Han and Chinese Consul in Manila Jing Shengqi rushed to the battleship "Green Forest" Silk Salary Woman from Sumatra, a Chinese from the Sumatra region, who had worked with Lu Ping in Sumatra two years ago, was Gong Chuntai.

Today, Gong Chuntai is one of the leaders of the Sumatra Chinese community, and he has been appearing more and more often, but few people know about it. He also has a very secret identity, even if he is a fleet commander like Lu Ping, he doesn't know what Gong Chuntai is from, when Lu Ping and Gong Chuntai met in Sumatra two years ago. He was only an ordinary leader in the refugee camp.

According to the order of the Admiralty, after the conclusion of the joint military exercise in Manila Bay, Lu Ping will lead the task force to the area around Sumatra for ocean training.

The meeting was held in the officer's conference room opposite Lu Ping's captain's room, and only Lu Ping and Gong Chuntai were in the conference room, and as for the consul and his assistant, they went to have a party with the sailors on behalf of the local overseas Chinese to express their condolences to the naval officers.

Gong Chuntai also knew that Lu Ping did not know his true identity, but considering the extreme importance of this mission, Gong Chuntai still decided to show the other party directly, otherwise, the admiral might not believe what he said.

"Commander Lu, to tell you the truth, I am a person who works for the central government, and I can talk to the president."

Gong Chuntai didn't directly say that he was an intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and in a roundabout way, he first got in touch with the commander-in-chief, and then took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket. Pick out a paper cigarette from it, then record the cigarette paper, take out a small note from it, and hand it to Lu Ping.

Lu Ping took the note and glanced at it, but it was a telegram, which had been translated into code, and what was the content. He didn't know.

"What is this?" Lu Ping asked Gong Chuntai.

Gong Chuntai said: "This is a telegram, please Commander Lu order the telegraph operator to take this code to the Admiralty, after the Admiralty receives the code. It will definitely be forwarded to the Commander's Hall immediately, and the Commander's Hall can confirm my identity according to this telegram, so that Commander Lu can believe my words. ”

Lu Ping smiled: "Mr. Gong is careful. Then I'll have someone take a telegram and go to the Admiralty to verify it. ”

Lu Ping called the adjutant and asked him to take the telegram to the telegraph room, although Gong Chuntai was indeed brought by Mr. Consul, but Lu Ping was a strict person, and military discipline would not allow him to trust a "civilian" casually, so this necessary procedure was indispensable.

"Commander Lu is doing things safely. I can trust you. ”

Gong Chuntai praised it, then quickly cut to the chase, and without waiting for the adjutant to come back, he told Lu Ping the purpose of his trip. "Commander Lu, I came here to disturb this time because I wanted to ask Commander Lu for a favor. I have a few friends in the Philippines who have recently gotten into trouble and are being hunted down by the Americans, and finally hid in Manila from other places and prepared to flee to Sumatra, but they could not find a ship to leave Manila, so I would like to ask Commander Lu to take those friends with him when he led the fleet out of Manila, and I will send someone to pick them up when they arrive at the place. ”

"That's it? You came from Sumatra specifically for this purpose? Those must be your friends who have had a fateful relationship. ”

Lu Ping was a little surprised, this matter is not a difficult matter, but since those people are being hunted down by the Americans, I am afraid it is not as simple as Gong Chuntai's frivolous "causing trouble".

Gong Chuntai smiled and said, "It's not a fateful friendship, but it's really a friend, a like-minded friend." Helping them is actually helping us. I'm here in Manila. It's not all about those friends running away, it's actually about another mission, after being busy. By the way, he rescued his friend, so he came to meet Commander Lu. ”

Seeing that Gong Chuntai didn't seem to want to say what he was doing in Manila, Lu Ping didn't ask, he would rather stay close to a person with a mysterious identity like this. He wants to maintain the simplicity of a professional soldier, although it is indeed impossible to maintain this simplicity all the time, but he still believes that soldiers should stay away from conspiracy, because once a soldier is involved in a conspiracy, he is not a soldier. That's a politician in uniform.

Now that he knew that Gong Chuntai was coming, Lu Ping changed the topic at the right time.

"I haven't been to Sumatra for two years, so I wonder what the situation is there. Has the conflict between the Chinese and the local natives been resolved? What have the Dutch been busy with there lately? ”

"The situation is still tense, there are more and more Chinese, there are more and more natives, and the old and new contradictions are intertwined. New and old hatreds combined, Sumatra is now a powder keg, just one spark away. It will explode violently. At present, the Chinese community in Sumatra is trying to find a way to organize regimental training. To help each other, Gong is now also a general practitioner of the regimental training, usually teaching his subordinates to practice martial arts to strengthen their bodies, practice shooting, and in the event of a conflict, they will not suffer losses. As for the Dutch, now they are small, and they are willing to quell the conflict and intensify their instigation from it, and use China to control ten. The heart iodine "Hua" is similar to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Dutch also stepped up the immigration from Java to Sumatra to strengthen the strength of the natives, and at the same time restricted the migration of Chinese to Sumatra, which made up their minds to support the natives. ”

"Well, you can't sit still."

Hearing this, Lu Ping sat up straight, although he was somewhat pacifist, but he was not an indifferent person, he was very sympathetic to the plight of the Chinese in Nanyang, coupled with the influence of those propaganda materials printed by the General Staff that were full of social Darwinist ideas, now, Lu Ping is somewhat "Great Chinaism." of tendencies.

"It's nature. In the past, there was no state support, but now, the center holds the Nanyang Chinese, what do we have to be afraid of? ”

Speaking of this, Gong Chuntai smiled, as an insider, of course he knew that all this was being manipulated by the forces behind the scenes, what he wanted was the current effect, and what he wanted was a high-sounding excuse, since the great powers were clamoring for "the law of the jungle." "Then don't blame the "mad president." In this era, there are still axioms, and power is justice. In fact, Gong Chuntai rushed to the Philippines this time in order to raise arms and ammunition, and it is not enough for the Chinese regiment to train armed forces and only be equipped with hunting rifles, but also to be equipped with rifles, and those old rifles poured by the American ** fire dealers are obviously of good quality and low price, and they can also keep the appearance elegant before the official intervention of the central government, originally, Gong Chuntai also planned to ask Lu Ping to transport the purchased old rifles to Sumatra by the way, but considering that the warship was too conspicuous, and the center did not know in advance, Gong Chuntai also dispelled this idea, it is safer to smuggle by sailboat, even if it is captured by the Dutch warship, it will not pull out the radish and bring out the mud, so that the central government is not easy to explain.

"What is the situation on the Borneo side? Listen to the radio broadcast that the Japanese have established migrant settlements in North Borneo, and that some Chinese farms have been forced to give up? Lu Ping asked again.

"The situation there is more peaceful than in Sumatra, where the British and the Dutch are jointly in charge, and no one dares to mess around, and as for the Japanese immigrants, they are honest now, and the Dutch are afraid that the Japanese will follow the example of the Koreans in those days to organize armed riots. Therefore, the precautions against Japanese immigrants are very strict. Most of the abandoned Chinese farms were in North Borneo, but not all of them went to Sumatra, many of them remained in North Borneo and went to the big farms, and the British also strengthened their control over those Chinese farms, and set up radio stations on some farms to dial the radio stations of the Sood ** ship. Although the Chinese there are calmer than Sumatra, they are not happy, after all, they are under the fence, where Sumatra is like Sumatra, it is about to become the second Fujian and Guangdong, if they are angry with the Dutch, everyone will shine, and the Dutch will be soft. ”

Gong Chuntai also sighed a little, the so-called "gains and losses" Borneo is staring at the British, but it is not like Sumatra, it is the backyard of the Dutch, in Borneo, the Military Intelligence Bureau is somewhat unable to let go, but in Sumatra. The Dutch are soft persimmons in the eyes of the military intelligence.

The Dutch also understood this, which is why they stepped up their support for the local natives and accelerated the pace of immigration, hoping to bring the situation under control before the Chinese took over the island. For now, however, it appears that the Dutch East Indies colonial authorities have lost confidence in the situation in Sumatra. After all, the local Chinese have already armed themselves well, and the Chinese-made "national shotgun" can not only be used for hunting, but also can fight Dutch soldiers, although the range is shorter, the accuracy is poorer, but after all, it is not a burning stick, especially in the jungle. Shotguns swept a piece, better than rifles, in a sense, the equipment gap between the Chinese armed forces and the colonial army has narrowed a lot, and in terms of numbers, the Chinese occupy an absolute advantage, and more importantly, the Chinese have been united, no longer the previous state of scattered sand, in the face of organized armed militias, any small group of colonized armies is a vegetable, and before the end of the war in Europe. It was also unlikely that the Dutch government would have sent a major military build-up to the East Indies, although it was true that the Netherlands was still in the midst of the European war

Lu Ping and Gong Chuntai sat in the conference room and chatted about the topic of Nanyang, after the ox hour. The adjutant returned to the conference room from his newspaper room. Give a telegram from the Commander's Hall to Lu Yang

。

"Gong Chuntai can be trusted, and Lu Ping acts cheaply."

The content of the telegram was simple, and the payment was made by the president himself. This made Lu Ping more interested in Gong Chuntai's background, but he did not ask, but agreed with Gong Chuntai on the time of the next meeting, and then politely ended the meeting, and personally sent Gong Chuntai off the warship, and watched him and the consul gentleman land on a single board.