Ye Kai sat in the carriage, the carriage drove over the famous London Bridge, and his mood finally relaxed a lot, and he finally took advantage of George IV and Fox's ignorance of Nanyang to drag them into the water!

You know, as long as you start a rubber plantation in Nanyang, you will definitely come into conflict with the Dutch, who are now indigenous to Nanyang, and more precisely with the Dutch East India Company.

And with George IV, the future king of England, and the rubber company in which Fox and a vote of English profiteers and aristocrats took shares, Ye Kai also had the confidence to conflict with the Dutch.

Moreover, Ye Kai is also preparing to put some of the stocks in his hand into the London financial market after the United Rubber Company becomes a star company that can make a lot of money, so as to tie more English profiteers to the ship of the United Company.

For a man like him who was determined to go north to overthrow the Manchus, money was not the most important thing, because when he had enough strength, the money sent out would sooner or later be able to get it back with interest.

Before the unification of China and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, Ye Kai only prepared three places in Nanyang, Pattani, where the Ye family was located, Vietnam, and Borneo, where Luo Fangbo was located.

The rest will be run by the United Rubber Company, and he will not show any covetousness for Burma, Australia or even India.

Because these places will be the core interests of the British, unlike the dispensable places like the Indonesian archipelago.

Especially in India, what Ye Kai has to do now is to try his best to get the British to devote more strength to conquering India, otherwise they will come to Nanyang to do something in the South Seas.

Appeasing the British and co-opting the French would be his established strategy before he had a unified China.

In fact, in the matter of distributing shares, watching Ye Kai suffer a loss, in fact, he still earned, this era is different from later generations, the export of raw materials in later generations are all weak agricultural countries, the import of raw materials, and the export of industrial products are industrial powers.

But in this era, the habits and ability of people around the world to be self-sufficient are still very strong, and foreign trade is not a necessary option, such as the United Kingdom, where these profiteers produce a lot of industrial products every year, but they are not necessarily very popular.

And the exporter of raw materials is the country that can hold the lifeblood of others in this world, such as China in this era, if you only talk about trade regardless of military, the Manchu Qing can suck the whole of England dry.

So Ye Kai looked at the loss, but when the rubber plantations were all over the South Seas, Qiao Si and they would know that Ye Kai was the one who made a lot of money.

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Suohe Machinery Factory, just looking at the name, there is nothing unusual, but Ye Kai knows that this company is unusual, he is James who improved the steam engine. Watt and his patron, the patron Matthew. A joint venture steam engine plant in Bolton.

In 1785, that is, last year, Watt improved the steam engine closest to modern society, and as a full supporter of Watt's improvement of the steam engine, Bolton, who owned 70% of the patent rights, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society that year.

This was Ye Kai's last stop in Europe, and he needed to bring back a technician and five steam engines from this factory.

Although the steam engine improved by Watt is used for power, such as on ships and carriages, it is still very good for providing power for some industrial machinery, such as Matthew. The mint that Bolton is now using, etc.

Matthew, fellow of the Royal Society. Bolton warmly received Ye Kai, five large steam engines are a big business!

Ye Kai walked away in this workshop that seemed to be a state-owned factory in later generations, and seven or eight steam engine technicians were waiting for his selection.

The monthly salary is five pounds, the settling-in allowance is thirty pounds at one time, and the two-year employment contract is two-year if there is an accident on the way or he dies during his employment, Ye Kai will also pay the full salary for two years, and give a bereavement pension of thirty pounds.

The conditions can be said to be very generous, following Ye Kai for two years, which is equivalent to them working in London for more than ten years, Ye Kai also has to give Bolton and Watt an introduction fee according to the number of people.

Matthew. Although the factory in Bolton is not very large, it is clean, bright and well ventilated, much better than the other dirty pigsty-like factories that Ye Kai saw.

And this Matthew. Bolton was also the first factory owner in the world to introduce insurance for workers.

He stipulated that as long as workers paid one-sixtieth of their wages to the factory each month, they could receive compensation far higher than the wages they paid in the event of illness and death. Bolton's factories are still one of the very few factories that do not employ child labor and are concerned about the health of workers.

Eight mechanics, eleven apprentices, Ye Kai secretly estimated that these people were more than enough to manage five steam engines.

"Mr. Bolton, what about the gentleman you speak of who can make steam engines and is willing to go to the East?"

"He's here, Mr. Baker, come on, this is the Marquis of Seris who hired you!"

Watt, who is not good at words, pointed to a worker who was squatting in the corner, with a beard like a bear.

"My name is Williams. Beck, Your Excellency the Marquis, I am willing to go with you to the East, and even stay in the East for a longer time, three I have one request in addition to my salary! "It's called Williams. Baker's mechanical technician stared at Ye Kai with burning eyes.

"Let's hear it, as long as your ability can match your requirements, I have no opinion!"

Ye Kai took a deep breath, a feeling of being hit by a pie falling from the sky, filling his brain, could this guy be the Baker who made the Baker rifled gun?

Before Ye Kai arrived in London, he began to look for this armorer named Baker, but he only remembered that Baker's rifled gun was in service around 1800, and the person who made this gun was called Baker, and the details were completely unclear!

So what Ye Kai didn't know was that Ichkiel. Baker was born in 1775, and now he is only eleven years old, and he has not yet become a gunsmith, so Ye Kai heard countless guys with the surname Baker, but in the end, they didn't get it right.

"I served in the Far East Legion in Egypt, where I used and overhauled steam engines, I made all kinds of firearms, and I had the ability to train mechanics!

I can set up a steam engine factory and a gunsmith in the East for you, and you will definitely need a factory to manufacture and maintain firearms when you bring so many French mercenaries to the East! ”

Williams. Baker said word by word, Ye Kai was a little irrepressible excited, surnamed Baker, can make firearms, and the key elements are right.

Taking another deep breath, Ye Kai suppressed his excitement, coughed and asked, "Then what do you want, you can talk about it!" ”

"I want His Excellency the Marquis to kill someone for me!" Williams. Baker said in a deep voice.

"Murder?" Watt and Bolton were taken aback at the same time, especially Watt, who was a little harsh to the workers, and he stepped back a little weakly.

"Kill whom?"

"Hydram, a princely nobleman of the Mysorean people, as long as you promise to help me kill him when you return to the East, I will go to the East with His Excellency the Marquis!" Williams. Beck's eyes shone with hatred!

"An Indian? How could you, an Englishman, make a feud with an Indian? Ye Kai asked a little strangely, if it was really a princely nobleman from Mysore, he would be destroyed by the way on the way back.

"My brother and two nieces, both of whom died in the war with the Mysoreans, and my brother was not a soldier, but a harmless priest, who was tortured to death by the cruel barbarians!

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