From Chief to Ball

The training was on land. At that time, the Amethyst hadn't been built yet, so a layer of wooden boards was laid on the ground instead of the deck.

There were 24 interns, and they were taught by a retired navy junior officer with a broken leg. This was the first lesson.

The officer with the broken leg was not seriously injured, but encountered pirates at sea. A shell pierced the side of the ship, and the splashed wood penetrated into the leg. Just lucky to survive.

Wei Yuan thinks it's nothing. If you want to be rich, you have to gamble with your life. It's nothing more than death.If he does not die and becomes the captain himself, then his life will be changed.

In the first three months, the 24 interns had to get used to the schedule of the ship.

At about four o'clock before dawn every day, the people in the first shift would get up, do nothing, and start roll call.

At five o'clock, each person will distribute a piece of volcanic pumice and a rag to wipe the deck on the wooden boards laid on the land, and polish a few broken bronze utensils that replace cannons or pulleys to shine. If they do not shine, they will be whipped.

From time to time, someone will deliberately throw things like cables on the "deck". After any intern sees it, under the care of the whip, the first reaction is to immediately coil up these ropes that may affect the crew's walking.

It has to be fast, and it must not be messed up, so as not to open it when it is in use.A special knot must be tied.

Before eight o'clock, after inspecting the "deck", the interns began to practice folding the hammock, and they had to tie the hammock up quickly. After passing the inspection, they had to eat, and they had to finish eating before eight o'clock.

After eight o'clock, the interns who didn't get up at four o'clock in the morning got up and started to learn to carry boxes, buckets, pull ropes, and shout chant.

These boxes and buckets may have been useful, or for the captain to show his authority, or to adjust the center of gravity of the ship.

You just need to obey, without any questions, numb to the point of being so numb that the first thing you think of when you hear an order is that you may be beaten if you don't do it, instead of thinking about why you do it.

These boxes and wooden barrels are filled with goods or water. It is not difficult to carry them in sacks, but in barrels or boxes, it takes skills to carry them. You must learn these skills to move these things. .

At about eleven o'clock, the sand was moved.

These sands are used for combat. Once a battle occurs, blood will definitely bleed. The sand needs to be placed on blood-stained places or some key places to prevent slipping on them during the battle.

At twelve o'clock, after moving the sand, "clean" the deck again, clean up the sand, or wipe off the "blood stains" on the deck.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after lunch, I began to learn how to eat moldy bread, dried meat that could kill people, flour with maggots, etc.

This is also tricky.Some bugs have a bitter taste, some are crunchy and can be chewed with confidence, and some are really hard to swallow and need to be sorted out.And how to gulp hard-to-eat foods without a sore throat...

This kind of suffering is not unbearable for the lower class. I have suffered too much at a young age, and this little suffering is nothing.

After three months, the more than 20 people have formed a habit. Everyone can fall asleep quickly while lying in the hammock, and can wake up four hours later without shouting or whipping.

Seeing any stains on the "deck", no matter whether he is on duty or not, he will subconsciously wipe it off, and he has learned to remain expressionless when he is beaten with a whip, and even swear a few words about how happy he was.

After three months of hard training, Wei Yuan thought that this was the end, but he didn't expect that this was just the beginning.

It's just that they have a new uniform compared to the previous three months.

It is said that a new dye was used, the color was dark blue, and the cotton was dyed into a striped cotton blouse.

Blue and white intersect, it looks like the taste of the sea, and a strange letter is hung on the shoulder, so as to distinguish it from ordinary sailors on the ship in the future.

For the next two months, Wei Yuan still didn't see Chen Jian, but put on the suit called the sea soul shirt, and continued to repeat what he had done in the previous three months.

In addition to these, a few more things were added.

Learn to quickly mend clothes and canvas with a sewing needle.

Learn to twist twine, or twist old twine into new ones.

Learn geometry and reading angles in simple triangles, using a protractor.

Learn to hold a mirror smoothly in wind and waves on a small boat by the sea.

Learn to skillfully describe the color of cloth, wind direction, north and south, east and west, judge upwind and downwind, and look at the moon and stars and the sun.

Learn to catch mice, learn how to quickly make a mousetrap with simple tools, learn to boil water, learn to pack buckets...

After learning this, Wei Yuan felt a little strange in his heart.

He grew up by the sea and often met sailors, but he had never heard of any sailor who had to learn these things comprehensively, but when he asked about it by chance, he would find that sailors would basically learn those things after three months, but three months later. The ones from a few months ago have never heard of them.

It's just that, except for the food specially used by disgusting people, the food here is pretty good, much better than at home, so there is nothing unbearable about these problems.

It wasn't until winter came that Wei Yuan really saw Chen Jian in the school.

I saw it before when I was in Mincheng, and sometimes I saw it when I was training hard, but at that time I was either busy or doing other things, and it had nothing to do with these interns.

Wei Yuan remembered that Chen Jian also wore a set of blue and white so-called sea soul shirts that day, and called the interns together.

"You are interns now, and if you survive in the future, you may become captains, bosuns, and combat teams to suppress sailor mutiny... These are all jobs that can change your destiny, which is dozens of times worse than the lives you have faced before. times."

"What's the good thing? Fortunately, you have a lot of money. Fortunately, you can control others. Fortunately, as long as you don't die, even if your leg is broken, I can arrange a job for you as a ship's cook. You won't have the same future as those sailors." to make a living."

"You have gone through half a year of training and learning, and this is just the beginning. Because after all, you are on land, and the real sea has never been so gentle. You haven't really faced death, bloodshed, thirst, and mutiny. It can be said You are just children."

"The sea is not a place for cowards. Someone told you before this when you were in school. Not being a coward will not bring you silver coins, but not being a coward is a possibility for you to jump out of poverty, and a coward will never This is possible. I think, compared to fishing and working as a hired hand all your life... it is better to spend your life trying to gain wealth."

"Why do you want to go to sea?"

Chen Jian took out a pocket full of silver coins, turned it upside down under the gaze of the interns, spread dozens of silver coins all over the table, and knocked it loudly.

He grabbed a handful and threw it down, shouting: "For this! If you don't go to sea, your life is not worth this pocket money."

Wei Yuan only felt his eyes light up. A silver coin landed directly in front of him, spinning around in front of him, emitting an irresistible light.

This is not the army, so there is no rhetoric of honor, at least not at this time, only the lure of Chiguoguo, only the shining brilliance of silver coins.

Wei Yuan firmly grasped the silver coin in front of him, feeling the embossment pressed by the screw coin press, there is really nothing that can make him firmer than this.

If you become a captain, you can share [-]% of the profit of a ship; if you become a boatswain, a gunner, or a supply officer, you can share [-]% equally.

Holding the silver coin tightly, Wei Yuan finally understood the purpose of the hard work and beatings that supported him for the past six months.

At this moment, in the hand, it is extremely real.

The hard, cold, bumpy touch is real.

Chen Jian's words came to his ears again, Wei Yuan put away the silver coins and listened carefully.

"The biggest difference between you and sailors is that you may have a future. So you have to learn a lot, and you have to know why and why, otherwise you will not be a qualified intern with a future."

"Now, let me explain to you the reason for the rules you have learned before, and also explain to you how to get along with sailors, and what is the purpose of your previous hard training."

"First of all, no one is allowed to bring alcohol on board without permission. This is the first rule you have learned."

"Why? Why should it be complied with? Why do you need your interns to help you check?"

"Because on a ship, wine is money, and it's the only money."