"Treasures! I'm afraid that the palace can't eat such sugar, it's really deceitful and sweet, where did Ye Hou get this thing? ”

One of the people in the room grabbed a piece and put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully, and Yan Zilu was even more amazed.

"Not bad! This is probably the best quality sugar, this piece is sweeter than the usual big spoonful of frosting, what is Ye Hou made of this sugar? Can it be named? Gu Lihuan also nodded in admiration.

"This sugar is refined by me by improving the technique of sugar making, this kind of crystal white like ice, I call it rock sugar, and there is a kind of frosting as white as frost and snow, which I call snow sugar." Ye Kai replied with a smile.

"The refining method of this thing is only known to Brother Shuwu alone, right? How much can you produce in a month? He Xiwen asked after chewing the rock candy in his mouth.

"Of course, only I know how to make rock candy and snow sugar, Gong Yan, Brother He, Brother Gu, how many of you think I have the method of making candy, and I can afford to raise 30,000 Western-style elites?"

"Absolutely!" Gu Lihuan clapped his hands excitedly, "Ye Hou's sugar, not only as white as ice and snow, but also sweeter than before, the sucrose that Hongmao Baiyi buys from the mainland and Nanyang every year is at least six million taels of silver, and the profit is at least half, as soon as this sugar comes out, the traditional cane sugar can't fight at all!"

As long as sugarcane is planted widely in Pattani immediately and production is expanded, even if Ye Hou only takes one-third of the share of this cane sugar, more than one million taels of silver will be recorded every year.

Even if a soldier consumes 20 taels of silver a year, plus weapons and quilts, 40 taels a year is enough, 30,000 soldiers may not be able to raise, but it is enough to supply 20,000 elites! ”

"Not only that, my sugar can actually be refined from traditional cane sugar, I don't need to grow much sugarcane myself, I can buy brown sugar from the mainland and refine it into snow sugar, which can not only be sold to Hongmao Baiyi, but also sold back to the mainland, and I can make a profit of at least three million taels a year."

"That's right!" Gu Lihuan's eyes lit up, "This is simply a profitable business, we don't even need to plant sugarcane, we just buy Berao sugar to refine."

I don't know how many rich people are willing to buy this snow sugar and rock sugar, I'm afraid we make more than one million taels of money from the mainland every year! ”

"But the secret method of mercy can bring so much gold and silver, I'm afraid it will attract foreign rao to covet it, and the profit of millions of taels of silver a year, I'm afraid our Ye family won't be able to keep it, right?" Ye Huan, who had been speechless, spoke.

"Brother Xingwu is right, so I want to train 30,000 Western-style elites, without these 30,000 elite soldiers, I will definitely not be able to monopolize such secret methods, so I also have to take Jiaozhi's hometown as the foundation, because the two sides of the big year face the sea, and the land is narrow and there are few people, which is not enough to defend." Ye Kai replied with a little bit.

Ye Huan looked at Ye Kai, who was full of confidence, frowned as if he wanted something, and then stopped again, Ye Kai had been paying attention to his cousin's expression, and he nodded at Ye Huan.

"Brother Xingwu thinks something, you might as well speak freely."

In fact, Ye Kai has always attached more importance to Ye Huan's opinions, this cousin, who is only a few months older than him, looks relatively silent, but Ye Kai knows that he actually has real skills.

In history, Ye Huan was able to take the Ye family to conquer the whole territory of Johor under such a difficult situation, although on the surface, the leader of Malay Rao, Menggong, was the leader, but everyone knew that Johor was the Ye family's decision, and he could be praised by Liang Qichao as a figure on the same level as Luo Fangbo, and there must still be a few brushes.

Ye Huan hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Since Shu Wu you let me, then I will do it, our Ye family has been in Pattani for almost two hundred years, and there are more than 100,000 clansmen."

Now that we have hundreds of thousands of acres of land by the Tani River, you and the patriarch are still Siamese aristocrats, and with these conditions, we can attract more than 100,000 new visitors from the mainland.

At that time, there are Siamese people outside, as long as they befriend the English Baiyi, even the interests of this rock candy and snow sugar may as well share them a little, so that although they cannot achieve hegemony, they will have more than enough self-protection!

The murder weapon of the soldier is also, since the Ming Dynasty Xuande abandoned the homeland, it has been more than 300 years no longer owned by the Han people, and even to the Han and Tang dynasties Jiaozhi is the hometown of China.

Most of the people of North Vietnam regard themselves as descendants of South Vietnamese, not referring to the current South Vietnam, but to Zhao Tuo's South Yue country. His Majesty Yongle of the Ming Dynasty was so eloquent back then, and they were also rebellious from time to time, let alone today?

Why do we use Ye Jiaerlang's life to take away what kind of toe? Isn't it good for us to thrive in Pattani? ”

Ye Huan's words can represent most of the Rao ideas in this era, not only Europeans did not expect that Chinese mainland under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a paper tiger, but even the Chinese themselves did not think that the country was fragile.

You must know that at this time, China under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a population of almost 400 million, a standing army of more than 2 million, and a fiscal annual income of tens of millions of taels of silver.

Such a country, even if it is closed to the outside world, and it is impossible to conquer Europe in science and technology, because Europe is thousands of miles away, and the Qing government only needs to reach half of the Ottoman Empire's Ali reforms, which is enough!

The degree of decay of the Ottomans is definitely on par with that of the Qing Dynasty, but they are under the noses of Europe, and they are not as miserable as the Manchus!

The Qing Dynasty had an annual income of tens of millions of taels of silver, and it was absolutely not difficult to maintain a standing army of more than 100,000 Western-style and a coastal fleet with considerable combat effectiveness.

But no one would have thought that a few decades later, this country, which stood in the east of Asia and stood for thousands of years, would become the world's ATM and a walking ATM under the blind operation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!

At the end of the eighteenth century, Ye Kai was in the last chance to cheer up, if he didn't hurry up, that embarrassing history would be staged again, and the reality forced Ye Kai to have the idea of fighting!

Ye Kai did not answer Ye Huan's question, but showed the history book he had just shown to Gu Lihuan to everyone.

"Why do I want to recover the old place of Jiaozhi, why do I have to do this dangerous trick in a good life, everything is in this book, I invite you to take a look!"

This book called history is actually a collection of stories of historical figures compiled by Ye Kai, in addition to historical celebrities such as Champion Hou, the most introduced are characters in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, most of which are those anti-Qing heroes who have been submerged in the dust of history.

The history of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties has always been the hardest hit area of the Qing Dynasty's literary prison, including things like the Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading, which most Chinese under the rule of the Qing Dynasty did not know!

Many of the things we know now are only known from the records of the Japanese Mingxiang people.

Ye Kai always remembered that painting, when the Qing Han people who went to Japan saw the clothes of Rao Daming in Mingxiang, Japan, they didn't know what race the other party was and what country they were wearing, which can be seen in the erasure and fear of the Manchu government.

Flipping through the book written on rice paper that had not yet been printed, Ye Kai pointed to the historical story that recorded Yan Yingyuan and said to everyone: "You can take a look at this first, and you will know why after reading it!" ”

Everyone was curious about what Ye Kai had written, and they all came over to take a look.

"Eighty days with allegiance, the figure of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Taizu.

100,000 people died with one heart and left 300 miles of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"This.... Who did this? Majestic as a mountain, its heroic meaning comes to the face, why haven't I heard of the hero at all? ”

Yan Zilu shook violently, and then began to tremble slightly, I don't know why, tears flowed from his eyes, he didn't even read the story, but he always felt panicked!

"This seems to have been done by the history of Jiangyin Yandian, I have heard it from the elders of Hongmen!" Still knows, Gu Lihuan was silent for a long time, and said astringently.