The fourth year of the Apocalypse has come to an end, and it has entered the early spring of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and the New Year has passed happily and faster as always, and at the same time it is also very hurried.

This time it is considered a long time in Bengang's hometown, because Mrs. Wu is getting older, and her body is gradually becoming less effective, and she is always prone to some small problems such as cold and cough.

Although Huang Youran, the director of the Salesian Bureau, is resident here, and the Salesian Bureau has also developed a lot of common medicines such as 999 cold spirit and loquat cough lotion in later generations over the years, but these pills are not as good as one thing, that is, letting Mrs. Wu hold her eldest grandson, which is of great help to the old lady.

Therefore, after being forcibly kept by Mrs. Wu for more than half a month in the first half of last year, and unsuccessfully seizing the time to create people, this time on the occasion of the Spring Festival, Li Tianyang was stunned at Bengang's home and kept warm with Chen Yumo for more than a month.

Of course, there is no shortage of information here. Patton, the biggest confidant, has nothing to do with not leaving Bengang.

It's rare to get so close to his enemy, Lake. Patton will naturally carefully and carefully walk in the territory of Li Tianyang's opponent.

Just to verify the members of the Bengang Alliance, Lake. Barton traveled through the primeval jungle with Lahok and Wu Shu for more than a month, and basically most of the alliance tribes were located.

With the investigation of the various tribes, Lake. Barton had a sense of despair about continuing to oppose Li Tianyang and them, and reason told him that there was only one very bad outcome to continue to oppose such an opponent.

In the end, although there was no clear statement, Lake. Before Patton left, at least on the surface, he put aside his hatred with Li Tianyang, and formally put forward a few requirements with Li Tianyang with a cold face, such as not stepping into their Ryker tribe for no reason, not attacking their clan members for no reason, and so on.

In this regard, Li Tianyang had no opinion at all, because the other party also revealed his bottom to Li Tianyang, and their Laike tribe was not just the cottage that Wu Shu and they saw, but a super large tribe with a main village and four subsidiary cottages, with a population of more than 30,000.

This also eliminated the doubts in the hearts of Li Tianyang and Lahouke these days, if the other party really only had the cottage that Lahouke and they saw, then they would never have so many elite warriors.

Strength is the last word, since people have strength, then Li Tianyang is completely able to give the other party the treatment they deserve. For Li Tianyang, if you have such a powerful clan by your side, and you know that they have bad intentions towards you, then no one will be at ease.

It's not that Li Tianyang and them are afraid of each other, but for the current Bengang team, after turning the focus back to Dayuan Island, there are many problems in front of them, the biggest of which is the population problem.

The development of Dayuan Island, everything else is okay to say, now the Bengang team has the money-making machine of Qixintang, and the two ocean-going fleets can also bring a lot of gains to Ryukyu and Luzon in a year, and there is a hen that lays golden eggs, and the Jilongshan mine is also gradually increasing production, and the pressure on materials and money is relatively small for Li Tianyang.

On the contrary, it is the population factor that is an important factor that plagues the development of Dayuan Island.

Bengang has been almost 9 years since Li Tianyang and them came, and Qi San outside has been leading people to help Li Tianyang and them to recruit displaced people, etc., and Li Tianyang inside has cleared the pirates, and is also actively absorbing the population, but in the end, the population of Bengang is only in the early 50,000s.

And the territory they actually control in Bengang is only the area of no more than 100 li outside of a few affiliated villages, with Bengang as the center.

In contrast, Dayuan Island has a much larger area, and if it wants to be developed by Li Tianyang and them, it needs a larger population.

Although the Ming Dynasty entered the end of the period, the inland was not entirely a scene of poor livelihood for the people, the birth of the budding capitalism in the south of the Yangtze River, and various folk workshops absorbed countless displaced people. If it is not necessary, who wants to leave their homeland and live in a land of poor mountains and bad waters!

Therefore, no matter how hard Qi San and the others work, the manpower they recruited can only be a drop in the bucket for the Bengang team at this time, so Li Tianyang and them can only play other ideas.

Until now, Li Tianyang really regretted that he was young and frivolous, and when he first arrived in Jilong Port, he issued an order to eliminate the indigenous people of Wu Jie and them, which not only set up a powerful enemy for themselves, but also wasted countless indigenous people who could have been helped.

If they are like Bengang, slowly influence the aborigines, absorb the aborigines, and change their thinking and behavior, it won't be long before Jilong Harbor will definitely become another Bengang.

Fortunately, it was not too late to make amends at this time, although Li Tianyang and them had wasted countless indigenous tribes around Jilong Harbor, but if they could turn a big tribe like the Lake tribe into their own help, it would be a lucky thing.

With the experience of the Bengang Zhuluo Mountain Society and the Yushan tribe, Li Tianyang was still very experienced in how to subtly control the indigenous people at this time.

The concession at this time is precisely to prepare for the control of this tribe in the future, and this transaction is not a loss.

Seeing that Li Tianyang simply agreed to his request, Lake. Barton was very surprised, he thought that Li Tianyang would bargain, after all, although their Leke tribe is strong, but the stupid Hong Kong people are stronger, and the strong should have the courage of the strong.

But that's fine, to let Lake. Barton let out a sigh of resentment in his heart, and he immediately said that after he returned from this trip, he would give Li Tianyang and them an official answer on whether to join the Bengang Alliance in two months.

Taking out a few bamboo tubes hidden outside the classroom, Li Tianyang led a group of little children to the outside of the village. In the old days, there were not many children in the village to have fun, and there were no games, such as boys going up to the trees to dig birds, going to the sea to fish, etc., digging earthworms was completely pediatric for them. In less than half an hour, a group of children dug up a large pile of crooked earthworms, and then counted them one by one and threw them into the bamboo tubes that had been prepared long ago.

This is what Li Tianyang specially asked them to do, in this era, things like mathematics are just obscene tricks in the eyes of literati, and they are not elegant, so in the school, the master will not deliberately teach students to count. Therefore, Li Tianyang teaches everyone some simple mathematical knowledge after class, such as counting, addition and subtraction. This time, let them count the earthworms by themselves, which is to subtly let them learn mathematics, which is really useful in daily life.

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