"How's the preparation, are the sailors already skilled in handling this ship?" Li Tianyang met with Sun Juyong at the Yamen of the Admiral's Mansion and inquired about the first "Jiaolong-type" sea vessel.

"The brothers are all veterans, and they also have experience in operating the 'Yang Fan' sea ship before, and it doesn't take much energy to operate this sea boat." Sun Juyong replied respectfully.

"Well, give the team three days off, let them go home and reunite with their families, and then you will be ready to set off eastward to the port of Acapulco of the Grand Franco!" Li Tianyang nodded, and said to Sun Juyong with a look of trust: "You have also worked hard, the journey to Acapulco is difficult, there is only one guide invited from Luzon, and if you are not familiar with the place, everything can only be entrusted to you!" ”

"I will live up to the trust of the Admiral!!" Sun Juyong looked resolute, and at the same time firmly assured Li Tianyang.

This matter has been made a decision a long time ago, long before the construction of the "Jiaolong-type" sea ship, Li Tianyang and they had already planned to open the route between the Ming Dynasty and the New World, so as not to let Spain dominate the United States.

Of course, the most important thing is the increasing demand for rubber products in Hongmen, relying on the thousands of catties of products sold to Hongmen by the Portuguese every year, it is simply impossible to meet the consumption of Hongmen, so Li Tianyang and they can only join the team of ocean voyages.

Among them, Li Tianyang naturally also has the reason for coveting the rich resources of the Americas, now is the Age of Discovery, those dignitaries in the Ming Dynasty only care about the ancestral law, but he Li Tianyang has no such scruples, whether it is out of preparation for the future retreat, or now continue to increase efforts to develop Dayuan Island, Li Tianyang They need to have enough financial resources to support the recruitment of displaced people that they have not stopped.

After the two largest recruitment efforts before, although Li Tianyang and the others temporarily slowed down the recruitment of displaced people for the sake of digesting the previous results, they have never stopped recruiting people.

Up to now, every month or two, there is still a sea boat carrying more than 100 displaced people from the north and being placed in the Hongmen land.

The unstable living environment brought about by the peasant rebellion brought excellent recruitment conditions to Hongmen, although there was a law to protect the armor in the imperial history, but it still took a long time to really implement it at the grassroots level, and there were many difficulties in implementation.

In order to continue to expand Hongmen and open up the jungle of Dayuan Island, which is still mostly in the primitive zone, Li Tianyang needs to seize this God-given opportunity and let his team take the lead in the upcoming apocalypse.

The three-day leisure time passed quickly, although there was no grand send-off for Sun Juyong and them, but when Sun Juyong and they were fully prepared and sailed eastward, there were still many people who either blatantly watched or secretly scrutinized.

Sun Juyong and the destination of their trip, Li Tianyang did not hide it as usual, but publicized it with great fanfare.

Now in the Ming Dynasty, with Li Dan, Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong and other sea lords gradually lonely, after the overall situation of peace and tranquility, more and more seafarers have joined the development of the sea.

In the history of later generations, there were only one or two hundred ships of the Ming Dynasty that went to the South Seas a year, and in the history that Li Tianyang crossed over and changed invisibly, only in the second year of Chongzhen, the scale of the ships going to the South Seas reached nearly 500 times, not to mention the routes of the Ryukyus, the Wa Kingdom, and North Korea.

Li Tianyang did not find such a change, and he also did not expect such a change, the impact of which was gradual and brought a lot of changes to the Ming Dynasty.

The prosperity of maritime trade, for the Ming Dynasty, means that the trade surplus in the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more huge, the silver reserves of the entire Ming Dynasty have been rapidly enriched, and more labor is needed in Jiangnan and other places, which can virtually find life for the people who lost their land because of the land annexation problem in the south of the Yangtze River, and will not make the people miserable like the north.

Moreover, in the area north of the Yangtze River, many people are also attracted by the more affluent living environment in Jiangnan, and they have left their hometowns to find a job in Jiangnan to support their families.

Since then, the budding capitalism in Jiangnan and other places has developed more and more rapidly, and many large landowners and big families have opened textile factories, weaving factories and other commercial workshops with dozens or hundreds of people, and the first batch of ordinary people who make a living entirely as workers have appeared.

Of course, the ensuing disadvantages are not without disadvantages, the development of commerce, so that Jiangnan, which is itself a famous grain warehouse of the Ming Dynasty, has become an economic land dominated by the cultivation of mulberry hemp, so that for the north that is in the transformation period of the Xiaoice River, there is no food supply from Jiangnan, and the survival crisis of private farmers has intensified.

And Li Tianyang didn't know anything about this, he just hoped that he could set an example by himself, and open the Ming people's navigation line to the rich and backward and ignorant areas of the Americas, so as to keep up with the pace of Westerners plundering resources around the entire earth, so that the Ming Dynasty would not be gradually thrown away by the arrogant Westerners.

In this ocean-going trade, Li Tianyang told the merchants on the sea of the Ming Dynasty in the name of Hongmen that there were far more vast seas than Luzon and Wa Kingdom that they needed to conquer and develop.

If this voyage goes well, Hongmen will sell "Jiaolong-type" sea ships to the outside world, so that they can make money from this and feed back to shipyards to produce more "Jiaolong-type" and "Yangfan-type" warships for Hongmen; Second, it can allow the pioneering seafarers and maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty to follow themselves in advance in the Americas, Africa, and even Oceania, which no one has yet discovered, and take a cup of delicious food in the booming period of exploration.

The first "Jiaolong-style" sea ship named "Pioneer" gradually drifted away, and Li Tianyang's heart was full of expectations for them, but also full of worries about them.

Although there were guides from Luzon who were dug up by Wang Decai and others, the soldiers up and down Hongmen had no experience in navigating the deep sea, and they did not understand the climate change and environmental factors in this route.

But the Hongmen are still firmly and resolutely meeting this challenge, no one has any objection to this, including Li Tianyang, all the members of the Hongmen, have long been accustomed to the years of hard work at sea, their roots are in the vast sea, if even the most certain, the most cordial place they dare not take risks, then how can they create a better life!

(End of chapter)