Kojiro Okamura didn't know what kind of turmoil his arrival had brought to the upper echelons of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

When King Shang Feng returned to the palace from the secret passage, he lost sleep that night, and while he was moved by the secret alliance of Samosa, he was very worried that he would annoy the Hongmen because of it.

Now in the heart of King Shangfeng, this is like the difference between boiling a frog in warm water and being killed on the spot, whether you want to admit it or not, at this time the Ryukyu Kingdom has quietly become a vassal of Hongmen, and the more prosperous the economy is, the more restricted their kingdom will be by Hongmen.

Rather than this, King Shangfeng, who thought that he did not want to be the lord of the fallen country, would not be willingly swayed by the Hongmen, and his heart was naturally more inclined to form an alliance with Samosa, although this alliance may not be helpful at a critical juncture, but if even he is the king does not strive for it, then his children and grandchildren will really become the king of the kingdom.

In the following half a month, the leaders of the Hongmen guards in the Ryukyu Kingdom found that King Shangfeng's movements in these days were a little strange, and he always beckoned his high-level henchmen into the palace from time to time, and talked with his henchmen in detail after retiring from the left and right.

The details of the discussion are unknown, but seeing that every Ryukyu minister who was summoned to the palace always had a serious face when he left the palace, and after returning home, he kept silent about entering the palace, and it can be seen that the matter they discussed was not small.

However, the intelligence officers of the Hongmen Foreign Guard did not feel that these strange actions had anything to do with their Hongmen, they now had a strong self-confidence, and the wise performance shown by the King of Ryukyu Shangfeng in the past, he would never dare to do anything unfavorable to Hongmen against Hongmen.

Therefore, for the actions of King Shangfeng of the Ryukyus, although the Hongmen guards have been increasing their efforts to investigate, they have not attracted too much attention.

When Kojiro Okamura stayed in the capital of Shuri of the Ryukyus for almost a month, King Shoho of the Ryukyus, after many ideological pinpoints and long discussions with his confidants, finally gave Kojiro Okamura a clear answer and agreed to the other party's alliance.

However, no contract was signed for this alliance, because King Shoho was still worried that leaving a written contract might be leaked, or that the Samobans would use it to bargain with them and threaten his side, and the two sides only reached a verbal agreement.

It's really hard to say how far this secret alliance will end up in the end, but the king of Ryukyu Shangfeng still has some gains, that is, the hostility with their Samoto is over, and he can concentrate on developing the Ryukyu garrison and preparing for the future.

At this time, Li Tianyang didn't know that his ally Ryukyu Kingdom had betrayed him, and he didn't care about the betrayal of the other party, because compared to the small Ryukyu Kingdom, Li Tianyang's vision now is much far-reaching.

Li Tianyang is busy with a large amount of pioneering work, the finalization of the fifth generation of steam engine, so that Li Tianyang sees a new future, originally because of the current era of backward productivity relations, Hongmen spent nearly 20 years, and has not been able to completely develop Dayuan Island, which is a very frustrating thing for Li Tianyang.

Since he went back to Bengang R&D Institute, Li Tianyang paid more and more attention to the R&D Institute's attention to the application of steam engines, and after he talked to Chen Cai about the wide application of steam engines that he brought from later generations, he returned to Keelung Town, Li Tianyang wrote a long letter and sent it to Lu Fugui in Shilu Mine, asking him to increase the mining efforts of the mine, while Li Tianyang poured more resources into Bengang R&D Institute to focus on several applications.

Two of the applications of the steam engine, not surprisingly, are the steam train and steam ship engineering, but to the surprise of Chen Cai, Li Tianyang's greatest concern is not the Hongmen more traditional Chinese medicine to the steam steamer, but the steam train that everyone thinks is a little whimsical.

The reason why even the R&D personnel feel that Li Tianyang's description of the steam train is a bit whimsical, is that they can't believe that there really is such a train, which can pull hundreds or thousands of tons of goods, and its speed is far faster than a horse-drawn carriage.

However, Li Tianyang, who came from later generations, has a strong confidence in this, not to mention the high-speed rail whose speed is comparable to that of airplanes in later generations, just Li Tianyang saw from American film and television dramas about the early western development point train, which is already better than Hongmen's existing means of transportation.

As his current base camp, Li Tianyang will never give up the control and development of Dayuan Island as a last resort, Qi San and they have spared no effort to dig the corners of the Ming Dynasty over the years, bringing more than 200,000 migrants to Hongmen, plus Hongmen's annexation of pirates and rogues, the education of local natives, and the natural growth of the population, Hongmen's population base on Dayuan Island is now almost 300,000.

The hometown of Qiongzhou, which has been developed by the Ming Dynasty for several generations, until now, the total population of the island is less than one million.

However, Li Tianyang is not satisfied with such achievements, there are still too many places on Dayuan Island, which have not been included in the development system of Hongmen because of inconvenient transportation.

With the increasing spread of peasant uprisings in the Ming Dynasty, the Hongmen spy war station and the Qisan recruitment team can recruit more population base for Hongmen and lay a more solid foundation for Hongmen, and Hongmen also needs to occupy more land to settle these people.

In addition to the more complex terrain, the Yushan, Central, and Snow Mountain ranges that run through the north and south, there are still a few remnants of stubborn indigenous tribes, the eastern coastline of Dayuan Island, and the western plain area, there have long been no formed indigenous tribes, which has laid a solid foundation for the future resettlement of Hongmen population, the construction of villages and towns, and Rongyang.

The only problem is the problem of transportation, and it is easy to say that there are enough ships to move around the coastline, which makes it relatively easy to settle settlements around the coastline.

However, in the vast and rich plains of the west, you can't just watch them abandoned and be indifferent, if they are developed, how to transport people and materials will become a problem that plagues everyone.

As long as the steam train is successfully developed, then the problem that plagued Li Tianyang to develop the entire Dayuan Island will be solved, and at the same time, it will also make Hongmen's control over the entire Dayuan Island stronger, and the convenience of traveling to and from various places anytime and anywhere can free up more resources for external expansion, and the remaining troops will no longer have to be scattered everywhere like now.

(End of chapter)