Yang Ce naturally didn't come to Mexico City to fight, although most of the time he went to Changsheng or Mexico City to use this as a gold cave to make his subordinates happy, but this time it was not the case.

It was the pirate king Shihe of the Han Kingdom who really came, and he hoped that Yang Ce could train a group of excellent officers for him, and specially brought Yang Ce sixteen ships in return.

These ships did make Yang Ce covetous, but in order to avoid suspicion, he introduced Shi He and his officers to the training company in Mexico City to try his luck.

As for the sixteen boats, he didn't plan to let Shi He bring them back, but chose to buy them at a high price with African gold.

This batch of warships produced from the only pirate fortress in the South Seas, Lin Daoqian's Phoenix Harbor, the hull itself is the transformation of the large wooden ships running on the South Seas, all of them are the standard models of 12 zhang long ships with 37 ribs, the ship is used to transport large timber by sea, and the timber is tied to the outside of both sides of the hull when sailing, and it travels by the wind, and has a very high ability to resist sinking and wind and waves, and the conventional load is 335,000 catties.

After the transformation, the quasi-thousand material ship of this kind of civilian ship pushed the ten-pound phoenix cannon copied from General Zhenshuo in Phoenix Harbor onto the deck, becoming a monster with 24 guns although there is only a single-layer artillery deck.

The gun was made of three small wheeled wooden gun carriages, and the tail end was tied with a twisted gun rope to connect the ship's side and the noose, so as to be reset after loading; The sails are made of cloth sails from Songjiang Prefecture, and the hull is made of southwestern teak, which are all good materials, and the quality of the artillery is also very good.

Although it is not as powerful as the double gun deck of the Chihai-class official ship, it is also terrifying.

Almost satisfied all the fantasies of Yang Ce's warships except for the Ming official battleships, the only flaw was that the Phoenix Cannon did not use the heavy Francophone rear-loading ammunition mechanism in pursuit of firepower, but imitated the front-loading smoothbore of General Zhenshuo, so that the sailors could expose their bodies to the muzzle of the gun when loading, and they could be hit by stray bullets.

The addition of these sixteen large ships can make up for the shortcomings of Yang Ce's fleet at this time-the Han Flying Shark is fast and fast, and each ship is equipped with 12 to 16 guns, and the firepower of the Francophone is slightly weaker; The performance and firepower of the armed merchant ships of the Portuguese, British, French, and Spanish countries with many Franco-aircraft were inferior to the flying sharks, and they were always regarded as baggage ships carrying water, food, troops, and war booty.

The only one that can compete with the warships of other countries is Yang Ce's flagship, a medium-sized Galen ship from the Spanish Navy, the Franc machine on the ship was unloaded by him to other ships, and he collected four bronze catapults to set up the bow and stern, and the side deck of the ship was purchased and rewarded by Chen Mu, General Zhenshuo, the whole ship was like a sea monster, heavy, slow, and powerful.

was given a name by Yang Ce that was the opposite of his mobility ability, called General Fei.

The Flying General could not fly, but when the four stone cannons that had not been hit in the past three years of fighting were opened, it was possible to make the enemy fly.

Chen Mu never liked this kind of casual thing, but Yang Ce seemed to be paranoid about the happiness of sinking a ship with one shot, and the Spaniards only loaded one thing on the ship, he stubbornly installed four doors on the flagship, as if he could really reap four times the happiness by doing so.

Whether General Fei's stone cannon can make Yang Ce happy, Chen Mu didn't know, but he knew that the sixteen new pirate ships named after Feng and Huang would definitely make Yang Ce sixteen times happy.

Those phoenix ships supervised by Lin Daoqian are basically the same as the pirates Zhang Baozai, Zheng Yisao, and others who are rampant in the South Seas in another world, but after all, there is too much difference in firepower between two hundred years, but the transformation is all one way, and the highest emphasis on firepower and safety is secondary.

Lin Daoqian sold these ships to Shi He, Chen Mu was not surprised at all, and it was not strange that he could even place General Zhenshuo, this kind of technology Portugal and Spain themselves couldn't understand if they played with themselves for a hundred years, and they could cast iron cannons when they hired two Ming Dynasty craftsmen to go home, Lin Daoqian's Phoenix Port was a Ming people, and it was not too simple to understand such a technique.

Historically, Philip has always wanted iron cannons, but he has not been able to do them, so that after uniting Portugal, he signed an official document and handed it over to the governor of Goa, ordering him to hire Ming Dynasty craftsmen to make iron cannons, and the result was achieved.

As for Chen Mu, he wrote two official letters and handed them over to Lin Daoqian, the governor of Phoenix Port in the westernmost part of Java, telling him that his artillery making technology should not be passed on or sold, and at the same time he transferred a letter to Chen Luan, the minister of Nanyang, to ask him to supervise Lin Daoqian.

Yang Ce spent a lot of money to buy sixteen new warships, and was about to try his edge, and a few days ago he visited Chen Mu in the hope of finding some work to do, and in a blink of an eye, Chen Mu sent Li Dan over.

The two almost hit it off, and the pirates who lingered at the major parties held by the Spanish nobles in Mexico City gathered for it, and even Shi He wanted to take his Cantonese pirates to join in the fun, and a combined fleet pressed the decision to go out in the exchange of cups in the Wanghai Tower in Mexico City, and then the two pirate leaders were summoned to the Doge's Palace.

"This time, you want to hang the sail flag of the Oriental Military Government, and the military government will not take any of the profits, and when the military government is using troops, the guns and cannons of the warships will not be allocated to you, but the gunpowder and shells are all old acquaintances, if necessary, just open your mouth."

An old acquaintance heard Shi He's heart abrupt, he met Chen Mu in the era of Chen Munan's expedition to Manila, and he couldn't understand the temperament of the Oriental marshal anymore, as long as he dared to speak, Chen Mu would be able to tell him a sky-high price in the next second, and get all the money he earned from selling the ship to Yang Ce.

His head shook like a rattle, and even if there was a real shortage of gunpowder shells, he would rather figure it out on his own.

However, Yang Ce was better, firstly, Chen Mu was the principal, and secondly, the two sides had cooperated many times, so he nodded and said: "Marshal, it's no problem to hang the flag, there is indeed a need for some Mexican sulfur on the gunpowder, and there is a shortage of shells, and there are still water and food that need to be replenished for the shells suitable for ten-pound cannons...... Three thousand taels of gold. ”

Go on the road!

Chen Mu gave him an approving look, nodded and asked him to wait, and the things he needed would be sent to him soon.

He especially likes to deal with pirates, because in pirates, all normal goods are priceless, and the same money in his hands can build a fleet of sixteen phoenix ships with the same firepower in a year, which is only a military supply for a big war in Yang Ce's hands.

Shi He also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it was more cost-effective to buy from Yang Ce than from Chen Mu, but he still asked Chen Mu with some worry: "I don't know if the Marshal Military Mansion wants to use troops this time?" I don't mean anything else, but I see the frequent exchange of warships in the port, when I didn't say it, I didn't say it! ”

Chen Mu squinted his eyes and glanced at Shi He, but he didn't expect the Pirate King to be like a frightened bird, and waved his hand and said: "There's nothing you can't ask, doesn't Francie want Brazil, the military government has to send some warships to meet them; Send someone to find them again, General Fu will go with you, but he will not participate in your war, so that Fei Lao Er will know the fate of coveting Daming Brazil. ”

"You have a good presence on the sea, and when you come back, I will give credit to Your Majesty and the King of Han for the two of you."