Chapter 2 Feeling at home
"Then... I'll follow you..." Bo Jiao was very smart. After staying with Hong Tao for so long, he had a deep understanding of the new sailing boat. A sailboat that is more than 10 meters long and a sailboat that is 30 meters long are not the same. Although they are all sailboats, the former can run around the sea in three or two people, while the latter requires a large team to drive. The difficulty is increased, so there will naturally be more things to learn. The more he knows, the more he feels that he has endless knowledge to learn.
"Ajiao, don't forget what I told you, sailing is not about playing, but about our future. Not only do you need to learn, but also teach your uncles, brothers, younger brothers and sisters. Only when everyone learns can we not be afraid of anyone. The most important thing on the sea is people, not boats. My uncle can't take you forever. Soon you have to lead a team alone. You have to have your own helper and your own sailor. Do you understand?" Hong Tao of course was willing to let Bojiao and Carl follow him all the time. Compared with a group of new sailors who don't know anything, they are too useful and can help him a lot. But he cannot keep the best people around him, which is contrary to his original intention. Cultivating them is to let them be another of his own. When he has ten, a hundred Ajiao and Carl, he is already the overlord of the ocean.
"You mean I'm asking me to choose the crew myself? I'll teach them as much as you took me?" Bo Jiao quickly understood Hong Tao's meaning. Sailing on the sea will maximize the understanding between people and make it easier to develop the same thinking pattern.
"Well, take them to the near-shore whaling first, and then slowly choose among them. When can you pick 30 people, you are qualified to command the big ship alone. Hehe, guess who came up with the idea of the guardhouse on the hill." Hong Tao kept holding a telescope and searching on both sides of the estuary. He wanted to find the person who discovered him just now. Until it was very close to the estuary, he found a wooden tree house on the hill north of the estuary. It was hidden among the trees. If there was no telescope, even if you passed by the mountain, you would not be able to find it.
"It's not that Cixi, he would do such a sneaky thing. The trees around the camp were almost filled with these things." Bo Jiao curled his lips. He didn't like Cixi very much because the slave was too shameless and too naughty, and he didn't look like a man at all. Although doing this was a good thing for the camp, from a personality perspective, Bo Jiao looked down on Cixi very much, and didn't understand why Hong Tao protected him so much and gave him special treatment. He was almost the same as the Dan family and natives in the camp.
"Child, you can't be a fully qualified captain just by learning how to sail. You have to strengthen it here. Understand everyone's ideas and try to understand their ideas, and then think about the problem from their perspective. You are a mature man. Crews and sailors are also human beings. If you spend a few months or even a year on the boat, whether you can play the greatest advantage of each of them is the key to whether your ship can play the greatest ability. But it doesn't matter. You are still young. When I was as old as you, I didn't know anything. Take your time, you are much happier than your uncle." Hong Tao patted Bo Jiao's head. Understanding people is a higher level of knowledge. At present, he will not require Bo Jiao to have this ability. Optical things are useless, and you have to think about them yourself. It takes a long time. If you didn't live in a different environment for three lifetimes, you wouldn't have these gains.
After more than two months, I returned to Jinhewan again, and it changed a lot. Not only did the size of the village expand a lot, but the area of rice fields has expanded a lot, and two simple water trucks were erected downstream of the residential area. Next to the water truck are two earth blast furnaces, and thick smoke is constantly coming out of the inside. Fortunately, there are woods as cover, otherwise you can see it from outside the estuary.
These two blast furnaces are more than 4 meters high, more than 2 meters thick, and cone-shaped. Hong Tao has never seen such blast furnaces. He has no research on metal smelting. Even if he knows some knowledge about this, he cannot use them. Those things were learned when he was in an internship in a modern steel mill. In this era, it is useless. Without various modern testing equipment and reagents, he can't even measure the sulfur content and carbon content of steel. It's useless to know anything. As for what kind of knowledge is known for the local steelmaking and ironmaking, isn't it nonsense? A college student in a modern city, who is going to learn the local steelmaking method? What's the use of learning? Which university professors can teach this thing? The question is how many professors, even technicians and engineers, are there any one who can do the local steelmaking method?
Don’t compare the early workers, peasants and soldiers college students with the current college students. Although the college students in that era are weaker in culture, their hands-on skills are stronger. Many people go to work first and then go to college. After having work experience, they study and talk about it directly on paper without understanding anything. There are two effects.
If he didn't know, Hong Tao wouldn't be in charge. He just drew a drawing of a waterwheel drive forging hammer for Qi Zu, but he didn't even give out the size, and there was no data on the thickness of the specific wood, so it could only be considered a concept. However, he obviously underestimated the wisdom of the ancients. All they lacked was concept, creativity and insight. In terms of hands-on ability, Hong Tao felt that he could not compare to. Even the young grandsons of the Wen family were better than him. They could find a piece of wood to carve anything you wanted, and there was no craftsmanship.
"See it. We just went out for a walk. When we came back, we had so many people welcomed us. Are you very excited? Feeling that you are a great hero? Don't worry too much. When you take your team out in a big boat and bring them your spoils and slaves, they will welcome you even more. At that time, you are the real man in their hearts, the real hero, just like when our family rushed to the sea, who caught the most fish." When two sailboats sailed into the river one after another, the north bank was already full of people. Farmers, loggers, and iron and copper smelting put down their work and ran to the river to wave to the sailboat. Even the slaves locked by iron chains couldn't help but cheer. I don't know why they were happy. Could it be that the demon Hong Tao, who came back to abuse them, were very excited?
"Hehehe..." Bo Jiao made Hong Tao feel attentive, and scratched his head embarrassedly, turning around as if he was avoiding this vicious uncle, but he had no place to hide, so he could only smile foolishly.
"Oh...my baby, do you miss me? Let me see if it's sunk, and if there's more things in my belly! Hahahaha..." As soon as the Predator landed, Hong Tao acted as a hooligan in front of hundreds of people. He jumped onto the dock, raised Bozhu, who was standing in front, then hugged him horizontally in front of his chest, and then buried his face on Bozhu's belly and rubbed it.
"Rong Wengweng, there are rice seeds and cotton seeds on the boat, and more than ten slaves. Let everyone unload the boat. I'll go home and have a sleep. If you have anything to do, he will remember it in the notebook." This is not the first time that Bo Zhu was intimate by Hong Tao in front of everyone, but he still was not very adaptable. He put his face on Hong Tao's chest and dared not show it. Hong Tao never put her down. He simply greeted the people on the dock and carried his wife home. He had been wandering on the sea for more than two months. Not only did he have to worry about the route and weather problems, but he also had to take care of those young people who went out of the sea for the first time. Sometimes he had to be a psychological counselor for them. Not only did he feel tired in body but also his heart was even more tired.
"It's good to come back! It's good to come back!" Old Man Rong did not blame Hong Tao, and looked at him holding Bo Zhu and ran away, then turned his head to look at Cixi behind him.
"The second team comes here to unload the ship! The third team goes to unload the people behind! Be careful, you dare to drop a seed and see if I won't kill you!" Cixi rushed out in an instant and started shouting at the top of her voice. His current Chinese is basically close to the level of the Dan family, and his pronunciation is even closer to Hong Tao. It is probably because she learned this on purpose.
Chapter completed!