"When I go back today, I will expand your mine, and I hope to see the size of the mine more than double by the end of this year."

In the Yamen of the Admiral of Keelung Town, Dayuan Island, Li Tianyang was sitting in the middle hall and meeting with an old man from his hometown in Qiongzhou.

"Yes, yes, sir!"

The surname of the person is Sun Cangliu, who is the current head of the Sun family in Changhua County, and he is younger than Li Tianyang, but in front of Li Tianyang, he is submissive and respectful.

"Just ......"

Sun Cangliu's expression of wanting to speak and stopping made Li Tianyang a little funny, but he has been dealing with people for a long time over the years, and Li Tianyang is also clear about what the other party wants to say.

"Don't worry, I've already talked to the imperial court about this expansion of the mine, and we don't have to hide how to mine ore and the scale of mining in the future, so don't worry about it boldly!"

"Okay, okay, the little one is relieved!"

Sun Cangliu's face was happy, and then other thoughts flashed in his mind, but because of the power of the adult in front of him now, and the strength behind it, he finally quietly held it back.

"The funds for the expansion of the mine will be handed over to your family, and in return, our family's share will remain the same, how about it?"

Li Tianyang has always been very generous to the allies around him, and he also understands that if he wants the horse to run, he must give the horse good grass, when he told Sun Cangliu of this, Sun Cangliu couldn't hide the excitement and gratitude in his heart, and gave Li Tianyang a succession, and did not forget to express his loyalty: "Rest assured, the small one will definitely expand our Shilu mine more than twice in the specified time." ”

In a word, Li Tianyang knew how much silver he had sprinkled, and the wealth given to the Sun family would also make their family unable to eat and drink for several lifetimes.

However, Li Tianyang also understands that in the matter of Shilu Mine, the contract they signed with Sun Dafu, the former head of the Sun family, has already changed in silence, and most of the shares that originally belonged to the Sun family are now only less than 20%.

But just this mere two percent has already created the reputation of the first family in Changhua County of the Sun family, as well as their status as a wealthy party.

If we continue to calculate according to the 20% shares, we will really wait until the expansion of the Shilu mine is more than doubled, and it can be expected that the scale of the Shilu mine will inevitably accelerate in the next few years, so as to be worthy of the huge price paid by their Hongmen, and the wealth they gave to the Sun family will be immeasurable.

But Li Tianyang and they now have no spare energy to run a mine that requires a huge population as labor, compared to the Shilu Mine, which may be taken back at any time because the Ming Dynasty turned its face, Gong Changling's crazy desire to eat that is certainly more risky, but Hongmen's control over it is stronger.

Instead of spending the excess money on the Shilu Mine, a place that is likely to make wedding dresses for others, it is better to lose a little bit of profit, and let Sun's big head contribute money and efforts to mine and expand the mine for his own side, and at the same time take care of the output of the mine, as long as the other party delivers the goods on time and in quantity, then they don't have to be responsible for what kind of bad things their Sun did in Qiongzhou.

Li Tianyang This can be regarded as a kind of Ah Q spirit, at this time, although they Hongmen won the war outside the northern pass, but to be honest, the price paid for this victory was really heavy, which made Hongmen feel unbearable.

In order to avoid the next crazy counterattack of the Qing people, protect their interests outside the customs, and completely defeat the Qing Dynasty, the biggest opponent in Li Tianyang's heart, Hongmen can't be distracted too much in other things.

Qi Hu led the people of the Foreign Affairs Bureau to work hard and secretly, in order not to let the Ming government notice Hongmen's recruitment of people on the mainland, all Qi Hu could do was to use money to open the way, block the tongue of the local officials, and make them turn a blind eye to Hongmen's recruitment of displaced people.

The spies of the Foreign Security Bureau lurking in the Ming Realm have been dormant, although they have reached a peace consensus with the Ming Dynasty, but there are some things that the other party will definitely investigate in secret.

However, in the territory occupied by the Northern Daxi, Dashun, and Daqing, the movements of the Foreign Security Bureau are becoming more and more frequent.

Especially in the territory of Jingshi and Zunhua, which are now under the control of the Qing people, under the pressure of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, the territory occupied by the Qing Dynasty has been squeezed to a limit.

The eyes of the Hongmen Foreign Security Bureau were more sprinkled on this area that was in a stalemate.

Because the Qing Dynasty failed to complete the purpose of counterattacking the Huihongtang army, it made the Qing army of Aobai and Suoetu, which was stuck in the Ming Realm of Guannei, a lone army.

I don't know when I will return to the reinforcements from Shengjing, and the road home behind me has been cut off by the Hongtang army, which makes the two coaches Ao Bai and Suo Etu, who are sitting in Beijing, muttering in their hearts.

Because the Ningjin line was firmly controlled by the Hongtang army, it was really difficult to send letters between Beijing City and Shengjing, although they heard that Shengjing was in the midst of a fierce struggle for power and profit, but under the whip, they could only sigh and guard their duties.

The army of the Ming people has been stationed under the city of Beijing for two months, although there have always been all kinds of temptations, but the real large-scale siege behavior is very rare, let alone the use of large-scale siege equipment.

In their heyday, Aobai had more than 150,000 troops in their hands, but now they have lost their occupation one after another, and the whole is shrinking in the defensive circle centered on the city of Beijing, but the number of troops in the hands of Dolgon is less than 80,000.

In addition to the 15,000 elites of the two yellow banners of the Qing Dynasty, there are more than 10,000 Mengbaqi disciples in their hands, and the rest are all Han troops.

For these Han troops, in addition to the more than 10,000 people they brought from the Qing Dynasty, it can still be somewhat reassuring, and the remaining 40,000 or 50,000 troops Ao Bai and Suo Etu do not dare to let them garrison important strongholds at all.

The originally good territory, after Sun Chuanting's Ming army fought back, soon fell into the hands of the other party, which of course had the reason that their main force did not exchange fire with it. But in the same way, it was also because they were subdued in the Ming Dynasty and waited for those Han armies to defect again, so that they did not have time to send reinforcements, and they became the territory of the other party.

In succession, when their own forces no longer had an advantage, they could only shrink their forces and disperse their opponents, the forces in the hands of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, looking for an opportunity to fight with them.