"Simon......" Tang Jie stood at the bow of the boat, glanced at Simon beside him, and shouted. [Ran^Text^Library] []

Simon was intently watching the calm but treacherous sea beneath the ship, they were now crossing the most dangerous reef-strewn waters around Alcatraz, and although his face looked calm, his hand on the side of the ship was tensed hard, revealing the tension in his heart.

Hearing Tang Jie's shout, Simon turned his head to look at him: "Captain, what's the matter?"

Tang Jie smiled: "Don't keep calling me captain, just call me Tang Jie." ”

Simon shook his head, he was a man who had grown up with the strictest aristocratic etiquette, and he didn't want to do anything like this.

Tang Jie smiled and retreated: "Then call me Captain Tang Jie, don't be an old captain or a captain, I don't need you to remind me, I also know that I am an adult." ”

Simon was amused by Tang Jie's witticism: "Then, Captain Tang Jie, what did you call me just now?"

Tang Jie stared at Simon and said slowly: "You are different from the sailors on my ship, you are not a person who is worried about not being able to find an owner and a place to eat. As long as you want, you can find a good owner, you don't have to worry about the officers and soldiers coming to round you up while you sleep, you don't have to worry about your own life, why do you want to ask me to work? You know, we are pirates!"

Simon also looked at Tang Jie, and he sighed: "My captain, you don't seem to realize it yet!"

"Realize what?" Tang Jie asked rhetorically.

The corners of Simon's eyes twitched, and there was a strong hatred in his eyes: "I just said that my family was wiped out by the Kelsman family, which means that the Kelsman family is my enemy." Revenge is my only goal in life. But in the world, which force would choose to be the enemy of the Kelsman family?"

Tang Jie smiled and said, "Then if you take refuge in me, I won't be stupid to provoke this first family!"

Simon shook his head and smiled sarcastically: "In this world, even if you don't want to be enemies of some people, you will still be enemies of them in the end!"

Tang Jie asked rhetorically: "Why?"

Simon said word by word: "Because of interests!"

Tang Jie stared at Simon with blazing eyes, waiting for his next step.

Simon smiled, "My dear captain, I have already decided to serve you when you chose to settle on this small island a few hundred nautical miles away from Sicis. Because of this decision of yours, you have been pushed to the opposite side of the Kelsman family!"

Tang Jie was shocked: "Why is this?"

Simon said with a smile: "If you really get your wish and build a sea fortress on this island, then your existence is a nail nailed between the east-west route and the north and south oceans! And in this way, you will also be the enemy of the maritime merchants of the world. ”

"I don't have that plan!" Tang Jie spread his hands, after getting Simon's allegiance, he had already told him why he chose Alcatraz Island as his fortress base, "I just want to protect my ship, Black Dragon King." ”

Simon looked at Tang Jie pretending to be very aggrieved, and he smiled: "Yes, I know." Even if you don't raid the caravans on the Golden Route, you will still attract fear and attack. Imagine that you use this island as a base and harness the Black Dragon King, you can destroy any port on the west coast of Pound Continent overnight, and they will have no place to fight back. You can also sail west to Noah, where your Black Dragon King will be able to bombard them along the coast of Noah, plunging their cities into flames and disasters. ”

"Whether it is the Noah Continent or the Pound Continent, there is not a single port, no country can withstand such a sudden attack by you! Moreover, the most important thing is ......" Simon said eloquently, "Once you can activate the Black Dragon King, you can attack and retreat, and any coastal port between the East and West Continents will tremble under your force, and any of their ships coming and going on the North and South Continents will be threatened by your fire! My captain, you will have absolute hegemony over the central sea!"

Tang Jie nodded slowly, he was not at all excited by Simon's words, but his face became heavy: "I know what you said, but you still haven't made it clear what is going on with the enemy of the Kelsman family?"

Simon said: "More than a hundred years ago, the rise of Atos caused the Kelsman family to suffer. Athos harnessed his Black Dragon King and attacked the Caravans of the Kelsman family everywhere, and Kelsman's private fleet was crushed by Athos. During the years when Athos dominated the seas, all of the Kelsman's maritime trade was severely reduced, and almost all of the family's tentacles reaching out to other continents were reclaimed from Pound. ”

"If you want to name the people who hate Athos the most, the heads of the Kelsman family must be on the list!" Simon turned his head, he looked at Tang Jie with a wry smile, "You have built a base here that can control the sea supremacy in the Central Sea, and you have a black dragon king that cannot be started for the time being, once this news is learned by the Kelsman family, do you think they will sit idly by? My captain, I say that when you choose this island as your sea base, you will definitely be the enemy of the Kelsman family!" They won't sit idly by and watch you stick a knife in their choke point at sea, let alone sit idly by while you have the Black Dragon King. ”

"In the near future, you will definitely be attacked by the Kelsman family's madness. This kind of attack is not necessarily the private fleet of this family, it is very likely that this family is manipulating the puppets of the empire, the navies of the Duchy of York and the Duchy of Marta, to attack you! There is not much time left for you!" Simon said slowly.

Tang Jie pondered for a while, and suddenly smiled: "So that's the case, I understand." But how did Athos become enemies of the Kelsman family in the first place?"

Simon shrugged his shoulders: "It's nothing more than two things, money and women!"

Tang Jie laughed.

Simon looked at Tang Jie and said, "My captain, haven't you considered changing places to be your base? If you take root here, you will not only attract the jealousy of the Kelsman family, but also all the maritime merchants and all the maritime nations. To be honest, you're making the world an enemy!"

Tang Jie turned his head, his face did not change, and said with a smile: "Have you heard a sentence?"

Simon was puzzled: "What words?"

Tang Jie's voice was categorical, and he said with a smile: "There are many lice that don't itch, and you don't have to worry about debts! My enemies are already enough anyway, and it doesn't matter if there are more! Moreover, the Black Dragon King is here, and I am here! It's mine, and no one wants to snatch it!"

Simon smiled and said no more.

The two men talked, and before they knew it, the ship had passed through the most treacherous seas and entered the shallows of Alcatraz Island.

"Captain, you can't go any further!" Nia shouted from the helmsman, "Go any further, you'll run aground!"

Tang Jie's head stretched out to the side of the boat, and after a look, he nodded and shouted: "Partners, let's get off the boat!

The sailors on deck cheered, some shouting to lower the anchor, others pulling the ropes and lowering one small boat after another into the sea.

The morale of the sailors who had come to the ship because of their admiration for Tang Jie's fame was high, and they sat in small boats, rowing their oars towards Alcatraz.

Alcatraz's west foreshore is one of the least suitable places to dock boats, and although the water is quite deep, it is full of rocks, and it is very difficult to build a harbor here.

However, it is much less difficult to build an impregnable sea fortress on Alcatraz Island to build a port suitable for docking.

Due to the narrow beach on the west side of Alcatraz, like a concave pocket, you can only drive in at most two medium-sized sea boats side by side at a time, and if you have one more, you will have to hit the ship and run aground!

The five merchant ships behind Tang Jie's battleship were loaded with slaves and timber and stone in order to be unloaded in this port, and the time it took was very amazing!

But everything is difficult at the beginning, and Tang Jie has no way to do it even if he is in a hurry.

Like his sailors, he sat in a small boat and came to the beach on Alcatraz Island, and watched as the remaining sailors on board drove away to make room for the ships behind him.

After moving like this several times, from dawn to noon, more than 200 sailors recruited by Tang Jie only went ashore for more than 100, and Niya, as the first mate, began to command the merchant ships behind to start entering the port.

The first to enter the harbor were merchant ships loaded with timber and food, and because there were too many reefs on the tidal flats on the west side of Alcatraz Island, the merchant ships could no longer enter the water at a depth of three or four meters.

Tang Jie was angry and asked the people on the boat to tie the timber together and throw it in the sea, and he himself led a group of strong sailors with excellent water ability to pull the timber to the shore in batches.

Fortunately, these timbers have buoyancy, and Tang Jie does not need to waste much strength to pull them, but when they go ashore, several sailors gather together, their muscles bulging, shouting slogans, pulling these heavy timbers out of the sea, and then carrying them to the shore and stacking them neatly together.

For a while, the beachhead of Alcatraz Island was crowded with people, and there were loud trumpets everywhere, and the most male muscles and the hottest sweat everywhere.

Tang Jie was the most powerful and the most athletic among their group, and every loud trumpet he uttered was like a clear horn, shocking people's hearts and making these sailors serve him willingly.

The sailors were divided into three groups, one group of sailors who carried the timber from the sea back to the beachhead, the other who pulled the timber from the beach to the beach and stacked them neatly, while the remaining group, mostly sailors who knew how to build and had carpenter's manual skills, took all kinds of tools and began to build a temporary wooden harbour on the beachhead.

In this way, by the time the first merchant ship was unloaded, the sun had already set on the western sea, and the sea had turned a blood-red color.

After a busy day, these sailors lit a campfire while the sun was still shining to illuminate Alcatraz Beach.

After the hands finished eating the dry food, under the leadership of Tang Jie, they seemed to be tirelessly engaged in the work of unloading and building the dock in full swing again.

Near the Black Dragon King's cave, wood piled up, and the light of the flames shone on them, leaving them with a huge beating shadow. On the beach, a makeshift wooden platform slowly stretched outward, and there was a clanging sound around it.

Tang Jie dived into the sea with the sailors with the greatest courage, the greatest strength, and the best water nature, and after fixing the bottom of these wooden platforms on the bottom of the sea one by one, some sailors immediately took a hammer and beat the wood with rivets, and nailed them together. The temporary wooden platform, which is about three meters wide and more than one meter high, extends little by little, slowly approaching the sea boat floating not far from the beach.

By the time the temporary pier, which was about 10 meters long, 3 meters wide, and 4.5 meters deep, was erected, it was already early in the morning of the next day.

These more than 100 sailors, led by Tang Jie, with incredible speed and energy, created a miracle in the harbor of Alcatraz Island.

All the sailors on Alcatraz cheered loudly at the sight of the last plank being hammered into the docks, and after a busy day, they still seemed to be tireless, and their faces were full of accomplishment and excitement.

Building with dreams and creativity is always the most motivating thing.

What's more, they have a best example who has been leading them?

After the temporary dock was erected, the second unloading ship was more than 300 slaves on board, and this time the personnel were unloaded much faster because of the temporary dock.

One by one, these dark-skinned, draggered slaves, unclothed, stepped out of the ship and came to the desert island, and in their uneasy eyes it was clear that they did not know what their fate would be, and what awaited them.