It is precisely because of the speed advantage of the sloop schooner that the Flying Fish is not only very suitable for serving as a patrol ship and a smuggling ship, but also very suitable for use as a fast cargo ship and liaison ship.

Once there is any hostile situation or major event in some places controlled by the sea wolf, the wolf den of Nanri Island, which is temporarily the center, can get the news in a short time and react, so as to buy more time to deal with the problem.

Therefore, once this new ship is built in large quantities, it will play a very huge role in helping his sea wolf in the future.

So after Yu Xiaotian reprimanded this guy for his unauthorized actions, he asked him to go down to rest, send the Flying Fish back to the ship, and conduct an overall inspection again to see if there were any problems with the structure of the hull that ran down.

And he immediately recruited Guo Fu in front of him and told Guo Fu that if the ship ran down this trip and found no problems, this kind of ship would be finalized for the time being and start mass production, and at the same time began to enlarge the proportion and try to produce a ship type of 200 to 300 materials.

In addition, because of the problem of sails, Yu Xiaotian authorized Guo Fu's craftsmen in the shipyard to put two masts on the new ships of 200 to 300 materials, and in addition to retaining the bow spinnaker, they could experimentally use Chinese-style hard sails instead of the diagonal truss sails and backmast sails on the first mast.

In this way, it may affect the speed of the ship to a certain extent, but Yu Xiaotian preliminarily estimated that even if it has an impact, it will not be very large, at least it will still exceed the current Chinese ship type by a lot, not inferior to the speed of the Galen ship that is currently widely used in Western countries, but the difficulty of manufacturing can be reduced a lot.

In short, this new ship, although it is detached from the shape of a Chinese sailing ship, is still built using the method of Chinese shipbuilding, and to some extent it can be said to be a hybrid, but it undoubtedly has a very good practicality.

With the completion of the Flying Fish, the craftsmen of the shipyard have also been rewarded richly from top to bottom, which makes the craftsmen of the shipyard full of enthusiasm, and the entire shipyard has fallen into a frenzy of shipbuilding boom in the near future.

The two dockyards were no longer used for repairs by other ships, and were all used to start the construction of this new type of ship, and even to speed up the construction, the two slipways on the shore of the shipyard were used for the construction of new ships.

In addition to the pine and cypress wood commonly used in the construction of merchant ships on land, Yu Xiaotian also spared no expense to go south to Liangguang and Nanyang to purchase solid teak, and sent people to the Yangtze River to purchase insect-resistant camphor wood as a shipbuilding raw material for the shipbuilding.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian's long-cherished plan for the development of the Tamsui River began to be launched by Yu Xiaotian after September.

In the early stage, he left a small number of troops in Caojia Village, and asked them to investigate the situation within a radius of 100 miles along the banks of the Tamsui River, and later Yu Xiaotian sent them more manpower in succession, so that by September, it had reached the level of more than 40 people.

Although they had to undertake the work of resettling these members of the Sea Wolf Division, the Sea Wolves did not treat them badly, providing them with protection, and at the same time providing them with a lot of necessary materials, so that Caojia Village no longer had to go to the Tamsui estuary every two or three months to trade with the vendors and be exploited by those vendors.

So for both of them, they take what they need, benefit each other a lot, Caojia Village has gradually become the most important foothold for the sea wolf to go to the north of the west coast of Taiyuan Island, and even after the sea wolf in August, in order to stop the ship and unload the goods, in a relatively hidden bay near the shore of Caojia Village, a temporary small wharf was built, and a wooden trestle was built, so that the ships could directly lean on the trestle to get on and off the personnel, load and unload goods.

In order to establish a good relationship with the immigrant villages in this area, the sea wolf bought local local products from them at a relatively high price, so that some nearby immigrant villages gradually began to get used to transporting their surplus materials to Caojia Village and trading with the sea wolf.

As a result, Caojia Village quickly became famous in the local area and became a new trading town, so it was simply established a fixed route between Caojia Village and Nanri Island by Xiaotian Lingjutang, sending a boat to Caojia Village every half a month to transport the materials needed by local immigrants, and buying local products from them and transferring them back to land for sale, which actually made a lot of profits.

Although this kind of business is just a small amount of money in the eyes of the council hall or Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian still gave a lot of attention to this business, and asked the council hall to try to meet the needs of immigrants in this area, and the price of goods is slightly lower, so as to ensure that they can feel that the sea wolf is doing business at a good price at the same time, they can also feel the kindness that the sea wolf specially gave them.

At the end of August, even an indigenous tribe east of Caojia Village, after hearing the news, tentatively asked the natives of their tribe to bring some deer skins and other local products to Caojia Village, wanting to trade with sea wolves, which was undoubtedly a very important thing for Xiaotian.

After he learned the news, he immediately ordered that a native general trained by Li Qing's subordinates be transferred to Caojia Village, and in the future, he would be responsible for dealing with the natives and striving to establish a good relationship of trust with them, so as to avoid too big conflicts with the local natives when the sea wolves emigrate to Taiyuan Island in large numbers in the future.

In September, after Yu Xiaotian learned that the two forts in Jilong Bay had been completed and could be put into use, he finally made up his mind to completely extend his tentacles to the Tamsui estuary while operating Jilong Bay.

The Tamsui River is the most important river in the north of Taiwan Island, the river channel is wide, the amount of water is huge, in addition to being able to irrigate a lot of land on both sides of the river, it also has a good navigable ability, after the early exploration, Yu Xiaotian learned that from the mouth of the Tamsui River, the sailboat can sail upstream, all the way to the hinterland of northern Taiwan, after changing to a smaller sampan boat, you can also continue to swim a long distance upstream.

The key is that the sea wolf currently lacks a suitable estuary, and the ships of this era are basically all wooden structures, and there are sea maggots in the ocean, which like to attach to the bottom of the sea ship, burrow into the wood and eat the ship's wood, causing damage to the internal structure of the ship, causing great safety hazards.

To solve the problem of sea maggots, unlike the general ship-bottom appendages, they are really dragged ashore to shovel and pull down, they are hidden deep in the wood and are not easy to be removed, but there is a good way to get rid of them, that is, to regularly let the ships of the sea activities enter the rivers and soak in fresh water.

Sea maggots must live in a saltwater environment in order to survive, and once they are in fresh water for a long time, they will die quickly, so fishermen and maritime merchants use this method to deal with sea maggots.

Of course, pirates also have the same problem, they live on the sea all year round, and their ships are often infested by sea maggots, and in order to solve this problem, they must also often take their ships to anchor in the rivers for a period of time.

After Yu Xiaotian did this business, especially after he became the master of Nanri Island, the number of ships under his command increased day by day, although now there are less than 100, at least there are 60 or 70 ships of all kinds, and they can only be disguised as merchant ships in batches, and they can be berthed near the mouth of the Minjiang River or the mouth of Mulan River in Xinghua Bay to deal with this problem.

However, there is a certain danger in doing so, the Ming Dynasty government has always been wary of them like the Japanese and pirates, although the officials and thieves collude in secret, but Mingli is still very careful about them, in these places there are many officers and soldiers, with batteries or water camps to control, pirate ships go to anchor there, a little carelessness may conflict with them.

Over the past year or so, although big things have not happened, there are often small things that make trouble.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian also needed a safer place to solve this trouble, so the Tamsui estuary became his only choice.

Eyeing the Tamsui estuary, in addition to solving the problem of daily maintenance of the fleet under his command, another important reason is his plan for the future Seawolf to build its own ship.

Nowadays, although there is a shipyard on Nanri Island, and solve the problem of their daily maintenance and repair of ships and building new ships, but they are faced with the trouble of wood sources, all the wood used for shipbuilding and repair, Nanri Island can not be solved on the spot, and can only spend money to collect around, which is very expensive, especially some large materials, because the Yunnan-Guizhou and Sichuan regions have been in turmoil in recent years, and the large timber is relatively small, which makes the shipbuilding industry in the coastal area also affected greatly. Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to find a few big materials to make keels and masts, and it is not easy to get them because they are priceless.

But the island of Taiwan is different, although it cannot be said to be a barren land, but it has never undergone any large-scale development, and it is still very little affected by human beings, full of dense primeval forests, and there are countless large trees that can be used for shipbuilding.

In addition, the Tamsui River and the upstream Dahan River have abundant water and wide channels, and it is very convenient to harvest and transport timber, so you only need to cut down the available trees along the upstream coast, drag them into the river and discharge them downstream, and then you can catch these timbers in the area of the Tamsui estuary and turn them to shipbuilding.

After calculating this, Yu Xiaotian made up his mind to bring the Tamsui River area into his control as soon as possible.

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