These Dutch merchants, encouraged by the Dutch East India Company, came to trade in the Far East, but became stranded in the Far East due to bankruptcy.

There are only a few Dutch colonies in the Far East, and there are only so many Dutch, probably who is the case, the Dutch missionary Vanderlie, who has been in the Far East for several years, knows it in his heart.

Now, as soon as he wrote to invite, these people heard about it.

Among the men they brought with them was a man named Thomas Dryfort, who was a man in the city of Thermaz who provided maintenance services to the Dutch ocean-going warships and the Dutch East India Company's overlords.

Whether it was the Dutch East India Company or the Dutch Governor's Palace, it was never a place to keep idlers.

No matter how much skill you have and how high your level is, if you have a job, you will have an income, and if you don't have a job, you will have no income.

Therefore, when Zheng Zhilong led a large army to drive the Dutch to the sea and drive them into the city of Rebarsha on the island of Erkun, Thomas Dreyfour became a veritable idler.

Except for when Zheng Zhilong attacked from time to time during the siege of Relan Sha City with his army, he needed to pick up a musket to defend the city like everyone else, and the rest of the time, he could only be idle.

Zheng Zhilong led his army to besiege the city for more than ten months, and not only did the warships that stopped in the harbor under the city idle, but also the merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company, which usually passed through the city of Rebara, to and from Japan and Batavia also came.

On top of that, people who were not mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company not only had no income when they were idle, but also had to pay much more than usual to get food from the city.

So, as soon as Vanderje's letter arrived, the bankrupt businessman Jeremias, who was also in Rebasa? Fan? Fleet soon thought of the destitute Dreyfour.

And the treatment of the Dutch shipwright's 280 Chongzhen silver full moon was immediately moved by Dreyfort.

At the beginning of March this year, the envoys of the Dutch East India Company Governor Batavia came to Dongfan with the agreement with the Ming court and the officials of the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Palace, and soon Zheng Zhilong's siege of Rebashi ended.

Although Zheng Zhilong and the Governor's Mansion are still negotiating, the impoverished Dreyfort can't wait. Fan? Together, Jeremias Van Vliet managed to leave the hot blockade that had just been lifted from the siege.

The two men followed the supply ship of the Dutch East India Company to transport supplies for the city of Rebar, all the way to Ho Jing O, and after meeting with several other people invited by Vanderlie, they planned to enter Daming from Ho Ho Ching O, but they were refused.

In this way, this group of Dutch red-haired fans had to take a merchant ship to Guangzhou again, thanks to Zhang Xiang, who had already arrived at the Nanyang Company of Guangzhou Port at that time, and remembered the name of the Dutch missionary Vanderlie.

And the minister of the Governor of Liangguang, Wang Zhichen, also knew that the emperor was about to build a navy, so he got the entry documents of the Liangguang Governor's Mansion here.

So the group went north to Yuegang by land, and then from Yuegang, they took a merchant ship to the north, traveled to several places, and finally came to Tianjin.

Compared with the half-hung sailors on the Galion that Shen Tingyang brought all the way back from Batavia, this Amsterdam shipyard apprentice-turned-fisherman's son Dryfort can be regarded as a real shipbuilder.

In the seventeenth century, the population of the Netherlands was only 1.5 million, but the number of seagoing ships it owned reached more than 15,000, most of which were ocean-going ships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons and three layers of plywood.

The reason why the tiny Netherlands was able to occupy a place among the world's colonial powers during the Age of Discovery in the 17th century was due to its well-developed shipbuilding industry.

In the vicinity of its capital, Amsterdam alone, there are dozens of shipyards and more than 80,000 shipbuilders of all kinds.

It is precisely because of this that as early as the beginning of the seventeenth century, the small Netherlands could start to build hundreds of ocean-going ships at the same time, and the cost of the ships was even less than that of England, which was technologically advanced at that time.

It can be said that Amsterdam, the Netherlands, was a veritable shipbuilding center in Western Europe at that time.

This advantage of the Dutch was maintained until more than 100 years later, in the early 18th century, when the Russian Tsar Peter the Great studied shipbuilding incognito in a shipyard in Amsterdam.

Of course, this Dreyfort was just an ordinary shipbuilder and ship repairer in Amsterdam's many shipyards before he set foot on the ships of the Dutch East India Company and sailed to the East with the dream of making a fortune.

And it's certainly not the kind of big work that really has the ability.

Because the really capable big work, or really good shipbuilders, must be very popular even in Amsterdam, a place full of shipyards where there is no shortage of shipbuilders.

But even so, this Dryfort is already a treasure for the Dagukou shipyard.

When Jeremias? Fan? After Fleet took Dreyfort and others to the Tianjin Dagukou Shipyard, Shen Tingyang took the Dutch missionary Vanderlie, the interpreter, and led them directly to the pile of timber dismantled from the Galion, and asked them one by one about the material, location, use, and size of all kinds of wood.

Dreyfort quickly stood out from a bunch of red-haired devils, and finally became the only master craftsman in Dagukou Shipyard who really got 280 Chongzhen silver yuan per month.

Thomas Dreyfort was very pleased with the monthly salary at the Dagukou shipyard, and he was even more satisfied that he only learned from the missionary Vanderje afterwards that the shipyard where he worked was actually a royal shipyard.

As for Shen Tingyang, who also holds the post of the general office of the Dagukou Shipyard, he is even happier than Dreyfour himself to find a craftsman who really knows how to do it.

Since receiving the emperor's order to come here to prepare for the construction of a shipyard, Shen Tingyang has not lived a day of stability, followed the missionaries to the South Seas, went through all the turmoil, went back and forth to Eightavia to negotiate the purchase of ships, and on the way back and forth to recruit skilled craftsmen who could build ships, and then from a saline-alkali swamp, a shipyard that began to take shape.

Although not a single ship was built, there were two slipways and docks, a large number of local shipwrights recruited from the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang with high salaries, and a shipload of camphor wood, pine, fir wood, and even nanmu and other special shipbuilding timber that were successively transported from Jiangnan, North Korea, Yingzhou and other places.

Now these timbers are piled up in the ten timber warehouses of the Dagukou shipyard, waiting for the day when the shipbuilding will begin.

With the help of the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang, Shen Tingyang recruited shipwrights from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in Fujian, Ningbo and Zhoushan in Zhejiang, and he was not without good hands.

Among them, the three Chen brothers, Chen Shengguan, Chen Zhongguan, and Chen Tianguan, were also shipowners of a shipyard in Quanzhou and were born in a family of shipbuilders.

At the same time, among the candidates recommended by the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Office, there are also Huang Binqing, who was born in the coastal guard of the Zhejiang Dusi and whose family has been running a shipyard for generations.

It's just that these people who work entirely on experience, even if they participated in the project of dismantling the Galion piece by piece from beginning to end, they can't scale down the Galion and present a miniature model of the Galion to Emperor Chongzhen.

This not only made Emperor Chongzhen a little uneasy, but even Shen Tingyang was also greatly disappointed by the people who had high hopes for him after failing again and again, including the sailors and shipwrights on the original Gallion.

However, the arrival of Dreyfort and others immediately changed the situation.

Just half a month later, a model of the ocean-going plywood ship Gallion, which was about four feet long, and its length, width, and height were completely reduced and assembled according to the real scale, was finally placed on the huge sand table of the Emperor's Ming territory in the Wuying Palace.

On top of this huge and ever-improving sand table, on the eastern edge is a blue territory symbolizing the ocean, which was reserved enough to accommodate this model of a warship that would have taken two people to lift.