The most important thing in Chen Mu's eyes is politics, military, economy, and culture, which are nothing more than extensions of politics and a kind of means.

When Luzon's military, economy and culture are in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, then where is Luzon?

Li Yuxi was very capable. With Zhao Shizhen's instructions to find a bookmaker, less than half a month after the papermaker, the boat from Guangzhou Prefecture drove Chen Mu to Macheng Bay with the people he needed. He soon opened a paper tanker and printing workshop in Manila. With the support of the Nanyang Yamen, he hired people with extremely high efficiency to purchase raw materials.

Some of Zhao Shizhen was busy, and took the Jinyi Captain who had not found anything to find out to find the right books in the mountains of books transported from the Ming Dynasty and sent them to the printing workshop. He asked the craftsmen to arrange the movable type boards to check for the missing items, and to melt the lead out of the movable type that was not found.

The first set of books printed by the Macheng Printing House was the Three Character Classic, which was somewhat different from the Three Character Classic of the Ming Dynasty. It added some loyal and righteous brainwashing such as "respecting the Heavenly Dynasty and serving the Emperor" and promoted it in the societies built by tribes near the capital. Although there were still few students at this time, only children from wealthy families in Luzon could start school.

This is because the taxes in the middle of the country have not yet been decided, and there are too many remote mountains under restriction. The leaders of some tribes are still considering whether to respect Suleiman as king, and the progress is slow.

However, the current work of measuring land acres is about to be completed, and there are more fields than Chen Mu imagined.

There are more fields to be reclaimed than I imagined. In short, Luzon still has a good future.

If the tax is set in the future, Chen Mu would like to take advantage of the situation where the tribes are vast and small, the country has few people, and take a group of children from Guangdong Yangshiyuan to go to school with local children, and implement free education taxes borne by the Luzon State.

"The most famous printing family in the world is in Wuxi, Suzhou, and Changzhou. They do not use wood movable type, but lead or copper."

On the way to the port, Zhao Shizhen mentioned printing as much as possible. After all, before knowing Chen Mu, he could barely be regarded as a special writer for the tabloids in the capital. He also arranged Chen Mu, and he was clear about the affairs in this industry and said: "Wood, lead, and copper have their own advantages and disadvantages."

"Wood movable type is of different sizes due to water, but it is cheap and easy to make. The printed handwriting cannot be lined; lead movable type is well printed but it is easy to make mistakes; copper movable type is best printed, but it is expensive, and only copper is used in the capital and Jiangnan."

"Even other places, even if you have this technology, you don't have this capital."

Chen Mu nodded, looked at the craftsman making movable type briefly, understood the process roughly, and walked out of the Yinfang and said to Zhao Shizhen: "The cost is one aspect. The literary style in Jiangnan is prevalent, and it is richer than the literary style next to it. The demand is high, so the cost can be considered less, even if you use copper, it can cost you."

"In Guangcheng, only 100 kilograms of copper is only 100 taels of silver, and it is not enough to use a 100 kilogram of movable type. It is because the natural development of technology is too slow to communicate and is subject to the traffic restrictions of large land."

The technology of this era is like gunpowder. Fujian uses granulation, Guangdong uses powder, and even two adjacent bathrooms. The composition and power of gunpowder are very different. This county can make steel, while other counties can only burn iron, because the distance and transportation conditions make natural technology exchanges extremely slow.

It is precisely because of the slowness that a craftsman may live in a small world with a radius of ten miles in his life, which will inevitably lead to a monopoly of technology. It is not that people intentionally hide their weaknesses, but that they will starve to death if they share the technology.

"Power can promote technology. I can make Guangdong military households use Xu Erjin's gunpowder, but I can't do anything about culture and most technologies. These things will be implemented hard by force, which will make many people starve to death."

Chen Mu walked forward, looked at Zhao Shizhen, pursed his lips and said nothing. He had wanted to do this for a long time, and wanted to compile a book like Tiangong Kaiwu at this time. He had greater power than Song Yingxing. If he promoted it with his power, he could completely completely make the Ming Dynasty completely renew its technical level.

But Zhao Shizhen couldn't do this, so he could not make any problem by asking him to compile information from the Wanguo country. The technology implementation requires cruelty.

He is too young and works neatly, but he is more inclined to be a joking technical mate. It is not a problem to build big fireworks and play with firecrackers, but it is not a problem to ask him to push this matter well.

Since there was no one at the moment, Chen Mu simply didn't think about it. He raised his eyes to the port and smiled and said, "It's a coincidence that the warship just entered the bay!"

The newly built warship of the Nanyang Guard arrived. Last night, Chen Mu received a letter from Sun Ao who sent someone on Chen Lai Island, saying that the warship was leaning on Chen Lai Island for a night and could enter the port this afternoon. These six shark boats of thousands of materials made Chen Mu very eager. With them, Chen Mu had the confidence to put Salcedo back to ask for debts.

Six red and black painted shark boats entered the port with great momentum, with flags waving on the ships, and a thousand-house flag army came together. After abandoning the forecastle and aft tower, they all adopted double-layer artillery decks. The ability to engage in the shore combat was extremely weak, but there were twenty artillery guns on each side of the ships, which had strong artillery combat capabilities.

This type of warship was named Chihai class by Chen Mu.

The Chihai-class warships are set to be more than 1,500 materials, less than 1,500 materials, equipped with 30 to 45 artillery pieces, and 150 to 200 sailors. When needed, they can use twenty large oars to row briefly. In addition to solid bullets, there are also grape bullets and a small number of chain bullets. They are gunships with extremely strong combat power.

The disadvantage is that the ship is loaded with too much food and debris, the combat radius is not large, and it requires supply of grain ships to fight for a long distance.

Chen Mu positioned the Chihai ship as the main warship of the Ming Dynasty for a long time before the Guangdong shipyard fully grasped the Saint-Babulo.

He knew very well what his advantages were, so he never planned to spend a few years building a cannon boat like a twenty or thirty-foot boat when his technology was not yet comprehensive. Although it might not be difficult to build, such a warship did not meet his needs.

If he fights against the Spanish fleet, especially when fighting partial divisions, he would rather choose to use smaller ships and more artillery, two or three ships to directly sink an enemy's large ship, rather than one-to-many.

He has more manpower, more productivity, and even more resources. Not to mention that the Nanjing Ministry of Industry is still helping him build ships, even if it is just Guangdong, it may not be slower to start shipbuilding than other countries.

This is his advantage.

Six large ships docked in the bay, and the garrison on the shore had rowed more than a dozen small boats to pick up people. Chen Mu rode Bai Mei with a telescope and looked at the warship on the shore.

In his vision, a thin old man in a straw hat and straw raincoat in the Guangdong flag army, tremblingly got off the boat in a small boat, carrying a broken bamboo basket and carrying a few fish. Seeing Chen Mu's expression cheerfully, he stood up straight and slapped the mud on the strawcoat and walked quickly.

The old man came to find him. Chen Mu knew when he saw his expression. He specifically asked the servants not to stop him. He dismounted and asked, "Sir, are you going to sea to fish and encounter a shipwreck?"

"Shipwreck? I'm Hai Rui."

The old man lowered his head and looked at his half-legged trousers and straw sandals. He wanted to hand over the fish to the servants, but found that the servants looked at him with their noses. He simply put the fish on the basket on the ground, bowed his head and gave the order to reign, saying, "Is it the Minister of Nanyang, Shuai Shuai? He is here in Qiongshan, and is ordered by the emperor to cross the sea and serve the official shogunate."

"This morning, I caught two fishing for Chen Shuai on Chen Lai Island."

In the bamboo basket, two fish jumped around weakly, and their eyes looked like donkey-like men standing there.
Chapter completed!