Daming pirates

Everyone's laughter stopped abruptly after Yu Xiaotian raised his hand, and everyone immediately became quiet again, straightening their backs and lining up in order.

"Why? It's only been a few days, and it makes you so happy? But as I said earlier, it's a holiday, but it doesn't mean that you just have to relax and do nothing. The morning exercises for these three days are still going to be normal.

And taking advantage of these three days, you have to build yourselves a new house, and Xu Laoshi will choose two helpers to repair the sails on the ship. If you can't repair the new house within three days, then just wait.

Sleep outdoors!

Each person adds a fish tonight as a reward for you, now you can disperse!"

Although it is a three-day holiday in name, in fact there is still no rest, but compared with the hellish training, it is nothing, so this arrangement does not affect everyone's emotions, and Yu Xiao

Tian also announced that everyone would get an extra fish tonight, which made everyone even more happy. So everyone immediately knelt down on one knee, lowered their heads and loudly responded to the order. Then, with Yu Xiaotian's wave, they dispersed and went straight to the rice pail.

Go, and immediately and consciously got in line again, cheering and starting to eat.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian wanted to use modern military salutes to replace this kind of kneeling salute, but he aroused opposition from Ma Lian and others, who thought that such a raising of hands salute was really inappropriate. The Ming Dynasty was very particular about the distinction between superiority and inferiority. The following is

It is natural for people to kneel down and salute when they see someone above them, so Yu Xiaotian had to obey the majority and continued to use this kind of kneeling ceremony.

But after getting used to it, he now feels good about accepting such courtesy. It has a condescending meaning and somewhat satisfies his little vanity, so he gradually got used to accepting it willingly.

After completing the first step of training, Yu Xiaotian discussed with Ma Lian and others in advance. For the time being, he still has not moved all these people to Treasure Island, but only moved a few craftsmen who will be used now.

After being transferred to Treasure Island, the rest of the new crew members continued to stay on the attached island.

And in order to strengthen the control over these people, after soliciting everyone's opinions, both Heitou and Liu Tong volunteered to come to this affiliated island to serve as soldiers and take charge of the management of these people.

After Yu Xiaotian thought about it for a while, he agreed and asked Heitou and Liu Tong to serve as temporary instructors and be stationed on the attached island to live with this group of people and take on the responsibility of managing them.

This time, Heitou and Liu Tong were promoted to a level out of thin air. Their status was one step higher than that of other ordinary crew members. They became the first-level petty bosses under Yu Xiaotian. Although their status was not comparable to that of Crazy Meng, Mazi Zhao and

Compared with Li Gouzi, he is one level higher than others.

Although it is a bit risky to do this, someone must take this risk. When dealing with these newcomers, we cannot let them take care of themselves. There must be reliable people to control them. Heitou and Liu Tong are both suitable candidates.

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This small island attached to Treasure Island temporarily became their recruit training camp, and they immediately began to carry out extensive construction work. It took three days to rebuild two large thatched huts.

Although the hut is only made of crude wood and thatch cut locally, and looks very simple, it at least has four walls and windows. It looks like a house at least, and is no longer a simple hut.

Those who live here provide a minimum of protection from wind and rain.

As for Treasure Island, there is no idle time these days. Except for a group of people every day, especially those who are directly involved in combat, who go to the island to train with the newcomers, the rest of the people are also very busy.

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This time they traded with the Li family and obtained a lot of urgently needed materials from the Li family, including various weapons, some grain, iron materials, cowhide, wood, medicine, etc.

After these things are transported back, they must be handled properly immediately, especially since this is an island with high humidity. It turns out that they only temporarily built some thatched huts and repaired some of the remaining stone huts on the island.

The problem of temporary housing was solved, but there was no decent warehouse.

So these days, Ma Lian and other old guys took some young people to stay on Treasure Island to build houses. They chose a relatively large stone house left before, and added beams and a roof.

, served as a temporary warehouse and stored various materials in the warehouse.

In addition, two huts were rebuilt for the new blacksmiths and carpenters as their accommodation. After the blacksmith's family of three came, they did not undergo the so-called quarantine like the new arrivals, but they were also given

They changed into new clothes and arranged for them to be washed carefully.

Knowing that there was no hope of returning, the blacksmith gave up his intention and took his wife and apprentice to live with peace of mind. Moreover, under Yu Xiaotian's special care, the people on the island provided his pregnant wife with the best food possible.

, at least the food was much better than before they came here. The women on the island also took good care of his wife and basically didn't let his wife do any work, which made Zhang Tiejiang feel relieved a lot.

The resistance Zhang Blacksmith had before arriving here gradually dissipated a lot. After settling down, he began to use the existing tools to help the people on the island with their work.

Because there was a shortage of manpower when Blacksmith Zhang was kidnapped this time, only some of Blacksmith Zhang's tools were brought out, but heavy objects such as anvils were not brought, and the stove was even impossible to be brought over.

It can be solved right there on Treasure Island.

The anvil requires a lot of pig iron. Although they currently have some iron materials, they do not have an iron furnace to melt it, so they can only temporarily replace it with existing stones on the island, and the furnace is built on the spot with stones and mud.

Blacksmith Zhang muttered and took advantage of this simple temporary workshop to repair the damaged iron tools for Yu Xiaotian and others, including their knives, guns, harpoons, hook guns, etc., and also made some iron tools out of iron materials.

Urgently needed nails and other supplies.

After a preliminary inspection, Yu Xiaotian found that he had picked up a treasure this time. The blacksmith's craftsmanship in this picture was really quite good. The craftsmanship of the blacksmith was exquisite and the quality was high. It was very good. Taking advantage of nothing at night, Yu Xiaotian once again

Chatted with Blacksmith Zhang.

It turned out that Zhang Tiejiang's family was originally in Quanzhou, and he had been a blacksmith for generations, but something happened in his family. Zhang Tiejiang didn't want to say what it was. But later, after his father died, he abandoned his home in Quanzhou and went to Fuzhou area because of the troubles at hand.

I had no money and couldn't find a suitable place to reopen a blacksmith shop in Fuzhou. So under the guidance of others, I went to Dongping Village in Lianjiang County, rented a small courtyard outside the village of a local wealthy family, and started a blacksmith workshop.

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However, his profit was small, and he was surrounded by several larger blacksmith shops. His business was not easy to run, and his life was quite difficult. He had just stabilized during this period, and someone discovered that his craftsmanship was good, and he had just placed an order.

After getting better, he was caught here by Yu Xiaotian, so Zhang Tiejiang was quite worried about this matter. After drinking some wine, he patted his chest and said to Xiaotian:

"If your boss hadn't arrested us, my surname is Zhang. I can't boast that it won't take long to become the number one blacksmith in Dongping Village!"

Yu Xiaotian sneered, and while drinking with him, he said: "What you think is too simple! You have no roots. You are new to Dongping Village. I believe your craftsmanship is perfect, but have you thought about it?

, if you do your job well, don't you just rob other people's business? You know, strong dragons don't suppress local snakes. If you rob other people's business, won't they stop running against you? Maybe you'll offend the local big business, or the same.

I've squeezed you so much that you can't survive! So if I catch you, I might be harming you!"

After hearing this, Blacksmith Zhang was stunned for a while, and suddenly sighed and said: "What you said makes sense! I said a few days ago, how come some people kept stealing my carbon and iron materials! I guess it was from those few companies.

Seeing that my business is doing well, I'm looking for someone to ruin it! A few days ago, there was a ruffian holding a hoe that I made. He insisted on saying that I was cutting corners, but at a glance, I knew it was made of hard metal.

If I don't change the thing that was smashed out with a stick, he will go around shouting that my craftsmanship is not good! Maybe it's those families who are looking for someone to frame me!"

Yu Xiaotian laughed, nodded and said: "Look, I was right. If your craftsmanship is average, it would be fine. But if you just went to Dongping Village and your craftsmanship is good, of course you will snatch it away."

It would be strange if they don't cooperate to harm you in other people's business! According to what you said, it seems that you won't be able to hang out in Dongping Village for long before you will be forced to leave on your own! So I captured you.

Even if it’s not possible, I’ll still be helping you!

By the way, I think your craftsmanship is pretty good, so I want to ask you, do you know how to make a gun?"

Zhang Tiejiang rolled his eyes, glanced at Yu Xiaotian, shook his head and said, "I don't know what to say about you. Are you a good person or a bad person? You seem to be a pretty good person, why do you want to be a thief?

Woolen cloth?"

Yu Xiaotian also rolled his eyes and hummed: "Who the hell would do this if they had a way to survive! Let me tell you, I was forced..."

He said that he selectively told Zhang Blacksmith how Jiang Baihu forced them, and finally forced them to kill Jiang Baihu and go to sea to do this business.

After hearing this, Zhang Tiejiang sighed and said: "That's true. Nowadays, all the officials are not so good. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to swallow this sigh of relief! It doesn't matter! It seems that you are not too bad.

People! It’s unlucky for me to be targeted by you!”

As he spoke, Blacksmith Zhang drank another glass of wine.

"By the way, I asked you just now if you know how to make a gun, but you haven't answered me yet!" Yu Xiaotian put down his wine glass and asked Blacksmith Zhang.

"No! We have been making a living by blacksmithing in Quanzhou for generations. Guns are strictly controlled by the government, and only government craftsmen know how to make them. I don't know how to make a knife, a gun, and an agricultural tool. It's definitely useless.

That's right, but if you ask me to do that, if I don't find someone to teach me, I don't know how to do it!" Zhang Tiejiang's eyes flickered for a moment, then he shook his head and denied.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian was a little disappointed, but after thinking about it, he felt that what Zhang Tiejiang said was right. In this era and in the Ming Dynasty, the blunderbuss was still the most advanced weapon. Even in the world, it is still relatively powerful at the moment.

It is normal for the government to have stricter government control over weapons. It is normal for Blacksmith Zhang not to be a government craftsman and he does not know how to make weapons. So he could only sigh and let the matter go for the time being.

(Today I finally got on the category click list, and the red ticket list seems to be on it as well, but I’m still at the bottom for the time being. I’ll work harder, and my brothers will give me some more support, and I’ll continue to move up! Also, special thanks to Xinli and Fa Hao Xingkong.

Brothers don’t hesitate to reward me! Thank you very much!)