In fact, according to Luo Youde and Wen Nan's meaning, this school should be built in the city of Guangzhou. Where is West Maozhou? A small island on the edge of Zhenzhou City! Where is Zhenzhou City? It's just a small military town in the south of Hainan Island! Where is Hainan Island? The place where the Southern Song Dynasty distributed criminals was also! In other words, there are no serious people on the entire Hainan Island, except for the Li people, who are the Tan people, then the prisoners and the homeless, and finally the army of the military town, where is the need to go to school?

But Hong Tao insisted on running a school in Ximaozhou, Guangzhou would never go, let alone Guangzhou, even Zhenzhou Port he didn't agree, if he wanted to do it, he would choose Ximaozhou, and he would not do it! Why did he have to take a fancy to the broken island of Ximaozhou and bite it out? Hong Tao only explained this reason clearly to the board of directors, and did not explain it to Luo Youde or Wen Nan. The specific reason is that he is afraid of death, and he is afraid that one day the Southern Song Dynasty court will look at him unpleasantly, and suddenly send troops to arrest him.

If you go to Guangzhou, a few government officials will be able to put themselves in order, and it will be too easy to be controlled by others. However, if the school is located on Ximaozhou Island, a small strait across the mainland from the mainland, others will have to take a boat to their advantage. Don't look at the distance of a few kilometers in this strait, it can still become a moat, on land Hong Tao can only beat a few people, there is no place to run, but once he reaches the sea, he can sweep a large area, but if he can't beat it, he can go, no one can stop it!

In fact, the school is located on the island, which is quite understandable. The Maritime University trains future captains and sailors, and it is a learning experience to let them get in close contact with the sea from an early age. Hong Tao also used this reason to persuade others to agree with his initiative. However, there is another key issue, which is the source of students.

The school has. It's not difficult for teachers to do it. There are not many students in Jinhe Bay, such as Boyu, Po Shrimp, and Weng Ya. There are a lot of them.,Find a few girls with better eloquence from them who are teachers of junior students.。 I can't talk about advanced things, and it's no problem to popularize primary school mathematics, geography and foreign languages for the children of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as there are suitable teaching materials. Other courses can be taught by the original teachers of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is easy to ask a few down-and-out scholars to teach children to read and write, and it is not necessary to require all the children who are taught to take the imperial examination, and Hong Tao will not accept such children, not the children of the wrong people.

But Hong Tao can't do anything about the source of life. His understanding of Da Song is still very superficial, and he can't recruit students in person, and he doesn't know how to recruit students in this area. However, this problem does not need to be solved by him personally, now he is the nominal chairman of the Strait Company, and a large group of Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants around him have to rely on him to make a fortune, as long as he raises his arms, someone will respond. In fact, maritime merchants are more eager to learn new navigation techniques, as long as the rules and regulations are drawn out, they can change their tricks to help Hong Tao Zhang Luo, maybe the effect is better than Hong Tao expected.

"Brother Hong really wants to write a book and speak? This is not something that can be done overnight. "The return route is still a detour. The sailboat went all the way west, almost after reaching the waters of Vietnam. It will turn around and go northeast, and then turn back to Guangzhou Port. Luo Youde talked to Hong Tao about a lot of things on the boat, and he would ask about anything he didn't understand, and Hong Tao tried his best to answer him. Some can't tell him, Hong Tao will say it clearly, and some he can't understand, Hong Tao will help him write it down, and everyone will find the answer together, and they can always find it.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Actually, it's not that difficult, and I'm not planning to write any huge work, as much as I write, and it's not wrong if someone is willing to read it. In fact, I have written several books, and I have written several textbooks for the school in Jinhewan now, and I have written several homework courses by myself. As soon as the University of Navigation opened, I immediately had a hundred or ten more readers, who would not only read it, but also memorize it and use it all the time. Maybe some of them will also open schools to teach students, and then I will indirectly have a lot of readers. As long as what I've written is correct, I don't have to worry about no one reading it, and I'm confident in that. Regarding Luo Youde's worry, Hong Tao didn't take it to heart at all. The process of sailing is very boring, in addition to daily training on the ship, most of the time you have to find something to do for yourself, and writing a book is the most time-killing job that Hong Tao has found for himself. He can first record everything he thinks of, and then classify and sort it out over and over again, adding or subtracting slightly, which is a textbook. Yes, what he wrote was not actually a book, but more like a travelogue, a textbook, an instruction manual and something like that. But for this day and age, it's books.

"Can you borrow a few copies for my brother first?" Luo Youde's curiosity came again.

"I don't have any! In this way, I will go back and ask Wen Langzhong to show Brother Luo the things he wrote first, and he will not show me those things, and by the way, I will ask the whaling ship to bring Brother Luo a few 6 school textbooks when he goes to Guangzhou next time. Hong Tao really didn't want to hide it from Luo Youde, he hoped that everyone in the world would be happy when they read his book.

"It's okay too! Brother Hong is really talented, his business has become a big food country, and the sea ships are so sharp, he can still write books and speak...... Compared with Brother Hong, Brother Wei is simply embarrassed......" Luo Youde suddenly sighed in self-pity, as if he was very dissatisfied with himself.

"Brother Luo, don't play tricks with me! You can't leave it for a short time, and when the racecourse and school are all ready, and the route to Dashi is stable, I'll take you to a farther place to see. It is estimated that it will take a year or two to leave, and no one has ever been to that place, Brother Luo, you are the number one in the Great Song Dynasty. When the time comes, I won't rob you, you can write down all the experiences of this trip, and come back and publish a book, which is called "Journey to the East", maybe it will be remembered through the ages. But in this matter, you have to convince Wen Langzhong first, I won't rob you, and he won't necessarily rob you. Hong Tao didn't hesitate for even a second, he knew what Luo Youde meant by these words, his throbbing heart began to be restless again, and he wanted to follow Hong Tao to go to the ocean to see a country he had never seen. In order to appease this potential explorer of the Southern Song Dynasty to help him work first, Hong Tao drew a huge cake for Luo Youde, which was hung in front of his neck, do you want to eat it? If you want to eat, pull the cart desperately.

"Brother Hong still understands me...... I can co-author with Brother Wen, hehe, co-author, his writing is better than mine...... "Luo Youde is worthy of being a businessman, and he solved this problem in an instant, and the balance of interests, cooperation and mutual benefit are the elements in their blood, which can burst out all the time."

"......" Hong Tao was a little unhappy, he originally planned to use this bait to let Luo Youde and Wen Nan fight, and he was watching the excitement as a referee on the side, and then both of them would have to think of themselves. Who would have thought that this trap would make Luo Youde easily step over, it seems that there will be such a bad trick in the future, and it can't be used on Luo Youde, you have to go and encourage Wen Nan first, that guy has learned a belly of knowledge, but his mind is empty.

"I don't know why it's a journey to the East, I've been to the Ryukyu area of Goryeo, Japan, and I've been there, but there's still a country to the east!" Not only is his brain active, Luo Youde also has more knowledge than most Song people, as soon as he talks about going east, he immediately knows what countries are in the east, and if he doesn't take out some dry goods, he can't be fooled at all.

"Brother Luo, you may not believe what I said. Tens of thousands of miles to the east, there is a large area of land with very, very few people on it, and a life of slash-and-burn farming. That land was larger than the Great Song Dynasty, Western Xia, and Mongolia combined, and it was not only vast, but also beautiful mountains and rivers, and rich in products. There is a kind of grain called corn, and one acre of mountainous land can produce four or five stones, and if it is good land, maybe seven or eight stones can also be used. This kind of corn is a good thing for people to eat, feed livestock, and make wine, if we get the corn back, will the Great Song Dynasty still be short of food? Do you still need so many people to grow food? Those who save can go to other things, such as joining the army to fight the Mongols! "Hong Tao is now obsessed, thinking about anything, he can't do without the Mongols, and he is more anxious than the Southern Song Dynasty, which is also a side effect of the prophet's prescience.

"Ahh Four or five stones! Seven or eight stones! I am towards the best acres, and when the year is the best, it is only more than two stones! (According to the records of Gu Qing's "Miscellaneous Records of the Autumn Pavilion" of the Ming Dynasty, Huating County produced two to three stones of rice per mu during the reign of Song Shaoxi, which was the area with the highest grain yield per mu in the country at that time.) Luo Youde listened to Hong Tao's words, and his eyes were about to pop out. Although he is not a grain merchant, grain is a financial lever in ancient times, and the annual harvest directly affects all walks of life.

"I never lied to anyone, and this crop called corn is very simple to serve, it doesn't need a lot of water like rice, nor does it need to be afraid of wind and rain like wheat, and it can be grown in most places, both north and south. In fact, there are two kinds of things, called potatoes and sweet potatoes! They have smaller land requirements than corn and have a greater yield, and I have heard of more than twenty stone per acre of land! Hong Tao actually thought of corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other crops native to South America, if they can be brought over and planted in the Southern Song Dynasty, it will be a fundamental improvement to the national strength of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In an agrarian society, once a certain amount of food is produced, social change naturally occurs. Because everyone is full, they can't sit idle all day to play online, so more demands will come out, and the commercial, handicraft, and even industrial base will immediately take shape. It's a pity that I haven't had time to go around South America, it's not that the hardware conditions are not there, at present, a sailboat like the Haibo is enough to do transoceanic sailing, and then I have my own navigation equipment, navigation experience, plus the understanding of the world map, compared with Columbus, Magellan's time The conditions are much better, and the danger is very small. (To be continued.) )