"First, I don't care about production, you can get the sugar workshop, and you can take care of the personnel, I only send people to process the last process, and it has to be confidential." Hong Tao stretched out a finger.

"Nature, nature!" Luo Youde nodded like pounding garlic, even if Hong Tao didn't say it, he didn't dare to play the idea of the formula for the time being, that kind of milky white powder was simply an immortal medicine for Luo Youde, and it was estimated that it was not so easy to get.

"Second, I don't care how much you sell, the shares are still calculated according to the original, what do you think?" Hong Tao stretched out a second finger.

“…… Brother Hong is righteous! This time, Luo Youde hesitated slightly, but quickly agreed. In fact, since the moment he tasted the sugar just now, he had already begun to calculate the costs in his mind, and Hong Tao gave him this share, which was already very kind, and it was difficult to find it with a lantern.

"Third, in each of your stores, I will be stationed in the accounting office for account management in the future. He doesn't interfere in your day-to-day work, and you don't have the right to direct him to work, but nominally, he's the bookkeeper in your shop. As for how you keep accounts, I don't care, you can keep your own records, every three months, we can check each other. Hong Tao held out a third finger.

"It should be, it should be!" Although Luo Youde was nodding, his eyes were a little confused, he didn't understand why Hong Tao wanted to get two account rooms, if he didn't worry about himself, he could use one set of account rooms.

"Fourth, if I bring back a five-foot-tall horse, you will say that you got it, and then you will find a reliable person to present it to the official family, and you will discuss the specific operation yourself, and what I want is a place to raise horses. You can talk to the imperial court. It's not just about getting these horses back. This kind of horse will also be raised. Let the imperial court arrange a place in Yazhou, appoint your person as an official position to raise horses, and specially raise horses for the imperial court. If the imperial court asks why the horse farm is put in Yazhou, you will say that this kind of horse likes heat and is not afraid of heat, and Yazhou is the most suitable. Hong Tao stretched out a fourth finger.

Since he entered the small courtyard, his mind has not been thinking about how much profit he should make on sugar, but how to use the horses to pave the way for his plan. It would be ideal to get an officially recognized base on Hainan Island. In this way, not only does it have a base closer to the Southern Song Dynasty, but it also has a reason to contribute to the imperial court. Besides, helping the Southern Song Dynasty court raise horses is not a money-losing business, and it is not a free supply, and it will be sold to the court after raising. The Southern Song Dynasty court bought things from the people. The price has always been preferential, and the government generally does not do things that force the government to buy and sell. For that reason, it's very cute, and at least the people who know they feel sorry for themselves are a hundred times stronger than many governments. Moreover, there are high-quality iron ore and coal mines on Hainan Island, and when the time comes, we will see if we can get it together, and we can provide a steady stream of ore for Jinhewan, which is a good thing to get in one fell swoop.

"Ahh Brother Hong really wants to sacrifice a horse! This time, Luo Youde didn't nod.

"Yes! Although I am an overseas person, I am a Han Chinese, and I hope to help the imperial court defeat the Jin Kingdom and regain the land of the Han people. To put it mildly, I don't want my ancestral land to be occupied by foreigners, and I won't be able to go back and see it. "Hong Tao's nonsense has long been made up, and as for whether Beijing is the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, he doesn't know, so he cares about it.

"Brother Hong, Gao Yi! Let me wait for shame, please accept it as a brother! Luo Youde made Hong Tao stunned, stunned for a long time, and suddenly stood up again, and gave Hong Tao a deep long squeeze to the ground, his face turned red, and then he raised himself.

"It is incumbent upon me to do this! It's just that I don't know why Brother Hong didn't sacrifice the horse to the official family himself, if the official family knew Brother Hong's original intention, maybe they would praise it. After getting up, Luo Youde agreed to Hong Tao's fourth request, but there were still doubts.

"Alas...... Lao Luo, I'm afraid you can also see that I'm not very used to the life of the Great Song Dynasty, whenever I see those literati who don't do serious things all day long, will play tricks, even let the northerners occupy their ancestral tombs, and are still shouting about how to go on the Northern Expedition here, and refuse to join the army to serve, I want to go over and beat them. So I'd better not show up at the court, I'm afraid that if I'm in a hurry, I'll kill people, but I will cause trouble, what do you say? Hong Tao's words are actually true, he appreciates many systems of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the humanities, but he is very disgusted by the feminine folk customs of the Great Song Dynasty, especially those literati who like to talk about cannons. A lot of the policies they specify are right, but a lot of the ideas they are wrong again, a bunch of people love and hate. Besides, you can't reason with them, they have a lot of things to say to you, and they can't talk about you anymore, so they will pour sewage on you, and then blast you to the frontier to drink the wind and fish.

"Alas...... The brothers in my family are just like Brother Hong said, and they are helpless to be brothers...... "Hong Tao's words hit Luo Youde's heart, although he is also a scholar and has a little fame, but because he has been walking on the sea all the year round, he has no such problems, and he is not used to the style of many literati. But it's no problem, the literati are the backbone of the Great Song Dynasty, and no one can play it.

"Fifth," Hong Tao didn't follow Luo Youde's lyricism with a long sigh, he still had something to do yet.

"Ah, and!" Luo Youde didn't expect Hong Tao to have a request.

"Hahaha, Brother Luo, don't panic, this request is not difficult, I need 10,000 catties of sugar in exchange for horses, and it will be prepared within two months, isn't it difficult?" Hong Tao also amused Luo Youde's expression, but he still spread all five fingers and put them in front of Luo Youde, waiting for him to high-five. I have been in Da Song for several years, and Hong Tao is also a little accustomed to this way of signing contracts anytime and anywhere, as long as he high-fives, even if he signs and draws, it is very worry-free.

"Smack! That's right, uncle, do you drink hard? Luo Youde slapped Hong Tao's hand, and turned his head to ask Luo Dacai to arrange a banquet, which is worth celebrating.

"Uncle, wait a minute, I don't think we can eat or drink, let's have something fresh, how about getting on my big boat and going around?" Hong Tao has no interest in eating, and he can't win the Great Song Dynasty when he goes to play with the pot or something, and it's not good to let them pour a belly of rice wine like a water rat, so let's play something else.

"Just what I want! Originally, I wanted to mention it to Brother Hong, but I was afraid of touching Brother Hong's secrets, hehehe...... "Luo Youde stood up immediately, it was worth it He had long been thinking about Hong Tao's galleon, but he was embarrassed to say it."

After sitting in the courtyard for a few hours, the three of them walked back to the pier and rowed to the berth outside the harbor in a small boat. Luo Youde was very, very curious about a galleon like Hong Tao, and after getting on the boat, he drilled around and looked at everything. Hong Tao didn't restrict him, he could watch whatever he wanted, and tell him what he asked, there was only one thing Hong Tao didn't tell the truth, that is, those grenades and slingshots, he only said that this was a tool used to kill whales.

For these two galleons, Luo Youde couldn't understand it, and he didn't understand many things why they were designed like this. But when the sailboat was sailing, he was full of envy and jealousy, and he was an expert, and he didn't have to go far on the sea to know that the ship was a good ship. However, Luo Youde also said that even if he was given such a ship for nothing, he would not want it, unless he was given it to him together with the sailors, no one would be able to control it, so he could only put it in the harbor and watch.

This is an expert saying, the difference between the European sail warship and the Chinese hard sailing ship is very big, if no one teaches it, just rely on their own pondering, it takes a long time of continuous practice to master its performance, just how to lift those sails is enough for dozens of people to learn for half a year. This set of things is not Hong Tao himself figured out, he stepped on the shoulders of his predecessors so he looks smart, many of these things are after the 21st century, even if Nelson is called, he can't play for a while, because he has never seen it at all. This whole set of things is slowly summarized over several generations or even more than a dozen generations, and it is not the achievement of one person.

"This is a chart?!" After turning around all the places on the ship, Hong Tao finally took the two of their nephews and uncles to his captain's room, let them sit on the clay sofa, and personally squeezed a glass of juice for them to drink with a simple juicer. Luo Youde didn't get seasick, but he was a little dizzy from this flickering sofa, so he simply stood up and happened to see the chart on Hong Tao's desk.

"Well, so far I have only painted the Three Buddhas, although I look at it, I have already hidden it as a secret thing, and I can see the rest!" Hong Tao never threw the real chart on the table and left, and if he sailed according to this chart, he would probably end up driving to Antarctica, because there was no Java, Sulawesi, the New Guinea Islands and Australia on it, and the south side was completely empty.

"The divine horse that Brother Hong said is not in these places?" Luo Youde also had a nautical chart in his head, and while he looked at Hong Tao's, he compared it with his own mind, and quickly determined that this nautical chart was incomplete, because he had basically been to these places and had never heard of local horses.

"When Brother Luo prepares the sugar, I'm going to make a real voyage? I may have to go to the Great Food Country or further away, but this time it is to explore the route, which is more dangerous, so I won't invite Brother Luo to go with me. In case I can't come back, I also ask Brother Luo to take care of those Tan family members for the sake of the face we have been dating for several years, that is, to help them buy and buy goods. "Hong Tao has long wanted to explore the Indian Ocean, his goal is the Arabian Sea, but he doesn't want to go empty, hugging the grass and hunting rabbits, he always has to bring some goods over to make it cost-effective. Sugar, whale oil, soap, and candles were his first pathstones. (To be continued.) )