Finally, when the nonsense was finished, his hand was released, and more than twenty sons and grandsons of the emir took turns to come up to salute. The oldest looked like they were all forty years old, and the younger ones were the two on the boat just now. Don't look at this emir, his fertility is really powerful, and he can support him, which is also a skill!

Port Aden is a small city, and the people here are not nomadic tribes, but the house they live in looks very familiar, very similar to the previous houses in Port Karamba, but the material color is different. However, the palace of the emir is much more magnificent than the palace of the Taba family, although it has no walls, it is very large, with a tall tower at each of the four corners.

"Langya, arrange twenty team members, go to the roof, load guns, and in case of accidents, at least one person can rush to the dock. Don't patronize to save me, the battleship got the news, even if I was saved, do you understand? Hong Tao only brought 50 marines with him, and the others were all at the dock to answer him, although he was not at ease, but he could not bring hundreds of people to his house as guests. Seeing that there were guards standing on the roof of the emir, Hong Tao was not polite, and sent half of his own people, and the rest of the team members all carried pistols, two each, and followed him.

The living room of the Arabs is very interesting, there is not a single wall facing the courtyard, and it is very open. There were only two small cupboards against the wall in the room, and there was no furniture at all, and even the master and the guests all sat in a large circle against the wall, and on the carpet in front of them was a large silver plate, which was full of fruit. Hong Tao is no stranger to this scene, but remember not to grab the food with his left hand, then simply hold the cigar cigarette.

"Your Majesty. Don't stare at a tapestry. In that case, as the owner, I will have to give it to you......" Hong Tao also did not understand Arabic. Everyone couldn't talk about any topics of interest, and he didn't need to think about polite words, so those little eyes began to touch around. I happened to see a tapestry on the wall that was beautifully woven, stared at it a few more times, and then fouled again.

"Well, then I don't have to wait for people to give me gifts, I'd better come first! Langya, bring me my gifts! Hong Tao didn't deliberately bring gifts. But there were two things in his cabin, one was wine, and the other was cigars. The Arabs forbade alcohol, but they didn't say they were smoking, because there was no such thing as cigarettes when the Quran was written, so Hong Tao chose a few boxes of his own cigars as gifts.

"It's an imperial specialty, it's called cigar smoke. It makes people focused, it's easier to think, and if I have to stay up late to approve documents, I'm very irritable without it. You can't smoke too much, though. One or two a day is enough. "It's not enough to have a gift, you have to get a doorway for the gift. This thing Hong Tao is good at, just talking about the benefits and not the harm. Things like nicotine and tar are not understood by Arabs for hundreds of years, and when they figure it out, their own family is the richest man in the world just by selling tobacco. Besides, I'm gone, and I can't see this day at all.

For this new thing in Hong Tao's mouth, everyone here is very curious, now it's okay, everyone has one in their hands, and after lighting it one by one, this living room of hundreds of square meters immediately became a sauna, and it was full of smoke. Fortunately, it is well ventilated and not so suffocating.

Hong Tao is an idle person, just sitting here and talking about business with a group of people who can't understand what they say will definitely not work, there are maritime merchants in business, there is no need to talk about it himself, he just needs to determine the future cooperative relationship with the ancestor of Uncle Laden. Bin Laden agreed to Hong Tao's request to build an imperial cargo warehouse in the port of Aden, but he disagreed with Hong Tao's intention to continue north along the Red Sea.

According to Emir bin Laden, the area he could actually control was less than a hundred kilometers north of the entrance to the Red Sea, and further north, although nominally his domain, the tribes there were not very obedient. If it was only the Arabs, he could send someone to follow Hong Tao's fleet as a guide, but the tribes on the west bank were not Arabs, they were all Mus-Rins of North Africa, and they didn't even belong to the Ayyubid Dynasty, and if the fleet was discovered by them, there would be some trouble.

So the Emir of bin Laden advised Hong Tao to unload the cargo at the port of Aden, and then he hired a caravan to transport part of it to Mecca, and then part of it to the interior through the Bedouins. But when Hong Tao said that he had ten large ships full of goods, the emir was also stupid, he could not transport so much, and no one could afford to buy so many goods. If you don't give money on credit, it will definitely not work, where is this rule for the first time you do business.

"Tell him that he only needs to send a guide to the fleet, and we will solve the problem of going north by ourselves. By the way, I would like to ask him again, if there is a war with the Ayyubids when I go north, will he change the agreement he made with me? As for Emir's worries, Hong Tao did not take it to heart. Without diamonds, you can't do porcelain work, whether it's Arabs, Kurds or Persians, Hong Tao is not afraid. It's just that before fighting, he has to ask who has a good relationship with whom, who is the enemy with whom, so that he can attack selectively. You can't fight everyone, because then you will become the public enemy of the entire Arab world, and you don't want to do business.

"The emir said that as long as he passed through Mecca, it would not belong to his rule, and that your majesty these merchant ships were guests of their Hadaramau tribe, and no one could come to his house and harm his guests." Said quickly gave Hong Tao a clear answer, and it seems that the situation in the Arabian Peninsula that he had previously introduced to Hong Tao was indeed credible. The central control of this Ayyubid dynasty was really weak, and a governor dared to blatantly shield the enemies of the state. Saladin is a good person, but why are his children and grandchildren so wasteful, only a generation later, he has almost lost the foundation he created in the first place.

Hong Tao only stayed in the port of Aden for one night, and the next day he took his leave, citing the fact that the fleet was still far away. Originally, he planned to go to see the life of the Bedouins and ride a camel to Uncle Laden's hometown, but when he found out that the camel had ticks on it, he killed it and did not dare to come close. This gadget is scarier than bed bugs, fleas, mosquitoes, and is full of germs and parasites, and it is said to cause diseases such as encephalitis, so the farther away you are, the better.

Before leaving, Uncle Laden's ancestors gave Hong Tao a lot of gifts, including Arab horses, spices, Persian slave girls, and a tapestry, the one he had stared at for a long time. This made Hong Tao very embarrassed, there is an old Chinese saying that a gentleman does not win people's love. You said that people hung it at home, and they just looked at it a few more times, and then snatched it away, which is not appropriate.

But you can't go back, what can you do? So Hong Tao also gave the emir a big gift, he found a few lighters and a can of gasoline, and gave them back to the emir of bin Laden, so that he could light a cigar and smoke. But it's not for nothing, Hong Tao has always been the master of thieves, and he sent it out with gasoline cans, as well as a jar of crude oil specimens. Hong Tao asked Said and the emir to tell him that the people of Jinhe liked to eat this black, stinking black liquid the most, and if they found it anywhere, they would keep it for themselves. This black gadget can be exchanged for a lot of Imperial goods, including steel farming tools, scimitars, and armor.

Since heavy oil can be used to make steel, the demand for crude oil in Jinhe has been increasing day by day. At present, the crude oil provided by the port of Brunei is sufficient, but Hong Tao likes to prepare for everything with two hands or more. It would be great if crude oil could be found in the Arabian Peninsula, which is not too far from Cape Town and could have another petrochemical base in Cape Town.

With gasoline, sulfuric acid, sugar, and then use carnallite to get chloride and potassium out, what is this thing? Mo\Tuo\Loft cocktails are also! Moreover, it is chemically ignited, as long as the paper soaked in chlorination, potassium and sugar water is dried, and it comes into contact with sulfuric acid gasoline, it will catch fire immediately. If you can effectively separate these things and put them in a hollow bullet, it is a good incendiary bomb. There is no need to worry about shells going out due to the failure of the collision fuse, and it is much more powerful than solid shells for attacking wooden sailing ships at sea, and it can also be used to siege cities, burning one piece at a time, which is better than solid bullets.

(To be continued.) )