The reason why he thought of selling grain, which seemed to make little money, was also the choice that Li Tianyang had made after careful consideration along the way, and discussed with his secretary group Tan Songyun and others.

In addition to more than 20 seagoing ships in the ocean-going fleet, more than a dozen seagoing ships were purchased in Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places, as a way to transport Qisan to recruit displaced people, and at the same time transport goods between Dayuan Island and Yuegang.

Second, the Bengang team's unique maritime strength allows them to avoid all kinds of drawbacks brought about by the Ming Dynasty's transportation, and transport a large number of materials to the north from the sea, reducing various costs.

Third, to be a grain merchant, you can naturally go down to the counties and towns in the north, and go deep into the tentacles of Bengang to fully understand the movements of the people at the bottom.

Most importantly, Li Tianyang hoped that after this journey, the indigenous people would change their attitudes and be diverted to the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Involving the indigenous people in the food transportation and sales system of the Bengang team not only mobilizes their enthusiasm for land reclamation and planting, so that they are no longer satisfied with self-sufficiency, but also allows them to have a sense of participation and identify with Li Tianyang's next great cause.

However, these are long-term plans, and Li Tianyang needs to go back and make a plan, and re-coordinate the cultivation and cultivation of grain in the stronghold, and persuade the natives to join in.

The problem now is that as their team gets closer and closer to the Jingshi, the checks they have to go through are getting more and more severe.

The people of the Ming Dynasty traveled far away, and the reason why foreigners like Ma Yao, who were obviously different from the people of the Ming Dynasty, were able to follow Li Tianyang and them for such a long distance safely was that there was Cao Yongyi, an official figure around them, to escort them on the water, and the other was inseparable from Li Tianyang's money offensive.

It is not difficult to see how corrupt these low-level bureaucrats have become.

Even if there are occasional officials who are more serious and do not collude with others want to seriously investigate, Li Tianyang is not unprepared, and it is not impossible to say that these are just foreign subordinates hired by Li Tianyang.

Looking at the majestic figures and hideous faces of these natives, as long as the Ming people with a little eyesight can see that their group is not a fuel-efficient lamp, so they are very qualified as thugs.

It's just that in this way, Li Tianyang can only hide from these indigenous patriarchs, especially Lake. Barton, the guy who obviously didn't deal with him, otherwise let them know, and they wouldn't know what to think.

Tianjin Wei, as the gateway of the Ming Dynasty's capital division to Chong and Jifu, has always been a heavily guarded place. It is not only a military stronghold, but also a lot of transportation over the years, which makes it very different from the cities that other natives have seen along the way.

First of all, there are a team of majestic soldiers in the Tianjin Guard, although there are a few of them who are old, weak, sick and disabled, but they walk back and forth in the Acropolis, dressed neatly, wearing a red suit with two cyan sleeves inside, and at a glance at the momentum and behavior, it is not comparable to the scattered soldiers of the indigenous people.

It is estimated that there is only a comparison between the team members trained by Hongtang according to the same rules and conduct during the military parade in Jilong Harbor!

It was only at this time that the indigenous people, who had always respected the strong, could be regarded as truly in awe of this powerful and long-standing country. In the past, everyone was more afraid of so many people, which made them dizzy, but now the awe is more out of the strength of the other party's strong army.

After this Tianjin Wei, less than a hundred miles forward, then we will arrive at the territory of Jingshi, and when we arrive here, Li Tianyang is ready to let this group of indigenous patriarchs settle here, and he and Cao Yongyi will go to Jingshi to do some things first.

No, in a place like Jingshi, even if you bump into a pedestrian while walking on the street, there may be characters who Li Tianyang can't afford to get off, and with the nature of the indigenous people who are not afraid of heaven and earth, I am afraid that there will inevitably be conflicts and cause unnecessary trouble.

So Li Tianyang thought about it, first follow Cao Yongyi to Beijing, take the road of Lu Gui, the old eunuch who is about to retire, and send his own meeting gift to the Duke of Wei and his party, who leaned towards the government and the opposition.

This in itself is the reason why Li Tianyang secretly designed Cao Yongyi to come, although Lu Gui is about to retire now, God is not something that Li Tianyang, a little-known little guy, can bother. Even if Li Tianyang called for wind and rain on the surface of the South China Sea at this time, and his reputation was far and wide, but at the feet of the Son of Heaven, he was nothing, and there were many people who could make him disappear silently in this city.

Moreover, if there is no relationship with Cao Yongyi, with Li Tianyang's own strength, although as long as he is willing to spend money, he will behave in the world with the current nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian Wei Gonggong, as well as the faces of the minions under him, it is not impossible to catch up with the relationship with Wei Gonggong.

It's just that in this way, Li Tianyang's expenses will be too big, and it will inevitably be a little cost-effective, and it will really catch up with Father-in-law Wei in the end, Li Tianyang is also worried that the remaining silver money will not be enough to buy our Father-in-law Wei's golden mouth!

And the reason why Cao Yongyi found Li Tianyang was also based on a similar reason, that is, he took a fancy to Li Tianyang's strong financial resources. Now Lu Gui is about to retire from his current position and go to accompany Duying Tianfu to retire, so Cao Yongyi also urgently needs a lot of money to take a good path before Lu Gui retires.

And with Cao Yongyi's current net worth, if he has Lu Gui's matchmaking, he will naturally be barely enough to cope with it, but if he can use Li Tianyang's financial resources, then he can save a lot of expenses at the same time, and at the same time sell Li Tianyang in the air, and at the same time seek a backer for himself.

Such a clever plan to kill three birds with one stone, but Cao Yongyi really admired himself in his heart, but what he didn't expect was that these were all expected by Li Tianyang, and they were not his plans at all, but it should be Li Tianyang and them to take advantage of the situation, and set up a ladder for Cao Yongyi step by step, just waiting for him to step on it.

(End of chapter)