Poor Captain Jack Sparrow was standing outside the castle grounds, with a few horsemen on his horse, spears already pointed at him.

Not for anything else, just because this guy is dressed up...... It's so blatant, so arrogant. It's almost engraved on the face: I'm a pirate!

This has to be said to be the credit of Du Weidi, he designed the outfit for this Captain Jack Sparrow, which is completely based on the charming pirate captain in the famous movie in his previous life, especially the red turban on his head, the mustache on his chin, and the dark circles under his eyes......

Such a strangely dressed person, came to the area around the Rollin Castle, and was immediately targeted by the patrol Rollin's home guard cavalry, since Du Wei was kidnapped twice, the Rollin's home guard strength has increased several times.

"Aha, my captain, you're here!" Du Wei laughed and hurriedly ran out of the castle, looking at the pirate captain who was being pointed at the ground with a spear by a group of cavalrymen, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.......

"Don't doubt it, it's my local. Du Wei waved his hand, and a group of knights retreated.Du Wei looked at Jack Sparrow who was a little nervous, walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and smiled: "You're finally here.

The pirate captain had already learned Du Wei's power, so he hurriedly bent down and said with a smile: "Young master, the matter is very successful.

Du Wei glanced left and right: "This is not the place to speak."

Then he was brought to his study by Captain Sparrow.

Entering the study, this vulgar pirate had seen the rich scene of the Imperial Martial Arts Family? The pure silver candlesticks alone made him almost dazzled, and then the people below brought up the best black tea from the south, and the sterling silver tea set also made Sparrow nervous.

Driving away the servant and closing the door, Du Wei unhurriedly cast a silent magic spell so that the conversation in the room did not have to be spread out.

"Yes!" Captain Sparrow quickly stood up, put down the teacup in his hand, and said in a low voice: "This time we went to sea, it lasted a total of three months, we swept nineteen islands in the eastern sea, and Miss Joanna took action, and those stubborn guys were thrown into the sea by us to feed the sharks.

"Sea King-level land?" Du Wei was slightly surprised.

In the Roland Empire, the sea ships are divided into four levels according to their displacement, from large to small: Poseidon class, Sea King class, Sea Sheet class, and Sea Soul class.

Among them, the Poseidon-class ground ship is the largest, which can be called the main ship of the Imperial Navy. For example, Du Wei Di Laozi, Count Raymond led the navy to the south on an expedition, and triumphantly returned to the flagship "Dandong" at the time of the Dìdū time.

And a little smaller is the Sea King class, the maximum length of the ship can reach 100 meters, generally about 80 meters, can carry 500 combatants, and it is also equipped with a certain number of ballistas and other long-range attack weapons.

In this era, because there is no gunpowder and thermal weapons, that kind of artillery is no ground. The so-called ballista, in fact, is just some giant crossbows, with a noose to send shè out.shè range can reach about a thousand meters, strong penetration, can shè pass iron plates, often when fighting at sea, a shot shè out, if it hits the target, it can pierce the opponent's hull at once, directly to the opponent's hull damage.

In this era, there were no long-range attack weapons such as artillery, and only Poseidon-level earth giants could be equipped with a small number of earth magic cannons.

And for these reasons, in this world, the so-called ground-to-sea warfare is basically still at a low-level stage, relying on the captain of the ship to kill and injure the opponent's personnel with throwing or crossbow and other weapons from a long distance, and then relying on the hull of the ship to ram the opponent's ship, so that the opponent loses mobility, and then fight "broadside warfare", relying on the ship's ground combatants to land on the opponent's ship and then hand-to-hand combat.

In this case, the ship has a large capacity and can carry more fighters, so it has become the main force in naval warfare.

Although there are many pirates in the eastern waters of the Roland Mainland, most of them are ships below medium-sized, and they often cannot compete with the regular fleet.

A Sea King-level ship, which is extremely rare for pirates!

Seeing Du Weidi's doubts, Captain Sparrow hurriedly explained: "That big ship seems to be many years old, and the hull is also a little dilapidated, and it takes a lot of effort to repair it.

Du Wei nodded.If even pirates can easily get their hands on a Sea King-class ship, then what else is the Imperial Navy messing with?!

"Now among the thirty-two ships, one is a sea king, and six are sea owls.

The rest of the land is all Sea Soul-class small ships, which can only carry less than 100 people.

Listening to Sparrow's words, Du Wei just smiled and didn't say anything.

After all, this guy is a pirate, and he still has less knowledge.

Compare it to the Imperial Navy?

For example, after the last triumphant return, Count Raymond led the expeditionary fleet to the expeditionary fleet, although there were only thirty-five ships, but there were five Poseidon-class ships, and the rest were all Aquaman-class!

Although there are many of these ships under Du Wei's subordinates, most of them are small boats, and if they are really compared with the regular navy of the Empire, it is still far from enough.

However, Du Wei didn't want to do any great things like rebellion, such a fleet, as long as it was honestly used for maritime trade, and if he didn't mess with those navies, he could almost sweep the eastern seas.

After Sparrow said this, his face showed embarrassment, and he said in a low voice: "It's just that things are going out more than we expected, so there are some problems that we can't solve now, and now the fleet is docked at Port Walker in the south of Lille Province, where Miss Ruolin is in charge of the situation.Send me back to you quickly......"

"Just tell me, what's wrong?" Du Wei frowned.

"Money." Sparrow sighed, "Our original plan was to co-opt those pirates, and then take out the wealth they had been looting and gathering at sea for years, and then use the money to sustain the fleet.......

Speaking of this, Sparrow couldn't help but sigh, "The problem is. these pirates are too poor."

Looking at Du Wei's frowning appearance, Sparrow hurriedly explained: "The military power of the empire at sea is already strong, and in the past few decades, several expeditions have been carried out in the southern seas, expanding the empire's maritime territory by tens of millions of miles. But after all, it has always been a small fight, because the empire has a huge navy. Once the matter is too big and causes the navy to be cleared, it will make the small pirates suffer a catastrophe. More importantly, in recent years, the ocean-going trade in the eastern seas has decreased, and most of the fleets have been concentrated in the South Seas.

Watching Captain Sparrow say such a big truth in a serious way, as if endorsing a book, Du Wei couldn't help but laugh: "These things are all your own ideas?"

Sparrow shook his head and replied honestly, "No, I haven't read any books.

Du Wei's eyes lit up.

Ruolin, this long-legged chick has a good mind.

Sparrow continued: "This three months of clearing the pirates on the sea, a total of materials from the land, most of them are some worthless grain and iron tools, even if they are sold, it is not worth much. Naturally, it will inevitably arouse the criticism of others.Miss Ruolin spent a sum of money to settle the official relations.In the end, we copied all the remaining things in those pirate dens, and only got less than 10,000 gold coins.And after a few months at sea, the ships had to be maintained and repaired, and some ships were damaged to be repaired, and there was also the big ship of the Sea King, although it was large, but the damage and aging were even more serious...... In this way, the money is almost beyond our means."

Du Wei's scalp tingled when he heard this, and he waved his hand: "Just say directly, how much money is needed!"

When Sparrow heard this, he immediately took out a small notebook from his bosom, opened it, and then read it to Du Wei: "Thirty-two boats, almost all of them have to be damaged to varying degrees, in view of the current financial problems, Miss Ruolin has selected nine of them to be seriously problematic, and the repair cost is expected to cost three thousand gold coins. But for the time being, it can be used improvised.When the money in hand is enough in the future, I can make plans.More than 400 people, three months to eat, drink and Lazar, but also spent more than 600 gold coins, which is already very economical.Miss Ruolin does not dare to reduce personnel expenses anymore, otherwise, these newly acquired subordinates will have to defect.Miss Ruolin also said that since you have changed from a pirate to your subordinates, you naturally can no longer dress up as a pirate, if you wear tattered clothes, it will inevitably be embarrassing for you, and she also made two sets of new clothes for each person, of which the clothes of the leader land are slightly better... ... The most important thing is that the weapons in everyone's hands are too poor, and in the past, when they were pirates, they went up in a swarm to fight indiscriminately, which is too unusual, since it is the fleet of the Luo Lin family, the ballistas, bows, and swords on the ground on the ships have to be replaced....... In addition, there is also the fund for the opening up of relations between the navy and the land, and we have collected the locals, almost half of whom are wanted criminals (when he said this, Pyro paused for a moment and embarrassedly added "including me"), and it cost nearly a thousand gold coins to remove the wanted warrant."