As a colonial empire, this kind of trouble will come sooner or later, and Spain and Britain cannot avoid it, and they can't avoid it. This problem is still a problem that mankind has not completely solved, and relying on his own political talent, I am afraid that he will not solve this problem in his life. All I can do at the moment is to strengthen the surveillance, and then pray that Po Jiao and Medini don't do stupid things.

But the biggest problem is not necessarily in their own generation, Po Jiao and Martini don't necessarily have the courage to make ghosts while they are still alive. But what if you die? Or did Pojiao and Martini die first? Will their descendants still treat the empire and their sons as they do now? It's hard to tell!

"Lao Sai, stop being vindictive like a child, you should be able to understand what I do, I will do anything that is beneficial to the empire, this is my responsibility as the emperor. Do you like an irresponsible emperor? Now help me think about how to solve this problem, if you were me, how would you deal with it? Hong Tao had been thinking about the end of dinner, and he hadn't thought about it clearly, when he suddenly saw Said, so he dragged the old man into his water palace with a face, poured tea and handed cigarettes, and asked the Persian dancers to perform a belly dance for the old man, and then he said his theme.

"If Your Majesty can promise me that I will not arbitrarily massacre the local Mus-Rin, and will not arbitrarily destroy the local religion and mosques, I am willing to continue to serve as Your Majesty's advisor." At this time, Said was a bit like Wen Nan, who had just been captured, and naturally regarded Hong Tao as a demon with a big killing weapon in his hand, always thinking about how to persuade Hong Tao to put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha.

"You misunderstood me. I just want to take revenge on the Sultan and his minions who murdered me behind my back, just like the Bedouins, with blood and blood. I'm not interested in the faith, religion, or land here. As long as the locals no longer attack the caravans of the Great Song Dynasty for no reason, after I have taken revenge, I will also hand over the sultan here to Muszirin to choose, and the land will be managed by themselves. In fact, Lao Sai, it's useless for you to just study knowledge, there is an idiom in the Great Song Dynasty called "Behind closed doors", if you can practice and study at the same time. will do more with less. Or you can stay here for a while, help the new Sultan run the country, and by the way, you can put the knowledge in your head into practice. See if they are useful or useless. "Hong Tao has once again sacrificed the same set of methods to deal with Wen Nan, it seems that some of the literati around the world have similar characteristics, as long as you convince them from the level of reason, they will be at ease.

“…… But what about my university? Oh. No. It's His Majesty's University! For a keen researcher, who wouldn't want to put their research findings into practice? It's a pity that most people don't have this opportunity, and there is no country that allows them to experiment and play, and this opportunity provided by Hong Tao can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"It's not a conflict, Masca and Port Kalamba are only more than 20 days apart, you can stay in the university for a while, and then come here for a while. Soon there will be many Great Song merchants stationed here. They should be happy to let a friend like you take a boat and will respect you very much. Because you get to know each other between them and the locals. Reduce friction between them. If it were to become a bustling commercial port, like Kalamba, wouldn't it be a blessing for the whole Arabian Peninsula? Merchants brought not only goods, but wealth and new culture, you say? ”

As long as ordinary people are caught by Hong Tao's weakness, it is difficult to resist corrosion and never get wet. It's human nature, unless you're out of the realm of normal human beings. But Hong Tao also has a way to deal with this kind of person, that is, physical destruction, since you are not a human being, what nonsense do I have to talk to you.

"Okay, I'll try it then...... Try it for only one year! Said was obviously not yet extraordinary, he couldn't stand the temptation of Hong Tao, and nodded in agreement. However, in order to show that he is not greedy for power, another deadline is added.

"No problem, you can do it at any time. Okay, your problem is solved, is it time to talk about my problem? Hong Tao is very sure that once Saeed tastes the sweetness of power, he will not let go easily. Many of his views and propositions need the cooperation of power to be practiced, and when the time comes, he will be reluctant to give up, and maybe he will not be able to pull it away.

"His Majesty's country is a bit like His Majesty's country, and the overseas territories are equivalent to the kingdoms and candidate countries within the empire, and if you want to firmly control them, I think you only need two points. The first point, the army! His Majesty needs to station troops loyal to the Emperor in the local area, rather than allowing the kingdom and the candidate to develop their own armies. Although princes cannot be transferred at will, the army can, because the army is empireal, not princely. ”

"The second point, finance! The finances of the Overseas Territories must be controlled by His Majesty, and they must not be given enough money and food to develop their own power at will. The way to do this was simpler, it was just a matter of keeping the local taxes under control, or sending Imperial officials to overseas territories and rotating them every few years to prevent them from having too close a relationship with the local governor. "Said does have goods in his stomach, especially the study of this era is very thorough, and it is not difficult for Hong Tao to have a headache when he reaches him.

"I can try both of these methods, and they sound good, but whether they work depends on the results. So, I think you should spend a few more days in Maskar, there are some things that have to be practiced to come to conclusions. There is a saying in my homeland that I think makes a lot of sense, and it goes like this: Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. Hong Tao thinks the two methods proposed by Said are very good, and they are not difficult, and the feasibility is very high. For this kind of talent, Hong Tao is reluctant to let go, because letting go means that he has to die, so he has to comfort and motivate him a few words, so that he doesn't rush to find death.

The rulers of the world are not stupid, but sometimes they make mistakes in judgment and do things stupidly for some reason. The Sultan of Oman in Maskar Harbor, he made this mistake, but he was not stupid. Since the attack on Hong Tao hurriedly left the port of Muska with the fleet, the sultan has realized the seriousness of the situation, he felt that Hong Tao might come back to retaliate, and also made some preparations, such as strengthening patrols near the port, strengthening the troops of the port of Maska, for this purpose also borrowed thousands of camel soldiers from the closer Bedouin tribes, and then set up two trebuchets on the dock.

At this time, the sultan was a little scared, but he was only afraid, he still had thousands of cavalry under his command, and there was still land at sea, as long as Hong Tao dared to go ashore, he felt that he could have the strength to fight, and he had more reinforcements rushing to Maska, the longer the time dragged on, the more beneficial it would be to himself, the battleship needed to be supplied, and there was no suitable port nearby, and if it lasted for a month or two, the enemy would retreat without a fight.

This kind of thinking was not wrong at that time, tens of thousands of people attacked a city, and a thousand people could hold it for months or years, although Mascar did not have a strong city wall, and Hongtao did not have tens of thousands of people, there was not much difference in the strength of the two sides.

It's a pity that Hong Tao is not a crusader, nor is he an ordinary army, he has cannons! Since the birth of this thing, the strong walls have become more and more useless, and all the supposedly impregnable cities will be buried in the storm of iron and fire.

However, Hong Tao did not bomb Makas Port indiscriminately this time, in his eyes, this is already his own city, and it has to be built if it is broken, how troublesome, and there are too many people killed, which will cause hatred among local residents. The salvo of 10,000 cannons is spectacular and exciting, what should I do after that? His chosen method of warfare tended to be more intimidating, and the main target of attack was not the dock or the dwellings, but the sultan's palace about two miles from the pier.

The first to attack was Hong Tao's flagship Sea King, this hill-like ship swaggered to a place more than 200 meters away from the pier, not paying attention to the big stones thrown by the two trebuchets, but put down the boat, pushed the hull and slowly adjusted the direction, just aiming for more than an hour.

The dock was empty, but Hong Tao knew that there would be a lot of cavalry hidden behind those houses, and the local people must be lying down in the crack of the door to watch quietly, and now he was going to perform a miracle on these people, so that they would lose the will and confidence to resist. (To be continued.) )