In a small bay in northwestern Borneo, a wooden steam sailing ship quietly approached the bay at night, and at this time, several small boats with bright lights sailed out of the originally empty bay.

In a short time, the sailboat was guided by two small boats to gradually approach the shore, and finally anchored on the edge of a wooden pier.

At this time, there were also a few people wearing suits on the shore, who seemed to have a relatively high status at a glance, and after they arrived at the dock, they got on the boat.

It was about a quarter of an hour before they disembarked again, and at the same time there were more people on the shore, dressed in short robes, who were distinguished from the local natives or white colonists, who were very distinctly Chinese, and some of whom carried rifles on their backs.

The accents of several of them are Lingnan official dialects, which are different from the ordinary Central Plains official dialects, and it is not difficult to determine their identities based on their clothing and armaments, as well as their skin color and accents.

These people should be the Chinese who immigrated to the Nanyang area in the early years, and the Chinese who can appear here at this moment, and they are also Chinese groups with guns, so there is only one kind of people, and that is the local Chinese resistance group.

After some contact, the sailors on the ship and the Chinese who came to pick up the ship soon began to remove large wooden boxes from the ship.

A middle-aged man in a silk gown pried open one of the wooden boxes with an iron rod, and under the illumination of the lantern, there was a neatly arranged pile of rifles in the wooden boxes.

Those who are familiar with firearms can tell at a glance that these guns are all 1858 rifles, which have been very popular in Southeast Asia in the last decade.

He took out an 1858 rifle directly from the wooden box, then looked up and down, and pulled the bolt with his hand, holding up the gun to make an aiming posture.

Then he put down his gun and looked through the other rifles in the box. Then he turned his head to the young man in a suit and said, "Young master, although these guns are not new, they are in the same condition as they said, they are ninety percent new, and they are properly maintained, they are all good guys!" ”

The young man in the suit also walked up at this time. Then he looked at the rifle in the wooden box and nodded.

"How? Liu Gongzi, this batch of firearms is enough to make you decide! At this time, a man about 30 years old with a shaved head and also wearing a suit, walked over.

When Liu Gongzi heard this, he didn't say anything, his face looked a little defeated under the light of the candlelight, and his skin was very different from the dark skin of the other people beside him.

"This gun is okay though. It's not too much, and if you want to do something, I'm afraid it's difficult! ”

Seeing this Liu Gongzi say this, the inch-headed man on the side secretly sneered in his heart, this is too little? If it weren't for the great cause of the Empire, our Intelligence Department would have been able to bring you guns and sell them at a reasonable price, and if it weren't for us, you would have to find those arms smugglers. And the guns in those hands are at least twice as expensive as the normal price.

This man was an intelligence officer sent to Borneo by the Imperial Intelligence Division. His name is Zhao Dingsheng, and he has been engaged in intelligence activities in Nanyang for seven or eight years.

And he's different from the agents that most people know, he's not good at fighting, assassinating and the like, and he's not even very good at shooting, he's good at being a lobbyist, well. There are also drawings.

His daily work is to travel all over Southeast Asia, collect local customs, draw maps, etc., and can be regarded as an Indonesian expert, with a wide range of footprints on the islands of the East Indies. Familiarity with the local indigenous tribes.

Such people are different from the so-called agents that people see in film and television dramas.

In fact, the so-called spy life is not as colorful as people think, although most of the agents stationed abroad in the intelligence department are trained in combat, shooting and other techniques, but most of them have never had the opportunity to fight the enemy in their lives.

Especially those hidden agents, their daily lives are no different from ordinary people, and the collection of intelligence is also more or less information is collected through some open or semi-public channels, but there is no need to directly kill the enemy's official institutions and then start robbing.

Generally speaking, the only agents who have a direct exchange of fire with the enemy and perform the mission are those field agents, and these field agents are generally temporarily stationed, for example, if the intelligence department decides to assassinate someone, then it will generally not order the agents who are lurking in the local area to do it, but will transfer field agents from the headquarters to go there, and evacuate directly after killing people.

And there are not many such people.

The vast majority of the employees of the Intelligence Division are ordinary people, both in appearance and in real life.

For example, Roman, an agent who has sent back a lot of information about the East India Fleet and the British army in Malaysia, and even sent back information about the relevant forts, forts and military camps in Singapore, his daily life does not mean that he runs to the port to see the British warships, and then secretly draws a few drawings.

Most of his sources of information were told to him by the British themselves, such as at a party, when he talked to a few British officers, and even without his own words, these British naval officers would brag about how good their ships were, how many guns they had, how many they could run, and some information such as how far they could run without adding water and coal.

All Roman had to do was use his status as a trader to mingle in Singapore's colonial high society, then mingle with the British colonial officials and officers and generals, and then pass on what he heard from them to the Intelligence Division.

This father, who has a son, has never fought with anyone, let alone used a knife or a gun!

Zhao Dingsheng's life is naturally more dangerous and exciting than Roman's, but this risk mostly comes from the unknown in an unfamiliar area, not the direct threat of the enemy.

He, a man who roamed all over Southeast Asia, had a much better chance of dying in the jungle than by the enemy's bullets.

Zhao Dingsheng has been active in Borneo for the past year, and his main job is to collect the customs of Borneo and draw maps of regions, especially some important areas, military strongholds, and people like him are all over the place, although the intelligence department is an intelligence agency that coordinates most of the foreign intelligence affairs.

But after all, it is an intelligence agency under the military, and what they attach most importance to is some military intelligence, and in military intelligence, in addition to detecting the enemy's strength and arrangement, in fact, it is also very important to draw a map for the terrain of the enemy country or a potential enemy country, and make a large-scale military map based on this.

The military's Mapping Division is usually responsible for mapping only domestic areas and some safe areas, while in more dangerous areas, field agents from the Intelligence Division are responsible for mapping.

Last month, he received a letter from his boss who put him in contact with the Chinese resistance forces in Borneo, and established good relations with them, stimulating and encouraging their determination to resist the Dutch colonial government.

In the past month, he has secretly visited the major Chinese settlements in Borneo, including Montradu, Sarawak and other places.

At present, the Chinese groups that are revolting in Sarawak and rebelling against the Dutch East India Company are mainly the remnants of the Dagang Company who fled to the place, as well as some of the remnants of the Chinese colonial companies such as the Twelfth Company, and a small number of personnel of the Lanfang Company who are dissatisfied with the Dutch colonists.

These Chinese groups were more complex, but they were reformed under the oppression of the Dutch, and at the same time, by the rise of the empire within the empire, the empire's influence in Southeast Asia gradually increased, and some local Chinese immigrants also felt the pressure of the empire on them from the Dutch colonial government.

So many people want to be able to return to the pre-1850 state of corporate autonomy, rather than being governed by the Dutch and paying taxes to the Dutch, as is the case now.

Coupled with the hatred between the two sides planted in the Twelve Company War, some of the survivors who survived that year wanted revenge on the Dutch all the time.

Even without the influence of the Empire, they would have revolted in the next few years, and now with the influence of the Empire, his large-scale uprising was a few years earlier and on a larger scale.

Before Teo Tingsheng arrived, these Chinese in Sarawak were only spontaneous, small-scale uprisings, but when he arrived in Sarawak, Teo Tingsheng gave full play to his qualities as a conspiracy and saboteur, convincing many local Chinese community leaders and giving them many promises, including military assistance.

Although when Zhao Dingsheng said this, the leaders of those Chinese groups had not yet seen a gun, but people were ambitious, and under the impetus of their own ambitions, the leaders of these Chinese groups simply joined forces to rebuild a company with the characteristics of a typical colonial company, and called it 'Xingang Company' under the name of the re-established Dagang Company, and Li Ji, the leader of the remaining strength of the original Dagang Company, was under the control of Xingang Company.

However, as a long-time active in Borneo and well aware of the local situation, Zhao Dingsheng knew that it would be difficult for a rebuilt Dagang company to fight against the Block dynasty (Englishman James? The white dynasty established by Bullock, also known as the Kingdom of Sarawak, was given the title of Sultan of Brunei and ruled over the later state of Sarawak) and the Dutch colonial government.

If he wanted to accomplish the task assigned to him by the Upper Peak: to plunge Borneo into war as much as possible, contain the Dutch and British, and give the Empire the opportunity to meddle in Borneo's affairs.

Then he felt the need to stir up greater turmoil, and this choice was on the side of Lanfang Company. (To be continued.) )