The strongest captain: I have a pirate system

Recently, Liu Peng has never paid attention to the life compass in Crimanda. For him, the legendary things are almost fake. Anyway, he has not seen it with his own eyes, so he can't waste time on illusory things.

But Liu Peng felt wronged when he was involved in this matter because of a mission. Fortunately, Bo Lun didn't bother him and let Liu Peng return to Sara Island.

In the past few months, the periphery of Sara Island has not changed much, but there are many more barges carrying iron ore. From a distance, there are several black smoke columns rising from the island, which are probably emitted by the ore refining factory. smoke bar.

Silvia also saw the tall smoke column, and asked Liu Peng curiously: "Honey, what's wrong with that place?"

"Ah, there is the brilliance of the art of production." Liu Peng laughed, "The art of war."

After getting off the boat, Liu Peng asked Svia to take the two women rescued from the Swain Islands to the mansion, while he went to the arsenal.

"grown ups!"

Guarding the arsenal were two hundred musketeers recruited by Liu Peng, who used matchlock guns made in Green Island, and saluted immediately when they saw Liu Peng.

Nodding, when Liu Peng walked in, the arsenal began to demould the artillery at this time, and dozens of craftsmen brought out the barrels cast in adobe. These small cannons, which were to be installed on warships, were produced very quickly. It only takes a month to take shape.

I saw one of the craftsmen smashing the adobe with a hammer, exposing the iron cannon barrel inside, and then some apprentices cleaned them with a brush, and after cleaning, they directly poured water into them.

Liu Peng once saw the gunsmith who was captured last time do this step. This was to prevent cracks and water seepage in the gun barrels. After hanging these gun barrels on the wooden frame, after ten minutes, four of the ten gun barrels showed water seepage. It was directly thrown back into the furnace for resmelting, and the remaining six barrels were pushed to the next workshop.

This is an assembly line proposed by the artisans summoned by Liu Peng. Some artisans are responsible for casting molds and making adobes, while others are responsible for filling film and checking the quality of the gun barrels.

After these gun barrels are checked and there is no problem, the next step of grinding will be carried out. Liu Peng followed the craftsman who pushed the gun to the next workshop.

There are already more than a dozen finished barrels here, and the strong apprentices are polishing the barrels with sandpaper and grinding sticks until the walls of the barrels are smooth and free of roughness.

The grinding workshop also has a craftsman responsible for reinforcement, forging a circle of iron rings from the furnace, beating it on the chopping board, measuring it again, and handing it over to the craftsman in charge of reinforcement.

The craftsman in charge of reinforcement used the thick iron rings that had been made to cover the gun barrel layer by layer.

If there is no uniform measurement in this step, it will not work, otherwise the iron ring will not be put on, and the bare barrel will explode after a few shots.

Putting on the iron ring is not as easy as imagined, because they need to find the position of the fire guide hole, and at the same time leave enough space for the iron ring to be put on after finishing. It takes a few craftsmen a day to drill the hole with a drill press. effort.

Liu Peng looked here for a while, and then went to the next workshop, expecting the artillery with mounted gun mounts.

Coincidentally, as soon as Liu Peng went in, Lance came out with someone pushing three already installed artillery pieces.

"Hey, when are you coming back, Mr. Captain?" Lance greeted first.

Liu Peng touched the barrel that was still warm—maybe it was exposed by the sun, and said, "Which batch of artillery is this?"

"It happened to be the first batch. We squatted here for three months, and finally waited for this cannon to be finished." Lance looked expectant.

"Okay, let's test the cannon first!" Liu Peng stepped aside, and the person who tested the cannon immediately pushed the cannon out, pushing it all the way to a position far away from the pier, where there was a desolate rocky beach.

The gunners in charge of the test are trainee gunners who are being trained, and the operation is a little rusty, but all the gunpowder is custom-made, so there is no need to worry about them exploding the chamber due to overdose due to their hands.

When the stone shell was stuffed and tamped, the gunner stuffed it in with a long fuse and ignited it, and everyone ran away.

"Boom boom boom!"

The three cannons fired a salvo, and they exploded the sea 300 meters away very tacitly, while the wooden board as the target still stood firmly on the shore, motionless.

Seeing this, Liu Peng smiled at Lance: "It's not too exaggerated. When the time comes, everyone will shoot directly to the face in the artillery battle. This accuracy will not affect the power."

Lance nodded: "Fortunately, you don't know that the barrel of the first trial artillery was blown up into trumpet flowers."

"What's the reason?" Liu Peng thought this was the first test firing, but he didn't expect that he had already made an experimental artillery.

"The master craftsman is very curious about his craftsmanship and wants to see if the bare gun barrel can be used." Lance said, "It turns out that our ironmaking still needs to be improved. When will the quality of the iron be improved before we can directly The cannon was cast in one go."

"Don't worry about this thing." Liu Peng said, "It's okay if there is a problem during the test, but if there is a problem in actual combat, it will be passively beaten, and even lead to the failure of the war."

Lance nodded. Seeing that the gunner was about to conduct the second round of test, the two of them did not intend to continue watching, and walked towards the Lord's Mansion.

"How about it, how about my fleet of twenty ships?" Liu Peng asked.

Lance replied solemnly: "Five ships have already set off from the Kingdom of An'aivia to purchase the spices and wood produced there and transport them to the north. Each ship can earn hundreds of ounces of gold."

"How long will it take?" Liu Peng continued to ask.

"About half a year, when everything is opened, we will have a thousand ounces of gold a month." Lance said, "The salary that needs to be paid to the captain and sailors has been deducted here."

"This is not bad." Liu Peng calculated in his mind that these expenses are enough for him to support the operation of the defenders on the two islands.

After confirming that everything was normal on Sara Island, Liu Peng met with Mistry again. As the captain of the defense, he also had heavy responsibilities, especially since the Empire and the Chamber of Commerce were more active. Bolun had clashed with them more than once.

After staying in Sara Island for a few days, he kept Sylvia living on Sara Island, including the two women, while Liu Peng took the monsoon to enter Green Island.

Green Island is very lively during the monsoon season, especially after the establishment of the new city, many businesses directly bought real estate for convenience, and they all made thousands of ounces of gold.

So at this time, Green Island has entered a golden age of rapid development, a large number of buildings are being built, and people are coming and going on the wharf commercial street.

Although they have conflicts with the people of the West Coast United Chamber of Commerce, normal merchant ships can go ashore after checking that there are no dangerous goods and paying taxes normally.

Before Liu Peng's butt was hot, the envoy from Sawya Island came to his door.