Chapter 161: The Li Family Has a Trust
After thinking about this, the anger of several old guys also calmed down, and Meng Madman shook his head and whispered, "This is terrible? The helmsman said earlier, we don't all know the way, where can there be this misunderstanding? ”
Liu Lao Liu said with a smile: "Look, we old guys are only thinking about silver, where have we thought so much!" is still Xiaotian's thoughtfulness, if it weren't for Xiaotian, with us, it is estimated that we would have been thrown into the sea to feed the fish! ”
Yu Xiaotian listened to the slapping of a few old guys, rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, with you old guys, if you can do something big, everyone in this world will become heroes!
"But the road from here to Guangzhou is not close, and it will take a month to go back and forth at the earliest...... Also, even if they promise to cast cannons for us, how can we contact them? Zhao Mazi did more in this area and thought a lot, so he asked his question.
Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "Uncle Zhao's question is very right, I have also considered this, let's bring the boat over by ourselves now, it will definitely not work, this is to borrow this road of the Li family!"
When I sent Feng Tiancheng away, I had already made an appointment with him, and then I would send someone to Dongguan to contact him, I am afraid that it will be hard Uncle Zhao, you will have to go to Guangzhou, you can take the Li family's boat to Guangzhou, go to Dongguan, here is a handwritten letter from Feng Tiancheng, you take it, you can go to any Feng family's shop, and someone can take you to see him immediately.
Whether it can be done or not, I don't dare to say it now, after all, it is a capital crime to cast cannons without permission, and the government is strictly controlled, and it is reasonable for the Feng family not to dare to do it, but after all, they want to accept our feelings, Uncle Zhao will never treat you slowly this time.
If they don't dare to do it, then Uncle Zhao can talk to them, and we can ask them to send a craftsman who can cast cannons back with you, and let's buy the fine iron for casting cannons and cast them ourselves! At the very least, they're going to have to find a way to get us dozens of bird guns!
In short, it is still unknown whether it will succeed or not, which requires Uncle Zhao to find a way to talk to their Feng family, and I also promised Feng Tiancheng, as long as their ship goes north to this side, send someone to inform us through the Li family in advance, we can go to Quanzhou to pick them up and escort them to Fuzhou, for them, there will be an extra layer of protection! ”
After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Zhao Mazi got up and nodded: "This is the best, at the moment, we really can't take out the boat and manpower to go south, I can go on a trip, and I can also let the Li family know that we don't rely on them, we can still get things done!" For the Li family, we will pay more attention to us in the future! ”
"Well said! That's right, we can't pin everything on the Li family, but in this vicinity, it's not convenient for us to deal with other people, but when we deal with the Feng family, the Li family has nothing to say! Uncle Zhao will go to Dalian Island in a few days, and when the Li family's ship goes south, he will go to Guangzhou, get things done as soon as possible, come back, and when you come back, it is estimated that there should be more of our ship! ”
On the inside of a promontory at the south entrance of the Haishan Channel, two boats are moored side by side, and the promontory just obscures their figures, and only the tips of the masts of the two ships can be faintly seen, peeking out from the protruding promontory.
The two upper buckets were lying on the top of the mast, and their eyes kept looking at the sea outside the cape.
Outside the cape, there is a busy shipping lane, a common passage for ships coming and going from the south to the north, and it has always been very busy, with fleets or fishing boats passing by from time to time.
But if you don't look closely, no one will notice that there are two bird boats moored in the cape, and on both boats are a group of men dressed in indigo blue and wrapped in black cloth.
The Seal was launched two days earlier than Yu Xiaotian expected, and under the work of Guo Fu and his son and apprentices day and night, the Seal was finally repaired, and all the weak parts were reinforced and strengthened, and the broken planks were replaced, the mast was also re-reinforced with iron hoops, and two new sails were replaced.
After such a toss, the seal looked much more energetic than the Seawolf, but it made the Seawolf look a little cold!
After the Seawolf went through the battle of Nangantang, the hull was hit with several holes, and the sail was also hit with holes, and after coming back, after inspection, no major problems were found in the structure, so it was simply repaired, plugged a few holes, and asked Xu Laoshi to repair the sail.
In this way, the Seawolf can continue to be used at sea, but after this battle, the ship is not as energetic as before.
After returning from the battle of Nangantang, there has been no movement on the Shark Gang's side, and it seems that they have admitted this defeat and acquiesced in the fact that the Mixed River Dragon has taken control of the Matsu Islands.
Yu Xiaotian calculated, although the mixed river dragon defeated the Shark Gang in the battle of Nangantang, but they achieved the advantage because they came out of the nest, and the strength of the Shark Gang was still there, and it did not hurt the muscles and bones.
In addition, after that battle, although the Shark Gang suffered a little loss, the Mixed River Dragon side did not take much advantage, and the losses of the two sides were basically the same, and even the losses of the Mixed River Dragon were a little greater.
Therefore, the mixed river dragon won that battle, but he didn't dare to be too arrogant, and immediately joined the division to go south and continue to grab territory with the shark gang, but limited their scope of action to the north of West Dog Island, and no longer stretched out their hands to the south for the time being.
So after the battle of Nangantang, the two sides temporarily calmed down, and Yu Xiaotian didn't bother to continue to ask about this matter, but asked the Li family to secretly help them pay attention to what the situation was, and inform them in time.
What he has to do is to improve his strength as soon as possible, through the battle of Nangantang, he knows that only with his two bird boats at the moment, it is still small at sea, even if he does it with Liu, he may not be able to take advantage, and when he encounters two lucky boats, he only has to run away!
Therefore, Yu Xiaotian plans to get one or two of the sentry ships or Haicang ships in the fortune boats as soon as possible, even if it is a smaller Cangshan Railway, even if these ships can't be obtained, grabbing a catch boat can also improve his strength.
So after the seal was repaired and launched, he began to take people out on a safari to find his target, but before he took people out to sea, the Li family sent him a big gift.
This time, Steward Li of the Li family on Dalian Island suddenly took a boat from their family to Treasure Island and met Yu Xiaotian.
After Steward Li saw the village on Treasure Island, he was also amazed, and praised Yu Xiaotian again and again for being powerful, but Yu Xiaotian didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so he asked what wind blew him here.
Steward Li sent 400 catties of saltpeter with the ship, and at the same time sent three more bird guns to Yu Xiaotian, and the bird guns they sent to Yu Xiaotian last time can be said to be from the hands of a family, such a hand must be due to the sea wolf.
Seeing that Yu Xiaotian asked him straightforwardly about his intention, this Steward Li stopped beating around the bush and told Xiaotian the purpose of his trip.
It turns out that the Li family is in the Fuzhou area, and there is also an enemy family, which is not a hater, but in fact, it is one of their competitors, the surname of that family is Lei, and the business is not small, and it is also doing maritime business in the Fuzhou area.
At the beginning, Zhou Cheng hooked up with the Lei family after breaking off diplomatic relations with the Li family, and it was the Lei family who secretly instigated Zhou Cheng to ambush the Li family's cargo ship, causing the Li family ship to be destroyed and a large loss.
Later, the Li family spent money to find out who was behind the command, so they made a feud with the Lei family, and after Zhou Cheng died in the hands of Yu Xiaotian, the Li shopkeeper began to think about revenge on the Lei family.
This time, they heard that the Lei family would have two ships of cargo from Fuzhou to the south in the near future, ready to go to Luzon to make a move, so this was a good opportunity for their Li family to take revenge on the Lei family.
So Steward Li, under the instruction of the shopkeeper Li, did not hesitate to take out saltpeter and three bird guns, which are rarely shot, as a fixed money, and asked Yu Xiaotian to take action and rob the two cargo ships of the Lei family.
Originally, the Li family thought that Yu Xiaotian might not be able to eat them at one time, and wanted to ask Yu Xiaotian to contact a helper to work together, but they saw that Yu Xiaotian actually asked Guo Fu's master and apprentice to repair Zhou Cheng's boat, so they let Yu Xiaotian decide for himself whether to ask another helper to do it together.
After thinking about it for a while, Yu Xiaotian finally decided to do it himself, now he has no shortage of manpower, and he can completely match the two boats with manpower, and two to two have a certain certainty that the two Lei family's ships will be robbed.
So Steward Li told Yu Xiaotian that as long as he helped rob the two ships of the Lei family, the cargo would belong to Xiaotian, and after the matter was completed, the shipment would be handed over to their Li family, and they would definitely give a fair price and accept all the orders, and then give Yu Xiaotian a Fran cannon, and it was a big Buddha cannon, as a reward for him.
As soon as Yu Xiaotian heard this, he made a decision on the spot, this time he must intercept the two Lei family's ships, and he didn't dare to delay, after sending off Steward Li, he immediately took the Seawolf and the Seal, and also dragged the Yellow Fish out.
Yu Xiaotian set the location of the ambush in the area of the south entrance of Haishan Water Road, after the Lei family's ship left Fuzhou, it would definitely have to go south here, to Luzon, and then to the south, it would be the actual control territory of the Shark Gang.
So after thinking about it again, he still thought that the best place to do it was to set up an ambush in this area.
In the stockade, only a few wounded men remained, plus a dozen craftsmen stayed behind, and the rest of his men were all assigned to two boats to follow him into battle.
At present, he already has four ships in his hands, no matter how big or small, they will all face the problem of coordinated action at sea, and if they want to cooperate at sea, they must establish a set of effective communication and liaison methods, and it is definitely impossible to shout through loudspeakers.
So he had to come up with a set of flags and lanterns to meet the needs of future operations at sea, between ships, and these days, he was thinking about it almost day and night, pondering about it, and from time to time pointing fingers and making gestures, and then hastening to write it down.
The subordinates on the tossing island thought that he had hysteria and was worried about dying, and even Liu Laoliu looked for Yu Xiaotian and carefully tested him to see if he was stimulated by something, and his brain was not very clear.
Later, everyone knew what Yu Xiaotian was doing, and then they gradually got used to Yu Xiaotian's abnormality.