After sporadic battles, Wu Daofu and his entourage, who were almost unscathed, walked out of the small mountain village with a group of terrified and dead-faced villagers. Li Tianyang and his three warships docked at the edge of the beach, counting some of the loot that Wu Daofu and the others had easily confiscated.

"What a bunch of poor ghosts who can't be poorer!" Li Tianyang casually flipped through the batch of things that Wu Daofu and they brought out, and there were really few things he could take a fancy to. Most of the trophies were shoddy linen cloth and pottery, which were not sight-looking and impractical, and even if they were shipped to Moon Harbor to be sold, the money they sold would not be as high as the income from going directly to the open sea to hunt a batch of fresh fish.

"Isn't it, we've been looking around the village for a long time, but we haven't found anything of value!" Wu Daofu also looked depressed, and felt that this time the transaction was a bit of a loss.

"Forget it, with such a large population, I don't think it's a trip in vain." Li Tianyang seemed to be comforting Wu Daofu, and said as if he was comforting himself, but when he saw a group of villagers who were being escorted onto the boat, he couldn't help but twitch a few times.

With the dim torch illumination, Li Tianyang can still roughly see the general situation of this group of captives, not to mention anything else, but from their sewing and patching clothes and pants everywhere, and the generally thin body, it can be seen that the life of these pirate families is probably very difficult. Then, the desire to scrape some oil and water from this group of pirates is probably going to be frustrated, not to mention that after Li Tianyang has this group of pirates in hand, he will have to take care of their food and so on, which is a lot of expenses, from a business point of view, Li Tianyang's transaction is indeed a bit of a loss.

However, it is precisely these people who are in dire need of Bengang Camp now.

Don't get me wrong, Bengang now has a permanent population of four or five thousand, but most of them are indigenous, which makes the proportion of Bengang homeless and indigenous population too different, a bit of putting the cart before the horse. From the immediate point of view, it doesn't seem to be a big problem, but in the long run, the consequences are not small, so Li Tianyang's sweep of the pirates this time, in addition to wanting to fill the consumption of the camp, also means to absorb the pirate population for his own use.

Of course, the hidden dangers left by such a method of co-optation are really not small, and every time they fight, at least 1/3 of the pirates will be eliminated by the camp team members in order to dispel the will to fight of these pirates. Therefore, no one knows what these pirate families and the imprisoned pirates think, maybe they are just like the monkey under the reckless snake Wang Fei, who surrendered on the surface, but in fact he is a die-hard loyal team.

But this cannot be denied, the other advantages of this can, such as not requiring Li Tianyang to spend money to recruit from Yuegang and other places, not to mention taking care of the feelings of these captives, they can be imprisoned together, living together, and facilitating the early management. As for the future, Li Tianyang and them have time to slowly screen the true minds of these people, and slowly through daily life contact, as well as formulating various reward and punishment systems, let them understand that being a submissive person is better than being a traitor. You must know that the common people of the Ming Dynasty are so ignorant and easy to be tamed, as long as their livelihood is guaranteed, no matter how big the hatred is, they can tolerate it.

It was busy in the middle of the night, and it wasn't until the sun rose in the east that Li Tianyang and Wu Daofu finished cleaning the battlefield. Sure enough, this time they gained very little, and they were full of money, at most only three or five hundred taels of silver, and they were really poor enough, that is, after Li Tianyang saw the placement of the families in the village, he even felt a little guilty about robbing the people.

However, Li Tianyang is not a person who will regret it, and the strategy he has formulated is unlikely to change because of his own temporary soft-heartedness, and in the end, they took the three ships full of supplies and population, and headed back in the direction of Bengang.

The camp is still so lively, perhaps due to the influence of the Lipton murder case, the camp is just as when they left, there are no waves, and there are many fewer disputes among the natives, which makes Zhang Yuyan and his security team members feel a little relieved. It's just that when he left, Lipton's body hanging on the beach and the gallows were put away by Yumo because of the end of the public demonstration time, and as for the body, Yumo handed it back to Lipton's relatives, so that they could go to the tribe by themselves.

"Haven't had any problems with the camp in the past few days?" Since the murder case, Li Tianyang's concern for the camp has risen to a new level, that is, at sea, he is not worried about everything in the camp, which also makes him anxious to find someone who can go to sea instead of him.

"It's nothing, .ne even the natives are much more well-behaved, and there are fewer troublemakers." Yumo picked up the towel from the basin, twisted it a few times, and handed it to Li Tianyang to wipe his face.

"What about the Alliance, is something going on?"

"It's okay over there, there was a small tribe coming over the day before yesterday and submitting an application for membership to the Supervisory Committee, just wait for you to come back and convene the Supervisory Committee to approve their accession!" When Yumo said this news, it was so pleasant to listen to in Li Tianyang's ears.

Today's Bengang Alliance, with more and more members, its influence has begun to spread.

Of course, this is also indispensable for Ma Yao and their coalition to fight for the members of the alliance a few times, which completely let the indigenous tribes watching around see the huge strength of the alliance, and as written in the alliance declaration, all foreign tribes that offended the member tribes were resisted and counterattacked by the members of the entire Bengang Alliance. Don't look at Ma Yao, as a teenager, who is reckless in front of Li Tianyang one day, but Dahai, an old fox, doesn't want to let Li Tianyang catch anything wrong because of Ma Yao's character, and wipe Ma Yao off from the position of commander of the coalition army, and specially find a warrior from the Tanmen tribe who is skilled in combat to assist Ma Yao. And this warrior who assisted Ma Yao was none other than Lahouk, an old acquaintance of Li Tianyang.

For Lahouke, Li Tianyang actually has a lot of gratitude and guilt in his selfish heart, so when Dahai and Li Tianyang proposed to let Lahouke also join the coalition team and help fight as Ma Yao's right and left hand, Li Tianyang agreed without thinking about it. He also knew that for Lahouk, it was actually a good choice to be able to leave Zhuluo Mountain now and come out for a walk. Dahai, on the other hand, is even more convinced that Irahouk's feelings for the Zhuluo Mountain tribe will definitely help Ma Yao grasp this position well.

(End of chapter)