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After coming out of the wooden house, Liu Wu separated from the other pirate leaders, and led his pirates to drive in the direction of their own lair, and the time passed for about two hours, and the ship was a certain distance from the island occupied by Wang Luoba. Liu Wu stood in the middle of the boat, looked back at the back, and asked, "Have you found any suspicious boats nearby?" ”

"The brothers followed the instructions of the big boss, drove carefully all the way, and they had already left Wang Luoba's patrol boat behind."

A small pirate leader replied.

"Very good, tell all the brothers, the ships all turn around and head north, today Lao Tzu wants to give the brothers a good future!"

Liu Wu said decisively.

"Yes, big boss." The pirate leader happily responded, and then commanded the pirate ship to turn around with high spirits. ……

In Batavia (Jakarta), the capital of the East Indies, Zhang Zhenxun, the richest businessman in the South Seas, came to the house of several unusual guests.

"Mr. Zhang, this is Mr. Kirby from the United Kingdom, Mr. Kirby is a successful businessman, he has many companies in the Qing Kingdom and Japan, Mr. Kirby heard that you are the No. 1 businessman in the South Seas, and he specially came to the East Indies from Japan to cooperate with the Lord in business."

Jakarta Chinese Kapitan Huang Fuyuan pointed to a blonde foreigner and introduced him to Zhang Zhenxun.

"I wonder what business Mr. Kirby wants to talk to Zhang?"

Zhang Zhenxun asked.

"I heard that Mr. Zhang has seven reclamation companies in the East Indies, and the rubber reclamation farm alone is more than 100 square kilometers, and I want to cooperate with Mr. Zhang to develop rubber plantations together, what does Mr. Zhang think?"

Kirby, a foreign devil, didn't use Huang Fuyuan to translate, and said with a local accent in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"Mr. Kirby may not know much about the situation of the rubber reclamation farm, and the Yuxing rubber planting farm under Zhang's name is not a one-person industry, but an enterprise jointly funded by Zhang and Defeng Agricultural Reclamation Company.

The rubber seeds and seedlings of Yuxing Rubber Plantation Farm are all introduced by Defeng Agricultural Company, and when they cooperated with Defeng Company, the agreement signed by the two parties stipulates that without the consent of Defeng Company, Yuxing Company shall not unilaterally introduce a third-party partnership company, so if Mr. Kirby wants to cooperate, he still has to find the manager of Defeng Company. ”

"Huang, do you know the situation of Defeng Agricultural Reclamation Company?"

Kirby asked, turning his head.

"The manager of the Defeng Agricultural Reclamation Company is a German company, and they have many rubber plantations in Sarawak, Sabah and other areas of Borneo, and the Defeng Agricultural Reclamation Company officially employs 40,000 or 50,000 workers and 2,000 guards equipped with Delaisa rifles.

Huang Fuyuan introduced.

"What a crazy place to be in the East Indies!"

Kirby, the foreign devil, patted his head and said in surprise, "Yellow, do you know? How surprised I was when I passed through Sarawak and heard that Brooke had established a country there? ”

Kirby, the foreign devil, asked himself and replied, "Brooke is just a poor sailor, how incredible he can establish a country in Borneo!"

And not only did Brooke establish a state in Borneo and have an army, but in other parts of the East Indies, Kuala Lumpur Kapitan, Malacca Kapitan, and Penang Kapitan had thousands of troops under them, I really don't understand where they have so much money to supply the armed forces? ”

"Ahem, all of you are collaborators of Britain and the Netherlands, and they have the right armed forces to defend the interests of the British and Dutch in the East Indies."

Huang Fuyuan himself is a vested interest in the Kapitan system, and after hearing Kirby's words, he explained with some embarrassment.

"Okay, the situation in the East Indies is different from that of Qing and Japan, since Mr. Zhang can't be the master, then let's put aside the rubber plantation for the time being and talk about another business."

"Mr. Kirby, please."

"The Kobe Iron Works and your Kapitan have a big business to do, and they need a lot of ships to transport goods, so I hope to be able to lease a batch of merchant ships from Mr. Zhang's side to use, the number does not need to be too much, only twenty merchant ships with more than 500 water volumes, Mr. Zhang should have no problem, right?"

"I'm sorry Mr. Kirby, but my shipping company has just been founded, and the merchant ships in the company are now carrying goods outside and cannot be leased."

Zhang Zhenxun said with a regretful expression.

"The loan period can be relaxed, and it can be rented after 10 days."

"Don't hide it from Mr. Kirby, after ten days and twenty days, the company's fleet will not have free time to rent, so Mr. Kirby will still find other companies to cooperate, and there are dozens of Nanyang shipping companies, I believe that Mr. Kirby will soon be able to find a suitable partner."

Zhang Zhenxun's attitude was sincere on the surface, but in fact, he blocked the possibility of cooperation between the two parties, and the foreign devil Kirby and the Chinese Jiapitan did not let go at all when they saw each other, and left Zhang Zhenxun's residence after a few polite words.

"Daddy, the foreigners and you Kapitan are powerful, why are you unwilling to cooperate with them?"

After the foreign devils Kirby and Huang Fuyuan left, a pretty girl came out from behind the screen, puzzled.

"Kapitan Wong Hock Won Jakarta, Kapitan Zheng Jinggui Perak, Kepitan Yalai Kuala Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan Kapitan Dunn...... None of these people are easy to get along with, and it is difficult for them to do anything good in tandem with the foreign devil Kirby, and it is better for Daddy not to mix with them. ”

Zhang Zhenxun looked at his baby daughter and patiently explained.

"It's still my father's foresight, our Zhang family has a big business, and we can't follow them to do bad things for a little profit."

Zhang Baoyi obediently sat on the chair to the right of his father, picked up a cup of tea and handed it to Zhang Zhenxun and said, "I heard that the daughter of the lord of Songkhla is going to marry the king of Han, Huang Fuyuan, will they send someone to attack the fleet of the daughter of the lord of Songkhla in order to take revenge on the Taiping Society?" ”

"Probably not, those Kapitan don't have the guts."

Zhang Zhenxun shook his head and said, "Although the Taiping Society has developed and grown in the Nanyang region to the detriment of the interests of the Kapitan who have taken refuge in the foreigners, the sea forces escorting the lord of Songkhla are powerful, and even if they want to take revenge on the national defense forces behind the Taiping Society, they will not crash into the hard stone of the escort fleet." ”

"Then should we remind the Han side in advance, after all, the rubber plantations at home are provided by the Han State, in case the Han forces suffer losses in Nanyang, it will not be good for the family."

Zhang Baoyi is only fifteen or sixteen years old, but she has already habitually given advice to her father.

"It is necessary to give the Han side a thorough news, although the Defeng Agricultural Reclamation Company is dressed in the skin of the Germans, but it is a company controlled by the Han State after all, and the Han government has given a lot of benefits to Nanyang businessmen, and when we encounter something, we still have to help if we can."

Zhang Zhenxun put down the teacup, looked outside, pondered for a while, and then said, "Baoyi, do you want to go to Hanguo?" ”

"Why does Daddy ask that?"

Zhang Baoyi's face with both the femininity of an Oriental girl and the fairness of a Western woman appeared on it, and she asked.

"The Dutch are wary of me, since nine years ago, they have been restricting the development of the company under my name, and now, compared with nine years ago, the family's assets have decreased by about one percent, after all, the East Indies is a colony of the Dutch, we stay in other people's territory to make money, it is easy to cause their eyes to heat, so I want to leave a way back for the family in advance, so that you and your sixth brother can go to the Han Kingdom to buy an industry, and it can be used as a place for the Zhang family to live in the future."

Zhang Zhenxun is the richest man in Nanyang, in 1869, Zhang Zhenxun held a total of about 80 million taels of silver, nearly 10 million more than the annual financial revenue of the Manchu government, the huge assets and the low political status of the Chinese in Nanyang naturally caused the greed of the Dutch colonists, and other Nanyang Chinese businessmen, through land reclamation, contracting mineral development and other commercial activities to become rich Chinese businessmen became the money bags of foreigners, eight or nine years ago, the Dutch generally through the way of agitating the aborigines to massacre the Chinese, Since the Taiping Society grew in Nanyang and demonstrated the strength of the Chinese through their counter-attacks against the indigenous forces, the Dutch generally no longer used the method of encouraging the indigenous massacres, but set up a large number of taxes against the Chinese, and exploited the wealth of the Chinese in a more secretive way.

Afraid of the deterrent power cultivated by foreigners for decades, Nanyang Chinese businessmen did not dare to confront the foreigners face to face, so after seven or eight years, Zhang Zhenxun and other Nanyang Chinese businessmen suffered different degrees of restrictions, and their assets slowly shrank under the exploitation tax of the Dutch.

Zhang Zhenxun once gave him some help when Van Lansberg was not developing, and with the help of Van Lansberg's connections as the governor of the East Indies, Zhang Zhenxun was able to become the richest man in the South Seas, but Van Lansberg was the governor appointed by the Dutch government after all, and his administrative policy in the East Indies needed to be more dominant than the Dutch national interests, and he would not open the net because of Zhang Zhenxun's help to him in his early years.

Moreover, Van Lansberg's tenure in the East Indies was coming to an end, and without his care, Zhang Zhenxun's rich assets would face greater danger, so Zhang Zhenxun was ready to speed up the transfer of assets and transfer the assets distributed in the East Indies to Han, Songkhla and other places.

Zhang Zhenxun's assets are huge, and the assets transferred to the Han Kingdom in the early stage are very low compared with the total assets, and as a member of the Zhang family, Zhang Baoyi can understand the necessity of his father to do this, but thinking of his mother's situation after he left, Zhang Baoyi hesitated a little and did not immediately agree to his father's request.

"Bao Yi is worried about your mother, right?

Don't worry, let your mother Anna accompany you to Han Kingdom in half a month.

My father heard that the atmosphere in the Han country is open, and there are foreign women in many Han families, and your mother should be able to adapt quickly when she arrives there. ”

After thinking of the reason why his daughter didn't agree immediately, Zhang Zhenxun explained with a smile.

"Wouldn't it be inconvenient for a mother to follow her daughter to Hanguo?"

"It's okay, I'll go to Hanguo in person after a while, and by the way, take a look at your mother and daughter, you don't have to worry."

"Then my daughter will be relieved."

Zhang Baoyi smiled and nodded, and the expression on her face was much lighter.