"You're Natuna?" Lu Junfu looked at a few fishermen on his Shenzhen and felt that his brain was not enough for a while.

These fishermen should be Chinese in appearance, with dark complexions due to the sun and wind all year round, and they are very similar to the fishermen in Hainan, but they speak Cantonese similar to Chaoshan dialect, not Hainanese. Lu Junfu is a northern man, so he naturally doesn't know Cantonese, but fortunately, there are Cantonese sailors on the ship, who can act as interpreters.

Lu Junfu looked at the flags held in the hands of several fishermen, and felt ridiculous in his heart. The so-called five-star red flag was actually painted with red cloth and yellow dye, and the pattern of the flag was not in the right proportions. The fishermen held the flag, which they believed to be a talisman, as if to assert their identity as Chinese.

"Please send the warship to Guogai Island to protect our local people. The Indonesian ghost is doing whatever he wants on the island, oppressing our compatriots, and asking the governor to expel him! "The man who spoke was much more gentle, and wore glasses, probably well-educated, but he may have been jolting at sea for a while, and looked rather embarrassed.

Political Commissar Cheng Guang brought a pair of nautical charts and pointed them out to Lu Junfu, "This is the Natuna Islands, which are roughly the same latitude as our great-mother Dark Sands, and the edge of the nine-dash line, and it is not easy to tell whether it is ours or Indonesia." ”

Of course, Lu Junfu knew where Natuna was, but he didn't know much about the situation here, so he politely asked the man with glasses named Zhang Pinxin, "How many Chinese are on the island?" ”

Zhang Pinxin immediately said: "There is 1 on the big island. Of the 50,000 residents, more than eighty percent are Chinese, and most of the rest have been sent by the Indonesian government over the past few decades. We Chinese migrated here from Guangdong when the Ming Dynasty fell, and Zhang Jiexu established a princely state here, which was later occupied by the Dutch. After the end of the colonial period, Indonesia sent troops to our island, claiming Natuna as Indonesian property, but our local residents had no right to self-determination. We are all sons and daughters of China, so we naturally do not want to be Indonesians, and we hope that the governor can redress our grievances and return us to our homeland. ”

It is true that the Natuna Chinese have always had the idea of establishing an independent state, or naturalizing China. But before that, they mainly pinned their hopes on Taiwan, which had a lot of activities in the South China Sea before the 70s, and the international vilification of the red regime also had a certain influence on the islanders. After the 70s, Taiwan lost several important bases in the South China Sea, let alone frequent activities in the South China Sea. In the original history, after the death of Jiang II, the Natuna Chinese pinned their hopes on Ping Taizong, and it is said that they were also received by Taizong, and it is impossible to test whether it is true or not.

In the 90s, China's published atlases included Natuna on its side, either intentionally or unintentionally, causing backlash and protests in Indonesia. But the reality is another matter, which should be a small ploy by China, hoping to use Natuna to attract Indonesia's attention and demarcate the maritime boundary with Indonesia.

In order to allow Indonesia to talk about maritime borders, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that there is no sovereignty dispute in Natuna, and the desired maritime delimitation negotiations are disputed by Indonesia on the grounds that since there is no dispute over sovereignty, there is no need for China to conduct maritime delimitation negotiations here in the far north.

This is a typical example of stealing chickens and rice. In the southern South China Sea, China does not have a single piece of land that can extend its exclusive economic zone under the Convention on the Law of the Sea, and there is no need for Indonesia to talk about demarcation without talking about Natuna sovereignty. China's original intention, of course, was to confirm the validity of the nine-dash line, but no one was willing to accept it. If China says that its sovereignty is undisputed, it is impossible to go back on its word. Indonesia suddenly relented and immigrated several times the monkey population of the island's residents, completely thinning the absolute majority of the Chinese on the island. It can be seen from this that in the history of China's diplomacy, the matter of paying tuition fees has not been done less.

Now the situation is different, and the absolute majority of the Chinese on the island is still maintained. Moreover, China's promotion of the South African Liberation directly overthrew Malaysia, and not long ago defeated the world's great power Britain, showing strength that is by no means comparable to small players such as Indonesia or Taiwan. The coverage capacity of the Chinese Navy is enough to cover this place, and there is also the assistance of Qi Yiming to the south, and if China wants to control the position of Natuna, there is no difficulty in the slightest.

Lu Junfu had a lot of thoughts in his mind, for the navy, the base on Yongxing Island in Xisha was really cold. The lack of fresh water and land makes it unsuitable for a large fleet to anchor there for a long time. And the location is not particularly good, the South China Sea is too big to hold. The island of Konatuna is another concept, with more than 2,000 square kilometers and tens of thousands of inhabitants, which can cultivate enough economic facilities to supply the troops stationed here for a long time. It is possible to build military facilities such as airports and ports on sufficient land, as well as harbors with good hydrological conditions. It is simply the best anchorage for the South China Sea Fleet.

Although the idea was very tempting, Lu Junfu had no way to make a decision on his own, and he still had to report it to wait for disposal. After all, there are a small number of Indonesian troops and government agencies on the island, so it is estimated that after the war with the British, it is estimated that it will fight with Indonesia again.

Lu Junfu remembered that not far away were Malaya and North Borneo, which were controlled by the Southern Liberation Solution, and no one knew that there was a puppet country, so he came up with an idea: "Why don't you go to the newly established Southern Liberation to help you?" "It's not easy for China to make a move, but it's much easier to get rid of this vest in the south, and Lu Junfu thinks that even if you count the territory of the Nanyang Republic, there is no problem with the South China Sea Fleet stationing here.

Zhang Pinxin hesitated and said: "It would be best if it could belong to China." "This is their self-esteem, although the South Liberation is fighting in Southeast Asia, but everyone still thinks that it is a vassal state of China, and it is better to be a citizen of a big country or a national of a big country. The Natuna Chinese themselves can't tell the difference between being Chinese and being Nanyang.

"Okay, I know what you think, but this matter is very important, and we need to go through careful planning before we can do it." Lu Junfu didn't want to hit Zhang Pinxin, so he comforted him with kind words. Lu Junfu found someone to get a satellite phone and handed it to Zhang Pinxin.

"This satellite phone can directly contact our navy, so that we can contact us directly, and we must be notified of any situation, and we will also inform you through this if we need your cooperation in any deployment."

Zhang Pinxin didn't expect to meet and talk about any results, but obtaining fixed contact information is already an effect. The Natuna Chinese have been struggling for decades to seek independence, and they don't care about waiting that much longer.

After sending Zhang Pinxin away, Cheng Guang asked Lu Junfu: "What do you think about this?" ”

"Good thing, with Natuna in control, the South China Sea is basically closed by us. During the Age of Discovery, European merchants used Natuna as a sign of entering China's waters, and when we recapture Natuna, not to mention national rejuvenation and self-esteem, the defense pressure in the South China Sea will be doubled. ”

Cheng Guang was full of worries: "I don't know what's wrong with Lu Dao, I feel that in the past two years, our external actions have been very big, we have been equipped, and the training has kept up, but we always rush outside, fight this today, fight that tomorrow, I am afraid that our international image will not be good if we continue like this, leaving an impression of being a reckless soldier and making many enemies." ”

Lu Junfu was not worried about this, and said: "When those powerful countries rose, which one did not fight three or five countries and seize land and other resources? Can the rise of a strong country still come peacefully? He didn't know that if this plane had not intervened without Qi Yiming's intervention, China would have really risen in peace thirty years later.

"Besides, is that a good thing in Indonesia? After the independence of this bullshit country, it forcibly oppressed the independence of its own ethnic minority areas, and not only that, but also sent troops to destroy East Timor and West Papua, even this Natuna Island, in fact, it was also forcibly occupied. Back then, we couldn't manage so far, but now we have this ability, and if we still turn a blind eye, we can only make other countries feel that we are taking what we want, and we are particularly easy to bully. ”

Cheng Guang nodded, and said with a smile: "What is the use of the two of us saying this, this matter still needs to be decided by the Central Military Committee, so send this information back quickly." ”

The news quickly reached the commander of the navy, Liu Huaqing, and as long as the navy was tempted by such a good thing. For this reason, Liu Huaqing specially went to meet with Ping Taizong and proposed a solution to the Natuna Islands.

As soon as the Sino-British armistice was revealed, the navy was eager to restart the war, and Ping Taizong still felt a little pimple in his heart. But after learning something about Natuna, Ping Taizong felt that Heaven was to blame for it. Such a tangled mood also caused him to be unable to decide this kind of thing for a while.

Moreover, the issue of domestic economic construction in the hands of Ping Taizong is more important, Qi Yiming's butterfly wings are too powerful, and what comes out is not a tropical storm, but a cosmic storm. In addition to the good export of light industry, the import of advanced foreign equipment was replaced by base manufacturing, and the national GDP reached 2 in 1986. That's 2 trillion yuan, more than three times the total economic output in 1984, and it took only two years.

However, due to the liberalization of the interest rate of the renminbi against the dollar, the total GDP in dollar terms has declined. Fortunately, in foreign trade, a large amount of dollars are imported, and imports are relatively reduced, so the balance of payments remains in surplus. This trade surplus is the best accumulation of capital for China, which has always been poor. Feeling that the money in his hand was slowly becoming abundant, Taizong was bent on continuing to boost the economy, so he didn't want too many external affairs to involve the energy of the central government.

In addition, although the scale of the two operations against Malaysia and Hong Kong was not large, Qi Yiming also paid the bill, but the military still paid a lot of military expenses, which made Ping Taizong slightly painful.

So, the old man told Liu Huaqing, find the kid who stayed in Kuala Lumpur to study, it's best not for us to take the initiative to come forward, now the budget is tight, everyone take it easy.