Hong Tao didn't go to the governor's palace in Medini, it was full of his family, and he had to toss to make people uneasy when he went, which was boring. And I don't have time to rest, I finally come to Cape Town, and I am about to leave, and the new factories and new settlements here must be walked around, and the imperial craftsmen must also go to greet them, which is the work that an emperor must do.

Cape Town's factory precinct is much more imposing than Golden River Bay, thanks to the vast land and lack of primeval forests, so you can design whatever you want, without having to think about polluting the city or the lack of labor. So it can be built as big as it can, and even leaves room for future expansion.

The entire Cape Town port area to the north, ten kilometers away, is full of melting pots, I don't know if Martini got so much iron ore, anyway, whether there is ore or not, iron-making and steel-making furnaces were built first, and I can see how much labor is wasted!

What worries Hong Tao even more is the whale oil refinery and the petrochemical group's factory, looking at the fractionators and cooling towers all over the ground, Hong Tao's mind comes up with the eyes of the whales before they die. To run half of this equipment, at least thirty whaling ships are needed to hunt whales all year round.

Back then, I just wanted to use whale oil as a stepping stone for development, but now it seems that I have made a bad start. Not only the ports of Cape Town, Kalamba, and Malacca are vigorously developing the whaling industry, but even the Great Song Dynasty and Japan are also involved in the whaling industry.

By this time, Hong Tao was powerless to stop others from devoting themselves to this highly productive industry with joy. This is the trend of the times, it is inertia, no one can stop it, can only let it develop with the trend, when can it stop, it doesn't matter what you say.

During a visit to the machine factory. Hong Tao saw dozens of black employees adding flintlock devices to a batch of flintlock smoothbore guns. The workshop here is set up like an electrical production line in later generations, with one or two parts installed by each person, which are then passed on to the next station by a conveyor belt. The workers are like robots, they can only keep their heads down and do their work, looking up and looking around, there is no time for them to stop. The following process also had to be stopped.

They are paid piecework, and the more they work, the more they earn. Hong Tao was quite proud when he designed this process, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he didn't feel happy at all. I am the Foxconn of the thirteenth century, and I live by sucking the blood and sweat of these workers. These blacks are happy now, but in a few years, they should be depressed. In this kind of very fragmented position, you can't learn anything in your life, so you can only do this until you can't do it.

And that belt is even more interesting. It's made of whale skin, and it's all about the reels underneath, so it's not much different from the conveyor belts of later generations. But in essence, they are turned by human power, and there is a special room outside the workshop that is the power room, and there are several large wooden winches in it, which are propelled by five slaves. If you get tired of pushing, you will change to the other five, for a total of four groups. Take turns pushing from dawn to dark. It's exactly the same as a donkey that turns the mill.

"Why don't you drive it with a water wheel?" Hong Tao knew that these blacks were slaves, people who should be killed in tribal wars. But he wondered, next to the river, wouldn't it be good to build a waterwheel instead of manpower?

"It's not time to build it yet...... In fact, they are all consumables, losers of the Great Tribal War. Let them go out and farm, and they will run. If you don't get it right, you have to hurt people. It's best to put them all here to die and then change to another batch. The equipment that can be propelled by human power in the factory has almost been changed to human power. Our tribe to the east is always expanding, and many of these slaves are sent every year, and I can't afford to keep them all......" Medini casually perfunctory. But when he saw Hong Tao's eyes, he knew that he hadn't been perfunctory, so he had to tell the truth.

"Is there no possibility of taming? Do you have to kill them all? Hong Tao understood that this was not Martini's cruelty, the reality was like this, they couldn't manage this land without Maitini dying. We can't let the tribes in the east stop expanding, if they don't fight others, others will have to come and fight them. However, in line with the principle of dying less if you can die, and saving one more person without affecting your own development, Hong Tao still put forward higher requirements to Medini.

"It's very costly, and as long as their tribe isn't wiped out, they're always trying to run back. I'm going to have more men to watch over them, and they've got to be strong. Medini didn't dare to say it, but just told him about his practical difficulties and let Hong Tao figure it out for himself.

"Load the ship, transport it back to the port of Kalamba, continue to be slaves, give them a way to live. It's too cruel to die of exhaustion like this. When they arrive in a new place, tell them that they will never come back, and they probably won't run away to find some tribe. It's really not possible to be a mercenary for the maritime merchants, go to the desert to fight, and you can still make some money. "The practical difficulties raised by Medini are indeed very difficult to solve, these prisoners of war cost less than using machines and livestock, and life is a burden, and Medini has no very good way to deal with them.

Hong Tao has a way, but he doesn't want to use it, the matter of catching slaves is the same as whaling, as long as he opens his mouth, he can't close it. But now the question is in front of Hong Tao, do you plan to save these people in front of you, or do you want to insist on this opening? Choose one of the two! In the end, Hong Tao still chose the former, save one and count one, and leave the future affairs to future generations to solve. Even if they write themselves in the history books, saying that they are the most despicable slave traders and pioneers in the world, they can't see a single word, so they can write whatever they like.

"Well, I'll replace them with cattle right away, and then load the water trucks. Your heart is still so kind, better than ...... "Martini doesn't want to be a bad spirit, but he has no other way, and now Hong Tao has thought of a way for him, he naturally won't refuse, not only does he not refuse, but he also has to praise Hong Tao a few words."

"Stop, after so many years, your old problem still hasn't changed. Are these guns sold for export or for domestic sale? Hong Tao waved his hand. I saved people, but I couldn't be happy, things in the world are so weird. To dispel these worries, he picked up a finished rifle, took aim, and then looked inside the barrel, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"It's exported, the machinery factory has just been in operation for a year, and most of the time is spent training workers and trial production products. This is the first batch, and it will be sent back to the empire at the end of the month, and Qi Zu is in a hurry. "Martini doesn't really understand what a rifle is, so he'll do whatever he wants. In fact, these factories do not belong to his full management, they are all in charge of the various ministries of the empire, he is a landlord, and he will complete the task if he takes care of the people and equipment.

"Well, the export is okay......" Hong Tao was relieved, if anyone dared to issue this batch of guns to the imperial army, he would fight out and not return to the Americas this time, and he would have to go back and shoot all the relevant personnel! What kind of quality, the barrel doesn't even bake blue, and there are burrs in it, so you dare to package it and leave the factory!

"I heard that you used this musket to build an Imperial Army, and you went to war, three hundred against a thousand, and beat the other side to pieces. But I tried this thing, and I couldn't hit it 30 meters away, I couldn't hit a rhinoceros, and I didn't have a good shot yet, so I didn't have a trick up my sleeve? "Martini had apparently used a musket to hunt rhinos, but fortunately he didn't just take a musket with him, otherwise he wouldn't have returned.

"Hahahaha...... It's not so evil, what three hundred against one thousand, it's all rumors. The number of people is about the same, and the other party has never seen this kind of weapon, so it will suffer as soon as it comes up. But don't underestimate this thing, the more it is, the better. Ten men with muskets and ten men with knives fight against each other, and those with muskets will definitely lose. If it's a hundred against a hundred, the musket might win. A thousand against a thousand, the musket is guaranteed to win, and it is a complete victory. In the future, you may also be stationed here in the Imperial Army, so it's good to go and see them train more. Besides, what I invented, you dare to say that it doesn't work! "Thinking about the appearance of the big fat man being chased by a rhinoceros, Hong Tao is extremely happy, and he dares to fight the rhinoceros with a musket, which is really fearless for the ignorant. However, Hong Tao doesn't want Martini to have any misunderstanding about the musket, this is the development trend, as a leader must agree, what if you don't agree? Then use unreasonableness to make him agree.

"Don't dare, don't dare, I'll practice shooting every day from now on, and if the Imperial Government agrees, I'll replace all the guards with musketeers." Hong Tao's unreasonable way worked very well, and when Martini heard the last sentence, he immediately agreed.

On the third night after Hong Tao and his party arrived in Cape Town, a string of beacon fires suddenly ignited from the east, which was used to call the police in the Great Song Dynasty, and when they arrived in Cape Town, there was an enemy situation in the east!

The beacon fire was the signal, the clarion call for battle, and the whole Cape Town was instantly busy. Groups of black soldiers, dressed and armed on ships, prepared to go east to support the local tribes who had defected to the empire to defend against the enemy, and the rest began to wait on the defensive line on the east side of the city. Unfortunately, the only three armed cargo ships in the port of Cape Town had just set sail at noon, pulling hundreds of slaves to the port of Calamba, and there were only a few small boats and one warship left, which could not transport so many soldiers at once.

At this time, Emperor Hong stood up and solved the problem for the governor of Medini, isn't the King of the Sea parked in the harbor, it can be loaded, four or five cargo ships on top of a ship, and the force is also strong, just enough to act as a troop carrier. The emperor agreed, whether it was the first mate or the local imperial officials, naturally they could not object, and they had to praise this emperor for his dedication to the country, and even gave up his own ship.

(To be continued.) )