However, Hongmen is not without harvest in this routine sweep, and the indigenous people no longer value the land that cannot be occupied, but Hongmen now needs to start to step up the layout of Dayuan Island and develop the land on Dayuan Island.

On Datun Mountain, the mining of sulfur ore is on the right track, and more than 1,000 catties of sulfur ore can be mined every month, and finally refined into more than 400 catties of finished sulfur; Saltpeter farms have workshops in Bengang, Jilong Port and Da'an Port, and the three places collect saltpeter by piling up human and animal manure, and can also produce about two or three hundred catties of saltpeter in January; The two gold mines in Jilong Mountain now have a large number of indigenous manpower helpers, and the production volume has increased greatly, and the gold that can be produced in a month has reached about 5,000 taels for the first time, which is a stable income for Hongmen.

Among the Hongmen team, including the natives who settled in Bengang, Jilonggang and other places, there are now more than 100,000 people, distributed in several ports to which Hongmen belongs.

There are also the exchange transactions of Bengang to the members of the Bengang Alliance, the grain, sugar, etc. sold by Jilong Harbor to the surrounding seafarers and pirates, and the wars, expeditions, and even relief to the Penghu sailors that have not stopped in the past two years, so that the basic flash marriage of the Hongmen team over the years has been hollowed out.

Originally, the Hongmen team had the most reclaimed land, but after these battles, it was paid to the families of the dead Hongmen soldiers and sold some of it to the natives who came to settle in Bengang, so far, all the land in the Hongmen side is less than 50,000 mu.

In addition to the soybeans, sugarcane and other cash crops that need to be planted in the workshop, a part of the vegetable land is set aside, and in the end, less than 20,000 mu can be used as a grain production area every year.

With the help of the members of the Agricultural Academy, who have been optimizing the planting techniques and grain varieties, as well as the bone fertilizer obtained by learning from the secretaries of the ancients, the human and animal fertilizer that the people have been using, and the guano manure mined from the nameless island of Xisha and other technologies, Hongmen can be planted every year without letting the land recuperate.

Up to now, the cultivation and harvest of rice can reach nearly three stones, and two seasons can be planted in a year, that is to say, about five stones of grain can be harvested in a year, and 20,000 acres of land can be harvested almost 100,000 stones.

It seems that this grain income seems to be a lot, but in fact, there is basically no surplus in the year, who makes the expenses on the Hongmen side also not small!

Since the invention of alcohol, it is brewed with grain, and the predecessors have not thought of using alcohol to disinfect and prevent various diseases, but since the beginning of Hongmen Li Tianyang, high-purity alcohol is the reason why the Hongmen team rarely has various complications now.

Especially when it comes to war, the alcohol is used one by one, and if it is not stored strictly, it will be distributed.

At the same time, the maritime merchants and seafarers who come and go to the chicken coop port also see the business opportunities, when they purchase in the chicken coop port, the ballast is basically to purchase a large amount of grain, as long as it is transported to the north is scarce, never worry about selling, who let the north continue to have natural disasters year after year, and it is difficult to get a bumper harvest year!

In addition, as soon as the war broke out on the Hongmen side, it would often be a few months of war, and this person ate horses and chewed horses, which was not a small amount in a day.

Thinking about the Xiaoice River period, which could not be bypassed in the late Ming Dynasty in later generations, the hard currency of grain was also the best means for Hongmen to absorb homeless people from all walks of life when the world was in turmoil.

Therefore, in the name of Hongmen, Li Tianyang proposed a plan to the Bengang Alliance to exchange grain for land, and was ready to expand the actual land occupied by Hongmen around Da'an Port.

The member clans of the Bengang Alliance do not agree on this, but Li Tianyang, as the chief of the alliance, has always taken care of the member tribes, and with the land that Hongmen exchanged, no clan member has been able to develop there for a while, so in the end, Li Tianyang got his wish.

The members of the alliance can't even take care of the hunting ground land allocated to their own tribe now, who knows that the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse can only develop and expand to Da'an Port, so it is better to use these lands that everyone can't take care of now, and exchange some iron, cotton, silk and other things that can be used by thousands of people from the hands of the Hongmen people, which is also worth the money.

At that time, Li Tianyang exchanged all kinds of luxury materials and daily necessities for a land of 20 miles outside the original scope of Da'an Port, and its expenses were finally converted into less than 10,000 taels of silver.

The natives are also keeping pace with the times, if it was placed in the first transaction between Hongmen and the people of Zhuluo Mountain, I am afraid that the land obtained in exchange this time would not exceed a thousand taels of silver at most, and Li Tianyang would be able to exchange it in his hands.

But now that the aborigines have also gone outside to see the world, and can communicate with the outside world through the Bengang and Jilong Harbor in Hongmen, it is not so easy for Li Tianyang to take advantage of the aborigines.

Although, compared with the fertile soil that can develop more than 100,000 acres of land, Li Tianyang's expenditure of only 10,000 taels of silver is still a big advantage.

The part of Da'an Port near the coastline has been developed into pasture, and the alfalfa grass that Li Tianyang and his family have spent a lot of effort to get is planted to feed cattle and horses and other livestock.

Through the ocean-going fleet from time to time to purchase a large number of adult cattle and horses from Dongjiang Town, coupled with the natural breeding of cattle and horses and other livestock in Da'an Port these days, Da'an Port now has more than 4,000 cattle and more than 10,000 horses.

The reason why there are more horses than cattle is that the Hongmen team itself also needs cattle as animal power to fill its own lack of manpower, plus the lack of labor to take care of the families of those fallen soldiers, and also allocate a lot of ploughing cattle to go down; Second, Li Tianyang paid more attention to the acquisition of war horses, especially the Hetao horses with better genes, and the purchase of cultivated cattle was less vigorous in comparison.

The current population of Da'an Port is about 10,000 people, except for half of the people who have been allocated to take care of livestock and take care of pastures, the rest of the people have begun to slowly reclaim the land around Da'an Port.

Now that Li Tianyang has once again exchanged for a large area of land, it means that Hongmen will increase the development of Da'an Port.

The area around Bengang has been occupied by various tribes to obtain hunting grounds, which limits their room for further development, and Jilong Harbor is used as a window to the outside world, and the west is the towering snow-capped mountain range, and the prospects for developing agriculture are really limited.

Only this Da'an Port, between Bengang and Jilong Port, Li Tianyang instigated the Bengang Alliance to sweep the huge jungle Yueyan east of Bengang, and the unstable factors around Da'an Port were also cleared, which actually facilitated the next development of Da'an.

(End of chapter)