The Fourth Financial Crisis

Unlike the Ruicheng, the Yuxiang does not have any water purification array. The fresh water is stored in large wooden barrels. Although the sailors of the Yuxiang will boil the fresh water and then put it into barrels, and then store it in the barrels. A silver plate is specially placed for sterilization, but this fresh water often lasts less than a week on the ship before it slowly grows green moss, breeds water bugs, and emits an unpleasant sewer smell. Drinking this smelly fresh water is very dangerous. It is easy to suffer from stomachache, gastric diarrhea or dysentery.

In order to ensure that they could drink this foul-smelling fresh water, the sailors had to boil water to make tea. But the problem was that tea was not cheap. Ordinary sailors could not afford to consume too much tea, so they turned to another method. One way to "save" your drinking water is to add a large amount of alcohol to the fresh water to cover up the strange smell.

Sailors are given a certain amount of alcoholic beverages every day. Depending on the crops in the supply area, there are beer, wine, rum, etc. When the sailors get a barely reliable water source, they will mix some of the wine into it. Mix with drinking water. Team Leader Qin was obviously such a warrior who was tested by alcohol. Even if he used wine as water to quench his thirst, his face would only turn slightly red.

Seeing Team Leader Qin hand over the wine bottle and making an invitation gesture, Shen Xiaotao waved his hand quickly.

The voyage to the outlying island was not a long one. It only lasted five days. He did not need to use wine to quench his thirst like these old drunkards. If he used it sparingly, the kettle he carried with him would be enough.

Seeing that Shen Xiaotao was unwilling to drink, Team Leader Qin didn't care. Instead, he pinned the broken wine bottle to his waist again and continued to complain: "Sickness and drinking are the biggest expenses for us sailors, not to mention if we encounter monsters , then the entire ship will be wiped out on the sea. I am afraid that only the immortal master who leads the team can escape with the escape light. The [Yuxin] incident three years ago is proof..."

After finishing speaking, Team Leader Qin pointed to his empty pocket and smiled bitterly: "If I hadn't been relatively wealthy, and when I was critically ill several times, I could pay the immortal master to use his magic to rescue him from the hell gate, I wouldn't be alive at all. At this age. However, due to various accidents, I have not saved much savings until now. When I first entered the industry in the early years, I was ambitious and wanted to leave a shop in Haiya City for my descendants, but now …I can’t even think about it!”

According to the current market price, even the most remote shops in Haiya City are quoted as high as thousands of spiritual stone coins. For example, the shops along Pinghai Avenue are priced at tens of thousands of Lingshi coins. Even the headquarters of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce does not dare to be built on Pinghai Avenue. It has to be located on the edge of the wealthy area. .

This is simply not something ordinary people can afford!

It seems that this cynical Team Leader Qin was young and frivolous back then!

Shen Xiaotao couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "That's right. If sailors really made money like this, there would be no poor people in Haiya City!"

Team leader Qin looked at Shen Xiaotao with a teachable expression, and said with a smile: "On the ocean-going merchant ships of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, only the immortal masters who lead the team can make a fortune, and even the captains are not many who can die a good death. Let's not take advantage of this opportunity. You would be really sorry for yourself if you order the wool of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce! After all, the immortal masters of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce are very rich, and they are not short of our small change!"

Is this so-called "just corruption"?

But the problem is that the Yuxiang ship does not count the 1,000 volunteers. The Haiya Chamber of Commerce alone has more than 600 formal crew members. If you were greedy and I was greedy, the Yuxiang ship would have been destroyed by the moths long ago. Empty it!

Shen Xiaotao is different from other volunteers.

Other volunteers are here to lick blood. Even if they die, they can receive huge pensions, so they are not afraid of death at all.

But Shen Xiaotao has been hired as a regular employee by a merchant in Qingning, and has even won the respect of He Mingyuan. His future is bright. He participated in the Outlying Island War just to fulfill his contract with the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. It would be a big loss if he died in the Outlying Island War without knowing it. .

Putting aside everything else, if he dies, who will take care of his old father who is paralyzed in bed?

Thinking of this, Shen Xiaotao said worriedly: "Team Leader Qin, do you think we, Haiya City, can win this outlying island war?"

Team leader Qin looked serious and said: "If nothing unexpected happens, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce will win!"

Shen Xiaotao did not expect that Team Leader Qin would be so confident about the prospect of war. Looking at the Yuxiang veteran who was madly complaining about the Haiya Chamber of Commerce just now, he said with some disbelief: "Listening to what you just said, I thought you would be very pessimistic about the prospect of war!"

Team Leader Qin pointed to the giant ship of the Haiya Fleet and asked: "Then let me ask you a question first. What do you think of the combat effectiveness of our Haiya Fleet?"

Shen Xiaotao hesitated for a moment, and then answered honestly: "It's gold and jade on the outside, but it's ruined on the inside!"

However, Team Leader Qin shook his head: "Young man, you are still too naive! You must think that the Yuxiang alone is so bad, how can the Haiya Chamber of Commerce win the war? This is like, you You may also find it strange that Dong Dayang has not been capped. Since the life of ordinary people in Haiya City is already so miserable, why do we old guys still stay here and immigrate to Yangjiang Port in Huoyun Prefecture, or Places like Jiading Port in Borneo..."

Shen Xiaotao nodded, acknowledging that he did have doubts in this regard.

"Because this world is a worse world!" Team leader Qin sighed again, and explained seriously, "If you suck, so will I. In comparison, Haiya City is not that bad. As long as you are Mortal, no matter where you are, you are not considered a human being, but the merit of being able to walk. The world revolves around cultivators, and it is useless for mortals to escape wherever they go, even off the island!"

Shen Xiaotao also interned at the Qingning Chamber of Commerce for almost a month.

He thought that all chambers of commerce were as honest and efficient as the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, that all leaders were as selfless as Steward He, and that all colleagues should walk on thin ice like Steward He's subordinates.

Suddenly hearing this theory of comparison, he couldn't help but said in astonishment: "Haiya Fleet is so bad, but there are people worse than us?"

Team leader Qin immediately showed a look of disdain, saying, "You have never seen the world at all." He cast his sight in the direction of the remote island, and sighed faintly: "Although there are no cultivators on the remote island, the life of mortals there is even more miserable than in Zhongzhou. I also ran several routes to the remote island when I was young. If the immortal master Due to the way of heaven, I still pay a little attention to the thoughts of mortals. In the eyes of the local lords, the mortals on the outlying islands are simply soulless livestock. It is precisely because I know how bad the outlying islands are that I firmly believe that the Haiya Chamber of Commerce must will achieve final victory.”

It seems that Team Leader Qin also had many stories when he was young!

Seeing that Shen Xiaotao still didn't believe it, the old team leader continued to add: "Let's put it this way, no matter how bad the Haiya Chamber of Commerce is, it is still rich enough! It is also running around and leaking, what can we say about our Haiya Fleet? It was also obtained by tens of millions of spirit stone coins from the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. Compared with the group of thugs on the outlying islands who don't even have money, our advantage is so great that you can't even imagine it!"

Shen Xiaotao could not refute these words.

Maybe this means being so poor that only money is left!