On this day, Lin Feng and Chen Yaoming, who went to Chaozhou to negotiate with Xu Long about the purchase of the ship, came back together.

In the office, Deng Haonan listened to Lin Feng and Chen Yaoming's reports.

"Headmaster!" Lin Feng said: "Thanks to Chen Yaoming's uncle's help this time, not only did we buy a batch of warships from Xu Long, but Su Li, the leader of the Chao Gang, even promised to trade with us!" ”

Chen Yaoming said modestly: "Senior Brother Lin has won the award!" This time, I was able to convince my uncle to help, mainly because of the principal's reputation, and my uncle really wanted to know the principal, but he was too busy with official business to visit in person, so he told the students to greet the principal! ”

"Good, good!" Deng Haonan nodded again and again, and said, "I am very pleased that you can do this!" Tell us about your achievements! ”

Deng Haonan is most concerned about the results of their trip, saying a thousand things and ten thousand, Deng Haonan is not very trustworthy in his heart.

Lin Feng and Chen Yaoming glanced at each other, and the former said: "This time we first visited Chen Yaoming's uncle Xu Long, and with Chen Yaoming's help, Xu Long promised to sell us five three-masted ships, all of which were 400 large ships, and the price was a bit expensive, 4,000 taels each. ”

Deng Haonan nodded, he didn't care about the price, anyway, Yan Siqi paid for it, he only cared if he could get it.

At the moment, he asked: "Four thousand taels is acceptable!" How to trade? ”

This is the most critical issue, and Lin Feng naturally knows it, because Deng Haonan sent someone to remind him earlier that the other party is also a pirate, so he must guard against black eating black.

Lin Feng replied: "The student has arranged the trading location in Macau!" And there is the Pallas secretly responding! ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said, "It's good!" So what deal is Sully going to make with us? ”

Lin Feng replied, "Su Li said that they have a lot of Chaogang ships, but they lack firearms. Originally, they relied on plundering the imperial court and foreign merchant arms ships to replenish their firearms, but as the Dutch dominated the sea, foreign merchants rarely came to the Ming Dynasty to trade independently. Even if it comes, it will be escorted by a large number of frigates, or armed merchant ships, and it will be difficult to start. So they are in dire need of firearms, and want to use large warships to trade firearms with the Headmaster? ”

Deng Haonan suddenly came to his senses and said, "This is a good thing!" What ships do they trade with us? ”

Lin Feng replied, "Originally, Su Li heard that we could imitate the red-clothed cannon, and he was going to trade with us with five hundred seagoing ships. The student later hinted to him that the principal could build a 5,000-pound Longwei cannon, and Su Li was very interested and promised to trade with us with a five-masted ship of 1,000 materials! Each ship will be replaced with two 5,000-pound Longwei cannons, and twenty will be prepared in one go! ”

A thousand big ships? Deng Haonan was shocked when he heard this.

A thousand-ton ship is only three or four hundred tons, and in the eyes of later generations, it cannot be compared with a million-ton ship. Even if it is not comparable to the two thousand official ships of the imperial court, but for pirates, this is the main warship. Even if Niu Cha is like Zheng Yiguan, there are only twenty or thirty ships under his command.

This Su Li is a big deal, not counting the thousands of large ships he uses, he can trade ten ships in one go, which is equivalent to a medium pirate strength, compared to the Western fleet, he can also directly form a small fleet.

Deng Haonan asked suspiciously: "Is it reliable?" Don't fool us! ”

Chen Yaoming said: "I learned from my uncle that Su Li has built a large shipyard in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, with tens of thousands of shipwrights, and thousands of ships are built every year, and there are no less than 50 ships of this kind of material!" ”

Lin Feng said: "I visited the Chaogang Water Village this time, the strength of this Chaogang is far stronger than our brother alliance, all along, they have been pretending to be pigs and eating tigers, showing weakness to the outside world, and watching the internal friction of the brother alliance. If there is infighting in the Brotherhood Alliance, they will definitely come up and bite hard! ”

Deng Haonan sighed secretly in his heart, which one is not the master who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger? It seems that this trick is very popular in Daming!

Chen Yaoming added: "I asked my uncle, and he said that the situation was not good in the past two years, the Dutch closed the sea, and the Chaogang could only trade in the coastal sea, so this kind of sea ship could not be used. Therefore, there are a lot of old and new ships. If the Headmaster is prepared to trade for a long time, they can guarantee a constant supply of goods, and with their shipbuilding capacity, they will quickly build new ones as long as there is a need for them, so as long as we supply cannons, they will supply warships. ”

That sounds so tempting!

Deng Haonan couldn't help but think in his heart that if they didn't play tricks, he could use their shipbuilding capabilities to quickly pull up a fleet.

Thinking of the pride of the angry sea, Deng Haonan, a fanatical artillery expert, suddenly surged in his mood.

"How big can they build?"

Chen Yaoming thought about it and said: "I heard that Su Li has a craftsman named Ma Jun under him, who has a very strong shipbuilding ability, and once proposed to Su Li the idea of building 3,000 warships and forming an invincible naval army. However, Su Lixian was too expensive to build, and finally gave up Ma Jun's plan. I think they should be able to build 3,000 ship! ”

Three thousand ships of the sea, that is, nearly a thousand tons of warships, in this era, in the era of the decline of the sea power in the East, is already a rare warship. At present, only the Admiral of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor's relatives are allowed to use official ships to reach this level. However, if it is in the West, the Spanish Galen ship with a displacement of 100 tons (300 materials) ~ 1000 tons (3000 materials) has been traversing the Atlantic Ocean for nearly 100 years. In a few years, Britain will be ready to start construction of the 1,500-ton Sea Monarch. In contrast, the backwardness of the Ming Dynasty's maritime shipbuilding forces has been very obvious.

Of course, the super treasure ship of the Three Treasure Eunuch era two hundred years ago will always be a milestone in the era of sailing. But that is the glory of the ancestors, at this time the descendants of the Ming Dynasty can only worship, but they cannot be surpassed.

Lin Feng seemed to understand Deng Haonan's intentions, and said: "If the principal gets three thousand sea ships and equips five thousand catties of Longwei cannons, then looking at the world, who will compete?" ”

I saw Deng Haonan shake his head and said: "Everyone knows that our artillery is sharp, as the saying goes, peers are enemies, they can't let us get three thousand warships lightly!" Therefore, we need to make it ourselves! ”

No one is born stupid, especially these businessman-born pirates, whose brains are better than monkeys, how could Deng Haonan easily sit down?

Chen Yaoming said: "Why don't you leave it to me to contact!" I have my uncle to cover me, and I can talk to them! ”

Deng Haonan nodded and said, "It's good!" But don't just say we want it, but use a guò middleman to complete the deal, so that they will be less wary! ”