Chapter 75 The Cultivation of Power (1)
"Simon..." Tang Jie stood at the bow of the boat, looked at Simon beside him, and shouted.
Simon was focusing on looking at the calm but very dangerous sea under the ship. They were now traveling through the most dangerous and unpredictable sea surface around the Demon Island. Although his face looked extremely calm, his hand on the side of the ship was tensing hard, revealing his inner tension.
Hearing Tang Jie's shout, Simon turned his head to look at him: "Sir Captain, what's the matter?"
Tang Jie smiled and said, "Don't always call me Captain, just call me Tang Jie."
Simon shook his head. He was a man who had been growing up with the strictest aristocratic etiquette since he was a child. He would never do anything like this without any further or noisy.
Tang Jie smiled and settled for the second best: "Then call me Captain Tang Jie, don't be the old captain, you don't need to remind me, I know I am an adult."
Simon was amused by Tang Jie's playful words: "Then, Captain Tang Jie, what's wrong with you just called me?"
Tang Jie stared at Simon and said slowly: "You are different from the sailors on my boat. You are not a person who is worried about not finding a home or a place to eat. As long as you are willing, you can find a good home. Don't worry about the official army coming to round you up when you sleep, don't worry about your life safety. Why do you want to seek me as a result? You know, we are pirates!"
Simon also looked at Tang Jie, and he sighed: "My captain, you don't seem to realize it yet!"
"What did you realize?" Tang Jie asked back.
Simon's eyes twitched for a moment, and a strong hatred appeared in his eyes: "I just said that my family was destroyed by the Kelsman family, which means that the Kelsman family is my enemy. Revenge is my only goal to survive. But in the world, which force will choose to be an enemy of the Kelsman family?"
Tang Jie laughed and said, "Then if you surrender to me, I won't be stupid enough to provoke this first family!"
Simon shook his head and smiled sarcastically: "In this world, even if you refuse to be enemies with some people, you will still be enemies with them in the end!"
Tang Jie asked back: "Why?"
Simon said word by word: "Because of interests!"
Tang Jie stared at Simon with bright eyes, waiting for his next sentence.
Simon smiled: "My dear Captain, when you chose to station on this small island hundreds of nautical miles away from Sissis, I had already decided to serve you. Because your decision has pushed you to the opposite of the Kelsman family!"
Tang Jie was shocked: "Why is this?"
Simon smiled and said, "If you really get your wish, you will build a sea fortress on this island, then your existence will be a nail between the east-west route and the north and south oceans! No matter which chamber of commerce in this world, which family wants to travel between the east and west, and want to pass between the north and south oceans, they will be threatened by you. If you plunder the fleet passing by on the golden route, I believe you will surely plunder the richest treasure in the shortest time. In this way, you will also be enemies of the sea merchants all over the world."
"I don't have this plan!" Tang Jie spread his hands. After getting Simon's allegiance, he had already told him why he chose Alcatraz as his fortress base. "I just want to protect my ship, the Black Dragon King."
Simon looked at Tang Jie pretending to be very aggrieved, and he smiled: "Yes, I know. Even if you don't rob the caravans on the golden route, you will still attract fear and attack. Because you have the Black Dragon King on your hand, because the place you occupy will be a place that military strategists must fight for! Imagine that if you use this island as a base and control the Black Dragon King, you can destroy any port on the west coast of Pound 6 overnight, and they will have no place to fight back. You can also drive the Black Dragon King, sail westward and arrive at Noah 6. Your Black Dragon King can bombard them along the coast of Noah 6, so that their city will be trapped in the sea of fire and disaster."
"Whether it is Noah's Great 6 or Pound's Great 6, no port or country can withstand a sudden attack like you! And, the most important thing is..." Simon talked happily. "Once you can start the Black Dragon King, you can attack and retreat and defend. Any coastal port between East and West Great 6 will tremble under your force, and any of their ships traveling between North and South Great 6 will be threatened by your firepower! My Captain, you will have absolute hegemony to control the central waters!"
Tang Jie nodded slowly. He was not excited at all because of Simon's words, but his face became heavier: "I know what you said, but you still didn't explain clearly what's going on with the Kelsman family?"
Simon said: "More than a hundred years ago, Atos's rise caused the Kelsman family to suffer. Atos drove his Black Dragon King and attacked the Kelsman family's caravans everywhere. Kelsman's private fleet was defeated by Atos. In the era when Atos dominated the ocean, all the maritime trade of the Kelsman family shrank severely, and the tentacles of the family stretched to other Big 6s almost all the Pound Big 6s were taken back."
"If you want to name the people who hate Atos the most, the heads of the Kelsman family must be on the list!" Simon turned his head and looked at Tang Jie with a wry smile. "You have built a base here that can control the hegemony of the central waters, and have a Black Dragon King who cannot be moved for the time being. Once this news is learned by the Kelsman family, do you think they will sit idly? My captain, so I said that when you choose to treat this island as your sea base, you will definitely be enemies of the Kelsman family! They will not sit idly by and insert a knife into their sea throat, nor can you sit idly by and have the Black Dragon King."
"In the near future, you will definitely be attacked by the Kelsman family. This kind of attack may not be the private fleet of this family. It is very likely that this family is manipulating the empire's puppets, the Duchy of York and the Navy of the Principal of Mata to attack you! There is not much time left for you!" Simon said slowly.
Tang Jie pondered for a while, then suddenly smiled: "So that's the case, I understand. However, how did Atos become enemies of the Kelsman family?"
Simon shrugged: "It's just two things, money and women!"
Tang Jie laughed.
Simon looked at Tang Jie and said, "My Captain, have you never considered changing places to be your base? If you take root here, it will not only attract the fear of the Kelsman family, but also all maritime merchants and all maritime countries. To put it objectively, you are an enemy of the whole world!"
Tang Jie turned his head, his face remained calm, and said with a smile: "Have you heard a word?"
Simon wondered: "What do you mean?"
Tang Jie's voice was firm and smiled and said, "There are too many lice and not too much debt! I have enough enemies anyway, so it doesn't matter if there are a few more! Moreover, the Black Dragon King is here, I am here! It's mine, no one can snatch it away!"
Simon smiled and said no more.
The two of them chatted, and before they knew it, the ship had passed through the most dangerous sea surface and entered the shallows of the Devil's Island.
"Captain, you can't go forward any longer!" Niya shouted loudly on the helmsman's platform, "Walk forward any further and you'll be stranded!"
Tang Jie reached out to the outside of the boat and glanced at him. He nodded and shouted: "Parts, let's get off the boat! We're home!"
The sailors on the deck cheered, some shouted and lowered the anchor, while others pulled the ropes and put boats one after another into the sea.
The sailors who came to the sea boat because they admired Tang Jie's reputation were all full of morale. They sat in the boats and rowed towards the Devil's Island with their oars.
The foreshore on the west side of Alcatraz Island is the least suitable place for boats. Although it has a deep water level, it is full of rocks. It is really difficult to build a port here.
But compared to building an indestructible maritime fortress on the Devil Island, building a port suitable for docking is much less difficult.
Because the beach on the west side of Alcatraz is very narrow, like a concave pocket, at most two medium-sized sea boats can be driven in side by side at a time. If one more, the ship will be stranded!
If the five merchant ships behind Tang Jie's battleship were loaded with slaves and wood and stones, they had to come one by one, and the time it took was amazing!
But everything is difficult at the beginning, and even if Tang Jie is anxious, he will have no choice.
Like his sailors, he sat in a small boat and came to the beach of Alcatraz, and then watched the remaining sailors on the boat drive away and move their positions for the ship behind him.
I moved this way several times, from dawn to noon, more than 100 sailors recruited by Tang Jie came ashore. Niya, as the first mate, began to command the merchant ships behind to enter the port.
The merchant ships carrying wood and food were advanced to the port. Because there were too many reefs on the tidal flats on the west side of Alcatraz, the merchant ship could no longer enter the water level of three or four meters.
The wood on the boat was transported by a small boat, but it was too inefficient. Tang Jie was furious and asked the people on the boat to tie the wood together and throw it into the sea. He led a group of strong and well-behaved sailors to pull the wood to the shore in batches.
Fortunately, these woods have buoyancy, so Tang Jie didn't need to waste too much effort to pull them. However, when he got ashore, several sailors gathered together, their muscles bulged, shouted slogans, pulled out the heavy wood from the sea, and then carried it to the shore and piled it neatly together.
For a moment, the beach of Demon Island was filled with figures, loud sounds of trumpets everywhere, the most male muscles and the most passionate sweat everywhere.
Among them, Tang Jie has the greatest strength and the most toned figure. Every loud trumpet of his trumpet is like a clear trumpet, shocking people and making these sailors willingly serve him.
These sailors were divided into three groups, one group transported the wood from the sea to the beach, and the other group pulled the wood from the beach and piled them neatly together. The remaining small group were mostly sailors who were well-versed in construction and had carpenter handcraft skills. They took various tools and began to build a temporary wooden port on the beach.
In this way, when the first merchant ship was unloaded, the sun had already set on the sea level to the west, and the sea surface turned into a blood-red color.
These busy sailors lit bonfires when the sun was still bright, making the beach of Alcatraz as bright as bright.
After the hands finished eating the dry food, under the leadership of Tang Jie, they seemed to tirelessly devoted themselves to the work of unloading goods and building a dock again.
Near the cave of Heilongwang, wood is piled up like mountains, and the light of flames shines on them, leaving them with a huge jumping shadow. On the beach, a temporary wooden platform is slowly extending outward, with jingling sounds around it.
Tang Jie, the sailor with the most courageous, the most powerful, and the best water quality, dived into the sea. After fixing the bottoms of these wooden platforms one by one at the bottom of the sea, the sailors immediately used hammers to tie the wood tightly with rivets, and nailed them together tightly. This temporary wooden platform, about three meters wide and more than one meter high, extended out bit by bit, slowly approaching the sea boat floating not far from the beach.
By the time this temporary wharf, which was about ten meters long, three meters wide and the deepest depth was 4.5 meters, it was already the morning of the next day.
Under the leadership of Tang Jie, these more than a hundred sailors created a miracle in the port of Alcatraz with incredible degrees and energy.
When they saw the last wooden board being nailed to the dock, all the sailors on the Demon Island cheered loudly. After a whole day of busyness, they seemed to be tireless, and their faces were filled with a sense of accomplishment and excitement.
Dreamy and creative construction is always the most inspiring thing.
What's more, they have a best role model that has been leading them all the time?
After the temporary dock was built, the second unloaded sea ship was more than 300 slaves on the ship. This time, due to the temporary dock, the unloading rate of personnel was much faster.
Chapter completed!