After playing the surname Zhou sent by Chu Cai, Yu Xiaotian ordered all the places on Nanri Island, including the sea wolf, to enter a state of alert, and at the same time ordered the merchant fleet to temporarily stop taking the shipping lanes around Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Chaozhou, and detour the route away from the coast, bypassing this area, and if it is necessary to go through this area, no more signs of the sea wolves are allowed to be hung, and their identities are hidden, and the province has become the target of revenge by Chu Cai's old men.

In addition, as an outpost at the southern end of Nanri Island, Cormorant Island in the south has increased a small-scale fleet composed of five patrol ships to strengthen the monitoring of the southern waters of Nanri Island.

As for the sea wolves, all of them have entered a state of high alert, continuing to maintain a state of training on the east coast of Nanri Island, and can be dispatched at any time to meet the attack of Chu Cailao's large number of men and horses.

Even Fang An on the side of Tamsui Village was told to raise the vigilance of Tamsui Village, and sent a fifty-man combat squad and four clippers to strengthen the garrison on the side of Tamsui Village, and also transported the latest 12-pounder cannon and several six-pounder cannons to Tamsui Village with the fleet, and strengthened Fang An.

As for the Jilong Bay side, Yu Xiaotian is not too worried, now the Jilong Bay fortifications have basically been completed, or the function of starting to use, if Chu Cailao wants to fight where to fight, the two forts at the mouth of the bay alone are enough for the guy to drink a pot.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian didn't really fight alone, and sent someone to send news to Feng Xi, a small group of peers who were active in Fuzhou, and Meng Jie, who were active in Fuzhou, asking them to pay attention to Chu Cailao's movements in the near future.

Even on Yan Siqi's side, Yu Xiaotian also sent someone to inform them, asking Yan Siqi to help pay attention to Chu Cailao's situation, once Chu Cailao is found to have moved, please Yan Siqi must send someone to inform them.

Nowadays, Yan Siqi is developing very rapidly in the Bengang area, taking advantage of his identity as a person from southern Fujian, he sent his subordinates to the southern Fujian area, recruited a large number of immigrants and transported them to his place by ship for expansion, and there is a great tendency to show his skills.

Moreover, during this time, Yan Siqi and the sea wolf had a very close relationship, and often sent ships to Nanri Island to trade, and transported their recent and Taichung specialties to Nanri Island for sale, Yu Xiaotian let Mao Shengyuan basically collect all the orders, and gave them a good price, to some extent, became a sales point and nest owner of Yan Siqi.

However, Yan Siqi did not put the treasure on Xiaotian, after all, they are peers, and there are competitive factors at the same time, and Yan Siqi has made friends with a lot of giants in the coastal area, and there are not many shipping outlets.

Relying on his good popularity, and there are many ways to get involved, Yan Siqi ran back to Taiyuan Island from the Japanese side, and his strength developed very rapidly, according to the news that came back to the news that by the beginning of February after the year, Yan Siqi had recruited thousands of immigrants from the land, and began to expand in the Taichung area, and also recruited hundreds of subordinates, and seized more than 20 ships, so that the number of large ships under his command soared to more than 30, and the subordinates reached about 1,000 people, and the scale on the surface was not small.

In addition, there is another very important news, that is, Zheng Yiguan, who has not appeared for a long time, at the end of last year, brought a few boats and Li Dan's subordinates in the past, and also arrived in Bengang and threw himself under Yan Siqi's account to obey orders.

In history, some people once thought that Li Dan and Yan Siqi were the same person, because the experiences of the two were very similar, but it turned out that the two of them were not the same person.

But Li Dan and Yan Siqi also know each other, and their friendship is quite good, and later Zheng Yiguan followed Li Dan and also met Yan Siqi, Yan Siqi also admired Zheng Yiguan very much like Li Dan and regarded him as a brother, so Zheng Yiguan was Li Dan's righteous son on the face and the number one person under Li Dan, and in fact, he also had a very deep friendship with Yan Siqi.

Since the Dutch withdrew from Penghu last year, Li Dan basically had nothing to do with the Dutch, and Zheng Yiguan had nothing to do, so Li Dan returned to Japan with Zheng Yiguan, and at the end of last year, Zheng Yiguan was idle in Japan, so he brought a few boats to Taiyuan Island, found Yan Siqi, and temporarily helped Yan Siqi do things here in Yan Siqi.

At this time, Li Dan also encountered a more tricky thing, that is, there was some friction between Li Dan and the British.

Yu Xiaotian had no way of knowing what it was, but during a casual chat between the two of them when Zheng Yiguan came to Nanri Island a year ago, Yu Xiaotian learned some things about this from Zheng Yiguan's mouth.

It's a pity that Yu Xiaotian knows very little about the historical materials in this area, and he only knew about characters like Li Dan and Yan Siqi in the past, and he knew more or less about them, but he hadn't read the detailed historical materials, so he couldn't know more about Li Dan.

On the whole, Yu Xiaotian and Zheng Yiguan at this time, the two got along relatively happily, after all, the two sides did not have too many conflicts, each did its own thing, and there were some overlaps in interests between each other.

In the past few months, a total of 50 stone of raw silk has been delivered to the Dutch, so that the Dutch have begun to look at the sea wolf and begin to regard it as a partner to work with.

Moreover, the Dutch also learned about Yu Xiaotian's strength through Zheng Yiguan, and sent people to contact Yu Xiaotian, hoping that Yu Xiaotian would help them intercept passing merchant ships in the Fuzhou area, so that they would instead go to the city of Geranza to trade with the Dutch, instead of going to Manila to trade with the Spaniards.

Yu Xiaotian did not immediately reach an agreement with the Dutch, because now he was happy to be the target of both sides between the Spaniards and the Dutch, and he did not want to offend either side for the time being, so that he could get more benefits.

Through this relationship, now Yu Xiaotian can not only purchase saltpeter from the Spaniards, but even the Dutch have agreed to provide Yu Xiaotian with saltpeter at a preferential price, and even the iron that Yu Xiaotian urgently needs, the Dutch also said that they can find a way to solve it for Yu Xiaotian.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian got another way to obtain iron materials, so that his weapons industry on Nanri Island can be more safe, once something happens in Guangdong, he cut off the supply of goods, of course, in this era of Fujian, there are also a lot of large and small private and government-run iron yards, in order to diversify the purchase channels, Yu Xiaotian this year, but also continue to expand the purchase of iron in Fujian, and now has begun to hook up with a private iron yard in Zhenghe County, where to purchase more than 2,000 catties of iron every month.

At present, the sea wolf has stored nearly 100,000 catties of iron just on Nanri Island, which can maintain the needs of Yu Xiaotian's weapons industry for a considerable period of time, and Yu Xiaotian considered not putting his eggs in one basket, in addition to storing iron materials on Nanri Island, he also began to reserve a large number of iron materials in Jilong Bay and Tamsui Village.

On the whole, Yu Xiaotian and Yan Siqi get along relatively well, although they are not allies, but they are definitely friends, and now that he is Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cailao, it is natural to notify Yan Siqi.

And after Yan Siqi heard the news of Yu Xiaotian and Chu Cailao's feud, he sent Zheng Yiguan to Nanri Island to meet Yu Xiaotian in person to learn more about the reason for their feud this time.

In mid-February, Zheng Yiguan came to Nanri Island by boat and met Yu Xiaotian, who was preparing for war.

As soon as Zheng Yiguan saw Yu Xiaotian, he asked straight to the point: "Yu Dangjia, this time I don't know why you have made such a fuss in Chu Da's family, can you tell me that you are in Xia, don't hide it from your family, your father-in-law and Chu Da have a good relationship, and you are also familiar with him, if it is not a big event, you are willing to mediate between the two masters!" ”

After Yu Xiaotian listened, he pondered a little, from Zheng Yiguan's words, he could hear that Zheng Yiguan was really not given in vain, although he followed Li Dan to mix in Japan, but over the years he has been very familiar with the sea in Fujian and Guangdong, it can be seen that this guy has a wide range of contacts, and the road is really quite wide, and he actually has a friendship with Chu Cailao, although there is a relationship with Li Dan, but it can also be seen that Zheng Yiguan does pay attention to making friends on weekdays, no wonder he can achieve a great cause, This is also inseparable from his usual accumulation.

And at present, it seems that Zheng Yiguan is still very good to him, he is very anxious to come over this time, and he showed a worried look as soon as he met, obviously worried about him, which Yu Xiaotian is really a little affectionate.

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