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

As a commercial port, Weigan naturally owns large and small merchant ships.

It is natural for those large merchant ships that can carry some artillery in the ocean.

The Luzon sea is not calm, and major forces are often present.

The Spanish could not have caught all the pirates wandering outside Luzon.

The chamber of commerce cannot rely on the money and food provided to pirates to avoid pirates' robbers.

Carry artillery on merchant ships to resist the invasion of pirates.

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

At this time, although the Huben Town that Liu Yu relied on fully popularizes firearms, it was Lu Town.

Liu Yu naturally set his sights on these large merchant ships anchored in the Weigan Harbour.

Ships from the sixteenth and seventeenth century are not as different as those of today's naval ships and merchant ships.

At this time, there were not many barriers between warships and merchant ships.

For example, the Spaniards or the Dutch sailed all over the world, so the sailing ships or Garen ships they rely on were almost all armed merchant ships.

These large ocean-going merchant ships can carry both cargo from the ocean and carry considerable medium and heavy artillery.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, several armed merchant ships of the Dutch colonists were often able to defeat the Ming Dynasty navy.

He immediately asked:

"Does all ships of all sizes and large berths berthed at the Vigan Port belong to the Vigan Chamber of Commerce?"

Hearing Liu Yu's inquiry, Uda replied: "It's not all, but the large armed merchant ships that the adults like are indeed controlled by the Weigan Chamber of Commerce. These large armed merchant ships that can be far away from the Spanish or are large sailing ships ordered from the shipyard."

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

"Is there a shipyard for building large ships in Weigan?" Liu Yu hurried forward and grabbed Wuda.

Wuda was shocked by Liu Yu's actions.

Looking at the luminous man in front of him, Wuda swallowed.

"Sir, Weigan, as a large commercial city, naturally has a shipyard."

"This shipyard was mainly built by the Spanish and is controlled by Spain."

Seeing that Liu Yu was so obsessed with hearing, Wuda continued to speak.

"At the beginning, the Spaniards built the city of Vigan and did build a shipyard, which was mainly responsible for the maintenance of the Spanish armed merchant ships. Later, it gradually became a shipyard, but due to the rise of the city of Lavague,

"Both the Spanish and Luzon's South Ocean merchant ships have also chosen to go to Lavague, making the port of Vigan City no longer prosperous as before."

"The shipyards for repairing ships are naturally increasingly abandoned. Later, the Vigan Chamber of Commerce took over the shipyard from the Spanish. At first, it was mainly used to repair the merchant ships of the Chamber of Commerce, and later it began to build some small and medium-sized ships. After all, the Spanish shipyard of the Lavague was expensive to build ships, so the local chambers of commerce in Vigan basically built their own ships. The Spanish consul turned a blind eye to this."

"As the chamber of commerce grows, the demand for trade is also increasing, so after imitating the Spaniards' large sailing ships, it began to build large armed merchant ships on its own," Uda replied.

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

"Then there are still several large merchant ships in the shipyard now."

"If you want to go back to the old man, there are three large sailing ships and several medium-sized merchant ships being built. The Spaniards planned to damage these ships before leaving, but later, due to the Chamber of Commerce, the ships were kept after bribing the Spaniards."

Liu Yu was thinking silently in his heart,

Therefore, the fleet of ships heading south to Luzon was only more than ten large and small ships.

Although Liu Yu was fleeing south, he captured more than 500 craftsmen and boatmen in the harbor.

But the difficulty in building a large dock brought about by hundreds of experienced boatmen and boatmen was useless.

Since Weigan has a large shipyard, the shipyard and the hundreds of shipwrecks he brought with him will surely be able to form a large navy for himself.

"Uncle, I'm going to go to the shipyard, so I'll bother my uncle and these Weigan officials in the matter here." Liu Yu thought for a moment and said to Liu Quan.

"Okay," Liu Quan nodded, he also knew the importance of the fleet.

"Wuda, take the officers from the dock and shipyard to follow me."

He called a team of personal soldiers, Liu Yu, and a large group of Weigan officials, to walk towards the shipyard without stopping.

Liu Yu and several personal soldiers rode horses, and their speed was naturally much faster than these Weigan officials. These Weigan officials were running behind and panting and breathless.

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

At this time, officials from all over Weigan were also confused.

Liu Yu didn't take them to Weigan's wharf as soon as possible to check the mountains of goods.

I kept the dazzling array of goods on the dock and ran to the shipyard with only a pile of broken wood.

This made these Weigan officials who were overwhelmed with anger and puzzled.

At this moment, only Wuda understood what Liu Yu thought.

"Sir, although the shipyard can build large merchant ships, Vigan does not have a supporting firearm factory, and the Spaniards cannot allow the Chamber of Commerce to have the ability to produce artillery."

Wuda ran in the front and approached Liu Yu and muttered.

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

"Oh," Liu Yu deliberately slowed down.

"It seems you know something." Liu Yu smiled.

Seeing that Liu Yu slowed down, Wuda finally followed.

"Sir, there is actually no big difference between merchant ships and warships."

"It's just a little bit."

"Bao." Wuda spitted a word from his mouth.

"For large merchant ships, installing cannons means warships, and unloading cannons means just a ship that can fly far away." Uda replied.

"At this time, Weigan did not lack merchant ships, nor did it lack shipyards that could build large merchant ships."

"What you need now is Weigan or sir."

The river basin naturally understood this truth and also knew why the Spaniards allowed the Viagra Chamber of Commerce to own such a large shipyard.

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

For the Spaniards, a Spanish sailing ship that can carry dozens of artillery is enough to kill everything on the sea in seconds.

Naturally, I would not care about the armed merchant ships that the Weigan Chamber of Commerce secretly accumulated.
Chapter completed!