Nanyang is very important, but in Hu Chuyuan's mind, this is only his second-level front after all.

If he can't stabilize China's silk and tea industry, everything will be in vain, even if he tosses hard in the South Seas, it will only be a rootless duckweed, which will soon wither.

His trust in Ye Wenlan and Ye Xiangyun is limited, but he still leaves the affairs of Nanyang Company to them first.

He didn't even plan to go to Yamaguchiyo, but to Shek Lom Gate in Sarawak.

However, Ye Xiangyun told Hu Chuyuan very frankly that it was difficult to find Chinese there.

In 1861, the 12th Company, formed by the merger of the Santian Gou Company and the Dagang Company, decided to occupy Kuching and actually succeeded, however, their plan fell short and did not kill James Brooke, the founder of the Bullock dynasty.

After escaping Kuching, James Brooke quickly obtained a large amount of military aid with the help of British-owned companies, and instigated and enticed the local Dayaks and Malays to jointly attack Selung Mun, and finally slaughtered all Chinese laborers in Selung Mun.

About 6,000 Chinese laborers, including women and children, were killed, and some of the more than 3,000 Chinese laborers who fled to the Dutch-administered area of West Kalimantan were also killed by the Dutch.

The reason why Ye Xiangyun was able to know this was precisely because they had a close cooperative relationship with the Dutch, and the Dutch did not shy away from telling them, and warned Lanfang Company as an example.

After hearing Ye Xiangyun's words, Hu Chuyuan fell into silence completely, and Zhang Lingpu, Yan Shizhang and Wu Shuzhen, who were present, were speechless.

Yes, Hu Chuyuan is a businessman who understands current affairs and takes making money as his responsibility.

At this moment, he could no longer bear it.

Even if Company Twelve was at fault, or was forced to be helpless, he couldn't bear this kind of thing happening again and again.

Yes, this is Nanyang, the massacre of the Chinese is justified, even if it is unreasonable, it is not guilty, the massacre of the natives is a crime, and the massacre of the Caucasian race is an earth-shattering crime, which must attract the attention of the whole world, and the bloody revenge of the powerful country.

Just a few missionaries died, and the Eight-Nation Coalition entered China and demanded an indemnity of 400 million taels of silver.

Nearly 10,000 Chinese died, what were the Manchus doing?

Grass.

Hu Chuyuan only felt that his anger had reached the limit.

It was as if he had seen the corpses all over the wilderness, blood, red blood flowing in the river, women, children, and old people burned to death in the caves, struggling, struggling, hoping for a miracle, someone to save them.

At this moment, his heart was dripping blood.

After a long silence, he finally spoke, mixed with unprecedented hatred, and said to Zhang Lingpu: "The matter here depends on you!" ”

Zhang Lingpu stood up slowly and resolutely, clenched his fists, his eyes were about to erupt flames, and Hu Chuyuan replied word by word: "My lord, my subordinates will never give up!" ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently, but he knew that Zhang Lingpu alone would not work.

Now, it is by no means the moment when Zhang Lingpu suddenly emerges.

This matter has to be arranged and planned in more detail.

James Brooke is dead, and the blood debt is only paid by his heir, his nephew, the man who led the massacre, Charles Brooke.

He had to make the entire Brooke dynasty pay it back, even if it was a Sarawak kingdom backed by a British political axe.

He pondered in silence in his mind, looking for a possible surname that could strangle the Brooke dynasty.

After a long time, he raised his eyes coldly and asked Ye Xiangyun: "Right in Borneo, is there any place we can set foot in now?" ”

Ye Xiangyun thought for a while and said, "Letun, known to the natives as Lendu, is in the northernmost port town of Sarawak, located at the mouth of the Kayang River, backed by Mount Kading. There are also gold mines, and there are probably more than 2,000 Hakka and Fuzhou people living there, fishing and panning for gold. From Rohto to the southwest, over the Gatin Hill is the territory of the Dutch, and more than 100 miles to the southeast is to Selom Mun and Kuching. In front of the Selom Gate is Kuching, behind which is a valley mouth, through which you reach the territory of the Dutch, and many people die at the mouth of the valley. ”

Hu Chuyuan asked, "Can our ship go directly to Leto?" ”

Ye Xiangyun said: "It's okay in the past few years, the Sarawak Kingdom is getting weaker and weaker, and I don't have the energy to manage there." ”

Hu Chuyuan thought for a while and said, "Okay, you arrange it for me, and we'll go there here to see the actual situation." ”

Ye Xiangyun nodded cautiously and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely arrange it for you." ”

Hu Chuyuan waved his hand and asked him to go down and prepare a map of Borneo in as much detail as possible for his reference.

He had already decided to go to Lehto for a field trip, but Lin Taizeng and Liu Buyun also had to be stabilized, and they had to go to Mawei Port first.

As long as they enter the port, the rest of the matter will be in Hu Chuyuan and He Jing's plan.

That night, Hu Chuyuan invited Ye Fu to his room and talked about going to Sarawak, wanting Ye Fu to keep Lin Taizeng and the others, and wait for him to come back.

Hearing this, Ye Fu pondered for a moment, and couldn't help but ask Hu Chuyuan with some concern: "Dare to ask Lord Tiao, was this matter arranged by Lord Ye Wenlan Ye?" ”

Listening to what he meant, he seemed to know some inside information, so Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "That's true." ”

Ye Fudao: "My lord, it's not that I don't trust Ye Wenlan, it's really that your safety is more important than everything, and the big thing depends on you alone." Please wait a few more days, Deng Shichang and I will find some businessmen from the same township in Singapore, contact some Wu Yong of Guangdong nationality to accompany you, and Deng Shichang will accompany you, and by the way, Lin Taizeng and they will borrow more than 100 guns, just in case. ”

After a pause, he said again: "If there is no Liu Buyun, we can talk to Lin Taizeng and Ye Zuqi and let them use gunboats to escort them." It's definitely inconvenient at the moment, piracy is rampant in this part of the South Seas, and the common sea routes are relatively safe, but the routes to Rohto and Kuching are a bit remote, and it is easy to encounter pirates. Well, I'll try to contact a merchant ship with artillery as soon as possible. ”

Hu Chuyuan bowed slightly, safety is the most important thing after all.

He discussed with Ye Fu for a while, and then asked Ye Fu to go out to handle these things.

In order to avoid a rainy month, the five gunboats did not continue their journey until the end of the month, sailing along the coastline and passing through Vietnam to Liangguang.

But there is another problem, if Liu Buyun insists on paying filial piety to Li Hongzhang with the ship and people, then he is likely to report the news in Guangzhou, survey the ship in the port of Guangzhou, and directly assign the five gunboats to the Nanyang Naval Division.

Although the funds for the purchase of the ship were funded by the Liangjiang Yamen, the name belonged to the Nanyang Naval Division, and the person in charge of buying the ship was Li Hongzhang.

Fortunately, Liu Buyun and the others will not be in a hurry to leave for the time being.

Hu Chuyuan could only ask Ye Fu to try his best to persuade Ye Zuqi and the others not to take risks, so as not to destroy his future.

After waiting for two days, Ye Fu and Deng Shichang found a few reliable Chinese merchants in the Cantonese Association in Singapore, rented a wooden sailing ship specially used to fight pirates, hired more than 70 Cantonese sailors who dared to fight their lives, and borrowed a batch of foreign guns from Lin Taizeng and Ye Zuqi's Qing Soldier Sailor Battalion, which was led by Deng Shichang and accompanied Hu Chuyuan to Letun.

The Tai Cheong, chartered by Hu Chuyuan from Swire & Co., was an ocean-going merchant ship, and like most ocean-going merchant ships of this era, it had two 4.5-inch Armstrong guns and two 47 mm Haggers five-barreled revolving guns to defend against pirates that could appear at any time.

In the Malacca waters, such a merchant ship was relatively safe, and with the company of a sailing ship armed with four bronze cannons, ordinary pirates would not dare to take the risk of robbery.

After four hours of sailing on the blue seas in the early hours of the morning, the Taichang gradually reached the waters between Tamilan and Yamaguchi Ocean by noon.

The Dutch had a naval base here, which was responsible for fighting pirates in the nearby seas, and at the same time kept the entire export of West Borneo firmly in check, and they had to pay taxes on everything.

As they were able to see land, the people on board spotted the Dutch ship and approached it with great speed.

Hearing the news, Hu Chuyuan immediately walked out of the cabin and looked at the other party's ship from a distance with a telescope.

It didn't look like a very advanced warship, it still had sails on it, and its hull size was about 3,000 tons of displacement, about the same as the Taichang.

On the flag, the tricolor of the Kingdom of the Netherlands fluttered in the wind, showing off their might, as if swearing their power.

Looking at this flag, Hu Chuyuan sneered in his heart and scolded: Even if you are a, you dare to bully a group of natives in Asia.

Seeing Zhang Lingpu coming, he gave the telescope to Zhang Lingpu, and asked Ye Wenlan, "Do they want to come over to check?" ”

Ye Wenlan was experienced in this area, shook his head, and said, "No, they are not so rampant with the British merchant ships, they are just pretending, or they are here to say hello." ”

Zhang Lingpu looked at it for a while, and said to Hu Chuyuan: "It should be an old-fashioned cruiser of about 3,000 tonnage, and there is no thin steel plate on the outside, even if it pulls on the sails, it may not be able to catch up with us." ”

Hu Chuyuan sighed, even more unconcerned, returned to his cabin, and continued to talk to Ye Wenlan and Ye Xiangyun about the situation in Borneo.

Sure enough, the Dutch cruiser just communicated with the Taichang from a distance, inquired about the situation in the nearby waters, and then left.

Soon, standing on the deck of the Taichang, Hu Chuyuan could see the beautiful dark blue coastline of the Yamaguchi Ocean.

Located on the west coastline of the Kalimantan archipelago, the entire coastline is in the shape of a crescent moon, which is very protective of the port, and the west coast itself is much calmer than the north, east and south coasts due to the influence of the tropical monsoon.

As the ship gradually sailed into the harbor, the town appeared in plain sight.

Hu Chuyuan has heard countless times that the town of Yanggang in Shankou is not large, because the harbor is in good condition, and there are large areas of tropical plains and fields in the surrounding coastal bay, and many Chinese settled here during the Ming Dynasty, and gradually developed a lively and prosperous town.

Here, the lingua franca is Hakka.

However, the real managers are the Dutch.

Shortly after the Taichang stopped, several Dutch officials came aboard with some natives to inspect it.

Although there was no cargo on board, the Dutch forcibly demanded a port rent of 100 foreign yen and a security tax, and an additional 12 foreign yen for each day of stopping, and if there were goods on board, they would be charged a high export duty.

After the Dutch inspection was over, Hu Chuyuan went ashore and, accompanied by Zhang Lingpu and Deng Shichang, to see the actual situation in Yamaguchiyang.

Compared with the British, the Dutch were very poor in governing the colonies, and in addition to the long-term conflict with the Qing court and the Chinese, their attitude towards the Chinese was also very bad.

It can be said that the first massacre of China in Indonesia was instigated by the Dutch, and their goal was only to seize the economic interests and trade privileges of Chinese businessmen in the region.

Since then, similar incidents have occurred again and again.

On the other side, in Singapore and the British colonies, this situation has hardly happened, and the British have always adopted the method of dividing the land to govern the ethnic disputes within the colonies, rather than simply and brutally suppressing them, let alone indulging the natives and the Chinese to fight each other.

The Dutch in this era are just a group of mercenary merchants, and they must be allowed to shed their last drop of blood before they know how to respect others.

If you can, you won't hesitate to kill them all.

Even people like Hu Chuyuan will be angry about it, and they can't wait to kill all the Dutch in Nanyang, which is enough to prove how hateful the Dutch are at this time.

Of course, Tiandihui, Heshuntang, and Lanfang Company are not good things.

Even under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, the community is still a community after all, and it is just mud that can't support the wall.

After taking a turn in Shankouyang, Hu Chuyuan was mainly observing the business conditions of local shops, so as to judge the local economic level and characteristics.

The main export materials he focused on were export materials, and the cultivation of palm and rubber had not yet developed, and the main export materials were sugar cane, native sugar, spices, and hardwoods.

According to Hu Chuyuan's knowledge, due to the current economic situation in China, although there are many poor people and many rich people, they have to import at least 3 million taels of silver of hardwood from Nanyang every year, almost all of which are used to make furniture.

This is one of the markets that Ye Wenlan mainly does, and it is also the main profit point of Nanyang Commercial Bank in the future.