When he first arrived in this era, he planned to rely on the Tan family to gain a firm foothold, and this goal had basically been achieved, but if he went further, the Tan family not only could not help him, but became a burden to him. According to the fastest way, he only needs to throw himself into the Song group like Luo Youde, rely on the knowledge he has mastered beyond the times, help them seek benefits, and then integrate with them, and then slowly develop his own power.

But Hong Tao doesn't want to do this, he is already Bo Zhu's husband, although he and Bo Zhu don't have too deep feelings, but he doesn't really want to be a heartless Chen Shimei, that kind of thing can be used as a response when cornered, but it can't be done casually. A person, regardless of men and women, it is very necessary to do something and not to do something, no matter how low the bottom line is, you have to have it, once there is no bottom line, Hong Tao can't imagine what this person is like, and he doesn't want to try.

In addition, if he and the Song people are integrated, Hong Tao feels that it is difficult for him to grasp his own development direction. The Song people do not have their own wide knowledge and knowledge, but the Song people are a whole society, and what they have to do is in conflict with this society. Hardly. Hong Tao's worst thing is to play politics, his character has a very big flaw, he often can't help but fight when he shouldn't be righteous, and he refuses to cater to it when it's time to fake righteousness. Playing politics with the Song people, Hong Tao thinks that his chances of winning are very low, unless he can grow up in a family of eunuchs in the Great Song Dynasty from his infancy, learn this set of skills by ear and eye, and then change his personality, otherwise he will basically lose.

Therefore, he felt that the best and most appropriate way was to establish a force of his own, whether it was a tribe, a family, a clan, or even a pirate group, the point was that the group must take a side with himself. Hong Tao felt that he could not influence the deep-rooted way of thinking and life philosophy of the Song people, but it was still possible to influence the Tan family, who had little cultural accumulation. And he already has a successful case, didn't the stubborn old man of Bofu still live in the house, put on leather sandals, and eat in the canteen? also acquiesced to Bo Zhu going to sea with him, and he pretended not to see it across the bow and at the helm.

This is a big change, sometimes the details of life change is the fundamental change, Hong Tao believes that relying on these benefits provided by himself, he will firmly tie these Tan family members to his side, and he dare not say that he will be fine for ten years. Ten years later, the younger generation of the Tan family has grown up, and has been educated by themselves for ten years, if they can't have a thinking pattern with themselves, then they will take Bozhu to sail to Australia and the Americas, don't go to this troubled water. I don't have any ability at all, what kind of Mongolians are you fighting, the whole thing is a waste.

As for the problem of insufficient numbers and manpower in the Tan family, Karl has already solved it for himself, slave! According to the current situation on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, there should not be a particularly strong country in Southeast Asia at present, and they may still be in the stage of tribes and city-states. The people who captured them themselves did not have any psychological burden to be slaves, just like the Spaniards, British, French, and Americans in later generations captured black slaves, shackled them, and raised them as large animals, whether it was farming or mining, they were very useful labor, so that they could solve the problem of their own shortage of manpower for a period of time. In the long run, Hong Tao doesn't plan to think about it, and if he thinks about it, he is a master if he takes one step and thinks two steps, and if he takes one step and thinks ten steps, he is mentally ill.

But he didn't say anything about this matter alone, and he had to convince the Bo family, the Huang family, the Chen family, the Wen family, the Weng family, and the Bu family, that without their support, it would be in vain to think about half a step by himself. And once this plan is implemented, it is far from enough to rely on the current families, and Hong Tao also plans to let the old people of these families go to their relatives and friends, and take them to Luzon Island to open up wasteland. Can they leave their homes, Hong Tao thinks it should be possible, where does the Tan family have a home, if they would rather be untouchables here than follow themselves to open up a home that truly belongs to them, then they have to change their plans again, whether there is still a need to drag them to the end together, it depends on two words.

"It's useless for Grandpa Guang to agree to such a big matter, and you have to discuss it with other families. Wait, I'll call them over and repeat what you just told me in front of them. I don't know about others, anyway, Grandpa, I want to go, and I don't want to let Qihong or you throw me into the sea to feed the fish when the time comes. Chen Mingen pondered for a while, stood up, put the book in his hand on the table, and walked out with his head held high, as if the land under his feet really belonged to him.

That night, in this courtyard, Hong Tao held a secret meeting with a group of old men, and the heads of every family on the island participated, and they discussed most of the night with muttering, and only dispersed when the rooster crowed. Compared with the brisk steps when they came, everyone walked a little slower and heavier, as if they were carrying a huge burden.

"Wouldn't the three of us be too thin in the past, why don't you talk to your father-in-law anymore and let his family go with him?" After everyone left, Chen Mingen pulled Hong Tao again, but he was still not at ease.

"Let's wait, the sesame oil, soap, and candle business here still have to be watched by the father-in-law, which is the main source of expenses after we passed. Farm tools, farming cattle, and daily necessities all rely on this side to buy, and I really don't feel at ease when I leave others here, he is rigid, but he is serious, and it is suitable to help me keep an eye on this side. When everything is in place for us, it's not too late to pick him up. "Hong Tao has long found out that the old man Bo Fu is good, don't look at him stubborn and rigid, some jobs have to rely on people with this kind of character to do it, there is Bo Fu to help him look at this stall on Ximaozhou Island, I really rest assured, it is not very safe to hand it over to others.

The process of this discussion surprised Hong Tao, he originally thought that it was difficult to persuade these old people to drag their families and leave their hometowns to take risks with themselves, but they did not expect that they had no local concept at all, I heard that Hong Tao found such a good place, and there was no government and local people to control it, basically there was no opposition, all of them were willing to go over to try, and the topic of the meeting was changed from whether it should have been changed to who went first and who went later.

Hong Tao must be going, and no one else can find that place except him. When the two brothers of the Wen family heard that it was full of big timber and didn't need money, their eyes were almost green, and they strongly asked to follow Hong Tao together, and they hadn't discussed it yet, because their six sons and five grandsons were counting on learning the craft from Hong Tao, and the master was gone, and the apprentices were not allowed to follow? Bo Fu originally wanted to take the whole family with Hong Tao, but he couldn't rest assured that these foundations on the island were all money, so as soon as he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, he had to take Bo Xiaoer and his wife to stay here to take care of the family. Huang Hai and Chen Mingen's two families must also follow Hong Tao together, and the men of the urn and cloth families withered, so they can only send out a child in each school to follow Hong Tao as a guarantee. The rest of the people have to continue to boil whale oil on the island, and if there are not enough people, they will continue to pull from relatives and friends, and with this treatment, the vast majority of the Tan family members are willing to come to live this kind of labor is not too hard, and life is relatively comfortable.

The plan for resettlement was thus decided, but it could not be implemented immediately, because the new ship had not yet been built, and the Explorer alone could not carry so many things through the exhaustion of the waves. The Tan's row of ships was not suitable for long-distance voyages, so they had to be thrown here, so that everything would have to be transported by new sailing ships. For the sake of speed and safety, it is not possible to tow the boat yet, so we can only wait for the new ship to be built before leaving, but for now we can make preparations.

Daily necessities, food, tools, this is the necessities, more ironware, pottery, livestock, etc., after settling down there, then slowly transported. Hong Tao didn't have to worry about these chores, the Wen family specially assigned him two little grandsons with good skills, followed him to hide in the courtyard of the glass kiln, and began to make contraband.

What contraband? Compound reverse crossbow! If you live here in Ximaozhou, except for people like Hong Tao, who are very insecure, no one would want to carry a crossbow that the imperial court banned for the people to use. But if you go to a place where there is no court to open up the wasteland, you must bring it, not only to bring it, but also to bring more, and to build a few if you can make a few. Crossbow arrows can't be made in large quantities by blacksmiths, so they are produced by the Wen family's small blacksmith furnace, and those that are not in sufficient quantities are ground with whale bones, anyway, they don't really go to war, and it is enough to shoot them to hurt people, and there is no need to consider what armor-piercing ability is. Even if there were locals living in that place, Hong Tao didn't think they would be wearing armor.

Now that there is a carpenter, it is much easier to make the reverse crossbow, so I dismantle my own frame and let the two little grandsons of the Wen family draw the pattern by themselves, and then carve it with hardwood. The other parts are very easy to machine, the only difficulty is the two sets of eccentric wheels, which are too delicate and labor-intensive.

Hong Tao himself was not idle, he found a rosewood, enlarged it to five times according to the size of the reverse crossbow, and made a giant crossbow weighing more than 40 catties. The crossbow arrow is the harpoon he uses to hunt whales, and the bowstring is made of multiple strands of whale tendon and is the thickness of a finger. Pull, anyway, the two boys can't pull it away, what should I do? Hong Tao had a solution, he made a small reel, and carried a simple ratchet device, with a sturdy cable and iron hook, which was specially used to wind this large reverse crossbow.