Chapter 285: Returning with a full load
The "One Day ......" picture didn't feel that there were too many of these small grids, and there were tears on his face, so he cracked his mouth and smiled. In her opinion, Hong Tao is also the leader of the clan, and he must not leave the clan to live here, since he promised to come back, he will definitely come back. The Indians had no writing and could not make contracts, but they kept their promises, and as long as you made a deal with them, they thought you would keep them.
Hong Tao got married again, this time to marry Tu as a wife, in his last life, his ideal was to give birth to children in every country in the world, but he did not complete the task, in this life he adjusted his ideals slightly, there are too many countries and it is too difficult, just change the nationality, each nation will keep a child of its own, no matter what country they are from in the future, they will have their own bloodline, which is also very good.
Indian weddings are very simple, bride price, ceremony, dinner, dancing, the whole process is enough for half a day. The bride price is anything, a fawn, a wild boar, or a bunch of shells can be used as a bride price. Hong Tao felt that the bride price was too simple to be worthy of his status as emperor, so his bride price was piled up in the open space in the middle of the village. 100 steel-tipped short spears, 100 shields lined with rattan whaleskin, 100 converted large crossbows, two 80 mm bronze cannons, five barrels of powder cake and five barrels of shotguns, twenty barrels of whale oil, five horses, a dhow on the Golden River, and Hong Tao had the ship's craftsmen build a small waterwheel and a small mill for the Tu tribe along the river. Through the rotation of the waterwheel, water can be brought up from the river to irrigate the farmland, and the wooden tree can be driven to mash the corn in the stone mortar.
He asked the ship's craftsmen on the Jinhe to teach the Indian tribe as many techniques as possible to use simple tools, such as saws, drills, planers, chisels, nails, etc., and by the way, make as many beds as possible for the tribe. They were all lying on the ground sleeping, and Hong Tao felt that something would go wrong.
It's not enough to just give things and teach skills, since this is already my own home. It had to be built, and when I came back, I couldn't live a semi-primitive life with them, so I had to leave a few craftsmen behind and let them build the village as advanced as possible during the time they were away. At this time, Hong Tao began to play tricks again, and the ten ship-accompanying craftsmen he left behind all had common characteristics. That is, they were all slaves, and they had no families and no marriages in Golden River Bay. The reason for this choice is because Hong Tao didn't want them to leave here at all, saying that he would work abroad for three years, but Hong Tao felt that they would have to settle down here in less than three years, and when he asked them to stay for a long time, there would be no big difficulty.
Originally, Hong Tao wanted to let the slave soldiers row a boat upstream to wipe out the two hostile tribes, but Tu firmly disagreed. She believed that wars between Indian tribes should not involve outsiders, not even her husband's race, because that would offend the gods. Unless Hong Tao joins his own tribe. Of course, Hong Tao will not join the Indian tribe, since his new daughter-in-law has such a personality, then let her be, it doesn't matter if you can't help her fight, you can help her train the army, this thing will not offend the gods. With Carl as a fake expert, it must be useful to talk to the Indian warriors in the tribe about new tactics, new tactics, and the use of new weapons.
"Don't worry. With these weapons, they can be one-on-three. Wooden arrows and stone hammers could not deal with steel spears and shields, and those two guns were simply redundant. Maybe if you can't beat the enemy, you will frighten your own people. Karl looked down on the fighting power of these Indians, and in his opinion, a hundred slave soldiers in his hands could face five hundred Indians without falling behind, as long as they did not enter the rainforest to fight, the final victory had to be on his side.
"You haven't really fought in the rainforest, you're in there. The quality of the weapon is not the decisive factor. Hong Tao disagreed with Carl's statement, he was thinking about fighting on the plains, if he really got into the rainforest, no enemy would fight, and it would be good if he could come out.
Time is a very fucked up thing. If you want it to go faster, it's going to grind hard, you want it to go slower, it's going to run faster than Bolt. It's the end of February in a blink of an eye, Hong Tao and Tu's honeymoon is over, and he must leave more than a month to go home, otherwise once there is a little unexpected delay, his will will be passed back, and the Jinhe Empire will have to mess up. And he fouled again this time, and told the parliament that he was here to send supplies to Karlburg, but he didn't say that he would go around South America, so it would be best not to let them know, and those parliamentarians were like chicken blood, and they didn't finish talking.
Left a lot of things and took a lot away, in comparison, Hong Tao still felt that he had taken advantage. A dozen bags of sun-dried corn beans and peppers, a jar of chili seeds, a jar of tomato seeds, a jar of wild cocoa beans, a few patches of cinchona bark, and tobacco and tobacco seeds from the island of Cuba can be called an upgrade. After taking these things back and planting them on a large scale, apart from tomatoes, what is not a powerful cash crop! As for potatoes and sweet potatoes, if you don't have them, you won't have them, and I'll talk about them later when I have time.
The most important thing is that Hong Tao secretly made an overseas nest for himself, and as long as Carl doesn't say it, most people don't know about the existence of America. Even if you know, it's useless, the navigator of this voyage is yourself, and the charts, coordinates, and data are all stored in your head, and no one can find the tribe of the map. This is another way back for Hong Tao to leave for himself, if Po Jiao, Medini and even Carl are unreliable or unusable, when he is in trouble, he can still run back to Tu's tribe to settle down. I don't dare to say that it is 100% reliable to be a mountain king in central Mexico, even if you complete your ideal, you will eat and drink spicy food when the time comes, and you will die if you eat it.
By the way, Hong Tao also took away a little cougar, this is the meaning of the picture, she insisted on letting Hong Tao raise the little female lion, and then she raised the little male lion herself, these two little guys are her and Hong Tao's mascots, the female is called Tu, and the male is called Hong Mouse, which is very memorable. Now the little lion is only the size of an ordinary cat, it seems that it has not been weaned, and the lion milk is not to be thought about, but there are sheep on the Jinhe, so there is goat milk to drink.
"Will it catch mice when it grows up?" Carl is much more caring than Hong Tao, he likes small animals more, but unfortunately Hong Tao can't give the picture to Carl to raise, and no one can give it, because it has the same name as his daughter-in-law.
"This is a lion, catching a hare is similar to a deer, have you ever heard of lions eating mice?" Hong Tao was convinced of Carl's lack of knowledge of nature, and his cousin also had lions and leopards, but he couldn't even tell the difference between cats and leopards.
"It's hard to imagine that this little guy will grow up to be so fierce...... What about your face? How do you say when you go back? Carl put the lion cub back on Hong Tao's lap, and looked at Hong Tao's face, his eyes flickered a little. The wound on Hong Tao's face has healed, and the two scabs extend from the top of the left eyebrow to the eyelid to the ear, which looks terrible, especially when he laughs, the whole face seems to be divided into three parts.
"I told Mia, you found another widow here, and wanted to abandon their mother and son, I couldn't look past it and said a few words, and the widow was arrested! You better worry less about me, you can take care of this bark yourself, and if you get sick again, you can make a little mash and soak it in water to drink. Remember, you must drink it when you have a fever, and it won't work if you drink it when it's cold! Hong Tao thinks that what Carl said is all nonsense, what can he do if he is already like this, can he still go to South Korea for plastic surgery? The sailors on the ship didn't know where the ship had gone, so they made up a rough and reliable direction, and said that they were injured by the local beasts.
"You really think of me as a friend...... Originally, I thought that after you became emperor, you would be like William, not like before. I'll help you defend Karlburg, and as long as I don't die, I'll beat William away when he comes!" I'm just guarding for you, and I have nothing to do with the Empire...... I still can't figure out why you want to build a fortress in Karlburg, why don't you just snatch it away, even Sardinia is 10,000 times stronger than Karlburg. There were not more than five ships I saw in a year at Karlburg, except for the Saracens transporting supplies, and four of them were lost......" Karl took the piece of bark, carefully broke it into several pieces and put it in his pocket, and fastened the clasp. Then he began to talk about his feelings with Hong Tao, and finally talked about the location of Karl Burg. Now he was embarrassed to say that he was not staying in Karlburg, but that was only out of gratitude to Hong Tao, not out of figuring it out.
"Have you read the "Theory of Sea Power" I wrote?" Every time Hong Tao said this, he felt a chill on the back of his neck, as if someone in the sky was cursing him.
“…… It seems like...... I've read it, I forgot ......" When it comes to reading and studying, Carl is as awkward as dry stool.
"Let's go back and see, and then I'll understand a lot of things without asking. If you don't read the answer, you have to ask me, are you stupid? Hong Tao didn't plan to tell Carl the answer, just told him that he was not impressed, go back and read the book by himself!
At the beginning of March, the Golden River once again crossed the North Atlantic from west to east, returned to Karlburg, rested for ten days, and immediately set out on its return voyage after Wennan was picked up by armed merchant ships from the port of Renaya. Now when Hong Tao closes his eyes, his mind is full of vast fields of corn, tobacco, tomatoes and cocoa trees. These seeds cannot be damp or soaked in seawater, so they must arrive at Cape Town Harbour as soon as possible. Hong Tao plans to leave some of the seeds for planting in Cape Town, where South Africa has more land and is easier to develop and the climate is suitable for growing these tropical crops. The remaining seeds are brought back to Jinhewan and some of them are planted on the farm, not the planting area, but the right planting method, and after the yield is stable, decide where to plant and how much to plant.
(To be continued.) )