Galen ship, Rao is Chen Yuanliang went to sea with his father in his early years, and it has been more than 20 years, but the types and distinctions of European sea ships are only vague. What's more, it is still possible to achieve a preliminary classification of the Dutch, Spanish, and even Portuguese and British sea vessels, and then more specifically, it is not within the scope of his professionalism.

Chen Yuanliang is like this, let alone Tang Xingyuan. As a result, Pan Xuezhong had no choice but to conduct a preliminary science popularization on them, but he recalled the memories of a ship with a very tall stern with four masts and dense portholes on the side side that they had seen when they were in Manila Bay.

"The Galen ship is the most powerful weapon of the sea in Tessie, not only the Franc man, but also the Red Fur and the British Beard Nation also use this kind of sea ship, with which they dominate the ocean. As for the differences, there are still some, and I can't explain them for a while......"

said that he couldn't explain it for a while, but Pan Xuezhong turned out a large pile of drawings from the inconspicuous box on the side of the bookshelf, which were hand-drawn. The type, name, and characteristics of the ship were marked on the drawings as necessary, and the paper was already slightly yellowed, as if it had been drawn many years ago, and the ink was more or less uneven even on the same sheet, which was obviously added more than once.

During this time, Pan Xuezhong took out these hand-drawn papers, which immediately attracted the attention of the two. However, Tang Xingyuan has always been observant, looking at Pan Xuezhong's expression and the situation when he was rummaging through it, he estimated that this drawing did not seem to be too important to him, and the real importance would naturally not be so easy to show to them.

However, Rao was so, but this pile of hand-drawn paper still opened their eyes. Among them, there are not only Galen ships, but also the Dutch Yahat ships, East India ships, flute ships, etc., as well as the Spaniards' Clark ships, Spanish galleons, and even some ships from other regions, such as the turtle ships of Korea and the Japanese ships of Atakaku, Sekibune and Kozao, and the ships built by the Arabs and the natives of the South Seas. As for the Guangzhou boats, fortune boats, bird boats, and sand boats in China, they are even more indispensable.

These drawings can easily be seen to have taken a lot of time to draw without having to know how to do it, and the first step in drawing is to observe, so it will inevitably take more time.

Shocked for a long time, the two raised their heads and looked at Pan Xuezhong, their eyes were already completely different from when they first met. Even as a familiar Chen Yuanliang, he only knew that Pan Xuezhong had a special hobby for this, and he was also a knowledgeable person, nothing more. How did he know that today, only to know that he actually didn't know this old friend who had known him for many years.

On the way, Chen Yuanliang had already made the necessary introduction to Tang Xingyuan. This Pan Xuezhong's hometown is Lanxi County, Jinhua Prefecture, Zhejiang, where the three rivers converge, and the inland river shipping is very developed. Pan Xuezhong's family has been doing shipbuilding for generations, and there is a shipbuilding workshop, of course, all of which are civilian boats for inland navigation and fishing - Lanxi County is located in the inland of western Zhejiang, where the Qujiang River and the Wujiang River converge, and finally formed the Qiantang River, which poured into the sea.

They are doing shipbuilding for a living, and they naturally have no reason to draw a line with maritime trade. This is nothing new in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their family later offended the squire and couldn't stay in their hometown, so they followed the familiar maritime merchants to the sea and settled in Manila. At that time, it was already the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, and sixteen years have passed.

This Pan Xuezhong was originally from a shipbuilding family, and he had a great interest in ships, especially the European-style ships that once shocked him when he went to sea with his family. Over the years, he married and had children here, and was also a maritime merchant who ate sea trade meals, but out of interest and hobbies, in order to understand the structure of ships, he even went to the ships of the Spaniards and the shipyards in Cavite for nearly ten years to do general work, thus accumulating a lot of experience. Speaking of which, as a maritime merchant, he has always been said to be unprofessional, but he sincerely likes ships and sailing.

"It was during the first circumnavigation of the world that Magellan discovered Luzon and died in Luzon. If one day I could sail around the world in a ship, I would be blind even if I died on the road like that Magellan. ”

talked about the boat, especially Pan Xuezhong, who knew the purpose of coming, and couldn't help but be a little excited. It's just that the intoxication has subsided slightly, and the middle-aged man specially reminded Chen Yuanliang and Tang Xingyuan not to tell his family about it, lest the family would worry about it.

"From the younger brother's point of view, my sister-in-law has known about it nine times out of ten, but I am afraid that my brother will be worried so that she will pretend not to know."

The latter agreed, but the former came with such a sentence. Speaking of this, there is another sigh. However, this silence did not last long in the study, and soon, Pan Xuezhong brought up the old matter again.

"All I know about the Galen ship is the most detailed I have observed in years. Nowadays, Tessie, and even on the sea, the Galen ships of the Tessie countries can be described as outstanding. Whoever has more Galen ships, built and used them better, can dominate the sea. With all due respect, our Ming ship is outdated. ”

Being in Nanyang, Pan Xuezhong obviously wants to see more clearly. In fact, as far as this matter is concerned, Chen Yuanliang also has a certain concept, which is nothing more than a lack of understanding of European ships, but the truth is still clear.

Pan Xuezhong asked about the Galen ship again, and in the face of those fiery eyes, Tang Xingyuan lightly put the handmade drawing paper of the Galen ship that he had not seen enough on the table, and then asked Pan Xuezhong rhetorically: "It can be seen that Brother Pan is a capable figure in shipbuilding." It's just that there is a question below that I would like to ask Brother Pan to speak up. ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"I've seen the Galen ship in Manila Bay on this trip, and I can't tell what kind of ship it is, but there is one thing, that is, this Galen ship seems to be a war ship, right?"

"This ......"

Pan Xuezhong, the letter brought by Chen Yuanliang, had read it countless times, and what needed him to go out of the mountain was an organization called the Guangdong Commercial Alliance, which was interested in building a shipyard in Qiongzhou Prefecture and needed talents to understand European ships. For this organization, Pan Xuezhong eats sea trade rice, of course he knows, and even he has been to Hong Kong, knowing that he has the official background of Chen Kai, the governor of Guangdong. However, Chen Kai is a member of the Zheng Group, and his status is very high. At this stage, the government-run shipyard of the Zheng Group is still building Guangzhou ships and Fu ships, but a private shipyard is about to build European-style ships, and there are probably still taboos on warships.

"Don't hide it from the Tang people, as far as I know, it is true that most of the Galen ships of the British and Hongmao are warships, and the Galen ships of this Francophone are larger, but they are dual-purpose for military and civilian use, and they can be used as both warships and cargo ships."

Tang Xingyuan is the representative of the Guangdong Business Alliance, and Pan Xuezhong naturally knows everything about this. However, after this explanation, there is no need for Tang Xingyuan to explain, he and Chen Yuanliang can easily see some ways from the sadness between the eyebrows-they really have taboos about building warships.

"Let's put it this way, let's ask Mr. Pan to go out of the mountain for the purpose of building merchant ships. For example, this flute-shaped boat, we naturally prefer it. As for the Galen ship, I'm not afraid of Mr. Pan's jokes, we haven't thought about building a warship. ”

This is obviously a red line that is easily unwilling to touch. In this regard, Pan Xuezhong is not incomprehensible, but the day when the expectations of many years will finally be achieved, but now the person in charge is timid, and a wave of anger rushes straight to Tianlinggai.

"Tang Yuanwai, since Your Excellency is involved in maritime trade, you should know that the sea has always been the law of the jungle. Looking at Ying Long's letter, it is mentioned that the Guangdong Business Alliance is vigorously developing, and it can be said that it has spared no effort. However, today's Nanyang is already the world of those Taixi people, and Your Excellency has also seen the attitude of the Francophone people towards our Ming people. If you only care about increasing production, and don't have a strong fleet to rely on, you will be like a child holding gold in the downtown area! ”

Tang Xingyuan didn't understand the truth. It's just that he has been in business for generations, and he knows the bottom line of the government, assuming that they really blatantly build warships and can't build them, it will naturally be a joke, and if it causes the government, it will inevitably intervene and even take the past. At that time, I am afraid that even if Chen Kai has the backing, but if even Chen Kai, who wants to be the head of the country, moves such a mind, or the court decides to do so, I am afraid that it will not be good at that time.

The risk in this is too great, don't say that he is alone, even the entire Guangdong Business Alliance can't be the master. It's just that he didn't wait for him to express this bitterness tactfully, but Pan Xuezhong seemed to have touched a piece of reverse scale, and resolutely continued to say the latter.

"With all due respect, whether it is a businessman from Guangdong or a man with the surname of the country, he can make a lot of profits in the maritime trade of Nanyang, in the final analysis, because of the support of the Ming businessmen of Nanyang. Otherwise, it is good to simply rely on trading with the Taisi people and not being robbed, how can there be such a good life now? ”

However, in Nanyang, the people of the Ming Dynasty are being exploited by those Taixi Yidi all the time. It is good to buy and sell by force, but if it is not pleasing to the eye, there is no way to ask for help if it is forcibly taken, or even simply kill people and sell people to other places as slaves, which is the life of people. ”

"I'm not afraid of the two jokes, when I first arrived in Manila, the courtyard I bought at that time was bigger than the current one, and it was cheaper. Why, because there are still blood stains on the wall, it is precisely because of the massacre two years before this that the Franc machine people not only killed ordinary Han businessmen, but also those Han people who believed in the gods and Buddhas of Taixi, these so-called devout Franc machine people did not let go. ”

"When the next family first arrived, they didn't have much money in their hands, so they had to pay attention there, but they couldn't sleep peacefully every day, and they always felt that there was a faint cry in the night. In the next year, with good luck, he made a fortune, so my father hurriedly sold the house and bought it with more money. As for whether there were any Han merchants who died in the massacre, it is unknown, at least there are no bloodstains seen when they move in, and they can always feel better. ”

If you don't dare to return to your hometown, who would want to be scared here. This is an unbearable past for Pan Xuezhong, but it is not the same for the Nanyang Chinese.

Later generations are often familiar with Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Indochina, which operated anti-Chinese tides and even massacres of Chinese. Seeing those horrific photographs, anyone with a conscience will inevitably be filled with righteous indignation.

For Pan Xuezhong at that time and now, although he has not seen it with his own eyes, nor has he seen the audio-visual materials, but those bloodstains that cannot be wiped off are still vividly in the purpose.

In fact, not only in later generations due to economic, political and other reasons, those indigenous monkeys in the South Seas want to operate the exclusion of Chinese, in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, just say that this Manila, there have been three massacres of Chinese before and after!

The first time was during the Wanli period, and the financial constraints after the three major expeditions made the Wanli Emperor start a small abacus in Luzon, just because the Ming court at that time did not know that the silver from Luzon actually came from South America, and mistakenly thought that it was caused by Luzon digging up a large silver mine. As a result, without waiting for the Ming court to put it into practice, the Spanish colonists, who did not know where to get the news, directly instigated the local aborigines to carry out a large-scale massacre of the Chinese, and according to historical records, more than 20,000 people were killed.

This incident occurred in 1603 A.D., and caused a great sensation at the time, and it is said that the Wanli Emperor was furious, but considering the problem of national strength, it was finally overcome.

The second time, the one Pan Xuezhong mentions, took place in 1639 AD, 36 years after the last massacre. It is said that the reason was that the Spanish colonists were too oppressed, and the Chinese rioted in anger, which was severely suppressed. In the aftermath, not only the Chinese who participated in the riots were slaughtered, but also those who believed in Catholicism.

It has been 18 years since this incident, nearly a generation, but the oppression of the Spaniards has never lessened, and the Chinese have never forgotten the massacre. As for the next time, it will only be four years later, and the reason is just that Zheng Chenggong wants to fight for some fair treatment for the Nanyang Chinese.

As a Nanyang Chinese, Pan Xuezhong's words came out, and Chen Yuanliang also felt the same way. This is difficult for Tang Xingyuan, who settled in Qiongzhou and was a businessman, not a businessman, to feel it personally. In other words, the Galen ship is a warship for Tang Xingyuan, a red line that he dare not touch, but for Pan Xuezhong, it is the enhancement of the sea power of the mother country - only if the mother country behind them is strong enough and willing to uphold justice for these wanderers, their lives can really be better.