Chapter Ninety-Six: The Next Target: The Dutch
"Master Hou! Why did we give them so much of the things from the Dutch Merchant House? If you want me to say, just get rid of them! Huang Laosi held a brown bass gun, looked at Ye Kai with a puzzled face, and said.
Those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, this sentence is really true, before Ye Kai came back, what a kind and honest farmer this Huang Laosi was, not to mention killing, he who worships power a little bit has never even killed a pig!
But now, in just about two months, such things as killing people and selling goods, black and eating black, are as normal as eating and dressing in Huang Laosi's mouth.
"Less fucking bullshit!" Ye Kai hit the back of Huang Laosi's head fiercely, there are a lot of good things in the Dutch Commercial Hall, especially those rhubarb just collected from Chinese mainland, which are worth the old nose money, and the British are also coveting these rhubarb, so they agreed to join forces with Ye Kai.
But Ye Kai can't do this, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to touch the tiger butt of the Da Hao Empire, or in the two big days facing the sea, isn't that just looking for death!
This will be an authentic world empire on which the sun never sets, the first world hegemon in human history, but not the small island country that relies on a few old ships to prop up the façade and engage in herd immunity at every turn!
Ye Kai's core policy in the South Seas is to use the contradictions between Britain and France on land to hug the thighs of the French against the British, and at sea it is the Dutch who have become the head snake in the South Seas by relying on the British to go to the anus, of course, it is not ruled out that the British will be powerful in the future, and he will join forces with the Dutch.
At the same time, Ye Kai has always been very glad that it is now 1784 instead of 1884, and now everything is still operable, as long as he does not die, Ye Kai believes that with his knowledge beyond hundreds of years, it is not difficult to build a regional power in Nanyang and even South China in twenty or thirty years.
In fact, it doesn't need to be very strong, as long as it reaches the point where Britain and France can't be destroyed without the whole country's troops, after all, the South China Sea is thousands of miles away from Europe, as long as it has an offshore fleet that can control the South China Sea, plus 50,000 or 60,000 Western-style training, and reaches the level of a second-rate European power, then it can easily block the Europeans from the South Sea.
Before that, you still have to pretend to be a grandson when you should pretend to be a grandson, and in Ye Xingxing, the class of Nanyang should be like this in this short period of time, he is a master with the British and French high-ranking officials and nobles in Nanyang, as well as the Chinese of Ye Fulai's level!
Ordinary white and Chinese officials and aristocrats are the second masters, ordinary Chinese are the third masters, the Vietnamese and Siamese people influenced by Confucian culture are the four masters, and the other Malay, Indonesian, and Luzon natives are at the bottom, like cattle and horse servants.
Only such a policy and self-perception can paralyze Europeans in this era of white supremacy, thus secretly accumulating strength.
As for ordinary Chinese who also want to be a master, then work their own, the status is earned by themselves, not by others, if one generation is not good, there will be two generations, and one day it will be achieved, at least it is much better than their fate of being like fat pigs and leeks at the same time, the second master and the third master are always a master!
Pattani Dutch Business Pavilion, Marco frowned with a look of vigilance, he hadn't experienced a commotion like tonight for many years.
A large part of the reason why the Dutch and British East India Companies set up trading houses here in Pattani is that Pattanii has always been very safe and stable compared to other places.
But tonight, Marco felt very unusual, it was the Siamese who came to attack? Or did the Malays clash with the Yap family Tang? Or even the Malays themselves in civil strife?
The Dutch business hall was built around 1614, which was built in strict accordance with the military requirements of the time, and was said to be a business hall, in Ye Kai's view, this is a miniature fortress, with three artillery pieces and 1780 military and paramilitary personnel at its peak.
Of course, it is not so strict now, after all, there has been no unrest against the whites in Pattani for decades, and at the same time, the Dutch East India Company has been affected by the British East India Company in recent years, and its profits have been declining year by year.
But even so, it is not something that can be captured casually, and more importantly, the Ye family cannot attack blatantly, no matter what the Dutch say, it is also the first force in the South Seas at present, and it is not something that the Ye family can bear if they blatantly attack the Dutchman's merchant house.
"Goo-goo!" A strange birdsong, somewhat like a pigeon's call, rang out, and an Englishman next to James pouted twice in reply.
After getting the reply, a back door of the Dutch Merchant House was quietly opened, and a European white-skinned figure with a fat head and big ears appeared at the door.
This is another reason why Ye Kai insisted on going to the British, in the entire Dutch merchant house, there were either whites or Indonesians brought by the Dutch from Batavia, the Ye family could not contact them at all, only the British could contact and buy them, because the British could give these people shelter afterwards, and the Ye family could not do it.
James walked briskly in the front, the Dutch's dozen tons of rhubarb were remembered by him as soon as they set off from Guangzhou, and these sailors from small German states on the ship had already been bought by them, in fact, without Ye Kai's active contact, they would also do it.
Because with the addition of other goods and gold coins, this is a windfall of more than 100,000 pounds, and if it is done well, it can allow James to live the rest of his life leisurely, and he knows that Ye Kai is looking for him to make the Dutch think that they are the Britons are the masterminds, and let the Dutch go to their trouble.
James, however, believed that even if the Dutch knew that the Britons were involved, they were unlikely to come to trouble him, because since the British Empire had grown stronger, the Dutch's strategy in the South Seas had slowly changed from confrontation to cooperation!
James estimated that the Dutch would probably choose to pinch a soft persimmon to recover their losses, and the Ye family was the largest and sweetest 'soft persimmon'!
"Bang bang!" Two gunshots rang out, and a sentry in a Dutch Army uniform fell screaming, "Roy! Roy! Take someone to the warehouse! Marco jumped up from his chair, grabbed the musket beside him, and ran in the direction of the warehouse.
He has been unable to sleep, in fact, he has long been wary of the British, because I have a history in the British, they started by robbery, and robbing the house is my traditional art in the British!
The Spaniards, the Portuguese, the French and their Dutch, almost all the maritime powers of Europe, were robbed by the British!
If the merchant ships of any country have not been robbed by the British, it can only prove that your country's sea power is not strong, overseas trade is not prosperous, and even the famous pirate Drake family has become an English nobleman because of robbery.
"Bang! Bang! As soon as Marco went out, a group of men in black rushed in the distance, and in a flash of fire, several soldiers around Marco were hit, and by the light of the fire, Marco saw a big bald head that he was very familiar with, which was one of the crew members escorting Rhubarb.
Sure enough, it had something to do with the Britons, because it was difficult for those Dons to buy a white sailor in such a short time, these vile and dirty thieves, Marco pulled the trigger angrily, and these people obviously came straight to his residence.
After pulling the trigger, Marco was a flying pounce, and sure enough, suddenly seven or eight guns fired in the direction he had just now, Marco held his breath and didn't move, he now has no gun in his hand, and there is no one around, so getting up rashly is simply suicide!