Regarding the Assassin's weapons, Ai explained that the main reason for not carrying weapons at the moment was that the ship's payload was already small, and if you added a bulky guy like the bronze cannon, the payload would be even lower.

Of course, we have a relatively complete plan for the self-defense of this ship, which is a light ** projectile mentioned by the telegram from the Red House a while ago.

Xiao Ai said, that is a special weapon that Boss Luo is developing for us, it is said to be very similar to a large-caliber mortar cannon that shoots explosives @ medicine packets, the range is not too far for the dead, but it is barely enough, as for closer combat, at present, we can only count on the 57-type rifle.

Everyone nodded when they heard this, it seems that this is the only way to do it now, but the brothers also revealed to Xiao Ai that at present, Boss Luo and they are cooperating with the metallurgical group and the chemical group to develop machine guns, and it is said that they are planning to develop a repeating firearm called Montini machine gun.

Hu Xiaolin said to Xiao Ai very excitedly, I heard Boss Luo say that although the effective range of this machine gun is only two or three hundred meters, well, maybe less than four hundred meters at most, but it is fired in the form of a loading drum and a hand-cranked firing fire, and the rate of fire may reach more than 100 rounds per minute!

Obviously, in this day and age, this machine gun should be a very sharp firearm, and at that time, you can consider loading the Assassin with a few of them, and your self-protection ability will be greatly improved.

When the brothers returned to the foredeck, they saw a group of people standing on the beach, all of them dressed in short clothes from the Ming Dynasty, and they had not shaved their hair or clothes.

At this time, Xiao Ai immediately introduced that they were all sailors of the Assassin, and they were selected by the Qiao family, and after training in the past few days, I felt that the character and skills of these people were good.

So the brothers greeted the beach under the boat, some waved their hands, some said hi and said hello, in short, there were all kinds of everything, so that the sailors on the beach looked at this group of people with a confused face, and they were confused.

However, everyone soon in the handlebar and the head of the water shouted, and finally understood that these Australians were greeting themselves, so they also returned the salute, obviously the other party's etiquette was officially unified a lot, are bowed to the end, the mouth is chanting, but the two sides are too far away The brothers on the ship did not hear what the other party was saying, but it didn't matter, anyway, the atmosphere on the scene was very friendly and harmonious.

After everyone visited and greeted, it was time to work.

The sailors aboard the Assassin were intrigued by the pulley set cargo poles on the Pride's foredeck, which usually only required two people to operate and could easily lift a wide variety of cargo, some of which were quite heavy, onto the trestle.

Many of them quickly learned how to do it, and the crew of the Pride happily left the work to the sailors of the Assassin.

Soon, not only the sailors on the Assassin, but also some young and strong laborers joined the process, and all kinds of cargo bags were carried to the stilt house behind the beach, among which several wooden boxes of various sizes were temporarily placed on the beach---- which contained the military portable Marconi transceiver used by the American army from the Old World during World War I and the matching foot engine set, a total of two sets were shipped, one was planned to be placed in Xiao Ai's bedroom, and the other was planned to be placed on the Assassin.

This is the communication equipment specially equipped by the partners in Macao on the side of the Red Mansion, the Marconi military portable transceiver is relatively small in size, very strong and durable, this is a spark type telegraph, the structure is simple, the maintenance is easy, and the reliability is very high.

It's just that the maximum communication distance of this kind of radio station is only about 50 kilometers, but I heard Xiao Fei say that in this new world where radio interference is relatively small, if the weather conditions allow, the maximum communication distance is likely to exceed 100 kilometers.

Obviously, this communication distance is sufficient for Wanshan Island, after all, there is a large radio station in Macao with a communication distance of 3,500 kilometers, and the straight-line distance from the waters of Xiaowanshan Island to Macao is less than 40 kilometers.

Among the materials that were moved to the stilt houses on the beach, in addition to some labor tools and supplies such as sailors' clothes, shoes and hats, the most important were weapons, ammunition and industrial equipment.

These included: 120 Type 57 breech-loading flintlock pistols made of Dutch flintlock pistols and Spanish arquebus**, and 15,000 shell-mounted cartridges.

Industrial equipment: a full set of ammunition factory production equipment, including wooden die-casting machines, mixers, hammers, tung oil boiling equipment, it is worth mentioning that the equipment of the ammunition factory is the second generation of improvements, many of the equipment that used to be completely operated by manpower, now increased hydraulic or animal supporting equipment, as long as a little assembly, you can achieve hydraulic or animal power, the chemical group has tried these equipment, the final effect is very good, its production efficiency and the quality of ammunition have been improved.

Zhu Beiguo whispered to Ai Rush that the powder in the clay pot is a nitrate additive with synthetic magnesium nitride and organic potassium nitride as the main components, and it is also the key ingredient for ordinary black ** to transform into fortified black**.

In addition, a large number of jars, metallic and non-metallic pipes, glassware, ovens, and a small Stirling generator set from the old world were removed from the ship.

These materials are the equipment of pharmaceutical factories, which are the most important industrial construction projects of the traversers at this stage, and they are also the third largest money-making projects after glassware and calico.

The supplies were huge and varied, but none of them were heavy, and the heaviest was the small Stirling generator set, which could be carried away by a few strong men, so the twenty-one sailors and a dozen tenants on the Assassin were all moved to and from the trestle and the stilt house in a few trips.

The next thing to do was to install the Marconi system in the Assassin and the stilt house on the terrace where Xiao Ai and Huang Lei lived.

It was almost noon, so Li and Zhu told everyone to rest, and invited the handlebar head of the Assassin, all the sailors, and the young tenants who had come to carry the work to the Pride crew dining room for dinner.

The staple food of the crew of the Pride is white flour steamed buns, white rice porridge, and the dishes are still the same old-fashioned salted fish, dried meat, tomato sauce and the "three old sauce" that the crew members do not want to drink.

In addition, there are seasonal vegetables, which are quite nutritious in short, but how they taste---- as the crew of the Pride, it is very flattering.

Because the temporary ship doctor Huang Lei became seasick soon after he got on the boat, and he didn't have a good job along the way, so in recent days, Li Zhuhupeng and others have been doing the kitchen cooking work in shifts.

However, today's meal was unexpectedly popular, because today happened to be Liu Yishuang, Tian Jiali and his brothers' kitchen on duty, and they used chili peppers picked from Lao Wangdi to stir-fry with fresh fish that had just been replenished in Macau to make a dish of chili peppers and salted fish.

When a few large basins of dried chili fish were served on the table, the restaurant was suddenly filled with aroma, Liu Yishuang said, this is the ancestral dish of the fisherman, as long as it is a person from a fisherman's family, it will basically be made, and that person can make it very fragrant.

Sure enough, after this dish was served, not only did the crew on the Pride eat very deliciously, but the handlebars and sailors of the Assassin were all sweating profusely and had no time to wipe it, obviously for the sailors of the Assassin, this was the first time in their lives to eat this dish, after all, the seasoning of chili peppers has not yet entered the table of ordinary people in this era, at this time there may be edible chili peppers in the Americas and Europe, but in the East, chili peppers are very rare things, and they are basically not seen on the market.

So those sailors were so spicy by this dish at the beginning that they didn't want it, but I don't know why, even if it was so spicy that they cried tears, these sailors just liked to eat it, and shouted comfortable while being spicy.

It's no wonder, after all, the humidity at sea is heavier, and people who run the sea often need to use spices to get rid of dampness, which can be seen from the ancestral dishes of Liu Yishuang, the son of the fisherman, if you don't want to get rheumatoid arthritis early, the people who beg for a living on the ship need spices very much---- and it is no wonder that the sailors on the Assassin keep shouting that they are comfortable and eat deliciously.

It was at this time that Elush began to have the tenants grow chili peppers on Little Wanshan Island, and the first seeds came from the Pride's kitchen.