Chapter 158
"My father-in-law, don't you want to take the fleet back to the empire?" Seeing Hong Tao holding Hong Yu's hand and laughing to inspect the prisoner-of-war camp, Luo Meizhou fell into deep thought.? The conversation between Hong Tao and Wu Juntou just now was too informative. Even though he was so smart, he couldn't tell the specific meaning, so he had to chase him and ask the initiator.
"Don't ask around, you will understand when you see your father. Cixi said you have many ideas and a good brain, so I'll give you a chance to practice. Guess it hard. If you guess the specific answer, I will reward you with a chance to have a temper with my daughter, and I won't care if you scold me." Hong Tao's mood suddenly improved, not only because he saw his daughter and son-in-law, but also because of a sentence from Wu Juntou just now, he had a better plan to save the Song Dynasty. When he was in a good mood, others would definitely be unlucky, it depends on who caught up. Now it's Luo Meizhou, and it just happened to be closest.
"Dad... I hate it. You haven't scolded me before, why did you let him scold me?" Hong Yu stopped doing it, so how could his own father use his daughter as a bet?
"Hehehe... Do you think you can guess what your father is thinking if you are a person? Look, this stupid boy has broken his head and can't guess what your father thinks. He can't see this opportunity!" Hong Tao did not carry Luo Meizhou on his back at all, and he planned to plot against his son-in-law with his daughter.
"Hahahaha... Dad, you are the smartest! Humph, go! If you want to go there, don't eavesdrop on me and my dad!" Hong Yu felt that his dad was right. Luo Meizhou was a fool and also suited her vanity, and she smiled so hard that she leaned back and forth.
"A pair of crazy!" Luo Meizhou was not easy to deal with a Hong Yu. It was not that he was not as smart as Hong Yu, but that he gave in to Hong Yu. But now he added another Hong Tao, and he really couldn't fight. His mind was almost broken, and he couldn't figure out how Hong Yu could save the Song Dynasty.
It is impossible to go into full war with the Jinhe Empire, and he is very sure of this. Hong Tao has been protecting the Song Dynasty, but he will never fight for the Song Dynasty and the Jinhe Empire. But if the Jinhe Empire invades the Song Dynasty, how can he save the Song Dynasty?
There were more than a thousand people in the prisoner-of-war camp at the Lieback Islands supply station, and the rest had been transported away by the oil fleet. Luo Meizhou came this time not only with a USS America, but with a small fleet of more than a thousand people from the Metini family. Those ships were merchant ships borrowed by Cixi and could not stay for a long time, so he put the people here and returned to the flight.
Cimei and Weng Ya and her children thought the conditions were too difficult. The new route map given to them by Matini and their own kingdom made them both sting their hearts. So they forced Carl to take out the oil fleet, and put the Matini tribesmen and some of the prisoners to go to Sun City to enjoy their appetite. Another thing is Cimei was afraid of seeing Hong Tao, so the governor was beaten up and had no shame to see Hong Tao, so they simply hid first. If they could hide for a day, they would be considered as if they could hide for a day. The King of Hell was so comfortable that they would be counted for a while.
Carl was also willing to go for him with compassion. He was now unable to clean his shit. Hong Tao fought happily, but he threw it to him and Jiang Zhuyi. Jiang Zhuyi scratched his head a little about this issue, and asked her to cheat people in business. She believed that she was the second in the world, and Hong Tao was the first, but she was really inexperienced in this national confrontation. Frederick II had this ability, but he had a bad reputation, especially with the King of France and the Church, who were almost mortal enemies. It would be better if he didn't come forward, but he would have to fight as soon as he came forward, and he had no talks.
At this time, Wen Nan came, and Carl had found a great savior. Who is Wen Nan? The Foreign Minister of the Jinhe Empire is specialized in this kind of mixed work. He meets either the prime minister or the emperor all day long, and he talks nonsense and clichés, but he doesn't have a few truths to deceive people to death. No, Wen Nan is not lying, he is lying to the government, other countries' governments.
Moreover, Wen Nan is not a stranger in Europe. He gave lectures at the University of Naples and set off an oriental cultural trend. Even the two archbishops in the cardinals discussed religious issues between the East and the West with him. He came forward to help him deal with kings, lords, archbishops, etc., and the effect was definitely better than that of himself, a purely amateur politician. Even if he was a behind-the-scenes staff member, he could help him identify the other party’s true intentions and arrange some ambiguous official clichés.
The captured nobles had signed a contract and followed Carl back to Carl Fort and lived comfortably in a noble prisoner of war. When the family sent the ransom, they would regain their freedom and return to the territory as if they were fine. If they wanted to take revenge, they had to wait until the famine borrowed from the ransom was paid off before they could talk.
This is the European rule of war. Noble prisoners of war and civilian prisoners of war are not treated the same as those of civilian prisoners of war. Aristocrats are still nobles. Even the lives of a noble in Carl Fort are more comfortable than in their castles. There is no such thing as being a guest. Civilian prisoners of war are miserable. Those who deserve to be killed are killed, those who should be sold are sold, and those who should be enslaved will not be less. Except for special circumstances, no one will pay the ransom for them, and the ending is very miserable.
"Brother Bo Jiao also wants to come. He doesn't like being the mayor of Mayigang, and he also wants to fight with you on the warships. But he is embarrassed to see you, and my mother and my uncle also disagree. He said that it would be embarrassing to have an unpropossessed emperor at home, and he can't have another embarrassing prime minister." Hong Yu is a little spy and told Hong Tao about everything.
"Girl, once a person reaches a certain height, he will be unable to help himself. In fact, if your brother Bo Jiao really wants to come to me, no one can stop him. Your mother and your uncle are just his excuses. He might be thinking about how to turn defeat into victory in the next election. It's your father and me who blame you for turning a good person into a politician." Hong Tao felt like Mingjing about what Hong Yu said. The Bo family was unwilling to leave, which is certain, but Bo Zhu, Bo Xiaoer and Bo Xiaosan, could not stop Bo Jiao who had really made up his mind.
Although Bo Jiao is not the Prime Minister, he has been in charge of the country for nine years and is still a royalist party. Even the opposition party will not have too little power. It is not that he cannot leave, but that he does not want to leave, or is reluctant to leave. With his age, qualifications, background, next government elections, the main role, why do you have to follow him around? King? Which king has more power than the Prime Minister of the Jinhe Empire? Even if he gives the Emperor of Song Dynasty to Bo Jiao, he will not want it.
People who have never touched the power cannot understand its magicality. They always think that those politicians have been in their minds, why do they rather die than let go if they are attached to power, and they have caused many tragedies. But as long as they taste the taste of power, the higher the position, the harder they are to let go. Like drugs, they are things that can make people unable to extricate themselves. Most people cannot resist its temptation. Hong Tao is not able to resist, but his thoughts are not in this world at all, so there is no temptation or resistance, so that they can stay out of it.
"Even Brother Bo Jiao has changed... No wonder Jinhe has changed. He rarely talks to me and Geya now. Even if he sees him, he still waits for us to say hello to him first. I ignore him. Every time my mother says me, I don't salute him. America is a traitor, always pretending to be polite, but in fact he doesn't like my brother behind his back." When he talks about Bo Jiao, he naturally brought out Hong Jinhe.
"What about you? Do you like Jinhe or not? What's your relationship with you?" Hong Tao hasn't seen Hong Jinhe for a long time. He is not clear about what his current state is. He can just understand it through his daughter.
"I used to be successful, but now he is getting more and more annoying. He makes small moves behind his back all day long. It is dangerous to do it like a sinister person and does not conform to the royal identity. I told my mother, but she even scolded me, saying that I could find a job in the government steadily, and that America is not promising. After so many years of graduation, I have no one or two positions." Hong Yu is straightforward and will not say beautiful words around the bush, let alone it be in front of his father.
"Oh... he shouldn't have succeeded to the throne too early. He originally wanted him to see more things that he couldn't learn in the textbooks in schools, but he ignored the problems of the people around him. He was not afraid of no good things, but he was afraid of no good people!" After hearing Hong Yu's words, Hong Tao was completely discouraged. Even Luo Meizhou did the tricks that Hong Jinhe did, so he didn't hide them from them, so he still had no secrets. Although Hong Tao didn't know what he and Wen Hao were doing, you must do such things that were behind people's backs, and you must do very secrets. No one except the person involved, otherwise the success rate would be extremely low.
The news that Hong Tao returned to the Lieward Islands followed the Americas on the same day. Luo Meizhou and three sailors drove the Americas away from the Lieward Islands and drove northward. He was ordered by his father-in-law to go to Carl Fort to inform Carl that Jiang Zhuyi and Wennan were back for a meeting. If possible, Hong Tao also wanted to invite Frederick II to come to the Lieward Islands together. This post-war problem would not be missing.
If it was just sailing, the Americans were much faster than the Virginia class. It was designed for ocean-high height. The hull was light and the push-to-weight ratio was very large. It could easily run out of fifteen knots without too strong wind. It took only eight days for more than 5,000 kilometers of round-trip sea routes. Of course, such a fast sailboat is not a professional captain or sailor. Moreover, this kind of ship can only be used as an expedition ship, and cannot be used as a warship or a cargo ship, and even a communication ship is not suitable, because the requirements for the captain and sailor are too high. When the Americans approached the dock, Wennan and Frederi II were carried down. Jiang Zhuyi held back and did not fall, and his face was pale, so Carl could still walk normally.
Chapter completed!