persuaded Bo Fu, which was equivalent to unanimously passing Hong Tao's proposal, and the matter of moving was decided. In fact, not everyone in the Tanka family is as stubborn as Bofu, and not everyone is willing to live on a ship for the rest of their lives. No one is stupid, who wouldn't want to live in a dry, stable house? Didn't this condition exist before? The natives did not sell them land, let alone go ashore to farm, so they had to take the boat as their home, and now Hong Tao has found them a piece of land, and it is said that half of it belongs to the cooperative, so why not live there? Even if there is no fresh water on it, it doesn't matter, there is no fresh water on the boat, there is a small river across the island, and you can just use the boat to pull it every day.

Compared with ordinary people moving, the efficiency of the Tan family's moving can no longer be described as high. They are like snails with shells on their backs, and even the rows of boats are everything, lifting up the stone anchors at the bow and stern, sewing the rags on the canopy, finding a few thin bamboo poles to wear, and hanging the mast is considered a sail. Regardless of any holes or cracks, women were at the helm of the big boats, and all the men got on the small wooden boats, pulled up the small sails and rocked the wooden oars, and pulled the big boats along the coastline several kilometers away in the sea area, walking during the day and resting at night. In fact, the whole sea is their home, and whether they move or not is nothing more than moving from one room to another in their home, but the aisle between the two rooms is a bit long.

Of course, Hong Tao would not watch them crawl slowly on the sea like turtles, and he used his sailboat to pull those rows of boats away like when he was rushing to the sea, and he could count a little faster. According to Pofort, his legs and fingers have been sore for the past few days, and he is afraid that a storm is coming. The Song Dynasty people did not understand the terms typhoon, hurricane, and tropical storm very well, but they knew that there were storms, and there was no agreement on the progression. Regardless of whether there is a real tropical storm coming, Hong Tao is willing to let them be in place a day earlier, and then boil those blubber as soon as possible, and after Luo Youde inquires about the price and packs up the store, it is time to ship. Each of the two stores must have a thousand catties of stock, otherwise it is really not worth the trip.

In mid-October, smoke rose from Ximaozhou Island outside the port of Zhenzhou, and more than a dozen rows of boats lined up and docked in the deep water in the southwest corner of the island. A few young men of the Wen family are using the rough camphor wood they have cut down to drive piles here, and they want to build a small wharf here, so that larger ships do not have to stop at a distance and get off the small wooden boats, but can be parked directly on the wharf, which is very convenient for carrying goods. The Wen family's shipyard was also chosen here, and a forest on the shore would be cut down and used partly to build houses, and partly to be used as scaffolding for new ships.

The location of the glass kiln is further north, just a clearing on the hillside, blocked by the hill on the island, and people from the mainland cannot see the situation here, at most they can find smoke when the weather is fine. The whale oil smelting workshop is directly west of the island, where the perennial southeast wind blows the smell to the sea and does not spread on the island.

The residential areas on the island are concentrated in the northern part of the island, where the terrain is flat, blocked by a hill to the south, and the wind is not very strong. At this time, Huang Hai was taking a few families to cut down trees here, and then took them to the Wen family's shipyard to saw, and when he returned, he nailed them into the kind of wooden houses with floors about one meter above the ground. This is also Hong Tao's idea, he doesn't want to sleep in the bamboo building anymore, that thing doesn't look like a serious house, not to mention the wind leaking everywhere, and the wind is still shaky.

To say that Hainan Island in this era can really be described as lush and green, even this small island with a radius of less than two kilometers is full of forests. Cut it, cut it casually, the forests on the island are 100% ownerless, and after Luo Youde's friend has completed the formalities and paid the money in the Jiyang Army, this place will be a private property, except for the government, anyone who comes can drive it away. Of course, no one came to this broken island, and even the Tan family didn't like to come very much, so why didn't they come with fresh water?

The men were doing heavy physical work, while the women were guarding the urns to make whale oil. This job is simple, you only need to refine the whale oil, then filter it with several layers of yarn, and then put it in a small clay pot and seal it, and a jar is filled with exactly thirty catties. Bo Zhu took the two women, cleaned the baleen with sea sand, and then cut out the trough with a machete at one end, stuck the two together, and then tied it firmly with a fine hemp rope, which was a light and elastic sail support, and replaced it with the original bamboo sail support on the sail, which was both light and durable.

Now Hong Tao already has six windsurfing boards, and if it weren't for the Wen family's busy building a dock, they would have been able to make a few more pairs, so that each of the Tan family boys who participated in Hong Tao's whaling team would have a pair. With the current shipbuilding technology and speed, it is still very dangerous to use a sailboat to chase whales directly, so Hong Tao decided to use this kind of windsurf to kill whales for the time being, as long as there are enough people, it will not be too tired. Of course, there is still necessary windsurfing training, but those who are not very familiar with the performance of windsurfing are not allowed to go to sea with the whaling ship.

Everyone else is working, what is Hong Tao doing? He's a gentleman. Although everyone finally listened to him on the issue of moving, but in the matter of teaching and educating people, no matter what he said, he couldn't say anything about anyone other than Bozhu. Everyone agreed that in addition to going to sea to hunt whales and become a captain, he could only do one job, that is, to teach the children of these families to read and write, and he didn't need to do other work, and he could guide others if they couldn't, but he didn't have to do it himself.

Now Hong Tao has become an idler, and he can't teach children all day, so not only will the children lose interest in learning, but they will also be unbearable. So he secretly began to teach children to carve handicrafts in the name of handicraft classes, and the material was those baleen. There are too many things, and it's useless to put them away, so Hong Tao pondered that it would be better to use them and make some gadgets, maybe in exchange for some copper plate flowers, and by the way, also exercise the children's hands-on ability.

What to carve? Abacus! Hong Tao learned abacus class when he was a child, and although he couldn't reach the technique of flying up and down with his hands, he still knew how to use the abacus correctly. In this era, don't expect to use a calculator, in addition to calculators, the ancient Chinese abacus is the only quick counting option. It's a pity that the Song Dynasty didn't have an abacus, they used a counting method called abacus, which should be the ancestor of the abacus. It's a pity that it's still far from the abacus, especially the abacus usage methods summarized in the hundreds of years in later generations, which can not only add, subtract, multiply and divide, but also open the multiplication, square and even the high power, which is basically no different from the computer.

As long as Hong Tao is teaching children knowledge, no matter what they do, everyone supports them, as for what to do with these things, what can be learned by pulling the beads on them with his fingers all day long, and reciting words in his mouth, there is no need for Hong Tao to explain. Every night, these children don't wait for their parents to ask, and they show off the new things they have learned today. This made Hong Tao worry-free, not only helping himself to correct his name, but also reviewing the day's homework.

Hong Tao took advantage of the time when the children were learning abacus, and quietly did some private work. He carved a bunch of twists and turns with whale baleen, and then drilled and polished, and the students didn't know what the teacher was doing, and they didn't dare to ask, and they couldn't look at it more, so that the teacher found that it was a small pebble thrown over, and it was very accurate.

At the beginning of November, Luo Youde finally came back, and the first thing he did after seeing Hong Tao was to ask for goods. The two shops in Qiongzhou and Guangzhou have been sorted out, and the shopkeeper and his staff have also arranged it, just waiting to put the only cargo whale oil on the counter and start selling. As for the price of whale oil, Luo Youde can only increase the price of the best rapeseed oil by half, 500 wen a catty.

"It's not expensive, those black smoke and choking sesame oil cost more than 300 yuan a catty, and this kind of good oil naturally can't be sold cheaply. Brother Hong, rest assured, I have found three or five friends, and I have had a banquet in Guangzhou several times, and all the sesame oil used at the banquet is our family, and they are all praised. The scholars preferred elegance, and if the oil was sold too cheaply, they would not buy it. Luo Youde taught Hong Tao a lesson this time, he has already completed the previous publicity and promotion work, and also conducted market research to figure out the price, and there is also a set of theories.

"Brother Luo is also a great talent! Then do as Brother Luo said, I only care about the oil, and don't ask about the rest. Hong Tao really admires Luo Youde, a profiteer, this time, he is wronged if he doesn't get rich, since he has such a high business talent, don't intervene.

On the issue of doing business, I really don't have Luo Youde's carefulness. For example, the name of whale oil, Hong Tao didn't think of changing one, or Luo Youde proposed that calling whale oil might leak the source of the product, so it was better to call it sesame oil. In this way, it not only conforms to the characteristics of this oil, but also conceals its production raw materials, and a small thing can see whether the mind is meticulous.

"I also cooked those fish skins, most of them were resold to merchants in Guangzhou, and the rest were all taken back, I don't know if Brother Hong can be of great use?" Luo Youde went out this time, not only to discuss business and research the market, but also asked him to do a few personal things. The post-processing and sales of whale skins is one of them, those fish skins are not only large in quantity, but also high in quality, the skins are very soft and thick, and they can produce a lot of good skins, which are very easy to sell. But Hong Tao asked Luo Youde to take back several volumes of the softest skin, saying that he wanted to keep it for himself, which made Luo Youde wonder.

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