"Tiger warship, okay, my elite troops on the Ming sea are this ship." The Ming navy generals present nodded and agreed when they heard that Liu Yu named the ship Hu Ben.

Liu Yu looked at Xu Ming and asked, "Now the shipyard needs to build more Tiger warships for the Ming Navy. I wonder how many Tiger ships the Lavague Shipyard can build for the Ming Navy."

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

"The shipyard can build up to two ships." Xu Ming stretched out two fingers.

"Why can't we build more Tiger Boats for the Ming Navy in such a small amount?" Liu Yu frowned.

"The Ming court will naturally give enough silver, so you don't need to worry about silver." Liu Yu said to Xu Ming.

"Sir, it's not a problem with the silver fee." Xu Ming, who had gray hair on his temples, smiled.

"Sir, this shipbuilding requires high-quality wood, and the Ming Dynasty of Luzon is located in Nanyang, and it is naturally not short of large wood, but most of the wood needed by shipyards needs to be transported from Annan and other places." Su Langqing, who was standing by, said that Liu Yu did not understand the needs of shipbuilding.

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

Luzon is also a large island in Nanyang, so naturally there is no shortage of large wood. Why do shipbuilding still need to transport wood to Annan?

"Sir, this wood needs to dry in the shade for a period of time. It takes several months to several years depending on the purpose. Most of the wood used in my shipyard is large wood that has dried in the shade for more than two years. Not long after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty in Luzon, the required dry wood can only be purchased from Annan and other places." Su Langqing explained.

Liu Yu suddenly realized that it was no wonder when he checked the accounts of Sihai before, he always found that the silver fee for purchasing overseas wood was much more expensive than the wood needed to burn charcoal.

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

The so-called drying of the shade means not using the wind to dry the wood and remove the water vapor in the wood.

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

The main purpose of drying is to remove sucked water.

This process is called desorption. Free water has little effect. The correctly treated wood is placed in moist air and absorbs moisture no more than 20%, while undesorbed raw materials can easily exceed 70%.

A simple understanding is to "inactivate" the wood, kill plant cells, so that the wood no longer absorbs water, thus becoming a good waterproof wood.

Only such wood can be used to build warships.

"Sir, I'm sending a navy to Dongpu. I'm afraid that Annan will no longer sell dry wood to the Sihai Chamber of Commerce in the future. Sir, I need to make plans early." Su Langqing thought about it and reminded Liu Yu.

"If I send troops to Dongpu, I will definitely offend Master Ruan of Guangnan, but this Annan is not the dominant Guangnan family." Liu Yu said disdainful of this.

"The Sihai Chamber of Commerce can go to Qinghua, Xin'an and other places to trade with Zhengzhu." Liu Yu said.

Annan was in the Southern and Northern Dynasties at this time, and there were constant disputes between the Zheng family in the north and the Ruan family in the south.

"The four seas should not go to the name of the Ming court, but to go to the northern sea trade in Annan as a Chinese businessman in South China." Liu Yu reminded.

At this time, Annan was nominally in the Li Dynasty, but the Li Dynasty royal family had no actual rights, and the financial power was controlled by Zheng Zhu.

Zheng Lord's shogunate was called "official officials". All affairs, whether political or military affairs, were managed by the prefectural officials.

The court of the Later Li Dynasty only had a false reputation and had no actual power.

Lord Zheng could even depose and support the emperor according to his own wishes.

The current situation in Annan is very similar to the Three Kingdoms period in China.

It is not a bad thing for the Ming court.

The Ming court could have taken advantage of the dispute between the south and the south to seek benefits.

However, the Zheng family finally represented the Later Li Dynasty. Liu Yu thought about it if he sent an envoy to Guangnan to ask for business, it would probably directly arouse Zheng's disgust and eventually report the overseas Ming court to the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Liu Yu decided to ask the Sihai Chamber of Commerce to Qinghua and other places in the north as a Nanyang Chinese businessman.

"The Ming court navy urgently needed the Hu Ben warship, and purchasing Yindian wood from Guangnan is inevitable to be controlled by Master Ruan."

"Let's do this, go and tell the Nanyang Cooking Store. The Ming court hopes that the Nanyang Company will buy the best dry wood. Now the Nanyang Company urgently needs silver. I believe they will agree." Liu Yu said to the Sihai businessman.

The officers and soldiers of Fubohou Town controlled the Huben ship to head towards the navy's headquarters, and two big bird ships followed closely behind.

Today's shipyards also have thousands of workers and craftsmen. If the wood is sufficient, they will probably be able to build more warships.

"Sir, it has been more than two months since the Duke of Qin led the navy of two towns to Dongpu. I don't know what Dongpu is now." Liu Yu had just returned to the official hall and saw Chen Ande coming over, and now he is getting older.

When the Ming army set out from Dayu Island, Chen Ande also planned to follow the Ming Navy back to Dongpu, but was blocked by Liu Yu.

After calculating the time, I guess the Ming Navy had already arrived in Dongpu by this time.

"Mr. Chen, now that the navy is heading to Dongpu, the rebellion of Dongpu Shengfan will definitely be pacified." Su Langqing said.

"I hope so. I have been in Annan for more than ten years. I really don't want to see the Chinese slaughtered in my twilight years." Chen Ande sighed long.

"Old sir, with my Ming Dynasty King's Army here, Dongpu will definitely be fine." Su Langqing said with a smile.

"The old man's habit of living in Lavaguek these days, and the travel notes written by the old man in the West, surprised me. I didn't expect that the hometown of this red-haired ghost was so bizarre." Su Langqing exclaimed.

During these days, Su Langqing had read the Western Travels written by Chen Ande. He was amazed at Chen Ande's half-life travel and was fascinated by the European continent.

If Su Langqing was not the head of Minghai, he would really want to take the fleet to the Europa continent to take a look.

"What I wrote is nothing but what I saw in my eyes. The West is not as dangerous as the South China Sea. The journey is extremely dangerous and the journey is long. The journey is far from being as comfortable and simple as going to the South China Sea." Chen Ande could not help but shake his head and remind him when he saw the yearning in Su Langqing's eyes.

"Su Langqing, I'll order you to buy rice in Siam and other places, but what are you doing in the world now?" Liu Yu asked.

"If you want to go back to the adults, the Sihai Chamber of Commerce has been going to Siam since May. Fortunately, thanks to the help of the merchants of the Nanyang Centre of Peking University, the Chinese merchants and their group went smoothly. Just two months ago, the 200,000 stone of rice and grain purchased by the Chinese merchants had been transported to Luzon by the Nanyang merchant ship." Su Lang Qing said.

"The merchants from all over the world should be familiar with the waterway to Siam as soon as possible." Liu Yu said.

"As these days, we have purchased grain everywhere in Nanyang. The sea grain alone has already accumulated 300,000 to 400,000 shi, not to mention that the Luzon summer harvest this year was a prosperous period. The villain calculated carefully. This year, Luzon's food storage is enough for the people under the Ming court to eat for a year." As soon as Su Langqing finished speaking, Liu Yu smiled.
Chapter completed!