It has been several months since the inaugural voyage of the "Xianglong-style" steamship, and after the steamship has been completely finalized, the new creation of the steamship has gradually begun to appear in front of the public.

The first sea vessel used as a sample display and experiment eventually became Li Tianyang's sailing car, and was brought back to the dock of Keelung Town by Li Tianyang directly from Bengang Shipyard.

When the steamship appeared at the dock in Keelung Town with thick smoke and speed, it suddenly became the brightest new star in front of the public, focusing all eyes.

With the existence of steam trains, although the appearance of the steamship is not as shocking as when the train appeared, it still makes people look sideways, and it makes the people and villagers under the command of Hongmen all feel proud and proud.

The train is open to the outside world, and its tickets are often a few taels or taels, although the price is expensive, but for the Hongmen people who want to try and feel the novelty of the machine, it may not be a very unacceptable value, so there are always many people in Keelung Town and Bengang who have personally felt the charm of the train, and take a round trip to and from Bengang and Keelung Town on a stable train, but it is much more exciting than the life behavior that has not left the homeland in the past.

The appearance of another novel creation, such as the steamship, had an impact on the common people, but it was more of a novelty, but it was the Western Europeans who originally thought they were civilized and proud and complacent, and their hearts were shocked and greedy, and they asked around about what they produced.

Even if the Europeans from the West envy the train between Bengang and Keelung, but after all, this thing is not very related to them, even if the Western merchants and nobles felt it and began to explore the operation of the train and began to study the steam engine, but in the end, it was only a small number of far-sighted businessmen.

However, the "Xianglong-style" sea ship that appeared on the dock of Keelung Town, and the steamer named "Future" by Li Tianyang, made the Westerners who were waiting at the time not only envious and amazed, but also eager to obtain all the information about this sea ship.

Businessmen are the smartest and wisest group of people, and they may be very concerned about the comparison of costs and benefits, but in the same way, the research and popularization of many new technologies have never been inseparable from their strong support.

Compared with trains, it is self-evident that ships are of great help to Westerners in the Age of Discovery, but this steamship technology, which is of great help to ocean-going trade, did not appear in the hands of Western Europeans who were in great need of self-navigation, and who of them could not be anxious.

When it was, those who went through the channels of the Keelung town government, engaged in small actions behind the scenes to buy people's hearts, or took a detour to find the Jesuit missionaries first, and they used them as a springboard to directly find the high-level people in Keelung Town, such as Li Tianyang.

The Jesuits have never been stopped by their efforts to preach on Dayuan Island, and even when many Westerners and Ming merchants could not freely enter and leave Bengang, the preaching team led by Father Felix was able to walk freely among Bengang and the surrounding indigenous tribes.

However, their preaching behavior has always been greatly challenged by the Taoist and Buddhist evangelistic teams supported by Hongmen, and it can even be said that they are at a great disadvantage.

The indigenous people who migrated from the interior of the Ming Dynasty were more willing to accept Taoism and Buddhism, which were deeply rooted and familiar in the history of Chinese civilization, so it was not so easy to accept the foreign belief of the Jesuits.

Thus, although the Jesuits were the earliest to spread their faith on Oto Island, they actually had the least number of followers among the other religions.

However, compared with the religious spread in the inland and coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that this is a piece of land with deep achievements.

Moreover, it is also a very meaningful thing that the Jesuits can make changes on Dayuan Island and make their teachings as much as possible more in line with the thinking of the Oriental people and more acceptable to the Eastern culture.

Although Li Tianyang does not believe in the so-called gods, he does not even believe in the local Mazu, Sanqing and the like, even if his experience is miraculous now, but he has not wavered at all.

However, this did not prevent Li Tianyang from opening up to these religious beliefs, and he agreed to let the Jesuits come to Dayuan Island to spread their faith, and the reason was to obtain the materials, resources, and even knowledge and culture of Westerners.

And when he achieved his goal, Li Tianyang turned around and went to the interior of the Ming Dynasty to find Taoist priests and monks, so that they could learn from the missionary organizations of Westerners, spread religion on Dayuan Island, establish temples and Taoist temples, and add the Mazu belief that has always been popular in the local area, but it also made a small Dayuan Island, where religions from all directions and other religions gained a foothold, forming a situation of opposition and blending with each other.

However, because of the help that the Jesuits brought to the development of Hongmen before, compared with his secret support for religions such as Hongmen, Li Tianyang still maintained respect for these Jesuit missionary priests, and often communicated with them, so as to show the Jesuits' unique status and reputation, which made the Jesuits reluctantly persist in front of the local religion.

For those Western businessmen who came to visit through priest relations, or Western nobles who originally had a very high status and had a bad relationship with Hongmen, although Li Tianyang also met with each other, he never let go of his mouth to let the other party know what he was thinking.

Westerners are shrewd at the same time, in fact, they are also willing to pay their blood, they meet Li Tianyang and other times, continue to increase the bargaining chips, in order to be able to make Li Tianyang tempted, as long as Li Tianyang does not categorically refuse his own meeting, it shows that the other party is not without room for negotiation.

In fact, up to now, Li Tianyang himself is also hesitating, and the idea and research of the steam engine have been advanced by less than a hundred years because of Li Tianyang's attention.

In other words, according to the speed of scientific and technological development of Westerners, in fact, there has long been the possibility of manufacturing steam engines, but until now, they have not thought of the braking principle of steam engines.

However, as Hongmen exposed the steam engine to the public, and let Westerners watch and feel from afar, they were undoubtedly guiding the way and direction for each other.

Westerners have never been stupid people, and the Western civilization they established has also given birth to countless excellent masterpieces and scientific knowledge.

Therefore, rather than wanting to continue to conceal the principle of one's steam engine and let the other party research and manufacture it by himself, although it can make the other party's invention and creation more than ten or twenty years later, but on the whole, it may not be cost-effective for Hongmen.

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