As soon as Yu Xiaotian returned to Nanri Island, he learned of a very unpleasant thing, two months earlier he had sent three ships to Manila to trade with the Spaniards, to buy another batch of saltpeter, sulfur, canvas and spices from the South Seas.

However, when he returned to Nanri Island, he learned that their business had been ruined this time, and on the way back, when they passed through the area of Chaozhou Prefecture, they were intercepted by a group of pirates.

Three merchant ships of the sea wolf tried to break through and escape, but were rounded up by the other party, and finally one ship was captured by the other party, one ship was burned, and only one boat finally escaped, and the merchant fleet lost nearly 40 troops in the dead and wounded, and only less than 20 troops returned to Nanri Island with a small amount of saltpeter and canvas.

Yu Xiaotian exploded his lungs when he heard it, for so long, they were bullying people, where had they been bullied like this? So as soon as he returned to the wolf's den on Nanri Island, when he heard about it, he took the case and roared angrily: "Who the fuck did this? Figuring it out? ”

Now in charge of the activities of the merchant fleet is Zhao Mazi, because of Li Yi's cooperation, the original plan in Xiaotian to let Zhao Mazi go to the land to open a shop changed the plan, Li Yi was fully responsible for Mao Shengyuan's business, Yu Xiaotian sent other people to various places in Mao Shengyuan to cooperate with Li Yi to manage Mao Shengyuan's business, so that Zhao Mazi also freed his hand, and after the establishment of the merchant fleet, Zhao Mazi took over this matter.

Therefore, this matter can only be explained by Zhao Mazi to Yu Xiaotian.

"The brother who came back has already said that it was Chu Cailao's subordinates from Guangdong who robbed our ship in Chaozhou this time! We've made it clear who we're like, but they still won't buy it, and they want us to stop the ship! Our men refused to stop the ship, and they were besieged!

At first they only had four boats, and we were not afraid of them, and we also fired cannons to destroy one of their boats, killing several of them, but then they recruited more boats, and our men could not resist it, so we had to find a way to break through, but we were outnumbered, and still broke two boats and dozens of brothers! Zhao Mazi said to Xiaotian.

"Chu Cailao?" After Yu Xiaotian heard this, his brows immediately furrowed.

Chu Cailao basically hadn't heard of it before he came to this era, but after he did this business in this era, he could be said to be thunderous about this person's name.

Chu Cai is a very famous guy among some of the big pirates in this era along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, this person started much earlier than Zheng Zhilong, and was already a big thief at sea during the Wanli period.

And their organizational form is not the same as that of the sea wolf, which is a relatively well-organized group, and from top to bottom they are under the management of the helmsman of Xiaotian.

But a pirate group like Chu Cailao belongs to a loose form of management, Chu Cailao is nominally the boss and spiritual leader of this group, but he has many shopkeepers under him, and these shopkeepers are composed of small pirate groups, the small shopkeeper has two or three boats, dozens of subordinates, and the big shopkeeper may have dozens of ships and hundreds of subordinates.

Usually they are busy with their own things, once Chu Cailao, the big boss, wants to do a big deal, he will notify these subordinates to assemble, listen to his greetings, and follow him to do a big job.

It is said that this person is the most powerful in Guangdong, in the first year of the Apocalypse, he once gathered his men to attack Jieyang, Guangdong several times, and then also fought Haicheng, and the government was the enemy.

Chu Cailao relied on the strength of his subordinates, not only often hijacked ships at sea, but also attacked villages and towns and even county towns along the coast from time to time, which was a headache for the government.

In this way, the government has no choice but to watch this guy arrogant at sea, but he can't have enough strength to exterminate him.

Therefore, Chu Cailao and his subordinates are very rampant in the coastal areas of Guangdong and southern Fujian in the south, and no one buys face, as long as they take a fancy to it, no matter who you are, just rob the ship.

It's unfortunate that this time the sea wolf's merchant ships are targeted by them, so they don't care whose ships these merchant ships are, after all, Yu Xiaotian's sea wolves have not risen in the Fuzhou area for a long time, and their fame is far from being so big as to make Chu Cailao and his subordinates throw rats.

So this time Chu Cailao's men robbed the sea wolf's ship, it was not a big deal, at least in their eyes, this matter was not a big deal at all.

When he heard that it was Chu Cai's old subordinates who robbed their ship this time, Yu Xiaotian scratched his head a little, breathed a sigh of relief, slowly sat back in the chair, and began to calm down.

"Big boss, Chu Cai is not an outsider, I'm afraid we really can't offend them at the moment, after all, we have to go south to do business in the future, and we have to go to Guangdong every month to buy iron, and we have to go to Manila and Macao to ship, once we fall out with them, although we are not necessarily afraid of them, but our ship is afraid that when we go south in the future, it will be even more unsafe." Zhao Mazi shook his head and persuaded Xiaotian.

After listening to it, Yu Xiaotian felt that what Zhao Mazi said was also reasonable, but he always felt that this breath was a little unbearable, they suffered such a big loss, if they didn't get back some face, it was really unreasonable, and the most important thing was that after this matter spread, it would cause a psychological shadow to the sea wolf tribes, and when it came to people like Chu Cailao in the future, they sea wolves couldn't afford to provoke them, so they had to hide.

This is also completely contrary to the regulations that he proposed to his subordinates to fight in the face of the enemy, if he presses this matter and does not say anything, then his subordinates will have an excuse to avoid the enemy in the future, people are powerful, if they can't fight, they won't fight! The provincial ones are in trouble and make trouble for the sea wolves.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian believes that if he doesn't want to get back some face, I am afraid that this matter will have a very bad impact on his future development, and may even cause irreparable losses.

He shook his head and said, "That's what I said, but have you thought about it, if we endure this dumb loss this time, how will we explain to our brothers in the future?" If the brother is killed, he will be killed, and he will be compensated.

What will our brothers think in the future? When the brothers of the merchant fleet went to sea to trade in the future, did they encounter a hijacking of a ship, and they simply dropped the sail and let others slaughter and pull them down? ”

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Liu Yidao immediately took the case and said angrily: "What's wrong with Chu Cailao? Aren't they just more people and more boats than us? In the opinion of our subordinates, we can't just lose our prestige and morale in this matter, and it's over!

If you want me to say, since this matter has come out, then we have to get it back! Although we don't have as many ships as Chu Cailao and them now, and we don't have as many manpower as them, we have good cannons on our ships, and there are so many powerful guns, I'm afraid of them.

The big boss took us to find them to do a fight, although it may not be like killing Zhang Hu and Chen Jiu, killing Chu Cailao, but at least it will make them suffer a loss, knowing how powerful our sea wolf is! In the future, let them see our ship, and first weigh whether they can rob our ship! ”

Liu Yidao is now working under Yu Xiaotian, so he naturally has to consider the problem from Yu Xiaotian's point of view, he belongs to the first line of the warship fleet, and among the sea wolves, he is considered a martial artist, so he has to be aggressive.

His words immediately aroused the support of Ma Xiao and others, and the leaders of this group of warships immediately shouted one by one to ask Yu Xiaotian to gather the fleet, kill the Chaozhou side, find Chu Cai's boss, and kill Chu Cai's majesty and his subordinates.

But their opinions are on the left with Zhao Mazi and Li Gouzi, who are mainly responsible for logistics and business matters, and they are not very interested in such a thing of fighting and killing, they value silver more and are stable.

These martial artists said lightly, gathering the fleet and brazenly going south to find Chu Cailao's trouble, how much of an operation would be involved? Nowadays, there are dozens of ships in the warship fleet, mainly scattered outside, patrolling outside, inspecting the passing merchant ships, and after all of them are recovered, who will do this work?

No one sets up a card for inspection, naturally some people want to take advantage of the loophole and not pay the toll, if the sea wolf does not pay the toll, the sea wolf will lose a lot, and more than a thousand people, once dozens of ships go south together, how many supplies will the council hall prepare? How many more ships of the merchant fleet will be deployed to cooperate with the operation and provide them with sustenance?

How much does it cost? And now Yu Xiaotian is vigorously operating Jilong Bay, which has opened another freshwater village, and it is the time to spend a lot of money, and now he suddenly gathers the fleet and troops to go south to fight with Chu Cai's boss, and he has to spend a lot of silver, obviously the council thinks that they do not have the ability to support such a big operation.

Internally and externally, if this battle is to be fought, it is likely that the gains will outweigh the losses in the end, and it may also cause greater difficulties for them to go south to do business in the future.

Therefore, the council believes that this matter can be turned into a big thing and a small matter, often walking by the river, where there are people who don't get their shoes wet, they can't only be robbed by their sea wolves in this world, and no one is allowed to rob their sea wolves!

So the two opinions were placed in front of Yu Xiaotian, which made Yu Xiaotian very embarrassed, because if they fight, Zhao Mazi and their worries are reasonable, once they tear their faces with Chu Cailao, they will definitely stare at the merchant ships of the sea wolf going south in the future, and they will not be able to do the business of the sea wolf in the future?

In addition, Chu Cailao is not Chen Jiu Zhanghu's generation, this person's strength is too strong, and the water is too deep, now no one can tell where Chu Cailao's nest is, if you want to fight a snake and fight seven inches, and kill Chu Cailao directly, you can't even find his nest, this battle is really not easy to fight.

And if he provokes this guy, this guy will definitely retaliate, and it is not impossible to gather a large number of subordinates to attack him Nanri Island, and then he will face a fierce battle, and the odds of victory are at most five or five, and it will seriously affect many of his established plans.

Therefore, the large-scale mobilization of troops to retaliate was quickly vetoed by Yu Xiaotian, but according to what the council said, it is not his character to press this dumb loss at this time, so how should he deal with this matter? Not only to let his subordinates know that his surname Yu is not easy to bully, and he can't make this matter so big that it can't be ended, Yu Xiaotian touched his chin and pondered.

(Today's special thanks to Green Feather Wings, I'm a wolf, and eastflowing three friends for their tips!) With you here, it is the motivation for me to insist on code words! Thank you for your help! ）