"Yaya, tell the boats to turn off their lights and navigate themselves, and if they get separated, go back to Kabalan by themselves. Then tell the lookout that he must keep a distance of more than 10 nautical miles from the other party, but he must not lose it. Let's follow them and see where they're going! Maybe we're going to get rich, hahahahaha! Hong Tao didn't talk to Wennan, but gave Weng Ya a long list of orders, and couldn't help laughing as he spoke.

"Rich? Don't...... Mr. wants, wants to ......" Wen Nan seemed to understand, stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the distant fleet, in fact, he couldn't see anything, not standing on a mast more than forty meters high, no need for a telescope, just with the naked eye, let alone the night, even if the sky is clear, it is difficult to see a small sailing ship ten nautical miles away, and the aircraft carrier is almost the same.

"Yes...... Hey, hey, the lookout said there were a lot of ships, a big fleet, and you said they wouldn't be carrying more than just mutton and camel meat, right? Hong Tao smiled even more treacherously.

"You...... Didn't you just say you wanted to do more good, why do you want to be a pirate! Wen Nan was completely sober, but soon he was confused again, and was said to be confused by Hong Tao. Obviously a minute ago, he was still saying that good intentions are rewarded, why are you going to rob in an instant? How can a person be so shameless?

"When I say good deeds, I mean doing good deeds to the Golden River Bay and Strait Company, who said that I want to do good deeds to the world? Is there anything in the world that is good for everyone? Don't say it, maybe there really is, if you wipe your neck and commit suicide one day, I will definitely set up a festival for you in Jinhe Bay, which is called the Ear Root Purification Festival, and set aside a day every year to commemorate your broken mouth! Hong Tao was very puzzled, this brain like Wen Nan was actually an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a country, and he could also send envoys to various countries. This Nima is a confused saint as a whole, and he is sorry for his set of theories if he doesn't betray the country. Why doesn't he go vegetarian?

"What good is it for Mr. to rob these foreign merchants!" Wen Nan is now thick-skinned and has primary immunity to Hong Tao's sharp teeth.

"Do you know who they are? They are big cannibals! is our greatest enemy in the future! As far as I'm concerned, it's even more important than the Mongols. Anyway, the Mongols will not go to the sea to fight for territory with me, but the big cannibals have been sailing since ancient times, and you say that if I don't rob them, who will I rob? Grab one more big food and sea merchant. Their strength is one point less, and it will be much easier to deal with in the future, understand? Hong Tao was very sure that the large fleet was Arab, and there could be no other people's fleet in this sea, unless there were also crossers coming.

"But hasn't Sir been doing business with the big cannibals? Their caravan is in Port Cabaran, why should they rob their people? Wen Nan still doesn't understand Hong Tao's logic, since he regards the big cannibals as his biggest enemy, why do he still rush to run thousands of miles to do business with them, isn't this funding the enemy!

"You...... How can I say hello. There are only two colors in the world: black and white! Is there a necessary connection between doing business with the Great Cannibal and being the enemy of the Great Cannibal? When needed. I can fight side by side with the Great Cannibal, and in the same way, I can be the enemy of the Great Cannibal when I need to. Didn't the Mongols also sign an alliance with the Great Song Dynasty and go to attack the Jin Kingdom together, if you look at it, your Great Song will have to fight with the Mongols in a blink of an eye. I'm glad I didn't let you go back to being editor-in-chief now, you brain. I still have to study for a few years before I get the hang of it. Hong Tao almost pointed his finger at Wen Nan's head, a diplomat. It is still possible to ask such an idiotic question, and the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty is really inevitable. This court is full of a group of weirdos who understand for a while and are confused for a while, and they are always confused about big things related to life and death.

“…… But what should the big cannibals of Port Cabalan think about if they know that Sir is so treacherous? Wen Nan made Hong Tao a little clear, but he didn't plan to admit defeat yet, and he had to resist to the end.

"They won't know. By tomorrow I will know what kind of tribe this fleet is, and I know all the tribal flags of Lao Mai's hometown that often go to the port of Cabalan to do business, as long as it is not the fleet of those tribes, it has nothing to do with me, and it is not treacherous. Besides. If I want to rob someone, will I leave someone who will tell the news? Oops...... Don't stare at you first, I promise you, try to kill as little as possible, now we have a big ship, grab a few hundred people and easily pack them, and pull them all back to Jinhewan to build a city for me, is that it? Okay, go to sleep, it's useless for you to stare here, it's better to have a good dream. Hong Tao began to grit his teeth again, as soon as he talked about harming people, he couldn't help but be happy, especially harming irrelevant people, it was very fun.

Wen Nan really has nothing to say this time, Hong Tao has promised to kill less, what else can he say? Did it work? Simply, it's better to be out of sight, and rubbed his eyes again and got into the cabin. Hong Tao didn't stay on the deck for long, just watched the four warships behind him extinguish the lights one by one, and studied the charts with Weng Ya for a while to make sure that this sea area had been explored and there would be no danger, and then he went into the small bedroom behind the captain's room and hugged the pillow. Fighting at sea, especially in the era of sail warships, even if you see each other, it will take more than half a day to fight, and if one side runs for your life, you may not be able to catch up for several days, and you can't be in a hurry.

The telescope is indeed a good thing, especially at sea, and the lookout hand holding it on a forty-meter-high lookout can expand the ship's field of view to fifteen nautical miles. And a ship that doesn't have too high a mast and a telescope can generally see six or seven nautical miles, and it has to be a sunny day. Now the telescope produced by Jinhewan is no longer designed and assembled by Hong Tao himself, but is specially built by several gold and silver craftsmen. Their craftsmanship is more meticulous and their craftsmanship is more exquisite, and after listening to Hong Tao explain the problem of focusing, they can adjust the concave and convex degree of the lens by themselves. It's just that the speed of grinding the right crystal piece is very slow, and there are not many pieces produced in a year, but fortunately, this thing does not need to be popularized to everyone on the ship, the captain, the lookout, and the first mate can have it, and the navigator himself uses the simple telescope on the sextant to make do with it.

Don't underestimate the distance of a few nautical miles, sometimes it is very fatal. The enemy has already discovered you, but you don't know it, it is equivalent to giving up all the initiative, completely passive, and you don't know that others have dug a hole for you. It was these few nautical miles that allowed Hong Tao's fleet to follow the Arab fleet from a distance, always seeing each other, but the other party had no idea that five hungry wolves had been attracted behind him.

After following for three full days, Hong Tao was a little confused. The Arab fleet did not go west in the Gulf of Oman, but began to turn northeast, heading directly for what would become Pakistan. In the past three days, they have traveled more than 500 kilometers, and the average speed is very fast for these half-oar, half-sail galleys. But there are no storms in this sea, so do you need to be so desperate to travel? The only explanation is that they are in a hurry.

What are you in a hurry to do? There is no need to be in such a hurry to do business, the maritime merchants in this era use months to measure time, and a few days late is not too late for them at all. So Hong Tao came to a very far-fetched, but only conclusion, that this fleet of Arabs was not a merchant ship but a war ship, and they were going to war! Where to fight? Hong Tao took the chart of the Indian Peninsula and searched carefully, if it was a religious war, several small countries could possibly. If there is no religious issue, but only for profit, then there is only one place worthy of such a stir, Port Kabalan! In addition, the other small ports are not worth mentioning, and they are not enough for military spending!

"Where are they going? It can't really be a relative of Lao Mai's hometown! Is this going to be relocated? Yaya, go and send a signal to let the Canton break away from the fleet and return to the port of Kabalan as fast as possible, and tell Jiao that in five days he will leave Kabalan with two merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty and wait for me in the port of Malacca. Since there is a fifty percent possibility, Hong Tao feels that he can pay attention to it, and by the way, he also wants to see how effective the Kabalan Port will be without sea support, or whether the old man of Bo Jiao will betray his son-in-law.

"Lao Wen, see, every time this fleet docks at a port, it doesn't encounter any trouble, but the shore is brightly lit, do you know what it means?" After another six days of tracking, the fleet had reached the middle of the west coast of the Indian peninsula, probably near the port of Mumbai. As Hong Tao predicted in advance, the other party had no intention of stopping, and still wanted to go south.

"It's a big caravan with which we have long-term trade with these countries." Wen Nan has now learned to think with an economic mind, but not very well.

"This fleet doesn't quite look like a caravan because it's too big. There are more than forty ships, and these small countries along the way do not have that much purchasing power at all, and even the port of Cabalan cannot exchange so much cargo. This is called cultural aggression, that is, to use religion, writing, and living habits to subtly change other people's thoughts, and to use your words to educate the saints, all of which mean the same thing, but the saints are different. It seems that the Indian peninsula has almost been invaded by them, at least the ports along the way do not exclude them, which is very bad for us. Hong Tao's perspective and starting point are different from Wen Nan's, he sees farther. This is not because Wennan is stupid, but because Wennan has historical limitations and cannot consider problems from the whole region.

"Not necessarily, it's the end of February, if you count the time, this fleet may be going to sail to the Great Song Dynasty, and only the ports of the Great Song Dynasty can exchange so many goods." Wen Nan put forward a more reasonable hypothesis, indeed, according to the time, another month will be the time when the southeast trade winds will blow, and this fleet will be able to catch up after passing through the Strait of Malacca. (To be continued.) )