Ye Kai looked at Jenna dumbfounded. Hastings, this chick in just a few minutes, went from a white European girl with some arrogance, the daughter of the venerable Viceroy of India, to the notorious Lady of the Plague.

Turned into a little star in her eyes, and her voice was a little sweet, uh, saying that the admirer was a little elegant, and her current appearance was like a female licking dog!

"Can you tell me, Zinedin, what is said in this letter? I haven't seen His Royal Highness write to anyone? Jenna chick took Ye Kai's hand again.

Ye Kai coughed lightly, he now deeply suspected that this woman was a chameleon, when he first saw her, Ye Kai thought that this was a noble lady from a big aristocratic family, with a little melancholy in her quietness.

Later, he thought that Jenna was a woman with some foresight and could be regarded as a friend.

After that, Ye Kai was sold by her gorgeously, although this kind of betrayal did not bring any harm to Ye Kai, and there may be some benefits.

But this also made Ye Kai a little wary of this woman, from what she told about her childhood friend, this woman was somewhat similar to the Ruan family Yuwan in his back house.

Although he was born in a wealthy family, he seems to have a bad childhood, and he is the kind of realist who would rather lose everything than lose power.

And now, she is like a girl next door who is full of energy and some kind of looming seduction, but at the same time, no one knows what the hell is going on in her belly!

"It's nothing, just some daily greetings, mainly to know about the planting of rubber trees in my United Rubber Company!"

Ye Kai shook his head, and did not show the letter to Jenna, but told it to her.

Jenna rolled her eyes slyly, "I see that your United Rubber Company doesn't seem to have started much yet, and there are only two or three rubber plantations, isn't there any difficulty?" Would you like us to help you? ”

Hell's help, Ye Kai glanced at Jenna angrily, when Lao Tzu was going to fight with the Dutch and the Bugis, don't you say to provide some help, now that the rubber trial and battle have been completed, now you want to intervene?

"Give me back Penang Island, and then help me build a production line that can produce long-barreled brown bass guns, as well as all the technology that goes with it, such as lead bullets and throughbars, and I also need gunpowder that can fight at least three high-intensity battles!"

Ye Kai thought about it a little and decided to put Warren. Hastings pulled down the ship of the United Rubber Company, after all, this English judge in India was still very important to him.

"Yes!" Jenna thought about it for a moment and nodded, "But we want ten percent!" Personal! ”

"Five percent at most!" Ye Kai waved his hand, indicating that there was no room for negotiation, because the two father and daughter were not here for the profits of the United Rubber Company at all.

They were directed at George IV and James. Fox came, and they hoped to hook up with these two big names and consolidate their power.

Sure enough, Jenna Chick just pretended to think about it for a few seconds, and then she couldn't wait to say yes!

She smiled and said, "We will buy this five percent of the shares, which is five thousand pounds!" ”

Ye Kai this United Rubber Company was in London when he worked with George IV and James. The total investment agreed by Fox was 50,000 pounds, and 5 percent was 2,500 pounds, twice as much as 5,000 pounds.

And this is still the total investment agreed, not the actual investment, and the actual investment may not be 10,000 pounds.

Now that Hastings and his daughter are willing to pay double the price, it is even more certain of Ye Kai's speculation, they are not here to make money at all, they are purely shareholders.

However, Ye Kai did not lose anything, five thousand pounds is almost sixty thousand taels of silver, which is also a big windfall for him who has been short of money recently.

And it might be possible to get a gun production line, so that the Bakers would have something to do, and at least get the Baker rifled gun sooner.

As for Penang Island, it has only been half a year, and Captain Wright has been running a good business, plus the more than 2,000 Ye family members who have not been recalled, there are currently more than 5,000 people on Penang Island, don't come back now, then it is estimated that it is a question whether you can come back in the future.

"That's right! Zinedin, do you remember Mrs. Todd? Jenna asked suddenly.

Ye Kai thought for a while, "Is it the mother of Mr. Todd Jr., who went to Russia and is now serving under Catherine II?" ”

"That's right! Mr. Todd Jr. has actually returned in secret, and as the personal representative of Her Majesty the Empress, he is currently in the company's merchant house, and Mr. Todd Jr. would like to meet you! ”

Well....., what did a personal representative of the Russian Empress come to see him for?

Ye Kai thought about it, and he didn't know what a Russian empress could have in touch with him, but he knew it at night, and the reason why it was evening was because he had a heavyweight friend who would see him in the afternoon!

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In the back house of the Ye family, Ruan Thi Yuwan was wearing a white veil, accompanied by Ruan Thi Meng and other maids, and was chatting with a man who was eating with his head bowed through a screen.

This man with a very elegant eating posture and a little rhythm in his speech is a little bald, not very old in terms of figure, but a little old in appearance.

A bowl of spicy and sour tom yum soup made with lemon, chili, shrimp paste, and fish sauce, with delicious white shrimp, clams, and Vietnamese favorite rice noodles, tastes sour and spicy and delicious, and the taste buds are very rich.

"Is this also the invention of Your Excellency Guess Luan? Well, the delicious Siamese Tom Yum soup paired with the finest rice noodles from Quang Nam is delicious! ”

There was also a bowl in front of Ruan Thi Ngoc Wan behind the screen, but she only symbolically moved her chopsticks and didn't eat at all.

Because she is in a very nervous mood now, if Ye Kai's original titles of the two countries are a sign of his strong ability and left and right, it will be a little troublesome now.

Because he accepted the title of Luang of Rama I of Siam, it means that he recognized Rama I as his king and had the right to rule over him.

Moreover, the Ye family's current fundamental places Pattani and Kuala Terengganu are currently nominally still belonging to the Siamese State.

Pattani was captured by Ye Kai at the behest of King Rama I, and the Siamese nobleman Wiche Phiya brought 4,000 soldiers to the battle.

Just when Ruan's Yuwan wanted to answer, there was a message from the maid outside the door, Ye Kai came back, Ruan's Yuwan gently stroked his chest, and his mood relaxed.

Ye Kai walked in, although he hadn't seen him for three years, he was a little bald, and the short and sturdy Prince of Lela, Ishara Songtun, still hadn't changed much, he stretched out his hand to stop Ye Kai's big salute from paying homage, but instead gave Ye Kai a big hug!

"Guess Luan, my brother, we haven't seen each other for a long time, don't bow to me, my life is saved, without you, I would have gone to see the Buddha a long time ago!"

Ye Kai's mood became heavier and heavier, if this future Rama II came to Xingshi to ask for guilt, he might feel more relaxed.

Because if Xingshi asks for guilt, it is very likely that the Siamese people do not want to tear their faces, but are just making false threats.

But now, in this kind of seemingly grateful words, under the peaceful appearance, there is suppressed anger, and the Siamese people may really be thinking about dealing with Ye Kai!

Because of the land of the four kingdoms that Ye Kai now occupies, Rama I got two and a half of them in history.

Now Ye Kai has inserted a pole horizontally, which is equivalent to blocking the way for Rama I to go south, and he is still wearing the skin of a Siamese courtier, which must have made Rama I even more angry.

And unlike the Bugis, who only numbered about 300,000, the Siamese currently had a nation of 780,000, a slave population of 6 or 7 million, and some client states, and the Siamese Chorik dynasty had a population of nearly 8 million.

Under the extreme mobilization, it is estimated that two or three hundred thousand army slaves can also be used as soldiers, and there is a precedent in history, which is far from being comparable to the Bugis who can only pull out 20,000 or 30,000 people.

And there is another important factor, the Bugis have been rampant for hundreds of years, and now they are constantly going downhill.

And the Siamese people, from Emperor Zheng Xin to the present, these decades are a rare period of martial virtue in the entire history of Siam.

A feudal army in decline and a feudal army in the rising period are completely two things, just look at the gap between the Ming Guard and the Manchurian Eight Banners at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of 1785, when Ye Kai had just left for Europe, the Burmese king Meng Yun sent troops to capture Tanah Salin, and for a time occupied Songkhla Province, which was close to Pattani.

In the end, a fierce war broke out between the two sides in Tadinden, and the Burmese king Meng Yun levied an army of more than 80,000 men. Sinhana gathered 60,000 Siamese troops.

After three days of fierce fighting, the Burmese army was defeated, and more than 40,000 were killed and captured, and they were no longer able to attack Siam.

Such a large-scale battle is not something that Ye Kai can play at all, for him now, whether it is Siam or Burma, which was defeated by Siam, it is a behemoth, and it can consume his total population of hundreds of thousands to death!

But he can't back down, right? Pattani is his fundamental place, and there is no way to retreat!

What should I do?