"The corn thing is not counting on for the time being, and it will take at least two years of breeding before it can become large. Rum could be imported into the Mongol Empire, but I can't send a ship for you. Why don't you go and discuss with Xu Liangzhi that you use his fleet to transport it first? Hong Tao thinks that Li Niang's idea is very good, and it is difficult to say whether it can cause damage to the economy of the Mongol Empire, but at least the Jinhe Empire will not suffer. At present, Ceylon and Cape Town are planting a large amount of sugarcane, and the amount of sugar extraction and wine making is increasing year by year, and there is a monopoly policy on alcohol in the Southern Song Dynasty, which cannot be sold on a large scale, so it can only be dumped in big food countries, and the price is getting cheaper and cheaper. If you can open a market in the north, it should be a good choice, but Hong Tao has never thought about these things, and now someone finally helps him to fill in the gaps.

"Xu Liangzhi's fleet is not suitable! His ships were mostly simplified versions of the Salmon class built at the Zhenzhou shipyard, which were easily recognizable to the Mongols. Hong Tao's suggestion was ruthlessly rejected by Li Niang, which does sound reasonable.

"Then let Boss Luo help you rent a few Canton boats in Guangzhou." Hong Tao blinked, but he didn't find a reason to refute, so he had to think of another way.

"It's not proper, and the Mongols of Guangchuan and Fuchuan won't be very relieved, they can't get close to the port to the north at all." If it was someone else, Hong Tao would have two ideas in a row, and he would accept it when he saw it, but unfortunately Li Niang didn't buy it, and vetoed it again.

“…… What do you think should be done? Hong Tao is very annoyed by this kind of self-righteous young man, he has no ability to find fault with others, he didn't see that Li Niang was this kind of person before, otherwise he wouldn't agree to her to be a minister at all.

"You can use Japanese and Goryeo merchant ships......" I didn't expect Li Niang to be a person who just finds faults. She already has a complete plan.

"Oh? Tell me about it! Hong Tao was a little interested. The children who come out of the nautical school are different. It's kind of interesting to see the problem so comprehensively, even Japan and Goryeo have been calculated.

"I asked Xu Liangzhi to help me investigate privately, and I also asked Minister Cixi that Japanese and Korean people are also very good at drinking, and they also have a great need for high-grade rum. But they were poor and couldn't afford to drink rum, which was relatively expensive. I thought so and asked Seo Liang-sik to help connect with several Japanese and Korean maritime merchants. With a fixed amount of sales, as long as they can sell the rum to the northern ports within a fixed time, we give them a certain amount of incentives, paid for in rum. In this way, they can make a fortune in the north and come back to get rewards, and there is no reason not to do it. The Mongol sailors were strict with the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty, but they were tolerant of merchant ships from Japan and Goryeo. Li Niang still recounted her idea with a blank face, this girl looks at everyone the same as looking at the number of A\La \Bo, and Hong Tao doesn't know what number she is in her eyes.

"Just do as you say, and make a report. Write in detail and I'll sign it! Hong Tao instinctively wanted to find fault. But after thinking about it for a long time, I didn't think of anything wrong. This Li Niang has a natural economic mind, and even came up with the promotion means of sales rebates in the future, what else can I say, agree, support!

"I've written it all......" Li Niang still didn't give Hong Tao a smile, and directly pushed a document over.

"If all the graduates after Nima are like this, I'm afraid my life won't be easy......" After signing his name on the document, watching Li Niang leave in a hurry, Hong Tao suddenly became a little worried about the future. Compared with himself, a lazy emperor, it is very uncomfortable to be surrounded by a group of young people who are too serious, too smart, and too difficult to fool, and walk forward with a small whip all day long. In comparison, it is easier for Bo Fu, Huang Hai, Qi Zu, and Wen Lao Er to get along with, even if it is Bo Jiao, Wen Xiaoqi, and Chen Mingen's generation, they are not so aggressive.

At the end of December, a completely different Jiaosha-class battleship sailed into the Golden River with a strange flute, embroidered with an elephant on each of its sails, and decorated the top of each mast with strips of colored cloth, and the mast on the bow of the ship was actually painted gold, like a golden chopstick shining in the sunset. Looking at the hull is even more fancy, with painted decorations from bow to stern, it does not look like a battleship at all, but more like a parade float.

Not only was the hull unusual, but more than half of the sailors on board were dressed in fancy shoulders and bloomers, barefoot, dark-skinned, and black-haired, but many had curly hair. If this ship appeared in the port of Guangzhou, those maritime merchants would definitely rush forward happily to welcome their friends from afar, and they were very familiar with this ship and these sailors. But when they appeared at the mouth of the Golden River, the hand-cranked alarms on the fort were all ringing, if it weren't for the fact that its appearance was indeed Jiao Shark class, and it was also waving flags, the ten long cannons would probably fire shells at it.

"It stinks!" Hong Tao received the news as soon as possible that the governor of Kalamba, Bo Jiao, had returned. Although Bo Jiao is his own student, it makes no sense for the teacher to greet the student, but he is now the emperor of the empire, and the governor of the overseas territory is returning to the mainland, and it is obviously inappropriate not to come out to see. Nian Zaijiao has firmly guarded the port of Kalamba over the years, and developed it into the richest overseas territory of the empire, Hong Tao still followed the crowd to the dock, saw this bells and whistles warship from a distance, and began to spray poison in his mouth again.

"I think it's very good-looking, this kid is too ruthless, he hasn't come back to see Grandpa for so many years, and he will be punished by kneeling in the ancestral hall for a while!" Bo Zhu was very happy that his nephew came home in a beautiful way, and what he said and what he showed on his face were not the same meaning at all.

"That's right! Penalties! Marrying a wife and having children without the permission of the elders is a great rebellion, according to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, this should be beaten to death. "Seeing the excitement is not afraid of big things, Hong Tao made an objective evaluation with a straight face.

"Go! It's not you who supported him behind your back, don't think I don't know, Carl told me that it was you who forced Ah Jiao to marry a foreign woman, and didn't let him go home, and helped you guard the broken port! You said that he was a child, and you were so ruthless, it was really difficult for him. "It's okay not to mention this matter, as soon as Bo Zhu heard that Hong Tao was stirring up trouble about Bo Jiao's marriage, he immediately gritted his teeth and pinched Hong Tao's arm twice. If there is no one else around, these two times you have to pinch the curtain on your thigh, and you have to twist it left and right twice.

"Hey, I can see it, my own family is towards my own family, I'm looking for my godfather, we are also people with a family, who is afraid of whom!" Hong Tao didn't plan to grind his teeth with Bo Zhu anymore, all the things he did made Carl's colander mouth scattered, and there was nothing glorious about it, so it was better to hide quickly. As the emperor of the empire, of course, he can't stand behind others, so next to Chen Mingen in the front row is the most suitable position, where there are a group of parliamentarians who don't like anyone and are addicted to quarrels, and they will not expose their emperor's old background in public.

"Your Majesty! Hello uncle! As soon as he got off the boat, he walked to Hong Tao with his daughter-in-law and three children, a man, two women, and a deep bow, said hello, and then bowed again, and then changed his name.

"Stop! Don't bow the third, bow again and I'll be dead! If you want to bow, bow to your grandfather and your grandfather, go and say hello to them first, and take the children and daughter-in-law with you, lest your grandfather slap you with a big mouth. The third bow was stopped by Tao Shengsheng, who made this Nima etiquette, it must be changed, otherwise someone will hold a memorial service for himself every day in the future, and it will be very questionable whether he can live to be fifty years old.

Hong Tao is no stranger to Bo Jiao, his daughter-in-law and children, and he used to meet him almost once a year in Port Callamba, so he still kept close to Bo Xiaoer and Old Man Bo Fu, and the eyes of those two were about to pop out. They are not angry with Bo Jiao, but look at the eldest grandson and great-grandson excitedly, this is the offspring of the Bo family. No matter how many children Hong Tao and Bo Zhu have, they are also foreign surnames, and Bo Jiao's son is the root of the Bo family.

"Come back and help me fight?! Who gave the order? I said Bo Jiao, how can you live more and more, I will naturally give you orders when I need you, and now I don't need you to help me, being able to manage the port of Kalamba well is your greatest contribution to me and the empire. Anyway, I'm back, this time I won't pursue your mistake of leaving your post without permission, stay at home for a few more days, spend more time with your grandpa and grandpa, and then go back to Kalamba. Waiting for Bo Jiao to greet him, he came to Hong Tao's side again, and happily reported to Hong Tao that he was going to join the war when he came back this time, Hong Tao began to frown again, and an overseas governor said that he would come back and come back, and he didn't even say hello, which was too unruly, and what was even more hateful was that he also came back with a battleship, which should be put in the Great Song Dynasty, and it was directly the same crime as rebellion.

"Hey, sir...... Oh yes, it's Your Majesty. Ah Jiao is also a child of our Tan family, no matter what he does or not, it is always right to come back to help his own people. You have to be a brother to fight a tiger, you are his uncle, and it is only natural for him to help you! Holding his great-grandson, the old man Bo Fu smiled so much that his eyes were gone, and when he heard that Hong Tao was criticizing Bo Jiao, he was immediately unhappy, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with Bo Jiao coming back.

"Uncle, the port of Kalamba is very good, my father-in-law has already knocked down most of the island of Ceylon, and is currently negotiating with the last king of the north, and it is estimated that when I go back, the whole island of Ceylon will become a country. Now there are more than 3,000 soldiers near the port of Kalamba, and there are 500 cavalry alone, and no one can do anything about it, so don't worry. I left the armed merchant ships behind, and last month Mercy departed from me to deliver a message from Cape Town, and it is estimated that we will be back with the ships next month, and we will have at least three more ships by then. Let me and Mercy also go to war, and promise not to delay the affairs of Port Karamba. Bo Jiao took advantage of the words of the old man Bo Fu and began to talk to Hong Tao about the conditions, and the arrangement was quite orderly.

(To be continued.) )