However, the British were lucky, after Hongmen offended the Spaniards and the Dutch, Li Tianyang did not want to offend a powerful maritime overlord in the future.

Whether it is out of business considerations or out of planning for the future, Li Tianyang will not really be ruthless to the British.

The self-restraint of the British paid off, and although the Hongtang army approached with a magnificent sailor, it only took a few test shots between each other to make the British retreat and return the Humen Fort.

Of course, although they did not deal a cruel blow to the British, but the British took the initiative to provoke the war, and they should have compensation, and the British could only pay the price of 100,000 taels of silver in exchange for Hongmen's forgiveness when the muzzle of the gun was not Hongmen's toughness.

Li Tianyang's battle against the British, but also let the Ming Dynasty government somewhat relieved, everyone knows that Li Tianyang is now the real uncrowned king of the Ming Dynasty's maritime frontier, at this time the Ming Dynasty inland chaos is not stopped, if the powerful Hongmen team also took this opportunity to rebel, then for the Ming Dynasty, the harm is no less than the peasant rebel army that is intensifying at this time.

And in order to appease Li Tianyang, a feudal official, and let him not have other thoughts at this time, Emperor Chongzhen, who had been favored by Li Tianyang, finally thought of rewarding Li Tianyang, the minister of Conglong, this time.

Li Tianyang's official position was promoted by one level, from the admiral of the naval division to the chief soldier of Keelung Town, and he had the right to open his own tooth tent; In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, this is already quite worthy of him Li Tianyang, but in Li Tianyang's opinion, it really seems a little stingy.

Fortunately, Li Tianyangzhi is not here, for him, what he needs to wait for now is when the Jurchen army in Liaodong will go south and begin their conquest of the Huaxia Continent, that is, when he Li Tianyang will move and take advantage of the fisherman.

At this time, Li Tianyang was already thirty-seven years old, and he was no longer the hot-blooded hairy young man he was at the beginning.

After Wu Jie and the others took Hongtang's partial division to turn the long-planned action of the Jurchens to level North Korea upside down, Li Tianyang suddenly found that his strength was already so strong!

Perhaps, now that he has the qualifications to participate in this big chess game to be a chess player.

From just wanting to find a place to stay when he was a child, to laying a foundation to inherit future generations, and now wanting to set foot in the chess game of competing for the world, Li Tianyang spent thirty-seven years cultivating his ambitions, until now he finally determined his ultimate goal.

In order to achieve this goal, Li Tianyang has been actively arranged: for example, in the spring palace examination that just ended in March, Zhang Yuan, Tian Fang, and Wu Peichang, three students trained by Hongmen, were admitted to Jinshi and Tongjinshi, and became a member of the Ming Dynasty civil officials.

In the past few years, Hongmen also has a lot of elite students, successfully on the list, to now Hongmen students have more than ten people have obtained official status, with the support of Hongmen's strong background, almost everyone has a real shortage, was arranged in the Jiangnan coastal county government as an errand.

With the progress of the peasant uprising in the interior of the Ming Dynasty in full swing, the military attache system of the Ming Dynasty with heavy losses was also broken, and in the martial arts examination held several times, the children of Hongmen won no less than 100 places, and now they are distributed in all corners of the military system of the Ming Dynasty, and there are not a few people in important positions.

Of course, in order to cover up, the origins and origins of these students in Hongmen have long been changed for them by Li Tianyang's bribed officials, and it is almost difficult to find out the relationship between them and Hongmen from the surface.

And this is especially true in the peasant rebel army, which has no threshold to join at all, as long as you have the ability and dare to work hard, who will pursue your predecessor in this troubled world!

The disciples from the spy war are more and more widely distributed, except for Li Tianyang himself, even An Xianming, the head of the spy war station, they can't get a glimpse of all the members of the spy war center.

On the fifteenth day of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the annual Nanyang Chamber of Commerce dividend meeting was held as scheduled, but this time Li Tianyang personally invited the proprietors of various families to come to the meeting, but it also made the proprietors of the chamber of commerce think about countless things, but it was difficult to know what medicine Li Tianyang was selling.

However, since Li Tianyang has already issued an invitation, he has followed Li Tianyang in the past few years and won countless interest points The members of the Chamber of Commerce, who dared not be called, have come to Keelung Town to report a long time ago.

I haven't seen each other for a few years, and many old people have passed away one after another; Or in the old age, the power is delegated to the next generation, so that there are a lot of fresh faces among the many proprietors.

Since the Hongmen matchmaking, the Chamber of Commerce has jointly developed the Medan gold mine, opened a money bank, etc., so that everyone's business activities have become closer, so although they may not have met, in fact, we have cooperated with each other many times.

It's just that the traffic in this era is still inconvenient, a Guangzhou to Zhejiang, even the most convenient shipping has to be less than half a month, everyone has their own things in the north and south, and there are really few opportunities like now, happy together.

Therefore, the business proprietors who came first were not bored, and they had to reminisce with other Dongzhi people who came to the Chamber of Commerce, feast, exchange feelings, and slowly wait for the arrival of other chamber of commerce proprietors.

Up to now, the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce has become the most powerful chamber of commerce in the south of the Yangtze River, and even the Jin merchants and Hui merchants, who have been operating for more than ten generations, are now slightly inferior in front of the vigorous Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

The opening of the Age of Discovery, so that the profits of maritime trade far exceeded the land trading, and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce at the beginning of its establishment has no longer added outsiders to join, firmly holding the Nanyang trade, and the profits brought by the monopoly are even more blushing to the Jin merchants and Hui merchants.

Secretly, Jin merchants, Hui merchants and other chamber of commerce groups have actually made friends with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce many times, but in the end, everyone is almost equal, and each is still developing in its own field, and there is no way to intervene in each other's territory.

The foundation of Jin merchants, Hui merchants and other groups in the imperial court is much stronger than that of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, after all, they have supported poor students in Shanxi and Anhui for countless years, but they are not comparable to the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, which is almost a nouveau riche.

However, as long as the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce does not get involved in inland trade, as long as they are down-to-earth and seek a living at sea, and have Hongmen to support them, groups such as Jin merchants and Hui merchants do not want to get a piece of the pie.

Who made Li Tianyang not know which forum he saw in his previous life, indicating that the Jin merchants, Hui merchants and other groups at the end of the year secretly colluded with the Qing people to purchase and smuggle all kinds of smuggling materials for them, and even guided the way and collected intelligence when the Qing army entered the customs, which made him not have the slightest good impression of these big chamber of commerce groups with a long heritage.

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