Daming pirates

This Spring Festival on Treasure Island was quite lively. Yu Xiaotian was generous to his subordinates. Everyone gave a red envelope with varying amounts of broken silver inside. Even the women on the island also gave

Red envelopes were distributed, which made everyone feel happy.

Before the festival, with the joint efforts of everyone, many huts were built in the stockade, and all the people were arranged in the stockade.

Under the planning of Yu Xiaotian, the houses in Xinzhai were arranged in an orderly manner and everything was cleaned cleanly. In order to highlight the festive atmosphere, two red gauze lanterns were hung above the gate of the village.

It makes Treasure Island look cheerful.

People on the island, young and old, were all very happy after receiving the red envelopes. Even the new arrivals were not left behind. This also made these new arrivals completely relieved and no longer worried.

When they get here, they are worried whether they will be bullied.

And this time Yu Xiaotian brought five prostitutes back from outside, which basically solved the problem of men's desire for women on the island. A special place was arranged on the island and these five prostitutes were handed over to Li Gouzi for management.

Yu Xiaotian also promised the five prostitutes that as long as they worked here for three years, they could redeem themselves if they wanted to and find a man to marry then. If they didn't want to stay, they could work for another two years.

, and then gave them a sum of money and sent them back to the mainland to find someone to marry.

These prostitutes were forcibly sent here by the Li family this time. Although they were not happy and frightened when they came, they found that the pirates here were not as bad as they thought.

They are bitches here, but there are rules here, and they are not left to the minions to mess with them at will.

Even the boss, who looked very masculine, took the initiative to make a time agreement for them, giving them something to look forward to, so these prostitutes all felt at ease and started accepting customers, not counting the three years.

It's too long, and it will pass. By then, they can be rehabilitated. If they want to go back to the mainland, they can work for another two years and get a sum of money to go back to rehabilitate. This is for prostitutes like them who were sold into prostitution.

, which can be regarded as a way out.

Generally speaking, in the past half year since Yu Xiaotian brought the tribe of Xiaohuang Island here, although their Treasure Island has experienced some setbacks, they are still thriving on the whole. After half a year until now, their island

The population on board has reached hundreds, and among those who can work on the ship alone, there are more than 70 people, more than twice as many as before.

In addition, through Yu Xiaotian's efforts, the island now has a blacksmith, a carpenter, a shipwright, a bamboo stripper, a half-assed cobbler and three self-trained gunpowder makers, totaling more than a dozen people.

, they can now solve many things on the island by themselves. It is no longer like before, when there are no nails anymore, they can only pull them out on the ship, or they have to go to land to buy them.

What makes these guys even more happy is that there are more and more women on the island. Now there are ten or twenty women. With the addition of five new prostitutes, these guys can finally smell the fishy smell.

It smelled, which made them happier than anything else. They were all like flies seeing blood, wanting to smell the fishy smell if nothing else happened.

If it weren't for the rules set by Yu Xiaotian, everyone could only have two opportunities to get involved in the crime every month, and merit would be rewarded. Otherwise, those prostitutes would be really busy.

So during the entire Spring Festival, Yu Xiaotian gave everyone a three-day holiday, allowing them to have a good time and relax. Using these three days, Yu Xiaotian himself was not idle, and summoned Liu Laoliu and a few

The soldiers told them about the conflict between the Hunjianglong and the shark.

Yu Xiaotian told these people that they are likely to be involved in this matter after the new year. To be on the safe side, they should train and prepare for the war after the holiday. Even if they just go to cheer, this is a rare observation.

This is an opportunity for a larger-scale maritime conflict. If they need to take action, they need to be more capable of protecting themselves.

After hearing this, the leaders of their subordinates felt that it was a bit thankless to help Shark Zhang Hu, but they still accepted Yu Xiaotian's arrangement, and they were gearing up one by one. After the holiday was over, they began to treat their respective subordinates.

Practice vigorously.

Yu Xiaotian took the time to take a few shipwrights to choose a place outside the water village as a place for them to repair the ships later in the year. At the same time, he asked Guo Fu, a shipwright, to take his apprentice and son to inspect the ship that had been seized from Zhou Dynasty.

The bird boat that was made.

Guo Fu was indeed quite good at repairing and building ships. After looking at the broken ship, he said to Xiaotian: "Master, I have seen this ship! Although the hull is quite damaged, it is not so damaged that it cannot be repaired."

The situation is that the upper hull, keel, ribs and bulkheads are basically quite strong, and damaged areas can be repaired, and there is no problem in plugging the leaking gaps!

We just need to find a way to drag the ship ashore and secure it before we can start construction, but there is no dock or slipway here, so it may not be easy to drag such a heavy ship up!"

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian smiled and said: "The geology here is quite hard. We can lay a slide on the shore, and then use a winch and a pulley block. It won't take many people to drag the boat up. It's not too big."

question!

I remember that when I took more than 20 brothers to Dahuang Island in the north, we also repaired boats. The boat I was using was the one we tried to drag ashore. Now that we have so many people, what kind of guy is this?

It’s much more complete, so what’s the problem of towing this boat up? As long as you can repair it, you can do it quickly after the new year and repair the boat as soon as possible. As long as the boat is repaired, I will reward you!”

Guo Fu nodded quickly and said: "I am extremely grateful to be taken in by the master. How dare I think of asking for a reward! It is our duty to serve the master. If the master can pull the boat up,

Then the rest of the matter will be easy to handle. I guarantee that in a month at most, as long as all the materials are available, this boat can definitely be repaired!"

Although there was a festival on the island, Guo Fu still took his apprentice and son and began to prepare. With the help of the carpenter on the island who was not very skilled, they began to make various ship repairing equipment. Even Blacksmith Zhang

, and without rest, he followed them and helped to make some iron tools.

After Zhang Tiejiang arrived here, he was now in a good mood. His wife was pregnant. Yu Xiaotian took great care of the couple. He raised a limited number of chickens on the island and gave his wife one egg every day.

According to Yu Xiaotian, pregnant women should pay attention to nutrition and ensure that his wife is provided with some fresh fish every day to nourish her body.

Blacksmith Zhang was very satisfied with the special care that Xiaotian gave to the couple. It could even be said that he was grateful. Such care was difficult for him to do even when he was working as a blacksmith on land. Not long after he arrived on the island

, his wife's body has obviously improved a lot, and she has become much more moisturized.

Seeing that his wife was about to give birth after the New Year, Yu Xiaotian also specially asked Zhao Mazi's wife, who had experience in delivering babies, to be his wife's midwife and be ready to deliver the baby at any time.

All this made Blacksmith Zhang feel at ease. He worked very hard all day long, constantly building various things needed by the people on the island and repairing various weapons.

This time for ship repair, Blacksmith Zhang also went to work and built an iron pulley block according to the sketch given to him by Yu Xiaotian. With this kind of thing, it would save much effort when pulling the ship ashore, so not long after the new year

Days later, all preparations have been made.

A double-track parallel wooden slide was laid on the beach, and skids were added underneath to support the weight of the ship and ensure the stability of the slide. The slipway frame to support the ship was also quickly prepared and was just waiting to be pulled.

The ship has landed.

But at this time, Yu Xiaotian discovered a new problem that stumped him. In order to ensure that the ship landed smoothly this time, the geology here was not hard enough to use the method of laying rolling logs underneath like the last time on Dahuang Island.

To pull the boat ashore, for the sake of safety, in the end they had no choice but to use a slide to pull the boat ashore. This would make the boat more stable when it landed, and use rolling logs to get ashore. If you are not careful, the keel may be damaged and the boat may easily be damaged.

Second, after the ship lands, the ship can be easily pulled to a simple slipway to facilitate cleaning and repair of the bottom of the ship.

But something that seemed to be fine turned out to be a problem. They wanted to use the slide to pull the boat ashore, so the friction between the hull and the slide would be very large. In addition, there were some sea creatures on the hull.

It is even more difficult to handle. Under normal circumstances, a large amount of grease needs to be applied to the slide to lubricate it, and then the boat can be pulled up. Otherwise, the hard pull is likely to damage the slide, and the pulley group will also be damaged due to too much resistance.

and damage to the winch.

Therefore, if you want to pull the boat ashore, you need a lot of grease to lubricate the slide. But what Treasure Island lacks most is grease. They usually eat here and basically use the boiling method, which is rarely like

In later generations, cooking oil was used for frying and frying.

Moreover, oil is a relatively precious thing in this era. Yu Xiaotian has never thought of purchasing large quantities of cooking oil to improve the food. Therefore, there is not much oil reserve on Treasure Island, so there is no way to lubricate the slide.

Looking at the well-prepared slide and the simple slipway, Yu Xiaotian scratched his head after listening to Guo Fu's words. He wanted to pull hard, but he was afraid of damaging the slide that was finally laid.

He was afraid of damaging the pulley block and winch that he had worked so hard to get.

After Zhao Mazi found out, he suggested that he go to Dalian Island again to buy a batch of oil from Li's house, but this would cost a lot of money.

Yu Xiaotian stood on the beach, thinking about how to solve this problem as soon as possible. He had no clue for a while. Suddenly his eyes fell on the sea and saw a water column mixed with water mist spraying from the sea. Then

A huge body flashed across the sea.

Today I saw my old friend Hu Luhulu brother giving a huge reward, I am really grateful! Thank you, thank you!)