Li Tianyang saw his father off, took Li Tiansheng and his family, and set off again to return to the Luzon Islands.

has been in Keelung Town for almost two months, and Li De's filial piety has almost been done, and the people are not as particular as the officialdom and literati, and Li De can do it like this, which is already good.

The Shark Gang is the crystallization of Li De's hard work for so many years, although he has already had the idea of retreating and wants to retire, but it does not mean that Li De will let go of the foundation he has worked so hard to build, so after consciously fulfilling his filial piety, he will go back with his family.

After sending Li De away, Li Tianyang began to calculate silently in his heart, to see when he would take time to go to Apa Town.

After perceiving his younger brother's dissatisfaction, Li Tianyang already had a precaution in his heart, and many times many things had to be decided immediately, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

As I said before, Li Tianyang didn't care about the foundation of the mad shark, but he didn't want to have too many problems between his brothers because of this foundation.

Li Tianyang doesn't want this family affection, which is indifferent but particularly precious, because there are cracks in such things, and now Li Tianyang must include the mad shark in his hands in order to lay out the future, and he has also thought about how to compensate this younger brother in the future.

The most important thing is that Li Tianyang doesn't want his father to be unhappy in the end because of his two brothers, after all, although this father is angry with him on the surface, but he can still feel the love for Li Tianyang in his heart.

However, the vigorous development of Hongmen has brought all kinds of cumbersome problems, although the backbone of Hongmen's middle and bottom levels has been fully prepared by Li Tianyang before, and a steady stream of Bengang Academy graduates have knowledge and vision, and they can work skillfully in the positions assigned to them with a little tempering, but in terms of high-level, Hongmen has always been lacking.

Da'an, Jingpu, Daxing, Bengang, etc., Hongmen all need a person who can stand alone, for Hongmen, a qualified mayor can make these strongholds avoid countless detours, so its selection is extremely challenging.

Until now, among the talents cultivated by Hongmen, there are very few who can be qualified for the position of mayor of this town, even Wu Chao in Jingpu Town, who was originally just asked her to manage the village of thousands of people and the rubber trees planted in it, but when the steady stream of displaced people in Jingpu poured in, Wu Chao, as the person in charge of Jingpu, was indeed full of loopholes, and finally Li Tianyang sent him a deputy to barely maintain the scene.

Therefore, on the side of Keelung Town, because the two teams of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the Bengang Alliance are gradually moving their focus over, coupled with the decision to expand the army some time ago, Li Tianyang really can't get out of it, and it took two or three months to go south.

But in his heart, Li Tianyang actually wants to go south to Luzon, over the years, except for the last time Li Tianyang took most of the backbone patriarchs of the Bengang Alliance to Beijing to go to Beijing, the rest of the world Li Tianyang really has never been out of his sphere of influence!

The Luzon Islands in the South Seas, as well as the colonies such as Java and Malacca that were under the control of the Dutch at this time, seemed to be the center of the east-west shipping routes in Li Tianyang's memory, especially the Strait of Malacca, which was controlled by the Dutch, was the only way for East-West trade, and as long as he choked this throat, he could almost monopolize the channel of East-West trade.

So far, Li Tianyang has not thought of escaping control of the Strait of Malacca, but now with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce gaining a firm foothold in the Luzon Islands, the wealth of the Luzon Islands and the external and internal strength of the Spaniards have gradually bred an ambition in Li Tianyang's heart, that is, to drive the Spaniards out of the Luzon Islands and let his own people control the overall situation.

This is not a whim, although the Spanish fleet is strong, but the current power of Hongmen should not be underestimated.

The "Yang Fan" battleships, which are comparable to the third-class battleships of the West, now have 34 warships in Hongmen, most of which are equipped with steel-cast cannons; As for the "Jiaolong" warships that can compete with the first-class battleships of the West, Hongmen has also entered service with two, and this is still in addition to the "Pioneer" that specializes in traveling between the port of Acapulco and Keelung Town.

The only thing that was still slightly lacking was that the guns on the two "Jiaolong" battleships were not yet complete, and only a few 18-pounder and 24-pounder guns had entered the gun position, and the high-powered 32-pounder and 36-pounder guns, and even the 48-pounder cannon with the main gun, because of the priority given to the assembly of the "Yang Fan" battleship, their assembly plan was slightly postponed.

But if Li Tianyang really had the idea of moving the Spanish cheese, then as long as there was half a year to prepare, Hongmen would not only be able to have one more "Jiaolong-type" warship, but also the artillery of more than 30 main warships that had been ready to go would also be able to complete the formation work.

Even in Li Tianyang's subconscious, he was already beginning to prepare for this.

Sun Juyong's pioneering team, after resting in Keelung Town for two months, Li Tianyang couldn't wait to let Sun Juyong set off again, this time not only the "Pioneer" a sea ship, but also two "Yang Fan" warship converted cargo ships, as its auxiliary ships to follow the east.

This time, Sun Juyong was ordered to keep only a certain amount of gold in the materials exchanged for the sale of goods, and all other things were replaced with natural rubber and rubber tree species.

There is a big problem with the planting of rubber trees in Jingpu, more than 1,000 tree species that survived at the beginning have died one after another, and the number of tree species that are still alive is only less than half of the number, and they always die of illness for no reason, which makes Wu Chao, as the main person in charge, very sad and has been complaining to Li Tianyang.

Li Tianyang sent a lot of gardeners with experience in farming and fruit tree planting from Bengang to help find the cause of the rubber tree's illness and death, and the answer they gave was almost the same, that is, the climate was wrong.

On the contrary, this time, the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce was fooled by Li Tianyang with gold mines and farms, and went south to Luzon to explore gold panning.

After receiving this news, Li Tianyang hurriedly sent experienced gardeners to the south, and increased the area of farms on the Luzon Islands to plant rubber trees.

Nowadays, natural rubber is becoming more and more widely used in Hongmen, making this raw material an indispensable part of Hongmen, so if Li Tianyang is a medicine and the Spaniards turn their faces, then the medicine must first think about the way out, and how to deal with the rubber collection later.

(End of chapter)