Chapter 402: The Pirate's Hidden Stake
When Han Xing and his party pushed open the two-open wooden door, they saw a brightly lit tavern, which covered an area of nearly 100 square meters, using the most popular decoration style, with tall floor-to-ceiling windows providing perfect lighting, and you could clearly take in the picturesque scenery outside the window.
In the middle is a walkway, and the floor is paved with dull ebony (not yīn) sunken wood for crafts, but a type of mahogany, one of the specialties of the Caribbean).
Directly in front of it is a bar, and unlike the bottles and jars of modern bars, the large-scale use of glass was not yet popular in this era. On the table were oak barrels, a faucet was installed, and open cups made of wood or tin were neatly stacked on the sides, and a gray-haired man in his fifties was polishing a glass with his head down, and then carefully retracted it to the back shelf (shēn).
There are also some large glass bottles on the shelves, which contain brown or golden liquor, which is the famous rum of the Caribbean! Behind the bar, there are several large wine barrels on the floor, which seem to be wine, whiskey, and the like.
On the left and right sides of the aisle are long tables and benches, which are filled with all kinds of guests, some bearded, sloppy, looking like frustrated tramps, numb with pale yellow wine, as if borrowing wine to kill their sorrows; Some of them showed a bold face, picked up the wine glass and poured it down, even the wine overflowed from the corners of their mouths, wetting the front of their clothes, and they were not moved, but they just wiped things with their sleeves boldly.
Others were getting together to play a game of dice, and some looked ecstatic and expectant, apparently winning; Some look sad and brooding, obviously unlucky; There are also a few players who play cards, a guy with a full face (ròu) holding a shoddy cigarette roll, looking at the hole cards in his hand, smug, as if he has won the game; Another thin man with a shrewd face looked at his hole cards, but he smiled slightly slyly, obviously relying on it.
Just as Han Xing and his party pushed the door in, almost everyone subconsciously raised their heads and glanced at them, and then continued to do what they should do.
Han Xing walked straight to the bar, but saw the gray-haired boss who was full of energy and burning eyes raised his head and asked with a smile, "This captain, what do you want to do?" Whiskey? Red wine? Or rum, beer? ”
"How do you know I'm the captain?" Han Xing looked at his costume and asked in surprise.
"What do you say? We businessmen all have an intuition to look at people! The tavern owner smiled slightly, "Of course, to be honest, it's because I saw your ship enter the harbor!" What's more, for Basseterre, you are a fresh face~" He pointed to the tall floor-to-ceiling window, just in time to see the Ranger moored in the sea.
"Bring me a glass of rum, with a glass~" Han Xing nodded, pulled over the chair and sat down, and then pointed to the glass on the counter.
"This is the crystal cup~ sir!" The tavern owner took out a bottle of rum, unplugged it, poured a glass of rum, and then pushed it in front of Han Xing.
"Okay, crystal cup~" Han Xing stretched out his right hand, picked up the so-called crystal cup, looked at it for a while, and then took a small sip and said with a smile.
The golden liquor is as smooth and sweet as a clear spring when it passes through the tip of the tongue, but when it flows through the mouthpiece, it turns into a line of fire, burning down the throat into the abdominal cavity, and there is a burst of warmth.
This is the Caribbean specialty, rum! This Caribbean-inspired wine is made from cane sugar as the main ingredient. As we all know, after the sugar water is precipitated, the more you drink to the bottom, the stronger the sweetness, so rum is a rare sweet wine in the world. But its degree is not low, also between 50 degrees ~ 60 degrees. Before drinking, it can be diluted with water or added with juice or soft drink, depending on personal taste, and it is only in the Caribbean Sea in the region of the (shēn) region that it is possible to produce this unique flavor.
"Captain, where are you from? What can I do for you? After Han Xing took a few sips of rum, the boss asked.
"I'm a wine merchant who has just come from Europe, loaded with a shipload of French wine, and I'm going to peddle it around the Caribbean, and now I'm going to recruit some reliable sailors!" Han Xing pretended to burp with a drink. It has been scientifically proven that drinking in moderation can make people more talkative, and of course, if you pour a glass of rum, don't look at it as sweet, it is enough to put down an average person with a poor amount of alcohol. But Han Xing is not afraid, he is an evolution of the T virus, healing and detoxification ability, that is leverage!
Han Xing really needed to recruit some sailors, and if he wanted to use the Dongfang and Ranger together, he would need more manpower. Although there are many residents in Toulon in the seaside area, the number is only tens of thousands, of which there are more than 4,000 sturdy men.
What's more, with the 4 newly built warships in the [Seaside Area] out of the water, at least a thousand sailors are still needed to make them, so it is naturally necessary to recruit some sailors in the Caribbean~
"You want to recruit sailors? Great, great, choose me! I once worked as a sailor on a three-masted merchant ship, the Pelican! ”
"I, I, I, I used to be the third mate on a merchant ship!" As soon as they heard that Han Xing needed manpower, the sailors in the tavern, who had nothing to do, immediately flocked to the tavern and recommended themselves one after another.
Don't look at the sheer number of applicants, but just like in modern companies, character is the most important thing. In the Caribbean, it's especially important to be cautious when recruiting, because you can't tell if these people's experiences are real or fake, or if they're fabricated out of thin air. Making a living in the Caribbean inevitably involves piracy, some of which may have served on merchant ships or on pirate ships. Some are truly repentant, but there are also those who have ghosts in their hearts!
However, Han Xing was not worried about this, and simply took a photo! Why? Han Xing wasn't afraid of them thinking carefully at all, "Is my ship so good?" "In a sense, our Han Xing is a 10,000-fold terrifying existence than the infamous "Blackbeard"!
Blackbeard has black magic and puppet corpses under his hands, but Han Xing has a devil terminator under his hand, if you really want to fight, most of the puppet corpses will be thrown off the ship by the devil terminator!
Han Xing took out his wallet and generously advanced their salaries, one silver franc per person, and ordinary sailors were naturally overjoyed when they got the money, some of them took it to buy drunk, and some of them carefully put it away (shēn), apparently for another purpose.
And in this group of people, Han Xing really found a few "suspicious elements", a few roe head rat eyes, thief eyebrows and rat eyes, at first glance is not a good bird, a pair of thief eyes flashed greedily, when he saw Han Xing's wallet bright gold coins, he couldn't take his eyes off it, and he was salivating.
There are also a few fierce and evil people, with fierce faces, at first glance, they are the lord who has a life in their hands, and they also have a pair of thief eyes to look left and right on Lyanna (shēn), and their faces are obscene (yín). He also took advantage of the chaos to squeeze towards Lyanna (shēn), stretched out a pair of beast claws, and (yù) did that indecent act.
Halfway through, he was met by the swords of Rhaegar and Louis XVI, and their cannibalistic gazes, which made them shrink back in fright.
"Yo he~ Sample, smile brighter than a chrysanthemum? Laugh, laugh, and when you get on my ship, I won't be able to do anything about you! Some of you are crying~ just take a few of you as sacrifices to the fountain of youth! Han Xing looked at the scum and showed a bright smile of villain's triumph, and sneered in his heart.
The next day, as soon as the Ranger set sail for the harbor, Han Xing asked the Swiss Guards to drive the sailors to the deck, and then solemnly announced:
"Sailors, I am your captain, Hanschel Segaard! Congratulations on becoming a member of the three-masted cruiser, the Ranger. But it is necessary to declare to you the rules of this ship! Han Xing said with a wicked smile, he ordered a (tào) devil training for these sailors, from morning to night, tossing endlessly, and also asked them to go to bed at eight o'clock every night and train from six o'clock the next day (chuáng). In a word, it is even more cruel than training in the army~
Within a few days, this group of guys was tortured into an inhuman shape, wilting like frosted eggplants, and Han Xing had a good time~ Although most sailors also complained, they slowly adapted to Han Xing's high salary and sumptuous food.
It's not that those "suspicious elements" haven't thought about resisting or escaping, but the question is, where can they run to in this vast sea? As for the resistance, the moment they saw the perfect body of the Devil Terminator, who can be called "world-class bodybuilder", any thought of rebellion disappeared in an instant!
Almost every day, the suspicious people took turns to find an excuse to come to the stern of the ship, put the note in an empty wine bottle, and threw it into the sea when there was no one around. And since leaving Guadeloupe, Han Xing can vaguely see a vague sail shadow in the sky, obviously, he has a few more small tails!!
Han Xingnai was clear about this, but he didn't expose it, "Don't be in vain about the ship sent to the door!" "It's too slow to build an "Invincible Armada" just by relying on the [Seaside] Toulon, but it would be great if you could capture some warships!
No, two days after the Ranger came to the surface, the shēn ships that had been hanging far behind and acting as small tails immediately showed their hideous minions and slowly sailed towards the Ranger.