Of course, even if it is a negotiation, there must be enough pomp, and the first thing Li Tianyang did when he took office was to integrate the resources of the entire team and gather a negotiation team to go to Luzon.

Although each merchant is only engaged in business, the risk at sea is so great that each merchant will provide a certain number of sailors and samurai as a defensive force.

However, in the end, it was the Shark Gang that contributed the most, and Hongmen Li Tianyang really talked about it, and Mingmen did not send people to support the field, but only supported the four 400 warships eliminated by Hongmen to them, and secretly sent 500 soldiers to mix in the team to help control the sea ships and have enough fighters.

In addition to the fifteen warships sent by the Shark and the support of various sea gang merchants, the ten sea ships gathered for the actual trade were fully prepared for nine sea ships.

At the same time, Hongmen, who had some friendship with the Spaniards and had a certain deterrent effect on them, sent a "Jiaolong-style" sea ship that had just been completed, ready to go south with it, and exist as an intermediary to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides.

As for the issue of negotiation, Li Tianyang handed it over to the professional team members present, and they naturally knew how to make the most of the benefits for the team, and they also knew how to use their advantages to negotiate, which was much more professional than Hongmen's own negotiators.

Moreover, as a group, Li Tianyang could not take everything to Hongmen in a big way, and this would only cause cracks and eventually fall apart in the Nanyang merchants, which had just been established and had no foundation of trust.

Even the benefits obtained after the negotiation, Li Tianyang also expressed his position in the team, not using the strength of Hongmen as the basis for distribution, but giving the benefits to the team, so that everyone can get a meeting gift from Hongmen as soon as they join.

Although it is still only an unknown interest, Hongmen still uses practical actions to show goodwill to everyone, which is a rare thing for Hongmen, which is becoming more and more powerful, coupled with their consistent mutually beneficial behavior, so that everyone is full of hope for this Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

The integration of the entire negotiation team took more time than the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, because everyone still had to negotiate with the sea gang of their respective chambers of commerce, and send sea ships and sailors to Keelung Town, and the integration was not completed until the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen.

At this time, the northeast monsoon was in full swing, and there was no risk of hurricanes in the summer, so although the Chinese New Year was approaching, the negotiators and sailors sent to the South Seas were driven by the monsoon to make a mighty journey to Luzon Manila.

Westerners are not stupid, although the Portuguese in Xiangshanao have some contradictions with the Spaniards, but it is a problem between their own brothers, so when the Hongmen and the Ming Dynasty's various merchant merchants and the Haigang make such a big move, if the Portuguese are not aware of it, then they are too wasteful.

The Dutch, the Spaniards, and the Portuguese all took action, and before they knew the target of such a large fleet operation in the town of Hongmen Keelung, they all mobilized all the warships and men they could mobilize.

At the same time, the Westerners naturally did not forget to send people to Keelung Town to inquire about the movements of Hongmen and this huge sea ship through various channels.

Father Felix, Major Versailles and others visited Hongmen one after another, hoping to learn the specific situation from Hongmen, but in the end they were easily prevaricated by Li Tianyang.

As for what Li Tianyang said, the so-called this is just a normal commercial trade composed of Ming maritime merchants, these Western messengers don't believe it, who is the maritime chamber of commerce to send a fleet of dozens of sea ships to the sea, just digesting the cargo of this fleet, is a problem, not to mention that there are more than ten sea ships among them, which are obviously not cargo ships.

And the "Jiaolong-style" sea ship that Hongmen has already exposed, at this moment, another one is dispatched to follow the fleet, which also represents Hongmen's attitude, and it is quite different from what he said about Hongmen's irrelevance.

It wasn't until the fleet went south and left the strength of a few foreigners that everyone was relieved, only the Spaniards were more vigilant in their hearts, and hurriedly sent people to ask the Portuguese for help in Xiangshanao, because at this moment the target of this fleet in the South Seas was only closer to their Spaniard's Manila Castle.

As for the Dutch, who were further away, although they were equally cautious in the face of this sudden large-scale action of the Ming people, they were not too worried with the Spaniards in front of them.

After all, compared to the Spaniards, who thought they had controlled the Luzon Islands, relations with the Ming Dynasty in the Far East were not so friendly; And they Dutch, although they have a bad relationship with the official Ming Dynasty, but in the Ming Dynasty, whether it is Hongmen or the previous Flying Dragon Gang, they have maintained a good relationship in recent years.

Since the last time they were defeated by Hongmen's expeditionary fleet, the contract signed by Governor Cohen and Hongmen has been maintained very well by everyone until now, and because they have to rely on Hongmen Keelung Town to open the foreign trade channels of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch have a relationship with Hongmen, not only have not been estranged by the previous wars in these years, but have become closer and closer.

Most of the advanced artillery guns of the Hongmen team from the Westerners were sold to them by the Dutch, and the Portuguese in Xiangshanao only sold a small amount to the Hongmen, and more to the Ming government.

As the Spaniards expected, Salamanca, the Spanish governor of Manila, was gathering the largest Spanish fleet in the Far East, a total of fifteen Western warships of all kinds, in Manila waiting for this Ming Dynasty fleet to be obtained.

At the same time, eight of the Portuguese fleet in Xiangshanao are actively approaching Manila, which makes the governor of Salamanca worry a little less, and even some arrogantly believe that if this Ming fleet really has bad intentions for his colony, then he will never be polite, and he will definitely make the Ming people pay a painful price.

At this time, the governor of Salamanca was also confident, the Spanish fleet was known as the invincible fleet in the West, it was an old maritime power, and after coming to the East, it had not tried a failure so far, and the vast Indian kingdom was also surrendered under its own strong ships and artillery, and the fleet of the Ming Dynasty was not a weapon of state violence, how could it be its own opponent!!

Not to mention, for the sake of safety, the governor of Salamanca, who accepted the advice of his staff, also submitted a request for support to the Portuguese management council in Xiangshanao, and under the preparation of the two heads, he could not have imagined that their Spaniards would fail.

(End of chapter)