On the west-central coast of the Malay Peninsula, at the confluence of the Goose Mai River and the Klang River, the indigenous Malays call it, there is a mine, and 20-year-old Yalai wields a leather whip and scolds viciously, urging the coolie miners under the leather whip to hurry up and mine. In desperation, three days ago, the mine owner had to buy more than 100 slaves from the two Malay indigenous tribes not far from the mine, Yasha and Jialanmu, to make up for the departure of the Chinese miners.

Although Ye Yalai has just turned twenty years old, he has been mining in this mine for four years, and he can be regarded as an old man in the mine. This is an estuary of a tropical rainforest, home to poisonous snakes, jungle spiders, poisonous frogs, fist-sized centipedes, scorpions, and all sorts of poisonous insects, even the ferocious wolves walking in the jungle are on the lookout for them, let alone the half-naked miners. Therefore, the miners who can stay here for two or three years are very active, and most of them try their best to leave in less than a year or two, of course, most of the miners who have not been able to leave are either bitten to death by poisonous snakes, or die of exhaustion and illness, and it is really rare to survive and survive for three or four years without leaving. Ye Yalai was such an outlier, so he became the chief foreman of this mine, and several team leaders who were responsible for paying wages and supervising the work were all Chinese, some from Fujian and some from Guangdong. Like Ye Yalai is from Huizhou Mansion, Guangdong, four years ago, there was a war in Guangdong, I heard that there were rebels attacking the provincial capital of Guangzhou to catch strong men everywhere, Ye Yalai followed his fellow villagers to leave his hometown in a hurry, and after a few times Ye Yalai found that he and a large number of fellow villagers became "piglets" who were sold to Nanyang to pan for gold, and came to Malacca to make a living, and then were sent to a mining farm opened by a Chinese businessman owner in Malacca to mine, that is, this unnamed river valley mine.

Located in a valley in the rainforest at the mouth of the Klang River, the mine is owned by the owner of Melaka, Tan Yuk-fat, and is a rare source of tin ore mixed with gold and silver. On the last day of each week, the team leader leads the miners to transport the collected ore to the wharf on the Klang River, and waits for the chief foreman, that is, Ye Yalai, to accompany the chief treasurer of the tin mine, Mr. Sheng Mingli, to take people to transport it by boat.

Ye Yalai was picked up by Mr. Sheng Mingli, and they are fellow villagers in Huizhou. In three years, Ye Yalai has gone from being a sold Huizhou "piglet" miner coolie, to the team leader of the mine, to the current chief foreman, who bought a small stone house in Malacca City, and also said a family business, which can be described as a spring breeze. Because of this, Ye Yalai is very grateful to his fellow countryman.

In fact, fame and fortune are just the big shopkeepers of the tin mine, and the real boss of the mine is Chen Yufa in Malacca City. The Chen clan of Malacca is an immigrant from Fujian Province for several generations, and has a considerable status in Malacca City, second only to foreigners.

When will I be able to really gain a foothold in Malacca, start a family and start a business like Boss Chen. Wielding a leather whip, Ye Yalai thought secretly. The corner of his eye was aimed at a lazy indigenous Malay, and he whipped it over, and the thin skinny and black native was so frightened that he hurriedly dug up the mine, Ye Yalai didn't like these natives very much, he was lazy and lazy, so he didn't need a whip to urge them, so he grinded foreign workers, which was like his own Chinese fellow villagers, who worked hard to mine, and saved some money to leave here earlier. But it's no wonder that these natives are all slaves bought by Shopkeeper Sheng for the mine, but if they pay a high price, if they don't do enough for two or three years, they will lose, but if they have to do it for two or three years, with the bodies of these black and thin monkeys, it is difficult to say......

Just wanted to teach these indigenous monkeys a good lesson, a fellow miner from Guangdong came to report: "Ye Tou, Boss Chen, and Shopkeeper Sheng have all come to the Hekou Wharf." There are also a lot of people, even the boss of Jiabidan Xue in Malacca City also came with him, it seems that he is accompanied by a few Chinese with great backgrounds, and there are many guards, all of them are holding guns, and they look very vicious. Shopkeeper Sheng called you over. ”

"What? Even the boss of Jiabidan Xue Mao Yuan Xue in Malacca City came? Ye Yalai couldn't help but be moved. He knew that this Xue Maoyuan was not only the leader of the Chinese who was in charge of Malacca City, but also a wealthy man, richer than Chen Yufa, the owner of his owner "Hongfahao", and he was also the son of the former Malacca Jiabidan Xue Foji. This Xue Fo Ji is not only the Chinese leader of Malacca, but also famous in the entire strait, and even the entire Nanyang, and has won the respect of the Chinese.

The person who can let Xue Maoyuan personally accompany him is still Chinese, what is the origin of this? The point is that this fellow said, there are still many guards with muskets, which is amazing. Here in Malacca, foreigners are worried about the rebellion of Malay aborigines and Chinese, so they have strengthened control and strictly forbade ordinary people to buy guns. Ye Yalai couldn't help but be curious, and he followed the miner to the dock by the Klang River.

Seeing that several huge ships had docked at the edge of the dock, three of them were still rumbling and panting and emitting thick smoke, Ye Yalai had seen some of the world's knowledge that this was an armed steam merchant ship.

There was already a crowd of people standing by the dock. The outermost person with a smiling face and a cautious appearance is his top boss, the mine treasurer, who is famous and wealthy. Ye Yalai hurriedly trotted all the way and slipped over.

"You rabbit, why did you come!" Kong Wu's powerful fame and fortune patted Ye Yalai's shoulder heavily, leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Ah Lai."

, be smart. I saw that the most majestic one in the middle over there was not the one who was surrounded by a large number of guards next to Boss Xue, it was the imperial court official sent by the Celestial Empire, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wu Ruxiao Wu. A while ago, the South Sea Fleet of the Imperial Court defeated the East India Fleet on the side of the red-haired ghost, and defeated the combined fleet of British foreigners in the three places of the Strait. Just like the treaty signed between the foreigners and the Qing Dynasty, the foreigners admitted defeat and ceded Borneo and Java to our imperial court. It's a pity that Malacca, Singapore, and Penang have not been ceded and are still in the hands of foreigners. For this reason, Xue Maoyuan Xue Boss of Malacca and Chen Jinsheng Chen Boss of Singapore all stood up and petitioned Lord Wu, demanding that the treaty be amended and the three cities of the Strait should be returned to the imperial court. However, it is estimated that the foreigners will definitely not agree, and the imperial court is also very difficult, and Lord Wu and they proposed a solution, which is to find a place to build a new big city in the Malay Peninsula, our own big city of Chinese. This time, Lord Wu came here to investigate this place and prepare to build our own fortress and territory of Nanyang Chinese on the estuary of the Klang River. Your kid has been in this area for a few years, and the location is very familiar, I specially asked the owner to recommend you to lead the way, and take Lord Wu around, so you kid is lucky, serve well, maybe, you can be a court official! ”

Ye Yalai was stunned by this sudden news, and was stunned: Jade Emperor, Buddha Guanyin Bodhisattva Mazu Niangniang, what the hell is going on. Is the imperial court formed by the rebels who overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty and left their hometown at the beginning? It was so powerful, not only overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but also defeating the foreigners one after another, expanding their power here, and preparing to establish their own castles and territories in Nanyang, which is 108,000 miles away from their hometown, this, this is incredible! However, in the future, the compatriots in Nanyang will have their own backers, and they no longer have to grovel to the foreigners, and become inferior slaves like those natives, which is really good.

"What's the matter with you kid, why don't you go and see Lord Wu soon!" There was a loud shout of fame and fortune in his ears, which made Ye Yalai come back to his senses suddenly, and hurriedly followed forward to pay homage to the court official.

The court official was very kind, he was not yet forty years old, and he had practiced his family at a glance with bulging muscles, and when he saw Ye Yalai, he laughed and said: "I heard that the little brother is also from our Cantonese, and he left his hometown in Nanyang when we attacked Guangzhou City, and now I met in Nanyang again, which is fate." Anyway, the situation is clear, if we want to create a world in the South Seas, we must have our own territory, so that we can have our living space within the influence of foreigners. Wait for the meeting, little brother, take us around, to find out which place is the most suitable place to build a city. ”

A Chinese boss in his fifties who looked like a Hakka family next to him took over and sighed: "It's still Lord Wu's thoughtfulness!" However, the grass people always felt that it was better to directly grab the three strongholds occupied by foreigners, Malacca, Singapore and Penang, after all, there has developed a certain scale, and our Chinese compatriots in Nanyang have survived in these places for several generations, and they can be regarded as local snakes. ”

Ye Yalai's heart was like playing a drum, this boss was so violent, he just said that he grabbed it at every turn, it was really ......

That Master Wu laughed and said, "Don't worry, Boss Chen. I know that although you bosses accompanied Wu here, they still have some doubts in their hearts, in fact, it is not Wu's intention to build a city here, but the will of His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire! ”