Strengthening one's own naval strength is mainly stuck in the sailors, and the problem of shipbuilding is not a problem at the moment, but the number of sailors is not enough, and the fleet will not be able to expand. Capturing some hipsters back for training can only be a supplement, and their number is also limited, and it is impossible to replenish the number of sailors by capturing them forever. And they have boats, they can run, once they feel that this sea area is not safe, they row the boat and leave, and it is a question of whether they can be found next time. The fundamental solution is that Hong Tao has a belly case, and now leaving Kong Pei is to ask him whether his solution will succeed or not.

Kong Pei likes this person very much, he is a practical person, he doesn't talk much, but he has good ability and is very stable. In the port of Guangzhou, he let the boat help without authorization, but he and Bo Jiao did not commit it, and even Carl did not have this heart. In the battle outside the port of Malacca, he was also the first to ram those small boats with a ship, saving a lot of grenades. From these two points, it can be seen that he is a good captain, not only disciplined, but also good at discovering and using his own advantages, and more flexible in judging the form on the battlefield.

"Captain Kong, we don't know each other, I know that you still have family members in Dengzhou, and you may be implicated because I took you away. But this thing is going to happen sooner or later, I and the Mongols are natural enemies, and they I want to protect them to destroy, so if you don't fight this time, you will have to fight later, maybe your end will not be as good as now, this is the time and fate. I wonder, can you figure this out? If I can figure it out, let's move on, and if I can't figure it out, I'll ask someone else. Hong Tao didn't know how to communicate with Kong Pei, speaking of which, he should be regarded as his enemy, and he arrested people thousands of miles away. A family was torn apart.

"I don't know who to be. Liao? Golden people? Mongol? Song people? Or is it an adult...... Fortunately, the adults gave me a chance to be the captain of the ship. It also taught me a lot. I really don't hate it, I just complain that I was born in that place, and if my home was in the south, it would be much better. Kong Pei's answer is very philosophical, and it is also the common voice of Han people like him who have been ruled by foreign races for several generations, who should he hate or be grateful to? Hong Tao couldn't answer this question.

"If I promise you to help you bring your family over as soon as possible, can you have less resentment?" Hong Tao pondered. Let's do another good thing, not only to make up for Kong Pei's regrets, but also to make my own psychological balance and balance, it is difficult to just do bad things.

"My lord is going to Dengzhou!" Kong Pei is not like others, as soon as he heard that he could take his family over, he began to thank him without asking for details, he was more rational.

"Not only do I want to go to Dengzhou, but I also want to go to more ports in the north, with only one purpose. Snatch people back. I don't know how your family is doing over there, but if you think it's better to live in your hometown if you get it back. I'll grab less; If you think life in Golden River Bay is better than in the north, then I'll grab more. If I can, I can bring your family over first, but you have to tell me how to find them. In addition, with my current ability, I can only respond to it by the sea, and it will definitely not be possible to attack the inland, so I have to ask for your understanding. Hong Tao told Kong Pei about his plans, on the one hand, he wanted to hear his opinion, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see his attitude.

"Subordinates wish to ......" When he heard that Hong Tao was really going to pick up his family, Kong Pei was also excited, but his character is his character after all, and he can't change it easily, and he retracted it again after saying half of it. No matter what, Hong Tao won't let him return to Dengzhou with the ship, what if he defects on the battlefield? This kind of risk is not willing to take this risk even if he himself is in the position of Hongtao.

"You have to be willing, not just talking nonsense! Don't worry, I won't let you be the commander of the fleet, so there's no need to worry about anything, and I don't really believe that you can sacrifice your life to help the Mongols. But the trouble is how do you find your family, they don't happen to live by the sea, do they? "Hong Tao just talks about things, what kind of suspicious people don't need to be used, and there is no way to say this.

The fleet is a collective, and unless the captain has enough authority and connections like Bo Jiao and Carl to make the crew trust 100%, it is very, very difficult to make any small moves on the ship. Any unclear order will be questioned by the first mate, second mate, and boatswain, and if accompanied by other ships, it will be known to the other captains in minutes.

"Along with his subordinates, he was captured by two fellow villagers, whose families were craftsmen, and who lived in the artisan camp with their families. If the adults can let one of them go ashore quietly and sneak home, they can find a way to get them to the beach and get on the boat, and as many people can run out. It's best if their subordinates have this life, if they don't have this life, their subordinates will never resent it, it's all fate! Kong Pei proposed a highly feasible method, no need for Hong Tao to send people to attack, just need to respond.

"You can try, and when the time comes, I'll send a boat to cruise around the port of Dengzhou to attract the attention of the Mongols, so that they can escape a little better. But I have a question, if that fellow villager of yours is caught after going ashore, won't he give his life in vain, and the danger is not small, will he be willing to do it? Hong Tao felt that Kong Pei's method could be tried, the inside and the outside should be combined, there was no loss to him whether he succeeded or not, and he could also appease the homesickness of some of his subordinates. If you want to transfer a large number of Han people from the north to Luzon, your family will always be concerned, and if you can solve it, you will solve part of it, and you will show your positive attitude to some extent, and whether you succeed or not is secondary.

"If the adults are relieved of me, I will also voluntarily go back to the adventure, and the two of them are the same, life and death can only be left to the fate of heaven." Kong Pei's answer was somewhat helpless and tragic, he had lived in Jinhewan for more than a year, and he and his fellow villagers also had the opportunity to meet and chat, although everyone's identity was not yet an official resident here, but the living conditions were much better than their hometown. If they were to choose for themselves, no one would be willing to go back, let alone run away, but there would always be a concern in their hearts, that is, those family members who were far away in the north, but if they could give them a chance, they would also try.

"Okay, this is a nautical chart north of the Yangtze River, you take it back and study it, where there are villages and towns where craftsmen gather, and where there are more sailors but not much military strength on land, I will mark everything that can be marked. I can tell you what I'm going to do, I'm going to take them to Jinhe Bay as much as I can, and I'm going to come here with me to the four seas instead of helping the Mongols to fight my own people. What we lack now is all kinds of craftsmen and qualified sailors, you should be familiar with this aspect, I don't force you, if you think what I said is right, just do it, if you don't agree with my statement, you can not do it. I won't punish you for this, this is not an order, it is a discussion. Hong Tao picked up a roll of paper from his desk and handed it to Kong Pei. He has already decided that no matter whether the Tan family in Jinhewan agrees or not, he must start expanding the population, otherwise in another ten years, he will still have thousands of eight hundred people and seven or eight small boats in his hands.

But on this issue, Hong Tao does not plan to conflict with the Tan family, let alone slap himself in the mouth and make a statement in the board of directors. If you really can't convince them, it doesn't matter, Malacca, Penang, Phuket, and Ceylon all need to be garrisoned and built, as long as life is good, those Song people shouldn't be too picky. Send them all over, the best of both worlds, by the way, it is equivalent to adding a few more sub-bases to yourself, no matter where there is a problem in the future, you will not lose everything. It's all wrong...... Then what should you do, why go, spend half a day trying to make a group of people betray their relatives and leave, and live three lives in vain.

"My subordinates have thanked you for everyone...... "Kong Pei is not a person with a neat mouth, if it is replaced by Martini, Hong Tao is already a living Buddha at this moment, and he just held the chart scroll and bowed deeply to Hong Tao.

Slowly crawling over, swishing back, this is the ins and outs of Hong Tao's task force. With the last southwest monsoon of late summer and early autumn and the eagerness of everyone to return home, the laden merchant ships also ran and sailed east day and night. Spiritual power is something that can't be seen or touched, but it can be reflected in reality all the time. When they were doing supplies in the port of Malacca, those maritime merchants came to Hong Tao en masse again, and they actually asked Hong Tao to take them to sail directly back to the port of Guangzhou, without stopping on the way, the sooner the better.

2,500 kilometers, even if it is downwind, these merchant ships have an average speed of four knots at most, almost 170 kilometers a day, and theoretically need to sail continuously for half a month, but in fact it will only be more and not less. But they are not afraid, in order to be able to return to Guangzhou before other Arab merchants and sell the goods in their hands at a high price, as long as there is the slightest possibility, they will not let go. The hardships and dangers of the voyage were all forgotten, and everyone's pupils became square.

"Yes, if you are willing to die, I will bury it, let's go! My ship is piloting it myself! Let everyone see the unique skills of my Hong family! "For this kind of request for progress, Hong Tao never strikes, and must be encouraged. Taking this opportunity, it just happened to let the Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants see what accurate navigation is, and also gave them more confidence in themselves and the strait company. It is one thing to be able to sail back to Guangzhou directly, and it is another thing to be able to sail straight into Guangzhou Port without hesitation, without going around and without making mistakes. (To be continued.) )