"Soon it will be the eighth type, the emperor is learning Chinese with me in the past two days, and he wants me to translate the Chinese book to show him, I only have a copy of the "Theory of Sea Power" you wrote, can you show him?" Karl had more respect for his cousin than friendship. Before I met Hong Tao, it was estimated that this emperor was his idol, and a lot of knowledge was sometimes a charismatic personality.

"Of course, I would like all the kings of Europe to read my book, so that they will not have to talk nonsense about me when they see the Golden River, and they will be able to assess in their hearts who has the right to speak. Lao Ka, it's sometimes much easier to interact with people who understand than with people who are confused, and only people who understand can understand deterrence. For example, if we attack the tribes in Africa, no matter how many people you kill with artillery, they will still rush forward with pikes and darts. Because they didn't understand the power of the cannon, they only felt that the gods had abandoned them, and if they rushed again, maybe the gods would favor them, so they would fight endlessly. But fighting a war with your cousin is different, you only need to make him suffer once or twice, and he will be able to judge whether his country can bear it or not, and then he will make a wise choice, so that many people will die less. Fear is sometimes a good thing, and knowledge is the source of fear, and the ignorant are usually fearless, and the more they know, the more timid they become. I know a lot, right? Look at me, most of the time I don't even dare to go ashore, isn't that the truth? Hong Tao's words are true, he really hopes that the world can read his books, and then get to know the world again, so that he can go to other countries in the future. There is no need to salute first and then soldier. Just shout that the cannon is coming. Everyone surrendered, and there was no fighting.

"I heard that your cousin is at war with the Lombards, why don't you let his son, your nephew, send troops from the Kingdom of Germany to fight from the north and south?" Hong Tao had only been here for a day, and he had heard more than one talk about the Lombard War. He was curious about why it was so hard for an emperor to fight in such a small fart place. It is not clear where the Lombard is, but the maps of Europe at this time, like the maps of the Great Song Dynasty, are freehand. The approximate location is around Milan.

“…… Alas, this is also the reason why my cousin hated the Pope even more, and the year before last his favorite son, King Henry VII of Germany, was seduced by the Pope into a rebellion, and after he suppressed it, he was stripped of his inheritance and is now in a prison in Naples. Yesterday I tried to persuade my cousin to release Henry, or to take him to Palermo, where he had nothing to do to see him, for he was his favorite son before, and perhaps he was confused for a while. Carl shook his head. After thinking about it for a while, I said the truth.

"You are not the emperor. You can't be an emperor either, you don't understand his pain. He's definitely not going to let Henry out, and I wouldn't be if it were me. He can still keep Henry's life, it is much more merciful than me, if it were me, I would have let him go to God, just as if I had never given birth to this son. Treachery! Do you know why I hate people for lying to me the most? Because it makes me not trust myself very much, which is a very bad feeling, and your cousin is probably the same kind of person, and his childhood taught him that betrayal cannot be tolerated. Hong Tao didn't expect this emperor to be so hard that he even betrayed his own son. Hong Tao did not agree with Carl's suggestion. This kind of thing is absolutely unbearable, if Saifei and Hong Zehu also betray themselves when they grow up, they only have two choices, one is to avoid them, the other is to destroy them, there is no third way to go. Friedrich II's choice was much more merciful than his own, he had only one way, and there was no room for retreat.

"Will you help him, then? He is really not a bad emperor, at least he will not be like the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty who is thinking about harming you everywhere, you can even help the Great Song Dynasty, why can't you help my cousin? If you don't want to stay here, can you let me stay and help him? All I need is one Malacca, and I must be allowed to go back to Cape Town to supply shells and gunpowder, and I promise not to teach them the techniques of Golden River, I swear to God! Karl and Hong Tao spared a long time and told Hong Tao about Friedrich II's privacy, in order to arouse Hong Tao's sympathy. However, he is not very qualified as a lobbyist, he is too anxious, and the circle is not big enough, and he can't wait for this method to produce results.

"You're not a good lobbyist, and your cousin seems to trust you...... Old Ka, artillery can't solve all problems, and some things can only become more and more troublesome by force alone. I can help your cousin win the war with the Lombardy, and even finance him to take out Venice and the Papal States, but then your cousin will become a public enemy of all of Europe and Christendom. He is an invader in collusion with foreign races, and this hat can easily be put on his head, you wonder, how many crusades will his empire go through? Maybe when we die of old age, this war will not be fought, do you want to see this situation? "Hong Tao came to Europe to make trouble, but he didn't want to be the fuse of a big war, it was too inhumane to do so, and it would make the whole of Europe miserable, and it was unnecessary. He has a more hidden, more effective, and more trouble-free way to toss Europe, not only to toss them, but also to let them sing the praises of themselves after they are done, which is the perfect pursuit of a transnational-stirring stick.

"What then? If I don't beg you, help my cousin snatch the Lombardies, I'll go and tell my cousin that give me a fief there, and he won't have to bear the responsibility of seducing foreign invasions, I'll take it, I'm from Jinhewan, I'm not afraid of this accusation! Carl's rectum couldn't think of Hong Tao's twists and turns, if it weren't for Hong Tao's understanding of his nature very well, he would have abandoned him for being so loyal to his cousin, and would have left him to return to the sea.

"Don't worry about this, I'll give you a task to teach Jiang Niangzi to ride a horse within two days, and I'll talk to him about your cousin. You don't have enough brains, and there is no point in blending, how? Hong Tao doesn't want to listen to Carl's nonsense anymore, and he can't talk about anything after talking to him for a year, so it's better to talk to the emperor directly. Since history says that he was a learned emperor, and Karl said that he was a very clever emperor, let two wise men decide the future of Europe. If he could put aside his religious prejudices and cooperate with himself, he would have given him a complete empire, not only complete, but also sacred. If he still dwells on his own personal enmity with the Pope, he can only guarantee that he will take back Lombardy, and Venice will not give it to him, and count it as his colony in Europe.

"No problem, if you had said this earlier, I wouldn't have had to go through so much trouble talking to you all morning. I'm afraid you don't know, chatting with you is a very painful thing, very boring! Jiang Niangzi, come on, come on, I'll teach you to ride a horse, get off that pony, that's what a child rides, it's detrimental to your beauty......" As soon as Hong Tao agreed, Carl immediately jumped off the horse and ran towards the grass, shouting as he ran, completely like the two of them with a sad face just now.

"Alas...... Germany, count yourself unlucky, who let you not lean against the sea, you are the life of the Italians! Hong Tao was actually reluctant to help Friedrich II unify Italy, and he himself did not like Italy as a country. Hong Tao has always believed that there is a bad guy and a waste in Europe, and the bad guy is Britain and the waste is Italy. If these two countries are excluded, Europe should develop better. But this emperor is indeed his most suitable partner, and with Karl's friendship, he has no choice but to give up Germany. Fortunately, Germany is also under the rule of this emperor, although it is not the point, it should not be too bad, let's take it one step at a time. History is hard to be at the mercy of someone, and I don't have the ability to do it myself.

With Carl accompanying Jiang Zhuyi and Hong Salamander around Sicily, Hong Tao freed up his efforts to do serious things. Now that you have made your attitude clear to Karl, you don't have to be cautious, and go directly to Luo Youde to meet Friedrich II together. Why are you going? Of course, it's about business, big business, don't talk about any needles and threads, and it's a work of earth-shattering ghosts and gods, a special economic zone!

Why do you want to talk with Luo Youde? He also didn't understand Latin. This is Hong Tao's lazy side, but he will never do the work that can be shared by others, but he will never have the right to do anything that can be done for others. In terms of macro design, Hong Tao thinks that he is the first in the world, but in the details of the arrangement and specific implementation, a hundred of them are not as good as a Luo Youde. He was born as a businessman, and if he got rid of his foresight of historical development and the insight of economic means in later generations, he really would not be Luo Youde's opponent if he wanted to do business in a down-to-earth manner.

Now Hong Tao is going to be the shopkeeper again, and he doesn't plan to do the business in Europe himself, so he doesn't have this effort. It is the best plan to draw the Tao by yourself, Luo Youde to do the follow-up work, and then hand it over to Carl to be responsible. He and the emperor are cousins, and they also have full trust in each other, and they will cooperate smoothly. As for Carl's loyalty, Hong Tao is no longer too worried, in this era, the most fucked profiteers are more loyal than themselves, this is a society that survives on credit. I'm not afraid of anyone betraying me, and I'll drop ten times with one force! The consequence of betraying yourself is that the cannonball will hit your head and bag, and you will not be able to eat and walk around. At this time, Europe really couldn't play the Age of Discovery, they had to be tired and half dead just playing shipbuilding, and the artillery thing would be even more useless for a while, too poor.

(To be continued.) )