On the tenth day of March in the sixth year of Chongzhen, the weather was sunny, and a rare round of tomorrow broke through the rainy days and swaggered on Dayuan Island.

Since Li Tianyang returned from Nanyang, he has not returned to Bengang for more than half a year to inspect, and the affairs of Bengang have been handed over to Zhang Yuyan, the commander of Bengang County.

However, this time, after dealing with various affairs in Keelung Town for a long time, Li Tianyang finally took time out to go all the way west and came over through Gan Dabiao's Da'an Town.

Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Chong father and son have become colleagues, and Gan Xingzhi and Gan Dabiao are no exception, but just like the relationship between Wu Juren and Li Tianyang, although Zhang Chong and Gan Xingzhi already belong to Li Tianyang, Li Tianyang treats them as elders, but does not treat Wu Daofu and Guan Juxiong as casually.

In the past two years in Da'an Town, Gan Dabiao has been eating and waiting for death with complaint at the beginning, and now he has been conscientiously developing and expanding the foundation of Da'an Town, and has become one of the few people in Hongmen who can really stand alone.

Under Gan Dabiao's management, the scale of the ranch in Da'an Town has flourished, providing countless livestock, cattle and horses to various strongholds such as Keelung Town and Bengang, alleviating the livestock crisis in Hongmenzhong.

At the same time, with the expansion of Hongmen's army, the Hongtang cavalry team has also expanded to the scale of 5,000 people, and everyone can be said to be superb in horsemanship, and they are no longer as trembling as they were at the beginning.

Of course, the war horses under the seat of this cavalry are still relatively short Mongolian horses and Korean horses, tall and sturdy Hetao horses With Mao Wenlong, the governor of the Dongjiang River, being cut off by Yuan Chonghuan, Hongmen has no way, and can only rely on the hundreds of Hetao stallions in Da'an Town to breed slowly.

Today's Da'an Town, with a population of more than 20,000 people, is also an important reason why Gan Dabiao no longer has trouble with Li Tianyang and gives full play to his talents and works hard.

As for Bengang, as the real base camp of Hongmen, the operation of these years has never been slack, as the existence of the official county of the Ming Dynasty, all the officials and subordinates belonging to the Ming officialdom in Bengang are readily available, but in private it is still implemented by Hongmen himself, and the emperor is far away, and the Ming Dynasty really can't control it.

As the only seven-rank civil official in Hongmen, Zhang Yuyan can be said to have been conscientious in the position of Bengang County Commander over the years.

In addition to the Hongmen snake in the county, another behemoth Bengang Alliance, which was about to reach two hundred members over the years, not only did not develop with the passage of time, but shrunk, and now there are less than one hundred and fifty members, but the territory area it contains is more than double that of the past.

Some people may wonder, is there still an indigenous people who have somehow broken away from the Bengang Alliance, a promising group?

On the contrary, the Bengang Alliance has not stopped absorbing other tribes over the years, but the way of absorption is different, mostly based on the principle of tribal annexation and integration.

Today's alliance is just a few dozen tribes that have disappeared, and it is based on this

reasons to disappear in the alliance.

Therefore, the number of alliance members is smaller now, but the strength of them is greater, the small tribes that used to occupy the majority were at least three or four hundred members, but now the minimum is more than fifteen hundred, not to mention tribes such as Jura Mountain Society and Yushan.

Bengang has also annexed and accepted almost a dozen small tribes, which is also the harvest of Hongmen's fairness and kindness over the years.

Moreover, most of these more than ten clan members took the initiative to defect to Hongmen, and Hongmen at least did not do any means on the surface, which also made Black Panther, Lake and other clan members have nothing to say, and it did not arouse their disgust and concern.

Nowadays, it has become customary for the Alliance to organize large armies to march east and west once a few years, in exchange for a large number of captives flooding the tribes, and a large amount of undeveloped land as a reserve resource for the Alliance.

Bengang was sandwiched between many tribes, and it was not easy to swallow more than a dozen tribes to open a narrow gap, but it took too much time and had to take care of the attitudes of other alliance members, so in fact, the territory expansion in recent years lagged behind other tribes.

But this does not mean that the development of Bengang is slow, the surrounding land that originally belonged to Hongmen has basically been developed, the original five satellite villages have expanded to eight, and the two natural villages that are the earliest and closest to Bengang have been annexed by Bengang, only three are old villages, and the population of each village can be called a town in the Ming Dynasty, with nearly 10,000 people.

Most of the industries covering a huge area, such as breeding farms, cement workshops, lime workshops, etc., have been relocated to other member tribes of the alliance, in the name of helping them develop, but it is not a disaster to divert the seriously polluting industries from Bengang, and Bengang has a beautiful scenery.

Li Tianyang, who came from later generations, was affected by the economic development of China in later generations at the expense of the natural environment, although there were only some signs of natural pollution, but he also spared no effort to make a lot of operations to reduce pollution, and tried not to let future generations pay for today's development.

I haven't been back to Bengang for a long time, and I found that the biggest change is that there are more and more indigenous people who have been sinicized in the streets and pedestrians.

In fact, the aborigines are very easy to distinguish, because of the problem of customs and habits, basically the indigenous adult men are more or less tattooed with various patterns on their faces to show their martial bravery; But it is precisely these natives with black tattoos on their faces, if they ignore the tattoos on their faces, other places are no different from the people of the Ming Dynasty at all.

Even the originally bumpy Chinese, under the hard work of the indigenous people over the years, except for some accents, is enough to complete daily in-depth communication.

The depth of its sinicization has reached the point where everyone is proud of learning the customs and feelings of the Han people, and is ashamed of continuing to maintain the indigenous barbarism.

These changes,But they are the rewards of Hongmen's commitment to the peaceful sinicization of the indigenous people,Nearly 20 years of hard work,After the first and second groups of indigenous teenagers gradually grew up and took power,Such changes have become more and more obvious。

This is also the key reason why Hongmen is now able to annex more than a dozen Bengang Alliance clans without blood.