The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 173

The Yuxiang is not like the Ruicheng, there is no narcissus array, and the fresh water is stored in large wooden barrels, although the sailors of the Yuxiang will boil the fresh water before filling the barrel, and then it is still in the bucket A silver plate is specially placed for sterilization, but the fresh water often lasts for less than a week on the boat, and green moss and water bugs will grow slowly, giving off an unpleasant sewage smell. Drinking this stinky fresh water is very difficult. Stomach pain, diarrhea or dysentery easily.

In order to ensure that they can drink this foul-smelling fresh water, sailors have to boil water to make tea, but the problem is that tea is not cheap, and ordinary sailors cannot afford to consume too much tea, so they turn to another One way to "save" your drinking water is to add a lot of alcohol to the fresh water to cover up the smell.

Sailors can get a certain amount of alcoholic beverages every day. Depending on the crops in the supply area, there are beer, wine, rum, etc. When the sailors get a barely reliable water source, they will mix part of the wine into the Mix it with drinking water.Team leader Qin is obviously such a fighter who has been tested for alcohol, even if he quenches his thirst with wine as water, his face just turns slightly red.

Seeing Team Leader Qin handing over the jug and making an invitation gesture, Shen Xiaotao waved his hand quickly.

The voyage to the outlying islands this time is not too long, and it only takes five days at full cost. He doesn't need to quench his thirst with wine like these old alcoholics. If he saves a little, the water bottle he carries is almost enough.

Seeing that Shen Xiaotao didn't want to drink, Team Leader Qin didn't care about it. Instead, he put the tattered jug on his waist again, and continued to complain: "Sickness and drinking are the biggest expenses for us sailors, not to mention that if we encounter monsters , the entire ship will be wiped out in the sea, I am afraid that only the immortal master who leads the team can control the light and run away, the incident of [Yuxin] three years ago is a clear proof..."

After finishing speaking, Team Leader Qin pointed to his empty pocket and smiled wryly: "If it weren't for the fact that I usually have a little wealth, and several times when I was critically ill, I could spend money to ask the master immortal to use the immortal method to rescue me from the gate of hell, I would not survive at all. At this age. However, due to various accidents, I have not saved any savings until now. When I first entered the industry in the early years, I was still ambitious to leave a shop in Haiya City for the younger generation, but now ...I don't even dare to think about it!"

According to the current market price, even the most remote shops in Haiya City can offer thousands of Lingshi coins.Like the shops along Pinghai Avenue, the selling price has already reached tens of thousands of Lingshi coins. Even the headquarters of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce would not dare to build on Pinghai Avenue, and would choose a location on the edge of the wealthy district. .

This is not at all affordable for the average person!
It seems that this cynical team leader Qin was once young and frivolous back then!

Shen Xiaotao couldn't help but smiled wryly: "That's right, if the sailors really make money like this, there won't be any poor people in Haiya City!"

Team leader Qin looked at Shen Xiaotao with a childish expression, and said with a smile: "On the ocean-going merchant ships of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, only the fairy masters who lead the team can make a fortune, even if the captains can die well. Let's not take the opportunity If you order wool from the Haiya Chamber of Commerce, you will be too sorry for yourself! After all, the immortal masters of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce are all very rich, and they are not short of our fraction!"

Is this the so-called "corruption of justice"?

But the problem is that the Yuxiang ship does not count 1000 volunteers. The sea cliff chamber of commerce alone has more than 600 official crew members. Empty it!
Shen Xiaotao is different from other volunteers.

The other volunteers are all here to lick blood, even if they die, they can receive huge pensions, and they are not afraid of death at all.

But Shen Xiaotao has been hired as a regular employee by Qingning Merchant, and he has even won the respect of He Mingyuan. His future is bright. He participated in the outlying island war just to fulfill the contract with the Haiya Chamber of Commerce. If he dies in the outlying island war without knowing why .

Leaving aside other things, if he died, who would take care of his old father who was paralyzed in bed?

Thinking of this, Shen Xiaotao said worriedly: "Team Leader Qin, do you think we, Haiya City, can win this outlying island war?"

Team Leader Qin said with a serious expression: "If there are no accidents, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce will definitely win!"

Shen Xiaotao didn't expect Team Leader Qin to be so confident about the prospect of war.Looking at the Yuxiang old fritter who was still crazily complaining about the Haiya Chamber of Commerce just now, he said in disbelief: "Listening to what you just said, I thought you would be very pessimistic about the prospect of war!"

Group Leader Qin pointed to the giant ship of the Haiya Fleet and asked, "Then let me ask you a question first. What do you think of the combat effectiveness of our Haiya Fleet?"

Shen Xiaotao hesitated for a moment, but still answered honestly: "Gold and jade are outside, and rot is inside!"

However, Team Leader Qin shook his head: "Young man, you are still too naive! You must think that the Yuxiang ship alone is already so bad, how could the Haiya Chamber of Commerce win the war? This is like, you You may also find it strange that the East Ocean has not been covered. Since the lives of ordinary people in Haiya City are already so miserable, why are we old guys still staying here instead of immigrating to Yangjiang Port, Huoyun Prefecture, or Places like Kading Harbor in Borneo..."

Shen Xiaotao nodded, acquiescing that he did have doubts about this.

"Because this world is a worse world!" Group leader Qin sighed again, and explained earnestly, "If you die, I will die too. In comparison, Haiya City is not that bad. As long as you are Ordinary people, no matter where you are, you are not a human being, but a meritorious person who can walk. This world revolves around cultivators, and it is useless for ordinary people to escape anywhere, even outlying islands!"

Shen Xiaotao also practiced at the Qingning Chamber of Commerce for almost a month.

He also thought that all chambers of commerce were as clean and efficient as Qingning chamber of commerce, all leaders were as stern and selfless as Guanshi He, and all colleagues should walk on eggshells like Guanshi He's subordinates.

Hearing this theory of being worse than bad all of a sudden, he couldn't help saying in amazement: "The Haiya Fleet is so bad, how can someone be worse than us?"

Team leader Qin immediately showed a disdainful expression of "you have never seen the world".He turned his gaze to the direction of the outlying islands in the distance, and sighed quietly: "Although there are no cultivators in the outlying islands, the lives of ordinary people there are even more miserable than those in Zhongzhou. When I was young, I also took several outlying island routes. Due to the way of heaven, I still pay a little attention to the thoughts of mortals. In the eyes of the local lords, the mortals on the outlying islands are simply animals without souls. It is precisely because I know how rotten the outlying islands are that I firmly believe that the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce will definitely will win in the end."

It seems that Team Leader Qin also had many stories when he was young!

Seeing that Shen Xiaotao still seemed to have disbelief, the old team leader continued to add: "Let's put it this way, even if the Haiya Chamber of Commerce is not doing well, it is rich enough anyway! It is also running around leaking water, what does our Haiya Fleet say?" It was also obtained by the Haiya Chamber of Commerce with tens of millions of Lingshi coins, compared to the group of local turtles who don't even have money in the outlying islands, our advantage is so great that you can't even imagine it!"

This made Shen Xiaotao unable to refute.

Maybe it's because I'm so poor that I only have money left!
(End of this chapter)