In the first step, Hong Tao first had to demarcate his sphere of influence, that is, to take Jinhe Bay as the main base, the Strait of Malacca as the fortress, and the port of Kabalan in Ceylon as the main battlefield, and first gradually push the power of the Arabs to the west of Ceylon. To the east of the Indian Ocean, there can be no more Arab powers, and it is okay to be a trader, trader, but it is absolutely impossible to establish an Islamic state and control the ports.

When the first step is completed, Hong Tao will take a cluster of two- or three-deck battleships to the Arabian Sea and ask them if they are unconvinced. Whoever is not convinced will let you not go to the sea, as long as you can see all the cities, ports, villages and towns in the telescope, I will blow you up. When the time comes, it will be difficult to surrender, and these places will have to be managed by the tribes that choose to surrender first.

There is a deeper meaning to this, Hong Tao wants to use these Arabs to stir up the Mediterranean and even Europe. The east could not go, these Arabs naturally had to find a direction of expansion, the north was occupied by the Mongols and their descendants, and it was difficult to go north. To the south is the vast Sahara Desert, and it is difficult to go further south without sea ships on land. Then there is only the west, and the Arabian Sea cannot be played happily, they will definitely have to go to the Mediterranean Sea to toss. Well, Hong Tao will encourage them to go to the Mediterranean to toss, send money, weapons, technology, toss hard, form a crescent army and a crusader to spray it, and beat people's brains out of dog brains.

After helping the Southern Song Dynasty court to drag the Mongols southward and confined the two sides to a stalemate, he turned around Africa and went to Europe to act as a referee between Arabs and Europeans. Gossip on both sides. Let them give their own benefits in contradictions. Do you dare to let it? Dare not let me join the other party immediately and join forces to beat you together, can you stand it? In this case, the advantages are enough, the rules are set, everything is due, but the peace between the Europeans and the Arabs is gone.

All peace maintained by power is false, once you leave that place. The two sides didn't hold back long before they had to meet each other. That's right, if they don't fight, won't they, the referee, be unemployed, and they will be able to make a fortune again when they fight. Seeing that the fight is almost over, let's stand up and be a collaborator again, and then take advantage of the source left and right, and temporarily cover the fire of war...... Just cover it, the flames will come out sooner or later, and this war about the fate of the nation will never be fought, even if both sides want to stop. I didn't dare to really stop. This thing is a human thing, once it hits a real fire. The hurt is deep enough that even if you know that someone is using you and provoking you, you can't immediately turn enemies into friends. This kind of hatred takes time and great wisdom to mediate, and it is impossible to completely extinguish the war unless a leader with great wisdom is born on both sides.

Hong Tao didn't think that there would be such a great man soon, and when he appeared, he was still a couple, one on each side, how could it be so coincidental? Specifically against yourself? So this situation can be ignored, if it really happens, then admit it yourself, and no one is to blame, let's not be this referee, help you build your home together? If you don't have anything to say, I will use the fleet to transport it to you, and I will definitely not cheat people, and the price is fair and the quantity is sufficient. However, there is one point, these transactions are the monopoly of the Jinhe Company and the Southern Song Dynasty sea merchants, who dares to drive a small boat around Africa to smuggle, don't blame us for turning our faces and not recognizing people. With the Cape of Good Hope, its fleet can block the Horn of Africa at any time and cut off the only passage between Europe and Asia.

What the? Coming to the Cape of Hope? Don't talk nonsense, when you fought with the Arabs, we had already built this place, and you didn't even have a decent sea ship, so you could attack Nima or something. From land? That's even more unreliable, just the natives and animals on the African savannah are enough for you to climb, and when you climb to the Cape of Good Hope, Hong Tao may all die of old age, do you like to fight or not.

Strategic goals, this is the direction of Hong Tao's lifelong efforts outlined for himself, as for the Americas, he has other plans, which are not included in this plan. As long as the Arabs were squeezed westward by themselves, Europeans would not be able to spare time to explore the Americas, and that place should not be surnamed Song or Jin, and that place should be surnamed Hong, which is the retirement home that Hong Tao chose for himself. From South America to North America, it's not too big, because I must have a lot of children, and a child plays in a small yard the size of Brazil, and the whole of America is not enough, maybe I have to spare Oceania.

Of course, these are just plans! The plan is allowed to change, and many times the plan can't catch up with the change, and Hong Tao himself doesn't know how far this plan can be completed in the end. Again, do your best to obey the destiny of heaven and move towards this goal, whether you can go to it is another question.

Strait Development Management Company, is it enough to only have Hong Tao and nine small maritime merchants? It's definitely not enough, why are the remaining dozen or so maritime merchants unwilling to join? They didn't say it, but Hong Tao guessed it, they still had doubts about their own ability, and they were afraid that after they ran away, if they were defeated, whether it was the Arabs, the nearby national alliance, or the Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants, they would be angry with them, and then it was no longer a question of whether they could eat meat and drink soup anymore, but the life and death of the entire family. This investment is a bit big, and the more people who have a little bit of net worth, the more worries they have, and they haven't seen it clearly and thought it through.

"Everyone, it's okay, the company's doors are always open to everyone! Although I am not a Song person, I am a descendant of the Song people, and my heart is thinking about the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise I would not have abandoned my family and business to do this thankless task. I mainly can't stand the fact that those big food merchants effortlessly swallow all the profits that should be made by us from the Great Song Dynasty, and once this situation develops, everyone thinks about it, they can use this wealth to build bigger and better ships. A few years, more than ten years, decades later, is there still a place for the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty in this sea area? I'm afraid that they will also get a strait company out at that time. Therefore, for the sake of your family and for your descendants, we should also unite to keep this sea frontier for the future and leave it to our own people. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, you still have time to think carefully and slowly, we should set sail the day after tomorrow, there are still thousands of miles of sea to go ahead, and when we get to the port of Cabalan, let everyone sell the goods they brought and buy the right goods, and then let's talk about this matter again, how about it? "Hong Tao is not in a hurry to pull these people into the gang, this work is not effective just by talking, they must be able to see the tangible benefits, and it has to be huge benefits, when the time comes, they don't need to say it themselves, they will figure it out by themselves which one is cold and which one is hot.

"Yes, yes, General Hong, Gao Yi! Hong Gang's first high righteousness! "Now what Hong Tao says, these maritime merchants have to nod yes, they are afraid that they will be poisoned by Hong Tao on the sea. More than 50 wounded pig sailors and soldiers were shot in the water one by one, and they saw it with their own eyes, and there are still more than 300 prisoners in the big courtyard next to the wharf, and they are only given one gruel to drink every day, and whoever dares to get sick will be pulled out immediately, stabbed in the neck, and thrown directly into the sea. This guy surnamed Hong is simply ruthless to the extreme, he doesn't treat human life as human life at all, he also said in public that in his eyes, there are only two kinds of people in the world, one is his own people, and he will be careful to protect them; One is others, all others are a number in his eyes, write it down, erase it when it is erased, and it doesn't matter if this number eventually becomes zero.

"Brutal! Animal! This is Wen Nan's evaluation of Hong Tao, those injured sailors were executed, he could grit his teeth and endure it, those who were sick were not even treated, they were directly executed, and the sailors of each ship had to line up to take turns to be executioners, which had broken through his bottom line, he couldn't stand it, even if Hong Tao wanted to kill him, he had to say.

"If you can heal them, I won't kill them, because if there is a plague, all the hundreds will die, and I'm saving the living. Anyone can pretend to be a good person and play tricks, I ask you, can you treat them? The king's royal doctors will only dance with little straw figures, can these diseases make them dance well? Can you guarantee that they are not suffering from the plague? If you can, tell me what you should do, if you can't say it, use your brain to figure out the problem before speaking, people don't have this brain just for the sake of chanting poetry, it should also consider other issues! Hong Tao didn't feel Wen Nan's contempt, not only was he not afraid of others hearing it, but he also raised his voice high, for fear that others wouldn't hear it. These words were not only said to Wen Nan, but also to their sailors, captains, Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants, Luo Dacai, and Medini, who were not sure how they were cursing themselves in their hearts.

The fleet stayed in the port of Malacca for a total of seven days, and at last only ten sailors on the ships and ten sailors on the merchant ships were left to watch over the hundreds of prisoners, while the others re-boarded their respective ships, and under the cheers of the King of Malacca, the Ministers, and his court dance troupe, they again lifted anchor and sailed northwest along the Strait of Malacca. The last and most dangerous part of the journey is coming, and several of these ships will finally reach the port of Kabalan, and even Hong Tao himself is not sure to guarantee it, it all depends on whether the old man in the Indian Ocean is happy or not. Once its old man has a little cold these days, and then sneeze or something, not to mention those Southern Song Dynasty cargo ships, even Hong Tao's flagship does not dare to guarantee that it can still float on the sea. Compared with nature, no matter how capable a person is, he is also an ant.

I don't know if it was Martini's five prayers a day that really worked, or Luo Dacai and they burned incense and worshiped the Buddha every day and moved the heavens, or the minister of Malacca jumped the god and made God happy, and this voyage across the Indian Ocean was much more stable than the last time Hong Tao himself came with his fleet. The maximum wind force is not level six, most of the time it is level three or four winds, and there are no storms, at most there is more rain. This did not affect the navigation of the flotilla of the double column, as long as the sun and moon were guaranteed to come out once in two days, the flood would not take the flotilla to the flotilla. (To be continued.) )