"You're going to disappear for a few months! Why? Where to? When Hong Tao and Jiang Zhuyi moved into the top floor of Karl Fort according to the plan, he finally put his plan out.

"I can't say it, but I promise it's a good thing, I'll find a way back for us, in case I can't become the emperor one day, and I won't send someone under the fence. Placing you here is also a way out, but this road is not very stable, and the Europeans will not allow me to dominate here. But I'm not very happy to live at the behest of others, so I have to find a better way out for us. Except for Luo Youde, Hong Tao and no one have ever talked about the location of the destination, in fact, Luo Youde doesn't know, he only knows one name.

"I'll support you if you think about it, say, what do you need me to do?" Jiang Zhuyi is still so happy, and he doesn't drag the mud and water at all.

"You don't need to do anything, it's enough to be mentally prepared. In two days I will leave and nominally go to visit the countries of Europe, but the sailors on the battleship cannot go with me, you can arrange them for me. There are probably people from the Ministry of Supervision, and they can't be made to feel anything unusual. If you have time, you can help Carl tidy up here, I don't want my fortress to be a big rat's nest. In Hong Tao's plan, Jiang Zhuyi really can't help much, and there is no need to involve her, the fewer people involved, the better it is to control.

On the third day after the battleship returned to Karlburg, the alarm bell in the castle suddenly rang. Something big happened, and the ninety-six sailors and officers on the battleship all had symptoms of diarrhea of varying degrees, and it was not a single time. Through the testimony of the sailors and officers, it was finally concluded that the dinner was not clean and that they collectively had food poisoning.

Karl was furious, believing that the incident had been premeditated, and the five slaves who were in charge of making the supper were tortured and then hanged on the castle wall. Do a full set of plays. The poisonous mushrooms in the dinner were put in by Carl himself, and no one knew except him and Hong Tao. These five slaves were unjustly killed, but for the sake of Emperor Hong's huge plan, they could only be wronged, and there was no one to help them cry out for injustice.

Lost a whole shipload of sailors. Emperor Hong's visit plan was about to come to naught, which made His Majesty the Emperor very annoyed, and scolded Karl for a bloody sprinkler, and His Majesty's broken gong voice echoed throughout Karl Castle. Those slave soldiers who have been learning Chinese for less than two or three years finally understand why others can be emperors, but they can only be slaves. It's not fate, it's ability! They never knew that there would be so many curse words in Chinese, and they would hardly be the same in an hour, such a person would not be tolerated by the emperor's heavenly reason! In addition to being convinced, it is still convincing.

Karl in order to make up for his mistakes, and also in order not to let His Majesty the Emperor scold him all day long. He gathered all the old sailors on the three whaling ships together, barely enough forty people, and personally took these slave sailors to the warship for two days of special training, and then reluctantly invited His Majesty the Emperor on board the ship and began his journey around Europe.

The sailors and officers of the battleship, who had just stopped vomiting and diarrhea, could only watch His Majesty the Emperor leave the dock in a battleship piloted by someone else, and it would have to wait at least four months to see the Emperor again. More than a dozen countries, even if you stay in each country for a few days. Combined with the voyage, four months in a lap is not much at all.

"Oh God. He's gone, I'm driving him crazy. Jiang Niangzi, is it true when you say he scolded me? How do I not sound like pretending......" Standing on the watchtower on the top floor of Karl Burg, Karl finally put down the telescope and at the same time let out a long sigh of relief. In the past few days, he and Hong Tao have been acting in double reeds, and his role is still the most acting skills. Villain!

"Just because he's gone doesn't mean you'll be able to relax, I'm the manager of Fort Carl from now on. Let me tell you, tomorrow at dawn I will start from the basement to inspect everything that has not been vacated. I'll burn it down, including your room. If I were you, I wouldn't have time to talk about the Emperor behind my back. "Jiang Zhuyi didn't give Carl a good face, Hong Tao had already authorized her when he left, so now she will take over Hong Tao's unfinished task and continue to torture Carl!

"I ...... I curse you never to come back! Carl's mood was like a roller coaster, and after just three seconds of joy, he immediately fell to the bottom again. He didn't get angry at Jiang Zhuyi, because he knew who was behind all this, so he shouted in the direction where Hong Tao was going, threw out the telescope in his hand, and then went downstairs angrily.

Hong Tao is not only thick-skinned and hard-skinned, but also has his own divine aura and is immune to all curses. After leaving Fort Karl, his battleship did not go all the way west, but turned south at the western exit of the Strait of Gibraltar in the direction of the Cape Verde Islands. The voyage was kept secret, none of the sailors knew the destination or course, even the helmsman did not know where Hong Tao was going, and the only navigator on board was Hong Tao himself.

The number of sailors required for the Jiaosha-class battleship that has been modified once is much lower than that of the original model, coupled with the newly refitted Bakentin sails, the number of sailors only needs to be more than ten people per shift, and in three shifts, forty skilled sailors can barely pilot, but the combat effectiveness is basically gone, because of the lack of gunners. However, this streamlined configuration can only cope with short offshore distances, and cannot be used for long-distance voyages. Without the ship's craftsmen, gunners, and doctors, if there was a storm at sea, it would be nine deaths, and Hong Tao did not dare to take this risk.

A week later, Hong Tao's warship approached the Leeward Islands, and soon the slave lookout on the lookout sounded the alarm bell, and then waved the flag to inform the captain that a sailing ship had been spotted in front of him. This time, Hong Tao did not let the battleship into combat mode, and the ship was none other than the whaling ship that had slipped out of Cape Town harbor under the pretext of waiting for his arrival.

"Transfer everyone and cargo to my ship, and the whaling ship will be scuttled on the spot. Lao Luo, you take the craftsmen to live on the artillery deck, there may be an infectious disease in the bilge, it is closed by me, and no one should go down. "As soon as the two ships docked together, Hong Tao's new order came.

"Your Majesty, this whaling ship is useful to keep, why don't you let me drive it along, I can follow." Swann didn't quite understand why Hong Tao had scuttled a good whaling ship, and when he got to a new place, it was better to have a whaling ship than a lifeboat.

"Let you chisel and chisel, don't ask why!" This time, Hong Tao didn't break his mouth, glared at his triangular eyes, and didn't say a word.

Whaling ships are indeed of great use to the tribes of Tu, with a displacement of nearly 100 tons and a small draft, which can not only sail on the sea, but also penetrate deep into inland waterways. If it is equipped with several 80-mm deck guns on its deck, it is a good river cruiser. Bring dozens of soldiers and supplies, and raid other tribes along the way. Even if it is not used for military purposes, it is good to go whaling, fishing, and transport some heavy cargo at sea.

But Hong Tao could not keep it, and once he had the whaling ship with him, he had to provide the whaling ship's captain with clear meeting coordinates, so that the secrets of the American continent could not be kept. In order to delay the discovery of the American continent as much as possible, Hong Tao would rather sacrifice the ship than tell others the route and coordinates. It doesn't matter if you don't wear it, when you get to the tribe of the figure, you can slowly build it from scratch, and you can't lose the watermelon because you pick up sesame seeds.

With the addition of sailors and craftsmen on the whaling ship, the battleship was finally barely able to manpower. When the mast of the whaling ship slowly sank into the sea, Hong Tao personally stood beside the helmsman and acted as the navigator. Swann acted as a sail captain, mixing black South African sailors on whaling ships with Carr's Saracen slave sailors, training as he sailed. These sailors had never experienced ocean voyages, and many things had to be learned from scratch, and it was useless for Guang Hongtao and Swann to understand, this ship needed everyone's cooperation to run.

"Who's in the bilge? Aren't you most afraid of infectious diseases, why don't you leave them in Karl's castle? "Royou was not of much help on the voyage, but he could take the position of boatswain for the time being, and be responsible for arranging the trivial affairs of the ship. In less than a day, he discovered that there were people in the bilge, and there was more than one person.

"They don't necessarily have a disease, but I'm not sure yet, have you heard of a furuncle?" Hong Tao used a sextant to observe the navigation data against the sun, and at the same time threw the question to Luo Youde again.

"Furuncles! I know, it's a very powerful plague, I've seen it in Jiankang City, the whole face is rotten, and there are many big bags, no one can cure them, are they all ......" Luo Youde was also frightened, and his voice trembled a little.

"It's not so evil, I burned to death the people who were really sick, and these were the people who weren't sick yet. When we got there, these craftsmen and slave sailors were too thin. These slave sailors are not mine either, they were trained by Carl and Lao Mai, and it is difficult to talk about loyalty. She is not alone in the Indian tribe of Tu, and they will not be able to help you in a short time. So I'd like to find you some reliable helpers, whatever it may be, at least loyal enough, and those in the bilge are. I rescued them from their inhuman environment and brought them a life of faith, and even if they didn't treat me as a parent, they had no reason to send it to me. "The reason why Hong Tao accepted all the leprosy patients in the city of Rena was not because of kindness. A flash of inspiration flashed through his head when it dawned on him that these people might be useful to him.

(To be continued.) )