Under the leadership of the 701 ship and the Huashan two ironclad ships, this was completely a one-sided crushing encirclement and suppression, the destruction of the bandit leader Hu Luo, and after the other pirates saw the amazing speed of the 701 ship, except for the two ships that were sunk by stubborn resistance, the other four all wisely chose to surrender with white flags

After seizing the camp, Xu Shoushan unexpectedly found a large number of hostages who were taken by the bandits, most of whom were women, and what was more surprising was that there were seven or eight people who claimed to be British diplomats.

This was obviously an unexpected situation, Xu Shoushan sent the Chaowu and a large ship of Liu Hong to send the hostages to Olongapo City, and by the way, he sent a telegram to report the news to Qin Kai. When interrogating the leader of Hu Luo's subordinates, he unexpectedly obtained an important news, which was about the cause and effect of the Sulu pirates besieging Sun Hong.

According to the confessions of several leaders, the Dutch entrenched in Bari hired them to attack Sun Hong, the Chinese pirates, because the Dutch suspected that Sun Hong was related to the South Ocean Company in Borneo, so they gave them some arms to several groups of indigenous pirates in the Sulu Sea in favor of instructing them to annihilate Sun Hong's fleet.

This obviously bodes badly, the Dutch East India Company had been planning an occupation of Borneo, and although the Pontianak core Lan Fang Company had now changed course and merged into the more powerful China South Ocean Company, the question of the ownership of Borneo had been a matter of ambiguity

While the Dutch were eyeing the surrounding islands and instructing the natives of the surrounding islands to harass Borneo in various forms, the South Ocean Company had so far only promoted the affairs of the Chinese Freemasonry, and as for military affairs, due to the lack of suitable large families to control, it had only established a regular army in the Pontianak South Seas Shipping Borneo Branch.

Presided over by Deng Yun, who was born as a student soldier in Mawei Academy, the establishment is subordinate to the first battalion of the Marine Corps of the Nanyang Naval Division, with an establishment of 500 soldiers, but there are only 300 soldiers at present, including 50 veterans who have been recruited from the Vietnamese Chinese battalion and have participated in several military operations in North Vietnam, and have a certain level of experience and training.

However, it is obviously a little difficult to control the third largest island in the world with only 300 soldiers, and the most coveted by the Dutch on Borneo is the Pontianak gold mine, but Qin Kai knows the outcome of the Pontianak gold mine very well, and after a few years of mining, it will be reduced to a complete waste mine, so he has no mining industry as the main industry of Borneo to develop.

This Borneo belongs to the tropics, an area of 780,000 square kilometers, and the address is flat, except for the dense mountainous area in the middle of the island, more than half of the land is suitable for planting plains, the only problem is that the land in Borneo is relatively barren, there are currently more than 150,000 Chinese on the island, and the number of indigenous people is nearly 500,000, but the local indigenous people are mostly tribal in nature, and they also rely on the protection of Chinese forces, so the relationship is quite harmonious.

After the intervention of the powerful China South Ocean Company, under the operation of Liu Ah Sheng, the nominal governor of Borneo, a large number of tribes who were originally attached to the Lanfang Company also joined the new company, and the benefits they could get were limited to the trade with Mawei Shipping, from which Mawei bought gold and silver currency and sold them a wealth of horsetail products.

However, the indigenous tribes in Borneo are complex, and in addition to the Chinese, the largest group is the non-Muslim Dayaks and some Malays, while the Dayaks are divided into the Bajau tribes in central and eastern Borneo, the Ngaju tribes in southern Borneo, the land Dayaks in southwestern Borneo, and the maritime Dayaks in Sarawak.

The thing that makes Qin Kai nerve-wracking here is that these Dayaks are currently in a very primitive social stage, and the wars between local tribes still maintain a primitive headhunting mode, and they like to take off their opponents' heads and bring them back to the tribe to show off, which is a fight with the Black Flag Army in Vietnam, but the Black Flag Army is more to deter the local natives and the French, while they are infighting.

Now the Nga Zhu tribe in the south of Borneo and the land-based Dayak people in the southwest of Borneo have taken the initiative to join the China South Ocean Company after Liu Asheng's negotiations, because after the intervention of Mawei Shipping, the five major families of Sampeit in the south, Chidabang in the southwest, and Pontianak in the west have all started sugar factories jointly established by Guò Lanfang, and the local tribes have naturally started the cultivation of sugarcane on their respective lands.

At the same time, Mawei shipping issued a large number of orders for coffee, tobacco, rubber, cocoa, tea, and signed a contract with the tribe for up to 30 years, but the production of these agricultural products, Mawei shipping is carried out according to the quality of underwriting, of course, in terms of price, even the current price, there are huge profits, considering the problem of currency depreciation, after a few years, the purchase price of these agricultural products is completely the price of cabbage. ,

However, this plan for the protection and purchase of agricultural products has allowed these tribes to find a way to make money that originally did not exist at all, and they were naturally ecstatic, and the central and eastern Bahao tribes, who were still waiting to join the China South Ocean Company, immediately agreed to join after hearing the news, and the only people who have not yet joined are the Dayaks of the sea in Sarawak, because these Dayaks rely on fishing for their livelihood

On June 12, a very large fleet appeared outside the port of Pontianak, including 4 warships, 4 training merchant ships, 12 armed merchant ships, and 10 cargo ships.

After destroying the top five indigenous pirates in the Sulu Sea in one fell swoop, the other pirate groups were completely frightened, and many small groups of pirate leaders took the initiative to take refuge in Quezon Harbor.

It only took a month, the Sulu Sea has been completely controlled by Sun Hong's group of pirates, and the other forces have either surrendered or disappeared, as for some pirate forces, they simply disappeared without a trace, and Liu Hong's fleet has surged from the original 6 armed merchant ships to 18 armed merchant ships.

It is obvious that the Guangzhou Fleet and the Nanyang Navy Division cannot carry out this kind of ocean-going escort mission for a long time, and these co-opted pirates originally ate this mouthful of food, and now some of them have been assessed by Liu Hong's internal system and absorbed as core members of the reformed pirates, and will gradually take on the escort task of the Mawei Sea.

And some of the newly converted pirates who are still in the investigation period will be subject to continuous assessment, and will not be assigned new tasks until their loyalty is confirmed, after all, a large part of the pirates on the Sulu Sea are still from the local indigenous fishermen and farmers who have lost their livelihood, but the sense of death they have accumulated cannot be wasted, Qin Kai has other arrangements.

When the mighty fleet arrived in Pontianak, the five great families were immediately shocked by the huge fleet, a fleet of 30 ships, with ironclad ships as the forerunner, completely like a giant existence, and no one could resist the tremendous pressure brought by them.

Now Borneo has not laid submarine cables, so the transoceanic telegraph is not connected, which is also a matter that makes Qin Kai quite depressed, all the news is transmitted by Mawei Sea to Subic Bay, the acting governor of Borneo Liu Asheng hurried to meet Xu Shoushan, he brought three new news,

Among the news brought by Liu Asheng, two are good news and one is bad news, so he naturally picked the good news first, except for North Borneo, which was occupied by the British North Borneo Company, the 37 Dayak tribes on the entire land have taken refuge in the South China Ocean Company, and more than half of the tribes have signed contracts for the purchase and sale of agricultural products, and the remaining tribes are also under consideration.

The purchase price of these agricultural products is a completely irresistible temptation for these backward tribes, and the large number of sugarcane plantations introduced is cheap and easy to manage, and a tribe only needs to transfer one-tenth of the manpower used to produce rice to manage a larger area of sugarcane plantations, and obtain higher returns.

The rest of the manpower was arranged for the production of agricultural products such as rubber plantations, coffee, and cocoa, while products such as rice, which were originally produced in Borneo, became less and less competitive in the face of products such as sugarcane, rubber, coffee, and cocoa, which were more economically valuable, and Mawei Shipping brought cheap rice from Southeast Asia, controlling Borneo's food supply chain in one fell swoop.

The second piece of news was that the chiefs of the various tribes expressed their allegiance to the South China Ocean Company, and as a sign, they were willing to send their young men to join the army of Pontianak and obey the dispatch of the South Sea Naval Division. For this news, Xu Shoushan is obviously more satisfied, those who operate commercially, believe that in the hands of these shrewd shopkeepers of Mawei Shipping, the natives can only completely obey orders.

But this source of troops is definitely a good choice, now Qin Kai's Nanyang system has become more and more prominent of its unique advantages, and there is a faint posture to compete with the Beiyang Naval Division, Xu Shoushan has long been clear, now the combat power of the Nanyang Naval Division is far stronger than the Beiyang Naval Division, even if Qin Kai mentioned that after the two Beiyang giant ships arrive, the speed of the Nanyang side will definitely exceed that of the Beiyang. ,

Moreover, the most important thing is that the industrial strategy formulated by Qin Kai has already triggered a huge amount of energy in Mawei Shipbuilding, and the birth of his own ironclad ship means that there will be a steady stream of warships that can be produced by Mawei itself in the future, which is compared to buying overseas, even an idiot can understand that it has a heavy meaning that is not at the same level at all

He is a high-level general who has access to the core meeting of the Nanyang Naval Division, and he also knows the current financial situation of Nanyang, and Qin Kai doesn't know how to obtain such a huge financial resource, obviously, if he goes all out to devote himself to the Naval Division, he can't imagine the speed of the development of the Nanyang Naval Division.

Now there is no need for Qin Kai to hint that these generals at the core level are secretly thinking about how to maintain this increasingly huge Nanyang Naval Division, and now the Huai Army has more than 400 battalions and more than 200,000 people directly under the army, and with the army controlled by the Huai Army officials, it can be said that more than half of the entire Qing Empire, more than 600,000 troops, can be ordered by Li Zhongtang.

And among the millions of Qing troops, the rest of them are pinched in the hands of the governors of the provinces, and the cup is that although Qin Kai has the name of the governor of Guangdong, but the Hunan army has been operating for a long time, and now it is difficult to get involved in it, and the famous army of the Nanyang system is the 1000 marines that Zhang Peilun fought for

In addition, as the governor of a province, Qin Kai has the right to organize the militia to maintain local law and order, so on the basis of the Mawei Security Corps, the militia was expanded, and the training continued in the name of the Mawei Security Corps.

However, even if you count the First Association of Zhou Ruidong, Xue Chao's Third Association, and Liu Yongfu's Fifth Association, who are still on the front line in Vietnam, plus the new army trained by Zhang Kui's Second Association in Fangcheng, and the pro-army team around Qin Kai, the army strength of the Nanyang Department will not exceed 17,000 people, and there are also seven or eight thousand indigenous servant troops in Vietnam, which is also the farmer's army, which cannot be counted for the time being.

Thinking of this, he became interested in these Nanyang natives, and looked at this thin old man Liu Asheng, now this old man is also an agent of the Nanyang system, that is, his own person, praised a few words, and said politely: "Governor Liu, you have to worry more about this Borneo affairs, you can hand over the military and political aspects to Deng Yun to deal with, I hope to recruit 1,000 soldiers among the local Chinese, 2,000 soldiers among the natives, and I also need a lot of assistance from Lord Liu."

Liu Asheng thought about it, there are more than 150,000 local Chinese, and most of them are young and strong, many Chinese who come to Borneo to make money, in fact, many people can't make a fortune at all, this Qin Lord's army is famous, it is not difficult to recruit people, as for the indigenous tribes, there is no problem at all, where is the base of five or six hundred thousand indigenous people, and immediately agreed.

The third thing reported was a troublesome affair, which was that during this time, the Dutch East India Company ships were regularly haunting the island of Kalingman, southeast of Borneo, which was separated from Borneo by a strait of 5 km, and the Borneo tribes on the island were constantly threatened by Javanese pirates from across the Makassar Strait to leave Kaliman Island

Hearing this, Xu Shoushan snickered secretly, and he immediately remembered that Qin Kai had come to him to discuss with him when he was leaving, and he had formulated a strategy against the Dutch East India Company.

Indonesia, a rogue country, has rich oil resources, coal resources, copper and gold resources, and the most important thing is that the oil here is all onshore basin oil fields, which are completely suitable for the current mining conditions, Qin Kai naturally did not plan to leave the natives to make a fortune in the future, and the land of this so-called country of a thousand islands is fertile, rubber, palm, coffee, cocoa, and tobacco are all raw materials needed by the horsetail industry.

The brutal factor of Islam makes the tyrannical souls lurking under the deferential appearance of these natives, and naturally they have to suppress the local natives without hesitation, as for those Dutch, they have created countless massacres in their hands! Naturally, this blood debt will be paid with blood......

In the discussion with Xu Shoushan, Qin Kai's first step was not to start a war with the Dutch East India Company, but the necessary deterrence was still needed, and Borneo, the central area of the South Seas, would become an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the South Sea Naval Division to control the entire South Sea region.

Originally, Xu Shoushan was worried that he would not find a reason to demonstrate in the Java Sea, but he didn't expect that he would be drowsy and hit a pillow...... But this meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, and the road has to be walked step by step, he is not stupid to run to war now,

On the same day, Liu Asheng sent a message from Pontianak, inviting the chiefs of the five major families and more than 30 tribes to gather in Pontianak to discuss the future development of Borneo and discuss the future income.

At the same time, Xu Hong, an officer of the Guangzhou fleet, with seven or eight scouts, sailed out of Pontianak with a cargo ship from Mawei Sea and went straight to Jakarta on the other side of the Java Sea.

Ma Jianhua, the president of the Borneo Mutual Masonic Association, is from an ordinary merchant family in Lanfang, only thirty-five years old, but his ability is amazing, he studied in Europe when he was young, and returned to Guangzhou to study Confucianism, which can be described as a figure who takes both China and the West, so when he recommended the president of the Borneo Mutual Masonic Association, he was selected by Lu Zhiyuan, and at the same time transferred a few veterans from Luzon Yanxun to assist him.

The conditions for the development of Freemasonry in Borneo are far superior to those in Luzon, there are many Chinese, and the indigenous relations are relatively harmonious, and soon the scale of the Freemasonry here is obviously spreading, and in the newly opened sugar factories and maritime trading companies here, the Freemasonry has played a significant role, and has played a subtle role in balancing the local big families.

After Ma Jianhua introduced the two sides, he introduced that Liu Sheng, the president of the Indonesian Mutual Masonic Association, was his classmate, and the two went to France to study together for several years, and then returned here to work hard for the family.

The Dutch East India Company controlled a large area of Indonesian land, which was fertile and suitable for growing almost all kinds of crops, and there were also very rich shallow coal mines, but when the Dutch arrived, they found that these indigenous Javanese and Sundanese were ignorant and stupid, and could not complete any in-depth development of the local industry.

So, the Dutch devised a last resort .......

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