Chapter XXXIV: Reconciliation
A Chinese-style table of eight immortals, the table is full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, Cantonese-style barbecued pork, white chopped chicken, steamed East Star Grouper, and several light stir-fries, all kinds of light stir-fry, all kinds of food fill the whole table, the wine is also the Jiannan Roast Spring transported from the mainland, this kind of famous wine in Shu Province is worth thousands of gold after thousands of miles of transportation!
Ye Kai and his father Ye Fulai sat opposite each other, this big table of dishes, except for his father and son, there was no one else!
Ye Fulai gritted his teeth and swallowed a small sip of wine, and sighed with emotion in his heart, this was almost the first time after Ye Kai's mother died, Ye Kai sat with him without resentment in his eyes!
"Do you really want to marry a Vietnamese woman? Don't look at what kind of princess she is, it's hard to say whether there is any such a princess in Guangnan, and what is so rare about such a small princess! β
Ye Fulai took another bite of food, he came this time mainly to see what happened to Ye Kai in Bangkok, if Ye Kai was fine, preventing Ye Kai from marrying a Guangnan woman was the most important thing for him this trip!
Nanyang Chinese, marrying a Nyonya is a last resort, his son is good, just go directly to marry an indigenous woman!
"I really want to marry!" Ye Kai replied lightly, although he was not the original Ye Kai, he could let go of his heart knot and communicate with Ye Fulai, but he still felt a little awkward.
However, he thought that Li Lanxiu, who was in the sky, would definitely like to see her husband reconcile with her son, she felt sorry for herself, and she didn't hate Ye Fulai much!
In this day and age, it is not at all uncommon for a powerful man to have several women, if not, then it is unusual!
And Ruan's Yuwan, Ye Kai also has to marry, if Ye Fulai can come a few days earlier, Ye Kai has not experienced being forcibly 'fed SHI' by Peter, maybe he doesn't necessarily have to marry Ruan's Yuwan!
But the insults have been suffered, and the future plans have been made, and if you don't marry, then isn't your insult in vain?
Doesn't this mean that you are all from the palace, and suddenly you don't want to practice the Sunflower Treasure Book? No one will do it!
"Why? Ruan Phuc Anh is now so down, what benefits can you get by marrying his sister? Besides, you also had a marriage contract, although you didn't hire anything or anything, but it was also orally set by the elders! β
Ye Fulai still couldn't understand Ye Kai's thoughts, he thought that Ye Kai was going to the identity of the Ruan family's Yuwan Princess Quang Nam!
"It is precisely because Ruan Phuc Anh is very depressed now that I want to marry his sister, what is the meaning of icing on the cake, if you want to do it, you will do charcoal in the snow! As for the marriage contract, since it is only verbal, my father will help me cancel it when I go back! β
Ye Kai said lightly, his marriage contract is estimated to be married to a family similar to his mother Li Lanxiu, maybe it is the cousin of the Li family or something, and people may not be willing to marry Nanyang, anyway, he has never heard Ye Fulai mention any marriage contract before!
"Charcoal in the snow? Do you think Nguyen Phuc Anh can still fight back to Quang Nam? Ye Fulai paused for a moment, and did not continue to worry about the marriage contract, because it was indeed just a few words between the elders, but Ye Kai's opinion on Ruan Fuying made Ye Fulai a little puzzled.
From Ye Fu's point of view, the current Ruan Phuc Ying's market has reached the freezing point, his supporters in Quang Nam have died, and the rest have been tossed back and forth several times, and they don't dare to support him casually anymore.
If before the First World War two months ago, Nguyen Phuc Anh still had millions of people in Quang Nam, now Nguyen Phuc Anh is only left in the coastal areas of Ha Tien Town and Zhenjiang Town, as well as the hundreds of thousands of people who fled to Long Qiu with him!
Among them, there will be no more than fifty, and there are no more than 10,000 people with armor, just this bit of strength, it is only a few points stronger than the Ye family, what is the point of sending charcoal in the snow? How much profit can you get?
"If I want to say that he can not only fight back to Quang Nam, but also the whole of Annam, do you believe it?" Ye Kai shook his head and asked his father Ye Fulai solemnly!
"The whole of Annan?" Ye Phuc Lai muttered, looking at his son's confident appearance and fell into deep thought, this year, when Ruan Phuc Anh was violently beaten by Nguyen Hue in Xishan, the army sent by King Rama I of Siam to help was also defeated, and less than 5,000 people from 20,000 ran back to Siam.
You must know that the 20,000 army led by Rama I's nephew Teparilla, but the elite army of the Siamese people, was pressed to the ground by Nguyen Hue's 7,000 people and rubbed repeatedly, which shows the strength of the Xishan army!
At this point, the Siamese people are afraid of Nguyen Hue when they mention Xishan, and without the help of the Siamese people, Ye Phuc Lai really can't think of what else Nguyen Phuc Anh can rely on to restore the country, let alone fight the entire Annam, unless...
"You're from France?" Ye Fulai bared his teeth, these white fans do have some strength, but is France too far away?
It is said that it is more than 100,000 miles to the west, and it will take a year to get there on the road alone, and Ye Fu looked at Ye Kai and said: "I heard that the French army is not very strong, and they are bullied by the Britons in Tianzhu, and they are far away, can Ruan Fuying rely on them to restore the country?"
Even now there are a lot of French people around Ruan Fuying, I don't see how powerful they are! β
Ye Kai glanced at Ye Fulai in surprise, this old fat man is quite knowledgeable, and he even knows about the French being beaten by the British in India, but compared to Ye Kai's hundreds of years of knowledge, his vision is too limited!
"The French were beaten by the Britons in Tianzhu, but this does not mean that the French are weak, in fact, because the Britons are too strong!
I just went to see the French people around Ruan Fu Ying, those who are not real French soldiers at all, but some veterans who can't get along in Europa, and because they were defeated too badly in Tianzhu, they will support Ruan Fu Ying even more, otherwise how could the French gain a foothold in the Far East? β
Gee! At this time, France was not able to take it out casually and insult twice, the emperor had not graduated from the military academy, counting forward, the Prince of CondΓ©, the Duke of Villars, and Marshal Vauban could be described as famous generals, at this time, the French's 'anger' had not yet been vented, and they were still running towards the road of European leaders and world hegemons!
"According to my estimates, if you can have a hundred or so French officers as the backbone, recruit a few hundred veterans, and train twenty or thirty thousand new troops with Western law, the Xishan Dynasty is not a concern at all, you should know the strength of the Europa army!"
Listening to Ye Kai's words, Ye Fulai nodded approvingly, he had seen how the Britons knocked the Sultan of Johor to the ground, just relying on hundreds of red-clothed British soldiers, the corpses of more than five or six thousand elite soldiers of the Sultan of Johor were all over the field, and it is said that the British soldiers died no more than thirty in the end!
"So! Father, I decided to go to France, and if anyone here in the South Seas is most familiar with France, it must be me, and as soon as I get to France, I will definitely be able to ask for help from His Majesty Louis XVI!
But this trip must also be difficult, so not only do I have to marry Nguyen Phuc Anh's sister, but I also want him to promise me that when I get assistance from France, our Ye family will become the imperial merchant of Quang Nam and the prince of Quang Nam! β
Take Ruan instead or something, it's not appropriate to talk to Ye Fu now, otherwise this fat man will definitely be frightened!
Ye Fulai squinted his eyes for a while, if it is really as Ye Kai said, Nguyen Phuc Anh can successfully restore the country, then it is quite cost-effective to buy a Vietnamese horse and several generations of princes with 100,000 taels of silver, this transaction can be done!
Ye Fulai slapped his thigh and agreed!