[It's going to be the New Year.,I was going to write two chapters.,But after reading it, I felt verbose.,Just synthesized a chapter.,Happy New Year, everyone]

Less than 70 miles west of Kuching, Lun Tuk Creek makes a large circle and encloses some of the best pepper plantations, which have been cultivated over the years since the pepper was introduced. The distance between this place and Kuching is not far away, as it is barely enough to walk in a day in this plain land. It is said that it is not close, because after walking for another day and night, you can reach the ground called Sanfa.

Before the sun goes down, the gates of the villages and gardens along the Lundu Creek fall from the gates, not so much to defend against any enemy attacks, whether it is the thorns wrapped around the sparse walls or the torches that do not need to be used for heating at this time of year, but more to guard against wild beasts from all around. Here in Borneo, the threat posed by beasts at night is far greater than that of humans.

Although there has been nothing to do these days, Ah Pizza is not leisurely, and he has already seen that compared to the Song people, the people of each department are just a plate of scattered sand, and the situation of each party determines the outcome of being broken, and although he is not leisurely now, his heart is a lot more relaxed.

Without him, it is because there is really no need to think too much in the face of absolute strength, the only thing to worry about is timing. Even if you sell it, you have to sell it for yourself at a good price, and as for the things you bring with you, the old patriarch already has a plan.

After dinner, Pizza had her usual call of her sons to discuss things, and today was no exception. Coupled with Aruna, who has been out for many days and has not shown up, today's people are the most neat.

"I don't know where Lu Mo and the wax have gone?"

I don't know who first asked about the envoy sent to the north a few days ago, and said that the envoy was only the leader of two cronies. As for the idea of bypassing the Song people's Kuching camp and going to Brunei, it was just a whim, and the key was to see how Lun Du's headquarters dealt with the expansion of the Fubo army, and as a local commander, this was just one of the strategies.

Another listened to the calculation, "According to the distance, it should be almost to Siwu." ”

"After Siwu, the road to the north is not easy to walk."

In fact, it is necessary to cross four or five rivers from Kuching to the northeast by land, which is actually not easy to walk compared to the later part of the road, but the later section from Sibu to Baan is more desolate than the nearly 700 miles away, unlike the 'densely populated' around Kuching, there will always be one or two villages and towns every half day in the front half of the road to rest, but the back half of the distance is deserted. It's not so much a road as a general direction, so you don't get lost in a side of the coastline as a reference, but this season is rare for even the ox cart caravans of the local families.

Sure enough, one of them said, "The road to Baan is not easy to walk, and in more than a month, there will be more rain and even fewer caravans." ”

"According to the Song newspapers, Banan should have been occupied by them now."

"Well, something from the other day."

According to the newspapers, since the 'liberation' of Tudong, the Great Song Nam Yang East Road has extended its ruling tentacles to Baaan, further west of Tudong, five days ago, although according to the news, it is only a working group of more than 20 people, but since it is closer to Brunei Province and has the support of the Tudong garrison, I believe that it will not be long before the local government will be stable, at least better than here in Kuching.

The crowd was discussing the possible reaction of the two cronies to the Kuching camp after the Great Song Hang was attached to the schedule, when the youngest son interrupted the conversation.

"Have you ever thought about what would happen if Lu Mo and the wax pulling didn't succeed?"

The others woke up and asked, "You mean?" ”

"I mean, what if they happen to be intercepted by the Song patrols?"

The Fubo army is in good order, and the passes leading to the north are guarded by sergeants, and watchtowers are set up in important places, and it is not impossible to say that the envoy sent to Brunei was intercepted by the sergeant of the Fubo army.

"So, on the day Lu Mo and Lawax set off, they did one more thing for their father, that is, to let Aruna go to Sanfa in person."

"Three shots? No wonder I haven't seen my brother in the past two days, but according to the day, my brother rushed back immediately after three shots? ”

Aruna explained, "It's just to go to the town over there to spread some information about the Song people, and it doesn't take much time to delay. ”

Apisa said: "Originally, Aruna didn't have to do this himself, just for his father to avoid mistakes." ”

"Almudin doesn't know what kind of people are here in Kuching."

Lao Wu understood the reason and said: "It turns out that my father has this idea, and wants to let Su Tan of the third hair come out, and when the third hair and the Song people fight and lose, we will just ......."

"Lose-lose? Hahahaha......"

Old Pizza laughed as if something had suddenly creaked at the itch.

"Old Five, you're thinking too much."

"If it were someone else, my brother was not bad, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that if he wanted to win the Fubo Army, it was indeed like a dream. However, since no one in the local family has really fought with the Fubo army, they are all honest after watching a drill on the boat opposite, and it is not bad to let the people from the west come to test the quality of the Song people again. ”

"I heard that the militia recruited by the Song people is not more than the militia in the past?"

Some people are obviously interested in the treatment of the Song militia and the Fubo army, which is not surprising, no matter the Han people, they are still profit-oriented, not for the sake of profit, those Han Chamber of Commerce let the Shun people of the Celestial Empire not come to Nanyang to suffer? Isn't it for profit, people are dozens of times more than 100 times the Han people, and the natives of Hongyi will attack and kill each other, giving outsiders the opportunity to instigate and take advantage of it?

So now the camp has easily pulled up a local team of hundreds of people, and they have to go out to exercise every day, I have never seen such a scene in the past, and I have never seen such honest and obedient children in the north and south cities now.

"Don't talk about giving money, there are people who go to find money. You see that the surrounding families are cowering now, don't they also want to invite the pox god for their sons first? ”

The young people who joined the militia gave priority to pox, and among the local people, it became the Song people who could seek the protection of the pox god so that children would not be infected with the disease. The day after the meeting, Yang Zhende of the Department of Health and Welfare began to plant pox among the militia in Kuching with a medical team, and it took five days to complete all the hundreds of brave men in the Han camp.

"I heard that not only is it a pox, but those militiamen are also very good at food and clothing on weekdays."

Even the militia had uniform clothing, and there were a lot of cotton cloth produced in Sanfa on the market, and after the establishment of the armor, he directly wrapped the circle for the camp, and the local cloth was the most engaged in the Ould family, which made him very happy for a few days. As for the food, although it is not as good as the Fubo army, it can be regarded as abundant, the local food is not scarce, and in the tropics, no one can starve to death. But I heard that the Song people were almost strict about the cleanliness of food, whether it was meat, eggs, vegetables and vegetables, all of them were strictly cooked, and the processing process was handled by their own people, and they would never fake it to local employees.

But the quality of the food can be discerned with the naked eye, not only the militia eat and drink comfortably, but also practice harder, and these days, not only have there been no light reduction, but these boys have become much stronger, which makes the young people who have not applied for the recruitment envious. Someone laughed when he thought of this verse.

Aruna was puzzled, "Fifth brother, what are you laughing at?" ”

"I'm laughing at that kid from the Li family and the rest of the unlucky guys."

Li Fanghua's brother-in-law is a wealthy man, and his nephew followed his surname Li, and he has followed him in Hong Kong since he was a child, and he is a rather domineering prankster. He was first arrested in the Song people's action to clean up the market, and then Li Fanghua promised a lot of benefits to intercede with the Song people, and he had no blood debts in his hands, so he was released, but he did some evil things, and it was inevitable that he was taken care of by the good raw food inside, and I don't know what means the Song people used, and he has been much more honest since he was released. Later, I heard about the recruitment of brave soldiers, thinking that I wanted the militia to fight hard with the barbarians in various places, and the kid of the Li family also counted in according to the conditions. The heart-wrenching man who thought he was going to be dragged away as cannon fodder actually cut off two fingers by himself. Now that I think about it, there are still a few men like him who have self-harmed to avoid recruitment, and now they are all regretting it to death, and they are used as a joke in the city to spread even to everyone outside.

Thinking of this, everyone laughed together.

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The southwest part of Borneo is the most prominent part of the sea, where the land forms a corner and then winds southward, and the coast of this place forms a huge horn mouth with the island of Sriwijaya across the sea to the west.

It is said to be a national land, but in fact, although the place is large, there are mountains, forests and lakes, but it is just a loose alliance of Fanren. In the west of Sanfa, there is a place called Yamaguchi Yang, where the Chinese who went to the South Seas in the early years cut down trees and farmed the land, which gradually became the climate, and this place gradually became one of the most prosperous places there. The local Chinese and Fanren are good at weaving, although all kinds of homespun cloth are not called fine, but as far south as Machen and north as Brunei, you can also see the flower cloth produced here.

In addition to weaving, there are two good industries here, one is the pepper and spice grown in the plains, and the other is the fine sand gold produced in the mountains and forests, and various ornaments made from at least three gold are not uncommon in the city of Brunei. It's just a little different from here in Kuching that the pepper plantations and gold mines in Samfa are mostly controlled by the Chinese, but because of this, the Fans tend to covet the wealth of Chinese businessmen even more. Later, his ancestors founded a country here, converted to the Great Food Religion, and proclaimed himself king here, and in the past, he submitted to the Majapahit Kingdom on the island of Srivijaya, and later the Majapahit destroyed the country, and then turned to Siam and Boni, but in fact he was not really ruled by the two countries, but only a nominal vassal.

Most of the Chinese in Sanfa are the descendants of the Chinese who went to the West with the eunuchs of the Three Treasures, and there are also merchants who crossed to the south during the Jiajing period, although they are unique in the local area, but whether they are logging and panning for gold or farming, they still have to pay taxes to Almudin, and it is said that this Sutan is the most insatiable, and has tried to get involved in Kuching several times before, but has not succeeded.

This time, Aruna followed Lao Tzu's intentions and secretly promoted the prosperity of the Song people and the Song people's efforts to gather local Chinese businessmen in Kuching. Naturally, he wanted to get Almudin's attention, and with his understanding of this one, he believed that he should make a move. As for whether there is any consideration in the middle, even Aruna doesn't think that the owner of Sanfa can do anything, after all, it is a force that even Kuching with only mercenaries can't take, and now the people of the Lundu Department need to think about how to sell Sanfa at the best time for a good price.

And when the people of the Lun Du Department were making wishful calculations, more than 100 miles away in the mountain pass ocean, Almudin had just heard rumors about the Song people.

The upright middle-aged three-haired master is having lunch at this time, the clouds in the sky sometimes gather, sometimes drift away, and the sun appears and disappears in the drizzle, which makes people feel uncertain.

Nowadays, more and more Han Chinese immigrants have immigrated here, bringing with them cultivation and smelting techniques, and they have also brought enough wealth to the poor West Borneo, of course, for the owners of the land. Just as Su Tan is becoming more and more extravagant, the annual silver tax of more than 1,000 taels is increasing at a rate of 1/2 per year, and trade to Brunei and Banten has brought the region closer and closer to the rest of the South Seas.

The appearance of the Song people gave him a bit of a headache, and he wanted to get involved in Kuching in the past, but it was just to collect more taxes. Relying on the absolute number of natives, no matter how rich the local Chinese merchants are, he can always collect taxes smoothly in Sanfa, although there is some trouble in Kuching City, but in recent years, with the growth of Sanfa's financial strength and the strengthening of military strength, I believe that it will not be long before he will succumb, not to mention that he has an extra help in his hands.

The Dutch have been trying to establish a foothold in Kuching since they got their hands on Borneo, but they have never been able to do so because of the local merchants, but they have been able to cooperate happily with Almuddin in Samfa. The Dutch were limited in number, and they were never a direct threat to the growing number of Chinese, and their actions here were more of cooperation and profit-seeking, unlike the Chinese who had to entrench themselves in a corner of the country and become a big problem over time. This place in Nanyang is not only in Manila, but also in the European colonizers everywhere to purge the Chinese forces, among which the hardest working natives are not all because they are instigated by others, for their own interests, and he Almudin can sit in a position similar to the lord of the country in the third round, naturally because the Turkish forces representing the following votes have the actual need to exploit Chinese businessmen.

However, unlike the Chinese merchants and cannibals in Kuching, the Song people were not small, and many of them had sold all kinds of fine goods to Sanfa through the Tu people in the east, and they also had an army that was said to be invincible, and the city of Boroni in the northeast and several major places around it were now occupied by them. And the other party also made it clear that he wanted to occupy the whole of Borneo, the so-called 'Putian, it is not the king's land'.

The Song people seem to be short of neither money nor soldiers, and time is clearly not on their side for such a force and the increasingly conclusive rumors about this 'empire'.

And what's even more terrifying is that this rumor appeared too coincidentally, is it the wind released by the Song people? Or are you too careful? No, it shouldn't be a coincidence, Almudin immediately made up his mind in his mind.