"Lord Jiang, don't worry too much. The warships and cannons you built are not worse than those of Count Carl, and we have a lot more than him. Even if the emperor protects him, he will not be our opponent on the sea. As long as you catch him, the Carl Fort will fall into our hands. With this strong castle and the small shipyard in the bay below it, the Mediterranean will become the world of our fleet. Whether it is the imperial emperor, the Venetians, the Greeks, or the Saracens, you must surrender to your warships and cannons. Then we will have enough resources to build an expeditionary fleet, and then you will lead to the east to defeat what you call the Golden River Empire. The king and the pope will give you the best fiefdom and you can choose the future Count Jiang." The tall white man's expression was very relaxed, and his every move seemed very stylish.

"I can't refuse the fiefdom. It's more important to defeat the Jinhe Empire than any title. It would be better if I could capture their old emperor." The oriental man, known as Lord Jiang, seemed to have some personal grudges with the Jinhe Empire. When he talked about this topic, his eyes were not right.

"That's easier. Just kill Carl Fort, you can capture the Baron Jiang, and she is the mistress of the Eastern Emperor you mentioned. Sometimes the emperor will suddenly appear in Carl Fort to have a tryst with her. We just need to wait in Carl Fort, and the emperor will automatically come to the door. In fact, I think capturing the Baron Miss is much more important than capturing the emperor. This baron with the same surname as you is rich enough to rival a country. The most important thing is that she is very charming and has not been married. If anyone can marry her, he will immediately become the richest man in the world of Christ. Jiang, you are not married, don't you want to think about it? Age is not a problem, my wife is eleven years older than me. What's the matter? Her wealth can make your talents grow wings, in the future..." The Count looked at the enemy fleet that was fleeing north two or three kilometers away, and was in a very good mood and was already looking forward to the future.

"I'll lose my companion first, I'll command the fleet to pursue..." The man called Lord Jiang heard the count's words, although his fists were already clenched. He seemed to have no expression on his face. He didn't seem to like this topic. Before the count finished speaking, he bowed slightly and turned to walk towards the stern.

"Irrespectful barbarian! Miss Baron will not like him!" Seeing Lord Jiang walk away alone, a younger white nobleman next to him put down his telescope and muttered in a low voice.

"Joseph, don't be so narrow-minded. Jiang's talent is unmatched. Hanseatics need him, the kingdom needs him, and our family also needs him. You should study with him well. Don't worry about the Baron Miss. Neither the King nor the Pope would agree to marry an Oriental. He now has the honorary title of Lord, and he has no official fiefdom and title, so he can't be considered a noble. What are you worried about?" The Count frowned when he heard the words of the young noble, and did not echo his comments, but scolded the young noble with a serious expression.

"...Yes, my father, I must pay attention." It turned out that these two people were father and son. The young man seemed to be afraid of his father and did not even have the courage to defend himself.

"..." The count was even more disappointed when he saw his son's performance, but after all, he was a son, so he had to take care of both good and bad, and he couldn't get rid of him.

Although Hong Tao's telescope is larger and has a longer and clearer observation distance, it has not reached the point where he can see people's faces clearly a few kilometers away. Even if he sees it, he does not know this oriental man called Lord Jiang. Now he has no time to think about anything else. He is concentrating on commanding the fleet through the narrow waterway between the islands and sailing north from the south side of the Victory Islands.

The Victory Islands, which are later Azores, are not only the relay stations of the European continent, the African continent and the American continent, but also the dividing line between the North Atlantic currents and trade winds. This knowledge was not figured out by Hong Tao himself. It was continuously explored and summarized by seafarers, sailors and climatologists from various countries over the past few hundred years.

Why Hong Tao is so confident in the sea is because of these knowledge that others cannot know and cannot even study. These things are only unique in his head. If he wants others to know, others will know, but they don’t want others to know. If they cheat them ten or eight times, they can’t understand what is going on.

Now Hong Tao is going to use these ocean currents and trade winds to cheat people! In the sailing era, ship performance, sailor ability, power of artillery, and mastery of climate change jointly determine the outcome of a naval battle. If luck issues are not calculated, that thing is not a constant and cannot be counted.

Virginia-class has fast steering, superior performance in headwind and crosswinds, and strong gun shooting distance and power, but in tailwinds, the advantages will be discounted. Hong Tao plans to gather all three elements to make his own advantages more obvious. Since he is bullying, don’t let the other party have a chance to fight back. It’s best not to even touch his own ship hair. Don’t cause a slight loss to yourself and win. Hong Tao will be comfortable in fighting like this. It’s not a skill to fight head-on. Unless he is desperate, Hong Tao usually lets others do this kind of work, and he will die of fellow Taoists.

After passing through the archipelago and entering the northern waters, you don’t have to deliberately feel the wind direction. Just by experiencing the fluctuations of the hull, you can feel the water flow changes. At this time, the hull will involuntarily tilt eastward. If all the sails fall down, the ship will slowly float westward. The wind direction is just the opposite. The southwest wind is blowing on the north side of the archipelago, and follow this wind energy and return to the Portuguese coast.

"The left rudder twenty, collect the sails on the bow of the ship and enter the direction of the wind." Hong Tao would not let the pursuers enter the wind again. He had to torture the sailors on the other side of the ship first, and exhaust them half-tired. In order to give the enemy the courage to catch up, his fleet had to slow down, but he could not tact on the stern sail so that the enemy could see it.

"Your new warship is good everywhere, but there is no place on the deck that can hide from the wind and waves." At this time, Carl couldn't sit still. The bow of the ship would split a passage from the middle of the surge. In addition, the Virginia-class freeboard was very low, and the big waves would sweep from the bow to the stern. His whole body was soaked, and the cigar was extinguished. He couldn't sit on the deck and received the baptism of the waves.

"So I said just now that you have fallen, no longer Karl who was chasing whales with me on windsurfing and chasing whales twenty years ago, but King Karl, how could the king be beaten by the waves?" Hong Tao had no good words, and every sentence was thorny, specifically pricking other people's weaknesses.

"That was also caused by you! If I were not allowed to station in Carl Fort, maybe I would be the commander of the Imperial Navy or the Minister of National Defense now!" Carl was not outdone, and used his own way to cure him, pointing the finger at Hong Tao.

"Hahaha... what's the point of telling me! Didn't Metini tell you that Kong Pei, Bo Jiao, and Wen Nan were all driven out of the Aviation School by the little boys from the Aviation School. Lao Mai, the largest overseas governor of the empire, can only pretend to be sick and retire. Can you still be the Minister of National Defense? They still look similar to me. Do you think you, a living red beard, can gain power in the Jinhe Kingdom? Are you blind or blind?" Hong Tao must not take the blame, otherwise Carl will depend on him for the rest of his life.

"How could this happen? Didn't you say that your rules are fair, that those who are capable are incompetent, and those who are incompetent are inferior. Kong Pei, Bojiao, Wen Nan, and Lao Mai are all heroes of the empire. You can't throw them away after you use it!" Carl seemed to have no idea about the details of the Jinhe Empire, and probably Matini didn't tell him in detail.

"This is fair! You can't say that you made meritorious service for the empire twenty years ago, and you still have to occupy a high position twenty years later! Take you as an example. Twenty years ago, you could chase five big cannibal boats with one ship. Twenty years later, more than a dozen ships beat you four ships to the point of pissing. What does this mean? This means that you have not kept up with the development of the times and lack of ability. If you are not enough, you should step down and give up your position and let those with sufficient ability come up and continue to serve the country. The country is not a fixed person or a few people, it is everyone's. The people's eyes are bright, and who has the ability to live a good life, they all know in their hearts that this is the ability to go up and the incompetent ones?" When talking to Hong Tao, Carl called his cousin, Louis IX, Henry III, and the Pope, but he was not a child.

"...then you can't be so ruthless..." Carl always felt that Hong Tao was wrong, but he couldn't find anything wrong.

"Don't talk about feelings with the country, that's a matter between people. Governing the country's position is just a job. If my captain's ability is insufficient, I immediately withdrew him and replaced others, because his every move involves the lives of the whole ship. The same is true for the country. You can't say that you have a good relationship with me, so I will let you occupy the pit and not poop. It's not me or you, it's the country! The country is over, can you and I feel comfortable? The empire did not treat these old ministers badly. They can enjoy government subsidies and also arranged relatively easy positions for retirement. As for whether you are willing to go or not, it is your own problem. I think it's fair." The little bit of the problems that Carl finally found made Hong Tao feel unscrupulous.

"Okay, if you say fair, just be fair. Hong Jinhe is like you, is a cold-blooded guy!" Carl really couldn't find any problem, so he had to launch a personal attack.

"Cold-blooded? Return Mia Fortress to me, and find a cold-blooded person for me and let him share a piece of territory! I've been busy for a long time, but no one can recite it and get scolded!" The personal attack was also declared to be a failure. Carl definitely didn't want to return Mia Fortress to Hong Tao.
Chapter completed!