Chapter 112 New Ship

It's not the first time Leo has mentioned the term pirate economy, but every time Leo mentions it, some businessmen should feel it.

Merchants have the deepest understanding of this aspect, because for merchants, their source of income is actually only pirates.

They may be able to sail between the two islands of the Great Voyage, but that is only the most basic way to make money, like an old farmer who goes to work in the field every day and then harvests his crops in the autumn a year later. How can ordinary businessmen be willing to run themselves as logistics?

Although logistics is also very profitable, how can it be the same to make money from hard work and money from high and low prices?

One of the first things Leo had to do before leaving the town was to gather all the merchants in the town.

These merchants accepted Leo's order half a month ago.

In addition to the various ore machines and materials, the biggest thing is to transform a pirate ship from the East China Sea pirates.

The size of this pirate ship is about a lap larger than the Straw Hat Pirates' Golden Beauty. But in terms of manning, this pirate ship is capable of carrying up to fifty people.

Obviously, fifty people are crammed into the Golden Merry, although they can gain a strong firepower and manpower advantage, but there is no way to compare with the Straw Hat Pirates in terms of combat effectiveness.

Most of the pirates don't have Devil Fruits, nor the Three-Blade Sauron, nor do they have Blackfoot Sanji, and the only way they want to improve their combat effectiveness is to pile up numbers.

Leo, when he collected the pirate ship of the pirates, fell in love with the pirate ship at a glance, and did not sell it, but handed it over to these merchants for transformation, if you want to build a ship, it is indeed impossible to build a ship in 15 to 20 days.

Perhaps, with the capabilities of modern industrial shipbuilding, it is possible to build such a wooden ship, as if building a figurine. And the strength of these merchants is completely insufficient, so such a large order, Leo needs to arrange it to five merchants separately, and they can work together to complete the transformation.

This is the reality of Magic Valley Town, very helpless.

There are no talents to talent, there is no technology to have no technology, and there are almost no characteristics and characteristics except for pirates and merchants and the cheapest service industry.

The only thing you have is where you are.

"Are you ready for my goods?" Leo asked.

"It's ready, just waiting for you to inspect it." The merchants, humble and modest, their voices rang out in unison.

Didn't they know that Leo would pose a huge threat to their competition if he took the converted ship? Of course they do.

But whether there is this battleship or not, Leo has the support of the Seven Martial Seas behind him, and now they can still get more than 100 million Bailey's transformation funds, but if Leo has to force him to ask for help from the Seven Martial Seas, I'm afraid they won't even be able to drink the soup.

So when a merchant is faced with a rope that can hang him, he only needs to give them more than three times the benefit, and they can treat it as if nothing happened.

"Very well, Ace, let's go give it a try." Leo nodded slightly, turned to his henchmen, and said.

"This way, please, this way, please." The merchants hurried out of the way to lead them to the docks by the sea.

Originally, there was only one port in Magic Valley for pirates to dock, even if the pirates wanted to enter the town to spend money or go to the resort area on the other side of the town to rest, they also needed to dock here.

But now a huge dockyard has been built on the other side of the port, and although there are no gantry cranes, it can barely provide maintenance services for ships of about 1,000 tons.

Obviously, these merchants did not have any strength to meet this dock before, and it was only after Leo gave them an order that they dared to raise funds to complete Leo's task and build such a dock.

With sufficient financial support, the merchants moved very quickly, and you can see that in less than 20 days, the merchants completed a series of work such as building docks, hiring shipwrights, and renovating ships.

And even if Leo doesn't have any orders after that, there is no need to worry about the profitability of such a dockyard, in the concept of pirate economics, as long as there are pirates passing by, their ships must need to maintain and eradicate barnacles.

In such a position, backed by gold and silver, maritime merchants can only do some small business in the service industry, and it has to be said that the first pot of gold is really difficult to earn.

And among pirate economics, the most unpopular person is undoubtedly the navy.

If the Navy has provided any commodity in this feast of pirate economics, it is probably only deterrence and security.

But even so, do you think the Navy will be more popular than the pirates?

Anyone in their right head should probably know that this is impossible, and the navy is still dreaming of eliminating violence and enforcing justice, completely unaware that they have walked on the opposite side of everyone.

Compared with the people in the navy who take dead wages, their spending power is not even as good as that of dogs, how can they be compared to pirates?

They even have to support their families, which is no wonder that the only trusted companion of the navy on the sea is themselves, and even the merchants are actually on the side of the pirates as long as they are not robbed or killed.

It's no wonder that this era is called the era of pirates.

The group went into the houseboat and saw the converted ship, which was a very typical small galleon, with only three floors.

In addition to the deck, there are three floors below, the lowest floor is used for food and water, the middle floor is the crew's lounge, and the upper level is used for gunpowder and artillery. At the bow of the ship is the room for the navigator, the co-captain, and the officers, and at the stern is the captain's exclusive moment.

This ship can hold more than 50 people in total, and can travel very, very long distances on the sea, such as the famous Mayflower, which is the Galen ship, which crossed the entire Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas.

It was a 180-ton Gai steamer, and this Galen had a displacement of only about 100 tons, but it had been transformed into a Leo shape when it was lowered at the bow:

Two holes were cut in the back of the boat's butt, and the metal propeller took its place in the previous position of the rudder, which protruded from the captain's quarters and hung from the back of the propeller as if it were a plug-in.

The style of painting on this ship has completely changed.

It doesn't feel like it's from this era anymore.

PS: The update is coming. Efforts are being made to save the manuscript......