Chapter 103: Navy! Navy! (Please read! Please recommend!)
Chapter 102: Navy! Navy!
The beggar's chicken was quickly eaten up by the two men, of course, mainly by Bruno.
Seeing that the picking of pyrethrum was proceeding in an orderly manner under Shabi's command, Bruno felt relieved. After all, this was a sea of flowers that Bruno exchanged for his glory points, so he had to take a stroll around it.
After all, this was because Bruno was too restless to stay idle, so he couldn't just stay in the lord's castle of Idar like a wooden man all day long and listen to his subordinates' reports carelessly like other nobles.
What you hear is not as good as what you see. Especially in this era when people are treated like grass, Bruno has to walk out of the castle himself to see with his own eyes the living conditions of the lowest class of people in Idar County.
Besides, he might as well take this opportunity to stroll around, get to know the people, and breathe the free air of Idar County.
To date, more than half a month has passed since the last pirate attack on the Cape Salt Works. Those pirates who escaped were probably frightened and did not come back to attack again.
The lowest-level people in Idar County gradually immersed themselves in their busy lives, and only regarded the pirate attack as a topic of conversation after dinner.
After all, the Cape Salt Works did not suffer any damage, and it did not have any major impact on the normal lives of the people of Idar.
As for the soldiers who died... Bruno held a grand funeral for them in the barracks and provided a considerable amount of pension to their families.
However, Bruno did not seize this opportunity to stir up public opinion in Idar and inspire hatred among Idar civilians towards pirates.
After all, if this were to be publicized, what would happen to the pirates captured by the Idar people?
A tooth for a tooth? An eye for an eye? You know, the pirates captured by the Idar soldiers are now building warships for the Idar people!
Whether it is a pirate captain like Captain Jack or the other captured minions, most of them have some navigation knowledge or shipbuilding experience, which can play a significant role in the construction of the three-masted sailing ship and the formation of the Idar Navy.
Therefore, with Bruno's tacit consent, they were all escorted to the fishing port by White Barrel and ordered to assist in shipbuilding.
It is called labor reform.
In addition, another reason why Bruno intended to handle the matter coldly was that he hoped to recruit some of the pirates after defeating them.
Because according to Captain Jack, not all pirates lurking in the sea are vicious criminals. A large number of them are poor people who have nowhere to go after losing their land.
As for the current Lord Idar, if he wants to unify the pirate forces entrenched overseas, he certainly cannot eliminate them all.
Therefore, according to Bruno's idea, the most evil pirates among them should be eradicated, while those pirates with relatively minor crimes should be given a break, and these pirates who are relatively familiar with overseas should be used to complete the control of the waters east of Idar.
After all, the Idar Territory would definitely not be able to gather so many people in a short period of time.
Moreover, after revealing the information about the Fran Islands, these captured pirates no longer dared to cheat.
He accepted all requests from the Idar people and discussed everything with them.
After all, the leak of the news about the Fran Islands created an indelible rift in the relationship between these captured pirates and the pirate leader Kelvin Plateau. Even if Bruno agreed to let them go back now, they would probably not dare to go back to being pirates.
Because if they dared to go back, the most likely thing that would happen was that they would be hacked to death by Kelvin Plato.
Therefore, at this moment, their fate is linked to Lord Idar.
If they behaved well and allowed the soldiers of Idar to defeat the pirates entrenched overseas, perhaps the Earl would show leniency to them, and they would still have a chance of survival.
But if the Idar people failed... Kelvin Plato never showed mercy to traitors, and all kinds of killing methods were endless.
And when Captain Jack saw the battleship blueprint in White Barrell's hand, he almost exclaimed out loud.
Even on Earth in the previous life, the structure of the three-masted sailing ship was regarded as a nearly perfect "great masterpiece of mankind."
The three-masted sailing ship can be regarded as the crystallization of countless human wisdom in the sailing age. Every part of its structure and even the position of every wooden board is almost perfect. It also represents the beautiful fantasy of every sailing enthusiast about sailing.
When had a native of another world like Captain Jack ever seen such an exquisite warship blueprint? He was shocked for a moment, but secretly felt fortunate that he was captured so early.
Otherwise...
Who knows what kind of tragic battle would ensue when encountering such a warship! The wood needed to build a three-masted warship has extremely strict selection standards, which can be said to be the best of the best.
But fortunately, all the wood can be sourced directly from the Almis Mountains, and then the felled wood is tied into wooden valves and shipped down the Idar River to the shipbuilding dock.
This undoubtedly saved manpower to a great extent and saved a lot of labor for the Idar County, which was already short of manpower.
It is estimated that only when pesticides are widely used will the labor force in Idar County gradually become abundant...
While the three-masted sailing ships were being built, the navy of Idar was also being formed.
There are a total of 200 combat personnel in the Idar Navy, most of whom are civilians or serfs living along the coast of Idar.
That's right! Serfs! Because the Idar navy was formed in a hurry, Bruno even allowed some serfs to join the army and promised that they could exchange their military merits for freedom in the future! This undoubtedly greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the Idar people to join the army. For a time, the Idar navy was in the limelight. Although it had not yet experienced war, the discussion about the navy had a momentum that was faintly overwhelming the Idar standing army.
Although the navy's manpower is not too large for the time being, the number of personnel providing logistics supplies and warship maintenance for the Idar Navy far exceeds this number.
This is also Bruno's plan for the future. Although life is a little tight now, if he can get through this period, then the future life will be much better.
After all, the escort of logistical supplies is secondary. The personnel required for positions such as warship repair and port maintenance undoubtedly need to be trained as early as possible.
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I will update it once today. Since the content of the previous chapters (especially the price levels) was only explained in Chapter 62, there are still many readers complaining about it. The author plans to correct the prices in the previous chapters today, and at the same time modify the complaints mentioned by some readers before.
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