The high monk Xuanzang recorded in the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty": Note that it is the country of Zhuliye, 14,500 miles on Tuesday. The capital of the country is more than ten miles around. The soil is empty, and the Yasawa is barren... Not far from the southeast of the city, there are caves blocking waves. The place where the King of Sanssouci was built. In the past, great magical powers appeared here, saying profound and wonderful laws...... Not far to the west of the city, there is the old Garan. The place where Deva Bodhisattva and Arhat argued. This should be the Zhu Yuan country, once sent envoys to our dynasty, their warriors drove war elephants when fighting, there are 60,000 war elephants! As soon as Wen Nan talked about his profession, he began to drag words with his mouth full, and Hong Tao gritted his teeth when he heard it, barely understanding half of it.

"War elephants? Return 60,000! Some people believe in this kind of, no wonder you can't beat the Mongols, because you don't have brains. Do you know how much an elephant eats in a day? I don't know, don't you ask anyone who knows? Isn't it easy to do the math by multiplication? And then you should give that pig messenger a big mouth, does their country have so much feed to feed the elephants? Even the wild elephants are counted, and the animals in the woods are counted as their soldiers. If that's the case, I've got 500,000 whale mounts, and I've been riding whales when I'm fighting. If you talk to the Mongols like this, will they believe it? "Hong Tao is annoyed to listen to his own people helping others brag, people say that 60,000 is 60,000, and there is a Facebook to write in the book, can't you investigate and investigate and then write? There is no scientific spirit at all.

"Hey, hey, hey......" Martini likes to see Wen Nan deflated, he has already regarded Wen Nan as a competitor, and subconsciously began to compete with Wen Nan for favor.

"......" Wennan has been teaching children to read and write in Jinhewan Primary School this year, and has also learned a lot of knowledge about arithmetic with Hong Tao. He would have been able to learn mathematics, but it was not as systematic as Hong Tao's mathematics, especially after seeing Hong Tao's modern abacus, he appreciated it greatly, and suggested several times that Hong Tao sell this thing to the Great Song Dynasty. He said that he was trying to make money for Hong Tao. In fact, what is he thinking in his heart, Hong Tao is very clear, this is in Cao Ying, his heart is in Han, and all good things are trying to pull to the court. After letting Hong Tao's meal fall, Wen Nan also silently calculated in his heart, really, how much feed and manpower is needed to feed 60,000 war elephants. Don't talk about putting it in that pig country. Even if you put it in the Great Song Dynasty, you can't afford to feed it, don't farm the big guys, just wait for the elephants.

Starting from the port of Guangzhou, all the way to the southwest, the turtle crawled like a turtle for nine days before arriving at a seaport in the Champa Kingdom. This place was originally marked as Nha Trang by Hong Tao, but Wen Nan and Medini both said that this place was called Xinzhou, but Hong Tao did not insist, and Xinzhou was Xinzhou. In fact, he didn't know where Nha Trang was. It's just that the location is about the same, so it's just installed casually, since there is the original name here, let's be good.

The Port of New South Wales is smaller than the Port of Malacca, and the size of the city is similar to that of Jinhe Bay, with a population of less than 1,000 people, but there is a large deep-water wharf. Sea vessels can be docked here. When he landed at the port, Hong Tao frowned again. The six Southern Song Dynasty ships couldn't climb on the sea, but when they arrived at the port, they were not slow at all, and they were all fast to grab berths, and as a result, all the six warships of Hong Tao were blocked outside, and they couldn't get close to the dock at all, so they could only anchor in the distance. In fact, Hong Tao didn't plan to dock here. Even if he is allowed to dock in port, he will not rely on it, and when he arrives in a place that is not very familiar, the battleship still has to try to maintain maneuverability, and once it docks at the port, it will be undoubtedly on land. Most of the deterrence was lost.

Those Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants obviously didn't think like this, many of them may have been here, much more familiar than Hong Tao, while getting on the small boat of the battleship to the dock, and at the same time inviting Hong Tao to go ashore to have fun with them. As for what kind of coke was on the shore, Hong Tao could see it from the smiles on their faces.

"Uncle, aren't you angry? I didn't mean to save your face before, it's the rules on the ship. My ship is different from the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty, and without these rules, I can't go on a long voyage. Luo Dacai didn't pay much attention to Hong Tao along the way, and now that he has arrived at the port, Hong Tao has to take the initiative to find him, coordinate the work of these Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants, Hong Tao can't play it himself, and he has to let him come forward.

"I've seen it clear these days that your ship is not a merchant ship at all, but a warship. Your sailors are not sailors, but soldiers. Not only did I understand it, but I kept training in front of these people every day, and these people also understood it, and they also asked me privately why you came from. Luo Dacai still had that dead face, and there was no anger in his tone, but he was more worried.

"Uncle, you are also a man who has been walking on the sea all year round, and can you distinguish between a merchant and a warrior on the sea? Look at this Maitini, he is a merchant surnamed Pu in Quanzhou City, but at sea they want to rob me, and the merchant directly becomes a soldier, more fierce than a soldier. If my sailors had no rules like the sailors on their ships, I might have been a slave on his ship by now, or I might have been slaughtered with a sword. Eating the bowl of rice from the sea, whoever has the ability to eat is the one who eats, and whoever has the ability is small, who is the one who is eaten, I don't need to say more about this truth, right? What are you worried about, I know, I won't take Brother Luo to the soup, if that way, I don't have to take these maritime merchants to the South Seas to make money, and I don't have no ships, why bother with this? Hong Tao is a little annoyed with himself, almost everyone he meets who has a close relationship with him, he has to break it up like this and crumple it again, he feels poor. But it still has to be said, and this is just the beginning, and there will be more in the future.

"You're really trying to help them go to the big eat?" Luo Dacai originally had doubts about Hong Tao's approach, and no one had ever done this kind of thing before. He has a boat and someone, so why should he pull others to make money together, he can't figure it out. After the observation of the past few days, he felt even more drumming in his heart, how could he think that Hong Tao did not have a good heart, but he couldn't think of what bad things Hong Tao could do.

"Well, not only this time, but also to lay the foundation for the future, and after the foundation is solid, I will also give them the charts of this route for free, let them run by themselves, I will not escort them, I have more important things to do. Now I have one thing I need you to ask someone who is familiar with this place to help me go ashore and discuss with the NSW government, I want to rent a lot of land here and build a warehouse, preferably next to the docks. This warehouse will be open to all the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty in the future, where they can replenish fresh water, food, and if necessary, store some goods for them, and I will take care of the security. ”

"You're in charge of security? How to be responsible? Luo Dacai partially understood what Hong Tao meant, but he still had doubts.

"Of course, it depends on these warships, and whoever dares to move our people at sea and in the harbor in the future, then his ship and port will not exist. If this is not a subject country of our Great Song Dynasty, I will not spend money to rent land, but use my own methods to obtain this land, not only does it not cost money, but they also have to give me money, what do you say, Medini? Hong Tao pointed to the big slingshots on the side of the ship, these things were very curious to the maritime merchants, no one knew what they were used for, only Medini had really seen their power.

"It only takes two quarters of an hour and this port does not exist, I assure Allah! Dear Lord Luo, believe what I said...... They are terrible and are a punishment from heaven. "Martini is like Hong Tao's rubber stamp, he will stand up and endorse him whenever he needs it.

"Don't start a war...... I know the Champa dialect, and I'm willing to help you go up and rent land......" Wen Nan had only seen the power of the fire crossbow, and he didn't know what these things were for, but he could often hear loud noises on the south bank in Jinhe Bay, and judging from the sound, those things should be more powerful than the fire crossbow.

"Oh? You know what to say here...... Well, I'm sure you'll be buried once again, and if you don't come back, you'll be buried by these maritime merchants, including everyone in the city. Uncle, you can take this Mr. Wen with you, I will wait for two days at most, and then you must come back regardless of whether the negotiation is successful or not, otherwise you will have to worry about your life. Yaya, send someone to row these two to the shore and wait on the shore for two days. Hong Tao plans to see if this Wen Nan will not care about the lives of hundreds of people because of his own freedom, which is also an in-depth understanding of people like them, to see where their bottom line is. As for whether he will run, Hong Tao feels that he can be prevented, if he really runs away, maybe he will be personally captured by the king of Zhancheng and sent back to himself, who wants to let his country be ruined because of an irrelevant person, the possibility is very small.

Luo Dacai and Wen Nan did not give Hong Tao a chance to burn the city, and the next morning, the two of them returned to the Guangzhou with two paperwork contracts and other things, and a piece of wasteland north of the port was leased to Jinhe Company, and the price was not expensive, but the construction cost had to be paid by themselves. Dig it out, Hong Tao paid the bill directly with gold bars, leaving two sailors and one of Luo Dacai's bookkeepers to watch the warehouse construction project here, and after the fleet was replenished, he continued on the road, and the next port of call was Brunei Port.

If Hong Tao's own fleet is allowed to go, the port of Malacca will be one stop from Guangzhou, and unless there is particularly bad weather, there is no need to stop at the port of Brunei on the way. However, in order to take care of these slow Southern Song Dynasty ships, the fleet not only had to dock at the port of Xinzhou, but also had to go to Brunei to replenish supplies, and then go to Malacca. Even so, those maritime merchants found it too exciting, and they sailed three or four thousand miles at once, which they had rarely been so crazy before.

To say that these maritime merchants found by Luo Dacai are basically the weaker among the maritime merchants. The sea merchants had their own guilds, and they would neither join the fleets of outsiders, nor would they easily allow outsiders to join. Their departure dates, destinations, and carry-on goods are kept confidential, mainly for security reasons. Only these small retail investors will use their lives to gamble regardless of life and death, success is a lot of money, if you don't succeed, you won't succeed, you should hang up, no one should blame anyone. (To be continued.) )