Eventually, Fan agreed to hand over the bilateral trade agreement in the Far East with the Dutch to the British East India Company, officially giving Britain a monopoly on the trade cake that represented great wealth. and the in-depth strategic cooperation between the two sides in the Far East and the formalization of the official alliance between the two sides.

However, the precondition for this contract was that the British East India Company had to purchase a hundred sail warships from the capital of Daming Qiongzhou.

In fact, Fan Jinyan did this nothing more than to ask Britain to be his movable type signboard, as long as the European countries saw the power of the sail warship, they would definitely flock to it, this is his purpose.

Not long after, Jill was authorized by the Governor of the British East India Company to sign these two major contracts for the long-term development of both parties.

As a company that was not purely commercial trading, the British East India Company wanted to sign a five-year production volume of sail warships with Fan Jinyan at one time.

That is, the five hundred warships that Fan Jinyan expected.

This is an unimaginably large deal, five hundred warships, two hundred thousand silver each, that is an order of 100 million taels of silver.

According to the cost of 50,000 taels per ship, the net profit actually reached as much as 75 million.

Not to mention the total assets of the British East India Company and the Kingdom of England, even the Netherlands, a country that had relied on colonial plunder for decades and had huge wealth, might not be able to come up with such a huge amount of money for a while.

The intention of the British East India Company was obvious, they did not want Fan Jinyan to buy the warships to others, even if they were their allies, so they took all the warships into their own hands and only sold them to the countries or forces they were willing to sell to.

Fan Jinyan didn't care about this, for him, the sail warship was just a commodity of trade, and Britain would never want to control him with monopoly trade.

Because, in the near future, he will use ironclad battleships to tell the world that no matter how good a battleship made of wood is, in front of the ironclad ship, it is all scum.

As a result, Fan Jinyan boldly signed two contracts that ostensibly related to the fate of both parties.

As for the agreement mentioned above in the contract to pay for the goods in batches for each delivery of the warship, Fan Jinyan did not mean much. He originally thought that the British East India Company would have a delivery period of ten or twenty years.

It seems that although Britain has not been as good as the Dutch in recent years, the colonial trade has accumulated a lot of wealth for them.

Then, Fan Jinyan suddenly had the idea of developing colonial rule

At this time, there was another worrying news from the north, Li Zicheng, Li Dongguo's plan to seize power was seen through by Mu Tianbo, who had already taken precautions, and after a big battle, they were ambushed one after another, and the two of them rushed into the border of Guangxi with the only remaining 10,000 soldiers, stirring up chaos in Guangxi.

I don't know what Chongzhen's considerations were, but he actually surrendered Nima, or recognized his title of King Shunming, and gave him Leizhou as a fief.

The more Fan Jinyan thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he always felt that something was wrong.

In the end, Fan Jinyan finally figured out that Chongzhen wanted them to eat dogs......

Phew, you're a dog.

Li Zicheng is a well-known anti-bone boy, and Fan Jinyan's ambition is also obvious. Chongzhen obviously wants the two of them to fight to the death, so that he can sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

The most irritating thing is that as soon as Li Zicheng arrived in Leizhou, he recruited troops, and within a few days, 10,000 people became 50,000. Not only that, but he also openly ordered the people to build sea ships, and the spearhead was directed at Qiongzhou on the other side of the strait.

Fan Jinyan couldn't help but sigh, the world is really wonderful, when he first arrived here, Li Zicheng was still the supreme emperor, only a year has passed, he has become a famous Jinghai Marquis in the South Seas, and Li Zicheng has fallen from the supreme emperor to a wild general who wants to compete with him for a small piece of Qiongzhou Island.

It's really unpredictable!

Fan Jinyan didn't want to set foot in the mainland so early, but it didn't mean that others were bullied to the doorstep and had to endure it.

So, he ordered Yang Dahai to send fifty warships north to guard against Li Zicheng's surprise attack.

Another 10,000 new soldiers were recruited, mixed into the two large battalions of Tang Fei and Wei Da, and integrated the troops as soon as possible to meet the upcoming war.

……

At this time, Fan Jinyan received a letter from Yunnan.

Signed Mufu Jade Liquid.

At first glance, Fan Jinyan thought it was written by a woman, but after reading the letter for a long time, he realized that this guy named Yuye was actually Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Dian Kingdom.

Fan Jinyan couldn't help but feel a chill, he had seen a strange table, but he had never seen a big man who gave himself this table.

Fan Jinyan's understanding of Mu Tianbo comes mostly from the image in the TV series Lu Ding Ji, and it was not until Li Tongyi, who had heard of Mu Tianbo's deeds, that he subverted the image of his loyal minister in Fan Jinyan's heart.

In fact, Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Dian State, is no different from other Ming magnates, occupying land, and doing a lot of private things on the Internet.

In history, if he hadn't been told by Li Dingguo to support the Yongli Emperor to resist the Qing Dynasty, it is estimated that this old boy might have surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty.

However, it cannot be concluded that he is not loyal to the Ming Dynasty, if he is not loyal to the Ming Dynasty, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about to unify the Central Plains, he will not be able to risk the danger of exterminating the clan to follow the famous escaped emperor Zhu Youlang, and finally died in Burma.

Mu Tianbo's letter is very interesting, on the one hand, it is to express goodwill, but also to mention the current situation crisis, hoping that Fan Jinyan can look at the face of the ministers in the same hall at the critical juncture and pull Yunnan. Immediately afterwards, he mentioned Li Zicheng, who despised his character to the extreme, and said a lot of resentful things. On the contrary, his deputy Li Dingguo praised him a lot, praising him as a good general, and if he could fight for it, it would be a great help. In the end, he insinuated that Yunnan was poor and poor and could not resist the invasion of the Manchus, and hoped that Fan Jinyan would be able to support some weapons and silver taels.

After reading it, Fan Jinyan slowly refolded the letterhead, put it in the envelope, and put the envelope at the bottom of a pile of documents.

During the whole process, Fan Jinyan maintained a contemplative expression and did not pay attention to the movements in his hands.

He was still thinking about the content of Mu Tianbo's letter and Mu Tianbo.

He didn't know whether to believe such a guy who was respected by later generations as Lord Mu, but took a girl's name.

In this way, he sat motionless, and it was not until an hour later that Wang Dashan came to his wife and told him to go back to the backyard to eat, and Fan Jinyan slapped the table and stood up.

An inexplicable move frightened Wang Dashan for a moment, and when he heard Fan Jinyan's muttering words, he breathed a sigh of relief, secretly cursed that he was sick, and quietly withdrew from the study.

Fan Jinyan finally figured it out, regardless of whether his Mu Tianbo's love was patriotic or not, anyway, he Fan Jinyan was not loyal to Daming at all. As long as you resist foreign aggression, Lao Tzu will vigorously support you regardless of whether you are ambitious or not, whether you are a sissy or not. (To be continued.) )