Strengthening one's naval strength is mainly stuck with sailors. The problem of shipbuilding is not a problem at present, but the number of sailors is insufficient, and the fleet cannot expand. Catching some trendy people to go back for training can only be a supplement. Their number is also limited, and it is impossible to rely on catching them to replenish the number of sailors forever. Moreover, they have boats and can run away. Once they feel that this sea area is unsafe, they leave by rowing the boat. Whether they can find them next time is a problem. The fundamental solution is that Hong Tao has a vain case, and now he is left with Kong Pei to ask him whether this method will be successful.

Hong Tao likes Kong Pei very much. He is a hard-working person. He doesn't talk much, but he has good abilities and is very steady. He has no choice but to let the boat rely on the help of the Guangzhou Port, but he and Bo Jiao did not make any mistakes. He was the first to use the ship to hit those boats, saving a lot of grenades. From these two points, it can be seen that he is a good captain. He is not only disciplined, but also good at discovering and utilizing his own advantages, and can flexibly judge the forms on the battlefield.

"Captain Kong, we don't know each other without fighting. I know that you and your family are in Dengzhou, and you may be implicated because I captured you. But this matter will happen sooner or later. The Mongols and I are born enemies. They will destroy them if I want to protect them. So if I don't fight this time, you will have to fight. Maybe your ending will be worse than now. This is time and fate. I want to know, can you figure this out? If you can figure it out, let's continue to talk. If you can't figure it out, I will go to someone else to ask." Hong Tao didn't know how to communicate with Kong Pei. He said that he should be his enemy, and he caught the other person thousands of miles away and broke up a family.

"I don't know who should be, Liao people, Jin people, Mongolian people, Song people, or you... Fortunately, the adults gave me a chance to be a captain, and I learned a lot of things. I really don't hate it, I just blame me for being born in that place. If my home was in the south, it would be much better." Kong Pei's answer was very philosophical, and it was also the common voice of the Han people who were ruled by foreign races for several generations. Who should I hate or be grateful to? Hong Tao couldn't answer this question.

"If I promise you, I will help you take your family over as soon as possible. Can you lose all your resentment?" Hong Tao thought about it and thought it would be better to do something good. It is not only to make up for Kong Pei's regrets, but also to make himself balanced, and it is also difficult to do bad things just by doing bad things.

"Sir, you still have to go to Dengzhou!" Kong Pei was not like others. He heard that he could take his family over without asking for details. He started to thank him, and he was more rational.

"Not only do I want to go to Dengzhou, I also want to go to more ports in the north, with only one purpose, to grab people back. I don't know how your family is doing there. If you think it's better to live in your hometown than to grab them, I will grab less. If you think life in Jinhewan is better than that in the north, then I will grab more. If conditions permit, I can take your family first. The problem is that you have to tell me how to find them. In addition, with my current ability, I can only respond by the beach. It is definitely not possible to attack the inland. I have to forgive you for this." Hong Tao told Kong Pei about his plan. On the one hand, he wanted to hear his opinions, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see his attitude.

"My subordinates wish..." When Kong Pei heard that Hong Tao was really going to pick up his family, he was also excited once, but his personality was his personality and he couldn't change it easily. After saying halfway, he retreated. No matter how he calculated it, Hong Tao would not let him take the boat back to Dengzhou. What if he rebelled on the battlefield? This risk was not willing to take it even if he was in Hong Tao's position.

"You must be willing, not willing is purely lies! Don't worry. I won't let you be the commander of the fleet, so there is no need to worry about anything. I don't really believe that you can sacrifice your life to help the Mongols. But the trouble is about how you should find your family. They won't happen to live by the beach, right?" Hong Tao just said that by just talking about the matter, no matter how doubtful people are, and no doubts about people, he wouldn't doubt that.

The fleet is a collective. Unless the captain has enough authority and connections like Bo Jiao and Carl, it is very difficult to make small moves on the ship. Any unclear order will be questioned by the first mate, second mate, and sailor leader. If other ships accompany you, they will be known by other captains in minutes.

"There are two fellow villagers who were captured with their subordinates. Their family is a craftsman, and they live in the craftsman camp with their subordinates' families. If the adults can let one of them quietly go ashore and sneak home, they can find a way to get them on the boat at the beach, and as many people as they can run out. It is best if their subordinates can come. If they don't have this life, their subordinates will never resent, and this is all fate!" Kong Pei proposed a very feasible method, without Hong Tao sending people to attack, just need to respond.

"You can try it. When I was not satisfied, I would send a boat to cruise near Dengzhou Port to attract the attention of the Mongols so that they could escape a little easier. But I have a question. If your fellow villager was caught after getting ashore, wouldn't he be killed in vain? It's very dangerous. What would he be happy to do?" Hong Tao felt that Kong Pei could try this method, and it was in the inside and outside. Success would not cost him much or not, and it would also comfort some of his subordinates' homesickness. If he wanted to transfer large numbers of Han people from the north to Luzon Island, his family would always be concerned. If he could solve it, he would solve it. It showed his positive attitude, and whether he succeeded was secondary.

"If the adults don't worry about me, I will voluntarily go back and take risks. The same goes for the two of them. Life and death can only be left to fate." Kong Pei's answer was somewhat helpless and tragic. After living in Jinhewan for more than a year, he and his fellow villagers also had the opportunity to meet and chat. Although everyone is not a formal resident here, their living conditions are much better than their hometown. If they are asked to choose by themselves, none of them are willing to go back, and they will not worry about running away. But they always have a concern in their hearts, that is, those families far away in the north, who can give them a chance and try to sacrifice their lives.

"Okay, this is a chart north of the Yangtze River. Take it back and study it. Wherever there are villages and towns where craftsmen gather, there are ports with more naval corpses but not many military forces on land, mark them out for me. I can tell you what I want to do. Whether I am using them to capture or capture them, I will get as many as possible to Jinhewan. Instead of helping the Mongolians to beat their own people, it is better to come here and go to the four seas with me. What we lack now are all kinds of craftsmen and qualified sailors. You are here.

I should be familiar with it. I don’t force you. If you think I’m right, just do it. If you don’t agree with my statement, you can ignore it. I won’t punish you for this matter. This is not an order, but a negotiation.” Hong Tao picked up a roll of paper from his desk and handed it to Kong Pei. He had decided that no matter whether the Dan family in Jinhewan agreed or not, they must start to expand their population. Otherwise, in another ten years, he will still have thousands or eight people in his hands, seven or eight boats, making trouble is enough, and not enough to accomplish anything!

But on this issue, Hong Tao does not intend to conflict with the Dan family, and will not slap himself in the mouth and make a spoil on the board of directors. If he really can't convince them, it doesn't matter. Malacca, Penang, Phuket, and Ceylon all need someone to be stationed and built. As long as life is good, the Song people should not choose places too much. Sending them all over is the best of both worlds, and by the way, adding several additional bases to himself. No matter where there is a problem in the future, he will not lose all of them. If there is a problem in the future... Then go whatever you should do, spend half a day to get a betrayal of everyone, and live for three lifetimes in vain.

"I thank you for everyone first..." Kong Pei is not a person with a relatively neat polite mouth. If it were Metina, Hong Tao would be a living Buddha at this moment, and he just held the chart scroll and bowed deeply to Hong Tao.

Slowly climbed over and ran back. This is the ins and outs of Hong Tao's special mixed fleet. With the last southwest monsoon in late summer and early autumn and everyone's urgent desire to return home, the full merchant ships also ran and went east day and night. The mental power is invisible and intangible, but it can be reflected in reality at all times. When the port of Malacca was used as a supply, the maritime merchants came to Hong Tao collectively. They actually asked Hong Tao to take them directly back to Guangzhou Port, without stopping in the middle, the faster the better.

2,500 kilometers, even if it is a tailwind, these merchant ships have an average speed of only four knots at most, which is about 170 kilometers per day. In theory, it takes half a month to sail continuously, but in fact they will only have more, not less. But they are not afraid. In order to be able to return to Guangzhou before other Arab merchants, they will not let go of the prettiest goods in their hands, as long as there is a slight possibility. I forgot the hardships and dangers of long-distance voyages, and everyone's pupils have become all in all directions.
Chapter completed!