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The boat slid to the pier, and the people on the boat put a wooden plank on the pier to connect the boat to the pier.
"Sir, you can get off the boat." The boatman placed the planks and turned back to Li Guoshu on the boat.
Li Guozhu stood up from the boat, stepped on the wooden board with his legs raised, and walked onto the dock in a few steps.
Behind him, several men on the same boat got off the boat with him.
"Where is your commander?"
Mo Lingde, a sturdy man standing behind Li Guozhu, was looking at the people holding the tiger flag on the pier with a dissatisfied look on his face.
After Zheng Tie left the pier, he left a guard at the pier, waiting for Li Guozhu and others who were about to arrive.
The guard said expressionlessly: "The commander ordered me to wait here for Mr. Li. Since Mr. Li has arrived, please come with me to see the commander."
As he spoke, he turned his body sideways to get out of the way to the island.
"Why didn't your commander come to greet you at the pier? Didn't he know that Mr. Li and his people were all here?" Moringde squinted at the man with the tiger flag, his eyes flashing fiercely.
Sailors who often go to sea with ships have a certain evil spirit about them.
The guard said calmly: "The commander only ordered that as soon as Mr. Li arrives, he will be brought to the island to see him. As for other things, he did not explain anything. Mr. Li, please invite me!"
He raised his hand in a please gesture.
"What do you mean by letting one of your servants come to greet our young master? Do you look down on our Li family?" Moringde glared at the guard in front of him.
The attitude shown seems to mean taking action at any time.
The guard ignored Mo Lingde who was speaking, looked at Li Guoshu with an unchanged expression, and asked: "Master Li, do you want to go to the island to see the leader of my family?"
"You tiger-character flags are really powerful. Even a servant like you, who has no place on the stage, dares to ignore my young master." Moringde scolded angrily.
Unfortunately, the guard ignored him at all.
However, other people at the Tiger Flag on the dock saw the quarrel here and gathered from all around, surrounding Li Guozhu and others.
When Mo Lingde saw this, he hurriedly protected Li Guoshu behind him and touched the handle of the knife at his waist with one hand.
"Brother Mo Wu, don't be nervous." Li Guoshu patted Mo Lingde's forearm, stood up, looked at the person with the tiger flag in front of him and said, "I'm here to see your Commander Zheng, please lead the way!"
The guard waved to the people around him and immediately said to Li Guoshu: "Master Li, please come with me!"
After saying that, he walked towards the island.
The people surrounding the tiger flag made way for a passage that could accommodate one and a half people.
"Let's go, Brother Mo Wu." Li Guoshu greeted and followed him.
Moringde looked at the people with the tiger flag around him warily, and then said to his own people: "Leave one person on the boat, and the others will follow the young master to the island with me."
The boat brought a total of five people. Except for the people on the boat, the remaining two people followed Li Guozhu and Mo Lingde to the island.
"I didn't expect that Bengang has changed so much." Li Guozhu looked at the surrounding farmland and said with emotion.
Pieces of farmland indicate that large areas of land have been reclaimed.
The former forests have also been turned into fields, and many sugar canes with green skin are planted on them.
Further away, there were rows of walls made of bricks and stones. At this time, the main gate opened, revealing rows of houses inside.
This was not his first visit to Bengang. When Yan Siqi was still alive, he had been to Shizhai, but the scene in front of him was far more massive than Yan Siqi's Shizhai.
The guard who led the way did not answer the conversation and kept his head buried in walking.
"Hmph, if it weren't for Master Yan's hard work in reclaiming Dajuan Island, they wouldn't be where they are today." Moringde, who was following Li Guozhu, snorted.
Li Guozhu smiled when he heard this and did not continue. Instead, he pointed to the house in front and asked, "Does Commander Zheng live in front?"
The direction of his finger was the nearest castle.
The guard leading the way looked in the direction pointed by Li Guozhu's finger, then shook his head and said, "No, we have to go further in."
"Aren't these houses in front of us?" Li Guozhu exclaimed.
In the past, Yan Siqi lived in wooden houses in Bengang, surrounded by fences made of branches and wood. They were far inferior to the castle made of bricks and stones in front of him.
Underfoot is a road paved with gravel.
Halfway through, the road forked. In addition to the road leading to the castle ahead, another road bypassed the castle and led deeper into the island.
Damuan Island has been developed to a limited extent, and the most indispensable thing on the island is the vast forest.
There are many dense forests on both sides of an inland river leading to the port not far from the castle, blocking the deeper parts inside.
"Sir, be careful, the people in the Tiger Flag may not have good intentions." Moringde, who was walking aside, warned in a low voice.
Li Guozhu nodded slightly.
In his opinion, the castle in front of him is already the best house. As the commander, Zheng Tie cannot live in a good house and live in a forest with a worse environment.
In addition, after he arrived, he did not receive warm reception from the Tiger Flag, so he was inevitably worried that the people from the Tiger Flag would do something detrimental to him.
As the group walked around the castle along the gravel road, a large open space appeared in front of them.
The fields on both sides are filled with sugar cane. As far as the eye can see, there is a vast expanse of green land, with only a large road in the middle that can accommodate large vehicles passing through.
"No wonder the Tiger Flag cargo ships bring a large amount of cane sugar every time, and they actually open up so many fields to grow sugar cane." Li Guozhu said with envy.
Although Hirado can also grow sugar cane, it can only be planted in small quantities, which is far inferior to that here on Daiwa Island. There is enough land to grow as much as you want.
The important thing is that the environment of Taiyuan Island is very suitable for growing sugar cane.
Next to him, Mo Lingde also looked at the sugar cane field in front of him with a look of amazement.
In the past, I only knew that Tiger Flag ships sold cane sugar, but now that I saw so many sugar cane fields, I realized how big of a sugar cane field Tiger Flag had for sugar extraction.
"We'll be there just after passing through this sugar cane field. Mr. Li, please move forward." The guard leading the way saw Li Guoshu stopped and couldn't help but urge him.
"It's the first time I've seen so many sugar cane fields. I couldn't help but look at them a few more times." Li Guoshu explained with a smile and followed them up.
The guard leading the way nodded without saying a word and continued to lead the way.
The group of people walked for more than a mile, when they saw houses and a towering city wall. From the city wall alone, it was taller than the castle they passed before.
When he got closer, Li Guozhu realized that the city wall in front of him was not shorter than the walls of some state capitals in the Ming Dynasty.
