Zheng Yiguan is indeed a little anxious now, although his strength is strong, but he came a little late, there is almost no more territory along the coast of Fujian for him to seize, there is Yu Xiaotian's sea wolf in the north, controlling most of the sea surface of Xinghua Mansion from Meizhou Bay to Funing Prefecture, he does not dare to easily go to battle with Yu Xiaotian without solving Yan Siqi.

And in the south, Chu Cailao is the big guy, Chu Cailao is not a character to provoke, even if he was beaten by a sea wolf some time ago, but the starving camel is bigger than a horse, he still has considerable strength.

And Zheng Yiguan is now because of his opposition to Yan Siqi, and his reputation is also stinky, many people think that this guy is too moral, not a good thing, and is unwilling to deal with him, and small groups of pirates are not willing to go to him to join him.

There is Yan Siqi behind him, trying to trouble him, and he does not have a decent foothold in the coastal area, so he can only entrench himself in the Penghu area, and the supply of his subordinates is very inconvenient.

There is one more thing that makes Zheng Yiguan feel depressed the most, that is, the existence of Xu Xinsu.

Xu Xinsu is a wealthy businessman in the Zhangquan area, a long time ago he went to sea to do maritime trade, and later Xu Xinsu got acquainted with Li Dan, both of them are maritime businessmen, Xu Xinsu admires Li Dan very much, and Li Dan is also very good to Xu Xinsu, so he became a brother.

But Xu Xinsu was very dissatisfied with the fact that Zheng Yiguan robbed Li Dan's inheritance after Li Dan died of illness this time, and had a lot of complaints about Zheng Yiguan, plus he and Zheng Yiguan had a dirty relationship before, so he cut off contact with Zheng Yiguan and began to work alone.

And Xu Xinsu has a lot of power in the Zhangquan area, and he also has a lot of face in the government, and he has a good relationship with the Dutch, controlling almost the entire supply of raw silk in Fujian.

Raw silk is now the favorite commodity of Western countries, although Japan can also provide some raw silk, but the quantity is very small, far less good than China's raw silk, and not as large as this side.

The Dutch had to go through Xu Xinsu to get raw silk, Xu Xinsu and Zheng Yiguan broke off their friendship, so Zheng Yiguan lost the wealth of raw silk, so Zheng Yiguan also hated Xu Xinsu to death, during this time often intercepted Xu Xinsu's ships at sea and robbed Xu Xinsu's goods.

Xu Xinsu had to strengthen his strength at sea, Xu Xinsu was mainly engaged in business in the past, and he didn't do much robbery at sea, so the strength of merchant ships was not small, but he didn't have much strength to fight with people.

So Xu Xinsu asked the Dutch to help him deal with Zheng Yiguan, and protect his merchant ships so that he could go to Dayuan to trade with the Dutch.

The Dutch have a lot of trust in Xu Xinsu, and they do need the supply of raw silk controlled by Xu Xinsu, but because of this, they are obviously unwilling to let them kill Zheng Yiguan.

Because the permanent strength of the Dutch in Taiwan itself is not much, the infantry and artillery are more than 1,000 people, and there are only a few ships, of which except for two large armed merchant ships, the rest can only be regarded as gunboats at best.

With their strength, it is obviously impossible to exterminate Zheng Yiguan, and Zheng Yiguan is now a pirate with no fixed residence, and it is difficult to find them, so the Dutch can only provide Xu Xinsu with some cannons, and let Xu Xinsu arm his own merchant ships to confront Zheng Yiguan.

But even if Xu Xinsu got the support of the Dutch, he still couldn't deal with Zheng Yiguan, so at this time Yan Siqi came to the door, because Yan Siqi was also mixed in Japan, and he had a good relationship with Li Dan, so he naturally knew Xu Xinsu, and the two of them were also a little friendly, and now they have a common enemy, so the two sides hit it off and came together to deal with Zheng Yiguan.

Xu Xinsu is not strong in force, but he is familiar with the ground in the Zhangquan area on land, and he has money, while Yan Siqi has ships, cannons, and manpower, and the two parties together are indeed a good choice.

So Xu Xinsu paid money, and Yan Siqi went out to provide protection for Xu Xinsu, that is, escort, so that Xu Xinsu could be relatively safe and go to sea to do business with the Dutch.

When Yu Xiaotian saw this, he threw this information on the table, and couldn't help but laugh a little, because of his appearance, Zheng Yiguan's life is really not good now, compared with the original way of his career in history, although he has inherited the mantle of Li Dan now, it can be regarded as a great increase in strength, but he has lost the stupid port that can be used as his lair, and he has more Yan Siqi and the sea wolf, two forces hostile to him.

And in the midst of the misfortune, Yan Siqi survived, did not die young as in history, leaving Zheng Yiguan a pot of ready-made good rice, but because Zheng Yiguan wanted to replace him because of his big tail, he didn't hit the fox in the end, but caused a commotion.

Now the former brothers have turned against each other, and Yan Siqi has become Zheng Yiguan's sworn enemy.

This time, Zheng Yiguan's road was not as smooth as in another time and space in history, and now he made enemies on all sides, and he didn't even have a decent place to stay, and the Dutch also began to be hostile to Zheng Yiguan because of Xu Xinsu's relationship, and categorically rejected Zheng Yiguan's request to them to buy cannons, and forbade Zheng Yiguan's ships and subordinates to go to the big man.

So can Zheng Yiguan quickly rise to become a hegemon on the sea like in another time and space in history, and now it seems that his future is indeed worrying!

In addition, among the various information collected, Yu Xiaotian also saw the news that the sea wolf Xizuo came back from the Entrenchment Jingao, that is, Macao, Zheng Yiguan asked for cannons from the Dutch but failed, and he was frequently active in Macao during this time, hoping to buy a batch of cannons from the Portuguese to strengthen his strength.

This information is a relatively important information, because Zheng Yiguan began to learn business with his uncle when he left home as a teenager, and he was first mixed in Macau, and received the baptism of Catholicism, and also gave his Christian name, which is a very important thing in his life.

He also has a considerable relationship with the Portuguese and the Catholic Church in Macau, although later he and Li Dan did not deal with the Spaniards, but with the Portuguese did not turn against each other, don't look at Portugal is now temporarily under the banner of the Spanish king, but these Portuguese and Spaniards are not close brothers, at most they are in the same bed and have different dreams, each has its own plans.

The Portuguese are not good either, they are very good at camping, and after so many years in China, they have a deep understanding of the situation in China and the way people think.

Although there is no conflict between the sea wolf and the Portuguese, there is still a lot of business with each other, and the sea wolf and other pirates do business with the Portuguese in one very different way, that is, the sea wolf does not unilaterally sell only some Chinese goods to the Portuguese, but also buys a lot of things from the Portuguese, including large quantities of hardwood, Indian canvas, cotton cloth, Indian saltpeter and Indian fine iron, and even rice from the Li Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, the vast majority of the people's consumption power was very poor, even including many landlord families, living a self-sufficient small peasant economy, with very little demand for foreign goods, only a few powerful and big businessmen or particularly wealthy people, pursuing fashion and face, will buy some luxury goods such as mirrors and glass.

Like Indian cotton cloth, although the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Spanish and even the British, have tried, wanting to use this commodity to open the Chinese market, and exchange the profits from the Ming to buy the specialties of the Ming Dynasty.

But this effort ultimately failed, because in this era Daming also has a large number of high-quality and low-cost Songjiang cloth, and does not need a large number of imported Indian cotton cloth to meet the demand, and Indian cotton cloth in the Ming Dynasty, the cost is not necessarily better than Songjiang cloth, plus farmers will often weave their own cloth, although the texture is poorer, rougher, but people who have no money, would rather choose to weave their own cloth, will not buy Indian cotton cloth.

Therefore, Westerners can now get their hands on it, and there are really not many types of goods sold to the Chinese, including slave trading, and the Chinese themselves are running all over the place, and it is impossible to buy Westerners' slaves at high prices, and the slave trade has no market in China.

In this way, in addition to a small amount of spices, dyes, glass, Western-style handicrafts, gems and jewelry, etc., some can be sold to the Chinese, and the rest of the Daming can basically be produced by themselves, and Westerners can hardly sell much to the Chinese before the Opium War.

For hundreds of years, China was almost always in a trade surplus, and Westerners could only find ways to plunder silver in various parts of the world, and then transport it to China in exchange for Chinese porcelain, tea, silk, raw silk and other goods, so that for a long time, China was in a state of inflation because of the large import of silver.

It was not until after the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in the Opium War that a series of humiliating land reparation treaties caused a large outflow of silver from China, and China's silver stock began to decline significantly.

But to the delight of the Portuguese, after encountering the sea wolves, they found that this group of sea wolves, unlike the other Chinese merchants and pirates, did not like to store large quantities of silver, but preferred some ordinary goods that did not seem to be of great value, especially all kinds of raw materials, almost all of which they liked to want.

Among them, the sea wolf's favorite things are all kinds of canvas that can be used to make sails, as well as cheap Indian cotton cloth, fine iron, rice, and hardwood, which were not sold by Westerners before, but the sea wolf wanted them, and the amount was still very large, not to mention how many they wanted, at least they could no longer buy them with white money as before.

(Grit your teeth!) All for the sake of the son! Thank you to GZG1972 and two friends for the full moon ten days for their tips! I will continue to persevere! ）