In Changle Palace, after discussing with Luo Fangbo to deal with Lan Fang's problem, Ye Kai still didn't have a moment of leisure time, because there were still many things that needed to be discussed with others in detail.

What is discussed today is not just as simple as marrying Luo Zifeng, but more importantly, the meaning behind it.

Luo Zifeng became Ye Kai's concubine, which marked the convergence of the two largest Chinese forces in Nanyang, Lanfang Company and Fuxing Company, and from now on, there would be no Lanfang General Administration.

And in addition to these two things, another thing may be equally important, that is, King Ye is finally going to throw away the nondescript titles such as the chief chief, the king of the Song Dynasty, and officially call the king the system.

In the past, he was called the chief of the Renaissance Company in order not to arouse the vigilance of Siamese and Europeans, but now, Rama I of Siam was beaten by the Renaissance Company only to parry and did not have the power to fight back, although the Renaissance Company could not swallow Siam, but there was no need to hide it anymore.

In Europe, the emperor had already won the battle to suppress the royalists with his cannon, and had just taken office as commander-in-chief of the Italian Front of the French Republic.

The whole of Europe will soon be in chaos, the number of troops and attention they have invested in the South Seas will be greatly reduced, and the British have long regarded the Revival Company as their number one competitor in the South Seas, and it does not matter whether they hide it or not.

This year is April 1794, and in the past ten years, King Ye has fought in the south and the north, abducted and deceived him, and pretended to be his grandson cheekily, and finally built a small and small power of the Far East with primary industrialization in Jiaozhi.

The territory has Nanyang Sizhou, Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, Rinan and Lanfang Island, and now he finally has the confidence to throw away the title of King Song attached from the Manchu Dynasty, and play the name of the grandson of Emperor Shaowu and the king of Ming.

Therefore, the attached title of the King of Song is the second title that Ye Kai is about to get rid of.

In these three years, relying on the advantages of the Song King of Jiaozhi, Sun Yongqing, who was in a nest with Ye Kai, served as the governor of Liangguang, Shang Weisheng served as the governor of Guangdong, and Ye Kai absorbed a lot of funds from Guangzhou, the financial center of the Qing Dynasty, to develop the industrialization of Jiaozhi.

He also absorbed about 500,000 people from Liangguang and even southern Jiangxi and southern Hunan.

Especially in 1792, when the Hakka people who went south from the Dingnan Hall of Ganzhou Prefecture in southern Jiangxi were still packing their luggage, the first batch of Guangxi native guests from the left and right rivers had almost been settled.

Taking advantage of what can be said to be the largest migration activity in the Qianlong period, Ye Kai's Hongmen Fuxing Hall infiltrated everywhere, they bribed and corrupted the Manchu officials and even officials everywhere, co-opted the Hongmen Hall in the interior, and also drew maps everywhere, inquiring about the number, equipment and training of the defenders, Ye Kai now knows even more about Liangguang and Xiangnan and Gannan than the local officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, after a large number of Tuke Chinese went south, the throne under King Ye's ass was finally secure, and there were plenty of soldiers.

The Revival Army has expanded to 30,000 men, the field artillery has reached more than 200, and the cavalry under its command has also expanded from more than 600 to 1,500.

Last year, they recruited hundreds of winged cavalry from Eastern Europe, and they also brought with them a weapon that Ye Kai could not have imagined - dozens of two- and three-pound Russian-made unicorn cannons.

Originally, Ye Kai thought that Mao Zi of this era had nothing good in his hands except for the Cossacks.

However, this unicorn cannon invented by the Russian military engineer Shuvalov is unexpectedly easy to use, although the caliber is small, it is easy to move, easy to load, and relatively simple to operate, which is very suitable for bombarding infantry phalanxes at medium and close range.

Moreover, today's Jiaozhi, industrialization has also achieved good results, only the large steel mills have the Ye family's Fuxing Iron and Steel Company, the local tyrant's Jiaozhi United Iron and Steel Company, and the Guangdong gentry and businessmen jointly raised Jusheng Iron and Steel Company.

As for the mining and small smelting and textile enterprises, there were even more of them, and those black-hearted miners, with the support of Ye Kai, even formed a privateer fleet of their own, harassing the Zhanbei and Acehnese in order to plunder enough of the hard labor population.

Last year, in 1793, the steel production of Cochin had reached more than 10,000 tons, which was far lower than the 170,000 tons of England and the 90,000 tons of France, and less than that of Austria and the North German states together, but it exceeded the plate duck and the hair.

If the North German states are taken apart, in 1793 Cochin was already the fifth largest steel producer in the world.

Why is it fifth, because at present, the steel output of our Daqing Dynasty is about 15,000 to 17,000 tons, which is slightly higher than the 10,000 hanging zero of Jiaozhi.

However, if you add coal mining and other industrial and mining and textile industries, the small Jiaozhi region is already the fourth industrial power in the world.

Although this industrial power is completely incomparable with the first two, its military status is comparable to that of Britain and France in the five permanent members of the later generations, and its economic status is comparable to that of Mao Zi in the five permanent members, all of which are extremely hindered existences, but for Ye Kai himself and the entire Far East, it is definitely not a small force.

With this 10,000 tons of high-quality steel, Ye Kai can finally change the whole army into a unified standard military uniform and armor.

Moreover, taking advantage of the great changes brought about by the industrialization of Jiaozhi, Ye Kai has tightly tied Guangdong and Guangxi with himself.

Because of the current Liangguang, especially in Guangzhou, eighty percent of the coal used by the residents of the city is Jiaozhi coal, and they are also accustomed to using Jiaozhi honeycomb coal, which saves firewood and is convenient, for cooking and boiling water.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Ye Kai is now forbidden to transport coal to Guangzhou, at most ten days, most of the people in Guangzhou City will not even be able to drink hot porridge.

Moreover, among the coal, iron, copper, and textile enterprises in Jiaozhi, the largest investment is not the Ye family's Fuxing Company, nor the local tyrants in Jiaozhi, but the large and small wealthy landlords from Guangdong.

Many Manchu wealthy landlords invested almost all their belongings in Jiaozhi, and even borrowed money to invest, because in fact, these two Jiaozhi are too easy to make money.

So if Ye Kai makes trouble, they only have two choices, be loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then go bankrupt and the whole family will go to ask for food, or choose Ye Kai and bet that King Ye can succeed.

In fact, after seeing the strength of King Ye, Pan Youdu and Ye Shanglin of the four major families of Pan, Wu, Lu, and Ye of the Thirteen Elements had already clearly hinted that they were going to advance and retreat with King Ye.

Pan Youdu was blackmailed by the Manchu court, and Ye Shanglin completely wanted to swallow the firm.

Because these merchants of the thirteen lines look at the scenery, rich and rival the country, in fact, they are nothing more than the white gloves of the Manchu princes and nobles and my Qianlong.

It's still the kind of white gloves that are not respected, Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River and they had to serve on their birthdays, and they had to serve whenever the country had a little war, and a lot of the money that should have been paid by the country was actually paid by them.

Moreover, the profits that need to be handed over to the Manchurian princes and ministers who 'borrowed' their principal every year are also quite large.

Basically, as much as the Manchurian princes say, they will do as much as they want, if they can't do it, hehe, copy your home, the whole family will be assigned Ningguta or Yili, and then find a new merchant.

So Pan Youdu, who couldn't bear this bullying and blackmail for a long time, and Ye Shanglin, who wanted to swallow millions of taels of silver every year, noticed Ye Kai.

Coupled with the infiltration of anti-Qing groups such as the Tiandihui in Liangguang, as long as Ye Kai defeated the bannermen and the green camp in Liangguang in front of them, at least Guangdong could directly spread the word.

Cantonese people always have an inexplicable excitement about the people who made me in the Qing Dynasty!

Now, it can be said that the time is ripe for the Northern Expedition.