Li Tianyang has been paying attention to the matter of recruit training, until Lu Kui perfectly solved the riot of newcomers and others, so that Li Tianyang appreciated Lu Kui's ability very much.

However, Wu Daofu's coping strategy also made Li Tianyang see that he was already able to stand alone, although these things themselves could be avoided and controlled at the beginning, but thinking about it, everyone is actually crossing the river by feeling the stones, everyone is a novice, and it is inevitable that there will be mistakes, which also makes Li Tianyang relieved.

With the matter of the recruit training base coming to an end, Li Tianyang will start to get busy with the rest of the matter.

Today, the scale of Hongtang has reached the largest scale since its establishment, and at the current development rate, it is likely to exceed the 10,000 mark within this year.

Don't underestimate the scale of this 10,000 people, think about the small island in Qiongzhou, the official Ming officers and soldiers are only more than 30,000 people, and now Li Tianyang and their team have the advantage of being the first movers and went to Dayuan Island in the wilderness to develop, but in the final analysis, they have only developed the two strongholds of Jilong Port and Bengang, and it is only a territory of one hundred and eighty miles.

At this time, Li Tianyang's burden on them will be even heavier, just the annual salary of these Hongtang soldiers, Li Tianyang will need to spend four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, not to mention other subsidies and benefits.

It is certainly not time to open up a new stronghold, firstly, because of this attack by the Dutch, the reserves of the base camp of Bengang have been greatly reduced, and it is almost impossible to maintain how much of their own expenses; secondly, Jilong Harbor is only on the right track, and Li Tianyang and they are preparing to move eastward to control the Ryukyu Sea area, and Hongtang's crazy expansion of strength is not for decoration, it is necessary to make practical results to make up for Li Tianyang's efforts.

Only with the trade routes between the Ming Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom can Hongtang be able to achieve a balance between income and expenses through his own strength. The income of Qixintang, Li Tianyang prefers to use it for the development of the rich island of Dayuan, rather than always using it to fill the expenses of Hongtang.

Of course, with the decline of the Dutch, Hongtang's original sphere of influence also prospered again, and many maritime merchants may have made up for the losses caused by the Dutch's harassment of the coast for most of the past six months, and they also went to the sea one after another, carrying a large number of goods, taking advantage of the convenience of the southeast monsoon, towards the South Seas.

The tide is rising, and these days, Wu Shu's shark department wields Wu Juren's leopard department income has gradually returned to its previous level, and even increased slightly. As the news of Hong Tang's victory over the Dutch spread, no merchant would think of smuggling into the waters controlled by Hong Tang, and would be more willing to pay a little price for a safer guarantee.

These incomes also gave Hong Tang's overstretched income a little breather, at least, the Shark Department and the Leopard Department were basically able to maintain the balance of funds, and only needed the cost of the team on the Bengang side to provide food and materials.

And now, the team economic system, which has just been back on track, has once again been broken by a plan given by Li Tianyang.

The plan was actually very simple, but Li Tianyang proposed to unify with Hongtang's attire, and he was also preparing to set up a musket team with a number of 2,000 people.

But these are just these two items, not only on the Bengang side, Li Tianyang's wife Chen Yumo raised strong objections, but even the relevant members in charge of finance on Li Tianyang's side also raised different meanings.

It doesn't seem like a big deal, but the money and resources required to actually implement it are not a fraction of what is needed. Of course, according to the strength of the team today, it is not impossible to do these two things, but at this difficult moment, a group of financial personnel, including Chen Yumo, feel that it is not a suitable opportunity.

But Li Tianyang felt that this was the time to re-establish something.

First of all, just after defeating the Dutch, Hongtang already had some clues that belonged to Hongtang's own pride, and now it is like a bamboo shoot in the spring rain, which is thriving and breaking the ground. This is an invisible power, whether you want to or not, as long as you join the Hongtang and become a member of it, subtly, you will eventually be affected and changed by it, and finally be proud of it.

Just like the venerable army that Li Tianyang knew in later generations, as long as you join it, you will always involuntarily defend it. Why do people who have served as soldiers always miss those hard days and those lovely comrades-in-arms, this is the power of spirit and so on.

Although Hongtang was established for a short time, most of the members who served as middle and low-level non-commissioned officers in Hongtang were members trained by Li Tianyang himself, and these team members were instilled with many ideas from later generations by Li Tianyang since childhood, and they also understood and agreed with many of Li Tianyang's ideas, and under their leadership and influence, Hongtang's team members gradually accepted these concepts.

In addition, Hong Tang never intended to be evil, never bullied good people, has always acted in a good way, and many battles are full of legendary colors, this kind of experience and edification has filled everyone with a strong self-confidence, and a sense of mission that pirates do not have, which also casts their spirit of Hong Tang.

It is the birth of this spirit that makes Li Tianyang full of unexpected joy, and hopes that it can be consolidated and developed, so that Hongtang can be formalized and integrated, which can give a lot of help.

Secondly, in this large-scale recruitment, Hong Tang recruited nearly 2,000 people at once, although these people may become qualified fighters after rigorous training, but their previous experience may not allow them to maintain loyalty to Hong Tang and others. And Li Tianyang needs to remind them at any time that they are already a part of the Hongtang through uniform clothing and equipment, which will help these pirates integrate into the Hongtang as soon as possible.

As for the idea of training 2,000 musketeers, it was Li Tianyang who learned about the great strength of the Dutch in land warfare through the battles of Wu Hu, An Xianguo and Lahouk, which made him pay attention to this hot weapon that he had abandoned for a long time.

He admits that it was a big mistake to abandon the use of arquebuses in the previous time. Since the arquebus has been developed and used in the island now, there must be a reason for it, but Li Tianyang compared it with the rifles in later generations, naturally it is useless garbage, but it does not mean that it has no other advantages.

It just so happened that there were still hundreds of Dutch captives held in Jilong Harbor, and with the recruit training program, Wu Daofu and his team had the opportunity to integrate a team that had been trained by the Dutch and absorbed Western land warfare ideas.

(End of chapter)