From this, Hong Tao suddenly remembered a question, if he found a way to bring the plague from Africa back to northern China, and then spread it to several large cities, would the Mongols really have no strength to invade south? But after thinking about it, this method is more immoral than blowing up the Yellow River, not to mention that it is impossible to carry these viruses over long distances now, even if there is, Wennan and they will not agree, and even the board of directors of Jinhewan will not agree. Besides, what if these viruses leak out in Jinhewan, it won't be suicide, so let's just think about it.

"Let's go back." As soon as he thought of the disease in Africa, Hong Tao dispelled the idea of going ashore to investigate in person, and there was nothing to see on the shore, it was all woods, and he was tired of seeing a scenery for several kilometers.

Don't need a supply point? Yes, but Hong Tao decided not to bother on the African continent, an area full of grasslands and woods that was not suitable for camping, and if there were not enough men, even if a supply point was established, a group of black people might have to raid their homes one day. Even if no one comes, the wildlife here alone is enough to toss the people left behind, and instead of being so dangerous, it is better to go to another place with a safer point to establish a supply point, this place was originally neglected by itself, and now I remember. Now that I've come to the waters of Mozambique, I'm not far from the island of Madagascar. The world's fourth largest island is not only large, but also far from the east coast of Africa, the population is even more sparse, the most important thing is that it has great development potential, and the island is very rich in natural resources.

"Uncle, there is a large piece of land ten nautical miles away on the port side, is it the Mada Island you are talking about?" Before evening, a signal came back from the lookout. There are new discoveries. Weng Ya rushed into the captain's room again.

"Probably not. It was an island called the Comoros, and there was an animal called the Comoros monitor lizard, which was very, very ugly, and it had a hara! So it's here, okay, we're in the right direction, and we'll be there by noon tomorrow. Hong Tao lay on the chart and compared it with a compass, but the distance was wrong. The island of Madagascar is more than 400 kilometers away from the coast of Mozambique in a straight line, and it is impossible to reach it in half a day. The island that can be called a large mainland should be the Comoros Island. It just so happened that the rabbit was beaten with grass, and this island was also poked out, and it was marked on the chart, so that the next time I came, I would save looking for it.

"Uncle, how do you know everything?" Weng Ya began to be a nymphomaniac again, holding her cheeks and blinking a pair of eyes, staring at Hong Tao's every move.

"My uncle learned it in school. So if you want to be like your uncle, you have to keep learning. When you are old, you will pass on what you have learned to the next generation. Okay, don't get tired of getting tired of your uncle here, Mercy has been laid off, you can play with him, and my uncle will help you watch the night. Hong Tao rolled his eyelids, for a girl like Weng Ya who is just starting to fall in love, you have no reason to talk about it, the only way is to treat them with a normal heart, and when their hormones decline with age, it will be fine.

At noon the next day, Hong Tao made Weng Ya's eyes have more admiration, because there was indeed a continent in front of him, very, very large, and the coastline could not be seen at a glance.

"Remember, this island is called Madagascar...... Don't ask me why I'm called that, because I didn't come up with the name, it's called that! Regardless of what Weng Ya and the lookout said, Hong Tao made sure that Wen Nan wrote down the island, and then sent three warships to the coastline at the same time to conduct hydrographic surveys, striving to find a suitable place to build a supply point as soon as possible.

Two days later, the supply point was found, in a large bay on the west coast of the northern tip of the island of Madagascar. There are rivers, high grounds, woods, and rocks, and if there is any downside, it is that the river is relatively shallow, and large ships like the Golden River cannot enter, but smaller ships are fine. The place had been found, and the work had just begun, and the sailors and the ship's craftsmen were brought ashore by boat, and began to set fire to the open space on the north side of the river bank with whale oil, burning all the trees and grass, and then they could build a rudimentary wooden village on the land that had been poisoned by the fire. Other sailors brought down the empty tanks of fresh water on the ship, set up improvised stoves on the shore, boiled the water in large iron pots, and sealed them with wax.

Of course, Hong Tao didn't have to do these jobs himself, he followed Langya's marines along the river to explore the way, and came back a day later, no human hair was seen, and a lot of animals were seen, and a few were caught. These animals are endemic to the island of Madagascar, and one of them, which has become extinct in later generations, is called the elephant bird.

This bird can't fly, and runs all over the ground like an ostrich, but it is so big that it is a story high, and it startles Hong Tao when he first sees it. Fortunately, Hong Tao's group of people also frightened the elephant bird, and it took a big stride and got into the mountain forest in a few jumps. In fact, even if it doesn't run, Hong Tao doesn't dare to catch it, who knows whether it is a vegetarian or a meat-eater, although it can't fly, but more than three meters tall rushes over, and grabs who with the thick claws of the trunk who can stand it?

Hong Tao understands the principle that thieves don't go empty, and he doesn't dare to catch elephant birds, so let's take the smaller animals to be angry. For example, a little monkey that is a little bigger than the palm of his hand should be called a lemur, and a chameleon who tries to change the color of his body on a tree branch and wants to fool Hong Tao's small eyes. Don't look at Hong Tao's small eyes, it is a spotlight, he saw a ghostly guy on the branch in the telescope from afar, even if it hid in a tree more than ten meters high, it still couldn't escape Langya's monkey-like dexterous tree climbing kung fu. After a while, the male chameleon could only crouch on Hong Tao's hat, cowering and not knowing whether to advance or retreat. The speed at which Hong Tao walked was simply too fast and exciting for it, and it was estimated that it was a little motion sickness.

Hong Tao plans to bring the lemurs and chameleons back to Jinhe Bay to help them, animals who will never be able to leave the island for the rest of their lives, find a new home. There were also five tortoises moving with them, and Hong Tao had no psychological pressure to bully these animals with no offensive power and no agile body. What kind of Nima alien species invasion, Lao Tzu is now letting the world's animals merge, not only to bring African small animals back to Asia to breed, and when there is work in the future, but also to get African elephants, rhinos, giraffes, and lions back to Asia, so that they can settle in the local area!

This is another evil interest of Hong Tao, he wants to see how those zoologists in the world will define the origin of a certain animal in a few hundred years, and by the way, create some difficulties for Comrade Darwin, and see if he can still write the theory of evolution. Not only did he have to embarrass future generations of zoologists, but Hong Tao had an even more fucked-up idea to put into practice, burying a large number of metal and ceramic vessels engraved with modern Chinese, English, and Latin all over the world, and hand-painting a few pictures of spaceships by the way. After a few hundred years, these things may be dug up by archaeologists, and then they will be dumbfounded!

The items are all from the 13th century, but the contents are all modern, as well as rockets and moon landing spacecraft, this Nima is an alien!

The reason why Hong Tao didn't do it now is just that he has been struggling with whether he should engrave his name on these items. Engrave it, in case your books are not immortal, these utensils will also help you to be known by future generations. But what if your books are passed down through the ages, and then you find your name on these items that have been buried for hundreds of years, will it cause misunderstanding among future generations and think of yourself as aliens?

"Uncle...... I want one to lie on your hat too, so give me one! Back on the ship, most of the sailors were not very interested in the critters that Hong Tao had brought back, but Martini asked if the lemurs could eat them and how they tasted, and after receiving a negative answer, he stopped caring about them. Only Weng Ya was envious of the chameleon on Hong Tao's head, and she felt that if she also had one on her head, it would definitely be very magnificent.

"Okay, this is only for you, you're female, it's female, just right! Don't kill it, it's still useful to go back to my uncle. "Hong Tao is so bad that he is at home, even Weng Ya bullied him, and in the end Weng Ya got that it was indeed a chameleon, but this chameleon is not like the one on Hong Tao's head, it can change many colors, because it is a mother, the color is the same as the bark, at most it becomes darker or shallower, if you don't move on your head, it is like a lump of poop.

As for whether Weng Ya was happy or not, Hong Tao told her again that this chameleon is still young and needs to be raised for a few years before it can change color, if Weng Ya wants to have her own small pet, then she has to be patient with it, so that it can be more familiar with the owner. Weng Ya didn't know that her uncle was so impersonal, and even the little girl was deceived, and she also felt that what Hong Tao said was very reasonable, so the captain of the Jinhe always had a lump of poop on her head, and she was quite beautiful.

Hong Tao only stayed at the supply point construction site on the island of Madagascar for more than two days, and when the Jinhe was replenished with fresh water, the three ships Jinhe, Guangzhou, and Haibo left the supply point and continued south, leaving Qiongzhou and Quanzhou to continue construction at the supply point. In addition, Hong Tao also gave the two captains who stayed behind a task, that is, to take advantage of this time to collect as much hydrographic data as possible in the waters around Madagascar Island. If you come across a village with locals, then don't be polite, everyone is caught working on the supply point construction site, the village is completely burned, no other ethnic groups are allowed to live on this island, it now belongs to the Jinhe Company. (To be continued.) )