Tao Zhen is a man who looks to be in his thirties. He looks quite elegant, and when communicating with him, he gives the impression that he is also very elegant. After getting to know him, Lin Haoming realized that before coming here, Tao Zhen was indeed He comes from a scholarly family, but he is also a very independent person.
Naturally, Lin Haoming would not treat Tao Zhen poorly. At least on the surface, he was listed as a colonel. Because Lu Pinhong suggested recruiting and took the initiative to go, Lin Haoming also promoted her to a colonel. In this way, Lin Haoming There have been relatively big changes in the forces under them. The main force is still the largest, but the other three companies also have about half the manpower of the main force, and they all seem to have absolute leaders. This also creates a subtle balance.
Conquering Tao Zhen was easier than imagined. After landing on the island, Tao Zhen seemed very calm. This also showed that this person was indeed courageous. Since he had surrendered, he would not hide it, which would make it easier to get along with him in the future.
As they took refuge, Lin Haoming also gathered their ships to form a real fleet, and renamed Ye Zi Island Haoming Island to temporarily serve as a base for advancement.
Now that they have temporarily established a foothold here, the next step for Lin Haoming is how to grow and enter the inland sea.
According to Lu Pinhong's description, the Edge Alliance consists of several major forces. The most powerful family in this area of the sea is flying a banner called Night Breeze.
In the sea area, many forces usually have two names. One is that if the leader is strong enough, the leader's name or nickname will be used directly. The other is to name the force after the name of the flagship. That Night Breeze is not a force named after its flagship.
Night Breeze is the weakest force around. According to Lu Pinhong, Night Breeze has only a dozen ships and about 2,000 people. It has also set up a trading point on a large island within our sphere of influence, where it is very popular for exchange of goods. , and even information exchange.
The big island is about a month's sail away from the currently renamed Haoming Island. Of course, that depends on whether there are any obstacles along the way.
The climate in the Marginal Sea is quite bad. The weather is 70 to 80 degrees all year round, and there are many storms. However, sailing long distances outside one's own sphere of influence is definitely risky for few people.
Lin Haoming also learned after arriving that within the sphere of influence that Ye Feng could radiate, there were only a dozen or so forces with around 700 to 1,000 people. Adding in even fewer large forces, there were still no tens of thousands of people.
In fact, this is also a historical rule. Ships from various forces will not actually dock at the dock. Xiao Shao will stop broadcasting at a certain distance from the shore. It is also convenient for people to act decisively unexpectedly, and it is also a deterrent. .
Before Lin Haoming gave the order, he came down with two men. The others directly found a small table and sat down, but their expressions were also very wary. Tan Xinquan walked to the counter at this time and asked directly to the person outside who knew whether he was the shopkeeper or the bartender: "You want to see the person in charge."
Halfway down the mountainside of the island, there is no relatively rough area, and there are the fewest external buildings. The smallest building is a tavern. You need to step back to smell the fragrance coming from outside.
"Only eight people can go down."
The pub has two floors. The first floor is a small hall with dozens of tables. Many people gather around the tables to drink, and there are not many empty seats. On one side of the counter is the staircase leading to the seventh floor. But there was no one blocking the stairs, and no one was allowed to go down.
The island is small, and the mountain is very flat overall. Some houses have been built from the hillside to the foot of the mountain, but there are many people under the island. Lin Haoming estimates that there are one thousand, four hundred or not. Yes, that is not equivalent to the total number of people on hand.
Lin Haoming doesn't care about this, and I even want to muddy the water. As for rapid development, Lin Haoming feels that it is really unnecessary at the moment, because once it is done quickly, it will make everyone feel inert, just like This was the case before arriving outside.
According to the rules, when they were about to arrive at Shuangliu Island, they raised a flag to indicate their identity. However, even so, the other party did not allow their fleet to dock directly, but only allowed large ships to land on the island.
"That's the rule there. Only eight people can go downstairs to discuss things." At that time, Lu Pinhong also leaned into Lin Haoming's ear and cooed.
As for the small number of people in sight, it is because it is exactly half a year since the island replacement, and that time is also one of the times with the least transactions, because in half a year, many forces have explored the replacement island and exchanged the materials they found. , after that period of time passed, it was not a month after the island replacement, and Xiaojia was well prepared for the last island replacement.
At present, Lin Haoming does not have the power of thousands of people, but has a little more ships, only eight. But in Lu Pinhong's view, it is not stronger than the strength that Ye Zi followed after him, and such a weak strength is also He should be insulted, and at most he should have his name in the fringe alliance.
The small fleet under the small sea was actually still very powerful. However, as it approached Shuangliu Island, there were obviously fewer ships. Lin Haoming even saw a large ship less than half a day away from Shuangliu Island, and kept a distance to follow it. He was obviously not observing his own fleet.
Lin Haoming brought so few people down, so naturally they all retreated outside the tavern. In fact, before they got there, they had not gathered together. According to what was said later, everyone went to do their own things.
Lin Haoming's seven ships are not too few, but the flagship is very small, which makes few people on the island look at him with admiration. According to Tan Xinquan, the flagship is actually smaller than the Night Breeze. If it will attract some Preceding matters.
Shuangliu Island is not an island where a trade point is set up in the eye of the night wind. Before Lin Haoming merged with several forces, I finally decided to come out and left only two large ships at my own place. I took the small boats and a small number of people to the mighty North Went to Shuangliu Island.
Lin Haoming nodded and said, "He and Yan Meng will go down with you."
Before the ship berthed, several large boats were immediately put on board, and a hundred or so people arrived at the shore in the large boats.
Lin Haoming walked back out of the tavern. There were only a dozen people around him, but he still attracted the attention of everyone in the tavern. Many people's eyes were staring at us, with their hands under the weapons on their waists. It seemed that Lin Haoming's arrival was not for his purpose. It's the same as people trying their best, even though we didn't know each other later.
At this time, there were not many people on the shore. Obviously, I wanted to see who that group of people was. Lu Pinhong’s reputation was quite strong, and others would recognize her, but you were recognized among the crowd. An uncaring person can spot it at a glance.
