It is an immutable fact that the choice is always in favor of oneself.

On the surface, Li Tianyang solemnly arranged for the Xu clan to settle in Chongming Island, but in fact, in his heart, since he defeated the obsession in his heart, it can be said that he has swelled.

Hongmen has the most friendly system and rules for merchants in this era, although merchants need to bear taxes and reduce their profits, but the power and status they can enjoy are not given by other people.

Moreover, the Hongmen controlled the most lucrative navigation passage in this era, and any group in the East wanted to make money from the sea, it needed to be recognized by the Hongmen before it could travel unimpeded.

On the contrary, in the Ming Dynasty, the status of the merchants themselves is still relatively low, although in recent years in the context of the prosperity of commerce in the south of the Yangtze River, the status of merchants has been improved, and they have jumped to the second class in the four classes of Shinong industry and commerce, getting rid of the bottom status of other dynasties, but because of the relationship of wealth, they still need to face all kinds of coveting and black hands from the bright and dark places.

The promotion of status, but because of the imperfect legal system, the wealth owned by the merchants is not sufficiently guaranteed, and the high power position of the gentry class allows them to use all kinds of power in their hands to compete with the businessmen, intervene in the trade system, unfair competition, and even the shameless people even directly target the wealthy giants, and use illegal means to seize other people's property, which makes people unguardable.

The Ming Dynasty is still like this, not to mention the Qing Dynasty that is still in the stage of ignorance, as well as the forces of Daxi and Dashun, who are constantly fighting and living a difficult life.

All kinds of pros and cons are on the bright side, and Li Tianyang believes that these shrewd proprietors of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce will not see the problem, so it is natural that they will choose in the end.

Especially when Hongmen defeated the powerful enemy that everyone thought could not be defeated outside the Northeast Pass, the Jurchen army of the Qing Dynasty, and completely gained a foothold outside the Northeast Pass, which made everyone more confident in the future of Hongmen.

Li Tianyang likes this kind of upright and righteous feeling very much, looking at the goal he wants, under his own design, step by step to the position reserved for them, this feeling is indescribably beautiful.

This is true of the indigenous people of Dayuan Island and the representatives of the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, Li Tianyang also had things that he didn't expect, such as the courage of the Xu family head on Chongming Island was so strong that he actually made the move to move the family to Dayuan Island, which is a difficult thing for a prosperous family that has lived on Chongming Island for dozens or hundreds of years.

Although the task of relocating the Xu clan on Chongming Island is not small, it is not a complicated matter for the government of Hongmen, which often resettles displaced people. Except for the direct descendants of their own clan who settled in Keelung Town, the rest of the Xu clan were taken by Hongmen to settle in their settlement site.

Li Tianyang also set a precedent for the first batch of Xu clansmen to arrive, allowing the people of their clan to settle in the same town, forming a township where the people of the same clan are located, and ordered Ming to be the Xu family set.

It doesn't seem to be a big precedent, but in Li Tianyang's heart, he has made a big concession, the concept of the family and the country in this era is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Hongmen has been in order to break these rigid folk customs over the years, and when the people are resettled, they have specially dispersed the resettlement of one village and one surname.

It is true that Hongmen does not prohibit these people from coming and going, but under the limitation of distance, in the long run, the concept of family priority will become indifferent due to various factors such as personal distractions and intellectual edification, and eventually it will no longer become a thing that restricts the people's thoughts.

Li Tianyang doesn't think that these ideas are all dross, and there are many things worth learning and inheriting, but it is undeniable that looking at things such as this kind of family newspaper group from the position of a ruler will eventually affect the governance and daily management of the ruler, isn't it?

The arrival of the Xu family on Chongming Island was of great significance to Hongmen, which was also the reason why Li Tianyang personally went to the dock to greet them to show his attention.

With the arrival of the Xu clan on Chongming Island, the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce has now grown to more than 70 members, and the proprietors of the business gradually began to plan the future of their business and family in advance, or gradually reduce the trade at sea, move inland, or relocate more wealth and industry to Dayuan Island and Luzon Islands.

Of course, there are also members of a business like Ji Rentang, who feel that their energy in the officialdom is not bad, and at the same time, they are reluctant to take advantage of their family's local industry, so they still have no action for the time being, and they are still operating normally on both sides as before.

The Songjiang Xu family, although they have made a lot of profits in the shopping mall over the years, but after all, they are once out of the old Shoufu and other families, in essence, they are still the family of the gentry, even if they have earned the wealth that they have never thought of with Hongmen, but they are more concerned about the high status they have as a gentry class, and wealth may not be able to impress them to choose to stand in Hongmen.

However, Hongmen still gained a lot, and Hongmen settled various businesses from the mainland as their choice to reserve a way out for the family, and with it, countless job opportunities were created.

For example, in the temporary village named Xujiaji assigned by the Xu family on Chongming Island, it is necessary to reclaim wasteland, build houses and roads, etc., which requires a large amount of labor, and a lot of labor is still professional work, and the people of the Xu family may not have this strength.

The construction of roads and houses requires the purchase of a large number of materials, and no matter how generous Hongmen is, it is impossible to provide them with these materials free of charge, and they still need to be purchased by the proprietors themselves.

Anyway, these proprietors followed Hongmen together, and made a lot of money in the time of ocean trade, Dutch development, Luzon, etc., and they naturally would not be stingy when they took out some silver money to build their own foundation.

Moreover, as these proprietors began to move to Dayuan Island and Luzon, they brought more wealth opportunities and developed Dayuan and Luzon Islands to a greater extent, while also generating income for Hongmen's taxes and making Hongmen's finances richer.

In the long run, these firms moved more of their industries and wealth to Hongmen, and eventually turned into Hongmen's own heritage, so that Hongmen actually invisibly enriched their strength, but it has not yet been reflected.

The already prosperous and lively Keelung Town of Hongmen has become busier since the early spring of the twentieth year of Chongzhen.