In three days, a tribe of more than 2,000 people disappeared in northwestern South Africa. Two-thirds of the people were captured by Hong Tao's Indian soldiers and the tribe of Metini. All those over ten years old and under forty years old were loaded on ships, and the remaining elderly, weak and sick were left in the tribe of Metini.

"If I follow this efficiency, I will bring 5,000 people and 100 large ships. Within a year, there will be no villages within a radius of thousands of kilometers, and only deserts and mountains can hide." Hong Tao did not feel ashamed of his behavior, but he just felt a little boring. But when he thought of these people, he could make the canals that communicated with the two oceans open to navigation as soon as possible.

"Naboyu may be very uncomfortable. You have stolen all the population. He wants so much land to raise zebras and lions." Matini heard that Hong Tao was talking in his sleep, and he also agreed.

"I'm leaving, maybe I can't come back in three to five months. Take care of yourself. Do more work as your elder brother-in-law. When I bring these people on the ship back, he will not object to migration, and it will be richer there." The cargo ship was not only filled with slaves, but also twenty pathfinders of the Metini tribe. Metini did not completely convince all the chiefs in his tribe to migrate with Hong Tao. Only some chiefs were willing, and the other part did not agree, especially his elder brother-in-law, the most opposed.

"Don't worry, he can't beat me up. The war has already begun. In more than a month, Boyu should be anxious. More than half of the chiefs in the north of Cape Town have disappeared, and even the warriors in the tribe have disappeared. I have sent someone to notify the chiefs of the tribes in the east. If they want slaves, it is best to bring warriors to help with the war. At that time, less than one-fifth of the chiefs that Boyu can find." Matini is very confident in the migration. How to deal with these chiefs is his expertise, and Hong Tao cannot compare to it.

"When Cixi came back, I would like to tell Wennan and the others what I mean. I'm afraid they don't believe Cixi very much. If you think Alin is not safe in Port Masca, let him go with you." Before setting out to hunt slaves in the east, Hong Tao had already asked Cixi to go back to Cape Town first, and also assigned him a task to take advantage of the opportunity to transport tobacco to various ports to bring Wennan and mercy, those who were not very proud after the new government came to power, and the whole family of the old guys who had followed him to conquer the world. If they were willing to continue to live with him in the New World, Luo Meizhou and Hong Yu would also be told two choices, whether to stay in Jinhe City or find him and Luo Youde, that is their choice.

At the end of July, Hong Tao left the Matini tribe with more than 700 slaves, crossed the equator from the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and then ran to the river channel in Port Saint Louis, Brazil in later generations to replenish freshwater, which was where the Matini brothers were attacked last time with Matini.

The reason why they came here was that Hong Tao wanted to take revenge. The natives here almost killed themselves, making them feel embarrassed in front of their two children. It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, but this time they will just return if they don’t come out. As long as they dare to show up, they will just be arrested and act as slaves. If their village is not far from the river, they will simply take the whole village into a pot.

The result was really successful. When he brought a boat, four or five soldiers pretended to go ashore to rest. Within three or four hours, there was a movement in the woods. More than a dozen naked natives came out with small sticks of varying lengths and quietly approached the fire, intending to attack. As a result, they naturally failed to attack and were caught. Four of the fifteen natives died, two injured, and the rest were all captured.

What made Hong Tao not very satisfied was that one of his soldiers was also hit by the poisonous arrows of the natives. They foamed at a short time and saw that they could not survive. But the soldier died so much that he received more than a hundred native slaves. When Hong Tao brought people to the side of their village, these natives were still confused. Then they were frightened by the sudden loud noise, and they knew that there were not many people who resisted or ran away.

In autumn, Hong Tao returned victoriously with the slave-catching fleet. Because the salmon-class armed cargo ship was sufficient supply and fast speed, Hong Tao was familiar with the wind direction and route. The death rate of more than 800 slaves on the ship was very low, and they were basically transported back to Jinhe City alive.

"Old Hong! Lao Hong! Something big happened!" As soon as Luo Youde got off the boat, he rushed up anxiously, grabbed Hong Tao's arm and shook it hard. When he was anxious, he even changed his name and no longer pretended to be His Majesty.

"Brother Luo... don't be impatient. Did Carl tell you what he said? Is it about the change of the empire, or is there any trouble with Carl Fort?" Hong Tao probably knew what Luo Youde wanted to say, so Carl passed by him. He must have told Luo Youde what he heard from Metini, and maybe there was also Flanders Hanseatic.

"You know everything! Tell me what's going on. Carl was also confused and said that the empire seemed to be going to war with the Song Dynasty. How could this happen?" Luo Youde was really anxious. The Song Dynasty was his motherland and the Jinhe Kingdom was also his home. If the two sides really wanted to fight, he didn't know who to go to.

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious! Talking a few minutes earlier and talking a few minutes later will be useless. You should arrange these slaves to have food and accommodation first. We will lose all of them. Then go to my house to find me. Don't make any noise about this for the time being. The fewer people know, the better." Hong Tao quickly pulled Luo Youde out of the dock. His voice was a little loud. Several sailors from Jinheguo were nearby. If they were allowed to hear it, it would cause unnecessary trouble.

"These are all good students you taught! Kill tens of millions of people! What a big tone, that's people, not fish and shrimp! Even if there are tens of millions of fish and shrimp, how many big sea boats must be filled with!" When Hong Tao explained the current situation of the Song Dynasty to Luo Youde in his home, Luo Youde immediately became anxious. He had not figured out who he should go to, but now he has made it clear that he is heading towards the Song Dynasty.

Even if the Song Dynasty court is not a thing, the people are not guilty, so why do they deliberately kill so many people? On this point, he and Hong Tao have very similar ideas, that is, if they can not fight, they will not fight, and if they can be resolved through negotiation, they will talk more about it.

"I have asked Matini to provoke tribal wars in northern Cape Town, which will slow down the recruitment of Boyu. Kalamba Port cannot provide much army. Bojiao's brother-in-law took his little \ Chaoting across the strait to develop on the Indian Peninsula a few years ago. There are not many regular troops in the Port of Malacca and Penang Port. I need at least 40,000 to 50,000 troops to fully occupy the southern coastal areas of the Song Dynasty. At present, he cannot even get a quarter of it. This big gap can only be filled from the Port of Cape Town. As long as the recruitment speed in Cape Town is slow enough, we will still have a chance to stop them from slaughtering the Song Dynasty. But you have to dig out this canal for me, not too wide or too deep, and Virginia-level can pass."

On the way back from Africa, Hong Tao calculated that there was no suitable way to prevent the Jinhe Kingdom from invading the Song Dynasty. This was a decision made by a national government and no one could veto it. If he returned to Jinhe City and tried to forcibly stop them from doing this, he had to break all the rules set before and return to the stage when people were greater than law. This was something he would never do, even if the Song Dynasty was completely destroyed by Jinhe Kingdom, he could not do so.

If you don't go back and stop them from killing, it's a bit unreasonable to watch it. The cause of this matter is still his own, so you have to take responsibility to the end. What should I do? In the end, Hong Tao came up with a more risky way to get the chestnut from the fire. If you are lucky enough, God bless you, the war of the Jinhe Kingdom invading the Song Dynasty might not be able to fight, or you have to stop shortly after the fight started.

"Impossible. Now I have only set up five camps and built together five kilometers apart. This has used more than 3,000 people, not counting as logistics transportation people. Even if you give me another 10,000 people and dig them together in dozens of sections, it will be impossible for me to dig a canal for you in the mountainous area in a year. Unless you are a god, you can't lower the thunder and split the mountain." No matter how important the matter Hong Tao said was, Luo Youde could not agree to dig the canal in more than a year, and the gap was too big.

"I don't have thunder, but I have 20,000, 30,000 or even 50,000 people! Just calculate it, in two years, at most, two and a half years to dig this canal, how many people are needed." Hong Tao also roughly saw the design basin terrain of the canal. There are no mountains, and most of them are used to wind the valley. The most difficult part is two small ridges. A hole needs to be blown up between them, and a depth of about 40 meters is dug to be about the same as the height of the valley.

Without construction machinery and strong scoundrels, relying solely on black gunpowder, nitroscopic cotton and shoulder-carrying handhelds is a very big project. But Hong Tao feels that as long as there are enough people, the ants can be moved.

"If you do this, you will kill many people..." Luo Youde is not as cold-blooded as Hong Tao. Da Song is his home, and this place is the same. He does not want to sacrifice for no reason for the people on both sides.

"All of them are dead, only a few hundred thousand. Compared with tens of millions and tens of millions, tens of millions are not worth mentioning. We are not ordinary people. The reason why they listen to us is because we have the ability to make the right choice and we must also choose. Now you need to choose one." Hong Tao returned to pure rationality at this time, and there was no life in his mind but only numbers. It is enough to compare the two evils with the least.

"Give me 50,000 people... I'll try as much as possible." Luo Youde knew that Hong Tao was right, and now he had to choose one of two.

"I will give you 60,000 people, and those who have nothing to do with the construction of ships, cannons, and ammunition. No matter day or night, even if you put a knife, you have to build a knife! If you fail to complete the first quantitative whip or the second stolen, I will let Joseph supervise it personally, and Swan will be responsible for the safety of the construction site. If you slacken the work, all those who run away will be executed." Hong Tao no longer has time to catch more slaves. He plans to use the believers of the God Cult for a period of time first. In order to reduce casualties, he adopted the method of serving in batches.

"That will affect the grain harvest. Our grain storage is only enough for about half a year..." Luo Youde did not expect Hong Tao to be so cruel that even his future citizens would be sent to work hard labor.

"Enough people die, so there is no need to consume so much food..." But Hong Tao's answer squeezed out from his teeth made Luo Youde feel that he still underestimated this emperor, only more ruthless than the most ruthless!

The more concentrated the organization of power, the higher the efficiency. No matter whether it is right or wrong, millions of people are like one person, without discussion, no need to check and balance each other, nor do they need to discuss whether this decision is wrong or right. Sometimes even people can ignore their life and death, all because of a slogan, a reason, and an idea of ​​the people in power.

This is what the Kingdom of Mexica is like now. With Hong Tao’s order, Joseph took the sacrificial and missionaries to mobilize door-to-door, and forced the hard work to be God’s test, and the things that harm the country and the people were said to be practiced in the next life. Anyway, even the old men, old ladies, women and children recited scriptures to take over the hoe of their sons, husbands, and brothers, and took on the burden of life and work with pride, and then willingly sent the labor force of their family to a path of no return that would last forever.

"When will my mother be promoted to the position of supreme leader? It turns out that fooling a country is no more difficult than fooling a person. It's so boring!" Looking at these young and enthusiastic faces cheering from front of them, walking southwards, Hong Tao stood on the stone bridge in front of the Great Pyramid, holding a pure gold scepter in his hand, and wearing gold ornaments on his head and body. While accepting worship from believers like a little golden man, he remembered many things.

He seemed familiar to this matter. He hated such things at the beginning, but he didn't expect that he would be so neat now. Does it really mean that when he got to this position, he would really not even recognize him? If he had been tired of the Golden River Empire for more than ten years, and the Mexica Kingdom was not officially established, he was already interested in it. All this was disgusting.

But no matter how disgusting it is, it has to be done. This is even more disgusting. Joseph, Luo Youde and Swan were responsible for digging the canal. But Hong Tao was not idle either. He had to stare at Wen Xiaoqi and Charity to build warships. Three were built together, work day and night, and must be launched within two months. In this way, with the first two ships, the three ships that were launched after they left, seven Virginia-class ships can be used.

Five ships could have been built together, but Qi Zu's rear-loading guns were not so fast. He had never said that he would explode the warships before. He suddenly had to speed up the casting speed. No matter how hard he worked, he could only barely get the naval guns of three warships in two months. Each ship had to reduce the installation of two cannons and turn them into four cannons.
Chapter completed!