Phan Van had returned to his residence and council district for the night, but spent most of the night counting accounts.

After the financial representatives completed the various affairs of the port, Pan Wen's existing assets totaled 27,580 Star Coins, as well as a 4,000 Star Dollar manifest, and a consignment agreement for a Seiko-grade full-size main gun, which was worth about 2,500 Star Coins.

Because the council decided to make the port ship buying and selling lively, all the bills and consignment agreements would be cashed in two or three days.

But so much money is still a little stretched in Pan Wen's hands.

First of all, the penultimate loan bill of the Kuroshio, 1000 star coins, if you don't pay it before leaving Hong Kong, you will have to pay a fine, and you don't need to consider paying it directly, leaving 26580.

Then there is the subsidy money that was promised to the crew to upgrade their licenses, and since the public funds subsidize the examination fee, there will not be too many crew members who will really give up this opportunity. This money will most likely knock out the loot manifest this time.

Therefore, the cost of buying a ship and hiring a crew is only 29,000 star coins, and it is likely that an additional sum of money will have to be paid to make up for the operation after May 18 - the satellite that Kareda has his eye on has an atmosphere.

Regarding the purchase of ships, today, after the financial representatives were busy with the work at the port, they contacted several ship owners they had investigated before, and only two medium-sized frigates remained that had not been ordered.

Both ships are old decommissioned second-hand ships, and the price tag is not high, each is less than 10,000 star coins, but no one buys it. It is not surprising that the durability and reliability of the equipment of the old models of decades ago have decreased, except for a main gun and a hangar that should be of the frigate class, the difference between it and the current heavy patrol ship is very small.

After eliminating the remaining two frigates, Pan Wen has only two ways to purchase a fourth frigate, one is to wait for news from Scarred Dragon or contact a few pirate leaders he knows, such as curly hair and tall blonde red-haired girls; In addition to the second-hand market, the second way is to go to the shipyard and buy it.

Not to mention the former one, there is really a lot of luck involved.

Buying a ship from a shipyard is very bad for the current Pan Van Van . There are two modes of operation for shipyards, the inventory model and the order model. As the name suggests, the inventory model is that the shipyard will build a few more best-selling ships to provide the need for sale at any time, but the inventory ships are generally civilian merchant ships or patrol ships, gunboats and the like, because the ships will involve a large amount of working capital and materials, and there are almost no shipyards for the sale of finished frigates. Although the shipyard uses fully automatic technology, and there are advantages such as gravity-free vacuum environment processing, there is quite a lot of equipment involved in building a frigate, and it is difficult for an ordinary cottage shipyard on Segeis to put together a complete set, so there is a time for equipment procurement or self-manufacturing, and it takes three to four weeks at the earliest.

Fortunately, businessmen are profit-oriented, especially those big arms dealers, who can't let go of the big fat of Segeis, so there are still two regular shipyards on Segeis. In order to circumvent the policies of various countries, the two shipyards use completely different brands on Segeis, but the equipment manufacturing and other channels are the same as the factory. It's a pity that although these two companies build frigates half as fast as copycat factories, they can't stand the queue because their business is too good!

Since there is no way to go to the shipyard to buy a ship, it will fall after May 18th, Pan Wen will not consider this method for the time being, and wait for it.

Thinking that he might become a poor egg again in a few days, Pan Wen was really a little painful. The players have already shown their vicious nature once in MR241, and he's been playing soy sauce since he tried his luck and bullied a few players two months ago, so it's not good to go on like this. I can only hope that the meeting in a week will have a better result.

However, the player's madness this time is not all bad, at least it makes the pirate leaders of Segeis realize that this group of forces that did not exist in the first place is more convincing than anything else, and may push the armed forces of Segeis to a new stage for a while.

Speaking of which, Kareda's correspondence is also about this.

"Lord Panwen, I heard that all the troublemakers in our hometown in the 241 galaxy this time are patrol ships, but I am impressed with you! I have a few questions for you, I wonder if you will teach that? The blonde redhead beauty uses a holographic image to show her emerald eyes that seem to be glowing.

Two months ago, Pan Wen said at the hearing that opening up the market for small ships would allow new forces to join the struggle for space interests, and he also predicted that the new forces would be very strong, and now what he said has become a fact. Kareda wanted to see how the "Great Prophet" felt now.

He was very rude and didn't say anything, only nodded slightly, waiting for her to continue.

"Why are the bad guys of the Islamic Empire and the Gabri Federation fighting on our doorstep? Are they just attacking each other in the name of exterminating pirates? Kareda didn't care, Pan Wen was already a "great prophet" in her eyes at this time, and it was not surprising that his behavior was different from ordinary people.

…… Because in the eyes of players, there is only the difference between what cannot be attacked and what can be attacked.

Unfortunately, due to some limitations, Pan Wen mentioned that "player" and other related words would have all kinds of strange phenomena, and he had to use nonsense.

"I think it's obvious that it's normal for a group of extremists to emerge at the time of opening up the market."

"'Extremists'...... I heard that their will to fight was very abnormal, and not a single ship surrendered in the whole battle. Does the acquiescence of the Islamic Empire and the Gabri Federation to their existence mean that both sides are already preparing for war? ”

"I'm sorry, I'm just a little pirate, and I can't guess the game between nations." Pan Wen wisely took himself out.

"Giggles! If only pirates were like you. Well, without bothering you, remember that your arrival is always welcome at my little estate. ”

"Thanks, I'll go."

After hanging up the communication, Pan Wencai realized that because of his earlier speech at the hearing, he may now be receiving a lot of attention. Unfortunately, this attention cannot be exchanged for cash, so it can only be put aside for the time being.

At this time, Hu Ke, the leader of the financial representative, leaned over and handed over the tablet in his hand.

"BOSS, this is the relevant information of the Scar Dragon, and the part we have collected has been sorted out."

"Thank you for your hard work."

Pan Wen habitually said hard work, and began to look at Scardragon's information:

Scarlong, formerly known as Li Tiejun...... It's quite an ancient name, because he personally prefers the nickname Scar Dragon, and in recent years, there are few people who know his real name.

Originally a pirate who was out on "business", he decided to invest in ship maintenance in the port after being injured in the face in an incident, and has not left Segeis for the last two years, but still retains his fleet.

Assets: 2 medium-sized frigates and 5 patrol ships, with a total standard tonnage of 620,000 tons. A long-term contract engineering team, with a total of 220 people and several equipment. There are many veterans in the engineering group, who are skilled in repairing various types of ships, and according to records, they have done a complete modification project of 800,000-ton cruiser and have been well received by customers. The bank account could not be verified, and based on the information gathered, it was speculated that the deposit should be more than 70,000 star coins.

Scardragon also has three maintenance partners, and the cooperation between them is limited to leasing idle engineering personnel and equipment to each other, and making internal transactions on parts to increase profit margins.

This person is fond of women, and often comes and goes on various occasions due to faux pas, such as late arrival and early departure, but he has done a good job in distinguishing between public and private, and no loss of credibility caused by women has been found in the investigation. It was found out that ten months ago, a ship under repair, its owner fleet encountered an accident outside, the ship was left by Scardragon himself and did not take the initiative to hand it over to the Security Bureau, and finally the Security Bureau did not enforce the mandatory recovery regulations, but issued a fine of 200 Star Coins, it can be concluded that Scardragon has a certain network in Seguis, but it cannot ignore the rules of the Security Bureau......

After looking at the tables and various events one by one, Pan Wen finally got to the next level of understanding Scardragon.

First of all, Scardragon is a very big money, and in this regard, he is a bit shameless when he starts a business. Of course, no one can deny that this is the face of a businessman -- the customer is God.

In addition, he covets the trust wealth of his dead client, which is honestly understandable among pirate groups. Modern technology can use genetic banks to resurrect people, but if they die and start over, they will "lose their memory", and the person concerned will definitely not be able to remember any other property except bank deposits.

Scardragon has never broken his trust with his living client, which is enough to make Pan Wen feel that he is still qualified to be a collaborator, but the collaborator is not a comrade-in-arms to be back-to-back. Anyway, as far as Pan Wen is concerned, everything is gone when he dies, and it doesn't make much difference to be a captain or a restaurant waiter after the resurrection of the gene bank. Besides, a person who is perfect in all aspects should worry about whether there will be some conspiracy when they cooperate, and "ordinary people" like Scardragon are just right.

Handing the notebook back to Huko, Pan Wen instructed: "Delete all the documents about him, and you should forget about it." ”

"Got it."

"You guys did a good job, tomorrow the crew will have an exam subsidy, take this opportunity to give you all some bonuses, the same 10 star coins per person." 10 Star Coins is nothing in the eyes of Elsa the head of security, but it is not a small amount of money to the rest of the assistant team.

"Thank you, boss."

Except for Elsa who just turned her eyes out of the window for a moment, everyone expressed their gratitude, and there are not many bosses who will give bonuses outside the contract, and this thank you is also very respectful.

After a good night's rest and a good night's sleep, Pan Wen took advantage of the few days left before the meeting to get busy, first of all, to go to the port to send money.