"Zheng Zhilong has a black slave army, and he has to form a white mercenary army by himself, and he has to overwhelm him in terms of momentum! What do white people say, it's more reliable than black people, right? "Shen Yue's real purpose in building a Spanish mercenary army is actually to disagree that Zheng Zhilong has a black army.

Zheng Zhilong has 300 black slave escorts under him, who are brave in battle, and even more loyal to Zheng Zhilong, and almost all of the things that protect Zheng Zhilong's safety are black escorts, not Zheng Zhilong's pirates.

Whether black or white, Shen Yue didn't think that he was of his own race, and the security work would not be handed over to them, and it was only appropriate to pay them to teach combat and help him fight.

I wanted to get blacks before, but for the sake of cost, the combat effectiveness of blacks is really not high.

"Will the Furlans be allegiance?" Shen Da was worried about loyalty.

Shen Yue smiled, "The Francos are different from our Ming people, in the Europa Continent, you can buy almost everything with money." These men went to sea in order to get more gold and silver. Their loyalty, just for the money. Whoever gives money, gives them enough money, they work for whomever they want......"

"What if our enemies bought them?" Shen Da asked.

"In such a situation, even if our own people are bought with a lot of money, will they not be betrayed?" Shen Yue's words made Shen Da want to refute, but in the end, he gave up refutation.

The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit.

"This mercenary army, on the one hand, fights for us, and on the other hand, trains for us a team of sailors for their way of fighting. In the future, we need to go to the ocean ......," Shen Yue instructed Shen Da, "choose loyal people from the ranks of the people and learn the language of the Franco. ”

Shen Da nodded.

He heard from Shen Qi that the Furlong machine man has strong combat effectiveness, and if all the officers and soldiers of the Sailor Division can learn the Franc Robot combat method, and then equip such a warship, it will greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the Daming Sailor.

"Don't you ask me what I've been doing these days?" When leaving, Shen Da finally couldn't hold back and asked Shen Yue.

"Sir, you are my family, no matter what you do, I believe that you are thinking about the Shen family, you can tell me, you will not hide it......" Shen Yue said. By the way, sir, please arrange for people to go to sea to keep an eye on it and find out the news of the Zhao family's fleet. ”

He was actually very curious, but in the end he didn't ask.

Shen Dazhi looked at Shen Yue in a daze for a while before he nodded and sighed and walked towards the door.

Looking at Shen Da's back, Shen Yue smiled helplessly.

Longshan Institute, since the arrival of the Shen family, has been changing rapidly, not only people's faces have become better, but Mu Ne's face is also full of smiles.

Shen Yue went out from the Shen family, and whether it was the old woman or the little daughter-in-law who knew him, they all greeted him with a smile.

The eldest girl who had not yet come out of the pavilion also stepped forward and smiled shyly at Shen Gongzi, and even threw a flattering look at Young Master Shen if she was bold enough to make Shen Yue very unaccustomed to it.

The workshop where the military craftsman was located became the busiest place in the entire Yongsan.

In the northwest corner of Longshan Institute, there is billowing smoke coming out every day, and there is the Shen family's soap-making workshop.

"My lord, why are you here? At present, the warship transformation work has not yet ended...... "Chu Qingqi saw Shen Yue for a long time, and when he came, he thought he was here for the warship transformation.

Since his apprenticeship, he has never been happier than he has been.

Shen Yue handed over all the things in the workshop to him to be responsible, and he didn't ask at all, he asked for silver, and he took it directly from the Shen family's housekeeper; If you want someone, you only need to say to the Shen family steward, and you will naturally recruit.

In order to let their children follow the apprentices, many military households gave gifts to several major stewards, which made them repay Young Master Shen's kindness with greater enthusiasm.

All of this was given by the young man in front of him, who was younger than his child.

"How long will it take to repair the Fur warship?" Shen Yue asked.

"Your Excellency, you ordered the structure of the Furlong machine to be drawn, we have been doing this for the past few days, and the painting has not yet been completed, and the repair progress is very slow." Chu Qingqi was relieved when he heard that Shen Yue had come to ask about the repair progress of the Furlong machine warship.

The renovation and repair of warships are very slow and understaffed, and now the work of covering the warships with iron armor is almost completely suspended, and they have to draw the drawings of the Furlong warship.

There are many places that need to be disassembled and repaired, and Thomas and Kent also know about it, but they can't stop the Ming craftsmen from studying their warships.

Shen Yue didn't hack their ship, he was already very kind.

"Are you sure of imitating such a warship?" Shen Yue asked.

"No problem, my lord, these ships can carry less than two thousand ships. It can't be compared with the treasure ship...... "Chu Qingqi couldn't understand why Shen Yue wanted to copy the Furlong machine ship.

"If it is transformed into a form like theirs on the basis of the Thousand Fortune Ships, how many cannons can be arranged?" Shen Yue asked.

Chu Qingqi couldn't answer.

Call Yang Zheng and Ban Lu to discuss.

"My lord, our ship is different from the structure and manufacturing process of the Furlong machine ship, if it is modified according to their ship, it will cause our ship to be less resistant to wind and waves......" Ban Lu said with a frown after listening to Shen Yue's thoughts.

Yang Zheng is also not optimistic, "If the windows on both sides of the ship are opened and the cannons are placed on the lower two floors, this will change the structure of the compartment below, and if dozens of cannons are fired at the same time, the hull will collapse...... At the same time, arranging so many guns would make it impossible to fit anything else into the cabin......"

The Flens, the trio has been surveying and mapping these days.

According to Shen Yue's thoughts, the Qianliu Fu ship was changed to the Fulong engine with artillery in the cabin, and the effect was not ideal.

The Ming warships were more slender, the cannons were arranged in the bow and stern, and the lower cargo hold was used for loading supplies and carrying life. The space on the Fluence is almost used to the extreme, and the space available to both sailors and combat officers and men is very small.

What's more, the structural strength of the Ming warship is not only dependent on the keel.

The main structure of the cabin is to make the ship stronger, and because there are more cabins, the buoyancy of the ship is greater.

"Unless you build a bigger ship, like a two-thousand-gauge ship. Or, let the guns be fixed on both sides of the cabin, instead of being able to move on both sides...... "Shen Yue's idea is to be realized, and it is not easy to transform the boat.

Two thousand warships are easy.

"How many guns can be loaded on a 2,000-material ship?" Shen Yue became excited.

"Three decks, at least sixty guns, with plenty of room for the Furlong cannon and the Hongyi cannon." Chu Qingqi and the others summed it up and replied cautiously.

"It's still a little less." Sixty cannons, the number is indeed a little less.

European battleships, to the back, developed to hundreds of guns.