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After the Pacific Fleet sailed out of the Sanglai naval base, ten Galen sea-going ships loaded their cargo in the port of Manila.

Li De, a Prussian who was hired by Haonan with a lot of money, gave full play to his huge connections and management ability at this time.

Na Haonan promised Li De that Deng Haonan would give him a cut of the in-demand goods bought at a low price. The same is true for selling Deng Haonan's goods at a high price.

This Li De got 10,000 taels of silver from Di Haonan last time, and he was already happy and couldn't find the north. Later, Deng Haonan hired him as the sales manager of the Pacific Company in Manila, and he was even more grateful to Na Haonan.

Therefore. Deng Haonan's large-scale procurement project of goods this time. Li De didn't dare to slack off. And the execution is meticulous.

During the Ming Dynasty, the trade routes between China and the Americas were Yuegang, Fujian, present-day Longhai, Haicheng, Xiamen and Guangzhou, with Manila as a transit port, and finally Acapulco, and Macao played the role of a Sino-European trade hub.

In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, the Spanish admiral Miguel López and Riyasbee led a fleet from Mexico to the Philippines. In the year of the establishment of the colonial capital in Manila, the "defeat year set up the capital of the protectorate." It was under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

At that time, the socio-economic development of the Philippine Islands was low. Local products were not even enough to sustain the colonial authorities' expenses, and Rigazpi's report to the Viceroy of New Spain stated that the colonial authorities could only get "cinnamon" from the local area

The handicrafts produced in China are cheap and high-quality, and have a good reputation in Europe, Chengdu and South Seas. In order to benefit from the primitive accumulation of capital, the Philippine colonial authorities had to engage in entrepot trade with China, and even consumer goods had to rely on China's supply. Established in the Philippines. The Spaniards sent two missionaries and two officers from Manila to Zhangzhou in the hope of making a treaty with China. In order to attract Chinese to resettle and do business in the Philippines, the colonial authorities also adopted some protection, reward, and preferential treatment measures for Chinese business travelers and Chinese goods.

Li Dezhu said that the Chinese goods imported into Manila included raw silk, silk fabrics, velvet, silk silk, satin, cotton cloth, linen fabrics, jewelry, handicrafts, food, poultry, and livestock. The favorite thing for Manilan merchants is the large trade in fabrics.

Due to the high demand for the Spanish Guanzhou dispute. Chinese silk and cotton fabrics soon topped the list of goods exported from Manila's large merchant sails to the Americas, and remained so until the end of the large merchant sail trade. Until the end of the Chi period, Chinese silk and other goods still accounted for the total value of Mexico's imports. The prosperity of trade with China has caused the volume of trade in the Pacific to surpass that of the Atlantic trade for a time, which can be seen from the direction of trade and investment: In the past four years, the United States has invested 10,000 pesos in trade with Europe, while 30,000 pesos in trade with the East.

The Ming Dynasty imported silver, steel, tin and lead products, saltpeter, gunpowder, as well as Western clocks and watches, "reeds" woolen wool, ships, glass, etc.

Na Haonan asked: "Then do you know what is the most profitable thing to ship back to Daming from the merchants of Daming?" ”

Li De said with a smile: "The richest person in the Ming Dynasty is naturally the emperor, so earning the emperor's money is the most profitable."

Na Haonan smiled bitterly: "Daming's annual fiscal tax is only three or four million taels of silver, and it is not enough to pay salaries to officials, how can there be money to buy things?" The emperor of the Ming Dynasty is the poorest! ”

Li De did not know Deng Haonan's true identity, only that he was a friend of Fernando, the governor of the Philippines. President of Pacific Trading Company and boss of Li De.

Li De smiled: "Boss! Do you know the Lu Gang in the north of the Ming Dynasty? Na Haonan nodded, and Li De said: "The leaders of the Lu Gang used to be the generals of the Dengzhou Naval Division of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor nominally disbanded the Dengzhou Naval Division. In fact, the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou Navy Division were quietly engaged in business, using their warships as merchant ships to make money for the emperor

That Hao Nan's face was full of shock, it turned out that the emperor was also secretly doing business?

However, after thinking about it, there was once Chongzhen who was stingy in later generations, and the argument was that after Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, he found more than 20 million taels of silver from the Internal Affairs Office.

Let's not say whether it's true or not, that Hao Nan can judge from this that the Ming Emperor is notoriously extravagant, and the treasury has an annual income of three or four million taels of silver. Even the military salaries of the army of officials are not enough. What does the emperor rely on to eat and drink?

It has only been 20 years since the victory in the Battle of Luliang. Where are the more than 500 warships that the Daming Navy Division returned from the expedition?

I really don't want to know, I am shocked when I think about it!

The officials of the Ming Dynasty nominally distanced themselves from the merchants. In fact, every official will go into business privately and use his official position to make money. Which of the ministers of the DPRK and China does not hold the shares of the merchants and take a cut of them?

Therefore. The emperor did business secretly. After thinking for a while, Hao Nan was no longer surprised.

It's all forced by a luxurious life!

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift!

This could not be more clear, in order to maintain the emperor's luxurious life, it is absurd to secretly turn the sailor into a caravan to make money in business. The emperor of China is capable!

It has only been 20 years since the victory in the Battle of Luliang. Where are the more than 500 warships that the Daming Navy Division returned from the expedition?

I really don't want to know, I am shocked when I think about it!

However, it is also possible that the powerful ministers did it behind the emperor's back, protecting each other through the officials, and then deceived the superiors and subordinates.

Whatever? Does it have anything to do with yourself?

Na Haonan shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

The large official ship that Lu Bang Buyu and the second worker pulled the transaction, Li De had seen it, and the goods were all good. The amount of money per transaction is huge. The Dutch navy did not come before. The fleet of the East India Company did not dare to rob the fleet of the Lu Gang, which numbered several million taels in the off-season and reached ten million taels in the peak season.

Later after the arrival of the Dutch Navy. I couldn't see the Lu Gang's fleet.

No wonder the Ming Dynasty started a war against the Dutch East India Company, it turned out that the Lu Gang had cut off the financial route and the emperor had no money to spend. No wonder the Netherlands built a bunker turret on Dongfan Island, and did not see the emperor order to send sailors to recover Taiwan.

Of course, with the current strength of the Daming Naval Division, it is difficult to protect itself, let alone call the Dutch Navy!

Hi! The country's navy is so weak that it relied on a pirate to regain its territory decades later?

Lamentable! Alas!

Li Desue Deng Haonan that the Lu Gang had a huge demand for firearms and gunpowder, and built a large-scale purchase of firearms and gunpowder and shipped them back for sale.

Na Haonan understands that the Lu Gang is behind the power of the imperial court. Then the imperial court is tight, and naturally a large number of arms are needed.

Well! Arms reselling is a good deal!

Na Haonan thought. At this time, it is time for the Xiaonanshan Navy Kanmaoei Arsenal to operate normally, and it is time to start playing the role of an arms dealer!

"Anything else?"

Although Governor Fernando can generously give Deng Haonan arms at a low price, the Philippines can't come up with 10,000 tons of arms at once. Ten large Galen ships, Deng Haonan has to fill at least nine and a half ships to be satisfied!

Then. Li De made a series of best-selling lists for Deng Nuanluo, and then contacted relevant businessmen from various countries to buy them at the best price.

On the one hand, Na Haonan contacted Governor Fernando to purchase the required arms. It mainly consisted of Franc machine guns, shells and gunpowder, and Na Haonan needed to equip his marines with muskets.

The French dog-lock burst musket was the best choice, and the French craftsmanship was of reliable quality, although the cost was high. But Deng Haonan doesn't care about money. It's just a pity that among the businessmen who came to Manila. There were very few French merchants. Li De only got more than 300 sticks with all his might. Deng Haonan had no choice but to do so. He used these more than 300 hair refining guns as spare guns for his original 500 escort team.

Without the dog-lock annoying pistol, Na Haonan had to choose the popular arquebus from the new.

Spain's Mushkert arquebus represents the current advanced level of mainstream arquebuses in the world. The caliber of the gun, the quality of 0, the quality of the full ammunition is reluctant. Maximum range summoner effective range surname. Mechanical sights are used. It can fire 2 rounds per minute. Although the gun is bulky. The small soldier pierces the heavy cuirass, or two horses, worn by the knight. The body of three or four people. At that time, most weapons were out and could hardly do any harm. It was with this weapon that the Spaniards conquered the large and backward Inca Empire.

Of course, the direct cause of this lethal effect is the problem of soldiers' tactics. When the musketeers of the countries of the world were at war. They are all linear and dense formations, and within the effective range, the bullets are naturally as easy as a string of sugar gourds. Of course, compared to the solid shells that can blast out a blood groove of hundreds of meters with a single shot, the Mushkert arquebus is still much inferior.

Mass purchase of Mushkert arquebuses. It's the Governor of the Philippines Fernando's trick again!

This guy dares to lose even a naval warship. Not to mention army muskets.

The Spanish Army in the Philippines had not fought a major battle in 20 years, and all the guns were "wrapped in gun oil." Rarely used. However, every year, war damage and natural attrition of guns are reported, and large quantities of guns and ammunition are shipped from Spain mainland.

And these weapons were rarely sold by the Spanish governor to individuals, as well as to potentially threatening countries around them. At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty could not get it, but now that after so many years of peace, Spain no longer regards the Ming Dynasty as an enemy, so Governor Fernando naturally wants to make another arms deal with Deng Haonan.

10,000 Mushkert arquebuses, standard with old rice arquebuses. "Four tubes of propellant, a small bottle of gun oil, and a gun wiping strip, the price is 250,000 taels." Fernando refused to budge. In the end, Di Haonan had to go through the channel of Guò Emma, and only then did he bargain to 200,000 taels.

Of the 2,000 tons of gunpowder, only half of them were finished products, and the rest were semi-finished saltpeter, sulfur, high-quality charcoal powder, plus 200 spare Franc machine artillery and 1,000 spare sub-mirrors, and Deng Haonan spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in bits and pieces.

By the time the ten large Galen ships were full, the 100,000 taels of gold that Hao Nan had extorted from the Netherlands had almost been spent, and there was only a little pocket money left.

In this way, the Pacific Fleet escorted ten large sea ships out of Manila Bay and on a detour north.

The high seas are rougher. Far less stable than Manila Bay. The tall masts and sails swayed from side to side pulling the battleship.

The sailors on Na Haonan's flagship Black Pearl are technically mature and experienced, and the Black Pearl is large and has a relatively stable ride.

It's just that the other warships are far behind, and when they practiced in Manila Bay, there was no such scene.

The abundance and complexity of ropes and sails are far more difficult to handle than those of the Oriental rigid sailing boats. It requires the cooperation of all sailors.

From Manila to Subic. The distance in a straight line by land is nearly 100 kilometers, and the waterway has to make a big bend, which is more than 200 kilometers long, and it takes more than a day to sail at full speed.

Just take advantage of the small wind and waves to train them.

Na Haonan made up his mind and ordered the whole fleet not to be in a hurry. Slow down and practice.

So that until three

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Subic Bay is deep and wide, and can accommodate 10,000-ton warships. The cliffs on the north and south sides are scaly, which can not only block the sea breeze blowing from the north and south hemispheres, but also play a defensive role in guarding the mouth of the bay.

At this time, there were already many craftsmen and workers building defensive forts on the pins on both sides, and the guns on the side of Deng Haonan's previous ship had been dismantled, and the 5,000-pound Longwei cannon was installed on the two wing forts, like a pair of big pincers of a huge crab with open arms. Tiger staring at the mouth of the bay.

In the era when there were no large cranes. Such a heavy cannon was actually lifted to the top of the cliff fort more than 20 meters high, and Deng Haonan sighed with the wisdom of the ancient working people.

After sailing in for more than an hour, I saw the Zhao family shipyard on the south side of the bay, there were four ships under construction in the two large docks, and some small warships were moored on the dock of the shipyard, but there were no artillery guns on them, which was also the weakness of the Zhao family.

This is also Zhao Jiacong's help to Deng Haonan. to cooperate with Deng Haonan, and then to be attached to Di Haonan at this time, a series of attitude changes. Only by force!

From afar, I saw more than 30 warships sailing in the bay, which once caused the panic of thousands of craftsmen and workers in the shipyard.

"Isn't it Spain, or is it the Dutch fleet?"

Zhao Chenggong, who was supervising the work in the shipyard, knew the inside story and hurriedly reassured everyone.

"It's our own warship, everyone's mother must be alarmed!"

Battleships of their own people?

Everyone was stunned and looked at the approaching battleship in disbelief. At this time, they saw that all the warships were hanging high with the dragon flag of the Ming Dynasty, and there was a big flag next to it, which was embroidered with the word "Deng" of Douda.

"When did the sailors of the Ming Dynasty change to Western warships?"

"I don't know which Lord Deng from the imperial court is here?"

"The clothes of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division are different?"

"Mo is not a royal soldier?"

Everyone talked about it and forgot about the work at hand.

But Zhao Chenggong didn't explain, just quietly looked at the battleship slowly stationed at the dock.

Father really didn't see the wrong person, this Hao Nan really did it at a young age!

After knowing that Deng Haonan had successfully purchased the Spanish warship, the dock in Subic Bay began to expand.

In addition to increasing the number of docks, the length of the docks was extended, and huge wooden piles were driven directly into the deep water, so that more and larger tonnage warships could be berthed. Fortunately, there is a primeval forest behind it, and the wood is enough to use, and it is very convenient.

Every 200 meters, there is a long pier. Three warships can be berthed on each side of the pier.

Na Haonan chose the naval base in the northeast corner of Subic Bay, and the fortress castle was also there. Because the fort was being built, the dock over there had not yet been repaired, so it had to be docked at the shipyard for the time being.

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The northernmost pier is the tallest. It is because Deng Haonan's ship, the Black Pearl, is as tall as a city. In order to facilitate Deng Haonan to walk down directly from the deck, the dock was built relatively high, almost flush with the Black Pearl when it was fully loaded.

The ship docked, and Na Haonan and the others walked down from the Black Pearl.

Suddenly, firecrackers were all famous, gongs and drums were noisy, and people were buzzing.

Zhao Chenggong has been waiting at the entrance of the dock for a long time with some craftsmen and workers.

"Congratulations to Gongzi Deng on his triumphant return!"

"Rejoice! Rejoice! ”

Deng Haonan clasped his fists and returned the salute one by one.

Accompanied by Zhao Chenggong, Deng Haonan took a group of martial arts cadet officers to visit the Zhaojia shipyard, because the fortress had not yet been built, so the other sailors could only eat and live on the battleship.

The scale of the Zhao family's shipyard is much inferior to that of the Spanish shipyard in Manila, but it is much larger than its own shipyard on Nanshan Island in the Ryukyus.

There are two docks of the Zhao family, both of which are of the thousand-ton level. One of them was dedicated to the construction of five or six hundred tons of Western sea vessels. The other is a small merchant ship of one or two hundred tons, which is built in most cases.

It can be seen that this place is backed by primeval forests, and there are no Spaniards to collect taxes, so the Zhao family can earn a lot of gold and silver just by selling cheap ships here.

If a few boatloads of in-demand goods are occasionally trafficked, the Zhao family's financial resources can be imagined.

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All the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet, under the intensive training of John and other 300 British supervisors, the students of the martial arts hall strictly followed the spirit of the instructions of the principal Na Haonan, and after more than half a month of hellish intensive training, they were finally able to spend their time safely under the deep sea wind and waves. As for the artillery scraping exercises at sea. Deng Haonan had to temporarily suspend because of financial constraints again, and wait until he returned to the Nanshan Naval Base to make plans.

After learning the news that Deng Haonan's Pacific Fleet had formed combat effectiveness and could return to the mainland. Zhao Chuanfeng urged Deng Haonan to set off as much as possible. At the same time, the Zhao family prepared ten ships of goods for the Pacific Trading Company, and the Zhao family's people were responsible for transporting them back to the mainland for sale.

Of course, among these goods, although Deng Haonan did not pay, he accounted for 30% of the dividends. The only thing Bang Haonan has to do is to escort the Zhao family and ensure that the goods are not lost.

Three days later, the gongs and drums in Subic Bay were noisy, and Zhao Chuanfeng personally saw Deng Haonan off, wishing Deng Haonan success.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Deng Haonan fired a salute 6 times. It is the oath to return home.

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