No businessman likes to compete, because competition means a loss of profits, whether it is to grab customers to raise the purchase price, or to fund ambitions to seize power, it will undoubtedly increase their costs, according to Di Freina, not no one has considered the formation of a business alliance before, but the problem of the distribution of interests within the alliance has never been solved, because there is no one benefit distribution plan that can make everyone feel satisfied.

So those who were not satisfied continued the previous practice, raised the purchase price, and increased their partners by buying and planning mutinies, and soon the merchants who joined the alliance could not stand it, and watched their original partners being pulled away one by one, and no one could still sit still, so everyone left the previous agreement behind, and finally the new alliance, which was established less than three months ago, was dissolved in a vigorous war for people.

This incident happened just three years ago, and it stands to reason that the memories of those black market merchants will not be so short, and there is no reason to run into the wall again, and there is obviously something going on that they don't know about.

Di Freina said, "I'll investigate this matter tomorrow and see what is going on." ”

Zhang Heng nodded, and he didn't have much to do when he didn't understand the specific situation.

The two then went to visit the arms merchants on the island according to the original plan, because Zhang Heng and they grabbed a naval frigate, and the weapons and equipment on the ship were very complete, there were fifty muskets alone, and there were sixty sabers, so there was no need to purchase weapons for the time being, but with the future warring ammunition reserves will definitely decrease, and they will need to be replenished from time to time.

Zhang Heng was looking for Barr, who had cooperated once before, and the four short pistols and one rifled gun on his body were purchased from the latter, and the two sides knew each other well after dealing with each other.

Compared to the black marketeers before him, Barr's attitude was much more enthusiastic.

not only personally invited the two into the house, but also asked the maid to make coffee, first congratulating Zhang Heng on becoming the captain and getting the Jackdaw, and then getting to the point.

However, after hearing the intention of the two, Barr couldn't help frowning, "Everything else is easy to say, the shells of the 24-pounder guns are a bit troublesome, and most of the artillery on the civilian ships are mainly 6-pounder and 9-pounder, 12-pounder guns are rare, and 24-pounder guns are basically only used by the navy." ”

Zhang Heng knew that what Barr said was the truth, and he was not deliberately raising the price.

This should be considered a happy annoyance for him, the firepower on the Jackdaw is far more than that of ordinary merchant ships, with 12-pounder guns as the main force, in addition to 8 more powerful 24-pounder cannons, but how to collect cannonballs has also become a trouble, but fortunately, Barr's words are not as deadly as he said.

The weapons merchant paused and continued, "I have something to do with the navy, and I can help you think of a way if it's just a shell, but there is no guarantee that it will succeed, and I'm afraid the price won't be cheap." ”

Zhang Heng understood this, the Jackdaw currently has sufficient ammunition reserves, and this matter is not too anxious, and then Di Freina and Barr began to check the purchase price of weapons and ammunition one by one, the former has served as a quartermaster on the Sea Lion for five years, and he knows the market environment on the island very well, and there is no question of who deceives whom, and the whole process is going smoothly.

That's why all pirate ships want to hire experienced professionals, and if it weren't for the power struggle on the Sea Lion, Zhang Heng would have had to try his luck if he wanted to find a crew like Di Freina and Billy.

There are far fewer weapons merchants on the island than there are black market merchants, and the competition is not so fierce, but even so, Barr is in a good mood to get a long-term customer, and seeing that the time is not early, he invited the two to stay for dinner, but was politely rejected by Zhang Heng and Di Freina.

The quartermaster's wife and children were on the island, and he hadn't had time to go home after getting off the boat, and he didn't plan to delay when he saw that things were almost done, while Zhang Heng remembered that Anne should still be out and hadn't eaten, so he decided to go to the latter.

However, when he came to the beach, he heard from the people nearby that the red-haired girl was very powerful today, not only beat the two subjects in charge of the assessment to admit defeat, and then defeated several people who stood up to challenge her with one hand, and finally the group was convinced, and ran to the tavern to drink together.

Zhang Heng was not surprised by this result at all, this kind of thing sounded like Annie, probably only she could use this method to win the respect of the other crew members so quickly, in fact, if it wasn't for gender, she wouldn't have been so miserable no matter how she looked at it.

But no matter what, with the previous play, not only Billy and the others have nothing to say, but Anne will also suffer much less criticism for becoming a boatswain.

Zhang Heng didn't go to the tavern to find the red-haired girl, and he didn't worry about what happened to her, after staying on the island for so long, Anne didn't make trouble for a day, but Zhang Heng never saw her suffer any losses, and just for drinking, no one in the whole of Nassau should be her opponent.

So Zhang Heng returned to his place of residence directly on the dock, but when he was about to walk to the door, he suddenly stopped.

Zhang Heng frowned, he noticed that the door was hidden, with Anne's big personality, there were only two possibilities for her to go out, either it was closed tightly, or it was simply wide open, and there was almost no third possibility.

In addition, Zhang Heng also saw the curtains that were pulled up behind the wooden window, which was also not like what Anne would do.

Zhang Heng pulled out a short musket from his waist, but he was a little puzzled, he didn't have any enemies in Nassau now, at most he was a little entangled with Fraser because of Owen's affairs, but the Queen Anne's revenge has not returned yet, and it stands to reason that Fraser will not know what happened above so quickly.

What's more, even if he knew, he should have worried about Blackbeard and Orff's revenge on him first, instead of provoking himself who already owned a battleship.

Therefore, Zhang Heng couldn't guess who this uninvited guest was tonight.

Or is it just an ordinary thief?

However, Zhang Heng did not relax his vigilance, he didn't know that the guy was still in the house, and gently opened the door with the saber in his hand, but then he bowed down and rushed to the wooden window, Zhang Heng did a comprehensive renovation when he took over the house, but he couldn't help but be a little lazy later. There was a wooden window that was already loose and unpresentable, and seeing that it could be supported a little longer, Zhang Heng didn't care about it.

Unexpectedly, this window now came in handy in another way, and Zhang Heng easily broke the window in.