Black Prince Sam sent more than a dozen of the best water-borne sailors to dive into the area where the Spanish treasure ship dived, and soon found out where the gold was.
But then they had another problem: how to get the gold out of the sea.
Those boxes with gold dropped half a nautical mile away from the coastline. The water depth is about 20 meters, which is almost the limit of ordinary people's diving. In addition to the limitation of oxygen, people will bear an extra atmospheric pressure for every 10 meters of diving in the water, and then the water pressure will cause obvious symptoms such as nitrogen anesthesia and oxygen poisoning.
Zhang Heng vaguely remembers that without the help of any equipment, the biggest diving record of mankind seems to be more than 40 meters, and he doesn't know how to do it.
Like Sam, the black prince, these people were all brought up by the sea. Many of them were fishermen's children. They had excellent water quality, but they just went down to the place where they could see the box and came up immediately. Only one person really went down to the bottom and brought up a scattered gold bar.
"It looks like we're going to be on this island for a while." Black Prince Sam said with a bitter smile.
In any case, the joint hunting was a success.
Five thousand pounds of gold can be divided into six ships, and everyone can get a lot of money. In addition, there was a lot of tobacco on that ship, but it could not be rescued after being submerged.
Even Brooke, who suffered the most losses, was in a good mood at this time. Even if the ship's maintenance and the wounded's pension were deducted from the extra half of the spoils, there would still be a lot left.
Of course, Zhang Heng and his jackdaw were even more enviable. He and Brooke acted as bait together, but in the end, the three Spanish sailboats chose the swordfish, which was less defensive, as their main target.
Apart from the two rounds of shelling before, the Jackdaw was not attacked much later. Later, when it was surrounded, he also chose a good entry point. When all four pirate ships in the Bay attacked, the Jackdaw joined the battle. At this time, the three Spanish sailing ships had no care about him.
Before, Zhang Heng's choice and timing were excellent. He not only successfully confused his opponent, but also won the opportunity for the swordfish to retreat. Without his two entanglements, Brooke and his crew would have been feeding fish at the bottom of the sea.
So the captain of the swordfish was very grateful to Zhang Heng. After landing, he came to him to thank him personally. Zhang Heng didn't have much contact with Brooke before, but he was not unfamiliar with this name. In addition to the latter's reputation in Nassau, he also had this name in his joint recommendation letter.
Contrary to Zhang Heng's expectation, when he contacted Brooke, he found that Brooke was not cold on the surface. In fact, he was quite talkative. When he discussed the battle plan several times before, he spared no words and said nothing. Zhang Heng thought that his character was like this, but now it seems that he is not.
"I'm sorry, I'm not aiming at other people. I'm just in conflict with Jarvis." Brookroad
gunpowder Jarvis, the captain of another pirate ship, the warrior, was also one of the names on the joint letter of recommendation.
Zhang Heng remembered that black Prince Sam said that he had used this incident to adjust the contradiction between two friends. In this way, it should be Brooke and Jarvis. Unexpectedly, he called them again in this action.
"Jarvis and I are old friends for more than ten years, and I have a long friendship with him. About two months ago, I got a valuable clue that a slave ship set out from Africa and planned to go to Boston. The quality of the goods was very good. They were all young people aged 16 to 18, healthy and with neat teeth. I took people to the ship ahead of time I sent someone to negotiate with them, but they didn't talk about any rules. They killed the man I sent out, and then they didn't say anything. They directly attacked me, but their ship was not as fast as me. Finally, I escaped.
"When I think about it later, I always have a feeling that the gang seems to have come for me, so this is not a coincidence, but a personal grudge." Brooke stopped, "but I only told Jarvis about it before I went out to sea, so when I came back, I went to his residence and questioned him face to face. He denied it and was very angry, saying that I shouldn't doubt him. I thought I had wronged him at that time, but later I sent someone to investigate and found that he left Nassau secretly the night before I went out to sea, but he didn't take the train My own boat. "
"The conflict you have about this?"
Brooke nodded. "I just don't understand why he laid his hand on me because of our previous relationship. Forget it I'm too lazy to think about this kind of thing. I promised Sam not to fight him, but that's all. There's no relationship between us from now on. "
Brooke and Zhang Heng had another chat when Eric, the black helmsman on the Vader, came over.
"Ah, you're here. We're lucky. Bauer's people found some wild goats and rabbits on the island. We took them orally tonight. It happened that there was a lot of rum on the ship. Sam suggested a bonfire party to celebrate the success of the operation. We became the first group of pirates who successfully robbed Spanish treasure ships in this sea area.""To celebrate, now, but isn't that gold still at the bottom of the sea?" Zhang Heng asked.
"Yes, but they won't run away on long legs anyway. Don't worry, we'll find a way to get them up." Eric patted Zhang Heng on the shoulder. "Do you have anything to eat over there? You can also contribute."
"I can provide 30 barrels of rum and a fresh batch of lemons."
"Great, I'll organize people to catch some more fish. Your lemon can be used to remove the fishiness."
Brooke on the other side showed his hand. "As you can see, there's nothing on my boat now."
"It doesn't matter. Captain Sam is already solving this problem. Maybe you can go and thank Jarvis. I heard he is willing to give you one third of the supplies."
Brooke raised his eyebrows. "He did it voluntarily, or captain Sam told him to do it."
"What's the difference between the two?" The black helmsman blinked. "Be generous, Brooke. It's been a long time. Do you have to worry about it again? When we get the gold at the bottom of the sea, you will make up for all your losses. "
Brooke snorted coldly, but said nothing more.
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