What Hong Tao wants to do is the latter attempt, he does not want to and cannot control a country, which is not in line with his character. But he can easily influence the thinking patterns of some people and point them to a relatively correct path, because this path has been proven by history. Who is most receptive to new things? Not literati, politicians, peasants, workers, but businessmen! No matter what era or what country it is, the first to explore the unknown is always these people who are busy all day long for profit.

How can this group of people be influenced and controlled to a large extent? It's simple and difficult, and the only way is to provide them with a steady stream of benefits. As long as you have this thing in your hand, they will offer you like an ancestral tablet, and whoever wants to deny you, they don't need you to greet them, and they will immediately stand up to help you fight the grievances. But they are also a double-edged sword, if one day you can't satisfy their appetite, or have a greater benefit to be discovered by them, they turn their faces faster than turning a book, and they will abandon you in minutes, and it is very benevolent if you don't fall to a rake.

If you change to someone else, you can't afford to play this kind of game, and no one can come up with so much benefit to satisfy the appetite of this class, but Hong Tao just can. He happens to know what the future holds, and what kind of interests in the world have not yet been developed. Ocean trade is the first bait he came up with, and this bait is very large, and it really can't be cleaned for a while, which can make merchants toss for a long time, maybe they won't be able to finish tossing in this life.

What if the toss is over? It doesn't matter, there are still the development of the New World and colonies waiting for us, and these things will not be finished for a while. It's over again! That's too much of a speed, isn't it? Never mind. Even if time flies. Ocean trade and the New World were developed. Hong Tao also has a killer feature, that is, to reshuffle the cards, it's time to fight! Don't look at the fact that fighting a war is a matter for soldiers and politicians, in fact, businessmen prefer to fight, danger is not a matter, as long as there are enough interests to pursue, and businessmen will be happy to blow up the earth. Of course, Hong Tao felt that he would not live that long. That's not an old goblin, so you don't have to worry about any world wars, you don't have to think about it, it's in vain.

The event in Port Cabalan lasts until the end of July, and if you don't sail back, the winter monsoon will come again. Hong Tao actually doesn't care, but those merchant ships can't succeed, and it really costs their lives to go back against the wind all the way, and no matter how much money there is, they have to spend their lives. Thereupon. The galleons began to move to the docks one after another, carrying water, food, and people. After making supplies, they all stopped outside the port, and then everyone began to wish each other on the dock, and made an appointment for the next meeting, and then got on the boat, turned back step by step, reluctantly left this treasure land, and rowed towards their own ship.

At this point, the small warehouse next to the dock is gone, replaced by a large warehouse area under construction. This is the handiwork of the Straits Resources Management Company, in fact, it didn't cost much, and some of the captives let them go to the mountains to dig stones and build houses, and they didn't have to pay the wages. When it's done, it can be sold to the Arabs and continue to do it, when it's finished. The Arabs had to wait a few months before leaving, and they had too many goods and too many slaves to fit in. The first fleet to return has been gone for half a month, and when they return home with more ships, it is estimated that it will be winter.

Although it is not a large shed with a roof like in later generations, it also has a small house and courtyard wall, which can not only shelter merchants from all over the world who come here to do business, but also store a part of the goods that cannot be sold. Don't be afraid of someone stealing, everyone has left people behind and formed a market management team, which is specially guarded by this market and warehouse area, preventing fire and theft and robbery.

Hong Tao named this bazaar the Guanyuan Small Commodity Wholesale Market, which he said meant as the official garden, and was immediately unanimously approved by the Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants. In fact, Mao's official garden, which is the name of a small market in Beijing in the later generations, Hong Tao is most familiar with, so it is it. In the future, there will be a series of names such as Providence, Wantong, and Dahongmen, and it will be difficult to come up with a name, which is not in line with Hong Tao's habits, and it is the most efficient to use it.

Since the port of Cabalan is already the westernmost trading port of the Strait Company, it cannot be left unfortified, and the construction of two fortresses on the wharf has been decided, and Hong Tao also left the Zhenzhou of Bojiao here, as a standing military force of the Strait Company. This time Bo Jiao didn't say anything about refusing to stay, he wanted to stay, because the princess daughter-in-law gave birth to a pair of twin sons to him, and he, who was a father, did not dare to take his daughter-in-law and son back to Jinhewan to see Bo Xiaoer, mainly for fear of being beaten, and did not want to leave their mother and son behind, Hong Tao's method just solved the current dilemma. Stay for a year and a half, and when the child is older, he will find a way to bring it back to his grandfather and Bo Fu to see, and it is estimated that it will be fine.

However, Hong Tao only left him 50 sailors, which was not a wartime quota at all, and could not carry out large-scale and high-intensity operations. Hong Tao didn't expect him to be able to fight the crowd, it would be too dangerous, Hong Tao's request was to patrol the nearby waters every day, and give early warning if an abnormality was found. With the assistance of ten wheelbarrows equipped on the dock, as long as the opponent is not a large-scale attack, it is not easy to go ashore. Even if they went ashore and had the prince's army to defend against them, their combat effectiveness was not particularly bad, and they were very effective against enemies who were also holding swords in their hands, but they were frightened in the face of grenades.

Prince Taba is now 100% into Hong Tao's camp, not to mention those scary grenades, the commercial profits brought by Hong Tao alone make the prince choose the right side without any worries. Although he would not be taxed for these commercial transactions, so many merchants did business in the port, and the surrounding industries were not to be underestimated, and in disguise, they also brought a lot of benefits to the small kingdom he ruled. When the people are rich, he, the king, will certainly not be poor. And in his opinion, Hong Tao represents the interests of the Great Song Kingdom and some Arabs, and in this sea area he knows, there is really no one who can compete with these two forces, not counting, not one.

Besides, Bo Jiao, the colt, has a child with his daughter, as the child's grandfather, he can't take the soldiers to kill his son-in-law, not to mention whether he has the ability and guts, who is close to him can still figure it out. With a large ship guarding here, and with them helping him to train his soldiers, and with better weapons to be sent, Prince Taba felt that he should endure for another two years, replenish his soldiers and provisions, and expand his territory to the north. On this island of Ceylon alone, there are no less than dozens of princes or city lords like him, if he can use the power of Hong Tao to complete the great cause of reunification that has not been completed in several generations, then he will be the greatest king in the history of Ceylon, what more could he ask for!

As for the ocean...... Forget it, a person's energy is limited, the Great Song Dynasty and the Arabs are willing to fight on the ocean, that's their business, we can't control it, let's close the door and live our little life, as long as Hong Tao, a behemoth, doesn't fall, he feels that he is not in any danger. He had already seen that the big man who killed people without blinking didn't look down on his small kingdom at all, and if he wanted it, they would have taken it long ago, and he didn't have to wait until now.

So, helping Po Jiao consolidate the defense of Cabalan Harbor is the prince's top priority at the moment. Now is the time to ask for people, money, and materials, and the prince assured Hong Tao through an interpreter when he went ashore to say goodbye to him for the only time. The next time Chairman Hong comes to Cabaran Port, it is guaranteed to be an impregnable fortress, and people are in the port! Please rest assured!

"Do you believe that there is an impregnable fortress in this world?" Looking at the Kabalan port that was gradually moving away, Hong Tao was still reminiscing about Prince Bata's words.

"If these two five-zhang high stone fortresses are really built, plus Ah Jiao's battleship, it will be really difficult to break through." When the captains of the five warships set sail, they all focused on the flagship to listen to the precautions, and Hong Tao asked this, and Karl, as a crusader knight, took the lead in expressing his professional opinion.

"If there are enough people, it is not impossible to break through by means of siege. It's just that there are still warships at sea that threaten it, and it's really difficult. Unless you land from somewhere else, but there is no road to go from here, it is difficult to march, and it is also difficult to hide from the warships that are anchored. It would have been even worse if it had been attacked during the landing. "Kong Pei is also a person who has fought in the war, and he analyzes more comprehensively.

"Yes, we still have too few people, so let's do it when we pass through Phuket and take all the hipsters over there captive. They are all good sailors, they can catch as much as they can fit, and the younger the better. You go back first, Kong Pei stays, I still have something to ask you. "Hong Tao has never fought a war, and all his combat ideas come from imagination. This way can be done at sea, but on land, losing the ship, the most advantageous weapon, even if the number is the same, they will not dare to confront others head-on, unless they are equipped with a machine gun, which is unfortunately impossible. So you still have to develop the navy, the ship is your own foundation, don't try to use any fortress to consolidate your power, that thing is just to scare people. Once it's really attacked, it's a question of whether the people inside have the ability to resist, and if you don't do it, it will become the enemy's fortress, and the next time you go by yourself, you have to fight back again, it's really troublesome! (To be continued.) )