In the last rays of the Tongzhi year of the Qing Dynasty, a small cargo ship of the Nanyang Shipping Company sailed to Pontianak in West Borneo. The captain greeted Liang Luyi, who was already waiting at the dock, and then a large number of wooden boxes marked with the word "hardware" were carried down from the freighter by the laborers, a large pile, but this was only a part of the cargo ship's capacity. Liang Luyi was just one of many customers on board to include more raw silk, tea, cloth, sugar, and ironware, the latter being iron basins, tea jars, kitchen knives, and large iron ingots made by the Qin army. It mainly sells hardware products.

After all, whether it is Lanfang on Borneo or Shilongmen in Sarawak in the north, all of them are mainly operated by mining. For example, gold mines, diamond mines, etc.

It is also normal for the cargo ships of the Nanyang Shipping Company to appear here, as early as the end of the previous year, the Qin army had a trade connection with Lan Fang in West Borneo. At first, the Dutch and the British were very nervous, but time smoothed their vigilance.

The Qin army and West Borneo were only the most ordinary trade. This is the same kind of trade this time, and no one will look at this freighter in any different way.

Since the opening of Guangxi's foreign affairs, first of all, cloth, soap, matches and other daily necessities, then sugar, Guangxi's sugar industry has developed very rapidly in recent years, and finally ironware. Lanfang Company, or the Republic of Lanfang, has always been its pillar industry. Although with the gradual prosperity of Shilongmen, Pontianak has become more and more declining. But hardware and iron, the business potential here is unlimited.

That Liang Luyi was just a middle-class person with a small family at the beginning, and he just didn't have to worry about eating and drinking. Now the hardware is bought, and it takes less than two years. It seems that he is already the number one person in Higashimanjin. There was already a place for him in the East Mantsu chamber.

"Be careful, hold steady. Dare to fall for me. Lao Tzu skinned him. ”

shouted three and drank five, Liang Luyi led the one hundred and ten laborers who came. Carrying about 50 wooden boxes, he swaggered back to his company's warehouse.

It's a very ordinary two-story building, not much bigger than an ordinary street-facing building. The only difference from the latter is that there is a large courtyard at the back of the small building, which is covered with four large warehouses.

The 100 laborers were all Liang Luyi's people. There are dozens of big men in the company guarding at all times, and the more than 100 people are less than one-third of Liang Luyi's men. He made his fortune by buying hardware, but just like buying land when he got rich in China, in West Borneo, if he gets rich, he has to buy mines.

Liang Luyi has entered the summer this year. With 3,000 silver dollars, he bought a mine from Liu Asheng, the wife of Jiatai. The price was very cheap, and that was because Liang Luyi agreed to one condition in the council chamber - the miners had to recruit the group of people from Monttradu. That group originally belonged to Dagang Company, and Dagang Company was the sworn enemy of Lanfang Company, and in the early days, it was also called Heshun Company, and the confrontation between the two sides was very fierce. In the forties and fifties, Heshun Company fought fiercely with the Dutch several times, although there were some big victories, but they were finally defeated by the Dutch and Lanfang Company, and Lanfang Company played a very unsightly role in this. [When Lanfang Company was established. There are more than 20,000 overseas Chinese in the East Wanlu area. The head office of Heshun has as many as 110,000 people. 】

After Dagang was defeated, many people ran to Sarawak, and of course many people came to Lanfang. How the latter's life in Lanfang is not mentioned, the former from the very beginning with the British [Brooke Dynasty. A honeymoon period in which the British colonizers established a colonial kingdom in Sarawak around 1840 was followed by exploitation and oppression after the British gained a foothold. A Chinese workers' uprising was launched at Shilongmen. The Chinese Volunteers were in a stalemate with the British for many years, and defeated and repelled the colonial army several times. Forcing the Brooke dynasty to sign a peace agreement with it.

This time, the battle was disgusting without the presence of Lanfang Company, but in the end it was because of the betrayal of the traitors. After the leader was killed, the rebels were defeated, and many people fled back to Dongmanjin again. In the eyes of Lanfang, these people are a group of unstable factors.

After Liu Taier, the sixth general director of the Tang Dynasty, knelt in the Netherlands, the general manager of Lanfang Company, 'Brother Tai', began to be called 'Jia Tai', and then the deputy head began to be called 'Jia Bidan'. Although there was a coup d'état [imprisoned Liu Taier], it was finally resolved peacefully, and Lanfang Company also stood on a pro-Dutch position [in the war against Heshun Company].

Liang Luyi agreed to this condition. Six or seven hundred strong laborers were selected from among the Chinese laborers who had fled.

"Brother Wei, come and see!"

In the warehouse, as soon as the wooden box fell, Liang Luyi couldn't wait to pick up a crowbar and pry open a wooden box under his hand. A row of brand-new, breech-loading rifles that still exude butter gas stands out in plain sight.

At this time, a middle-aged man in short clothes walked in at the door of the warehouse, with a mediocre appearance and only a pair of bright eyes, which was a little not like a mortal. This person's name is Wei Changjun, Liang Luyi doesn't know where he comes from, he only knows that he was sent by 'Engong' to train the troops, and he is also the one who leads the troops.

When he came, he brought thirty or forty people with him, all of them were unusual, and he didn't notice anything at all when he touched Pontianak.

Wei Changjun took a rifle that he brought and skillfully pulled the bolt, the sound was crisp, it was the breech gun produced by the Qin Army Arsenal. I saw this in Qinzhou at the beginning, and I also fired more than a dozen bullets with my own hands, compared to the shotguns and flintlock guns of the year, one is really in the sky and the other is on the ground.

"Stationmaster Liang, the delivery list is here. Both of them are there, please count the number. ”

A commander of the Pontianak Station of the Military Intelligence Department, an external chief instructor of the Military Intelligence Department, and the captain of the Army's Nanyang Advance Team, with the rank of commander of the integrated battalion, the two of them are the two fangs of the Qin army that penetrated into the Nanyang. After half a year of preparation, it is about to be launched.

Liang Luyi and Wei Changjun glanced at each other, took the list together, and saw that it was listed: 500 rifles, 500,000 bullets, 200 revolvers, 300,000 bullets. 100 shotguns and 50,000 rounds of ammunition. Then there are ten mortars and 1,000 shells.

Fifty-three large wooden boxes contained these munitions, enough to arm a reinforced battalion. And this was only one of the nine batches of arms that the Qin army successively transported to Pontianak. This is also the penultimate batch of arms before the start of the Nanyang Morning Chicken Dawn Operation, the last batch was sent before the year, and after the fifteenth year later, the operation will begin!

The arms count was swift, and the people present were all veterans. In less than 20 minutes, the men in charge of counting the munitions began to report the number of parts they were responsible for. And a considerable number of them are deaf and mute, all about 30 years old, they can't speak, but they have their own way of communication - mute.

Naturally, these are also a group of special talents sent by the Military Intelligence Department one after another. When Liang Luyi first started, he was very relieved of them. Wei Changjun is a hundred and a thousand at ease.

The count is exactly the same. Wei Changjun and Liang Luyi each took out their own letter seals and left the money on the receipt. The man took the receipt, turned around and left.

In the evening, Liang Luyi held a banquet at his home to warmly entertain the guests. In the whole of East Manjin, not just Pontianak, there are many people who are eager to have a banquet for the captain of the Nanyang Shipping Company. Liang Luyi was able to grab the first one. In the past two years, I don't know how many people in the local area have secretly scolded Liang Luyi for taking shit luck. I was so lucky to be the first to have a relationship with Nanyang Shipping! What's so difficult about the hardware monopoly business? How to change to yourself, it is definitely better than the one surnamed Liang.

How do you know that there is a lot of hidden information in it!

If those complaints were heard by Liu Xian, he would only smile coldly and say, "Who let you not plant?" Who let Lan Fang's specific historical materials not be preserved to future generations? At least Lao Tzu can't find it on Du Niang. Lao Tzu can only see from Du Niang that it was Liang Luyi, who took the lead in raising troops to resist when the Netherlands forcibly annexed Lanfang in 1884! "Maybe these people are weird, and they can also be blamed on Du Niang's head.

If it weren't for Lan Fang, who had been soft for fifty or sixty years, and there would still be a person like this when he was destroyed, Liu Xian would not have had contact with the current Lan Fang insiders at all. He will only have contact with Wang Kun, Li Yongfei, and Liu Kangsheng, the remnants of Dagang Company.

The position of the stationmaster of Pontianak Station will not fall on the head of the Lanfang people at all. When the flames of war ignited, Lanfang, which had been completely corrupted, would also be completely knocked down in the dust in the year of its ninety-ninth year.

In half a year, Wei Changjun really trained only the six or seven hundred people under Liang Luyi's company. This group of people was the main force when the uprising was raised a year later, and Wang Kun, Li Yongfei, and Liu Kangsheng were the vassal army. When the rebel army takes the entire East Wanjin, there will definitely be a group of people within Lanfang who are resistant to the Dutch to join the team, and at that time, the dominant position of Liang Luyi and Wei Changjun will still not be shaken. However, because of the existence of the Dagang Company, the group of Lanfang people did not occupy the dominant position of the entire rebel group.

In the past year, after being recommended by Liang Luyi and secretly inspected by the Military Intelligence Department, only four people were found to be reliable and trustworthy, and only four were included in the team. At present, there are only thirty-seven people in the group of the rebels, and even if these people can have a good status, the status of the Lanfang people in the group is also in the air, before they gather on a large scale to the anti-Dutch forces that also belong to Lanfang.

Liu Xian had to keep a hand on the operation in West Borneo, because he was not able to really transfer his energy to Nanyang for at least ten years. In the next ten years, Liu Xian's energy should be focused on the mainland and the threat of the Russians.

So he's going to use some small means. to ensure your dominance in the whole!

"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to have good news for you. In February of the coming year, our Qin Army's Nanyang Naval Division will devote its strength to inspect the Nanyang! ”

"I hope that when the time comes, everyone can give Hou Ye a good news!" (To be continued......)