Sujing is located on the banks of the Solo River, 16 kilometers northwest of Surabaya.

Huang Bohan has a 2,000-hectare plantation here, and an electrified sugar refinery is built to refine sugar cubes and granulated sugar.

If Qin Zhiyuan hadn't appeared, Huang Bohan planned to sell all the sugar factories in the next two years and move to the Lion City.

With Qin Zhiyuan as his backer, Huang Bohan not only did not sell the sugar factory, but expanded the scale of his business and purchased 5,000 hectares of plantations to expand the planting area.

Relying on this alone, Huang Bohan can make millions of dollars in profits every year, so the money Huang Bohan gave to Qin Zhiyuan was really not spent in vain.

This is the destination of Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie, who will lead a company of troops to undertake a month-long rotation here.

At the gate of the plantation, Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie met Guan Jianyuan and Dong Zi, who had already packed their luggage and were about to return to Penglai Island.

Guan Dong, like Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie, are veterans brought back from France by Zhang Tianshou, and each of them is in charge of a company, supporting the basic framework of the "security forces".

Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie noticed that Guan Jianyuan and Dong Zishi's team not only included the original soldiers of the army, but also more than 20 more women wearing the uniforms of the "umbrella" company.

Although these women are wearing uniforms that are one size smaller, it is not difficult to guess the identity of these women based on their shy expressions and slightly darker skin tones.

"You've gained a lot from this trip!" Gu Xingbang joked with interest.

"Tsk, it's cheap for the two of you, Lao Guan and I just ran the road, a Semarang Jiabidan, and we will send it here every month in the future, to ensure that they are all innocent and unmarried, calculate the time, and it is estimated that the next batch will be sent over in a few days, my sister's ......" Thinking that he was leaving, Dong Zishi was still indignant.

Buying local women to fill Penglai Island is Zhang Tianshou and Qin Haoge's plan.

Penglai Island is now a big military camp, almost all of them are good guys, so many men get together, if there is no woman to adjust it, maybe there will be a tragic tragedy, so Zhang Tianshou and Qin Haoge bought some innocent locals to come over, on the one hand, engaged in medical care, service work, on the other hand, also give the young men a little hope.

Don't get me wrong, this "service" is limited to washing clothes, cooking or something, and there is no money transaction.

Of course, if the young men really have a relationship with these women in charge of logistics, Zhang Tianshou and Qin Haoge are encouraged.

Men, always have a family and eloquence to be considered a man, have constant property to have perseverance, and settling down is the only way to stabilize the morale of the military.

"Kapitan" is the British and Dutch colonies in Malaysia and Borneo to promote the overseas Chinese contribution system, that is, to appoint overseas Chinese leaders who come to do business, make a living or settle down as the head of the overseas to assist the colonial government in handling the affairs of the expatriates, "Kapitan" is the transliteration of the Dutch "kapitein", which originally means "chief".

Don't think that Southeast Asian women are similar to blacks, in fact, the skin is good, and the so-called "wheat color" in later generations is this color. And looking in the huge population base, you can always find some people with relatively fair skin and well-proportioned figures, which are in line with the aesthetic views of the Chinese.

Dong Zishi and Guan Jianyuan got these women are more in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese, in fact, the Chinese at this time are really not high in terms of women's requirements, as long as the character is virtuous and can live a down-to-earth life, as for the appearance and skin or something, they are all pink skeletons, think about the Chinese can even accept the domestic "small-footed women", what else is unacceptable?

"Then dare to be kind, go back and invite you to drink." Gu Xingbang was overjoyed, the "three wives and four concubines" he just said sounded quite lively, but in fact, he was also a single.

It is true that some Chinese soldiers of the Foreign Legion have feelings for French women, but after all, they are a minority, and compared to the appearance of Chinese women, blonde and blue-eyed French women are really unacceptable to some relatively conservative Chinese.

The "unacceptable" here is due to both personal reasons as well as familial and social reasons.

So compared with the blonde French woman, and the Qing Empire, who was killed with a thousand knives, abducted the Republic of China woman with small feet, in fact, Southeast Asian women are the best choice for Chinese soldiers.

At least he looks similar to the Chinese, and he is not so delicate and weak.

Women with bound feet, because of the deformation of the foot bones, can not engage in manual labor at all, and in some serious cases, they can't even walk, the hand of the Qing Empire is not only a spiritual castration for the Chinese, but also a spiritual castration.

Think about it, can a mother who doesn't go out of the door educate more active children?

If the Qing Empire wants to rule the Republic of China for another 300 years, I am afraid that the Han people will also dissipate in the long river of history.

"Come on, let's go......" Guan Jianyuan saw that it was not early, said hello to Gu Xingbang, and led the team to leave the plantation and go to the dock to take a small steamer back to Penglai Island.

Sending Guan Jianyuan away, Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie led the team to take over the defense.

The security force of the umbrella company, a team of about 150 people, usually happens to be a three-shift structure, which is very suitable for armed security.

Although the security forces are nominally security guards, they are in fact not weakly armed at all, except for the absence of artillery and tanks, which are no different from the regular army of the Foreign Legion. The 98B rifle and MG08 heavy machine gun were the basic armament, along with American-made shotguns and a large number of French-made revolvers.

In fact, in urban combat, shotguns and pistols are the best to use, rifles and heavy machine guns are a bit out of place.

As a result, a very large proportion of shotguns and pistols are used in the security forces.

In fact, these two kinds of guns are not difficult to build, especially shotguns, because the accuracy requirements are not high, relying on surface lethality, so basically as long as there is a simple machine can be processed.

Zhang Tianshou has already explained this problem to Qin Zhiyuan, and Qin Zhiyuan also organized a batch of machines to be sent to Borneo, and it is also a professional shotgun production line, and the production efficiency will be further improved.

Along with the machine, 10 engineers and 100 workers will set up a shotgun production plant on Penglai Island. The weapons produced will not only supply the security forces, but also the Chinese throughout Southeast Asia, so that they will no longer be defenseless in the face of killing.

Given that the Dutch imposed strict gun control measures in Borneo and did not allow Chinese to possess hot weapons, Qin Zhiyuan had another intention in selling weapons to Chinese.

Once the Chinese have weapons, it will definitely arouse the vigilance of the Dutch colonial authorities, and in this case, if the Dutch colonial authorities attack those Chinese who have guns, it will be tantamount to giving the "umbrella" company a legitimate reason to do so.

As for the matter of "protecting overseas Chinese", the Chinese army is very much looking forward to it.

Of course, for Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie, the matter of protecting overseas Chinese is still too far away, and their current job is to ensure the safety of this plantation.

It is a plantation with a total area of more than 7,000 hectares, which is planted with sugar cane, and the sugar produced here is sold in Europe and the United States, making it the largest sugar factory in Borneo.

7,000 hectares, about 700,000 acres of land, with a total area of more than 70 square kilometers, spanning both sides of the Solo River, divided into four plantations of different sizes, more than 50,000 workers working here at the peak, and more than 20,000 people in normal times, living in the sugar factory and two settlements in the south and north, but only 150 people guarded, the difficulty can be imagined.

Most of the more than 20,000 people are Chinese, of which there are more than 6,000 permanent workers in the sugar factory, and the remaining more than 10,000 live outside the sugar factory.

With limited manpower, it is almost impossible to ensure the safety of everyone, so the security guards can only focus on the deployment and rely on a large number of three-wheeled motorcycles as a means of transportation to quickly move people around.

Qin Zhiyuan ordered a large number of three-wheeled motorcycles from the Renault factory, and in addition to the Foreign Legion for his own use, he also sent more than 100 to Borneo.

The company's mission was usually only to guard, and in the event of an incident beyond its ability to deal with it, it only needed to use the wireless telegraph in the sugar factory to call for help from Penglai Island, and the reinforcements sent by Penglai Island could reach Surabaya within four hours.

In order to break through the defenses of the security forces supported by heavy machine guns in four hours, it is unlikely that even the Dutch colonial army will act in person.

Don't look at the Netherlands as an old imperialist country, but the national strength of the Netherlands has long been weakened, and in Europe they don't even dare to participate in a world war, and their combat effectiveness is not half a star worse than that of the Chinese troops.

What's more, only a small number of the Dutch colonial army are Dutch, and more are the indigenous people of Borneo, these people, let them bully and bully the defenseless Chinese, they dare to rush forward, really let them face the steel net to charge, it is difficult to say that these people have a strong will to fight.

After taking over the defense, Gu Xingbang's task every day was to take a patrol force composed of several three-wheeled motorcycles out for a spin in the morning, noon and evening, and make sure that the two pillboxes in the north and south settlements where a squad of soldiers were stationed were safe and sound, and then maintain the security of the sugar factory, even if it was over, life would be considered a good one.

One morning in mid-October, Gu Xingbang had just returned to the sugar factory after completing his patrol when he met Father Francis, who came to his door.

"Hello Father." Gu Xingbang said hello from afar.

"Oh, Gu, I'm so glad to see you, but I'm not good, I need your help, those damn infidels, I'm going to burn them all to death......" Maybe the priest's mouth was a little broken, Francis muttered as he walked, and followed Gu Xingbang into the office.

"Ha, the priest is still so angry! It's really uncommon, little Tintin, get the priest a glass of water to put out the fire. Gu Xingbang greeted with a smile and asked Francis to sit down and speak slowly.

With the arrival of the Umbrella Company in Borneo, Cardinal Auerbach's priests also entered Borneo to spread Catholicism. Everyone's lives are different, Zhang Tianshou's work is going well, but Francis's work is not progressing much.

Borneo believes in Tuval, the god of the sun in Borneo mythology. This sect is rather bizarre, as long as one member of the family joins the Tuval Cult, everyone in the family must join, and all future descendants must join, which has incomparable exclusivity.

Although Francis's group of priests has a firm faith, when they encounter such a Tuval cult, they are also dogs biting hedgehogs and have no way to speak.

According to the agreement signed between Qin Zhiyuan and Auerbach, the umbrella company must facilitate the spread of Catholicism, so Francis approached Gu Xingbang and asked Gu Xingbang for support.

It stands to reason that Gu Xingbang wants to help with this, but how to help is worth studying.

(To be continued.) )