With the queen of heaven, Liuyan sent a message. The Dapingyang fleet sailed safely, and Li De and the Beiyi fleet returned with a full load.

According to Na Haonan's order, the Pacific Fleet converged with the escort fleet and escorted the trade fleet together. Drive directly to Liaodong.

The officers and men of the fleet had already learned about the events of the past few months at the Xiaonanshan Naval Base, and they were happy and joyful in their hearts that Na Haonan had been promoted to the rank of the feudal official of the Ming Dynasty.

When the fleet arrived at the Lushun Naval Base, Di Haonan personally greeted the heroes of this expedition. Among them were fleet commander Chen Yaoming and others. Liu Hu of the 6th Combat Team of the Navy, etc., and Li De, trade manager of the Pacific Company, etc.

Chen Yaoming and other naval fleet commanders have meritorious service in escorting, and Liu Hu is the descendant of Deng Haonan's lineage. Helping Di Haonan control the fleet and treasures is indispensable. And Li De successfully explored a new Pacific route, and completed a huge amount of trade, and was stunned to obtain huge profits.

Na Haonan praised a meritorious man here, and the four dogs over there had already led Qian Shun, Liu Weiran and others from the secret service department, and couldn't wait to start counting the results of trade.

Li De then took out the trade list and began to report his work to Na Haonan.

"Dear boss, you are now the richest man in the world!"

Taking the list handed over by Li De, Na Haonan held back his excitement and read it word by word, again and again.

Goods worth two ,300,000 taels of silver. After it was shipped to Mexico, it was immediately sold out. Semi-average prices have increased tenfold or even fifteen, with silk and porcelain being the highest, followed by tea and raw silk, and handicrafts being the worst, but prices have also increased fivefold. At the end of the sale of all goods. In exchange for 18.55 million yuan in Spain and 33.77 million yuan in Mexico, which is equivalent to about 36 million taels of silver.

Originally, the estimated total price of this batch of goods was as high as 70 million taels, but Li De explained that the Spanish Empire controlled the flow of silver into the East, and the highest tariff in Mexico was as high as the voyage, and the average tariff was also irrigating, so Na Haonan's goods were subject to tariffs. Coupled with the mooring tax, commodity transaction tax, poll tax, etc., which berthed in Mexico, the price of goods naturally increased dozens of times.

Li De believed that the tariffs were too high, and the profits made by Mexican merchants were not high. It is bound to affect sales. And if more than 20 ships of goods are sold in this way, it will take at least eight months to sell out the goods. Eight months is too variable for a businessman, because Mexico has a trade fleet to Manila every year, as the saying goes, scarce is expensive, if the Mexican fleet comes back, then Deng Haonan's goods are bound to depreciate, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, Li De consulted with Chen Yaoming, Liu Hu and others and decided to smuggle into the customs to escape the entanglement of Mexican customs.

At this time, Mexico was vast, and its area was basically equivalent to three-quarters of the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The Pacific Fleet easily found the port of smuggling into the country, Puerto Valleta in the Bay of California.

This was thanks to the help of Lide's friend, the Mexican businessman Matevala. Businessmen naturally do not hesitate to take risks in order to make huge profits, and Matwala is one of them. If Di Haonan's goods can evade customs, then the price will drop significantly, and the profit margin of the merchant will be greatly increased.

With the help of Matvala, the goods were transported smoothly into Mexico. But in order not to alarm the Mexican Governor's Palace, Matvala ate half of the goods in one go and paid 30 million Mexican eagles. But he couldn't eat the rest of the goods, so he secretly contacted other big Mexican businessmen and secretly gave them a share.

In this way, Li De obtained a huge barter payment worth 36,200,000 taels of silver, which was less than half of the estimated 70 million taels, but there was no risk.

In this way, excluding the berthing tax of the Pacific Fleet's ships of 200,000 Eagle Oceans, no other expenses were paid. Until the time when the Great Flat Ocean Fleet left. Mexican customs thought that Li De and they had not sold anything.

When you go to Mexico, you can't go back empty-handed.

Li De knows very well what the Oriental people like, gold and silver are naturally wanted, and the most important thing, after these Mexican eagles and Spanish Oceans are transported back to the Ming Dynasty, they will be melted down and minted into silver to become the currency circulation of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming people rarely liked Western things. But for Western luxury goods, there is still a certain market and demand.

The most prominent is the various spices represented by ambergris, for which Li De purchased 50 kilograms of high-grade ambergris and 400 kilograms of ordinary ambergris. Two tons of perfume fragrances. Because Na Haonan does not make muskets, and the base does not have a production line for producing muskets. Therefore, Liu Hu purchased 20,000 Spanish Mushkert arquebuses and 2,000 French dog-lock anxiebots.

For the French-made dog-lock hydrocarbon gun, Liu Hu is very appreciative. However, there were not many French merchants in Mexico. The acquisition of 3,000 dog-lock muskets was also done with the help of Matvala. It took almost all the arms dealers in Mexico City to get it.

However, Liu Hu has agreed with several French fire merchants that the Pacific Trading Company will trade in Mexico twice a year under normal circumstances, so he is ready to trade with French ** fire merchants for a long time.

France did not have any conflict of interest with the Ming Dynasty, so there were no restrictions on the large-scale export of muskets to Ming merchants. The two sides finalized a long-term trade agreement, guaranteed by Matwala as an intermediary. In the next trade, the French ** fire merchant will prepare 20,000 dog-lock muskets, for which Liu Hu needs to pay 100,000 Mexican Eagle Ocean as a deposit.

Na Haonan's mouth often said that the best warship in France is fast and strong... Dot. However, it also led to the small number of high-quality warships such as France, and in the end it was unable to compete with Britain and the Netherlands, which had an absolute advantage in numbers, for maritime supremacy.

Chen Yaoming knew that Deng Haonan hoped to learn from the advanced shipbuilding experience and technology of Western warships to improve his naval industrial system and build a strong navy. For this reason, Chen Yaoming proposed a plan to build a warship for Na Haonan to the French fire merchants, which made the French fire merchants suddenly excited.

Undoubtedly, the construction of battleships is the most profitable business. The French Flame Merchant has always dreamed of breaking the monopoly of Britain and the Netherlands, but unfortunately he has never had the opportunity.

Chen Yaoming proposed to build a battleship, but the French merchants did not understand, so they told them to build a battleship with three gun decks, requiring it to be equipped with 90 to 100 guns.

Hannock, a French gunsmith with ties to the French Royal Shipyards, knew that King Charles I of England was going to build a warship with three gun decks. The prepared timber has been harvested from the forest miles away and is being air-dried near the shipyard. According to the air-drying cycle of the required oak and building wood, the construction will start in less than three years.

Britain and France have a common enemy at sea, the Netherlands, so the French Navy knows about the British Navy's shipbuilding plan, but France has limited funds at this time, and the Navy does not have the money to order such large warships. The Royal Dockyards were unable to compete with the British and Dutch on medium and small ships, so the shipyards were dismal.

Brother Hanno was confident in convincing the Royal French Shipyard to accept Chen Yaoming's order, a three-deck warship, conservatively estimated at about one million pounds, equivalent to two million taels of silver. The profit margin is also about 500,000 taels, Hannock was moved, so he reached a written agreement with Chen Yaoming, but the official communication required Hannock to persuade the French official, and Chen Yaoming was approved by Deng Haonan.

However, both parties said that there was no problem, so they happily pre-signed the agreement, which was also guaranteed by Matwala.

For this agreement, Na Haonan was in favor of it with both hands. Na Haonan knew that Britain was about to start construction of the battleship "Maritime Sovereignty", and in a few years, the battleship would be on the stage of history, and would no longer be just a symbol of the royal rights of various countries, no longer only serving the royal family, but serving the national navy.

With the advent of the "Sovereign of the Seas". The navies of various countries will set off a naval arms race. And Deng Haonan hoped to build the battleships of the East before the Western powers had time for the East. Therefore, Deng Haonan needed to acquire the technology and experience of battleships built by Britain, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain.

France had no foothold in the Far East, and it was risky to trade warships with France. However, Britain had the East India Company in the Far East, and had the same enemy as Deng Haonan, the Netherlands, so cooperation with Britain should be ideal. If Britain built the "Maritime Sovereignty" at the same time, it also built a sister battleship for Deng Haonan by the way. Maybe better.

Di Haonan couldn't help but nodded, it looked like it was time to deal with the British. And with John and other 300 British mercenaries by his side, the convincing power will be greater.

Looking down further, Di Haonan was even more excited. Huzi actually brought back corn and sweet potatoes and horse bells and other food crops. It turned out that after the arrival of the Pacific Fleet in Mexico, as the food carried by the battleships themselves ran out, it was necessary to resupply them. In addition to wheat and rice, corn, horses, and sweet potatoes are abundant. During his two months in Mexico, Huzi and his sailors procured food and ate some Mexican specialties, such as corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes. As a result, a large number of ships were purchased and loaded for the supply of the fleet.

And Li De believed that grain was also a commodity in short supply in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the Western goods were not accepted by the Easterners, so the purchased goods were only filled with a large Galen ship, and the rest of the ships had to go back empty. Instead of this, it is better to load the grain and transport it back.

At the same time, these Spanish and Mexican eagles will melt after being transported back, and the heat consumption is very large. Rather than wasting fire in vain. It's better to turn it all into grain and transport it back, this grain is hard currency like silver, and you never have to worry about losing money. Because even if it can't be sold. You can also stock up for your own use.

In this way, nine of the ten large Galen ships of 2,000 tons were loaded with corn, potatoes, and rice and wheat, and the other ten Daifuku ships were loaded with rice and wheat.

However, this only cost 500,000 stone of grain, only 3 million Mexican eagles, plus the previous purchase of spices and muskets, the total cost was less than 13 million eagles. So Li Dejian bought a large Spanish Galen ship to form a huge transport team. After Chen Yaoming discussed with Liu Hu, he believed that the profit from trade with Mexico was too great, and he should set up a large transport trade fleet. The ten large Galen ships and ten 1,000-ton Fu ships in front of him could not meet the requirements at all, and these Galen ships were borrowed by Di Haonan from the Philippine governor. The three-member Supreme Group agreed to expand the convoy and, through the Mexican Viceroyalty and Spanish merchants, purchased 25 large Galen ships of 2,000 tons and 30 medium Galen ships of 1,500 tons to supplement the fleet of the Pacific Trading Company.

In this way, the grain was loaded with 1.6 million stones, and most of the money was spent, and the rest was Spanish Ocean, converted into silver, and only about 10 million taels remained.

It was precisely because of the loading of grain that the convoy was slow that the Pacific Fleet's return to base was extended by a month.

"Great!"

Na Haonan couldn't help but shout. 1.6 million stone of grain, enough for 600,000 people to eat for a year, really solved the food crisis in front of Deng Haonan.

What makes Di Haonan even happier is that a large number of high-yield food crops such as corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes are suitable for cultivation in the north under the Xiaoice climate. If it is produced on a large scale, the food crisis in Daming will be solved.

Corn can be grown on gravelly soils and high hillsides, especially sweet potatoes, and can also be grown in cold and arid areas, which is far more resilient than corn.

This Mexican trade can be said to be fruitful, and its merits are no less than those of the soldiers who achieved the great victory of Ningyuan and Jinzhou, so Deng Haonan needs to reward the three armies.

First of all, except for recruits and privates, all officers on active duty, all disciples of the martial arts, regardless of civil and military, will be promoted to three ranks, and other officers will be promoted by one level, and the table xiàn will be promoted by two levels.

Since Di Haonan has opened Liaodong, the Liaodong Governor's Mansion, as a feudal yamen, has become a warlord recognized by the imperial court. Therefore, as a warlord leader. Deng Haonan's subordinates also rose with the tide, and a series of promotions were inevitable.

However, Deng Haonan's Liaodong Governor's Office was nominally under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and in fact it had to enforce its rights in accordance with Deng Haonan's military and political system.

Xiandi Haonan, as the governor of the capital, has an unlimited military rank, and belongs to the third level of Jian'an University. The second highest is Lin Feng, who was promoted to the chief of the general staff of the Liaodong Governor's Office, with the rank of lieutenant general. Although Huang Zupei was not a disciple of the martial arts hall, Di Haonan made an exception and let him enter the General Staff Headquarters as a colonel staff officer. The Ministry of the Navy of the Liaodong Governorate was established, and Chen Yaoming led the Minister of the Navy with the rank of lieutenant general.

Under the Admiralty's Pacific Fleet and the 6th Naval Fleet, Shi Jianfei served as the commander of the Pacific Fleet with the rank of major general, and Shen Yangwei led the fleet chief of staff with the rank of rear admiral. Other naval officers Xiao Nai, Huang Yisha, Hou Chuang, Xue Muhua, He Shuang, Zhang Impeach, Huang Zhonghua, Liu Jian, Wen Sanjiu, Qi Hanlun, Hong Hailiang, Song Defu, Shi Wuxie, and others were all promoted to the rank of colonel, and with the expansion of the Pacific Fleet, their authority was also elevated from the command of warships to the command of warships.

The battleship Black Pearl, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet. Divide a fleet of cruisers, including eleven cruisers. Five frigate squadrons, the second frigate squadron is 20 Spanish Galen-type frigates, the 4th, 4th, and 5th frigate squadrons are 60 Exocet-class frigates, and the 6th frigate squadron is 20 Damingguang frigates, plus various base Fuchuan-type patrol gunboats. The total strength of the navy and sailors of the logistics and transport fleet is 50,000.

Navy 6 Squad upgraded to divisional combat unit. With a total strength of 10,000 troops, Xie Yi led the commander of the 6th War Division with the rank of major general, Liu Feng was the deputy divisional chief of staff of the major general, and Wei Chunhui, Liao Jianjun, and Ben Qizhu were the colonels and brigade commanders.

The 6th Military Department of the Liaodong Governor's Office was formally established. Liu Hu led the head of the 6th Army Department with the rank of lieutenant general.

The 6th Army Department was under the jurisdiction of cavalry and cavalry artillery. There are no infantry formations. The total strength of the cavalry division is 20,000; 40,000 horses. The 1st Cavalry Division is an active black-armored elite cavalry. The division commander, Major General Zhan Zengyong, and the deputy division commander, Senior Colonel Shen Xiufang, were awarded the number Long Wuwei Iron Cavalry. The Second Cavalry Division is being formed, with only 3,000 people, and the division commander, Major General Du Yongchen, and the deputy division commander, Major General Wang Yuanlong, were awarded the number Eagle Yangwei Iron Cavalry.

The cavalry artillery is a corps-level combat unit, with a total strength of 10,000 troops and 1,000 artillery pieces. The commander of the First Cavalry Artillery Corps is Lieutenant General Li Han, and the deputy chief of staff of the corps, Major General Liu Huiwen.

The Navy and the 6th Army were subordinate to the General Staff and were under the direct command of the General Staff of the Liaodong Prefecture.

At the same time, the Liaodong Governor's Office established a special service command, which was an independent branch and was directly responsible to Di Haonan.

The commander of the special service command is concurrently served by Di Haonan. It belongs to the military-political integration organ, and at the same time, it has also made certain adjustments. Lieutenant General Wang Zhaoyang commanded the General Military Intelligence Service and recruited Gao Feng as the head of the Mongolian Intelligence Department. Lieutenant General Wang Sigou is in charge of the General Administration of Finance. Liaodong Bank was established and Feng Shaoyan was appointed as the president of Liaodong Bank. Major General Ding Daniu commanded the guards, Major General Wang Zhen commanded the supervision team, and Major General Dong Nan commanded the hunter commando team, which served as a strike force at the campaign and tactical levels. The scale of the special operations force was expanded, and a thunderbolt commando team was established, with Major General Liang Hui as the captain, to carry out the strategic strike mission of the Liaodong Governor's Office.

The Quartermaster Service is no longer included in the Special Service Command. Rather, it existed separately as a logistics command, under the leadership of the General Staff.

The overall function of the Logistics Command includes the major economic departments of the Liaodong Governor's Office in addition to supporting military supplies. Lieutenant General Qian Shun was appointed chief of the Logistics Command and concurrently director of the Quartermaster Department, Major General Liu Weiran was deputy chief of the Logistics Command and concurrently minister of heavy industry, Major General Zhang Chi was the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Major General Yu Minglu was appointed minister of light industry.

As the greatest contributor to the opening of the Pacific Mexican commercial route, Li De was also appointed as the executive president of the Pacific Trading Company, and with the rank of colonel of the Liaodong Metropolitan Governor's Office, he became a member of the Di Haonan Group.

That Haonan rewarded his subordinates and rewarded the three armies. The cohesion of the military group of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion with the disciples of the Wutang as the core was unprecedentedly high.

Three days later, the imperial court officially issued an edict, ordering Na Haonan to go south to suppress the bandits and proclaim the whole country. In this way, the officials and ordinary people of the southeastern coastal provinces were looking forward to the southward march of the imperial army, and Na Haonan had to take action.

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