"It's about the same, but it's a pity that Martini is not here, so I won't give him a jar of sugar, and see if we can change the land and build another Cape Town...... Alas, it's been a few years, and Cape Town has almost become a small city, and it's basically all the credit of those black slaves, do you think we're good guys or bad guys? Hong Tao couldn't help but feel some emotion when he remembered the scene when Martini used sugar and knives to fool the black tribe. These feelings are usually not communicated by anyone, but it is no problem to talk to Carl, and it can be regarded as a mental adjustment.

"I think I'm a good guy...... They didn't even have enough to eat, they didn't have enough clothes, and we didn't slaughter them or rob them when we came...... They don't have anything to grab! Could it be that if they are all fed, they are the bad guys? Hong Tao's question sounds very easy, but if you think about it carefully, it's quite difficult, Carl is about to rub his beard into a mess, the more he talks, the more unsure he is right, and finally the affirmative sentence becomes a question sentence, and throws the question back to Hong Tao.

"But that's their home, we're outsiders, has anyone asked them if they're happy with the change?" Hong Tao actually knew the answer to this question very well in his heart, but he just wanted to talk to Carl.

"Do you need to ask? Didn't you say that everything that can be seen from the mast is its own territory? I find that you have changed over the years......" Carl was not as complicated as Hong Tao thought, and questioned Hong Tao in turn with the bull that Hong Tao bragged about back then.

"Where has changed? It's old! Hong Tao also reached out and touched his chin, but unfortunately he didn't have a beard. He has never been used to growing beards, growing less than a centimeter at a time. I couldn't help but scratch it. Even if I often shave my chin because of shaving. He also doesn't want to keep it, and it's easy to get a little soup when eating, especially jajangmyeon.

"It's become, how do you say it...... Long-winded? Neither is it. Verbose? Nor is it ...... Anyway, it's not as good as when I drove a whaling ship to catch slaves! Carl's Chinese level has always stayed at the level of dialogue, and he is also the kind of person who does not like to read books, so he uses adjectives, back and forth, and many times cannot accurately express the original meaning. You'll have to guess.

“…… It's complicated, right? Thinking too much. Hong Tao guessed a possibility according to Karl's habit.

"Yes, it's complicated...... Like Chinese, there are always words that you can't learn, and there will be many ways to say a thing, which is too complicated! Carl was very satisfied with Hong Tao's guess, this kind of game the two of them used to play, some of the things he said had to guess the exact meaning of Hong Tao, and he sometimes had to guess what Hong Tao said, and over time, the two of them got to know each other better.

"It's inevitable. Your cousin certainly wasn't as complicated as he is when he was younger, and he certainly didn't feel the same way he felt about being a king as he did when he was an emperor. Actually, I don't want to be an emperor. I don't even want to help the Great Song Dynasty fight, build two boats, take you, Bojiao, Xiaoyu and Xiaoxiao and those Tanjia sailors, walk along the coastline, stay for two more years where you are comfortable, and leave if you don't like it, the world is so big, where is not life! But life is often so contradictory, the more you don't want to do it, the more you have to do it, and sometimes you have to work hard. The more you want to do something, you often can't do it for a lifetime, and the farther away you are......" The sea is at sunset at this time, and the sunset shines on the waves, like a broken bronze mirror, and there is a dazzling golden light everywhere. The white sails of the Golden River have all turned into gold leaf, and they will move, and when the wind blows, they roll layer by layer, which is very psychedelic.

"You're the weirdest person I've ever met...... I grew up in castles, and I met many nobles, dukes, and even kings and emperors, and when I grew up, I met cardinals and the pope himself, and then I was captured, and I met the leaders of the Saracens, and they were not as strange as you. You're like those whales, always having their own direction, but others don't know where they're going to swim. They also get tired and will rest on the surface of the sea, but after regaining their strength, they will continue to swim and never stop. The flood was deep, and Karl was also deep, and his words were a little philosophical.

"According to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, you have the intention of killing the king, and you are a great rebel and want to cut off your head! It's not good to compare me to something, it has to be a whale, there must be a hundred whales that died at your hands, right? Looks like you want to kill me a hundred times! Swan, you're the captain, and you said you committed such a serious crime at dinner time, how should you punish it? Hong Tao seemed to be playing with his face, a second ago he was half-up, his face was solemn, and a second later he began to grin evilly. He didn't want others to see him through, and he would feel safer with this shell to protect him, otherwise it would be a problem to even sleep.

“…… Irrigate...... Or don't you draw ......" Hong Tao asked the wrong person, even if he gave a clear hint, but Swan, the head of the cavalry, still could not understand the emperor's meaning.

"Barbecue...... The meat skewer ...... "Seeing that Hong Tao's triangular eyes were about to widen, the helmsman was afraid that Swan would suffer such a shadowless punishment, so he stood behind Hong Tao and reminded Swan.

"Gotta get it...... Don't be embarrassed to be honest, isn't it just cooking, I can't go...... You! Aren't you smart, find someone to take your class and help me fish, if you can't catch the fish that the emperor likes to eat, you will be punished! "Talking too much has always been a vice, and Carl doesn't want to embarrass Swan, but he doesn't want to let go of this overly clever helmsman either.

"I like to eat grilled squid......" Hong Tao also doesn't like people who have nothing to talk about, although this helmsman is not annoying, but it is not superfluous to teach him a lesson, sea squid fishing generally has to be late at night, if you can catch it at dusk, it will be lucky.

Eating barbecue and singing songs, driving a big boat full of wind, regardless of its hardships and staggerings, sailing to the other side of the ideal...... What a reckless life, what more can you ask for this time!

Of course, this is just an idealistic imagination, and the real northeast trade wind belt of the North Atlantic is still brutal in winter. Staying on the deck, you have to wear thick leather clothes, and you have to put on a poncho, the waves crash on the hull of the ship, you can cross the side of the ship more than ten meters high, and wash the deck from beginning to end. The sail pilots were even more miserable, not only had to endure the strong winds, but also had to accept the baptism of mist broken by the bow of the ship from time to time, and they had no place to hide, so they always had to pay attention to their feet and hands, and if they could not grasp it steadily, the whole person would be thrown out of the ten-story mast. In such sea conditions, the chances of being rescued are almost zero, and if you fall into the sea, you can't see anything.

The huge body of the Jinhe is at most a fallen leaf in the sea, and it is carried by the strong northeast wind all the way to the west day and night, every minute, every moment, day and night. If you are a new sailor, you will feel so desperate at this time that you can't even sleep, and you always feel that the next moment the ship will sink. But after experiencing one or two times, I got used to it, when the wind and waves were calm, everyone wilted and drooped their heads and couldn't lift their energy, and the bigger the wind and waves, the more energetic they were. After two hours of commuting, I was as tired as my grandson, I ate and slept well, and I didn't think about anything after lying down, as if the ship didn't sink or not. This is the life of a sailing sailor in the age of sailing, and every time he goes to sea, it is a challenge to death, and at the same time to make himself stronger and braver.

Sixteen days of this kind went on, when the wind and waves suddenly became less, and a group of pilot whales appeared in the bow, and the sailors began to take their clothes and bedding out of the cabin, and hung them all on the horizon to dry, and the whole ship became in an instant flower, like a bush full of fruit floating on the sea.

Hong Tao, who received the sailor's report, was playing Zakin tweed with the gunners on the artillery deck, and in this half a month, he successfully increased the royal property by thousands of gold coins, and the wages of the sailors on the whole ship in the second half of the year basically let him win all the money, and the biggest losers were Swan and Karl, both of whom did not have to receive their wages for several years.

Of course, gambling is forbidden on ships, a rule handed down from the Age of Discovery. Gambling is not allowed on warships and merchant ships, and even gambling on pirate ships is a serious crime, and if you don't do it, you will be thrown to a desert island by the captain to fend for yourself. The scenes of pirates fighting, gambling, and even killing people on ships in later movies and television are all fabricated. The rules on the pirate ship are even stricter than those of the Royal Fleet, otherwise they would not have survived.

"Swan, adjust the course to 190, add a lookout, there may be a lot of islands ahead, far away from them. Many of the islands here are underwater, and if we collide, we won't be able to go back. In this voyage, Hong Tao acted as a navigator, and all the route data was measured by him personally, not because he was worried about others, but because he didn't want others to know the route data here. After holding the sextant to the sun and watching the tears flow, Hong Tao knew that the Jinhe had arrived at the sea area of 30 degrees north latitude and 76 degrees west longitude. According to the latitude and longitude of New York, the Florida Peninsula and the Bahamas should be not far ahead, and there are many galleons that have historically run aground and sunk in this area, partly because of the fickle tropical storms of the Devil's Triangle, and partly carelessly, crashing into those damned coral reefs.

"We're here?" As an old navyman, Karl's nose was so sensitive that he seemed to smell land.

"Not yet, it's a big island, I've heard it's dangerous, we're going to get through it." Hong Tao held the telescope and looked around, as if he had not found any signs of the island, and the sea water had not yet turned into the unique blue-green of the Caribbean Sea, and it was estimated that he had not yet entered the shallow sea area.

"I'm going to be a lookout...... Carl couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, although he hadn't arrived yet, but the closer he got to get more excited, he didn't want to wait on the deck, he wanted to be the first to discover the New World. (To be continued.) )