"I don't have a son, and I can't talk about it! I don't want to be the emperor's father, I want my son! Chen Mingen, who is usually very steady, didn't know which tendon he didn't deal with today, he raised his head and drank all the wine in the cup, staring at the red eyeballs, and actually called a board with a room of people, which was a bit of a posture that no one was convinced.

"Hey, I don't believe it, I can't cure you!" Before Bo Fu got up, Huang Hai jumped up, he and Chen Mingen are also in-laws, and they are old acquaintances, for fear that Chen Mingen will say something that will make Hong Tao unable to come to the stage, which will hurt each other's feelings. While shouting loudly, he pulled Chen Mingen out, wanting him to sober up first.

"Oops...... Uncle Huang, Uncle Huang, don't do it, don't do it. My grandpa drank too much, if he wants to say it, just say it, come, give it to me, I'll help him go back first, and you can drink it. Hong Tao couldn't sit still at this time and act as if nothing had happened, and he didn't want to drink and play with a group of old men, so he just took the opportunity to help his godfather go home. As for what Chen Mingen just said and what he thought in his heart, Hong Tao didn't care. The son is gone, and he is not allowed to complain, where is this reason. No matter how good he is, he is also a godson, which is different from his relatives.

"Xiao Tao, can we stop fighting in the future, this time Qi Hong is gone, if I catch up with you next time, then my old man will be left alone......" Chen Mingen's family lives next door to Bofu's house, a few steps away. When he arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Chen Mingen let the breeze blow and the wine was pressed down a little.

"Grandpa, I'm not fighting for myself, who likes to fight and play, but there are some things that are useless just by talking about it." Hong Tao can't promise Chen Mingen about this matter, not to fight? How can the Golden River Empire grow and grow without war? How to suppress competitors?

"You're the emperor, if you don't fight, you won't fight! Wouldn't it be okay for us to live our own lives right here? Why do you have to provoke others! Chen Mingen was very dissatisfied with Hong Tao's answer, and shook his arm to break free from Hong Tao's support.

"Grandpa, I can only promise not to let the flames of war burn to our Jinhe City. When Xiaohai grows up, I will personally teach him to read and write, go to school, and talk about the war later. Hong Tao didn't want to explain more to his godfather, and he couldn't explain it.

"Our little sea can't climb high!" Seeing that Hong Tao just didn't spit out, Chen Mingen was really a little angry, and turned his head into the yard. The courtyard door also closed, leaving Hong Tao outside alone.

"Alas...... This time it's really a mouse, and both of them are angry! Hong Tao's nerves are thick enough and his skin is thick enough, even if Chen Mingen pouts himself in front of outsiders, he will not have any mood swings. He's just a little tired of the Emperor's job. This seat is really difficult to sit in, it is almost a concentrated embodiment of the contradictions in the whole country, living in the whirlpool all day long, and even the family members cannot understand themselves.

It doesn't matter if others understand you or not. Hong Tao has to go on his own path, and he doesn't expect everyone to understand him. Since the people still like the emperor who can surprise them, let us take this opportunity to make more demands on the parliament. For example, additional investment will be made to build a flat glass factory, using dissolved tin as a hotbed on which the glass solution can flow and spread naturally. Since the tin melt can control the temperature, the glass solution will not cool down quickly, so the flat glass will be very flat. That is, the float glass production process of later generations.

In addition, he had to make a long voyage, nominally to inspect the construction of the port of Cape Town and the castle of Carlburg. In fact, the tribe that is going to the map goes to the appointment. It was already May 1241, and the time agreed between me and Tu was three months late, and coupled with the time spent on the journey, it was estimated that it would be more than half a year late. Tu is a dead eye, she firmly believes that she will go back, but she can't keep her waiting too long. That would be a shame for her as a tribal leader, especially as a female leader.

The parliament reluctantly agreed to Hong Tao's plan, and if it did not agree, it would not come to fruition, and no one could replace Hong Tao to inspect the development of overseas territories. This thing needs on-site guidance, and no one dares to say that they can complete this task.

But the Golden River has not been repaired yet. The new warship has not yet been built, and the council means to let Hong Tao wait until the end of the year before setting off, when the Sea King can be launched, and he will drive the new warship to inspect overseas territories.

Hong Tao couldn't wait that long, and he didn't have a good impression of the new warship, mainly because it was too slow. He did not have time to reject the council's proposal. At present, the port of Cape Town is undergoing large-scale construction, and many problems need to be guided by yourself, and if you delay the time, it may cause a lot of damage, so you must leave immediately.

Without the Golden River and the King of the Sea, Hong Tao would still be able to go. He is not a landlubber, he has to take a big ship to dare to go to sea, not to mention that there are still a few Jiao Shark-class warships to use, even if he is given a whaling ship, he can still run to Cape Town. At this point, no one dares to question Hong Tao's authority, everything on the sea is up to him, he is the territorial sea man of the Tan family.

At the end of May, Hong Tao alone took the map, which had grown to more than one meter long, boarded a Jiaosha-class battleship in the middle of the night, quietly left Jinhe Bay, and sailed towards the depths of the black sea. Just over half a month before he sent it, Luo Youde also left here with an armed cargo ship and went to the port of Cape Town, where he went to inspect the local cargo situation in the name of the chairman of the Straits Company. The Straits Company was already preparing to extend the trade route westward to the east coast of Africa, and since it was going to do business, it must first inquire about what was produced and what was needed, and he was going to do this on this trip.

On Luo Youde's ship, there were also more than a dozen craftsmen sent to the Port of Cape Town by the Imperial Metals Group, the Imperial Shipyard, and the Imperial Chemical Group to assist in the construction, and they were the second batch of technical backbones who were mainly responsible for the construction and commissioning of equipment in the local shipyards, smelters, forging factories and machinery factories, including Cixi's two nephews. The two of them have been working beside Wen Xiaoqi and Qi Zu, and they can be regarded as masters with good skills, and one of them is also Qi Zu's main assistant in the development of rifled guns.

On the surface, it looks like two ordinary voyages, but if you look closely, you can see that something is wrong. Before Luo Youde left, Cixi returned, plus his brother lacquerware, and the three of them muttered for several days, and then Ciqi's two sons and Bush suddenly took the initiative to sign up for the second batch of expatriate technicians. Originally, with their qualifications and positions, they did not need to go to the port of Cape Town so early to carry out infrastructure construction.

What is even more strange is that their supervisors are happy to approve their applications, on the grounds that the three young men have received the prime minister's approval in advance. And Hong Tao's rhetoric is also very reasonable, so that young people have the opportunity to be independent, and don't always limit them to a certain field, so as to give full play to their subjective initiative.

When Hong Tao's boat lights gradually blurred on the dark sea, the two figures slowly walked down from the second floor of the lighthouse on the south bank of the Jinhe estuary, talking quietly as they walked. When the lights in the lighthouse were turned around by the windmill, the faces of two men were gradually revealed, one was short and thin and obscene, and the other was moderate and had big eyes. These two faces are the top two most unpopular in Jinhe City, the police chief Ciqi and the big spy leader Cixi brothers.

"Your Majesty is far away, this gas lamp is really bright, you can see it from ten miles away." He liked the gas lamp invented by Hong Tao very much, and took advantage of his position to take the lead in applying for a few. At night, even if he is fine, he is willing to carry the lamp around the city a few times, and from a distance it looks like someone walking with the sun, but at this time the gas lamp in his hand is not lit.

"As soon as Your Majesty leaves, my heart will be a little empty, if you are okay here, I will go back to Guangzhou overnight." Cixi and his brother were the opposite, he didn't like anything too bright, and even when he walked in the sun, he habitually hid in the shadows behind others.

"Second brother, what do you mean, do you mean that Your Majesty doesn't plan to come back? What about charity and kindness! No wonder you don't let mercy go, it's worth it that my son is not a son! As soon as Ciqi heard Cixi's words, he immediately became anxious, grabbed his younger brother's collar, and asked in a low voice through gritted teeth.

"Let it go! Are there other people around who see us like this? I said, boss, how many times have you said you, why don't you change it? Don't listen to the wind or the rain, and don't be half-hearted to Your Majesty, the lives of our two families are hanging on Your Majesty. If Your Majesty is gone, the two of us will have to be arrested before dawn, do you believe it? Don't look at Cixi's small size, she is still a younger brother, but when he stared at his triangular eyes, Ciqi, who was taller than him, was also cold, and quickly let go of his hand.

"Can mercy go? Your Majesty is looking for a way back for everyone this time, except for the two of us and Boss Luo, no fifth person knows, what else do you want? You must keep your mouth shut in this matter, you can't talk in your dreams, as long as this news leaks, I will be the first to find you desperately! Cixi looked back and forth, left and right, and made sure that several of his subordinates were standing dozens of meters away, and after not hearing him and Ciqi talking, she warned Ciqi in a lower voice.

"Your Majesty still needs to find a way back? Could it be that someone is planning to rebel! Who is so bold? Why don't we ...... him first" Ciqi still didn't understand Cixi's meaning, and made a downward cutting motion with his hand, and the original majestic face instantly became a little hideous.

"Go, go, don't mess with me, where and where. It's not that someone wants to rebel, but His Majesty thinks that he can't control the country forever, don't you see those little guys who came out of the navigation school? All of them have eyes like sharks, and whoever gets in their way has to play with whomever they want, and Your Majesty is no exception. You don't understand this, today's incident should be treated as if it hadn't happened, and if there is any problem, we will talk about it when His Majesty comes back. "Cixi really wants to give his brother a kick, he has been a police chief for several years, but he doesn't even have this bit of political consciousness, it's really blind. But there are many things that he can't say clearly, and he is just guessing based on his feelings, and he can't explain them in detail with Ciqi, so he simply won't say it.

(To be continued.) )