In mid-August, Huang Dingyou wore a Dongpo hat on his head and followed the flow of people to Pancheng. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis is the southernmost city in the territory that Chen Han can now control.

Belitung Island is the most prosperous city on this small island, and the Nanyang Naval Explorers, who had just signed an agreement with the Sultan of Palembang, discovered a wealth of tin ore here, and then this unknown island quickly gathered many miners.

Pancheng is the name given to this city by the Nanyang sailors, which means to have a stable foothold here. The geographical location is between the South China Sea and the Java Sea, which is considered the dividing line.

There were originally more than 10,000 natives on the island, and most of the remaining were slave laborers in the tin mines, except for those who were sent to Palembang.

Located on the west coast of the island, facing Bangka Island, Pancheng has a sandy beach and swampy coast interspersed with rocky and coral reefs.

Huang Dingyou went down to the shore with his luggage, and unlike many travelers who came to greet him with relatives and friends, he was alone. After asking the guards at the port, Huang Dingyou went to the hotel not far away with his luggage.

Pancheng is one of the areas with the highest concentration of Chinese in Nanyang, with a total number of more than 20,000 people, of which 50% or 60% come from China alone. There are fifteen large and small mining areas in the surrounding area, two-thirds of which are dominated by private capital. There are more than 20 mining companies, and there are more than a dozen Chinese and foreign trading companies, which is not prosperity in the general sense, as long as the mining companies that have a foothold in Pancheng are all powerful weapons for attracting gold.

As one of the traditional Chinese hardware, tin metal plays a very important role in machinery manufacturing even now, and its combination with copper, bronze, is still used to make wear-resistant parts and corrosion-resistant equipment. Bronze is a comprehensive variety, and there are many recipes with different proportions. Depending on the percentage, the properties of bronze are also different.

For example, tin brass, which is based on copper-zinc alloy and added to tin, is corrosion-resistant in both fresh water and seawater, and is commonly known as navy copper.

In the printing factory, the lead font used, that is, the alloy of tin.

Tin sulfide, a compound of tin and sulfur, is similar in color to gold and is often used as a gold pigment.

Tin dioxide, a compound of tin and oxygen, is a water-insoluble white powder that can be used to make enamels, white glazes and opalescent glass. Of course, pewter, tin foil and so on are indispensable.

Tin is a metal that is shiny, non-toxic, not easy to oxidize and discolor, and has a good sterilization, purification and preservation effect. Many of these things are also used in the waterworks that are being laid and renovated in major cities in China.

As long as you find the right mine, it's definitely a good business. And it is not only needed in China, but also by foreigners, whether in the military field or in daily life.

Huang Dingyou decided to take a good look at this new tin capital, as a center where China, indigenous people, and foreigners collided, the society here must be very different from the Great Island of Great-Mother. Although he lost his job at the Nanjing Daily, it does not mean that there is no place for his manuscript to be published. The moment the freelance writer was born as a war correspondent, it was also born in China. They came from the military, some were officers, some were soldiers, and they picked up the pen and wrote articles that were sent back home by war correspondents, and then freelance writers were freshly baked. Because the officers and GIs could not guarantee that the manuscript would be completed on time and in quantity, they were absolutely free.

Huang Dingyou sat in the corner of the hotel lobby with a glass of rum, observing this popular place.

There are Chinese, aborigines, and foreigners, and some of them have their own tables, and some of them gather together to play cards. Such a scene is absolutely not seen on the island of Greatomu. There are a lot of Chinese people, a lot of foreigners, and the least number of indigenous people.

After all, this is a hotel, and the people who appear here are all "lonely people" like Huang Dingyou, and it is understandable that the Chinese do not have much advantage.

There are quiet and elegant teahouses in Pancheng, and there are no fragrant restaurants, but the hotel where Huang Dingyou lives is just an ordinary medium-sized hostel, where there are many foreigners with bare chests and arms, and black-haired, brown-skinned, black-haired and black-skinned aborigines. One by one, they are noisy in Yi or half-baked Chinese.

Pewter is also a traditional European utensil, and tin also has a large demand market in Europe.

Just before Chen Ming, it was not until the middle of the 19th century that tin mines appeared in Nanyang one after another, when Belitung Island was developed, and Kuala Lumpur was built from scratch by the Chinese. But at that time, the Chinese did not say that they fought for their legitimate interests in the face of foreigners, that is, they were also at a disadvantage in the face of the natives. The fruit that has been cultivated so hard is helpless to watch the outsiders pick it effortlessly.

But now it's different, and today's China and the status of the Chinese in Nanyang are definitely predators. Neither Spain nor the Netherlands wanted to quarrel with China at this time, because the eldest and second in Europe, John the Bull and the Gallic Rooster, were likely to start a "post-seven years war" because of the war in the British colonies in North America. The attention of the Spanish and Dutch was also entirely focused on Europe.

At this time, they will not provoke China, and the power of the Europeans in the East cannot be cohesive, that is simply not to challenge the authority of the Chinese and the monopoly of trade. So they watched China make a fortune on Belitung Island, and then excavated a richer and larger-scale western mine in Keju [Kuala Lumpur].

As for the Sultan of Selangor, is their opinion considered an opinion? Does their opinion matter?

It's just one of the many Malay sultans, and how many people are there in the whole Malay now? It is not more than 30 million in later generations, but a small country with less than 4 million, and the Sultan of Selangor is only one of many of them. A 'group' of hundreds of thousands of people can only endure in the face of China's domineering attitude.

Besides, these Nanyang monkeys are lazy and lazy by nature, and they are more lazy than hard. Jizhou's rich tin ore resources are not known in a day or two, Europeans and even China have a lot of demand for tin ore, and the Malays are not unaware, so why did these Nanyang monkeys jump out to pick fruits after the Chinese came to develop this industry in history? Personality dictates.

China's fee to the Sultan of Selangor is 200,000 Chinese dollars a year, which already makes them secretly happy. Otherwise, the place is in their own hands, and the Sultan of Selangor will not be able to hold a single one.

Although the same place is in the hands of the Chinese, the benefits born in a year are more than ten times dozens of times that of the 200,000 Chinese yuan.

At present, China's Nanyang sailors go around the Nanyang from time to time, and the exploration ships belonging to the Third Overseas Exploration Bureau drill around the islands of the Nanyang all day long, and the Spaniards and the Dutch are deaf and blind, and no one else in this part of the Nanyang dares to squeak.

In just a few years, the status of the Chinese in Nanyang has become no less than that of the Spaniards and the Dutch, and they have completely occupied the heads of the indigenous monkeys, which is the change of strength.

Europeans now know that the Chinese army has a weapon called the Fire Dragon Bullet, which is hugely powerful, highly accurate, and easy to fire. It was a weapon of great destruction in naval warfare, and the previous contest between the Slovane-Dutch coalition and the Chinese Nanyang naval division on the Sulu issue was defeated miserably because of this weapon. All European countries have studied this, and the British even compared the rockets of the Indians side-by-side, but the final result was very disappointing. Although the rockets of the Indians are a very new thing to Europe, they are too different from the Chinese dragon bombs in terms of power and accuracy.

Without clarifying this issue, Spain and the Netherlands, as far as they are concerned, are unwilling to take the initiative to provoke war against China.

One of the most obvious manifestations of this is that in the past two years, whether it is Manila or Batavia, those Chinese who did not quit monotheism in the first place have now chosen to quit the religion, but they will pay the price if they go the wrong way. Now it is not so easy for them to get that certificate of citizenship again.

And more and more Chinese have returned to Manila and Batavia again, back to Palembang, Semarang, Surabaya, Taoist Buddhist temples, the most trusted Mazu temple by residents on the southeast coast, rising all over the Nanyang, is endless!

Of course, the foreigners were not happy to see the rise of oriental sects and beliefs in their territory, but the Nanyang Chinese, backed by the power of the state, changed their cowardice and forbearance to be as timid as a mouse, and their style became bold and presumptuous.

Behind this 'betrayal' of faith and the establishment of Taoist Buddhist temples are the big families among the Chinese. They are the undisputed upper class of the Nanyang Chinese. This is a direct testament to the change in the power structure of the South Seas.

In Nanyang, such a scene can only occur after the status of the Chinese has really increased greatly. Otherwise, a considerable part of the Chinese in Nanyang, especially the upper-class Chinese clans and wealthy people, will show that they are eager to kneel and lick monotheism and God.

It is a spiritual evolution from obedience to assimilation and then to resistance. The Nanyang Chinese were scared by the Spaniards and Dutch sheep shearing before, and they were afraid from the bottom of their hearts. They sought to show the best recognition of the Spaniards and the Dutch, in order to protect the lives of their families and to protect their interests.

Because the guns and knives are not in the hands of the Nanyang Chinese, in order to survive, life is like this.

Many people believe in God, not because they really believe in Christ from the bottom of their hearts, but because they are a disguise. Every Chinese New Year, when worshipping ancestors, they will not see them less respectful to their ancestors, and foreigners are not unaware of this scene. Of course, many people who pretend to be dressed are really assimilated, and there are some dogs who are really willing to degenerate!

And today's Chinese have become unrecognizable.

The contempt and arrogance contained in those eyes, in the past, it would only be Caucasians who came to see the yellow-skinned monkeys, when was it the turn of these low-level people to treat noble Caucasians so much?

The Chinese who returned to Manila and Batavia had sporadic clashes with the local Spaniards and Dutch, and even saw blood in some matters. Because by that time the gunfire in Lexington had already spread from Europe to Asia!

Of course, Huang Dingyou has a certain understanding of the situation in Nanyang, but he doesn't know many of these things. There are many things in the city in front of him that have extraordinary meaning to him.

And just when Huang Dingyou arrived in Pancheng, a neatly arranged team was boarding the two big ships leaning on the pier one after another at the Sanduao Port in Fujian. Zheng Ji, who was wearing a general-level military uniform, was tightly buttoned with discipline, and his eyes swept over the faces of every soldier who boarded the ship like a knife.

These are the soldiers he has selected, and now he wants to pull these people to Taiwan for ten days of training, and then the fleet carrying the immigrants will also arrive in Taiwan, and he can set off with the fleet to the south.

On the periphery of Sanduao Port, outside the cordon, thousands of people were gathered to see off the 500 people.

Many of these people burst into tears, looking at the people on the boat with reluctance on their faces, but none of them would say that they would stay. These soldiers are all for them, for the 'future'.

Whether it is a banner man with a long 'labor camp' or an ordinary prisoner of war, it is worth it to be able to escape from here in front of him, even if he can easily survive for a month. And one of their lives is exchanged for a new life for the whole family, which is a bargain.

There was a whimper in the crowd of people who saw them off, and how many of the soldiers who boarded the ship had red eyes and tears, and many knelt on the deck and kowtowed to the ship. This is likely to be goodbye, goodbye......

Zheng Ji looked at the scene in front of him with satisfaction. If you have feelings, you will have concern, and if you have concern, you will have a handle, and you will be more obedient.

"It's been two years, and it's finally useful!"

Zhang Gou, that is, Zhang Gou, crossed his waist and sent out a leisurely sigh towards the port of Sanduao. At the beginning, he was also a brigade commander, but Zheng Ji was relieved of his military power and hung up, and Zhang Gou ended up like this. But he is much inferior to Zheng Jike, Zheng Ji is also the same as Amber, what is he Zhanggou?

The so-called reserve general, that's a fart.

Zheng Ji was hung for two years, and Zhang Gou was buried for two years. When that sudden good fortune fell on them, Zhang Gou's greatest wish was to leave Nanjing as soon as possible and return to his hometown. Then the Zhang family became a local family, which was satisfied. But now he has even greater ambitions!

Colonize!

Nanming Prefecture is what foreigners call a 'colony', which is only the first step of the beginning of the imperial court, and in the future, the entire Nanyang will be wrapped by the imperial court, and he will also become the governor of the colony.

Just like before, living a life in a mess, Zhang Gou is really unwilling. The original turmoil has magnified his heart. When this heart is big, it is difficult to become smaller.

Defecting to the new dynasty, Chen Ming used thunder to directly bolt a lock on their hearts, and now Chen Ming has opened the lock again. Zhang Gou is different from Zhang Gou two years ago, he once again tasted the taste of power, and once again tasted the feeling of pretending to be a grandson. So when this lock is opened, he also wants to pursue power even more. But this power is the right under the control of the might......

In a finely decorated cabin on the ship, there are two newspapers on the table that are firmly fixed to the ship's board by nails, "Hongchang Textile Company's Stock Plummets by Three Percent", "Yuan Mei is Ashamed to See People, Resigns and Tells Old Age", a box of cigarettes is placed on the dense lead lettering, and a phoenix soars on the iron cigarette box...... (To be continued.) )