On the twentieth day of the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, many days have passed since the death of many relatives of the Li family last year, and Li Tianyang, who returned from the Luzon Islands, has gradually regained his strength with the passage of time.

It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that he cheered up, based on the stories that Li Tianyang has experienced over the years, although he lost three relatives at once, one of them is still an aunt who is not very affectionate, which is not enough to defeat Li Tianyang.

It's just that Li Tianyang has been struggling all these years and has never slacked off, and after experiencing the death of his relatives repeatedly, he will naturally feel physically and mentally exhausted.

Therefore, after returning to Keelung Town, Dayuan Island, for more than half a month, Li Tianyang gave himself a vacation, ignoring all the world's affairs, and just wanted to stay with his wife, children and mother.

This is Chen Yumo's rare luxury over the years, the last time Li Tianyang accompanied himself and others without distractions, or under the oppression of Mrs. Wu, he worked hard for the successor.

Thinking of Mrs. Wu, Chen Yumo, who accompanied Li Tianyang to tease a pair of children, couldn't help but tremble in the letter, she lost her parents and grandfathers in her early years, and her later growth was really good, so she lacked the care of the elders, until she married into the Li family and won the love of Mrs. Wu and Sanniang, the elders, and regained the love of motherhood, so the family affection between them is also undiminished.

"Report!"

There are always people who spoil the scenery and disrupt this heartwarming scene.

Li Tianyang raised his head, looked at the uninvited guards standing upright, waiting for his answer After a long sigh, Li Tianyang handed over the young son in his hand to Yumo, looked at Sanniang and Yumo apologetically, and then got up and said, "Follow me." ”

After resting for so long, it's time to get back on track, now that Hongmen has a charter, things that are not very important generally do not appear in front of Li Tianyang, this is also Li Tianyang's journey to Nanyang from before to now has half a year, Li Tianyang has not paid too much attention to Hongmen, but it can also run as usual.

After taking the person back to his study and sitting down, Li Tianyang said calmly after a while: "Say, what's the matter?" ”

"There is a gang leader Liu Xiang who came to work, and Lu Yi's head asked how to settle it?"

The team members said important things.

"Isn't there a charter for recruitment? Why do you need to ask me? ”

Li Tianyang was slightly displeased and asked with a frown.

"This gang has a large number of people, if it is according to the usual recruitment and distribution plan, it may be a little slow to treat the gang leader Liu Xiang, so the head of the gang sent me to ask the admiral how to act."

The team member replied calmly.

"Lots of people?"

Li Tianyang raised his head, so that Lu Lu could say the word "large number of people", and the number of people was really not too small, so Li Tianyang couldn't help but think carefully about where this person named Liu Xiang came from.

Maybe he knew that Li Tianyang would have this question, and at the same time, Hongmen is now huge and has a certain charter, and before Li Tianyang remembered Liu Xiang's past, the team members explained their confusion: "Liu Xiang, a native of Lamma Island, Xiangshan, was originally one of the eighteen leaders of the Flying Dragon Gang, and then split after the defeat of Zheng Zhilong, and went north to Shandong as a thief, until now." ”

"Oh, I say, why is this name so familiar, and how many people did he bring with him this time?"

Li Tianyang suddenly felt that this name was not unfamiliar, but he didn't remember it for a while, and he had an impression as soon as he was reminded by the team members.

"More than 2,400 people."

"I didn't expect that after this guy broke away from Yan Zheng, his development would be good!" Li Tianyang nodded, no wonder Lu Lu is not good at making decisions himself, he needs to report to Li Tianyang for a way to resettle, the surrender of a gang of this scale is considered good, oh is not the biggest wave of pirates so far.

Since Hongmen became famous in the South Seas, the South Sea pirates, who had already been surrounded and suppressed for a long time, came out of a horn one after another, and suddenly Hongmen's recruitment office in Keelung Town was lively again.

"Let's bring this Liu Xiang, I want to meet this Liu Gang Leader!"

Although Li Tianyang lamented the huge number of this gang, at the same time, he was not surprised at all, with the current strength and development speed of Hongmen, it was only a matter of time before he annexed all kinds of gangs in the Daming Sea Frontier.

However, this Liu Xiang gang leader was able to make up his mind to win over the gang, and his determination and perseverance were no easier than those of Yan Zheng and his group, which made Li Tianyang want to get close to him.

In the original history, there was no Li Tianyang, a butterfly that disturbed history, and Liu Xiang was also one of the top bandits in the late Ming Dynasty, and he was also the only person who could compete with Zheng Zhilong, although he still failed in the end.

Liu Xiangqi is not as tall and majestic, but as tall as ordinary Jiangnan people, except for the horizontal flesh on his face and the murderous aura that exudes from time to time, he is completely an ordinary fisherman, and no one would have thought that he would be a giant.

"I've seen Lord Admiral!"

In the face of Li Tianyang, who is now becoming more and more majestic, Liu Xiang, the leader of the pirates, can still deal with it calmly, without the slightest timidity and fear, and this alone is much more powerful than the likes of seven or eight out of ten pirates.

"This official is very curious, for what reason is Gang Leader Liu willing to lead the crowd to come to my Hongmen?"

Now the momentum and scale of Hongmen make Li Tianyang very confident, and he doesn't need to worry that his words will disgust Liu Xiang and others, but the straightforward question can better set off his Li Tianyang's momentum and majesty.

Sure enough, Li Tianyang's straightforward way of asking made Liu Xiang stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted, and replied respectfully: "The Admiral now has a heavy army, the Fujian Navy Division is strong, and the Hongmen Water Division is expanding rapidly. ”

In fact, the larger the pirate gang, the stronger the fear and hostility of the Hongmen, as the Hongmen power has been expanding north to the south, if they don't want to become the next target of the Hongmen, many pirate gangs are forced to go north and go to the more distant Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and other places to survive.

However, the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and other sea areas connect the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, which is suffering from the Xiaoice period in history, where there is a sharp decline in products, the people are not able to make a living, and there are enough freight ships to and fro.

Although there were Korean routes passing through its waters, because of the large number of pirates, more maritime merchants preferred to take a long detour to trade from the Ryukyu and Wa routes, which were greatly affected by the Hongmen maritime rules, rather than taking a big risk to pass through the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea.

(End of chapter)