With a few crew members and slaves, she could spend the day collecting all kinds of plants and insects, and then make specimens according to the methods taught by her father, and put them in the wooden box that her uncle carpenter had made for her to make for her. That's her wealth, that's what her father said. As for those animals and plants that are too big, you can't catch them or collect them, but it doesn't matter, you can draw them all and collect them with those specimens. Now there are several large boxes of Hong Salamander's collection, all of which are placed in the home of Jinhewan, and this time I will go back, it is estimated that I can add a few large boxes, and there are obviously many more animals and plants here than in my hometown, all of which have never been seen.

Jiang Zhuyi is more sensible than Hong Salamander, and she doesn't pester Hong Tao to ask to do this or that, that kind of behavior is stupid in her opinion, and it will make Hong Tao impatient. She will accompany Hong Tao every day to ponder those strange and ingenious things, so that she can not only follow Hong Tao quietly, but also get to know this man more closely.

For Hong Tao, Jiang Zhuyi has always felt very mysterious. He knows so many things, he has never seen such a person, let alone heard of it, as if he understands everything in the world, whether in the sky or on the ground. Many times she paid attention to confirm the answer that Hong Tao said, and the result was that eight or nine were not far from ten, even if they were not completely correct, they were not far off.

For example, the kind of baobab tree he encountered during the day, for example, a lot of common sense and state of life in the Great Qin Kingdom, whether he has been there or not, he knows it! And it's so natural to say. There is no sense of thinking in the slightest. It's like I've seen it yesterday. Many people treat him as a monster, a god, and a bad guy behind their backs. But Jiang Zhuyi felt that he was a man, and he could tell from the way he looked at himself. Jiang Zhuyi is not very skilled in how to deal with men, but she has some experience in how to deal with this man. It seems that the more he wants, the happier and more he likes it, and that's simple, so do whatever you want.

In addition, there is another advantage of following Hong Tao, that is, you can be teased by him anytime and anywhere. This man is very fond of laughing. And very bad! But it was this tone that made Jiang Zhuyi more and more inseparable from him, sometimes he was red-faced, but in retrospect, he felt very sweet.

Hong Tao's thinking is not as delicate as that of a woman, he is very busy, and he runs around from the boat to the shore every day; He was also very busy, estimating the situation in Europe, planning the future of Cape Town with Martini, and telling stories to the salamander at night to coax her to sleep while wild beasts howled everywhere. finally put her daughter to sleep, and just touched Jiang Zhuyi's bed. I fell asleep before I finished the massage for more than half of the time, and I had to pull hands for less than half of the time. After a toss and a half night, it passed, and even the spirit and body were busy together.

The Golden River was accompanied by more than 100 Golden River artisans, mainly in agriculture and smelting. The natural conditions of Cape Town are very good, and human resources are readily available, and it would be too wasteful not to develop the farm economy. Hong Tao plans to imitate what European colonizers did in South America, extract more value from black slaves, and turn the land of South Africa into a large plantation, where sugar cane and cotton can be planted as much as they want. Later, I will bring back the tobacco from South America, and then get some tobacco plantations, so that you can use Marlboro, Hilton, and Dunhill to export, this time even the name will not be changed, all will be sold back to you, and by the way, add the Great China brand, so that you can draw enough!

Smelting is another major development direction designed by Hong Tao for the Port of Cape Town, where there are so many minerals that tons of gold can be picked up just by picking them up in the river ditches, and there are more other ores, but no one explores or mines them, and only one magnetite is slowly producing ore. It's too far away from Jinhe Bay, and the ore is pulled back to smelt, made into iron, and then pulled back, and there are not enough ships, so it is best to deal with it on the spot.

The smelting workshop was initially built, and the forged primary iron products could become the fist products exchanged between Medini and other large African tribes. With these things, we can better attract the locals and let them discover more and better minerals. Then gradually upgrade the smelting and forging industry in Cape Town, and finally make up for the shipbuilding industry, making it the backup of Golden River Bay, even if one of them is missing, Hong Tao can rely on the other to continue to dominate the sea.

The most idle person during this period is Carl, who knows nothing but fighting and sailing, and has no interest in anything, just pinching his fingers every day to turn around Hong Tao, and reminding Hong Tao with actions whether it is time to set sail. The closer he got to home, the more anxious he became, and when he was really annoyed, he bombarded him on a whaling ship to contribute to the development of Cape Town, stipulating that he must catch three adult whales before he could continue to return home, otherwise he would be a fisherman in Cape Town for the rest of his life.

The most depressed person was not Carl, but Roude. This handsome old man of the Song Dynasty didn't listen to Hong Tao's persuasion, and ran to live in Martini's small building, but after getting drunk one day, he slept with a black maid in Martini. When he got up the next morning, he looked at the charcoal-like body beside him, and he was in the mood for suicide, and the drunken indulgence combined with excessive fright and the fatigue of the journey made him fall ill all of a sudden, and the high fever did not go away. Hong Tao is not a doctor, and he is at a loss without antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs in later generations. Medini, the second-knife doctor, was even more blind, and tried all the prescriptions he mastered, but to no avail.

Thanks to the good eye of the black maid, she ran back to her tribe and brought a great wizard or something like that to Luo Youde, and after a bounce, she painted Luo Youde with color, and then poured him a black liquid. Originally, Hong Tao was planning to hold a funeral for this handsome man, and he was discussing with Medini whether to set his grave under the pyramid, so that he could also be exposed to the light of the gods, and after death, he could be worshiped by the black tribe. As a result, two days after drinking the medicine, he actually woke up, and after drinking the mysterious medicinal soup for two days in a row, the fever actually subsided.

The grace of saving lives, a person as particular as Luo Youde will surely repay him. But he was rescued by a black girl, only 16 years old, the daughter of a local tribal leader. Give money, do Africans recognize the money of the Great Song Dynasty? Give something, what can he do to repay the grace of saving his life? Yes, give it to someone, under the two deceitful deceptions of Hong Tao and Medini, Luo Youde also has overseas connections, and he married a black girl as a concubine. On the day of the wedding, his father-in-law hacked a tribe captive to death in front of him, gouging out his heart and giving him and his new daughter-in-law a bite.

This is the custom of the local tribe, and it is still a very high treatment, so that Martini said that except for the wedding of the tribal leader, there is generally no such treatment, and it must be the head of the big tribe, otherwise the wizard will not give the execution blessing. Since it was someone's custom, Hong Tao and Martini pretended not to see it, and betrayed Luo Youde very unjustly. The two of them had been secretly having fun below, and now the ethnic problem in Cape Town Harbor was solved for the most part, and the servant of the gods married the daughter of the local tribal chief, and the relationship had risen to the level of blood. In the future, Luo Youde and the children of this black girl will inevitably be the king of this land, this is called royal blood, and the genealogy will be recorded from here, and it will be possible to make a Homeric epic.

"Brother Luo, can you tell me what human flesh tastes like?" Many days after Luo Youde got married, Hong Tao saw him and promised to ask this question. It's not a slap in the face, Hong Tao is really curious about what human flesh tastes like, but he doesn't dare to taste it himself.

“…… If you ask this again, you and I will be cut off! Every time Luo Youde answered Hong Tao's question with righteous indignation, but unfortunately it didn't come true once. It's broken, it's absolute, who takes him home, I can't count on Martini, in this matter, the black fat man is the accomplice, the culprit, don't mention it.

Hong Tao and his entourage stayed in Cape Town for more than a month before loading a boatload of bits and pieces and setting sail again. From now on, it is called a real voyage, and the 10,000 miles of sea frontier ahead is not completely unfamiliar to Hong Tao, but at least he has never sailed on such a sailboat under such navigation conditions. For the sake of insurance, Hong Tao reduced the speed to half at night, not in a hurry, the supplies are completely sufficient, safety first!

"Sit down, today we're talking about the Atlantic! If you look at the picture on the blackboard, this area of sea to the west of the African continent and the European continent is called the Atlantic Ocean. Why is it called this name, according to the convention, you are not allowed to ask, just remember it. "As soon as the two ships left the port of Cape Town, Hong Tao set up a small geography class on the deck, and the crew and officers of the two ships who were not on duty had to come to the class, and they would give lectures every morning and afternoon. Although Hong Tao can't talk too much about the principles of geographical structure, ocean currents, and climate, it is still necessary for everyone to simply understand their own environment.

"I haven't told you yet, Captain Karl, what questions do you have?" As soon as Hong Tao finished his opening remarks, Carl raised his hand.

"Where is the western side of the Atlantic? You said that the earth under our feet is a ball, so shouldn't its west side go around to the east side of Jinhe Bay, shouldn't it be called the Pacific Ocean? "Carl is a very serious student in his studies, and he knows the overall concept of the ocean and the continent best, which has a lot to do with the small talk with Hong Tao when he had nothing to do. At that time, he didn't know Chinese, and he could only understand it every day when he listened to Hong Tao's small talk, so he listened most carefully, and he remembered many things.

(To be continued.) )