Of course, Ye Kai didn't want to kidnap these three people, and he wasn't crazy!

He just wanted the three eighteenth-century hillbillies to feel the comfort of rubber tires.

And the one Ye Kai prepared is not just a solid rubber tire, but an pneumatic tire that should appear sixty years later!

The horses neighed, pulling the carriage full of four people, galloping along the slightly smoother road, Francis. Bahrain was speechless in amazement as he watched the scenery on both sides of the landscape that kept flashing backwards.

Because according to common sense, if a carriage ran at such a speed, the four of them would probably have been turned out of the carriage, or at least they would be rolling in a ball, vomiting up and down.

But now, at such a fast pace, Francis. Bahrain only felt a slight bump, and the whole carriage was smooth and terrible.

"I will invest three thousand pounds, I need thirty percent of the shares of this newly established vulcanized rubber company, and I will also try my best to promote the gift of the warship to His Excellency the Marquis, at least I can guarantee you that you will get a third-class battleship that is not so old!"

Fawkes, who got out of the carriage, took a deep breath, he now fully understood the value of this vulcanized rubber, and he could reap great benefits just by replacing all the carriages in Europe with such pneumatic rubber wheels, and it was continuous.

What's more, Fox also believes that as we continue to become familiar with this vulcanized rubber, there will be more new products that can be manufactured.

"I'll give you three thousand pounds, but I only need twenty-five percent of the shares!" George IV was about to be kicked out of Carlton House, but he could still squeeze out three thousand pounds.

Francis. Bahrain glanced at Ye Kai, Fox and the Prince of Wales took 55% of the shares at once, if Ye Kai wanted more, he would not be able to get anything, and he had to do the most difficult things such as commercializing the product.

"Mr. Balin, you can take 25 percent of the remaining forty-five percent!" Ye Kai didn't care about Francis. Bahrain said.

"Uh... Ye, if Mr. Balin also takes 25 percent, you can get 10 percent at most! ”

George IV was rarely embarrassed, the invention was Ye Kai's, and the idea was Ye Kai's, because this kind of monopolistic company will inevitably pull some key people to join the shares, so Ye Kai can get about ten percent at most, so even Qiao Si feels that it is a bit excessive!

"It doesn't matter, I'm a Serris, and I'm going to go back to Seris eventually, and I prefer to bring back a battleship and a qualified Navy Soldier rather than a share.

Frederick, I'm just like you, a man destined to become the king of a country, and ordinary money doesn't mean much to me! ”

Ye Kai pretended to be a little forced, and the people in the room remembered that Ye Kai was still a nobleman with the blood of the Seris royal family, and he would eventually become a king.

With a few thousand French mercenaries and seven or eight Western-style warships, it may not be possible to restore Seris, but it is easy to become the king of an eastern country.

"Alright! Then you're welcome, my friend, Mr. Fawkes, and please try to satisfy the Marquis's need for a sailing battleship! Qiao Si said to Fawkes with a little emotion, and Fawkes also nodded.

"In fact, I still have a question, gentlemen, after the application of various vulcanized rubber products, the demand for natural rubber will definitely increase significantly, have you thought about where to obtain so much natural rubber?"

Ye Kai bent down at Fawkes, the third-class battleship was really important to him, without a third-class battleship full of British sailors according to the standards of the British Navy, he could not fight against the Dutch in Batavia at all, but then Ye Kai raised his own questions.

The three of them looked at each other a few times, and finally Francis. Bahrain hesitated and said: "I think we can get natural rubber from the Americas, and there seem to be a lot of rubber trees in Brazil and Peru!" ”

"Not enough!" Ye Kai categorically denied: "The natural rubber of South America is definitely not enough, and they belong to the territory of Spain and Portugal, once rubber products are popular, we will be subject to others, to have a stable supply of raw materials, we must manually open a plantation!" ”

"Then let's start an artificial plantation, and if we don't want to be controlled by others, then we will take a piece of land suitable for growing rubber in America, and Great Britain can easily do it all!" Qiao Si said viciously.

"I'm sure Britain can easily do all this, but where to find the workers on the rubber plantations?

It's not an easy job, and Europeans who are willing to go to America will definitely not want to do it!

Indians?

That's even more unlikely, they prefer to hide in the jungle, and they can't go to the slave trade again, right? And the work efficiency of black slaves is not high! ”

"Nope! You can't use black slaves! George IV's face darkened, "If I use black slaves, then a slave-owning king's hat will definitely be buckled on my head!" ”

"That's right! His Royal Highness is right, the banker who trades in black slaves has a bad reputation! "Francis. Bahrain also objected.

"Since Your Excellency Marquis asked us so, there must be a perfect solution, right?" Fox looked at Ye Kai with interest and said.

Sure enough, Jiang was still old and spicy, Ye Kai nodded, "That's right, I have a solution, that is, let me bring the rubber seeds back to my hometown, which is called the place of the South Seas by the Seris people."

The climate is very similar to that of Brazil and other places, it is a good place for rubber growing, and if there is one of the most organized and industrious people, it is undoubtedly the farmers of Seris, and no one is better suited for this job than them! ”

Rubber plantations! This is one of the pillar industries in Southeast Asia in later generations, and there are countless overseas Chinese in Nanyang who started from rubber plantations!

Moreover, Ye Kai can also use rubber as bait to attract more people to the South Seas and strengthen his strength.

And he is telling the truth, no one is more hard-working than Chinese farmers, not even Korean and Japanese farmers, who are also East Asians.

Let's talk about the uncomfortable facts in later generations, why after 1840, there were fewer and fewer black slaves trafficked from Africa to Amei, and even in the Americas?

The first is the rise of the abolitionist movement, which is an extremely cruel way of selling black slaves, which is more and more disgusting to everyone, and the result of a large number of Chinese workers going abroad.

Because black people have been exposed by Chinese workers in terms of management, hardship, and work efficiency, and the use of Chinese laborers can also avoid being labeled as slave owners.

So much so that when the Chinese workers were building a big railroad for Ah Mei, the overseer of the bald eagle once lamented that the efficiency of one Chinese worker could be worth four Irishmen, and as for those black slaves, they were not even as good as the mules trained by the Chinese workers, and they ate more, and if they didn't pay attention, they would be lazy, which was useless!

"I decided to set up a British and South Seas United Rubber Company to supply our vulcanised rubber company with natural rubber, as well as other raw materials.

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