However, at present, Hong Tao does not want to provoke too fierce conflicts, because this voyage is not only to do business, he is just piggybacking on this group of maritime merchants to run, and when he arrives at Cabalan Port, he will continue to take the fleet to the west to explore the east coast of Africa, this is what he must do, and the final destination is the Cape of Good Hope. As long as you occupy a suitable supply point at the Cape of Good Hope, the gate to Europe will be controlled by you, and the next voyage can use the Cape of Good Hope as the starting point, and run along the west coast of Africa into the Mediterranean Sea in one go.

"Sir, will I be able to go home next year?" Carl was the first person to tell Hong Tao the truth, he followed him the longest, and he understood many of his thoughts the most. Hong Tao couldn't bear to keep him by his side all the time, and he said at the beginning that he would send him back in five years, he has indeed tried his best to help himself in the past few years, and he can't be too greedy.

"If this goes well, you'll be able to return to the Holy Roman Empire the following spring, if it's still there." Hong Tao didn't know how to say anything good at all, the first half of the words were very encouraging, and the last sentence made Carl's eyes a little more worried.

"Don't worry, as long as your family is still around, you have the ability to make them glorious again, on your own. The two of us are friends, and I won't watch my friends be unlucky, but when the time comes, you'll have to introduce me to a few daughters of the Grand Duke's family, hehehe......" Hong Tao didn't know what the current situation of Carl's Holy Roman Empire was, but he just said it casually, but he didn't expect Carl to be really serious. Now Hong Tao is no longer the Tan kid who needs to work hard to prove himself to others, he is everyone's spiritual pillar in Jinhewan, as long as he is there. No one is worried about the future. As soon as he goes out to sea. There will be a layer of gloom in Jinhe Bay. Everyone was worried that he would never return, and that no one would know what to do. So his character who loves to laugh and play is very troublesome, and he often makes others sad for a long time with a random joke.

"What if...... I mean if! If my cousin or the Pope doesn't welcome our fleet, won't the sir turn the cities and ports there into flames? Carl's concern is not that the country is still there, but that Hong Tao's style of doing things. Every time you go on a long voyage. If he doesn't destroy a few cities and kill corpses everywhere, he basically doesn't complete his mission. Killing others Carl has no psychological burden at all, but when he thinks of Hong Tao going to his own country to go crazy, he doesn't feel very comfortable in his heart. Block it, Carl doesn't feel like it's possible, and there's no reason to stop it. Don't stop it, he is really ruthless, after all, it is his own country, this is not to lure the wolf into the house.

"I can promise you not to kill your cousin's people or burn your cousin's city. That's right. Not counting the Pope's people, your cousin doesn't deal with them anyway. Old card. In my eyes, you are not only my friend, you are also my partner, you are a native of Golden River, not a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire. I have to do everything that is in the interests of Jinhewan, because I am the chairman of Jinhewan, and there are thousands of people behind me waiting to eat with their mouths open. I hope you can understand me, whether you choose to return to your country or continue to be a Jinhewan person, I can only answer you like this. Hong Tao knows that he will face this problem sooner or later, the ethnic composition in Jinhe Bay is too complicated, and it will be more complicated in the future, if everyone has to take care of the psychological feelings, then don't do anything yourself.

"I understand...... Please give me some time to think about it again......" Carl probably knew that Hong Tao would say this, but after hearing it, he was still a little dazed, and he didn't know how to answer this question for a while.

"Think about it slowly, I'm not in a hurry, in view of the friendship between the two of us, I'll give you one more chance. If you really choose to stay in your country and don't feel well in the future, you can bring your family to me, or send me a letter, and I will take you back and continue to be the captain. Dude, this is the maximum I can promise you, and you should know that I don't want everything to be decided by me alone, and that may not be a good thing for everyone. I have to consider the rights of everyone, such as Lao Mai and Lao Wen, if one day they also propose not to let me punish the Arabs and Southern Song people who have encroached on the interests of Jinhewan, what do you think I should do? Hong Tao patted Karl on the shoulder, said it to death, and made an analogy between Martini and Wennan.

"You're an angel!" Karl gave a rating.

“…… Thanks for the compliment! It was the first time that Hong Tao had heard someone praise himself as an angel, and he didn't think that Carl would dare to joke about himself, although he thought that the angel sounded a little neutral, but he still laughed at it.

"It's just a black ......," I didn't expect Carl to dare to add.

"The black ones are also angels, and I prefer to be the colorful ones. Go back, you have a lot of new sailors on board, just train them more during the voyage, no matter what color I am, I must first reach my destination, otherwise you won't even be able to see home, and you won't be able to talk about these troubles, right? It's a pity that Carl's sarcasm is like a breeze on Hong Tao's face, and there is no strength at all.

"Sir, there are boats behind us, and they have been following far away since we hit the mouth of the Pearl River." After sending Carl off his flagship, Hong Tao was just about to talk to those maritime merchants, when Weng Ya came out again and reported her discovery in a low voice.

“…… Yaya, do you think that if they all drown, this account will be credited to my head? Hong Tao took Weng Ya's new-style telescope, opened two sections, adjusted the focus, and saw clearly the ships a nautical mile away. They are all Cantonese ships, a total of five ships, and it seems that they want to take a tailwind ship and go to the South Seas with the fleet. It's a pity that the leaders of those ships don't know what they are doing, and sailing with Hong Tao's fleet, if there is no navigator of Jinhe Bay on board, it is even more dangerous than sailing along the coastline at night, which is basically equivalent to suicide.

"Why do you blame my uncle? My uncle didn't let them follow, they were willing to do it, and they deserved to drown! "Weng Ya doesn't look like a little girl who hasn't married yet, but she is already as cold-blooded as Hong Tao, except for the people in Jinhewan, she thinks that the life or death of anyone in the world has nothing to do with her, it's better to be all dead.

"Yaya, you can't think like that, sometimes being a person is responsible, the greater a person's ability, the greater the responsibility. For example, if you were a sailor and the ship sank, would anyone blame you? Hong Tao patted Weng Ya's head, he already felt the shortcomings of his education system, but he was powerless to change it. Purely starting from interests and considering things with logical thinking, the inevitable result is that there is little emotional color, and to put it bluntly, it is cold-blooded. He can only find a little bit and make up for it, but in fact, this kind of patch is not very effective.

"I won't ......" Weng Ya didn't quite understand what she said was wrong.

"But you're the captain of the ship, and I have to blame you for any problem with this ship, isn't that the truth?" Hong Tao also tried to influence Weng Ya's thoughts.

"I'm the captain of the ship, of course I'm responsible for the battleship, but I'm not their captain, they don't listen to me, and they don't pay taxes to the Straits Company!" What Weng Ya said is also very reasonable, her ideas are more direct, simpler, and more simple.

"Yes...... Let the Canton turn back and tell them that we don't stop halfway, and their ship can't go on this route, so they should not follow. Hong Tao is self-inflicted, and he let his theory be refuted. He can't educate Weng Ya on this issue, and forcibly retrieving Weng Ya's thoughts will only make her mind more chaotic, so it's better to think according to a logic. But he couldn't watch several people on the boat drown in vain, Hong Tao still wanted to try as hard as he could.

The wishes are beautiful, but the results are cruel! After receiving the notice from the crew dispatched by the Guangzhou, only one of the five ships that followed turned to the west, presumably continuing to take the route of Zhenzhou Port and Dayue, and the other four followed the fleet from a distance.

"Herald, full speed! Dump them! "If this were the fleets of other countries, Hong Tao would keep the economy at the least effort until he brought them into the middle of the ocean, and then he would throw them off. But Hong Tao, a maritime merchant in the Southern Song Dynasty, had more kindness, and got rid of them in advance to save them!

"Uncle, you are not fair, just now you and Uncle Ka said that you should treat everyone fairly, this is the rule, and now you are going to break this rule." Weng Ya did not immediately carry out Hong Tao's order and raised her objections.

"Hey! Kid, you dare to eavesdrop in the captain's room! Do you think your uncle doesn't dare to punish you? Don't forget, you still owe me five buckets of water? Believe it or not, I changed the water to seawater? Hong Tao was petrified in an instant, Weng Ya was too right, he always asked others to follow the rules, but he himself took the lead in breaking the rules. I can't tell Weng Ya about this problem, Weng Ya and the others have never felt that they are Song people, and it's useless to say it, so they can only interrupt and fool this problem.

"The sea is the sea, I'm not afraid! My aunt said that you are fine anywhere, uncle, but you like to be with the natives too much. They are all bad people, they used to bully us, so I don't care about them! Lookout, give orders, fleet full speed! It's a pity that Weng Ya is not the original child, she is no longer so easy to fool, she knows that Hong Tao is fooling people, so she is very angry, after shouting, she turned her head and left with a hum, and she didn't even say hello to Hong Tao.

"Hey, you coward! I...... I ......" Hong Tao really didn't expect Weng Ya to be so bold, and he actually dared to throw his face at himself in front of a first-class wrencher. But he couldn't think of how to punish this girl for a while, on the whole, this female captain was already very well-behaved, and she was very worry-free, so as long as she didn't make a mistake of principle, Hong Tao generally scared and scared her. (To be continued.) )