After the memorial in Jilong Harbor, life returned to peace, except for the sadness still hanging on the faces of the Hongmen disciples, life still needs to be maintained and continued.

The pursuit of Yan Zheng's gang did not stop, but the sea was vast, and the last time I heard the news of Yan Zheng's gang was from Li Tianyang's father, "Crazy Shark" Li De.

It is said that in the waters of the Luzon Islands, the Murder Gang once found a fleet of more than 30 ships, and then disappeared into the vast sea.

After all, Luzon was the territory that Li Tianyang promised his father Li De and them, and if it wasn't necessary, Li Tianyang would not have sent a large group of warships south to chase and kill this group of deserters.

Therefore, Li Tianyang just sent a detailed piece of information to his father Li De, asking them to treat Yan Zheng and his gang of strongmen carefully.

As for how his father would deal with Yan Zheng and his gang in the future, Li Tianyang did not know.

However, in recent years, Li De's development has also been very smooth, because after the Spanish colonized Luzon, the inherent arrogance and prejudice of Westerners, as well as their unscrupulous exploitation, made the people of Luzon rise up one after another to resist the atrocities of the Spaniards.

Taking advantage of this chaotic situation, Li De and his gang, which made a living by licking blood from the knife edge, were like fish in water in this chaotic land, and soon gained a firm foothold and developed rapidly.

With Li Tianyang's experience in managing the power and the development strategy he prepared, the various products provided by Hongmen and the production technology, and the large number of local natives in the Luzon Islands as laborers, Li De and the others have so many favorable times and places to help them, and they can't develop them if they don't want to.

In just a few years, Li De and his team are about to catch up with the development of Li Tianyang and their Hongmen, which makes Li De and the others sigh at how correct the choice they made at the beginning, and it makes Li De and the others happy, and they don't go to Dayuan Island to visit Mrs. Wu and them.

It is said that up to now, there are more than 20,000 local natives in Luzon working under Li De and them, and their Shark Gang has grown to more than 6,000 people.

After they gave a prompt, Li Tianyang also temporarily put down his actions about chasing and killing Yan Zheng and his group, and instead began to beat the Qiongzhou Pirate District.

As mentioned earlier, after completing the annexation and absorption of the Ryukyu Pirate Zone, Hongmen sent a representative headed by Sun Juyong to issue an ultimatum to the pirate gangs living in the Pursuit Sea, giving them two choices.

First, it is natural to withdraw from the South China Sea region and develop in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea areas in the north; The other is to go south to the Luzon Islands and plunder there.

Affected by the incident of the Flying Dragon Gang, no one in the gangs and seafarers in the entire South China Sea will no longer feel that Hongmen's decision has any intention of violating faith.

In fact, in the eyes of many shady people, Li Tianyang and them should not have established two pirate districts in the first place, raising tigers for trouble, and there would be no such thing as the Flying Dragon Gang.

By now, Hongmen had suffered huge losses before starting to act, which was actually a little late, but it also allowed Hongmen to gain the favor of those merchants who had always valued peace, believing that they kept their promises and could stabilize the situation in the South China Sea, so that the calamity of people in the ocean-going trade would be reduced to the low point of prey, benefiting many maritime merchants.

Not to mention, there is a special record of the number of maritime merchants passing through the Hongmen control area over the years, from only a few hundred ships a year ten years ago, to more than 10,000 ships a year going south and north now, and the changes are self-evident.

What Li Tianyang didn't know was that with their rise in the South China Sea, there were wild sharks in the South China Sea that were influenced by them and gradually established a stable order, which turned the southern coast of the Ming Dynasty, which was plagued by pirates, into earth-shaking changes.

And don't forget, at this time, the south of the Daming River is the time of commercial prosperity, the germ of capitalism is also thriving here, when there are more convenient and low-cost sea transportation routes, the merchants and seafarers who set foot in the maritime trade are also growing geometrically.

In this way, for the Ming Dynasty, which was affected by land annexation, at least in the south, the opportunities for the people to rely on labor in exchange for food, clothing, housing and transportation have also increased too much, which has saved the heavy burden of the Ming Dynasty a lot.

After receiving the harshly worded declaration from Hongmen, the pirate gangs that were already in the middle of a remote route and struggling to support also began to stand in line, either going south to find another development opportunity, or going north to regain their strength, of course, more immediately decided to join the Hongmen family and become a member of Hongmen.

In fact, many gangs in the Qiongzhou Pirate District have long wanted to join Hongmen, after all, the Qiongzhou Pirate District is barren and has no oil and water, and many gangs loot while fishing for a living, and they can barely maintain food and clothing for a year, and life is still hard.

It's just that the leaders of these gangs, who are bent on thinking about the old saying that they would rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the cow, anyway, as the leaders and leaders, their lives are much richer than those of the gangs at the bottom, and after joining the Hongmen, there are inevitably a lot of rules and ethics to follow, where is it better than now.

However, after Hongmen issued a time-limited order this time, it also means that these gang leaders who are monks for a day can only choose sides and make the final choice.

There are not many gangs in the Qiongzhou Pirate District, and the Feilong Gang also developed the country here last year and annexed a lot of gangs, but in the end, there are still more than 4,000 gang children and their families who have joined Hongmen, providing a lot of new force for Hongmen, which has suffered a lot of losses.

In addition, Hongmen is also stepping up the salvage of all kinds of seagoing ships that have sunk into the seabed offshore, and many of the materials that sank together in the seagoing ships have no recycling value, but in fact, there are many artillery and iron weapons in those warships, which are resources that can be recycled.

Even many artillery pieces are directly preserved and can be used directly as long as they are cleaned up.

Although Hongmen has a stable source of iron ore, it is necessary to spend real money to purchase wounds, so it can recover a batch of artillery and iron tools, and it can also reduce Hongmen's expenses.

In this war, Hongmen was certainly victorious, but compared with the seized materials, gold and silver harvest, the price they paid was greater, it can be said that they could not make ends meet, and in a short period of time, I am afraid that Hongmen will have to cut back on food and clothing for a period of time to make up for the shortfall.

(End of chapter)