The leader of the Mamluks looked at the five big and three thick, with a sideways face, but his mind was very careful. He boarded the ship with only one attendant, threw all his armor and weapons on the docks, and climbed up wearing only a pair of shorts. He was followed by a string of captives tied with ropes, a few of whom were obviously Song, and the others were Southeast Asians dressed more similarly, but he couldn't tell the difference, anyway, almost all of them were brought here.

"Don't worry about these people, from now on, you are the masters of this land. I don't want to be very demanding, I don't care if you attack anyone on land, but don't rob the ships that come to dock here, but protect their safety and turn this place into a second Kabalan port, understand? "Hong Tao likes to make deals with smart, responsible people, who won't make you feel like they're fooling you, and they won't make you feel like they're too threatening.

"We need food and artisans, and there are not many people in the city who can't support us for the time being." The leader of the Mamluks, who could only speak Arabic, bowed to Hong Tao with his right hand on his chest as a thank you for keeping his promise, and then talked to Hong Tao about the conditions.

"Soon there will be ships bringing in the things and people you need, and I will send people to take care of the port and the bazaar, which you can't touch, and I don't care about the rest. In the future, if I need your help, I will offer you the right price, but I don't know what your price is. "The other party is telling the truth, if Hong Tao doesn't give them support, they will soon break up. Growing food is too difficult for professional soldiers like them, who have learned combat skills since childhood. Hong Tao also didn't want to have a military group that was too professional. These people think completely differently from themselves. Put them within your own system. It's a big time bomb, it's too dangerous. However, Hong Tao is reluctant to waste their strengths, he is the time to use people, simply, just use it as a mercenary, as long as it is not too expensive.

"Prisoner! Just give us prisoners, provisions, weapons and captives! We don't want gold or silver, we want us to get it ourselves! The Mamluk leader pointed to the East Javanese captives in the distance of the pier. He pointed to the attendant behind him again, turned it over and pointed several times, as if he wanted Hong Tao to understand something.

"Oh, I see...... You're going to turn the captives into soldiers, aren't you? We have to talk about this in advance, I can only provide you with a maximum of a thousand men and weapons, and no more. Hong Tao quickly understood that he was going to train the captives into Mamluk soldiers, and it was easy to understand that they were originally slaves, and how to turn other slaves into soldiers. It's their unique recipe. But Hong Tao realized a problem and rolled down like they snowballed. Just fighting a war and not producing, isn't this another Mongolia! No, they can't play like this, they must be given a limit.

"A thousand! Thousand! My son, hostage! The Mamluk leader was also very cheerful, and had no objection to the amount of a thousand men, and finally pulled his retinue over and knelt down in front of Hong Tao, and turned himself and disembarked.

"What hostage? What do I want his son for? Hong Tao made the Mamluk leader stunned, so he could only ask the interpreter next to him, this guy was a cronie of the Ayin tribe, and he still had to stay in Kabalan Harbor and couldn't leave, so he asked this best merchant in Chinese to be the Arabic interpreter for Hong Tao.

"This is the rule of the Mamluks, that every generation of chiefs must take their sons hostage to those they have given their allegiance!" The interpreter explained to Hong Tao what the Mamluk leader meant.

"And what if he has two or three sons?" Hong Tao doesn't quite understand that a son can manage a fart.

"The Mamluk leader can only have one son, have another son, kill him!" The interpreter gestured with his hand in a strangulation gesture.

“…… Compared to him, I'm a very happy leader! Hong Tao didn't expect this answer at all, and he didn't know what to say for a while, compared to the Song people, they are indeed barbarians, barbaric and cruel.

"I'll talk about you, now it's your turn...... Tell me, who are you? Why are you here? Having solved the matter of the Mamluks, Hong Tao turned his head and bared his teeth at the row of Song people who were kneeling on the deck with their hands tied behind their backs, and then walked over and squatted in front of them, looking carefully one by one. There are indeed a few Song people, although the clothes are similar to those of East Javanese, but the overall feeling is very similar to those maritime merchants, and the skin color is similar, and they look like people who often go to sea.

"We are merchants in Guangzhou, but we are here to sell goods, and we don't know about the war here." One of the older men answered Hong Tao's question, with an innocent and confused expression on his face.

"What's his name?" Hong Tao ignored the man, but turned around and asked for the name of the son of the Mamluk chieftain.

"His surname is Swan, and his name is Kipchak." The interpreter whispered a few words to the Mamluk man who looked to be in his thirties, but was actually only twenty years old, and told Hong Tao a name that smelled of a strong Slav.

"Swan, how do you think you can make a person the most miserable?" Hong Tao asked again.

"He said that there are many ways to ......" The interpretation also confused Hong Tao, and he didn't understand what Hong Tao was going to say.

"Let him try it for me on the spot, and I'll use it...... Him! Hong Tao stood up and casually pointed to a kneeling man.

Swann was really savage, when the interpreter translated Hong Tao's order to him, he didn't even think about it, stepped forward, kicked the person Hong Tao pointed at on the deck, and before Hong Tao could react, a terrible scream resounded throughout the boat, and even echoed. One of the man's legs was directly stomped off by Swan, and he didn't want to stop, he grabbed one of the man's arms again, and kicked it again......

"Stop, stop...... In the future, you should learn more from Carl, it is too exciting to do this, and it is not suitable for children. Hong Tao hurriedly asked Swan to stop, and if he stomped down like this, half of the sailors on the deck would have to vomit, the first one was Weng Ya, her face was pale now, and she was about to turn her face away and dare not look at it.

"I advise you not to ask me to point out the next man, and though I cannot bear to see such a cruel scene, I may have him take the man down the ship to carry it out, or simply take him far away, so that he cannot even hear it. Okay, let me ask you again, who are you, why did you collude with the East Javanese to attack my port, and explain to me the front and back, there is one thing that I think is wrong, and the next one is...... He! Hong Tao waved his hand and asked the sailor to throw the man who had half of his body twisted and deformed off the side of the ship, and then continued to ask the question just now, drowning should be a relief for that person.

"You are a devil, you don't have a good death, you give back my son! I'll fight with you! It's a pity that Hong Tao still didn't get an answer this time, and the old man who answered at the beginning suddenly jumped up from the deck, opened his mouth and bit Hong Tao's neck. Hong Tao was thinking about the problem in his mind at the moment, but he didn't expect someone to attack him like this, so he was defenseless and directly let the old man fall on the deck. The face distorted by anger was right next to his face, and his open mouth showed two rows of teeth with bloodshot streaks on it.

"Ahh This sound was shouted by Hong Tao, so close to the distance, even if he reacted and reached out to push again, it would be too late. Although this bite was not fatal, it still made him scream.

"Bang ......" almost at the same time as Hong Tao's exclamation, there was a muffled sound, and then the old man's face suddenly moved away from him, and he didn't know where to go.

......A few seconds later, there was a sound of a heavy object falling into the water, and Hong Tao looked left and right at this time.

"Awesome! I allow you to make a mistake once and not punish you, because you saved my face. It's not very good-looking, and if you bite a scar again, you won't be able to see it! Swann was standing more than half a step to the right of Hong Tao's body, and the old man had disappeared from the deck, and the two sailors were looking down at the side of the ship. Obviously, Swan flew up at a critical moment and kicked the old man into the water, calculating this distance, several meters away, this guy's legs are really powerful.

"Yaya, you go to the docks and take a walk, this is not for you, I'm going to go on a killing spree, to see if it's their hard mouths or Swan's hard legs. Come, let Swan move his body and see how many legs he can kick and break in a row, I bet on four, does anyone bet on me? Hong Tao got up from the ground, and his heart was full of anger! It's so embarrassing that he almost let an old man, an old man with his hands tied, bite himself, and Nima is in front of his own crew sailor. The more angry he was, the calmer Hong Tao became, and his voice was much calmer, but there was a lack of humanity in his tone, and he became cold.

"Hong Gangshou spares his life...... I say, I say! It's all the idea of the Wu family's father and son, to intercept Hong Gangshou's fleet, and to dominate this route, it has nothing to do with us, we are just ordinary businessmen! ”

"I know, I know! It was the father and son of the Wu family who colluded with the Pu family in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, and they were a gang! It was the Pu family who came to move troops to East Java, and they were all on the boat! ”

"It was the son of the Wu family who was thrown down by Hong Gangshou just now, and it was Wu Zuotou who was kicked down later, neither of them had to die!"

Before the words fell, a few people immediately began to kowtow, kowtowing while answering Hong Tao's questions, for fear that if they were later than others, they would be stomped off by the savage who couldn't even understand Chinese. (To be continued.) )