Li Tianyang's so-called 'shortcut', in fact, to put it bluntly, is not to directly recruit warriors from these alliance tribes through some means to strengthen the strength of the camp team. Of course, the problem with this is that Li Tianyang can't use this team to deal with the natives on Dayuan Island, otherwise it may cause disgust and rejection among the natives; But don't forget, Li Tianyang himself didn't intend to personally use too much violence against these indigenous tribes, otherwise he wouldn't have contributed to the birth of the Bengang Alliance, and the purpose of the warriors he needed was not to prepare to re-pull the long-abandoned pirate cause.

Therefore, Li Tianyang's next step is to conduct a comprehensive census and resource survey!

Now is the honeymoon period between the Bengang tribe and the other fifty-two tribes, and it is also the perfect time for him to implement many powerful new policies against Bengang without hindrance. For example, in the census, Li Tianyang just found an excuse, saying that it was to enhance the understanding between the tribes and better plan the ratio between the tribe's population and food, so he easily obtained the consent of most of the tribes present. In the eyes of these natives, the number of people, the area of hunting grounds and other things, even their own people are actually confused, and the alliance wants to take a closer inventory, which can be regarded as making some contributions to their tribe, and it is not a big deal at all.

As for resources, Li Tianyang had already made some explanations in advance when he asked Qi San to recruit people for them from the Yuegang side. Therefore, now there are a few talents in the Bengang camp who are interested in exploring resources and drawing maps, at least, talents who are a little more profound than some of the knowledge that Li Tianyang and his team members have taught themselves. And what is incredible is that there are talents in this area, and they actually come from among the yin and yang warlocks that Li Tianyang has always thought are useless and can only deceive people, how can this not surprise Li Tianyang!!

Even the classics of the military family that Li Tianyang has been asking for but can't find some clues in the vein of Yin Yang Warlock.

The population statistics of the indigenous tribes are very simple, as long as the tribal patriarch gives an order, the young members who are responsible for counting the tribe can easily count the number of people in each tribe according to gender and age in the family unit. Among the natives, there is no distinction between men and women, only warriors who can fight, and ordinary clansmen who cannot fight.

Therefore, although there were as many as fifty-two members of the tribe except Bengang, under the help of the dozen or so counting teams sent out by Li Tianyang, it only took them less than a month to complete the counting. Finally, Li Tianyang and them only had a real understanding of the specific situation of this alliance: fifty-two tribes, with a total population of 27,496 people, including 12,279 men and 15,217 women.

Li Tianyang also found through these data that except for a few tribes with a population of thousands, most of the tribesmen actually maintain the scale of the tribe at about 500 people, and the number of male and female warriors who can fight can basically reach more than half, that is to say, among the more than 27,000 natives, the number of warriors who can really fight is at least more than 13,000. Such a scale made Zhang Yuyan and other teenagers in charge of statistics startled, and what followed was great excitement, if they could really take these fighters for their own use, then their dream of dominating the South China Sea would no longer be a distant dream.

Of course, if you really want to win over these warriors, it must be wishful thinking, and the leaders of various tribes, no matter how stupid they are, it will definitely be impossible for Li Tianyang to unscrupulously attract warriors from their own tribes. And it is impossible for him Li Tianyang to do this kind of thing of killing chickens and taking eggs, and fishing for fish, let alone taking the risk of angering these tribal leaders who have finally won over him, to do such a short-sighted thing.

However, this did not prevent Li Tianyang from luring a group of alliance fighters for his own use, just as he did to seduce the warriors of the Zhuluo Mountain Society.

The actual control area of the alliance, calculated according to the measurement unit of the Ming Dynasty, has at least an area of more than 60,000 square miles, that is, an area of almost 10,000 hectares of fertile land, and if it is developed in the future, it will be enough to support the population of less than 30,000, and there is still a lot of surplus land to grow other crops or become a hunting ground.

Only in this aspect of geological exploration, because of the scarcity of talents in this area, as well as the complexity of this exploration, several survey teams have been busy in the primeval forests and hunting grounds belonging to the alliance until now, and until now, there has not been a good news delivered.

For this matter, Li Tianyang is in a hurry, and there is no way, after all, the major is not right. He hoped that these survey teams would be able to explore for any resources, preferably iron ore resources, so that they would not have to waste a lot of money to buy iron tools, as for whether the reality could be as he wished, it would depend on whether God favored him or not.

To sum up, Li Tianyang can even proudly declare to the outside world that the largest force on Dayuan Island is their Bengang Alliance, and in the future, I am afraid that no blind tribe will dare to provoke the existence of their alliance!

For this reason, in order to maintain the existence of the entire alliance, Li Tianyang formulated many rules for the Bengang personnel and all member tribes to maintain this hard-won peace and alliance.

Many tribes have unique customs and habits, even if other tribes do not agree with them, but because of this, there should be no disrespect for other people's customs and habits. For example, among the fifty-three member tribes, there is a small tribe south of Yushan, who claims to be a branch of the Ami tribe, and the patriarch of the tribe is not a strong man, but a woman who gives birth to offspring. This made many tribes, including the Bengang tribe, a little disapproving, and even privately despised the men of this tribe for being too weak, and even the women who were regarded as vassals and breeding tools by other tribes rode on their heads.

However, Li Tianyang issued a rule through the Alliance Supervisory Committee, which not only recognized the legitimacy of the female patriarch from the institutional level, but also improved the status of the relatively weak female clansmen among all the tribesmen.

(End of chapter)