Sideburns with white hair, rough complexion, and some old captain's clothes, this was Lin Feng's first impression when he saw Jackson. Although Jackson, who is in his forties, tries his best to maintain a decent appearance, it is not difficult to see his current poor life from some details.

As a fifth-level warrior, maybe Jackson's body is still very strong, but more than ten years have worn out his spirit, can he once again gallop on the sea as a captain? Lin Feng couldn't help but ask himself in his heart.

However, judging from the information found out by Lockland, Jackson has a good reputation among seafarers and sailors, and if he is chosen as the captain, then Lin Feng does not need to worry about how to recruit manpower for merchant ships.

The negotiations went well, one urgently needed a captain to take the lead, and the other couldn't wait to prove his worth again, so they reached a contract very smoothly. Lin Feng also learned from his conversation with Jackson that he was a rare talent, and at the end of the conversation between the two sides, he promised: If Jackson can recruit 200 sailors to operate the ship, he will give him a piece of subordinate territory, about 200 acres of land, on Nanlin Island.

This is not counting, Lin Feng further hinted to him that if he could command a battleship in battle, as long as he was promoted to a sixth-level warrior and became a knight, Lin Feng would be able to canonize him as a knight of Nanlin Island and give him a knight collar of about five hundred acres.

In this world, those who become a professional above level 6 can generally obtain a rank equivalent to the knight level, but if there is no nobleman to give them a territory, they are equivalent to a quasi-nobleman in honor, but the actual influence is not as high as those knights in the field.

Jackson, who had been given full power, became vigorous again, and he first went to gather the old brothers, and occupied the key positions of first mate, second officer, and boatswain, and then sent them all out to the bars where the sailors gathered to recruit sailors.

Because he was worried about Lin Feng's sentence of "commanding the battle on the battleship", Jackson specially instructed to recruit a group of sailors who had seen blood and could fight, among which those who had experience in firing guns were given priority.

The armed merchant ships of this era can basically follow the rules in their own waters, and once they sail on the high seas, they don't mind being pirates if they have the opportunity. So, the boundaries between seafaring sailors are blurred, maybe a few years ago he was a pirate, and now he sits in a sailor's bar and applies for crew membership.

In the blink of an eye, ten days had arrived, and everything went smoothly. On this day, Lin Feng took Jackson and the more than 200 crew members he recruited to the port to receive his new merchant ship. The ship's side, which was originally painted "Fury", has been repainted and replaced with a new name, "Nanfeng", and the family coat of arms of the Baron of Nanlin Island is preceded by the name to indicate that it belongs to a nobleman.

Jackson looked at the huge and ugly merchant ship, and then he knew why his baron asked him to recruit a crew of more than 200 people, you must know that the average ordinary large merchant ship needs a crew of more than 100 people, and the big man in front of him is obviously not the word "ordinary".

At the same time, I also understood another meaning of the "battleship" that Lin Feng had hinted at, this ship can be completely transformed into a battleship, with a sturdy hull, super large capacity and three thick and towering masts, properly prepared for a long-distance warship. Well, it's just that the appearance is too ugly.

Lin Feng went to the "South Wind" for a walk around and came down, he handed over all the work to Jackson, and asked him to go to sea for a trial voyage first, on the one hand, to check whether the new ship was still flawed, and on the other hand, to run in and train the crew, so that they could also get used to how to operate this large ship full of orc style.

In this way, another seven days have passed, and the "South Wind" has returned three days ago, and the first batch of supplies raised by Philip has also been in place, and now they are all in the cargo hold of the "South Wind", as long as Lin Feng gives an order, it can carry him back to South Forest Island at any time.

When Lin Feng was leaving, he went to the Pharmacist's Guild again and replenished a large number of alchemy materials, among which various dried and fresh herbs cost him nearly five thousand gold coins. He won't be returning to Golden Moon City anytime soon. Anyway, with the Space Ring, those fresh herbs can be kept for a long time.

The days at sea were boring, and after watching the sea view for a long time, Lin Feng went back to his special cabin to meditate on magic.

Three days later, Shui Rou came in to remind Lin Feng that Nanlin Island had arrived. This large sailing ship is very fast, and it took him five days to complete this part of the sea journey in the medium-sized sailing boat he took last year.

After being down-to-earth, Lin Feng couldn't help but feel a lot of feelings, the quasi-baron "Lin Feng" who left last year never set foot on this land again, and this year, the new "Lin Feng" who combines the two will start a new journey here.

As soon as he turned his head, Lin Feng was not satisfied, this dock was too dilapidated and narrow, and he couldn't stop the "South Wind". It seems that the first fire after becoming a baron is to repair the docks. Fortunately, he came back this time with five hundred strong slaves, and there was no shortage of manpower.

It's just that the wharf is dilapidated, and the management is too lax, the "South Wind" has been docked for so long, and no one has come out to take a look, is this really a desert island?

Lin Feng asked Jackson to drive the slaves off the ship and set up camp near the dock. Anyway, if you decide to build a dock, let's just let them be stationed here first. In order to calm the emotions of the crew, Lin Feng specially gave each of them a reward of twenty silver coins, well, equivalent to half a month's salary of ordinary crew members.

Although the crew had a problem with the barren territory, (the docks didn't even have a bar, which made them very depressed), they forgot about the unhappiness and began to drive the slaves off the ship and to work.

Locklan walked around the dock area, but no one was found, and when he came back to report back, he obviously saw Lin Feng's darkening. Although he was a little apprehensive, he still explained: "It's the season for aquamarine fishing, and the people in the dock area may be in small fishing towns, and you see that the original medium-sized boats and those fishing boats in the territory are not there." ”

Lin Feng looked at it, and it was true, there was not a single boat on the dock. Silently recalled, too, now in mid-August, it is the season for azumarine fish to mate from the deep sea, and only at this time can you catch azumarine fish.

Azutrine is a deep-sea fish that is delicious and difficult to catch, making it a rare catch. The small fishing town is just across the island from the old wharf on the other side of Nanlin Island, and the small fishing town can only dock fishing boats, and the medium-sized cargo ship can only supply them at sea and bring back the blue crystal fish caught in time.