The first year of Chongzhen has passed like this, and for the Hongmen team, this year is a year of recuperation and recuperation, and it is also a year of accumulation.

In this year, a total of five "Yang Fan" warships were built, with more accurate scale technical support, while other shipyards could only start to build one sea ship, Bengang Shipyard was able to build two or three ships at the same time, and the progress was faster and more accurate.

Together with the eighteen heavily armed warships of Hongmen and the other four seagoing ships that were not yet equipped with artillery, Hongmen now has twenty-seven "Yang Fan-type" main warships.

The speed of the cannon foundry is also very fast, and now the cannon foundry can produce 12 or 3 guns of various standards in a month, and more than 100 guns of various types in a year, which can meet the needs of almost three main warships.

The progress of the Musket Manufacturing Bureau was a little slow, because it was necessary to relocate the site to build the dam, and then build the gear drive system to build the drilling machine of this era, which was not insignificant, so the R&D Institute has more than a dozen members with experience in the research and development of gear transmission systems and mechanical systems, and they have been working day and night to correct and improve this first generation of drilling machines.

The masters of the Musket Manufacturing Bureau were not idle, and continued to familiarize themselves with and improve the craftsmanship of flintlock pistols, and carried out various crafts in the factory next to the Jilong Mountain station, and produced thousands of qualified flintlock pistols.

As for Qixintang's side, the three ocean-going routes had to be opened and operated, so that Hongmen's income was hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, especially in the trade with the Japanese state, the trade in raw silk and silk even exceeded the trade in the Nanyang.

What made Li Tianyang most excited was that the contract between him and the Japanese people of Satsuma, because it involved the shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, and Li Tianyang's official position as the admiral of the Fujian Navy of the Ming Dynasty, took a big advantage in the trade of the Japanese country, which was closed to the country, and almost monopolized almost 1/3 of the raw silk trade of the Japanese country, in exchange for boatloads of silver.

And Chongzhen seized the money embezzled by Wei Zhongxian, who died by suicide in the seventh year, and there is still a balance of almost more than 300,000 taels, plus the income of Hongmen Qixintang and Hongtang, and the entire Hongmen's overstretched financial situation is too relaxed, which is also the confidence of Hongmen in the first year of Chongzhen to make more than 100 artillery pieces and five "Yang Fan" warships at once.

The branch of Qixintang, also because of the loose finance of Hongmen, suddenly only covered the area from Fujian to Zhejiang and Guangdong, and has now developed to the entire Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangzhou, and has been laid out in the direction of Anhui and Lianghu.

Moreover, the long-overdue will of the imperial court allowed Li Tianyang's son who was less than one year old to get the afterglow of a hundred households in brocade clothes, and Li Tianyang himself was rewarded for the previous performance of Governor Zhu Yifeng, but there was not much change in his official position.

The clear-eyed people in the court naturally know that this is the meaning of Emperor Chongzhen's trust in Li Tianyang, a military attache who used to be labeled as a eunuch, and for Emperor Chongzhen, who is focusing on cleaning the remnants of the eunuch party in the court, others will not be able to pull Li Tianyang into the ranks of the eunuch party without opening their eyes.

Li Tianyang's previous foreshadowing of Emperor Chongzhen's previous work was only exchanged for this little thing, which seemed to be very unworthwhile, but if you think about it carefully, it is also reasonable.

Li Tianyang can climb to the current position, after all, it is still inseparable from the eunuch party, with the character of Emperor Chongzhen, plus the hatred of the eunuch party, to be able to open up to Li Tianyang, and also add shade to his son, it is already the greatest reward that Emperor Chongzhen gave Li Tianyang.

And this is also thanks to a letter written by Li Tianyang to Emperor Chongzhen, which stated that the Haikou in the South China Sea was not appeased, and Emperor Chongzhen had just ascended the throne, and in order to win people's hearts, it was not appropriate to promote them too much.

This is one of the important reasons that impressed Emperor Chongzhen and made him let go of his desire to kill.

Emperors have always been ruthless, if Li Tianyang's position is really changed, and even because of Chongzhen's favor and faith, he will enter Beijing, with the wisdom of Li Tianyang's ordinary people, where can he get those old rivers and lakes that have been immersed in politics for decades!

Emperor Chongzhen's statement above the court also made Li Tianyang completely draw a clear line with the eunuch party, as long as Li Tianyang Taoguang is obscure and does not act excessively, then in the short period of time in the future, he will be able to make a fortune in a muffled voice and develop and grow quietly.

The intelligence agency of the outer guard, with the opening of one inn after another under the command of Qixintang, has gone straight north and established a foothold in the capital.

In any case, Hongmen's current strength and status also make Li Tianyang no longer despise the movements in the Jingshi, and he can no longer temporarily cling to his feet as before, seeking a backer and information channel, and he must have an ally in the court.

And Nan Juyi, who has been transferred to the Beijing Division, is the right attendant of the household department, and the governor of Cangchang, with the good relationship he formed with Nan Juyi before, and the next win-win and mutual benefit of each other is a matter of course.

Especially when Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict and gave Li Tianyang a reward, this Nanda was even more amazed by Li Tianyang's vision of befriending the original Feng Shui in advance.

With the existence of the ally of the right attendant of the household, if you want to open an inn for the middle and low-level merchants and pawns in the capital, it will not be difficult, after all, the "Youjian" inn in Hongmen has not been involved in the more profitable industry, and all the money earned is some hard-earned money, and those dignitaries in Beijing can't afford to offend a right attendant of the household department for this unprofitable livelihood.

In the officialdom, no one knows if they will suddenly be lucky and fall into the eyes of the emperor, and it is only a matter of a blink of an eye, especially in this critical season of the replacement of the old and the new.

Not to mention the existence of a feudal official behind this inn, others may not know what Li Tianyang's power is in the South China Sea, but who of those families is not now taking a share of the rich sea, how can they not deal with the uncrowned king Hongmen in the South China Sea!

With Li Tianyang and Nan Juyi, two heavyweights, the "Youjian" inn Jingshi branch was also opened outside the west gate of the Beijing Division, and what followed was naturally the tentacles of the outer guards reaching into the Beijing Division.

The birth of the eldest son Li Yun also gave Hongmen a backbone, making up for the biggest flaw in Hongmen, making the whole team invisibly more combative, and looking forward to what kind of beautiful and hopeful land Dayuan Island will become in the future with the efforts of himself and others.

(End of chapter)