Chapter 1777: Unexpected Harvest

Planting cotton is extremely low-cost for Jones.

A single bag of cotton seeds is all that is needed.

Jones left the situation on Zhaoji'er Dao and announced the decree issued by the god: they were to plant this plant bestowed by divine grace, cotton, on Iceland.

The people on the island were still in a very backward state.

As for Jones, a Temple Envoy who often manifested holiness before people... displayed all sorts of miracles before people, his words were naturally believed by countless people.

If he said cotton was a seed bestowed by the god, then it was a seed bestowed by the god.

As for what this seed could grow, they did not know.

They had never even heard of such a thing as cotton.

"Noble Temple Envoy, what can these seeds bestowed by divine grace allow us people to grow?"

"The island is all for planting food crops; no one has ever planted this thing called cotton."

"Can this thing fill our bellies?"

"Do we still need to continue planting our Wheat and rice?"

"Please tell us more information, Temple Envoy."

The chieftain of the island's indigenous people prayed to Jones.

Jones was also completely bewildered; cotton was the most popular material in textile factories now, but as for how to plant this thing...

And what kind of information it had, he knew absolutely nothing.

He was a pirate with pursuits, limited only to women; as for this kind of knowledge, let alone pursuing it, if he could even recognize a few characters, he wouldn't have come to be this pirate.

Thinking of this, Jones scratched his head.

Looking at them, "This, this, the god's meaning is for you to sow, not for you to only plant this one kind."

Seeing the chieftain still wanting to say something.

Jones said again: "Alright, this matter is decided as such; I will help everyone."

After Jones finished speaking, he turned and left; he did not want to continue entangling with the chieftain.

However, the chieftain was right; if he really wanted these people to grow cotton, it would probably be very difficult, after all, no one had ever planted this thing.

If it grew, that would be fine, but if it didn't grow.

And instead, a pile of problems appeared, that would be hard to handle.

More crucially, if it didn't grow, it would affect his ability to make money.

No, the moment he thought it might affect his own money-making, Jones summoned twelve points of spirit.

First of all, he himself would not plant cotton.

It seemed he still had to find someone who knew how to plant cotton; he dared not return to the European mainland now, as he was still being wanted.

Jones thought of his old trade; the indigenous people on the island often hunted, and there were also many very capable people.

Why not organize them to become pirates with him and snatch someone who knew how to plant cotton from a Merchant Ship on the sea.

Once Jones thought about it, this was what he was most familiar with and most skilled at.

He slapped his thigh and decided to do just that.

Jones gathered the other people on the island again and brought up the so-called god to talk about the matter.

He easily fooled the hunters on the island into going out to sea with him to find a Merchant Ship to strike at.

When Jones arrived, the ship he sat on was a pirate ship.

Without too much preparation, Jones quickly took the people and set off.

After sailing on the sea for not long, they saw a Merchant Ship; the ship was not large, but it was extremely luxurious.

It was a Merchant Ship, with not many sailors, and there were no Cannon on the ship at all.

This was simply the best target for robbery.

Seeing this ship, Jones's eyes went straight.

It was even more heart-stirring than seeing the top woman at Hong Juchang.

"Temple Envoy, there is a ship with a dragon flag emblem ahead; what should we do?"

"Nonsense, act, never mind what flag it is flying."

"In our line of work, we rob the sky, rob the earth, and rob the air; we don't care about these."

The hunter always felt something was wrong, but also felt there was some reason to it, so he didn't say much more.

The pirate ship immediately rushed toward this Merchant Ship, and Jones was the first to board it.

The sailors on the Merchant Ship were stunned when they saw these pirates, and immediately the two groups of people began to fight.

But these sailors were few in number and their combat power was not as strong as the soldiers, so they were quickly defeated by these numerous pirates.

Jones came to the cargo hold, took a look at the full cargo, and revealed a happy smile; he had a bountiful harvest from this robbery.

Soon Jones came to the ship's command room and looked at the woman with her back to him; she was dressed in a graceful and luxurious manner, with a noble and compelling temperament.

Jones's heart almost jumped out when he saw her; he had never seen such a beautiful woman.

Compared to those coquettish sluts at Hong Juchang, this woman was simply like a noble work of art, only to be viewed from afar, not to be profaned.

He had originally just wanted to rob someone who understood cotton planting; he hadn't expected such an unexpected harvest.

Jones said with extreme flippancy: "Girl, turn around and let me have a look!"

Hearing these very frivolous words, the woman turned around with a cold face, looked at Jones, and coldly shouted: "Audacious! You dare to rob a ship of Longyan; are you not afraid of our Longyan navy!"

The woman spoke in the language of Britain, and Jones understood clearly.

Hearing the two words "Longyan," his expression changed violently.

Oh no, he felt the flag looked familiar when he looked through the Telescope just now; it turned out to be a Longyan Merchant Ship!

Although Jones the pirate had no culture, he knew well which Merchant Ships could be robbed and which could not.

For instance, Longyan Merchant Ships absolutely cannot be robbed.

He had never seen Longyan people, nor had he witnessed Longyan Merchant Ships.

But Jones had heard all sorts of legendary stories about Longyan people in bars.

It is said that a man named Liu Zheng emerged from Longyan, and he has led Longyan to develop very well.

The British Navy and the French Navy are powerful enough, right?

Both of these navies could not defeat the Longyan Navy, and it is said that the Longyan military cares deeply about the deaths of their companions; it is rumored that near the Suez Canal.

Pirates who robbed a Longyan Merchant Ship that day were sunk to the bottom of the sea by the Longyan people that same day.

Jones felt that such matters were exaggerated, but they could not be too far from the truth.

Too many people around him had already mentioned the terror of Longyan, which made Jones consistently believe that Longyan was an existence he could not afford to provoke.

To think that today he had actually robbed a Longyan Merchant Ship.

This was not just joking with his own life, and looking at this woman, she might even have a certain status in Longyan.

Jiang Xuelan stared at this pirate, approaching step by step, her tone becoming increasingly cold and stern: "What, are you afraid now that you've heard of Longyan?"

"Where did that ability from just now go?"

"If you have the guts, help me get captured!"

Jones was forced into a corner, but he did not dare to rob this ship; however, looking at the way the other crew members were eyeing him, and thinking of his life of wealth in the future, Jones shouted loudly: "Take this ship back to our island; these people are guests invited by the gods."

Jiang Xuelan frowned; she could not understand the meaning behind Jones's words.

But these people had actually tied her up and seized control of her ship.

"What do you want to do?"

Jones was taken aback, carefully stuffed Jiang Xuelan's mouth, and said apologetically: "Sorry, Miss, just bear with it for a while; everything will be fine once we arrive." Recently, the transcoding is severe, which gives us more motivation to update faster. Please move your little hands to exit reading mode. Thank you.