It took almost a whole day to recruit sailors, bringing the crew of the Jackdaw to 80 men, which cost Gordon sixteen hundred silver coins.

Early the next morning, Kulich began to go to the market with half of the sailors to buy goods, and the sailors were full of smiles.

The style he had been looking for was finally realized here, more directly than any luxurious costume, or a fine cigar, and forty people walked down the street full of momentum.

Gordon, with the other half of the men, began to gather supplies from the market, large quantities of rum, water, black bread, and, of course, pigs, cows, and sheep.

He finally had a lot of money, and of course he couldn't let himself live so miserably, so he carved out two cabins at the bottom of the ship for feeding animals, so that the sailors could eat fresh meat.

And for the lack of vegetables and fruits, Gordon has an excellent idea.

"Mitch, let me ask you a question, do you know that in the fifteenth century, a country in the East sent more than 200 warships and 27,000 people to India and even the Americas, but they never had sepsis, do you know why?"

The latter, on the other hand, was a sign of complete bewilderment, and according to the current nautical charts, the farthest could reach Singapore, and it was never known where there was such a country with such a powerful fleet two hundred years ago.

"I don't know. ”

Gordon snapped his fingers: "My boatswain, you are very honest, so I'm going to tell you this big secret, how to keep sailors from sepsis." ”

The latter's eyes widened, his captain was definitely a talented man, except for the royal navy in good conditions, there was hardly a single ocean-going ship that did not suffer from sepsis, this was a worldwide problem, and it was solved by his own captain?

"Captain, I swear, I will keep this a secret and not tell anyone else. ”

Gordon smiled mysteriously and said, "Bean sprouts, and pickles!"

Such a strange and mysterious word made Mickey look surprised and sighed.

"It turned out to be bean sprouts and kimchi. ”

This time it was Gordon's turn to be surprised: "You know what?"

The latter shook his head: "I don't know, but it's very high-end when I hear it." ”

Gordon laughed: "Mickey, tell the sailors to buy a lot of vegetables and beans, let's go buy some jars!"

"Alan, take the other sailors to continue to buy supplies, buy some vegetables, don't buy too much jerky, you guys, follow me!"

Allen, who was still haggling with the vendors in the back, nodded, and then shouted, "Captain, I have no money!"

Gordon rolled his eyes, he had given him so much money, but he thought that he might lose it during the battle, and he still took out the money bag and threw it directly to him: "Save some ......"

Gordon and Mickey took five or six sailors to wander around the place where they had just bought the clay pots, and of course looked at the glass bottles, but in the end they could only choose a clay pot that could barely be sealed, bought seven or eight, and carried it back.

"By the way, there is table salt. ”

Gordon bought a lot of salt when he passed by the food market again, and this was the end of the purchase.

In the afternoon, after all the sailors had eaten lunch, Kulici had finished the purchase, boxes of sugar, cocoa, coffee, tobacco, leather, wood, and a dozen barrels of whale oil.

Whale oil is a good material to sell at that time or keep it for your own use, so I bought quite a few at once.

Everyone who returned to the ship began to watch Gordon toss around, directing the sailors to clean the clay pots, and then tearing all the fresh, cleaned vegetables into small pieces, and then stuffing them, and then adding boiling water and salt that had been placed at room temperature.

"Sugar, what about sugar?"

Gordon suddenly thought that he still needed such a thing as sugar, and his eyes lit up when he looked at the goods that Gordon brought back.

Directly took out the white sugar from the goods, opened a box, and then grabbed two handfuls into it, and saw that Kulich was very distressed, does this need to use good white sugar? Obviously, it is good to use the most basic cane sugar, it is simply a tyrannical thing!

Although Gordon has never made kimchi, he has never eaten pork and never seen a pig run? Anyway, these are all raw materials, and you will know when you make them twice, as for whether you put too much salt, what is the proportion of sugar, and whether the pepper is spicy enough, this is not something that needs to be considered in this attempt to make it.

Two sailors were arranged to seal the pickle jar and move it into the lower cabin, and Gordon clapped his hands to show satisfaction.

"That's it?"

Kulich watched Gordon do it for a long time, although he didn't know what he was doing, but it was supposed to be a means of preserving vegetables.

"In a week, I guess, I will show you how to eat vegetables on the sea, but it seems that we will be in Havana in a little more than a week. ”

La Guaira is about 1,200 nautical miles from Havana, and if you calculate the average speed of five knots, it will take about ten days.

"Gordon, vegetables soaked in water will rot quickly, you are a waste!"

Gordon smiled, "Remember the theory I told you? High temperatures can kill those tiny bugs, as can a certain concentration of salt water." ”

"So?"

"So Morgan, I suddenly have a new idea, you can go back and open a kimchi workshop, and you can make a lot of money by making this to sell to merchant ships. ”

Kurich shook his head, a little speechless at Gordon's whimsy: "Let's wait until your experiment is successful, you always want me to do some strange things every day, you are a captain, you don't want to sail every day." ”

Gordon didn't pay attention to him, but continued to demonstrate how to sprout, whether it was soybeans or black beans, anyway, as he remembered, soak them, cover them with linen, and sprinkle them with water.

These things are not seen for a short time, and anyway, after all the preparations have been made, it is already close to evening.

All the goods were loaded onto the ship, and it was the cattle and sheep that made the environment of the ship very bad, but for the sake of their own appetite, they could only forcibly endure it.

"All the sailors are in position, hoisting their sails and ready to set sail, this time it will be a somewhat long journey, to Havana. ”

"Yes Captain!"

The dense crew on the deck began to act, pulling up the anchor and spreading the sails, and Gordon also felt for the first time the pleasure of being a captain, with power, money, and freedom to sail.

He opened his hand to feel the wind blowing from the south and shouted, "Good wind, full sail!"