Sun Juyong's return gradually subsided after causing a sensation in Keelung Town for several days, and then Keelung Town returned to its lively and prosperous appearance, but in the gossip among the people in the tea shops and restaurants, you can still hear a few gossips about them.

Li Tianyang also recovered after two days of excitement, and then was surrounded by the team's trivial matters.

The peasant rebellion of the Ming Dynasty was still not quelled, but intensified.

Among the peasant rebels, some newcomers came to the fore, and several of them aroused Li Tianyang's strong interest, and they repeatedly inserted elite members of the spy war station to lurk beside them.

There are two people who aroused Li Tianyang's interest, one of them is Li Zicheng, who calls himself a general, but he has the same name and surname as the king in Li Tianyang's memory.

There is another person, who is the former peasant army leader named Zhang Xianzhong, Wang Ziyong's eight kings, but he is also a person in Li Tianyang's memory who vaguely remembers some impressions.

The appearance of Li Zicheng confirmed Li Tianyang's conjecture about the end of the Ming Dynasty, and also made the strings that were already tight in his heart ring, forcing Li Tianyang to run his team with a twelve-point spirit and expand its strength.

Last year's Hongmen, in fact, the development is still very rapid, before Li Tianyang's steady and steady, with the peasant rebellion of the Ming Dynasty, so that Li Tianyang's unstable heart was restless again, and he played several times in a row, and the three towns of Jingpu, Da'an, and Daxing were also developed at the same time.

Up to now, the population of Hongmen, excluding the natives who have settled in Hongmen, has also exceeded the 200,000 mark, and is rapidly advancing towards the population of 300,000.

The members of the spy war station were very popular among the peasant army, except for two members who were unfortunately strangled by the cold arrow and the Ming army, and the remaining members who were placed in the peasant rebellion team already had some real power in their hands.

The members who mixed the worst now have one hundred and eighty men in their hands, and as the leader of one side, they no longer kill the enemy in person as they did at the beginning, and the subsequent actions are naturally much less dangerous; And those who mix well are already heroes, and the number of homeless troops in their hands is already thousands, and their strength cannot be underestimated.

On the contrary, the members who were inserted into the official army of the Ming Dynasty, so far they have climbed up fast, they are still just a small hundred generals, and there are only dozens of people who can fight under their hands, and the rest are at most Wu Shichang and the like, which is of little use, and there are even people who are still just a hairy soldier, and they have to fight in danger every time they are in battle, and their damage is more than that of their colleagues who are mixed into the peasant army.

There is such a stark contrast, in fact, it is not out of Li Tianyang's expectations, among the peasant riot team, there are very few people who have really received formal military education, and most of the members are just ordinary people who follow the herd, as long as the members of the Hongmen spy war station show enough domineering, strength and military literacy in peacetime, it is a relatively easy thing to climb to a high position.

The only thing they are worried about is that they need to exercise enough restraint to show a bit of military literacy, but not to appear too professional, otherwise it is likely to backfire and arouse the suspicion of others.

As spies, not attracting attention is one of the ways for them to survive, and they have memorized these methods of survival as early as when they experienced formal education in the spy war center.

On the other hand, the members of the army of the Ming Dynasty are so mixed in the Ming Dynasty, but it also reflects the old-fashioned and corrupt military of the Ming Dynasty from the side.

The establishment of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce last year was originally just a temporary initiative of Li Tianyang to divert many teams to peep into their Hongmen Jilongshan Mine, and played a step of idle chess, but what they didn't expect was that this idle move now gave Li Tianyang a surprise.

Lu Jiajie and his team spent more than a month in Nanyang Manila Castle last year, and started detailed and tedious negotiations with the Spaniards, and it was not until the beginning of this year that they signed a three-page, 10,000-word agreement with the Spaniards.

As the initiator of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, Hongmen is naturally a member of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and can also obtain the benefits of the agreement signed by Lu Jiajie.

Originally, Li Tianyang didn't attach importance to this agreement, but he didn't expect that the benefits brought to Hongmen by this agreement were a trip to Nanyang trade, and there was an extra 10,000 or 20,000 net profits, which Li Tianyang didn't expect before.

Moreover, the various members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce soon discovered other uses of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and they all joined hands to make use of its wide coverage base, and exchanged information, presided over by several prestigious and well-known large firms, and the profits obtained by the joint actions of the various industries were two inches higher than the profits obtained by the previous gangs, and the risks were smaller.

Immediately, there was a shrewd person who began to collect intelligence in the Chamber of Commerce, collected all kinds of materials from the north and south of the river, and then sold them in the Chamber of Commerce, but it also formed the first civil newspaper prototype in the Ming Dynasty.

According to the latest news on the newspaper, under the transfer from the south to the north, everyone earned more and more money.

Others began to seek allies in the chamber of commerce, cracking down on joint funding, wantonly collecting a certain raw material in a certain place, raising prices, and when the price reached a certain level, they quickly sold the materials, and the profits were extremely considerable.

In this way, everyone was originally only hindered by the Hongmen to gain face, and was attracted by the gold veins obtained by the Hongmen and the rich land on the Luzon Islands, and joined the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce with a dispensable attitude, but now the gold veins have not yet embarked on the right path, and the land farms have not yet been traced, but because the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce has made a lot of profits in business, everyone no longer has the slightest contempt for this seemingly rabble alliance.

At the same time, the shortage of materials caused by Hongmen's extensive reception of displaced people has also been greatly improved with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce's designation in Keelung Town.

As the president of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, Li Tianyang purchases cotton and linen cloth, grain and other materials from the members of the Chamber of Commerce.