Of course, merchants exist to make money, but these profiteers are too cruel. Although a single-masted sailing boat is not popular, it can be easily transformed into a fishing boat. According to the old seal, it would only cost a few hundred pounds to build a new boat. Even if depreciation and black market sales fees were added, two hundred pounds should be a fair price.
These profiteers directly offered a purchase price of 20 pounds... This is really a calm and airy demeanor of mixing milk with melamine, and it is really the best to the top level.
As soon as the old sea dog heard what the guy said, he felt an unknown anger in his heart, and slapped the counter hard:
"Which eye did you see we were coming to sell sloops?"
The old sea dog was full of confidence at this time, and he already had a bit of power when he shouted and scolded. The guy didn't dare to neglect after hearing this, and quickly said:
"Then what do you need?"
The old sea dog said loudly:
"Go ask your boss, two British Royal Navy Galen-style galleons, Class III ships, plus sixty-three brand-new artillery from the Krupp Arsenal, including one-pound and three-pound guns, he What price can you give?"
The guy opened his eyes wide when he heard this, and immediately shouted at the old guy surrounded by the crowd:
"Dick, you idiot, it's okay to let them wait for a while for those small businesses. I'll give you five points when this business is done!"
Sheyan and Jiaoshi were stunned for a moment, the black hooded man was the boss, and the old man was the employee... As soon as the boss spoke, old Dick immediately squeezed out with a relieved expression. He nodded to Sheyan and asked them to sit down.
Now, the contractors of course started to yell angrily. There are at least a dozen of them at this time, belonging to three groups of forces. Before they came, they were already upset in the queue, but they didn't expect that there would be a stopper here. , of course not where to go comfortably. Sheyan ignored them talking and laughing with Jiaoshi Mogansha at all, treating them as air.
Those contractors still have no way to do it here after all, because Tetuga is similar to the Hell Gate Camp in the Avatar world to the contractors, it is a safe area, so they can only grit their teeth and leave bitterly. Fang Senyan dispatched the gold mine at this time to have the most intense face-to-face confrontation with old Dick. As the saying goes, once the gold mine comes out, who will fight for the front? He directly pulled a stool and put it next to old Dick, and then jumped He went up and clasped old Dick's shoulder affectionately and said:
"My dear friend, these two ships are of high quality, sexy, plump, round and beautiful. The price you give is really unreasonable. Twenty-one three-pounders can be worth three hundred pounds each, and here is more than nine thousand pounds." …”
After some verbal bombardment at the gold mine, he then took out a Chinese abacus, and after a while of crackling, he finally reported a number:
"That's it. The total is four thousand one thirty-five pounds and seventeen shillings. You can get it for four thousand five hundred."
Old Dick always felt that something was wrong, but he still dazedly succeeded in making a deal with the gold mine. The four of them immediately took the money and left. Not far away, they suddenly heard a scream from the old profiteer inside!
"My God! Even a brand new Galen barque is just over twenty-five hundred pounds!"
Hearing this piercing scream, Fang Senyan and Jiao Shi looked at each other, smiled knowingly, and quickly disappeared into the crowd. After a few seconds, old Dick rushed out from inside, shouting angrily:
"What happened to me today, why did I give this money in a daze? Damn liar, you'd better pray that you don't get caught by me!"
Then the old seal took Fang Senyan to another dock in Tetuga, where the price and service would be much more reasonable. Sheyan also put forward his own request to the owner of the shipyard, that is to completely give up the ability of long-range combat and only seek speed. I want to ask him if the ship can be further accelerated from the current speed. The price is easy to say.
The owner of the dock is called Luo Han, a bearded man in his forties, who speaks loudly and full of spirit. After listening to Fang Sheyan's words, he went to see the Sam, Fang Sheyan promised that the renovation would be completed by this time tomorrow, and the speed of the ship could be increased by 20%. Of course, the price was very expensive at 5,000 pounds.
That five thousand pounds is probably an astonishing astronomical sum for ordinary contractors. Sheyan's previous two fully armed and newly launched Class III ships were sold for less than five thousand pounds, but to Sheyan at this time, it was just a sum of money that required a little thought.
He sold the fruit of the giant sargassum for a high price of 160,000 gold pounds. At this time, after deducting all kinds of expenses, including the dividends of the pirates, and the squandering of buying food for Paul before, he can have ten pounds in his hand at any time. More than ten thousand pounds of working capital came.
Therefore, facing Luo Han's request, Sheyan readily agreed, and asked Luo Han intentionally or unintentionally after paying:
"I don't know if there is any way to build a ship that can travel faster than the Black Pearl?"
Luo Han was taken aback for a moment, shook his head and said:
"It's almost impossible."
Sheyan wondered:
"Why?"
Luo Han probably also knew that Sheyan was a big spender, so he smiled after thinking about it, made a cup of coffee for everyone, and invited them to sit down and said:
"It's a long time to talk about this matter. In fact, there are many legends about the Black Pearl, but people are most convinced that it is truly the number one speed in the Caribbean, so that it is regarded as a representative of freedom! But Has no one analyzed why the Black Pearl can be the number one clipper ship in the Caribbean? Of course it is impossible. In fact, every craftsman who builds a ship has a requirement when he comes into contact with this industry. The ambition to build a ship faster than the Black Pearl!"
"When I was studying shipbuilding under the master master craftsman Jason Rees, I discussed this matter with a friend. He told me that it is said that when the Black Pearl was just launched, it was an ordinary five-masted armed ship. It’s just a merchant ship, if there is anything special about it, it has a very high-quality keel!”
"Keel?" Reef asked in astonishment. Nor did he know much about shipping terms.
Probably Luo Han also wanted to grab these big benefactors to spend more money, so he said very patiently:
"The keel is a longitudinal member that connects the bow column and the stern column in the center of the base of the hull when building a ship. There are transverse ship ribs on the top of the keel. Similar to the spine of a human or animal, there are Ribs and keels are the backbone and core of a ship, and with it, the ship has a backbone."
Seeing that Sheyan and the others had roughly understood, Luo Han said seriously:
"After the Black Pearl was launched, it was originally used as an armed merchant ship—you should understand that an armed merchant ship means that it is a merchant ship when it encounters the navy, and it is a merchant ship when it encounters other capable merchant ships. Or use arms when you're a pirate."
"According to our speculation, the previous captains of the Black Pearl are also guys with strong attainments and vision in ships, so after they capture the other party's ships, they can not only plunder wealth, but also easily Find some hull components made of precious and rare materials from the rest of the ships, and then install them on the Black Pearl, even if there is no way to tow the rest of the ships.”
After hearing Luo Han's words, the black buddies and Jiao Shi looked at Sheyan at the same time, obviously thinking that he could also plunder the precious components on other ships, and Sheyan was thoughtful immediately, and Luo Han continued:
"We can be sure that the owners of the Black Pearl must have a paranoid hobby of pursuing speed! So during the long plunder of the Black Pearl, they robbed countless ships and equipped the entire ship with All kinds of precious parts, these parts are obviously speed-enhancing without exception, so in the process of plundering for many years, they will gradually change from quantitative to qualitative, and finally form the current Caribbean Sea. The king of speed, the symbol of freedom, the Black Pearl!"
The black buddies couldn't help interjecting:
"It doesn't sound too difficult, so in theory, as long as you have money, you can buy enough speed-increasing accessories to surpass Black Pearl, right?"
Luo Han laughed loudly when he heard this:
"That's why I mentioned the keel to you at the beginning of the story! For a ship, it is also a whole composed of thousands of precise components! It is definitely not to say that such a simple pile is precious. The parts are that simple."
"Believe me, my friend, some precious and sophisticated hull accessories even have a soul of their own! Can you imagine a band with no accompaniment but only singers? If you like sweet, then you will ask for spicy black pepper steak. A spoonful of Malaysian cane sugar?"
"The reason why the Black Pearl has become the unique king of speed is because it has a unique keel since it was first built and launched!!! Only such a magical keel can strongly support the entire ship. The backbone of the ship suppresses the conflict and backlash of those precious parts. If the commander of the army perfectly integrates those parts, and then creates the speed king of the Caribbean! If there is no such keel, the Black Pearl The added accessories have already clashed crazily."