Because the Dutch were the first to participate, the final result was in favor of Hongmen.

There are many countries in the Western European continent, and if you want to get ahead and occupy an active and strong position, you must not support progress, otherwise what awaits your kingdom in the end will inevitably be a miserable situation.

The steam train on Dayuan Island has long entered the eyes of these Western merchants, and they do not know the benefits therein, and they have never slackened in the past few years to explore the bottom line, but they have not gained anything because of the strict secrecy of Hongmen.

In Europe, there are already deep-pocketed consortia and state institutions that have begun to quietly organize researchers to conduct research and development behind the scenes, but there has not been much progress until now.

Hongmen spent more than 20 years and countless manpower and material resources to develop the happy technology, where can it be imitated in a while.

The Portuguese compromised, as did the English and the French, but because they represented more individual merchants, the proportion of state power was too small to give enough benefit to the Hongmen, and the orphans prevented them from gaining the right to buy ships.

For this reason, they joined forces in many ways, no longer caring about the dirt between each other's countries, each with the bargaining chips they could, and then sent representatives to negotiate with Hongmen.

Li Tianyang is calm on the surface, but there is a hint of joy in his heart, the diversity of negotiation objects not only means that Hongmen has obtained more benefits, but also can squeeze the net worth and bargaining chips of the negotiation partners to the greatest extent.

Using a semi-mature and defective product, letting Western businessmen use it for their own use, and becoming a chess piece for Hongmen's development and growth, it cannot be said that Li Tianyang's move was wrong.

Using the bargaining chips from the sale of steamships, Hongmenhai's relations with the Dutch and Spanish officials eased, which was also a surprise.

After the steamship is available, the ocean-going fleet such as Hongmen in the future will no longer be limited to the route of Nanyang and Dongwei, and the American route that Sun Juyong once opened up for Hongmen will definitely benefit from this, and more seagoing ships will join it; Being able to ease the official atmosphere with the Spaniards and the Dutch also meant that Hongmen and the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce could sail further south, open up larger markets, gain more profits, and embark on the same path as Western Europeans to travel the world.

That is, these things that seem to have nothing to do with the overall situation of history, but the more they can have a different impact on the middle and lower levels of the Ming Dynasty, especially the merchant class who are the backbone of the Ming Dynasty today.

Only by going out and truly seeing the outside world is different, and seeing all kinds of devastation and destruction caused by Westerners in backward Africa, America, India and other places, will the merchants and gentry of the Ming Dynasty understand the cruelty of the times, and they can be more prompted to be prepared for danger in times of peace to change themselves and adapt to the trend.

Of course, these changes themselves were not Li Tianyang's real intentions, and he didn't think about it so far-reaching, and he was now happy that he had gained support from Westerners through the exchange of technology!

In the contract signed with the Westerners, Li Tianyang had a clear showdown with the Westerners, and from now on, the Westerners must recognize the dominance of Hongmen in the Daming Sea, and all contradictions and disputes between Western merchants must not cause conflicts within the Hongmen's sphere of influence, let alone carry out military operations against Daming and other subject countries without the permission of the Honghongs.

In fact, in terms of the actual effect of this contract itself, after Hongmen almost wiped out the Western fleet that came to the East to pan for gold, under their dominance, there was no Western merchant who dared to smash Hongmen's tiger whiskers; It's just that now, when the actual relationship between everyone who originally formed a tacit understanding has become a contract in black and white, it will be more able to make that Hongmen stand on its feet in morality, and at the same time, it can also compete for the world for the next Hongmen and obtain the attitude of Westerners at least neutrality.

In addition, Hongmen has obtained a number of preferential conditions prepared by Western countries, not to mention the real money and silver payments, as well as batches of copper ingots, pig iron, saltpeter and other resources needed by Hongmen from Tiannanhai and Beihongmen.

Although Li Tianyang knew in his heart that the Western businessmen said that the shipbuilding technology they handed over to Hongmen was the most advanced in the West at the time, in fact, the Westerners must have reservations, and they hid a hand like Li Tianyang, and the process they took out was probably a mature process that can be mass-produced at present, or even worse, but as the so-called stones from other mountains can attack jade, Hongmen's own shipbuilding and cannon casting technology and the other party's shipbuilding and cannon casting technology are both proven, and the final harvest will not be too bad.

Although these skilled craftsmen of Hongmen may not know what the skills of Westerners really are to press the bottom of the box, this does not prevent them from using what they know to prove whether the technology given to them by the other party is good or bad, and whether the technology is outdated.

At the same time, Li Tianyang believes that although this Westerner is xenophobic, he is not so stupid as to think that he can deceive Hongmen and exchange inferior obsolete technology for Hongmen's advanced technology.

And with batches of Western merchant ships agreeing to deliver to Hongmen at a high price in exchange for a few old steam engine steamers that Hongmen had built temporarily, and happily escorting them back to their respective kingdoms, Li Tianyang did not know what kind of great changes would eventually be brought to Western Europe, but at least now Hongmen has changed a lot because of this.

The slave trade in Africa and the Americas was booming in this era, and a large number of African indigenous tribes who had been conquered by Jianchuanli were sent to all corners of the world along the seafaring routes of Westerners.

In addition to the relatively tight financial situation in the early days, Hongmen has now grown steadily and steadily, and the financial revenues from all sides are not difficult to support the gradually expanding army of Hongmen, and there is a surplus every year.

In order to continue to develop and expand the Hongmen heritage, Li Tianyang changed his resistance to the slave trade, and used his surplus money to buy a large number of blacks from Westerners to go to Luzon and develop a large area of obscurantism on Luzon Island.

In addition to the land of the Sulu Kingdom on the main island of Medan, which is already dependent on the existence of Hongmen, most of the other two main islands of the Luzon Islands, as well as the surrounding small islands of different sizes, have fallen under the control of Hongmen and the affiliated Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

The only regret is that the recruitment of displaced people from the Ming Dynasty has not stopped, but for Luzon, which is thousands of miles away, and must take into account the attitude of the government of the dynasty, etc., Luzon is still suffering from labor, although the development speed is not too slow, but it still does not meet Li Tianyang's inner requirements.

Therefore, when Li Tianyang opened his mind and agreed to the legalization of the trade of all evils in Luzon, this also accelerated the pace of Luzon's development.

(End of chapter)