Li Tianyang is like Jiang Taigong fishing, so that one by one the shopkeepers who voluntarily took the bait to come to the door, come, and raise the price by themselves, just to be the first to purchase the sea ships in Hongmen.

In just one week, Li Tianyang verbally agreed to the purchase agreement of ten "Jiaolong-style" sea vessels, and without exception, those shopkeepers who came to purchase sea ships took the initiative to send expensive deposits, for fear that Li Tianyang would regret it.

The price of each "Jiaolong-type" sea vessel is not less than 35,000 taels, which is Li Tianyang's preferential treatment for several businesses that have a good relationship with Hongmen and have cooperated with them for the longest time. TOEFL, although Jirentang had a bit of a relationship with Hongmen before, Xu Haibin's ability to bend and stretch finally made him and his Jirentang a little convenient.

Moreover, almost all of the merchants who came to discuss procurement matters were shrewd people, and they were all honed in gift-giving and figuring out people's hearts, and the deposits given to Hongmen were all materials such as cotton and linen, grain, etc., rather than real money, which was very much for Li Tianyang's appetite.

Even Li Tianyang on this material, but also made a small profit, if they go to procure, because of a large number of sweeps, it will inevitably make the market prices of these materials rise sharply, and at the same time, the manpower and material resources required are also not a small expense, and not like now, as long as they sit quietly on the dock of Jilong Port to get married, naturally someone will send cheap materials.

After getting the supplies and the two rooms, the two major gaps in Hongmen's recruitment and pacification of the displaced people have also been alleviated, which is enough for Qi San and them to loosen their tied hands and feet again and recruit more people to come back.

While happily receiving orders and deposits from major firms, Li Tianyang also asked Wan Liang and them to hurry up to the edge of the Bengang shipyard and open a few more docks.

There are also Hongmen students who graduated in the autumn and returned from practicing in poor areas, and they were also placed in the shipyard first, which made the labor of craftsmen under Yang Zhi suddenly increase greatly.

If the scale of the dockyard is not expanded, with the current shipbuilding scale of Bengang Shipyard, I am afraid that it will take five or six years to complete the order of ten seagoing ships, which is probably unacceptable to those firms.

Similarly, this is also contrary to Li Tianyang's purpose of ruthlessly cutting meat and making the "Jiaolong-style" sea ship that should be cherished by the broom public.

Li Tianyang's plan is to take advantage of the opportunity that everyone has taken a fancy to the excellent "Jiaolong-style" sea vessels, raise the price, make a fortune for Hongmen, and make up for the big consumption caused by Hongmen's expansion.

Therefore, increasing the scale of the shipyard can fundamentally solve the defect of Hongmen's lack of manufacturing power, so that Hongmen can complete the order as soon as possible and get the tail gold behind.

The appearance of the "Jiaolong-type" sea ship not only impressed the powerful maritime group of the Ming Dynasty on the sea, but also shocked the Westerners who lived and settled in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty such as Xiangshanao.

Westerners have long known that Hongmen has been able to imitate Western-style sea ships by themselves, but what they did not expect is that in just a few years, Hongmen skilled craftsmen have thoroughly eaten up the shipbuilding technology accumulated by Westerners for hundreds of years, combined with the advantages of their oriental sea ships, and built imitation Western-style sea ships comparable to the size of Western first-class battleships.

The Portuguese's first thought was to do it, but after much hesitation, they eventually gave up on the idea.

The Portuguese are no longer what they used to be, although they have taken control of Xiangshanao through various means, but in fact, in their own country, life is actually very difficult!

Spain and Portugal were both neighbors on the Libyan Peninsula, and Portugal had been under Spanish rule until then, but in the middle of the twelfth century, they unilaterally decided to break away from Spanish control, although they did not have the consent of the Spanish king, but they did not take other drastic actions, which was regarded as acquiescing in the independence of the Portuguese.

However, a few decades earlier, the Spanish Habsburgs suddenly sent troops again to conquer Portugal, and in the years that followed, the Portuguese reluctantly became part of the Spanish kingdom.

In this way, the disputes and struggles between the Spaniards and the Portuguese never ceased in various parts of the people, and the secret contests were going on all the time.

The Portuguese had a fleet subordinate to them in the Far East, but the size of this fleet was only a few points stronger than the fleet that the Dutch had attacked Magong Island in Penghu.

Such a fleet can bully and bully the local natives in Africa or the South Seas, but even they have to admit in their hearts that the Hongmen fleet at this time has far exceeded the strength of their Portuguese fleet in the Far East.

As for moving the Spaniards to their cousins and seeking their rescue, not to mention whether the Spaniards agreed to help the Portuguese brothers, the mere possibility of the Spaniards taking the opportunity to get a piece of the pie from them was difficult for the Portuguese to accept.

Rather than this, it is better to take the opportunity to cultivate a relationship with Hongmen, everyone values peace, and they Portuguese should not know about this matter, and simplify this matter to cover up the past.

As for whether they will secretly plan any strategies to deal with Hongmen next, it is unknown.

Fortunately, the Portuguese have a stable supporter and representative figure on Dayuan Island, that is, Father Felix and other foreigners from the Holy See.

Through the friendship of Father Felix, the Portuguese quietly completed the gesture of goodwill with Hongmen, and vaguely inquired whether Hongmen's intention to build a "Jiaolong-style" sea ship had something to do with them Westerners.

The ears and eyes of the British and Dutch were also not simple, and it was only two or three days later than the Portuguese, who were close to the water, that is, they immediately inquired about the next movements of Hongmen through various channels, and sent people to show goodwill to Hongmen.

On the contrary, it was the Spaniards who settled in the city of Manila, Luzon, the most powerful side in the Far East in this era, before receiving news from Hongmen for more than half a month.

By the time they had made a move, the Hongmen, a "dragon-like" sea-going ship, had already set sail for the port of Acapulco, which they thought was safe.

It took the Spanish fleet another half a month to integrate, and the fleet of nearly twenty warships, before they could figure out who their target was, was sent away by the governor of Luzon with a light word, and they were disbanded on the spot and went back to their respective homes.

Although the Spaniards despise these so-called civilized countries in the East, it does not mean that they do not have the brains to pay attention to the changes in the rich shipping route of the Daming Sea Frontier, and do not understand the strength of Hongmen that has developed and grown step by step.

The vast majority of the Spanish fleet in the Luzon Islands were armed ships of Spanish merchants, and for merchants, they would not do anything to buy marks at a loss.

It's too sleepy today, and I insisted until the end that I kept my face awake with cold water, so forgive me if there is a problem.

(End of chapter)