Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Back Road Was Copied
For more than ten days, the sea wolf did not go to sea to plunder again, and Yu Xiaotian temporarily focused all his energy on the training of newcomers and the management of Treasure Island.
For the sake of the health of the island, Yu Xiaotian instructed Li Gouzi to set up public toilets in their station and affiliated islands, and the main island also built a special toilet for women, and regularly sprinkled it with quicklime from the Li family to kill maggots.
In addition, he also built a bathhouse near the spring, and built a bathhouse with local materials and branches of stones and shrubs on the island, and strictly ordered the people on the island to bathe regularly to keep their bodies clean and prevent diseases caused by parasites such as fleas.
In addition, he also instructed people to dig drainage ditches in the island's residential areas to discharge domestic sewage directly into the sea, preventing domestic sewage from accumulating in the living areas.
In addition, considering the problem of guarding, Yu Xiaotian also planned to build a wall around the residential area on the island, as well as arrow towers, watchtowers, lighthouses and other guarding facilities, but such a plan is still difficult to implement for the time being, they have limited materials at hand, although the island has endless stones, but the manpower is still not enough, wood and lime to bond the stones need to be purchased from land, and they cannot complete such a project in a few months.
As for the personnel, after the newcomers finished the first phase of the obedience awareness training and quarantine period on the island, he began to bring the selected newcomers to the ship, so that according to the different division of labor, they followed Hu Cheng and Meng Maniac on the ship, and became familiar with the operation of the ship and the way of fighting on the ship.
Most of these people are not coastal fishermen, they are not very familiar with the operation of ships and life at sea, and some of them are even seasick and dizzy.
Yu Xiaotian made it clear that since he brought these people here, he would not treat them as consumables, and drove them to adventure regardless of their life and death.
For Yu Xiaotian's statement, the newcomers also feel that it is acceptable, people do not think that their lives are long, Yu Xiaotian attaches so much importance to them, but it makes them feel that they are treated as adults, so after getting on the boat, they are all more obedient and do not cause much trouble.
Many people, like Li Dazui, have gradually accepted this fate, and have begun to feel that this kind of life is a little better than their previous days of wandering around hungry and full, and the only thing that makes them a little unhappy is that there are too many rules here.
This Yu Helm seems to be born a rule maniac, whether it is eating, drinking, Lazar or sleeping, there are rules, everything must be in accordance with the rules, a little careless, you may be punished, and it is just a matter of going to the toilet to go out of the toilet, but even the shoes they wear must be placed in the designated position when they sleep, and they are forced to take a bath with cold water every two days, and these things are also closed, so they can't figure it out.
But if you don't do it, after a few lessons, gradually these newcomers can also adapt to the rules here, and begin to get used to doing everything according to the rules.
Seeing that the day was about to reach the end of September, Yu Xiaotian finally took the ship out to sea again and started a new round of hunting operations, and they continued to choose the target area on the sea surface in the southern part of Haitan Island, because it was out of the direct controllable range of the Fuzhou official army and naval division, and it was also a place where the merchant ships from the north and south must pass through.
Therefore, according to Liu Laoliu and the Li family, many pirates around have selected the target area in this area, which is the hunting ground of pirates all year round, of course, if you go further south, to the west side of Nanri Island, the harvest may be better, but at the moment it is the potential area of the shark Zhang Hu, and a small pirate group like the sea wolf has not yet been able to compete with Zhang Hu, so they can only choose this narrow sea area slightly farther away from Nanri Island as their hunting location.
These novices who went to sea for the first time, after leaving Treasure Island, began to look nervous and a little excited, which made the old people of Xiaohuangdao who had already done it twice a little contemptuous of their performance, but many people forgot that when they came out for the first time, they may be even worse than these guys, in short, now they have called themselves veterans and began to become arrogant.
But for Xiaotian, his confidence in coming out this time is also a lot, after all, he brought more than 30 people with him this time, even if half of them are some newcomers, but his strength has increased a lot.
At present, the number of soldiers on his ship, that is, the soldiers, has reached nearly twenty, and they can finally refine their duties more carefully, appointing full-time gunners and archers, as well as musketeers, so that the division of labor under his men can be refined and more professional.
And once he moves, he can command the people who rush to the front, and there are more than twice as many, and against ordinary merchant ships, they have an absolute overwhelming advantage in numbers, and the probability of successfully hijacking the ship also increases exponentially.
Therefore, Yu Xiaotian came out this time, full of confidence, and went straight to the safari area with the boat, and began a three-day cruise.
In the first two days, they didn't seem to have had a lot of luck, they didn't come across a worthy or suitable ship, only an empty boat out of Fuzhou to Quanzhou.
After catching up, the other party directly announced their surrender, and without any resistance, they let them board the ship and search, but in addition to finding a few knives and guns and dozens of taels of silver, they ended up empty-handed, so they had to let go of the merchant ship and let them continue to go south.
This result made the people on the ship very discouraged, and they had no choice but to continue cruising in the sea, looking for the next target.
But on the third day, their luck came, and they found two boats on the sea at the same time, one of which seemed to be in a state of heavy load, so Yu Xiaotian immediately chose this heavily loaded ship to start.
After some chase, they finally caught the boat, but after boarding the boat and controlling the boat, they were disappointed, it turned out that the boat was not a long way, but a ship from Chaozhou to Fuzhou to transport wood.
There is no silver on the ship, only a little grain and a small amount of loose goods on the ship, which are not worth much, and even the owner did not escort the ship on the ship, such a result disappointed everyone, knowing that the boat chose the wrong target this time, but I heard the boatman on the ship say that the other boat that they let go, it was filled with a lot of spices and pearls, agate and silver, but they looked away, and they actually chose this ship loaded with timber, and the angry Meng madman just wanted to kill people to vent his anger.
Yu Xiaotian was also very disappointed, looking at the wood of this ship, he could only admit that he was unlucky, knowing that they were still inexperienced, otherwise they would not only look at the load of the ship, but ignore the goods that may be loaded on the ship.
So Yu Xiaotian ordered all the boatmen on the ship to be tied up, and one by one they were thrown directly into the cabin, locked up, and let someone come from his ship, and took them over, and the two boats carried the boat full of timber together, and sailed towards the shore, and after dark, they found a random place, and threw these boatmen on the shore, and then drove the two boats and began to return home to Treasure Island.
Although this shipload of timber is not worth much, it is also a much-needed material for them, and they will continue to operate on Treasure Island for a long time, and they will not be able to do anything without wood.
Moreover, most of the wood in this ship is teak, which is an excellent wood for shipbuilding, and it does not warp or crack when the sun and rain dry and wet changes greatly; Strong water and fire resistance; It can resist termites and sea insects in different sea areas, extremely resistant to rot, originally produced in Southeast Asia, Fujian and Guangdong do not have this thing, after asking the boatman on the ship, I learned that these teaks were purchased by their owners in the hands of a maritime merchant in Chaozhou Prefecture, and they wanted to be transported to a shipyard in Fuzhou for shipbuilding.
The rest of the wood, also mostly some mahogany, mostly produced in Southeast Asia, either for shipbuilding, or for the production of expensive furniture, carefully calculated, down the value is not small, and this ship is also Yu Xiaotian fancied, although this ship type is not a lucky ship or a wide ship type, but it is a kind of flat-bottomed boat similar to a sand boat, although it is not suitable for ocean navigation, but it is very suitable for transporting large materials in the offshore or relatively large rivers, because the draft is shallow, not easy to run aground, although the speed is relatively slow, It is not suitable for use as a pirate ship, but it is suitable for transporting large quantities of cargo.
Moreover, this ship is relatively young, it is a relatively new ship, and it can be used for a long time, so Yu Xiaotian decided to eat this boat and this ship of wood.
The wood is used to repair their boat in the future, and if it is not needed, it will be pulled to exchange money for the Li family, and they can keep the boat, and in the future, they will run the line of Dalian Island in Treasure Island and ship it for use, which is not eye-catching, and it is easier to hide their identity.
So Yu Xiaotian simply ate the goods brought by the boat, so that they came out this time, and the harvest was not small, and it didn't take much effort, and it also allowed the newcomers to practice their courage, so the results of this time were not bad.
But just as they were about to sail back to Treasure Island, they saw a thick cloud of smoke appear in the sky above the direction of Treasure Island, and the man in charge of watching the mast suddenly exclaimed, "Oh no! Our island is on fire! ”
Yu Xiaotian and everyone suddenly tightened in their hearts and rushed to the bow of the boat......
(Shamelessly continues to yell out: Brothers, what about red tickets?) Hey hey)