The reason why it is said that it is a high-imitation Bengang Hongtang team has a factual basis, because all the weapons and equipment of this Ryukyu naval division, even including shoes, clothes, hats and other items, were purchased from the Jilonggang Qixintang.

With this batch of orders, the cooperative workshops formed by various ordinary people under the command of Qixintang, who have basically completed the armament of Hongtang, are busy again, and with it, it is natural that the amount of money they get in their hands will increase!

Since King Shangning couldn't afford to pay this military fund, when Li Tianyang tempted King Shangning with seven 400 warships that they were about to retire, it already meant that the rich silver money in King Shangning's pocket would once again be exploited by Li Tianyang.

King Shanning, who had been cared for like a prisoner, was liberated and his desire for military power was incomprehensible to others.

Even if the few warships he purchased at this moment finally fell into the hands of Wu Daofu, the sailor admiral who originally belonged to the Bengang team, he did not hesitate to agree to Li Tianyang and bundle the military equipment with these seven warships.

Moreover, among these armaments, all the pig iron, sulfur and other materials that the Bengang team could not produce by themselves and were regarded as armaments by the Ming Dynasty were also sold to Bengang by King Shangning at cost price, and then sold to them at a high price by the Bengang team.

If you really have to calculate it carefully, Li Tianyang's behavior is not even more noble than the Japanese Satsuma Bo who attacked the Ryukyu royal family and forced them to sign an agreement to give up their inherent land, and they are afraid that it is even more expensive to exploit the treasury of the Ryukyu royal family.

The only difference is that Li Tian raised them and gave King Shangning enough freedom, and he himself chose whether to accept Li Tian's conditions for raising them.

As for the twelve 400 main warships that tempted the king of Shangning in the Ryukyus, Li Tianyang also rarely did not cheat and play tricks, but the overall maintenance of these warships was very good, compared to most warships of the Japanese and pirates.

Then why are Li Tianyang and them willing to sell these main warships?

Then we have to talk about the Bengang secret base, the Western-style warship research team led by Yang Zhi, in the fleet led by Wu Daofu to assist the Ryukyu Kingdom to drive back the Japanese Satsuma warriors more than a year ago, among the Western-style warships that Wu Daofu regarded as killers, three brand-new imitation Clark ships were made by Yang Zhi and his team.

After being tested on the battlefield, the three imitation Clark warships built by Yang Zhi's shipbuilding team were finally finalized.

And Wu Daofu, an old man, came back and formally submitted to Li Tianyang a proposal for the whole army to be equipped with imitation Clark warships after personally operating the imitation Clark warship several times.

Of course, Wu Daofu and the others all understand that it is very complicated and time-consuming to build a strong warship of more than 400 materials, and with the scale of Hongtang and the development speed of Hongtang, it will be possible to complete the requirements of the whole army's equipment in the year of the monkey.

But even so, after more than a year, Hongtang is still equipped with eight new Western-style warships, of which three warships are transformed from the broken warships obtained by Hongtang during the war with the Dutch, and the remaining five are rebuilt and assembled by Yang Zhi and the various parts left over from the research on the structure of Western-style warships over the years.

After obtaining the technological characteristics and operating principles of Western-style warships from the Dutch craftsmen who were secretly detained by Li Tianyang, the Daming craftsmen, who have never been stupider than foreigners, combined with the manufacturing process of Daming sea ships, updated and improved the original craftsmanship of Western-style warships.

For example, the watertight compartment technology that is commonly popular in Daming sea ships makes sea ships much better than Western-style warships in terms of anti-sinking, and this advanced technology has been preserved by Daming craftsmen, which further enhances the strength of Hongtang warships.

The reason why it is an imitation of the Portuguese Clark warship, rather than the Dutch-style sea ship that Dutch craftsmen are more familiar with, is due to the prototype of the Western-style warship that Yang Zhi has been studying over the years, which are all Clark sea ships in the hands of the Portuguese in Macao.

After all, it has not been a few years since the Portuguese in Macao were attacked by Hongtang, and few people with a heart will think of the headless injustice case when Macao was attacked by the attack on Macao and the absence of a few Portuguese sea ships because of the name of these warships.

In order to commend Yang Zhi for his diligent work in the secret base of Bengang in the past few years, as well as his remnants of shooting and finally finalizing this warship that completely belongs to them Bengang people, Li Tianyang specially named this kind of warship that combines the excellent experience of Chinese and Western-style sea ships as the "Yang Fan type" sea ship.

Among them, Yang naturally represents the meaning of Yang Zhi, and at the same time, it is also a fake Yang, combined with the sail word at the back, indicating that their Bengang team will sail thousands of miles on this Western-style sea ship, creating a vast world of their own.

Eight "Yang Fan-style" warships entered the Liehongtang fleet, from which twelve four-hundred-hundred-material ships were eliminated, and finally packaged and sold to King Shangning by Li Tianyang.

Why is it that eight warships are included in the ranks, and twelve Hongtang warships will be eliminated, is this ratio wrong?

Don't forget, the displacement of the Westerners' warships itself is larger than that of the Hongtang 400 warships, and in terms of volume, the volume of one "Yang Fan" warship is probably comparable to two Hongtang warships. Not to mention the combination of the advantages of the many sails of Western-style warships, there are at least twice as many sailors who need to control the sails as there are sailors who can control the ships.

In this way, it is not surprising that the proportion of eight "Yang Fan-style" sea ships to eliminate the twelve Hongtangfu ships is eliminated.

And to tell the truth, Li Tianyang's hand is actually equivalent to handing over twelve sea ships from the left hand to the right hand, no matter what kind of backhand the Ryukyu Shangning King has, Li Tianyang also believes that with Wu Daofu's ability, it is not a very difficult thing to firmly control these twelve sea ships in his own hands.

At the same time, after Wu Daofu and the others obtained these twelve warships, it also meant that the Ryukyu sailors they had painstakingly trained had real combat tools. As a team named after the sailor, until now, most of the sea ships used by Wu Daofu to train sailors and soldiers are still the remnants of the Japanese alliance that King Shangning bought from Wu Daofu, and there is still a big gap between them and the real warships, let alone driving them to patrol the sea area and expel the Japanese and return the thieves.

(End of chapter)