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The reason why Chen Feng made such a big fuss the moment he came to Tortuga.
It's not to play dimensionality reduction strikes, to show off your strength in front of these pirates.
Instead, it laid the groundwork for recruiting its own crew and sailors.
At that time, sailors were a scarce resource, whether for pirates, navies or merchants.
Experienced and combat-ready pirate sailors are even more scarce.
Even if the whole of England's sailors were healthy, it would still only meet two-thirds of the needs, not to mention that staying healthy at that time was a matter of considerable luck.
Similar scenes often appear in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.
On the ship, the commander ordered the ragged sailors in the cabin to expel the accumulated water in the cabin, but half a minute later, these sailors were all dead.
In fact, not many of these sailors who work like coolies are on board voluntarily.
Except for the passionate ignorant teenagers and those poor people who believed in the navy and thought that they would really be given the equivalent of two months of signing bonuses.
In the Caribbean Sea during this period, there were even some specialized professions called "snatchers" and "conscripts".
A kidnapper's job is as simple as finding someone on the street who looks like a vagrant and handing them a contract promising a good salary.
Yet these poor souls sign their names and board the boat, only to discover that the salary they were expecting was nothing more than an illusion.
In short, kidnappers are black intermediaries.
But in addition, they occasionally use some special means to find people, which is to take advantage of human weaknesses-such as alcohol addiction
For example, using the purchase of wine as a condition to lure the drunkard among the sailors.
As for the particularly simple and rough kidnappers, they would directly find those drunk people, handcuff them, and sell them to the captain like goods.After all, the laws of the 18th century don't matter how you came from, as long as you board the ship, you are obliged to serve the ship, and the sailors can only be obedient.
Anyway, it is impossible to escape, and it depends on God's will whether to complete a voyage.
As for the Royal Navy, there is a more aboveboard way of recruiting: forced recruitment.
The conscript team was led by naval officers, and searched for traces of sailors through the streets and alleys. Their methods were rough enough to scare the shit out of all sailors who molested women from good families.
In addition, for the great mission assigned by their superiors and a reward of one pound for every sailor caught (equivalent to a sailor's salary for one month), they will go to the prison closer to the port, and take out thugs, robbers, thieves, tramps, etc. Take them all away.
Or break into houses and merchant ships in the middle of the night to search for sailors. If there is a special shortage of people, those craftsmen such as potters, tailors, and weavers who were sleeping peacefully at home are also selected.
They would be "thrown out of their homes like dogs or for the worst crimes," dragged aboard boats, often without clothes, and died due to lack of skills and poor living conditions.
Chen Feng was neither a kidnapper nor a conscript team, and most of the sailors in Tortuga already had captains who swore allegiance.
Therefore, if he wants to steal food from the tiger's mouth and build his own crew team, Chen Feng must show some sincerity!
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Chapter 217 Recruit Pirates!The most powerful vice!
In the tavern, the skin of the pirate sailors was dark brown.
Their faces were lined and weather-beaten, and some old sailors had the skin of melted candles.
The older sailors were mostly reticent, with wary eyes in eyes almost covered by their hoods.
Most sailors wore scarves or handkerchiefs loosely tied around their necks, tattooed, bearded, and gold earrings.
Some of the sailors looked old, but most were only ten years or so older than me.
Their homeland is far and wide: London, Scotland, Wales, the South West counties.
There were quite a few Negroes in the crew, about a third of the total, and some of them were fugitive slaves who had found freedom at sea and were treated equally by the captain and the rest of the crew—or, rather, received Treat them equally with other social dregs.
Others came from the American colonies, from Boston, Charleston, Newport, New York, and Salem.
Although in the tavern, these people still carried weapons: machetes, daggers, flintlock pistols.
And there never seems to be more than one.
Chen Feng knew that this was to prevent the gunpowder from being damp and unable to fire.
But Chen Feng also knew that in the tavern in Tortuga, no one would shoot no matter how big a physical conflict broke out.
If someone triggers an action that is expressly prohibited by this "Pirate Code", he will be expelled from all pirates and never see the light of day.
The words and the way these pirates spoke of women were unbelievably vulgar, and they liked nothing more than to argue loudly.
Seeing such activities as arm wrestling, I was even more excited.
"Down with him! Down with him! Down with him!"
Amidst the shouts and encouragement of the crowd, a gigantic figure appeared in front of Chen Feng.
The big, bald man with dead fish eyes was named Shark.
No one knows what his real name is, but he has been called "Shark" since he appeared.
This terrifying name was not groundless. When the big man squeezed through the crowd and appeared in Chen Feng's eyes, he really looked like a beast with sharp teeth in the deep sea.
Shark was an executioner before he became a pirate, and now he is the captain of the charge of the Scottish captain Alexander Dolzier's fleet.
Before Chen Feng entered the "Old Oak" bar, he had already clamored to compete with the pirates in the tavern, but no one dared to challenge.
On the one hand, facing a character like a shark whose appearance alone is enough to give people a great shock, everyone thinks that there is no possibility of winning.
On the other hand, the sharks added some tempting bets to the game. Naturally, no one would put all their eggs in one basket and fight the sharks for the sake of the temptation of the bets.
The fact that no one is playing makes the shark even more complacent, thinking that no one is invincible.
I saw him walking to the empty table in front of Chen Feng with strides, and winking at Chen Feng with great air, thinking that he must be the champion.
The two sat on chairs, holding each other's other hand tightly with their hands.
The shark gave Chen Feng a hostile look, but Chen Feng had a smile in his eyes and was unmoved at all.
"Take him down! Take him down!"
"You can, Shark, let this kid see your strength!"