At present, Hongtao can temporarily dominate the world by relying on shipbuilding technology, cannon casting technology and gunpowder technology. But technology will spread, and if it stagnates, this lead will not be sustainable, and it will soon be caught up by those huge countries. Compared to them, the self-built country has no advantage in terms of population and resistance to pressure, and the current level of leadership alone cannot guarantee that it will always be one step ahead.

If there is enough oil, Hongtao can open another door, the petrochemical industry. Although I didn't study this major myself, I still know a few things at the entry level. As soon as the door of chemistry is opened, with the right ideas and methods, it will trigger a chain reaction. Through continuous experimentation, even if you don't continue to lead the way, people will continue to discover more new products in the future. At the same time, this discipline will also become an accelerant for other industries, comprehensively promote society into the industrial age and petrochemical age, and can also stand on the top of the world for the country it founded.

Of course, this is just a kind of reasoning, and whether it will be realized or not depends on the creation of future generations. If they can't continue to refine the rules and push them in the right direction, no amount of technology will be of use. The more technology, the faster it will collapse, and you don't have to wait for others to surpass it, and you will play yourself to death first. But these are not something that Hong Tao can control, don't kill or bury it, don't worry about that idleness.

In the meeting just now, Hong Tao changed his original intention, because he saw a strong love in the eyes of everyone, including Luo Youde and Swan, and even Joseph. They all regard themselves as a part of this land and put this love into practice with practical actions.

Hong Tao himself can be a locust that eats, destroys, and runs away after tossing, or a parasite that sucks up the blood of the host and changes it to a host, but this is not his original intention, who made him a traverser, and he has crossed more than once. For him, there is no real home in this world, everything is temporary, and he may not know where he will go next time, and if he is nostalgic for everything, he will drive himself crazy.

But he didn't want to carry, force, and tempt these people to think the same way as himself, and they couldn't feel his own feelings. Since this is not their homeland in the end, but theirs, their opinion should still be respected. Be honest as a passer-by, you can reach out and help, and it's okay to take them for a while, but don't choose for them, this is their world.

The end result was that no one wanted to move, and they didn't want to stay here without oil, and Swandu gave up his beloved musket, saying that he could win the battle with a short spear. The subtext is: don't give up here because of oil, he's willing to pay more to make up for the shortcomings caused by the lack of oil.

"I listen to everyone, if you don't move, you won't move. It doesn't matter if there is no oil, as long as we want to, oil has it! You may have forgotten that on the other side of the sea, there was an Earl Karl who caught mice in his big fortress every day. You don't like rats, and he doesn't like them either, so let's find him something serious to do, and let him help us transport oil. But until I'm sure I can't find oil around here, it's better to rely on myself. Swan, you are ready to prepare, take your best fifty soldiers, and go to sea with me tomorrow. ”

Hong Tao has flowed from Shanru once, and if he really can't find oil, he will take a ship from the Mediterranean Sea and transport it here. At this time, Karlburg's position suddenly became extremely important, and if he hadn't made this move back then, it would have been too troublesome to hold on to his feet now. At this time, Hong Tao felt that he should be regarded as a great strategist, and he felt a little bit like taking one step and counting five steps. Did the great strategists in history know what was going to happen at every step they took? It's hard to say, but there is also an element of luck in this, and it is similar to my current situation.

The next day, before Hong Tao and Swan were on the boat, a campaign was launched in the village, and the first target was rats, as well as flies and mosquitoes. After the meeting, Joseph and the missionaries went to every house to spread the word against the counterfeit rats. As a result, the rats, which were originally high above and no one dared to touch them, became the public enemy of the whole people overnight, were driven out from all corners, dug up, and then suffered a catastrophe.

It was not enough to kill the rat, but it was necessary to cut off the tail of the rat, take it to the temple gate with the corpse of the rat, and hand it over to the high priest Joseph to count, and then throw it into the sacred fire and burn it. In this way, he reported the results of the battle to the sun god, and prayed for God's forgiveness for the previous behavior of protecting these liars, and changed his mistakes when he knew them, and he was still a good comrade. Therefore, from the old man and the old lady to the children of a few years old, whoever does not cut off a few mouse tails is a sign of unpiety, and will be condemned by the sun god.

As soon as something is done as a sport, it will turn sour. Originally, a good rodent extermination activity, along with cleaning the village, made Joseph such a fan, and it became a campaign to show loyalty to the sun god. Many villagers quarreled over the ownership of the two rat tails, and the originally harmonious neighborhood relationship instantly dropped to the freezing point, and even turned against each other.

"Swan, see the current scene clearly, and try to avoid taking excessive advantage of the people's kindness and blind obedience in the future. They are not stupid, every time they use them, their trust in us will be reduced a little, and when this trust is exhausted, you will find that they are no longer good-hearted obedient people, but have become your mortal enemies, and generations will no longer trust you. If you find out that someone is okay in the future, you will either kill him and make him unable to play, or you will stay away from him, so as not to be unlucky. ”

Hong Tao did not participate in this kind of foolish movement, not only did he not participate, but he was also very disgusted with this kind of movement. If it weren't for the fact that the rat was a god before, and it didn't work quickly with other methods, he wouldn't have given Joseph the idea to do this, let alone allowed Joseph to use it to fool the locals. Although this idea was made by himself, and he could only sit idly by, the reason must be made clear to Swan. It is not good to govern the country by fooling the common people, and if he becomes a king in the future, it is better to remember this.

"Your Majesty, why do you always do things you don't want to do? In the past, in Puerto Calamba, you said that you didn't want to kill more, but you didn't kill less; Later, in the port of Malacca, you said that you would kill as little as possible, and then a large pile of corpses was hung on the pier, and many more were sunk by your warship and drowned in the sea; Later, I went to Java Island, and you still told us not to kill people if we didn't have to, but I can't count how many people died on Java Island. And Mongolia and here, everywhere you go, you say you kill less, but you end up killing more than anyone else. And they all called me. Puche, in fact, this name is more suitable for you. ”

Swann was already able to use Chinese as his mother tongue, even more neatly than his mother tongue, but unfortunately his understanding of Chinese culture was still too superficial. How can you say that about your own emperor? Even the broad-minded emperor can't stand it and slap him in the face directly. Even if you want to explore this issue, you have to go around 800 circles and say it in very subtle words. The best effect is that no one understood at the time, and it took ten days and half a month to drink too much before I reacted, and I was not sure whether this was the meaning or not, which was in line with the artistic conception of Chinese.

"What you're saying is true, and it doesn't conflict with what I've always claimed. When did I say I was going to kill less? I've always asked you to kill less. I kill people for a purpose, and you kill people indiscriminately, can this be put together? "It's a pity that Swann caught up with a stinky and shameless person who was not quite willing to be an emperor, which didn't know whether it was lucky or unfortunate for Swan.

"Why!" Swann had the courage to resist all injustice, and dared to ask him face to face.

"Just because I'm smarter than you and know better than you! If I were ten years younger, I would still be able to smash you all over the ground and find your teeth! Convincing? Hong Tao's momentum was even stronger, and he said three reasons.

“…… Convinced...... I'm going to train them to sail ......" Swann blinked for a long time, but couldn't find a word to refute. Although he felt that Hong Tao's words were very shameless, but after thinking about it carefully, they were all true, and he didn't even give a chance to question it, this Nima was too depressing. Since you can't take advantage of Hong Tao here, it's better to avoid it quickly, so as not to suffer another loss for a while. This kind of loss is not once or twice, and if you don't have a long memory, you will really become a fool.

Hong Tao's fleet has been gone for a month, and when he came back, all the boatloads were wilting and drooping their heads. There is only one reason, I walked in the north for more than ten days and visited more than ten villages ashore; The south had all gone to the Yucatan Peninsula, and even the Mayan cities had been entered, and there were four or five skirmishes, large and small, in which seven or eight soldiers were killed and wounded, and oil was still not found. There wasn't even a clue, and no one in this place had ever seen a black, stinky, fire-burning oil.

"I'm going to fuck your grandma's ass! Nima's Yankees and Mexicans can find oil, why can't Lao Tzu find it! After comforting Luo Youde and the others, Hong Tao, who was forced to laugh, couldn't hold back anymore when he returned to the pyramid of his home, threw his shoes directly to the wall, and jumped his feet and scolded.

Originally, he thought that he would be able to find the oil by himself, and at the very least, he would have to get some information about the oil, and then he would be able to act as a savior in everyone's adoring eyes again. But this time it was really planted, as soon as he remembered the gloating face of that guy Swan, Hong Tao wanted to pull out his gun and destroy him! By the way, not only did I lose face, but I also lost a pistol. I didn't lose it, but I lost the bet and lost to Swan. This blow is even bigger than not being able to find oil, I used to win every gamble, can it be said that luck has been lost!

(To be continued.) )