The sun is blazing, and the beautiful Central Pacific Ocean is like a calm mirror.

It's the windless season in the Central Pacific, and if a hundred years ago, sailboats that sailed on the wind would have had to stay here for an extra month.

However, with the perfection and progress of the steam age, huge steamships powered by steam turbines can roam freely here.

The Alice, a large 18,000-ton mail ship, flies the British flag, but her owner had changed two months earlier.

She used to travel between Hong Kong and London only once a year as a passenger cruise ship, passing through small island countries in the Central Pacific such as Tonga and Fiji, but now she is the new owner's private boat, going to Tonga once a month.

Buying such a large mail ship as a private yacht is something that only a very small number of people in the world can afford. However, if the owner is an Oriental and a backward Chinese, it is a different matter.

Zhang Meng, that's right, it's him. Robbed five Japanese banks in a row and accumulated a fortune of more than 10 million US dollars, he became a new tyrant in China.

At this time, on the rooftop of the Alice Cruise Building, Zhang Meng was lying on a chair with sunglasses, basking in the sun while admiring the hip-skimming beauties at the rooftop ball.

Having a dance party on the rooftop of a cruise ship is obviously very luxurious, but it cannot be judged that Zhang Meng is profligate. If anyone sees Sir Justin eating tofu everywhere among the beauties, he will understand that all this was arranged for him.

That's right, Zhang Meng still has to rely on the help of this Constant. As the new high commissioner of the British Empire to the eight countries of the Central Pacific, his words could get the British government to recognize the legitimacy of the Tongan rebels.

A month ago, Zhang Meng ordered Jing Rui, the commander of the Zhangjia Security Corps in Tonga, to support the rebellion of the Aprado family in Inner Yafu and set up a new Tonga regime in the Vavau Islands, officially rebelling against the rule of Tonga by Queen Salot, supported by the Taofa Ahao family.

Because the Zhangjia Security Regiment joined the Aprado Family Army as volunteers, although there were only more than 500 people, they were well-equipped. Equipped with Thomson submachine guns, M2 heavy machine guns for squad platoons, 60 mortars, 80 mm infantry guns, and a battalion headquarters plus a sniper platoon, the firepower of 500 people is equivalent to an infantry brigade of the US Army in the thirties, making the rebels unprecedentedly strong.

Relatively speaking, the government army equipment in the hands of the Queen of Tonga is very backward, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is even primitive. They still use the old weapons and equipment that the British army eliminated in the nineties of the last century, and since it became a British protectorate in 1900, they have directly abandoned armament training, and more than half of the Wehrmacht, which has less than 1,000 people, will not shoot.

In the face of such a strong government army, the Aprado rebels intended to occupy only the independence of the Vava'u Islands and separate from Tonga, but the war situation was very favorable, and the Aprado patriarch Modi immediately led his navy - a small 50-ton gunboat from the 60s of the last century, plus four large sailing ships to transport the rebels to the main island of Tonga.

At first, Jing Rui was still a little apprehensive, what if the squeaky sailboat that seemed to be about to fall apart would sink halfway through. However, such old sailing ships still arrived safely on the main island of Tonga, Nuku'alofa, in the calm season.

The government forces organized a large-scale blockade, but the two sides fought for less than 10 minutes before they were routed by the rebels. In the face of the overwhelming anti-government attack, the Queen of Tonga did not have time to call the British for help, her royal palace was stormed, and she and the royal family became prisoners.

Modi quickly formed his kingdom, and he made himself king, ordering the execution of the Queen of Tonga and members of the royal family. Tonga is a country with a severe shortage of food, so in order to appease the people of Tonga, he borrowed $500,000 from Zhang Meng to buy food and distribute it to the people. In return, Modi announced that Zhang Meng and his family members were deployed as honorary citizens of Tonga and allowed Chinese to freely join Tongan citizenship.

Since the coup d'état in Tonga ended only three days before and after, it was already a week before the British authorities received the news. The British authorities did not care too much about the coup d'état in Tonga, they did not care who was king, they only cared about the safety and interests of the British expatriates in Tonga.

Zhang Meng had already seen through this, so he made a deal with Constant. As the high commissioner of the eight countries in the Central Pacific, Constant's words can dispel all the fears of the British.

The new Kingdom of Tonga was still recognized as a protectorate of the British Empire, and Zhang Meng's special contribution led King Modi to confer the title of Hero of Tonga on Zhang Meng, and according to the previous agreement, the Aprado family moved from Nefuya to the main island of Tonga, leased their Vavau Islands to Zhang Meng for 99 years, and the concession allowed garrisons and fortifications, extraterritoriality, and so on.

In fact, Zhang Meng founded a state of China in Tonga. The reason why he did not directly overthrow Tonga and establish a state was because Zhang Meng was not able to gain the trust and support of the indigenous people of Tonga at the moment, so he first chose the Vava'u Islands, with a population of only more than 6,000 people, to establish his own power, and then seized the whole of Tonga when his power was strong.

It can be said that Zhang Meng is extremely thoughtful. If Tonga is compared to a sour apple that does not attract the attention of the foreign powers, if Zhang Meng rushes over and gets the apple directly, it will inevitably attract the attention of the surrounding powers, and they will even obstruct it. But Zhang Meng turned into a small insect and burrowed into Tonga at this moment, and if he slowly gnawed away the entire Tonga, it would naturally be difficult for the surrounding powers to notice him.

To use an ancient Chinese saying, Zhang Meng's strategy at this time was to build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow down his claim to the throne.

The Vava'u Islands are currently only inhabited by Nefua, with a population of 6,000 people, of which about 1,000 followed the Aprado family to the capital of Tonga, and the remaining 5,000 people are poor farmers.

The Vava'u archipelago consists of 34 islands, including Vava'u, with a land area of 115 square kilometers. Among them, Vava'u Island is the largest, with a land area of 90 square kilometers, with volcanic highlands in the north and gentle terrain in the south. Neiaf in the south of Vava'u Island is the administrative center of the archipelago, with the second largest natural port in Tonga, Neiaf Port, which has a wide belly and a narrow mouth, and is a good port for both military and civilian use.

There are many limestone caves on the Vava'u Islands, the largest of which is 30 meters high and has a circumference of more than 60 meters. The smaller volcanic archipelago to the west is forested. The soil is fertile, but underdeveloped.

With the exception of the main island of Vava'u, dozens of other small islands are currently uninhabited. The entire archipelago is distributed like dandelions, and it is this intricate island layout that Zhang Meng wants, so that gold can be secretly hidden inside, and it is difficult for people to find it.

Zhang Meng knew that the tentacles of the Japanese war in the Pacific Theater had only spread to the vicinity of Solomon Gua Island, and it was still more than 1,000 kilometers away from Fiji and Tonga. Tonga is also an important logistics supply base for the US military in the Pacific theater in the future, which also proves the great strategic value there.

Zhang Meng has made a whole set of plans in his heart, and now that he has established himself in the Wawa Islands of Tonga, it is time to get the devil's gold next.

When he thinks of the devil's gold, Zhang Meng naturally thinks of the Blue Fox Special Service.

At this moment, all the members of the Blue Fox Special Service have been lying in the cabin of the cruise ship for a full month. They had been in a coma until yesterday when Zhang Meng woke them up.

When they woke up, their physical injuries had already healed, and the test of life and death was like a dream.

They didn't know it was a loyalty test, and they all thought that Zhang Meng had finally led someone to save them. As for the poison pill in their mouths, Zhang Meng quibbled that it was a drug that could put people in a state of suspended animation, and it was also the last ray of life, as long as they ate the antidote in time, they would come back to life.

Although a few shrewd members of the team were slightly suspicious, they could not verify it because they had been in a coma and had already left China.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhang Meng to leave evidence for them to find.

Zhang Meng remembered the results of the life and death test in his heart, praised the loyalty of all the team members, and did not betray his teammates. The tiger, the black bear, and the gray wolf were most concerned about the people who interrogated them, and Zhang Meng knew what they were worried about, so he said that they tortured his men, and he was so angry that he killed them all on the spot.

In fact, the tiger, the black bear and the gray wolf all 'survived' the interrogation because they confessed, and they waited until Zhang Meng sent someone to 'rescue' them, and in their vague memory, they seemed to remember that all the people who interrogated them had been killed.

The three of them were relieved when they confirmed that those people were dead from Zhang Meng's mouth, but they still didn't dare to look at Zhang Meng's eyes because they felt guilty in their hearts.

Since then, Zhang Meng has been talking and laughing with the team members as usual, and deploying various tasks. The tiger, the black bear and the gray wolf also believed that Zhang Meng did not know about being betrayed by them.

However, it didn't take long for the three of them to be transferred from the Blue Fox Special Service Team to perform tasks in the field, and most of the members of the Blue Fox Special Service Team were sent to Tokyo by Zhang Meng to explore the way in advance.

And Zhang Meng still has some preparations to do before going to Tokyo. After all, if you want to commit a crime in the devil's lair, you must bring the diamond diamond.

And there is only one place that can provide Zhang Meng with diamond diamonds - the United States, which has developed science and technology.

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