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"Take the bunching farmer!" (Crab note: Chinese pronunciation of Korean bastard)

On the nameless island, a middle-aged man with a big cake face, squinted eyes, and a black beard like a clump of grass is roaring like thunder.

He is Gao Shuncheng.

That day off the coast of Jewupo, his bad luck began when he decided to ambush the strange-looking, winged-like sand boat.

First, the boat did not escape according to the routine, but rushed towards him, making a fuss about himself, and sinking a net shuttle boat of his own.

Then he followed after him, but lost the man near the lair - he drove the turtle boat from the west side, and the other shuttle boat from the east side around the islands and reefs, and was stunned to find no trace of the sand boat.

Very unwilling, he continued to go south, but he didn't go far before he met Cui Dabeard.

Cui Dabeard is the most powerful pirate on the West Coast, Gao Shuncheng has suffered several losses in his hands, and as soon as the two sides meet, Gao Shuncheng chose to slip away - he only has two boats, while Cui Dabeard has four boats - it is just a matter of escaping, the key is that the wind direction is not right, the octopus pirate ran extremely difficult, and finally although he returned safely to his lair under the response of the second master, the net shuttle boat was finally captured by Cui Dabeard.

In Gao Shuncheng's opinion, his losses and losses were all caused by the sand boat, and he swore that if he caught the winged sand boat in the future, he must let the people on the boat taste the taste of being tied to the stern of the boat to feed the sharks!

But what he didn't expect was that two days later, when he returned from the treasure field, he brought back a news that was enough to make him collapse - the treasure that he had worked hard to accumulate for five or six years had been looted!

After looking at the empty stone crevices on the nameless island, and inspecting the open space at the foot of the mountain full of corpses, Gao Shuncheng was almost certain that this was still the work of the damn sand boat!

When he was sad and indignant, Gao Shuncheng also had to admire the courage of the sand boat pilot, you must know that this sea area is crisscrossed by reefs, even if they are natives of North Korea, they must be cautious and walk on thin ice here, otherwise he would not have chosen this place to hide the treasure.

He really couldn't understand, how could those Ming people dare to break in? No wonder I couldn't find them after going around for half a day.

But admiration is admiration, the octopus pirate hates the winged sand boat to the core, feeding the sharks is no longer enough to calm his monstrous anger, he wants to tie them all with fishing nets and smash them one by one! Yes, everyone!

Just as Gao Shuncheng was thinking with red eyes, the subjects he was about to smash were happily turning the sharp corners of the Korean Peninsula and turning to the southeast.

The hole in the bow had been repaired that night on the nameless island, and the sail on the right wing had been re-fixed, and it was now full of the wind.

The eagle boat followed the "Dawn", and Zhang Xiaoyi took eight people to the prisoner ship, barely able to maintain the operation of the eagle boat.

At this time, it was already past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, which was the time for the escort team to read and write, and after Chu Fan assigned them the task of practicing calligraphy, he came to the deck and continued to study the Franc machine gun that was moved from the captured eagle ship.

Obviously, this is the so-called three-pounder cannon, the muzzle of the cannon can fit into a fist of Chu Fan, he estimated that the inner diameter is about eight or nine centimeters, the bore wall is very thick, and the outer diameter is about 25 centimeters; The whole gun is about 3 meters long, the front half is a round barrel, and there are two iron hoops on the barrel, and the second half is a square sub-gun groove.

The material for making the cannon should be bronze, because Chu Fan saw mottled green patina on the cannon body - in the absence of qualified steel, it is indeed the best choice to use bronze to make the cannon.

The four Franc guns captured this time were all of the same size, and it was said that there should have been 36 guns for the four guns, but in reality, only 11 guns were captured -- and each gun could not even have three guns.

Lifting a sub-gun, Chu Fan carefully observed, this sub-gun is about half a meter long, one end is closed, and the other end has an opening that is the same as the inner diameter of the mother's gun, and the wall of the gun is thicker than that of the mother's gun - this is also normal, after all, the child gun is the main component that bears the pressure of the chamber.

Putting the sub-gun into the sub-gun slot, Chu Fan found that the closure was still not tight enough, and a gap of about half a centimeter could be clearly seen between the mouth of the sub-gun and the mother gun, Chu Fan shook his head, it is conceivable how much gunpowder propulsion will be lost by this gap.

Standing up, Chu Fan looked around, and there was no trace of land on the surrounding sea, and he felt that the time had come to test the cannon - it had been three days since the four cannons were captured, but the "Dawn" had been too close to the land island, so Chu Fan did not dare to rashly test the cannon, in case it attracted pirates, it would be troublesome.

Just when Chu Fan was carefully inspecting the Franc machine, Ge Bi and Yi Bao in the Wangting Pavilion had been watching him in the Wangting.

"Boss Ge, did the young master really say that I also have shares?" Yi Bao wanted to ask this sentence for a long time, but he didn't dare, and today he finally couldn't help it.

"Nonsense! The young master has spoken, and that is a sure thing. Ge Bi replied in his mouth, but his eyes kept on Chu Fan, who was squatting.

On the night of the nameless island, Chu Fan proposed to set up an "East India Company" and convert all the dividends from this fight against pirates into the company's share capital.

What is the East India Company, not to mention that Ge Bi didn't understand, even Chen Shangren didn't understand it at first, after Chu Fan's patient and meticulous explanation, Ge Bi finally understood, isn't this a trading house, a good trading house is not called, it has to be called the East India Company, really-if he knew how famous the East India Company would be in the world in the future, he was afraid that he, one of the founders, would be scared to death.

Since it is a trading house, the young master invited everyone to join in so sincerely, and this windfall was unexpected, so Ge Bi decided to join the shares without hesitation, and the other two had the same mind as him - Originally, the windfall that flew should be dealt with like this.

And Chu Fan's next move was beyond Ge Bi's expectations, he gathered everyone together the next day, explained what was going on with the East India Company, what kind of business it was going to do, what prospects it would have in the future, etc., and finally let everyone choose whether to buy shares or not.

His eloquence was very good, and more than half of the people chose to use dividends to buy shares on the spot.

However, the exact amount of the share capital is still unknown, and it will not be determined until Nagasaki turns the gold and jewels into silver, so the amount of money signed by the person who bought the shares is still empty.

As for Yi Bao, Chu Fan thought that he also had credit for helping with the interrogation, so he also gave him dividends, but only half of the others.

Ge Bi has never seen such a generous and generous owner, and he is actually willing to take everyone to make a fortune together - you know, the owner of this era, even if you want to give the guy the so-called share capital, that is, one point and two points, you can see at a glance that it will win people's hearts, how can it be as real as the young master, sixty percent of the share capital, and it will be divided!

He was just thinking about it, when Chu Fan's action of loading gunpowder on the deck startled him, and he quickly kicked Yi Bao, who was overjoyed and happy.

"Why don't you go and help the young master!"