In the beginning of spring in the forty-eighth year of Wanli, it has been half a year since Li Tianyang and their big crisis that affected the three places.

As spring approaches, the drizzle over Jonlong Harbor and the white fog in the morning and evening are becoming less and less.

Due to the wet weather, the progress of land reclamation and port construction in the chicken coop port has been slow. Although with the former pirate families on Hulu Island, the current Hongtang villagers have moved to the chicken coop port; As well as in the Moon Harbor, Qi San has been helping Li Tianyang to recruit the villagers of Zhangquan and the exiled people, so that the people in the Chicken Coop Harbor have gradually prospered, and in just over half a year, nearly 7,000 villagers have gathered in the Chicken Coop Harbor.

It's just that there are only about 1,000 men who can really be called upon, and the rest are mostly burdens such as women, children and children.

Wu Shu, who is no higher than the first high, has lost ground in advance and retreat, and Wu Daofu, who has been doing business without capital for most of his life, has his own set of practical experience in how to deal with pirates and how to make them fearful.

was arranged by Li Tianyang in the position of the most important leader in their team today, and like Wu Shu, Wu Daofu also hoped to show his talent in front of Li Tianyang.

is indeed an old pirate, and has enough progressive spirit and platform, in half a year, after clearing and eliminating more than ten pirates of all sizes, no pirate dares to run to the ground of Hongtang Ryukyu Sea to spread wild.

Even the pirates who joined forces last year and wanted to make some benefits on Hong Tang were also investigated by Wu Daofu, and I don't know what strategy he used, and in a short period of time, the originally good relationship between these groups of pirates became estranged, and even the two turned against each other.

Without the benefit of unity, with the strength of one or two pirates, for the Hongtang Ryukyu Division, the problem has become trouble, and it is no longer as worthy of Li Tianyang and them to fight as they did at the beginning!

Moreover, with the suppression and co-optation of the surrounding pirates, the Hongtang Huludao Division, which was originally only about 2,000, has now expanded to more than 2,700 people, which basically satisfies the manpower of Hongtang and the others in the Ryukyus. It is only now that Li Tianyang and them can say that they have really gained a foothold in the Ryukyu Sea and stabilized the territory they snatched from Yuan Laoba.

However, Yuan Laoba, the former adversary, after seeing Huludao gain a firm foothold, immediately made a decision, took the more than 1,000 pirates he had redeveloped, did not give Wu Daofu a chance to take a look, and walked along the vast sea in the northeast, and finally vaguely heard from the mouths of the past maritime merchants that they had run away to the Bohai Sea and completely left the territory of the Ryukyu Sea.

It was another day when the soldiers of the officers and soldiers stationed on Hulu Island returned home for a holiday to rest, and many strong men with five big and three rough men who spoke and scolded suddenly appeared in the Jilong Harbor, shuttling among the people in the Jilong Harbor.

Today's Huludao has been completely built into a military stronghold, and there is no unrelated person living on the island except for the places and dormitories for soldiers to rest and practice. Therefore, the more than 2,700 soldiers on the island are always divided into several groups, taking turns patrolling the sea area and garrisoning the island, and every two months they can have half a month to rest, return to the chicken coop harbor to reunite with their families, and help their families do some farm work.

Of course, as a specially built external base of Qixintang, Defuxuan, Jirentang and other businesses have also opened branches in Jilong Harbor at the invitation of Li Tianyang, but several businesses in Bengang have plans to withdraw because of poor business.

In addition to a few merchants, other pirate teams and maritime merchants gradually appeared.

Although Hong Tang has always been very strong and domineering, as long as you abide by the maritime rules formulated by Hong Tang and do not do evil within Hong Tang's sphere of influence, in fact, Hong Tang is also the most moral pirate gang.

This can be seen from the maritime merchant fleets that are gradually multiplying, and no longer dodging in the waters of Ryukyu and Penghu. Therefore, gradually, there are also many small pirate gangs that have no channels to sell thieves' dirt or want to buy food and supplies, and they are trembling to trade with the Qixintang firm in the chicken coop harbor.

Although Qixintang has not yet established a complete commercial channel to sell such tricky things as thieves and dirt in large quantities, with the gradual development of land in Bengang, the production of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes is increasing day by day, which is long enough to meet the consumption of the population of Bengang, and even Jilonggang and Huludao, and can also get rich and sell some of it to the pirates who are short of food.

They are all hard-working people, and it is the time for Jilong Port to make a signboard and establish a reputation with the outside world, of course Li Tianyang will not treat the pirates who come to do business harshly. In addition, because of the high-yield properties of potatoes and sweet potatoes, one acre of land can now produce at least five or six stone of grain, and the price of this grain is really unimaginably low.

In this subtropical region, where the lowest temperature of the year never drops below 10 degrees, sweet potatoes and other items are even more convenient to store, and they will not spoil for two or three months, which is the best thing for poor pirates to survive.

Compared to sneaking to a slightly larger city and buying food in batches, or being exploited by big landlords and buying food at a price much higher than the market price, the fair and just trading style of Jilonggang Qixintang is more loved by these small pirate gangs who are struggling to survive.

Even now, Qixintang has begun to buy thieves openly, and the purchase price is a few points more favorable than those other big businesses, which makes these little pirates eager to buy it.

Of course, Qi Xintang must have harmed the interests of other businesses by doing this, but as a gang that lives overseas and has strong strength, in addition to explaining a few points to friendly chambers of commerce such as Defuxuan and Jirentang, Li Tianyang does not need to buy the face of other businesses living in the inland of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, most of the pirates who deal with Qixintang today are pirates who do not enter the stream, this trivial little transaction, I am afraid that those big merchants who have footprints in the major provinces of the Ming Dynasty will not care very much!

When brothels and gambling houses were set up on the chicken coop, those pirates who had money in their hands but had no place to have a place to have a pastime, or did not dare to entertain themselves openly, also came to the house one after another, casting a solid foundation for the prosperity of the chicken coop port!

Up to now, the entire eastern area of Jilong Port has established five brothels, seven gambling houses, and more than ten supporting inns and restaurants. Most of them were led by Qixintang, and then opened together with many figures with heads and faces, such as Penghu garrison Cao Yongyi, Yuegang tax supervisor Lu Gui and other big figures that Li Tianyang could reach.

It can be said that today's Jilong Port, although it is not as prosperous as Yuegang for the time being, but the cornerstone has been completed, and it may not become a gold cave like Yuegang in time.

The yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes here is based on freshly unearthed fresh crops, and if these two species are dried and 70% of the water is removed, in fact, their yields are comparable to the yields of rice and other crops.

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