Chapter 612: Exposure to the Outside World
A small city has been formed here, if the Dutch colonial authorities entered the farm, they would have been shocked, countless reinforced concrete houses, covering about two square kilometers of land, and even the design of the city was done with the help of military staff, once it changed, it would form a real fortress, and the buildings above and below were combined, enough to withstand the attack of more than 3 times the regular army.
It is one of the more important of the more than 300 plantations, because the leadership of the entire Borneo plantation is located here, and there are even 300 regular Northwest Army and 3,400 precious soldiers who have been trained for 2 years and recruited here, with guns, 108mm guns, and various types of mortars. With this, Yang Shu felt that he could sweep away the Dutch army in the city not far away, but the order from the northwest was not given, and he did not dare to act rashly.
This is a barren land, before it was dense, large tracts of primeval forest, but now, it is a piece of neat field, under the efforts of 80,000 Chinese migrant workers, gradually tidy up, for the people, this is their home, not all young and middle-aged, but also women and children, in addition to schools, Nanyang also built a number of small daily necessities factories, with the help of machinery from the northwest, they developed very quickly, self-sufficiency is enough, and the rest can not be directly shipped back to China, Shipping back to China will also receive a lot of benefits, but as the leader of the manor, Yang Shu does not want to do this, plus the freight, the things here can not have much competitiveness, the most important thing is that Yang Yuanzhao's order is very simple, secret, low-key, to prevent being discovered, even ordinary people on the street, under the premise that he strictly prohibits it, how can it be possible to let a cargo ship or carriage transport goods here......
At that time, from the northwest, all of a sudden, was assigned to the road here, must be on the Cheng dù, Yang Shu felt that he was abandoned, although he was not a branch of the Yang family, but he worked in the Yang Family Chamber of Commerce for 12 years, from the age of 14, to the age of 26, from a small guy, grew into a big shopkeeper of one side, although it was just a storefront, but it was also a one-sided party, at least one city of the Yang Family Chamber of Commerce a qiē action was commanded by him, was suddenly assigned to the Nanyang who did not, in his opinion, it was to offend someone, It's irretrievable.
After coming, Poplar found that this is not to offend people, but an opportunity, more than 37 million acres of plantations, even in the whole Taiyuan, all the landlords' land combined, is only so much, the number of 2 million people, is simply a super large city, of course, the nominal managers of these plantations, are hundreds of foreigners, they are all German and American employees, responsible for the Dutch colonial government, they are all superficial, the real control of these plantations, is 3 big treasurers and 200 farmers, They are responsible for coordinating 2 million people, and this vast land.
Of course, there is also a force, from the Northwest Chamber of Commerce Factory Protection Team, the current Northwest Defense Force, has grown from the original hundreds of people, to about 1,200 people, they have all undergone regular training, some things from the Armed Guards, plus some specious things that Yang Yuanzhao got from later generations. With the support of strong armaments, they were well-trained, and with the support of young adults, they quickly expanded to about 25,000 people in one division.
Even in the first few months, a battalion of precious troops came to Nanyang one after another, including the battalion headquarters of more than 400 people, in Borneo, under the control of the Netherlands, this is a strong force, you know, although there are only 400 people, but it has 7 artillery companies of 108 guns, 70 machine gun companies of Makqin, plus two infantry companies, a team of more than 400 people, full of vigor, basically, against a regiment of the Dutch colonial army, it is no problem.
That is, when he came to Borneo, Yang Shu knew Yang Yuanzhao's ambitions, this rich and huge land, has long been in the eyes of Yang Yuanzhao, which can be seen from the choice of plantations, plantations are not the best place to choose to plant rubber, most of them are some traffic arteries, and special choices, far away from the coastline, at least more than 45 kilometers, for this era, 45 kilometers, has been calculated as a safe distance, there are no sea ships in the northwest, can not cope with the attack of battleships on the sea, but 45 kilometers is definitely a safe distance, without the help of the Navy, it is army equipment and servicemen, and the Northwest is not weaker than anyone.
200 people in charge of this settlement area were gathered together, 3 big treasurers, 200 farmers, and 3 factory guards, who controlled the fate of 2 million people, and they waited for 20 envoys from the northwest to announce the orders brought by the northwest.
As early as when the carriage entered the farm area, Yang Shu got a report, almost estimated that after the carriage arrived, Yang Shu and the other two big shopkeepers, Liu Qiang and Wei Jiang, went out to greet, according to the report of the secret telegram in the northwest, Yang Shu knew that he would become the president of Borneo, but he also had to be supervised by the deputy commander Zhu Hua, this time the brigade commander of the Northwest Army Zhao Guowang was temporarily dispatched, he will automatically become the commander of the first division of the current Nanyang New Army, responsible for commanding all combat missions in Nanyang.
After a few words of greeting, the code and the order, Yang Shu and Zhu Hua briefly exchanged two sentences, and let Zhu Hua into the venue, more than 200 farmers and 3 big shopkeepers, representatives of the army, gathered together, almost 300 people, to listen to President Yang's supreme instructions.
Looking at the crowd of black pressure below, Zhu Hua took a deep breath and said, "I came for two purposes, one is to contact the outside world!" ”
"Exposure to the outside world?" Wang Qiang was surprised and said loudly: "Are you kidding, our farm, can you see the light?" ”
"Can't!" Zhu Hua replied, in fact, there is no need to ask, he knows very well that this farm will never see the light, 200 farms, recorded in the Dutch Governor's Palace, is only 70,000 people, but now they have broken through 30 times, fortunately, Borneo and Southeast Asia are big enough, and this is a barren land, and few Dutch colonists come.
Of course, the farm can have such a calm, the most important thing is that the name of these farms is hung under the banner of Harpy, each of the Harpy farms, generously gave 5 shares to the Governor's Palace, although it was only established for about 3 years, but when the new varieties of rubber planting were successful, after being recognized by the German Academy of Sciences, these shares became a skyrocket, and suddenly became sought after by the market. From the original less than 0.1 pounds per share, it suddenly soared to 1.78 pounds, a full 17-fold increase, although in 1909, because of the stock market shock, suffered a heavy setback, but in three years, because of the output of rubber, slowly rose back, the current price is about 3.5 pounds.
You must know that the registered capital of each farm is only 60,000 pounds, that is, 1.85 million shares, 5 shares, and each plantation is only 100,000 pounds, which is a lot of income, but 200 together, it is more than 30 million pounds, which is a lot of money, and even the Dutch governor, after knowing the final price, took the initiative to give Harpy 200,000 as money to buy which shares, not an empty glove white wolf.
Of course, Harpy laughed, he knew very well what the Governor meant, if it was only 200,000 pounds, the Governor would collect it, which was a very ordinary income, but 30 million, this money, it needed to be justified, to buy 5 of the original shares, this is a very legitimate, everywhere can be said to be a reasonable move, after Harpy recognized this, this qiē, have become impeccable, the income of these farms, and the Dutch Governor and most of the high-level are involved, the annual income, at least about 400,000 poundsWith this money, they don't care what your rubber plantation grows and how many workers it uses.
It is precisely because of this that Harpy's plantations are constantly expanding, and the governor also knows that Harpy has reservations, that is, the method of planting rubber, not that no one planted rubber in the South Seas before, they all lost their money, you know, the South Seas are not suitable for the growth of rubber in Brazil, they either only grow, do not produce rubber, or simply die, otherwise, how can Southeast Asia be so barren.
Because of this, Harpy can freely expand his plantations in Southeast Asia, this piece of 200, just the hard work of the past three years, along with the northwest and Baotou, in the whole of China's influence is getting bigger and bigger, can get more and more people, the most important thing is that in Shanghai, under the leadership of Harpy, set up an ocean-going fleet, can be at a certain time every year, respectively to the United States and Europe, transport a large number of goods, in the spare time, will also go to the South Seas, some of the grain currently produced in the South Seas, For the mainland, it is still very useful.
"Now it is different from the past, we have won the first war against Russia, the northwest strategic goal has been placed here, our strength alone is enough to complete the occupation of Borneo, but we need to contact more people and include the Chinese in Southeast Asia into our system!" Zhu Hua said calmly: "This is my first purpose here!" ”
Hundreds of people listened to Zhu Hua's words dumbfounded, they knew that it was not easy for Zhu Hua to come here, but they didn't expect that it was such a big purpose, when they came to Borneo, they were also greatly depressed, and they were always worried about being discovered by the Netherlands, which was equivalent to tying up their hands to do things, and now Yang Yuanzhao finally lifted this ban, for them, it was a vast sky, with the strength of the Dutch army in Borneo that they knew, not to mention the 25,000-person fully armed Nanyang Division, even if it was only one-seventh or eighth, with mental calculations or unintentional, It was also enough to drive thousands of poorly trained Dutch troops into the sea. R1152