Chapter 68: Strength

"Don't be sad, since you have chosen to be a knight, you will die in battle sooner or later. But God seems to have mercy on you, didn't let you die, and let you meet me, isn't that a good thing for you? Hong Tao didn't have to look back to know that Carl was homesick again, and sometimes he would sit on the beach and look at the sea alone and shed tears.

"My lord, please tell me responsibly, can we really go back to my country? I asked the great food merchants on the docks, and they said that it was impossible to go to the Holy Roman Empire by sea, and that if you took the land route, you would be caught by the Sultan's army and executed as a heretic. Karl simply turned his head and expressed his suspicions to Hong Tao for the first time, these words had broken his oath.

"You still don't believe me...... The big cannibals are a fart, and their broken ships are at most along the coast. Let me tell you, in the south of Egypt, there is also a very, very large landmass, on which live groups of black-skinned people, darker than the Egyptians, as black as coal. If we have a big enough and sturdy sailboat, then I can return to your homeland with you and a whole bunch of Song Dynasty silk. Then it will be the day of your freedom, and you will be willing to stay in your hometown with your wife and children, and those silks will be my gifts to your wife and children. Hong Tao is not worried that Carl will betray him, he is like a man who has fallen into the water at this time, even if it is just a straw, he has to hold on to it, unless a thicker straw appears. The problem is that in this era, Hong Tao is really not worried about the appearance of a thicker straw than himself, even if he beats him every day, he has to endure it.

"What about you? Don't you stay? I can introduce you to His Majesty the King, who is my cousin and will give you a large territory and make you the most respected lord in the Empire. "Carl is quite righteous, and he hasn't forgotten who sent him back home.

"Fool, can your country be as rich as the Great Song Dynasty? Zhenzhou is just a place where the Great Song Dynasty exiled prisoners, not even a real town, if I want to be a rich man, isn't it good to be here? "Hong Tao's feeling now is just one word, the bird's nest knows the ambition of the bird!

"And what are you going to do?" Carl really couldn't understand what Hong Tao wanted to do, not to be a lord?

"I want to be the master of the world's oceans! Whoever can build as many ships, who can transport what goods at sea, and who can go wherever must listen to me, or I will let their ships go back and forth, including your country! Hong Tao began to think about it again, and what he said was with relish, just like the real thing.

"God, you're going to be a pirate!" Carl finally understood, and it made sense that he was out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den.

"What a pirate, that's so ugly. It's called power! Do you understand? Why is your cousin the emperor, it's not that he has a lot of power, and if others don't listen to him, he will kill others. In the same way, I have so much power on the sea, and whoever doesn't listen to me will kill whoever I want, does it make any difference? Taxes can be collected on land, but who says they can't be collected at sea? If I create a new route, a new route that will benefit millions of people, shouldn't I be taxed? "Hong Tao has a lot of crooked theories waiting for Carl, and wants to talk about the theories of these countries and regimes, and Hong Tao is the number one theoretician in the world today, the kind that can write books and speak.

"But...... But the sea is free......" Carl himself said without confidence, if according to Hong Tao's theory, the land can be occupied, then why can't the sea be occupied?

"Who said the sea is free? Your God-ordained? If I don't believe in God, will He be able to control me? The Persians and Arabs fought with you, why? Your crusaders are well fed and have gone all the way to fight the Arabs, why? It's not about fighting for a voice! Whoever has the most power counts, and whoever speaks is the law, right? Sure enough, Hong Tao's mouth began to tilt again, every time he talked about the issue of royal power and divine power, Carl finally promised to be beaten by Hong Tao, and it was not in vain, and he would tell you after the beating was over, this is power! I can beat you, it's up to me, if you can't beat me, just listen to me!

"But you don't have an army, you don't have a territory, you don't have a city, you don't have the strength!" Carl is a tendon, he has been beaten countless times, and his temper still does not change, according to the words of later generations, he is a bar, belonging to the king's eight, and he will not tell his mouth if he bites. And he met a good master, Hong Tao beat him to teach him to learn judo, but he started to hack a little, a bit of a communiqué personal vendetta, but it does not restrict him from debating, as long as what he says is reasonable, Hong Tao will admit it.

"Why don't you say you're a fool, do you need cities on the sea? Need a city? Do you need too many troops? What are you stepping on under your feet? Hong Tao's mouth was even more crooked, with a look of contempt.

"Boat planks...... Oh, it's the boat! Carl said this casually, and when he saw Hong Tao pick up the harpoon beside him, he quickly added.

"This is not the end, the ship is a city on the sea, a territory on the sea, and an army on the sea! As long as there are enough fast and enough ships, no one can beat me on the sea, how do you think this ship is better than the ships of your country? Hong Tao is not afraid that Carl understands his thoughts, he hopes that more people will understand and agree with his thoughts, so that even if he can't do this, there will still be other people to do it, as long as he does it, he will succeed sooner or later.

"It's the most wonderful sailboat I've ever seen, and if my cousin could have had one like this, I wouldn't have been captured, but it's a little too small." Carl is still a very honest person, whether he agrees or not, he will definitely admit what should be admitted, and he will have to carry you if he should raise the bar.

"That's the problem, and that's why we haven't set sail for your hometown yet. I can build good ships, I can build big ships, but it takes money, a lot of money. Hong Tao is a little helpless, a penny is difficult to beat a hero.

"Can you make enough money to build a big boat by fishing?" Carl felt as if his hopes were a little slim.

"We fish to make a living, no matter what you think, you have to live before you can achieve it. Money alone is not enough to become the emperor of the sea, and your cousin is not just a man who runs the country. People have to have classes, your cousin is united with the aristocratic class, I don't have this condition, I can only unite the people around me first. Give them a subsistence and cloth, let their offspring be educated, tie my own interests to them, and so I have my own class. "Hong Tao has to make Carl understand part of his thoughts, he is a highly educated man, not like the Tan family. He will think, if he doesn't tell him anything, he won't say it, but Yang Feng Yin will definitely disobey him.

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