Li Tianyang is very ambivalent, he does not want Westerners to get steam engines and other technologies in advance because of his connections, and it is likely to trigger the industrial revolution of Westerners; At the same time, due to his own ambitions and dreams, he has a strong obsession with the rapid development and growth of Hongmen, so he hopes to obtain enough value from wealthy Westerners by exchanging steam engines and other technologies to enrich his own heritage.

"Your Excellency, if you are willing to sell steamships to our country, I guarantee in the name of the Council of Fragrant Hills and Ao of Portugal that the funds you have borrowed from our country before will be written off, and at the same time, our country will open all markets to you, and your chamber of commerce can freely buy and sell any commodity in my territory of Fragrant Hills and Ao, without restrictions."

"At the same time, our chamber of commerce will do its best to serve your team, as long as you need materials and commodities, such as pig iron, sulfur, artillery, muskets, etc., our Portuguese businessmen will give priority to provide you with supplies."

As the family with the most good relationship with Hongmen among many Westerners, the Portuguese certainly had a lot of grievances with Hongmen in the early days, both suffered the secret losses of Hongmen, and also calculated Hongmen behind their backs, but compared with other Westerners, the Portuguese can still be said to be the best foreigner power with Hongmen.

"Then I would like to ask, can you come up with any other chips besides these conditions?"

Li Tianyang smiled faintly, and asked politely in the face of this handsome blonde and blue-eyed Western guy who was trying to meet him.

"You and I know very well that the conditions you have offered are tempting, but for us in Dayuan Island, they are not necessary or urgently needed, but what you want is something that is of great significance to the entire era."

"You say you're talking about purchasing our finished steamships, but in fact, after you get the steamships, whether you will disassemble them in private and copy our unique steam engines is obvious."

"So, the conditions you gave weren't enough to impress me!"

"Then, according to His Excellency General's intentions, what price do you think we should pay before His Excellency General can agree to our request?"

The Portuguese emissaries were not surprised.

"Since both of you and I have been friends for a long time, then I won't go around in circles and want us to sell finished ships to you, unless you can provide the most advanced casting artillery technology in Western Europe and the technology of manufacturing large ocean-going ships."

After all, people are not like Hongmen, the team has just been established for only twenty or thirty years, and the foundation is weak.

Therefore, if you want Li Tianyang to open a house with high-tech that he rarely grasps in his own hands, it is impossible for Westerners not to pay the price.

"This ......"

The Portuguese envoys hesitated a little, not that they were reluctant to accept these things, but that these high-tech things that Li Tianyang was asking for were not something that they could decide in a single word with just one Macao council.

It was evident, however, that the council had given the messenger a great deal of authority, and knowing that the matter would be difficult for even the council to settle with, he only pondered for a moment, then raised his head and replied firmly:

"Don't hide it from Your Excellency General, even our Macau Council is not capable of solving these advanced technologies that you want, but please trust us, as long as you are willing to sell the ship to our country, our Macau Council will do our best to get the Kingdom to hand over these important technologies to you."

The Portuguese envoy did not think of deceiving Li Tianyang, and truthfully explained the limitations of the Macao Council, and at the same time answered Li Tianyang's conditional solution in a pertinent manner.

However, in Li Tianyang's view, if the Portuguese can't take out these technologies to exchange with themselves, then it is even more impossible for him to take out the steam engine technology and hand it over to the other party.

"Then I'm sorry, the conditions have already been issued, you guys go back and think of a way by yourself!"

Originally, Li Tianyang's heart was hesitant, and at this time, the conditions offered by the other party could not impress Li Tianyang at all, so it was natural to reject the other party.

Almost the same scene, in the same place, continued to happen, but the object was different, and the time span also lasted for more than half a month.

Among the people who came to negotiate with Li Tianyang, almost the entire European Age of Discovery and other protagonists were included: Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, British, and even French businessmen who were just non-governmental organizations, were all guests at Li Tianyang's table.

Li Tianyang's attitude towards these people is still very polite, but in terms of negotiation conditions, according to the relationship between the two sides, hostility and other factors, there are some increases and decreases, but all of them are based on the conditions mentioned by Li Tianyang and the representatives of the Portuguese and Macao councils.

In this regard, businessmen from all over the West returned one after another, after all, they did not have such great power and status to give Li Tianyang a positive answer.

However, Li Tianyang believed that in the end, these Westerners would eventually compromise, and the use of the steam engine was too extensive, and if any country was given priority to obtain this advanced technology, the future benefits it could bring to the country were immeasurable.

At this time, if Li Tianyang can't seize the opportunity to blackmail the other party, then there may not be such a good opportunity to develop and expand Hongmen from the shrewd Westerners in the future.

Even if the Westerners developed their own steam engines, in fact, they were only ten or twenty years behind Li Tianyang; Moreover, with the heritage and advantages of Western countries, if you want to continue to improve and develop a new generation of steam engines, I am afraid that it will have an advantage over Hongmen.

If Hongmen is still developing in the South China Sea, its development prospects will become more and more narrow in the future, and it is only natural that it will be surpassed by Westerners.

Of course, Li Tianyang could not stupidly match the latest generation of steam engines on sea ships and deliver them to the other party, he had already ordered the Bengang Research and Development Institute and the shipyard to let them repackage the third and fourth generation semi-finished products with great flaws, and replace the underwater turbine unit of the sea ship with a paddle wheel, and make a version for external sales, which could be used as their own bargaining chips.

In this way, even if the steam engine will eventually be brought back to China by Westerners to study and improve, it will still be able to buy Hongmen a buffer time of several years to develop and improve the steam engine and other steam engines, so as to maintain the leading position of its own technology.

(End of chapter)