that Lin Yiyang would be taken aback, and regarded him as a celestial, sometimes predicting this kind of thing, if used correctly, would be a sharp weapon, and it was estimated that Lin Yiyang would be even more desperate for him and follow him all the way.

(Let's have a 4,000-word chapter!) ）