After Wang Dashan slipped out, Fan Jinyan immediately said in a very helpless and apologetic tone: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency Jill, the black boxes of the new warship cannot be forcibly dismantled, and the gunpowder immediately is a special power, once forcibly dismantled, sparks will explode." ”

Jill is not stupid, what special power needs gunpowder to start? It is clear that he is talking nonsense with his eyes open.

However, he did not come to claim compensation, but to discuss with Fan Jinyan on behalf of the Governor of the British East India Company about in-depth strategic cooperation, driving the Dutch out of the Far East, and deepening commercial cooperation between the two sides.

Of course, Jill didn't understand why His Excellency the Governor was doing this, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't attack Fan Jinyan, right?

But the Governor's decision was the company's decision, and as an employee of the East India Company, he had no choice.

"Okay, Your Excellency, I'm not here to listen to your tricks, I'm here to talk about cooperation on behalf of the company." Jill sighed.

"Oh?"

Fan Jinyan was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What cooperation?" Aren't we already working together? ”

"Deepen the strategic alliance between the two sides, as well as commercial cooperation." Jill shrugged his shoulders and replied.

"You're confusing me even more, aren't we? We are allies. Fan Jinyan seemed to have guessed something, but he was not sure.

Jill took a document from his hand, handed it to Fan Jinyan, and said: "Your Excellency the Governor hopes that we will deepen our strategic cooperation and drive the Dutch mongrels out of the Far East, and our company will fulfill all the obligations of your country to the commercial cooperation with the Dutch East India Company. ”

After reading the contract documents written in both Chinese and English in his hand, Fan Jinyan finally determined what he thought.

The reason why the British did not shout and kill like the Dutch was entirely to replace the Dutch and monopolize all the trade profits in the Far East.

Fan Jinyan closed the document, looked at Jill with a smile, and said, "What can I get?" ”

"What?" Jill exclaimed exaggeratedly, "My God, you will get everything, sir, the whole of the South Seas is yours, and your goods will be sold to the West by our company, which is an untold fortune." ”

"And my battleship." Fan Jinyan said.

At the mention of the battleship, Jill was not happy, and said with a dark face: "God, can you not mention that damn battleship, do you want the poor soldiers to stay with a battleship that will explode at any time every day?" ”

Fan Jinyan smiled, got up and walked behind Jill, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Friend, tell you the truth!" It's not the battleship that has problems. ”

"Damn, I knew you did something on the battleship." Jill slapped the table and said angrily.

Fan Jinyan smiled indifferently, and then said: "Don't be angry, my friend, I will sell the battleship to Britain at a very low price, including all your allies in the West, and help you defeat all your enemies." ”

Without waiting for Jill to speak, Fan Jinyan continued: "It will take you a year and four to five hundred thousand silver to build such a warship, and I will build more than a dozen in Annan in addition to the five shipyards in Qiongzhou. One shipyard can produce five such warships a year, and a hundred a year, think about it! My friend, how many years does it take to build a fleet all the time? How much energy is needed? I can make you have a powerful fleet in no time. ”

Jill was stunned, but he didn't expect Fan Jinyan to have a shipyard in Annan, and he couldn't help but secretly scold the colleague in charge of intelligence for being too careless, but he was really moved.

I couldn't help asking, "How many silver taels?" ”

"It's very cheap, it only costs 200,000 taels for my honored ally, but for your allies, I want 300,000 taels." Fan Jinyan smiled.

Jill has been dealing with warships all his life, so he naturally understands the cost of battleships.

In the West, it would take at least seven months and a cost of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for a large shipyard to build a battleship of the Galen type. The larger the sail battleship, the larger the shipyard, more workers, even if it is a skilled worker, it will take at least fifteen months to complete one, and the cost is definitely more than Fan Jinyan estimated.

Therefore, Jill also thinks that Fan Jinyan is right, instead of spending time and effort to build a large shipyard and hire more workers, it is better to buy a fleet directly to be cost-effective, it seems that a hundred warships need to spend a huge amount of money of 20 million taels of silver at one time, but in fact it is still very cost-effective, only need to rob a few times, and everything will come back.

But if such a fleet were to be built, it would take at least ten years to build the shipbuilding capacity of the Kingdom of England at present.

Ten years, what a long time.

Thinking of this, Jill said to Fan Jinyan: "My friend, such a good simplicity, I will mention it to the Governor, but our cooperation? ”

"No problem, but I need time, you know I can't beat the Netherlands completely." Fan Jinyan said.

"No, my friend." Seeing Fan's words, Jill said excitedly: "You have the support of the British, and we will help you." ”

Fan Jinyan shook his head and said, "No, my friend, you don't understand, my current situation is very bad, and I must solve my crisis first." ”

For this large country in the East, Gil certainly knows that internal strife and constant external troubles have reached the brink of collapse.

But he also saw that the young man in front of him was definitely not a loyal courtier, and whenever he had the opportunity, he would definitely turn against him mercilessly.

Anyway, the Dutch forces in the Far East are already at the end of their strong offensive, and with them in the Indian Ocean to block them, the Netherlands no longer wants to get local support so easily. Coupled with the fact that their engineers in the Far East were killed and wounded, not a single ship could be built in a short time.

So, it doesn't matter if you wait, he believes that the Doge will agree to buy the ship, and by that time, they will have a fleet that has always been strong, the Netherlands, hehe! It's just a clown.

At this moment, Jill finally understood what the governor meant, and when the interests were high to a certain extent, everything else could be ignored.

He suddenly felt that it didn't seem to be a bad thing to have such an ally with strong development potential as Fan Jinyan in the East.

In fact, the top brass of the British East India Company thought much more than Gil, and Britain was different from the Netherlands, which was small in size and had a small population, and it was entirely dependent on seafaring trade and colonial plunder to support everything in the country. Britain has always focused on the West, the Western continent is her goal, and the ocean-going colonial plunder is only a small part of the country's support.

Of course, regardless of the path that Britain chooses later, at least for now, they do not have the ambition to build a hegemon in the Far East. (To be continued.) )