"Ahh Yes, yes, the master is right, let Cixi be your big butler, and I will be the second, the second! Sure enough, as soon as Martini heard Cixi's name, the fat on her face twitched. What Hong Tao said is definitely not a joke, on the issue of who is Hong Tao's first dog leg and who is the most loyal to Hong Tao, Cixi is absolutely indispensable, whoever dares to rob him, he will fight with whom.

"But you burned all the ports along the way, who else did the maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty do business with? Who would dare to do business with us? Later, when everyone saw that our ships had run away, would they sell the goods to the monkeys! "Luo Dacai is not so easy to fool, the question he thinks about is very realistic, if you do business on equality, if you come with a cannon and force people to do business with you, won't you run if people can't beat you?

"Oh, uncle, your thinking is too old-fashioned, you don't know how those Pu families did business here? Come, Lao Mai, tell your uncle about your business experience again, and if you dare to tell the truth, I will send you back to Pujia Lane in Quanzhou. Hong Tao made Luo Dacai say that he didn't know how to explain it, why are these Song people so dead-eyed, they can't do business when they have weapons in their hands, are they really angels? There are also black angels among the angels!

Hong Tao didn't intend to explain this question to him, Medini was enough, the Arabs had been playing the trick of abacus with one hand and steel knives with the other, followed by a bunch of religious elements, and had already expanded their sphere of influence to the Strait of Malacca for a long time. If it hadn't suddenly appeared, in another hundred and ten years, the South China Sea would have to be occupied by them. This was also true in later generations, and the world's largest Muslim country was not in the Middle East. It's in Indonesia. Most of the maritime nations of Southeast Asia are Muslims. After so many years of European colonization, it has not changed, and this is the solid foundation they laid in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.

Hong Tao himself does not believe in any religion, he has no likes or dislikes for any religion, and anyone who gets in his way is an enemy. In terms of the aggressiveness of the existing religions in the world, Buddhism was excluded in the first place, and Taoism was more honest and did not advocate expansion at all. Only Islam and Christianity will inevitably be stumbling blocks in his way. As for how to deal with these two behemoths in the end, Hong Tao hasn't thought about it yet, anyway, he can't run away in the end, on the one hand, there are strong ships and cannons, and on the other hand, he is trying to win over and divide, and provoke them to attack each other within the religious factions, and he will stand aside as a referee. Whoever is weak will be given a blood transfusion immediately, whoever is strong will be beaten, and whoever does not want to fight must be replaced by someone who wants to fight more as the leader, and it is necessary to let this struggle continue for a long time and fiercely, once they no longer fight with each other. Then you're going to be out of luck.

The negotiation process on the shore went smoothly, judging by the flags. Wen Nan completed the task given to him by Hong Tao 100%, and also helped Hong Tao win more, the stone fortress on the side of the dock was not only built by the king here, but also the supply of the staff of the Jinhe Company who was responsible for guarding the fortress in the future was also borne by the king. The king also demanded that the Great Song fleet be stationed in the port of Malacca, not too many, but one would do, and he was willing to give up half of the palace to the crew as a dormitory. 、

The land was ceded, and the wine and beauty didn't say anything, and they didn't need to be commanded, and they were sent out of the city. However, these kindnesses made Hong Tao refuse, first of all, he didn't like those beauties, the king here tasted a little heavy, and the beauties sent were not less than 150 catties. Secondly, he was reluctant to give it to his subordinates, not for any discipline, but for fear that the crew would contract some unspeakable disease.

"Well, tell him that I agreed, and my people will not only not enter his inner palace, but also the city, so that he can rest assured. But there is one thing, let him send someone over quickly to clean up the dock, I will only give him one day, if he can't dock and replenish tomorrow, my people will not be able to control it! After listening to Wen Nan's report, Hong Tao added another one, since there is free labor to use, then don't tire your sailors, leave the matter of cleaning the dock to the locals, let the sailors rest for one night, and there will be a battle tomorrow morning.

Still fighting? That's right! Hong Tao plans to send the Buddha to the west and help people to the end. Those who attacked the port of Malacca have inquired clearly, it is the country of pigs, they have two strongholds in the Strait of Malacca, one is called Penang, this name is familiar, it is not Penang in Malaysia in the later generations, it is like Hong Kong Island, it is an island very close to the Malay Peninsula.

The other is called Pirate Harbor, and the location marked by Moon Nam should be Phuket, Thailand. This place is more familiar, and there are not only minerals on it, but also tin ore! There is also a very special resource that reminds Hong Tao of a nation called the Chaoren. Anyone who has been to Phuket in later generations will see or hear that there is a water people here who are very similar to the Tanka people, according to the Thai pronunciation, they are called Chaoren. These people also lived on ships all their lives, and with no nationality, no hometown, or even no writing, they made a living by fishing for seafood and being pirates. In the eyes of others, they are pirates, but in Hong Tao's eyes, they are natural sailors, and if they can make use of them, their own manpower problems can be well alleviated. The number of people in this group is not very small, and it should be no problem if you can't catch thousands and catch hundreds of people.

And Hong Tao feels that it seems to be a little thin to rely on a port in Malacca to hold the entire strait, since someone has sent it to the door now, well, Phuket is too big to occupy by himself, but this Penang Island is not difficult at all, it is said that the pig people have built a wharf and a boat repair workshop on it, this Nima is not prepared for himself, don't be unsuitable. What surprised Hong Tao the most was that there was also a small city and a small kingdom on the coastline opposite Penang, and the king there and the king here were cousins, and the relationship was not bad, and it was a strategic alliance. The reason why the pig people came to attack the port of Malacca was because the king of Malacca sent troops to help his cousin over there resist the pig people, but he was not only defeated, but also hated by the pig people.

I heard that the Great Song Dynasty Shenbing wanted to help his cousins recover the land and drive away the foreign invaders, and the king of Malacca personally ran to the dock to kneel and kowtow, and Hong Tao didn't let him kowtow in vain, since he came, then get on the boat and go to see together, less than 500 kilometers away, counting the battle, it will only take three or five days. What the? If the king can't leave, it doesn't matter, it's okay to find the most trusted minister, it's not for you to go to see it in vain, wait for Penang to be knocked down, and the pigs and people will be driven away, just talk to the king, and build a stone fortress in Penang. In this case, there will be two fixed supply points in the Strait of Malacca and Penang, and warships will be stationed in the future, one south and one north will shine, and the distance between them will be only one or two days, and they can support each other.

Hong Tao only took four warships to the expedition, leaving Bo Jiao and two ships to escort the cargo ships to dock one by one in the port of Malacca for supplies. In fact, the four ships are redundant, there are basically no people in the water barracks of the pig people on Penang, they attacked Malacca, but not a single ship came back, and the remaining 100 people in the stockade were waiting for the news of the triumph of their army, but they didn't expect to wait for four huge ships.

This time, Hong Tao did not choose to attack immediately, but first went to the other side to send the king's ministers to the dock, and asked him to find the king and his generals here. This was done for a purpose, Hong Tao did not want his sailors to go to the mountains and forests with harpoons and crossbows to hunt down the remnants of the enemy, instead of directly attacking the water village and scattering them all into the mountains of Penang, it was better to scare and scare them first and let them run out on their own.

Sure enough, after the next night, the water village was empty, and the pigs in it all ran away by boat at night, probably seeing four big ships coming from the east, and having contact with the king here, knowing that the general trend has gone, it is better to slip away first. Unfortunately, they miscalculated, or rather underestimated the speed of the battleship, and it only took half a day for the four warships to chase them back, and when the lookout found the five sailing ships in the binoculars, they had no possibility of escape. There are also no shallow tidal flats to exploit here, and Hong Tao has completed the basic mapping of the Strait of Malacca, and if you look at the data alone, he knows more about this body of water than these natives who were born and raised here.

Hong Tao did not give any more orders for indiscriminate attacks, but only sank the first brig, stopped the shelling, and forced the pigs on the other four ships to surrender themselves. The way of surrender is very special, first let the ministers of the king of Malacca shout, let the other party jump into the sea one by one, whoever does not jump is unlucky, and the small iron ball will immediately swish and fly over. On the one hand, this is to save grenades, on the other hand, it is also to save resources, these pigs can be captured back as slaves, and their boats can be left for the use of the left-behind personnel in the ports of Malacca and Penang, although Hong Tao does not look at this kind of slender and slender small sailboats, but there is better than nothing, waste utilization. At present, a shipyard in Jinhewan alone cannot take into account the construction of large ships and small ships, and once the construction of real double-decker warships begins, it is estimated that within a year, no other ships will be produced.

In addition, Hong Tao has another purpose, which is to arrest the translator. The people on his ship did not understand the language of the Indian Peninsula, and Metini could only make do with a few sentences, which was not yet a lingua franca. If you want to plunder talents here more efficiently, such as slaves who can build ships and make iron, you need to find a guy who can speak Srivijaya and Peninsular Indica, and bring an interpreter from the port of Malacca, so that through two layers of translation, you can convey your own meaning. (To be continued.) )