Huang Qinghe took Kong Tai and others back with a huff, and after returning to Guangzhou, he immediately played the imperial court - Taixi Portuguese, what a barbarian! The frog at the bottom of the well, I don't know how big the Ming is, I want to be on an equal footing with my emperor!

This letter was also 800 miles expedited, and it arrived in the capital in a few days. Then, Li Dongyang, a good old man, also scratched his head - what should I do if the other party doesn't give face? Waiting online, it's urgent......

It's not that Li Dongyang doesn't dare to fight, but Malacca is far overseas, and if he wants to send troops, he has to build a batch of big ships first......

According to the Manchurians, the Portuguese were very powerful, with a total strength of several thousand. If you want to defeat it, it is estimated that tens of thousands of troops will be needed.

If it is on land, it is naturally no problem to mobilize tens of thousands of troops. But the problem is that the thorns are far overseas. If you want to transport tens of thousands of troops, you have to create a treasure fleet like Zheng He.

But the problem is that the Manchu officials are certainly not willing to build a new treasure fleet. Because, just to build a batch of treasure ships that can carry tens of thousands of troops, the cost will need hundreds of thousands of taels. The treasure ship needs shipwrights and sailors, and the total cost is estimated to be several million taels.

Moreover, the drawings for the manufacture of treasure ships and the navigation charts for going to the Western Ocean have been completely destroyed by Liu Daxia. Even, even the craftsmen of the Longjiang Bao Shipyard gave it to Marin. Even if you want to build it, you don't have the conditions.

What's more, even if the treasure fleet is recreated, it will be useless. After this war is fought, the fleet will be idle, which is very not cost-effective......

After heated discussions, the Manchu ministers all agreed that the expedition to Manchu was unrealistic. However, if you don't give your little brother a head, you don't have face......

At this time, Yang Yiqing, who has always been resourceful, said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have heard that Ma Lin, the lord of the North Sea Kingdom, said that the land of Taixi is very fond of the silk, porcelain and other goods produced by my Ming Dynasty. Since it is not appropriate to send troops, we might as well inform the Portuguese that if the land of the Manchu Cana is not returned, the Portuguese will not be allowed to come to the court! ”

"Forbidding the Portuguese to come to the court?" When the civil servants heard this, it seemed to make sense...... It seems that if those vassal states can't come to the court, they will definitely be sad......

In fact, they guessed correctly. If tributary trade is not allowed, those vassal states that have tasted the sweetness will definitely be disappointed.

Then, Yang Yiqing said again:

"In addition to threatening not to allow the Portuguese to come to the court, we can also use tributary rewards to give the Manchurians a batch of arquebuses, Franco cannons, and corresponding ammunition to help them counterattack the Portuguese. In this way, I don't have to spend countless money and food to send troops overseas. ”

The craftsmen brought by Marin had already taught the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to make arquebuses and Franc cannons. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty also had to give back the goods to the Manchurians. Wait for the next time Manthorn Plus comes back to pay tribute, and give back some arquebuses, Franc cannons, and enough gunpowder. In this way, it can also enhance the combat effectiveness of the Manchurian Thorn Plus people.

Soon, the Manchu ministers all agreed to Yang Yiqing's two plans and reported them to Emperor Zhengde.

The young and belligerent Zhengde was very dissatisfied, and he believed that the imperial court should send troops to rescue the subject country Manchu and carry forward the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Yang Yiqing stretched out his hand and said:

"Your Majesty, bring it!"

"Take what?" Zhengde was a little confused.

"Ten million taels of silver to make a treasure ship!" Yang Yiqing bullied Zhengde for not understanding shipbuilding, and directly said that the cost of shipbuilding was dozens of times higher......

Zhengde was stunned, although tens of millions of taels of silver were copied from Liu Jin's house. However, in the past two years, it has cost millions of taels just to suppress the peasant uprisings of Liu Liu, Liu Qi and the peasant uprisings in Jiangxi. Moreover, the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty have long been eyeing this money, and they have all planned its use. Besides, Zhengde still needs to take out some of them and form heavy cavalry to deal with the Mongolian tribes, the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty.

Then, this matter was done according to Yang Yiqing's advice - the Ming court threatened Portugal not to pay tribute, and at the same time asked craftsmen to build a batch of arquebuses and Franc cannons, so as to give them back to Manchu Thorn Plus next time, so that they could fight with Portugal.

In this way, without knowing it, the monarchs and ministers of the Kingdom of Portugal were recklessly denied the opportunity to trade with the Ming Dynasty by Albuquerque.

In fact, while Albuquerque was negotiating with Huang Qinghe, Manuel I was already considering pretending to pay tribute in order to qualify for the purchase of silk and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty. It's just that he thought about it in vain. Because, his subordinate Albuquerque, under the secret instigation of Conté, has cut off the possibility of peace with the Ming Dynasty......

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On Keelung's side, Kong Tai, who came back, was also writing a report, and the process of secretly making a stumbling block during the negotiations in Malacca was written in Chinese characters in the report, and he ordered someone to send it back to China.

It should be pointed out that because there were skilled shipbuilders sent from the Daming Longjiang Bao Shipyard, and later Liu Daxia and others sent thousands of shipbuilding craftsmen.

Under the guidance of the craftsmen who knew how to build ships left by Ma Lin, Kong Tai asked thousands of Ming shipbuilders under his command to use the wood, tung oil, lacquer, copper nails and other shipbuilding materials purchased from Fuzhou to build five Type 250 armed merchant ships. Moreover, the bottom of the ship is very luxurious, and it is made of ironwood that cannot be gnawed by the maggots.

It just so happened that this time the ship was sent to Panama City to deliver the letter, and Conté sent three of them (there were not enough for the sailors and captains to use five) to carry the letter to Panama City. At the same time, a batch of silk and porcelain purchased in Daming, as well as finished tung oil and lacquer urgently needed by the Long Island shipyard in New York, North America, were also delivered.

Although Marin has planted tung oil and lacquer in both the Savannah and Argentine pampas, these two trees take years to grow. Therefore, in the past few years, shipbuilding has also counted on the tung oil and lacquer purchased from Daming.

In addition, Marin also instructed to open the route from Panama City to Keelung as soon as possible to facilitate the flow of goods. In addition to urgently needed materials such as tung oil and lacquer that needed to be shipped to the Americas, Daming's silk and porcelain were also extremely popular in the European market. At the same time, it can also bring huge profits to Marin.

Ma Lin didn't expect that Keelung's shipbuilding would go so smoothly. In fact, the shipbuilding conditions on the side of the Ming Dynasty were very superior. Because, whether it is wood, tung oil, lacquer and copper nails, etc., you can easily buy them in Daming. Moreover, the price is very cheap.

In addition, Keelung also gathered thousands of skilled shipbuilders sent by the Ming Dynasty. Although Marin took a group to Long Island, New York, the number of craftsmen was still more on Keelung's side.

If it weren't for the first time to build a Western-style sailing ship, the craftsmen were not familiar with it, and they wasted a lot of time trying to figure it out. In the year after Marin left, these thousands of craftsmen would not have built only five 250-class sailing boats. If the "firepower is fully fired", there is no problem for thousands of skilled daimyo shipbuilders to build a dozen or so Class 250 armed merchant ships a year.

Although wood for shipbuilding is everywhere in North America, there is a lack of materials such as tung oil, lacquer, and copper nails. Therefore, the speed of shipbuilding is not as good as that of Keelung. Because, there needs to be enough tung oil, lacquer and other materials to achieve "full firepower".

However, with the opening of the Panama route ordered by Conté this time, once this route is stabilized, Daming's cheap tung oil will continue to be shipped to the Americas to supply the shipyard on Long Island in New York. When the time comes, Marlin's idea of a large number of ships will be realized......