After another two days, Yu Xiaotian took people back home with nothing and returned to their Treasure Island, not that they did not encounter the passing merchant ships again, but these merchant ships were very careful, and after approaching the Fuzhou area, they began to sail close to the coast, and some ships formed more than two or three fleets and moved together, which made Yu Xiaotian and his gang of little pirates only sigh and couldn't talk in a hurry.

After wandering around for two days, seeing that he still had to go to Dalian Island to pick up the goods, Yu Xiaotian had to give up this hunting operation and take people back to Treasure Island.

Through this hunting, Yu Xiaotian realized that it is not easy to be a pirate, even if he does his best to maintain the hygiene of the ship, but the conditions of this era are here, the conditions for survival on the ship are simple, and it is very hard to be active at sea for a long time.

Moreover, the performance of their ships is limited, even in the case of light loads, the speed is not fast enough, and it takes a lot of time to pursue other people's ships, and the firepower on the ships is very poor, relying on only two bowls, and even some rich merchant ships cannot be suppressed.

And their manpower is still too small, each time they come out, they can only bring about 20 people, and when they fight with people, they always feel that they are not enough, and they have to let him, the big boss, take the lead in killing the front twice.

He is not afraid of death, but this kind of thing still makes him a little depressed, he is a big boss, and now he has to rush to the front every time he goes out to do things, this is not a matter of face.

And he himself is tall and big, the goal is obvious, it is easy to become the target of the group attack, so if he goes on, he may fall into the sand if he is not careful, you must know that he is only in his twenties now, he doesn't want to die too early, the problem of manpower has become the most important problem to restrict them, and Yu Xiaotian has been thinking about this matter along the way.

The people who met the big shark this time made them very faceless, and the meat in their mouths could only be taken away by someone, but there was no way to do it.

All the problems are focused on the problem of manpower, which makes Yu Xiaotian secretly quite anxious.

However, it can't be said that they didn't gain anything from this trip, but they moved a cannon from the Liu family's ship to enrich their force, and also brought some spices and silver by the way, many of which were Spanish silver dollars, which made Yu Xiaotian open his eyes and take a few to enjoy carefully.

To say that there are a lot of good things in their hands now, the Clark porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, as well as silk, plus the Spanish silver dollars that came in hand this time, if they are placed in the future generations, they are worth a lot of money, but in this era, they can only stare dryly, and they can't exchange much silver, which makes Yu Xiaotian a little depressed.

On the way back, Yu Xiaotian took people to carefully inspect the cannon captured from the Liu family's ship, this cannon is still an old-style artillery, compared with the bowl mouth gun, the barrel length is less than one meter, the diameter of the gun chamber is about two inches, the gun wall thickness is more than one and a half inches, it seems relatively strong, it is firmly fixed on a gun carriage by the iron hoop, there is no pitching device, although it still looks very crude, but the charge is much larger than the two bowl guns they used before, so the range and power have increased a lot.

Yu Xiaotian looked around this cannon for a long time, and he didn't see what this cannon should be called, but after returning to Treasure Island, he said the name of this cannon with a horse face.

"This cannon is called a hundred guns! It's a little bigger than the bowl mouth, which means that it can be loaded with hundreds of guns, and once the cannon is fired, there are no people or animals within fifty steps! It's amazing!

At the beginning, there was this thing on the official warship, we used to meet the official army, and we suffered the loss of this kind of thing, and one of my brothers was killed by this cannon, and he was blown away at the first time, and his death was extremely miserable!

The boat of the Liu family that you ran into this time was quite lucky, and it was not directly hit by them, otherwise, it would have lost a few brothers again! Ma Yan looked at the cannon that had unloaded the ship, and said with emotion as he touched the barrel of the cannon.

Yu Xiaotian then knew that this cannon was originally called Baizi Gong, but I had never heard of it before, it is estimated that it is a development model of the bowl mouth gun, compared to the famous tiger squat cannon, this thing is not very famous, but for them, it is also a rare weapon, so this time they went out to this trip, and the biggest gain is probably this cannon.

In addition, they also got a barrel and a half of gunpowder from the Liu family's ship, which was enough for them to use for a while! That's a nice bonus.

Although they already had some saltpeter and sulfur on hand, they lacked high-quality charcoal and tools to crush saltpeter and sulfur, so they could not produce their own gunpowder for the time being, so they could only rely on their stocks for a period of time.

Hearing that Yu Xiaotian and they ran into the shark Zhang Hu's boat, Ma Yan sighed and said: "This shark is not easy to meet, we can't afford to provoke them, so we can only avoid them!" Thinking about it, they didn't even dare to come over easily, this time they didn't attack you, it can be regarded as saving face!

It's just that this shark has too much appetite! If you open your mouth, you will have to ask for five hundred taels of silver, where do we have so much silver for them right now! ”

Yu Xiaotian shook his head and said: "Don't care about them first, I won't give them this money easily, at the moment, the little silver we have in hand is not enough for our own use, where is the spare money to honor them!" ”

"But didn't the three masters surnamed Wang say it this time? We have 10 days to send them over? If they don't go, will they come to the door? In that case, we're going to run away again! Ma said with a worried face.

Yu Xiaotian touched the beard growing on his chin, thought about it and said, "Probably not, there are a lot of islands in this area, and I didn't tell him where we stayed, even if they want to find us, they can't search for us island by island!" Let's delay it for a while, anyway, I won't give this money out at the moment! The others will be released first, for now, let's go to Dalian Island to pick up the goods, and by the way, we will get these spices out this time, and then exchange them for some silver! ”

After just a little rest for a night, Yu Xiaotian once again led the boat towards the direction of Dalian Island, this time they didn't encounter anything on the way, just met two fishing boats, for such fishing boats, they were not interested, and sailed directly to Dalian Island.

As soon as they heard that Yu Xiaotian and they were coming, Steward Li immediately greeted them on the dock, still with a smile on his face, and greeted Yu Xiaotian to the island's warehouse.

The banquet is a custom, there is nothing to say, Yu Xiaotian briefly talked about the things of these days, and Steward Li smiled during the banquet: "This is their rule, not deliberately embarrassing you for anything!" This tiger has a violent temperament and likes to kill, but it is reasonable, anyone who works on the sea here in Fuzhou must give him an effect, as long as he is given an effect, he can do things in this area in the future!

If you're short on money, it's okay to put it off first, but it's better to send them over later! If you run into them in the future, they will turn against you! It won't be easy to do then!

In case you can't get it together, you can talk to the shopkeeper when you go back, and ask our shopkeeper to lend you some first! Let's talk about everything! ”

Yu Xiaotian shook his head and said: "It's not necessary, so it's not that they deliberately make things difficult for us!" This time, but I don't know if you can prepare the goods for us, if so, it is best to load the ship immediately, we should not stay here for a long time! ”

Steward Li immediately nodded and said: "Please rest assured that the shopkeeper is the most trustworthy in our Li family's business, and if it is said that it will be ten days, there will be no problem!"

The goods have been prepared, and now they are already stored in the warehouse, which is just equivalent to the shopkeeper to pick up the goods! ”

Yu Xiaotian was very satisfied after hearing this, and nodded and said, "Steward Li is really refreshing!" From now on, it will be much more convenient for us to do things! ”

During the banquet, Yu Xiaotian took out another list, but this time he didn't want to buy goods, but took out a list, which listed the names of the dead boatmen on the Liu family's boat and their addresses, and took out another two hundred taels of silver, handed it to Steward Li, and said: "This time, there is something to trouble Steward Li, here are two hundred taels of silver, which is for the families of some dead boatmen on the Liu family's boat before, these boatmen are not easy to earn money, and they can't get any pension from the Liu family after they die!"

After the last shipment, we agreed to take out some silver to send to them, but now it is inconvenient for us to go to the Funing Prefecture area, thinking that you still have business in Funing, we want to ask you to help distribute the silver to the families of those boatmen, so that they can live! I hope that Steward Li will help you a lot! ”

Looking at this list and the two hundred taels of silver, Steward Li was quite surprised, he couldn't believe it, people like Yu Xiaotian, who became pirates, actually thought about giving pensions to those boatmen who had worked with him before, I am afraid that no one would believe this kind of thing, you must know that the boat running to sea may die at any time, this is the shipowner's business, and it is not Yu Xiaotian's turn to take care of it.

So he asked in surprise: "What's the trouble with Shopkeeper Yu?" Their proprietors do all these things, so how can they get you to give them all this money? ”

Yu Xiaotian said: "Although Yu has known these people for a short time, the sixth uncle is an old acquaintance with them, and the Liu family is stingy in nature, and now there is no cargo on the ship, and he will definitely not take out the money to give these boatmen a pension!" These people are the hope of the family, now that they are gone, their family will not be able to continue, although I Yu can not manage their lives, but I can't sit idly by, the sixth uncle is a righteous person, we juniors, how can we not talk a little together, so we can only take out a little silver, how much to make them better!

In addition, there is a Hu Cheng, he was also forcibly detained by me and followed into the gang, his family is also in Fu'an County, so I also want to ask you to find a way to take his family out, and the province will stay at home to suffer the anger of the Liu family, I have no other strengths, but there is one, but as long as it is a person who follows me to do things, Yu can not be treated badly, and I hope that Steward Li will think of a way to help Yu do this! Yu is grateful! ”

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Steward Li sighed again, and immediately put away the list and the two hundred taels of silver, patted his chest and said: "I didn't expect the shopkeeper Yu to be such a righteous person, this matter will be next, presumably our shopkeeper will not object!" Please rest assured that this matter is wrapped up in the lower body, and the silver will be sent to their families! Come! In the next toast to the shopkeeper a glass ......"

(Brothers, from tomorrow, officially honestly start to reassure the code word, and the update will also start tomorrow, changing to two chapters a day, and it will break out from time to time!) But I hope that the brothers will help cast a few more red votes in the future, and give me a look at this book, at least you can see it on the classified red vote list! Thank you, brothers, your support will be my greatest motivation! ）