"Yes, it must be possible, I said yes! The only thing you lack right now is the trust I have in you. As long as you have this thing, your city will get a lot of help from me, and it will be established very quickly, you know how to gain my trust, right? Hong Tao agreed with Medini's ideals, which is what he wants to do, and it can be regarded as a hero's vision. However, Hong Tao also has to remind Martini, don't get carried away, once some things are done, there is no turning back.

Hong Tao's trust is actually very easy to obtain, as long as you are a person who abides by the rules and abides by the rules he sets, he basically trusts you. Of course, it is impossible to trust completely, only partially. In fact, in daily life and work, there are very few places where 100% trust can be used, and everyone only needs to trust each other to a limited extent, which is enough. How to show that you are following the rules, it is useless to just talk about it, he is a big fool in itself, and you expect to fool him, unless you are from the stars, it is unlikely. You have to do it, and prove with practical actions that you understand these rules and that you are willing to abide by them.

The city of Cape Town, nay, should be said to be Cape Town, is a black version of Golden River Bay. He and the twenty sailors were the board of directors, and the others were slaves for the time being, not people, but the property of the Golden River Company, which Martini had exchanged for whale oil from the surrounding black tribes. Medini learned the management style of Hong Tao, and did not treat them in a harsh way, trying to ensure their quality of life after meeting their own needs, and having a small amount of labor every day, after which they could obtain living materials. Of course, if you want to enslave others for a long time. Benefits alone are not enough. There will also be necessary punishments. For the slaves who dared to challenge authority, Martini was even more ruthless than Hong Tao, and the number of slaves he threw into the sea was not too small in this year.

But these bad things were not done by Martini himself, but by the privileged class of a few slaves. In this regard, Medini also learned Hong Tao's method of using prisoners to manage prisoners to the fullest. He also has his own Cixi, and he plays more skillfully than Hong Tao, and his Cixi is not one. It's several. There was also competition among these empresses, so that he could act as a judge and a god in the middle.

Now, these Cixi of Matini came in handy, and there were more than 200 Javanese slaves who were taken down from the Golden River, and Hong Tao was originally worried that these people were not easy to control, but now he was relieved, and he was relieved to see the vigilance in the eyes of those black Cixi. Let these black slaves and Javanese slaves fight, and Medini just needs to stand up for the rights of the weak at the right time. Don't let one side have an absolute advantage, just keep a good balance. It was difficult for these newcomers to unite with the blacks. There is no time to fight against these Golden River Bay artisan class led by Martini.

Then, what Medini has to do is to give them hope, or to give them hope in life on behalf of Jinhe Company, such as family and future generations. When their families and descendants have received a certain degree of security, the city is no longer just the city of Jinhe Company, but also belongs to all of them. Who will destroy their own home, this is called sharing interests, tying the interests of the big guys together, and it is impossible to distinguish who is whom, such interests are the most unbreakable.

"It's much easier to build a dock and load and unload cargo later. Build a school in the village and teach them Chinese and basic mathematics when they have nothing to do. When they can write their names in Chinese characters and record things in Chinese characters, they will be inseparable from us. In addition, I just looked at it, there are too few female slaves here, and if the slaves are all singles, then you are in trouble, and countless troubles will happen. You have to make them all start a family, and when you have a family, you have a big burden on your back, and then you have children, it's an invisible chain, it's hard to break free, and sometimes the spiritual shackles are stronger than iron chains. As the leader of the Golden River Company, Hong Tao has the right to guide the construction prospects of Cape Town, and before the goods are unloaded, he and Martini began to inspect the land, instilling his theory in Martini as he walked, whether others like to hear it or not, he has to say it anyway.

"Lord...... Sir, there are a lot of wild horses with patterns, and I wonder if we can keep them all in captivity, so that you don't have to exchange horses in the future, let's set up a horse farm here! "Martini is very happy, he finally has a place where he can use his talents, and he is above 10,000 people, so there are so many things that pop into his head.

"Mustangs? Patterned? …… Hey, hey, old Mai, that thing can't be tamed, but what you say reminds me that this is indeed a good place to raise horses. Next time, when the next wave of supply ships comes, they will bring more horses, you try it first, and if you can breed here, then get a horse farm. Hong Tao hadn't heard that wild horses were still produced in South Africa, but after a little pondering, he understood what Martini was talking about, it should be zebras. It would be too difficult to domesticate zebras, but the dwarf plains north of Cape Town are a good pasture, so you might be able to get some horses to raise. As for what to use, Hong Tao doesn't know, anyway, if it's useful or not, get it first, maybe it will be useful when the time comes. For example, if you use domesticated horses to form a cavalry or something, then you won't sweep the nearby black tribes, and if you don't exchange horses as a commodity, you won't lose anyway.

"Also, when you have nothing to do, go and cut down some of the big trees in the valley, peel them and soak them in the river, and maybe in two years you will build a shipyard here, and then you will use them. There are a few blacksmiths among the craftsmen I brought, and they know a lot of ore, so you might as well ask the people of those tribes to help you find the mines, and see if there is anything worth mining nearby, just farming and raising horses, you can't use so much labor. When he thinks of horses, Hong Tao naturally thinks of boats. At present, Cape Town does not have the conditions to build large ships, trees alone are not enough, many of the connections on the ships are steel bolts, and if there is no rudimentary metallurgy, it is a bit difficult to build ships here. However, South Africa is a big mineral country, and there is no shortage of minerals in almost all the world, so if such a treasure is not used well, it will be a bit too wasteful to raise horses and farm. The most convenient part is that there is no shortage of labor here, and there are people everywhere who can be caught and mined, and they only need to be paid very low to get a good return.

As the only channel connecting Asia and Europe, if Cape Town can be developed as an important fulcrum, it will undoubtedly be very beneficial to the future of Jinhe Company. At that time, all kinds of merchant ships and warships can be built on the spot, and then loaded with various specialties from southern Africa, Asia, and Europe, and sail west to Europe and east to Asia. This port city can also hold the sea route between Asia and Europe, and it must be taken seriously.

Unfortunately, Hong Tao did not have much time to stay in Cape Town, and after presiding over the first board of directors of the Cape Town branch, appointing the same eleven directors and Martini, the branch manager and governor of Cape Town, he boarded the Golden River and returned home. Now is not the time to focus on the development of Africa, there are still a lot of things waiting for you at home, if you don't run your hometown airtightly, blind expansion is harmful, and you can't chew too much.

Just when Hong Tao led the fleet to besiege Jawa Island and sail to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, the Southern Song Dynasty court was not idle and ushered in a big change. Due to the complete defeat of the Duanping Jinluo Campaign, the main battle faction that was originally gearing up has died down. But those lords and factions did not give up, and wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to completely clean up the court, so as not to have a second rash dispatch of troops in the future.

The first to bear the brunt is the Zhao brothers, because the idea of recovering Sanjing was provoked by the two of them at the beginning, but the elder brother Zhao Fan retreated and refused to lead the troops north, and the younger brother Zhao Kui led the troops to the north, but he lost his troops and almost died in Henan. Why did the brothers Zhao Fan and Zhao Kui have such a great ability to persuade the imperial court to send troops north? Is it just because the two of them are court officials? Not really.

Zhao Fan and Zhao Kui's father is Zhao Fang, a general in the Southern Song Dynasty, who did not fall behind in the confrontation with the Jin State. At this time, Zheng Qingzhi, the prime minister of the new department, had a close personal relationship with Zhao Fang, and also served as a teacher of the Zhao brothers. The new official took office with three fires, Zheng Qingzhi has been aggrieved under Shi Miyuan for so many years, and when he first became the prime minister, he must want to be beautiful, but how to be beautiful? He set his sights on Bian Gong, what could be more beautiful than opening up the territory? It happened that the Zhao brothers put forward a proposal to recover Sanjing, and Zheng Qingzhi felt that it was a good opportunity, so he strongly supported the main battle faction.

In addition, the Zhao brothers have a more powerful backstage, that is, the emperor Song Lizong. Since Song Lizong ascended the throne, all major and minor affairs inside and outside the court have been dictated by Shi Miyuan, although he is not a rubber stamp, but it is almost the same, and it is not enjoyable. This Emperor Lizong is also an idealistic and ambitious progressive emperor, who doesn't want to mess around and wants to make a difference. As soon as Shi Miyuan died, he, like Zheng Qingzhi, also began to liven his mind, and he also wanted to find some credit for himself, so that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty could see that he was not a waste waiting for death. When Zheng Qingzhi and the Zhao brothers brought up the matter of recovering Sanjing, they were most interested in himself. If it weren't for the emperor's insistence, the anti-war faction in the court would be much more powerful, and even with Zheng Qingzhi, the prime minister, the main war faction would not have been able to make the trip. (To be continued.) )