"Two thousand...... Who is so capable! Your Majesty, will it be possible to send it to Cape Town? I figured it didn't matter if there were a few thousand more people over there. Isn't Lao Mai building a big factory, and he can afford to raise more slaves, better than those black people, right? They don't work properly all day, and they get together to sing and dance when they have nothing to do. I've told Lao Mai several times that this kind of slacker should be hanged directly, and see who dares to be lazy! "Compassion is a bystander, he has traveled between the port of Kalamba and Cape Town with a supply fleet in recent years, and he knows more about the situation in Cape Town than Hong Tao.

“…… Well, you'll be up to you. There's no need for a whole fleet to be stationed here, so you go and get ready to make enough space near the docks for slaves that can't be sold to be put inside. When the price of slaves is reduced to a minimum and there is no one to transport them here, you buy them at the lowest price, and then hire a few merchant ships to transport them all to Cape Town. Hong Tao stared at Compassion for a long time, not that Compassion was too smart, but that he was too stupid, how could he forget Cape Town! Not to mention one or two thousand slaves, ten times more Martini can afford to raise, and there is a shortage of labor there.

"Shouldn't the maritime merchants lose money then?" Compassion made Hong Tao a little confused, in the past, Hong Tao was desperately trying to find a way to make maritime merchants make money, but this time he suddenly made a 180-degree turn.

"Who has ever heard of buying and selling without losing money? Especially to do this kind of business, it is too immoral! They have had a very good time in the past few years, and they have to be beaten when they should be beaten, just like you take care of your own children, and protect them when you should protect them. You have to fight when it's time to fight! ”

"I don't dare to fight, Weng Ya will ...... desperately with me" The shameless mistake of mercy is committed again.

"Fuck off, too! Right away! "Hong Tao doesn't approve of machismo, but he also doesn't approve of such a serious wife's strictness as compassion. So it's even more annoying to look at compassion.

The Great Song merchants stationed in Muska Harbor with a large number of slaves was both happy and painful for the local residents. Happily, the port of Musca has become a large warehouse, where many caravans have gathered, and many merchants are buying camels in large quantities, and the street from the dock to the city has become a complete commercial street.

This change can give local residents a lot of tangible benefits, just renting out vacant houses and upside-down camels and horses. But what followed was all kinds of unaccustomation, even though the maritime merchants listened to Hong Tao's advice. Try not to do things that are too damaging to the local religious customs, but there are many people and the contact time is long. Inevitably, there will be a bump. For this reason, the maritime merchants also had conflicts with the locals, and there were even large-scale fights.

The cause of this incident was that a maritime merchant opened an inn on the dock, with a restaurant, or a restaurant with red lanterns. I bought a lot of Persian dancers to entertain guests in the restaurant. Originally, Mu \ Lin was forbidden to drink. In addition, the scantily clad Persian dancer dangled around the door of the restaurant all day long, and the local residents were a little overwhelmed and found an imam, intending to ask the maritime merchant to stop the wine and Persian dancers in the restaurant. If they don't stop, they won't lease the land to maritime merchants.

Of course the maritime merchant won't do it, the three-story restaurant that has just been built, and there are more than 20 guest rooms, why do you say you won't do it if you don't let it? Why do you say you don't rent if you don't rent? There is a lease contract. It didn't say that you are not allowed to dry restaurants! Moreover, this restaurant has been approved by the Maritime Merchants Association of Port Masca and is a legitimate and regular business. The local government simply doesn't care. The residential area of the Great Song Maritime Merchants was managed by the Great Song Maritime Merchants themselves, and was not under the jurisdiction of the Sultan King.

The two sides did not agree on this matter, and they quarreled. The imam was also a fool, and did not inform the Sudanese government and local officials, but according to his previous custom, he came directly with the believers in the mosque and wanted to forcibly demolish the restaurant.

The maritime merchants were not prepared at the time, and at first suffered a loss, some people were injured, others were arrested, and the restaurant was also destroyed. However, these maritime merchants are not the sheep of the Great Song Dynasty, they are wolves spoiled by the flood.

As soon as something happened at the wharf, the cargo ship in the port got the news, and someone immediately went to inform the Ceylonese soldiers stationed in the city, and the rest of the people put on their armor, picked up their crossbows, and rushed to the restaurant, and surrounded the believers in the mosque. In the face of heavily armed sailors, the believers with clubs and short knives were certainly no opponents, and as soon as they saw them, they were shot down by a dozen crossbows, and they were all surrounded in the restaurant and held hostages in their hands.

The believers of the mosque were attacked, and the local devout believers stopped doing it, and the copyists gathered and surrounded the merchants and sailors. Seeing that there were too many people on the other side, the maritime merchants began to transfer troops from the cargo ship again, and even the deck guns were brought down, and the cannons opened fire when they blocked the street.

By the time Ceylonese soldiers and the Sultan's guards arrived, there had been a massive scuffle, with many houses, including the restaurant, set on fire, and the port area littered with dead people. The red-eyed sailors and local residents could not even pull apart the Ceylon soldiers and the Sultan Guards, and later the Ceylon soldiers and the Sultan Guards also fought because of each other's hands, and half of the city became a battlefield.

On this day, Mercy took a cargo ship to Cape Town to transport slaves, and Hong Tao cowered in the palace to teach the dancing girls and slave girls to read. At first, he didn't know that there was a clash on the dock, and when there was a fire in the city, the maritime merchant cargo ship raised a distress signal and was called out by the lookout.

By the time he landed with the marines, the situation was out of control, and the merchant ships were using deck guns to carry out indiscriminate attacks on the residential areas on the side of the dock, and then together with the Ceylonese soldiers, they searched house to house, and if they found any blood on their bodies or who had bloody clothes and utensils, they pulled them out and cut them down in the street. In the deeper residential areas, many sailors and Ceylonese soldiers were besieged by the local soldiers and civilians, and they could not even distinguish the direction, and the situation was very bad.

"Shoot, both sides fight, whoever doesn't stop will hit whom! But try not to hit our own people, just make a show. ”

"Send someone to the commander of the Ceylon soldiers, and ask him to lead people to control his soldiers and pull them all to the docks, otherwise I will kill him directly!"

In the face of this situation, Hong Tao had no choice but to find someone to control the cargo ships of the maritime merchants first, and stop firing indiscriminately, so as not to injure himself by mistake. Then he ordered the Marines to work in groups of thirty to clear the field, and to shoot down all those who did not listen to dissuasion and carried weapons in the streets. Of course, when dealing with the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants and sailors, they will still be open-minded, and those who are too disobedient will be knocked down and dragged away with the butt of a gun. As for the others, shout twice not to surrender, just shoot and kill.

The riot continued until the night did not completely subside, Hong Tao simply issued a curfew, no one was allowed to leave the courtyard, including the Sultan's palace, and dozens of Ceylonese soldiers and marines stood guard at every street corner, and anyone who violated the curfew was still shot directly. It was not until dawn the next day that the port of Musca was calm again, and there was no more gunfire and artillery fire, and instead of wailing, families began to come out in order to claim the corpses.

In the middle of the wharf became Hong Tao's temporary court, together with the imams of the Sultan King and the mosques, they had to come if they wanted to come and didn't want to come, and if they didn't come, they would be arrested, and they accompanied Hong Tao to listen to the descriptions of the incident on both sides.

"Your Majesty, we have been wronged...... They were the ones who did it first and wanted to demolish our restaurant. The restaurant is located in a maritime residential area, what does it matter to them? I can eat whatever I like, and if I love to find a girl to accompany me, I will find a girl to accompany me, they can go to the government to complain if they are not satisfied, and it is legal for us to build a restaurant! "Naturally, the first to speak was the maritime representatives, with Hong Tao's warships entering the harbor and parking, the gun doors were opened, and the maritime merchants were very confident and their words were also very organized. They didn't mention the fact that they fired at the residential area casually, and put all the blame on the local residents. (To be continued.) )