With the concession of the Weigan Chamber of Commerce, Liu Yu and his party rushed to the dock non-stop.

As the second largest seaport town in northern Luzon, Vigan has a shipyard for the construction of major ships.

Although Liu Yu was dissuaded by Wuda to go to the port at first, there was still a team of Ming soldiers who went to the shipyard.

At this moment, the shipyard has long been controlled in the hands of the Ming army.

When Liu Yu and his party walked into the shipyard, the shipyard was still in operation.

The galleon is also one of the Galen ships,

After Spain established a colony in the Americas, it needed to carry large quantities of goods and soldiers across the Atlantic.

At that time, the main seagoing ships in Europe, the Naya and Caravel ships, could not ride the wind and waves in the rough Atlantic, and were no longer up to such heavy tasks.

Thus the Spanish Galen ship was born,

It generally has 4 masts, the front two masts hang railing sails, the rear two masts hang jibs, there are several long decks, and the aft tower is very high.

The average Galen sailing ship uses oak for the keel, pine for the mast, and some tropical hardwood for the hull and deck.

It would have taken months to build such a galleon, a galleon of several dozen carpenters, blacksmiths, and shipwrights.

At this time, a huge wooden ship in the dock next to Liu Yu had already finished laying its keel, and it was in full swing to build its hull.

A large number of laborers carried timber through the area, and all kinds of timber were piled up in the nearby open space.

Galen galleons were used more in military applications than in ocean-going trade.

In the 16th century, the Spanish Armada consisted mainly of galleons.

At the beginning, the Spanish galleons did not have much subdivision, and when they loaded with cannons, they were warships, and when they pulled some cargo, they were ocean-going merchant ships.

But with the advent of the Age of Discovery and the increasingly fierce wars in Europe,

The original military cargo of the Spanish Galen ship was gradually distinguished,

The Galen ship's gun deck was loaded with heavy guns, which could fire through the gun holes on the side of the ship, which were not suitable for merchant ships due to the encroachment on the space for storing cargo.

As a result, merchant ships have basically eliminated such artillery decks, and the decks of warships are getting flatter and flatter, and there are fewer and fewer things that don't matter.

For the galleons of the Spaniards, Liu Yu was very satisfied,

Because it is very much in line with the future operations of the Ming army,

The Spanish galleons were taller than other ships, and were most notably marked by their towering bow and stern decks, which had the advantage of being easy to board enemy ships when two ships got stuck side by side in war.

At the same time, it can also carry a large number of soldiers, which is especially important for the Ming army who want to counterattack Taiwan and even the Qing court.

"Call me the shipyard master." Liu Yu said.

Uda, who was on the side, immediately stepped forward, and a group of Ming troops followed him.

After a burst of chickens and dogs, several gray-haired old men who looked to be fifty or sixty years old were taken out of nowhere by the Ming army, and Wuda told a few people in the local Weigan dialect, and these people were about to kneel to Liu Yu's side.

Seeing that Wuda actually asked a few fifty or sixty-year-old men to bow to him, Liu Yu waved his hand, signaling that Wuda did not need these etiquettes.

"They are the directors of the Weigan shipyard," Liu Yu was a little surprised when he looked at these old men who were half of their bodies almost in the ground.

"Back to my lordship, these people mainly manage the operation of the shipyard for the Chamber of Commerce," Uda explained.

"My lord, don't look at their age, no one in the whole of Wigan can compare to these few people in terms of shipbuilding experience." Uda smiled,

He didn't have much to do with the Spanish Galen, which Europeans had used for centuries to sail the world's oceans.

He beckoned to Uda and said something to him to inform the shipyard masters,

Now that these merchant ships have been finalized, Liu Yu naturally goes with the flow.

But he didn't just have his eyes on these merchant ships.

"I wonder if the current shipyard can continue to build ships." Liu Yu commanded towards Wuda.

After listening to this, Uda immediately muttered to several of the shipwrights in charge,

After a while, an old man over half a hundred years old nodded, and when he saw this Liu Yu, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly came up.

Liu Yu naturally wanted to build a new type of Galen ship.

Of course, naturally it wasn't Liu Yu who fabricated it out of thin air, he didn't have the ability to do it.

It is a new type of Galen ship that has historically replaced Spanish galleons.

In the middle of the 16th century, English shipbuilders began to develop light Galen ships, in order to make them more suitable for long-range artillery battles and improve the ship's maneuverability, they lowered the head superstructure, moved it into the hull, and even placed it in the bow and replaced the original round stern with a square stern.

This makes the weight much lower than that of the Spanish galleon.

The new design is relatively long, fast, and maneuverable against headwinds.

While the British designed the more slender and fast galleon, the Spaniards were not able to adapt to this change in European sailing design in time.

It may have something to do with the Spaniards' greater emphasis on the role of infantry on deck, after all, galleons were capable of carrying a large number of infantry.

As such, the galleons used by the Spanish Armada were defeated in the Battle of July 1588 by the English fleet of new, smaller-tonnage Galen ships in a naval battle due to their poor maneuverability.

According to Liu Yu's guess, the keel length of this Galen ship is about 3 times the width of the ship.

Therefore, he talked at length to these boatmen about some of the features of the new type of ships he wanted to build.

For example, the bow and stern tower is reduced, especially the height of the bow tower to make it more suitable for long-distance artillery battles, etc.

Several shipyard directors listened to Liu Yu's views under Wuda's translation,

In fact, these shipwrights did not build any large warships.

All they had to do was to imitate the armed merchant ships of the Spaniards, which had been used for ocean trade.

In addition, Liu Yu was not clear about the characteristics of the new Galen ship, and several old shipwrights were also stunned.

Liu Yu told all the details he knew,

Seeing the thoughtful looks of several shipwrights in charge,

To be honest, Liu Yu himself is not sure if this is the case, but at this moment, he can only treat a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

"The ship you are talking about is the Queen's ship of the English people." Su Langqing, who had been silent on the side, suddenly spoke.

"Oh, you know." Liu Yu was startled and turned his head to look at Su Langqing.

"I naturally know that after all, I am engaged in ocean trade, and I will naturally meet the English fleet on the sea." Su Langqing smiled and continued,

"I vaguely remember that the English ships were much lower and lighter and more agile than the galleons of the Spaniards."

"But its firepower was not inferior to or better than that of Spanish galleons."