At the beginning of June in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and there were peasant uprisings in the Ming Dynasty that intensified.

When the Yellow River broke at Mengjin, the land within a radius of hundreds of miles turned into swamps, and millions of people were displaced, turning into beggars and refugees, or going north to Beijing, or south to Jiangnan and other places, forming a powerful wave of disaster victims.

Previously, Li Tianyang asked Qi San to continue to recruit displaced people, but in fact, it had a great impact on the large-scale riots caused by the peasant uprising in Shaanxi.

At least so far, the Ming Dynasty military has almost no major defeats, and compared with the peasant rebellions in later history, because there is a lot less relationship with the new army, the strength of its riot team has indeed weakened a little.

However, after the Yellow River burst, all the efforts made by Li Tianyang before did come to naught, and since then, the peasant uprising team with more new forces is about to move towards greater glory.

Of course, for the people of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, the impact of this Yellow River breach on them was positive.

Before recruiting people to go south to Luzon, many villagers may still hesitate and may not be willing to leave the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, but now this break has brought more choices to everyone, and also made many homeless people in order to have the hope of surviving, and no longer care about the legends of wild overseas, and enthusiastically join the team going south.

And Hongmen also gained a lot of benefits, not only Qi San's recruitment work was carried out in a steady and orderly manner, but also the expansion plan of Hongtang Water Division, which had already been put on the agenda, also received great help.

If you don't grasp the opportunity, this is not Li Tianyang's style, since the Ming Dynasty is now surrounded by displaced people, wind and rain, and a scene of turmoil, Li Tianyang is also stepping up steps to prepare for his expansion plan.

Originally, he only planned to expand the Hongmen Sailor Division to 20,000, but now that he saw that he had enough strong labor to recruit him, Li Tianyang waved his hand, and the expansion plan of the Hongmen Sailor was doubled, directly expanding to 30,000!

As for the Penghu Sailor Division, there is no change, it is still only expanded to about 16,000 people, because these 16,000 people occupy the official soldier quota of 6,000 Penghu Sailors and 10,000 of the original Hongtang Sailors, so these 16,000 people are actually equivalent to the imperial court supporting, and it does not cost Hongmen much consumption.

At the same time, on Dayuan Island, all kinds of small and medium-sized villages radiate along large towns such as Bengang, Daan, and Jilong, and bloom everywhere between the north and south coastlines of Dayuan Island.

Of course, because of the relationship between the terrain of the southern coastline and the snow-capped mountain range, more new bases are located between Bengang and Keelung Town.

Dayuan Island, which was originally vast, but because there was not enough manpower to develop and build, has completely changed its appearance now, and there is a thriving appearance everywhere, many villagers recruited from the north and north are working diligently in the fields, and pieces of primeval jungle and dense grassland have disappeared without a trace, replaced by patches of neat land.

Today's Hongmen is no longer the team that needs more external resource subsidies before, as Hongmen has been committed to planting more food in the past two years, and has postponed the planting of many cash crops, so that Hongmen will never have a food shortage like before.

Not to mention, there are also indigenous members of the Bengang Alliance who grow a large amount of food, which is purchased by Hongmen, forming an excellent mutually beneficial trade, which further shortens the time for the integration of the indigenous people and Hongmen.

Of course, this was followed by a decline in production and a decrease in income due to the lack of a large number of commodity raw materials.

However, in the new activities of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce that have begun to focus on the development of Luzon farms and the collection of rich gold veins on the island of Medan, a large number of ships have traveled between Nanyang and Daming, and at the same time, the income of Hongtang Water has increased significantly.

The ocean-going trade continued steadily, and with the completion of negotiations between the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the Spaniards, Hongmen benefited from a slight increase in overall profits, and Sun Juyong opened up trade between the far-reaching port of Acapulco and the town of Keelung.

However, in reality, this increase in income is far less than the huge burden brought about by the massive recruitment of manpower by Hongmen, and the financial burden of Hongmen is still heavy.

However, one thing that is fortunate is that the mining of placer gold mines in Medan, led by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, has been on the right track for most of the year.

Thanks to natural and man-made disasters in the Ming Dynasty, there was no shortage of gold miners in the placer gold mines on the island of Mindan.

The quarry was officially put into production in mid-April, and thanks to the work of thousands of miners, the gold income in the two months of May and June reached 10,000 taels, and its efficiency has not yet reached its highest value.

Although this huge amount of income, in fact, according to the proportion of everyone's share, the gold in each member of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is actually only a few hundred taels, and the most is only a thousand taels, and the benefits are not too surprising.

But don't forget, this is only the initial income of the mine, and when the mine is on the right track, and gradually increase the site and manpower, the future monthly income will be several times, dozens of times this, and the prospect is limitless.

The most important point is that the gold mine is a stable income, unless the vein is cut off, otherwise it will not reduce production due to weather and other factors, and it will bring some income over time, which is not a small amount.

The Jilongshan Mine has finally been exposed to everyone, Hongmen is going to expand, and Keelung Town is also steadily expanding outward, so naturally, the secrets in the Jilongshan Mine can no longer be kept.

However, just as Li Tianyang predicted before, the Jilongshan Mine was exposed, and if it happened before the Medan Gold Mine was not made public and the Medan Mine was not built, many gangs in the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce would probably have ulterior motives to find trouble with Hongmen and give Hongmen a stumble.

But now that the Medan mines have begun to produce gold steadily, the Jilongshan Gold Mine has been exposed, and for the various maritime merchant gangs that have been almost wiped out by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce at this moment, most of them are just envious of Hongmen's luck, and except for a few sour complaints in private, no one is willing to go to Hongmen for trouble, or secretly report the news to the imperial court, etc.

In the final analysis, at this time, everyone's interests in Nanyang Luzon, compared with the advantages taken by Hongmen today, are not worth mentioning, in order for everyone to have a strong backer in Nanyang in the future, a mutually beneficial and reciprocal partner, as long as it is not a businessman with a problem in the brain, will not do anything harmful to others and not to themselves.

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