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"Chinese heart? And dictatorship? Hehe, Lao Ye, did he really say that? ”

Dongfang Law, in the main hall of Lanfang Company, Liu Qianxing squinted his old eyes and looked at Ye Tenghui, who had just returned from Singapore. On the table was a pair of fine ivory smoking guns, which had long since ceased to smoke and had cooled down.

There was silence in the room, and Liu Aliang, the second son of Liu Qianxing, broke the silence for a long time, "Daddy, the fox tail surnamed Zhu is finally revealed!" This Chinese heart is beautiful, and it may be his original intention to engage in dictatorship in Lanfang, right? We can't let him succeed, this Lanfang is the world of our Yingjiaren, how can we not let the surname Zhu take it away! ”

Liu Qianxing nodded slightly, stared at his son for a while, and asked, "Major Anderson has seen it?" What did he say? ”

"Mr. Anderson said that the British will not lend troops to Zhu Jishi, and even if Zhu Jishi's foreign soldiers do, they are a rabble hired temporarily, and as long as we do not send troops, we will not be able to defeat the combined forces of the Sultan of Wanna and the Sultan of Brunei."

Liu Qianxing was stunned for a moment, and asked: "The Sultan of Brunei is also going to send troops?" ”

"That's what Mr. Andersen said," said Liu Aliang, "the Dutch Governor's Office in Batavia was very annoyed by the British encroachment on West Borneo, but it was inconvenient to send troops directly, so it instructed the Sultan of Brunei and the Sultan of Manna to send troops together behind their backs. ”

Brunei Darussalam is now the most powerful princely state in Borneo, controlling a large part of the eastern part of northern Borneo and several times more powerful than the Sultan of Wanna. The current sultan's name is Umar. Ali. Saiftin II, who had a dispute with the Chinese company in Sarawak around 1840 and was unsuccessful, turned to the Englishman James Brown. Brooke's mercenaries went to war, and after the victory, Kuching was given to Brooke, and as a result, Brooke proclaimed himself king of Sarawak in Kuching, declaring Sarawak's independence from Brunei! This incident, known in history as the "Brunei Change", is probably a typical example of luring wolves into the house.

However, Saiftin II was not willing to lose Kuching, so he turned to the Dutch colonists and bought a large number of foreign guns and cannons from Batavia, ready to take revenge. This was originally a war between the Sultan of Brunei and Brooke, and it had nothing to do with Lan Fang. However, after the news came out that Britain was preparing to turn Lanfang into a protectorate, the more confused sultan listened to the opinion of the Dutch advisers, believing that once Lanfang became a British protectorate, she would inevitably fight side by side with Brooke, and the position of the Chinese in Brunei was also very likely to turn to Britain, and then Brunei would only be a dead country.

"Old Ye, what do you think?" Liu Qianxing frowned and looked at Ye Tenghui.

Old man Ye just shook his head, "It's useless for Brunei to send troops, the stunned young people of Heshun Company don't know what medicine to take wrong, Zheng Hong was the first to support Zhu Jishi as the Grand Duke of Lanfang, and this time he should send troops to help the war......"

The same underworld, Lan Fang is the second and third generations of black here, and they are used to living a comfortable life, so they are not very capable of fighting. And most of the people in Heshun Company are bitter men who have just come out of the mainland, and they don't want to die when they start a group fight. Therefore, in the group fights with the surrounding shili, Lan Fang was repeatedly defeated, while Heshun won more and lost less, and he was a shili that made both the Dutch and the king of Sarawak, Brooke, feel prickly. Not long ago, the Sultan of Wanna also sent people to collect taxes from Heshun Company, but the messengers let Zheng Hong slaughter him! Therefore, it is inevitable that Heshun Company and Wanna Sultan will fight, and it is only a matter of time before they start, and it is expected that they will send troops to help the war this time, but Zheng Hong's public support for Zhu Jishi to be the Grand Duke of Lanfang is really unexpected.

"Mrs. Jia, now that the two ladies of the Luo family have fought with Zhu Jishi, if Zheng Hong is co-opted by Zhu Jishi again...... Coupled with the foreign aid of the British and the 500 foreign soldiers, maybe this Lan Fang really wants to be surnamed Zhu! Ye Tenghui pondered, "Unless...... There can be good news there in Guangzhou. ”

Compared with the United Kingdom, the hearts of the Chinese in West Borneo are still towards the Qing Dynasty! It's just that the Qing Dynasty ignored Lan Fang's request to claim the land of the domain for decades, and was defeated in the Opium War, so the hearts of the Chinese in West Borneo were mostly cold.

Thinking of this, Liu Qianxing sighed and waved his hand to let Liu Aliang and Ye Tenghui retire. But only Ye Tenghui turned around and left.

"Ah Liang, do you have anything else to say?" Liu Qianxing looked at the second son with a gloomy face and asked uncertainly.

"Daddy, we can't let the surname Zhu have three things: people, money, and land!"

"What are you going to do?" Liu Qianxing sat up happily, looked at his son coldly, and saw that he lowered his head, but he still bit the steel and chewed the words: "Daddy, Lan Fang belongs to our Liu family, you can't let it out like this!" ”

"You think I want to?" Liu Qianxing glared at his son fiercely, "But there is the British Empire behind the surname Zhu!" ”

"We have the Netherlands behind us! Daddy, Major Anderson said, our poor country in West Borneo can't enter the eyes of the British Empire at all, they will not send troops directly, as long as we can control the situation in West Borneo, we can also be vassals to the British Empire! ”

"How can we control it?" Liu Qianxing shook his head with a wry smile. The situation in West Borneo can only be grasped by Luo Fangbo when he is alive, and perhaps Zhu Jishi, an alien strong dragon, can also subdue the ordinary head snake. But the Liu family and Fuqingtang do not have this kind of liliang.

"Yes!" Liu Aliang said in a low voice: "The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits!" Daddy, let's not be in the East Law, and look at the three parties surnamed Zhu, the Luo family and the Heshun Company to fight with the two sultans of Brunei and Wanna...... After all, the 500 foreign soldiers under the surname Zhu are a rabble, and they can't be treated as British lobster soldiers! ”

"That's all?" Liu Qianxing sneered, "Our Liu family didn't plan to send troops in the first place......

Liu Aliang suddenly laughed, "No, Daddy, our Liu family should send troops!" He arched his hand at the old man and said loudly: "Please Daddy let his son lead the troops to the battle, and then wait for the opportunity to move!" ”

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According to the method proposed by Qiu Fatzi, the recruitment of foreign soldiers was carried out in an orderly manner. Hemming personally took the pound gold coins to various taverns in Singapore to pull people, and successfully recruited hundreds of Western scum, most of them were drunks, a small number were deserters, and some may have carried all kinds of crimes in Europe before they came to the East to adventure, in short, the good people of Europe in this era are not likely to run to the South Seas, and further south here, it is Australia where the British Empire exiled criminals.

Although these Westerners are all scum, but in the world of Nanyang, foreigners have accumulated prestige for a long time, whether they are indigenous or Chinese, they are always a little weak when they see Western soldiers, so Zhu Jishi's 10,000 pounds is still worth it.

A total of 506 scum was soon divided into 5 companies, 3 infantry companies, and was led by Jérôme. Peel, Joseph. Daeron and Louis. Mercer's three veteran French officers were commanded separately, and the infantry company had 120 men each; Another 70 scumbags who were proficient in the use of rifles were selected, and they were accompanied by the Baker rifles purchased separately. De Wickine conductor; There were also 70 men who formed an artillery company, armed with three 9-pounder cannons, led by Henry Brown. Conductor Reye; Zuihou also has 6 foreigners who can blow and blow and form a small military band. Qiu Fatzi and Will. Hai Ming temporarily made a cameo as the chief and deputy commander of this foreign barracks.

At this point, the first army owned by Zhu Jishi can be regarded as a patchwork. In order to highlight that this army was sent by the British Empire to support Zhu Jishi, Zhu Jishi also followed Qiu Fatzi's suggestion and named this army the first battalion of the British Lanfang Volunteer Infantry.