On the banks of the Hooghly River, the majestic Fort William overlooks the bay, and all kinds of sailboats shuttle back and forth on the riverbank.

Since 1757 Robert . In addition to Clevour's recapture of the city, Kolkata began to develop rapidly.

It has gone from being a town full of swamps and bushes to a huge new city, with a permanent population of 150,000 according to British Rao!

Although it could not be compared to China at the same time, it was large and wealthy as a colonial city controlled by the British.

Jenna accompanied Ye Kai to wander around along the river, Huang Ruqiong and Li Youwei followed behind them, and Ye Ming and He Yuer went to the dock to arrange for others to go ashore to rest.

As for Peter, he and Anna were already on a ship to govern the country, and Peter hoped that the French governor would allow him to recruit some Tamil mercenaries on his return trip.

These natives on the southeast coast of the Indian continent still have some combat effectiveness, at least much stronger than those third brothers in the Henghe River Basin, and they are definitely not five scumbags, which may be equal to about six or seven.

But they have an advantage, that is, they have been fighting with the French for a long time, and they are more familiar with the French way of fighting, which is a good addition to the French mercenaries.

"Oh my, I never thought I'd be able to hold a prince in my hands, he's so cute!"

Jenna smiled and teased Ruan Fujing who was holding in her hand, this fart kid has been getting together with his mother less recently, and he is a little lacking in maternal love, so even if Jenna's appearance is obviously very different from his mother, the guy still snuggles up to Jenna affectionately, and even Ye Kai can't pick it up.

"There's nothing unusual about a prince like that, if you want, there are so many princes on the Indian continent that I think you can have a dozen princes of your own!" Ye Kai teased Jenna with his words.

"Hahaha!" Jenna let out an exaggerated laugh, "Zinedin, your princes, they don't even use knives and forks to eat, but use their hands like macaques, all of them are ignorant and savage.

Their luxurious life is probably far inferior to that of His Majesty George III, but the people under their rule are living in dire straits, and many people do not have a full meal a month.

Those with ulterior motives, my father was a brutal colonizer and slave owner, but in reality, the low-caste commoners under my father's rule were far better off than people in other places! ”

"This is true, but the political struggle has little to do with the facts, only with interests, Jenna, I have to, your father, Mr. Hastings, is very naïve in politics, and the conspiracy behind this rumor against him is beyond your imagination."

Ye Kai squatted to the river, picked up the clear river water and washed his hands, the current Ganges River basin is not as many people as in later generations, and the pollution is far less serious than in later generations, now India is still a purely agricultural country, as a tributary of the Ganges, the Hooghly River water is very clean, and it can even be drunk directly.

Jenna handed Ruan Fujing in her hand to the Indian maid behind her, and she also squatted down to stir the cool river water.

"Zinedin, how do you know this? Are you really an astrologer, and does the mysterious East really have such a magical profession?

In fact, what makes me even more strange is, why do you feel that you are no different from me even though you are an Oriental? Sometimes I can't even feel the color of your skin, as if you're my erudite senior at Westminster College! ”

"That senior must be a handsome guy with a good demeanor, are you having a crush on him?" Ye Kai laughed narrowly.

Jenna didn't blush as she imagined, but showed a hint of sadness on her face.

"yes, but it's not a crush, he's my fiancé, and we're going to get married this year."

"And the last?"

"Finally!" Jenna took a deep breath, "He ended up dying in Yorktown, Charles. On the eve of General Cornwallis's surrender with more than 7,000 British soldiers, Wells was ready to break out with some officers who were ashamed to surrender, but were discovered by the French sentries, and they died together in chaotic hand-to-hand combat! ”

"I'm sorry, Jenna, I..!" Ye Kai looked apologetic.

"It's nothing, I've already accepted this fact, don't you wonder why my father used Lord North as a backer, but he is not very familiar with Lord North? Because it was my idea to marry Lord North, Anne. Mrs. Speke is Wells' aunt! ”

Jenna shook her head suddenly, "It's still you, Zinedin, are you really an astrologer?" Is there a way you can help my father? ”

Ye Kaileng paused for a second, and then nodded, he wasn't completely lying, to some extent, a traverser was no different from a prophet who could predict the future, but he still didn't want to mythologize himself too much.

"Yes! You can think of me as a mystical astrologer who can predict a certain future, but I will tell you that this ability to predict is not so mysterious, it has two aspects.

One is the ability to analyze and reason about the future through various clues and a large amount of data, which I call big data inference.

There is also an ancient Chinese physiognomy, have you ever heard of the Heluo Book and the Book of Changes? These are the mysterious knowledge that our nation has inherited for thousands of years, and it can predict the fate of a Rao through his appearance, personality, way of doing things, and even his position and friends around him. ”

"Big... Big data? Holo Books? Jenna tilted her head in confusion, "This phrase is so strange, did you create it yourself?" Or is it the mystical Seris language?

But I've also been in contact with a lot of Qing people, and they have never shown any difference, right? Are there many people in Qingguo who have magical abilities like you? ”

"I'm the last one, such a magical ability is definitely not something that everyone can learn, and not everyone can learn it, I'm the last person in our family who has a special ability!

And Jenna, please don't call me a Qingguo person, I have nothing to do with Qingguo! Ye Kai pointed to his head and corrected Jenna's method.

"Why? Although you don't have braids, you are a Qing person, in the South China Sea and the Indochina Peninsula, everyone calls you Qing people! ”

"Because the people of the same race on that continent who look like me have their own names, we never call ourselves Qing people, we only call ourselves Han people.

This is a great nation with a 5,000-year-old heritage, and the rulers of the Qing Kingdom are only descendants of the rebellious barbarians from the northeast of the mainland, they are the destroyers and tramplers of civilization, and they are the representatives of barbarism! ”

"I see, you must be from the Ming Kingdom, I have read the account about the Ming Kingdom, the famous Matthew. Richie's Chinese NotesMatteo Ricci's Chinese Notes. ”

At this point, Jenna cleared her throat, stood straight with her chest up, and then spoke Chinese in a round voice.

"Flat sand and geese!"

Flat sand and geese? Ye Kai's face was confused, but he suddenly remembered that the cover of Matteo Ricci's Chinese Notes published in the seventeenth century had these four Chinese characters, Pingsha Falling Goose.

"How? Is my label not standard? Jenna was like a student waiting for the teacher to announce the results.

But.... Ye Kai couldn't help but scratch his head, the pronunciation of these four words of Jenna carried a feeling of Jianghuai region, and he guessed that it was likely to be Hongwu Zhengyun.

And Young Master Ye, who is a Hakka family in Guangdong in this life and a native of Shancheng in his last life, he doesn't know if Jenna's pronunciation is standard, he can hear the accent in the Jianghuai area, he can be regarded as well-informed.

However, it was too embarrassing to just claim to be a remnant of the Ming Dynasty, and it would be too embarrassing to turn his head and not understand the official words of the Ming Dynasty, so Ye Kai nodded with a serious face, "Very standard, more standard than mine!" ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance, and a lobster soldier in military uniform galloped towards them on horseback.

"Sister Jenna, the Governor has ordered you to take Mr. Zinedin to the Governor's office immediately!"

Ye Kai raised his eyebrows, and finally waited, Warren. Hastings is in such a hurry, there must be news from Europe!