Assassin’s Adventure

Gordon hastily denied it.

But looking at Coolidge's small eyes, the middle-aged man's greasy, somewhat long beard.

Due to the limitations of sailing conditions, even the captain, due to the long-term sea breeze blowing, his complexion was abnormally rosy and dry, and he really couldn't find any trace of his handsomeness.

So one can imagine what his daughter will look like.

It suddenly occurred to Gordon that he still doesn't know the name of this ship.

"The name of this ship, but as the new captain, of course you can name it according to your own ideas."

Coolidge replied that the name was just a whim, and no one cared about this kind of boat.

"Then let's call it the Pearl."

Gordon looked at the ship that belonged to him now. It was very immature but very precious to him. In order to pay tribute to the Black Pearl, he named it the Pearl.

The route of this ship was to transport goods from the Gulf of Guinea to the Caribbean waters. There was only a small overlap with the route of the ship that Gordon destroyed.

Coincidentally, for Gordon, this has also become a way to go home.

Huaye Island is a small island to the west of Praia. After leaving this island, you will be greeted by a large expanse of ocean. This voyage will take three days to reach the next port, Cayenne. Part of it will be sold here. Ore and fine wood are then loaded here with sugar and whale oil before continuing towards the port of Caracas.

Although Coolidge's ship is not large, the value of such a ship's cargo can reach a thousand silver coins.

British colonies spread all over Africa, America, and even as far as India, and the pound sterling has also risen, but in many places, only gold and silver are still serious, and the goods of one thousand silver coins are equivalent to five thousand pounds.

Silver mines have not yet been mined on a large scale in the American continent. At this time, the ratio of silver to gold is 13:1, and if it is settled in gold, it will only be about seventy-five pieces.

The cost of sailing, the cost of the goods, this time the trade can have at least a thousand pounds to be recorded, and it will take less than two weeks.

Gordon sailed the boat with excitement for one day, and then completely collapsed the next day. In such an endless sea, it was really meaningless. In this kind of boring sailing, the sailboat was handed over to the helmsman. The captain stayed quietly in the captain's room and studied the route, or checked the cargo in the cargo hold, read books, and kept accounts.

Because this is just a very simple merchant ship, there is no accountant, and there is no mapping staff. These tasks are all performed by the captain alone.

At this time, Gordon and Coolidge were sitting in the captain's cabin drinking coffee, and the rocking ship creaked a little.

Coffee is a luxury. It needs a stove to heat hot water. In the sea where fresh water is difficult to preserve, most sailors can only drink rum, so they get drunk all day.

Coolidge handed Gordon the log of his voyage.

"If you want to be a captain, you don't just need to be able to steer. We have to write down our daily sailing experiences to prevent us from forgetting important things."

Then Gordon took out a thick ledger, which not only recorded every transaction, but also recorded the special products of each port, where it was most profitable to deliver it, and even designed two golden triangle routes for trade transportation.

"Without money, no one will follow you, captain."

These are all decades of trade experience as a captain, and newcomers are not so easy to get along with.

"This is the sextant, and you need to use it every night to compare the star map to determine our location, and then mark it on the map."

This is a small metal object. Long Jikun may have seen it in the history books. He only knows it, but he doesn't understand it at all. At this time, he also needs to study it again.

These are not the end, a lot of books and geography books need to be memorized, including where there are reefs, where the ocean currents are moving violently, and what seasons the routes cannot be traveled...

For the first time, Gordon has a deeper understanding of the profession of captain, and why some people are willing to stop their lives and become pirates rather than trade by themselves, because sailing is not as simple as imagined, but very cumbersome and boring. Pirates are a shortcut.

As time went on, Gordon fell into various books every day, scratched his head, lost more hair, and became more and more determined that he must assemble a perfect seaman system.

A first mate who handles more chores, surveyors, accountants, cooks!

"Chef, there must be a good chef, I've eaten enough of these things."

The initial freshness has faded, and food that stays at sea for a long time is simply unbearable. In this era of no canned food, vegetables and fruits are a luxury, and ships sailing long distances are easily infected with septicemia. And it also gave him a good money-making idea.

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On this day, the ship stopped at Cayenne, and this was the first time I personally came to the gathering place of civilization after coming to this world.

Looking at these low-rise buildings, people dressed in grey tones, dirty harbours and dilapidated houses, Gordon felt that the word civilization is far from what it is now.

The ship slowly stopped at the position of the port, then dropped the anchor and fixed it with ropes.

The sailors began to remove half of the goods, and led by Coolidge, they came to the exchange.

An inconspicuous stone building with a plaque at the entrance that reads the exchange. After entering, there is a yard, where people are discussing the sale of goods loudly, and then they are labeled and classified by the personnel of the exchange.

Most of the personnel here are carrying knives, or muskets, and there is chaos.

And Coolidge is obviously an old friend here, and called an old man who looked like management.

"Captain Morgan! Or the original number?"

"It's still the same, I want to see Mr. Downer, it's been a long time."

"I can trust Captain Morgan, whoever, ask the two of you to move all these things in."

The old man did not check by himself, but moved directly into the warehouse.

Morgan doesn't bring much goods each time, but fortunately, it is very stable, and it has never been worse.

Morgan let his sailors move freely, stayed here for a day, and then walked towards the room at the end of the corridor on the second floor under the guidance of the old man.

After opening the door, there was a strong man sitting behind the table.

"Morgan, you haven't visited me for many years, and you finally figured it out?"