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June 1 is Children's Day in China, which is a holiday set by Chen Ming. It is a festival named by His Majesty the Emperor of China for his eldest son, and as for why the time was set on June 1, only Chen Ming himself knows.

Anyway, after a few years of influence, the influence of this festival has now covered the whole of China, and even spread to neighboring countries. Even Li Kun, who was from Jawa Island at this time, couldn't help but take to the streets to choose gifts for his nephew and children.

"Wrap this, this, and this for me."

A one-and-a-half-foot-long Malayklux sword, with five broken gems inlaid on the scabbard, and a few simple lines on the silver hilt, give the impression that it is not a specially created ornament, but a short sword that is really used to kill. The edge of the sword is very sharp, rubbing it with your hand, there is always a feeling of being broken by your brother, shining with a touch of white light in the sun, and the cold light is pressing.

Li Kun was a little surprised that such a good thing could be sold in the street market in Surabaya. Although this shop seems to be very classy. But the sword in front of me looks very old, and it can give people a feeling.

The price of fifty Spanish Eagle Ocean is not expensive at all, it is really not expensive.

There is another piece of natural dog's head gold, which is not big, about half a catty, and then a Buddha statue carved from rhino horns.

There used to be many one-horned rhinoceros living in Jawwa, and even now they are often seen, and the rhinoceros horn is a precious material that can be compared to the shoulder of ivory.

Although the knife carving of this Buddha statue is not very exquisite, but thinking of the reasons for faith here, Buddhism has long become a thing of the past, and it is not surprising that twenty eagles took this Buddha statue.

If the time could be advanced by 400 years, Li Kun believes that the value of this rhino horn Buddha statue must be ten or a hundred times that of the current one, much higher.

It's a pity that the hometown of the Three Buddhas is now a paradise. Except for the Buddhist temples built by the Han people in recent years, there is no way to see the appearance of a Buddhist country hundreds of years ago. It's breathtaking.

Li Kun walked towards his residence, and the entourage behind him was holding three things, and he followed suit.

The Malay Klux sword, which Li Kun bought for his eldest nephew.

If you are a man, you have to dance with a knife and a gun.

Now that the way of the world has changed, it is not the way of the king to simply learn the Four Books and Five Classics as in the past.

Although he knew that it would be difficult for him to meet his nephew in his life, he still couldn't help but prepare gifts every year.

It was a birthday before, but now the Li family has a lot of money, Li Kun has made a fortune in business, and he even thinks about Children's Day.

Take it back and worship it at home, that is also a piece of the heart of my grandfather's family.

As for the dog-headed gold and rhino horn Buddha statues, he wanted to bring them back to his eldest son and old mother. Is it Children's Day, the gift can't be prepared for the eldest nephew alone, and his eldest son is not young. When he returned to Hainan, he made up a piece of dog's head gold for his eldest son, and wished him to be rich every year in the future, and his fortune would continue. As for the other children, they are still young, and it will be nice to bring them back a few gadgets.

This also pins on Li Kun's very simple family concept, and he has high hopes for the eldest son, while the other children are correspondingly inferior. Not to mention daughters.

Don't expect your son to be a powerful person, just make a fortune.

And the mother Li is devout to Buddhism, and this rhino horn Buddha statue that looks a long way ago will definitely make my mother happy. Li Kun is a very filial person.

He thought about it, and in the end he was happy.

The hot weather on Jawa Island made Li Kun cry out that he couldn't stand it, and when he returned to his residence, he was wet with sweat, so he took off his clothes as quickly as possible, put on a pair of shorts that southerners often wear, and Li Kun sank into the pool.

Now he is no longer a small merchant and vendor who cooperated with others to share boats and dump grain, salt and sugar cloth, he has evolved from a small shrimp to a small fish.

Not only can he contract a ship to transfer goods with his own goods, but he also has a stake in Qiongzhou Shipping Company, and now has a total worth of two or three million Chinese yuan.

The wealthy life made Li Kun no longer worry about his father's decision back then, and the rich one in these years is the master, the uncle. and those who are in office shall bow their heads. Take those officials in Qiongzhou Mansion as an example, they want to raise some charitable donations from their businessmen every year, don't they also have to arrange a good occasion, and talk to them humbly and even flatteringly?

Although the rich still do not have power, the social status of the rich is definitely comparable to that of the gentry in the past.

Without the identity of Uncle Guo, he Li Kun can still be superior.

This is his real ability!

Now Li Kun's greatest wish is that one day he can develop the Li family into the top first-class tycoon in China, in that case, he will recognize the royal family again, and Li Kun feels that he can maintain the dignity of his Li family.

This feeling of earning gold and silver by relying on his own hard work is much better than simply being the emperor's eldest brother.

However, Li Kun, who was enjoying himself in the pool, didn't know that at the back of the shop he had just visited, a Nanyang Chinese dressed as an indigenous person stared at the ground with a very ugly face, as if he could see a flower on the wooden board. He clenched his hands into fists, clenched his fists tightly, and he was very annoyed.

It's just that he went back and and asked a clerk to replace him for a while, why was the sword bought?

This person hates, this person is even more anxious.

He wanted to cut his little brother at this moment. When do you say you want to spray water badly, but you have to do it at a critical moment? Now it's okay, the 'props' are gone.

The Malay sword, which didn't look gorgeous, came from a big one. Li Kun was not mistaken, the sword was not an ornament, but a real killing weapon, the ancestral sword of the Yogyakarta Sultan. It is the sword of the legendary founder of the Mataram Sultanate.

After the Sultanate of Mataram was divided into two - the Sultanate of Yogyakarta and the Sultanate of Solo, this sword has been kept in the hands of the successor of the Sultanate, the Sultanate of Yogyakarta, and is not only a treasure of the royal family, but also one of the symbols of the royal heritage.

It took a lot of effort for the Military Intelligence Agency to get it.

As a result, when it came to the beginning of the big play, there was such a mess.

There was also a very ugly person standing in front of the Chinese man, but the latter looked calmer than the former who was in chagrin.

"Don't worry. There must be someone watching outside the store. Wouldn't it be better if the sword was in the merchant's hand? ”

The unexpected guest was a businessman in earnest, which was more authentic than the one they had arranged. Even the shop doesn't need to leak out at the moment, as long as there is a rumor from the Jawa Station of the Military Intelligence Department, someone has bought an extremely sharp Malay sword!

Li Kunke didn't know that he was involved in something big. Those who are wrong and wrong in the MIA don't know that the black cauldron that suddenly appeared in their plan is that the queen mother of the empire has been looking for her brother who has not been seen for many years.

Li Kun drank a glass of chilled coconut water, woke up from a sleep, and it was late. At seven o'clock he went out on time to get into the carriage, and then at seven twenty o'clock, he came to a high-end hotel somewhere in Surabaya.

The people gathered here tonight are all merchants from Qiongzhou Mansion who came to Jawa, and their strength is not worth mentioning compared to the Guangzhou merchant group, but a group of people are gathered together tightly.

In this era, you can't be a lone ranger in business, whether it is news or raising funds, the township association is indispensable.

"Let's talk about it, everyone's time here is not short, and the latest Brother Wang has been a month, how do you feel?" Li Kun asked, sitting on an oak chair and pouring a little coconut wine for everyone.

"I'll start by telling you what I know about this place." Seeing that there was not a single squeak from the people seated, Li Kun was the first to start, "A while ago, I went with Zhu Ancai to visit his father's textile factory in Semarang. To be honest, I had thought about his family's textile factory many times before I went there, but when I first saw this one of the largest textile factories on Java Island, I was really surprised. ”

"There is no other reason, this workshop is too shabby, it can only be regarded as a larger workshop."

"All the spinning machines and looms are manual, and there are probably only thirty or forty employees, and it is said that half of them are part-time."

"Many of them are farmers from nearby plantations, and they only come to work in the workshops when they are not working or when they are very short of money.

Ginning, rinsing, spinning, weaving, washing and dyeing, etc., are very inefficient. You only need to think about the original Qiongzhou family workshop, and you can imagine the Zhu family's textile factory. "Compared with today's textile workers, those weavers in the past, regardless of their craftsmanship, have been the difference between amateurs and professionals since their attitude.

Li Kun and the others have a total of seven people, all of whom are from Hainan, and the industries they are engaged in involve cloth. They also have a hometown in Qiongzhou, a native of Surabaya, who maintains five plantations and three textile workshops on the island of Java, although most of his relatives have moved to Singapore.

"There are 30 or 40 million people in the entire South Seas, and we can't make up for it in Annam and Siam, and Malay has also been divided up, but this East Indies can still fight." Several people partnered to invest in the expansion of a brand new factory with at least 4,000 spindles based on the Zhu family.

This amount of money is not small, and it is a little difficult for the people here to come up alone, but if the big guys get together and add people from the Zhu family, it will not be difficult.

Nanyang is not suitable for growing cotton, but there can be linen cloth, which is lighter and more breathable than cotton.

Of course, local Chinese businessmen also buy cotton from China or India, and then start their own cotton textile industry. It's just that the market share is very small, and more of the cloth here is native linen, foreign cotton.

Li Kun, another textile factory of the Zhu family, also visited once, producing some primary processed products such as linen, gloves, socks and hats, the quality is not good, the price is not low, but the sales are not bad.

"Local production is always more cost-effective, and over the past few thousand years, this place has formed a trade hub. We don't have to go from tribe to tribe to sell the cloth. I am very optimistic about this investment. ”

The Zhu family is a small snake in Surabaya, with roots, connections, and prestige, and is an excellent target for cooperation.

In this part of Nanyang, there are many Chinese who are plantation owners, there are also many Chinese who are traders, and there are countless people who open restaurants, taverns and inns.

"So, guys, let's do it together."

"Fight for it!" Several people clinked glasses together.

……

The scene that happened on the distant island of Jawa is not known to the people of Nanjing.

One thing everyone knows is that the negotiations between China and Britain are embarrassing.

Since the end of the first long interval, the Chinese and British negotiators have met three times in a row, but no one has been able to convince anyone on the South Sea issue.

Watson did not dare to 'give up' the Netherlands.

Since the beginning of the Glorious Revolution, a large number of alliances have been signed between Britain and the Netherlands, and the Dutch have exhausted the accumulation of the treasury and the enthusiasm of the people because of the series of wars with France, which provided the largest army for the anti-French Augsburg League in the War of the Spanish Succession - 140,000 men, demonstrating the amazing financial hegemony of the Netherlands, but also paying a terrible price. Over the next sixty or seventy years, the Dutch almost gave up their military 'power'.

The parliamentary businessmen in power, in order to relieve the burden of the huge public debt, and for the sake of so-called "real freedom" (the big bourgeoisie enjoyed the political privileges of the provinces and the regressive tax rate), cut most of the Dutch military forces, voluntarily lowered the country's international status, and was willing to be reduced to a second-rate state. However, the Netherlands is still the richest country in Europe, with the highest per capita income in Europe, and has a strong financial hegemony.

A considerable part of the British national debt is in the hands of the Netherlands, and the two sides are completely complementary. The Dutch have reined in their colonization, and they would rather lend the capital accumulated over the past 200 years to the governments and enterprises of Britain, France and other countries to enjoy stable and lucrative interest income, rather than regain the enterprising spirit of "sea coachmen" and carry out colonial wars abroad.

Such a country, that is simply a natural ally of the British.

Because the Chinese promised such a little benefit, they 'gave up' such a century-old ally, and Watson was not so irrational.

So the negotiations between China and Britain reached an impasse.

Chen Ming was in a very unhappy mood, looking at the report sent back by Chen Zhongsheng to North Korea, and gently put it on the table.

"Give Chen Zhongsheng my message, kill them all, and leave no one behind."

"But all the evidence has to be ready."

"The evidence is overwhelming. Give the case to the death of my nail. ”

These Goryeo sticks did not know what to do, and tried in vain to support the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, so that they could contain more of the Northeast Fu Han army. His heart can be punished!

Chen Ming is not a North Korean, and these North Korean generals who have colluded with the remnants of the Qing Dynasty may be considered to be admirable for the sake of North Korea when they stand on the position of North Korea. But in Chen Ming's eyes, from China's standpoint, that is what should be killed.

What's more, these people were just in time when Chen Ming was not in a happy mood, and they should have vented. It doesn't matter how many people he is, he is not Chinese.

This wave of Jiangjin has arrived in Henan, and Farareev has also arrived in Lunan, and the second table of guests is about to be served, and the British are still dragging their feet here.

It's so unpleasant! (To be continued)). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to read. )