"......" Cixi and Medini can only express their position in silence, this kind of thing can't be made up nonsense, where is the identity of the emperor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Don't say that you don't have a personal relationship, even if you have secret contact with foreign ministers, this is a very serious political issue, not only Hong Tao understands, but also imperial officials should understand.

"How's the situation at the port of Cape Town, and when will the transfer of troops begin?" Although he knew that Hong Jinhe was playing with fire, Hong Tao was beyond his reach, so he should take care of the things in front of him first.

"Boyu has only been in office for more than two months, and the conscription order has just been issued, and it will take some time to implement it. If you count the time spent training and equipping weapons, I estimate that it will take about half a year before we can set off. The chieftains here don't trust the new governor very much, and they don't have the strict institutional rules of the empire, just notifying these chiefs is enough of a headache for the fish. ”

Although Cape Town was an overseas territory of the Empire, its political system was completely different, saying that slaves were not slaves, and that feudal was not feudal. If the position of governor is said to be powerful, it is really big, and he can manage everything, and if it is small, it is pitifully small, and the decree cannot go out of the city. Because of the size of the city, the inhabitants outside the city still lived in ethnic groups, and the chieftain was equivalent to the subordinate officials of the governor. But they are spread over hundreds of square kilometers of land, and some ethnic groups live in different places when they are fine, and those who are not particularly familiar with them have a hard time finding these camps.

If you want to be the governor of this place, you have to be like Martini, make it your home, and fully integrate with the locals. He married so many local black daughters-in-law, in addition to being lustful, the main thing was to strengthen the emotional bond between himself and the local large ethnic group through marriage. However, Boyu had just arrived, and he was not familiar with the situation here, and the imperial government hurriedly transferred Martini away, without even a formal handover process. If Boyu wanted to manage the port of Cape Town according to the same method as Golden River City, even if he had a strong enough army to back him up, he would have to fight hard for several years.

"Well, then it's half a year, which means that I still have half a year to find a way to save Da Song, and the time is a little tight......" Hong Tao is a little difficult, if things don't come, they will come together. The affairs of Flanders and Hanseatic on the European side have not been resolved, and the hometown side is about to fight again. It's only half a year in total, so which side should I take care of first?

"Your Majesty, why do you have to save the Great Song Dynasty? There have been many people who have asked this kind of question privately before, and there are people around you, but I have never reported it, can you give me an account this time? Cixi really couldn't figure out why Hong Tao liked the Great Song Dynasty so much, and she really spared no effort to pay for the Great Song Dynasty, and sometimes she was even more concerned about Jinheguo, what does the Great Song Dynasty have to do with Hong Tao?

"Lao Mai, do you also have this question?" Don't look at Martini who doesn't squeak, but his little dripping eyes betray his heart.

"Hey...... It's a little. I don't know much about the Great Song Dynasty, only to Quanzhou and Guangzhou. It's a good place, and it's said to be huge. "Medini let Hong Tao say his thoughts, and he didn't defend himself, he really didn't have any specific concept of Da Song, let alone likes and dislikes.

"I never said that I wanted to save the Great Song Dynasty, that court is not worth saving, if I had to choose, I hope to hang them all, and not a single one will be left. It's a pity, none of us have this ability, if we want to kill the Great Song Dynasty, we must first kill the Great Song people to the point of blood. ”

"At the beginning, I thought of a way, maybe I didn't need to kill too many Song people to replace their court, but this method is a bit slow, I have been careful for more than ten years, and it has just worked. If I go back and kill so many people at this time, I haven't been tossing for nothing for more than ten years, and I am unwilling! ”

"In addition, my ancestors are all Han Chinese, to put it mildly, I don't want to kill in the land where my ancestors lived, people have to have a sense of awe. In fact, even if they are not Han Chinese, is it really appropriate to kill tens of millions of people at once, just to occupy a place that is not too important? After a few years, at most a dozen years, I don't think there's anything wrong with letting this place automatically come into my hands. ”

Hong Tao is not a nationalist, otherwise he would not have come out with a Jinhe empire with a very complex ethnic composition. It's not that he really can't bear to kill too many people, hide in North America and endure it for a few years, and then come back and feel nothing, too many people are just a number.

This time he didn't tell the truth, or didn't tell the truth completely. He has always protected the Great Song Dynasty from being harmed by others, because the Great Song Dynasty is an important experiment for him, and everything he has done over the years, including the establishment of the Jinhe Empire, is actually preparing for this experiment. He didn't want anyone to stir it up until the results were clear.

"I understand that if my children and grandchildren see someone harming the Empire, even if he is not an Empire, he will not be happy. I'll go back and think about how to make it a little more difficult to park the fish and delay it for a few more months. If it doesn't work, I'll let people secretly poison him, not poison him, but don't feel good, I don't know if the empire has to appoint another governor here, and it will take at least two or three months to come and go. When the new governor comes, he will have to refamiliarize himself with the situation here, and it is estimated that it will be delayed for another four or five months. Cixi felt that he could understand Hong Tao's obsession, he himself did not have a concept of the country before, and only after Hong Tao was caught in Jinhe Kingdom did he understand the importance of the country. It's an organization that can protect itself, and of course, sometimes you have to pay for it.

"Don't! It's not fair to mooring the fish. He's a good boy and can't torture him like that. Of course, Hong Tao hoped that the time could be delayed a little longer, but he did not agree with Cixi's approach. Bo Yu and Po Shrimp were all brought up by him since he was a child, and the time spent with them was even longer than with Hong Jinhe and Sai Fei, if he dealt with the two of them like this, he would be too ruthless.

"Your Majesty, I have a way to delay time! Many tribes have the habit of fighting foreign wars to grab land and population, and once a fight starts, no one can stop them, so they can only choose to join or watch. If it is a large-scale melee with several tribes joining, it is estimated that it will take several months. At this time, even if you come to recruit soldiers yourself, I will not be able to gather that many people. The samurai of the tribe have all gone to the battlefield, and they will never come back without distinguishing the winner or loser, and admitting defeat to the enemy means that the tribe will lose its territory and population in the future, and whoever asks them to do this is their enemy. Seeing that Cixi's suggestion was not adopted by Hong Tao, Martini came up with another idea.

"That's a solution, but can you control the scale of the war, it won't really be a big war, right?" This is where Hong Tao is unreasonable, he is not happy to let the Song people die a few more, but when it is the turn of the black South Africans, his moral standards are immediately lowered.

"Don't worry, it's not a real fight, I'll tell the chiefs to make a show for others. In fact, they were not willing to send their warriors to the Great Song Dynasty where they didn't know where to fight, and the chieftain would definitely be happy to delay it for a few more days. And now there is a suitable enemy, and in the northeast there is a large tribe from the north, numbering at least ten thousand, called the Tswana. In the past two years, they have gone south more and more frequently, and they also call the land they see Botswana, which means the land of the Tswana people. Even if Your Majesty doesn't come, I guess sooner or later there will be a fight, and many chiefs already feel threatened by them. It was on this occasion that I went to unite the great tribes of the north and fight the Tswana people, so that they would not expand southward at will. "Martini is worthy of being the emperor of South Africa for more than ten years, he knows everything here well, and when he talks about other big chiefs, he talks about his little brother in the same tone, so that if you fight, you have to fight, you don't need to discuss.

"Botswana?! It's a good place, where diamonds, copper and coal are produced, but unfortunately such a good place can't be left. "Botswana, it turned out to be the territory of the Tswana people. This place Hongtao has heard that it is a major mineral country in Central and South Africa, rich in diamonds and copper mines, and it is also a place that has been more ruthlessly invaded by economy.

There is a law in Africa, as long as it is a relatively backward country, if it has no resources, it can still live a poor life in peace and stability, once there are any good resources in the country, it will immediately be targeted by developed countries, and then even the poor life will be unstable. In the end, the resources cannot be obtained, and life is not good.

"Cheng, you can arrange this matter. Tomorrow you give me a few guides, and I'll go to the east first to catch some slaves and come back. Cixi, you better go back to Cape Town first, and send a letter here if there is any situation, and Carl will take it with him when he comes, and it is better to see it than not to know anything. You and Lao Mai take a look at this chart, put it away, and use it to save your life. If anything happens, hurry up and run north according to the chart, go to Carl and Jiang Zhuyi, they will keep you safe. Remember, don't be confused when the time comes, don't be reluctant to give up anything outside of your body, as long as people live to get to me, what is lost will soon come back. If a person dies, there is really nothing. "Martini is still more relieved to do things, this black fat man is not a person who likes to brag, and he will definitely not take care of things that he is not sure of.

Riding horses, holding shotguns, and holding ropes, the difficulty of chasing down a black tribe with only rudimentary bows and crossbows and javelins on the flat savanna was so low that Hong Tao didn't bother to use his brain to arrange any plans and formations, let alone wait until night to raid on the mosquito-infested grassland. They rushed up with a swagger and trampled down their little tents with the hooves of their horses, killed everyone who tried to resist with a shotgun, entangled everyone who tried to escape with a rope, and then tied them into a string with a long rope and tied them to the back of their horses, and a team of thirty men was sent directly back to the dock by three cavalrymen to load the ship without a minute of delay. (To be continued.) )