Small commercial sail speed B-class, no side guns, 1 cargo warehouse, 1 material warehouse, equipped with 1 long and heavy gun, up to 21 crew members, at least 10 crew members can drive normally, and the price is only 1200 gold coins. Watermark Ad Test: Watermark Ad Test

Judging from the current financial situation of the game team, it is still not enough to buy this ship. However, Luo Fei had the idea of renting, and he said to the receptionist Augustus: "I wonder if you can provide rental services?" I would like to rent this small boat and go to sea with my Seagull! ”

"Yes." Augustus stood up and went to get the price book for renting a boat, and when he came back, Luo Fei saw that the cost of renting a small commercial class boat was 100 gold coins per month, which was equivalent to renting for a year and buying it.

He sent a ghost to see the price of the Intrepid rental, and sure enough, it showed the price of 5,500 gold coins per month.

At this time, an extremely absurd idea, but it made him extremely excited, suddenly popped up in his mind!

Luo Fei said to Augustus very solemnly: "Can you charter me the dreadnought-class merchant ship for 10 days, and I can pay you 2,000 gold coins!" ”

"Rent for 10 days?" Augustus frowned and hesitated for a long time before saying, "In principle, the charter period of our ships is at least one month, and besides, if a merchant wants to rent a large ship like the Dreadnought class, he must have enough assets to pledge it!" ”

"What about the ocean-class?" Luo Fei flipped back again: "Its monthly rent also needs 2,800 gold coins, and I will rent it for 10 days and give you 1,000 gold coins!" ”

Luo Fei gestured to stop me from saying what I wanted to say, and said to Augustus very earnestly.

This time, Augustus did not hesitate as long as he had just now, for he insisted on his opinion: "Although the matter of the lease term can be discussed, the matter of collateral is still necessary. According to our captain's principle of mortgage at the same price, if you want to rent this ship, you must provide a property mortgage worth no less than 34,000 gold coins, or you have a wealthy local friend to help you mortgage his property! ”

"A rich local friend?" Luo Fei was the first to think of Oliver, but his Seagull was worth about 6,000 gold coins at most.

"Looks like it's not going to work! So the existence of this shipyard is just a teasing of me? Luo Fei fell silent, obviously this was a rebuttal, if he had so many assets enough to pledge, then he could directly sell it and buy a ship.

So in the following days, Luo Fei could only continue to command the Ocean, trading in Lisbon, Ceuta, and Valencia.

By the time they returned to Lisbon, the team had only 54 days left in the script, and the gold they had grown to 1,050 after selling the goods. In other words, after another 13 days, the gold coin increased by more than 300 pieces.

If this growth rate continues, Luo Fei and the others still have a good chance of accumulating 2,000 gold coins before the end of the mission time.

But the main crew hired through Oliver had already exceeded the deadline by 5 days. As soon as the ship returned to Lisbon, they all left the Seagull, and even if Luo Fei had tried his best to coordinate with Oliver, he would have to wait in Lisbon for an extra five days if he hired them.

The loss of 5 days was forgotten, Luo Fei finally gritted his teeth and agreed to wait for them in Lisbon for five days on the Seagull in order to use a familiar crew.

But 5 days later, the Seagull sold saffron to Ceuta again, and the price given by the Ceuta Exchange actually made the Seagull, which had removed the cost of crew and supplies, only earn 40 gold coins in one trip!

"That's what I called the price effect." After leaving the exchange, who said to Luo Fei: "If we repeatedly only trade between the three ports, the goods that come in will become less and less valuable because of the saturation of supply and demand!" ”

"If the profit from transporting Ceuta's cargo to Valencia is not much higher than this one, it is clear that we will not be able to scrape together 2,000 gold before the mission deadline is reached."

Luo Fei also had a headache when he said this, and at this moment, he suddenly saw an announcement posted on the outside of the exchange wall:

Attention merchants: Barbarodin and his pirate fleet are currently plundering between the islands of Madeira and Las Pamas, please do not approach this area of sea in the near future, and it is not too late to go to this area after the joint clearance of the navies of various countries!

Recently, Luo Fei had learned from Long Aotian about Barbarodin's recent troubles in that sea area.

However, seeing this announcement again at this time when the trade was not going well, Luo Fei had another feeling in his heart.

Especially at the bottom of the announcement, there is also a bounty for the Spanish Navy to recruit warriors to fight together, informing them that the ten warships of the Spanish Navy will dock in Ceuta in three days for replenishment, and then set off for the waters near Madeira to exterminate the Barbarodin pirate fleet!

The bounty stipulates that any warrior who is valued by the Spanish Navy as accompanying the ship will be given a bounty of 5 to 50 gold coins, depending on the ability to be assessed.

Who am I Seeing that Luo Fei looked at the announcement for a long time and was reluctant to leave, thinking that Luo Fei wanted to take the opportunity to rescue Long Aotian with the army, he couldn't help but persuade him: "Although it is very close from Hugh to Madeira, it will be similar in 4 days round trip, but Barbarodin will definitely not be stupid enough to directly confront the Spanish fleet with strong ships and guns, if they deliberately go around in circles with the Spanish fleet in this sea area, maybe they may not be able to make the Spanish fleet get their wish in a month." ”

Speaking of which, who am I continued to analyze from the bounty: "Even if they can get it in 15 days, you, me, and whoever you love will give us a bounty of 150 gold coins, and judging from the appearance conditions of the three of us, we can earn 50 gold coins, which is probably a lot of money given to us by the Spanish Navy!" ”

"And there's the issue of the crew." When Luo Fei heard this, he also analyzed objectively: "Although due to objective reasons, the crew can only get paid for exceeding the time, but since the time of our agreement with them is about one month, then if we want to disband them now, we must compensate them for a full month's honorarium!" ”

"I thought you would lose your mind if you got the chance to save Long Aotian!" Seeing that Luo Fei also said that it was unrealistic for the three of them to go with the Spanish fleet to exterminate pirates between the two islands of Madeira and Las Palmas, who am I, I gave a sigh of relief and put forward a plan: "Why don't we discuss with Oliver and let the Seagull go to the North Sea to trade around?" ”

The main trading ports in the North Sea are closer to Portugal: Nantes, Bruges, London, Blister, Amsterdam and Hamburg.

However, Luo Fei had already heard that the two most important port cities, London and Hamburg, had been completely monopolized by the local chamber of commerce, and only provided supplies for other merchant ships. And in the remaining four cities, the time for a trade circle is even more than a month!

This is also one of the important reasons why the Seagull did not trade in the North Sea before, even if the second time Luo Fei signed a trade with Oliver and others, the scope of trade was no longer limited to Portugal and Spain.