The next morning, when Lu Yuan went to the stern of the boat to box again, he saw Li Huamei standing there with a smile on her face. He couldn't help but sigh again. 【Read full text】
Women are really troublesome sometimes.
"Admiral Li... do you think you should do whatever you want? I can't practice boxing peacefully while you are here." You said we are not interesting to each other, wouldn't this be even more meaningless? When Li Huamei said she wanted to escape into Buddhism, she was not just talking. She had already looked down on the relationship between men and women.
"Captain, you don't seem to have assigned me a specific position." Li Huamei brought warm water and towels nonchalantly, waiting for him to use them after he finished his boxing practice. "Speaking of which, why don't I apply to be Mr. Henrik's assistant? Some of the structures on the Ming Dynasty ships, such as watertight cabins, wave breakers, etc., are the legacy left by Mr. Lu back then. It seems that they can also be used in On a Western ship.”
Lu Yuan nodded happily. This was reasonable. It was exactly the ship modification that he had always understood but could not take the initiative to advance due to the restrictions of the Lord God. He knew that Li Huamei still understood the underlying meaning of his sentence, "Because of some rule constraints, there are some things I can't say or do." "Since Admiral Li has an idea, I also welcome you to officially become the adjutant of this ship. Please also submit to the duties of helmsman and assistant to the chief carpenter."
Although John is the first mate, his sailing skills are extremely poor and he is not qualified for the position of helmsman. On the contrary, Li Huamei, except for being slightly inferior to Lu Yuan in navigation and accuracy, was above Lu Yuan in other levels. She was actually the best candidate for the first mate. However, Li Huamei doesn't care about the reputation, and Lu Yuan also needs to maintain a balance between skin colors. It is necessary to appoint a white first officer.
When you need to sail around the clock without interruption. A rotation of three to four sailors is often required. Especially since Lu Yuan is a captain and usually needs to do magic research. Practice internal strength, etc... unless there is a battle approaching or the sea conditions are complicated. Otherwise he wouldn't be able to stay at the wheel 24 hours a day.
In normal times, all the adjutants take turns to control the wheel and helm.
"Yes, Captain." Li Huamei put down the things in her hands and turned to leave. Both of them are Orientals, and they work hard to get things done, unlike Westerners who are obsessed with each other and have to explain everything clearly.
"By the way," Lu Yuan added, "Lead a group of people by yourself. Wait until you leave Bermuda before starting to modify the ship. And for small things like watertight cabins, don't bother Mr. Henrik."
Li Huamei understood.
Watertight cabins, breakers... there are more and more good things, and that golden strengthening scroll... Lu Yuan can't even imagine what kind of monster the ship will be when it is completely strengthened!
As for Henrik, Lu Yuan always felt that there was something wrong with him, and he could only ask him to leave when necessary.
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Pirate Paradise, Bermuda Harbor.
This seaport is located deep in the Bermuda Islands, but also within easy reach of European and Caribbean shipping routes. Due to the recent tsunami (Lu Yuan: cough~cough~), it is currently in a semi-closed state. It is said that the number of ships entering and leaving the harbor recently has only been half of the usual number, but Lu Yuan still saw hundreds of ships passing by along the way.
This shows the prosperity of this place.
The route into Bermuda Pirate Harbor is not complicated, but you have to pass through many areas with reefs. Some places even require high tide to pass through. Lu Yuan believed that there must be other better routes leading to the Bermuda Pirate Port. The route in front of him was probably used by people coming to the port for the first time, otherwise the Bermuda Pirate Port would be blocked too easily.
Bermuda Pirate Harbor is the ultimate fantasy and spiritual home of pirates. The harbor surrounded by large-scale reefs has become a guarantee of their safety. In fact. Lu Yuan, who had already participated in the game between various countries, could spot this pirate port at a glance. Behind it must be some big country, or even all big countries.
In an era when piracy cannot be completely banned, how to return materials looted by pirates to circulation is an important topic for economists like LeBlanc. In the process of pirate robbery, the money harvested is often less than one-tenth or even one-twentieth of the total value seized.
Businessmen take money on the road and produce no value. The main seizures were commodities, such as local Caribbean specialties, such as tobacco, cocoa, coffee, bananas, etc.; and products from Europe, such as wine, glassware, clothing, tools, weapons, etc. If the pirates' channels for selling stolen goods were not smooth and convenient, then these items would probably be sunk directly into the sea, or thrown into a cave to moldy and rot.
This will harm the interests of the entire Caribbean.
In this case, it is better to set up a "safe" and "convenient" port so that pirates can easily sell the goods at 10% to 30% of the price and make a lot of money. The merchants who have been stationed in the pirate port for a long time not only make huge profits when changing hands, but can also do pirate business on a large scale and get back the money they just paid out!
In order to plunder the pirates' money, shipyards and brothels are the two most important places. Because there are shipyards selling ships and cannons, in order not to cause an overrun of pirates in the surrounding area, it is a good choice to set the pirate port in an inaccessible place - such as the Bermuda Islands isolated offshore.
So Bermuda Pirate Harbor became such a perfect place.
The navies of various countries will attack pirate ports such as Nassau Port and Duntan Island, but they will not touch the Bermuda Pirate Port until the pirates can be completely wiped out.
After Lu Yuan and others landed, the port personnel heard that he was here to strengthen the ship and sent him and the ship directly into the dock. The Port of Bermuda has a unique spirit. Commercial activities and free activities are completely separated, and there are no permanent residents. All people are defined as passers-by.
Therefore, in the commercial activities, docks, docks and shops, they are well organized and absolutely prohibit anyone from messing around. And in the free activities, pubs, brothels, you can go around as you like without any security management...
Lu Yuan didn't come here to fool around, so he went directly to the shipyard. John Workman took August to the tavern to recruit a group of real sailing veterans to board the ship. There are many pirates and navigators who have spent all their money here. They are experienced and weathered, and can be said to be the most powerful crew in the Caribbean.
Fr. All right. Father Padley Angel, the guy who doesn't deal with Lu Yuan. He spent the whole day on the ship preaching Protestantism and healing the sick. Although he has always maintained a confrontational attitude with Lu Yuan. But I highly appreciate Lu Yuan for not engaging in "religious discrimination and religious oppression" on board the ship. Lu Yuan's Catholic identity was originally a fake, just for fun in his spare time. Anyone who engaged in religious persecution on the ship would be killed directly by him.
However, Padley Angel believes that this place is a "heaven for religious freedom" that is more relaxed than Shipwreck Island. It is a "hell in life and a paradise in spirit", so he wants to stay for a while to conceive of a new religious reform. paper.
Now the guy happily followed August and John to visit the tavern, wishing him good luck.
When Lu Yuan got off the boat, he saw an old man and four apprentices guarding the bottom of the boat. The four apprentices circled around the "Elona", measuring and recording the ship's data. The old man stood by the side with an arrogant look on his face.
Lu Yuan walked over with his shipbuilder Henrik Van Dyke.
"Is this your ship? Are you planning to strengthen it?" An apprentice said arrogantly to Lu Yuan, casually pulled out a piece of white paper and handed it to Lu Yuan, "Fill out the form! Have the money ready..."
"Are you a civil servant?" Lu Yuan asked in a daze.
"What? Don't talk nonsense!" The young man frowned and looked at Lu Yuan unhappily. The old man didn't say anything. He just looked through the data recorded by the four apprentices and sketched it.
Lu Yuan ignored him, lowered his head and looked at the white paper, and found that there were a few lines of words written on it, which was really convenient——
a Partial strengthening (sails, hull...) The price of each item is negotiable.
b Overall normal enhancement, 1.5 million pesos.
c The top level enhancement, three million pesos.
And then...gone? ! Your sister! He also said he was not a civil servant! How could a civil servant talk nonsense like this? ?
"Where are the details?!" Now it was Lu Yuan's turn to be upset, and he waved the paper in his hand. "You don't want to take away three million from me based on this piece of paper, do you?"
Hearing that Lu Yuan planned to do the most advanced enhancement, the old man raised his eyes and looked at him. He quickly wrote a few more lines on the recorded data with a pen and asked the apprentice to hand it over to Lu Yuan.
Even an apprentice is arrogant. It's impossible to push out big customers, but... you're still not very polite.
Lu Yuan turned around noncommittally. He handed the order directly to Henrik Van Dyke. When it came to shipbuilding, he would not be able to reach Henrik's level even if he studied for another ten years. The old shipbuilder had been watching the joke. Even if Lu Yuan handed him the paper, as long as he didn't pay, he had no intention of contributing.
But after Lu Yuan handed the paper to him, he pressed his shoulder. Then out of nowhere, a courage like "a soldier will die for his bosom friend" emerged from Henrik's heart!
As soon as he glanced at the contents on the list, he suddenly became furious. The old man took out a five-peso coin and smashed it directly on the apprentice's head. "I'll give you five pesos. How about you take this list and decorate a toilet for me?! Bullshit! Dog-shit!"
The apprentice screamed when he was hit, but before he could rush forward, he was slapped in the back by his teacher. The old man who had been posing before jumped out and yelled, "What are you talking about?! You don't like my plan?! Do you know who I am!"
"Isn't he Nion's disciple?" Henrik sneered mockingly, and then made an extremely obscene gesture like thrusting his hips, "Let him lick my balls!"
The old man opposite was so angry that his hair stood on end, "How dare you insult my teacher!? You won't be able to get out of this door today!"
"You don't want Nien to be humiliated?! Then open your eyes wide and take a look!" Henrik slapped the piece of paper on the face of an apprentice nearby! "My boat's keel is 110 feet long, and you're using this kind of reinforcement for me?! Believe it or not, I'm going to smash your sign right now! And is my hull made of cheap walnut wood?! It's obviously red! Tan, why don't you lick it to see if it's sweet!..."
"Ahhhhh~" The apprentice, who couldn't bear the humiliation after being slapped with paper on the face, screamed and wanted to pull the sheet off his face.
As a result, his teacher's face turned green and white, and he was speechless after a few words from Henrik. He slapped the apprentice suddenly, "You can't even act like a showman, what else can you do?" !? Ah! Damn, the keel is 110 feet. You wrote 100 for me. Did you eat those 10 feet?! Spit it out!..."
When he goes up, he is punched and kicked all over the face...
The old man beat up the apprentice without hesitation. Henrik looked at it quite happily at first, but then he saw that the unreasonable order was torn to pieces as the old man beat him, and then he realized that this guy had destroyed the corpse and wiped out all traces. The sinister intentions! So he jumped up and yelled, swearing, and poured basins of dirty water on Nien.
The old man couldn't resist the scolding, so he just blew the whistle wildly. After a while, three more old men of about the same age came...
Four people sat together and gushed wildly, with terms flying around and foaming at the mouth. Henrik's fighting ability is amazing, and he never loses in one-on-three. Not only that, he also quickly instigated a rebellion, making the situation two against two...
Lu Yuan couldn't understand what they were saying, and the swearing words they used were really mean, so he left the shipyard directly after leaving his request on the list.
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At night, Henrik Van Dyke came back with a list, and then began to excitedly continue to measure the ship. Lu Yuan picked up the list and looked at it, he felt a pain in his forehead, his vision went dark, and he suddenly felt like he was in pain!
["Alona" reinforced supplies list: 1,539,528 pesos, 647 ebony, 562 sandalwood, 298 canvas, 131 silk, 1044 shipboards, 181 linen, 347 mahogany, 100 cooking oil, 770 fruits, 324 cotton, 300 leather... ( The unit is the unit used when selling, such as bags, barrels, hundredweights, etc.】
After being in a daze for a while, Lu Yuan slapped his forehead and said, "This is Bermuda!"
If you are not afraid of offending the resident merchants, you can buy the most complete and cheapest supplies in the entire Caribbean here for about 30% of the price. Lu Yuan was roaring, coins and various treasures were pouring out from the space, the wind blew the eggshells, and the wealth was gone and people were happy.
Who said this? It’s so heartbreaking...
"Now that you've done it, do it thoroughly!" Lu Yuan gritted his teeth, opened the big octopus's gold enhancement scroll, copied down the required materials on it, and added them to the supply list...
On the second day, the whole ship brought out the musketeers and stormtroopers. Several adjutants led the team to attack in several groups, and finally gathered all the supplies within two days!
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ps: The decisive ship battle is about to be completed.
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