Chapter 226: Fighting a war turned out to be a money-losing thing

Chen Wenqi sat depressedly on a pile of straw, the official was gone, the reward was gone, the battalion commander became the company commander, but the third battalion was still under his command, but the company commander acted as the battalion commander.

He himself was also ordered by Ye Kaile to reflect on himself in prison for a period of time, as for what to reflect? Chen Wenqi touched his chin twice, but still didn't understand.

Forget it, let's sleep here.

Speaking of the reason why he got himself in prison, it was because he was carrying Ye Kai behind his back and planning to kill nearly 7,000 Bugis people.

Fortunately, Ahsan came quickly, and many Bugis soldiers were already half-buried in the pit, and by the time they were pulled up, it is said that hundreds of people were frightened on the spot.

To stop Chen Wenqi, of course, it was not that Ye Kai wanted to be a virgin in his kindness, but that he thought of an excellent place, that is, the gold mine of Raub.

Ye Kai only knew that this gold mine was once the largest gold mine in Malaysia, but what he didn't know was that this gold mine was particularly difficult to mine, and the veins were basically about 300 meters underground.

In this era, you basically have to exchange your life, and it is too labor-intensive for Malaysia to seal this gold mine in later generations, but in this era, human life is probably the least valuable.

But whose life can be exchanged for those precious golds?

It certainly can't be Chinese.

Witches?

It doesn't seem to be suitable, after all, if Ye Kai wants to occupy Pahang and Xuelan steadily, he still doesn't want to get the Wu people into the gold mine.

Because these local natives of Pahang and Selangor add up to more than 700,000, so many second-class citizens who have been tamed by the Bugis people, it is a pity that they are wasted like this, these Wu people should be raised and slowly exploited in the United Rubber Company!

When the Chinese and the Wu people are not suitable, the most suitable one can only be the Bugis prisoners of war, close to 7,000 people, and they will definitely be able to dig a lot of gold!

Moreover, in order to increase their enthusiasm, Ye Kai also promised that as long as everyone scooped up enough gold to redeem themselves, they would be cast!

emmmmmm, it is indeed a release, but this release is a little different, because not far from the Bukit Mangong gold mine, there is a large coal mine that has just been discovered, and it is also very difficult to mine, and the veins are also one or two hundred meters underground, and people are also needed.

As for the fact that there are really ruthless people who have redeemed themselves from the gold mine and redeemed themselves from the coal mines, then there is still a tin mine in Shenlan!

Anyway, in other words, these Bugis people have only one fate, that is, they work to death, and the news between the gold mine and the coal mine is strictly sealed, otherwise, the enthusiasm is too low, and these Bugis people are lazy.

As for Chen Wenqi, he is estimated to be locked up for a while, good guy, taking advantage of Ye Kai's absence, he dared to do his own thing if he secretly connected a few officers, and the soldiers still listened to him, and everyone didn't think there was anything wrong!

Although Chen Wenqi's starting point is to consider Ye Kai, but this is okay, there are one and two, will he have to be set aside in the future?

So this time, not only Chen Wenqi will be unlucky, but all the officers involved will be unlucky, and Ye Kai is also thinking about how to avoid this kind of thing from happening in the future.

Thinking about it, there are no good tricks, the simplest is to strengthen the cult of personality, open a military school, learn from the principal of Chang, and wait for Pahang and Selangor to be all knocked down, the military school, a modern university, will be on the agenda!

"Chief, good news, my Sultan Hisa Mudinsa of Selangor has succumbed, and he has retreated to Malacca with his more than 40,000 tribesmen, and my gate has been opened in Kuala Selange, my capital of Selangor!"

Gu Lihuan walked in with a happy face, he had just come from Pattani, the capital of Pahang, Kuala Lipe, was also captured by the Inside and Outside three days ago, and there were basically not many Bugis people in the city who survived, it may be that this scared my Sultan Hisa Muddin Shah of Selangor, and he took the initiative to give in and chose to leave.

"Good news, good news!" Ye Kai smiled bitterly, it is another city that is all indigenous, after I take it down Xuelan, now the place occupied by the Ye family is bigger.

Including the later Pattani Province in Thailand, Kuala Terengganu, Pahang, Selangor I in Malaysia, and most of Kelantan, it is almost 70,000 square kilometers, with two Hainan Islands, close to the size of Chongqing City.

There are nearly 20 cities and towns with a population of more than 10,000 and more than 700,000 indigenous residents.

And how many Chinese are there?

There are almost 24.4 million of them, which looks like a lot, but the Fuxing Company can directly control only more than 170,000, less than 180,000.

So the territory is down, but there are not enough people to occupy it, and the Ye family's current basic force is more than 4,000 people in their hands, including more than half of the French soldiers.

And although Ibrahim of the Bugis has been killed in battle, and the Sultan of Selangor has also chosen to back down, it does not mean that the dispute between the Renaissance Company and the Bugis is over!

There are still more than 300,000 Bugis people now, and if the clan is mobilized, more than 20,000 people can be pulled out.

What is even more disturbing is that the Dutch have taken back Manraka and hoarded 1,500 Dutch troops in Manraka, which poses a great threat to the existence of the Fuxing Company in Selangor.

In addition to these difficulties, Ye Kai's pocket is also about to bottom out, there is not much harvest by the Tani River this year, and the Ye family's business has basically come to a standstill because it has been fighting in the past two years, and it has not made any money.

It is no wonder that after Nguyen Phuc Anh successfully restored the country, he quickly laid off 20,000 Western-style forbidden troops, because he really couldn't afford to raise them!

Taking this war as an example, the consumption of gunpowder alone has reached as much as 20,000 catties, as well as lead bullets, artillery shells, grenades, damaged firearms, pensions for the dead and wounded in battle, rewards for victory, and military rations consumed.

Although it is possible to copy the property of the Bugis people, Xuelan and mine were withdrawn on their own initiative, and there will not be much left for Ye Kai at all.

Pahang, on the other hand, copied more than 500,000 taels of silver, but set aside a portion of it for the cost of the soldiers of the Renaissance Company stationed in several large towns, and also gave a reward.

If you let the soldiers go to raid the house, you can't pull out a dime, and the soldiers at this time do not have the consciousness of the mighty and civilized divisions of the Republic in later generations.

Calculated bit by bit, in this battle, just in terms of money, Ye Kai had a net loss of more than 200,000 taels.

If there are a few more battles like this, he will be able to go bankrupt directly, Ye Kai now deeply understands the meaning of the golden taels when the cannon sounds, it is not that you get the golden taels, but spend the golden taels.

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