According to Hong Tao's estimate, if you don't encounter any extreme weather in the middle, the average speed of the Jinhe can reach 11 knots, and it's okay to run 500 kilometers a day. If you make a margin of 50%, you can arrive in twenty days. The journey back is slightly slower, after all, it's side windy, and you will be rich in that month and a half. In this case, the journey back and forth is about 60 to 70 days, and the remaining two months are spent exploring on the American continent.

Is it enough to explore the Americas in two months? There is a question about this sentence. If you understand it literally, it is definitely not enough. Not to mention two months, even if you give Hong Tao two years, it is still not enough. Without the help of modern transportation such as road networks, railway networks and cars and trains, it will probably take several years to go from southern Chile to Canada by relying on horses alone, and you may not be able to arrive alive, let alone explore.

But Hong Tao did not intend to explore all America, and even North America and South America were not planned to go. The place he was going to is Central America, which is the western part of the Gulf of Mexico, and later generations of central and southern Mexico. He only explored this plain area of ​​less than a thousand kilometers along the coastline. Hong Tao felt that two months was enough, and he might be rich. Because he had a goal to explore, as long as he found the things he was looking for, he could return immediately, and even if he only found the same one would not lose.

Tobacco, potatoes, corn, these three crops are just a big profit! Rubber trees, peppers, cocoa, coffee, tomatoes, and quinine can be found, and they are all good potential stocks.

These are all things that Hong Tao could remember. They are native to the Americas, mainly cash crops and medicines in Central and South America. Among them, what he wanted most was not potatoes, corn, or quinine, but tobacco.

Hong Tao was a cigarette ghost in his previous life and his previous life, and he was not very addicted to smoking. A box of cigarettes or three cigars a day was enough. He didn't want to quit in this life. But reality made him passively quit smoking. Because he couldn't find tobacco at all, let alone smoke. A few years ago, he heard that Hainanese people also smoked, so he urged Langya to return to Hainan Island to get some for himself, and he threw it away after just one sip. This is not tobacco, but dried and crushed mint leaves, and there are other Chinese herbs and other things in it. The taste is far from tobacco.

Tobacco is produced in Central America, Hong Tao knew that. But after enduring for more than ten years, he didn't have the nerve to run so far to find it. The main reason was that he was not embarrassed to be embarrassed, but he didn't make any effort. A philosopher once said that time is like a ditch, and it can be squeezed a little! This sentence is indeed very philosophical. This time, when Carl squeezes like this, Hong Tao felt that he was really a bit of a ditch.

In fact, he couldn't help but smoke. He didn't smoke for ten years, but he was also jumping around. He looked for tobacco not only for himself, but also for hundreds of millions of smokers around the world. Anyway, this thing will not disappear because he didn't look for it. So why not let yourself use it to benefit first?

When it comes to saying tobacco can benefit the people, many people who don’t smoke will definitely sneer at it! This thing is a poison. It is a harm to people. How can it benefit the people?

How to say, the reason why the world does not issue explicit regulations prohibit smoking is not that there are too many people who smoke, and governments cannot ban it, but that they do not want to ban it at all. Why? Because the tobacco industry is a very large tax for many countries. To put it bluntly, it is money. Governments of various countries can tolerate limited poisoning in exchange for greater benefits. Growing tobacco can benefit many farmers, making cigarettes can allow many workers to support their families, and selling tobacco can allow more people to earn income. Once this thing is banned, what are these people doing?

From an economic perspective, tobacco is one of the few good things, and it is a killer for making money! For hundreds of years since the discovery of tobacco, it has been a big tax maker and its customers are all over the world. Just plant it. Anyway, according to the level of agricultural production in the medieval era, it is far from meeting the demand. It can be sold as much as you want, and it is not sold at a low price. It must be huge profits!

Compared with potatoes and corn, Hong Tao believes that tobacco is a real agricultural killer. As long as it is good at using it, the economic benefits it generates will far exceed those of potatoes and corn in the next few hundred years. It is cost-effective to use the money it earns to buy food or directly exchange for food. Of course, the killer must be put into the hands of people who can play with it. If someone who doesn't understand can play with it, it won't hurt others and will kill yourself first.

Then why did Hong Tao choose to go to Mexico in Central America to find these things? It is said that these crops have more opportunities in South America. Most of their origins are from South American generation, such as Peru, Ecuador, Brazil and other places.

Hong Tao's choice was carefully considered, and the first thing was a geographical issue. Ecuador and Peru were all on the west coast of South America. They could not reach directly from Europe by boat, and they had to hike ashore. Do you ask Hong Tao, a guy who cherishes his life, to hike through the tropical jungle? Even if you produce money trees there, plant them in the field and directly produce gold ingots, he would not go there. If you have life, you have to spend your life to make it fun.

Brazil cannot go even more. Before the colonization of Spain, Portugal, and French, it was full of tropical rainforests and uncivilized local natives. Hong Tao did not have time to spend hundreds of decades to assimilate them. Mexico is different. It is the hometown of the Mayans. Although the Mayans are still indigenous in the eyes of modern people, they were already very envious in comparison with the development level at that time. Hong Tao believed that it would be much easier to interact with the civilized people, at least they would not take the big stick to rush up and kill you because they didn't like you.

The second is the question of how much information is. Hong Tao spent his last life in Central America, and Belize was next to Mexico. He almost built a small country to know a little about the local culture. This area is the birthplace of the Mayans. It is said that they had started planting crops on this land in BC. And as a branch of the Indians, they had dated Indian tribes in North America, South America, and Central America, so they could not even exchange some crops. Later Belize did plant corn, and the Mayan Corn Festival, to commemorate the Mayan ancestors planted corn.

Finally, this area is small and is all relying on the coastline, so it is easier to explore by boat. If you want Hong Tao and Carl to take a hundred people to the North American continent, it is the same as throwing a handful of sand into the sea. Whether you can encounter Indian tribes in two months is a problem.

To sum up, Hong Tao feels that it is safest to go to the East Coast of Mexico and has the greatest chance of success!

"How big is that continent?" Carl didn't know what Hong Tao was thinking. He naively thought that Hong Tao was going to the American continent just to take him out for adventure and make him happy. He was full of gratitude and never mentioned the matter of giving up. But his mouth was not idle, and there were countless problems to torture Hong Tao every day. There was no way, I was too curious. There were many countries in the East, and the Romans knew it at that time, and there were many legends. This was not surprising. Although the Europeans in the south of the African continent did not know how big it was, they had known about Africa for a long time, and there were also Saracens to explore it. Only the America that Hong Tao mentioned was Carl, who had never heard of. If it wasn't strange, it would be inappropriate.

"It's about the same size as the whole of Italy... there are many small islands around, just like Corsica and Sardinia." Hong Tao was lying to whom he was lying. Now he doubted whether he would tell the truth. In order not to let others understand the real situation in America too early, he made up a lie casually.

"Is there anyone above?" Carl believed it, and it would be impossible not to believe it. No one except Hong Tao knew about it.

"Yes! There is also a country..." Hong Tao did not deceive Carl this time. Originally, the Mayans established a country very early.

"What do they look like?" Carl has become a curious baby, biting his fingernail, with only two words in his eyes: Curious!

"Black hair, dark eyes, brown skin... Actually, I have never seen them before. I have only seen their portraits." Hong Tao also wrote two words in his eyes: I'm sorry!

"Can we understand what they say? Will we fight with us like the Javanese?" Carl may not have seen the words in Hong Tao's eyes, or pretended not to see them, and while speaking, he pointed to the breathable slave soldiers on the nailboard.

"I probably don't understand... I think, no matter whether they are friendly to us or not, they still have to have necessary force. This is called reliance. We did not want to fight in the past, and we didn't plan to steal their territory. We just left just by looking at it. It shouldn't arouse their hatred, right?" Carl's question was really at a critical moment, and Hong Tao was also thinking about how to get along with the Indians. If you watch it from the movie, the Indians in the United States seem to be gentle and cruel, and whether they can be peaceful depends on luck. If you recall from historical documents, the Indians don't seem to be very combative. As long as you don't violate their interests, they are also happy to contact other ethnic groups. After the new immigrants on Mayflower landed on the North American continent, weren't it the Indians who taught them to grow corn? Otherwise, they would have frozen to death and starved to death, and there was a big f*ck.
Chapter completed!