Chapter 279: The Angry Chinese Businessman on Sanpin Street
Kuala Lumpur, an emerging city proposed by Ye Kai and built under the auspices of Gu Lihuan, has become extremely prosperous.
It is easily accessible by water, with water links to Malacca and land routes as far as Bunkerburu and Terengganu City.
Fertile fields have been cultivated around it, and the grain produced can not only be supplied to Kuala Lumpur City, but also have spare energy to be exported to Pengzhou and other places.
Today's Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Lanzhou, the former Selangor Island, with about 60,000 permanent residents, and the Chinese are the largest ethnic group, with about 45,000 people.
What is surprising is that the second largest group is not a local native, but a blonde and blue-eyed white skin, with as many as seven or eight thousand people!
Ye Kai's rule in the four states of Bei, Peng, Lan, and Terengganu benefited the most, of course, the Chinese, but in fact, the European white skins who begged for a life in Nanyang also benefited a lot.
In the past, if these white skins did not go to Batavia, where the Dutch lived, there was basically no good place to go.
Because compared to the Chinese, their appearance is more weird, and the scum who came to Nanyang is the scum in the white skin, belonging to the kind of scum who can steal and steal, and rob if they can't steal, which causes the natives to be very wary of them.
The original indigenous Bugis of the Malay Peninsula adopted a hostile posture towards the whites, and many Bugis warriors even took glory in killing the whites.
So ordinary whites in Nanyang are actually really not having a good time, and they may be attacked by the natives at any time.
And after Ye Kai ruled the land of the four states, their living environment changed all of a sudden!
Although the guy who steals chickens and dogs will be punished more severely than before, but the white people who are not so cheap live more comfortably, at least in the four states of Ye Kai, there is no need to worry about the danger of life at any time.
And Kuala Lumpur, that is the paradise of white people in the South Seas, with singing and dancing of warblers, gambling halls and bars, everything, rare things from the Qing Dynasty and even Japan, and delicacies from all over the world, can be found in Kuala Lumpur.
The white people, together with the large number of Chinese and a small number of indigenous miners in the nearby tin mines, have made Kuala Lumpur even more prosperous.
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The Kuala Lumpur Government Affairs Yamen, held here today, is the first annual meeting of the senior management of Fuxing Company.
In addition to Ye Kai, the governor of Peng and Lan states, who is in charge of the construction of Kuala Lumpur, the head of the government affairs hall of the Fifth Changjiang Wubo, who is in charge of specific government affairs, and Ye Huan, the commander of the police force.
and a large number of government officials, including Terengganu Governor Liu Chongli, and of course Louis . The European officers headed by Gaston and the Chinese officers led by Huang Laosi and Chen Wenqi were there.
The most important thing about the annual meeting, of course, is the financial report, although the revival company has been established for less than a year, but this year's financial report is undoubtedly very conspicuous.
The net profit of the entire Fuxing Company was as high as an astonishing 3.7 million taels, most of which was brought by the white granulated sugar and rock sugar that the Europeans called Marquis White Sugar.
Now the Fuxing Company has monopolized the sugar trade in the entire South Seas and even East Asia.
All the white sugar produced in the sugar houses in the South Seas had to be purchased by the Fuxing Company, and then handed over to the Dutch to sell to Europe.
The white sugar produced in the mainland suffered the same fate as Brazilian sucrose, which basically belonged to no one cared about, not only that, but the white sugar of the South Seas was also sold back to the mainland, and the sugar liao of the entire continent was wailed and suffered heavy losses.
The second is the financial report of the United Rubber Company, which is of course loss-making, because the rubber needs five to six years of careful care before it can be harvested, and it is still in the stage of investment.
However, up to now, the rubber plantations and rubber plantation area of the United Rubber Company have reached a terrible 2 million mu.
This will be the biggest source of revenue for Fuxing in the future, because the sales of vulcanized rubber products in Europe are very hot at present.
And the significance of the United Rubber Company is not limited to this, its greatest significance is to drag the British to the South Seas.
Because of the profits of the United Rubber Company, after feeding the English Hades who were far away in London, they would not have a strong enough desire to drive the English imps in India to come to the South Seas to make trouble, after all, the sun never sets on the empire, and there are many places to make a fortune!
However, not all financial reports are good-looking, and the financial reports of all firms such as Longsheng, which is in charge of Ye Fushun, are not good-looking, so that Ye Fushun has a black face and looks very faceless.
This Ye Kai's third uncle is the first patriarch in the Ye family to express his support for Ye Kai, his son is studying at the University of Paris, and his daughter-in-law He Yuer stays in Europe and is responsible for the life management of Ye's children in Europe, both of whom are Ye Kai's henchmen.
The daughter-in-law's brother is still Ye Kai's brother-in-law, a prince with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, it stands to reason that Ye Fushun thinks that he should be the most capable general by Ye Kai's side, but the result turned out to be the one who dragged his feet!
Seeing that Ye Fushun's old face was flushed, Ye Kai couldn't help but step forward to appease Ye Fushun in person.
Because the low profits of the Longsheng are not his fault, nor is it that Rama I suppressed the Longsheng, because this clever Siamese king would not do such a thing, if he dared to suppress the Longsheng, it would definitely cause panic among other Chinese merchants.
The most important reason for the decline in profits of the Longsheng was because of Ruan Hui, this guy was knocked by Ye Kai, and after he touched the soft nail in the south for the second time, he became more and more frustrated.
In order to deal with Ye Kaihe and realize the ambitions in his heart, he originally only had about 30,000 elites, but now he has swelled to around 70,000.
And in Vietnam, which is in Central and half of Beiqi, it can't afford to raise 70,000 full-time soldiers even if the land is scraped clean!
So in order to make money, Ruan Hui started the idea of the South China pirates, and at the suggestion of Mo Guan Fu, Ruan Hui distributed official positions to the South China pirates on a large scale, set up a logistics base, and even directly helped them sell the stolen goods.
Nguyen Hue prepared several seaside cities for the pirates, and while serving food and wine, he forcibly conscripted women to sell meat in these seaside cities to earn extra money.
The pirates who succeeded in selling the stolen goods would pay taxes for Nguyen Hue, and most of the gold and silver they got were wasted in these seaside cities.
Due to Vietnam's geographical advantages and security, it immediately attracted the vast majority of South China pirates.
It turned out that it was the Nanyang Chinese business led by the Longsheng that provided supplies and sold the stolen goods for these pirates, and as soon as Ruan Hui did this, the entire Nanyang Chinese business that made a living by selling the stolen goods suddenly lost business.
"Chief!" Ye Fushun arched his hand at Ye Kai, who came over to comfort him.
"Ruan Hui, this thief, acted recklessly, not only killed the good sons of my Fuxing Company, but also dared to break the rules on the road, the Xie, Guo, and Huang families of Sanping Street wanted to ask the chief to send troops to suppress Ruan Hui, and they were willing to provide 300,000 taels of silver and 500,000 taels of silver worth of materials to praise military affairs!"
Not! If it is really like killing people's parents, just selling stolen goods has brought a net profit of about 2 million to the Ye family and the businesses headed by the Xie family, Guo and Huang on Sanpin Street every year.
And this is only the profit from the sale of stolen goods, if you add the consumables such as rice, guns, knives, axes, and spirits that the pirates want to buy every year, four million can't stop it!
Ruan Hui stopped them halfway like this, which undoubtedly forced them to death, so everyone was in a hurry, and they scraped together money to come to Ye Kaigan to overturn Ruan Hui.
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