The second change is to make amends to the end today. And also.

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Compared with the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, the sea surface of the South China Sea is a different scene.

The sea is as blue as a glittering blanket, and the layers of swells roll, as if this blue carpet is slowly undulating. When the sun shines, the eyes are full of light. Out of the air is hot and hot air, and the eyes look around, as if the line of sight can be exhausted into infinite distance.

Isles dotted along the waterways of two ironclad warships, each with green jungle and white sand. It was as if life was about to overflow from it. Occasionally, an old-fashioned sailing ship passed by the side of the fairway, and the sail was like a white cloud. Standing on the bridge and looking at such a view of the South China Sea all day long, it seems that I don't get tired of it.

Most of the sailors have been released to cross the South China Sea before, but most of the students led by Xu Yifan are northerners. Every day, I happily do military work on the deck, pointing at the distance. I can't get back into the deck. The cuckoo girl can't show her head, she looks out of the small porthole window of the cabin every day, every time Xu Yifan goes back to the cabin, she looks at Xu Yifan is sad and pitiful. forgot that she could get on the warship as a girl, which was already a big face for her little beauty. Chen Luoshi is still blowing the cold wind in Yanjing, counting his fingers and waiting for Xu Yifan to be hired.

In the entire Qincha group, it is probably that Xu Yifan is not in much mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the South China Sea.

He spent all day studying the information on Nanyang that he could get his hands on now, either chatting with sailors who had been to Nanyang, or talking to Deng Shichang, and more often than not, he was in a daze. It's all about going around and thinking about how to act in the South Seas.

The magnificent scenery of the South China Sea in front of him didn't even have half a point to enter his mind.

The pressure that can only succeed, not fail. Even if he is as confident as he is, it is a little heavy.

Deng Shichang is still the same as always, he is majestic and solemn on the ship, staring at the sailors and crews every day to work and practice. Xu Yifan thought about his thoughts, and Deng Shichang didn't provoke him much. It seems to have held the purpose of gentlemen's friendship as light as water.

Xu Yifan went straight to Surabaya this time, rushing to the Java colony to which the Netherlands belonged at that time. There is the largest Chinese settlement and the largest Chinese population. Later, almost all the major families that branched out in the South Seas branched off from Java. Bamboo Net Dragon Hall, in this era, is based on Java. Later, in the twentieth century, it gradually moved northward within the South Seas.

The area of Java, since the Dutch had to lift the ban on Chinese settlement a hundred years ago, has flourished for a hundred years, and at this time, it is the place where the largest and strongest Chinese people in Nanyang are. The power they radiated out controlled almost a large part of the economy of the Nanyang colonies. In the vigilance of the white colonial authorities, in the hostility of the local natives. Low-key, but tenaciously surviving. With the diligence and patience of the Chinese talent, we have developed and grown in the cracks.

It is precisely because of this hundred years of history that the Chinese community in Java is fundamentally compared to the Chinese community in the later Nanyang colonies. More conservative, more restrained. Later generations of the League would raise money in the South Seas, but only in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indochina. It's rare to really get inside the Bamboo Net Dragon Hall and get their support!

This conservative and introverted Chinese group has huge assets and great influence. However, it is precisely because of this conservatism of the principals of the past generations that the colonial authorities, together with the lower classes of natives, slowly adopted various means to divide and rule. With the slaughter, the scratching. The various families of Longtang gradually dispersed, naturalized locally, or forcibly separated. Counting Xu Yifan's Nanyang family in that time and space, which one does not have the shadow of Longtang? For example, Singapore's US$90 billion Temasek State Holding Group is part of the Lee family, which spun off from Java.

With the Suharto Surabaya massacre in 1965, 300,000 Chinese were killed, and many influential associations were wiped out. At about the same time, the United States intervened in Indochina, and the head of the Longtang Society was thrown into prison and extradited to the United States and sentenced to 275 years in prison. Bamboo Net Dragon Hall, as the overall organization of the Nanyang Chinese, has truly come to an end.

It's a pity that those wanderers who left their homeland hundreds of years ago, ran such a big fortune with one hand, and almost turned the South Seas into a circle of influence for the Chinese for hundreds of years!

Xu Yifan stood on the bridge with a distant gaze, and just sighed softly.

Deng Shichang happened to walk in from the outside with heavy steps, his face was full of beads of sweat, but the big hat of Wuyun was still meticulous. Seeing Xu Yifan sigh, he quietly turned his eyes away.

Xu Yifan suddenly asked: "Brother Zhengqing, you have been in Nanyang for a long time, and you are from Guangdong." (The previous reader's book review pointed out the clerical error, I would like to thank you one by one) What do you think of the Chinese in Nanyang? ”

Deng Shichang slowly turned his face, glanced at the thoughtful Xu Yifan, and said slowly: "Chinese, everywhere you go are Chinese." Most people can't change this blood...... Every time a warship arrives in Hong Kong, the local compatriots are warm and have nothing to say...... They all hoped that our ships would be bigger and stronger, but more than ten years have passed. When I first arrived at the port, I was still bustling and jubilant, but now it's still these boats......"

His face also sank for a moment, and he touched his binoculars, as if he wanted to end the topic.

Xu Yifan shook his head, shook his head again, and whispered to himself: "...... It's not that they can't be impressed, it's just that we ourselves are becoming more and more discouraged, and no matter how enthusiastic the man's blood is, he has to be cold...... What does it take to give them that little hope? ”

Listening to his own words, Deng Shichang's face moved. After a pause, he picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance, but he didn't know what he was looking at, but the words in his mouth were cold: "The wealth of the Chinese in Java is also what I have seen with my own eyes." When people are rich, their minds are more and harder, and they always want to protect their families and lives. I've seen a lot of fundraisers in Nanyang, but not much in Java. took the blank official photo and went out, but it was exchanged for no more than 100,000 silver. Brother Chuanqing, so this time ...... You still don't have to get your hopes up! ”

Xu Yifan shook his head and smiled, not caring about the coldness of his tone. After getting along for so long, he has long been used to Deng Shichang's temper. If he doesn't have such a surname, he is not Deng Shichang. only gently changed the topic: "This time I went to Surabaya, Brother Zhengqing is going to stop for a few days?" ”

Deng Shichang calculated and looked at him: "I also received a telegram in Nagasaki, and the sailor yamen said that there was a little nervousness there, and he could stop less." The coal tanks and fresh water were all empty. It also takes two or three days to add media and water...... Stop for four or five days at most, and then let the boat go. ”

He suddenly smiled gently, and this kind of smile was extremely rare to see on his face: "I have benefited a lot from walking all the way." Adults and those people are still different, these days, I read your book again...... Adults are in the hall of the Genyosha Shomon, and I heard about it. That's why I pretended not to see Brother Chuanqing bring his daughter on board. I don't think there will be a second time like this. ”

Deng Shichang really knew about the cuckoo...... Xu Yifan suddenly had a little cold sweat on his back, smiled at him reluctantly, turned his head and still said to himself: "Nervous? Nervous...... The indigenous people of Java, as well as the Dutch authorities, have been vigilant to see the Chinese. I'd like to see, how nervous it is. Is it going to be Red River Creek again? ”

Deng Shichang was stunned: "What Red River Creek?" ”

Xu Yifan looked at the sea in the distance: "About a hundred years ago, when we were still Emperor Qianlongchun, the Dutch colonial authorities and local natives killed more than 10,000 Chinese in one go in the area of Madavia, Java, and threw their bodies into the water. The waterfall is red. It was for the Red River Creek tragedy that I learned the news. The two Guang Yamen played, and the pure emperor approved it probably ...... The Celestial Empire abandoned the people and turned its back on the ancestral tombs, and this report was purely self-inflicted, and the Celestial Empire did not care about it...... In the past hundred years, such a small riot has never been stopped, doesn't Brother Zhengqing know? ”

Listening to Xu Yifan sneering about the disposition of Emperor Chun of the country, Deng Shichang did not immediately erupt and say that he was rebellious. Instead, he pinched the telescope: "I know that the Nanyang Chinese have always been nervous with the local area, but they are quite peaceful." Red River Creek ...... I hate that Deng Shichang was born in the time and said, and the rate of Zhiyuan arrived in Hong Kong! After a hundred years, why hasn't anyone said it? Why didn't anyone say it? ”

Those who are full of people, accountants are more strange than these. Who cares about these 10,000 surnames?

Xu Yifan looked at Deng Shichang with a sincere look in his eyes: "Brother Zhengqing, brother's fundraising is a trivial matter." At this juncture...... None of us know how nervous we are, but the name of the propaganda committee is what matters! We are connected by blood! So brothers are here to please, to go far and far, to be able to stop a few more days in the Surabaya area, the truth and justice, only within the range of the cannon, please, please! ”

Deng Shichang was just silent, holding the big hand of the telescope, but his muscles were exposed.

At this time, the scenery of the South China Sea can no longer enter the eyes of the two of them.

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On February 25, the 19th year of Guangxu, the second largest city in Java, Surabaya, is directly north, and the port of Tanjung Perak.

The two warships from far away rolled up the snow-white waves and slowly sailed into the port. The water here is not as narrow and rugged as the Nagasaki port waterway, and the waterway is wide. As a result, when the two ships enter the port, there is no need for a pilot ship.

Both boats were full of sailors, and these strong men with green cloth and Baotou were all in the bow. They also heard some rumors that the situation in Java was unstable. I want to see what happened to my compatriots here. Among the sailors, mixed with Xu Yifan's attaché in a new uniform, they all looked at the foreground with heavy faces.

Xu Yifan and Deng Shichang were both standing in the compass bridge, holding binoculars and looking at all this in front of them.

The port of Surabaya was presented in front of them.

The water is blue and the sand is white, and the famous Zheng He Mosque left by Zheng He has been renovated several times and has been magnificent, standing in a large number of cluttered local buildings. The huge onion-shaped dome reflects a dazzling golden light, as if telling the legacy of the original navigator. Most of the local buildings are made of bamboo and wood, which has a unique flavor. There are also some completely traditional Chinese houses dotted around, which are more neat and wealthy than the surrounding local buildings. The buildings of the port are all small white buildings, typical of European colonial flavor, reflecting the sunlight near the equator, and looking unusually clean.

Surabaya is surrounded by rice fields, and the South Seas are three or even four crops in one season, and the weather on the mainland is still frozen and snowy, but the rice fields here are surging with golden rice waves. As far as the eye can see, rubber plantations, plantations, spice gardens are densely packed and everywhere. It can be seen that this place is prosperous and rich. What's more, 70 or 80 percent of the farms here are controlled by the Chinese.

In the midst of this picture-like landscape, the Bramoo Volcano stands majestically in the distance, looking down on the sea and rice fields in front of you.

The sea is dotted with fishing boats, and the small boats of the egg people and fishermen are densely packed, most of them with white sails. It was just before lunch, and the smoke of the cooking stove rose from the boats. It has a peculiar smell of fish sauce and fills the surface of the sea near the harbor.

The scenery of the South Seas is really a different scene.

Under this scenery, everything seems to be normal around the harbor, with coolies and sailors of all stripes coming and going. It's bustling and lively. All sorts of voices mingled together and drifted in the distance.

It's just that every time a warship arrives at the port, firecrackers are set off, and the lion dance team is no longer visible. The surrounding Javanese fishermen no longer crowd in to peddle their products. Even the gaze on the dark faces under those hats looked a little cold somehow.

In the harbor, two Dutch ironclad cruisers, which were a little older than the previous two, were changing anchorages. The Dutch Navy sailors wearing colonial tropical sailor uniforms were lying on the railing, all looking at the 210-millimeter Krupp cannon that Zhiyuan deliberately did not wear a gun jacket. These two Dutch ironclad cruisers, it seems that these are going to accompany the formation formed by Zhiyuan and Laiyuan at the anchorage.

Xu Yifan just watched all this quietly, and Deng Shichang suddenly said next to him: "Do you see it?" Consul Cao: They are already at the docks. Good guys, how many foreign soldiers are accompanied! ”

As he spoke, Xu Yifan's gaze also turned over. Sure enough, I saw that there was a familiar Qing official uniform on the dock, and several officials with Chaozhu and big hats were frequently wiping the hot sweat on their faces. He was accompanied by several tall white officers, as well as those in ceremonial dresses. A group of foreign soldiers, wearing flat military hats with white shades, stood lazily around.

Xu Yifan sneered: "Okay, the banner of Oranye is flying high...... Brother Zhengqing. Your five cannons are laying down here. The Dutch really got their heart out. This time, it's not a good scene! ”

Deng Shichang did not answer. Footsteps outside the bridge were rustling, and in a blink of an eye, I saw Li Yunzong walking in neatly dressed in military uniform, and his flat chest was a military salute. Although his face was sweating profusely, his military posture was meticulous: "My lord, the brothers are ready!" ”

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