"Yes, yes." Zacro broke out in a cold sweat, and finally understood that the fat sheep in front of him was actually not as harmless as he thought.

Wang Xu withdrew his civilization stick, took out a handkerchief and threw it on the table, and said softly: "Say, where is Jack Sparrow, how did you find him?" ”

"He lived a poor life on the Caribbean island of Aruba, and three months ago I went to Aruba with a ship, met him in a tavern, and recognized him at a glance." Zacrow wrapped his right hand in a handkerchief and answered Wang Xu's questions knowingly.

Wang Xu nodded slightly, the civilization stick in his hand lightly touched the ground, and said, "Who is the governor of Aruba?" ”

"Weatherby Swan!" After Zacrow finished speaking, he added: "He also has a daughter named Elizabeth, who is known as the pearl of the Caribbean. ”

"That's right, that's right, that's right." Wang Xu remembered who Elizabeth was, she was the heroine of the first two films, and occasionally appeared in the later parts, her husband was the future captain of the Dutchman, Will Turner, a blacksmith.

Hearing this, Wang Xu knew that Zacrow had not lied to him, and Jack, who could find the Fountain of Youth, was on that island, holding a compass in his hand that could guide the desires in his heart.

"Take me to Aruba and find Jack, and I'll give you twenty gold coins, would you?" Wang Xu looked down at Zacquero, with scrutiny in his eyes.

The expression on Zacquero's face was a little stiff, and he said with a sad face: "Of course I am willing, I will listen to you for everything." ”

"Very good, I just like a young man like you, with a future." Wang Xu had a smile on his face, looking like I am optimistic about you.

With a guide, going from London to the Caribbean is not something you want to go to.

In the past, he either landed near the protagonist, or not far from the plot, this is the first time that Wang Xu has descended so far from the position, and he deviated half of the Atlantic Ocean at once.

... London...

"Sir, there are only two ways for us to go to the Caribbean, one is to go with the merchant ships going to the Caribbean, or we can have our own ship, at least a medium-sized ship, otherwise we will not be able to cross the ocean."

Walking through the streets of London, Zacquero's whispered admonition is in his ears.

When Wang Xu heard these two methods, he was more inclined to have a boat of his own, because he wanted Jack to help him find the Fountain of Youth, and it was too inconvenient not to have his own fleet.

"Take me to the place where the boat is sold, we need a boat of our own."

"Yes sir..."

Zacro was a sailor, and he was no stranger to the place where he sold ships, and soon took Wang Xu to a shipyard.

The shipyard is privately owned, and the owner is a Jew named Bloch, who likes to have a mahogany pipe in his mouth and a cunning look in his eyes that looks at you as if he wants to eat you.

"Every man wants to conquer the sea, and my shipyard is the best in London, no less than the Royal Dockyards." Bloch takes Wang Xu on a tour of the shipyard, a dockyard near a port with at least a thousand workers in it capable of building five large ships at the same time.

Thanks to the Age of Discovery, shipyards are very prosperous at the moment, and almost everyone who is a good businessman will save ships, because the price of ships is changing with each passing day, and the price of a large ship ten years ago can only be bought a medium-sized ship at present.

"I heard from your entourage, you are going to the Caribbean, to be honest, there are pirates rampant in that place, there is no big ship that you can't scare them at all, only the big ship has enough firepower to provide you with the best protection." Bloch took Wang Xu all the way to visit, and everything he did was to promote his galleon.

Wang Xu has no concept of money, no matter how much he spends, it will be a drizzle for him, so he smiled and said: "As long as your ship is good enough, the price is not a problem, even if you sell me the Royal Navy's sail battleship, I can buy it." ”

"Really?" Bloch's eyes lit up, and he stopped walking forward.

Wang Xu looked at him hesitantly, a little surprised by Bloch's reaction, and said in a low voice: "You don't really have a way, do you?" ”

"Of course, I'm a businessman, and I always have to be ahead of the market so that I don't get left behind. Ever since the advent of the Sail Battleship, I've been paying attention to the Royal Navy's orders, but it wasn't easy, and I built a ship that was about the same as the Dreadnought, but the Royal Navy thought my offer was too high.

You know, it's not my fault, the Royal Navy shipyards, the wood is all sent from the colonies, they only have to pay for the cost of extraction, and I need to pay a lot of money to the suppliers. ”

Sail battleships appeared at the end of the 15th century, a powerful warship with hundreds of guns built specifically for war.

The battleship Dreadnought, which is currently in service with the Royal Navy, is this kind of sea killing machine with hundreds of guns and hundreds of officers and men.

However, Pirates of the Caribbean is not a purely technological world, there are many things that are difficult to understand here.

Just like the flying Dutchman, it only has 44 guns, but the real combat effectiveness is unforgettable even for modern destroyers.

After all, you can't expect to use science to defeat unscientific things, and the Flying Holland is a magical ship that transports the undead, and the underworld has given it two characteristics: unsinkable and repairing damage, which cannot be measured by the number of cannons.

"How much is it, and how is its firepower?" Wang Xu came to the spirit, and with the dreadnought-class sail battleship, he would be more sure if he got the Fountain of Youth.

"With a total length of 63.5 meters and a displacement of 2,100 tons, it has a total of three decks and is equipped with 101 artillery pieces, which is an absolute weapon of war destruction." The data given by Bloch is somewhat similar to that of the eighteenth century, the second class sail battleship of the Royal Navy.

If it is the pursuit of history, on this day in 1560, such a second-class sail battleship should not exist in any case, and the metal craftsmanship does not meet this standard.

However, the world of pirates in the Caribbean has nothing to do with history.

For example, in the movie, the Spanish Armada is mentioned several times, and later the East India Company appears.

This in itself is a paradox, as it was only after the fall of the Spanish Armada that the British Royal Navy began to dominate the seas and establish the East India Company to monopolize trade.

In the movie, the prototype of the Endeavor sail battleship that appeared was the Victory sail battleship, which was recopied in a one-to-one ratio.

The Victory, which appeared in 1765, symbolizes the most glorious period of the Royal Navy, and was still in service after 1800, when there was no soil for pirate life for a long time.

Therefore, the world of Pirates of the Caribbean has its own timeline is very chaotic, and if you are serious, you will lose.

"That's the boat I need, how much does it cost, I want it." After listening to the data given by Bloch, Wang Xu didn't want to see other ships anymore.

During this period, the famous Spanish three-masted galleon, equipped with only about 46 guns, was not at the same level as the battleship, and had such powerful firepower, it could go around head-on against the Dutchman flying on it for a while, and only a fool would retreat.

"Okay sir, as long as 860,000 gold coins, it will be yours, and I will match the artillery on the package." Bloch smiled amiably, and Zacrow listened with a tight breath.

Eight hundred and sixty thousand gold coins, that is nearly six tons of gold, enough to buy an earldom from the royal family, and then buy a large piece of land to be the king of kings.

With such a large sum of money, just change a sail battleship, Zacrow feels distressed no matter how he thinks about it.

Because in his opinion, it is difficult to say whether he can rob so much money by driving such a warship every day and robbing it for a lifetime.

You must know that it is 1560, manual mining, no mechanization at all, and gold has not yet begun to skyrocket on a global scale.

The current six tons of gold will be converted to at least twenty times more in modern times, which is equivalent to one hundred and twenty tons in later generations.

"Deal...", out of Zakro's phenomenon, after hearing this number, Wang Xu agreed without thinking about it.

Looking at Wang Xu's back glowing with golden light under the afterglow, Zacrow thought from the bottom of his heart...... Perhaps, this is the big guy.