In Jilong Harbor, another fleet set off for a long journey, and the Hongmen fleet led by He Yong and Dong Haoran went to Satsuma to fulfill the "Kagoshima Contract" signed between Satsuma and Hongmen.

At the same time, the Hongmen ocean-going fleet set sail again, following He Yong and the others, in the direction of the Wa Kingdom, which was the first Eastern Wa trade after the hostility between Hongmen and Satsuma.

After a trade in Dongwei, the Hongmen ocean-going fleet continued to go north to Dongjiang Town and Goryeo in Liaodong to trade in order to maximize trade profits.

Last year, Nan Juyi had been promoted to the right squire of the household department because of his achievements in setting up a town in Bengang County and Jilonggang, and because of the relationship between Li Tianyang, the history of his dismissal in the fifth year of the Apocalypse due to a conflict with Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party has changed, but he was promoted to the right squire of the household department more than a year in advance.

Now the successor to the post of governor of Nanjuyi Fujian is Zhu Yifeng, who was born in the 26th year of Wanli, and is a rare able minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Capable ministers are capable, so naturally they rarely want to make a difference in their posts, and Zhu Yifeng, who was promoted from Fujian's political envoy to the position of governor of Fujian, also wants to make achievements in the position of governor.

In the history of the previous life, Zhu Yifeng launched a military operation against Zheng Zhilong and his gang of pirates after taking office, but in this era, there was no rise of Zheng Zhilong's gang, and it was replaced by Hongmen, Li Tianyang, who had ascended to the position of Admiral of Fujian Navy by relying on the relationship of the eunuch party.

The rise of Hongmen made the entire South China Sea unprecedentedly peaceful, so that Zhu Yifeng had less of the war with Zheng Zhilong and his gang in his previous life, so he had no truth to impeach Yu Zhigao, the chief soldier of the Eunuch Party, and then was taken advantage of the opportunity by the Eunuch Party to punish him.

Li Tianyang, as an official in the Fujian Governor's Yamen, needs to go to the Fujian Governor's Yamen from time to time to report, and it is inevitable that he will deal with the new Governor Zhu Yifeng.

Zhu Yifeng was originally an official who did not have a good impression of the eunuch party, but he had a different view of Li Tianyang, the admiral of Fujian who relied on the eunuch party to ascend to the throne.

The reason why I want to see it differently is naturally Li Tianyang's contribution to the people and merchants along the coast of Fujian, and what Li Tianyang did in the Ryukyu Kingdom, all of which were the prestige of the reigning Ming Dynasty, who made Li Tianyang wear this official body now!

Therefore, don't look at Li Tianyang who is still labeled as a eunuch, but in Zhu Yifeng's eyes, he is a manufacturable material, and he has a lot of intentions to win him over and promote.

The previous Li Tianyang purged the South China Sea pirates, which inevitably reached Zhu Yifeng's ears, and this time he recruited Li Tianyang, firstly, to understand the details of this battle, and at the same time to ask Li Tianyang what to do next, and secondly, to let Li Tianyang play this matter and ask the court for credit.

People in officialdom, people who really sacrifice themselves for others and are dedicated to the public basically do not exist, don't look at Zhu Yifeng's reputation in officialdom, but in the face of his low-hanging fruit, he is still moved and takes action.

Not to mention, Li Tianyang is really the favorite subordinate of the family officials, the former has cooperated with Hongmen, Cao Yongyi, who has cooperated with Hongmen, has been promoted all the way since he took Li Tianyang, and now he has been added as the deputy commander of Ying Tianfu; Later, because of his cooperation with Li Tianyang, Nan Juyi was promoted to the right attendant of the household department today.

If Zhu Yifeng can say move this time, no, he doesn't need to say move, since Zhu Yifeng knows about the sailor's dispatch of troops, if Li Tianyang doesn't want Zhu Yifeng to ask him for this, he has to promise Zhu Yifeng to write to the court and share a share of the credit to Zhu Yifeng, who made Zhu Yifeng his chief official, and it should have been only with Zhu Yifeng's approval, Li Tianyang could mobilize the army.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty was strict, and generally speaking, no military attache dared to move recklessly and privately mobilize troops and horses to suppress bandits, and Li Tianyang was already his own party, and the so-called surrender was mostly a matter on the surface, and many times his superiors turned a blind eye to his actions.

Li Tianyang doesn't care, according to his assumption, his current position is enough for him to use his means, and then change to another position, or really improve to one level, he may not be as happy as he is now, after all, their foundation is on Dayuan Island, in the South China Sea.

Therefore, even if Zhu Yifeng wants to share the credit, others may have some ideas, but Li Tianyang feels that he will not be too conspicuous, and he can also get close to the relationship with the new governor and dilute his label as a eunuch, why not!

Li Tianyang has such an indifferent idea of fame and fortune, how can there be a possibility of a collapse when he returns to the Fujian Governor Yamen, the dialogue between the two sides naturally makes Zhu Yifeng happy, and at the same time there is an unexpected joy, that is, the Japanese Satsuma Bo, who invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom, also bowed his head to the Fujian Navy to admit his mistake of invading the Ryukyu Kingdom, and promised not to covet the Ryukyu Kingdom, a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, in the future.

The Ming Dynasty faced the Ryukyu Kingdom's request for help more than ten years ago, but because of the inability of its own sailors to help and the situation in Liaodong was sluggish, it finally only sent an envoy to the Wa Kingdom to reprimand the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom, and then the matter was over.

For the Confucian children of the Ming Dynasty, who love face the most, this is something that they are usually ashamed to mention, and they are even more embarrassed to accept tribute from the Ryukyu Kingdom.

However, now he suddenly learned from Li Tianyang's mouth that his sailors unknowingly hit the territory of the Japanese Satsuma, wiped out his sailors, and forced the other party to admit his mistake.

More importantly, what Li Tianyang did next was quite in line with the Confucian way of governance, after defeating the Satsuma and Tibetan people, he did not insist on invading their territory, but warned the mistake of the follow-up with the Huanghuang division, and finally withdrew the army, which did not cause a reaction from the Japanese royal family, which in the eyes of the Confucian officials of the Ming Dynasty, which not only inspired the majesty of the Ming Dynasty, but also did not bring other troubles to the troubled Ming Dynasty.

In the end, Li Tianyang left empty-handed, and then came back with a full load of various materials, since the governor Zhu Yifeng wanted the merit Li Tianyang gave up, and bought one and got one free gave him another big gift, in return, Zhu Yifeng would not be embarrassed to say nothing.

The advance of food and salary was converted into silver money and brought back by Li Tianyang, and at the same time, there was a warrant provided by the Fujian governor Yamen to recruit 4,000 sailor soldiers in Fujian Province to fill the vacancy.

With this warrant, Li Tianyang could recruit 4,000 new soldiers to join his command in Fujian, just enough to provide a new force for the weakened Hongmen.

The members of the pirates who surrendered, as well as the pirate members who were accommodated in the Qiongzhou Pirate District, were finally absorbed into the Hongtang Water Division, less than 1,000 people, and Hongmen killed more than 3,000 soldiers in the battle alone, plus the soldiers who were seriously injured and disabled since then, and finally the Hongmen Water Division only filled the vacancy with more than 4,000 living troops.

And now that Hongmen's territory of influence has expanded, and Qiongzhou and Ryukyu Pirate Districts are in the bag, it means that if Hongmen wants to manage these two sea areas well, they have to expand their military strength to control this territory.

If these seas were cleared without actual control, then what was the use of so much territory, and in the end, wouldn't other pirates like the Wyvern Gang emerge and continue to challenge their dominance against Hongmen?

Back to Jilong Port, Li Tianyang spent all the money, except for the compensation of the fallen soldiers and the placement of the disabled soldiers, which cost nearly 100,000 taels of silver, and the rest of the silver was sent by Li Tianyang to the hands of the rich man of Luhai in Changhua, Qiongzhou.

After returning from Lu Yu, he gave a very high evaluation of the actual combat power of the ten heavily armed "Yang Fan-type" warships, and verified through brilliant results that what they said was not an exaggeration, and Li Tianyang had already made up his mind to build another invincible sailor.

Li Tianyang and their development of Dayuan Island, limited by the lack of population in their hands, until now only a few places such as Bengang, Jilong Port, Da'an Port have been developed, and there are still huge undeveloped areas that have been abandoned there.

Even the last time he encouraged the members of the Bengang Alliance to clear up a huge area, in the end, there was not a large piece of land, because the distance between him and the members of the Bengang Alliance was too far, and Daqian also gave up, and now I am afraid that other rabbit spirit tribes have run back to live in it.

Just like this time, three or four thousand people were lost in a big battle, and in the Ming Dynasty, they could be quickly replenished without blinking an eye, but if the Hongmen team wanted to replenish it completely, if there was no warrant that Li Tianyang obtained from the governor, I am afraid it would take at least more than a year to be possible.

The population base has always been an important problem that plagued Li Tianyang, so when Li Tianyang saw that the elite sailors he had spent a lot of money to build, with a scale of only two or three thousand people, he almost wiped out the sailor team of more than 5,000 Satsuma and Tibetan people.

And the most important point is that while killing the opponent's sailors on a large scale, the actual losses on the Hongmen side were less than 1,000 people, and the casualty ratio was nearly 1 to 6, which made Li Tianyang overjoyed.

That also means that Li Tianyang and the others can truly implement the policy of elite soldiers to make up for the lack of manpower on their side, and if they want Hongmen to equip 10,000 people with "Yang Fan-style" warships and full firepower weapons in the future, Li Tianyang is fully confident that he can resist at least 100,000 sailors and even defeat them.

In terms of Li Tianyang's growing ambitions, if there is really such a fleet, then the height they can reach in the future will be completely different from what they are now.

(End of chapter)