48 Hours a Day

“Ah?! So... is that your boat over there?!” Annie's surprised her chin is falling to the ground. "Did you really find Kid's treasure? But that's not right, even if you had money, you wouldn't be able to buy naval ships. ”

“It's a long story. I'll tell you when I have time. Now, let's talk about how I let you recruit gunners before. ”

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Despite the space on the Cold Raven, Zhang Heng did not intend to recruit too many people for the first time out of the sea. Including Annie, he now has a core class of only eighteen people. Zhang Heng intends to recruit fifteen people on the beach, including technicians such as cooks and carpenters, and then Annie recommends seven to eight people, mainly gunners, so that the structure of the people on board is relatively stable.

After a few trips out of the sea, the grinding is almost complete, so although the formation time of the team is slow, the advantage is not to worry about being directly mixed in by other small groups, and Zhang Heng is now the most lacking in time.

Zhang Heng had greeted Billy well in advance about Annie's position as head sailor. Female pirates were rare in the 18th century. Everyone was generally concerned about this, but Zhang Heng insisted on this matter.

Because it was the first order of the new captain, and it was not easy for everyone to refuse directly or ask for a vote.

Billy et al. then negotiated and finally accepted the appointment, but with a condition that Annie's fighting power needed to be tested.

This reason makes sense. After all, in addition to organizing sailors to carry out all the work on board, sailors have to lead by example in the battle. If a sailor who looks at his face is cut to the ground during the battle, don't count on the morale of those on his side to fight.

Zhang Heng had no objection to this request. He could designate Annie as the sailor of the Cold Crow, but wanted everyone on the boat to be oral but could only rely on the latter's own efforts. Good thing for Annie, Zhang Heng was worried about nothing but the latter's ability to fight.

Looking at two opponents higher than her, the red-haired girl's eyes not only had no fear, but ignited a color of excitement.

The lively pirates around have voluntarily given up a clearing space, as referee Billy said to Annie, "This contest is consultative in nature, in principle, no heavy hands are allowed, and you can admit to losing at any time, so don't worry, next you can pick an opponent among them, as long as you can defeat any one of them, we will accept you as a companion...”

In the end, his words were interrupted by a girl. Annie pulled out the knife that was stuck in the sand in front of her and tried her hand a few times. Then she grinned and revealed two lines of white teeth. “Don't bother. Go with her, or it will be pointless to end too soon. ”

The pirates overheard this arrogant declaration.

Zhang Heng did not go to see the battle that had known the outcome well in advance, and he still had more important things to do.

The most intuitive feeling after becoming a captain is that there is more to be done. Before the Sea Lion, he was basically focused on learning. Less to say, in order not to arouse the vigilance of Olf Zhang Heng was hardly involved in anything on board until he became a sailor, so all he had to do was schedule his own time each day, and now he needs to be accountable to a whole ship's people, and there will certainly be more to consider.

Zhang Hengxian found Divrena and asked the latter to purchase a shipment of lime before going to sea.

The dangers of the great age of navigation come from all sides, and schizophrenia must not be overlooked.

Restricted by the technical conditions at the time, most vegetable melon fruit could not be preserved on board for long periods of time, be it navy or pirate, food was mostly based on biscuits and meat biscuits, supplemented by some seafood, and there were no problems in the short term, but the lack of vitamins could lead to a series of problems once prolonged inaccessibility to land.

Light is weak, weak, weak, loose teeth, bone pain, severe or even death, most of the crew died of leukemia when Columbus explored the new continent, and two thirds of the crew died of leukemia on Magellan's global trip.

Future generations are basically aware that this is due to a lack of vitamins, especially vitamin C, but in Zhang Heng's time, the vast majority of people have no effective response other than prayer.

Zhang Heng had seen some people suffering from leukemia before on the Sea Lion. He was depressed and could only play 56% of his strength in battle. This also reminded him to wake up. When it was his turn to take the ship out to sea, the first thing was to stock lime.

Apart from the latter, which is easy to store and can guarantee that it will not spoil for about a month at room temperature, which is one of the most vitamin C fruits, Zhang Heng also found a newly recruited cook to let him bake a batch of vegetables and dried fruit, which basically prevents the risk of leukemia.

The only unfortunate thing is that soybeans have been imported into Europe from China for decades. This is the easiest source of fresh vegetables on board. Bean sprouts do not need soil to grow. Just a little water can grow crazy, rich in protein and vitamins. Zhang Heng has commissioned several businessmen on the island associated with the East Indian company to help him collect them, but it will be a year soon as possible.

Solved the food problem, Zhang Heng went to see the black market merchants on the island, mainly to discuss the distribution of loot sales. Generally speaking, the larger pirate groups on the island have fixed black market merchants as partners, and the two sides establish mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation.

Pirates pull loot directly to familiar black dealers, who also offer a richer price than the market. Zhang Heng thought he owned the Cold Raven and should have been favored by a number of black market businessmen, but there was a lot of discrepancy between the actual meeting and what he imagined.

He visited some of the bigger black dealers on the islands, who, while being polite to him, appeared to be more courteous and offered less than a discount. According to his colleague Divrena, the conditions were just a little better than those of the new arrivals who usually went out for the first time, which was totally incomparable with the Sea Lion.

And the responses were largely the same, they all witnessed the excellent hardware conditions of the Cold Crow, but they expressed concern that the captain was too young, and some heard about what had happened on the beach before, saying that his practice of hiring women as sailors was premature and lacking in consideration, which confirmed their previous fears.

They therefore generally hoped that Zhang Heng and his Cold Raven would renegotiate the issue of division after several successful hunts had proved their ability to stand on the sea.

DiFrena frowned when she left the house, “Something's not right. These guys used to show a lot of enthusiasm when there was a potential pirate group on the island, and it looks like the rumors might be true. ”

“What rumors? ”

“Due to the enormous benefits of smuggling, there are a number of black dealers, big and small, on the island, and there is fierce competition among them, sometimes even tearing their faces apart. In order to get the pirate ships that work with other businessmen to their side, some people also secretly finance the hidden ambitions on board, inciting them to take power from the insurgency, and if those guys succeed, their sponsors will be chosen as new partners. But lately I've heard that black market businessmen on the island are negotiating an end to this disorder, and they intend to form an alliance. ”