"Hong Salamander, this port was built by your father, and it was just a small fishing village, not as big as the wharf of the West Maozhou School. You have to learn all your father's skills, his stomach is full of good things, and those girls who fight and kill don't learn, and they specialize in learning his ability to make money. "I haven't been to the port of Malacca for two years, but it's changed again, and now it's the day for the maritime merchants to return to the port, and the merchant ships loaded with all kinds of goods are lined up outside the port, and there are not only the merchant ships of the Straits Company, but also the small sea ships that run short distances. They traded between Southeast Asian countries, equivalent to second-tier traders at sea, buying goods from Southern Song merchant ships in Malacca or Kabalan, and then selling them to many remote places. Those places were too small for the big merchant ships to go once, and they provided business opportunities for these small merchants.

"My dad said the most fun thing in the world is not to make money, but to explore! When I grow up, I will drive a big boat like Sister Weng, walk through every place on the chart, draw everything we haven't seen, and put it in school to show the children! My father said that he wanted to get me a personal art exhibition, and painting a painting can sell a lot of money, which is faster than making money by buying and selling, and it doesn't delay playing...... "Hong Tao's personality is more like Bo Zhu, but with Hong Tao's father, it is impossible for her to be unaffected, Hong Tao has always led by example, and he is also whimsical and eclectic in educating children.

“…… You're really your daddy's best girl! Hong Salamander's words made Luo Youde speechless, these things obviously did not come up with by the little girl herself, you don't need to listen to the content, only listen to the general style. It was Hong Tao's idea.

At this time, Hong Tao was wearing clean clothes. Dressed up in five or six. Standing on the side of the boat and working like a robot. Needless to say, the merchant ships of the Strait Company are closer to seeing the rat flag on the sea than seeing their own father. On the one hand, the warships of the Strait Company and the Jinhe Company swept and swept away when they had nothing to do, and all the merchant ships and fishing boats suspected of piracy basically went to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish. On the other hand, when commerce is prosperous, rules are established, and there is a strong armament to ensure it, it is sometimes better to be a pirate than to make money by buying and selling, the cost is too high. Once caught, death is death, and there is no second way to go.

On the one hand, there is high pressure, and on the other hand, there is a way to live, and most of the people who are also businessmen and thieves have changed to serious business. In this case, the waters between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean will be much safer than before. The common people don't know what monopoly is not monopoly, and it is a good rule to make a good life for themselves, so everyone has more and more respect for Chairman Hong, who has no end in sight.

It's hard to get the copper coin flag, and you can't hang it around, and once it's found that it's not registered, it's treated as a pirate. The rat flag cannot be hung indiscriminately, mainly because the boat with the rat flag cannot be obtained by ordinary people. You don't need to check the registration, you can tell the real from the fake at a glance. But people at this time like to find a spiritual sustenance. On land, everyone believes in their own religion, and when it comes to the sea, no god or Buddha can compare to a copper coin flag or a mouse flag. As a result, there was a small trade in many ports selling rat Buddha, and they carved out of wood a big mouse with a big belly, a smile on his face, and a copper coin on his head, which was specially paid as a protector on the bow of the ship. This time, I saw the live mouse god, except for the merchant ships of the Strait Company, a large number of other merchant ships knelt on the deck, and there were also incense burners on the spot.

"Send a signal to the Port of Malacca that if they're okay, we won't be coming in." Hong Tao laughed so much that his cheeks hurt, people kneel down and worship themselves, although it is a little inappropriate for the living, but you can't fight for it, you should greet each other with a smile. Looking at the large number of boats waiting in line in front of him, he chose to avoid it, there were too many people, the scene was too chaotic, and it was easy to have accidents, this was his real idea of not entering the port, it was too chicken thief!

"Wait for you to come back, come back and go up to worship the grave of your father and brother, last year I asked them to bury all the corpses, and the names and surnames have carved tablets, and I am not in a hurry for a while." When she came, Hong Tao promised Jiang Zhuyi to go to the port of Malacca to grave her father and brother, but now she has to drag it out again.

"Can we still come back?" Jiang Zhuyi didn't dare to stand next to Hong Tao, he was a god at this time, who dared to stand next to God, if he didn't keep it, a female mouse god would come out in a few days to sell, ordinary people couldn't afford this treatment, it was too long-lived.

"Oh, I understand, no wonder you came to Guangzhou with Cixi so happily to get on the boat, you are planning to stage an outlaw elopement with me! In this life, you can't marry in the media, and you just want to go to the underworld to be a pair of outlaw mandarin ducks? Hong Tao has a lot of ghost eyes, Jiang Zhuyi sighed, he roughly sketched the thoughts in the girl's heart, and said it shamelessly.

"Brother Hong...... You'd better go to the cabin and discuss this without talking to the kids. Luo Youde once again refreshed his understanding of Hong Tao, I've seen shameless, I've never seen such shameless, it's okay to flirt, but don't do it anytime and anywhere!

"Don't be afraid, children should understand what kind of people their parents are from an early age, you can't teach your children to be honest, and then pretend to be a saint in front of your children all day long. To like is to like, it's human nature! Hong Salamander, are you willing to marry your sister Jiang home as a wife? Hong Tao didn't feel shameless at all, and he didn't avoid this question, and asked his daughter to also express her opinion.

"Yes! Then I'll have two dancing moms! "It's not that a family doesn't enter the door, Hong Tao has no virtue, his children are not far behind, Hong Salamander's face is among his peers, and it is also the thickness of the top.

"Phew! Lecher! Jiang Zhuyi was made red-faced, laughing or crying, so he simply shook his hand and ran back to the cabin with his head down.

"Daughter, remember, now they worship your father and me as immortals, don't believe it, it's all fake! When your dad and I can't give them enough opportunities to make money, they'll spit on my flag and throw rotten eggs. When looking at a problem, we should not only look at the surface, but also ponder the inner truth, that is, the essence of the problem. You don't understand this yet, but it's okay, you'll understand when you're a freshman, and now you just need to remember what your dad said. Whether others praise you or scold you, don't take it too seriously, those may be illusions, and only after figuring out the truth can you understand whether they are really praising you or scolding you! Jiang Zhuyi ran away, and Hong Tao felt that it was not enough to accept worship alone, so he simply picked up Hong Salamander and took her to experience this kind of scene together. This thing is not usually accessible to the human body, and it is easy to be confused by this atmosphere.

If the Port of Malacca and the Port of Penang were to be reborn and develop towards a large trading port like the Port of Guangzhou, Phuket is the second Golden River Bay. It has become the largest shipbuilding center in Southeast Asia, providing ship repair services for the ports of Kabalan, Malacca and Penang, as well as accepting orders for the construction of salmon-class cargo ships. Compared with the shipyard in Zhenzhou, shipbuilding here has a unique advantage and the cost is cheap!

Most of the cost of the ship is wood, and if the wood is cheap, the cost of the ship will be a lot cheaper. There are a variety of timber in Phuket to meet the needs of customers, which is the geographical advantage, and Zhenzhou Port cannot be compared.

Customers who want to make do with it for a few years use baraumu to build boats, which are as common as willow trees in the Malay Peninsula and Thailand, and are the first choice for small businessmen who are just starting out. If you want to use it for more than ten years, you can use golden-car wood with teak, these two kinds of wood are also abundant in the Malay Peninsula and Thailand. If you want not only to be durable, but also to pay attention to taste and class, then use rosewood from India for the interior, teak for the keel and mast, red sandalwood for the hull, and Pontianak iron plough wood for the accessories. Not only is the wood extremely strong and resistant to decay, but it also has a very beautiful texture and a good smell, and it is not a merchant who can never afford such a ship, and this thing can be passed on to future generations as a family heirloom. Ship maggots generally do not erode these woods, as long as they do not hit or sink, they will be fine for several lifetimes.

Few can afford such a ship, and without Hong Tao's approval, the shipyards in Phuket would not have used the wood to build for outsiders. After they are cut down from the deep mountains by the local natives, they are laboriously pulled to the sea to peel off the bark and soak them, and every six months, a big ship from Jinhewan comes to haul the wood away. They are all excellent materials for building large warships, and building merchant ships is wasted.

In fact, there are a lot of precious timber on Luzon Island, but it is very troublesome to cut down, and there are not so many people in Jinhe Bay to transport it out from the deep mountains and old forests. Interestingly, the timber imported from Southeast Asian countries is much cheaper than the Jinhewan itself, most of them are cut by local slaves and mountain people, a few steel knives, some porcelain, silk, can be exchanged for a lot of good wood, not long enough, not thick enough!

As a result, logging in Golden River Bay was completely stopped, and the slaves and residents who were previously responsible for logging simply switched to other jobs, except for temporary clearing of the surrounding woods for residential purposes, and most of the timber was imported from the ports of Malacca, Penang and Phuket. In fact, Jinhe Bay does not need so much timber every year, and if it is cut down at this rate, it will not take 100 years for the big trees in the Strait of Malacca to be cut down. But Hong Tao doesn't care so much, these timbers are not all reserved for the use of Jinhewan, more than half of them are sold to the Southern Song Dynasty merchants, the price is cheaper than they cut down trees in the Southern Song Dynasty, this is a very small part of the benefit transfer, the entire Southeast Asia, including the Indian Ocean surrounding countries, is Hong Tao in this way, their resources, wealth, little by little, unconsciously transferred away. (To be continued.) )