Through Pang Tianshou's report, Zhu Youlang knew that he had recruited more than 30 Furlong gunners from Entrenchment Jingao at a high price, most of whom were Portuguese retired veterans and veterans of gunnery.

There are more than 100 seafarers and sailors who are proficient in water warfare and sea navigation, these seafarers and sailors are running around at sea all the year round, not to mention the skills of boating, and they are all outlaws who regard money as their lives, and they have no sense of loyalty at all, as long as the price of Da Ming Kai is high, they will not hesitate to follow.

In addition, there are more than 30 shipwrights who can build large ships, more than 10 gunsmiths who can build Francophone cannons, and more than a dozen missionaries who are proficient in Chinese and Portuguese to serve as translators.

In order to attract these technical talents to work for Daming, the settlement fee alone cost more than 20,000 taels of silver.

When he went to Macao, he brought a total of 200,000 taels of silver and requisitioned dozens of ships to transport people.

A total of four 12-pound heavy Hongyi cannons were purchased, each with 1,500 taels.

There are 12 heavy Franco cannons, each with 800 taels.

There were 30 light and medium-sized field cannons ranging from several hundred catties to 400 taels each.

Almost at one time, one-third of the small and medium-sized Franc machine field guns accumulated in the warehouse of the Macao Bugarao Cannon Foundry were removed.

Just dozens of Franc machines and Hongyi cannons of different calibers cost 20,000 taels of silver, which is the reason why Zhu Youlang specially instructed Pang Tianshou to buy more small cannons and less heavy cannons.

Those small and medium-sized Franc machine guns, Zhu Youlang estimated that the cost was more than 100 taels at most, and it doubled several times when sold to Daming, and the profits were too high.

Fortunately, Pang Tianshou was quite dedicated, and directly dug up some of the gunsmiths who would cast Francophone cannons in Macao at a high price, which somewhat made up for some of the losses that were exploited in the purchase of artillery.

In addition to purchasing a large number of artillery, the mission also bought 1,500 pieces of turtledove guns (called Mushkert arquebuses in foreign countries) of 22 taels of silver, 3,000 guns of bird guns of 10 taels of silver and the corresponding gunpowder, and the lead was not counted, totaling about 60,000 taels of silver.

In addition, they also bought eight large European sail warships, such as Carrak-type ships, Galen ships, and Caravel ships, ranging from 1,000 to 2,000 materials, for the study of the shipwrights of several shipyards run by the Ming Dynasty.

The government-run shipyards of the Ming Dynasty only built some warships called Guang Ship or Fu Ship, which were narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, and the two sides were open like two wings, which were stable in the near sea, and could not go to the ocean, and the large warships or civilian merchant ships that needed to go to the ocean could not be built for the time being.

The Ming Dynasty has been banned from the sea for more than 200 years, and the huge ships and big ships of the Zheng He period have long been unbuilt, and all the ships along the coast of the Ming Dynasty are degrading to miniaturization, and those that can carry 800 materials are considered to be great large warships.

In the early 16th century, ships in Southeast Asia also rapidly became smaller. However, this was due to the destruction of large merchant ships in Southeast Asia by Western colonizers, which eventually forced the locals to build canoes. The stagnation and miniaturization of Chinese sailing ships, which began in the late 14th century, were the result of the brutal blows of the government. So much so that now it will cost more and more to slowly catch up and make up for it.

These European galleons are all treasures for Zhu Youlang, in addition to taking out a few different types for the shipwrights to study, the remaining Zhu Youlang is ready to be left for the sailors and soldiers of the second town, and let them study and study it well.

Under the full instruction of those hired European sailors, we will strive to master how to operate these strange full-sail galleons in the shortest possible time, form combat power as soon as possible, and point to the sailors of the Ming Dynasty to fight and trade in the ocean!

Artillery plus muskets, dozens of large transport ships are loaded, turtledoves and birds are also available in the Zhaoqing Arsenal of the Ming Dynasty, but far from quenching the thirst, limited by materials, technology and manpower, the output of various types of muskets is still too low, far from keeping up with the demand, in addition to the imperial battalion troops have some firearms, more than 100,000 battalions also use cold weapons!

In addition to the dozens of artillery pieces and thousands of muskets of the Qing army captured by Jiao Lian at the Fenshui Pass, plus these purchased from Macao, the officers and men of the newly built Second Town of the Navy Division are not very short of firearms for the time being, and Zhu Youlang plans to expand the "Gongsheng Battalion" from an independent battalion of 3,000 or 4,000 people to a "Gongsheng Town" of more than 8,000 people, and the remaining firearms are planned to be equipped with all the firearms for the "Gongsheng Town."

"Gongsheng Battalion" is the highest proportion of firearms in the Ming Imperial Battalion, the strongest combat effectiveness of an independent force, the proportion of firearms is nearly ninety, the remaining one percent is some indispensable spears and swords and shields, they act as the main force of the assault in wartime, and usually guard the capital and the palace.

If all the extra firearms supplied to the sailor battalion are equipped into the expanded 'Gongsheng Town', at least the ratio of firearms can be pulled to the level of eight to two, and the overall proportion will still not be much lower than before, because the number of people has doubled, but the combat power can explode exponentially!

The Han people have a large population, and whenever they encounter a foreign invasion, there are always people who serve the enemy and act as traitors, but there is never a shortage of hot-blooded people who destroy their families and relieve difficulties, and are willing to throw away their heads to resist to the death.

In today's form, as long as the imperial court erects the banner of recruitment, fundraising and recruitment will be very smooth, and it is easy to pick a young and strong young man of four or five thousand people to enlist in the army to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Next, just when Zhu Youlang spent most of his energy on expanding and training the 'Gong Saint Army', the guard of the Son of Heaven.

Under the command of Gao Lixun, the commander-in-chief, went east from Zhaoqing, passed through Guangzhou, and went straight into the sea, and went to Chaozhou to assist Jiao Lian's land division to help suppress the pirate Xu Long!