Chapter 17: Windfall
The next day, after Li Tang woke up, Ye Biao rushed to report!
"Great joy! **/ Silk Nephew! We've really made a lot of money this time! The pirate ship we captured turned out to be a silver-class warship. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
It turned out that this ship was originally a warship of the Han Dynasty and was born in a famous family. Later, the general on the ship offended his superiors because of his iron-faced smuggling. Then he was unjustly convicted and almost arrested and imprisoned.
And the general has a high reputation, and treats his subordinates like brothers, this time, in order to protect everyone's military achievements, he ignored the order of the superior to let the bandits go for personal gain, so he offended the superior, and everyone was indignant.
So, in a fit of rage, everyone killed the sergeant who came to arrest him, and there was no room for turn. can only be a pirate and live a life of licking blood from the knife's edge. It's not a lot of evil on weekdays, but it's also a lot of lives, and it's notorious.
This pirate ship has been cruising along the coast, plundering passing merchant ships from time to time, but it has also accumulated a lot of wealth.
Although, these pirates also have a lair. However, the captain thought that it was safest to keep the valuables in his own hands on the ship, so the lair was full of bulky living supplies, and the really valuable goods were placed on the pirate ship.
According to Ye Biao's statistics, there are more than 12,000 gold coins on the ship, as well as other jewelry, jade, ornaments, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., which are estimated to be worth far more than gold coins.
There are also all kinds of weapons and equipment, 200 sets of complete black iron leather armor, 100 sets of armor, 20 black iron and bronze swords, and 3 silver-level swords, which are estimated to be worn by 13 merchants in the past. There are more than 400 other longbows and crossbows. There are also many other miscellaneous weapons, armor, and so on.
What interests Li Tang the most are some drawings: dock construction drawings, sailor camp construction drawings, horse chopping knife production drawings, leather armor production drawings, and so on. You know, it's hard to move an inch in the game without drawings!
There are also some skill books, which are all beginner and intermediate skill books. Li Tang can't estimate the specific price, but what Li Tang doesn't know is that the skill book has become the most common item and the most consumed item as the game progresses, and all players, whether they are soldiers, generals, or players in life and occupation, need skill books to help them improve their skill level.
For example, if you Li Tang's advanced shipbuilding technology is not directly improved by the system, then if you want to improve, you must first have primary shipbuilding skills, and after the skills are full, you will learn intermediate shipbuilding skills, and then after you are proficient, you will study the advanced skills book, and so on, it is possible to improve your skills step by step.
Of course, in addition to the basic skills, other skills need to be learned in a corresponding skill book. Unless you can comprehend the skill. Like Ye Hui's primary knocking stick, he was comprehended.
Basic skills will no longer be displayed in the skill column.,Like the swimming and climbing of the Howling Sky Dog, it's the most basic skills.,And the proficiency is very high.,But because you can't use the skill book.,It can only be a basic skill all the time.。
Knowing that the harvest was so great, Li Tang was of course very excited!
Thinking that there are still a lot of people lying in his Qiankun bracelet, it is estimated that they also have a lot of good things on them, at least there should be a lot of gold coins and the like!
Thinking of this, Li Tang probed into the Qiankun bracelet and found that the people inside were in a state of panic.
These people were on a plain, full of loess, there was no reference around, as far as the eye could see, and if it weren't for a few wooden houses, they would have collapsed.
What's worse is that for a whole day and a night, no one gave them food, no one gave them water to drink, and no one even paid attention to them and questioned them.
"Even if it's torture yourself!"
But no one!
Li Tang isolated a few people and inquired, and found that not all of them were pirates.
There were less than 600 real pirates, and the rest were the auxiliaries who had been captured on the ship, the robbed wives of various small leaders, and the women of good families who were used as prostitutes. There were also a number of merchants who had recently been taken captive on the ship.
Although there are differences in the answers of several people, they know what the real situation is when they are comprehensive.
Li Tang had an idea, transferred those non-robber personnel out of the Qiankun bracelet, and asked them to naturalize in Linhai Village. Otherwise, let them go back to be with the pirates.
The people had been abused by the pirates, so when they heard that they were to be naturalized and given the same treatment as the other villagers, they immediately agreed.
This time, 356 villagers have been added at a time, and at this time, look at the attributes of Linhai Village:
Village Name: Linhai Village (the first village in the world)
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Population: 510 People's Hearts: 63 Public Security: 68
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Banking: 16,321 gold
Fixed asset:...... Mulberry Silkworm Garden (under construction), Wharf (under construction), Sailor Training Camp (under construction), Primary Martial Arts Hall (under construction), Primary Breeding Farm (under construction).
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By this time, the population had increased considerably, reaching 510 people.
Li Tang estimated that these people were originally given to Li Tang by the system. Generally speaking, it should be delivered once every half a month, but this time it was postponed due to pirate interception.
However, the system still used the storm to break the pirate's sail, and then sent the pirate to Li Tang.
Whether you can get this group of people depends on Li Tang's ability, and if you can get it, you will get far more than 150 people. If you can't get it, it's because you don't have the ability, and you can't blame others.
High risk, high reward!
This is not wrong at all, if Li Tang takes a big risk and finally sets fire to the ship, he can also get a large amount of gold coins and some materials as compensation. After all, weapons and equipment are not fire-resistant, and gold coins and blueprints (special items) cannot be burned. Launching into the water to salvage will definitely be able to pick up some of it.
Today, the village is also rich in materials, fishing, logging, and the purchase of a large number of cotton, iron and other materials, even if the population is increased, the village can basically be maintained.
In addition, there are some outputs in the village, such as collecting a lot of pearls, corals, etc., which are not easy to sell. There are also seized materials, Linhai Village can only use part of it, and other parts that cannot be used can only be sold for money.
Unfortunately, if you use the God of Wealth Altar to buy things, you can buy them in large quantities and save on shipping costs. However, using the altar of the God of Wealth to sell things is extremely uneconomical, because it costs too much freight.
In terms of buildings, many buildings in the village were added, such as private schools, primary quarries, primary lumber yards, primary mills, and primary weaving mills.
Docks, sailor training camps, junior martial arts halls, primary breeding farms, and silkworm gardens were also built because drawings were also found.
Many buildings, which do not have much direct effect, but play a very important role in the development of the village, such as mills, can diversify food and improve people's morale.
It seems that the structural system of Linhai Village is also gradually improving, and many things are already self-sufficient.
After handing over the villagers to Ye Biao, Li Tang became the shopkeeper again. Poor Ye Biao, it was unlucky enough to meet a lord like Li Tang.
However, Ye Biao didn't think so. He thinks that Li Tang has done the big aspects, and he can't do well in the small aspects, isn't it a joke for the juniors!
Therefore, he is also happy to be busy and unlucky.
Speaking of which, the overall quality of this group of villagers is lower than that of the previous batch, there are not many special skilled talents, and the proportion of women is relatively high, it seems that the system also wants to balance the ratio of men and women.
However, this makes no difference to Li Tang at all, what he needs is a head.
There are a lot of special talents, Li Tang has a lot, and they are all idle and have nothing to do!
Li Tang wished that there were fewer special talents (this is extremely inflated, if other lord players knew, they would definitely die), do more work, and waste less food.
However, there are indeed some new types of special talents in this batch, such as some people who can raise silkworms and reeling silk, so it is still good.
After Li Tang handed over the villagers, he put a lot of ordinary food and fresh water into the Qiankun bracelet, and he no longer cared about the life and death of the people in the Qiankun bracelet.
At this time, Li Tang wanted to see how big the island was.
The last time I went out for a walk, it turned out that before I could make the trip, I ran into a broken incident of pirates attacking.
Now that he is free, Li Tang has begun to plan this matter.
In the past, I always thought that this island was very small and uninhabited. However, it seems that this should not be the case, at least judging by the information revealed by the pirates, this island should not be a desert island.
So, Li Tang probed his consciousness into the Qiankun bracelet and asked, "Does anyone know the details of this island, tell me, you can get wine and meat." ”
No one spoke, and their eyes were all on the white-clothed scribe. Then the scribe-like captain closed the folding fan and said:
"It's just a no-brainer, and I happen to know the situation on this island."
Originally, the name of this island was Penghu Island, also known as Dashanyu, which is the largest island in the Penghu Islands, with an area of more than 60,000 square kilometers.
In addition, there are 63 islands scattered around.
There are two islands with an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers, namely Yuweng Island and Baisha Island.
There are also 8 other islands with an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, namely Wang'an Island, Qimei Island, Jibei Island, Tseung Kwan O Island, Hujing Island, Dongji Island, Huayu Island, Zhongtun Island, etc.
There are not only people on these islands, but there are quite a few of them.
However, this is not the territory of the Han Dynasty, it belongs to the land outside the country.
The inhabitants of the island are basically for the living, they live in the mountains, live by hunting and slash-and-burn farming, although the folk customs are simple, but because they do not obey the king, and the appearance is extremely fierce and barbaric, they are full of chest leakage every day, they like to eat raw meat and drink blood, and the customs and habits are very different from those of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Shengban is regarded as a jackal, tiger and leopard by outsiders. As a result, they are extremely hostile to outsiders, believing that they do not follow customs and defile their gods, and often execute outsiders on the grounds of blasphemy.
Only a small number of ripe flowers are on the coast, and they all fled from the mainland. Most of them are to avoid harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the government exploits, and they take the plunge to come here, and they basically maintain the customs of the Han Dynasty, and they basically do not interact with each other on weekdays. It's just that on weekdays, because of the reclamation of wasteland, there are constant conflicts with Shengfan.
Those wastelands are considered terra nullius by Shuban, and it is better to grow crops than to be barren, but Shengban thinks that the wasteland is a ranch for reindeer, and the pastures are destroyed, so they can hunt fewer reindeer. Therefore, the cooked fan has been repeatedly attacked by raw fans, and the losses have been heavy.
Of course, there are also many vicious thieves who have established a nest here in order to avoid being pursued by the government. They went to the coast of the mainland on weekdays to attack the passing merchant ships, and the stolen goods they obtained were handed over to some wealthy families on the mainland in exchange for a large amount of money, beautiful women, living materials and other luxuries, and brought back to their nests for them to squander.
These thieves are also good and bad, and their scale is very different.
Some were just 100 people gathered together, driving the looted merchant ships, disguised as shipwrecked ships, and waiting for the opportunity to seize the ships when other ships were rescued. When they came across a large fleet of ships, they set sail and fled; When you encounter hard stubble, you can only consider yourself unlucky; When they encounter a weak one, they will kill and seize the ship.
This kind of robber is extremely vicious, and is the use of the crew's sympathy and professional ethics to commit crimes, very despised, just like Mrs. Xu in Nanjing, to lower the moral level of the whole society, made an extremely great contribution, generally this kind of people are caught, are tied to the side of the boat to catch sharks.
There are also some rangers who have never met talents, they generally have one or two ships, the number of people is more or less, generally waving flags, forcibly intercepting passing ships, extorting money for goods, generally not killing people, and only taking 3% of the goods, but they can be regarded as thieves, but after all, they are still robbers, they generally leave room for doing things, waiting for the court to pardon Zhao'an.
There is also a category of real thieves, whose members range from a few thousand to tens of thousands, or even 100,000 or even 100,000 or millions, and they have large villages on the island, where the villagers farm and graze their cattle every day, and fish and collect shellfish, so as to ensure the basic livelihood of all their members, so as not to survive during the blockade of the mainland.
The big bosses generally don't go to sea, they are small leaders, they go to sea to plunder everywhere, although they don't often kill people, but they usually take the ship and people together, and some of them also take the merchant ship to run and transport, or help other caravans to escort darts, and do some legal business. Sometimes, when they find out that there is a void in the defense of a certain place, they will send a large number of pirates to go ashore and plunder, and there is no certain law at all, and there are no rules and morals.
Such thieves are generally well-informed and powerful, and they cannot be exterminated by fewer people, and they cannot be touched by more people.
After Li Tang heard this, he realized that this place was not as safe as he imagined. On the contrary, it is full of dangers, surrounded by countless pirates and murderous people.
It's just that his own waterfront village is located at the northern end of the island, where the wind is high and the waves are fast, and there are not many boats coming.
If you sail a few dozen nautical miles westward, you will enter an inland sea. The inland sea is a paradise for fishermen and islands, with calm winds and complex terrain, and deep-water harbors everywhere.
It seems that there are still a lot of forces on this island, and they are very complicated.
At present, no one has discovered this small sea village, and if anyone does, it is estimated that they will be in constant trouble.
There are so many pirates here, and it is estimated that it will not be so easy to return to the mainland. It doesn't matter if you are alone, the key is that there are still a group of villagers who follow you like relatives.
Especially Ye Biao, the three of them, father and son, are really like relatives to themselves, and it is estimated that even if they leave Linhai Village, they will not leave. Because they were forcibly sent by the system to assist in the construction of the village.
The top priority is to expand the population, increase defense, and gain a place on the island. Population, relying on the system to brush the population, it is estimated that it is unreliable, and it only takes half a month to send 150 people, that is, 10 people a day.
And maybe some moths came out when sending the population, like the last pirate ship incident, and almost got yourself in!
Speaking of population, there are almost 600 people in the Qiankun bracelet. If they had joined the village, the population would have been able to solve a lot.