But Jinhewan is inseparable from him, even if it is the fastest and fastest to go to South America, a round trip has to be 20,000 kilometers smaller, even if you rush every day, even ignore the windless belt, with the average fastest speed of the Haibo nine knots, you can only run 400 kilometers, and you have to run three months less just to run. This is still theoretical, in fact, this time may have to be doubled, which means that the light distance will take about half a year.

Whether it's potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, rubber, tobacco, peppers, quinine, you can't all grow on the beach and wait to pick them, you have to go ashore and look for them. According to Hong Tao's character, how can he have to have three boats to dare to travel, this time he will be able to use more than half of the old sailors in Jinhe Bay, back and forth for more than a year, and when he comes back, there is a question of whether there is Jinhe Bay. Therefore, Hong Tao postponed the plan of this trip to South America, when he will integrate Jinhe Bay and the Indian Ocean route neatly, and the strait company really has a foothold on this route, and it is not too late to go.

"Brother Hong, what are you waiting for? As long as you get these things back, you will be the hero of my Great Song Dynasty, and you can be written into the history books! Why don't we go first, it's not too late to get a school and a horse farm when we come back, I'm sure the imperial court will understand! Luo Youde didn't suspect that Hong Tao was lying to him, every time Hong Tao said something, he remembered it, and it could generally be realized, even if it couldn't be realized, he would tell the detailed reasons. If you can have a grain yield of dozens of stones per mu, what kind of horses do you raise, and what kind of school do you run, this is not a waste of money!

"Whether the court understands or not, it's my business! I can't leave yet. And the preparation is not sufficient. Brother Luo doesn't want us to be eaten by local cannibals when we get there, right? Wait until I'm ready. Naturally, Brother Luo will be informed, and when the time comes, let's take Wen Langzhong and go to the extreme east to have a good experience! Before that, whether it's me or Brother Luo, we have to do the things in hand well, so that we won't be worried when we leave, isn't that the truth? Hong Tao just drew a big pie and lured Luo Youde to work hard. It's not like he's going to South America, he doesn't even have a plan. But it must be said that it is as if you have to start every minute, so that the effect is better.

"What Brother Hong said is very true, it is because my brother is anxious, and the family can't be delayed, this is the foundation! Reckless, reckless, Brother Hong is not to blame! Luo Youde asked Hong Tao to say this, and he also felt that he was too anxious, such an adult, he didn't even want to go out to play. It's easy to be looked down upon.

"Then let's work together to do a good job of this foundation. Hoping to set sail one day earlier in search of our corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes? Hong Tao felt that this flickering fire was almost over, and it was necessary to make another oath or something, as long as the two of them clapped their hands, their big rear was basically won!

"Potatoes, sweet potatoes...... What do they look like? Luo Youde did not hesitate, stretched out his hand and patted Hong Tao, and his mind was still thinking about the grain that yielded a few stones or a dozen stones per mu.

The winter of the fifth year of Shaoding passed quickly, and when the spring of the sixth year of Shaoding came, the smoke of refining whale oil could no longer be seen on Ximaozhou, and there was no smell of a stream, in exchange for the sound of reading. The original humble courtyard has now been expanded into three large courtyards side by side, and more than 300 children are divided into three grades and six classes, and they attend classes in these courtyards. One-third of them are descendants from Jinhewan, the remaining two-thirds are Li children, and the rest are all descendants and relatives sent by Luo Youde and those maritime merchants.

Don't look at the fact that this school is built on the remote West Maozhou Island, but the maritime businessmen did not even complain, and praised Chairman Hong for his scheming. They felt that this kind of school for teaching stunts should not be set up in front of the public, and some maritime merchants even felt that it was not very safe to put the school on Ximao Continent, so it was better to get it directly to the big ship, so that it would be safe. The distance is a fart for them! They have run thousands of sea routes, hundreds of miles is still far away? How to ensure the safety and confidentiality of the school is their primary concern. Since it's a stunt, the fewer people who know, the more valuable it is, and in the future, these children of their own family have learned it, and they are all their cash cows. If you want to make a lot of money by sailing far away, you can't play with the new sea ship without these children, you can't keep up with Chairman Hong's fleet if you can't play with the new sea boat, and you can't make money if you can't keep up with the fleet! This is a very fatal thing and must be kept secret!

The Tan family on Ximaozhou was basically withdrawn to Jinhe Bay by Hongtao, and the production workshops of whale oil, soap, and candles were also withdrawn, and some of them were placed there. Now that Jinhe Bay has enough transportation capacity, there is no need to occupy a pit on the small island of Ximao Chau. The most important thing is that the horse farm of the Nanning Army was officially established, and Hongtao has a more legitimate, larger, and more potential base for development, and no longer needs the stepping stone of Ximaozhou. In addition, his father-in-law Bo Fu and his brother-in-law Bo Xiaoer should also go back to Jinhe Bay to enjoy the blessings, they have been guarding Ximaozhou for several years. Every time Lao Bofu returns to Jinhewan for the New Year, he holds the salamander all day long and does not let go, the old man says that it is fine, but in his heart he is willing to go home and live with the big guy every minute, and enjoy the joy of family.

There are three Li people who returned to Jinhewan with these left-behind Tan families on Ximaozhou, and Bofu calls them Hua Li, not Hua Li of rosewood, but Hainan Li people with tattoos on their faces. Since the matter of the racecourse must have come down, the old man Rong went out of the mountain again, and together with the old man Bo Fu, accompanied by Hong Tao and a few young men from the Tan family, drove a small sailboat along the Chang River into the mountain. They went to negotiate with the leaders of the Li people who knew each other, and there were only two things to negotiate, one was to ask the Li people to help the Tan family mine Shilu iron ore, and the other was to invite the Li people to go to Jinhewan to share the rich land with the Tan family.

Don't look at the Tan family, they are not very happy to live together with the Song people, but they are relatively close to the Li people. This can be regarded as sympathy, both ethnic groups are abandoned by the times, both are discriminated against, one is suffering in the mountains, the other is floating on the sea, everyone does not work together, life will be more miserable. Before Hong Tao came, most of the salt of the Li people was exchanged for private salt with the Tan family, and the cloth, medicine, and livestock needed by the Tan family were basically exchanged for the Li people, which can be regarded as a pair of economically complementary brothers.

Hong Tao gave the Li people very favorable conditions, Jinhewan provided them with iron mining tools, and then exchanged grain with them for iron ore, as much as there were. In order to show his sincerity, the Whaler also carried a ton of rice, and whether the deal was negotiated or not, this rice was regarded as a gift from the two families for generations. This is the first time that Hong Tao has entered the Li people's village, looking at those young people of the Li family who are wearing blue and black Li cloth and lining up barefoot to welcome themselves with singing and dancing, there are only two words in their hearts, they are really poor!

All the belongings of the Li family are all reflected in the head of the women in the family, all kinds of silver jewelry, pendants, whoever has more is the rich man in the village. But that's also limited to that, most of their families can't even use porcelain bowls, they can only dig a bowl out of wood, and there is an iron pot hanging from the fire pit at home. As for food, it is what to eat, the Li people are not good at farming, and the environment in which they live cannot be cultivated on a large scale. The land is there, but there are too many wild beasts and insects in the woods, and before the seeds that have been planted have yet to germinate, more than half of them have been eaten by wild beasts and insects, and the remaining half has just sprouted and has been eaten up. So they still live a primitive life of hunting, gathering, and bartering.

As for the business of exchanging iron ore for grain, several Li leaders near Shilu expressed their willingness to do it, but they didn't know what iron ore was, and they had to be taught by Hong Tao. But for the migration of the Ju clan to Jinhewan, several Li leaders were not very happy, although they had a good relationship with the Tan family, but they were not good enough to trust each other's lives. What Jinhewan is like, whether it is suitable for the life of the Li people after they go, and whether they will be bullied, are all what they are worried about.

Hong Tao didn't expect a single contact to convince them, even if you were a brother, if you suddenly ran to someone's house and said that the family would move, the success rate would not be too high, and he still had the necessary psychological preparation. Isn't it worrying? Okay, let's find a way to reassure you. What's the solution? Send someone to investigate! Find a few Li people who are willing to go, follow the boat, and live in Jinhewan for three or two months, whether it is suitable or not will be clear immediately, and it will be much easier to talk about whether to go or not when the time comes.

But on this issue, Hong Tao thought a little too easily, if the Li people were so enlightened and willing to change, they would have gone down the mountain to naturalize the Song people a long time ago, and they still need him to persuade them? The stubbornness of an ethnic group is very strong, and the more closed the ethnic group, the more stubborn it is in this regard. They will stick to their way of life and will easily refuse to change. Hong Tao couldn't use his fooling Dafa at this time, because the language of the two sides was not comprehensible, and what he said was all in vain, and he had to be translated by Old Man Rong. The science of flickering requires tone, demeanor and a lot of physical details to foil, and what is translated by others is only the meaning of the language, and many elements in it are eliminated, and they are basically invalid.

"Ahh Marry another daughter-in-law? Weng Weng, I've already sacrificed for Jinhewan once, I can't take my turn every time, or you can have one too! Ah! The Li people did not completely reject Hong Tao's proposal, they said that if the leader of the Tan family married the daughter of the leader of the Li people, then the two families would be relatives, and they would still believe what the relatives said. So suddenly there were a few more Li little girls next to several Li leaders, and they could marry any of them, and they had to have one anyway. (To be continued.) )