Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 50: Alexon's Dream of a Small Fishing Boat

“No, you wait," Burke Al stopped Erickson: “What do you want, Ike? What are you doing buying this shitty tumbler? There's a hole in the bottom, the bottom plate is cracked, you just want to buy it for cheap repair and you have to replace the whole boat board, the broken boat can still use this beam underneath. ”

Ericsson nodded: “I just love this beam. ”

I lifted two fingers at Wakuri after that: “I offer two silver tallers, if you don't feel comfortable, just pretend I didn't, Uncle Wakuri. ”

Wakuri laughed bitterly: "Add a little more, you can't make me lose too much..."

“I don't have any money.” Eriksson shook his head: “Uncle Vakuri, two silver tallers are already my best intentions, if you don't want to sell them, forget it, honestly, I just need this bottom beam. This turnip is no longer worth repairing. Even if you dismantle it and sell wood, you can sell two or three silver towers at most. If you subtract the labor cost, you may not have sold me more..."

In Bai Lu Town, ship recycling is really a door job, usually a master with three or two apprentices, their job is ship building and ship recycling is only part-time work. But they're the only ones who can remove the entire board and beams from the wrecked boats that can still be used. If a man who only knows how to tear down a boat, he may not be able to tear down a single piece of the boat, but at most he will be able to chop it to pieces as firewood.

Of course, the larger the ship, the more cost-effective it is to dismantle it. Like this shitty ocean tumbler, it's kind of a boat, and this big beam at the bottom still works. If you don't ask the shipbreaker, Wakuri is worried that he will take this beam apart into scrap. But I hired a shipbreaker, and the price was too expensive. As Ericsson said, selling the demolished items was less valuable than the shipbreaker's labor...

“Uncle Wakuri, I think you still sell it for a good price, otherwise this shitty sea tumbler will be in front of your store door. After a quick look, you will know that you have gone away to buy the loss, which will have a great impact on your reputation. If you can accommodate such a shitty sea tumble, it's worth considering if the quality of these goods in your store will be problematic...” Claude is on the side of the divine attack.

Perhaps that's what Wakuri was worried about. His face changed for a while and he finally waved in dismay: “Forget it, just two silver tallers, but you have to pull this shitty sea tumble away sooner. ”

“Okay, I'll have someone pull in this afternoon.” Eriksson was happy to find out that two silver tallers were handed over to Vakuri: “I have to go back to school now, so it's a little late to pull this flip. If anyone asks, say I bought it and put it in front of your door for now. ”

Looks like Vakuri thought the same thing, and he nodded at Ericsson and took over two silver tallers and turned back to the store.

Four people walked to school.

“Ike, now you can say, why are you buying this flip?” Bok Al is the curious one.

“Think about wearing it in the wave where my pier rests.” Ericsson is still blunting.

Wearing in the waves is also a common type of small fishing vessel on the Farea continent, although it is essentially used in conjunction with pelagic fishing vessels to put nets on the sea. The hull is nearly seven metres long and not more than two metres wide, and there are moveable masts and sails on board with a 10-man crew. Most of them are six paddlers, a rudder, a sailor and a puller, commanded by a sailor.

When distant-water fishing vessels discovered fish stocks on the sea, they let go of the waves, where they were packed and surrounded by fishing nets pulled from large vessels. Generally, a pelagic fishing vessel is equipped with two waves, sometimes by two waves wearing cooperative pull nets, to conduct sea-surround operations and then by a large vessel. Of course, for pelagic fishing vessels, wavewear also combines the role of lifeboats and landing vessels.

Eriksson's private pier was worn in a wave, but it was broken. On one occasion, the wave was said to have crossed an island in search of water, because the wind had accidentally hit the rock wall on the shore. Although the people were fine, the beam at the bottom of the boat was smashed open, and the wave was worn out. The cracking of the bottom beam is a fatal injury to any marine vessel, no one knows when this vessel will break into two pieces when it continues to sail at sea...

That's why it's good to wear this wave from the outside so you can flip over and realize that the bottom beam is already pregnant. Just like the broken sea tumbler that Ericsson just bought, it would be better to build a new boat with a replacement bottom beam.

“You want to change the bottom beam of this sea tumble into that wave?” Bok Al understood, but he immediately frowned again: “No, the bottom beam of this sea tumble is only five meters long, and the bottom beam worn in the waves is too short...”

Erickson shook his head: "No, no, no, I don't fix flips and I don't fix waves, and I want to combine the two to rebuild a small fishing boat like old Sonny. ”

The last time a small fishing boat like Old Sunny was hired by four people to go to Bailuanzhou, three riazos were hired for two and a half days.

“In fact, you didn't notice that the sea-flap was good, except the bottom beam was intact. All I have to do is tear it all down, use the bottom beam and the gangway, and build a small fishing boat with the well-dressed boat in the wave that's on my dock.” Erickson is bamboo-breasted at this moment.

“Of course, there will be helmships, moving masts, three compartments separated by hulls, cabin slabs, etc., but these materials and utensils have spare parts in my dock warehouse and old goods that have been replaced from the boat, just a small modification in size, and no additional cost to buy. The only thing to consider is labor, which is costly.

You must not have known that Uncle Pegg at the dock was a boat repairer when he was younger, and then he broke his leg one time when the boat was hit by a storm for repair, so he stepped back from the boat. I believe his craftsmanship is still there, because he once told my father to get a new bottom beam so he could get it fixed, even for free, mainly because he felt uncomfortable watching such a boat lay on the dock.

Only then my father had bought a new wave and the repair was on the dock as well, so he didn't answer his request. I dragged this shitty sea tumble back to school this afternoon to make sure Uncle Pegg was happy. And then I told him what I asked for, and I usually hit him, and it didn't take long for me to own my own little fishing boat. ”

“Will your father blame you if he finds out?” asked Bok Al.

Erickson thought, "I don't think so. If I go back to haunt him at night and ask him to buy me a flaming rope gun like yours, my father probably won't listen to my request. But when I said I was going to rebuild a small fishing boat, my father would definitely say yes. Exactly, I can get him to pay for the manual repairs. ”

Claude thought about it and laughed, and with Alexon's father Captain O'Truney's impressive personality, Alexon said he was going to rebuild a small fishing boat, and he would definitely support it, because when it worked out, he could show his son what he could do in town. Think about the captains in town who had a small fishing boat of their own when they were sixteen, and his son did it, which is enough for him to brag about it for a while.

Cross the fence back to school, put the bag in your hand in the drawer at the desk, and prepare for the first session of gymnastics in the afternoon, sword training.

Swordsmanship classes teach students basic skills in three types of swordsmanship, bayonets, two-handed swords, and short swords. In terms of sword classification, stabbing swords are the most common means of carrying a sword, similar to the Western stabbing sword in the previous life of the passers-by, lightweight, with stabbing as the main method of killing and maiming. Yet the two-handed sword is very much like the Dragon Spring sword in China. The sword body is about the same length and width, but the grip is different. It is more than a foot long. It can be grasped with both hands, chopped vertically, and is the most powerful. Short swords, on the other hand, are instruments of physical struggle and must be equipped with defensive weapons by every soldier in the Royal Army.

Generally speaking, school literature students and girls enrolled in swordsmanship classes are basically tattooed, which is mainly because they are less physically robust than physical students, and lightweight tattoos become their favorite.

Physical students, on the other hand, are interested in hobbies and are interested in having time to learn three kinds of swordsmanship. However, after the teaching of swordsmanship in the school teaches students the basic skills of the three types of swordsmanship, the subsequent training courses in swordsmanship will allow students to train themselves to familiarize themselves with the basic actions of swordsmanship. Swordsmanship teaching will only occasionally point next to each other, or conduct rivalry arrangements and competition supervision among students.

Claude likes two-handed swords a lot, and he's also the first in a two-handed sword competition in Chinese sophomore years. The strongest of the four partners was Verricolo, but instead of choosing a two-handed sword, he chose a short sword, just like Ericsson. The reason is simple. Alexon was taught by his father. Short swords are the most clever and suitable for flesh beating on board. Swords with both hands are not easy to play in small cabins and aisles. Instead, they are easily entangled by rope fishing nets or something...

Villicro, for his part, was accustomed to serving as a guard for 15 years, familiar with soldier-trained short swordsmanship. When I had a son, all I ever taught was short swordsmanship, and as a hunter, a short sword and a short knife, or an axe, these short weapons were more useful in the mountains. So Vericulo was not interested in either the bayonet or the two-handed sword, which he called short swordsmanship at school.

Only Bok Al doesn't have any specialties. He can do all three kinds of swordsmanship, but all three kinds of swordsmanship are bad for him. Claude's two-handed sword number one, Verricolo's sword number one, and Erickson's not number one, but he's also the top three in the Short Sword game. But Bok Al was dragged behind in all three swordsmanship games, and three or four literary students were worse off than him.

After swordsmanship training, there are two more lessons in the afternoon. But all four Claudes are not ready to go up there. Ericsson is going back to find some sailors to drag that shitty sea tumbler from Wakuri's store door to his own private pier. The two are not too far apart. The hole beneath the sea tumble nailed a plank and pulled it along the shore without much effort, so Ericsson wasn't going to ask the three Claudes for help.

Verricolo was going home with Boquer to pick up the torch gun, while moving two targets from their merchant warehouse, then driving a carriage to pick up Claude, and the three of them were going to practice the torch shooting in the woods outside the town.

Claude came home, dragged the wooden box with the torch gun out of the bottom of the bed, opened it, took out the torch gun, and took out the matching torch, and used it up to buy it, and took out three rounds of horns.

This horn is also an accessory to a flame rope gun for powder loading. The horns are pointed and wide, with copper caps on both ends. The big head is for pouring gunpowder into the horn, the pointed little head is for pouring gunpowder into the barrel, the inside of the horn is polished, and there are ten scales painted on the inner wall, each scale indicates the amount of gunpowder fired once. A croissant just fits a unit of gunpowder.

Three horns fit exactly three units of gunpowder and can be fired 30 times. There are also two small brass rings above the horn to fasten the strap to the back of your body. Claude remembers the last time he went to White Eucalyptus, Verricolo hung like two black horns, which were also for gunpowder.

There is also a large leather bag in the wooden box in the style of a purse with a live knot on the pocket, which is for carrying a gun and can be hung on the belt for easy access to the bag.

Claude also had thirty guns in his leather bag. I thought, let's do thirty shooting exercises in the afternoon. Vericulo said that the guns are a little heavy after firing. It's best not to hit too many for the first time, otherwise your shoulders will hurt a lot at night...