At the end of February, the meaning of the New Year's Festival has not finally faded, when the cold wind in the north is still raging, Wen Jiàn and Harpy of the steel factory arrived in Baotou together, Chinese for the New Year, foreigners, however, even if Harpy stayed in China for two years, the importance is still Christmas and New Year, especially the year ago, Yang Yuanzhao gave him a task, let him go to Southeast Asia to enclose, planting all kinds of rubber.

Although he didn't understand this thing very much, Harpy still did what Yang Yuanzhao told him, and Southeast Asia at this time was in ruins.

With the British control of the Strait of Malacca, the connection between Oriental China and Southeast Asia is also getting closer and closer, passing between the Lion City and Penang merchant ships, in Shanghai, almost every other day there is a flight, a few days to arrive, Southeast Asian tycoons, to and from the mainland, is no longer so difficult, whether it is real estate, investment, almost one after another.

At this time, Harpy is no longer a down-and-out small businessman, with the help of a large amount of orders and tungsten powder business, in a sense, is a partner of the German military industry, and even on the list of German consuls in the Qing Dynasty, in terms of strength, it is not the same as before, the tentacles of Germany and the United States have gradually penetrated into various places in this era, especially recently, with the gradual development of Baotou's industry, the various machines purchased by Germany have been continuously improved, and the trade sector of Germany and the United States occupies an increasingly important position in Germany.

Such a rich man, a person with important influence, went to Southeast Asia to buy land, directly accompanied by the local German consul, Southeast Asia is the world of Britain and France, especially Britain, occupies the most important Strait of Malacca, the United States did not intervene until 1898 through the Spanish-American War, except for the Philippines, the United States in the whole of Southeast Asia does not have a strong sense of existence.

According to Yang Yuanzhao's instructions, the exact different positions, Harpy did not go to the area controlled by Britain and France, nor did he go to the Philippines, but came to Indonesia, which was controlled by the Netherlands, and from the early 19th century, the Netherlands began to fully integrate into various things in Indonesia, even at the expense of touching the army.

Indonesia in this era is a barren land, full of flourishing primeval forests, Indonesia since 1824, under the rule of the Netherlands, the Netherlands spent nearly a hundred years, step by step to pull out the Indonesian indigenous and other immigrants, consolidate the position, Indonesia's various resources, are in the hands of the Dutch Kingdom.

The former sea coachman, after losing to France, has declined, in the list of great powers, barely has the name of the Netherlands, what is the truth, the Netherlands knows very well, the Dutch can raise the butcher's knife for other countries, and even for the Qing country, for the German merchants, and in front of the German consul accompanied by the merchant Harpy, there is no slightest pride, although it may not be hoped that Germany will intervene in Indonesia, but legitimate business and purchase of property, can not be refused.

Harpy was not greedy enough to acquire cities, which was impossible, and the series of cities that the Netherlands spent a hundred years to establish in Indonesia were the lifeblood of the Netherlands, and even launched a large number of wars and massacres for these.

For Harpy, his goal is rubber plantations, Yang Yuanzhao simply named the addresses of some rubber plantations in later generations, in this era, most of the places are primeval forests, everywhere is luxuriant, if these primeval forests are burned, it will become a rich land, and it is best to grow rubber.

The Dutch governor looked at the land demarcated by Harpy on the map, the area is not small, large and small combined, almost 250,000 hectares, although the place is very large, it is some marginal areas, and most of them are not even developed, but the dense farmland that has been developed, Harpy disdains it, and does not draw into it.

The Dutch governor was still skeptical that there was some conspiracy among the Germans, but now it seems that it was just a rich German merchant who came to build a plantation, planting the most popular rubber recently, regardless of whether the other party could plant it successfully or not, and what was drawn was a relatively large field.

The climatic conditions of Marancia, some people come to try to plant rubber, but there are few successes, Malaysia, there is not enough labor, rubber needs more labor, with the laziness of the Malay natives, even the grain is not good,

The scope demarcated by Harpy, most of which is in the scope of the former Lanfang Kingdom, which is dominated by the Chinese and under the control of the Dutch, has been relying on the exploitation of the Chinese for so many years, and the Chinese have become the objects of the Dutch free-range, and in the past few decades, there have been several unrest against the Chinese, which is also the sorrow of the Chinese in Southeast Asia.

The Chinese, along with the Jews, are known as the two major money-earning races, different from the opportunistic tricks of the Jews, the Chinese have become a wealthy class with hard work and savings, but they have been oppressed countless times because of the original sin generated by wealth.

Yang Yuanzhao is not to rescue these Chinese, he does not have this ability, what he can do is to accumulate strength, if the Qing State is a great power in this era, I am afraid that the Netherlands will not carry out one massacre after another, history has no if, what happened is already existing.

Rubber plantations, the biggest discovery at the beginning of the 20th century, but also the most profitable industry, one by one in South America enclosure, the formation of large rubber plantations, from the establishment of the first place, it has attracted the attention of the world, each of them, is the stock market trendsetters, in the past few years, with the application of rubber in the international market more and more extensively, rubber tired stocks, gradually become the world leader in the field of finance, as long as the rubber industry, have become the focus of the market, as long as the thick line, it has fallen into the pursuit and promotion.

Yang Yuanzhao, who has the vision of later generations, knows very well that Brazil's rubber is only a part of rubber, and the most important rubber resources in the whole world, in Southeast Asia, in this era, Southeast Asia has not yet terminated rubber, just a barren land, Western colonizers, as the origin of spice exports, has the name of the spice kingdom, after modern times, because of the popularity of spices in the world, especially a large number of planting in India, the status of Southeast Asia is declining, and there are no Western colonizers who will think that there will be rubber here. It is precisely this kind of thinking that is wrong, Southeast Asia is one of the most important rubber producing regions in the world, and in the coming century, it has developed very dramatically.

Now, in Southeast Asia, perhaps some prophets, will be in Southeast Asia, rubber development, but without exception, these developments, there is no development, this era, there is no suitable for Southeast Asia rubber resources, imported from Brazil rubber resources, are not very suitable for Southeast Asian production.

Harpy walked into the Dutch colonial government, as a foreigner, a powerful German, a royal merchant under the protection of the Kaiser, Harpy received preferential treatment in the Doge's Palace, when he offered to buy land and form a plantation, the governor waved his pen, he wanted that place or that place, as long as Harpy wanted.

In the Governor's opinion, this Southeast Asia, except for a small number of cities, is a barren land, a small number of rich mineral deposits, that is, farming, if you hire Chinese, it is good to say, hard-working Chinese, will give them a certain income, planting all kinds of agriculture, will get enough income, but compared with maritime trade, this income is too small, if you hire local natives, it will be over, and the natives will let you lose no pants.

Even as the governor of the region, the governor of the Netherlands knew that the natives could not be relied upon. However, from a certain Cheng dù, the Chinese still cannot be relied on, even the Dutch governor knows that the Chinese must be controlled.

The governor made this request, Harpy had no way to solve it, but according to Yang Yuanzhao's proposal, he paid a certain amount of money, under the silver bullet offensive, of course the governor agreed, 3.75 million German marks, 750,000 mu of land, each mu of land is only 5 marks, which is unimaginable in China, but in Lanfang, this is a normal price, of the 3.75 million paid by Harpy, of which 2 million is for the governor, the real amount paid is only 1.75 million, and the purpose of 2 million marks is just to get the governor to agree, he can recruit farmers from China for the cultivation of land.

"What a smart guy!" The Governor secretly praised, the Governor's Office has always been very sensitive to the Chinese, the Chinese are too hardworking, just like locusts, endlessly, the Netherlands is a small country, the sea coachman of the year, has long fallen to the point of a broken settlement, Indonesia as the Netherlands only, one of the most important colonies, how to maintain this colony, is the key to the Netherlands, not only related to the lives of many people in the colony, but also related to the domestic environment of the Netherlands.

For a long time, the Netherlands has been paying attention to the problem of the number of Chinese, not allowing his number to reach a certain number, and even controlling the force of the Chinese, so that the Chinese have a lot of money, but they cannot obtain a status related to money.

"No problem, we're happy to work together!" If it were someone else, maybe the governor would be wary, but a German merchant and a Jew, what does he have to do with the Chinese, it is estimated that he heard that the Chinese are industrious, and a 50,000-acre plantation can accommodate many Chinese.

That's it, Harpy, took the first step in Indonesia, 50,000 acres of plantations, even if they do not adopt mechanized planting, the number of people used will not exceed 5,000 people, which is equivalent to one person to take care of 10 acres,

The governor will not know that Harpy recruited 10,000 peasants from China all of a sudden, and even if he knew, it didn't matter, Lanfang itself was a place where the Chinese, 10,000 people, drizzle, such 10,000 people, invested in the vast land of Lanfang, there was hardly the slightest wave. R1152