"Tiger Ben warship, good, good, my Daming sea elite, this is the ship." When the Ming sailor generals present heard that Liu Yu named the ship Huben, they all nodded in agreement.

Liu Yu looked at Xu Ming and asked, "Now the shipyard needs to build more tiger ships for the Daming Navy, I don't know how many Tiger Ships the Rawag Shipyard can build for the Daming Navy."

Xu Ming seemed to have guessed that Liu Yu would definitely ask this question, and shook his head and said.

"The shipyard can start building up to two." Xu Ming stretched out two fingers.

"Why is there so little, can't we build more tiger boats for the Daming Sailors?" Liu Yu frowned.

"The Ming Court will naturally give enough money in terms of silver, so you don't need to worry about the silver issue." Liu Yu said to Xu Ming.

"My lord, it's not a matter of the cost of silver." Xu Ming, who had gray temples, smiled.

"My lord, this shipbuilding needs high-quality wood, and my Luzon Ming Court is located in the South Seas, so naturally there is no shortage of good wood, but most of the wood needed by the shipyard has to be transported from Annam and other places." Su Langqing on the side saw that Liu Yu didn't understand the needs of shipbuilding, so he said.

"Oh, we still have to transport this shipbuilding timber from Annam?" Liu Yu was stunned when he heard this.

Luzon is also a large island in the South Seas, so naturally there is no shortage of big wood, so why does this shipbuilding still need to transport timber to Annan.

"My lord, this wood needs to be dried in the shade for a period of time, according to the different uses of several months to several years, most of the wood used in my shipyard is a large wood that has been dried in the shade for more than two years, and I have not long established the Ming Court in Luzon, and the shade-dried wood required can only be purchased from Annan and other places." Su Langqing explained.

It dawned on Liu Yu that it was no wonder that when he checked Sihai's accounts before, he always found that the cost of buying overseas timber was much more expensive than the wood needed to burn charcoal.

Liu Yu still felt strange, and now he knows the purpose.

The so-called shade drying is to let the wood dry and remove the moisture in the wood without borrowing wind.

There are two kinds of water in wood, one is the water absorbed in the cell wall, and the other is free water.

The main purpose of drying is to remove the absorbent water.

This process is called desorption. Free water has little effect, and properly treated wood is placed in humid air, and the moisture absorption is generally not more than 20%, and the undesorbed raw wood can easily exceed 70%.

To put it simply, it is to 'inactivate' the wood, kill the plant cells, so that the wood no longer absorbs water, so as to become a good wood for waterproofing.

Only such timber can build warships.

"Your Excellency has sent a sailor to Dongpu now, I'm afraid that Annan will not sell shaded wood to the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce in the future, and your Excellency needs to make plans in advance." Su Langqing thought about it, and still reminded Liu Yu.

"If I send troops to Dongpu, I will inevitably offend Lord Nguyen of Quang Nam, but this Annam is not the only one in his Quang Nam family." Liu Yu said disdainfully.

"The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce can go to Thanh Hoa, Xin'an and other places to trade with Zheng Zhu." Liu Yu said.

At this time, Annam was in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Trung clan in the north and the Nguyen clan in the south were in constant dispute.

"The four seas should not go in the name of the Ming court, but go to the northern sea trade of Annam as a Chinese merchant in Nanyang." Liu Yu reminded.

At this time, Annam was nominally in the Li Dynasty, but the Li Dynasty clan had no actual rights, and the financial power was controlled by the Zheng Lord.

Lord Zheng's shogunate was called the "bureaucracy", and all affairs, whether political or military, were managed by the bureaucracy.

The court of the Later Li Dynasty was only in name and had no real power.

Lord Zheng could even depose and proclaim the emperor at will according to his own wishes.

The situation in Annam today is very similar to that of the Three Kingdoms period in China.

For the Ming Court, it is not a good thing.

The Ming court could take advantage of the dispute between the north and the south of Annan to seek benefits.

However, after all, the Zheng family represented the Later Li Dynasty, and Liu Yu thought about it if he sent an envoy to Guangnan to ask for trade as before, he was afraid that he would directly incur the disgust of the Zheng family, and finally report the matter of the overseas Ming court to the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Liu Yu decided to let the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce go to Thanh Hoa and other places in the north as a Nanyang Chinese businessman.

"The Ming court sailors are in urgent need of tiger warships, and the purchase of dry wood from Quang Nam will inevitably be subject to Lord Ruan."

"Well, go and talk to the English Merchant House, the Ming Court wants to buy good shaded timber from the East India Company, and now the East India Company is in dire need of silver, and I think they will agree." Liu Yu said to the merchants of the four seas.

The officers and soldiers of Fubohou Town steered the tiger boat towards the naval division's station, followed by two large bird boats.

Today's shipyards also have thousands of craftsmen, and if there is enough wood to build, more warships can be built.

"My lord, it has been more than two months since Qin Guogong led the two towns to Dongpu, and I don't know how Dongpu is now." As soon as Liu Yu returned to the official hall, he saw Chen Ande coming over, and now he is even older.

When the Ming army set off from Dayu Island, Chen Ande also planned to return to Dongpu with the Ming army's sailors, but was blocked by Liu Yu.

After calculating the time, presumably at this time, the Daming Water Master had also arrived in Dongpu.

"Mr. Chen, now that the sailor has gone to Dongpu, the rebellion in Dongpu will definitely be pacified." Su Langqing said.

"I hope so, the old man has been in Annan for more than ten years, and he really doesn't want to see the Chinese being slaughtered in his twilight years." Chen Ande let out a long sigh.

"Old man, with my Ming Wangshi, Dongpu will be safe." Su Langqing said with a smile.

"These days, the old gentleman can live in Laoag, and the old gentleman's Western travels book, but I am very surprised, I didn't expect the hometown of this red-haired ghost to be so bizarre." Su Langqing admired.

These days, Su Langqing also read Chen Ande's Western travels, and was amazed by Chen Ande's travel for half a lifetime, and also fascinated by the continent of Europa.

If it weren't for the fact that Su Langqing was still the head of Minghai now, he really wanted to take the fleet to the Europa continent to have a look.

"What the old man writes is just what the old man sees, the West is not as dangerous as the South Seas, the journey is very dangerous and the journey is long, and the road is far from being as comfortable and simple as going to the South Seas." Seeing the yearning in Su Langqing's eyes, Chen Ande couldn't help but shake his head and remind.

"Su Langqing, I ordered you to buy rice in Siam and other places, and now how is Sihai doing?" Liu Yu asked.

"Back to my lordship, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce has been going to Siam since May, fortunately with the assistance of the merchants of the British Merchant House in Pattani, the Chinese businessmen and their entourage have also gone smoothly, just two months ago in the port of Pattani, the 200,000 stone of rice and grain purchased by the Chinese merchants have been transported to Luzon by the British merchant ships." Su Langqing said.

"Merchants from all over the world should familiarize themselves with the shipping routes to Siam as soon as possible." Liu Yu said.

"These days, we have been buying grain everywhere in Nanyang, and we have hoarded three or four hundred thousand stones of sea grain alone, not to mention the harvest of Luzon in the summer this year, the villain has calculated carefully, and this year's Luzon grain is enough for the people under the jurisdiction of the Ming Court to eat for a year." As soon as Su Langqing's voice fell, Liu Yu smiled.

"For the people of the whole island, the food for a year is far from enough." Liu Yu shook his head.

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