Although his eyes have been set on this powerful opponent in the northeast, Li Tianyang also knows that if this thing is really going to happen, it will still take at least three to five months to have some foundation.

In three to five months, the foundry should be able to produce more than 20 more high-power guns of more than 36 pounds, plus the high-power guns owned by the Bengang team themselves, which is enough to fully arm a fleet of ten "Yang Fan-type" warships.

With ten heavily armed "Yang Fan-style" warships in charge, and with Wu Shu's first department, which was originally in the Ryukyu Seas, Hongtang was able to attack, retreat, and defend on the sea, making Satsuma helpless against himself.

Of course, Li Tianyang did not plan to push the battle line to the land controlled by Samo for the time being, not to mention that the other party could mobilize all the forces of the entire vassal to deal with him on land, even the Bengang team did not have the energy and energy to digest an ordinary land in the far east in the short term.

Now the Dayuan Island team has only developed a small part of the Igmote Mishima that the Ryukyuan people sent to their hands, except for the Ryukyu sailor camp where Wu Daofu is stationed, Li Tianyang has no time and energy to develop other large areas of land!

Therefore, the biggest reason why Li Tianyang's goal moved eastward this time and aimed at Satsuma was to promote peace with war, so that Satsuma would retreat in the face of difficulties, and stop trying to fight back to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

In this way, it can not only solve the dilemma that Bengang Hongtang has been stationed outside, but also open up his team to continue the ocean-going trade between Dongwa and Goryeo.

Now the Bengang team is a happy event, many basic materials have been able to be self-sufficient, and even the pig iron, sulfur and other resources that used to spend a lot of money and couldn't beg for have now been satisfactorily solved, but for Li Tianyang, there is still a big trouble in front of him.

The trouble is actually very simple, that is, Li Tianyang has no money for them!

Don't look at Li Tianyang, they can be self-sufficient in many things now, but their team's stalls are too large: ironworks, cannon foundries, sulfur refining workshops, sulfur ore mining yards, none of which require a lot of money and manpower investment from the Bengang team.

Not to mention the cost of transporting raw iron ore to Bengang all the time, the recruitment of displaced people on the Qisan side, and even the non-stop purchase of cattle and horses in Dongjiang Town, Liaodong, no matter which one of them, it is a heavy pressure on Li Tianyang and them.

After careful calculation, the income of the Bengang team is nothing more than a few items: the income of the workshops under the command of Qi Xintang, the road protection fee collected by Hongtang at sea, the income of the Jilong Mountain gold mine, the profit of He Yong's ocean-going fleet, and the tax revenue that is gradually improving in Bengang and Jilong Port.

The income of the workshops under the command of Qi Xintang has increased and decreased, such as newly produced perfumes, soaps, and white sugar and glasses with complex production processes, the price is high, the profit is also high, the market is in short supply, and the income is rising.

However, such as toothbrushes, preserved eggs, and eggs, which are known for their sales and simple actual technology, although the Bengang team has always insisted on the confidentiality of the formula, it can not stand the wisdom of the Chinese people, and soon has tested the formula technology of preserved eggs and eggs, not to mention the toothbrush, which is a very low-tech object.

The sales of these workshops are shrinking day by day, if it weren't for the chickens and ducks and other poultry in the large-scale breeding farm of the Bengang team, which are not comparable to ordinary people, I am afraid that these workshops will not make money, but will lose money.

Workshops also have to support people, and workers also have to pay wages, plus the food consumption and disease risk of the farms themselves, which are all counted in the cost of these workshops.

As for the problem of sea tolls, with the opening of Jilong Port to the outside world, the port is becoming more and more prosperous, and this income is naturally steadily increasing, but this Hongtang family also needs to be fed, not to mention that Li Tianyang has been tossing and turning in the past few years, changing clothes from top to bottom, and eliminating old warship weapons at the same time, which is a huge consumption!

In addition, over the years, thousands of soldiers have been killed in Hongtang, leaving thousands of bereaved families in Hongtang, Li Tianyang is not a cold-blooded generation, he has always raised them, tried to give them a better living environment, and invisibly added a lot of burden to himself.

In the end, although the income from this protection fee is increasing, and the consumption of Hongtang's team is also increasing, by the end of the year, tens of thousands of taels of silver can be left, which can already be regarded as Li Tianyang burning high incense!

As for the income from the Jilongshan gold mine and the ocean-going fleet, it is the bulk of the income of the Bengang team over the years, if it weren't for these two big income channels, Li Tianyang would have to take people to rob it eight hundred years ago!

The income of the mine in the past two years has exceeded one month, especially when another ore vein just ten miles south of the Jilong Mountain mine was discovered, and he organized the Bengang Alliance to clear out a large number of indigenous slaves recruited by the jungle tribes east of Bengang, so that they have enough space to dig the ore vein, and now there is an output of more than 3,000 taels of gold in January, which is converted into more than 30,000 taels of silver.

Of course, because these mining natives are slaves, Li Tianyang will not squeeze them too much in life and labor, but he will not pay wages to these people, saving a lot of expenses.

Due to the problems of monsoon and geographical span, the ocean-going fleet can go back and forth three or four times a year from the east to the Ryukyus, but the route to Luzon in the south, even if it is smooth, can only run two times at most, and the risks are too great, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will be a tragedy of ship destruction and death.

In the end, excluding various costs, the income of the ocean-going fleet is about 300,000 taels a year, and nearly 300,000 taels can fall into the bag of the Bengang team.

The last income, the harvest of commercial taxation, now seems to be very promising, but for the time being it seems to be just a drizzle: the combined income of all the businesses in the wineries, teahouses, restaurants, and grocery stores in Bengang is less than 10,000 taels of silver a year, and it is reluctant to pay the expenses of the tax collectors; However, in addition to paying the Hongtang protection fee, the passing ships in Jilong Harbor basically have to pay about 500 taels of commercial tax for each cargo ship, and they can also receive more than the first 200,000 taels of silver in this year.

All together, the annual income of the Bengang team is roughly about one million taels of silver, but these are the total income without excluding various expenses, if you remove the expenses of Bengang, the increasingly large administrative team of Bengang and Jilonggang, the Salesian Bureau, Mr. Xuetang and so on, the remaining one-third of the million taels of silver is already good.

(End of chapter)