There was an intern on the Purple Quartz named Wei Yuan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

His family was originally in the northwest, but after the unification war, his family was defeated and he was exiled to Mincheng in the southeast.

The family is poor, and the study in the Enlightenment Academy is acceptable but not yet to that kind of genius situation, and after the enlightenment, he earns a living on a ship.

A year ago, the Charity Trading Company's Lanxiang Technical School recruited students, not to mention providing room and board, and after that, there was a job to get a salary.

The reputation of the charity trading company was excellent in Minjun, and Chen Jian's reputation was even better, so Wei Yuan went to a technical school and became the first batch of nautical interns with a dozen teenage children as old as him.

I said I was a seafaring intern, but I was on land for the previous year. They weren't seasick, they were kids who grew up on some boats, which was made clear before they started school.

The reason why I chose to learn this is because the rewards are so good, the trainee can get a certain amount of dividends after each trade, and may also become the captain of the ship or the rest of the management in the future.

It sounds very good, and Wei Yuan is also full of expectations.

He knew that he might have to endure a lot of hardship, which he had been told before he entered the school, because this was known as the highest-paying major after graduating from a technical school, but he had to gamble on his life.

Wei Yuan felt that his life was very hard, and he was also able to endure hardships, so he happily pressed his handprint on it.

But hellish suffering followed.

The training was on land, and the Purple Quartz had not yet been built, so a layer of planks was laid on the ground instead of decks.

Twenty-four interns, who disciplined them were a retired low-ranking naval officer with a broken leg, and this was the first lesson.

The officer with his broken leg was not too injured, but he was lucky to survive by encountering pirates at sea, a cannonball pierced the side of the ship, and the flying wood was stuck in his leg.

Wei Yuan felt that this was nothing, if he wanted to be rich, he had to rely on his life to gamble, it was nothing more than death. If you don't die and become a captain, then your life will change.

For the first three months, the 24 interns had to get used to the ship's schedule.

Every day before dawn at about four o'clock, the first shift people get up, do nothing, and start roll call.

At five o'clock, a man was given a volcanic pumice stone and a rag, and the deck was wiped on the planks laid on the land, and a few tattered bronze vessels that were used in place of cannons or pulleys were polished, and if they were not shining, they were whipped.

From time to time, someone would deliberately throw something like a cable on the "deck", and any intern would immediately coil up the ropes that might interfere with the crew's movement under the care of the whip.

It must be fast, but it can't be messed up, so as not to be unable to open when you use it. A special knot must be tied.

Before eight o'clock, after inspecting the "deck", the interns begin to practice stacking hammocks, and must quickly tie the hammocks and eat after passing the inspection, and must finish eating by eight o'clock.

After eight o'clock, the interns who did not get up at four o'clock in the morning got up and began to learn to carry boxes, buckets, pull ropes, and shout trumpets.

These chests and buckets may be useful, or they may be for the captain to show his authority, or to adjust the ship's center of gravity.

You just need to obey, you don't need any doubts, and the first thing you think about when you hear the order is that you might be beaten if you don't do it, rather than why you do it.

These boxes and barrels either contain goods or water, and it is not difficult to carry them in sacks, but in buckets or boxes, it takes skill to carry them, and these skills must be learned to be able to carry these things.

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

This sand is intended for combat, and once a battle occurs, it will definitely bleed, so it is necessary to pad the sand on the blood-stained area, or some critical places, to prevent you from slipping on it during the battle.

At twelve o'clock, the sand is removed and the deck is "cleaned" again, the sand is cleaned up, or the "blood stains" on the deck are wiped off.

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

This is also skillful. Some bugs have a bitter taste, some bugs have a crunchy taste that can be chewed safely, and some are really hard to swallow and need to be picked out. and how to gulp hard-to-swallow foods so as not to have severe throat pain......

This kind of suffering is not unbearable for the bottom, and after suffering too much at a young age, this ordeal is nothing.

After three months, the twenty-odd people had developed the habit that each person could fall asleep quickly in a hammock and be able to wake up after four hours without shouting and whipping.

When he saw any stains on the "deck", whether he was on duty or not, he would subconsciously wipe them clean, and learned to be expressionless when he was beaten with a leather whip, and even cursed a few words of pleasure.

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, dark blue, and the cotton cloth was dyed into a striped checkered close-fitting cotton shirt.

Blue and white intersect, it looks like the sea, and a strange charter hangs on his shoulder to distinguish himself from ordinary sailors on the ship in the future.

In the next two months, Wei Yuan still didn't see any trace of Jian Chen, but just put on the clothes 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 have been added.

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

Learn to knead twine, or use old twine to make a new one.

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

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

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

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

Knowing this, Wei Yuan already felt a little strange in his heart.

He grew up by the sea, and often saw sailors, but he had never heard of a sailor who wanted to learn these things comprehensively, but when he asked about it, he would find that sailors would basically learn the same things after three months, but never heard of them three months ago.

It's just that in addition to the food used for disgusting people, the food here is quite good, much stronger than at home, so there is nothing unbearable about these problems.

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

I've seen it before when I'm in Mincheng, and sometimes I've seen it when I'm practicing hard, but at that time, I was either busy or doing something else, and it had nothing to do with them as interns.

Wei Yuan remembered that Jian Chen was also wearing a blue and white so-called sea soul shirt that day, and called them interns together.

"You are now interns, and if you survive in the future, you may become a combat team of captains, boatswains, and bomb-pressed sailors mutinied...... These are jobs that can change your destiny, dozens of times better than the life you have faced before. ”

"Where's the good? Fortunately, there is a lot of money, fortunately, you can manage others, and fortunately, as long as you don't die, even if your leg is broken, I can arrange for you to work as a ship's cook, so that you will not be like those sailors who will not be able to make a living in the future. ”

"You've been training and learning for half a year, and that's just the beginning. Because after all, it's on land, and the real sea has never been so gentle. You have not really faced death, bloodshed, thirst, mutiny. You can say that you are still just a child. ”

"The sea is not a place for cowards, and someone told you about it when you were in school. It's not that cowards won't bring you silver, but it's not cowards who make it possible for you to get out of poverty, and cowards never have that possibility. I think it's better than fishing and working as a hired laborer all my life...... It's better to use your life to get rich. ”

"Why go to sea?"

Jian Chen took out a pocket full of silver coins, turned it upside down under the watchful eye of the intern, and spread dozens of silver coins all over the table, clanging them.

grabbed a handful and threw it down, shouting, "For this!" If you don't go to sea, your life won't be worth this pocket of money. ”

Wei Yuan only felt that his eyes lit up, and a silver coin fell straight in front of him, dripping and spinning in front of him, emitting an irresistible light.

This is not an army, so there is no talk of honor, at least not at this time, only the lure of the red fruit, only the brilliance of the silver coins.

Wei Yuan gripped the silver coin in front of him fiercely, feeling the embossing of the screw coin press, there was really nothing more than this to make him firm in his faith.

Become a captain, a ship's one percent profit dividend; To be a boatswain, to be a gunslinger or a supply officer, etc., can be divided equally between two percent.

Wei Yuan clutched the silver coin, and finally understood what was the purpose of supporting his hard work and beating for half a year.

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

Hard, cold, bumpy to the touch, real.

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

"The biggest difference between you and the sailors is that you have a possible future. So you have to learn a lot, and you have to know what it is and why it is, otherwise you are not a qualified intern with a future. ”

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

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

"Why? Why should it be complied with? Why do you interns help with the checks? ”

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

"Without food and water, everyone will die, and money will be useless. But as long as there is food, as long as there is water, wine is the only reward for sailors, so wine can only be in the hands of the captain, who orders the trainees to distribute it. Silver coins can buy everything on land, but on ships it's just cold silver. ”

"Secondly, why wash the deck ......"

Wei Yuan hurriedly took out a pen and paper and recorded these things one by one, and some of the problems that he couldn't figure out at first finally understood, and the dirty content that he didn't think about at all was also expressed one by one.

He felt that it was worth it, even if he didn't make any money, it was worth hearing about the class. I finally understand how much dirt and exchange of interests are hidden behind those seemingly inconspicuous rules......

Mr. Chen, in Wei Yuan's eyes, only gave him a three-day class and talked a lot about why.

Three days later, a few different people came to teach them something else.

This time, Wei Yuan came into contact with the octant for the first time, and for the first time tried to observe the sun and the North Star with this very delicate copper instrument, and watched the sky that had been divided in half reunite with the adjustment of the angle of the lens in his hand, and he was amazed.

Muskets, bandages, blood tests, telescopic lookouts, whistle blowing...... These things that were originally only learned in the army have also begun to become the content of Wei Yuan and others.

Wei Yuan felt that there was nothing wrong with this, it was just to make money to prevent being robbed, and what Mr. Chen said was very reasonable and impeccable.

It wasn't until February of this year that Wei Yuan, who had been working hard for more than a year, finally graduated, the caravan's ship was built, he received a nautical diary with an oilcloth as the cover, and officially became an intern of the caravan.

On the Purple Quartz, he saw cannons, gunpowder, sailors, swords, hooks...... The only thing is that I didn't see the goods.

Wei Yuan felt that there was nothing wrong with this, it was just to make money to prevent being robbed, and what Mr. Chen said was very reasonable and impeccable.

When he arrived at the new ship, it was still training, and Wei Yuan, as an intern, got a message when he was not in a hurry.

They were going to go to Qi for their first trade in early May, and the reason why it was May was because a group of gentlemen from the capital school palace came to Mincheng, and Mr. Chen was going to receive them.

It is said that it was very ceremonious, and officials from the Ministry of Industry also sent there to visit, and there were many people who were said to be very famous in certain circles.

Wei Yuan thought, he had never heard of those names, but just as they had never heard of their own names, now that he was on the Purple Quartz, he was not also a good mast climbed by a good octagon higher than the sailors, and hundreds of people were famous.

Compared to a year ago, only his parents and relatives knew their names, this feeling was really good, and he didn't think about what those gentlemen were discussing, it was meaningless.

"I have my circle, and the rules are different from those of the Academy."