Hong Tao did not return to Karlburg, but parted with Karl halfway and turned to the direction of Cape Town alone with the rat and the second rat.

"Why isn't there a temple to the sun god here?" As the boat passed by the port of Cape Town, the rat looked at the city on the shore with novelty, and it was the first time he had seen anything outside of Sun City.

"They're all black! Have you been burned by divine fire? The second rat saw the black workers on the docks, and his eyes widened.

"This is not the kingdom of the sun god, there is no sun god, there is no divine fire, everyone lives in another way, and you slowly understand. If you see the thin old man standing on the dock, ask him if you don't understand anything in the future. The beautiful woman next to you is your new mother, and she has come to take care of your life. Don't ask why now, ask again in a month. Okay, get off the boat, remember what I said, don't tell anyone about the Sun God's Kingdom, if you leak the secrets of the gods, you two will never go back. "Where is Cape Town, why is Senya a new mother, these two questions Hong Tao thinks there is no need to explain, let them go and see for themselves, and they will naturally understand after watching for a while.

"Saifei is good, don't worry, I'm a little delayed. Carl will take the time to send him back, and when his new house is built, you can go with your son if you want. But before that, help me take care of these two little guys, they are also my sons, this one is called Hong Rat, this one is called Hong Errat. "Similarly, there is no need to explain to Senya who these two children are, as long as you know that the two of them are your own sons, and the details will be explained slowly later.

"It's worthy of His Majesty's son, he is so bold, when I first saw black people, I didn't dare to touch them, they were much better than me." Cixi was not surprised that Hong Tao suddenly had two more sons.

"That's a must, you don't have to look at guts, it's enough to look at looks." The rat and the second rat look like themselves, which is an eternal pain in Hong Tao's heart.

"Hey, hey, hey......" Cixi couldn't answer this time, she couldn't say right, you plus your son, it's just a nest of mice.

After returning to Cape Town, Hong Tao's life became uneventful again, and every day he went to the fields to see if the sunflower seeds he brought back from the Americas had sprouted, and he went fishing in the bay for crabs. When the rats and rats don't have to go to school, they will take them to hunt in the northern plains on horseback, or let them drive their own boats to the nearby seas.

He rarely inquired about the government affairs of Cape Town, let alone the government affairs of the Jinhe Empire, and Cixi would sometimes chat with him about this matter, and when he saw that Hong Tao neither wanted to listen to nor care, he simply did not talk about it. He is now putting all his energy into the tobacco business in Huangzhuang, and the layout of the previous years has begun to bear fruit, no matter how much he reclaims wasteland to expand the planting area, it still cannot meet the market demand.

Now that China Tobacco's cigars are about to become hard currency, they can be exchanged for other goods in the ports of many countries, and the value is very stable, and there is a steady upward trend. Cixi had already obtained Hong Tao's consent and was ready to send a shipment to Europe as well, just in time for Karl to bring back and help the China Tobacco Company open up the European market.

At the end of the year, Carl returned with Sefei for a few days, and then hurried away. According to Cixi, Karl was unusual this time, not taking much sugar and rum, but buying more than a hundred black slaves from Martini, most of whom could speak Chinese.

"Leave him alone, I guess he will come and buy more slaves in the future, and if you have something rich, you can sell them to him. Don't forget, help me cheat him hard, if you have money, you won't make it for nothing, now that he's a rich man, I can't give him two golden routes for nothing. In the past few days when Carl came, Hong Tao was not in Cape Town at all, he took the rat and the second rat to explore the mountains in the east. When I came back and listened to Cixi's report, I immediately knew what Carl was buying so many slaves for, and he must have sent them to Miabao.

His Saracen slaves had to build a new baronial castle, train sailors, and maintain a sufficient number of troops to maintain the security around Fort Karl, leaving few men to support Fort Mia. Even if they could get more slaves from the Berbers, they would not have time to train, they would not even understand the words, and sending them over would not help much.

This was not the case here in Medini, where Chinese language education had been widespread for many years, and all tribes that had submitted to the rule of the governor had to learn it. Those who do not return have all become slaves, and they have to learn Chinese as much as they want. Labor resources are extremely abundant, let alone buying 100 people, and adding two zeros later, Martini will not blink. That is, in the past few years, he has been old, and he is unwilling to send troops to expand to the north and east, otherwise he will not be able to pull so many slaves away if Carl is exhausted.

In addition to knowing Chinese, Carl also specially selected slaves with families, and signed contracts with them, only need to work for him for three years, he can no longer be a slave, and the whole family can get their own land. Did you say he was against him? Or is he also going to build a country on the side of the Great Qin State? Cixi's words were not finished, and the latter were the key points he wanted to report to Hong Tao.

"Well, that's a good idea! You can help me write it down, and when I exchange tobacco for slaves in the future, I don't just want little girls, but also their parents and siblings. This person, the more you care, the easier it is to control, you get so many big girls back, and you have to prepare a dowry for them in the future, and then it will go to someone else, lose money! Hong Tao appreciated Carl's move, and wanted others to do the work for him, in addition to the necessary force deterrence, interests are the core. Turning one's own interests into the interests of the big guys, and letting them fight for their own interests, is more effective than any god. Sometimes you even need to give a hope, and someone will die for you.

"Hey...... These girls are not specifically for farming, I plan to train them from an early age, and put them in the company's store as our own eyeliner in the future. These children are orphans without fathers and mothers, and they are more obedient. Cixi heard Hong Tao mention the Japanese girls he had returned, and directly stated his plan.

“…… Hiss...... You're really scaring me this time! You're not going to want to get another underground inspectorate, are you? After listening to Cixi's explanation, Hong Tao, who was taking a tomato and eating it heavily, bit his tongue directly. Cixi is such a self-taught expert, how did he even come up with the idea of how to use a female intelligence officer? I never told him about it.

"Where can I be, the emperor is your son, and I won't make trouble for you when I get the Ministry of Supervision. I just thought that there would be more and more stores in the company in the future, and without them as helpers, I didn't know how the stores were doing, and I didn't dare to guarantee that there would be people with unclean hands and feet. By the way, it doesn't hurt to ask for some news and come back. I think that doing business is actually similar to fighting, the more you know, the more active you are. Cixi knew that Hong Tao was unwilling to let anyone break the set of rules he made, for fear that Hong Tao would misunderstand, so she quickly explained his original intention and plan carefully.

"Then how did you come up with the idea of training girls specifically for this job?" Hong Tao is still not at ease, in recent years, Bush, Swan, Carr, Jiang Zhuyi, and those second-generation people in Jinhe City have a tendency to get out of their control, and now even Cixi is going to exceed his expectations, which is difficult to make people comfortable.

"I noticed very early on that most of the intelligence officers in the Ministry of Supervision, who collect the most information, the fastest and the most effective, are women...... Later, I deliberately developed a few popular girls in the Qinglou to do this work, and the effect was higher. What was said in the Song court on the first day, I will know half of it the next day, and in two days, I will know it all. Later, when you asked me to do the company, I was thinking, why don't you get a bunch of girls to be our eyeliner? They are easily overlooked by others and have their own strengths...... Hehe" Cixi is indeed not a whim, he has a theoretical basis, and there are data.

"Then let me give you an opinion! Since you're going to have them as your eyeliner, you can't just confine yourself to eastern Asia and imperial territory. These Japanese girls are easy to use in the Great Song Dynasty, Mongolia, Goryeo, Japan, and even Jinhecheng, Mayicheng, Malacca, and Karamba, but they are not necessarily easy to use when they go to the territory of the Great Cannibals, the territory of the Great Qin people, and the territory of the Saracens. Hong Tao understood Cixi's explanation, and also understood his purpose for doing this, he still wanted to know more information, whether it was trading or doing other work, the only thing he was good at was this. Since he knows in his heart that he won't mess around, there is no need to stop him. The establishment of a commercial intelligence agency does not violate the laws of the Empire, and it may be used in the future.

However, on the issue of how to use these girls to provide effective information for himself, Hong Tao also had to give Cixi some technical guidance. The intelligence services of the former Soviet Union have specialized in this kind of work, and the female intelligence officers they trained are called swallows, and their task is to use the advantages of women to get close to dignitaries of various countries, and obtain information that is difficult for other intelligence officers to obtain from the pillow.

If you want to cultivate swallows, not only do you have to be young, but you also have to use some special means, these things are mentioned in the novel, and you can let Cixi try them. The other thing is race, you can't use a Japanese girl to seduce Friedrich II, maybe he doesn't like this look. The easiest way is to prepare a few for each person, and when the time comes, watch people put down the dishes and make targeted shots.

“…… That's right! I didn't think of that! This is easy to do, and it is still too late to remedy it! Cixi simply admired the dead Hongtao, and any problem in front of the old emperor was not a problem. Follow this kind of person, comfortable!

(To be continued.) )