Liu Dahai said: "There will be no problem at all. I'll say hello to the patrolman in a moment, and as soon as he identifies himself, the night patrol soldiers will send him to your lodgings. ”

Song Ke smiled and thanked Liu Dahai, and then walked into the room to rest. But Song Ke did not rest, but stood at the door to observe Liu Dahai and his party. When he saw Liu Dahai in the crack in the door and they were far away, he immediately pushed open the door and walked to the next room, dragged the half-drunk first mate up, and said, "Damn, don't sleep anymore!" Go and call Coulson! ”

The half-drunk first mate didn't come to his senses at all, and he glared and said, "Lord Governor, what are you looking for a thief for?" That bastard steals from his companions when he's on the boat! If he were allowed to come to such a noble area, he would steal something! That would be a shame for us! ”

Song Ke shook the first mate's shoulder vigorously, trying to bring him to his senses. At the same time, he said viciously: "Don't talk about those useless! Sober up! Just go and call him. If he's drunk, sober him up. When you meet a patrol, you say he's my servant, do you understand? ”

The first mate was finally woken up by the shaking. At the same time, the captain beside him also felt that Song Ke's arrangement had another meaning, and he also urged the first mate to leave quickly. So the first mate shook his body and opened the door and walked into the night.

He encountered two patrols on the road. He told the patrol that the Governor had told him to look for his servant, and the patrol let him go.

By the time the first mate found Hucoulson in the tavern, it was not surprising that this guy was already drunk! The first mate had to pour a large basin of cold water over his head to bring him to his senses.

Coulson was a very skinny middle-aged sailor. Her blonde hair hung unkemptly over her shoulders. Although the facial features are complete, none of them grow in that long position. Coupled with the big yellow teeth that Europeans often have, it makes his face look ridiculous!

Coulson was a professional thief before he became a sailor. He was caught burglarizing a nobleman's house. But this nobleman was having a tryst with a mistress at the time! The nobleman, who was interrupted by his affair, was very angry and demanded that the judge sentence him to a heavy sentence!

The judge, of course, was glad to carry out the nobleman's advice. So when the judge asked Coulson was the choice to pick up

After ten years of hard labor and a sailor, Coulson chose to become a sailor without hesitation.

When people think of sailors, they are often associated with words such as bravery, heroism, etc. Even the voyage is considered a kind of romance! In reality, it's not like that at all! In the era of sail warships, a considerable number of sailors were played by criminals.

Because the conditions of ocean-going vessels at that time were not as good as they are now. Harsh and humid conditions, rocking hulls, unpalatable food, and occasional outbreaks of nautical illness. These things plagued the recruitment of sailors. Therefore, at that time, all countries were willing to talk about some criminals with relatively minor crimes and stuff them into the fleets of long-distance voyages. This not only enriched the number of sailors, but also solved the problem of criminals.

Don't talk about it, just talk about food. For example, the British did not have tea and did not make bean sprouts like Chinese sailors. Coupled with their eating habits, all they can eat is hard crackers and bacon! The drinks are beer and rum!

The reason why sailors took wine as a drink is simple, because fresh water spoils when stored for a long time, while wine does not. So they were very happy and happy to drink wine. This caused a sequelae, that is, the sailors at that time were basically drunkards! Even if you don't drink alcohol, you will become an alcoholic if you stay on the ship for a long time!

Let's take the example of the Royal Fleet, where sailors were given a fixed 4.5 litres of beer and a sufficient amount of hard biscuits per day. In addition, dried peas, cheese and oatmeal are eaten in one group, and corned beef (corned pork) and dried peas are eaten in the other group. At the same time, there is a ration of rum distributed. As for the extra wine, it depends on the captain's mood!

Some friends may say that sailors drink every day and have meat to eat the next day, which is so beautiful! Indeed, at that time, the calories of this diet were not low, more than 4,000 calories per day, which was better than that of ordinary workers at that time, and it could meet the needs of sailors for heavy physical exercise, and there were really many foodies who rushed to the Royal Navy for this food.

But don't rejoice too soon! There are no refrigerators in the age of sails, and food is spoiled! Especially meat! The geographical environment of the United Kingdom is not suitable for the production of grain in large quantities, but due to the large cultivation of pastures and other pastures, animal husbandry is relatively developed. So meat was the main food of the sailors.

In order to keep the Royal Navy from perishing meat, the officers thought of bacon! It is particularly salty, especially salty pork and beef! It's not that Britain is inherently heavy-flavored, it's the need for long-term storage. The meat was salted in huge quantities and placed at the bottom of the sailboat in barrels of several hundred pounds. When you take it out when you eat it, you have to soak it in fresh water first!

In order to ensure the need, it was usually necessary to store a large amount of this strategic material in normal times. If you can't use it up, just put it in the library or in the boat, and save it for a few years to decades! If you can eat the bacon from a few years ago, your character has exploded! According to records, during the Crimean War (around 1850), the British on the battlefield ate bacon in 1809! The U.S. military also distributed bacon during the Civil War during World War I!

The taste of bacon that has been stored for decades is still terrifying, and some sailors recall that the bacon has a "mummy" smell! I haven't eaten any mummies, but they shouldn't be delicious!

As for the Royal Navy, the daily staples are hard biscuits and hard bread! These hard cookies aren't Oreos! It is a kind of dead dough cake baked by flour and water without fermentation! This stuff is incredibly hard! In order to ensure that it is not easy to perish, it needs to be baked with fire 4 times! The harder the cookies, the longer they will last. Completely weapon-grade level! Bread is made in the same way!

These things can only be eaten with good teeth! Sailors called it a teething stick, and it often had to be soaked in soup for a while before eating, and it is said that sailors used guns to beat it to pieces before soaking it in soup.

There are also hard biscuits that sometimes walk on their own. It's not because the hard biscuits have long legs, but because the parasitic in the improperly preserved hard dry pushes the biscuits away! Hard biscuits are usually kept in large wooden barrels at the bottom of the boat, which are often infested with parasites. The most common are blackhead maggots and a small thing called a weevil.

So after a long voyage, it's normal to eat a worm when eating a biscuit!

A sailor once said: "Black-headed maggots eat fat and sweet in their mouths, and they don't have a bitter taste like noseworms!" ”

There were sailors who didn't like to eat bugs recalled that they often threw hard biscuits in the soup and admired the bugs swimming in the soup! And call the bugs in the hard biscuits a boating sailor!