"Look at the newspaper, read the newspaper! Ta Kung Pao Urgent Special Issue, West Borneo Uprising Chinese Workers, Bengai Shadow Defeats Dutch Red-Haired Ghost! Read the newspaper, read the newspaper......"

There was still a hint of cold in Hong Kong in February, but for those anti-contractor workers on the docks in Hong Kong, such a chill was not worth the sun at all. A thin shoulder, revealing two thick and powerful arms, and even many people directly topless, exposing their muscular chests, the sea breeze could not make them feel a trace of coldness.

The busy docks, thousands of labor porters, the scene is so lively, but there is no noise at all. Compared to the hustle and bustle of many guests, they are so quiet. On the various docks, all the laborers are working in an orderly manner, or taking turns to rest. It seems that the workload is not higher than when everyone worked hard before, but in fact, the work efficiency is much higher than that of two years ago. There are reasons for reasonable distribution, and there are also reasons for the rickshaws erected on the wharf. These are the assets of the laborers themselves, belonging to the owners of the workers' union, not to the dock owners. Just by simply using the efficiency of the live pulley, it is not a steam engine gantry crane, which saves the workers I don't know how much effort.

More than twenty and a half children ran into the dock screaming, and the ear-catching shouts immediately brought the passengers to and from the dock.

"Kid, get a newspaper!"

Zhang Fagen, who was covered in stinky sweat, also came to the front and bought a newspaper, which was really a special issue, and all the content was about West Borneo. Zhang Fagen is worthy of recognition, he studied in the night school organized by the workers' union for a while, but he really didn't have that talent. I've been here for almost two months, and I don't know a single word. Now he holds a paper bag in his left hand. Inside is a cut cake, and the top of the newspaper is grasped with his right hand. A general glance at the titles of each section, the words are incomplete, and even the Meng with guess is about West Borneo.

"Ah Fa, come and read the newspaper and see what this special issue says. How many red-haired ghosts did the Chinese workers of Nanyang defeat? ”

Zhang Fagen walked through piles of wooden boxes and goods, swaggered past a few handfuls of foreign devils and doglegs, and went straight to the resting place of their Halcyon Labor Service Company at the Star Pier in Tsim Sha Tsui. Shaking the newspaper and shouting at a young man who was not even twenty years old.

The young man, whose name was Ah Fa, was also not modest, and stepped forward to take the newspaper. I flipped through the headlines back and forth, and read aloud at the headlines with joy on my face. The company's logistics staff on the side also handed over a bowl of water very coloredly and put it in front of Ah Fa.

Among the three brigades of Hesheng Labor Service Company, six or seven hundred laborers, and the fastest people who can read and write, there is Ah Fa, a descendant. The workers' union is already preparing to absorb Ah Fa as an internal staff, so that he can at least be a squad leader in Hesheng, and be in charge of thirty or forty people.

"Those people in Nanyang are so powerful, they cut off two thousand heads in one go. Nearly 2,000 were taken prisoner. The Dutch Red Fur also arrested more than 200 people. There are only two of the 5,000 foreign devils left! ”

"It's still 700 people. It's much stronger than those rotten soldiers in Guangzhou! ”

"That Liang Luyi hero, happy people's hearts......"

These lowest-level labor forces in Hong Kong are disgusted with the foreigners represented by the British. That's definitely intense. What's more, there is now a workers' union that has not existed in history at all, and the workers' union cooperates with Ta Kung Pao, and the effect of one plus one is far greater than two. These laborers are now more averse to the foreigners.

"The Netherlands is not to be underestimated. At that time, the national surname was fought in Taiwan. Isn't it the red-haired ghost who fights? They have been entrenched in the South Seas for three or four hundred years, and their power is absolutely very strong. ”

The newspaper said it. The Dutch had at least 40,000 men in their army in the South Seas. Even if there are a lot of indigenous soldiers in it, there should be tens of thousands of authentic red-haired soldiers. Benga's shadow is only ......."

"And the British. That's Sarawak. It's a British protectorate! ”

The appreciation of the glorious victory of the Chinese Workers' Volunteers and the concern for the future prospects of the Chinese Workers' Volunteers are the common attitudes of the workers in Hong Kong and almost all the Chinese in Hong Kong.

The workers' union has received orders from above and is ready to take action. If the British had really intervened in the war in West Borneo, it would have turned Hong Kong into a stinking port and all the dock workers would have been shut down. It is even possible to organize a strike by certain merchants, although it is impossible to organize all Chinese shops to close their doors. Hong Kong has been in the hands of the British for 35 years, and there are really a group of banana people and doglegs. The Workers' Association, on the other hand, has only been in Hong Kong for two years, and if it had not played a huge role during the typhoon disaster last year, winning widespread praise from the middle and lower classes of Chinese, it would not have been able to organize a strike of a number of businessmen. The roots are too shallow.

The same special issue of Ta Kung Pao was also sold in different cities such as Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Beijing at the same time today. As long as there is a place where the telegram can be reached, Ta Kung Pao can be published and sold at the same time.

Since the Vietnam War established its position and made a name for itself, Ta Kung Pao has developed extremely rapidly. In addition to the southeast coast, even in the capital cities of the inland provinces, there are also semicolons of Ta Kung Pao. Although the newspapers here are usually late. However, the current Ta Kung Pao is definitely the No. 1 Chinese-language newspaper in China.

Tainan.

Liu Xian got the Banga Film War Report, only four hours earlier than the release of the Ta Kung Pao special issue. He was relieved by the outcome of the battle. The Dutch did not seem to have much combat effectiveness. Although the Dutch governor of Batavia had thirty or forty thousand troops, it was impossible for them all to be committed to West Borneo. The territory of the Dutch was very vast, and there were not many troops of thirty or forty thousand. And the Dutch had to take into account the reaction of the Qing government. After all, Lan Fang is the Chinese in charge, and according to the Western rules at this time, it is like Sarawak to the British Empire, which is a protected territory of the Qing government.

The Dutch government doesn't want to have a conflict with the Qing government now! Specifically, it was the Chinese fleet heading south.

What can be done for West Borneo, Liu Xian has done it all. If there is a large number of arms and a certain number of officers to support, Lan Fang can't do what Liu Xian wants, and he can only temporarily retract his hand. The bigger the stall, the more things will happen. Liu Xian is now paying attention to the planting of Brazilian rubber trees in Hainan, and at the same time, he is also worried about the increasing number of sick people in the Taitung development team.

I don't know if there is a big difference between the climate of this era and later generations, or because Taitung has really not been developed, the environment is really harsh, and diseases are rampant.

The footsteps of the Qin army and the standing team had already stepped into the depths of the mountains, and more and more people were sick. At present, the number of soldiers killed and wounded in the battle of the Qin army and the advance team is less than one-fifth of the number of people who have lost their combat effectiveness due to disease, or even died of disease.

Between the Qin army and the Japanese, the number of the former was less than one-third of the number of people who fell ill in the latter.

Liu Xian can only be explained by not adapting to water and soil. He has made every effort to prepare for hygiene, prohibiting drinking raw water, defecating in a fixed place, washing hands after unraveling his hands, washing his hands before and after meals, and paying absolute attention to hygiene. However, the accumulation of more than 200 Qin troops and the number of soldiers of the small two brigades also made Liu Xian distressed. You must know that the number of all the Japanese soldiers in his hands is less than 2,000. In the past six months, 200 people have died in battle or disease.

With such a high death rate, Liu Xian and other upper echelons of the Qin army were worried about whether this would affect their recruitment efforts in Japan. After all, no one is looking for death! However, they were all wrong on this point, even Liu Xian didn't know how difficult the life of the lower-class samurai in Japan was.

In the whole of Japan, there were at least two million people in the aristocracy, and there were at least four hundred thousand swords in the lower samurai of the appropriate year. But what is the number of troops in Japan as a whole? 50,000 people only. Even after a war to break the country, Japan has fully expanded its army, and its total strength is only 70,000 or 80,000. Just one-sixth of the total number of samurai in Japan has already filled all the places. How do the remaining five-sixths live?

A very simple example is the Satsuma Domain, which is the territory of Saigo Takamori. During the Shogunate War, at least 20,000 samurai were dispatched throughout the Satsuma Domain, and as one of the main forces of the army, a new page was opened for Japan. However, the current Kumamoto town platform has more than 3,700 soldiers recruited in the entire Satsuma Domain. Although some samurai joined the navy and the local police force, it is completely self-evident how big the gap is!

The family of each Japanese samurai who died could receive a one-time pension of fifty yuan of Yingyang from the Qin army, plus a condolence of one stone of rice per month for three years, that is, thirty-six stones of rice. A disabled samurai can receive a pension of thirty pieces of eagle yoko, plus thirty months, and a compensation of one stone of rice per month, that is, thirty stones of rice.

Converted to yen, the silver content of one yen is equivalent to that of one eagle ocean, that is, 50 yen + 36 koku of rice for a life, 30 yen + 30 koku of rice for a disability, which is simply too expensive. In Japan, you can buy rice for more than 3 yen per stone. How many Japanese people have not been able to eat a meal of white rice with their bellies open until they die from the moment they are born.

Therefore, Qin Jun's recruitment work in Japan not only did not fall into a difficult situation because of this, but on the contrary, it ushered in a climax. In addition, in the past few months, many soldiers of the Standing Brigade in Taiwan also sent their monthly silver rings back to their hometowns on time, and the influence brought by them coincided with the storm of 'pensions', and only one month after the year, four or five hundred Japanese embarked on the warships of the Qin army. The number of Japanese soldiers in the entire standing force in Taiwan has reached almost 2,000.

"Sue the Germans, if Lihe can help me recruit some experienced doctors, I will repay them with a good reward!" (To be continued......)