The tenth year of Chongzhen was a year of natural and man-made disasters, not only the Korean Peninsula had a great war with the Qing people, but also the peasant army that rebelled in the Ming Dynasty's land developed rapidly, and even the peasant rebellion in the kingdom of the Japanese people, which had just completed the unification not long ago, there were peasant riots.

Compared with the ups and downs of these kingdoms, the territory controlled by Hongmen is like a paradise: the gold production in Luzon is increasing day by day, and more and more Ming people are deceived by rumors that they can pick up gold in Luzon Islands, and become part of many gold diggers; The cultivated land on Dayuan Island has grown even more rapidly, and almost a dozen settlements have been developed together, which has not only expanded the territory of Hongmen several times, but also made Hongmen's grain reserves stronger and stronger.

Today's Hongmen, the grain reserves alone have reached more than two million stones, which is comparable to the rich grain production in the Ming Dynasty.

With these grains as a backing, Li Tianyang finally felt a little more steady, the natural disasters during the Xiaoice River period in the north were more and more obvious, making the grain output in the north less and less year by year, which invisibly increased the financial burden of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time forced the Qing people in Liaodong to shift their survival expectations to the warm Jiangnan land in the south.

Generals such as Wu Jie and Shang Kexi, who returned with great meritorious deeds, were rewarded with their due rewards, and Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde and others, who were demoted generals, were finally officially accepted as members of Hongmen because of their contributions in wartime.

With the addition of Geng Kong and other generals, Hongmen once again expanded the size of their army, and the total army of Hongtang has exceeded 50,000 people.

Among them, this does not include Wu Daofu's Ryukyu Sailors, who were attached to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and Li Tianyang's Penghu Sailors who had a roster in the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Jie and the Jurchens in the confrontation, through the actual combat to understand the shortcomings and disadvantages of the Hongtang army, as well as their advantages, etc., in the discussion, the Hongtang army continued to maintain the existing combat strength, while Wu Jie and the defects they learned were corrected one by one.

The powerful function of the flintlock pistol has been well confirmed in the battle, and even the most powerful cavalry army of this era can be well restrained, which is extremely gratifying for Li Tianyang.

The problem that can be solved with money is no longer a big deal for Hongmen now.

Although the Hongmen team members have been expanding now, and Hongtang's army of more than 50,000 plus members of Qixintang and government agencies is approaching the 80,000 mark, but it can't stand Hongmen's powerful means of making money, and at the same time, the tax revenue on Dayuan Island is increasing.

Sun Dafu was already one of the richest people in the city, and every tael of silver he earned was obtained from Hongmen; The Hongmen team has obtained hundreds of thousands of catties of high-quality iron ore from Sun Dafu to his hands, which provides a steady stream of costs for Hongmen to manufacture various steel tools.

The stronger Li Tianyang's prestige and strength in the southern seas, the better the life of the believers and partners who follow him around, Sun Dafu used to dig iron ore and had a lot of sneaks, but now, everyone knows that Sun Dafu has a golden rooster that lays golden eggs, but no one dares to sue; Even the local parents and officials, most of them are afraid of Li Tianyang's strength behind Sun Dafu, and they only think that they are confused, and they don't know the existence of this thing.

The sufficient supply of raw materials, coupled with the perseverance of the craftsmen and R&D personnel of the R&D Institute and the Gun Manufacturing Bureau, has made the output of the Gun Manufacturing Bureau more and more day by day, which has basically been able to meet the normal consumption of Hongmen, and a small part of the surplus has been sold to the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and other forces in exchange for a lot of money back.

In August, the British, who felt struggling in the Wa Kingdom, finally began to extend their tentacles to the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, but with Li Tianyang repelling the Spaniards and Dutch who were more powerful than the British, their behavior was too restricted.

In the place of Humen Yaniang shoes, without the official recognition of the Ming Dynasty, three British sea ships were moored in it.

However, because of Li Tianyang, the admiral of Fujian Navy, who was eyeing him from the side, although he was in Guangdong, the British did not dare to make too big a move, but just found the same excuse as the Portuguese, wanting to copy the methods of the Portuguese and lay a foundation in the Ming Dynasty.

However, it is clear that the British underestimated the resolute will of the Ming Dynasty government on the land, and the Ming Dynasty troops stationed in Humen began to fire artillery fire to deter after several unsuccessful negotiations, and righteously demanded that the British withdraw from the Yaniang shoes.

The British were also helpless, the policy of seclusion and seclusion of the country was becoming more and more severe, and at the same time, the crackdown on the Christians of the Edo shogunate was also intensifying, and the British had no choice but to find another way in the Far East, and were ready to give up or temporarily put aside trade in the Japanese country.

For the sake of money, the British could only turn their attention to the more affluent and resource-rich Ming Dynasty.

The rudimentary artillery fire and backward tactics of the Humen garrison of the Ming Dynasty were really not worth mentioning to the British, who were emerging in Europe.

In the end, the British took the initiative to attack, and it didn't take much time to repel the Humen garrison and occupy the Humen fort at the same time.

However, because of the existence of the famous Hongmen, although the British repelled the Humen garrison, their actions were restrained after that, and they did not chase and beat the Ming Dynasty army because of Shang Feng in a battle, and obediently stayed in the Humen Fort.

As the overlord of the Ming Sea today, Li Tianyang and their intelligence system have already heard of it when the British set foot on the Asian shoe, but Li Tianyang and they did not expect that the British would have such courage to really use force to deal with the army of the Ming Dynasty.

Nominally, Li Tianyang was still a second-class member of the Ming Dynasty, and his status happened to focus on the safety of the Ming Sea, so not long after the British used force to take the Ya Niang shoes, more than ten warships of the Hongtang army set off to the west, and soon took back the Humen Fort that the British had just obtained.

Because of this skirmish, the British finally understood why the powerful Spaniards and Dutch would be defeated by Hongmen's men.

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