Bai Nan himself did not have much contact with Hu Fakui, as long as there were a limited number of meetings, Bai Nan had a good impression of him, Hu Fakui himself was young and handsome, and unlike the group of eunuchs and fathers-in-law who were in charge of the Ming Dynasty, he was a noble family, and he was qualified to participate in the Western Fleet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were all relatively old, except for a few like Zheng He, who were more active in contacting modern history and scientific and technological knowledge, most of them were still conformist, although they had ostensibly lived in harmony with their compatriots in the other two eras, but they never thought of merging into a new whole.

Some of the younger Ming Dynasty people are not like this, especially some young people who served as sailors in the fleet, life was more difficult before the crossing, and the navigation in the fifteenth century was also a high-risk torture operation, after crossing became the sailors of the Tang Republic, or even joined other work industries, their living environment was significantly improved, and the ability of young people to accept new things was relatively strong, and they did not have much culture, and they were influenced by the new Tang culture, and they were slowly assimilated.

In contrast, Hu Fakui is a person who is not easy to figure out. He is young and likes new things, but he grew up in a noble family with traditional culture, and it is difficult to say which one he will be more inclined to.

Bai Nan specially asked Lin Youde, who had relatively more contact with Hu Fakui, and Lin Youde's evaluation was: "Bold and careful, it looks rough on the surface, but in fact it is very thoughtful, and it seems to identify with the Tang Republic more than Yang Zhen, and the planning and deployment and consideration of issues are considered from the perspective of the country, and of course there are selfishness." I'm afraid I'm not very convinced by Yang Zhen. That's why I'm especially careful to build my own people. I think he has fully realized the significance of a strong country as a backing, and it cannot be ruled out that he will use Borneo to strengthen his own strength, but it is not very likely to abandon Datang and fight against us. ”

Bai Nan pondered for a moment and said, "In this way, Hu Fakui is not unusable. It is impossible for a person not to have his own selfishness, and it is normal for him to have some ambitions. It is not intolerable to want to develop one's own power in the land of Borneo. On the contrary, to incorporate Borneo into our system, not only to export more advanced productivity and production models here, but also to bring many concepts of Datang to the past, such as the legal system, people-oriented, fairness and justice. I'm afraid that we will need to send some trained personnel over, and we will also need to train the pirate leaders under Hu Fakui who are interested in administration. ”

Lin Youde said: "There is no problem with this, Hu Fakui's report to the country specifically mentioned that he hoped that the country would send some specialized talents to assist him, and we specially opened a 'crash course for management talents'." While enhancing the administrative capabilities of relevant people, it also exerts our influence on them. It's also good. ”

"Well, in that case, I would suggest to the president that Hu Fakui be supported to use his pirate power, as well as local Chinese immigrants, to conquer and control West Borneo, and at the same time export the political model of the Tang Dynasty to develop Borneo into a part of the Tang chain."

To a large extent, Bai Nan's idea finally determined President Zhao Daling's idea, and after discussion, the cabinet finally approved Hu Fakui's plan to lay out West Borneo. Hu Fakui received a letter of appointment from the State Council of the Tang Republic and became the official first overseas governor of Borneo of the Tang Republic.

There are two points here, first of all, Borneo belongs to the overseas territory and not to the state directly under the Tang Republic, which makes its political status lower than that of the state, although the National Council can still send officials to it, and make laws and taxes, but the local government also retains some autonomy and can be handled flexibly. In addition, Hu Fakui led the overseas territory of Borneo rather than the overseas territory of West Borneo, that is to say, before the Tang Dynasty sent a single soldier to the third largest island in the world, the Tang people had already given the sovereignty of the entire island, and the Tang Dynasty's rule over Borneo was not limited to a corner of West Borneo, but the entire Borneo. This also gave Hu Fakui the motivation to continue to expand after his strength increased, and eventually Datang would harvest 750,000 square kilometers of land with as few resources as possible.

Although Datang can't invest a lot in Borneo in terms of manpower, Datang is typical and not bad for money, and the national infrastructure construction expenditure is Datang's largest expenditure, including the construction of various schools, hospitals, transportation, water conservancy and other facilities, but Datang's family background and income capacity are also very strong. After the opening of the trade line, a large amount of silver was imported into the local area, and the central bank minted these silver into peony silver coins, although it did not flow into the domestic circulation market, but it was used in a large number of trade. There are also a number of huge gold mines in the area, with more advanced mining facilities and metallurgical means, Datang gold production is amazingly high. In this era, real money is wealth, and the wealth of Datang is not even inferior to that of the Spanish royal family back then, after all, the Spanish royal family's ability to discover gold and silver at that time was relatively limited.

Although the tax rate of Datang is not high, and there are many preferential policies, the ability of modern countries to collect wealth is by no means comparable to that of ancient countries and modern countries.

Hu Fakui will receive a large amount of financial assistance from the Tang Dynasty Finance, and the first destination of this financial assistance will be to purchase a considerable number of weapons for the army under Hu Fakui's command. Naturally, these weapons will not be very advanced, and they will still be dominated by the SC-2 rear-loading firing pistol, as well as the SC1774 bronze cannon. In addition to weapons, there are other material procurement, these purchases will be carried out from Datang domestic, benefiting a series of Datang enterprises such as North Industries, a large number of orders will make them make a lot of money, and then will provide the country's profits and taxes. To put it simply, it's also a win-win strategy.

All the supplies will follow the next batch of migratory bird fleets to Borneo, and Lin Youde can't help but want to see the excited expression on Hu Fakui's face after getting such a large batch of supplies. And Hu Fakui himself is constantly expanding his strength in the South China Sea, and the incense thieves have grown to more than 10,000 people after a year of development, although Yang Zhen is still at the helm, but Hu Fakui's descendants have nearly 3,000 people. After Hu Fakui shifted his focus to West Borneo, he asked his subordinate Yu Ying to gradually transfer his men and ships from Hong Kong to Borneo, retaining only one form of existence in Hong Kong.

And when he did this, he already had the meaning of independence from Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen stood on the high platform of the Hong Kong Water Village, looked at the boats from the dock, was furious, and scolded: "The erector is not enough and conspiracy, and the miscellaneous family is bent on cultivating him Hu Fakui, I can't imagine that this kid actually plans to kick away the miscellaneous family, and he will go to Borneo to open a situation, he will hit my incense thief quite hard, not only missing three adult horses, but also making the incense thief panic!" ”

Chen Pi, a person from the Heaven and Earth Society, has now stayed by Yang Zhen's side to do business, and he immediately echoed: "This Hu Fakui is proud of his merits, and he has no one in his eyes, and he doesn't put the big boss in his eyes at all. Now he actually said hello casually, and he didn't ask the meaning of the big boss, he wanted to take people away, it was really disloyal and unfilial, the big boss must stop Hu Fakui from taking away his subordinates, and reprimand him fiercely to set an example! ”

Yang Zhen nodded, a little moved, but Zhu Liang spoke out to dissuade Yang Zhen and said: "Once the two sides really turn against each other, then it is indispensable for Hu Fakui's subordinates to fight with the eldest brother's men. At this moment, although the eldest brother is stronger and stronger, Hu Fakui's subordinates have good combat effectiveness, and they have won many battles, everyone has seen blood, and recently received funding from Lin Youde, deputy manager of the International Trade Company, and got a batch of weapons from China. If the two sides really go to war, and we swallow up the men and horses he left in Hong Kong now, Hu Fakui will certainly not give up at that time, not to mention how Datang will react, the situation we have worked so hard to operate in the South China Sea will come to naught, and he will inevitably interfere with our ships, and even take the initiative to attack our weak ships, not to mention that he will launch the main force to attack Hong Kong's water village. Although we have a better chance of winning, I am afraid that we will only win it if we pay a lot of casualties, and the consequences will still outweigh the losses. After winning this battle and destroying Hu Fakui, the South China Sea can still be protected, but our strength has been greatly damaged, which is extremely unfavorable to the development of the incense thieves. ”

Chen Pi said: "Why should the second master grow the ambition of others to destroy his own prestige? Our big boss is wise and martial, and he is truly invincible, and Hu Fakui's previous victories are not the big bosses, as long as the big bosses want to, it will only take a moment to destroy him. ”

Zhu Liangcai ignored Chen Pi, an alien sycophant, and he said: "Hu Fakui does not intend to compete with his eldest brother for the dominance of the incense thieves, but plots against Borneo, I am afraid that he also wants to learn from the Tang Dynasty and open up a situation overseas, and this time I am afraid that he will become a soil emperor." The eldest brother has never looked down on overseas places, and the water in this Borneo is also quite deep, so if he is allowed to break in, he may not be able to achieve anything. When the time comes, if he hits his head and bleeds, he will still come back to serve the eldest brother, why really tear his face. The eldest brother might as well be an example, sign an order by himself, and allow him to do something in Borneo, but we also have to take a profit from Borneo, the Chinese in Borneo operate gold mines, and the income is not cheap, just relying on the financial support of Datang and our commission on maritime businessmen, it is still less. It would be great for us to be able to get benefits from Borneo. ”

Yang Zhen also nodded after hearing this, and said: "Then, send someone to tell Hu Fakui that I don't care what he wants to do in Borneo, but thirty percent of the benefits of the Borneo gold mine must be handed over to Hong Kong!" ”

When Zhu Liang saw Yang Zhen's appearance, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Yang Zhen is becoming more and more rigid and greedy now. (To be continued.) )