Chapter 74: Keep an eye on the boat
When they left, Olivia was still discussing something with his companions at the table with three or two shabby side dishes, and when he saw them leave, Olivia stood up and nodded, and watched them go out, but what he thought in his heart was not known.
Of course, Gao Han naturally didn't know, and when they left, Olivia summoned the shopkeeper and asked them how much they had eaten at that table.
When he learned that Gao Han and his party had spent almost five taels of silver upstairs, Olivia was obviously a little shocked and a little excited.
On the way back, Gao Han found that there were a few tails behind him, but he didn't care much, he even suspected that these tails were sent by Olivia's girl, but as long as the other party was interested and didn't bother him, a few more tails really didn't matter, people have strength, that's the mentality.
Now Gao Han has power, money, and people, and his mentality is really not wrong in this Haojing Ao, who relies on his strength to speak.
Gao Han was right, the tail behind him was really sent by Olivia.
Talking about hiring herself, I don't know what the other party's roots will do, Olivia is no longer the girl who is ignorant in Lisbon, she has been completely transformed since she embarked on the adventure to the East.
She has seen what it means to be the strong, what is the survival of the fittest, to be honest, she has gone from one extreme to the other, in order to survive, she feels that she can do anything. 、
What is it to stalk her employer, if this employer has money and does not have many people to protect her, she even dares to rob and kill, as long as there is no one to restrain her.
Almost half an hour later, the people sent out by Olivia came back, there was no way, Hao Jingao was so big, it wouldn't take long to go around all of them, let alone just walk from here to the dock.
"Chief, the man got on a sea ship, and he didn't dare to follow him to take a closer look, but I've taken care of Henry and kept an eye on the ship!"
"Didn't you inquire about what goods they bought and sold, and where they came from?" Olivia is quite experienced in doing things, knowing the other party's location is nothing, and knowing the other party's origin is fine.
"The ship only arrived in Haojing Ao this morning, two days later than us, it seems that it is a rich merchant of the Ming Empire!" The man who followed him replied: "There are quite a few people on the ship, and I don't know if they are engaged in the slave trade, but anyway, the heads I saw are enough to drive three such ships!" ”
"Then it seems that I really want to hire someone!" Olivia nodded thoughtfully, and looked at the companions around him: "Let's discuss, whether to accept this person's employment, our ship wants to go to sea again, at least two hundred silver coins of repair costs, except for the twenty loads of tea we bought, everyone is now on them, I'm afraid they can't even take out ten silver coins!" ”
"What are you afraid of, it's a big deal to grab it!" A guy with a meaty face snorted: "Can't you still starve to death here!" ”
"Rob!" Olivia glared at this guy angrily, "Didn't you hear that guy from the Chamber of Commerce just now, dare to make trouble here, when pirates are punished, you don't want to become a corpse on the gallows!" ”
"Then what should I do, the boat can't move, everyone has to spend money every day, and they can't make money here, do you really want to be someone's entourage?"
"As long as we don't make trouble here, the Chamber of Commerce doesn't care how we make money!" Olivia said: "Don't you have to treat us as mercenaries, do you want to be squeezed by those guys from the Chamber of Commerce, and besides, those guys will turn their faces when they say they will turn their faces, everyone has human lives in their hands, and they don't want to be found by these guys!" ”
"This is the East, not the Kingdom!"
"You also know that this is the East, don't rely on the Oriental people to live, let's come to the East to do something, you don't see the tea, silk, porcelain here, it's so cheap that it's so cheap, if we want to get rich, we have to come step by step, first get a good boat, and then find some money, buy some goods, and then go wherever you want, and live as happy as you want."
The guy with a meaty face, hehe smiled: "Actually, the ship is done, it doesn't matter if we have the capital to buy goods or not, as long as we have weapons, won't we really be pirates, let's come all the way, but I haven't seen the warships of the Ming Empire, it seems that they have given up here and become a free port, the ship of the free port, that is the best to grab!" ”
"We'll talk about that later!" Olivia waved his hand: "Let's solve the problem in front of us first, two hundred silver coins, in just three months, we will earn it back, do you want to be like William and a few of them, can't you stand this bit of suffering?" ”
She looked around, and the expression on her face became serious: "If you want to leave yourself to find a way to live, you can speak out now, I will not stop you, but if I accept the employment of others, and I don't listen to the call at that time, and I still want to leave at any time, don't blame us all for being polite!" ”
Everyone was silent for a while, including the guy with the most unruly face, and they all began to say: "Head, let's listen to you!" ”
"That's good!" Olivia pulled out the dagger, and with a "duh" sound, it was inserted on the table: "I still say the same thing before, follow me, I have meat to eat, you have meat to eat, I will get rich, and you will be rich, half-heartedly, either leave early, or, sooner or later, you will die under my dagger!" ”
Everyone was awe-inspired, in the more than a year of wandering on the sea, everyone began to despise this girl who looked weak, and even a few people took advantage of her, but the lives that died under the dagger and stratagem of this girl made them clearly realize that people with such thoughts had long become dead souls in the sea, and they, in the end, survived on a boat of hundreds of people, not entirely by their personal bravery, but they realized how terrible this girl was, They rallied around her and relied on each other to survive.
Wu Yong, they have, but there are more people on the adventure ship who are stronger than them, because of Olivia, so, now they are alive, those people are dead.
It is even said that when they come to the East, they are not familiar with the place, there are not only merchant groups from the kingdom, but also the local officials and troops of the Ming Empire, if they don't huddle together, they really don't know if they can survive in this strange East.
As Olivia said, left and right are just a mercenary task, with money to take, food to eat, and the experience of surviving in this place, it is really not a loss.
Back on his ship, Olivia looked at his leaky and leaky ship, a little gloomy, this is just a small merchant ship, the adventure ship when it set off, now it has sunk in the sea, if they hadn't robbed this ship, whether they could come to the East or not is two words, but this ship, it's really a little bad, even if Olivia already has feelings for this ship.
The repair fee of two hundred silver coins, three months, Olivia really didn't plan to put the money into this ship, she had already carefully observed, the trade in this sea area, I am afraid that it is either controlled by the Victor Chamber of Commerce, or controlled by the Ming Empire, she is a small broken ship, and has no capital, and no force, if you want to make money in this trade, it is really more difficult than ascending to the sky.
As for her subordinates, when she proposed to play a cameo role as a pirate, she scoffed even more, using this ship to be a pirate, but she was afraid that if one of the bows of those armed merchant ships bombarded her, the ship would immediately fall apart, and she would be a pirate, don't even think about it.
I didn't see the warships of the Ming Empire, but I don't think it will be worse than the armament of these armed merchant ships, what is the difference between this and a rabbit robbing a lion, and it is only those guys who have muscles in their brains that will commit this kind of muddy.
Olivia felt that at least, until she didn't have enough information and strength, she should honestly lie dormant here, leaving Lisbon, there was still a far east to go, if she couldn't stand here, would she have to go to those pirates who were all indigenous people for the rest of her life, that was something she couldn't bear.
At the beginning, Sun Yulin really planned to follow Gao Han with all his heart.