Chapter 37: Return to Taiwan

One last glance at this busy and full of opportunities, Huo Shan took a deep breath, turned around and walked onto the luxury passenger ship that had been prepared next to him. This half-month-long trip to the United States can be said to be a complete one! Of course, his plan to visit New York has come to naught!

"Young Master, we have successfully registered with the Standard Bank of the Americas! His director, John Smith, is also the core candidate of our Mask Project!" Huo Wolf stood on the deck and made a final report to Huo Shan, who was about to leave the United States.

"Well, I see! This time, the 30 million dollars we earned from Standard Oil will be used as the bank's reserve fund, and all the profits of our industry in the United States will also be transferred to China through it, do you understand?"

"Understood, young master!"

"Be careful about the activities of the Military Intelligence Agency in the United States, don't be caught by others! Okay, the ship is about to leave, you can go back!" Huo Shan said lightly.

"Young master, we will be more careful, and there is still nearly half a month of sea travel back to Taiwan from the United States, you should be more careful!" Huo Wolf finally said with some worry.

"I know! There's Horay here, don't worry!"

"Woo......!"

The high-pitched whistle resounded in the sky! Under the roar of the steam engine, the huge passenger ship slowly left the San Francisco harbor dock! Watching the mainland behind him gradually shrink, and finally turning into a thin black line and disappearing where the water and the sky meet! Huo Shan couldn't help but sigh a little melancholy, I don't know when I will next go to the United States!

"Young Master, it's too windy on the deck, let's go back to the cabin!" Huo Lei, who had been standing behind him, said softly.

"Well, let's go back!"

Time passed quickly, and the passenger ship returning along the same route did not stop at various islands along the way, but after the ship replenished some necessary fresh water and coal, it sailed non-stop towards Keelung Port in Taiwan.

"Young Master, we're back to Taiwan!" Huo Lei said excitedly as he looked at the huge island that was gradually becoming clear and lying on the sea like a giant beast!

"I saw it!" Huo Shan is now also a little more timid about his hometown! Although he has only been away from home for a short time, the warmth of his family is even more unforgettable against the backdrop of loneliness during the journey!

"Leizi, after getting off the ship, let's go to the shipyard first!

"Young master, is this good? The old lady has urged it many times!" Huo Lei said with some hesitation, you must know that when he was in San Francisco, he personally received a telegram from Huo Shan that day! Therefore, the young man who was loyal to the Huo family and respected the old lady did not want to go against the will of the old lady who raised him since childhood. Therefore, this rare time I questioned Huo Shan's order.

"Don't worry, I'll tell my mother when I go back!" Young Master Huo patted his henchmen and said with a big bag behind his thick arms.

"Okay!" replied Reiko a little helplessly.

Just as he was talking, the cruise ship had slowly landed. More than a month has passed since Huo Shan left Taiwan! Although the time was very short, he found that the wharf of Keelung Port was much more prosperous, with wooden fishing boats full of sails coming in and out, and steam passenger and cargo ships dragging long black smoke into and out, and Keelung Port was no longer as lively as San Francisco on the west coast of the United States! However, all of these were not as good as those in the distance, and the shipyards covered by thick curtains could attract his attention.

"Young master, look!" Suddenly, Huo Lei seemed to have discovered something, and said with a somewhat excited expression.

"How does he know we're back today!"

As the luxurious passenger ship slowly approached, the old man who had already seen Huo Shan and his party standing on the deck, Shen Sè also became excited.

"Young master, why didn't you say a word to us when you went to the United States! You don't know how worried your wife is when you leave! I can't eat all day, I can't sleep well, and my whole person is a lot haggard! Young master, you better go back quickly!" Fu Bo came up and grabbed Huo Shan's arm and said with some complaints.

Looking at his appearance, Huo Shan's heart was warm and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty, and hurriedly asked, "Fu Bo, is my mother's health okay?"

"Madam, it's okay! I just miss the young master! You better hurry up and go back with the old slave!"

Hearing his words, Huo Shan was also a little helpless in his heart, and sighed secretly: "Yes, it seems that the shipyard will not be able to go again this time!"

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After reviewing the last document accumulated for more than a month, Huo Shan couldn't help but stretch his waist for a long time, and after exhaling slowly, he reached out and picked up the ginseng tea that Ping'er had brewed himself and took a sip.

After returning home from the United States and being confined by his mother for more than a month, he can finally do his activities! Of course, Young Master Huo, who had signed many unequal treaties under the crying of two women, still did not have the right to leave Taipei. No way, who called him the only seedling of the Huo family, in this era when the inheritance is more important than anything else, my mother's worries are also reasonable.

After dealing with government affairs for a long time, he was also a little tired, so Suo Xìng pushed the door and walked out, and after finding a cool place in the beautiful garden, he sat down. Although it is almost October now, the island of Taiwan, which is located in the southeast of the motherland, has not been affected by the cold Siberian air that has moved south from the north. Now, the daily maximum temperature is still above thirty degrees.

Thinking of the predicament that Huo Jiajun is facing now, Huo Shan couldn't help but sigh heavily, the quiet and elegant beauty of the original courtyard has lost its previous attractiveness!

Now, with the continuous increase in the number of troops under his command, the scale of the Huojia Army base area is also constantly expanding, the development of these places requires more economic, political, agricultural and educational talents and a large amount of investment, the problem of money is easy to solve, China's millions of landlords have provided him with a lot of wealth, but the ever-expanding talent gap is impossible to make up in a short period of time! Although Huo Jiajun's literacy rate is already very high under his strict requirements, most of them have just gotten rid of illiteracy, and it is really difficult for some strong people to ask them to govern the place!

"Alas, it's a headache! Education is the most time-consuming, and there are no more than ten or twenty years to see results at all!" Huo Shan patted his head.

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A thousand kilometers from Borneo, in the Java Sea, two warships flying the red, white and blue Dutch flag are slowly moving along the Makassar Strait. The South Seas near the equator are always so hot, and the sun hangs high so high that all the Dutch sailors who love the sea get into the cabin, and no one wants to be roasted into jerky on the deck!

In the large command tower wrapped in steel, the walls around it are covered with ancient swords, sheep's heads, and jīng beautiful oil paintings, which are not only rich in variety, but also look like jīng products! In addition, it can be seen from the smooth appearance of these collections that they are well maintained! At the same time, these jīng beautiful chayexschayexs. collections also show the owner's elegant taste and extraordinary martial arts.

Sweat continued to stay on his forehead, and the supple blonde hair was stuck together with sweat, so that his master did not have the chic to rì!

Aldorp held the silk scarf in his hand, which could already wring out water, and wiped his face, and his irritable mood made him not even want to appreciate his jīng beauty chayexschayexs. collection!

As the captain of the cruiser "Hector", this 3,000-ton iron cooperation cruiser was already the largest tonnage warship in the Dutch colony in the East Indies.

Although it has been in service for nearly a decade, it is far less than the steel warships of the British and French naval powers in the Far East, but it is still possible to suppress those monkey natives and filthy yellow pigs, and let them obediently earn wealth for the noble Dutch.

Today, the reason why he led the two largest cruisers of the Dutch East Indies Colonies out was because the kingdom's colonial activities in Borneo had been hindered, and the three hundred Dutch troops who had landed in Samarinda, unaware of the enemies that had emerged there, were all wrapped in dumplings, and none of them escaped! This made the Dutch colonists who had come to regard the East Indies as their own backyard very angry!

Therefore, today he was ordered to take these two battleships and prepare to bombard the port for the more than 1,000 brave Dutch soldiers drawn from Sulawesi to land on Borneo again and provide artillery support!

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Looking at the map of Nanyang hanging on the wall, Huo Jianguang frowned, the victory that had just captured more than two hundred Dutch soldiers could not make him feel a little joyful, although this was already a rare victory in a foreign war in China in decades!

"Alas, it's still too far away!"

"What's the matter, Jianguang! This battle has been won, and I don't see you happy, why are you still looking like this sad face, shouldn't you!" Yang Yong pushed the door in and said with a smile.

Seeing his old partner, Huo Jianguang threw the pencil in his hand on the table, and said calmly: "With our equipment and training, what is it strange to defeat those Dutch old soldiers!"

"That's what you said! The young master still has the ability, and the rifles and cannons are more advanced than the foreigners, so it's much easier to fight!" Yang Yong said with some emotion when he thought of the new equipment that had been equipped to the troops.

Speaking of these, Huo Jianguang also nodded with reverence, according to Huo Shan's new military training method, the trained army, after yesterday's victory, its superiority has been undoubtedly revealed.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, the most important thing for us now is to do our best to complete the task assigned by the good young master and live up to his trust in us. Huo Jianguang said firmly.

"That's right, Jianguang! Just now, the Military Intelligence Bureau came with news from Batavia that the Dutch East Indies Governor had sent two cruisers and more than a thousand Dutch soldiers, so it seems that they should be coming for us?" After speaking, Yang Yong handed over the information in his hand.

Huo Jianguang took it and took a look, then threw it on the table casually, "Let them come, as long as these thousand soldiers stand on the land of Borneo, don't think about going back, anyway, these Dutch are tall and strong, just to build bridges and pave roads for our base." But those two ships are a little more troublesome!"

"Hehe, don't bother! The armament department has just replenished us with twelve new 152mm cannons, and with those wooden boats of the Dutch, as long as he dares to get five kilometers closer to the shore, our artillery unit will be able to make it come back again!" Yang Yong thought of the big guys in his hands and said confidently.

"That's right!"

"Jianguang, the Taiwan Army Headquarters has sent a letter! Let us completely wipe out all the indigenous tribes and other regimes in Borneo by the end of the year, including the Brooke Dynasty in the north and the Lanfang Kingdom in the west!" Yang Yong said solemnly, remembering the order he had just received.

After listening to his words, Huo Jianguang couldn't help but ask with some surprise: "Why did the headquarters suddenly give such an order, didn't the young master tell us not to stimulate the surrounding British and Dutch first?"

"I don't know, but this is a military order signed by the young master himself!It shouldn't be wrong!" Yang Yong took out another document he was carrying, handed it over and said.

"It's the young master's handwriting!