Early the next morning, the assigned personnel began to work, first sending one to repair and further strengthen the damaged wooden fence, and the rest to build a screen in the open space in front of the inner city. The Dutch prisoners who had been placed at the docks yesterday were also brought to the farms to work with the indigenous captives, where they cut down the trees and widened the ditches, while the excavated soil was used to reinforce the wooden fences. The spies were also sent out to inquire about the news.

Seeing that the entire farm was in order, Zhang Zhijun was completely relieved, so he said goodbye to Li Lixin and returned to Batavia.

Li Lixin said: "Mr. Zhang, if you return to Batavia City like this now, will it be dangerous, and will the Dutch be unfavorable to you?"

Zhang Zhijun said with a smile: "Thank you Chief Li for your concern, but please rest assured, our family still has a bit of status in Java, not to mention that my father is now the consul of the Qing Dynasty in Xinjiapo, and the red-haired son will always have some scruples, at least he won't dare to harm me." ”

In fact, although Zhang Zhijun said so, he was not absolutely sure in his heart, although it was indeed impossible for the Dutch to kill him, but it was very likely that he would be arrested or placed under house arrest. However, Zhang Zhijun had no reason to return to Batavia, not to mention that there were many properties of the Zhang family in Batavia, and Zhang Zhijun's wife and children were small, and only in Batavia City was there a telegraph office, and he could contact Zhang Zhenxun.

In addition, Zhang Zhenxun now has a total of 6 sons, and has 4 sons who have become adults, although Zhang Zhijun is the eldest son, and began to take over some family businesses, but other brothers have also begun to take power one after another, if Zhang Zhijun wants to be Zhang Zhenxun's heir, he must have outstanding performance, so he must return to Batavia City regardless of the danger.

However, Java Island is not a happy land, Chinese people to make a living in Java, not only need diligence and intelligence, but also need to have considerable courage to do it, when Zhang Zhenxun started a business in Java, not only full of hardships, but also encountered a lot of dangers, but also survived, Zhang Zhijun is Zhang Zhenxun's eldest son, although he grew up, the most difficult time of the Zhang family has passed, but it is far from the current family business, so Zhang Zhijun followed Zhang Zhenxun to work hard, and also saw a lot of thrilling scenes, or a little bold.

Li Lixin saw that Zhang Zhijun had made up his mind, and it was difficult to persuade him again, so he wrote a letter to the governor of Batavia in the name of the East China government, which was extremely strong, and asked Zhang Zhijun to hand it over to the governor of Batavia, hoping to have some deterrent effect on the Dutch; he also took a single soldier radio station, handed it to Zhang Zhijun, and taught him how to use it, and agreed to talk once a day to inform the people's army of the situation in Batavia, but within 20 days, he must go out of the city and hand it over to the people's army to recharge, or replace it, so that if there is no talk for three days, Zhang Zhijun can be regarded as arrested or placed under house arrest, where the People's Army will consider breaking into the city of Batavia to rescue them, or attacking the Governor's Palace, capturing the Governor of Batavia, in exchange.

Although Zhang Zhijun was very skeptical about whether the People's Army had such ability, he was still very grateful to the People's Army for such an attitude, and Li Lixin also trusted himself by handing over the individual soldier radio to himself, so Zhang Zhijun said goodbye to Li Lixin and returned to Batavia City with his escort. Li Lixin arranged a platoon of troops to escort Zhang Zhijun and his party until they reached a place less than 20 kilometers away from Batavia City before returning to the farm.

When Zhang Zhijun arrived at Batavia, it was about 4 p.m., and the road leading to Batavia had been blocked with horse sandbags and guarded by heavily armed soldiers. Batavia was built in the style of European cities, and no walls were built, of course, when they saw Zhang Zhijun, the soldiers guarding immediately let them enter Batavia. After entering the city of Batavia, Zhang Zhijun was also quite surprised, only to see that the city was already in chaos, and many people were loading horses and carts, as if they were preparing to leave.

It turned out that yesterday morning, the Dutch Navy returned with a feather, and only one of the six warships came back, and the opponent only had two warships, which shocked the entire Batavia City, and this morning, there was news outside the city that the overseas Chinese actually borrowed the Zhang family to go ashore on the dock outside the city, and defeated the three-tribe alliance army on the Zhang's farm, which made the whole city of Batavia fall into great fear. Therefore, the governor of Batavia, William Rosbru, did not care to hold the commander Helwig responsible, and immediately ordered Helvig to organize the defense of Batavia at once.

Helwig was not only the commander of the navy, but also the supreme military commander of the entire island of Java, so he immediately ordered the army to immediately block all roads into the city of Batavia, and set up a horse barrier to prevent the attack of the overseas Chinese.

As soon as Zhang Zhijun returned to his mansion, his family immediately informed him that since the morning, the Governor's Mansion had sent three groups of personnel to look for him in succession, and asked Zhang Zhijun to go to the Governor's Mansion as soon as he returned.

This was also expected by Zhang Zhijun, he first returned to the inner room, called his wife, taught her how to use the infantry radio, and spoke to Li Lixin in front of her, agreeing that if he was detained by the Dutch colonial authorities, his wife would immediately call for help to the People's Army through the radio. Then he called a confidant and family member, dictated the content of a telegram, and asked him to send it to Zhang Zhenxun as soon as possible, and tell Zhang Zhenxun everything that happened here. After arranging these things, Zhang Zhijun left the mansion and came to the governor's palace.

After meeting Governor Rossbury, Zhang Zhijun handed over the letter from the East China Government to Rosebrook without waiting for him to speak. Originally, Rosburu had something to ask Zhang Zhijun, but as soon as he heard that it was a letter from an overseas Chinese, he couldn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly took the letter and opened it.

Although the letter was written in English, Rosburu still understood it, and the content first accused the Dutch Batavian authorities of failing to control the situation well, which led to the occurrence of anti-Chinese incidents, which caused great harm to the personal and property of the Chinese in Batavia, and the Batavian authorities needed to bear full responsibility for this, so the KPA rushed to Batavia to protect its own nationals, not against the Batavian authorities, and asked the Batavian authorities not to interfere in the actions of the KPA, otherwise the KPA would be regarded as hostile and would take necessary measures to counteract, and of course take effective measures as soon as possible to prevent the expansion and spread of the anti-Chinese incident, severely punish the perpetrators, compensate the losses of the Chinese, and so on。

After reading it, Rosburu's face was shocked, although the wording of the letter was quite harsh, and there was even no lack of threatening intentions, but it also expressed that it was not aimed at the Batavian authorities, of course, it was not ruled out that this was a superficial article, so that the Batavian authorities could relax their vigilance, and after the overseas Chinese controlled Java in the name of protecting overseas Chinese, the Batavian authorities were helpless. However, the overseas Chinese have won a great victory at sea, and they have already landed successfully, so the meaning of this letter must not be underestimated.

After a long while, Roseblue came back to his senses and said, "Mr. Zhang, I heard that overseas Chinese docked through your Zhang family's wharf and lived on your farm?"

Zhang Zhijun nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Roseblue stared at Zhang Zhijun and said sharply: "Why are you doing this, don't you know? ”

Zhang Zhijun said: "This is my father's decision, I just do what he tells me, you should know that the person in charge of our family is my father." ”

Roseblue waved his hands and said loudly: "No matter who is in charge of your family, no matter whose decision it is, your actions are betrayal, betrayal of Java, betrayal of the Batavian authorities, and this is unforgivable. ”

Zhang Zhijun also raised his voice and said, "We didn't turn our backs on Java, because the overseas Chinese only want to protect the Chinese, and they don't want to invade Batavia." Moreover, Mr. Governor-General, before the Chinese exclusion incident occurred, I reminded you that I hoped that you would take measures to stop the expansion of the Chinese exclusion incident, otherwise the consequences would be out of control, but you refused to stop it on the grounds that Batavia's troops were insufficient and powerless, and allowed the situation to expand, which led the overseas Chinese to protect the overseas Chinese, so it was you who caused the current situation. Even if Batavia's troops are insufficient, wouldn't it be nice for overseas Chinese to come to help?"

When Roseblue heard this, he couldn't help but be angry: "This is Java, not China, no matter what happens here, it has nothing to do with the overseas Chinese, do you think I don't know their details? They are just a local official of the Qing State, they are not the East China government at all, and they are not qualified to speak on behalf of the Qing State, and the Chinese here have nothing to do with them." It turned out that after the defeat of the fleet yesterday, Rosburu began to pay attention to it, and hurriedly inquired about the situation of overseas Chinese, and also learned about the situation of 6 or 7 points.

However, Zhang Zhijun also heard Rosburu's weakness in his words, so he said: "Mr. Governor, whether the East China government is qualified to represent the Qing State or not, it is useless for you to tell me, at least they think they have, maybe you can protest to the Qing State through diplomatic channels, of course, if you want me to convey your attitude to the People's Army, I am happy to serve you, but I suggest that you write a reply letter, so that it looks formal." ”

Roseblue stared at Zhang Zhijun for a long time before he said: "No need, when I need you to deliver a letter, I will naturally look for you, you go back first, it's best to stay at home honestly these days, don't run around, and don't think about going out of the city, understand?"

When Zhang Zhijun heard this, he also breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had passed this level, so he said: "Okay, I will wait patiently at home for Mr. Governor's summons and leave." ”

Walking out of the Governor's Palace, Zhang Zhijun also breathed a sigh of relief, now the Zhang family is completely tied to the East China government, I only hope that this time they can really do something Mingtang.