"No wonder!"

Putting down the resume at hand and exhaling lightly, Mao Jue suddenly easily picked out a bottle of 82-year-old Lafite, 1582-year-old from the wine cabinet carefully prepared for him by the major shareholders in the back! I poured the red wine into a silver glass with a few pieces of rock sugar, shook the rock sugar, and took a sip.

He's getting married again, or he's going to get married again!

.........

On the other side, tens of thousands of kilometers away, Annan Haifang Port, in a room where glass was shattered, Luo Yu was also looking at the documents.

It's just that unlike Emperor Mao's calmness, she is excited and distressed to merge, in front of her is a bright yellow holy decree, Mao Jue's era has no internal affairs or Shaofu, the holy decree is issued by a similar substitute, but the rights and operation methods are completely different from the imperial property committee, the content of which is engagement, and she Luo Yu is the seventh concubine of His Majesty the Northern Ming Emperor.

Hesitant but expected, the helmsman of the Luo family, her eldest cousin Luo Ning became the sinner of the company, and to some extent even betrayed the empire, but the Luo family is still flourishing in the East India Company, Mao Jue is so important to the Luo family in his most important career, largely because of the feelings between him and Luo Ning, now that this bond is gone, Mao Jue has only two choices, either to completely eradicate the Luo family at the risk of breaking his muscles and bones and bleeding, or to deal with Luo Ning's defection in a low-key manner, Then choose a daughter in the Luo family to marry.

It seems that she Luo Yu has received this glory and has become the marriage bond of the family.

For a genius girl in her early twenties, she was deprived of the right to love at a young age, and the happiness of marriage in the second half of her life has been decided, which can be regarded as unfortunate! However, this has nothing to do with love, it is purely a marriage in exchange for interests, and Luo Yu does not exclude it after hesitation.

On the one hand, she is also an old Liaodong department, after the Hangzhou incident in Chongzhen's seven years, part of the Luo family was sent to Liaodong as a hostage, she was one of them, and then in the year of graduation from Dongjiang Academy, she was catching up with the army to go south to cede Songhang Quanfu Port and form the East India Company.

In particular, the value of this marriage is large enough, the eight gunboats of the East India Company plus a 75-meter dragon-class battleship of the Royal Fleet of the Beijing Division are parked in the port next to them, and the command of the mercenary group of the eight companies is also in the hands of a little woman of her own, and what makes her even more excited is that the company granted her full power, even if the power of the country is to start a war and form an alliance, the entire East India Company, there are only two people who have enjoyed such privileges before, namely Wu Sangui, the king of Zhu, who commanded the Maratha tribes and Madhya Pradesh in the Mughal Empire. Controlling Malacca, the tentacles extend south to Zheng Sen, the pirate king of the Sea Kingdom, who is said to be in another New World.

Now she, Su Yu, has also become a big man who controls the power of several countries! The red book she is holding now is a power of attorney stamped with the private seal of Mao Jue's major shareholders and the seals of all members of the board of directors.

"Sister Yu! Sister Yu! ”

Just when Luo Yu was a little confused and looked at the yellow book with the red book, a rapid shout suddenly sounded at the door, Chu Tian, this girl was like crazy, pushing the door in one by one, shouting excitedly: "I don't know why, just now those mobs besieging the company's port were all driven away by the city guards of Annan, and then the head of the city guards sent someone to send a letter, and Ruan Yuelian, the minister of the capital, wanted to invite Sister Yu to come over the mansion!" ”

finally came back to his senses, but Luo Yu's pretty and lovely face showed a sense of contempt! This morning, four mercenary regiments arrived at Haiphong Harbor with nine battleships, and they had a huge military force in their hands, and she hoped that Nguyen Yue would connect with her to take a pleat, so that she could take a breath of evil that had been left to dry for several days.

"See him? Send someone to send a letter to the Haiphong Metropolitan Protectorate, asking him to come here to see me! ”

"Here it goes, sir!"

These words were hard, and Chu Tian was also full of excitement and agreed, twisting his little buttocks and wanting to run out in a hurry, but before he could run a few parts, Luo Yu's call came from behind.

"Wait! Go out and help me choose a veil on the way, a bigger one! ”

"Veil? Sister, don't you hate that stuffy stuff the most? ”

"Your sister and I are married! I have to wear it if I hate it! ”

This time, Chu Tian was really like seeing a ghost, looking at Luo Yu, who had a slightly red face, in shock, and drilled twice, and then put his little hand on Luo Yu's fair forehead.

"Don't have a fever? Did you bump into a water ghost? ”

"What nonsense?"

Bar slapped off this girl's little hand, and suddenly, Luo Yu took the yellow holy decree very vigorously: "See, your majesty's letter of appointment today, your sister and I are also imperial concubines!" ”

His eyes widened, and Chu Tian's small sharp chin shell almost fell off in surprise.

.........

Since the Age of Discovery, legendary companies have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, but no company can reach the height of the British East India Company, because the British East India Company has achieved a feat that all companies have not achieved, completed the dimensionality reduction blow as a company, stood above the country, and destroyed the entire Mughal Empire.

In this time and space, the British East India Company knocked a clear word prefix in front of it, compared with the historical East India Company, which launched its great and despicable road of conquest a hundred years earlier, not to mention, and its appetite was still bigger, and while fighting with the Mughal Empire, it also launched a black hand against the ancient five countries on the Indochina Peninsula.

What is the best place to do in the wake of an economic crisis? Best for fighting!

On July 18, after a secret meeting with Nguyen Viet Lien, a minister of Annam, at the port of Haiphong, on July 21, Luo Yu ordered the East India Company stationed in Champa to withdraw its headquarters and relocate it to Da Nang, which was not far away but belonged to Annam.

In the new headquarters of the East India Company in Da Nang, Luo Yu also signed the latest large order this year, a full 500,000 taels of arms purchase to purchase arquebuses, general cannons, armor, broadswords, spears and chariots and other weapons and military supplies from Daming.

After all, for nearly a hundred years, the war between the Zhan people and the Yue people has been repeatedly defeated, and the land in the south and northwest has been almost lost, and even decades ago it still relied on the Ming Dynasty for help, and the Ming army sent troops to contain the Yue people, so that the city did not destroy the country, and now the Ming people have been driven away, and the Yue people have come over again. Gasol, the king who refused to meet with the East India Company for a month and a half, personally went to Da Nang on a sailing ship, wanting to cry and beg the East India Company representing the Ming Dynasty to help mediate.

Miss Luo Yu is not at home, and the shopkeeper Liu, who has been invited to close the door six times in a row, smiled very honestly and shrugged his shoulders, he can't call the shots, or you will wait a little longer?

I really let him ignore my love one day, and today you can't climb high!

But Luo Yu didn't mean not to see him, the eldest lady was really in trouble! On July 18, the Bangkok branch of Siam was officially expelled by the Sukhothai Dynasty, although the company branch had already ceased its activities and the members were ready to evacuate at any time, and were on standby on the company's merchant ships, but the branch still had a large amount of property seized and plundered by the Siamese government, and it is said that even the office building was seized and levied by the Sukhothai branch as the governor's palace.

It's like a straight shot at the muzzle!

Luo Yu, who had just been granted military rights by the company, was like a little girl who had been robbed of candy, and as soon as she had signed an arms purchase agreement with Annam, she immediately took the fleet that had just arrived and sailed south for eight days, first taking the strong island of Siam and the Sattahip in the outer corner of the Gulf of Siam, and on August 8, the gunboats of the East India Company, which were almost armed to the teeth, once again reached the edge of the city of Bangkok.

To tell the truth, at this time, the artillery level of the Ming battleships was still about a few decades behind the British naval guns during the First Opium War, but the level of armament of the Siamese Dynasty was at least 800 years worse than that of the Qing army in that era.

Firearms, there is! Some of the Spaniards and the Dutch brought, they are not rare to use arquebuses, the rest of the long-range weapons are a bow and arrow, as for the armor, in the hot climate, the Thai soldiers are basically not armored, only some generals and nobles can put on a piece of armor full of Buddhist flavor, decorative far greater than practical, most of the remaining soldiers and horses are shirtless.

The fall of Sattahip made the Siamese army have some preparations, the port side was densely arranged with soldiers and horses, about ten o'clock in the morning, the fleet entered the depths of Bangkok Bay, and Luo Yu, who also wore a tricorne hat in the Age of Discovery, took a long monocular and looked at the land very pirately, but it was a coincidence that a big man full of chest hair was the first to meet her eyes, the hot weather made this guy sweat all over, and he still held a big knife and screamed, Beads of sweat dripped down his long and thick armpit hair, which made Luo Yu sick at a glance.

threw the telescope directly, and the eldest lady was hiding back while covering her small mouth, and waved her little slap angrily: "Fire!" Shoot directly! ”

In the creaking sound, the heavy cannon compartment windows were slowly pulled up by the iron chain, and then the new generation of cannons erected on the gun track three and a half meters long, which had surpassed the technology of the redcoat cannon, revealed its hideous muzzle.

Boom ~ Boom ~

It was as if I heard a burst of thunder, on the horizon, large swaths of white smoke floated up, the eardrums itched violently, and in the stunned gaze of a group of shirtless foot-picking men, patches of black dots enlarged little by little in their pupils.

Of the five countries in Central and South China, three of them are involved in Luo Yu's crazy plan again!

(End of chapter)