"You've got a lot of experience, and you're not very old." Li Yi looked at Huang Laifu's resume again, and saw that he had served in small fishing boats, smuggling boats, and large sea ships, and had traveled to many countries, and he was considered an elite among the sailors who came to sign up.

Chen Zhengbin also recommended some old sailors in Penghu, but they were generally older, and the Luo family in Lanfang would also send some sailors, but they were not in a hurry, and it would be at least three months or even half a year before they came.

Although there are many local sailors, there are still fewer who have run through the open sea and experienced strong winds and waves, and the recruitment effect these days is not very good.

"There's no way around the small ones." Huang Laifu replied with a very respectful expression, he didn't understand very well in his heart, this official asked him to come here just to say this?

Li Yi is already a six-rank civil official, and he is a middle-level official in terms of the rank of the Great Wei, surpassing the ordinary magistrates, and the next step is the magistrates.

Of course, with Li Yi's fame and resume, it is impossible to serve as a pro-people official in the military state, but how can ordinary people know about such things?

Such a big man called himself over just to talk about these little things?

Li Yi could see the ignorance and curiosity of the sailor in front of him, and said warmly at the moment: "These things have proved your resume, and now we have to arrange a suitable position for you." ”

"The right seat?" Huang Laifu was even more confused, wasn't he a sailor?

He blurted out: "Adults forgive the small ones, if they eat military rations, the small ones are unwilling." ”

"Rest assured, rest assured." Li Yi said with a smile: "The sailors on each ship are divided into two groups, one is the deck group, that is, responsible for sailing, ship, maintenance and other things, and the other group is the bow and crossbow group, which is played by the sailor soldiers, who are the subordinates of the deck group in peacetime, and cooperate with the soldiers to fight with the enemy in wartime, you sailors are the deck group, except for the things at hand, you don't have to worry about fighting, even if we lose, you just surrender." As far as I know, the sea bandits generally don't kill old sailors, and they don't have a shortage of men. ”

This is true.

Even the ferocious Pu Xingfeng generally will not kill the old sailors who surrendered, because all families lack old sailors, which is also a kind of scarce talent, as long as they are willing to surrender, the lives of the old sailors are not hindered.

As for the group of thieves who were in charge of the war, even if they surrendered, they tied their hands and feet one by one, and threw them headfirst into the sea, which was simple and trouble-free.

Huang Laifu nodded, let go of his heart, but the curiosity in his heart was even stronger.

Li Yi pointed to the blackboard behind him and said with a smile: "This is the command system of each warship determined by Nan Anhou and everyone after discussion, Huang Laifu, take a look." ”

Huang Laifu is literate, that is, he has seen the past as he said.

The chalkboard on the wall is also a novelty, and the chalk is even more so.

In fact, these are all low-tech things, Xu Zixian said to Fu Qian, in less than ten days, this thing was all over the courtyards and barracks, and the water division camp was also used here.

Convenient and fast, all kinds of arrangements and deductions, the trial implementation of official documents, can be written and drawn on this blackboard, this year paper is quite expensive, the blackboard is still used in the Mingtang and literacy classes, for those scholars and literacy class soldiers to practice calligraphy.

The first sequence is, of course, the captain, and this Huang Laifu is no exception.

Any ship, even a pirate ship, is the captain of the core.

The difference between a pirate ship and a merchant ship or an officer warship is that the captain of a pirate is rarely assigned by a big pirate leader, and it is useless to send down the people who are not supported by others.

Merchant ships are assigned by the proprietor, and the proprietor can believe in it, and ordinary sailors will not quarrel.

Warships are qualified officers, and ordinary sailors will not fight, nor dare to fight.

But here in Nan'an, there is a significant small print next to the captain: Everyone is vying for it, and those who have both ability and political integrity can be appointed, regardless of qualifications.

Huang Laifu's heart thumped, Nan'an really has a lot of opportunities here, it seems that he can also be the captain?

Under the captain is the deputy commander, but also the deputy of the overall auxiliary captain, usually mainly to manage chores, the status is more embarrassing in peacetime, only when the captain dies suddenly, seriously ill, can not perform his duties, the deputy commander is the captain's reserve, then it really plays a role.

Huang Laifu pursed his lips, he would rather be a sailor than a deputy commander, he was too aggrieved.

Under the deputy chief are the chief navigator, the deck sailline chief, the ballista chief, the boatswain, the chief secretary and other five chiefs, and then the medical officer, the sail officer, the carpenter officer, the crossbow officer, the kitchen officer and other five senses.

It was the first time for Huang Laifu to see such a well-layered, well-defined division of labor in the organizational structure of the ship, if people who don't know how to sail may not be able to understand it, but he knew at a glance that the division of labor was quite reasonable, and Xu Zixian, the Marquis of Nan'an, seemed to have really worked hard.

Xu Zixian's experience comes from the research on the era of sail warships led to his obsession with games in later generations.

In particular, it was obsessed with the development of the British Navy for a while.

Xu Zixian made special inquiries about the United Kingdom, and the current stage of development is that Britain is also just starting, its naval strength is not strong, and there is not much news to hear.

Xu Zixian could only reduce and improve the rationing of the British sail navy's capital ships in the game and literature to build a powerful sailor in his mind.

Huang Laifu has done almost everything except doctors, and he knows at a glance that in this structure pattern, in addition to the captain who is the first in real power, the second is the navigator who is the most comfortable among the five chiefs, and there will be veteran pilots on each ship, who are familiar with the port currents and reefs in various places, can take the ship around the dangerous area, and can guide the ship to walk on the right route through stargazing and positioning, watching the current, wind direction, observing the weather and many other methods on the vast sea, and can also avoid risks such as typhoons.

An old qualified navigator is actually qualified to be a captain, but he may be a navigator because of his lack of personality, experience, and skills.

This position is the most respected and relatively leisurely, and Huang Laifu is quite excited.

But after thinking about it, my experience, especially stargazing, is still quite immature, and I am afraid that I am not qualified.

In fact, it is the length of the sailline, and the deck rope is of course coolie...... The main sails of the Fu ship and the Guangdong ship are quite heavy, and every time the sail is raised and lowered, more than a dozen people have to go on it together, and they sweat a lot to succeed.

Boatswain, as the name suggests, is to manage the daily life of sailors, and it is not an easy errand, most of the tempers on the sea all year round are a little weird, hormones have not been released for a long time, and it is the norm to be brave and ruthless, and there will be crazy people on every ship, wielding a knife to cut people or suddenly jumping into the sea, which is impossible to prevent.

The secretary is responsible for purchasing the ship's supplies and receiving and counting the cargo of the ship.

Ballista chief, Huang Laifu glanced at it, not interested, this is a desperate errand, according to this official's suitable words, all the people on the ship are divided into two groups, the deck group and the ballista group, and the sailors don't care about the ballista engagement.

The medical officer, the sail repair, the carpenter, the crossbow, the cook, are all chores, slightly higher than the sailor.

Then there are the pure sailors and ballistas plus the water battalion soldiers.

"The villain is not talented, and the captain is afraid that he is not qualified enough." Huang Laifu has made up his mind and said: "The deputy is not successful, and the skill of leading the ship is not deep in stargazing and water." It's a long sailline, a boatswain, and it feels qualified. ”

"You're a real person." Li Yi said with a smile: "Some people want to be captains when they come up, and more want to be secretaries." ”

"The secretary must take the arithmetic test." Huang Laifu said frankly: "The small ones are okay, and the arithmetic can only be added with your fingers, so you won't be so ugly." ”

Li Yi smiled: "Why don't you try it?" ”

Huang Laifu said: "The little one thinks like this, how can he make up this set of things, how can he be deceived at will?" ”

Li Yi laughed when he heard this, and said: "Sure enough, Brother Huang is clear-minded, I think you are suitable to be the boatswain of Fu No. 1, are you willing to do so?" ”

Managing sailors and tossing the sail rope, Huang Laifu is still willing to deal with people, much stronger than tossing a sweat every day, and then hugged his fists and said: "It was originally selected by the small one, of course I am willing." ”

"The technical work of our water camp is much higher than the salary of ordinary people," Li Yi smiled, and said with a straight face: "As far as we know, ordinary sailors of merchant ships can earn more than ten or twenty times when they go to sea for three months at a time, and they can fall fifty or sixty times a year at sea, am I right?" ”

This is also a similar market, or more run, farther, higher income of sea vessels.

If a sailor goes to sea once and earns dozens of times, I am afraid that there will be no farmer on Fujian Road, and everyone will go to the sea.

Even so, the income is not low, a family of four, planting five or six acres of land, is a relatively common situation in Fujian, a hard year, in addition to rations, the copper coins that fall are at most five or six times.

Farming is better than stability, the risk of running the sea is still too great, the farther the boat runs, the greater the profit, and the greater the risk.

On the Japanese route, one of the ten ships going to sea may sink one, or one may be robbed by pirates, and on the Luzon, Srivijaya, or Siamese routes, one of the five or six ships will definitely have an accident, or encounter a typhoon, or run aground, or be robbed, and it is unlikely that all of them will come back safely.

There are also those who go to the Mughals and other places, and the risk is even greater, and one of the three ships will have an accident.

Once an accident occurs on a sea ship, there is not one in ten thousand who can struggle to escape from their lives, and basically all the ships will die as soon as they sink, and all the goods and people will be played.

Only the mature route is less risky, but the profit is certainly smaller, and the sailors don't make much.

Braving typhoons, wind and waves, seasickness, and the scorching heat of the sun, the money earned is several times more than farming, which is also a very reasonable income level.

Huang Laifu already understood at this time that these officials in front of him were quite meticulous and meticulous in their work, and he reluctantly replied yes at the moment.

"The leader of the ship, the sailor, these are generally hundreds of times a year, the captain, some are hundreds of times a year, but there are dividends, some are more than a thousand, there are no dividends, generally speaking, it is three or four hundred to more than a thousand a year."

Li Yi frowned and said, "But this is all book income, if you are sick at sea, the expenses to the port, this is your own business." In addition, when encountering pirates, the owner of the cargo and the people on the ship are divided, and if they do, they will be unlucky. After more than ten years of running boats, there are many people who have not saved a few dollars......"

Huang Laifu moved his body awkwardly, it is true that the annual income is ten times that of farming, and it is said that if the boat runs down for ten years, he can buy at least ten acres and eight acres of land and start a house.

But in fact, there are very few people who can do this, sailors work hard at sea, the pressure is great, when they arrive at the port, they eat and drink nonsense, prostitute and gamble, and those who can save money are generally old and tired, so they can leave some of their hard-earned money. There are some captain-level ships, hundreds of times a year are used for fine light, the cost is large, the risk is also large, and if you encounter any unpredictable risks, you will inevitably have to break the bank and eliminate the disaster.

Running a boat for more than ten years, like Huang Laifu, empty-handed, there are many people.