There are four bird ships with 200 tons of materials, three sand ships with 500 tons of materials, two sand ships with 1,000 tons of materials, four Haicang ships with 300 materials of materials, two sentry ships with 400 materials of materials, one Fuzhou No. 2 ship with 600 materials of materials, and a small There are two Guangzhou boats, one Daguang boat, three 18-meter centipede boats, and two 25-meter centipede boats... In the small river behind Zhujiawan Village, there are more than ten boats that look old and are parked quietly at the moment. , and even dilapidated wooden Ming-style sailing ships, and their owners, seven or eight disheveled Ming Dynasty camp soldiers, were bragging, gambling and even drinking under the shade of the trees! It wasn't until they saw their immediate boss approaching that these veteran gangsters stood up and tied up their mandarin duck uniforms, and gathered around with smiles to greet Mr. Hao.
"Go, go, go, you guys who are squandering goods, why don't you go to the boat and clean up? What do you look like drinking and fooling around all day long! I can always remind you that today's distinguished guest is here. If you are waiting for me, Hao Bao looked at the playful and smiling faces of his subordinates, not doing anything right, Hao Bao said. I couldn't help but feel angry, so I lowered my face and loudly warned these bastard soldiers and ruffians. Then, under his strict order, the seven or eight battalion soldiers present, together with more than twenty companions who came out of the thatched cottages by the river, boarded the wooden boat moored by the river and began to clean up.
"Brother Qiao, Brother Kang, Hao's subordinates are all vulgar soldiers. They don't know etiquette and have no rules. It makes you two laugh!" After sending away the embarrassing men, Hao Datong turned around and put on a new one. With a smile on his face, he guided Kang and Qiao to the nearest bird boat on the trembling wooden springboard.
"Come, two shopkeepers, let's follow Hao to visit our Ming Dynasty's fastest warship, the bird ship..."
While the two rich men looked up at the towering mast above their heads, the Ming army commander Hao Datong calmly kicked aside a bunch of messy cables and barrels, and began to transform into a gold medal commentator to introduce Kang and Qiao. Here comes this wooden bird boat! In his opinion, the two men in front of him were rich, but they knew nothing about ships. As long as he blew the good news, he could persuade them to take out real money. Buy the warships eliminated by these battalions.
"The ship is a bit old, and there are still signs of decay in some parts, but the internal structure is finally complete. One hundred and thirty taels of silver is expensive!" In the compartment next to him, Hao Datong was blowing up his words with foam at the mouth, but he didn't notice the side next to him. Suddenly a man in black appeared and interrupted his boasting as soon as he opened his mouth. He also revealed all the shortcomings of the ship that he had concealed. This made Mr. Hao, who was eager to sell his inventory, instantly put away the smile on his face, and even the soldiers on several ships around him cast unkind glances!
However, this is of no use! The pirate-born Wu Fang didn't care about Hao Datong and the camp soldiers who looked unhappy. As a half-expert, he had the confidence to make the leader of Kang Da change his mind. If Hao Datong and the others still wanted to successfully sell these poor-quality goods, The ship must bow to him! As for getting angry and directly taking down his group, Wu Fang believes that this possibility is not high. After all, the big shopkeeper Qiao Siqiao is the middleman of this transaction, and the power behind it is powerful enough, so he will definitely not allow it. This kind of thing happens, thereby destroying the good reputation that you have worked so hard to build.
After thinking about this, Wu Fang continued, "In addition, there is only one left of the two anchors at the front and rear, which needs to be replaced, and..."
"Okay, okay, since Mr. Kang is not satisfied with the price offered by Hao, then you can come up with a price. If it's similar, let's finalize the matter, how about it?" Seeing the man in black under the shopkeeper named Kang saying, The more he worked hard, the more likely he was to reduce the ship he had to worthless. Hao Datong hurriedly interrupted the man's long speech and directly asked the silent boss Kang Linkang to bid on his own to see if he could get it. Consensus facilitates this transaction!
"Two hundred materials for the bird boat, one hundred and thirty-two taels of silver; four hundred materials for the sentry boat, two hundred and seventy taels of silver, Kang went out! But Kang has a request, and I hope the boss can agree..." Shen Shen said After a moment, Kang Lin raised his eyes and looked at Hao Datong, who had an eager face, Wu Fang, who nodded secretly, and Qiao Si, who had been silent, and finally agreed to the former's offer. And in order to expand the strength of the fleet, Mr. Kang also took advantage of this golden opportunity to ask Hao Datong to hire ship repair craftsmen! With real money and silver to clear the way, Kanglin believed that Hao Datong and Hao Bian would never contradict him on this matter. After all, in the eyes of mid-level officers like them, craftsmen are just big talking animals. In short, they are just hiring one or two leaders. If you go back to repair the ship, even if you just give yourself a few, it won't be a big problem. The key is to get the money. Once the money is in place, everything will be solved!
"It's not easy to hire craftsmen. After all, these people have their own things to do in the guard. If they are hired by you and leave the guard, I'm afraid it won't be easy to explain to the superior officer..." As expected, Hao Datong After listening to Kang Lin's words, he did not immediately agree to his request! It's not that the president's sense of responsibility suddenly exploded, but that this guy wanted to use this matter to squeeze more benefits from the wealthy and powerful upstart in front of him! He had heard from the boy next to Qiao Si that this man was very generous. He had just spent several thousand taels of silver to buy a lot of scraps that had been eliminated by the guard army. He must have spared no effort in order to get the craftsmen he needed. Don’t hesitate to pay a lot of real money! For a moment, Mr. Hao Dabao, who felt that he had the pearl of wisdom, even thought about the price of the craftsmen. As long as Kang Lin nodded, he packaged up several craftsmen under his command and sold them to them. As for the people who bought them, what happened? Whatever it is used for, that's not his concern!
"I hire a craftsman, plus his family, for twenty taels of silver per month. If he has special skills, the hiring price will be doubled on this basis. In addition, if Brother Hao can accomplish this, Kang has twenty I present you with two taels of silver as a token of thanks!" Seeing that there was something going on, Kang Lin immediately took a photo of two 10-tael silver notes, and Hao Datong, who was also very familiar with it, took the banknotes and hid them quietly. Your own sleeve bag! Now, with money as the foundation, the relationship between the two parties immediately got closer. Kang Lin and Hao Datong no longer were polite and called each other by their positions, but became closer brothers! Later, amid the shouts of "Brother Kang, Brother Hao", the Xinza pirate forces officially completed their first close collaboration with the Ming Dynasty camp system. Both sides got what they needed, and everyone was happy!
"Brother, I think you are a real person, so I won't hide some things from you! In fact, these ships are old ships that we have eliminated, second-hand ships. They should not be sold to you at such a high price, but because there are too many ships on them, Many mothers-in-law need to deal with it, because they think that I can only be thick-skinned and take advantage of you! In the future, if I still want to buy a boat, I will definitely bring out the best goods at the bottom of the box to trade with you, and I will never take it again. Those second-hand goods are here to fool and prevaricate! In addition, I have some tents, golden gongs, and carriages there. If I don’t mind, I will give them to you..." Maybe he took the money but sold other people’s rags. Because of the goods, Hao Datong, who felt somewhat guilty, extended an olive branch again, trying to strengthen the relationship between the two parties! Those tents, golden drums, gongs, single-wheeled carts, and two-wheeled carts that were gathering dust and moldy in the corners were just rubbish and burdens to him, but he didn’t expect that these things he gave away as extras were exactly what Kang was giving away. Lin and others need the most urgent and difficult supplies! Because to form a regular army, you need more than just young men and weapons, you also need a large number of tents for people to live in, golden drums and gongs to convey orders, and single-wheeled and double-wheeled carts to transport grain, grass and baggage!
Therefore, facing the goodwill of Mr. Ba, Kang Lin decisively chose to accept everything. However, as the saying goes, "throw a peach in return and give a jade in return." Of course, this guy who is very good at being a good person will not let his new friend suffer. He has the idea of taking a long-term approach to fishing for a big fish, and he immediately hesitates. I got two 10-tael silver notes! This made Mr. Hao, who was smiling all the more, grinning from ear to ear. He patted his chest and said that he was a humble and kind man, and that if anything happened in the future, you could come to him and so on.
Let’s get back to business and refocus our attention on buying a boat! After a brief exchange, Kang, Qiao, Wu, and Hao continued to watch the ship. At this time, several camp soldiers holding brooms and linen cloth had roughly cleaned and tidied up a 400-material sentinel ship, and were sending people over to ask them to move it. Walk over and take a look.
Big, tall, messy, damaged, but still mighty and domineering! This was Kang Lin’s first feeling when he boarded this 400-material fortune ship! It is said to be big because the ship is a little smaller than the half-sunken Fu Ship that the Necromancer occupied last time. It also has six upper and lower cabins and a wider deck. It is comparable to Conlin's current ship, a three-hundred-material sea-cabin ship. The "Flying Hebei Man" is much more livable. If it only transports people without loading cargo, it is estimated that it can easily accommodate more than a hundred new immigrants. How can it be different from a small boat made of two or three hundred materials, which can only carry dozens of people? They are crowded together like sardine cans;
It is said to be tall because the ship's side is higher and is only a little shorter than the No. 2 Fortune Ship with a material of six to eight hundred materials. It can also be said to be majestic and majestic, as high as a city wall. Due to the wide top of the bottom, it is very convenient for rushing. Plow, no wonder the Ming Dynasty military strategist Qi Jiguang and Qi Nantang, the god of war, said that "the city wind is pressing down, like a chariot rolling over a mantis, fighting against ship power instead of against manpower, so we always win";
It is said to be messy because the ropes, barrels, and windlass on the ship are scattered everywhere and not arranged in a unified manner, so it looks messy! After all, the ship is in a semi-storage state and has no one to maintain it. It is normal for it to be a little messy, but the small rodents that pass by from time to time are a bit unsightly, and it is really unhygienic. Kang Lin saw this It was decided to take down these ships and conduct a comprehensive cleaning to avoid causing various diseases in the future.
