Although Ye Feng already knew that the army was a gold-swallowing beast, he really didn't expect that just buying 40 guns would cost 54,000 gold pounds, you know, this is still under the premise of discounting and not buying the corresponding base number of shells. 35xs

After all, without shells and gunpowder for firing, artillery is like a burning stick without bullets.

Therefore, in this way, the purchase of weapons alone will consume most of the gains they have gained this time.

At the same time, he finally understood why only regular navies would use all the guns of uniform specifications.

The pirates, on the other hand, mostly used a variety of types of artillery.

The reason is also very simple, the financial resources can't support it at all!

Turning his head to look at the brand-new cannon with a metallic sheen, Nightfeng said with a wry smile, "It's a bit expensive, but it looks like it's worth the money." ”

"But at the same time as buying the three-pounder guns, I also have a batch of one-pounder and two-pounder guns to sell, I don't know what your purchase price is for these old guns?"

The bald man must have been in the business of buying old guns many times, so he said without thinking, "As long as the artillery can still be used, our unified purchase price is 150 gold pounds for a pound cannon and 350 gold pounds for a two-pound gun." ”

Hearing such a price, Ye Feng couldn't help but scold the profiteers in his heart.

You must know that the sale price of a new one-pound cannon is 500 gold pounds, and the two-pound gun is 800 gold pounds, even if it is an old gun, as long as it can still be used, the sale price will not be less than 350,500 gold pounds.

However, they only paid one-third of the selling price, and finally continued to sell at several times the price after a simple renovation, so how could Ye Feng not scold the profiteers!

Unfortunately, for Nightfeng, of course, he had another option, which was to sell these old cannons to small pirate groups on Turtle Island through retail.

He was confident that the pirate bands would come up with a price of more than double the current price, but unfortunately, the downside of that was that he would be wasting a lot of time here. Flash Dance

For him, time is much more important than the golden pound!

Therefore, although he was unwilling, he could only be helplessly slaughtered by these profiteers.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Ye Feng could only nod helplessly and agreed, "Okay! However, the old guns I'm going to sell are on the ships in the harbor, so please send someone with mine to pull them over!" ”

Hearing Ye Feng's words, the bald man nodded without hesitation and agreed, "No problem!" ”

Nightfront then sent Comptroller Lorev back to the Vere, and instructed the remaining pirates to dismantle the one-pound and two-pounder guns on the Vere and transport them here.

As for the blacksmith's shop, there were as many as eight heavily armed Viking warriors and a dozen black laborers with strong waists.

These black laborers were all purchased by the blacksmith shop to pull the bellows, you know, the blacksmiths of this era need to manually pull the bellows to create wind power to make the temperature in the furnace continue to rise.

And to do such hard work, the first choice is, of course, the black slave who is strong and can endure hardship.

As for the 8 heavily armed Viking warriors, it was given the mixed environment of Turtle Island, if only a dozen black laborers were carrying a large number of artillery pieces back.

Then it is believed that only halfway through, these black slaves will be killed by pirates and their artillery will be robbed.

That's why it's up to the Vikings to stop the greed that grows in the hearts of the pirates!

When Lorev and the blacksmith went to the port where the Vere docked, Nightfeng and the bald man went on to negotiate the next deal.

This time, however, he was talking about the shells that were indispensable for artillery equipment and the black powder packs for firing.

However, the gunpowder packs are gunpowder packs of each pound corresponding to the corresponding size, which are already universal, so he only needs to tell the bald man the approximate number of guns he has, and then the bald man will naturally equip him with the corresponding number of firing powder packets. 35xs

Because the Veres itself was converted from a Spanish warship, but the number of guns on its battleship was greatly reduced.

However, even so, the Verde itself still had nearly 20 three-pounder guns, and as for the one-pounder and two-pounder guns, there were none, so the Spanish Navy did not look down on these guns at all.

As for the one-pounder and two-pounder guns on the battleship that Nightfeng is now on, he had robbed them from other merchant ships or pirate ships in the course of a series of raids in the recent past.

Therefore, if one or two three-pounder guns were occasionally grabbed, then the number of three-pounder guns on the Verde was close to 70 at this time, adding the 40 three-pounder guns purchased at this time.

Such a number of guns is already higher than the number of guns regularly equipped on Tier IV battleships!

Therefore, in order to pay for the gunpowder pack required for the battle of 70 guns, the night blade had to pay an additional 2,000 gold pounds in the end.

Finally, the deal he had to negotiate with the bald man, and the most important deal, was the cannonball.

However, this time, the types of shells that Yefeng wants to buy are different from ordinary customers, who basically purchase most of the solid bullets, and as for chain bullets and shotguns, they are purchased in small quantities.

But Nightfront did the opposite, he bought chain shells and shotguns in large quantities, basically these two shells accounted for 70 of the total number of shells purchased, and only the remaining 30 did he buy solid shells!

This is simply unreasonable in the eyes of other pirates, after all, in naval warfare, distance is everything.

Solid shells have the longest range, and in an artillery battle, your shells can shoot a certain distance more than the enemy, and this distance can make or break a battle.

Because if you are hit by a solid bullet, then if you are unlucky, you will hit below the water line of the battleship with a single hit of the solid bullet, then it will cause a large area of water in the hold, and then it is very likely to cause the sinking of a battleship.

After all, the warships of this era, but there are no ironclad ships in later generations that have the so-called sealed cabin, even if the bottom of the cabin is flooded, you can also get through the dangerous period by closing the corresponding sealed cabin!

And if you are hit by a chain bullet or a shotgun, it will basically not cause significant damage to the hull!

And you should know that whether it is a chain bullet or a shotgun, their firing distance is only one-fifth of that of a solid bullet.

So it's conceivable that the bald man wondered about Yefeng's way of buying cannonballs, but for him, no matter how strange the customer's request was, it was none of their business.

Therefore, he only wondered in his heart for a while, and then equipped the corresponding number of shells according to the number of artillery reported by Yefeng.

The only advantage is that because chain bullets and shotguns are not as popular as solid bullets, their prices are of course much cheaper than solid bullets.

In the end, 500 shells were purchased and twenty wooden boxes were filled, and the total price was only 5,000 gold pounds.

Among them, chain bullets and shotguns each occupy 200 rounds, and solid bullets are only 100 rounds, but I believe that if solid bullets occupy 400 rounds, then this price will definitely be doubled!

Then, after the deal was roughly negotiated, the bald man arranged for the black slaves to carry the negotiated three-pounder cannon, cartridge packs, and cannonballs from the storehouse.

I have to say, like artillery and cannonballs, these are all heavyweights, and their numbers have reached a certain scale, so it wasn't until Lorev returned with black slaves and Viking warriors.

At this time, 40 three-pounder guns and projectile kits were transported, and nearly 20 boxes of shells needed to be carried.

At this time, after Lorev returned, the bald man and Nightfeng began to count the number of old cannons they had brought back.

Since only one-pounder guns and two-pounder guns could be clearly seen from the caliber of the muzzles, the counting was quickly completed.

The final count resulted in 26 one-pounder guns and 17 two-pounder guns.

According to the price just negotiated, the recovery price of a pound of artillery is 150 gold pounds, so 26 one-pound guns are 3900 gold pounds, and the two-pound guns are 5950 gold pounds, and in the end it will be 9850 gold pounds.

After deducting 54,000 gold pounds for 40 three-pound guns and 500 gold pounds for the cartridge pack, he had to pay 56,850 gold pounds to the bald man.

When the bald man took out the parchment paper and finished calculating on it, Ye Feng had already calculated the result through mental arithmetic.

Although there are still 500 rounds of shells that have not been transported, Ye Feng also believes that such a large blacksmith shop will definitely not be greedy for these small money, after all, the principle of fine water and long flow is not the patent of the Han people.

Therefore, Ye Feng paid the transaction very neatly, but then, after thinking about it, he said to the bald man, "Because my subordinates must have long since lost their knowledge of where to go for fun, I would like to ask your store to arrange a group of people to deliver the goods I purchased to my ship, I wonder if it is okay?" ”

Hearing Ye Feng's request, the bald man only thought about it for a moment and then agreed very simply, after all, for him, this transaction is indeed the biggest in the past few months, so for the next transaction, whether it is reasonable or reasonable, he must also make sure to attract repeat customers!

As for the manpower of the porter, hehe!

For the black slaves, they would already be very happy to give them a little more food when the time comes, so if you calculate it this way, he will only have to pay less than a dozen gold pounds for food.

Of course, he is willing to do such a cost-effective thing!