On the third day of the third lunar month of Chongzhen's third year, when the New Year was approaching, Li Tianyang once again got an exciting news.

The source is still sent from Bengang, but its source is not from the R&D Institute that Li Tianyang has been looking forward to day and night, but from the Bengang Shipyard, and the final improvement work of the "Jiaolong-type" sea ship has basically come to an end, and its performance has been greatly improved, which is enough to match the first-class battleships of the Portuguese, Dutch and other Europeans that Li Tianyang and they have seen.

If it is polished and transformed, the overall performance of this "Jiaolong" sea ship will not be too greatly improved, and it can only summarize various data in daily use, and then slowly find out its shortcomings.

The shipbuilding drawings of the "Jiaolong-type" sea ship can also be said to be officially finalized, which is of great significance to Hongmen.

The breakthrough of the "Jiaolong-type" sea ship from scratch means that Hongmen itself has a large warship that can compete with Westerners.

Perhaps the current "Jiaolong-type" sea ships are slightly inferior to Westerners' warships in terms of overall performance, but don't forget that Hongmen is the head snake in the Daming Sea, and when there is no need to travel long distances to invade other countries, the "Jiaolong-type" sea ships are enough to ensure the hegemony of Hongmen in the Daming Sea.

The entire fully equipped "Jiaolong" sea ship was designed with a total of 40 guns of more than 36 pounds, of which two main guns reached 48 pounds; Forty eighteen- to twenty-four-pound guns, with the blessing of Hongmen's own black particle gunpowder improved over the years, the power is stronger than the Westerners' artillery of the same pound.

This is also the result of Yang Zhi and their full consideration of the first "Jiaolong-type" sea ship is not used as a warship, but as an ocean-going trade ship, if it is matched with a warship, this "Jiaolong-type" sea ship can also carry more than 20 high-power guns.

When the "Jiaolong-style" sea ship first swam into the town of Jilong, the leaders of all the forces in the entire town of Jilong were shocked.

It's not that I haven't seen a larger sea ship than this "Jiaolong-type" sea ship, although the Ming Dynasty Zheng He's treasure ship manufacturing method in the West has been lost, but the sea ship that reaches 3,000 materials is still not rare in the Ming Dynasty.

As a trading port open to the outside world, the Dutch, British, and even Spaniards would also go to Jilong Town to purchase Hongmen's unique materials and Ming Dynasty goods monopolized by the Portuguese.

But when this Western warship came down with ordinary oriental faces, and the first person in it was Sun Juyong of Hongmen, who had many dealings, the eyes and ears of these forces in Jilong Town could no longer sit still.

As long as you are not blind, but those who have been busy at sea and have experience, you can see at a glance that this sea ship must have been launched for less than two or three months.

Previously, Hongmen had always had a steady stream of "Yang Fan-style" warships that were incorporated into the Hongmen fleet system, and the strength it showed could be said to be the fleet that completely destroyed other surrounding countries and gangs, and only the powerful Westerner fleet could match it.

Everyone is still speculating about which foreigner this Hongmen has taken advantage of, so that they can purchase Western-style ships from them that others can't procure.

There were also rumors among the people that this was a sea ship built by Hongmen himself, otherwise, even if Westerners were willing to sell Western-style sea ships to Hongmen, they would be able to raise as many as ten sea ships for Hongmen in a short period of time.

No one is a fool, the construction time of sea ships is often measured in years, even if the Westerners are very different from the Easterners in the summer vacation, but it is still impossible to mass-produce large ships.

But everyone has been confused, and everyone knows that several strongholds in Hongmen are also clear that even if the stupid port is not open to the outside world on the surface, it is not difficult to install a few spies in after being set up as a county by the Ming Dynasty, but the location of the Hongmen shipyard has not been found.

Of course, Hongmen also has several heavily fortified areas that no one else is allowed to enter, and it is not necessarily impossible to have a secret shipyard somewhere in them.

However, the difference between the Eastern and Western shipbuilding methods, the technology used by each is also different, and the Ming people want to imitate Western-style sea ships, but they can not just draw gourds according to the same.

Until now, the shipyards of the Ming Dynasty have been most successful in imitating the sea ships of the Westerners, and it seems that they are only centipede ships of only four or five hundred materials.

Now that the "Jiaolong-type" sea ship has been born, it is almost at the time of justifying the previous rumors, perhaps Westerners will sell less than a thousand "Yang Fan-type" sea ships for profit, but they will never sell such a large, sturdy and fast-sailing Western sea ship as the "Jiaolong" sea ship.

Isn't it because Westerners are able to sail across the oceans of the East and West that they are faster and stronger than the Easterners?

The diligent seafarers of the Ming Dynasty had long been eyeing the prosperous and wealthy ocean trade between the East and the West by Westerners, hoping to get a piece of the pie. However, it is more convenient for Oriental sea ships to trade in the offshore sea, and after being controlled by Westerners in the throat of the Strait of Malacca, the danger factor of Oriental sea ships wanting to sail in the deep sea for a long time is too high, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Now that Hongmen himself can build a Western-style sea ship comparable to the two thousand fortune ships in the East, doesn't that mean that Hongmen has taken the first step and can bypass the Strait of Malacca, which is controlled by the Franco, and trade further west.

This is a huge wealth route that makes all Oriental seafarers excited, so after seeing the Hongmen "Jiaolong-style" sea ship enter Jilong Town and dock, everyone concluded that Hongmen has mastered the construction technology of Western-style sea ships, and they have taken action, either starting to find the middle and high-level of Jilong Town to knock on the side, or hurried to report the news to their respective leaders and masters.

And Li Tianyang didn't know that his "Jiaolong-style" sea ship could cause such a big sensation when it was exposed in front of a fight for the first time, but even if Li Tianyang knew that there would be such a result, he wouldn't care about it at all now.

In the past, Hongmen was sneaky no matter what he did, for fear that his wealth would be exposed and aroused by others, but now that Hongmen has become stronger, Hongmen's now more than 30 "Yang Fan-style" warships alone are enough to strangle all the enemies who dare to fight their attention in the vast sea.

(End of chapter)