The Governor of Medini was not ambiguous, dragging his huge body and carrying him aboard the King of the Seas, and he was to personally take command of the rebellion. The Imperial Governors are gone, and the Imperial officials in Cape Town Harbor are embarrassed to stay, so let's go along, anyway, they are also contributing to the Empire, and they can just leave a few at home to watch. Before the warriors set out, Hong Tao also deliberately went on the boat for a review, and shook hands one by one, so cordial that he almost had tears in his eyes.

"Is there a real fight?" After taking a while, Hong Tao leaned over to Medini and whispered, this guy was so hard to distinguish between real and fake, and he made himself dizzy.

"It hasn't stopped, and this time it's time to clean them up, and I've been able to get a lot of slaves back. The ships are ready, the sea knows which one it is, will you go alone? "Martini was already out-of-human in his armor, like a rhinoceros standing up. The helmet is big enough to be used as a bath for a child, and the whole face is hidden behind the mask, and it is not too hot, and it is buzzing when talking.

"Well, I'll leave you a letter and I'll be back in about four months to six months. Let's go, pay attention to safety, don't go ashore if you can't go ashore, not because I'm afraid that you won't be able to walk, but because I'm afraid that you will cause trouble to others. Hong Tao raised his hand and patted the big helmet of Maitini, and it sounded, and the real Nyima was thick! The three or eight big covers may not be able to penetrate it.

In the early morning of the next day, Hong Tao threw a letter to his guards and asked them to pass it on to Medini, and then swaggered aboard the Flying Fish-class sailing ship with Tu, and slowly left the port. Without the presence of imperial officials, a few guards alone did not take Hong Tao, and they did not even have the ability to ask, so they could only watch the maverick emperor raise his sails and leave the port alone, disappearing into the vast sea.

"Don't hide, they can't see it, come out!" Half an hour later. Hong Tao calculated that he had left the monitoring range of the lighthouse on Signal Hill, and kicked the hatch with his foot.

"Your Majesty is a good ......" The door of the cabin opened a small slit, and it was quite dark inside, but a row of large white teeth was clearly visible.

"Shhh...... When this Nima opened his eyes at night, there was no one around, and there were two rows of white teeth. Lao Mai's mental quality is really good! Rao is Hong Tao was very bold, but suddenly saw a lonely row of white teeth appear in the crack of the door, and his heart beat a little suddenly.

"You two have a sea and a big river, you should be able to sail a boat, right?" The two little black children got out of the cabin, looked at Hong Tao, and then at the big black cat lying at Hong Tao's feet, obviously still not understanding the situation of the two of them.

"Yes, my windsurfing board is better than my brother's, and my father said it was a small sailing boat invented by His Majesty. We all have to learn. "It's a big river that speaks, and if you close your eyes, you can't make out the accent of a black child. Chinese has become the first language in Kalamba and Cape Town, and is also a popular first language in Southeast Asia. If you want to be a maritime merchant and do business with a maritime merchant, it is very troublesome to not know Chinese. This cultural invasion was not deliberately carried out by Hong Tao, but arose along with economic activities. Whoever is on the stronger side will impose their culture on the weaker side.

"I know the stars better than the river, and I know all the stars in the sky. He didn't make it! "Even if it's a brother, the two children are not polite. The culture of modesty and introvertedness is neglected both in nautical schools and Chinese schools in overseas territories.

"Well, you two brothers are good, from today onwards, I will teach you to drive a big boat. From now on, the sea. You are my first mate, Dahe, you are my helmsman, I am your captain, do you know what rules should be followed on the Imperial warship? Hong Tao doesn't plan to tell the two children where they are going now. The main reason is that they are afraid that they will cry and feel homesick after hearing it. There were only three people on board and one cougar, and if two of them were in a bad mood, the voyage would be very depressing.

"There are no laws, only the captain!" The two children answered Hong Tao's question in unison, and they answered correctly.

"Very well, now the helmsman Dahe will take over from me, and keep the current course...... The first officer of the sea, hoist the spinnaker! "How do you make your child forget where they are for a while? Quite simply, keep their curiosity alive. Driven by curiosity, children can forget about being hungry, tired, and going home, which is the virtue of Hong Tao when he was a child. Of course, the river can't turn the wheel, and the sea can't pull the sails, but it doesn't matter, as long as you give them the job and let them do it, even if it is just for half a circle and half a meter, they will think they are great.

With two children under the age of 10, he crossed the South Atlantic Ocean from the Horn of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, sailing non-stop for more than 9,000 kilometers, using a completely wooden sailboat without any auxiliary power, no freshwater purification device, no GPS positioning system and navigation radar, only three sextants made of different materials and a lunar distance watch. These conditions are put together, and in the future generations, Hong Tao is the number one person in the sailing world, and no one will be so crazy. But so far, this is already the best condition.

The Exocet class was built on the original Predator, with a small hull, a length of only eighteen meters and a displacement of less than fifty tons. But after more than a decade of refinement, this type of ship is well suited for high-speed ocean sailing, and has always been the Empire's indispensable communication ship, traveling between the Empire's mainland and various ports all year round. Its safety performance has been proven countless times, and it has never suffered major injuries except for one collision due to improper operation.

And the new Exocet-class ships built by the Cape Town shipyard have a new change in the bottom of the ship. The original monolithic outer keel is gone, not gone, but reduced to a section more than three meters long that only protrudes from the middle of the bottom, and the outer keel at the bottom of the bow and stern has been removed. This shape is more like the shape of later sailboats, and it is also more hydrodynamic.

The reduced outer keel or fin, like the pelvic fin of a fish, can not only stabilize the side swing of the ship, but also reduce part of the sailing resistance. On the basis of not reducing the seaworthiness, the extreme speed of the Exocet class has been increased by two knots, and it has really become a veritable Flying Fish at sea.

Not to mention that it was a small change, it was the result of the tireless efforts of the Wen brothers and the next generation, as well as many shipwrights in the shipyard. It took more than five years to test how much of the outer keel was most suitable, and after hundreds of voyages, a relatively reliable conclusion was drawn.

In the absence of modern equipment testing, it is so difficult to develop a new technology, even a small change, even with the guidance of a traverser like Hong Tao. This is science, no matter how determined you are, it is a fool's errand, and data is the truth.

However, Hong Tao didn't dare to give full play to the speed of this ship, no matter how he knew how to sail, he was also a person, the standard configuration of the Flying Fish class was five people to drive, and one person could drive it, but it had to slow down and sail, because there were not enough sailors to adjust the sails in time, and the sea and the big river were not even a sailor. Although they tried their best to endure the fear in their hearts on the sea and pretended to be adults, their small arms and legs really couldn't be used as adults, and all the sail operations had to be done by Hong Tao alone.

Twelve knots during the day, this is the maximum amount of labor that Hong Tao can bear, even the sail does not dare to rise, at night in order to get enough rest time, all down two-thirds of the sail slowly, can have four or five knots is good.

Flying directly from Cape Town to the west coast of the Gulf of Mexico, does Hong Tao have the ability? If he were to be given a modern 40-foot cruising yacht without encountering extreme sea conditions, the distance would be a little difficult. But to drive such an antique sailing ship and a real sailing boat, Hong Tao really doesn't have the ability, and he has to stop once halfway, which is already his greatest ability.

Fortunately, Hong Tao still has the coordinates of several South American port cities in his mind, most of which are in the southernmost part. But one of them just works, and it is the port of San Luis in later Brazil, and it is also one of the several women around him in his previous life, Lily's hometown. Back then, Hong Tao was also a wheat bully in a bar once.

According to Hong Tao's approximate estimate, Port Saint-Louis is almost, probably, probably in the middle of this journey, with an error of 1,000 kilometers! There is no way, there are no charts in South America yet, Central America is not perfect, and just one coordinate can only be estimated according to the straight-line distance, and a slight turn or something will be hundreds of kilometers out, and the error will be so big.

This fierce man plunged down, and he slipped away for seventeen days without seeing anything, and all around him was the sea. Fortunately, I didn't see the storm or anything, otherwise Hong Tao really didn't know if these two children could withstand it. Just when the sea and the river had been asking all day when they would be home and when they would see Fat Dad, seabirds finally appeared on the port side of the boat, and they were not far from land!

"Oops...... I want to see things, but unfortunately I can't see anything. Is this St. Louis? Isn't this Nima left with roadside! "After sailing along the coastline for more than a day, I finally reached the approximate coordinates of Port St. Louis. Looking at the two narrow bays sandwiched between a piece of land, Hong Tao can basically confirm that this is the future St. Louis Island. It's just that at this time there is nothing on it, the seaside is full of dense mangrove forests, and the coastal area is basically swampland, and it is not known how the French built the city here.

Hong Tao did not come here for sightseeing, nor did he come to commemorate the affection between him and Lily, and the reason why he came here to stop here was mainly to replenish fresh water. To the west of the Bay of San Marcos there is the Meallin River, the water is very clear, it is estimated that it is even clearer now, and it is a good source of water when boiled.

(To be continued.) )