Because of the sudden display of strength by Hongmen, Westerners began to pay more attention to Hongmen than before, and their attitude towards Hongmen became more cautious and polite.

No matter where people are, they are very realistic, and when they show that their strength is strong enough, people will always involuntarily show respect and convincing.

Of course, what followed was the covert resistance to Hongmen, which no longer had the advantage of sea ships, and now the Westerners thought that they could still have an advantage was their advanced cannon casting ability.

Although he was already able to make his own artillery, Li Tianyang would still purchase high-power, advanced artillery from Westerners to supplement the huge artillery gap of the Hongmen fleet.

First, this can hide people's eyes and ears and prevent others from knowing that they already have the strength to manufacture cannon casting technology comparable to that of Westerners, otherwise they will become the target of public criticism, and the possibility of being beaten by others is very high.

Second, they also hope to be able to arm their fleet as soon as possible to face a strong enemy in the future, and what they want to deal with next.

It's acceptable to sacrifice a little money for this.

Although the Hongmen have already established their position as the overlord of the Eastern Sea, for Westerners, at least at this moment, the Hongmen people are only able to sit on an equal footing with themselves, and they cannot threaten their interests in the Far East.

Since the early spring of Chongzhen's fourth year, Li Tianyang's intention to purchase artillery from the Portuguese and the Dutch has been rejected by them, and even the orders they had placed before have been rejected by them for various reasons.

Its intention is self-evident, naturally it does not want to let Hongmen's strength expand, if their "Jiaolong-type" sea ships are equipped with a full set of Western artillery, then their strength will be enough to threaten their status as Westerners, which they Westerners do not want to see anyway.

However, how did the Westerners know that Hongmen had already gotten rid of their constraints and was able to produce cannon casting technology comparable to their Western artillery.

Moreover, because the raw materials used for the production of artillery in Hongmen were steel that was difficult to mass-produce in this era, its performance was more than a step stronger than the pig iron, bronze and other materials used by Westerners.

In particular, the iron ore transported from Shilu, the smelted pig iron and steel, for some reason, have been used for a long time, and there are other discoveries, that is, it is not easy to rust, and the hardness seems to be higher.

Perhaps, this is related to the fact that Shilu iron ore contains unknown other metal components that Li Tianyang and others do not know about, but Hongmen is also a blessing in disguise, so that the artillery produced by Hongmen itself has far more far-reaching potential than the weapons of Westerners.

After all, compared with Westerners who learn to melt and cast steel in batches in a short period of time like Hongmen, it is easier for Hongmen to improve his cannon casting skills by studying and learning the cannon casting technology of Westerners.

Li Tianyang was making a fortune in a muffled voice, but there was a smaller-scale peasant uprising in Fujian.

I don't know where the Fujian bandits and bandits came from, gathered thousands of people, and attacked Ruijin County from Changlaikeng, scaring the entire Fujian officialdom half to death.

In fact, the Hongmen guards have long been aware that Fujian's land annexation has been very serious in recent years, although there are no serious natural disasters in the northern region, but the harm caused by man-made disasters to the people is even more unbearable than natural disasters.

Therefore, there have always been a lot of mountain bandits and bandits living in the vast wilderness and mountain villages in various parts of Fujian, which is also the reason why there are always people in Fujian who go to the sea to fight them.

However, thanks to Li Tianyang, they have been sparing no effort to recruit displaced people, so that this sudden uprising ended without a hitch, in the history that Li Tianyang crossed over, the number of people in this riot was as many as five or six thousand, and the scale was even grander, and the Fujian officialdom could not even extinguish this riot in one fell swoop.

Now, the rebellion of only more than 1,000 people is not much of a threat to the two provinces of Fujian and Shanxi, but seeing the peasant rebellion in the north intensifying, the Ming Dynasty officials are very headaches.

At this time, suddenly in the relatively calm Jiangnan area, there were traces of peasant riots, how could it not make the Fujian and Jiangxi governments nervous.

Immediately, Zhu Yifeng Futai mobilized the soldiers of the guard under his command to encircle and suppress it, and must strangle it in the bud, because of the large scale, the Fujian peasant rebellion that could survive for a while was soon strangled in the villages around Ruijin by the Fujian military, which was as powerful as a tiger and had a numerical advantage, and did not let it escape.

Li Tianyang had already known the news leaked out of the series between local bandits and hooligans long before the local peasant riot, and the latest discovery was the "Youjian" inn proposed by Li Tianyang.

The local merchants and pawns facing the "Youjian" inn, which are mixed with fish and dragons, have also become a favorite place for the local bandits and green forest heroes to settle down, so the second child in the store discovered the small actions of these people in advance between observing words and looking at words and words.

Then there were foreign security intelligence officers, who inquired and understood in a targeted manner, and quickly bought off several local ranger leaders who were co-opted, and one of the co-opted ranger leaders was trained by Hongmen himself.

The details of the entire peasant uprising were clearly understood by the foreign guard intelligence system, and even before the incident, Li Tianyang already had a list of their personnel who raised the incident, the time and place of the incident, etc.

If Li Tianyang had a heart, he could even exterminate this peasant rebellion in the cradle in advance, and ordinary people would not be able to see the scene of this riot.

However, Li Tianyang, out of the concealment of the foreign security intelligence system and the purpose of concealment, allowed this riot to occur under the nose of Zhu Yifeng, the Futai.

Of course, Li Tianyang did not do nothing, when Zhu Yi and Feng Futai received a letter asking for help from the Ruijin County Ya, it happened that Li Tianyang, the admiral of the water division, came to report to the master of Futai and asked for the food and salary of the soldiers of the water division in the previous months.

Of course, when this urgent letter was sent to Zhu Yifeng Futai, the most powerful naval commander in the entire Fujian military at this time, Futai was entrusted with the task of strangling the rioting masses.

As a general of the Ming Dynasty, it was their duty to protect the family and defend the country and clear the territory, and Li Tianyang, as a military attache under the governor of Fujian, could not send troops to suppress the bandits after receiving the order of the Futai lord.

It's just that before suppressing the bandits, Li Tianyang finally got the four months' salary owed by the sailor from Lord Futai, and he also got an additional more than 10,000 taels of silver as a reward to encourage the soldiers to fight and kill the enemy.

Yesterday, the last chapter I felt that it was poorly written, I really couldn't do it, I went to socialize the night before yesterday, I went to bed at four o'clock, and went to work at nine o'clock in the morning, and when I came back, I couldn't hold on, and after writing the last one, I was unconscious!!

So here I sincerely apologize to everyone!!

(End of chapter)