People are in the heavens, wealth can rival a country

Chapter 8 Is it a mistake to be fast?
The whole Port Royal Marina is crazy.

With the lessons learned from the past, no one suspected that Tang Sen was joking. They regretted why they didn't take the initiative to step forward and missed the chance to win ten gold coins. gold.

Fifty pieces!
There is no way to accurately compare the purchasing power of medieval currencies with modern currencies. After all, modern industry and agriculture are much more developed, but in terms of the difficulty of earning, fifty guinea coins can be compared horizontally to 10 yuan, which is an ordinary People don't eat or drink income for more than ten years.

With such a temptation in front of him, let alone the poor sailors on the pier, even the merchants, and even the soldiers behind Tang Sen's eyes turned red.

"It seems that everyone is very happy to participate."

Seeing the scene in front of him, Tang Sen nodded with satisfaction: "However, I only need ten people."

"Choose me! Sir!"

"I can do anything! Choose me!"

The sailors immediately shouted and waved their arms frantically. If the soldiers behind Tang Sen were not staring at them, they would not even be able to restrain themselves from rushing forward.

"Mr. Tang"

Warrant Officer Tom couldn't help but leaned forward and whispered, "Can the soldiers participate?"

Tang Sen glanced at him and said with a smile: "Warrant Officer, this is just a game, don't worry, I will stay in Port Royal for a while, and I won't treat the soldiers who worked so hard to protect me."

After finishing speaking, Tang Sen randomly selected ten people among the sailors, and said, "Gentlemen, one of you will get fifty gold coins. The premise is that you can defeat the other nine and win this game."

The ten lucky ones stood out from the crowd, looking at their opponents in ecstasy, their eyes full of hostility.

"Relax." Seeing how they might fight at any time, Tang Sen said calmly: "This is not a ring, and I don't intend to let everyone fight. This is a game only about yourself."

Waiting for everyone's eyes to gather, Tang Sen began to explain the rules of the game: "I think, gentlemen should know how to swim, right?"

This is a question without any suspense. The people here are all sailors who earn money at sea.

After getting affirmative answers from ten sailors, Tang Sen said: "The rules of the game are very simple. I noticed that there are many cables on the pier. I'm curious, how long can the gentlemen hang on if they only hold the cables with their palms?"

"Of course, the gentleman who persists the longest will get fifty gold coins."

The sailors fell silent for a moment, and someone shouted in disbelief, "It's that simple? Fifty gold coins?"

"I can hang on it all day! No! For fifty gold coins, I have to die on it!"

"Then we'll wait and see." Tang Sen smiled. This kind of thing sounds simple, but it's not so easy to just support the weight of your body with your hands.

In modern times, there are many challenges of hanging the horizontal bar for 2 minutes. In this short time, very few people can successfully challenge. As for the whole day?That is a fantasy.

This is a test of physical strength and willpower.

Soon, ten sailors were hanging on the cable deftly, all with relaxed expressions.

"Very well, our game has begun, it seems that everyone can hold on for a long time, take advantage of this time—"

Tang Sen turned to look at Warrant Officer Tom: "I wonder if the glass box I want is ready?"

Warrant Officer Tom looked into the town for a moment, saw a soldier running over with a glass box a few inches in size, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Mr. Tang, it looks like it's ready."

"Don't move around here, I'll come as soon as I go." Tang Sen patted Warrant Officer Tom on the shoulder, stepped forward to take the glass box, and put it in a cloth shop.

When he came out again, the outside of the glass box had been covered with a layer of black cloth.

Tang Sen casually placed the box on the ground, and looked at the sailors who were still hanging on the cables, and saw that there were only four people left on it, all of them were blushing, and their hands were shaking wildly, obviously they had reached their limit. Persisted only by willpower.

"I didn't expect these sailors to die in a few minutes." Warrant Officer Tom sighed: "I thought they would last longer."

"It's not as easy as imagined, is it?" Tang Sen said, "How long do you think the warrant officer can last?"

"I don't know." Warrant Officer Tom shook his head and said, "However, I must be older than them."

There was regret in his tone, as if he thought that if he played, the fifty gold coins might have already been in his pocket.

While the two were talking, another person couldn't hold on and fell into the sea with a plop. The sailors on the pier booed a lot. Seeing that someone missed the fifty gold coins, those of them who had no chance to participate naturally would not Be stingy with your own sarcasm.

Looking at the last three people left, Tang Sen raised his voice and said, "If someone gives up now, he can get a gold coin."

As soon as the words fell, two sailors let go of their hands and fell into the sea water.

They were all people who were close to the limit, and they couldn't hold on anymore. Although a gold coin was not worth fifty gold coins, it was not a small coin. It was the last straw that broke the camel's back and defeated their last willpower.

"Oh--"

There was a noise like a wave, and two sailors emerged from the sea, looked at each other, and then at the only person on the cable, with complex expressions.

Unexpectedly, someone had the same idea as me, and directly gave the fifty gold coins to the lucky one who was still hanging on it.

"It seems that our winner has already appeared." Tang Sen was also a little surprised, but he still said loudly: "He used his willpower to resist the temptation and won fifty gold coins!"

"Sir, you can come down to receive your reward now."

The sailor hanging on the cable was a bit thin, he wobbled, and said with a cry in his voice, "My hand is frozen!"

"Damn it, I wanted to give up, but you guys took the lead, right? I won?!"

Only then did he come to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream, screamed, and fell down.

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The two sailors who fell just now were even more uncomfortable.

Doesn't the person with feelings have stronger willpower, just because the reaction is slower?
Is being fast a mistake?
Tang Sen also couldn't laugh or cry, but this was just a trivial matter. His purpose was never to pick the person with the strongest willpower, but simply to find a reason to throw money away. After the three sailors climbed onto the pier, he personally picked Two gold coins were given out and placed in the hands of the two sailors who had given up.

The two sailors didn't know what kind of expressions to show at this time. What should have been ecstatic, but now they felt very disappointed, especially when they saw Tang Sen pour out a lot of gold coins and put them in front of the lucky guy. The regret in my heart overwhelmed the excitement of taking gold coins in vain.

Everyone in the audience looked eagerly at the lucky guy who was promoted to a small rich man in a flash. He was obviously dazzled by the huge surprise, wrapped the gold coins in dirty clothes, and looked dull.

"Congratulations, sir, tell me, what are you going to do with them?"

"I, I want to buy a small boat. My dream since I was a child is to be a captain." Lucky said blankly.

"I'm afraid it's not enough." Tang Sen said with a smile: "You still need to keep saving money."

Ships are not something that ordinary people can afford, even the middle class don't have to think about it, not to mention those English warships, the cost can easily cost tens of thousands of pounds, or even more than [-] pounds. It will cost thousands of pounds.

Fifty gold coins is probably only enough to buy a small single-sail fishing boat, and take care of the captain and sailors by himself.

(End of this chapter)