It was already early March when Keelung Town received information from Songjiagou in Pingding County about the assassination of Li Zicheng.

When Li Tianyang got this detailed assassination operation, although he was already prepared in his heart, he shook his head, regretting the failure of this plan.

Even, Li Tianyang always had a feeling that there really seemed to be a force in the dark that was hindering Li Tianyang's drastic action to change history, otherwise it would not have been the countless groups of assassins sent by Li Tianyang who would always fail in the end because of accidents again and again.

Up to now, Li Zicheng is still expanding his strength vigorously, and following the trajectory of inherent history to meet his brilliant life.

And Li Tianyang finally decided that he would no longer use such small means, but continue to develop and expand his strength steadily, which is what he should do.

Because of the assassination of Li Zicheng and others, Hongmen has lost dozens of elites who have been cultivated with great difficulty, if there is no such thing, the return that these dozens of elites can bring to Hongmen is probably not small.

After making up his mind, Li Tianyang also asked the elite spies of the spy war station to stop the assassination plan and concentrate on completing their first task.

The Bengang Coalition has begun to exist in name only, including Lake. Patton, a patriarch who had a strong hatred for Li Tianyang, gradually began to accept the leadership from the Hongmen, and the clansmen under their command had also begun to get used to accepting the recruitment of the Hongmen and other matters.

The most important point is that Hongmen is no longer regarded as an outsider by the natives, and everyone considers themselves Bengangren, which is a gradual process, and it is also a path that Li Tianyang has been committed to since he set foot on the land of Dayuan Island.

Carefully calculated, until now Chongzhen five years ago, Li Tianyang and their first set foot on Dayuan Island, it has been seventeen years, and Li Tianyang has also changed from a young boy to a prince who is not angry and self-righteous, and has stepped into the year of standing.

To have today's achievements, in fact, it is a matter of course, Li Tianyang to the domestication strategy, to the first two indigenous children who have received the Sinicization education of Hongmen, have become the backbone of the tribes; And the new generation of indigenous children have grown up in Chinese culture since childhood.

Lahouk, Lake. Barry, the original high-level core of the tribes, has now begun to take a back seat, either dying early or becoming a tribal elder, delegating his power to the successor of the tribe.

In ancient times, the average life expectancy was not long, the average life expectancy of the Ming Dynasty was about thirty or forty years old, and the average life expectancy of the indigenous tribes with a worse living environment was less than forty.

And after the indigenous successors who have been sinicized take up their posts, they will naturally fall to the Hongmen with a better living environment and a higher level of civilization, even if there are people among them who maintain loyalty to the tribe, but that is only a very small number of people, in the face of the general trend, it is like a mantis arm as a car, and it is harmless.

Subsequently, in the past few years, Hongmen organized a coalition to clean up activities, at this time the entire Dayuan Island has been a rumor of the Bengang Alliance's terror, in addition to the snow mountains across the east and west, the center, and the Yushan mountain range, there are still remnants of large tribes, Dayuan Island east and west coastlines and plains, there are no more than 1,000 people of the scale of the indigenous tribes.

The next step is to digest the huge territory that has been cleared out and steadily expand its strength.

In the past, due to reputation, Hongmen had to put forward a proposal on the alliance committee for land annexation and expansion, giving an explanation to each tribe, but now Hongmen does not need to get the consent of the alliance members to expand land and open up strongholds in various regions.

Dayuan Island is naturally small and pitiful in the eyes of the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty, but in the eyes of the group of people in the Bengang Alliance, it is still a vast territory, although their own development is also not slow, but compared to the land they occupy in the sweep again and again, no matter how big their ambition is in front of the poor population, it can only expand slowly in vain.

Moreover, everyone has become accustomed to the superior life of Bengang, and if they are allowed to return to the primeval jungle to live, then the middle and low-level people of the tribes are not willing to do something stupid.

The tribal leaders may still have some foresight, hoping to maintain the independence of the tribe, but the people at the bottom of their tribe are very realistic, Bengang has gorgeous and delicate and breathable cotton and linen, silk cloth, beautiful and practical porcelain and ironware, everyone does not have to worry about illness and injury, no way to hunt and eat, this kind of life, is not what everyone has been looking forward to in their hearts?

No matter how much the tribal leaders restrict, they will inevitably end up with the children of their own tribes and regard them as leaders.

And after the tribes were organized by Li Tianyang to visit the Ming Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom, North Korea and other places to understand the customs of the outside world, they were actually dissatisfied with the terrain in a corner of the country in their hearts, and they also hoped to join this unimaginably huge world!

With the appearance of historical figures such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Li Tianyang gradually began to strengthen his military strength while fighting steadily.

In March of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Hongmen Hongtang Sailor once again recruited from the public, and this time Li Tianyang hoped to expand the Hongmen Sailor to 20,000 and the Penghu Sailor to 10,000.

In addition to the main factory in Bengang, a new factory was also built in Keelung Town, and a group of backbones were allocated from the old factory to lead a group of new graduates to the students in Bengang School, who began to run in and become familiar with shipbuilding technology, and made every effort to build "Jiaolong" sea ships and "Yang Fan" sea ships in accordance with the drawings.

Qi San's recruitment army, after a short period of food shortage, with the full implementation of several major bases, planting food, and the full cooperation of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, once again rose up to the recruitment upsurge.

The development of the Luzon Islands was a pie painted by Li Tianyang at the beginning of the establishment of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and when the thousands of people really went to the Luzon Islands in person and changed their previous contemptuous gaze, they really found that in addition to containing rich gold veins, this piece of fertile and undeveloped virgin land is also a rich mine!

After realizing this, major businesses bought land in the Luzon Islands, established estates, and cultivated various crops.

In addition to recruiting natives to take care of the farms in the local area, the major businesses have also turned their attention back to China, focusing on the large number of people displaced by natural and man-made disasters in the north.

Compared with the lonely strength of Hongmen, the influence of the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in the Ming Dynasty is not as weak as they show on the surface of the Nanyang Sea!

Li Tianyang regarded the armor protection law as an obstacle, and the members of these firms were serious, and it could only be regarded as a small trouble, and all kinds of tricks and tricks, under the influence of their respective backers, groups of northern refugees were transported to the rich Luzon Islands on sea ships one after another.

Correspondingly, Hongmen, as one of the chambers of commerce, received the dividends and once again recruited displaced people in large numbers without hindrance.

(End of chapter)