The problem of food shortages was finally improved after the first harvest of grain in the summer.

Thanks to the fact that Dayuan Island is not far from Hunan, Guangdong and other places in the granary of the Ming Dynasty, and adjacent to the commercial port of Yuegang, it is relatively easy to purchase and exchange, which reduces the great burden on Hongmen, otherwise the food consumption in these months may make Hongmen have the problem of food shortage.

For the first time, Hongmen approached the indigenous tribes of the alliance to purchase grain, and exchanged it for surplus grain from them to meet Hongmen's needs.

Over the years, under the influence and leadership of Hongmen, the members of the alliance tribes have carved out pieces of land in the surrounding jungles and fields, and they no longer make a living by hunting, but gradually start farming.

Of course, limited by the lack of knowledge and planting skills of various manure in Hongmen, the yield of the land of the indigenous tribes is inevitably not as good as that of Hongmen, but it is enough to meet the daily needs of their own tribes.

Even because the area of land planted by the various tribes is increasing day by day, the grain stored in their tribes is gradually increasing, if it were not for the fact that last year Hongmen organized another operation to encircle and annex the east coastline of the Great Yuan, so that the tribes had hundreds of mouths, I am afraid that Hongmen would be able to buy a lot more grain back.

Hongmen Hongtang has not been replenished in the past few years, and it has finally been replenished at this time, and now Hongmen has a total of more than 10,000 regular troops, which can be regarded as completing the personnel who were reported to the Ministry of War.

Among them, the whale department has a total of 5,000 people, and the shark department is still in the early 2,000s, but the leopard department has more than 3,000 people, because they are now expanding their territory, and their team should expand a few points after receiving the former Qiongzhou Pirate District.

Of course, this is also after Wu Juren secretly began to show goodwill to Li Tianyang, and proved it with practical actions, Li Tianyang was relieved to let the leopard department expand, otherwise Li Tianyang would not let Wu Juren's strength expand a few points no matter how stupid he was.

Moreover, Wu Jie will soon be transferred from the position of head of the Shark Department and transferred to the position of deputy head of the Leopard Department, which can be regarded as a disguised start to divide Wu Juren's rights.

Wu Jie was transferred to the deputy head of the Leopard Department, although it was a demotion, but Li Tianyang believed that after he communicated with Wu Jie in private, he would understand his approach.

At the same time, this is also the best way for Hongmen to start weakening the strength in Wu Juren's hands, Wu Jie and Wu Juren are father and son, that is a real family, the rule of son inheriting his father's business has been passed down in China for thousands of years, Wu Jie came to inherit his father's henchmen, and it is well deserved.

There is also the old department of the Penghu Water Division, although there is not much supplement, but after Li Tianyang has been the Admiral of the Water Division for so long, the matter of empty salaries under his command has almost disappeared, so that there is still a team stationed in the camp of Magong Island that can cheer for Hongmen, and the number of people is still in the early 5,000s.

In the shadows, Hongmen also has a Ryukyu sailor, although Wu Daofu is ostensibly out of the jurisdiction of Hongmen, but his family and sons are all in Bengang, his loyalty is unquestionable, and he can definitely become a helping force when necessary.

Although the cavalry did not reach the 2,000-man scale expected by Li Tianyang, it now has a 1,000-strong contingent that can skillfully move and move on horses, wielding long knives and spears.

It's a pity that the number of Hetao horses purchased by Hongmen from Dongjiang Town is too small, so that the war horses ridden by this thousand-person cavalry team are still Mongolian horses and Korean horses, but the horse body is shorter, and in terms of cluster impact, I am afraid that it is not as good as the team of the Houjin people.

However, Hongmen was not without advantages, that is, using these shorter war horses, the foundry produced a batch of more than 20 steel-cast cannons weighing five or six hundred catties, but capable of firing sixteen or seventeen pounds of heavy artillery shells, forming a mobile artillery unit.

These specially made cannons have a longer body and a longer range, and two horses can easily pull a cannon, if it is a short and rapid march, a war horse can barely cope, with the wide wheels made of steel plates and vulcanized rubber, even in the muddy ground, can move forward.

According to Li Tianyang's assumption, if the power of artillery fire and the roar of artillery can be used to disrupt the cavalry of the Houjin people to the impact, it may be possible to weaken the cavalry power of the Houjin people to the greatest extent.

Unconsciously, Li Tianyang has gradually regarded the Houjin people as his next opponent, and at this time, most of his changes to the team are also Houjinren as opponents for reference, and it seems that he has begun to forget the idea that he may defect to the Houjin people next.

At the same time, the territory of the entire Hongmen capital has expanded rapidly, not only Da'an Town has made great progress, but also Jingpu Town and Daxing Town have also made a lot of progress.

Now the ordinary people of Hongmen, plus the alliance has lived in Hongmen's territory for a long time, and the captive slaves obtained by the aborigines have been cleared several times, the total population of Hongmen has grown towards the scale of 200,000 people.

Under the huge population base, the birth rate of the Hongmen team is also gradually rising, even if there is no Qi San and their continuous recruitment work, the new population of Hongmen every year is more than 1,000 people.

In the past few years, Hongmen has also begun to harvest the strength of the new generation, and every year, at least three or four hundred students who have received the education of Bengang Academy have graduated and joined the Hongmen team.

Compared with those ordinary people, these students who have received the Eastern and Western cultural education of Bengang School can not only speak and write, but also most of them are down-to-earth and hardworking, and they have been influenced by the various spiritual edifications of Hongmen, and they have been the backbone of the middle and low-level backbone of Hongmen from the beginning, which has a great role in promoting the improvement of the overall quality of Hongmen.

In addition to these, the accumulation in the R&D Institute is also profound, a variety of new inventions emerge in an endless stream, and the improved processes that have a significant help to the development of Hongmen are also penetrating into all corners of the Hongmen team, and even now the R&D Institute is making great efforts to develop a cross-era product, but I don't know what the result is.

There is also the craftsman workshop, this time the craftsmen and masters who recruited thousands of people at once, even if the good and the bad are uneven, and the number is indiscriminate, but the careful selection still makes the craftsmen and masters of the craftsman workshop increase by more than 200 people, and also harvests a lot of unique skills of other craftsmen and masters.

In the past, the unique secrets of various families and factions were never easily promised, but in the face of hunger and wealth, where could they resist the temptation of the world, they handed over their secret skills one after another, in exchange for brand new silver coins, or acres of well-developed new fields, and spacious buildings.