CHAPTER XV. Friends in Cana Street
The buildings in the port of Ksovo basically maintain the medieval style of their past era, and most of the buildings are built in the way of "vault domes". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
As the third largest port of the Sugerian Empire, Ksovo's trade is naturally quite busy, with ships from all over the world replenishing and resting here every day, and so many people moving around the city of Ksovo has become unprecedentedly lively.
And in the whole port of Ksovo, if there is any place that is the most lively, in addition to the drunken taverns and the daily gold casino, you must count the "Gana Street" in front of you, which is less than 500 meters long.
The ground is all paved with bluestone, which looks neat and beautiful, and on both sides of the road, there are all kinds of shops.
Every day, countless goods flow out of here, but more goods flow into here from other places through various channels, and are bought by people of all classes.
At the end of the "Gana Street", there is a somewhat special house, which is made of bluestone throughout, and although it is not ornately decorated, it looks small and exquisite. On the stone steps in front of the house, at some point, it was already covered with moss, and it seemed that no one had taken care of it for a long time.
Lin Hao kicked open the somewhat dilapidated wooden door, and after a crunching sound, in the inner room, a drunken voice immediately came out: "That damn bastard, you dare to spoil my uncle's wine." ”
As soon as the words fell, a drunken man with a beard on his face staggered out of the room inside, the big man **** his upper body, revealing strong and dark muscles, a pair of arms slender and powerful, and clearly visible green tendons wrapped around the arms like dragons.
"Cardo, you don't remember me so soon, it's really sad for my old friend."
Hearing this extremely familiar and demonic terrifying voice, the strong man called Carl quickly sobered up a lot, and immediately went to three points when he was very drunk, and stared at Lin Hao a few times with a pair of big copper bell-like eyes, as if he was sure that he was not looking at the wrong person, and then immediately let out an exclamation from his mouth: "Lin, you damn devil, why did you come back again, why, didn't the goddess of the sea send you bastard to heaven?" ”
With Karl's somewhat excited movements, followed by a ping-pong sound, the debris that had been filled with the house immediately shattered to the ground.
Sensing such a big change in the other party's mood, Lin Hao also touched his nose a little embarrassed, and then muttered in a low voice: "Stingy ghost, didn't you just take something from your hand, as for being so angry?"
"A little something, you're sure it's a little bit...... Stuff. Listening to Lin Hao's whispering, Karl's voice suddenly rose an octave, and then he gritted his teeth and said.
"Okay, okay, isn't it just more than twenty tunnel guns, with the relationship between the two of us, as for the excitement?" Seeing that the other party was about to enter a state of rage, Lin Hao hurriedly comforted him, and his tone was much less confident than before.
"More than twenty tunnel guns? You say lightweight, do you know how difficult it is to make a tunneling gun? Even in the city of Kvoso, except for the most elite troops and the city lord's own army, you have seen that the soldiers of that army are all equipped with tunnel guns, and even the guards in the city, among the ten-person squads, only the two captains and deputy captains are equipped with tunnel guns, and the rest of the soldiers are equipped with bows and crossbows. ”
"Why are you so excited, it's not like I didn't give you money." Looking at the other party's angry hair-blowing and glaring, Lin Hao couldn't help but whisper back.
"Money, you are embarrassed to mention money to me, the price of a tunnel pistol in the market is worth at least five gold coins or more, you took a total of twenty-six pistols from me, that is a full hundred and thirty gold coins, and you gave me a fraction of the money, just such a small amount of money, even the cost of forging a tunnel pistol is not enough."
Hearing the other party's almost hysterical shouts, Lin Hao directly chose to ignore it, looking like everything had nothing to do with him.
While speaking, Cardo angrily took out his wine glass and swallowed a few sips of rum, and when the other party's anger was almost gone, Lin Hao spoke again: "Okay, okay, Cardo, with the relationship between the two of us, don't worry so much, I'm here to talk to you about a business." ”
"What business?" Cardo glanced at Lin Hao suspiciously, and then asked cautiously.
"Well, I need some ammo for the 9-pounder Fire Serpent." Feeling the other party's completely distrustful gaze, Lin Hao also shook his head helplessly.
The four fire snake cannons that were finally unloaded from the imperial warship, because they were soaked in seawater, did not have a single cannonball that could be used to fire, which was like a tiger without teeth and could only be used to scare people, and at this time, the four fire snake cannons placed on the "Warrior" were equivalent to a paper tiger, and there was no use at all.
"Don't worry, I'll buy it at the market price." Without waiting for the other party to speak, Lin Hao had already spoken.
"Fifty silver coins of ammunition for a fire snake cannon, how much do you want?" Hearing the other party say that he would pay according to the original price, Cardo's tone finally eased a lot.
At the economic level of this era, five gold coins were enough for a family of three to live carefree for a year. And in a war, it may only take a few times for a cannon to be fired, and all these gold coins will "evaporate".
Lin Hao saw hundreds of cannons on the city wall before, thinking about what a spectacular scene it was when hundreds of cannons fired in a salvo, the cannons roared in unison, the wind and smoke suddenly rose, the earth cracked, and the corpses were everywhere. At this time, he was calculating how much gold would cost a round of artillery salvo.
And the results of the calculations show that even with Ksovo's wealth, it is absolutely impossible to support such a terrible consumption for a long time.
"One Hundred ...... No...... Fifty rounds. Weighing the money bag on his body, Lin Hao said hesitantly.
Transporting that cargo to Delai Island made him earn more than thirty gold coins, plus the gold coins left on his body, at this time, all the assets on his body added up to about forty-five gold coins, but he could not come up with too much money to buy ammunition, whether it was the maintenance of the "Warrior" sailing ship, or the maintenance of the life of his sailors, it was a huge expense.
The sailors' food, in particular, was a staggering expense, and since he became captain of the Warrior, he had spent several times more on food than before. For these young lads, how can they be supported in high-intensity sports and training without enough nutritious and adequate food, and enough fresh fruit to ensure that these sailors under their command will not suffer from scurvy during long sea voyages.
As soon as he thought of these messy accounts, Lin Hao felt his mind tingle for a while, in his previous life, no matter what country he went to on a mission, in addition to his own set of "tools", all he carried with him was a few fake passports and a dozen credit cards, and he had no concept of "money", but after crossing over to this strange world, he suddenly became the captain of the "Warrior" who managed dozens of people, which made him not feel a headache.
He hadn't thought about leaving the management of the accounts and the daily expenses to his sailors, but when his sailors kept asking him questions like how many plus how much, he almost broke down and blasted them all out, and then continued to do this drudgery.
However, after breaking through to become a first-order swordsman, the recruitment system has also undergone some changes, and some of the original non-recruitable objects have also become recruitable at this time, and he now has a lot of merit points on hand, but he can consider recruiting some crew members with "talent".