"Go to the Big Eat! No, no! There are savage countries and cannibal countries over there, absolutely not! As soon as he heard that Hong Tao was going to Dashi, and it was still farther away, Luo Dacai suddenly became excited, shaking his hand and shaking his head. Although he and Hong Tao have always looked at each other unpleasantly, he is still grateful to Hong Tao in his heart, and he can only give a thumbs up to Hong Tao's talent and quality in doing business in private. Some people are born to be offensive, no matter how good a partner is, they will always look at each other and not deal with each other, but it does not affect their normal work.

"Hahaha, uncle, these things are all from those grandchildren surnamed Pu, right? Don't worry, when I come back from this trip, you can ask those big food merchants surnamed Pu again, and see if they still scare you with the Savage Kingdom and the Cannibal Country, I guess they should say that there is a group of pirates who are murderous and carry the flag of rats. Don't listen to their nonsense, they just don't want the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty to go to Dashi to rob their wealth, you are also an old maritime merchant, you don't understand this twists and turns? But then again, there are indeed a lot of pirates over there, and it's really dangerous to rely on our merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty alone. When I come back, I'll probe out the route, and then I'll take out the charts for the big guys, whoever wants to go, go with me or go by myself, and then those guys surnamed Pu should cry! Hong Tao was still a little moved by Luo Dacai's performance, Luo Youde's uncle is a bit like his father-in-law Bo Fu, conservative in thinking, but kind-hearted, good to his own people from the heart, and good people.

"Brother Hong, it's okay for you to know the charts yourself, you bought them with your life, everyone is a perennial person at sea. Understand this. I suggest that you can organize a fleet of ships then. Escort everyone over. Charging some fees is already very benevolent. If Brother Hong has this intention, I will handle the matter of attracting investment, not much, just in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, there are more than ten or eight ships who are willing to follow Brother Hong to fight the world. As long as Brother Hong can successfully bring back the big food goods from there, it is estimated that there is no need to worry about Brother and I. Guests who come to my door will be able to break through my door. Luo Youde was also a little excited when he heard that Hong Tao was going to the Great Food Country, but what Hong Tao said was reasonable, the two of them couldn't go together, otherwise once something happened, there would be no one in charge at home. He believed that Hong Tao could come back, but he didn't want to watch the route that Hong Tao had worked so hard to explore give away to others for free, because Hong Tao didn't know much about the rules of the Great Song Dynasty, so he had to help pick up the missing things.

"Merchants? What a trick, let me hear it! "Such a modern word. It actually jumped out of Luo Youde's mouth so naturally, which made Hong Tao very surprised. He was eager to hear what the Song Dynasty was like.

It turns out that the model of investment promotion is not new in the Great Song Dynasty, and most of the ships of the Song Dynasty set off to do business in the South Seas, and most of them are partners, that is, the owners of the ships stand up to attract investment. He said where he planned to go and what goods he brought, and then there were other maritime merchants with different goods, and everyone got together a ship of different goods to go to one place to do business, and even made their own rules on what to buy and come back, so that they could not conflict with each other, so as not to let outsiders take advantage of the price of their own people.

Sailing together is not an intentional act, but a helpless move due to nautical conditions. If you want to run ocean trade, the ship has to be big, and the ship is big, and it is expensive, and some small and medium-sized maritime merchants have little capital and cannot afford to build a big ship by themselves. And the maritime merchants who can afford to build a big ship do not have so many ways to get enough goods and manpower, so everyone just complements each other, shares the cost equally, and then gives the shipowner a part of the money for the ship, so that the shipowner is also suitable, and the maritime merchants are also suitable, anyway, regardless of whether the ship is full or not, they have to make a trip.

In addition, it is still a very dangerous thing to run ocean trade in this era, if you don't do it, there will be no people and ships, and pirates are waiting for you if you have escaped the wind and waves, and there are still diseases waiting for you. Anyway, in addition to making more profits than the Tan family, these maritime merchants are no less dangerous than the Tan family chasing the sea. They generally don't give everything they have, they bet their lives on a ship, they prefer to share the risk evenly, and many people go to sea together, so that although they make less money, they will not collapse because of a loss. As long as the people of the family can keep going to the sea, and come back once in three or five times, then they can make up for all the previous losses.

This model Hong Tao thinks it is very good, it is much stronger than the Chinese in later generations to dismantle their own people, the good habits have not been inherited, and the bad problems are not bad at all for all generations, so rush this, and also have to beat the Mongols back, so as not to let them spoil the good things.

"Then Brother Lauro will work hard, prepare the sugar for me, I will leave in August, and I will come back in the first month of next year." I will explain the matter of the sugar workshop to my father-in-law, and you can contact him after I leave. In addition, you also inquire about the sacrifice of horses to the official family in Lin'an, and find a suitable candidate, if it is not really not, I suggest that you and your uncle should not be this official, so as not to trouble in the future, it is best to go to your house to find someone to show up, they are all famous people, and they are keen to be officials, why not? Hong Tao explained everything he could think of to Luo Youde, and when the Hong Salamander returned to the port, he sent someone to send Luo Youde and Luo Dacai ashore in a small boat, and he only stood on the boat and said goodbye to them briefly, and then commanded the two sailing ships to return directly. Now he no longer has the heart to go ashore to experience the life of the Great Song Dynasty, and there is still more than a month to go, and the training of new sailors must be accelerated, because two new ships will soon be launched.

This time the journey to the Arabian Sea is long, if you can bring an extra boat, you will have more strength, I did not make it clear to Luo Youde, this voyage is not only to explore new routes, maybe also to fight with the locals. Hong Tao has already aimed at a halfway supply point that he is determined to get, salute first and then soldier, say if you don't give it, then use money to smash it, and don't give it yet! Sorry, it's time for the big slingshot and grenade to appear. Once Hong Tao is moved to kill, it is not the extent of killing a few people to scare and scare, Hong Tao has always advocated cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and he basically has no bottom to the foreigners, and he can do anything that lacks virtue.

In 1231, in the fourth year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty, in mid-August, the mouth of the Golden River on Luzon Island. The mouth of the river, which had been barren, suddenly became a sea of masts, and four identical galleons were parked in the deep water in the center of the river, and seven or eight small wooden boats were coming and going from the shore, transporting boatloads of men and materials to these four sailing boats. Hong Tao was about to sail with almost all the sailors in Jinhe Bay, and this time it was thousands of miles away, and most of the women on the wharf were women, old people, and very small children, because he had put all the students in the school who were over ten years old on the boat, saying that he was going to take them on a journey of thousands of miles to read ten thousand books.

"Son, you must come back, I can't close my eyes if you don't come back!" Seeing a team of young men being pulled away by the boat, Old Man Rong felt empty, if Hong Tao couldn't come back, they wouldn't even be able to get together the sailors on the two whaling ships. For Hong Tao's trip to the Great Food Country, the board of directors quarreled for more than a month, and there were too many objections, but in the end, it was the old man Bo Fu who rushed back from Ximaozhou and stood firmly on Hong Tao's side, which was reluctantly passed.

"Weng Weng, don't worry, I don't dare to guarantee that one person won't die, but at least two boats of people can come back, I promise!" Hong Tao said very easily, but as soon as he said this, the faces of the people around him immediately became more melancholy.

"No! People are coming back! The boat is also coming back, Ah Zhu must be pregnant with a male baby this time, you can watch your son lose grandpa! The old man was still so serious, but the hand he grabbed Hong Tao's clothes betrayed him, and he was trembling all the time.

"Okay, I'll definitely come back, Ah Zhu, don't cry, next time Grandpa is not there, I'll sneak you out!" Okay, get on the boat, Cixi, if I come back, it's still fine here, and you will be an official resident of Jinhewan in the future, and I will choose the place to build a house for you, and build it behind my house! Hong Tao was not used to this kind of tearful farewell scene, so he couldn't help but pull Bo Zhu and kiss her on the face, and then stretched out a finger to point to the sky while walking to the springboard.

"Don't worry, my lord, when you return, the house will be built, and I still hope that my son will be the captain!" What do you see? Do you hear me, I will be the master from now on! A bunch of lazy people, hurry up, look at the soles of your feet, dare to bump it, I'll throw you into the river to feed the crocodiles! Band! Played! When Cixi heard the last sentence, she jumped up from the ground, stared at her red eyes, snapped the whip in her hand, and screamed at the slaves around her who were carrying goods to the small boat. I have to say that he is really a very organized person, and he specially selected a dozen or so of the slaves who can use instruments of various ethnic groups to form a small band, but this track is a bit fucked, squeaky like a group of monkeys in the jungle quarrelling.

"Hahahaha...... Count you ruthless! Hong Tao didn't expect Cixi to have this ability at all, he didn't care if the music was good or not, the spirit was commendable, but unfortunately the boat had already left the dock, so he gave a thumbs up to express his appreciation.

Compared with the crying and chaotic crowd on the dock, the battleship was very quiet, and all the captains gathered on the Hong Tao's flagship, the Hong Salamander, waiting for the fleet commander to board the ship. Due to the shortage of manpower, Hong Tao, the commander of the fleet, also had to concurrently serve as the captain of the Hong Salamander, and Bo Jiao and Karl were the captains of the two new ships Zhenzhou and Qiongzhou respectively, with the ship numbers 003 and 004. The original Haibo was captained by the Mongolian sailor Du Tou, who was captured from outside Dengzhou Port, and Chen Qihong and Bo Xiaosan served as the first and second officers. (To be continued.) )