Chapter 270: Personally in battle
As a governor transferred from other places, in fact, the governors of various places have their own unspeakable secrets, it seems that they are very majestic, in the world, second to none, but in fact there is not as beautiful as outsiders think, there will be giants in various places and groups that have already been formed, these people are very energetic, although on the surface they dare not face the governor head-on.
But in fact, these people can completely disobey a governor like him, as long as he Xiong Wencan wants to do something and slightly involve their interests, these people will secretly make him stumbling, or even simply disrespect the order, and he Xiong Wencan is helpless against these people.
If he wants to do something, then he must rely on those local generals, but what the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are like now, in fact, he also knows very well that these generals are arrogant and incomparable, and they are not very capable, but the means of greedy for the Mexican army to deduct military rations are all good hands, and the matter of fighting has become a sideline for them.
Most of these generals are hereditary, with the shadow of their ancestors, they have already formed their own power in the local area, although now they are still heavy on civil and military, on the surface, these generals have to listen to him, but in fact, these guys are mostly some wine bags and rice bags, and they are not enough to succeed and have more than enough to lose.
Judging from the two incidents in which Zhu Qinxiang and Zhu Yifeng fought against the sea wolves, these local military generals in Fujian are basically useless, otherwise, they would not have caused such trouble.
Therefore, if he Xiong Wencan wants to make achievements in Fujian, then it is indispensable to have a team under his own control, to put it bluntly, he is a force that can be used as a gunman.
And at present, once you can recruit Yu Xiaotian, there is no doubt that Yu Xiaotian will be the most suitable candidate, although this person has a high reputation in the rivers and lakes and is very strong, but after all, he belongs to the grassroots class, and he is also a thief.
So this time for Zhao'an Yu Xiaotian, as long as he succeeds, then it will indeed be beneficial to his future career and no harm, since Yu Xiaotian does have the heart to accept Zhao'an now, so why can't he just take a step back? Will Hyoten become his subordinate?
Thinking of this, Xiong Wencan took a deep breath, nodded and said: "Since this is the case, then send someone to send a message to Qian Xiaocheng, if Lu Wenheng can't talk to Yu Xiaotian this time, then you might as well stabilize him first, this official also wants to see this Yu Xiaotian, what kind of person is it!" ……”
After the first peace talks in Tantou Town did not make progress, Yu Xiaotian temporarily took a boat to Haitan Island, and now Haitan Island has been controlled by the sea wolf, the original island of more than a dozen piers beacons, now all taken over by the sea wolf, and the sea wolf on the west coast of Haitan Island, but also began to build a temporary wharf, for the sea wolf's warships and merchant ships to dock, or to shelter from the wind and supply.
After the sea wolf completely controlled Haitan Island, the situation on Haitan Island, which was originally chaotic, began to be controlled, and it turned out that as a large island hanging alone in the sea, it has always been a gathering place for pirates and pirates, as well as maritime merchants, and pirates and merchants traded here.
In recent years, as the sea wolves have gradually become stronger, the number of pirates in the area of Haitan Island has been decreasing, but small groups of pirates still often haunt the vicinity of Haitan Island, and often sneak up on the island to supply or sneak attack the fishing villages on the island.
Although the sea wolf has repeatedly strengthened the crackdown on these small groups of pirates, these pirates are actually some fishermen, fishing when they have nothing to do, and they will turn into pirates when they have the opportunity to make a profit, so all along, the population of Haitan Island is very small, the huge Haitan Island, the total population is less than 3,000 people, and there are hundreds of officers and soldiers stationed on the island.
These officers and soldiers never thought about arresting thieves in ordinary times, and even often wore civilian clothes to engage in pirate trading, so the fishermen living on Haitan Island lived in this fear for many years.
Now Haitan Island is officially controlled by the sea wolf, this chaotic situation can be regarded as the beginning of a complete reversal, the sea wolf people who landed on the island, the limited fishing village on the island was cleaned up, the fishermen in the fishing village were completely disrupted, and the household as a unit was resettled, so that the fishermen who were usually busy fishing and stealing at leisure time were disrupted and monitored, and they could only do their job honestly.
But with the control of the sea wolf, the life of these fishermen has become much better, they can basically rely on fishing to meet their living needs, and naturally they are not willing to do the business of licking blood on the knife edge.
In addition, the land area on Haitan Island that can be used for pioneering cultivation is very large, and there is a large amount of grassland on the island that can be used as pasture, and Haitan Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides, it is a pretty good pasture for raising horses in the south, in the Tang and Song dynasties, this is the ranch of the government, and in the Yuan Dynasty, it is also used as the pasture of the government.
Traces of the old pastures can be seen all over the island, which shows that this is indeed a relatively good grazing place.
And what the sea wolf lacks most now is horses, whether it is Nanri Island that they controlled before, or the current Tamsui, Keelung and other places, they are not suitable for pasture grazing, which is also one of the main reasons why Yu Xiaotian took advantage of this time to take Haitan Island, he must make some preparations for his army in advance, and if one day, when he wants to lead the army on land, he will temporarily cramle to get war horses, I am afraid it will be too late.
Therefore, after the Seawolf Department landed on the island, they quickly carried out a detailed inspection of Haitan Island, carved out a large area on the island, and officially established the Seawolf Group Army Horse Farm.
Under Yu Xiaotian's order, the Seawolf Group gathered all kinds of free-range horses in their territory and began to transport them to the Haitan Island Horse Farm, where they began to breed and breed.
In addition, since the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Yu Xiaotian has sent people to the north to contact the Dongjiang Army in the Liaodong area, and even tried every means to contact the Tartars, on the one hand, to export grain and other goods to the Dongjiang Army, on the other hand, to export some luxury consumer goods to the Tartars, through such means, initially in the Liaodong area, the establishment of a primary commercial network, the sea wolf's goods imported into the Liaodong area.
However, in exchange, those who were ordered to go north to do business did not return gold and silver, but horses in exchange, and transported the horses they obtained in batches to the south by ship, and finally arrived on Nanri Island for private breeding.
But at present, this is basically a loss-making transaction, and the Houjin Tartars are not fools, although they also like all kinds of luxury goods imported to them by the sea wolf, but they also know the importance of the war horse, and they are still quite wary of exchanging horses for these goods.
After all, they have to rely on war horses to fight or flee for their lives in Liaodong, and no war horses are impossible, and Mao Wenlong has no cash on hand, and he naturally welcomes the food imported to them by the sea wolf, but he often defaults on the payment and gives the sea wolf a white note, even if it is settled with a horse, it is often an old horse or a wounded horse, which makes the sea wolf personnel who work in Liaodong very unhappy.
After two years, although the sea wolf exported a large number of materials to Liaodong, but the number of horses exchanged for it was quite limited, only four or five hundred in total, most of which were old horses or geldings, even so, because of the long-distance transportation, the transportation and feeding conditions on the ship were limited, and the horses were not suitable for life on the ship, and nearly half of the horses died in the transportation to the south.
In the end, the number of horses that could reach Nanri Island was only more than 200 in total, of which the number of horses that could be used as stallions in good health was only thirty or forty after selection, and the rest were not suitable for use as stallions at all, so they could only be domesticated for a period of time, and their bodies were conditioned and handed over to the army for use.
As for the more than 100 horses they used to find everywhere, most of them were very short Yunnan horses or crossbred horses, some of these horses were not as tall as donkeys, and they were really pitiful when they were war horses, of course, they would not use these horses to expand and domesticate in the future, but they were temporarily gathered for domestication for a period of time, and temporarily supplied to the army for temporary use.
Therefore, although the sea wolf occupied Haitan Island and enclosed a huge pasture, the number of horses in the pasture is really pitiful.
Fortunately, Xiaotian is not too anxious now, after all, there is still a period of time before the world is completely chaotic, and he still has a chance to prepare, and it is not bad to put up the framework first, and through various means in the future, he believes that one day, the sea wolf can form a usable cavalry.
Taking advantage of this time when there was nothing to do, Yu Xiaotian stayed on Haitan Island, inspected the situation in various parts of Haitan Island by the way, and instructed the Sea Wolf to build lighthouses in some places on the island for future ships to sail at night.
Of course, the other members of the Sea Wolf must not be idle during this time, since they failed to reach an agreement with the official this time, Yu Xiaotian of course would not let his subordinates relent, on the contrary, after he returned to Haitan Island from Tantou Town, he immediately ordered the commanders of all places to increase the intensity of attacks on land.
Therefore, after Yu Xiaotian left the Minjiang River Estuary, the sea wolf troops distributed in various places along the coast of Fujian Province all worked hard and began to increase the intensity of land raids, while the sea wolf ships operating in the Minjiang River Estuary simply blocked the Minjiang River Estuary, and all ships were not allowed to enter and leave the Minjiang River Estuary.
For a time, police reports came and went one after another along the coast of Fujian, and documents asking for help flew all over the sky, and they flew to Fuzhou City one after another, which made the Yamen of the three divisions of Fujian very nervous, and one by one they were miserable, and they didn't know how to deal with this situation for a while.
Xiong Wencan, as the governor of Fujian, of course, would get these news as soon as possible, but Xiong Wencan did not show too much nervousness.
After Qian Xiaocheng returned to Fuzhou, he carefully told Xiong Wencan about the situation of their peace talks with Yu Xiaotian in Tantou Town, and after everyone discussed it, they were more sure of Yu Xiaotian's true thoughts.
As for Lu Wenheng's trip to Tantou Town, it can be said that Yu Xiaotian made him disgraced and returned to Fuzhou City, and he inevitably had to report to Xiong Wencan about the trip.
Xiong Wencan comforted Lu Wenheng and asked Lu Wenheng to go back to rest, and after Lu Wenheng returned to the mansion, he found that he had unexpectedly received a generous gift from the sea wolf, and even Li Yi personally came to the door to apologize to Lu Wenheng.
After listening to Li Yi's explanation, Lu Wenheng understood why Yu Xiaotian would make things so difficult for him in Tantou Town, and couldn't help but sigh, for the sake of this unexpected generous face, he could only admit it, who let him be unlucky, and put on such a thing, but let him come out when he shouldn't have come out, and it was inevitable that he would be deflated.
In fact, Yu Xiaotian didn't want to offend Lu Wenheng, Lu Wenheng was an official in Fuzhou as a whole, and his official reputation was quite good, and he had been an official in Fujian for a long time, and he had a high reputation among Fujian officials, since Yu Xiaotian wanted to cool off under Xiong Wencan's big tree in the future, but he didn't want to offend people like Lu Wenheng to the extreme, so although when he was in Tantou Town, he was against Lu Wenheng everywhere, but after the matter was over, this misunderstanding still had to be solved. Otherwise, maybe Lu Wenheng will give him a stumbling block at some point, although he is not afraid, but it is better to reduce some troubles.
Even after Qian Xiaocheng returned to Fuzhou, he secretly received a generous gift, which made Qian Xiaocheng more relieved and more confident in the future recruitment.
Under the mediation of everyone, more than ten days later, Yu Xiaotian received a message from Li Yi again, saying that Xiong Wencan had been confirmed, and he was still waiting for Yu Xiaotian's arrival in Tantou Town five days later.
After Yu Xiaotian read the news, Ha Lu Ha Da Lu laughed a few times and ordered him to prepare for departure......
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