People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 377 Treasure Hunt
The current Ocean Disaster seems to have passed through the eye of a hurricane.
"Thanks to Miss Nina, otherwise I would have lost a lot this time."

Hogger knew better than anyone the horror of this sea beast.

Hogg frowned, looking at the Calamity of the Ocean, which was slowly repairing its hull. The remains of the squid began to slowly absorb the vitality in it.

"I'm sorry, my lord, this time it was my dereliction of duty, which almost put you in danger."

Captain Hogg's tone was a bit embarrassing. He and the sailors on the ship had not eaten seafood like octopus for many years. He had completely forgotten the common sense that anyone who lives at sea would know. later.

"It doesn't matter, the ending is always good enough, and, there is nothing in this world that is not dangerous."

Lothar remembered the Bohemian (not Gypsy, Czech) proverb: Life is but a joke.He has experienced more dangers, and he feels that he is no longer as cautious as when he first crossed over.

He patted the tall captain on the shoulder: "Captain Hogg, it's time to get back to your old job."

Captain Hogg grinned and said, "It's time to make money again."

The self-healing process of the Ocean Calamity gradually accelerated. Bloody lines appeared everywhere on this ghost ship. The momentum of each zombie sailor improved a little. The life essence accumulated by this giant squid was unexpected. huge.

bang bang-

The beating of the heart is clearly audible.

Until, the body of the giant squid was completely sucked dry, leaving only a huge plate-shaped skeleton, which was sold by Lothar to the loot mall in exchange for a few dozen gold coins.

The Plague of the Seas sails again, and the dead zombie sailors begin to reshape.

This battle, after all, is still profitable.

As the Calamity of the Ocean slowly sailed into the place where the giant squid usually eats, it was like coming to a shipwreck city, full of complete or fragmented shipwrecks, and Lothar even saw a Viking ship. long boat.

Captain Hogg reminded: "My lord, the Plague of the Seas can give you the ability to walk and breathe underwater for a short time, but you must return to the ship within a quarter of an hour, and don't leave the Plague of the Seas too far."

"A quarter of an hour, I remember."

Lothar frowned, and he reminded: "We have to find a ship with a high probability of having the blue cross emblem of the Vasiliakos family."

General Nikephoros only wanted him to look for a ruby, but the wealth accumulated by so many sunken ships in the entire seabed must be amazing, and he couldn't make a trip in vain.

The ability to walk and breathe underwater is actually equivalent to the shield on the Ocean Calamity, extending to the individual.

On the huge Calamity of the Seas, densely packed zombie sailors glowing with dark green light, like fireflies, fell on each sunken ship.

Lothar and his party also picked one and walked in.

This is a three-masted sailing ship, the keel was torn apart from the center, and the cargo and human bones covered in the sand were spread evenly on the seabed in a radial pattern.

Jeanna casually opened a sealed box, and immediately covered her nose and complained, "Hey - this smell is really strong."

This is a box of untanned leather that has been soaked in seawater. This rancid smell should be the product of the unscratched grease and flesh and blood on it.

Tanners often lived alone in this era, because they would emit a disgusting stench during the process of tanning.

Some leather craftsmen even use dung water to soak raw hides, so some poor people will deliberately store, collect dung, and sell it to cobblers to earn a reward.

At the same time, the pollution of water sources by cobblers is astonishing. Therefore, in any larger village, there are restrictions on the places where cobblers can draw water and drain water.

In Lothar's territory, no one uses dung water to tan leather. After all, lime water is a better substitute, and farmers are gradually realizing the effect of manure, so that the dung that no one cares about in the past has become a treasure.

"My lord, come and take a look."

Jeanne closed the box and opened another one.

It was full of silver coins, although it was only silver coins, but there were a lot of them, and when they were forked with their hands, there was a crisp and pleasant sound of metal clashing.

Lothar picked up a silver coin and looked at it for a while, then shook his head and said, "The color is very poor, it's not worth a lot of money."

The silver coins in the Middle Ages were worthless, and the currency depreciation caused by the influx of silver in the Age of Discovery was completely two extremes.

Silver coins in the Middle Ages were worthless because of the shortage of silver, and the number of developed silver mines in Europe was very small. In addition, churches, nobles, and wealthy civilians used a lot of silver to make tableware, candlesticks, and jewelry. The amount of silver was even less.

This is also the beginning of the circulation of "black coins" with extremely low silver content in the market, which also caused the original exchange rate of twelve silver coins to be exchanged for one gold and silver coin of equal weight, from one to twenty in previous years, and even dropped to one to five. ten.

Therefore, this box full of silver coins may not cost tens of thousands at first glance, but it is only worth a few hundred gold coins.

"It is estimated that the profiteers on this ship are used to deal with those Ross and Cumans."

Businessmen in this era have to face great risks, especially those involved in maritime trade, such as pirates, storms, plagues, and voyages. It is difficult for a conscientious person to survive, let alone make a fortune.

"So, this ship should be a merchant ship of the Greeks, and it is going to sail north through the misty sea, not our goal."

Nikephoros said that the ship was killed on the way back to Constantinople. The merchant ship would not carry so many silver coins back to Constantinople. It must be exchanged for goods on the grassland. This line.

But since you're here, you can't leave empty-handed.

Lothar directly sold all the odds and ends in the cabin to the loot shop. Mosquito legs are also meat. Although treasure hunting in the sea comes quickly, it is not that easy.

The vast majority of goods lose their value when soaked in water.

For example, the case of high-end wine from Bordeaux in Gaul that Jeanne just opened.

The treasures collected by Captain Hogg spent two months on the Red Sea, calculated to be less than [-] gold coins.

In this way, all the way to search the past.

"My lord, I probably found it."

cried Jeanne.

Lothar hurried over and found a coat of arms with the blue cross emblem in the cabin. After searching carefully, they found the so-called ruby ​​in the drawer of the captain's cabin.

Sure enough, you can recognize it at a glance.

This is definitely a treasure, it is at least the size of a fist, and it glows crimson in the dark cabin.

Lothar picked up the box and stuffed it back.

Things that can emit light on their own are either supernatural or radioactive. Lothar has no interest in drinking radium water.

(End of this chapter)