On this night, the north shore of False Bay was like a living hell, with miserable winds and howling wolves, and seabirds and seals fleeing their homes.

Hong Tao, Maitini, Cixi, Wen Xiaoqi, Qi Zu, and Xu Liangzhi, six people at or above the level of middle-aged uncles, lit a bonfire next to the dock. Shells, prawns, crabs, and other seafood are tossed onto hot gravel, covered with damp burlap, and covered with hot fine sand. This is a seafood barbecue method invented by local blacks, and since the whaling ship was launched, the seafood has become more and more abundant. Too much stuff was sometimes wasted, and the blacks, who had not even had enough to eat, were reluctant to throw away the seafood, so they gathered together and wrapped it in leaves, covered it with sand and grilled it over a campfire.

This was originally a lazy way to make do with improvisation, but unexpectedly, it was inadvertently made into a delicious dish. When the eating methods of these black fishermen were discovered by the craftsmen of the Jinhe Kingdom here, the craftsmen, sailors, and officials of the Jinhe Kingdom, who were relatively good at eating, began to improve the original rough cooking method, and finally changed it to a hot stone underneath, covered with linen cloth and hot sand, so that it could be cooked more quickly and avoid the sand from mixing with the seafood.

Eating hot seafood, drinking cold wine, blowing the gentle sea breeze, listening to the sound of the waves, and looking at the dense nebula in the sky, Hong Tao always felt that something was missing. After you are full of wine and food, don't you all go to the song hall to play with your life, and there is no lady to accompany the wine? This is easy to do, let Cixi find a few Japanese female slaves, as long as they are cleaned, they can understand Chinese or not. I didn't expect to talk to them about world peace, it was enough to applaud and pour wine into my mouth!

Emperor Hong's singing voice was easily not revealed, and as soon as it was revealed, everyone present immediately woke up half of the wine.

Another thing to say about the quality of his voice, the main thing is that the tone, lyrics, and music form he sings are very, very weird, no one has heard of it, and there are many words that he can't understand, of course, he won't think it's good, but because he is the emperor, even if he has abdicated, no one dares to stop it.

But music is infectious, especially among a group of rough old men who are staggering. When Hong Tao sang a relatively simple song, everyone forgot who was the emperor, who was the craftsman, who was the master, who was the steward, and there would be all kinds of accompaniment singing on the beach, and from time to time Metini and Cixi would think of their own language. The soft-haired seals resting on the beach were so frightened that they didn't dare to sleep, and from time to time they let out a few high-pitched protests, mixed with the howls of these people, which were not as good as the howls of ghosts and wolves.

Good times are always short-lived, and Hong Tao has no memory when he drinks anyway. When I opened my eyes again, it was already the early hours of the next morning, and the bonfire party was lying on the beach, with a few greedy blue crabs eating the rest of the seafood, and even one dragging a grilled squid from the side of Medini's mouth with large tongs. When this fat man finally sacrifices, he must also die by biting his fingers, and his mouth cannot be empty.

"Get up...... If you don't get up again, the crabs will eat your tongue for breakfast. "The beach in the early morning is very cold and damp, the young man can make do with sleeping here, he is about fifty years old, if he really gets cold, he will have to fall ill.

"Your Majesty, if we can get together next year, how about singing here again for the night?" Don't look at Medini as a big fat man, but he was the most shocked to wake up, and he woke up without Hong Tao's outstretched kicks, grabbed the blue crab that snatched food from his mouth and threw it far away.

"Cheng, we have lived for one year or less, maybe one or two less years. I haven't told you yet, a few days before I came, my godfather and father-in-law all left early in the morning and evening, leaving Huang Hai and Wen Laoer, and their eyes were not quite right. Even people are afraid of death, especially when they feel that they are approaching death day by day, and the older they get, the more afraid they are. I was scared, too, so I fled here. Let's go over there. After briefly responding to Martini's emotion, Hong Tao pointed to the beach to the east, and the conversation between him and Martini could not be heard by others.

"Karl just left a week ago, and if His Majesty had come a few days earlier, he would have been able to meet him." Martini understood Hong Tao's intentions, and at first he was still introducing to Hong Tao what had changed in Cape Town Port over the past year or so, and after the two of them walked out a few dozen meters, they immediately changed the topic.

"How are they in the sea, did Carl tell you?" Knowing that Carl was still alive, Hong Tao was much more relieved. As long as he is still transporting goods back and forth between the port of Cape Town and Europe, it means that the route from the Mediterranean to Sun City is still safe. As long as there was a constant supply of oil, the Cité Soleil side would soon be able to refine open-hearth steel, then enough artillery and muskets, and then one warship after another. These warships are the ultimate reliance on the Mediterranean oil route, Hong Tao never pins his hopes on others, and the area that is not under his control is not safe, even if the other party kowtows to call him his own grandfather.

"This bastard! In a word, I exchanged fifteen of my good horses, and I really wanted to tie him to the acacia tree and let the big ants here bite him alive! At the mention of his son, Medini couldn't help but complain to Hong Tao, and Carl bullied him again.

"Don't bother with him, your son's territory will definitely be bigger than him in the future, and you have to be next to him, when it's okay, you can take your son to fight over and make him kowtow and surrender, otherwise his little broken country will be destroyed." These two people's grievances and grievances Hong Tao is tired of listening, as long as they meet, this is the case, so there is no need to respond seriously.

"I'm not going to leave anytime soon, so if you can't make up your mind about something, just ask me. Although I'm not the emperor of the empire anymore, I won't sit idly by, but only for you, and I'll be less involved in other political affairs. "Every time he comes, he has to trouble Martini, Hong Tao wants to give him some compensation, he has nothing else, only a little bit of knowledge, and this is the only compensation he can give.

Martini, Wen Xiaoqi, and Qi Zu were all on the way, and the Governor still had a lot of government affairs to deal with, and the other two were anxious to report to the new department, and then use the resources here to start actually verifying the problems that Hong Tao was on the ship and what they said. Now the two of them are full of confidence and enthusiasm, because with Hong Tao as a think tank, they have the confidence to solve any problem.

Hong Tao was not as energetic as the two of them, and he felt a little tired after nearly a month of sea travel, so he slept until he woke up naturally every day, and then rode a horse to take Saifei and Senia to inspect his territory, sometimes letting Saifei pick up a hoe and do some farm work with him, and sometimes he accompanied their mother and son to the eastern hillside to paint the sea and the crops.

When the weather is nice, the father and son will also drive a small boat to the bay to put crab cages. This point Saifei got Hong Tao's genetics, and he likes to eat crabs the most in seafood. But Senya will never go along, she doesn't like the sea, and she doesn't like crabs with teeth and claws.

At the end of September, Xu Liangzhi loaded his cargo ship with Cape Town specialties and returned with dozens of boxes of cigars from China Tobacco. This shipload of goods does not need to be brought back to the Great Song Dynasty for sale, as long as it arrives at the port of Callamba, it can make a lot of money.

Out of gratitude to him for sending Hong Tao and his son to Cape Town from thousands of miles away, Martini used the power in his hands to approve a lot of in-demand goods for the Xu family. For example, fine ivory, rhino horn and seal skin, fine chili peppers and high rum from the outskirts of Cape Town, dozens of South African ostriches and domesticated Arabian horses, and of course, sparkling South African diamonds.

The ostrich was a wild bird of merit for Martini, who was fond of eating huge ostrich eggs, and in order to satisfy his greed, he caught a few and kept them. It turned out that this large bird was easier to feed than cattle and sheep, and the meat was quite good, and it was definitely enough to meet the needs of the inhabitants here. Ordinary people can't be allowed to eat whale meat every day, just to change the taste, so the world's first large-scale artificial ostrich farm opened in the northeastern suburbs of Cape Town.

Xu Liangzhi had never seen an ostrich before coming to Cape Town, let alone eaten ostrich meat and eggs. The first time I saw it, I immediately realized the economic value of this large bird. If you bring this kind of thing back to the Great Song Dynasty alive, you can also open a farm yourself, and use sugarbagasse to ferment it as feed and feed it, and you can make a fortune just by selling meat, not to mention the huge bird eggs.

As for whether the people of the Great Song Dynasty dare to eat this kind of meat, he thinks it shouldn't be a big problem. Because Hong Tao gave him a bad idea, he asked him to slaughter the ostriches and then remove the bones, and then press them together to form blocks, cook them with high-temperature steam, and then put them in a small jar and seal them with wax, just like the fresh water on the battleship, which can be stored for a long time without spoiling.

This thing, which Hong Tao called canned, can be eaten as meat and vegetables in ordinary times, and can also be used for military rations. Don't say what kind of ostrich meat it is, just say that it is beef pulled from the Indian peninsula or the big food country. As long as you don't say it yourself, who knows what an ostrich is. Then use the relationship and money to open the way, open up the relationship in the imperial court, and sell this kind of cheap and easy-to-preserve canned meat to the army and engineering troops, then there will be no worries about the sales of ostrich meat, and the amount of money raised will not be enough.

However, Hong Tao also solemnly reminded Xu Liangzhi not to invest too much money in ostrich breeding. The ancients have passed the clouds, and the family wealth is thousands, and the hairy ones are not counted! This ancient man must have been harmed by avian infectious diseases, and he would have gone bankrupt, otherwise he would not have such a profound understanding.

Poultry are very resistant to some diseases, and the speed of transmission is very fast, and when you find out, basically this group will be all infected, and a large number of people will die. In the future, there is no good way to treat it, only prevention.

(To be continued.) )