Chapter 74

The exploration of the sea cave is over.

Although the process was a little tortuous, thanks to Noah's calmly taking away most of the sailors, they not only didn't lose their money, but also made a lot of money.

After public weighing, the expedition recovered a full box of 94 gold objects and nearly 200 ancient gold coins, with a total weight of 64.52 kg, equivalent to 8814 pounds. According to the previous contract, Lorraine generously priced the harvest at 10000 pounds and raised the ship to rejoice.

This is an expression of reciprocation.

During the retreat of the leading sailors, something happened that moved Lorraine.

When the cave collapsed and the coral snake abandoned the fluorescent cave, everyone knew that when the battlefield changed greatly, they were grateful for Lorraine's courage to condescend to break up. The first rescue was not gold, but the symbol of the captain in their mind, the ancient strange crossbow that was trampled under the throne by inger.

When they retreated, they took away the old ship, which weighed more than half a ton and looked worthless. No one even knew whether it could be used or not

In order to carry this antique, they missed the opportunity to carry gold.

Two boxes and a bucket of gold ware were full. They only grabbed one box, and the rest was swallowed up by the surging waves and flooded into the deep cave hot spring with big snakes.

This heavy kindness is enough for Lorraine to take the initiative to share more profits.

Review and summary.

There were two sea cave explorations. A total of 125 sailors accepted the sharing agreement. A total of 33 sailors participated in the exploration, 15 died and 4 injured. The losses and gains were huge.

The harvest of the expedition includes the Macaw, priced at 3000 pounds, ancient gold, priced at 10000 pounds, as well as the ancient crossbow that has not been verified by Karen and the giant lizard skin that has not been made into equipment.

In this way, the income to be shared reached 13000 pounds.

According to the previous agreement, each sailor who signed the contract was entitled to 20 pounds and 16 shillings, which was a sit on the cake.

The sailors who took part in the adventure received an additional 78 pounds and 15 shillings, which were the proceeds of the adventure.

There is also a pension. The pension for each expedition victim is 81 pounds and 3 shillings, and the comfort pension for the injured is 20 pounds and 10 shillings.

All the dividends are here, and the living can get up to 140 pounds, which can be called a sudden wealth.

Noah and pierce gave each sailor a bill of lading. As soon as they returned to Southampton, they could claim it from the General Chamber of commerce at any time.

As for the dead

Their wealth and relics will be sent by the General Chamber of Commerce to their wills, and pay tribute, silence and greetings to each other, which is the obligation of the employer.

How much did Lorraine get from this expedition?

A route to the new world, a brig frigate that can do business after repair, and up to 8800 pounds of ancient gold with unknown value, the value of gold has also reached 440000 pounds according to the standard of one to 50.

Of course, the actual income can not be calculated in this way.

Rare is precious.

The collection market of ancient gold wares is so large that if these gold wares are put into the market in large quantities, they will only become worthless in a short time.

The process of discounting may take ten years or more.

In this process, there may be many gold objects used by Lorraine as gifts in exchange for opportunities, and the actual cash income will be reduced by half or even 30%.

30% off, 130 thousand pounds, it's also a big deal.

The money will become the start-up fund of Drake chamber of Commerce and the most precious gift left by Lorraine's ancestors on this mysterious and legendary island.

After three days' rest, Lorraine took her sailors back to the ruins of the long ship with gratitude and bonded her own Viking oars to the mast of the long ship.

The oars are written in ancient ice island language:

[the ancestor of the whaler, the king of the wolf, inger ananson sleeps here]

[his treasure lies in the nooton in the sea cave. If you want, please give your life at the altar]

Karen looked reluctantly at the direction of the sea cave: "Captain, there are tens of thousands of pounds of gold! The big snake was seriously injured and may have been poisoned by sulfur by now. Don't you consider sending some people to explore?"

"More than enough." Lorraine whispered a Chinese sentence.

Karen was stunned: "what did you say?"

"This is an old Oriental proverb, which means that when facing wealth, you should rationally obey the Lord's arrangement, and don't let greed blind your eyes."

"The old Oriental can't see gold ware with tens of thousands of pounds and a history of thousands of years!"

"Isn't that good? Yemengad guarded the endless treasures, and the dead souls of pirates were hidden deep under the water, which is like the true legend of Noah Tong. The great whalers deserve such a destination, and inger ananson deserves such a destination." Lorraine smiled faintly, "by the way, what about the ancient crossbow?"

"Amazing!"

Lorraine raised his eyebrows excitedly: "listen to your tone, can it really work?"

"It's more than usable!" Karen waved his arm excitedly. "Do you know? Its material should be some kind of whale ribs, which are carved with fine threads, and the material properties have been changed by impregnating and infiltrating metal melt through special processes. This is a top Alchemy skill!"

"Alchemy?"

"It's a lost alchemy!" Karen gasped heavily. "This technology makes the crossbow immortal for thousands of years, and its hardness and toughness are extraordinary. I heard that it was hit by a big snake and hit a four pound gun, but there was no sign of collision. I tested the tension of the crossbow arm. As long as the appropriate string is installed, it can shoot stably for 300 meters and the distance is amazing!"

"Immortality, tenacity... And alchemy..."

Lorraine frowned and understood for a long time. He decided to treat this ancient weapon as a memory metal formed by chance. Anyway, the arrow it shot was still like that, and the general meaning was almost the same.

He nodded and asked, "what's its name?"

"I found its inscription on the crossbow arm, [Hermes trismegistes, narwhal]."

"Narwhal." Lorraine thought he liked the name. "Can you put it in the bow like a Scott crossbow?"

"Not now, as like as two peas, but I can build a new launch platform for unicorn, back to Southampton, just like the old Scott,"

"I'll leave it to you, my master."

Lorraine stretched his waist excitedly: "speed up the repair of ships. Nasbert mentioned in his diary that there was a tortuous but wide safety route in the reef belt in the northwest of the island. He passed through the fog area twice by virtue of this route."

"Really?" everyone was excited.

"Really." Lorraine confirmed with a smile, "these two days, acharin and I will find it and mark it. We enter the fog area from the northeast. Even if the reindeer is still waiting for us in the sea outside the fog, we can't estimate that we will come out from the northwest."

"Through the fog area and straight to the north, we returned to England from the high latitude route. No one could find us on the vast sea."

"Gentlemen and ladies, be proud." he looked at his sailors and announced like a proud judge standing on a long ship, "establish a route, land on the island, cross the jungle and explore the unknown. We conquered the island of Heba, completely... Conquered it!"

"Long live!"