HMS Victory, which is still preserved in the Royal Navy Base at Phuttsmouth, is one of the most famous British sail battleships, built in 1759 and completed in 1765, with standards exceeding the average first-class battleship, it is currently the most powerful warship of the British Royal Navy.

The Victory fought in the Battle of Aschente Island in the Thirteen States War of Independence, and later in the Battle of Cape Saint Vincent in the French Revolution.

Of course, the highlight was at the Battle of Trafalgar, when the Victory, the flagship of the 1st Viscount Nelson, the soul of the British Royal Navy, was the first to appear on board the famous English slogan that everyone is expected to do their duty.

Now, this giant ship, which shocked everyone, was quietly docked in the harbor, and Qiao Si took Ye Kai's hand affectionately and introduced: "My friend, do you know how powerful the Victory is?" With a displacement of more than 3,500 tons, a crew of 850 men, and a three-tiered gun deck with a total of 105 cannons and 4 short and heavy guns on the first deck, it is simply a fortress on the sea! ”

Qiao Si's fat face was full of energy, as if he was a child who was introducing his favorite toy to his partner.

Ye Kai nodded in agreement, swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva fiercely, 109 cannons! There are 30 32-pounder cannons alone!

This has to be sailed back to the South Seas, and with a few three-sail fast warships as a supplement, it is estimated that it will be able to fight from Pattani to Dagukou!

But this is just to think about it, such a battleship is extremely precious to the British themselves, and it is impossible to give it to him!

But there will be one or two warships that belong to him, and he deserves to be paid.

Originally, Ye Kai was going to buy a sail warship in France, but France, which was almost beaten into a land power country in the Seven Years' War, has not recovered at all, they don't have many warships of their own, where did they get it for Ye Kai?

Not to mention the five battleships sold to Ruan Phuc Anh, they were all in tears.

"How? Ye, do you need to go to the Victory and see for yourself! "It's not enough to show off from afar, Qiao Si kindly invited Ye Kai to visit.

Ye Kai swallowed his saliva again, his head swaying rapidly, "No! Don't go! It's impossible for me to have such a giant battleship if I go, and it's uncomfortable to see too much. ”

"Hahaha!" Seeing Ye Kai's uncomfortable strength, Qiao Si laughed happily.

"Ye, you really dare to think that this is the latest first-class battleship! It is impossible to sell at all, as far as I know, what Congress has approved to give you is nothing more than two 40-gun fourth-class battleships. ”

"A fourth-tier battleship?" Ye Kai pretended to be stunned and raised his head, in fact, he had already prepared in his heart, but he still had to look very shocked on his face.

"Why is it level four? My dear friend, I have come to London at the risk of my life to hand over to you the technology of diethylxmorphine and berberine hydrochloride, which is only the equivalent of two fourth-class warships?

You must know that the French have supported the Quang Nam Kingdom with five warships, including a third-class warship! ”

"Ye, you know that the two are not comparable!" Qiao Si didn't smile anymore, he took a handkerchief from the attendant beside him, wiped his sweaty hands, and then walked over to Ye Kai.

"The so-called warships of the French that are supported but are actually sold at a high price are all old antiques that have long been eliminated in Europe, and there is no comparison with our new warships at all, and you not only want a ship, but also a crew, two fourth-class warships are enough for you to use in the East!"

Ye Kai touched his nose, and he didn't think about how to refute Qiao Si's words for a while, because he was right!

The French seem to have been very generous in giving Nguyen Phuc Anh five warships, one third-class, two fourth-class, and one fifth-class, but these five warships are all very old warships!

Among them, this third-class battleship is even an antique built at the end of the seventeenth century, that is, about 1690, with an old design, an old hull, old guns, negligent maintenance, and a lack of crew to drive him, although it also has 76 guns, Ye Kai estimates that it is likely that it will not be able to defeat the current fast three-sail battleship with more than 20 guns.

At this point, Ye Kai lost interest in continuing to visit, and Qiao Si was in a hurry to go back to London to drink and gamble, so the two of them rushed back in a carriage!

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How on earth can the British give themselves at least one third-class battleship?

Ye Kai, who returned to the hotel, couldn't sleep at all, and after visiting the Royal Naval Base in Pontsmouth, he was not calm at all.

If you don't see it with your own eyes, you can't understand how powerful the British Navy is in this era, and when the three-deck Victory is aimed at Ye Kai with hundreds of guns, he feels trembling and fear from the bottom of his heart!

The armies of the East were still in a time when several thousand men were armed with a few, or at most a dozen guns, and the British had 107 guns on one ship.

No way! It was necessary to get a third-class battleship, because now the Dutch, the first force in the South Seas, had two third-class battleships and a bunch of armed Galen merchant ships equipped with more than 30 guns.

If he only brought back two fourth-class battleships, it would not be enough to deter the Dutch, and it is foreseeable that after he returned to the South Seas this time, his biggest rival was not the North Vietnamese Xishan Dynasty, but the Dutch colonists entrenched in Batavia.

But what should be done to negotiate with the British?

Ye Kai sadly found that he, who seemed to be very prestigious, was sandwiched between the British and French governments, and there was no room for bargaining at all.

When he came to London, for example, he thought that the French and British governments would have a fierce fight over him.

But the reality was that they left him alone, and left his going to the decision very simply, not even bothering to do the superficial work of informing him, but only told him at the end that France had agreed to let him go to London.

In the past two years, Ye Kai is most unaccustomed to not having a mobile phone and computer, nor is he not without the wine and food of later generations, but this kind of powerlessness for his own life

If in the 21st century, if you are not happy to do it, you will stop doing it, and it will be a big deal, and your life will be a little harder!

But here, whenever he has the idea of not cooperating, he will be pinched twice at every turn, either threatening the safety of his own life or the safety of his family.

Ye Kai also understood the reason why many ancients were desperately trying to climb up, and later generations could not climb to the top of society, but they were just doing a good job, but in this era, they would be fatal.

So Ye Kai, who thought about it, found that it was the right thing to take Vietnam as soon as possible and have his own territory!

The only thing he can count on now is not much, and this time it is likely that he will need to use the last cross-era golden finger he knows.

It was only under this irresistible temptation that the British would give him enough support to give him a real naval officer, and not a few sailors.

Of course, this thing is not a cure for sepsis, it is the one who makes the sailors eat all sorts of things to see what can cure sepsis.

However, although his experiment was successful, he himself had been driven back to his hometown, because the stubborn British naval bureaucrats did not believe him at all, and they refused to accept even the evidence in front of them.

Even a local native like Lint can't be changed, what role can an outsider Ye Kai play?

Of course, it's not cinchona cream and the quinine drugs and quinine water that are made from it, because this thing can now be made, and the reason why there are fewer is not because Europeans don't know its efficacy, but because the raw material for the production of quinine, there are too few cinchona frost trees.

And the synthetic quinine, uh, Ye Kai only knows a rough idea, he only knows what it seems to have to do with kerosene, and he doesn't remember the specifics.

The reason why he remembers it so clearly is that he has to thank the emperor, because before Ye Kai crossed, this white-eyed leader went around publicizing the strange remarks that taking hydroxychloroquinin can cure the new crown.

So now, excluding these, the last super gold finger that Ye Kai is familiar with is vulcanized rubber!