Lu Cheng has completely subdued Sang Lai country, the population is nearly ten times that of his territory, but he doesn't even have a decent shipbuilder, this is too serious, no wonder Kangdi has the confidence to block all the ports, Sang Lai's old bottom has already figured it out.

"Governor Ming Xiu, if you agree, you can drive the battleship to my territory in a few days, and I will take care of the maintenance of your battleship." Lu Cheng said.

"Mr. Arbiter, seriously?" Ming Xiu was excited, although he agreed to cooperate with the strongest Chosen One on the island, but he only hoped that the other party could give him some material assistance, and did not have great expectations, but Lu Cheng's performance made him have to re-examine this cooperation.

"In a word, there is an expert-level shipbuilder in my territory, as well as 1 senior shipbuilder, 3 intermediate shipbuilders, 8 junior shipbuilders, and thousands of citizens who can be mobilized, so you can rest assured about maintenance." Lu Cheng explained.

"Expert Shipbuilder!?" Ming Xiu still underestimated Lu Cheng's strength, even if the shipbuilding industry in Kangdi Country is so developed, the most senior shipbuilder has just reached the expert level, and a natural chosen person who has only been developing for a long time actually has a shipbuilder of the same level, you can imagine how great the potential will be.

"I'm also fortunate enough to recruit such talent." Lu Cheng is rarely humble.

"Mr. is too modest, the old man has thanked Mr. in advance, and I believe that our cooperation can bring brilliant victory. In order to show his sincerity, Sang Laiguo was willing to pay 10,000 gold coins in advance for the repair cost. "In the past few months, Ming Xiu has been walking on thin ice, he has to deal with some urgent and bad things every day, and his mood has been very depressed, and after talking to Lu Cheng today, he saw the dawn of victory for the first time, and he couldn't help but feel a lot better.

"I don't know if Sang Lai needs a warship? My territory can build 800-ton Galen warships. Lu Cheng felt that since he wanted to repair the ship for Sanglai, it was better to do the shipbuilding business as well.

Ming Xiu paused for a moment, he felt that he must have heard it wrong, so he asked again, "I'm sorry, sir, what did you just say?" ”

"I'd like to ask if you want to buy a Galen-class battleship?" Lu Cheng said it again.

"Yes! Definitely! Ming Xiu excitedly slammed off his seat and stood up, leaning over with his hands on the table and staring at Lu Cheng intently, "Sir, can your territory really make Galen battleships?" That's an 800-ton junior battleship! ”

Lu Cheng didn't expect Ming Xiu to react so much, isn't it just a junior battleship, as well as intermediate and advanced ones.

"How could I fool my allies, the blueprints I got some time ago." Lu Cheng said with some understatement.

Seeing this, Ming Xiu could only sigh: "The luck of adults is not ordinarily good!" I first book 5 Galen-class battleships, how to set the price? ”

Ming Xiu first determined the required quantity and then asked the price, and the willingness to buy was very strong.

"According to the price of 40,000 gold coins per ship, what do you think?"

Lu Cheng was a little weak-hearted, and the cost of each ship was less than 20,000, and the price of 40,000 yuan was more than doubled.

"Okay, this price is also fair, I will pay for 2 ships first, after the first batch of 2 ships is delivered, and then pay the rest of the money when the second batch is produced." Ming Xiu said.

Lu Cheng's heart blossomed, a trip to Sanglai to repair the ship and buy a ship 2 single business is 210,000 gold coins, a few days ago Lu Cheng couldn't think of it, just the net profit of selling the ship is 115,000 gold coins, compared to the income from selling dwarf equipment is really not enough. Lu Cheng decided not to continue to sell equipment on the exchange, on the one hand, he needed to improve the military strength of the territory, and on the other hand, he had to increase his efforts to support the Sang Lai country, and he couldn't lose such a rich man.

Lu Cheng chatted with Ming Xiu again and determined all the needs of Sang Laiguo in the near future.

The arms orders signed by Sang Laiguo and Lu Cheng include: 3,000 steel swords with a unit price of 1.8 gold, 3,000 pieces of steel armor with a unit price of 3.5 gold, 500 short bows with a unit price of 3 gold, other armor worth 5,000 gold coins, 1,000 sets of steel ingots with 5 gold per group, 10,000 sets of high-quality bread with 5 silver per group, and other materials worth 2,000 gold coins, as well as 5 Galen warships with a unit price of 40,000 gold coins, and 10,000 gold for the maintenance of 5 warships.

All of them are worth a total of 240,000 gold coins, which is enough to develop the territory for a while.

Of course, Lu Cheng did not forget the carriage he was thinking about, in fact, the carriage is one of the pillar industries of the Sang Lai country, although it is far less than the wood processing and export, but the carriage used for transportation also accounts for a large part of the trade income of the Sang Lai country.

Ming Xiu finally sold it to Lu Cheng at a friendly price of 50 gold per small transport carriage, and Lu Cheng was not polite, and directly placed an order to buy 300 carriages. I bought 20,000 sets of nanmu at a preferential price of 4.5 gold per group, but neither the carriage nor the nanmu could be sent to Lu Cheng's territory immediately, on the one hand, because it still needed time to manufacture and produce, and on the other hand, it was a transportation problem, Nanmu and the carriage were produced in Sanglai City, and after production, they also needed to be transported to Longwan Village to wait for Lu Cheng's ships to transport away, and it took time to produce and transport.

At the kind invitation of Governor Mingxiu, Lu Cheng attended the dinner that day, at which Governor Mingxiu introduced the current high-ranking officials of Sanglai Kingdom to Lu Cheng one by one, except for those who were not in Sanglai City, everyone else recognized them.

The next day, Ming Xiu took Lu Cheng to visit Sanglai City and the surrounding villages, and introduced in detail the history and economic and military development of Sanglai, Lu Cheng also took this opportunity to visit Sanglai's army, in fact, after being promoted to the town level, the territory can build barracks, citizens or militia can work here as regular soldiers, and soldiers are easier to advance than the militia, and it is easier to increase skill proficiency, and soldiers can also learn group skills, which can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army, of course, Because many of Sang Laiguo's current army are recruits, their combat effectiveness is not strong, which is why Lu Cheng feels that the escort team of the transport team is relatively poor.

After the visit, Lu Cheng rushed to Longwan Village with a transport team from Sanglai City, and there was a primary transport ship in the territory that had been waiting for a long time, and Lu Cheng returned to the territory smoothly with the escort.

"My lord, the dry dock has been built!" After learning that Lu Cheng had returned to the territory, Liya came over as soon as possible and dragged Lu Cheng to visit the dry dock.

In order to strengthen the defense, the dry dock that was originally outside the city wall has been incorporated into the city wall after the expansion of the territory, and the huge waterwheel group next to the dry dock can be seen far away from the dock, and after walking closer, the waterwheel with a diameter of 20 meters gives people a stronger sense of shock, the huge waterwheel is built on the river outside the city wall, and the waterwheel slowly rotates under the huge impact of the water flow, at this time the waterwheel is connected to the hydraulic processing equipment designed by Liya, and there are more than 100 citizens busy next to dozens of equipment, Some processing equipment is driving hacksaws to cut wood, some equipment is forging bent wood, some equipment is polishing planks, and the roar of dozens of machines working together is unusually harsh.

"Lord, we started building ships in dry docks when you weren't in the realm, and now we have a total of 3 Galen-class warships and 7 junior transports in a state of operation." Leah said, pointing to the dry dock covered with construction shelves.

Lu Cheng took a closer look, and saw that there were 7 rows of slightly smaller ships near the dock door, which must have been junior transport ships. And a little farther away from the dock door are three rows of complex and huge shelves, because the construction has not been started for a long time, and the prototype of the Galen-class battleship cannot be observed yet.

"How long does it take to build a Galen-class battleship?"

Lu Cheng asked people to ask Alice, who was arranging production in the dry dock, to ask.

Alice wiped her sweat and replied breathlessly, "My lord, the workers are not skilled yet, and the manufacturing cycle will be relatively long, and it is estimated that it will take 12 days to build the hull." If the workers were more skilled, the time would be greatly reduced. ”

"I've worked hard for you, work hard, and I'll give you all bonuses after it's done." Lu Cheng was inspired.

"Well, Haskie and I will work hard, even if the ship is built, it won't be able to drive."

Lu Cheng smiled and said, "Don't worry, we have found a buyer, as long as it is built, we can sell it and make a lot of money." ”

"Buyer?" Alice thought for a moment and asked, "Do you mean Sang Lai Country?" ”

"Yes, is there a problem?" Lu Cheng asked.

"They have mid-level captains?"

"Yes, there is more than one senior captain."

"That's great, can you ask Sang Laiguo to send an intermediate or senior captain to assist us?" Alice asked with some eagerness.

Lu Cheng asked puzzledly, "Why do you need the captain's assistance?" ”

"That's right, because I had a deep conversation with Miss Leah and Miss Jona, and they gave me a lot of inspiration to improve the Galen-class battleships, but I didn't dare to experiment with these ideas on this batch of ships because I was worried about the use of problems, and if there is any assistance from the mid-level and preferably the senior captain, I think I have a great deal of confidence in improving the Galen-class battleship, and it is even possible to make it a mid-class battleship."

"I hope to improve a lot in the next batch of Galen-class warships, first of all, the materials are all teak imported from Sanglai country, I have done experiments with the teak that Mike brought back before, and the performance is indeed much better than the shipbuilding wood we use now. The structure of the ship is strengthened to withstand more weight, the load capacity is increased, and it can also be equipped with more powerful and heavier guns, while the important outer areas are covered with a thin layer of iron sheet to strengthen the defense, and the sails are improved, and the above improvements increase the weight to ensure that the speed does not decrease, and may even increase slightly...... Wait a minute. ”

Alice said more than a dozen details of improvement in one breath, according to such improvements, the Galen-class battleship will be greatly improved in terms of attack, defense and speed, and it is also a certainty to become a mid-level battleship.

"Your idea is good, I will send someone to discuss with Sang Laiguo, and in order to ensure the effect, try to arrange a senior captain to come over."

Of course, Lu Cheng supports Alice's idea, not everyone can transform a junior excellence-class battleship into an intermediate-level battleship, and the expert-level shipbuilder and the master-level, expert-level scholar can produce such inspiration beyond expectations, and there must be more surprises waiting for Lu Cheng in the future.

"Thank you, sir."

"If you can really transform it into a mid-level battleship, I will reward you with 10,000 gold coins, and of course other shipbuilders will also have corresponding rewards."

Lu Cheng once again offered a money offensive, and Liya beside him couldn't help but gasp, 10,000 gold coins is really nothing for the territory, but it is definitely a huge amount of money for individuals.

"Thank you, lord, you will do your best!" Alice was thrilled.

"Leah, you and the others who helped build the dry dock will also be rewarded, and you also have credit for the improvement of the Galen-class battleship, and if you can improve it smoothly, you will also be rewarded accordingly."

Of course, Lu Cheng will not forget Liya and Jona, after all, the two of them also directly contributed to this matter.

"Ahh Your lord, I'll try to help! ”

Liya said excitedly, the little money is the cutest, the more the merrier.