The pirate who claimed to be Old Turtle was stunned for a moment, and asked seriously: "Does it include big rocks like that? Or just the ones that can be seen on the navigation chart?"
Du Fei was stunned by his question: It seems that this old guy is really knowledgeable! He immediately said seriously: "First of all, tell me the islands on the navigation chart."
The expression on the old turtle's face immediately relaxed, and he kept talking about the nearby islands without changing. His cracked mouth kept turning, and he kept talking about the names of the islands.
"Gaociao Island, Sanshan Island, Bitter Island, Bixia Island"
"Wait!" Du Fei, who was looking at the navigation chart, suddenly interrupted him: "Is there any Bixia Island here? Are you making this up?"
When Old Turtle heard this, he became anxious: "Your Highness! I, Old Turtle, will vouch for my own life. Bixia Island is between Bitter Island and Sanshan Island! It is a summer resort, how could it not be there!"
Du Fei pointed out the navigation chart in his hand to him: "Look! What is marked here is Sanmen Island, and here is Bitter Island! Where is the Bixia Island you mentioned?!"
The old turtle grabbed the nautical chart with his hands like chicken claws. After looking at it for a long time, he suddenly shouted: "Where did this sea chart come from? Why are so many islands not marked?"
"Uh-huh," Du Fei then remembered that this was what he got back from Japan. It must be that those people had not seen much of the world and were not very experienced in sea navigation, so although the nautical charts drawn were very detailed near the sea,
But the islands in the sea a little further away are marked speciously.
"With all due respect, Your Highness, I feel that this kind of navigation chart is really of little value!" After saying this, the old turtle threw the navigation chart directly on the ground! He shook his head fiercely: "If you don't believe me, just throw it away
I'll send you to the official"
At this time, the owner of the passenger ship came over, saw the nautical chart and said: "This chart is really very general and does not look like a product of Middle-earth. Have you been deceived by profiteers?"
While Du Fei responded awkwardly, he cursed secretly in his heart: Those bastards from the Hirado Chamber of Commerce! Why did you even lie to your own boss! See how I deal with you when I get back!
"It seems that what you said is true." Du Fei nodded and said, "Then you can stay, but remember that there is absolutely no second voice in my team! You'd better remember this.
!" Du Fei's last sentence was specially emphasized, and the old turtle nodded repeatedly.
"Please rest assured that I, Old Turtle, have been with more than a dozen captains and know everything about the sea. As long as I am by your side, you will never have to worry about the sea again." When the old turtle heard that Du Fei left him alone, he was overjoyed and showed great kindness.
Thank you very much.
"Sir, what should we do with that pirate ship?" Du Fei looked at the pirate ship from a distance on the passenger ship. This was different from the small sampan Ma Xingkong and his friends used before. It was bigger than the one they took.
big!
Du Fei was really reluctant to abandon it, so he asked the boatman: "How much is a boat like this worth?"
"This ship was obviously originally a Ming warship, but it was somehow occupied by these pirates. According to my conservative estimate, it is worth at least three hundred taels of gold!" the old boatman said, twirling his beard with his hand.
"Well, if you can afford it, I will sell this ship to you." Du Fei's long experience as a businessman made him unwilling to waste any resources easily. Under his suggestion, the two parties immediately started bargaining.
The old boatman didn't expect Du Fei to go directly to take out, and was very surprised, so he changed the topic: "Actually, this ship is not that valuable. Look, its hull is damaged in many places, and the mast is also broken.
"Gen" immediately acted like a profiteer and wanted to lower the price.
But his bargaining skills were much worse than Du Fei's. After some verbal arguments, Du Fei raised the price to three hundred and twenty taels of gold.
Although the boatman was very unhappy, he finally agreed with a sad face. Because even if he bought the ship for 320 taels, he would still make a profit; this kind of warship could not be bought at all.
Before delivering the pirate ship to the captain, Du Fei led his men to search the entire ship carefully. He knew that these pirates had been plundering the sea for many years and must have a lot of good things.
Under the leadership of the old turtle, he opened all the cabins of the pirate ship. But he saw that there was not a penny on the ship, only some medicine and muskets, and in addition there were mountains of rum. Dufey was very disappointed, and he asked the old turtle
: "Is your business so bad? Just this little thing?"
"Of course not! Sir!" The old turtle quietly leaned into his ear and said softly: "I remember that the captain has accumulated at least a whole cabin of treasures over the years, but it seems to have been hidden in other places. The treasures on the ship
The money is not much, and it is hidden very well. I suggest you search carefully on the ship."
Du Fei listened to what the old turtle said, and personally led people to search the ship again, and finally found a silver box under the bed in the captain's cabin.
When I opened it, I saw that it was full of golden gold coins! But they were obviously not made from Middle-earth. The characters on the gold coins were all dressed like Southern Barbarians.
"The coins found on the Spanish merchant ship that Captain Xionglie plundered were actually gold coins made of almost pure gold! This is not common in China!" the old turtle said while looking greedily at these golden coins.
thing
"Well, I am not short of gold and silver, but who would think that I have so little money?" Du Fei generously took out a large handful of gold coins from the box and dangled them in front of Old Turtle: "Old Turtle, you have so much money.
Don’t you want to have a home when you get older?”
"Sir! If you have any need of me, please just tell me!" Old Turtle heard the implication of Du Fei's words and knelt down quickly: "As long as I, Old Turtle, can do anything, I will definitely help you!"
"These gold coins are nothing in my eyes," Du Fei said as he handed the gold coins in his hand to the old turtle: "If you can lead me to where Xiong Lie hides his treasure, these will be yours!"
After hearing Du Fei's words, the old turtle's eyes immediately shot out a hot light: "Don't worry! I will definitely help you find it! I have been a sailor on his ship for more than ten years, and I am very familiar with him.
!”
After learning that Xiong Lie had hidden treasure, Du Fei carefully searched Xiong Lie's body and the captain's cabin. On Xiong Lie's body, he found a strange-looking necklace with a large pendant.
A pattern of piles of skulls. The entire chain seemed to be made of very rare metal, and a faint blue light kept emitting in Du Fei's hands.
In addition, Du Fei also found a musket with an extremely thick barrel in Xiong Lie's storage box. At first glance, it looked like a concept-level firearm made by that southern barbarian madman. If he was hit by such a gun, his whole body would probably be left alive.
.
Du Fei carefully examined the heavy gun body and found a small iron plate on it, which was engraved in several languages: The Gun of Judgment - Dr. Terang Lu, the most proud work during his lifetime.
Spear of Judgment? This name is really domineering!
Du Fei held the gun in his hand, and a sense of power suddenly filled his whole body! Holding the gun in his hand, he had a feeling of contempt for everything, as if the whole world would surrender to the power of this gun!
"Good thing! Good thing!" Du Fei praised, trying to unfold the gun's strap, and put the huge gun body on his back. The size was just right, as if it was made just for him!
In addition, he also found a large box of medicine that goes with this gun! Du Fei carefully observed the medicine and found that its structure was very simple. Based on his understanding of Mu Ying's essays in the early years, as long as there was
With enough manpower and craftsmen, it can be copied quickly.
In order to test the power of this big guy, Du Fei installed a gun that was thicker than his wrist. In order to avoid accidentally hurting people, he stood at the stern of the boat, held his breath and concentrated for a while, and slowly raised the gun.
He raised his mouth slightly, put the butt of the gun against his shoulder, and pulled the trigger fiercely!
There was a loud noise like thunder! Suddenly Du Fei was really thrown out! He even took a few steps back without being able to stand still, and finally fell on his back on the deck.
At this time, everyone could be seen staring at the sea with dumbfounded eyes. They saw that the sea was hit by a huge wave! The waves flew to the deck like a heavy rain, drenching everyone into soaked chickens, and some unlucky fish were also mixed in.
I saw a big ripple in the middle of the sea. It took a long time for it to calm down.
Everyone stared at Du Fei blankly, not daring to take a breath.
"It's really good." Du Fei used his hands to gently rub his sore shoulders, and upon touching them, he found that his shoulders were already swollen!
Such domineering power, Du Fei himself was impressed by the overwhelming power of this gun! At the same time, he was afraid for a while: Fortunately, that guy didn't use this to deal with me, otherwise he would have survived.
At this moment, Ma Xingkong, who had a small crab squatting on his head, came over and said, "Sir, we are almost arriving at Fujian Port. There is an official ship ahead for inspection!"
Du Fei looked at the pitiful little official ships in front of him, and suddenly felt sad in his heart: What happened? When I left, all the ships of the Ming Dynasty were well-equipped and huge and domineering! Why didn't I leave for a few years?
, not only is there no progress, but it is going backwards?
He actually didn't know that during the time he lived in seclusion and went to Japan, the development direction of the Ming Dynasty had undergone great changes.
Since Liu Daxia became Minister of War, he has been continuously cutting naval expenditures, so that the huge fleet of the Ming Dynasty, which was once unique in the world, fell into disrepair and disappeared from people's sight one by one. The treasure ships of Zheng He's voyages to the West,
The Fu Chuan was not even known to be thrown into that remote shipyard. Although the firearms of the Ming army were still relatively popular, the imperial court clearly shifted the focus of development to small, cheap ships.
Du Fei sighed. Although he had not yet landed on the mainland of Middle-earth, he knew that the Ming Dynasty must be short of money at this time.