Song Youliang said fluently in Portuguese: "Greetings, Mr. Captain~~"

"Hello, Your Excellency~~" Donat was surprised that Song Youliang could speak Portuguese

"Oh~God~" everyone on the deck erupted in exclamation

"May I ask you a question? Mr? Donat's amazement was written directly on his white face

"Yes~"

"Where did you learn Portuguese~"

"A missionary ~ Nicolas Trigo ~" Song Youliang said casually

"That Jesuit Flemish missionary?" Donat's eyes widened

"You know him?" Song Youliang was a little surprised by Donat's performance

Donat nodded, and then smiled: "But this has nothing to do with what we're going to talk about~~" Donat made a gesture of please, "Please come to the captain's room~"

"No, I like the air on deck~" Song Youliang looked at the battered ship

"Okay then~~" Donat shouted to a few sailors: "Go and move a big table and two chairs~"

Soon, there was a sumptuous lunch on the beach of the Navik, at least Donat thought so~~ But in Song Youliang's opinion, the world's food is still the best Chinese food. Although the French food in front of you also has the famous foie gras and the like, it is still not as good as the big banquet in Beijing. Xu Erduo and the others were very strange to Westerners using knives and forks for eating, and their hands couldn't help but secretly imitate Donat's action of cutting beef

"As for your desire to hire the entire crew of the Navik, I can only regret to tell you that you can't do it~" Donat laughed

"Then your Excellency means to reject me?" Song Youliang asked solemnly

"As a Baron Fernández with an honorable bloodline, I will not serve anyone except the King of Portugal, let alone hire ~~" Donat raised his head, "However, I can act as an intermediary to buy the weapons you need from the Royal Arsenal of Lisbon for Your Excellency, and I can also search for skilled craftsmen for Your Excellency in Europe~~ But I have one condition~"

Song Youliang said with a smile: "If you want to obtain the right to trade, I can only guarantee that within my jurisdiction, you can be allowed to engage in legal trade activities~~"

"Your Excellency means I can trade here?" Donat's eyes lit up with excitement

"It can be understood in this way~" Song Youliang said with a smile

"Hurry~ Did you hear that? Take out all our goods~" Donat shouted excitedly

However, the sailors were dejected one by one, and the boatswain said: "Captain, most of our cargo has been soaked in seawater and moldy~"

"God~~" Donat suddenly became a frosted eggplant, "If I can carry a full ship of goods back from here~ even until Goa~~" But Donat looked at Song Youliang, he didn't look like someone who would allow him to take credit, and his own manpower was not enough to carry out a robbery here.

"The cost of repairing the ship, the arrears of mercenary salaries, the wages of sailors~~I will go bankrupt~~" Donat covered his face with his hands

"Don't cling to the noble blood~" Michelle said coldly: "The Fernandez family has long had nothing except for the title of a nobleman~~ Otherwise, you wouldn't have made this adventure~"

"Okay~" Donat made up his mind, and after learning that the annual salary of the combat captain Michelle was 100 taels, Donat fired the price of 150 taels per year.

"Why do you think you can ask for such a high pay?" Song Youliang asked

"Because I am a well-educated noble~~" Donat proudly said: "I have knowledge of physics, chemistry and philosophy, and I am also proficient in poetry, literature and music~~"

"So how much do you know about muskets and cannons? Do you make high explosives? Song Youliang asked with a smile

Donat held his head up even more proudly, "Our Fernández family has been engineers and directors of the Lisbon Arsenal for generations~"

Song Youliang looked at Michelle, and Michelle nodded, "The Fernández family has managed the Royal Arsenal for the king for generations~" It turns out that although the previous Barons Fernández had outstanding skills, they were not good at managing their finances, and they all liked to prostitute and gamble, but by the time of Donat's generation, the family property had been lost, and only the title of Baron remained

"Okay~I accept your conditions~" Song Youliang stood up, "I hope you can start working right away~"

"At your service~" Donat finally put down his aristocratic shelf

"Oh, by the way~~ Did any of you know that there was a musket in Italy with a spiral groove barrel?" Song Youliang suddenly remembered something, and casually asked Heinrich and Ludwig

"This is~" Heinrich pulled out a short gun from his waist, Song Youliang took a look at the short gun, the walnut handle was engraved with the Italian of Togos, and when he looked at the barrel carefully, Song Youliang's eyes lit up, and the rifling in the barrel was actually spiral

"Is this Togos still alive?" Song Youliang excitedly grabbed Heinrich's sleeve

"This is made by our blacksmith Dogos~~" Heinrich laughed and said: "Dogos~~ Finally, there is a second person to appreciate your work~~"

"Togos? Who is called Togos~~" Song Youliang asked loudly in Italian, Michelle and the others were shocked again, thinking that this young man was really knowledgeable and could speak three languages

"I~I'm Florence's Togos~~" A bald man with a short stature and a beard walked out from behind a group of big men

"You made this barrel?" Song Youliang asked

"Yes~~It's me~~," Togos said with some pride

"And how many of these guns did you make?" Song Youliang hurriedly asked

"Six~~ You must know that this kind of finely made but expensive gun is not easy to sell~~" Togos frowned

"When you buy arms for me from Portugal, our trade agreement will come into effect immediately~~" Song Youliang smiled: "Now, I can give you a part of the goods on credit~as a deposit~"

"Generous sir, God will bless you~~" Donat almost danced with excitement

In December of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the musket manufactured in the Armory Institute of Haiyang Qianhu Institute trotted all the way, directly upgraded from smoothbore guns to spiral rifled guns, and the armor also began to develop from chain mail to sheet metal armor. Subsequently, the heavy infantry wearing sheet metal armor began to practice the infantry phalanx, while the light infantry wearing light armor continued to practice the Mandarin Duck Formation and the Sancai Formation.

At first, due to the language barrier, Michelle had a lot of trouble training the phalanx infantry, and the recruits often collided with each other when the command to turn left and turn right. Michelle exclaimed anxiously: "Aren't you on the right and left?" ”

Pan Yuzhu, who knew Portuguese, had an idea and ordered the soldiers to take off all the shoes on their right feet, and then practice changing queues. After a day of barefoot drill, the soldiers finally didn't turn in the wrong direction again.