In the Wanli years, Huzhou and Zhongzuo Qianhu were at the forefront of the preparation of the Japanese, and there were officers and warships stationed for a long time, but over the years, the coastal defense here began to relax, and it became a paradise for pirates to carnival, too many ships entered and exited the moon port, and it also became a big fat meat for the pirates to compete for.

In the past, this was Chu Cailao's territory, but after Chu Cailao was defeated by the sea wolf, he was forced to shrink the scope of his power to the south, but this area is still where they often move, but the control is not as good as before, in addition to their activities in this area, Yan Siqi is also often active in this area, including the sea wolf will also haunt this area from time to time.

In addition, this is also the main place where Xu Xinsu is shipped, and the staggered forces are very complicated, and anyone is staring at the big fat meat of Yuegang, hoping to eat it alone.

And Zheng Yiguan took a fancy to this, and he had long planned to take this area into his pocket, even if he couldn't fully control this area for the time being, he also planned to use this place as his ATM, and come here from time to time to get a handful.

But his actions immediately attracted the attention of all parties, and the presence of a large number of pirate ships in the sea in this area could not hide the power of all parties here.

Chu Cailao, Yu Xiaotian, Yan Siqi, and Xu Xinsu all learned the news in a very short period of time, and as soon as they heard that Zheng Yiguan was preparing to attack Haicheng on a large scale, all parties immediately reacted.

Although Xu Xinsu had strong financial resources, his strength was not strong, so he immediately began to transfer the goods in his shop in Haicheng, and notified the government to report Zheng Yiguan's movements.

After the Sea Wolf tribe learned of Zheng Yiguan's actions, they immediately became furious, although for various reasons, the Sea Wolf did not include this place in their actual control, leaving this blank so that all parties could share some profits, and did not want to be the public enemy of these peers.

But this can't be anyone's control area, everyone has a fortune, but they can't let one family monopolize it, and now Zheng Yiguan is almost about to treat this place as his own territory, and it takes half a year to come here to do two big votes, how can the people of the Sea Wolf Department tolerate it.

Especially the horse owl who is in charge of this side at the moment, he doesn't agree, even if he is ready to repair Zheng Yiguan here, knock him down, and let him know who the boss is.

When he was about to assemble the first fleet of warships and prepare to sail from Meizhou Bay to the Haicheng area, he received an order from Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian ordered Ma Xiao not to take care of Zheng Yiguan for the time being, and let him let go of making trouble in Haicheng, but he could be allowed to set up an ambush on his retreat after Zheng Yiguan finished his work and when he evacuated Haicheng, so that he could eat black and eat black, but before Zheng Yiguan did it, don't interfere with him.

Yu Xiaotian recently carefully analyzed Zheng Yiguan's current situation, and has found Zheng Yiguan's current dilemma, although he is very strong, but now he is a street rat, everyone shouts and beats, wants to have a reputation or no reputation, wants to have no territory, speaking of which there are many subordinates, but he is a thief at sea.

With such a large plate, there is no fixed territory for them to move, and the pressure on Zheng Yiguan must be very great, so in order for Zheng Yiguan to survive, he must take his subordinates to do a big ticket, and there are really not many places he can choose.

Zheng Yiguan will definitely become the target of public criticism in the past, and the strength of the Guangdong naval division is also relatively strong, especially the area around the Pearl River Estuary is relatively well fortified, and it is difficult to rush to Guangzhou with the strength of ordinary people.

Chaoshan and other places, although there are also a lot of people who do maritime trade, but the oil and water are obviously not as big as Haicheng's side, this season is the gathering of ships in the area of Yuegang to take refuge and rest, Haicheng gathered a large number of merchant ships, hoarded a lot of goods, so if Zheng Yiguan wants to do it, he can only choose Yuegang.

And Yuegang is the main place that the imperial court and the Fujian government are staring at, whoever tosses here is great, who will become a thorn in the side of the government, which is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian does not include Zhangzhou Bay in his pocket, at present, he is not in a hurry to include this place in his control area, with his current financial capacity, it is basically enough.

Once he controls Zhangzhou Bay, it is indispensable to force other colleagues to have nothing to eat, then he will definitely be regarded as a public enemy, and the government will definitely regard him as a thorn in the flesh, and he will never be happy if he is not removed.

He really doesn't want to spend time with the Fujian government now, he has already taught the Fujian government a lesson last year, and now the new Fujian governor Zhu Yifeng has an unclear attitude, and he is in full swing to overhaul the war equipment, there is a great possibility, and he wants to avenge the humiliation of the government last year.

He was not afraid that the Fujian official army would come to conquer him, but it didn't make much sense to fight like this, it was a waste of resources, and it also delayed his plan to consolidate the island of Taiwan.

So Zheng Yiguan is tossing so much now, which is exactly what he wants, so let Zheng Yiguan toss in Haicheng, the more he tosses, the more it is equivalent to roasting himself on the fire, so he does not agree with Ma Xiao to lead the team to intercept Zheng Yiguan, but let Ma Xiao be a little restless, at most, when Zheng Yiguan evacuates, beat him up, come to the black and eat the black, and get some benefits.

So Ma Xiao obeyed the order and gave up the plan to send troops to Haicheng, but he still gathered ships and troops, and was ready to cut off Zheng Yiguan's retreat at any time and fight them in an ambush.

Different from Yu Xiaotian is Yan Siqi and Chu Cailao, although this is not Yan Siqi's territory, but it is also the main place for him to carry out activities and obtain financial resources, Yan Siqi heard that Zheng Yiguan was going to Haicheng to do a big ticket, even if he didn't do it, even if it was to retaliate against Zheng Yiguan, he couldn't let Zheng Yiguan go to Haicheng to make a fortune so swaggeringly, so he immediately ordered dozens of boats, as well as thousands of subordinates, and killed Haicheng, preparing to find Zheng Yiguan's bad luck.

As for Chu Cailao, not to mention, when Ma Xiang went back to report the results of his trip to Nanri Island, Chu Cai was overjoyed, and immediately ordered a batch of artillery according to the list that Ma Xiang brought back.

Because the price of the heavy artillery of the Ganlasi people is too high, what he mainly needs at present is the cannon that can be used on the ship, so he only ordered three heavy cannons and placed them in the Dazhai of Dongshan Island, as a thing for the town's house, in case Zheng Yiguan attacked his Dongshan Island.

And the cannons he mainly buys are basically the monkey version of the twelve-pounder light cannon and the six-pounder gun and the monkey version of the six-pounder cannon, these cannons can barely be loaded on his ships, although these cannons are far from the ones used by the sea wolf himself, but compared with the cannons used by his peers, they are already very good high-end goods.

In this way, in a short period of time, he can improve the combat effectiveness of his fleet and gain strength that can compete with Zheng Yiguan.

However, for those arquebuses that Yu Xiaotian wanted to sell to them, Chu Cailao didn't ask for much, only a few dozen, and equipped them to his own cronies, who were responsible for protecting his personal safety, and the main financial resources were used to buy other cannons.

Chu Cai Lao immediately opened a big order, the monkey version of the No. 5 gun, he immediately ordered ten, the No. 3 gun that was cut down is a six-pounder gun, he asked for twenty, the monkey version of the six-pounder gun he asked for thirty, and even the old artillery such as the exterminator cannon, because the price is relatively cheaper, he also ordered forty in one fell swoop.

In this way, he ordered a hundred cannons from the sea wolf at once, which cost almost 200,000 taels of silver, and Chu Cai Lao is an old sea dog who has been a pirate for many years, and has hoarded a lot of assets over the years, this 100,000 taels of silver seems to be an astronomical amount, but in fact, for him, it will not let him go bankrupt.

What's more, Chu Cailao will not take out all the money himself, because his organization method is the way of buying shares, and it is a bit of the nature of a joint venture company in later generations.

Although he has to take out a part of the money, he also has to take out a part of the other treasurers, otherwise he will not distribute these cannons to the treasurers.

Now it is difficult to find a shot on the market, even if the small shopkeeper is rich, it is difficult to get it, and now that Chu Cailao has opened up the relationship with the sea wolf, how can they not dare to enter and follow the purchase.

Therefore, according to their respective financial resources, the individual stock shopkeeper also took out a few thousand taels to ten thousand taels of silver, and quickly made up the money, and according to the meaning of the stock shopkeeper, they can buy more, but for the time being, they will buy so much first, try to be good, and then add orders.

In fact, Chu Cailao finally took out less than 40,000 taels of silver, but after the arrival of about half of the cannons, they were to be loaded on ships under his direct control, and Chu Cailao also took advantage of his subordinates.

According to the requirements of the sea wolf, these silvers must be official silver, and Chu Cai couldn't take out so much snowflake silver at once, so he could only discount some miscellaneous silver on their hands, load a boat, and send it to Nanri Island.

Chu Cai Lao was not afraid that after sending the silver to Nanri Island, the sea wolf swallowed his silver and refused to give him the goods, because he knew that in addition to robbing the sea wolf over the years, the main source of financial resources was to do business.

The merchants who have dealt with the sea wolf, whether it is a big businessman or a small trader, have never been pitted, the goods they sell to the sea wolf on credit, when it comes to the time of checkout, have never been in arrears, even if the sea wolf's ship goes to sea and floats the goods, the sea wolf will pay according to the price, and I have never heard of a sea wolf swallowing other people's goods and not giving silver.

And the sea wolf also sells a lot of things, now everyone knows that the vast majority of these glass products on the market are from the sea wolf, as well as the kind of soap that has been sought after by the rich recently, but it is only from the hands of the sea wolf family, of course, there are some rare goods such as whale skin, bear skin, deer skin, deer antler velvet, etc., and the sea wolf also occupies a lot of share.

Many people look for the sea wolf to get the goods, must pay a deposit first, before they can get the goods, but where the deposit has been paid, the sea wolf has never swallowed the deposit of others, and all the orders will be delivered on time and in quantity.

So now the reputation of the sea wolf can almost be said to be a golden signboard, and when it comes to doing business with the sea wolf, the businessmen all nod their heads and praise, and they can definitely rest assured.