“…… Are you really going to break with the Empire? I'm afraid it won't be good for you to go back this time! "Bickering is already the daily task of Luo Youde and Hong Tao, and they have to say a few words when they meet, otherwise it means that one of the two people is physically or mentally abnormal. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info But this is not a fool's teasing, you can also hear some of the other party's psychological activities from it, Luo Youde can hear it, Hong Tao is going to move seriously.

"I have to go back if I am good or not, and I am not the only one, Lao Wen also goes with me, he knows more about Da Song and can help me a lot. Don't worry, I'm not going to really go to war with the Golden River Empire. The rat is my son, and Jin He is also my son, and he didn't do it right, I'm not that bastard as a father. But I only told Lao Wen about this plan, not that I don't want to tell you, but I can't. This involves the lives of thousands of people, especially the lives of me and Lao Wen. After I'm gone, it's all up to you, Swan, Mercy, America, they're still young, and they're impulsive when they encounter something, and you have to check for them. Xiao Qi, Qi Zu, Bush, Charity, and Kindness are all excellent talents, but it is a pity that they do not know anything about state management. Don't be them, give them enough space and they will surprise you enough. Joseph's men let them stay in the kingdom of Mexica, and if they want to destroy my own home, I hope they will continue to have no ambition. If you can control them, it's a great help. By the way, don't worry too much, Lao Mai will be over soon, he is an expert in this area, and the two of you are not strangers, ask him more if you have something. In addition, Cixi and Ciqi are estimated to not stay in the empire for long, once I show up in the Great Song Dynasty, and let the imperial government suffer a dumb loss, they will have nothing to do with me, and they will definitely find their brothers to be angry. With the two of them here, no one can toss the flowers, but if you can accommodate the two of them, these two pieces of material are not good people. The day of his departure is getting closer and closer, and Hong Tao must find all free time to talk to Luo Youde about the future, for fear of saying something less.

"Lao Wen is really a bachelor, if you don't do it with a good king, you have to run around with you. But you seem to have forgotten, I am also from the Great Song Dynasty, he knows more about the court, and I am more familiar with the people, why don't you encourage me to go back with me? Luo Youde didn't follow Hong Tao's topic, but asked another question.

"What do you mean? America has just chased from the empire, and you have to run back to the Great Song Dynasty, isn't this tossing other people's children? You are not the only one who is familiar with businessmen, I also know a lot of people from the Straits Company, and if I don't have Cixi to help me, I won't need you. Luo Youde seemed to be talking and playing, but Hong Tao didn't think so. After more than 20 years of mixing together, I have long figured out who speaks and what habits.

"America is more sensible than you, I have already told him, I want to go back to the Great Song Dynasty with you. I am a Song person, and when I was young, I went out to wander just to see the world and make my life more comfortable. Now that I'm old, it's reasonable to return to my roots. You see, those maritime merchants basically have homes overseas, but their homes in the Great Song Dynasty will always be kept, and once they can't run, they will go back to the old mansion to wait for death. Don't persuade me, I'm not going back to help you fight, and I don't have the ability to do this, I'm just taking your boat by the way, it's always okay, right? Luo Youde was more resolute than Hong Tao thought, he was not discussing the possibility of going back with himself, but informing himself of his final decision. And he had already told Luo Meimei about this matter, and he made up his mind when he was digging the canal, but he just didn't say it in advance, he was really cunning!

"Boom...... It's not good, it's not good, Luo Shen's envoy has been blown up......" Before Hong Tao could continue to persuade Luo Youde to dispel the idea of going back, a loud noise suddenly came from the hillside, followed by a mournful shout.

"Hahahaha...... The shouting is really like, hahahaha...... "Even if you know that this is a show, Luo Youde is also dark, and whoever is willing to live will be cursed." On the other hand, Hong Tao, who had a bad idea, laughed so happily.

It turned out that Luo Meimei and Hong Salamander were both filial children, and after a while, they ran back, and then saw two old men sitting behind the stones, one with a depressed face and the other with a smile on his face.

"Daddy! How did you get here? Oh, I see, this is your ghost again, you're not the prince of the Beacon Fire Theater! Luo Meimei knew what was going on as soon as he saw Luo Youde's crying face, and he didn't even have any interest in discussing, and the salamander reacted a little slower.

"I still said with a shy face that I am a prince, and the two of you don't even have a soldier, and the pig's head is almost the same. I heard that you instigated the Americas to personally supervise the planting of explosives, do you think that if you are married, I will not dare to beat you? America, your mind is full of seawater, she tells you to go, you go? Hong Tao stretched out his hand and grabbed Hong Salamander's ear, and began to teach this disobedient girl a lesson, and at the same time did not spare his son-in-law, it sounds like Luo Mei's responsibility is greater.

"Dad, those explosives killed a lot of people, and America and I want to help them find a more suitable way to use it, what's wrong with that!" Hong Salamander was not convinced, she thought she was doing the right thing.

"The invention of explosives was used to kill people, and the opening of the mountain is just a side effect. According to your logic, your father-in-law is a bastard, and he specifically likes to see these people blown up? Don't be so ignorant in the future, it's good to have ideas, but you must figure out why you want to act. Don't talk about the two of you with this kind of explosives, I can't deal with Bush and I together, why do you think you can solve it? Let you come here to observe and learn, you can only listen and watch, and you are not allowed to move! Hong Tao lifted the fingers pinching the salamander's ears up again, and dared to talk back!

"Oops...... Don't dare......" Hong Salamander admits defeat.

"Son, do you hear me, no one in their family is easy to mess with, and I have to call me a bastard to teach my daughter, and you will have a hard time in the future." Luo Youde is very dissatisfied with the performance between Hong Tao's father and daughter, this is too fake, can't he just pick up his ears and fall to the ground? Guaranteed to remember once for a lifetime.

The explosive power of nitrocellulose is indeed much stronger than that of black powder, and after a few kilograms of nitrocellulose are stuffed into the holes carved out of the rock and ignited, it can scatter the mountains within a radius of more than ten meters, and the rocks that are crumbling will fall to a kilometer away, and whoever hits them is unlucky. After each explosion, groups of slaves climbed up the hill and pushed the loose mountain at the blast point down the mountain, and the people below chiseled the big rocks and cleaned them up to both sides. Once the blast site was cleared, the men with the drills and sledgehammers began drilling holes in the hill again in preparation for the next blasting.

When the construction period is relatively tight, there are usually several explosion points at the same time, which often causes small-scale landslides, and most of the disabilities are caused by this. But even if you know the results, you have to do it, and the more frequent the landslides, the faster the progress of the project.

It may be because Luo Meimei and Hong Salamander are coming, Luo Youde doesn't want his son and daughter-in-law to see a too cruel scene, or it may be because the project is nearing the end and there is no need to rush the construction progress. But it is also relatively small, Hong Tao came for a few hours, and saw with his own eyes that a stone that was loosened suddenly fell off the mountain, rolled all the way to the foot of the mountain, a distance of 100 meters, and hit at least three people.

"How long will it take to get to air?" Early the next morning, Luo Youde left the camp on the north side of the mountain beam with Hong Tao and two young men, and rode over the mountain beam with hundreds of slaves and walked towards the sea to the south. Hong Tao wanted to finish the canal himself and go to the beach to see it.

According to Luo Youde, there is a river flowing southward about two kilometers south of Shanliang, and as long as the river is communicated, the canal is basically completed. Half a year ago, Swann had already sent people to set up a camp at the mouth of the river, clearing the river and the trees on both sides, and finding a place to build a permanent town near the estuary. According to Swan's plan, this canal was certainly not a one-time one, and since it was much easier to transport through the canal than on land, he simply regarded this canal as an important stronghold in the south of the kingdom of Mexica. He didn't want to use this to develop into the sea, but mainly because he heard Hong Tao say that there was still a large area of land in the south, and he wanted to use the canal as a base for southern invasion.

"If you don't need to dock at the docks and supply bases, three months is about the same. At that time, it will take more than a day to use the slender man to pull the battleship over, and these camps along the way can just be turned into a post station for the slender men to live. Swann also wanted to build a city in Stone Harbor, which he felt was strategically important, but then he didn't have enough troops. I didn't say yes or refuse, so it's up to you how to get it. "Luo Youde is a big treasurer, and it is no problem to dispatch materials and arrange manpower, but it is difficult for him to consider strategic issues.

"If there really is so much land in the south, I think Swann is right. Not only should the stone town be fortified, but the two entrances and exits to the north and south of the canal should also be heavily armed, which will not only be a strategic place in the future, but also a place where maritime trade will be very developed, and the development prospects will be much better than that of Sun City. Luo Meimei was a firm supporter of Swan's suggestion, and he was less calculating and more strategic than his father.

"Well, we've worked so hard and killed so many people, and this canal can't be scrapped in one go, it must be put to good use. It is okay to build a city, and after the canal project is completed, leave a part of the people who are willing to become the people of the sun god, let them build and reclaim the city here, and then migrate some locals from Tula City to let them integrate. As for the source of soldiers, I will explain it to Swan separately and lower the conscription requirements. Don't keep picking with their Mamluk eyes, now is not the time to compete for physical strength, find a child with a shotgun, and you can knock him out with one shot. The new army requires discipline, faith and knowledge of firearms, and physical condition can be reduced. And these slaves can also be used, don't disband directly, select the more capable people among them to form a construction corps, give them sufficient security and treatment, tell them that they are no longer slaves, and let them continue to exert their abilities in engineering construction. Not only does the Mexica Kingdom need them to build, but the entire alliance will be in need of people everywhere for the next ten years or so, and it is much more efficient to have a more professional team like them than to temporarily arrest people locally. ”

Hong Tao also agreed with Swan's suggestion, but unlike Swan's starting point, he looked much further, not just in the Americas. The canal is really important, and it will become more important the further it goes. It can connect the east and west sides of the Americas, and it can also become a second channel between Asia and Europe. Once he succeeds in the Great Song Dynasty, then this canal will soon be able to play a role, and it can become the confidence for his own negotiations with the Jinhe Empire, even if the Jinhe Empire blocks the sea route to the south, the Great Song Dynasty can also choose to communicate with Europe, Africa, and Arabia from here, so as not to be tied by the Jinhe Empire in terms of trade.

(To be continued.) )