After the family got together for Chinese New Year's Eve, Li De pulled Li Tianyang around the chicken cage town, and even asked Li Tianyang to take him to Bengang for a walk.

Li Tianyang did not refuse his father's request, to be honest, he also needed to be alone with Li De to understand the situation of the mad shark in the Luzon Islands.

As a son, Li Tianyang fooled Li De to the Luzon Islands, and he naturally had the obligation to check for his father and make some suggestions.

As the leader of Hongmen, when he comes to the position of Li Tianyang, he is also responsible for his team, although Hongmen still has the East China Sea and the Bohai Sea to develop at this moment, but in the final analysis, Hongmen's real opponent at sea is always Europeans from the West.

After the whole country began to implement the policy of closing the country to the outside world, Li Tianyang knew that in the future, the Japanese state, which was a behemoth relative to the current Hongmen, would eventually be surpassed by himself and would no longer be his opponent, unless they reformulated their national policy.

Only Westerners, the Dutch, Portuguese, Spaniards, and the British, none of them are good at stubble, and they have relatively more advanced navigation technology, shipbuilding technology, and cannon casting technology in this era, and they have taken the lead in the sea, and have controlled the lifeblood between the East and the West - the Strait of Malacca, so that they can keep an eye on the Ming Dynasty without worrying about the future.

Therefore, in the end, if Hongmen wants to truly control the fertile land of the Far East in the future, then they will inevitably have a decisive battle with the Westerners to decide the ownership of the Southeast Asian seas, which is what Li Tianyang envisioned.

Therefore, Li De was lured by Li Tianyang to go to the Luzon Islands, which was a chess piece that Li Tianyang dropped in advance in the South China Sea when his own strength was not enough to expand.

Li Tianyang did not deliberately transfer the "Yang Fan-style" warship over to escort the three of them, father and son, to the westward and to Bengang, but sent a five-scale 400-material warship from the Whale Department to escort them.

From childhood to adulthood, Li Tianyang's actions made Li De, his father, proud and happy, but in fact, his father was bringing a lot of pressure and burden to his father.

Li Deben is a strong and domineering person, he has been fighting at sea for so many years, even if he has faced an opponent far stronger than their mad shark, he has never frowned, but when facing an excellent son, he can't help but always feel a little weak.

The weakness of heart is not because of anything else, but because Li Tianyang is too good, which makes Li De's self-confidence severely suppressed, as if he feels that he has grown so many years in vain, and he can't compare to the young son he gave birth to.

Whether it is because of the momentum formed by being in the position of the leader for a long time, or the elder temperament that a father wants to show in front of his son, but in front of Li Tianyang, Li De always seems to lack confidence in speaking.

In the past, Li Tianyang was still ruthless and immature in dealing with people, but now thinking back to the reason why his father communicated less and less with him, Li Tianyang couldn't help but smile bitterly, and finally found that the source of the problem was here.

Therefore, this time, Li Tianyang did not show other things in front of Li De, and even when he greeted Li De and his party in Jilong Port, they were just a few close relatives and friends and a few Hongmen defense fighters.

Hindered by the northeast monsoon, it took more than a day to see the boxy farmland on the distant horizon.

However, the itinerary was blocked, but Li Tianyang also heard a lot from Li De's mouth about the development of their mad shark in recent years.

It seems that he has been hit too much by Li Tianyang over the years, and this time from his back to the present, in fact, Li Tianyang has not heard less from Li De's mouth about the development of their wild shark in Luzon.

However, it wasn't until this day and night that Li Tianyang had a general understanding of the development of their wild sharks in the Luzon Islands.

When they went to Luzon, they first set foot on Fuga Island, which is only a few dozen nautical miles away from the main island of Luzon, and then after fully understanding the situation of the big island of Luzon, they quietly landed on the coastline opposite Fuga Island, settled on Luzon Island, and developed.

The Spanish had occupied Manila for decades and had been operating on Luzon for a long time, but the Spanish colonizers had a fatal flaw, that is, their population was so small that they could only make a few thousand people along with the black slaves they had imported from Africa.

It is still easy to defeat the natives who are still ruthless and ignorant in Luzon at this time, plus the strong ships and cannons in their hands, but it is simply wishful thinking to rely on them to control thousands of islands and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory in Luzon.

Therefore, even after operating for decades, the Spaniards only controlled a radius of tens of miles centered on Manila, and after a large number of Ming merchants came to settle in Manila, they were even more cowered in the Manila castle, giving up control of remote areas, so as not to be dominated by the Ming people who were far more numerous than themselves, and sought to seize their own territory.

The place where they first developed was not under the control of the Spaniards, so they soon established themselves in the port of Apa and, relying on their great strength, quickly conquered many of the indigenous tribes in the area.

Compared with the isolated natives on Dayuan Island, the Luzon Islands have long had too much contact with the outside world because of their location in the bustling shipping routes, and Li De and the others have the advantage of being Ming people, and when they conquered the indigenous people of Luzon, they were more easily accepted by the other party than the Spaniards.

Who made the Luzon Islands a friendly neighbor of China since ancient times, although their national history is too long, but they have been influenced by Chinese culture since the pre-Song Dynasty.

As a state of etiquette, whether it is the former Song Dynasty or the current Ming Dynasty, these friendly countries have never used force, but let them take advantage of a lot of the benefits of the Ming Dynasty through tribute and other means.

The Spaniards were busy making money on the bustling shipping routes, and secretly spying on the growing number of Ming merchants outside Manila, as well as defending against the covetousness of other Western countries, where did they have time to take care of Li De and his party hundreds of miles away.

And Li De and they are also alert, and they no longer expand their strength by force as before, but take the production process of many commercial products given to them by Li Tianyang, and begin to learn from Hongmen to start farming, which is not easy to attract the attention of the Spaniards.

(End of chapter)