"Very good," Liu Yu was very satisfied with this,

As a trading port, Vigan naturally had large and small merchant ships.

And it is natural that those large merchant ships that can go to the sea carry some artillery.

The waters of Luzon are not calm, and major forces are also infested from time to time.

The Spaniards could not have wiped out all the pirates that roamed the waters off Luzon.

And the Chamber of Commerce could not rely on the money and food provided to the pirates to avoid the pirates.

Carry artillery on merchant ships to defend against pirate invasions.

Even in the Ming Dynasty at that time, it was an ordinary thing.

At this time, the Huben town that Liu Yu relied on was a Lu town, although it was a comprehensive popularization of firearms.

If you want to counterattack back to Taiwan, you still need a sailor.

Liu Yu naturally set his eyes on these large merchant ships moored in the harbor of Wigan.

The ships of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were not as different from those of the naval and merchant ships of today.

At this time, there was not a lot of estrangement between warships and merchant ships,

For example, the Spaniards or the Dutch sailed all over the world, so the galleons and Galen ships were almost always armed merchant ships.

These large ocean-going merchant ships were able to carry both cargo and a considerable number of medium and heavy guns.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, several armed merchant ships of the Dutch colonists were often able to defeat the Ming Dynasty sailors who could not find the north.

He immediately asked:

"Do all the ships anchored in the port of Vigan belong to the Vigan Chamber of Commerce?"

Hearing Liu Yu's inquiry, Wuda replied: "Not all, but the large armed merchant ships that the adults like are indeed controlled by the Vegan Chamber of Commerce, and these large armed merchant ships that can go to sea are either retired from the Spaniards or ordered galleons from the shipyard. ”

"What," Liu Yu was startled when he heard Wuda's words.

"Is there still a shipyard in Wigan that builds large ships?" Liu Yu hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Wuda.

Wuda was taken aback by Liu Yu's actions.

Looking at the brightening eyes of the man in front of him, Uda swallowed.

"If you go back to your lordship, Vigan, as a large trading city, naturally has a shipyard."

"This shipyard was built mainly by the Spaniards and is under Spanish control."

Seeing that Liu Yu was fascinated by what he heard, Wuda continued,

"At first, the Spanish did build a shipyard after the creation of Vigan, mainly responsible for the maintenance of the Spanish armed merchant ships, and gradually became a shipyard, but due to the rise of the city of Laoag,

"Both the Spaniards and the local South Sea merchant ships in Luzon have chosen to go to Laoag, making the port of Vigan no longer prosperous."

"The shipyard that repairs the ships is naturally becoming abandoned, and then the Vigan Chamber of Commerce took over the shipyard from the Spaniards, at first it was mainly used to repair the merchant ships of the Chamber of Commerce, and later began to build some small and medium-sized ships, after all, the shipyard of the Spaniard Lawag is expensive to build ships, so the local Chamber of Commerce in Vigan is basically self-built ships, and the Spanish consuls are also turning a blind eye to this."

"As the Chamber of Commerce grew, so did the demand for trade, so they began to build their own large armed merchant ships after imitating the galleons of the Spaniards." Uda replied.

After listening to Wuda's answer, Liu Yu suddenly realized.

"Well, there are still a few large merchant ships under construction in the shipyard right now."

"If you want to go back to your lordship, there are still three galleons and several medium-sized merchant ships under construction, which the Spaniards had planned to destroy before leaving, but later due to the Chamber's obstruction, after bribing the Spaniards, these ships were also retained."

Liu Yu silently calculated in his heart,

Due to the fact that after the First Battle of Penghu, the Ming and Zheng sailors were almost completely wiped out.

It is also because of this that the fleet that went south to Luzon was only a dozen ships large and small.

Although Liu Yu fled south, he arrested more than 500 craftsmen and boatmen in Dongning Port.

But it was impossible to build a large dockyard, and the hundreds of experienced shipwrights and shipwrights brought in were useless.

Since Wigan has a large shipyard, it is bound to be able to assemble a large sailor for himself with the shipyard and the hundreds of shipwrights he has brought with him.

"Uncle, I'm going to the shipyard, and the affairs here will be a problem for my uncle and these Wigan officials." Liu Yu thought for a moment and then said to Liu Quan.

"It's okay," Liu Quan nodded, he also knew the importance of the fleet.

"Uda, bring the officials from the dock and the shipyard with me."

Called a team of personal soldiers, Liu Yu led a large group of Weigan officials to walk non-stop in the direction of the shipyard.

Liu Yu and several of his own soldiers rode horses, and their speed was naturally much faster than these Weigan officials, who were running behind them out of breath and out of breath.

From time to time, he was urged by the soldiers behind him, and there was no other way than to scold Liu Yu in the local dialect.

At this time, the officials of Wigan were also confused,

Liu Yu did not take them to the dock in Wigan to check the mountain of goods in the first place.

Ignoring the dazzling array of goods on the dock, I just ran to the shipyard where there was only a pile of broken wood.

This made these Vigan officials who were out of breath puzzled.

At this moment, it is estimated that only Wu Da understands what Liu Yu is thinking.

"My lord, although the shipyard is capable of building large merchant ships, Vigan does not have a supporting firearms factory, and it is impossible for the Spaniards to allow the Chamber of Commerce to have the ability to produce artillery."

Wuda ran to the front, leaned over to Liu Yu and muttered.

Liu Yu rode his horse, and Wuda chased after him.

"Oh," Liu Yu deliberately slowed down,

"Looks like you know something." Liu Yu said with a smile.

Seeing Liu Yu slow down, Wuda finally followed.

"My lord, there is really no big difference between a merchant ship and a warship."

"It's nothing more than a little."

"Cannon." A word came out of Uda's mouth.

"For a large merchant ship, if you load the guns, you will be a warship, and if you unload the guns, you will only be a ship capable of going to sea." Uda replied.

"At this time, there was no shortage of merchant ships in Vigan, and there was no shortage of shipyards capable of building large merchant ships."

"Now Vigan, or your lord, what you need is artillery."

Naturally, the basin understands this, and why the Spaniards would allow the Vigan Chamber of Commerce to have such a large shipyard.

A merchant ship, if it is not loaded with artillery, is still just a merchant ship.

For the Spaniards, a Spanish galleon capable of carrying dozens of guns was enough to kill everything that existed at sea in an instant.

Naturally, they didn't care about the few armed merchant ships that the Weigan Chamber of Commerce had secretly accumulated.

The merchants of Vigan also knew this, so the Spaniards and merchants often lived in peace.