In fact, the horses that were exchanged for were nonsense for the Southern Song Dynasty army, and they belonged to the nature of being far away and unable to quench their thirst. Cavalry, especially large-scale cavalry operations, can not be played at all without several years of strict training, and there are still command problems when there are too many people, and how to attack, retreat, and harass the horse team as soon as it runs, is a great test of the commander's experience. Even if everyone in the Southern Song Dynasty army rode a thousand-mile horse, and did not focus on training for ten or eight years, they still had to kneel when they encountered the Mongolian cavalry. And this time not only knelt, but also contributed the war horse to the Mongols and became a transport brigade, how much money did he have to be enough for the Southern Song Dynasty army.

The reason why he wants to get an officially recognized base on Hainan Island is mainly for future development needs. Luzon is good for everything, but there is a shortage of people. Too little a population will limit the speed of development in the future, but the capture of slaves alone will not be able to fill this big hole. The identity of slaves is not something that can be cultivated in a day or two, and outright Filipino traitors like Cixi are still a minority, and the most likely thing is to train their next generation, so their number cannot be too much, too many are prone to riots.

Large-scale introduction of Song people, this is not realistic, let's not talk about whether the Southern Song Dynasty government agrees or not, even if it agrees, how many Song people are willing to abandon their families and businesses to go to Nanfan to beg for a living? The happiness of the people of the Song Dynasty was still very high, and they all regarded the Great Song Dynasty as the most suitable place to survive, in fact, it is true, the living standards of the surrounding countries are far behind, and no one wants to emigrate. Even if they were willing to come, Hong Tao didn't want to introduce too many Song people, because the Song people were too troublesome to fool around, and their minds were full of ideas and theories. You didn't educate them. He has influenced your people. It is dangerous and it is necessary to control the proportion of their population on Luzon.

In this way, Hong Tao only has the Tan family left to use, but the number of the Tan family is limited, and the Tan family and the Tan family are not the same, the Tan family on Hainan Island is different from the one in Guangzhou, with different words and different thoughts. When it comes to the coasts of Fujian and Zhejiang, the Tanka family is even more different. Hong Tao can only fool the Tan family on Hainan Island, change places, others can't understand what he says, why listen to him fool?

So Hong Tao set his sights on another ethnic minority, that is, the Li people, the Li people in the mountainous areas of central Hainan Island. They are in a similar situation to the Tan family, and they are also more discriminated against, and Hainan Island is remote and remote, and these Li people have received very little external influence, and they are still in a very primitive and simple value stage. It's better to fool. They have a good relationship with the Tan family and often exchange things. Therefore, Hong Tao felt that opening a breakthrough from the Li people and fooling them to follow him to pursue a new life was more likely to succeed.

Even if they can't leave their homeland and don't want to run with them, they can still fool them into helping them mine iron ore. Whether it is Shilu Mine or Tiandu Mine, Hong Tao knows the approximate location, these two iron mines are not far from the river and the sea, and they are easy to transport. As long as you tell the Li people the location of the iron ore and the pattern of the iron ore, and then provide them with the necessary tools, you can use the rice, whale meat, and sugar from Luzon to exchange ore with them. In addition, Hong Tao still has a big killer that he hasn't taken out, and that is rum! The Li people are good wine, both men and women drink it, and if they can get the rum out and let them exchange it for a broken stone, they are 100% happy.

Does Hong Tao still make rum? That's a must! In the sugar cane plantations of the southern United States, sugar extraction, sugar production, and winemaking are essential equipment for families, since Hong Tao has visited and learned sugar making with his own hands, there is no reason not to learn to make wine, at least he can make rum. That thing is part of the sugar extraction process, where the syrup is not filtered, evaporated, fermented with koji, and then distilled, and the result is light rum. There is also a more unique flavor of fragrant rum, Hong Tao can't make it, and the craft seems to be more complicated, and it has to go to the Caribbean to become popular.

However, whether it is to ask for people or iron ore, it is impossible to complete it without having a base on Hainan Island. If you want to gain the trust of the Li people, you have to have frequent contact with them, and it is useless to rely on fooling. Therefore, Hong Tao very much hopes that these sturdy Arab war horses can win the favor of high-ranking officials or emperors in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then take the opportunity to fool a few words, maybe a horse farm will be approved. Since it is a horse farm, it can't be too small, otherwise how can the horses run. There is no shortage of wasteland on Hainan Island, just set aside a large area for yourself, as long as it is next to the sea, we don't pick a place.

Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, but until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was all the capital here, and the real capital was Bianliang, but unfortunately none of the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty could go back, just a wish. In later generations, the city was called Hangzhou, but at present it is not as big as Hangzhou, but it is only the location of the current Shangcheng District and Xiacheng District of Hangzhou. To the east is the current Huancheng East Road, to the north is Huancheng North Road, to the west is the West Lake, and to the south is Fuxing Road. From the Fuxing overpass to the north, on the west side, there is a Songcheng Road, where is the imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor, also known as the Great Interior, the area is not large, compared with the imperial city of Nanjing and Beijing, that is, a small corner.

Hong Tao has never been to Ouchi, he only came to Hangzhou to play N times in later life, most of them play with others, and sometimes he has to act as a tour guide, so he still has some memories in his mind about these historical places. can be remembered by memory, the reality is that he does not dare to let the Zhenzhou enter the Qiantang River now, first, he is afraid that the Qiantang River is too shallow, and his sailboat has a deep draft, so he will not be able to get out if he goes in; Second, I am afraid that the Southern Song Dynasty sailors will run into their own household registration checks and temporary inspections, in case they catch up with a second-generation official and take a fancy to their own ship, they will have some crooked thoughts. So he could only find a place to anchor in Hangzhou Bay, and then sent Bojiao to row a small boat to Lin'an to find Luo Youde first. From Hangzhou Bay to Lin'an City, at least one hundred and fifty kilometers of waterway, although the boat has simple sails, but it is also very slow to go upstream, Hong Tao waited for more than three days, he drove the boat back again, in addition to two sailors on the boat, there is also a thin middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe and three strands of long hair, Luo Youde!

"Brother Luo, what can't you think about, are you planning to become a monk?" Seeing Luo Youde's dress, Hong Tao was really a little surprised, if he jumped out of the Three Realms and was not in the Five Elements, who would he find to cooperate in doing business!

"Don't make fun of being a brother, this is a regular service, not a robe!" Now that Hong Tao says anything contrary to common sense, Luo Youde is not surprised, and he is also used to Hong Tao's love of taking advantage of his mouth.

"Trendy, huh? I understand, come and see the gift I brought you. Cover your nose a little, these gifts smell a bit big. Hong Tao put Luo You on the deck, didn't talk nonsense, went directly to the front cabin, and gave a vaccination before opening the door.

"Shhh...... Gods! What a miracle! Luo Youde didn't care about the smell coming from the cabin at all, just like seeing a beautiful lady, he rushed in quickly, watching a bunch of war horses dancing.

"They are not called god horses, they are called grass and mud horses!" Hong Tao's little eyes rolled, and the bad water began to bubble out again. He thinks so, if the official family of the Great Song Dynasty is really as close to the people as written in the book, he may not come to the hotel to visit him, and then he can say: Your Majesty, please look at my grass and mud horse!

"Grass mud horses? There's no grass and no mud...... What a good horse...... How did you come up with such a name? Luo Youde was not very satisfied with the name, but the horse was obtained by Hong Tao from the distant Great Eclipse, and he said that he would call it whatever it was.

"Don't get too close, they're a bit seasick, they have a bad temper and are easy to kick! Let's go up, it's too tasty here. As soon as Hong Tao stretched out his hand, he grabbed Luo Youde, who was about to make do with him, and couldn't help but push and shove him out of the front cabin.

"Why didn't Brother Hong sail straight in and wait here?" Luo Youde walked out of the front cabin, and kept looking back, modern men like good cars, ancient men like good horses, a virtue.

"My boat has a deeper draft, deeper than all of them, and I am afraid of running aground." Hong Tao was embarrassed to say that he was cowardly and afraid of being caught, so he pointed to the big boats that entered and exited the Qiantang River, and found a very reasonable excuse.

"It's okay, it's okay, this river is deep, feasible and feasible......" Luo Youde hurriedly gave Hong Tao a package ticket, and almost ordered the boat to drive instead of Hong Tao.

Since Luo Youde was there, Hong Tao's heart was a little more settled, and he didn't want to leave the boat here and go ashore on two legs for hundreds of miles, so the Zhenzhou raised half a sail, took advantage of the crosswind, followed a sea ship with a displacement of about 300 tons, and slowly sailed towards the Qiantang River. However, Hong Tao didn't believe all of Luo Youde's words, his own boat knew the performance, he still asked the sailor to drop the weight of the bathymetry at the bow of the boat, and walked sideways, once he found that the water depth was too shallow, he would sound the alarm.

In this way, I rubbed slowly with half a sail, rubbed for two days and one night, and after turning a corner to the left, I finally saw a city in the distance. It snuggles under the foot of the mountain, and the city wall stretches to the north, but the scale, Hong Tao thinks that it is average, compared to Nanjing, Xi'an, and Beijing, it is obviously much smaller. It is said that the Southern Song Dynasty originally planned to move the capital to Jiankang, that is, Nanjing, especially the main battle faction, was willing to let the emperor build the capital on the Yangtze River, which could boost the morale of the people. However, it is precisely because Jiankang City is too close to the front line that the ministers who have been frightened by the Jin cavalry are more willing to come to Hangzhou, where the water network is dense and far from the front line, which is relatively safe. Since the late Tang Dynasty, Hangzhou has developed very rapidly, and has become the largest state and county on the southeast coast, and relies on the beautiful West Lake, which can always attract the favor of those literati. (To be continued.) )