Li De's departure can be said to be the biggest hidden danger of Li Tianyang's team now. With the mad shark on the side, no matter what they do, Li Tianyang and them will feel very difficult to do.

Now that the mad shark is going south, not only does Li Tianyang not have to worry about getting entangled with the mad shark gang anymore, but also obtained a large area of sea as a territory for no reason, it can be said that they are already the overlord of the South China Sea, and there is no one.

Of course, it can't be compared with Li Dan, whose nest is far away in Hirado and Nagasaki, and Li Tianyang and them are not yet able to digest the sea area of more than 1,000 miles from east to west, so they can't be said to be really powerful.

The addition of Wu Juren and his henchmen and pirates, while making Li Tianyang not have to re-recruit people and consolidate his territory, he actually planted a mine in his team that he didn't know when it would explode.

Even if there was no advice from Li De before leaving, Li Tianyang could only hold Wu Juren's group high in his hands, who made Wu Juren's status so special to Li Tianyang.

As an elder, Wu Juren, who watched Li Tianyang grow up, can scold Li Tianyang unscrupulously, without caring whether Li Tianyang will complain about him because of this: because Li Tianyang's father is still alive, then Wu Juren is qualified enough to pose in front of Li Tianyang!

As a bandit and a senior, for Li Tianyang and their group of rising stars, Wu Juren is more qualified to criticize what Hong Tang did.

But fortunately, with Li Tianyang's understanding of Wu Juren, the third uncle, over the years, he has always been honest and upright, but he may not really sell the old and put himself above Li Tianyang, the leader. But I'm afraid that he may not really obey Li Tianyang's dispatch, after all, as an elder, being led by a junior, in the rivers and lakes, it is mostly a manifestation of the elders' incompetence.

In this regard, Li Tianyang also left Wu Juren's leopard department in the Qionghai area independently, and even the personnel arrangements were handled by himself, except at the beginning of Wu Juren's joining, Li Tianyang strongly asked Wu Juren to transfer the stronghold of Hongtang Qionghai from the southwest of Shrimp Ball Island to the Turtle Island, which is closer to Dayuan.

Here, Li Tianyang had already sent people to build a camp that was not simple, and the houses and defense facilities made of cement were placed outside, no worse than the defense of ordinary towns. For this reason, Li Tianyang and the others used the remaining Dafu ships that were idle in Jilong Harbor to transport them back and forth several times before transporting this batch of cement, stone sand and timber to this small island, which is not very large.

The reason why the Qionghai stronghold was moved eastward was because Li Tianyang's current strength was simply not enough to control such a large sea area.

The sea area from the Ryukyu Sea to the Penghu Sea for several hundred miles has already made Li Tianyang and his Hongtang two departments a little unable to take care of it. Don't look at the Hongtang Whale Department and the Shark Department together after the reorganization, there are nearly 5,000 people, but in such a huge sea area, it is like the sesame seeds sprinkled on a large watermelon pulp, which is really not very conspicuous.

In order to consolidate the foundation of these two sea areas, in fact, Li Tianyang and his family have been deliberately shrinking their territory, and many unimportant, remote and barren territories are being given up by Hong Tang with a choice.

At the beginning, after Wu Shu and the others had just conquered Huludao and occupied the Ryukyu Sea, there would be frequent pirate invasions in the future, because when Wu Shu gave up some unimportant territory, he did not grasp the degree well and acted in a hurry, so that other pirates thought that they were unstable in Hongtang.

Even so, there are still many pirates roaming the waters and invading merchant ships every month! It also made Wu Daofu and Wu Shu have to send warships frequently to clean up the pirates who are like leeks and cut wave after wave.

Continuing to expand the size of the team is not a desirable technique, and the five thousand Hongtang warriors alone spend 30,000 taels of silver per month, at least four or five hundred thousand taels a year. Li Tianyang not only subsidized all the fees collected by Hongtang for passing ships, but also pasted most of Qixintang's income into it, so that he could make up so much silver.

If the scale is expanded, then what will Li Tianyang and his team use to support the fighters and the families behind the fighters?

And although Wu Juren's leopard department is called a group, there are actually only more than 500 people, compared to most of Li De's departures, it is actually only 1/8 of the scale of the family. If you want to rely on such a small number of manpower, you have to control the territory that Li De and his more than 4,000 people fought down, do you think it is possible?

Therefore, in the case of not being able to expand the strength of the leopard department in the short term, Li Tianyang could only move the leopard department to the east, give up most of the sea area, and only control the sea area of the Liangguang area and the essence of the southern South Sea route.

Since Li Tianyang didn't have the strength to control the Qionghai region, why did he have to force him to deceive his father Li De into this sea area? Is he really addicted to cheating?

Of course not, Li Tianyang did this, in fact, there is a reason. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the pirates were ravaged, there was a fundamental reason, with the serious land annexation, more and more farmers lost their land, coupled with natural disasters in the north, many people who had no livelihood naturally needed to find a way to survive.

Compared with the risk of rebellion and trouble in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, the more frequent and developed maritime trade has also given hope to this group of ordinary people who have no food and clothing.

If you want to completely eradicate the appearance of pirates, you can't do it with the ability of the Ming Dynasty, let alone Hongtang, who is also just a thief. Therefore, Li Tianyang never thought about trying to block the car with his mantis arm on his own.

Cutting off people's wealth is like digging people's ancestral graves, Li Tianyang and their dedication to cleaning up the pirates in their sphere of influence made many pirate gangs hate their hearts, but because of Hongtang's strong strength, everyone can't take others.

But in the long run, the more resentment accumulates in the hearts of many pirates, maybe people will do something unfavorable to Hong Tang.

Since it is impossible to prevent the birth of pirates, Li Tianyang decided to plan the sea area west of Qionghai, close to the coast of Myanmar and Vietnam, as well as the sea area east of Huludao and west of the Wa Kingdom for 100 miles, and let the pirates make a living in these areas.

The sea areas around Myanmar and Vietnam are barren in production, and the maritime trade is not prosperous, so it is useless for Li Tian to keep them; The sea area east of Huludao is a hundred miles away, but the Ryukyu Islands have complex terrain, and it is already good for the Hongtang Whale Department to control the sea area of more than 100 miles, and it has to take into account the sea area from the west to Penghu, and the defense range is not small.

Therefore, as long as these pirates do not cross the line and do not cause trouble for Li Tianyang at that time, Li Tianyang can tolerate and has to tolerate the activities of these pirates outside their Hongtang sphere of influence.

(End of chapter)