"I said everyone, we are all people with net worth, can you pay attention to your image in the future! Quality, there must be quality! You see, Mr. Wen's face is laughing at you, and you are willing to be looked down upon by people like him? These pieces are useless, this one I made is called cement, disposable, after solidifying, you can't use it again, if you can use it over and over again, are you happy? Hong Tao squinted and glimpsed that Wen Nan had made a mistake again, and unceremoniously transferred all the resentment of the maritime merchants. Many of these rich people are self-made, and what they hate most is that others look down on them.

In fact, Jinhe Bay has been using cement for a long time, and the groundwater system of Jinhe New Town cannot be built in five years without the help of cement. But not real cement, but volcanic ash. There is an active volcano more than 200 kilometers upstream of Jinhe Bay, which smokes when it is nothing, and I don't know how many years it has accumulated. These things are brought back by boat, sifted and mixed with lime and coal ash, and it is something similar to cement. After mixing with water, it is very good for buildings, canals, and docks, and the label is quite high, and it feels a little waterproof cement.

As soon as he thought of defending against the Mongol army, Hong Tao immediately thought of cement. If the cement can be extracted and produced at a certain level, it will make the cities of the Southern Song Dynasty stronger, and even if they are temporarily destroyed by the Mongol trebuchets, they can be repaired quickly. Why did the Southern Song Dynasty army resist the Mongol cavalry, isn't it a strong city! Why were the Mongols not afraid of fortified cities later? Because they learned to use siege engines. What if the means of fortification were improved? I'm afraid the Mongols will have to be familiar with it for a few years, more than ten years. Wait until they find a suitable way to siege the city. Hong Tao also freed up enough time to lay out the world. At that time, no matter whether they will attack the city or not, they will not have time to ponder the Southern Song Dynasty, and Hong Tao's fleet alone will be enough for them to be busy.

Is cement easy to make? It is easy to make, and there is no difference from the lime kiln, the only technology required is the grinding process. But it doesn't matter if you don't have a large ball mill, you can still grind with a stone mill, but the speed is slow and the output is low. The problem is that Hong Tao did not plan to build a large cement plant with an annual output of several million tons, and there were limestone mines in the Southern Song Dynasty. Build kilns everywhere and burn them to play. As for the problem of destroying the environment, don't think about it first, the country is almost gone, who will keep the green mountains and green waters? After you keep the country, you can slowly plant grass and trees to make up for it. After its practical cement replaces trees as a building material, it may be able to reduce the damage to trees, but Hong Tao doesn't think about this problem anyway.

However, Hong Tao does not want to be completely developed by the people, just like he said, in the current era, cement can really be regarded as a strategic material, and it is entirely possible to change the trend of a campaign. So. Cement plants can be built, but only within their control. It would be better if it could get some support and control from the Southern Song Dynasty government. Even if it was finally requisitioned by the Southern Song Dynasty government, it was nothing, this thing was originally prepared for them. Eat better, and you can think of more ways for them in the future, but if you eat too ugly, you won't care about them in the future.

The matter of communicating with the Southern Song Dynasty court has to be done by Luo Youde, who let him have a Shibo who is the prime minister. Luo Youde didn't shirk this errand at all, he understood and agreed with what Hong Tao said, so he got on the clipper to Lin'an, took another bag of volcanic ash cement, and went to Zheng Qingzhi as a lobbyist. If this thing can be done, his Luo family will not only be worried about the country, but can already be regarded as the pillar of the country, and maybe he will be recalled to Lin'an directly. Although he may not be able to do such a good thing as a young son of a concubine, it is not a bad thing that someone in the family can be an official in the imperial court. In ancient times, people attached great importance to their families, and they had a sense of both prosperity and loss.

In addition, he also shouldered another thing on his trip, which was to ask for the lives of the people. Hong Tao has already discussed with the maritime merchants, a total of ten large ships, in a few days to set off to Champa and Siam generation to raise rice, is expected to return to Guangzhou City in three months, and then two Jinhewan warships will join in to escort the Yangtze River, all the way north to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

If Luo Youde discussed it with the Southern Song Dynasty, this fleet would go straight up the Yangtze River, and the farthest could reach Jiangling Mansion, which was Jingzhou in later generations, and the grain could be unloaded wherever it needed. If Luo Youde's side didn't discuss it, it didn't matter, the fleet would unload the grain in Jiankang City, and then sell it to the local grain merchants at a not too high price. But just this once, don't expect that there will be a fleet to come, Hong Tao will give up, it's not that he doesn't lend a hand, it's that people don't appreciate it, then he still rushes up to make up, it's not a cheap bone. As for whether the Southern Song Dynasty army can block the attack of the Mongolian army, Hong Tao doesn't care, love can't stop it, anyway, the Southern Song Dynasty didn't perish so quickly in history, and when it was hurt by the Mongols, maybe it would come to beg for itself.

Helping the Southern Song Dynasty court is only one of the purposes of Hong Tao's visit to Ximaozhou this time, and it is not the most important thing. The main purpose of his visit this time is to invest, with projects and technology investment. As long as these projects are implemented, they will soon see the benefits, and as long as they see the benefits, guess what? A large number of people who want to get rich and intend to get rich will flock to it. Whether it is perfume, soap, stove or cement, Hong Tao only sold the franchise rights in Guangzhou and Quanzhou this time, and most of the inland provinces were not involved, and they can be sold many times when the time comes.

Money is not the main thing, if the board of directors of Jinhewan can approve, Hong Tao can give away all these technologies for nothing, he just wants to make the commerce of the Southern Song Dynasty more developed, the products more abundant, and more businessmen who join the Straits Company and can be influenced by themselves. In layman's terms, he is digging a pit for the Southern Song Dynasty court, which is still very hidden and difficult to find. But if you step into it, you will have to lose your skin if you don't die, which is extremely powerful. To paraphrase an idiom, this is called the bottom of the kettle! Hong Tao is using the simplest, most direct and most effective way to dig the corners of the Southern Song Dynasty. He doesn't have to face every businessman in the Southern Song Dynasty, he only needs to establish an interest group, and then the businessmen in these groups will spontaneously develop the downline and influence the people around him, just like a snowball, and soon be able to roll a huge snowball, and eventually become a force that even the Southern Song Dynasty court can't control.

And after that? After that, Hong Tao didn't know, he just dug the pit, and didn't care about burying it. As for whether this kind of ideological progress will lead to the civil war of the Southern Song Dynasty, or the emergence of a Cromwell of the Southern Song Dynasty, God knows, maybe there will be a Napoleon of the Southern Song Dynasty. These things cannot be seen or predicted by the power of Hong Tao. You can only wait and see many things, even if you are a traverser, you don't have so much control, unless you cross into a Buddha + God + Allah, the three saints are combined!!

"Lao Wen, are you satisfied now, but I have shaken all the family funds clean, just to fulfill your wish, do you think I deserve a bit of a loss as a teacher? You're not a businessman, but you should know the value of these things, right? If you are not satisfied with this, you have to force me to take the children of Jinhewan to the front line and fight with the Mongols, then it can only be said that the fate of our master and apprentice is over, and in the future, you will take your Yangguan Road and I will take my single-plank bridge. "Fulfilled his wish, or relatively satisfactorily, Hong Tao is still not satisfied, he wants to give full play to his investment, and flicker Wennan with his hand, which can be regarded as collecting some interest in advance.

"Poof...... Bang Bang Bang! Wen Nan didn't say a word, in front of a group of students, he knelt down and kowtowed to Hong Tao three times.

"Well, you've got me, get up, and the kids. If you're stupid, I'll have to find other teachers, and they'll all be paid, so you don't want it! Since you really want to recognize me as a teacher, then the teacher made a request, you agreed, I accepted this student, if you don't agree, three heads in vain! This time, Hong Tao didn't stop him, he accepted Wennan's gift with a shy chest, and immediately changed to a teacher's face. It's not easy for this student to get it.,It's been a fool for several years to succeed.,You have to enjoy it.。

"Please teach Mr. ......" Wen Nan heard that there were still conditions, so he simply didn't get up, or knelt down and asked, so as not to kneel again after a while, how troublesome it would be.

"I want you to join the Jinhewan nationality, from now on you will not be a Song person, but a resident of my Jinhewan, and Jinhewan is your second motherland. I don't think it's treason, but to better repay the Great Song. There are some things that I am not from Jinhewan, and I will never teach them, and I haven't stopped you from loving the Great Song Dynasty, you can still do your best to help it, maybe it will help even more, because you have great ability, how about it? Hong Tao is telling the truth, he has Luo Youde a business partner, it is not enough, but also to find an ideological agent. It is more suitable for Wen Nan to spread his own thoughts, Jesus still has twelve disciples, that is not a fox friend who accompanies him to play cards and fish, but a student who spreads his thoughts for him, Hong Tao feels that he also has a few disciples, it is not a trespasser, right? (To be continued.) )