Can't you rely on the number of days sailed to judge for yourself without telling people? The answer is no. Hong Tao was making trouble for himself in this regard, he ordered the rest of the warships in the fleet to return first, and his own ship dragged Luo Youde and Wen Nan to make a big circle at sea, and dragged it for five days before returning to Jinhe Bay. According to this voyage, most places in Southeast Asia can be reached, so if you want to guess, you can guess.

The reason why it is so mysterious is not that Hong Tao is afraid that his nest will be attacked if it is known. He was sure that in this era, there was not a single fleet capable of attacking Jinhe Bay from the sea, and it was useless to have a large number, and the quality was not to be seen by quantity on the sea. He is just instinctively willing to keep part of the secret, so that others will not see his strength thoroughly, which should be regarded as a habit.

Leaving in early summer and coming back in late autumn, the life of a navigator is like this, the time should be calculated according to the month, once the voyage is not about half a year, he will not come back, so Hong Tao feels that time flies, and a year will pass in a blink of an eye, and he seems to have done nothing. However, when the Guangzhou made a turn at the mouth of the Jinhe River and saw a large area of houses and acres on the north bank, he felt that he had not been idle in the past few years, and a sense of accomplishment arose.

Since occupying the riverbank more than three years ago, the area has changed rapidly. At this time, Jinhewan was already a small town, larger than Zhenzhou City in area, but there was no city wall. The construction of the city wall was also mentioned in the board of directors, but it was vetoed by Hong Tao, rather than spending so many people and material resources to make a circle of broken walls that do not produce any benefits to fence themselves, it is better to build a few more big ships to go out.

There are no people within 100 kilometers of Jinhe Bay, and it is still barren after a few days of going up the river. Except for those damn monkeys. There is no need for land defense. According to the information that Hong Tao got from Cixi's mouth, it is estimated. The closest group of people to him should be the Mayi tribe in the south, almost 400 kilometers away, and the middle is full of primeval forests and mountains and rivers, and there are no roads at all, so there is no need to consider land defense at all. As long as the estuary is blocked, no one will be able to enter, and it is even more delusional to land on both sides of the estuary. The perennial sediment accumulation has made mudflats on both sides of the estuary for more than a dozen kilometers, and boats cannot get close. Even if you use a small boat to get close, people can't get up. The mud was too soft and sticky for animals to dare to go up to, and people were trapped and killed as many as they could.

Hong Tao is also unwilling to let the people of Jinhewan develop a passive defensive mentality, what he wants to cultivate is a group of people with fangs and thinking about how to harm others all day long, who has heard of lions and tigers burrowing themselves to hide. They are home wherever they go, not to mention that other animals come to harass them, even if you get closer, you can let them be used as food. Golden River Bay is just a breeding ground for this group of lions and tigers to recuperate. The real home is much bigger than Golden River Bay, if not the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Covering the whole of Southeast Asia is also a minimum requirement.

"Here, Brother Hong built it?" Since entering the mouth of the Golden River, Luo Youde can go out of the captain's room and look around. When he saw a huge town suddenly appear on the shore, the beard on his chin was unlucky again, and several of his hands were pulled off with a trembling hand. And he didn't feel the pain himself, all this in front of him made him completely into a petrified state, he once imagined that Hong Tao had his own small force overseas, the scale of which was a small fishing village like the Tanjia family in Ximaozhou, and he thought of the extreme, that is, a big village. But everything in Jinhewan was completely beyond his expectations, the territory was too big, there were too many people, everything was too strange, and it was a completely paradise-like place.

"Hey, hey, hey, not bad, right? Three and a half years, the current population is less than 2,000. I don't know how much arable land there is, everyone can plant as much as they want, and they have to raise it for a year when they plant it, which is called rotational planting, to avoid excessive loss of nutrients in the land. Hong Tao looked at Luo Youde's expression and was really proud, at this time, speechlessness is better than words, the more surprised others are, the more they recognize their achievements.

"Y-Where did you get so many people?" Luo Youde knew that Hong Tao had taken away a lot of the Tan family from Ximaozhou, but the Tan family in the whole Hainan Island was counted, and there were not 2,000 people.

"He caught it, just like me, but fortunately, he didn't catch many Song people except for a few of us." Wen Nan took Luo Youde's words and helped Hong Tao explain the source of Jinhewan's population.

"This is the slave that Brother Hong asked me before!" When the ship slowly approached the dock, Cixi came with two groups of slaves with chains around their necks to prepare to unload the cargo. After Luo Youde saw it, he finally understood the whole thing, and a few years ago, Hong Tao had already begun to lay out.

"Yes, but I didn't abuse them, some of them are better off than they were back home. And they are not slaves for life, in fact, it is more appropriate to call them prisoners of war, and when they have proved their worth with their labor, I will make them residents here. Of course, I deprived me of the right to choose, and I had to do it as well as I wanted. Cixi, I brought you back that bastard son of yours, he said that he was not willing to marry Weng Ya, and he still said it in front of Weng Ya, which made the girls very faceless. You say you're such a good brain, why did you give birth to such a fool? Go home and educate well! "Every time Hong Tao sees Cixi, he is in a very good mood. This dogleg is more and more like himself, not like him, but like every move. Because he is addicted to smoking, he bites and plays with a small wooden stick when he has nothing to do, and now he has it in his mouth, and that look looks very similar to himself from a distance, but he is not handsome.

"This bastard! See if I go home and don't smoke him! When Cixi heard that her son had told him all about the careful thinking she had taught him, or in front of Weng Ya, she was so angry that she waved the whip in her hand and roared at the mercy on the deck.

"Hey! No, let's not beat and scold, he's my crew, let alone beat, you have to be reasonable. I'll inform the kitchen later, I have a guest coming today, and I'll add a few more game in the evening. Hong Tao did not agree with Cixi's way of disciplining children, he used a way of education regardless of whether he was a boy or a girl, that is, beating, and he usually managed slaves, all of which became occupational diseases.

"That's, that'...... But I can't talk about him, you teach him so many things in school, how can I educate? Cixi immediately nodded in agreement with Hong Tao's order, but he had his own bitterness.

"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, you just take care of yourself, don't worry so much. Brother Luo, try the grass mud horse, this is a good horse that I specially left, more than a god horse dedicated to the official family, please! "Hong Tao no longer has to stare at Cixi to load and unload the things on the ship, he is more experienced than himself, he is more meticulous, and he is a good housekeeper. So, it's much easier for me, at this time, there are already two horses brought by Ma Nu, and they just happened to ride and take Luo Youde to Jinhewan for a spin.

"Brother Hong, don't say that, otherwise I won't dare to get on the horse for my brother." Luo Youde was still hesitating whether he should ride a grass and mud horse that was more powerful than the official family, but when he saw Wen Nandu turned over on the horse, he didn't pretend, who doesn't like to drive a good car and ride a good horse.

The trio rode tall horses along the gravel road towards the residential area, and saw the residents here just saying hello along the way. Now the people of Jinhewan have become accustomed to having large sea ships return from overseas from time to time, and it is strange for anyone to have no children to be sailors on sea ships. The family's farmland, livestock, mining, shipbuilding, and smelting are all taken care of by middle-aged and elderly people and women, who are actually commanding and commanding, and all the heavy work is done by slaves.

The gravel road in the town is paved with stones brought from the mines, and it is still running east along the riverbank, and the whole residential area of Jinhe Bay is in the shape of a long strip. The north side of the residential area is full of farmland, and the noisy and polluting industries of shipbuilding, smelting, casting, and oil refining have all been moved to the south bank of the river, and are downstream of the residential area.

"This is my home, my eldest daughter-in-law, Brother Luo, has seen it, but there is also a second daughter-in-law, a foreigner, Senya! A-Zhu! After walking half a mile along the gravel road, Hong Tao walked to his two wooden houses, and originally wanted to call his daughter-in-law out to say hello to Luo Youde, but after shouting a few times, there was no movement in the house.

"Yes, they probably all went to work at the Women's Federation, so let's wait until dinner." Hong Tao is away from home for more than half of the year, and Bo Zhu and Senya usually don't stay at home, and will go to work with their children in their arms. There is something to do every day to live interestingly, always staying at home does not conform to the rules of Jinhewan, here from the old to the young must have a job or school, there are no idlers.

"Brother Hong, this town was established by you and the Tan family? Then you have not set yourself up as king! "Since Luo Youde hit the shore, the most tired place is his neck, the left side turns to the right after reading, and the front turns to the back after reading, and now he just cares about asking questions.

"Hey! Lao Luo, let's not buckle our hats, what do you mean by being a king? We have 11 kings here, and do we have kings of all ages? Wen Langzhong can testify to this for me. Hong Tao was afraid of scaring Luo Youde, and he didn't admit the fact that he occupied the mountain as the king, and he was justified.

"Mr. Hong got a board of directors, including him, a total of 11 directors, everything was discussed by the 11 of them, and the final vote was made, and no one could make the decision. He also wants to elect all these 11 people from the following villagers in the future, and elect them every three or five years, and whoever is elected will serve as the director, and those who can't be elected will go home to farm. Since Wen Nan heard that Hong Tao really wanted to help the Great Song Dynasty raise horses, his attitude has changed at least 120 degrees, and even the title has been changed to Hong Tao's favorite gentleman. (To be continued.) )