Li Tianyang's heart was gloomy, but he was equally determined.

I have watched too many film and television dramas, in which brothers kill each other and bully each other, in the eyes of people who have not actually experienced Li Tianyang's compromise, they may feel somewhat exaggerated.

But when Li Tianyang really achieved his position and weighed a lot of powerful relationships, he found that sometimes, some things are not transferred by your personal will, and there is a huge interest group behind you that needs to be considered, and they will involuntarily push you to that step!

For example, now, Li Tianyang may not fancy his father Li Dede's strength in his heart, even if he hands it over to his younger brother, it doesn't matter to him.

However, the Wild Shark's territorial power, as well as its close relationship with Hongmen, made Li Tianyang have to compete with his younger brother.

The reason is very simple, Hongmen's current sphere of influence has included the waters of Satsuma in the east and the waters of Qiongzhou in the west.

After all, the Wa Kingdom is now unified, and its own strength is naturally not worth mentioning compared to the vast Ming Dynasty, but compared to the Hongmen forces of Dayuan Island, which has only been developed and expanded for less than 20 years, it is still like a behemoth, and it is not a target that the current Hongmen can deal with.

On the road to the east, if you can't get rid of the Japanese country, then it is like being blocked by a boulder, unless you move this stone, even if you open up an enclave, the cost of operating forces is not acceptable to Li Tianyang.

On the other hand, in the Nanyang area, since Li Tianyang suddenly established a Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, under the circumstance that Li Tianyang did not expect, the development of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in the Luzon Islands is in full swing, which is very extraordinary!

Correspondingly, I didn't think that I would invest too much in the Luzon Islands before Dayuan Island was fully developed, but with the Chamber of Commerce expanding trade and developing farms in the Luzon Islands, Hongmen, as the leader of the Chamber of Commerce, also needs to do his part, and at the same time enjoy the great benefits brought by the Chamber of Commerce by the way.

However, the relationship between Li De and Li Tianyang's father and son is complicated, with both cooperation and covert resistance, so that Li Tianyang can easily extend his tentacles to his father's territory, which is also a problem that Li Tianyang has long foreseen after instigating his father to Luzon.

Even Li Tianyang himself didn't expect that the development of Hongmen, in the past two or three years, has advanced by leaps and bounds, and has gradually begun to incorporate the entire Dayuan Island into the development system, and I am afraid that it will soon be able to make a breakthrough.

As the owner of Hongmen, Li Tianyang must prepare in advance and choose a good target, so that Hongmen can have a new expansion direction after developing Dayuan Island to complete the sustainable development of the team.

Li De retreated and began to plan to choose an heir for the mad shark, but at this time, it was a great opportunity for Li Tianyang to intervene in the Luzon Islands and lay out in Luzon in advance.

After this village, if the Shark Gang was handed over to his younger brother by his father, then Li Tianyang, as the elder brother, would not be able to interfere in the Luzon Islands again, which would also invisibly block the road for Hongmen to go south in the future.

At the same time, the large-scale development of the Luzon Islands by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce was not taken seriously by the Spanish colonists at first, and for them, as long as they grasped the safety of the vicinity of the Manila Citadel and the hub of the Nanyang trade routes, they were left to the vast wilderness of the collaborators with whom they had just signed many trade agreements.

However, the Spaniards soon realized that something was wrong, and a large number of Ming people came to Luzon with the cargo ships of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, settled on the various habitable islands of Luzon, and carried out industrious pioneering tours.

Outside the Manila Castle, the tens of thousands of Ming people who originally lived here gradually began to disperse, and were recruited by the various proprietors and treasurers of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce to manage and open up large farms, or to participate in gold panning.

It is said that the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce's approach is only beneficial and not harmful to the Spanish colonists in Manila Castle, after all, the number of people they had in Manila Castle before was completely no match for the number of Ming people living in it, so they had to focus more on the Ming people, and at the same time, they secretly made bad moves, provoking the relationship between the locals and the Ming people, so as to restrain more and more Ming people.

But now the Ming people have been recruited by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce from Manila in large quantities, and there are no more than 10,000 Ming people who are still in Manila to beg for a life and do business.

The Spanish fleet, which had not left Manila since it had been brought to Manila last year, had been scattered around the waters of the Luzon Islands, or occasionally to and from Xiangshanao and Hirado.

In view of this, Li Tianyang and the soldiers of the Hongtang Sailor both felt that the Spaniards might not be objectively and calmly watching the development of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in the Luzon Islands as they had shown when they were negotiating with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce before.

Even faintly, Li Tianyang felt that sooner or later the Spaniards would strike first and eliminate the power of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in the Luzon Islands without declaring war.

This is not impossible, and now the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is blooming all over the Luzon Islands, opening more than 100 farms, plantations and textile workshops, etc., and the overall size of the staffing plus the recruitment of local natives is more than 10,000 people, not to mention the Shark Gang in Appa Town, which is exposed to the Spaniards.

As a result, Hongmen has now begun to recruit soldiers on a large scale to expand its armed forces, but it is impossible for this group of newly recruited soldiers to go to war in the short term.

In Dayuan Island, the Hongmen and Bengang alliances are also rapidly developing countless wilderness places on Dayuan Island, and they can't spare too many people to build and consolidate the sphere of influence of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce on the Luzon Islands.

Then more of the burden fell on the Shark Gang, and Li Tianyang needed to use the power of the Shark to resist the hostility and attack of the Spaniards against the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

If Li Deruo is still in the position of the leader of the Crazy Shark Gang, then it is okay to say, after all, they are a family, and they are bound by interests, saying that the Crazy Shark will go all out to deal with the Spaniards, and then Hongmen will assist from the side, which is a sure thing in Li Tianyang's opinion.

But if his younger brother is in charge of the Shark Gang, then with the resentment and hostility that his younger brother is hiding in his heart now, Li Tianyang is really not sure whether his younger brother will willingly cooperate with him in the future.

All kinds of reasons were tangled together, forcing Li Tianyang to stand up to his younger brother's resentful gaze and agree to their father's proposal.

(End of chapter)