After the last battle of Nangantang, Liu Yidao knew Yu Xiaotian's personality even more, and knew that this person was amazing, and he came to Fuzhou for a short time, and he was mixed with the wind and water, and his strength expanded rapidly, from the beginning there was only a dilapidated bird boat, and now there are four or five boats, and there are as many as seventy or eighty people under his command, so even a person like him does not dare to offend Yu Xiaotian easily now.

And he also learned through others that Yu Xiaotian has a very good relationship with Wang Hong, the third elder of the Shark Gang, and even Qian Lao Er attaches great importance to Xiaotian, so that few people in Fuzhou dare to provoke Yu Xiaotian easily.

What's more, the last time Zhou Cheng came to find trouble with Yu Xiaotian, not only did he not take advantage of it at all, but he was also made a bottom by Yu Xiaotian, and all of it was in Yu Xiaotian's hands.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian did not agree to his statement, and he did not dare to say that Yu Xiaotian was not, so he had to stay on Treasure Island for a day, and then went back to his house to reply to Zhang Chuan to Yu Xiaotian's reply.

This time there was a lot of trouble in Fuzhou, and the Lei family had no choice but to take three hundred taels of silver to redeem his people, but this breath was difficult to swallow for a while, so they begged everywhere, hoping that the government would pay attention to this matter and send troops to attack the sea wolf.

But this kind of affair will not be easily agreed to, even if the Lei family has a very wide relationship in Fuzhou, because because because of this kind of matter, the official government will transfer troops to suppress it, which is an unauthorized use of swords and soldiers, and it is easy to cause big trouble.

What's more, businessmen like the Lei family go to sea to do business, which is illegal in itself, and it can't be put on the official side, everything is a private big guy who turns a blind eye, and he doesn't care about any benefit, they have an accident and are robbed by pirates, they are unlucky, as long as the pirates do not attack the land on a large scale, they can be regarded as keeping a safe party, and the above will not be investigated.

But once you send troops to suppress it, it will involve too wide, and this dispatch of troops will have to allocate money to the sailors, and the sailors will definitely propose to repair the ships and build new warships, which will cost a lot.

Moreover, they have not forgotten the lessons of the government's invasion of Nanri Island two or three years ago, the last time the government failed to attack the Shark Gang on Nanri Island, many officials were dismissed because of this, and some officials were simply arrested by Jinyiwei, and ended up in exile, and several generals in the military were dismissed and arrested for this.

Once this time the attack is defeated, no one wants to bear such consequences, so although the Lei family is moving around through the relationship, wanting to retaliate against Xiaotian, but the government is deaf to this, and it is one thing to be inappropriate at all, so the Lei family finally spent a lot of money, but nothing was done, so they could only stare and admit it.

These things were quickly fed back to Yu Xiaotian through the Li family, which also made Yu Xiaotian completely relieved, and the Li family did not break their promise, and accepted all the goods that Yu Xiaotian seized from the Lei family this time, and gave a very good price, so that Yu Xiaotian made another profit, which is not counting, the Li family quickly sent a big Buddha machine to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian was overjoyed at this time, although the Fran cannon cannot be regarded as a very advanced artillery, but it is much stronger than the "earth cannons" he has at hand, because this kind of Fran cannon has a fast rate of fire, even if the range is limited, for people like them, it can be regarded as a big killer.

After the cannon was transported back to Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian immediately unpacked and inspected the goods and took a closer look.

This big Buddha machine is probably the so-called thousand catties of Franc machine recorded in history, but many records in Chinese history are very different from the reality, with a great exaggeration, this Franc machine may be a thousand catties of Franc machine, but the weight is far from the weight of a thousand catties, at most it is more than 300 catties, at best it is a nine-pound cannon is good.

Therefore, this Franc machine can only be called a big Franc machine, not as big as Yu Xiaotian thought at first, but so far, it is also the biggest cannon he has, the most powerful cannon!

Take a closer look, this big Buddha machine is wrought iron casting, but the casting quality is not complimentary, the surface is cast into the rough, the grinding is rough, only the inner part of the mother gun and the joint part of the sub gun are polished more carefully, and there is no inscription on the gun body, indicating that this cannon is not made under the supervision of the government, but is privately cast from the underground workshop.

There are nine Zi Gong, packed in another box, take out one after opening, check it and find that the casting of Zi Gong is so-so, and the polishing is also fine, indicating that the person who cast this cannon is very clear about what the key is, for the appearance of so-so, the key parts are still relatively fine.

Although it was not as good as he expected, Yu Xiaotian was still very satisfied with being able to get such a cannon, which showed that the Li family's road was very wide, and secretly they must have a close connection with some businessmen in Guangdong, otherwise, it would be good if they could get an ordinary earthen cannon at most, and it was basically impossible to get this kind of Franco cannon.

It is not easy to cast this kind of gun, because the mother gun has an open tail, it is very troublesome to open the mold, and the casting yield is not high, so the price will be quite expensive after casting.

This time, the Li family took out such a thing and asked him to attack the Lei family, which shows that he really hates the Lei family, otherwise he would not have had such a big blood.

But on the other hand, he can also see that the reason why the Li family did this is also a test for him, that is, to see how much his ability has improved during this time, and whether it is worth continuing to support him.

If he misses this time and fails to intercept the Lei family's two ships, I am afraid that he will be abandoned by the Li family in the future, and secretly support a group of pirates as their supporters.

Now that he has done this, and he has done it alone, without looking for any helper, in this way, the Li family should know his ability, and it is estimated that the next step will be to increase the support for him, which is exactly what Yu Xiaotian needs at the moment, the two of them are now taking what they need, and the cooperation will be quite pleasant in a short time.

After reading the goods, Yu Xiaotian turned his head and saw that Blacksmith Zhang also came over to look down at the big Buddha machine, so he smiled and said to Blacksmith Zhang: "Master Zhang, how do you look at this cannon?" ”

Blacksmith Zhang nodded and said, "The craftsmanship is good, it should be from the hands of a famous craftsman!" On the surface, this guy is very rough, but in fact he knows exactly what to do, although he is a little lazy, but overall it should be used well! Let's do it, send this cannon to me first, and then I will polish it, and repair it where it should be repaired, it will be better to use and look more beautiful! ”

Yu Xiaotian nodded and agreed, and asked the cannon to be sent to Blacksmith Zhang's shop, and when Blacksmith Zhang turned his head to leave, Yu Xiaotian looked at his back and touched the beard on his chin, and a trace of an evocative smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The big Buddha machine sent by the Li family is only a gun body, not a gun mount, which requires Yu Xiaotian to solve the problem of the gun carriage himself.

Yu Xiaotian didn't rush to get a gun mount for this big Buddha cannon, but climbed to the Fu boat first and began to carefully inspect the Fu boat from the inside out.

After his and Guo Fu's inspection, Yu Xiaotian can determine that this lucky boat is a new ship that is not very old, at most less than two years old, it should be built in Quanzhou's shipyard, the hull is strong and sturdy, the keel is made of nanmu, it is very strong and elegant, the board is made of half-foot thick pine wood, and the partition is also made of hardwood, and the materials are more miscellaneous, but they are all good, basically do not need to be repaired, and can be used directly.

It's just that what makes Yu Xiaotian depressed is that the people who run at sea in this era don't seem to have any sense of hygiene, and the cabin is very dirty, basically similar to his previous Seawolf, there are urine stains in places, and even stool, and the inside of each cabin is smelly, which is really unbearable.

So Yu Xiaotian ordered Guo Fu to take his apprentice son to repair the damaged parts of the hull, and the rest of his men began to thoroughly clean the two newly acquired ships.

Treasure Island is now busy, everyone is busy on the ship like ants, cleaning up garbage, spreading lime in the cabin, and smoking in the cabin with copper basins to kill mosquitoes and fleas in the cabin.

The sails of the two boats were also unloaded, and they were thoroughly cleaned, and the two huge thunder characters on them were wiped off, and finally they were brushed with tung oil.

Yu Xiaotian was a little dissatisfied with the method of covering the sail with a layer of tung oil, although this thing can play a certain role in anti-corrosion on the hull and sail, but it is too flammable, and it is easy to be ignited when it occupies the fire, but at the moment he does not have fireproof paint or fireproof paint for later generations, so he can only use this method.

However, Guo Fu thought of a way for him, saying that there is a thing on land that can be solved, that is, using the sap of Eucommia ulmoides and the sap in the seeds to mix it into something called eucommia lacquer, instead of tung oil to paint on the sails, so that it can be fireproof, even if it gets some fire, it will not be ignited quickly, it is a good thing, but it is not very easy to do, and the price is extremely high.

When Yu Xiaotian heard that there was such a good thing, he had just heard that Eucommia ulmoides was a kind of Chinese medicinal material, but he didn't know that this thing could also play a role in fire prevention, it seemed that there were a lot of things he didn't know about in this world, and the wisdom of the ancients was not something he could be underestimated, so even if he asked people to write it down, he turned around and informed the Li family, no matter how much money he spent, he found a way to get a batch of such things back.

Next, Yu Xiaotian carefully observed the stern stern on the Fu ship, and observed the internal structure inside, and finally decided to place the big Buddha cannon in this place first.

The bow of the ship is high, although the vision is good, but it is inconvenient to set up the artillery, the artillery can only fire from both sides of the bow, but can not fire at the front, the gun is not very convenient, it takes a lot of manpower.

If he had a lot of cannons, he could still deal with it, but at the moment his cannons were too few, so he had to find a better place to place such a cannon that could be used and could be used on the scene.

So he ended up placing the cannon on top of the stern, so that the tall stern gave the cannon a better firing range and a more spacious place.

It's just that the structure of the stern is probably a little insufficient, after all, this lucky ship is not built according to the standards of warships, and the structure is not as strong as that of warships, so after setting up this gun, it is likely that the stern structure will be damaged because of recoil.

Therefore, before installation, Guo Fu also had to reinforce the structure inside the stern to make it enough to carry the recoil of the gun.

However, the reinforcement of the stern tower involves the balance of the ship, and the stern adds a lot of weight, so it must be leveled at the bow position, and the ballast stone of the cabin must be weighted, so as not to raise the ship's center of gravity too much and cause the hull to be unstable.

In short, if the whole body is moved, it will take a lot of effort and time for the ship to make overall adjustments.

But Yu Xiaotian doesn't care about this time, he has a lot of time to do these things now, as long as he can make a boat that he is satisfied with! This is the foundation of his future foothold in the sea.