Chapter 131: News from London
In the governor's office, Jenna pushed the door in when Warren. Hastings sat slumped on the sofa, his face was blue-gray, as if he was dozens of years old, and he didn't even lift his eyelids until he saw Ye Kai's figure!
"Mr. Zinedin, please help me, I can satisfy you whatever you want, as long as you help me through this difficulty!"
Warren. With a whoosh, Hastings rushed in front of Ye Kai without even looking at his daughter.
He took the initiative to hold Ye Kai's hand with his slightly trembling right hand, and the bearing and arrogance of the Indian governor a few days ago disappeared without a trace, and his eyes were full of joy when he saw the savior.
Ye Kai gently shook off Warren. Hastings' sweat-stained hands turned to a couch, and Jenna was speechless in surprise as she looked at her father's attitude.
Although Warren. Hastings was not a very big figure in England, he didn't even have a knighthood, but in India and the Far East, it was like a Turkish emperor!
The viceroy of India, who has 3,000 lobster soldiers and more than 20,000 red-headed imperial allies, is more beautiful than the kings of most countries, how could there ever be such a time to beg for mercy.
Ye Kai sat on the sofa in a chic manner, and said without looking back: "Mr. Hastings, don't you believe me?" Aren't you a liar on me? Now aren't you afraid that I'll lie to you? ”
Don't be, this feeling that you ignored me yesterday and I can't climb up today is cliché, but it's really cool.
"Is there any news from Europe, father? Could it be that all the prophecies of Zinedin have come true? Jenna hurriedly asked as she helped Hastings.
"Mr. Zinedin, I was too arbitrary in the first few days, I apologize to you, please accept my apology."
Hastings did not answer her daughter's words, but apologized, and then looked at her daughter Jenna.
"That's right, Mr. Zinedin has predicted that His Majesty King George III will use all means at his disposal to help William. Pitt conducted the election and was successful, and now the prime minister of the kingdom is William. Lord Pete.
The North-Fox Union was dealt a fatal blow to James. Fawkes was a little better, although he lost his position as Foreign Secretary, he retained his status as a member of the House of Commons, but Lord North was miserable, he lost everything, everything! ”
"And you're in a worse situation, I think the board members of the East India Company are already preparing to recall you back to London, aren't they?
All the newspapers in England must have described you as a cruel and greedy slave owner, right? Ye Kai turned around and said unceremoniously.
"Yes! Yes! If I don't hurry, the order of the board of directors will soon be conveyed to India here! Mr. Zinedin, you must have a way to help me, don't you? Hastings nodded like a peck.
In a huge panic, he already believed that Ye Kai was really an astrologer and really had the ability to predict the future, otherwise how could he, an Oriental, know things in London so clearly?
He could only use Ye Kai as the last straw now, because if things continued to develop, Hastings remembered what Ye Kai had said to him.
He will go through a long trial that will last for ten years, and he will lose everything, not only money and power, but also a good reputation, and this will not be a ten-year trial, but a ten-year torment.
Ye Kai looked at the panicked Hastings and sighed a little emotionally, those who have tasted the sweetness of power will never want to lose it again, this famous colonist in British history has completely lost his square inch.
"Zinedin, you must help us, I can't let my father go through such torture, his health is not good, as long as you are willing to help us, you can put forward any conditions!" Jenna Niu tried her best to comfort her father while looking at Ye Kaidao.
"Jenna, it's not a matter of conditions, to be honest, I don't have the certainty of victory, after all, I can't know what everyone thinks in their hearts!" The heat was almost over, but Ye Kai still shook his head, and he wouldn't cherish what was too easy to get.
"A thousand brown bass muskets, produced by the Calcutta Arsenal, there is no certainty of victory, that is, there is a certain certainty, as long as you promise to help me, this thousand brown basses, I will immediately arrange for someone to transport them to Pattani, and I can also instruct James. Brooke is there for your people when they need it! ”
Jiang is still old and spicy, and after a period of panic, Hastings' IQ has slowly returned to him, and he knows what Ye Kai needs most, that is, the brown bass flintlock pistol.
In fact, the entire Far East needs this gun, and the current Calcutta Arsenal is still in its infancy, and the Indian Belbese flintlock pistol, which has a short barrel in the later generation of brown bass guns, has not yet begun production.
Most of the 1756 long-barreled guns are produced now, and the output is not high, and giving the Ye family a thousand rods at one time can be full of sincerity.
Ye Kai came to his senses in a moment, and he didn't want to continue fishing, he collected everywhere for more than half a year, and the brown bass flintlock pistol in the hands of the entire Ye family was only more than five hundred.
The models are even more varied, from the navy type to the militia type, and even the old model from 1730, many of which have aged for too long, if you can get a thousand 1756 at once, it will be of great help to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Ye family's soldiers.
"Alright! Mr. Hastings, I'm willing to give it a try! Ye Kai stood up and nodded.
Warren. Hastings's predicament was actually caused by two aspects, one was that he constantly launched conflicts with the natives of India, the French and the Dutch, although the British won successive wars, but the war cost money, and a war was bound to affect commercial exchanges, which led to the decline of the profits of the British East India Company year by year.
The second is Warren. Hastings changed the British strategy of rule in India, before him, the British attitude towards India was to loot and loot, they only regarded India as a rich man who was entering old age, rich, and not very strong in resistance, and a good target for robbery.
In fact, the British also tried to do business with the Indians, but the poor cloth they produced could not open the Indian market at all, and the British, who could not obtain wealth from India through trade, chose to rob.
This is similar to the starting point of their future purchase of opium in China, and the British finally chose to dump opium in China because of the huge trade deficit with China.
But for Hastings, who has lived in India for more than 30 years, he has a keen sense of the changes in India, and after decades and hundreds of years of colonial rule, India's economic structure and living habits are actually changing.
India's demand for British goods, including textiles such as cloth and finished metal products such as copper and iron, has increased dramatically!
Therefore, the British were no longer to plunder and plunder, but to train India into a qualified dumping ground for industrial products.
To this end, Hastings adjusted a series of policies, in addition to constantly waging wars to expand the jurisdiction of the East India Company, he also adopted a policy of co-opting the Indian high castes who were willing to cooperate with the British.
He ordered the members of the East India Company to respect the local customs, learn to communicate, and make it clear to the locals that the British did not have to exterminate them, but could be partners.
Truth be told, Hastings did everything right, the exact opposite of his opponents, which is a big reason why he was still acquitted after ten years of trial.
However, this process must be long, and the short-term benefits are certainly not as good as direct robbery, so I hate Warren especially when I search for people in India. Hastings, coupled with declining profits and political naivety in Hastings, he was pushed into the abyss step by step.
But compared with history, he was fortunate to read, because Ye Kai came, and Ye Kai, who knew what was going on, felt that it was not difficult to solve the problem of Hastings, and it could be solved with a report!
A detailed, forward-looking, and accurate five-year plan report on how to colonize India and reap the greater benefits of the future.