During this time, Kangda still led the 300 naturalized battalion laborers to work on the dam site, and it is clear that the work cannot be stopped at the moment, not only because of the need to complete the main body of the dam before the rainy season, but also because of the need to strengthen the dam - at least to the extent that it will not be easily destroyed by the natives during the siege.

When Hou Xianglin was busy with the construction of the defensive fortress, Lao Wang and Lao Ba continued to do their business step by step, especially Lao Ba, who was discussing with Pimont and the Duchess about the bank loan - according to Lao Ba, our measures and attitude of not being surprised are to tell others that we are sure to hold Xin'an City and destroy the enemy, so we can do what we should do in business, the more calm we are, the more beneficial it will be to the defense of Xin'an City, and the more stable we will be able to stabilize people's hearts.

Recently, there has been a lot of gossip in Xin'an City, and many people secretly say that in the upcoming rainy season, there will be a big war in Xin'an City, and tens of thousands of strong warriors in the jungle will wash Xin'an City in blood, and it is also said that the army of the tribal alliance will take away the devil who angered the mountain god of Shenshan, and drive the devil's accomplices Australians into the sea, and also said that the warriors of the Southern Tribal Alliance have gained divine power, and they will not be afraid of the firearms of the whites, and the mountain gods will rain heavily in the rainy season, so that the bronze cannons and firearms of the white people will lose their effect, and at that time, Whites will be in a desperate situation – in the local indigenous context, all non-indigenous peoples, except blacks, will be called white, or in a derogatory term, white-skinned.

As a result, the Australians, Europeans, Han Chinese, and Japanese in Sin'an are all classified as white, because these people do have lighter skin than the natives in the jungle.

Obviously, these rumors will only have a negative effect on the security situation in Sinan, but they also confirm part of the reality - that is, the attack on Sinan'an should not be earlier than January, after all, the rainy season for the whole island of Timor will start after February.

Therefore, although the rumors are terrible, it does not seem to affect the bustling flow of people in Sin'an City every day, at least, the local natives are still begging for a life in Si'an City, and the naturalization camp is still in order, maybe it can be thought that even if there will be war in Sin'an City during the rainy season, but in front of me, Xin'an City is still a place where you can earn money and find a job, as for the future fate, according to the concept of the locals - then hand it over to the mountain gods.

Therefore, for the traversers who manage Xin'an City, the only ones who have a sense of the current fluctuation of people's hearts are Lao Ba and Han Letian, these days the two will be in the governor's palace every day, counting the income and expenditure of the two banks today, obviously they found a problem - when the handling fee is issued, the number of people who want cash has increased sharply, and the number of people who are willing to deposit the cash in their hands in the bank in exchange for a silver ticket is decreasing day by day, and the balance of the bank's deposit is also decreasing day by day.

However, Han Lotian was quite unimpressed by this, believing that as long as there were large deposits from the Governor's Palace, the Imperial Ao Company, several Dutch merchants and the Loka tribe in the account, the bank would not suffer a loss of strength. However, Lao Ba did not think much of it, he believed that the real strength of the bank lies in the large number of small depositors, and with this foundation, the strength of a financial institution will be recognized by the society, so as to be recognized by the financier - otherwise, the bank is a castle built on the beach, unable to withstand the wind and waves.

However, at this moment, the old and the young have to come to a conclusion: only an absolutely victorious war can fundamentally reverse the situation.

First of all, the two launched a preferential deposit interest program, and announced it in Chinese, Portuguese and Dutch outside the bank gate at the crossroads: All customers who deposit a fixed term for half a year before February 10, no matter how much the amount, will have a monthly interest rate of 2%!

When the old prince and prince Lin Kangda and others asked the two financial tycoons why it was February 10, the two replied in unison: This is a test of our business partners' confidence in us, and if our business partners have confidence in the future of Xin'an City, they will invest money, then this will also be a reward for the trust of business partners - as for the risks and concerns, it depends on their own tolerance.

At this time, Lao Wang suggested, why don't we hold a machine gun shooting performance, once the sharpness of this firearm is displayed in front of the people of Xin'an City, I am afraid that people's hearts will be unstable?

As soon as Lao Wang's plan came out, he was immediately resolutely opposed by Xiao Pingguo, Wei Hong, Su Gaofei and others, they said, you keep doing this, the hearts of the people of Xin'an City are stable, but the Shannan Tribes Alliance may be too scared to come.

The current situation is that we are afraid that people will not come to know?! We're afraid that people will hide in the jungle and fight guerrilla warfare with us, you know?

Wei Hong complained in front of several old people, anyway, I don't want to take the team into the jungle to suppress bandits, it's too dangerous and inefficient, if these jungle tribes really do this, then in the end, this war will become a chronic and distant jungle guerrilla war between us and the indigenous tribes, which is simply a nightmare for Timor Island!

Zhou Rui also said to the side, so it's good now, the enemy wants to get out of the jungle and fight us in the wilderness, great, don't say that we have a 20mm machine gun wine that can break this group of people, even if we only have five-seven rifles, grenades @ bullets and bayonets, we can still kill the other party to the point of blood, the strategy to deal with the natives is: don't talk about any reason, everything is talked with fists, don't ink with this group of people, beat them to death with a stick, think about it, that sour ...... I don't want it......

So Lao Wang looked at the old man standing beside him with a calm face and said, listen, listen, Ang! What do these young people say, huh? Is it human talk? Why are they all so ruthless, and they still use machine guns to break through, and they are still sour...... Alas, that's a human life......

Lao Ba responded calmly, long live understanding, Master Wang, this is also forced by reality, you treat those natives as human beings, it is human life, the problem is that those natives themselves don't take their lives seriously! So don't worry about it, in a word, those natives don't deserve to be treated as human beings at all! Think about it, when the leader gives an order, the group of people will fill it with their own lives one after another, is this a human being? It's a swarm and it's pretty much the same! So if you break through with machine guns, you will break out, rest assured, if you can't finish killing, just rely on the reproductive ability of these natives, and ten years later, it will be a stubble of leeks, oh no, it's labor......

Well, Lao Ba's words choked Lao Wang speechless on the spot, and he said in his heart that there was a more ruthless one here......

In short, the drama of the machine gun shooting show did not materialize, and the low-level fools in Xin'an City should do what they should do, but the panic and worry in their hearts continued to increase as time went by, and more and more people lined up at the bank at the intersection every day to exchange various chips and silver tickets for cash - although the notice of 20% interest was always there, but the people were very suspicious, and people did not believe that it was true.