The front foot sent away the members of the spy war station, and the back foot sent away Sun Juyong and their group, thinking that he would be able to save a little bit of Li Tianyang next, but he didn't expect to usher in more cumbersome human exchanges.

Including Jirentang, Defuxuan and other firms that have a good relationship with Hongmen, every day, the shopkeepers and principals of the various maritime businesses come to visit Li Tianyang in Jilong Town, and there are even the proprietors who visit in person, so that Li Tianyang can't refuse.

Li Tianyang naturally knew what these people were asking for, and since Li Tianyang had made up his mind to let the "Pioneer" sea ship be made public, he could also think of what kind of impact such an action would bring.

Others are not stupid, perhaps when Hongmen formed the "Yang Fan" warship fleet in the past, the sense of secrecy was done well, and the Westerners were very cooperative in their ambiguous attitude, so that everyone doubted Hongmen's shipbuilding ability, but they did not dare to categorically think that Hongmen itself could build Western-style sea ships.

But with the appearance of the "Jiaolong-style" sea ships in the public this time, the shrewd Daming seafarers, if they can no longer conclude that Hongmen has mastered the construction method of Western sea ships, then they are too dull.

Li Tianyang wanted this effect, and he had already made up his mind and was ready to sell simplified versions of the "Jiaolong-style" and "Yangfan-style" sea boats.

The so-called simplified version is that Hongmen artificially cut corners and made cuts in the armed armor and sail masts, so that its performance has decreased to a certain extent, but it is superior to the performance of the Ming Dynasty sea ships.

Moreover, if some maritime merchants are willing to spend the cost to re-refit, they can also achieve the performance of the "Yang Fan" and "Jiaolong" sea ships used by Hongmen themselves.

Li Tianyang was not worried that the Western shipbuilding technology, which was not easy for them to master, would be deciphered by the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, and then they would no longer purchase sea ships in Hongmen, but build them elsewhere themselves.

Although the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were smart, they had a very fatal shortcoming as a whole, that is, the masters who built their sea ships had extremely high vision and experience requirements, and the same drawings were likely to be built by two foremen and craftsmen, and the specifications may be three or four feet apart, and the internal structure is also different.

This is due to the fact that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty cherished their own unique skills, as well as the Ming Dynasty's imprecise size measurement system.

Not to mention that the skills of Westerners in building seagoing ships are very different from those of the East, and they cannot be thoroughly studied by Eastern shipbuilders for a while.

Li Tianyang is even less worried, there will be other teams, after obtaining the Western-style warship from Hongmen, they will turn their heads and threaten Hongmen's current hegemony in the Daming Sea Frontier.

When Hongmen mastered the unique shipbuilding technology, they were able to earn more wealth and resources from others while building a sea ship for others, so as to build more warships for their own team, so that others could only follow their own footsteps.

Not to mention that Hongmen has another advantage that other teams do not have, and it is also a killer feature that Li Tianyang will definitely not open to the outside world in the short term, that is, Hongmen has entered a large-scale steel mill and cannon foundry.

Nowadays, with the strong rise of Hongmen, the naval warfare method of the Ming Dynasty has changed from the previous hand-to-hand combat to the way of artillery bombardment.

Even if other teams had the means to get a sturdy fleet of Western-style seagoing ships, they didn't have the means to procure a batch of high-powered guns that were equipped with the Hongmen fleet.

In this way, even if the Western-style ships were stronger and faster than the Oriental ships, they would only waste a few more rounds of artillery fire in the face of the fleet of Hongmen ships with equally fast speed and more powerful guns.

At the same time, Hongmen's current finances are not optimistic, Li Tianyang spends money like flowing water, and the previous hundreds of thousands of taels of silver reserves have now been exhausted by his large-scale recruitment of homeless people.

Moreover, Li Tianyang also planned to start a large-scale recruitment plan for displaced people again after the next grain harvest, so that Hongmen could catch the increasingly fierce riots in the north and expand Hongmen's strength as much as possible.

In this case, the next financial situation of Hongmen will be even more tight, even if the commercial activities of the Ocean Fleet, Hongmen Fleet, Qixintang and Jilong Town are still very good, but I am afraid that it will not be able to meet Li Tianyang's next expenses.

Then Li Tianyang can only find another way to raise money and materials, and shipbuilding has become the most likely business for Hongmen to make a lot of money in the future.

Anyway, Dayuan Island is densely forested, and there are countless thick logs that can be used to build strong sea ships, as long as Hongmen has the energy and motivation to cut down in the jungle, it can almost be said that there is no need for other costs except for labor costs.

Under the circumstance of low cost of raw materials, a seagoing ship can easily buy and sell tens of thousands of taels of silver, and in addition to the wages paid by the Hongmen Shipyard to the craftsmen and masters, it still has at least half of the benefits.

Not to mention that the construction of Western-style ships by Hongmen is an exclusive business now, even if the Westerners want to intervene at this time and agree to sell Western-style ships to their Oriental maritime merchants, but for a while, where can they transfer new ships from the far West!

In this way, Li Tianyang's business is completely a seller's market, even if Li Tianyang's price is more than 50% of the profit, as long as others want to buy Western-style sea vessels, then they can pinch their noses and admit it, and there is no room for bargaining.

Moreover, Hongmen also has an unknown advantage, that is, when they use more precise measurement methods than the Ming Dynasty, and they have always been accustomed to the assembly line operation, they can make every part of the Western-style sea ship almost the same specification, with an error of only one or two millimeters.

In this way, the shipbuilding speed of Bengang Shipyard is faster than that of all shipyards in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not half a star, but twice as fast.

It is likely that other shipyards can only build one large seagoing ship in a year or two, but in the same time, the current Bengang shipyard can build two or three seagoing ships.

He believes that if the shipyard sells to the outside world, it will be another profit focus of Hongmen, at least in the short term, which will bring strong benefits to Hongmen's rapid development in the future.

Therefore, in the face of a shopkeeper who is called exchanging feelings, communicating with each other, but actually has ulterior motives, Li Tianyang warmly received them one by one, he knows very well that these people are the next powerful financiers of Hongmen, how can there be a reason to offend them.

(End of chapter)