Although this trip to Dalian Island did not fully achieve the goal and get all the things they wanted, Yu Xiaotian was still quite satisfied with the results of this trip, and he also knew that there was no such cheap thing in this world, and everything made his wishes come true, but the performance of Li Yi, the shopkeeper of the Li family, gave him a preliminary understanding and confidence in this Li Yi.

Li Yi is not as simple as he seems, this is what Yu Xiaotian felt after a banquet, although he didn't know how big Li Yi's business was, but he didn't believe all what Li Yi said.

Saltpeter and sulfur are not easy for ordinary people to get, although Li Yi shirked, but still promised to get them some saltpeter sulfur, which can be seen that this person's path is actually very wide, but now that the two sides have just started to deal with each other, Li Yi secretly left a hand.

As for the bird guns he wanted, the arquebuses originally produced in the hands of the Portuguese, Spaniards or the Dutch, as well as iron cannons, in fact, he had no hope at the moment, and the Li family would be able to get them for him immediately.

The meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, he still understands this truth, it is actually normal for both parties to keep one hand each, after all, he himself has left one hand for Li Yi at the moment.

The last time they robbed the ship of the Zhao family in Fuzhou at sea, in fact, they obtained a few stones of sulfur and saltpeter on the ship, and from the carpenter who brought it back, he also learned that the ship of the Zhao family was actually a trade on the Japanese line, they traded with the Japanese from the Ryukyu area, sold porcelain and silk, paper, tea and other things to Japanese merchants, and then took raw silk, copper, sulfur and other things from the hands of Japanese merchants, and returned to Fujian to buy and sell, and at the same time they could get a lot of silver.

So Yu Xiaotian robbed the Zhao family's ship last time, and the biggest harvest was not silver, but sulfur and some saltpeter on the ship, and some copper nuggets, which were very important to them, and they did not sell them to the Li family at all, but collected them on Treasure Island.

He now has sulfur and saltpeter on hand, but he still adds these two things to the list, in fact, it is to test the Li family, although Li Yi shirked it at the beginning, but later agreed to raise some sulfur saltpeter for them, which shows that the Li family actually has a wide range of secret channels, otherwise they would not have promised to supply them in ten days.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian and Li Yi are very generous on the surface, but in fact, they both have their own hands in secret.

However, through this trip to Dalian Island, Yu Xiaotian, Steward Li and Li Yi also heard a lot of useful news, especially for the situation of their counterparts in Funing Prefecture and the coastal area of Fuzhou, Li Yi and Steward Li did not hide it, and they both told Xiaotian a lot about their situation, so that Yu Xiaotian had some foundation for various forces at sea in this regard.

Because the Li family is also engaged in maritime trading, they have to deal with each other, so they are more familiar with the situation at sea than Liu Laoliu.

Through what they said, Yu Xiaotian learned that at present, only the pirate force active in the coastal areas of Fuzhou and Funing Prefecture has a maximum of twenty or thirty groups, and a few forces like them, there are a few branches, probably about thirty or forty people, and the boats are also ranging from one to two, a slightly larger gang, with about 100 people, and the number of ships is about three to five, and the largest group is the Chaojiang Dragon Chen Jiu who they knew before in Funing Prefecture, with more than 300 men and seven or eight shipsThe other group is Zhang Hu, who is nicknamed Shark and is active along the coast of Fuzhou, with nearly 400 men and more than 10 boats.

The two groups of people Chen Jiu and Zhang Hu the shark are incompatible, and the two groups are bounded by Huangqi Bay, each of which controls a sea area and becomes their exclusive ten-mile area, and the two groups have clashed with each other in the past two years.

Now Yu Xiaotian and their Treasure Island is actually within the range of Zhang Hu's power, many times they will be restricted by Zhang Hu, when they meet Zhang Hu and his ships, Li Yi specially instructed them to avoid one or two, do not conflict with them, otherwise with their current strength, it will be difficult to mix in this area.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian and the others basically figured out their current situation, and couldn't help but make Yu Xiaotian a little troubled, it turned out that he thought that going to the sea to be a pirate should be a whimsical business, but he didn't expect that the power on this sea was so complicated, and it was not as free as he originally thought.

This makes them have to be a little more careful in the future, otherwise, it will be difficult for them to mix in this area.

But Yu Xiaotian is not the kind of person who retreats despite difficulties, now that he is with this vote, there must be no turning back, although they have not alarmed the whole of Fujian, but they are in a big case, and it is definitely not possible to honestly find a place to be a good citizen, so now he can only bite the head and take this group of subordinates to go down this road, and expand their strength as soon as possible, otherwise, they are such small shrimps, if they are not careful, they may be swallowed by a big fish.

The four words of the sinister rivers and lakes seem to be really not covered, and now he is considered to know the Tao, no matter what he does, it is the big fish that eats the small fish, and the small fish eat the shrimp, and their current standard is a small shrimp on the sea!

After returning to Treasure Island, bags of grain were unloaded on the island, plus the food that Li Yi sent to Zhao Mazi before, their ration problem was finally solved, and in a short period of time, even if they were allowed to eat with their bellies open, it was enough for them to eat for two or three months without a problem.

Although it is not easy to do this business, but when they carry a large bowl full of rice, they still feel very satisfied, they finally do not have to eat those unpalatable brown rice mixed with shredded potatoes and a little pickle every day, but can eat white rice with an open belly, and this alone makes many people feel that even if they take a little risk, it is worth it.

For these poor people, their desires are very easy to satisfy, although Yu Xiaotian did not give them much silver, but they do not have too many opinions on this, because even if Yu Xiaotian now gives them some silver, in this small treasure island, they have no place to spend it, not to mention that Yu Xiaotian did not hide from them, and made public the amount of money they had recently obtained, and informed everyone of the environment they were in.

Yu Xiaotian told these people that he was not stingy with dividing the silver, the silver they had already gotten, the most important thing at the moment was to develop their strength as soon as possible, otherwise, even if everyone shared more silver, they would not be able to keep the money, and sooner or later one day they would have to cheapen others, after Yu Xiaotian's words, everyone would have nothing to say.

But after returning to Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian still sent a red envelope to everyone, which contained a different amount of broken silver, which was regarded as a salary for these people.

From the very beginning, Yu Xiaotian had already made up his mind that in the future, he would implement a salary system and corporatized management among his subordinates, which could lay the foundation for his expansion in advance.

In his opinion, pirates and companies are almost the same nature, both need a perfect organizational structure, the development of a corresponding system, to ensure that the organization can operate in accordance with the system, there will not be too much trouble, in this regard, its importance is even more important than engaging in weapons, only do this first, in the future can speed up the development step by step, otherwise, it may lead to chaos within him in the future.

For the salary system proposed by Yu Xiaotian, Liu Laoliu and Ma Mian and others feel very fresh, in their opinion, they are just a bunch of pirates, everyone eats food, everyone drinks wine, everyone spends money, and everyone has women to play, for many years, those who do their business are doing this, and Yu Xiaotian actually proposed to pay the big guys, which is really fresh.

So Ma Face, including Liu Lao Liu, everyone didn't think about it at first, thinking that it was too troublesome to do this, and it was better not to use it, but Yu Xiaotian still insisted on his opinion, and took the time to tell Ma Face and others in detail about the benefits of doing this, Ma Face They didn't understand what organizational structure, but they understood that Yu Xiaotian did this for their good in the future, and they felt that it made sense to ponder and ponder.

Yu Xiaotian told them that in the future, they can't always have only twenty or thirty people, it's easy to do now, and there are rich guys to spend, but what about more people in the future? You can't do it again, so instead of giving everyone a lot of money, it's better to pay a salary, and Yu Xiaotian made it clear that this salary is only the most basic, on top of the basic salary, it will also be based on what they get from hunting, according to the personal division of labor and effort and the size of the credit, and then give additional rewards, and the amount of rewards will far exceed the basic salary, so as to ensure that everyone can get a reasonable income.

After everyone listened, they felt that Yu Xiaotian was not bad at what he said, doing their business, it was impossible for them to be at the forefront, some people wanted to stay at the helm, some people wanted to steer the ship, and some people wanted to copy the guys to play with their lives, if the big guys all took the same money, the soldiers who were responsible for the hard work would definitely be unhappy, so Yu Xiaotian's method of adding a base salary and rewards was good, so they all agreed.

After getting the red envelope, these people were happy, so they did this, and finally got the money, although the money in hand was not much, but after all, it was the first time they got the money, so everyone was still quite happy, and carefully put it away one by one.

And the rest of the money, Yu Xiaotian did not put it away, but took out three hundred taels of silver from it and handed it to Liu Lao Liu, because Yu Xiaotian promised that after the goods on the Liu family ship were sold, he would take out part of it to the families of the boatmen on the Liu family ship who died.

Everyone had nothing to say about this, but felt that Yu Xiaotian was trustworthy and worthy of their trust.

Liu Laoliu thanked Yu Xiaotian, and after thinking about it for a while, he put the money away, and now it is inconvenient for them to go to the land to send silver to these people, so they can only think of other ways, in short, they have to give the money to the families of those boatmen.

(Special thanks to the friends who taste the reading and give a red envelope of wealth in the Year of the Snake!) Thank you for the cold wind! ）