Pontianak Pier, as usual, is still full of cars coming in and out.

As one of the famous commodity gathering places in the South Seas, with the support of China behind it, Pontianak's status has surpassed the old Manila and Batavia, and cities such as Surabaya, Palembang and Semarang cannot be compared with him, and only Singapore, which has been heavily invested by the British, can firmly overtake Pontianak.

At the entrance of a passage on the wharf, two wharf patrol officers and three or five big men had just finished lunch, and they came to change shifts with their teeth. This pier is an important place for police deployment, and Lan Phuong province has set up a separate police station here, which is only one level lower than the Pontianak police station and comparable to ordinary prefectural police stations.

And the dock police are absolutely fat, look at these two patrol officers who came to change the guard, there is not only a police revolver on their waists, but also a private large-caliber 11mm revolver, which is much more powerful than the 6.5mm caliber pistol used by the police.

A few big men around him don't seem to have much to do with the two patrol officers, but in fact, these people have close economic ties with the patrol police. They are more like a kind of outsourced policeman. It's just that he didn't have a gun with all his strength, let alone a private compulsion, and he only had a short stick in his hand. And their task is to pay the gray benefit fee to and from the dock. As for how this money will be divided with the police in the end, that is another matter.

More than a dozen flatbed carts filled with wine barrels lined up in the corner of the door, and the people who escorted the wine sat in the first carriage, smoking leisurely. When he saw one of the two patrolmen get up and walk towards him, he got off the board of the car with a hoop.

"Lao Zheng, hard work." A little smile on his face. A box of freshly opened cigarettes smashed directly into the hands of the patrol officer.

"Ten cars, complete customs formalities. You come and see. ”

spoke affectionately, and at the same time secretly made a hundred-dollar bill. Stacked into a triangle, it is not slow to deliver.

That's the rule!

Naturally, these patrolmen do not have as much power in the wharf as they do in taxation and management. But don't offend either! Otherwise, the next time they pass the customs, they can delay the goods for two or three days as long as they move their hands and feet slightly!

"Mr. Lu is really good business. This is the third trip of the month, right? "The professional ethics of the patrol officers are very qualified, and as soon as the triangle starts, the whole person becomes amiable.

"Small business, small business." As a liquor store that has only been open for two months, Mr. Lu said that he does not have much money in his hand, otherwise how could he buy goods every once in a while? He's not stupid. Don't know how many hundreds of cars can be brought in at a time?

The two of them talked for a few words, and the little boss surnamed Lu took out another box of cigarettes, walked around in front of the remaining patrol officer, and then the remaining half of the box of cigarettes was naturally placed on the table by him.

There are very few people who do business who don't come to the scene. After a few words of chat, Boss Lu was about to leave. He wasn't in a hurry for time, but he didn't want to waste it on idle talk with this group of people.

But just when Boss Lu said goodbye, he heard a few angry shouts. These uncles who had just eaten and had nothing to do, and were looking for fun, couldn't care about being polite to Boss Lu, so they stretched their necks and turned their heads to look back. Then I saw a man in military uniform striding towards the door. This man was dressed in regular clothes, and his head was not a large-brimmed hat, but a cloth hat, but his waist was straight. It looks like a nail from afar!

Straight! Hard! With a sharp edge!

The patrol officer wiped his eyes first. slapped his thigh and shouted: "Fourth Brother Ding!" ”

This is a big acquaintance of his. This dock patrol officer, Ding Bo's qualifications are earlier than both of them. However, two months ago, Ding Bo was transferred to Machen Port, and last month news came that he had been incorporated into the pioneer team. Why are you wearing a military uniform now?

He was in his early thirties, five feet tall. The person who came was Ding Boding, the fourth child familiar to the patrol officers. At the beginning, the master who was wandering around like a dock was wearing a dress that was scolded by the people as a 'dog skin'. Everywhere with shoulders and people angry, filling up their heads. A scoundrel who drank tea and ate all the 'overlords' in a small restaurant by the dock, it has only been two months, but now he has a straight military uniform and his eyes are shining!

The dispute between China and the Netherlands over the port of Malchen has not been resolved at all. However, the Chinese navy has obtained control of the port of Machen from the pirates, and it can also stand on its feet. In the past two months, a steady stream of immigrants has been sent into the port of Machen, and now there are at least 10,000 Han Chinese there.

Therefore, the police and army have also been transferred from Lan Phuong Province.

In the middle were the people who had returned from the port of Malchen, boasting of the battles and battles they had 'experienced', the natives of the mountains, the ferocious and savage Phogies, and the Dutch......

Many policemen and Ding Zhuang saw the battle for the first time, and they blew that realm as sinister as the Shura field. After all, Lan Fang's territory has been expanding to the east, and now half of West Borneo belongs to Lan Fang's territory, and those natives, as well as the Buji people, a large ethnic group of the indigenous people, have been compressed to the east of Borneo. Now that Machen Port has been taken by the Chinese, these natives will be strange if they are not nervous!

On top of that, they also have the Dutch behind them.

Therefore, the days of Machengang in the past two months have been very hard.

"Fourth Brother Ding, is it really you? How did you put on this uniform? ”

Ding Bo had already strode to the door, and when he heard the sound, he was stunned and looked at it. "Cao Changkuan!! It's you kid! ”

Ding Bo, who was ordinary at the dock and looked like an ordinary old farmer, is really different now. Not only is the body much stronger, but the waist bar is straight. With a pistol in his waist, he stood there like a mountain. People who have experienced the test of blood and fire naturally have a sense of tranquility when they look at people. Several rogue thugs made eye contact with him, and they couldn't help but take a step back.

"Long and wide?"

"I'm going to bump into you. Sue sù old brothers, the fourth brother is back. Tomorrow, let's find a time, sit down, get together, and have a good drink. It's all the fourth brother's mine! ”

Seeing the old friend rolling out of the dangerous realm of Machen Port, Cao Changkuan and the others were also very happy: "That's the need for the fourth brother to have a treat." Please also our brother, please fourth brother. Let's just know, let's have a good drink. ”

Cao Changkuan and the others watched Ding Bo walk away. People are really different from what they used to be. The body tensed, as if a leopard was about to pounce on it to hunt. He hadn't seen more than one or two killings in the pioneer team, and seeing that his body had been tense all the time, and the chilling murderous aura leaked out from time to time, he should know how important the impact of these two months of life had on Ding Bo.

Those scoundrel thugs seemed to be strong and strong, tall and big, and after feeling the murderous aura, their faces turned white subconsciously.

In the city of Beijing, the Huitong Hall of Dongzhi Hutong, to which the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites belonged, has become a place where everyone looks sideways.

This place was originally arranged for the tributary envoys of the four feudal domains, and the envoys of the vassal states began to establish embassies in Beijing, and this place was also vacant. Now it has become a predetermined venue for negotiations between China and the Netherlands.

The Dutch envoy to China could not negotiate with China on behalf of the interests of the Netherlands as a whole. The Dutch envoy to China is on his way to China. The Chinese got the port of Mazen, and across the sea were Surabaya and Semarang, where the Chinese were at their peak, and that was the center of Dutch colonial interests in the South Seas - Jawa Island.

After China occupied the port of Machen, it not only helped Lan Fang to expand the territory of East Borneo, but also reached into Jawa Island.

In other words, in the eyes of outsiders, Machen Port is a point at which China's land expansion breaks free from the shackles of Borneo. Once you have this place, in the short term, China's eyes will be all focused on the eastern part of Borneo, but soon China will 'inch in' and look at the opposite island of Java. This is absolutely not allowed in the Netherlands!

The Netherlands, a declining country, cannot allow the slightest hint of covetousness over the two major islands of Java and Sumatra.

Two months have passed, since the escort gunboats of the Nanyang Fleet seized control of the port of Machen in a surprising and unexpected way.

Liu Xian has experienced the climax of the 'mass indignation' of the envoys of Western countries, and a month has passed.

The actions of Guo Songtao and the Nanyang Fleet made Britain, France, the United States and the Netherlands, plus a nervous and sensitive Spain, and the envoys of the five countries scream and jump. They did not accept Guo Songtao's explanation, and in the end they refused to talk to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and went directly to ZNHAI to protest with Liu Xian.

The Dutch envoys to China were invited to meet five times, and the envoys of the five countries were invited to meet twice. Coupled with the German, Austrian, Italian and Portuguese countries that play soy sauce, and the Russians who stay out of the matter, Liu Xian really speaks foreign languages every day.

"Claes. Hunter? How did he get here? Liu Xian, who was blowing the wind in a pavilion, asked in surprise. The Dutch haven't bothered him for a month, and now that the Dutch envoy has entered the Arabian Sea, he's going to get up and toss again?

"Let him in!"

Anyway, there was nothing to do, Liu Xian threw all the bait in his hand into the water, cleaned his hands, and waited for Hunt in the pavilion.

"I've seen the Honorable Great Emperor Xià!" The foreigners' title for Liu Xian retains their original title for the Manchu Emperor - the Great Emperor of China.

"Hunter, what are you doing here today?"

"I didn't see you to hear any grievances from you. If you are dissatisfied, you can say it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I feel that we have dealt with each other several times, and there is an old Chinese saying - once we are born and twice cooked, we are half friends. That's why you got into the zn sea. "He would never say that he was bored and wanted to have some fun. Anyway, if Hunter reacts to the matter, he can also leave it to the cabinet to deal with.

The current cabinet, Li Ying, Li Hongzhang, and Zhang Shouyan, you earn a lot from me, and there are more times of intrigue.

In the early summer of this year, Shen Guifen fell seriously ill and collapsed, so she could only die old, which damaged a member of the old school and a general.

Now that the three factions are fiercely competing, if there is anything going on, as long as they have the ability to deal with it, they will definitely compete to deal with it. Because it's all political achievements and merit. It is never again that when there is a first-person cabinet, it will shirk government affairs in order to 'not seize power'. (To be continued......)