The mad shark seems to have changed its temperament, from the previous burning, killing and looting, to a law-abiding landlord and old wealth, if you are familiar with the people they used to do, I am afraid that it will be completely uncomfortable.

This may have something to do with the experience that Li De and his people absorbed from Li Tianyang's Hongmen development, which has gone from a small fight that was not amazing to now dominate the entire South China Sea and the West Sea, and in Li De's view, it seems that they rely more on farming and development than on burning, killing and looting.

Therefore, under the persuasion of his master Zhang Chong, he had to muster up his mind to catch up with this proud son, and after they went south, they spent more energy on running a farm and incorporating the local natives.

At this time, the land around Apa Port in Luzon was mostly developed, unlike Hongmen at the beginning, and the local natives were relatively better communicative, and soon Li De, who had a lot of money, acquired a large piece of land in Apa Port.

No way, the land here is too cheap, and the indigenous people of Luzon have such a rich land and a pleasant climate, but they don't know how to develop it.

When Li De and the others landed in the port of Apa, the indigenous people of the settlement of Apa had developed less than a thousand acres of land, and all the rest was deserted, allowing shrubs and weeds to grow on it.

It only cost a few thousand taels of silver, and Li De and his team pocketed 20,000 acres of wasteland around this Apa settlement and developed it.

Li De and their crazy shark gang, the backbone has always been a combination of farmers and bandits, when they were in Tanmen, when the route was busy, everyone went to sea together as thieves, and when the route was off-season, they all returned to Tanmen and worked in the field.

As for those who joined the Shark later, some people may have some complaints about doing farm work and hard work, but most of the gang members are still full of interest.

Who asked Li De to promise that every family can open up the land that everyone has cultivated

For such a thing as cultivating wasteland, Li De's gang is family-based, and each family can be allocated at least 15 acres of land, and those with more people can also be allocated about 5 acres of land.

Moreover, Li De did not prohibit the people from spending their own money to negotiate with the natives and buy other undeveloped wasteland for their own reclamation.

With the savings of the Killing Gang in the waters of Qiongzhou over the years, and the extremely low price of land on the Luzon Islands, even if there is no land allocated by Li De, I am afraid that these Wild Shark Gang can buy a lot of land to reclaim.

After using both money and force to take the natives in Apa Town for their own use, Li De and the others are even more at ease, and many heavy physical tasks can be completely hired by local natives to help take care of them, not necessarily the Shark Gang themselves.

As for those gangsters who were accustomed to fighting in the mouth of swords and waves, Li Deye did not force them to act, but Gan Xingzhi led these people to continue to do that businessless business in the waters of the Luzon Islands.

It's just that the manpower of this business is not as prosperous as when it was in Qiongzhou, less than a quarter of the original people, and the opponents selected are naturally much smaller.

Unintentionally, it made the movement of the wild shark at sea more stealthy, and it was more difficult to attract the attention of the Spaniards, as for the local natives and passing seafarers, it is unceremonious to say that they really do not have the strength and courage to wrestle with the wild shark.

Over the course of a few years, Shark has cultivated tens of thousands of acres of land in the small town of Apa and cultivated crops such as sugarcane, cotton, soybeans, cardamom and lemongrass.

The proximity to Manila is so close to Manila, as long as the crops sold and planted by Li De and the others are planted and transported to Manila, they are ready-made silver!

The first time I found out that being a big landlord turned out to be so profitable, and there was no risk, Li De and Gan Dabiao were smiling so much that there were a few more folds on their faces, not to mention the group of gangs below.

The Spaniards had abundant reserves of silver in the Americas, whether it was to buy luxury goods such as white sugar and spices to Europe, or raw silk, cloth and other materials to the Americas, they were at least double the profits.

The Spaniards did not worry about the sales of goods, so they naturally collected all the goods transported by Li De and them, and under the same price, they also had less transportation costs than the Ming Dynasty maritime merchants, and the profits were higher.

Li De and his family made a lot of money, so they naturally spared no effort to continue to increase investment in the farm, and a virtuous circle was formed in the long run, and the team developed in an orderly and stable manner.

The advantage of this is that Li De and his people don't need to watch God eat, as long as they work hard, are willing to invest, have perfect water conservancy facilities and all kinds of manure knowledge and experience given to them by Hongmen, there is almost no time to lose money, and the foundation is much deeper than when they were at sea, and the risk resistance is stronger.

So far, they are doing a good job on the farms in Apa Town and the surrounding towns such as Pasalen, and the size of the team has increased many times compared to when they were in Qiongzhou, which is completely beyond their imagination.

Even Gan Xingzhi himself, who had some opinions on the migration at the beginning, gradually agreed with Li De's choice at the beginning, at least Li De did not make a mistake in this step.

Together with the hired peasants and gangs under his command, as well as the population that settled in the small towns of Apa and Passaren and were controlled by the wild shark, the number now reached more than 30,000, which was something that Li De and the others did not dare to think of.

In addition, at this time, the Luzon Islands were nominally subject to the Spaniards, but in fact, the Spaniards had no intention of these remote areas around them, and they did not have so many troops to manage, so Li De and the others were equivalent to becoming parents and learning to manage the affairs of the people, and they were only one name.

Of course, what followed was all kinds of trivial things, no more than what Li De did when they controlled the Shark Gang, the gang who often added blood to the sword and the waves for a living, and Li De and them needed to maintain enough strength and majesty, and fierce means to be able to manage the gang obediently.

However, this set was applied to the people of Apa and Passalen, but the effect was not effective when it was used in the hands of the helpers, but it also made Li De and them begin to worry about learning how to manage the tens of thousands of people in their hands while they were complacent.

Over time, in addition to Gan Xingzhi, who still maintained his hard work at sea, the other Shark Gang, including Li De, also began to soften and lazy, and relax to enjoy this life that was very different from the life they once lived.

(End of chapter)