"Unmooring...... Untie the rope! Mainsail ...... Raise the mainsail! With Hong Tao's order, a high-pitched scream echoed on the river beach, mixed with a few children's voices, less than half of the more than thirty crew members were children of about ten years old, and a few girls, both the Tan family and the natives, and a few descendants of slaves. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't take too many people on the voyage because of the supply problem, Hong Tao planned to bring all the children in the school with him, which would be a major life test for them.

"Are you coming back?" When the two sailing boats sailed out of the mouth of the Golden River and disappeared from everyone's sight, Cixi suddenly appeared, gathered beside Qi Zu, and asked in a low voice.

"Nonsense! You hope he doesn't come back! Qi Zu is the person who has the most contact with Cixi in this camp except for Hong Tao, and sometimes he forgets his slave status, but at this time, Qi Zu didn't give Cixi a good face, and scolded him sharply.

"It's not! No! My son is on board...... I—I'm afraid of what those lazy guys think! Cixi shuddered, and hurriedly explained to Qi Zu the reason for her excessive mouth.

"Look at what! Don't think that you will be lazy when the adults leave, he is going to catch new slaves and come back, and when there are more people, whoever doesn't work will have nothing to eat! Hurry on board, get started, half the workload today! Seeing that the faces of the ten people on the dock were not very good-looking, Cixi felt that she had to behave, so she waved her whip and rushed to the slave team who were gathering to work.

"If Tao can't come back, what will they do?" Huang Hai watched Cixi's hard performance, and turned his head helplessly to look at Old Man Rong.

"The rules have been set, and it's the same rule that you can't come back and forth, and no one can change it! I now understand why Tao Lingzi wanted to get this board of directors in the first place, and I also understand what he said to me before, he really doesn't want to be the emperor...... But is there such a thing in the world? Old man Rong kept looking in the direction of the estuary, as if he could still see the two sailboats. He didn't need to look back to understand what was happening behind him, but he wasn't thinking about the slave at this time, and since Hong Tao left the dock, the old man suddenly seemed to understand something, but it wasn't too clear.

On the second day of Hong Tao's voyage with two sailing ships, on the busiest commercial street in Quanzhou City, a shop called the Quanzhou branch of Huanqiu Universe Development Co., Ltd. opened in the sound of firecrackers. Luo Dacai and Luo Youde were standing at the door to greet the guests, most of whom were scholars, and several of them were family members of local officials in Quanzhou. Although this small shop has just opened, its reputation is already outside, especially in the Liangguang and Fujian regions.

Hong's Huanqiu sesame oil, Hong's Huanqiu soap, Hong's Huanqiu sesame oil wax and Hong's Huanqiu cartilage leather umbrella have become the standard configuration of scholars, officials, wealthy businessmen, and large restaurants, if anyone still lights the original kind of choking lamp oil, who has not taken a bath with that kind of soap with a faint smell, and who does not put a few small arm-thick carved sesame oil wax on the offering table during the New Year's holiday, then he is not worthy of being called the middle class and intellectuals of the Great Song Dynasty, and the identity grade only needs to smell the smell of your body.

As for who this Hong is, no one knows, the boss of the Huanqiu company is surnamed Luo, and his name is virtuous, and he is definitely not Hong, but this does not affect people's praise for the products of the Huanqiu company. Since the launch of the Whaler, the supply of whale oil has become more stable and abundant, and stores in Qiongzhou and Guangzhou alone are no longer enough to expand sales. But Luo Youde is not very sure about the wholesale business, so he plans to open a few more stores to expand sales, and this store in Quanzhou is one of them. After the first month, the stores in Fuzhou and Wenzhou will also open, and he will have five stores by then, and then accumulate strength, and he plans to open the store to Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Now he understands why Hong Tao said that he wanted to give him a big fortune, although the lamp oil, soap, and candles look inconspicuous, but the sales are really large. If the price of whale oil is lowered, it will be sold several times more than the current sales in Qiongzhou and Guangzhou alone. This is also where Luo Youde admires Hong Tao from the heart, the same goods, just a matter of pricing, can make more money, and there is no need to make more efforts, as long as there are goods in the store, there will be no unsalable for a day, and there will be no out-of-stock for a day, it is always so stable, so stable that people are extremely comfortable.

"Uncle, when I plan to go home for the holidays, I will return the business name to Grandpa, whoever likes to take care of it will go, rather than risk going to Nanfan to sell goods, it is really better for our company to be stable, what do you say?" Looking at the endless stream of customers in the new store, Luo Youde felt a little ambitious. He hadn't been to sea in months, and he didn't care much about the business in the business, and he didn't plan to continue helping the family anymore. After all, people's energy is limited, and if he takes care of one side, he can't take care of the other, and he has to use all his limited energy in the global company. Although he only owns 30% of the company's shares, these 30% of the shares have exceeded the income of his family's business.

"What if he doesn't work with you in the future? Our supplies are in his hands. When Luo Dacai and Hong Tao met, they were inevitably affected, and a few cross-era terms popped out of their mouths from time to time.

"Uncle, this is surprising! I talked to him about this and he gave me very precise answers. He said that as long as there is no conflict of interest between us, there is no need to change partners. And he said that he was not an agent, and he didn't like to be in business, and to make these things out just to get more money, and then to build a big ship, and to look further afield. I don't think he's lying to me, he's really not an agent, he's very impatient with business things, and his father-in-law is more of an economy than him. Actually, I also wanted to go on the boat with him to see if the countries he was talking about really existed. Don't persuade me then, leave it all to you and Awen, he did a good job in Qiongzhou. Luo Youde has no prejudice against Hong Tao, on the contrary, he has been influenced by some of Hong Tao's thoughts, or he is a person similar to Hong Tao at all, too curious and adventurous.

"......" Luo Dacai still wanted to persuade his nephew, but before he could speak, a group of women came out of the corner of the street, talked and laughed in front of the store, and after seeing the signboard, they went in, it seems that they came here on a special trip. Luo Youde estimated that he knew one or several of the little ladies, and he threw down Luo Dacai to greet him, and his identity instantly became a shopping guide, and he couldn't stop introducing the goods in the store. There is nothing to say about the lamp oil and soap, but the candles and umbrellas are exquisite, they are all from different craftsmen, whether it is carving or painting, and the guy in the new shop is not very familiar with it, and he, the boss, has to go to the top.

Farther north, a stout man in a felt hat and a leather robe was sitting in a felt tent looking at the rich land south of the Yellow River on the map. Ogedei, the third son of Genghis Khan. He had just been proclaimed Great Khan of the Mongol Empire at the Kuritai Congress this summer, and was now calculating how to carry on the legacy of his father, Genghis Khan, destroy the feuding Jin Kingdom, and then seize the more fertile Southern Song Dynasty. He relied on the Mongol herdsmen of the Mongol tribes, who were as fast as the wind and walked on the ground, and with them the whole world would tremble.

At the same time, two identical sailboats, with the same sails, were sailing at the same speed on the vast South China Sea. Standing in the lead boat was a large man, barefoot and naked, wearing only knee-length shorts, with short hair and a colorful rat head on his back. Although the speed of the boat was fast, and the waves lifted and lowered the hull from time to time, his feet were still firmly nailed to the deck, and he held a fan-like thing in his hand, and he kept observing the midday sun, and every once in a while he would explain a few words to the two and a half children beside him, and then let them record them in the notebook.

One of these two people grew up in the green prairie, and the sky was vast and wild; A struggle in the blue sea, boundless and boundless; One is the Great Khan of the world's largest empire, and the other is the leader of a tribe of several hundred people in northern Luzon, with tens of thousands of miles of land and sea in between. However, because of a country called the Southern Song Dynasty and a nation called the Han people, the ethnic groups they represent are destined to meet, but Ogedai Khan did not know that there was such a person waiting for him in the southern sea that he could not imagine, but this person already knew.

If the one in the sky had not been blind, he would have seen that in front of the rut of history lay an inconspicuous little reptile, yelling at the rolling wheels. Whether he was run over by the wheel or turned the wheel upside down, it all depends on how good he can toss, don't look at the buddy is small, the whole body is hard!