In addition to training the Ryukyu sailors, Wu Daofu also had a task, that is, to conditionally manage the nameless island that was "leased" to Hongmen by the Eastern Japanese Samobo.

The small island is only a few miles in a land circle, because of the large number of seabirds living on the island, it is called Haiyan Island by the local Japanese people, but because it is a coral island and reef, it is not suitable for docking large ships before it is repaired.

At the beginning, Li Tianyang provided cement to Wu Daofu to build a new small port in Iriomote, and also wanted him to use cement to build a wharf on Haiyan Island that could provide a dock for the fleet to dock.

Since he got such an island as a leased land from the Japanese people, Li Tianyang would not want it to be so vacant, the people from Dayuan Island are too far away, but in fact, Wu Daofu's Iriomote small port is only about ten days away from here, which is far more convenient than Hongmen.

The reason why he wanted to plant such a nail in the waters of Satsuma was that Li Tianyang also hoped to take this opportunity to keep an eye on the movements of the Wa Kingdom at all times, in case they had any other bad plans.

With this port, Wu Daofu's fleet of sailors can also naturally come here from time to time to take a walk, and at the same time provide security for Hongmen's ocean-going fleet.

Whether Satsuma has any other thoughts about this aggrieved agreement, Li Tianyang and they are not very clear, but through this agreement, Hongmen has a deep connection with the current actual controller of the Wa Kingdom, the Tokugawa Shogun in Edo.

Since the Wanli period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom, invaded Korea with his laborers, and finally suffered a crushing defeat for the combined forces of the Ming Dynasty and Korea, but the Tokugawa family that emerged afterwards showed enough respect for the Ming Dynasty.

And Hongmen is now a member of the Ming court, Li Tianyang is a military attache from the official residence of the three products, sitting in the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese kingdom very close, very convenient Fujian sea area, the naval team under his command is even stronger, there is a great threat to our country.

Therefore, after the Tokugawa envoy returned from his mission to Satsuma, and combined what he had seen and heard about the strength of the Hongmen fleet along the way with the information he had collected about the Hongmen, and formed a general understanding, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogun who was now in charge of the Tokugawa shogunate, listened to the advice of his staff and took a friendly attitude towards the Hongmen.

Hongmen's ocean-going trading fleet was able to freely enter and leave the major ports under the de facto control of the Tokugawa shogunate, and trade with the people of the Tokugawa family, a treatment that many Ming merchants did not receive.

In the final analysis, this is all due to the strength of Hongmen.

However, even if the Wa Kingdom now has a harmonious way of getting along with Hongmen, Li Tianyang still has no way to ignore the wolf ambitions of the Wa people, which is indispensable because of the black years in later generations, so that Li Tianyang has a strong hostility towards the Wa State, but in the same way, it is also indispensable to covet the huge amount of silver and gold that the Wa State contains.

Although Dayuan Island hangs alone on the ocean, the Jurchens of the Qing Dynasty, who will be in charge of the territory of China in the future, are still a landlubber, and they can't even clean up the lone army on Dongjiang Island that goes deep behind enemy lines, if Li Tianyang finally decides not to belong to the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will have no way to deal with Hong in the short term.

But Li Tianyang always likes to plan ahead, and now his ambition is gradually growing with the strength of Hongmen, but in private, he has already begun to carefully consider the consequences of various choices.

When the Ming Dynasty was overwhelmed, Hongmen relied on the sea and a strong sailor to be independent of the ocean, which was Li Tianyang's most optimistic expectation now, but he was worried that if the Qing Dynasty used force against Dayuan Island, their pressure would be extremely great.

The essence of the Huaxia Continent is there, even if the Jurchens are now a landlubber and do not have a team of sailors, but when they really control the huge territory of Huaxia and establish a team of sailors with the strength of the whole country, it is really not too simple.

In the frequent discussions with the members of the Aircraft Department, Li Tianyang came to an important conclusion about the defense of Dayuan.

If you want to achieve the safety of Dayuan Island, you need Hongmen to be able to fully control two lines of defense: one is the outermost island between the largest Yuan Island and Fujian, Kinmen Island; There is also a line of defense, which is the Penghu Islands, which Hongmen already has in their hands.

As long as these two island groups can be in the hands of Hongmen, coupled with Hongmen's own strong maritime strength, it can be said that Hongmen has a seventy percent certainty of holding Dayuan Island.

It's just that this conclusion seems very simple, but it is very difficult to implement, and there is an important connection.

Kinmen Island belongs to the Zhongzuo Institute of Fujian, that is, Xiamen in later generations, and they are only ten miles away from each other, and they can see each other's horizons even from a distance, and any fishing boat can reach Kinmen Island, let alone other big ships.

In the era of cold weapons, the Jurchens did not even need too professional sailors to set up ships, and they were able to throw their battle-hardened elite warriors into Kinmen Island and occupy Kinmen.

The outermost island of the Penghu Islands is only more than 100 miles away from Kinmen, but fortunately, there is this strait, so that Li Tianyang will not lose the confidence to fight against the future Jurchens, and it also gives the Hongmen sailors a stage to perform, otherwise Li Tianyang would not dare to want to stand on his own.

However, the loss of Kinmen, the outermost defensive line, will allow the Jurchens to use this as a pedal in the future, making it easier to approach and attack the Penghu Islands.

If even the Penghu Islands are controlled by the future Qing people, then I'm sorry, Dayuan Island can't be defended, the closest coastline of Dayuan Island, and the Penghu Islands are only fifty or sixty miles away!

If the situation really reaches that critical moment, then Li Tianyang needs to find a way out before he and his companions around him, and the Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyu Kingdom have become the preferred targets of Hongmen.

Farther away from the Chinese mainland than Dayuan Island, it is easier to resist the strangulation of the Qing people in the future, and it also has a good population base and maritime trade base, which are good choices for Hongmen's future retreat.

In contrast, the Wa Kingdom was more powerful than the Ryukyu Kingdom, but it was also more prosperous and promising. The land area of the Ryukyu Kingdom is too small, and the island's products are not rich, although its strength can be possessed by the current Hongmen, but it also makes Li Tianyang a little disdainful of using this as a way out.

(End of chapter)