Under the threat of the sword, the ship was quickly swept away. Li Mu also walked around the entire ship under the leadership of a sailor.

It was a small, medium-sized three-masted galleon. It belongs to the common slave ship. The ship's hold was filled with ordinary goods, most of which were salt, cloth, and rum, which according to the crew were exchanged for slaves with the large local tribes. Of course, there are also a small number of beautiful gifts that are contributed to the local chiefs.

Li Mu was not interested in these things, and he planned to sell them to local shops when he arrived at the supply point. He had no interest in continuing to be a slave trader. Li Mu, who was not interested, asked the sailor to take him to the captain's room, and then kicked open the door of the captain's room.

The captain's cabin of this slave ship is not like the luxuriously decorated mobile sea-view room with huge windows in the stern of the Galen ship in the movie. At best, it's just a relatively clean room. Li Mu rummaged through the room, and there was nothing but two arquebuses, a barbed sword, six bottles of wine of a higher quality, a set of glass wine utensils, a nautical chart, and a bag of money pens.

Li Mu flipped through it, and there were probably dozens of gold coins and more than a hundred silver coins. It seems to be for the salaries of the sailors.

"It's so poor." Li Mu sighed silently, and then put away the money bag and the chart. As for the arquebus and the bayonet, they are ordinary goods that cannot be brought out of the copy, and they are the kind that take up space even if they are held.

After thoroughly navigating the ship and knowing it in his heart, Li Mu summoned the rest of the sailors to the deck. "You may be dissatisfied, but I don't care, because I just need you to sail for me, and you need to trade your labor for a chance to survive from me, and everyone will take what they need for mutual benefit, and that's it."

Many sailors have a saying in their hearts that God is mutually beneficial. However, Li Mu didn't care what these sailors thought in his heart, he continued. "Our destination is a supply depot in Africa, and then we go straight to Havana, where you can disembark. If you perform well, you will be paid. If you don't behave well, you'll be knifed and fed to the sharks. Of course, in order to prevent you from escaping at the supply depot on the way, I will give each of you a poison before you land. ”

Li Mu said as he took out a black ball from his arms and shook it at everyone, he looked at the shocked expressions of those sailors and laughed, "Don't worry, this is a chronic poison, it won't kill you immediately, as long as you eat the antidote I gave you regularly, there will be no problem, of course, if you can't take the antidote on time, you will fester, and then, slowly turn into a pile of rotten stinky meat......" Li Mu said with an evil smile on the corner of his mouth.

In fact, what Li Mu was holding in his hand was not a poison, but a sugar-free handmade chocolate, which tasted bitter and was usually used by Li Mu to refresh himself. Now it's time to fool these uninformed sailors. And these sailors who have been floating on the sea for a long time are also the most superstitious group of people, and they believe in the song of the Siren and the curse of the wizard. For the poison that Li Mu took out, they would naturally be extremely convinced, and no one would risk their own lives to test the truth of Li Mu's words.

"Come, everyone line up to eat this thing, don't cry and smile." Li Mu took out ten handmade chocolates from his bag and delivered them to each sailor's mouth one by one. Then I watched the sailors swallow all the handmade chocolates one by one to be satisfied.

The hand-kneaded round balls have a strange and bitter taste, which is very similar to the poison of the legendary wizard, and it makes the sailors believe that they are eating the poison prepared by Li Mu.

"Alright, don't be sad, I'll replace all the goods with supplies when we get to the supply station, and from today onwards, everyone's daily supply of rum will be doubled. The hardest working every day, triple the rum supply. Li Mu knows the truth of slapping a sweet date, and it is difficult to make these sailors do their best just by relying on swords.

But if there is rum as a reward, then I believe that the motivation of these sailors will be raised. Sure enough, hearing Li Mu's words, the rest of the sailors had golden lights in their eyes. It seems to be full of energy. Sailors in this era were in need of alcohol, especially spirits.

In the age of sailing, fresh water at sea was difficult to store, neither ordinary fresh water nor boiled fresh water could not be stored for a long time, and after a period of time, it would quickly spoil and deteriorate, grow green algae, become slippery, and make sailors suffer from dysentery after drinking. In order to solve this problem, people came up with the idea of sterilizing with spirits.

Drinking high-concentration unmixed rum with fresh water can be used to sterilize and improve the taste, and on the other hand, it can also relieve the tension and anxiety of sailors. Wandering at sea every day, looking at the unchanged scenery every day, many sailors are prone to mental illness, and alcohol can help them solve this problem.

According to the rum ration standard of this era, the British Navy was about half a pint of unmixed rum per soldier per day, about 230 milliliters, only a small glass, which was probably only enough for daily drinking water. In the case of ordinary merchant ships, it will probably be a little less. However, this time, Li Mu directly doubled the number, which was enough for everyone to drink comfortably. After a busy day, a comfortable glass of wine is the greatest pleasure for these sailors. Li Mu's decision naturally made everyone happy.

"This captain is much more generous than the previous captain."

"It doesn't seem unacceptable to follow a new captain."

"It would be nice if I could not take poison."

The sailors were thinking about all sorts of things in their minds.

Li Mu didn't know anything about the sailors' thoughts, but even if he did, he didn't care. All he needed was these men to send him to Havana, and when he got there, he would start recruiting new sailors. He still can't look down on these slave traders whose combat effectiveness is basically equal to that of weak chickens, and it is estimated that if they follow Li Mu to fight the legendary battleship, they will probably jump ship and escape immediately. What he needs is an outlaw who really dares to fight hard.

Under the cheers of a group of sailors, Li Mu walked onto the bridge at the stern of the ship, Li Mu took out a compass to calibrate the bearing, and then compared the charts, and then changed the steering wheel in his hand, "Target Gold Coast, go." ”

"Raise the sails, target the Gold Coast, everyone cheer up and raise the sails. Hurry, hurry, hurry. The first mate commanded the rest of the sailors and began to get busy.