Ye Kai understood why Ye Fulai wanted to mention the grievances between him and Ye Kai's mother, and also understood why Ye Fulai brought his concubines and children over to have dinner with Ye Kai.

This fat man has been under pressure to maintain the Ye family for so many years, and because he has braided his hair, he thinks he is an unfilial son who betrayed his father and ancestors, under double pressure, after suddenly finding that Ye Kai is better than him, he wants to remove the position of patriarch and give it to Ye Kai.

"Father, do you know that I promised Quang Nam Nguyen to go to Europa and help him bring reinforcements from France?"

Ye Kai looked at Ye Fulai, who looked a little decadent, and asked, although this fat man is a little timid, but he is very economical, good at planning, and is a good domestic affairs hand in farming, can he let him go to the elderly now.

"Know! What does it matter, the Ruan family is just a foreigner, and even the society has been overturned, why do my sons have to marry the women of their family, it's just 100,000 taels of silver, and our Ye family can afford it!

I talked to you last time, in fact, you had a verbal marriage contract, this woman is the daughter of the Luo family in Borneo, although we are a little sorry for others, but for the father to give up this old face, although Luo Fangbai is now both the chief of the Tang Dynasty and the king of Pontianak, but this face still has to be given. ”

it! Ye Kai's eyelids jumped suddenly, he was still thinking about how to have a relationship with Rao Luo Fangbola, who was also in Jiaying Prefecture, but it turned out that there was a relationship for a long time, and it was still this kind of relationship between Weng and his son-in-law!

It's normal to think about it, Pattani is not far from Borneo, the two sides are not only Chinese, but also hometowns in Jiaying Prefecture, maybe there is a kinship, how can you not know each other!

But now the situation seems to be a little bad, a character like Luo Fangbo, when he encounters this incident, it is estimated that he has already hated Ye Kai.

Okay, people crossed over to meet the divorce stream, and then came to don't bully the young man and the poor successfully counterattacked and slapped his face, he is good, he is a farewell marriage, or a ruthless man like Luo Fangbo.

You must know that at this time, the Lanfang company is much more popular than their Patanise Ye family, with five or six gold mines in their hands, and they can pull out twenty or thirty thousand well-trained miners at any time, as well as more than 200,000 Tang people, hundreds of thousands of natives who surrendered to Luo Fangbo, and even the local great sultan are vying to join them.

In terms of strength, they can definitely beat their Ye family, and even the Dutch, the head snake of the land, spent hundreds of years to divide and attack, both soft and hard, and finally succeeded in annexing Lan Fangguo.

This is embarrassing, Ye Kai covered his forehead and thought for a long time, still feeling that his established plan could not be changed.

"Father, do I really have to marry Ruan Phuc Ying's sister? The reason why the son grabbed Ruan Phuc Ying was because the child had a big plan! ”

Ye Kai decided to share his thoughts with Ye Fulai, "The child has traveled all over Nanyang, and I have found that in order to achieve a great cause, there must be a solid foundation.

Our Ye family's Pattani, surrounded by water on both sides, with Siam, Burma and other powerful countries in the west, the Dutch and Bugis in the east, and the natives with bad intentions inside, and the land is narrow and there is no danger of mountains and rivers. ”

Ye Fulai nodded happily when he heard this, "Sure enough, Kai'er is the most like Yixin Gong, he was also an old man back then, and it is okay to settle down, but it is by no means the foundation of the king's overlord." ”

Ye Kai didn't expect that the ancestor Yixin Gong more than a hundred years ago also thought so, he didn't know what angle Yixin Gong considered back then, but what worried Ye Kai the most was actually the geographical location of this place.

Anyone who has read the map knows that the Malay Peninsula is a slender peninsula, the narrowest point from north to south is only two or three hundred kilometers, and it faces the sea on both sides, which is absolutely easy to attack and difficult to defend.

What's even more terrifying is that Ye Kai, who is familiar with the history of later generations, knows that most of the Malay Peninsula will eventually become a British colony, and the Strait of Malacca, Singapore, which is an important place to hold the choke point of the South China Sea, will not let the British Empire let it fall into the hands of Berao!

If the Ye family just wants to plant fields in Pattani, it's no problem, as long as they obediently let the white people cut a stubble of leeks for a few decades, but if you want to do industrialization here, you are looking for death!

First, the British would never allow the emergence of an industrial power in the Malay Peninsula, and second, the traditional art of the British Empire was not to develop colonies, but to seize the Belao colony!

There are many places in their circle of North America, India, and South Africa, which are basically developed by others, and then they go up to pick fruits with guns, and they treat Europeans like this, not to mention Tang people like the Ye family.

This is also the reason why the white granulated sugar in the sugar liao has produced thousands of catties, and Ye Kai has never dared to take it out for sale.

Therefore, if we really want to carry out industrialization in Nanyang and grow a modern regional power, we must not choose Pattani for our foundation, but must choose a place far away from British influence.

And Ye Kaisi thought about it, the only suitable place is Vietnam, to be precise, North Vietnam, that is, the Red River Delta, and Hanoi in later generations.

First, there is enough fertile land in the Red River Plain to provide the necessary food for industrialization, and second, the North Vietnamese are close to the Chinese in terms of appearance, language, culture, and customs, and the North Vietnamese are actually two races from the South Vietnamese.

The Nanyue are the former Cham people and are closer to the Southeast Asian ethnicity.

North Vietnam has always belonged to China intermittently, and most of the people are descendants of the past Chinese in the Han and Tang dynasties and the past ethnic minorities in the two provinces of Yunnan and Gui, including the Jing people, the main ethnic group of the later Vietnamese, whose ancestral land is actually located in Guangxi, and the 56 ethnic groups in China in later generations also include the Jing people, who are the most easily assimilated ethnic groups by the Chinese.

In addition, because North Vietnam has absorbed a large number of Ming relics, its cultural level is the highest in Southeast Asia, which is very convenient for carrying out modern education and cultivating qualified modern talents.

In the end, North Vietnam was close to the mainland, which was very conducive to Ye Kai's infiltration of the Liangguang region, and even from the blood sucking of the Qing court. Isn't it just to suck the blood of the Qing Dynasty, Ye Kai is also ready to follow suit.

Finally, there is another factor, that is, the difficulty of seizing Vietnam at this time is the most, and in the foreseeable future, the excited French have made a heavy bet on Nguyen Phuc Anh, and as a result, Nguyen Phuc Anh will break the treaty when he returns to the country, how angry they will be!

As long as Ye Kai leaves an excellent impression on the French government and the opposition during his stay in France, and packages himself as a yellow man with a European soul, and a French man who has not many choices after being abandoned by Ruan Fuying, he can and will definitely pin his hopes on Ye Kai again!

And with the support of French Rao, coupled with his own influence in Ruan Phuc Anh's recovery, and the help of Nanyang Huarao, Ye Kai believes that Ruan Phuc Anh must not be his opponent.

As for the price that needs to be paid to get the support of the French, and the unequal treaties that need to be signed, Ye Kai doesn't care, anyway, Vietnam is not his, and those Vietnam have to do with suffering, how much does it have to do with him?

Ye Kai never wanted to make all Vietnam his own people, he only needed to remember that his ancestors were Chinese Rao Vietnamese, and he only needed Mingxiang people among them.

What makes Ye open even more is France itself, Gallic chicken to tell the truth, Ye Kai has always thought that they are a group of cute and wonderful, compared to those English profiteers who can afford a penny, the romantic and sensual French are definitely much easier to coax!

Moreover, they will go to war with all of Europe, the people of Paris will become the fighters of the old revolutionary districts, they will cut off the heads of their kings, and all kinds of regimes will come into play.

Therefore, Ye Kai can rest assured that he can sign all kinds of treaties with them, borrow all kinds of money, and seek all kinds of support, as long as he is a little more humble in his words, gives a little more high hats, and has a good relationship with the bankers in Paris, many accounts can be relied on in compliance.

Therefore, in Ye Kai's plan, the Qing court and the French are his best targets to suck blood, suck the money of the Qing court, and absorb French technology and armament.