It is not easy to get a steel pipe in this world, this is not the earth, you can buy a seamless steel pipe at any hardware store.

Donner is an engineering man, and he knows very well how to make a musket and what the structure is.

Such thermal weapons can be traced back to the Middle Ages, when there was no seamless steel tube technology, and the most difficult thing to make a musket was a qualified barrel. It's the same in this world, if you want to make a qualified barrel, you have to make it all by hand.

Anderson was an experienced old blacksmith who had no experience making iron pipes, but at Donner's point, he immediately understood.

"I think you might as well learn how to strike iron with me!" Anderson put a steel ingot in the furnace and burned it red, then placed it on the forging table and hammered it flat.

This ingot has a lot of impurities, but it is not really low-carbon steel or high-carbon steel, but Anderson's refined 100-smelted steel, which is of course enough to make a qualified gunpowder barrel.

But even with this kind of steel, Anderson actually didn't refine much, and he was all stared at by the pirate leader.

Hearing this, Donner was stunned and a little stunned.

"I think you have a good brain, and you are suitable for striking iron. And when you are a pirate, you might die that day. Anderson slammed the sledgehammer into the ingot, hammering it into a flat shape: "Anna has a good impression of you, and if you die, she may be sad." ”

"Okay!" Donner wiped his sweat and tugged on the bellows. He was a little confused, when did the iron have something to do with the brain? Isn't the most important thing about strength?

It is very difficult to make such a short barrel by hand, it is necessary to first beat the steel ingot into an iron sheet, and then roll it on an iron rod of a suitable diameter, layer by layer, and repeatedly burn red forging. Even an experienced blacksmith may not be able to make a good steel pipe in a week.

By the time the sun set on the mountain, the pirate ship had returned, and the pirate captain had taken them on a long trip the other day, and it had been six days so far.

When Ed and the others arrived at the blacksmith shop, Donner was sweating profusely pulling the bellows.

Anna handed him a glass of water, Donner poured it into his mouth, exhaled and said to several people, "You're back." ”

"Uncle Reagan and Uncle Cood are dead. Ed said to Donner in a dejected mood.

Donner was stunned, looked at Ed, and didn't speak.

He was familiar with these two middle-aged men, he had just come to the mine when he was mining, his physical strength was not good, he couldn't complete the task, and he was often whipped by the overseer. These two people took good care of him and often secretly helped him.

Donner bewitched the slaves at that time, and the two uncles supported and trusted him very much, thinking that he would be safe for the time being on Crescent Island, and he could live a stable life without going hungry for a few days, but he didn't expect to die.

Although Donner knew that sooner or later he would have this day as a pirate, he still felt a little melancholy in his heart, in fact, in the end, Donner had just been deceiving himself.

"Let's go inside and talk. ”

Donner glanced apologetically at Anderson and Anna, and then returned to his house with a few men.

"How many more people are there?" and he came out of the iron mines, a total of thirty or so slaves, and now there are twenty or so gathered in his house, and nearly ten have not come.

One of them, Matthew, said to Donner, "A few of them are with the deputy head of the regiment, and they can't talk about it." ”

Hearing this, Donner was silent for a moment before nodding his head to indicate that he understood.

These people were obviously subdued by the deputy head of the pirates, and they planned to draw a line with Donner's group from now on.

This situation was expected by Donner for a long time, and sooner or later someone would slowly be assimilated by the pirates. Of course, there is nothing to say about this, and he Donner also thinks that he does not have the spirit of that king, so people follow him with all their hearts.

Now these two dozen people can still gather around him, and they are probably still fantasizing about Donner taking them to that so-called beautiful and rich territory.

Donner sighed and asked, "How could Uncle Reagan die? Didn't they go to sea with you to train?"

"We robbed a merchant ship at sea, and there was a fight, and Uncle Lee, Uncle Kurd, was wounded, fell into the sea, and disappeared. ”

Ed glanced at Donner, plucked up the courage and said, "Donner, let's go, I don't want to be a pirate, they want me to kill, I'm afraid ......"

Donner looked at the two dozen or so faces around him, he knew what Ed meant, and this was also what everyone present meant, none of them wanted to be pirates, they were all afraid of killing, and they were even more afraid of being killed.

But...... At that time, the purpose of saying such things was to give these people a beautiful illusion and hope, so that they could follow themselves with one heart and take the road of life and death.

Donner's heart is very complicated, and he wants to tell them the truth, but he can't say it, because once he says it, I'm afraid that the hearts of this group of people will also fall apart.

Donner had a headache, he really didn't know how those who led the uprising and rebellion in ancient times made a group of people follow him with all their hearts.

"Donner, those people in the Pirate Regiment, who say we are idiots, actually believe you, they say that there is no such territory in this world, you tell us, is this true, you have not been lying to us. Then one of them, Mike, asked.

I am afraid that the slaves present are eager to ask these words, and these days the pirates have been telling them these words and laughing at them, and these people have basically wavered in their hearts, and they have begun to doubt Donner's words.

Donner didn't feel good in his heart, he forced a smile and said, "How is it possible, how can I lie to you." Shall we bear with us for the time being? When we are ready, we will set off together. ”

Donner looked at them: "Okay, let's not talk about this for the time being, I have prepared some things in the past few days when you have been out, and I will cook you a delicious meal today, you must have never heard of it." ”

When they heard what they were eating, the slaves were immediately moved.

Although these days on Crescent Island are better than the iron mines, and they will not eat black steamed buns at every meal, but in fact, there is not much food on the island, and they are all distributed according to the amount.

But to be honest, after coming to this world for so long, Donner can fade out of his mouth, and his first thought when he gets this bit of freedom is actually to improve his food and make something delicious.

Donner took the slaves to the beach and asked them to bring in a few rocks and make a simple stove.

Then he ordered some people to go to the island and get some dead branches and leaves, let the fish who could cast nets to catch fish, and let two go to the mountain to hunt two animals.

Donner took out the prepared greens, the iron pot, and the spices that the alchemist had begged for.

This world has not been developed like the earth, and wild animals are basically extinct, so it is difficult to get any wild meat.

Although the crescent island is small, but there are a lot of wildlife resources around, less than an hour, the hunting in the mountains brought a few small animals, similar to rabbits, and touched more than a dozen seabird eggs by the way.

Fishing is even more exaggerated, a whole net of sea fish, especially those half-meter-long lobsters, make Donner swallow his saliva, this thing is afraid of tens of thousands on the earth.

Two fires were lit, the iron pot was placed on the rock stove, oil and water were poured in, and then Donner led the men to disembowel the ingredients.

Wait for the oil and water to start boiling, add the seasoning, and then throw the hunted carnivorous bones into it.

It didn't take long for the scent to waft far away.

Donner flipped in the pot with a wooden spatula. A group of unsightly slaves crouched to the side and swallowed violently, staring at the iron pot without blinking.

When have they ever seen something like this? When have they ever eaten something so fragrant? Aren't they all breaded buns?

But I've heard of cheese and cakes eaten by aristocrats, and what foie gras steak is eaten with wine, so I don't know how to eat it?

On the other side of the fire were a few rabbits, and two seabirds wrapped in mud were buried under the sand.

Ed's slaves looked at Donald blankly, "Can you eat it?" ”

Donner used chopsticks made of wooden sticks, picked up a green vegetable and brushed it in the pot, and then put it in his mouth.

"Okay!" Donner smacked his mouth.

Although Donner is good at cooking rice, it doesn't taste very good to make such a big pot, but the key is that it finally tastes.

I don't know if it's spicy or what, Donner's tears are about to flow out when he tastes it.

"You can eat it!" said Donner, to the men, "come one by one, and you are not allowed to rob them." ”

This group of unseen people are like chickens pecking rice and nodding, very well-behaved, one by one around the pot, watching the first few people take a wooden shovel to get the fish and meat in it into the wooden plate and tile tray in their hands.

"How's that, what does it taste like? "There was still a queue in the back to ask the first person to eat crabs.

The crab eater replied vigorously, and one of them learned from Donner to put the greens into the pot with a prepared wooden stick and scald them.

It's just that the gesture with chopsticks is miserable.

Ed swallowed a piece of meat down his throat with difficulty, and asked Donner, "Donner, what is this thing called, it's so delicious." “

"Hot pot!" Donner smiled with a piece of shrimp in his hand, "I learned it in that territory, and there are so many different delicious foods there." ”

Donner picked up a few specialty snacks and spoke, and the people around him puffed out their cheeks and widened their eyes, they couldn't imagine what these things looked like.

There was only one thought in their hearts, how could the people of that territory be so happy.