lied to Kangxi

Chapter 220

After dinner, William knelt down in front of the jade pillar, with Baixing and Niu Tai standing on both sides of the jade pillar.

Yu Zhu was sitting in front of the desk, with the paper spread out in front of her, holding the quill and ink that William got from her.

"Dear Mr. William, the questions I ask you now must be answered truthfully, understand?" Yuzhu didn't threaten William, but William naturally knew the power of it.

"Yes, I must know everything and say everything." William was terrified of being soaked in stinky water in the water prison, and quickly expressed his feelings.

"Well, I want to know the real situation of Miss Alice's house." Yuzhu didn't want to startle the snake, so he deliberately asked about the situation of Alice's house first.

"Miss Alice's family is a down-and-out Marquis. Her father is dead, and her brother John has the final say..." William took Alice's idea for a long time, and he naturally treated her The situation at home is well known.

While listening carefully, Yuzhu took the quill pen in his hand and recorded the main points on the paper.

According to William, Alice's elder brother John, who inherited the title of Marquis, is still very skilled in business, but his disadvantages are lust and gambling.

In addition, Alice's family has already declined, and its status in England has plummeted.

Yuzhu took a sip of his cigar, and then another sip of whiskey with ice and water, um, it must be a good thing to have such a cheap uncle who is greedy for money and lustful.

However, the English vocabulary of this era is still very different from modern English.

Yuzhu had to inquire about the specific spelling of words in order to grasp the true meaning.

However, this doesn't affect anything.

Even in the era of large-scale enrollment expansion, instead of expanding the enrollment of doctoral students, the enrollment has been reduced.

It is not an exaggeration to say that in Yuzhu's era, as long as a doctor who can successfully graduate has a certain degree of real ability.

The doctoral dissertation must be written in English.

After mastering Alice's situation, Yu Zhu asked William again: "In the Royal Navy fleet, how many tons does the largest battleship weigh? How many heavy guns?"

"My lord, the largest sailing battleship of the Royal Navy now weighs [-] tons..." William did not dare to hide the truth, and introduced the truth in detail.

According to William's confession, the Royal Navy currently has five first-class sailing battleships, each with a tonnage of about 2500-3500 tons.

This kind of monster at sea has three artillery decks, the number of artillery is between 106 and 122, and the number of sailors and gunners is more than 900.

另外，英国皇家海军装备的火炮，以弹丸的重量划分，主要是9磅、12磅、18磅、24磅和32磅五种火炮，口径分别为10.4厘米、11.5厘米、13.1厘米、14.4厘米和15.9厘米。

Through William's introduction, Yu Zhu knew that the flagship of the Royal Navy was extremely expensive, costing more than 10 pounds.

You know, the total amount of British foreign trade in this era is 1000 million pounds.Moreover, the total customs revenue of the UK is just over 100 million pounds.

Well, Daiying does really attach great importance to maritime hegemony. Historically, he has been desperately engaged in arms races and frantically built dreadnought-class battleships in order to maintain the huge advantage of the two-power standard.

The two-power standard, that is, the naval strength of the British must exceed the sum of the second and third naval powers.

Next, Yuzhu inquired about William's family situation in detail.

When Yuzhu learned that there were actually two sons who came to Guangzhou with William, Yuzhu couldn't help smiling.

So good, so good, so powerful!

Non-my family, its heart must be different!
Yuzhu knew better than anyone else that whether it was William or Alice, they were only temporarily succumbing to his power and coercion.

Now, since William brought his two sons to Daqing to do business, it was a godsend.

William must be held hostage in Guangzhou.However, among William's two sons, Yuzhu only planned to choose one and let him go back to England to help with affairs.

Yuzhu really doesn't know how to build a boat, but he understands human nature.

Of William's two sons, only one will go back, and Yuzhu is not afraid that he will be obedient.

The logic is actually very simple, if the one who goes back is not willing to work hard for Yuzhu.

That is to say, he did not sincerely want to redeem his father William, hehe, by that time, he would no longer want the inheritance right of the family wealth.

Britain at the beginning of the eighteenth century was a typical liberal capitalist society.

The characteristic of capitalist society is that if you have more money, you will have status, and you can buy officials to make more money.

The reality in Daying society is that if you have no money, you are just a little red guy who no one cares about.

The Qing Dynasty and the Great Britain were just the opposite. In the Qing Dynasty, power meant money.For example, He Zhongtang, Yu Yuqing.

Yuzhu asked more and more details, and William was shocked, which can be described as a tsunami.

Through William's introduction, Yuzhu suddenly discovered that the French fleet in this era is actually very powerful.

Although, a few years ago, the fleet of the Sun King Louis XIV was completely wiped out.

However, the French are very rich, and the scale of their shipbuilding is extremely large, which actually exceeds the total tonnage of the British fleet.

British capitalists with a sense of the sea are actually very difficult to coax.However, the French capitalists like bumpkins are different.

Hehe, in front of Yuzhu's eyes, a golden road with winding paths leading to seclusion suddenly appeared.

More importantly, there is no psychological barrier at all for Little William, who is of British nationality, to deceive the French.

Yu Zhu took several puffs of the cigar, but because of the quick puffs, tears and snot flowed down his nose.

These are tears of joy!

After interrogating William, Yu Zhu was pleasantly surprised.

Because, just on top of William's merchant ship, there are more than a dozen flintlock guns and two 18-pound guns hidden, with several barrels of gunpowder in pellets.

Yuzhu can fully understand William's approach.Nowadays, there are many pirates, if the ships of the sea merchants do not hide some guns, then they want to die!

Hey, Dai Zi is hiding in this supervisory office.

Yu Zhu decided to take Dai Zi to the south together, but he actually took a certain risk.

However, he is an authentic bannerman, not a Han Chinese in the south.Even if Kangxi becomes suspicious in the future, Yuzhu still has room to shirk.

After studying the guns of foreigners clearly, the reasons for fighting Junggar in the future are ready-made.

In the middle of the night, when Yuzhu went back to her room for bed, she suddenly found that Xingrui was taking care of her very hard.

The mountains are high and the emperor is far away.

In this supervisory office, Yuzhu is the ancestor who has the final say.

When the sun was shining on his buttocks, Yuzhu slept until he woke up naturally.

After Yuzhu woke up, he wrapped around Xingrui's snake waist and teased her with a smile: "Last night, you were so energetic."

Xingrui pursed her lips and smiled, "Xingjiao said, if you are too free, you will definitely hit that foreign woman."

Yuzhu gritted her teeth secretly, that girl Xingjiao is really treacherous and cunning, she understands the weakness of men.

Alice's older brother, John, is very unreliable.

According to Yuzhu's judgment, even if Alice is used as a hostage, John may not really care about her safety.

So, Yuzhu didn't plan to use the method to deal with William's family, but changed his tactics.

Uh huh, women don't care about men's situations, there are so many.

However, women who don't care about children are still rare.

Objectively speaking, Alice's belly has been enlarged, and she gave birth to a baby, which is also an illegitimate child. It is impossible to affect the family inheritance rights of Yuzhu's serious sons.

On the side of Dai Ying and Gaul Chicken, almost all the dignitaries have mistresses, and illegitimate children without family inheritance rights can be said to be crawling everywhere.

Five days later, Yu Zhu issued an invitation card and invited all the foreign merchants from the Shisanyi Pavilion to visit the supervisory yamen.

In private, Yuzhu can speak English fluently, but in public, he can't be so reckless.

When the foreign businessmen gathered together, all kinds of self-service meals and drinks filled the back garden of the supervisory office.

Just when the foreign businessmen were whispering and speculating about the new supervisor's intentions, Yuzhu and Alice officially made their debut.

Today's Yuzhu is not wearing the casual clothes of the Qing Dynasty, but a complete set of white suits, holding a civilized stick in his hand, and wearing a British-style high-top black bowler hat.

This kind of top hat can just cover the ugliness on the head.

"Darling, please allow me to introduce you. This is the Chairman of the Macau Branch of the East India Company, His Excellency Lord Churchill."

Alice, holding Yuzhu's arm, smiled and introduced Churchill, who came over, to her man.

"Your Excellency Supervisor, I am honored to meet you." Churchill took off his top hat, bowed and waved his hat in salute.

Yuzhu was thinking about the stocks of the East India Company, so he was naturally very polite to Churchill.

"Honorable Lord Churchill, on behalf of Guangdong Customs, I sincerely welcome you to Guangzhou." Yuzhu deliberately pretended not to understand English, and Alice acted as an interpreter.

Churchill really thought that Yu Zhu could not understand English, so he smiled and said to Alice: "Dear Lord Alice, I heard that Sir William has been looking for you everywhere."

Alice could tell that it was clearly a kind reminder from Churchill.

It's just that it's too late.

Not only did William fall into Yu Zhu's hands, but even Alice herself became a caged bird of the devil man.

Yu Zhu enjoyed this wonderful feeling of pretending to be confused, pretending to be confused, and stared at Alice blankly, as if waiting for a woman to translate.

Alice gritted her teeth secretly, it's a tragedy that she was so stupid as to provoke such a terrible man.

According to William, Charles II issued five laws in 1670, granting the East India Company the freedom to occupy territories, mint coins, command fortresses and armies, form alliances and declare war, sign peace treaties, and conduct civil and criminal proceedings in occupied areas. s right.

Yu Zhu knew very well that the shares of the East India Company would be very valuable in the future.As long as you buy it, you will make a lot of money and make a lot of money.

This is like, in 2004, when Penguin was listed in Hong Kong, the opening price was 4.37 yuan.

If at that time, some lucky people bought millions of shares and held them for a long time.

Hey, just wait for the windfall profit that will increase ninety times!
(End of this chapter)