"Carl, go get a leather coat for Wen Langzhong to put on, and then light a charcoal basin, where are we?" Seeing Wen Langzhong holding the piece of dried meat, he couldn't say a word, he was trembling with anger, and Hong Tao also felt a little cold on his body.

"It's 37 degrees north latitude, and it's snowing outside, my lord." Carl had been standing behind Wen Nan, his hand on the dagger at his waist, and if Wen Nan dared to make any moves to try to hurt Hong Tao, he dared to guarantee that in a second, the dagger would be inserted into the opponent's body. Since owning the Haibo, Carl has taken Hong Tao as his ticket home, and no matter who it is, he can't tear up the ticket.

"Oh!? Snowing? Okay, let everyone go on deck, you must wear a leather jacket, a fur hat and leather gloves, and one less is a bucket of water! Each person was given a bowl of rice wine, and even the captives were served, and it was a place to remember. "Hong Tao is sometimes like a psychopath, he will suddenly give some confusing commands.

"My lord, can you tell me why? Why is it worth celebrating? Carl saw that Hong Tao was in a good mood and asked in a low voice.

"Oh, this is my private matter, even if it's to commemorate the deceased, the 38th parallel, the 38th parallel...... Hahahaha. The expression on Hong Tao's face was very weird, he wanted to laugh and frowned, this answer was basically the same as not answering, no one could understand it.

Leather jackets, leather pants, leather boots, leather hats, leather gloves, these are all produced by Jinhewan. So many whale skins, which could not be sold or used, were all made by the Women's Federation, and a layer of animal fur was sewn into them. The Tan family has never been to the north, but Hong Tao has been, how cold it is over there, others can not know, he can't not know, if he can't even think of this, he will have a Mao war with the Mongols. In addition, he also had to test the performance of the Hypo in the cold waters of the north, such as whether the cabin would leak and whether the various ropes would break. Judging by the current situation, the hull is fine. So he had to go north until he reached the frozen sea.

"Let's go, Wen Langzhong, I don't know where you are from, whether you have seen heavy snow, let's go up to the deck to see the snow scene, tomorrow during the day, we will be able to reach the sea of Dengzhou." If you're here in the summer, I might be able to take you up the Yellow River to Tokyo. Hong Tao made a gesture at Wen Nan, and then made a gesture of please. These literati in the Southern Song Dynasty are very cute, as long as you are polite with him, he will be more polite, whether it is an enemy or a friend, they take etiquette very seriously.

On the deck, the sky and the earth have become white, such a big snowflake, Hong Tao has only seen it in Canada, it is really goose feather snow. The Hypo had lowered most of its sails, and could not sail at full speed in such weather, and could only see less than a mile away from the lookout, so it could not navigate at all, and could only drift slowly.

Compared with people like Hong Tao, who have seen everything in the south and north, those sailors from the tropics are all the first time they have seen this thing in the snow, and they are very, very curious. Since there were no orders, they could only stand by at their posts, and did not dare to run around, but many people had already secretly reached out and tried to grab a piece of snow to see what could fall from the sky, and even stuck out their tongues, intending to lick the snowflakes to see if they had any taste.

"Streamline the sailing and let the others move freely...... By the way, you have a sailman who goes up every hour to sweep the snow away, day and night, and that thing can crush the crosshair. Hong Tao understood the feeling of seeing heavy snow for the first time, and he gave the whole crew a holiday to move freely on the deck.

"With all due respect, can you ask a little more about who you are, where you came from, and what are your intentions?" Being treated politely, Wen Nan's brain began to be active again, and he had a question these days, and he couldn't figure it out. Who is this person who claims to be the chairman of Jinhe Marine Resources Management Co., Ltd.? Where did he come from? Why does he speak such a strange Chinese dialect, but he doesn't look like a Han at all, and those crew members speak a southern dialect, is it the Haoqiang over there in Liangguang?

"I'm from Far South Australia, thousands of miles away by sea, but my ancestors are from Xijin Province, and I've always wanted to come back to see, but I didn't expect that I can't go back to the place where my ancestors lived, because that place has been occupied by foreigners. I have every reason to hate you, because you didn't hold the territory of the Han people, so that I can't return to my hometown. But it's not all your fault, that place was not lost in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty. However, it is no longer a question of whether or not we can regain the lost territory, and if your colleagues cannot spare some of their energy to engage in economic and people's livelihood and think carefully about the current situation, they will not even be able to protect the current national territory. I came back this time to see if I could help your court fight against the Mongols in the north, the Jin country is not terrible, it is the Mongols who are terrible. The more things Hong Tao told Wen Nan, the more tragic the fate of this Southern Song Dynasty official became. If it was possible for him to return to the Southern Song Dynasty before, now he basically has no chance to go back, even if Hong Tao shoots him with a crossbow arrow, he will not let him go, because he knows too much.

"Mongols!? Why did he, why did they invade south? Wen Nan did not believe what Hong Tao said, especially about the Mongol invasion of the south.

"Why? Why did I knock over your ship? Is there a reason? Actually, no, I just thought it was fun, and by the way, I took the people on the ship back and worked as slaves for me. Where in the world are there so many why? Just like when I ordered those Japanese to be stabbed to death, I asked you why, and I would tell you? You can believe what I say or not, but don't worry, take your time, you're just 40 years old now, right? Live well, and soon you'll see what I say come true. Do you dare to make a bet with me? If five years ...... No, within ten years, if the Mongols do not invade the south, I will send you back to Lin'an, and then compensate you for one such big ship every year, and then you will be the largest maritime merchant in the Great Song Dynasty, not only to give you a ship, but also to give you sailors. But what if the Mongols did invade the south? What are you going to pay me? It is not difficult for me to be for you, when the time comes, you will kneel on the ground as if you were a ruler and recognize me as a king, how about it? "Hong Tao can't talk to the people of this era about the international situation, because they don't know what the world is like, they only live in the world they imagine. So, it's useless to be reasonable, it's better to be practical, let the time to be a referee, see who is right and who is wrong, and you can afford to wait.

"I bet!" Wen Nan is not stupid, as soon as he heard Hong Tao's words, he knew that he had no hope of returning to the country. Ten years is a bit of a long time, but it's better than dying in that extreme South Australia, losing is nothing for him, and winning will win freedom.

"Smack!" Hong Tao took off his gloves, high-fived the Southern Song Dynasty official as an oath, and then gave him his gloves. His hands were cold, but Carl really obeyed the order, and let him take only one leather coat and not give any more.

Dengzhou, an important port in northern China in ancient times, is said to have been set up during the Wu Zetian period, and the location should be the Penglai City generation in later generations. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Mizhou and Mizhou in the southern part of the Shandong Peninsula were the main ports for trade with Liaodong, the Korean Peninsula and Japan, and were later occupied by Liaojin, and the maritime trade gradually shrank, and most of the sea ships switched to Mingzhou.

At this time, Dengzhou was already occupied by the Mongols, and after the Jin State moved its capital from Zhongjing (around Beijing) to Nanjing (Kaifeng), most of Hebei and Shandong were occupied by the Mongols. This time, the Mongols did not retreat after plundering, but established a local government and appointed many Jin generals to help manage the place. And among these Jin Dynasty generals, a large part of them are the original Song people, they have experienced the Song, Liao, and Jin dynasties, fought again and again, surrendered again and again, and now that the Mongols are coming, it doesn't matter if they surrender one more time, they are all used to it.

"This kind of ship used to be the warship of the Great Song Dynasty, right?" When the Haibo rounded the Cheung Son Islands and approached the port of Dengzhou from the north, two sailing ships suddenly emerged from the deserted port. This is another new type of ship that Hong Tao has never seen, it is flat-headed, quite large, no smaller than the Haibo, and there are five masts standing tall and low on it. Hong Tao didn't know what kind of ship it was, so he simply handed the telescope to Wen Langzhong, who was shrunk by the biting sea breeze beside him, and asked him to take a look.

"This is a sand boat, there are rolling waves in the North Ocean, the bottom of the lucky boat and the wide ship are the tip, and they are most afraid of this wave, but the sand boat is not afraid of this." Wen Langzhong was very conflicted at the moment, he hoped that Hong Tao, a pirate, would be defeated, but he didn't want him to be defeated by the Mongol ships, so he finally chose to tell the truth and gave Hong Tao a wake-up call.

"Well, you're an upright person, and you can tell the difference between basic good and bad. Just at your words, I will also sell my strength to show you what a good ship is. Sand boats are not afraid of this? Look at it! Full! Grab the middle of the waterway, left rudder 3! Hong Tao has been to Penglai many times in his later life, and he doesn't remember any reefs, shoals and the like on the main route here, so his adventurous character prevailed again, and these two sand boats didn't want to let go. Not only to show Wen Nan, but also to test the performance of these sand boats, they may be their main opponents in the future.

"General, don't be so reckless, the other party is a warship, and there are also hard crossbows on board......" Wen Nan knows a lot about sea ships, which may be related to his daily work, and he naturally knows more about it. In order to persuade Hong Tao not to take risks, he even changed his title, this is the first time he called Hong Tao a general, before this Hong Tao had no official title in his mouth, and he disdained it.

"That's fun, my ship is not a pirate, not a merchant ship, it's a warship, and a warship is for war, what's the use of a warship if you don't fight? Watch carefully, when the fight starts, you can crouch behind this and not get shot. "Hong Tao belongs to the kind of master who doesn't eat hard and soft, the more you don't let him do anything, the more he wants to do it, as long as he thinks he can do it, no one can say it.