said that Li Tianyang didn't feel sorry for this group of brave people, that was false, but he knew very well that at this time, it was a measure that outweighed the losses by forcibly taking in such a group of strongmen.

Having just laid the foundation for the Ryukyus, the first responsibility now is to consolidate the current sphere of influence, not to make any further progress, but to ensure that the territory is not encroached upon by others.

Therefore, with this group of strongmen joining, although it can also help Li Tianyang, Li Tianyang has no strong people who can subdue this group of unruly people.

Although Wu Jie is brave, he is still young after all, and he is not enough to convince the public; Wu Daofu and his entourage, strong is strong, but between them and Er, there is no distinction between Xuanyuan.

On the contrary, Li Tianyang still has to worry that such strongmen will cause trouble for him, which will make the already tense neighborhood relationship more fluctuating.

As for taking them into custody and waiting until they have time, they are not the right opportunity. In order to consolidate the waters around the Ryukyus, Li Tianyang also thought about whether he could send some troops from Bengang to help Huludao, which was simply unable to transfer people to guard these strongmen for a long time; And on the side of Bengang, it was not easy to guide the natives to learn to understand etiquette and know the rules, and now bring back such a group of unruly guys, don't you want to disturb their base camp?

Fortunately, there are still more than 100 strongmen left, if they really follow the rules and obey orders as they promised, they will be more handy than those hundreds of strongmen, which is not a beautiful thing.

Of course, Li Tianyang is not a person who trusts others, although he is very pleased with everyone's sincere answer on the surface, but when arranging it, he still asked Wu Daofu and others to pay more attention to what these people did.

It's just that since hundreds of strongmen have been freed, Li Tianyang can't take these 100 pirates who serve him into custody, so he settles them in the place where Yuan Laoba lived before, and takes care of them well, and he must not be lazy.

As for the remaining hundreds of pirates, except for the other pirates released by Li Tianyang a few days ago, the rest were just a group of unworthy, old, or disabled people, who were also released by Li Tianyang, and let them temporarily stay on Huludao to do some miscellaneous work, repair and other work.

By the time Bengang got the news and sent 6,000 stone of grain as the capital for March, Li Tianyang had basically sorted out the big and small matters on the gourd island.

Huludao covers an area of only five or six miles in a square area, except for the rocky forest on the island, shallow depressions gather in the place, the land that can be cultivated is only dozens of acres, and most of them have been reclaimed by Yuan Laoba and his gang to plant melons, fruits and vegetables, to meet the daily use of most of the village. But if you want to rely on this bit of land to grow food and supply cottages, it must be for wood to ask for fish, and bamboo baskets to draw water.

It's just that this gourd island is dangerous, located on the edge of the prosperous route, and easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it is deeply liked by Yuan Laoba, and it has become his nest that has not changed for more than ten years, and it also has its own reason.

Behind the island, most of the cliffs are lined with cliffs, even if there are no cliffs, there are also many reefs, and the coastal tidal flats cannot dock more than 400 ships. Only this wharf is the two or three thousand materials, and the lucky ships with a very deep draft can also dock freely, which is a natural deep-water wharf.

In addition, the terrain is like a "U", although there are no cliffs on both sides, but it is a tidal flat, and large ships cannot dock, so they can only use small boats to walk, but it eliminates the idea of most gangs to bully widows with the public. As long as Li Tianyang is willing to spend a lot of money to build two castles with cement and boulders on the top of the two sharp horns, supplemented by seven or eight general cannons, and use each other's horns, then there are not several times the number of team members on the island, and he will not be able to conquer this fortress, which is the only choice for Li Tianyang to look forward to the stronghold.

Because of this, Li Tianyang waited until the grain convoy had put the grain in place, and then sent them back, asking them to bring another batch of cement and manpower.

As for Li Tianyang's action to prepare to relocate his family on the island, it can be delayed. The reason is that if it is to build a fort, it is necessary to have a large number of manpower, Li Tianyang has always been unwilling to provide for others for free, so as not to raise a group of lazy people, just take this opportunity to work for pay, so that the people on the island can support themselves.

Building a castle must not be something that can be done in a short day, and Li Tianyang can use this time to find a proper location on the eastern coast of Dayuan Island to prepare for the next resettlement work. At that time, when the spring flowers bloom, it is also the day for these people to open up the wasteland and grow grain.

At this time, it was the middle of October, and it was only more than two months before the end of the year, Li Tianyang, who knew that time was pressing, did not wait for the materials and manpower to be transported from Bengang, and organized the personnel on the island nearby, and used the resources in his hands to start preparations first; Open mountains to build roads, cut down trees and take stones.

Although limited to the problem of the shortage of tools on the island, the progress is a little slow, but it is not nothing, and when the supplies supported by Bengang are in place after seven or eight days, the path leading to the two mountains can be used, and even the stones that are difficult to mine have been prepared as many as hundreds of stones, which are enough to lay the foundation.

After the materials were in place, Li Tianyang instead left the construction of this side to Wu Daofu and Wu Shu, but he took Wu Jie and He Yong, as well as the more than 100 brave men who served Li Tianyang, and went to sea to the east coast of Dayuan Island to seek a visit to a station where they could gain a foothold and settle residents.

Li Tianyang originally wanted to use the opportunity of building a stone castle to knock and test this group of pirates who volunteered to stay, but after Wu Jie, a brave and ruthless guy, returned from Bengang, he changed his mind.

When Li Tianyang took in these strongmen, Wu Jie was accompanying his father Wu Juren in Bengang and practicing for them. Later, after Bengang received Li Tianyang's order to transport grain, he slipped back with the grain ship, and the camp life became more and more calm, and there was not much passion, where could Wu Jie stay with this kind of temperament.

After Wu Jie returned to Huludao, he became interested in this group of more than 100 pirates who were called preferential, but in fact secretly monitored and isolated.

The reason why strongmen are strongmen is that they have a unique temperament that is different from them, no matter how they hide and converge, they always unconsciously exude a bad spirit, they look at each other, a movement, as if telling everyone, don't provoke them.

And when Wu Jie heard about the origin of this group of people, it reminded Wu Jie of his habit of dealing with extraordinary people.

Today's Wu Jie is no longer the boy who is always obsessed with some trivial things, after experiencing too much life and death, he has an unusual understanding of fighting and killing. Therefore, although they were enemies of each other more than ten days ago, but now, Wu Jie is eager to try, wanting to see what abilities these strongmen have that are worthy of Li Tianyang's differential treatment.

(End of chapter)