Within three days, a tribe of more than 2,000 people had disappeared in northwestern South Africa. Two-thirds of the people www.biquge.info were captured by the Indian soldiers of Hongtao and the tribes of Martini, and all those over the age of ten and under the age of forty were loaded onto the ship, and the rest of the old and sick remained in the care of the tribes of Martini.

"If I bring 5,000 people and 100 big ships according to this efficiency, within a year, there will be no villages within a radius of 1,000 kilometers, and the desert and mountainous areas will be able to hide." Hong Tao didn't feel ashamed of his behavior, but he felt a little boring. But when I think that these people can make the canal connecting the two oceans navigable as soon as possible, I find it interesting.

"I'm afraid that the fish will be very uncomfortable, you have robbed the population, and he wants so much land to only raise zebras and lions." Martini heard that Hong Tao was talking in his sleep, and he echoed it.

"I'm leaving, maybe I won't be back in three or five months, take care of yourself. Do more of your brother's work, and when I bring these people back from the ship, he will have no objection to migrating, and it will be more fertile over there. "There were not only slaves on the ship, but also twenty pathfinders from the Medini tribe. Medini did not fully convince all the chiefs of his tribe to move with Hong Tao, only some of them were willing, others disagreed, and his eldest brother was the most opposed.

"Don't worry, he can't grind me. The war was almost over, and in a little more than a month, Boyu should be in a hurry, and most of the chieftains north of Cape Town were gone, even the warriors of the tribe were gone. I have sent to inform the chiefs of the tribes in the east that if they want slaves, it would be better to bring samurai with them as well, and that there will not be even a fifth of the chiefs that Poryu can find. "Martini is very confident in the matter of migration, and how to deal with these chiefs is his specialty, and Hong Tao can't compare to it.

"When Cixi came back, I told Wennan and them what I meant again, I was afraid that they would not believe Cixi very much. If you don't think Al Yin is safe in Mascarpa either, let him come with you. Before setting out to hunt slaves in the east, Hong Tao had already asked Cixi to return to Cape Town first, and assigned him a task to take advantage of the opportunity to transport tobacco to various ports, to take over the whole family of Wen Nan and Ci Pei, who were not too proud of the new government and had fought the world with him, if they were willing to continue to live in the New World with him. At the same time, Luo Meimei and Hong Salamander will also be told two choices, whether to stay in Jinhe City or go to find themselves and Luo Youde, that is their choice.

At the end of July, Hong Tao and more than 700 slaves left the tribe of Martini, crossed the equator diagonally from the South Atlantic, and ran to the river channel of Port San Luis in Brazil to stop to replenish fresh water, which is the last time the Mai Dahai and Mai Dahe brothers were attacked.

The reason why he came here is that Hong Tao wants revenge. At the beginning, the natives here almost killed themselves, causing themselves to be embarrassed in front of their two children. It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and if they don't come out this time, it's just fine, as long as they dare to show their heads, just grab them and act as slaves. If their village is not far from the river, they can simply eat the whole village.

When he took a boat and four or five soldiers to pretend to go ashore to rest, within three or four hours, there was movement in the woods. More than a dozen naked natives came out with small sticks of uneven length, and quietly approached the fire, intending to attack. As a result, the sneak attack was unsuccessful, but they were captured, four of the fifteen natives were killed and two were wounded, and the rest were all taken prisoner.

What made Hong Tao not very satisfied was that his soldier also had a poisoned arrow that had been hit by the natives, and he was foaming at the mouth after a while, and he couldn't survive. But the soldier died well, and he got more than a hundred native slaves, and when Hong Tao led the people to touch the side of their village, these native people were still at a loss, and then they were frightened stupid by the sudden loud noise, and knew that there were not many people who resisted and fled.

In the autumn, Hong Tao returned victoriously with the slave fishing fleet, because the salmon-class armed cargo ship was well supplied and fast, and Hong Tao was familiar with the wind direction and route, the mortality rate of the more than 800 slaves on board was very low, and they were basically transported back to Jinhe City alive.

"Lao Hong! Lao Hong! Something big is wrong! As soon as he got off the boat, Luo Youde pounced on him with an anxious face, grabbed Hong Tao's arm and shook it vigorously, and even changed his name in a hurry, no longer pretending to call His Majesty.

"Brother Luo...... Calm down. Carl told you something, right? Is it about the change of empire, or is Karlburg in trouble? Hong Tao probably knew what Luo Youde wanted to say, Karl passed by himself, he must have told Luo Youde what he heard from Martini, and maybe also about Flanders and Hansea.

"You know it all! Tell me what the hell is going on, Karl is also confused, and only says that the empire seems to be going to war with the Great Song Dynasty. How so! "Luo Youde is really anxious, the Great Song Dynasty is his motherland, and Jinhe Country is also his home, if the two sides really want to fight, he doesn't know who to face.

"Don't worry, don't worry! It won't help to talk a few minutes early or a few minutes late, you better arrange these slaves to eat and live first, and we will lose if we die more. Then go to my house and look for me, keep quiet about this for the time being, and the fewer people who know about it, the better. Hong Tao hurriedly pulled Luo You out of the dock, his voice was a little loud, several sailors from the Jinhe Kingdom were nearby, if they heard it, it would cause unnecessary trouble.

"These are all good students you teach! Kill tens of millions of people! What a big breath, that's a person, not a fish or shrimp! Even if it is fish and shrimp, tens of millions, how many big ships have to be filled! When Hong Tao explained the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty to Luo Youde in his home, Luo Youde immediately became anxious. Originally, he hadn't figured out who to face in the end, but now it was clear that he was facing Da Song.

Even if the Great Song Dynasty is no longer a thing, but the common people are not guilty, why do they deliberately kill so many people. In this regard, he is very close to Hong Tao's thinking, that is, if he can not fight, he will not fight, and if he can solve it through negotiation, he will talk more.

"I've asked Medtini to start a tribal war north of Cape Town, which will slow down the conscription. The port of Kalamba did not have many troops, and Bo Jiao's eldest brother took his little court across the strait to the Indian peninsula a few years ago. There were also not many regular troops in the ports of Malacca and Penang. If Yi Yi wants to fully occupy the southern coastal area of the Great Song Dynasty, he needs at least 40,000 or 50,000 troops, and at present he can't even make up a quarter, and this big gap can only be filled from the port of Cape Town. As long as Cape Town's conscription is slow enough, we still have a chance to stop them from bloodbathing the Great Song Dynasty. But you've got to dig this canal for me, not too wide and not too deep, and the Virginia class can pass through. ”

On the way back from Africa, Hong Tao calculated and calculated, but there was no suitable way to prevent the Jinhe Kingdom from invading the Great Song Dynasty. This is a decision made by the government of a country, not by anyone, if you return to Jinhe City and try to forcibly stop them from doing so, you will have to break all the rules that were set before, and return to the stage where people are greater than law. This is something that he will never do, even if the Great Song Dynasty is completely destroyed by the Jinhe Kingdom, he can't do it.

If you don't go back and stop them from going on a killing spree, it's a little unreasonable to just watch it. The cause of this incident is still myself, so I have to be responsible for it to the end. What to do? In the end, Hong Tao came up with a more risky and fire-fighting method, if luck is good enough and God willing, the war of Jinhe Kingdom invading the Great Song Dynasty may not be able to start, or it will have to stop soon after the fight starts.

"No way, now I have only set up five camps, which are five kilometers apart and work together, which uses more than 3,000 people, not counting the logistics and transportation people. Even if you give me another 10,000 people and dig them together in dozens of sections, I won't be able to dig a canal for you in the mountains in a year. Unless you are a god, send down thunder and split the mountains. No matter how important this matter is that Hong Tao said, Luo Youde can't promise to dig this canal in more than a year, the gap is too big.

"I don't have thunder, but I have 20,000, 30,000, or even 50,000! You do the math, how many people it will take to dig this canal in two years, two and a half years at most. Hong Tao also roughly looked at the design of the canal watershed topography, there are no high mountains, most of them use the valley to wind forward, the most difficult place is the two small mountain beams, you need to blast a hole in the middle of them, and you have to dig down to a depth of about 40 meters, in order to be about the same height as the valley.

In the absence of construction machinery and high explosives, it is a very large project to rely on black powder, nitrocellulose and shoulder hand-carried alone. But Hong Tao feels that as long as there are enough people, the ant moving can be completed.

"If you do this, you will kill a lot of people......" Luo Youde is not as cold-blooded as Hong Tao, the Great Song Dynasty is his home, and this place is also here, and he doesn't want to sacrifice people on both sides for no reason.

"It's all dead, and it's only a few hundred thousand. Compared with tens of millions or tens of millions of people, it is not worth mentioning. We are not ordinary people, and the reason why they will listen to us is because we have the ability to make the right choice, and we must choose, and now you need to choose one. Hong Tao returned to pure rationality at this time, there was no life in his mind, only numbers, and the lesser of two evils was enough.

"Give me 50,000 men...... I try as much as I can. Luo Youde knew that Hong Tao was right, and now he had to choose one of the two.

"I'll give you 60,000 people, and people who have nothing to do with shipbuilding, cannon making, and ammunition and explosives work will go in turn, day and night, even if you have a knife, you have to work! The first flogging and the second burning at the stake were not enough, and I would have Joseph personally supervise it, and Swan would be in charge of the safety of the construction site. Those who sabotage and flee shall be put to death. Hong Tao no longer had time to capture more slaves, so he planned to use the Divine Cult believers for a period of time, and in order to reduce casualties, he adopted the method of serving in batches.

"That will affect the grain harvest, our grain storage is only enough for about half a year......" Luo Youde didn't expect Hong Tao to be so ruthless, and even his future citizens had to be sent to do hard labor.

"If enough people die, there won't be so much food...... but Hong Tao's answer squeezed out between his teeth made Luo Youde feel that he still underestimated this emperor, only more ruthless, not the most ruthless!

The more centralized the organization of power, the higher the efficiency, whether it is right or wrong, it is tens of millions of people like one person, there is no need to discuss, there is no need to check and balance each other, and there is no need to discuss whether the decision is wrong or wrong, and sometimes even the life and death of people can be ignored, all because of a slogan, a reason, and an idea of the person in power.

As soon as Hong Tao gave the order, Joseph went from house to house with sacrifices and missionaries, insisting that hard labor was a test for God, and that the things that brought disaster to the country and the people were the practice of the next life. Anyway, even the old men, old women, women, and children read the scriptures, took the hoes of their sons, husbands, and brothers, and proudly shouldered the burden of life and work, and then willingly sent their family's labor force to a road of no return.

"When the am I going to be the supreme leader! It turns out that fooling a country is not much more difficult than fooling a person, it's really boring! Seeing these young, fanatical faces cheering from front of him as they marched south in a procession, Hong Tao stood on the stone bridge in front of the Great Pyramid, holding a scepter of pure gold in his hand and wearing gold ornaments on his head and body, and remembered many things as he accepted the worship of the believers like a little gold man.

This matter seemed to him to be familiar, he hated this kind of thing very much at first, but he didn't expect it to be so neat now. Is it true that when people reach this position, they don't even know themselves? If he was tired of the Golden River Empire after more than ten years of operation, and now that the Mexika Kingdom has not yet been officially established, he is already interested, all this is too disgusting.

But no matter how disgusting it is, you have to do it, which is even more disgusting. The excavation of the canal was the responsibility of Joseph, Royoude, and Swan. But Hong Tao can't be idle, he still has to keep an eye on Wen Xiaoqi and Charity to build a battleship, build the three together, work day and night, and be sure to launch it within two months. With the addition of the first two and the three that were launched after they left, there were seven Virginia-class ships that could be used.

It could have been built together, but Qi Zu's rear-loading cannon casting speed was not so fast, and he had never said before that he would explode the warship, and suddenly he had to speed up the casting speed, no matter how he hurried the work, he could only barely make up the naval guns of three warships in two months, which had to be reduced by two guns per ship to become four guns.

In order to make his fleet a little bigger, Hong Tao simply reduced the four Virginia-class guns built before to two guns, and then loaded them on two Salmon-class armed cargo ships, two on the left and right sides, and let these two armed cargo ships serve as supply ships and fire support for the fleet. Anyway, their speed is not slower than that of the other party, so if you really fight, you can avoid the collapse of one shot at a time, and one shot will be counted as one shot.

(To be continued.) )