Yang Zhi was told by Li Tianyang, in fact, Yang Zhi has always held his breath and wanted to compete with Chen Cai, just like when he was not transferred to the shipyard.

He was very unconvinced that he had also made a bowstring for his research in the R&D Institute, but why did he leave the R&D Institute in the end and become a manager.

Therefore, after he came to the shipyard, he set up a research and development team by himself, and began to develop and improve the "Yang Fan" and "Jiaolong" sea ships, and made outstanding contributions.

And this time the research and development of the steamship, when it is necessary to get the cooperation of his own R&D team, Yang Zhi is full of energy to compete with Chen Cai, let Li Tianyang see, in fact, his achievements in research and development are not worse than Chen Cai.

For this reason, Yang Zhi overcame all difficulties in the absence of resources, and successfully researched the steamship almost at the same time as Chen Cai, and invited Li Tianyang to come to inspect, which was very proud in his heart!

Of course, in order to catch up with Chen Cai's pace, Yang Zhi and them were opportunistic, and they still built this successful steamship for the sake of success when they knew that the design was not reasonable, if there was no selfishness on Yang Zhi's part, it would be impossible.

It's just that Yang Zhi didn't expect that his selfishness would be all seen by Li Tianyang, and now he suddenly said such a few words with the meaning of beating himself, so that he should not get carried away, how not to make Yang Zhi feel in a trance.

Li Tianyang has always been clear about the competition between Yang Zhi and Chen Cai, and the reason why Yang Zhi was transferred out of the R&D Institute and turned to manage the shipyard was because Yang Zhi had been leading the imitation team in the development of Hongmen "Yang Fan" sea ships, and he was more experienced in shipbuilding; Second, it is also because Yang Zhi's talent in research and invention is really not as powerful as Chen Cai.

This is not that Li Tianyang is partial to his brother-in-law, but he can see it from Yang Zhi's research and invention in the research and development institute at the beginning: Chen Cai's inventions are mostly not available in this era, at least the Ming Dynasty and Li Tianyang do not have them, and Yang Zhi's inventions are more about discovering ancient books, or making breakthroughs in existing technologies, and there are almost no pioneering inventions of his own.

From this, it can be seen that the difference between the two people's talents in research, inventing and creating things really requires a wild imagination, and Chen Cai happens to have such a strong talent, where to go to now he is almost thirty years old, still full of curiosity and imagination, so that he has today's steam engine, train and so on.

And Yang Zhi's talent lies in the fact that he can find the flaws behind a thing and extract it for improvement, which is indeed inferior to Chen Cai in terms of research and development, but it is appropriate to let him take charge of the shipyard and use the shipbuilding technology stolen from the West and the shipbuilding technology of the East to re-improve his own warship technology.

After Li Tianyang finished saying these words, as if he was just saying it casually, when Yang Zhi was worried in his heart, he never came again, and invited Yang Zhi to go to other places, which was the end of the inspection of the steamer.

After having a meal in the shipyard and having a cordial meeting with many R&D personnel in the shipyard, Li Tianyang stayed for a day and rushed back.

For Li Tianyang, this time it was not in vain, but for Hongmen, it was the first step at the foot of the Long March, and there were still others waiting for them.

There has never been a shortcut to the development of technology, and it seems that steam trains and steamships have already achieved initial results, but there is still a long way to go until these achievements are translated into reality!

Li Tianyang and the others could only wait for when the steam train and steamship could reach real use, and they could really breathe a sigh of relief.

Now, the only thing they can do is to continue to invest in these two projects persistently, so that they can solve many shortcomings and problems as soon as possible without worries, and achieve perfection.

For a time, the Hongmen people, who seemed to outsiders to be very rich, were actually a poor ghost who had difficulty even turning over ten thousand taels of silver.

In order to raise funds and prepare for the next big development, Li Tianyang has begun to take action, looking for various business opportunities to earn enough money.

As soon as he returned to Keelung Town, Li Tianyang issued an order to the Hongtang fleet to step up the suppression of pirate gangs in the Daming Sea and severely crack down on any smuggling trade activities.

There is no way, the current Hongmen are powerful and have a vast territory, but there are only a few means for them to actually grow their wealth quickly.

The defeat of the Spaniards invisibly made Hongmen lose a rich and generous trading partner, for a Spaniard who controlled the rich silver resources of the Americas to control and seize the Hongmen of their Luzon colony, they did not send a fleet from the mainland to find the field It was already a good time, how could they still do business with Hongmen!

Therefore, Hongmen's ocean-going trading fleet wanted to trade with Westerners again, either by waiting for them to come to Keelung Town to purchase Oriental specialties, or by going to the Dutch Java colony in the South Seas to trade with Westerners there.

In fact, the trade channels of Dongwa and North Korea have reached a relatively high level under the development of He Yong and them in recent years, and it is really difficult to develop them.

As for the gold mines in the Luzon Islands and the Hongmen Jilongshan mine, although they have been growing steadily, they are all trickles of water, and there is basically no possibility of pulling out seedlings to help them grow, and Li Tianyang can't do it.

Therefore, if he wants to get rich, Li Tianyang can only attack those pirate gangs in the Daming Sea who are still unwilling to belong to Hongmendu, as well as those unscrupulous maritime merchants who want to avoid Hongmen's collection of ship taxes in order to save money.

The four divisions of the Hongtang fleet, under the order of Li Tianyang, took collective action, and even the Ryukyu sailors who were far away on Iriomote Island in the Ryukyus also took action.

Of course, for those maritime merchants and gangs who abide by the rules of the Hongmen Sea, it has become the most peaceful and peaceful era in the Daming Sea in this era, which makes them admire the Hongmen who have made this contribution.

(End of chapter)