That's right, in fact, whether it is the Han Chinese, the Japanese ronin or the indigenous warriors, these people are very knowledgeable, and the performance of the Type 57 rifle is simply an artifact in the eyes of these people, and they have never seen such a good accuracy in their lives - seven or eight hits in ten shots within 100 steps! It's simply the legendary 100 steps through the Yang! And the musket that reloads so quickly, as for the other five-seven grenades @ bullets in the waist, the soldiers are admiring its power and convenience, which is recognized by the soldiers as a big killer, so the morale of the current security team is quite high, especially when Yue Chu revealed that he wanted to go to the nearby jungle to "suppress bandits", the soldiers of public security were all eager to try - the morale of the team soared.

Of course, Yue Chu knew the reason - there was oil and water when he went out to fight.

The last time Wei Hong went on two expeditions, the soldiers were stained with a lot of light, and of course the ordnance was confiscated and returned to the public, but the scattered silver and silver on the dead bodies of the enemy turned a blind eye, and the sea also picked up the daughter-in-law on the battlefield, and at the beginning, in the battle south of the city of Oecussi, some soldiers picked up a woman - I heard that it was the daughter of the tribal chief, well, or the chief's woman......

Moreover, this time the soldiers of the garrison came back from the Leizhou Peninsula, everyone's pockets were bulging, and many of them also brought back their daughters-in-law - among the soldiers of the garrison, there were actually blacks who found a Han widow as their wives, which caused a sensation in Xin'an City.

The most important thing is that whether it is in the eyes of the soldiers of the garrison or in the eyes of the members of the security team, the equipment in their hands is synonymous with victory, and it is of course good to go out to fight to make money, but fighting is not a child's game, it is to fight with his life, so safety is the most important, there is a weapon to kill the enemy, and safety can be guaranteed, not to mention that the premise of making money must be to be able to win, and soldiers can only win the future and money.

This jungle "banditry" operation was proposed by Yue Chu, due to the reason that the southern tribe alliance in the south of the mountain is gradually approaching, so that the jungle in the upper reaches of the Xin'an River has been very uneven recently, and many indigenous people working in Xin'an City report to the governor said that there are all kinds of robbers in the jungle, and they have robbed themselves of the silver they have worked hard for a day, and there are also some gangs that force the indigenous women and children who come out of Xin'an City to give themselves "tribute", these thieves want everything, from silver to food, under normal circumstances, at least more than half of the income from part-time work - Lao Ba Han Lotian also said that it is strange that there are more people who go to Citibank in Dili City to deposit money, but they do not deposit money in the bank on the cross street of Xin'an City, and it is obvious that the increase in robbery cases in this jungle is not unrelated.

So Yue Chu took over the security team for more than half a month, and finally decided to go to the jungle to suppress bandits with the assistance of Pimont and the Loka tribe, of course, such a military operation is not only aimed at these jungle thieves, in fact, the fuse is another jungle adventure that Pimont engaged in three months ago.

Four months ago, according to the geological data provided by Australians, naturalists in Pimont found a small gold-silver symbiosis mine more than ten kilometers upstream of the Xin'an River, and the grade was quite high.

This gold and silver mine is located on the edge of the Australian federal control area, a stream in the middle of the Xin'an River, where is a jungle mountain, because the tributaries lead directly to the Xin'an River, so the traffic conditions are quite good, so Pimont and Degus, the Duchess and the citizens of Dili City jointly invested in the formation of an organization called Shannan Gold and Silver Mining Co., Ltd., intending to develop the gold and silver there.

At that time, Pimont also found Lao Ba and Han Letian and asked their bank to give him a loan to jointly develop this gold and silver mine, but Ba Han and Han did not agree.

The reason is very simple: the capital of the Australian Development Bank and the Commonwealth Industrial and Commercial Bank is not abundant, and the board of directors of the "Northbound Fund" controls the funds of these two banks very carefully and strictly, and at present, the two banks have no surplus funds to carry out other credit business that has not been approved by the fund council.

Of course, it was not that these two were unwilling to agree to Pimont's financing request, but that at the beginning, this financing proposal was rejected by President Yu He Weiyu, who was far away in the Red Mansion.

The main reason is that Yu Hewei believes that the development of gold and silver mines is far less important than the development of coal, iron, copper, gypsum and graphite mines on the island, and even less important than cutting down trees.

Because, these mineral resources are strategic raw materials that are needed anytime and anywhere in the industrial system at home, and as for gold and silver, we don't have to mine them at all - with our commodities, Australia will sooner or later become the world's largest net inflow of gold and silver, and others will rush to send us gold and silver, so what gold and silver mines should we bother to open? What's more, the development of gold and silver mines is more troublesome and costly than the opening of coal mines and iron mines, so it is better not to do it.

However, the two of them couldn't stand Pimont's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and the duchess also intervened, Lao Ba and Han Letian discussed, and sent a telegram to President Yu and said, how much should I give some money, after all, this is related to the cooperation between the two sides, Lao Ba also relied on the old man in the telegram and said, Xiao Yu, you don't know the situation here, you have an instruction, which makes it difficult for us to be people, and said that the deposit positions of Citibank and Cross Street Bank have been increasing day by day recently, and the money is to be invested in the flow.

So Yu Hewei had no choice but to convene a meeting of the council members at home, and finally agreed to set up the project, invest 50,000 taels of silver, and temporarily settle the expenses from the arms trade funds of the Baisha Group, which is considered to be the end of the matter.

However, what everyone did not expect was that the security situation in the mining area was not generally bad, and now, the gold and silver mining area, which was originally very peaceful, is currently occupied by the natives of the southern tribe of Qinshan.

The reason is also very simple: because of the construction needs of Dili and Xin'an, Portuguese merchants recently used explosives @ to blow up rocks in the nearby mountains, which caused widespread anger among the nearby indigenous tribes - the priests believed that this was a dangerous act to alarm the mountain gods, so some nearby tribes began to contact the mountain tribe alliance and planned to take refuge in the past, and the originally friendly indigenous tribes began to change their faces, they refused to allow the naturalists of Pimont to enter the mining area, refused to allow merchants and workers to enter the mining area, and did not allow any logging behavior.

After several unsuccessful negotiations, Pimont became impatient, so two months earlier, a Portuguese army of 100 arquebusiers, 500 pikemen and archers had forcibly entered the mining area and expelled the local natives.

Originally, the indigenous tribes had no chance of winning this battle, however, because of the sudden heavy rain that day, the flash flood broke out, and the Portuguese camp was washed to pieces, and because of the rain and dampness, the arquebus that the indigenous people feared the most became burning sticks, and the archers and pikemen could not adapt to the battle because of the muddy roads and complex terrain, so they could only retreat under the clamor of the indigenous tribal warriors. It was a buffer zone controlled by the Australians, and the natives of the Loka tribe were able to safely withdraw to Dili City.