The sun is shining brightly in the sky, and the sea breeze is refreshing.
Wu Dong received the Black Flag Army envoy sent by Liu Yongfu at the Khmer base.
"Is Liu Tongzhi okay?"
After greeting each other and the guests and hosts were seated, he asked directly: "I haven't seen you for several years. I miss Wu very much!"
"Thank you for your concern, Brother Wu. Everything will be well with you!"
The Black Flag Army envoy answered respectfully, then changed the subject and said: "However, at this time, Tongzong and the Black Flag Army brothers are in trouble and need Brother Wu's help!"
When I said this, I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart.
Looking back on those days, Wu Dong was like a henchman. If he hadn't been recognized by Huang Feihong and participated in the founding of the Foshan Vigilante Group, I'm afraid he would still be running for a living right now.
Unlike now, the Khmer people have become a powerful force. They have more than 10,000 men and horses, and the area they control is probably as large as a whole country.
The key is that Wu Dong has extremely strong management and governance abilities. He has set up foreign machinery factories in his jurisdiction and is actually able to produce rifles, bullets, grenades and other weapons.
Coupled with a dozen gunboats and torpedo boats obtained from unknown sources, it has become a force that cannot be ignored in the Southeast Asia.
Now, the being who needed the help of the Black Flag Army to make a fortune has become a big boss that the Black Flag Army looks up to, which shows the wonders of the world.
"If the Black Flag Army needs any support, just say so!"
Wu Dong didn't know what the messenger was thinking, and he wasn't in the mood to talk nonsense with him, so he asked directly.
It has been more than half a year since he returned to the Khmer base.
For such a long time, it was natural to be able to firmly control the Khmer base.
I have to say that the rotation decision made that year was an extremely correct approach.
All brothers who have outstanding performance in Khmer will be rotated with Wu Dong for half a year.
The main thing is to cultivate their abilities, and the secondary thing is to reduce the appearance of big mountains.
The effect is quite obvious. The Khmer base is full of talents. Although there are several talented people, they are not giving in to each other. Coupled with the constraints of the system and supervision, the Khmer is still under Wu Dong's control.
Of course, not only that, Wu Dong's previous vigorous development of education also helped him basically eliminate the possibility of one person being dominant among his brothers.
After all, the education and training in the past ten years, not to mention all of them have outstanding abilities, have opened up the people's wisdom and will not be easily deceived and blindly followed.
The problem is not that there are no problems. Khmer has a lot of contact with various forces in Southeast Asia, and there are also many foreign powers that communicate with each other. Don’t have too many messy ideas.
In addition, whether they are immigrants from Jiao'ao or from Guangdong Province, there are obvious signs of hugging together for warmth. During this period, there are some restless people who are causing trouble, and the internal atmosphere is not a harmonious one.
In addition, the influence of feudal traditional ideas has spread for many years, and many newly built villages and towns are showing signs of moving towards a patriarchal society.
In addition, some family forces that have already made a fortune in Nanyang, as well as some business forces in Guangdong Province, have reached out. While stimulating the economy, they have also begun to corrupt the atmosphere here.
In short, the trouble is not big but cannot be ignored. It requires a lot of time to deal with it slowly.
After easily controlling the situation in Khmer, he continued to invest huge energy in education and medical care. Based on the five thousand years of Chinese history, he vigorously advocated the political and economic system of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era, and created a world in which harmony is the highest ideal.
Concepts unify ideas.
In addition, it is to vigorously develop the five small industries, and at the same time use connections to buy wired telegraphs and establish a telegraph network that can connect various settlements in a timely manner.
During this period, he also used some crude equipment to develop wireless telegraphy, but the signal was not very stable, and he did not want to be used by the great powers early. He just established wireless telegraphy receiving and receiving stations at the core of the Khmer base and his hometown of Jiao'ao.
At the same time, railways are being built to connect major settlements, making transportation connections within the base closer.
There are also a series of development strategies and plans. In short, they are to develop productivity, use higher levels of science and technology and productivity, and break the traditional patriarchal social order.
The entire Khmer base was in operation under his command.
The territory is rapidly expanding inland, and whether it is agricultural and forestry products or primary industrial products, there is a steady stream of output, providing strong support for subsequent development.
While he was busy, Wu Dong did not forget to inquire about the outside world.
Over in Guangdong Province, the second part of Once Upon a Time has just ended.
In other words, the core member of the White Lotus Sect, Jiugong Zhenren, who had a relationship with Lu Di, was beaten to death by Huang Feihong.
As far as he knew, that person was indeed the unlucky guy from the White Lotus Sect Headquarters who was sent to Guangdong Province to create a situation and then got away with it.
Huang Feihong is pretty cool, but he hasn’t married Thirteenth Aunt yet, and he doesn’t know how long it will take.
When it comes time for the Lion King to fight for hegemony, Aunt Thirteen will be a proper old girl.
It's just a pity that Wu Dong's identity is a bit embarrassing, so it is difficult to invite Huang Feihong and Aunt Thirteen to Khmer as guests, and it is not easy to meet them.
I just don’t know what happened. Whether it’s the Foshan militia or the fleet and escort bureau built based on the militia, the development in recent years has not been very smooth.
That is to say, the fleet under the control of Zhu Zhurong, because of its close relationship with the Khmer, has opened up a situation in Southeast Asia, but the scale of expansion is not very fast.
I heard that the situation over there with the militia is not very good, and they need constant blood transfusion support from the fleet and the escort agency. I don’t know what the specific situation is.
Zhu Rong came to visit twice before and didn't say much about the vigilante group. It was just a simple business exchange.
It can be clearly felt that Zhu Rong, who has not seen each other for so many years and whose relationship is not very close to begin with, has a somewhat distant and cold attitude.
Wu Dong didn't care much and didn't want to guess what this guy was thinking. That was it.
Based on his understanding of Huang Feihong, he estimated that the control of the Foshan militia might fall into the hands of some thoughtful people.
As for why, the vigilante group has reached the point where it needs the fleet and the escort agency to replenish their blood, he is not very clear about it.
When he left, Bao Zhilin's pharmaceutical workshop was doing very well.
At the beginning, I also deliberately entrusted the affairs of the pharmaceutical workshop to Thirteenth Aunt.
I just don’t know if Thirteenth Aunt has completed the steam upgrade he originally planned?
However, the cooling oil and essential oil used in large quantities here in the Khmer base, as well as some Chinese patent medicines commonly used in tropical areas, are all produced independently by the base.
It's not clear what the situation is in other places.
Put aside the matter of Huang Feihong for now, the other matter is about the Black Flag Army.
He was really ambitious in his small days. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, he not only attacked the Beiyang Navy, but also did not stop here in the south, directly sending troops to attack the treasure island.
Damn, why are these hateful guys everywhere?
Although our Qing Dynasty was corrupt, it still made timely defensive arrangements, which was to dispatch the Black Flag Army to the island for defense.
But at this time, the Black Flag Army was manipulated by the Qing Dynasty. It now has less than 500 generals. How could it withstand the landing of the small army?
No, Liu Yongfu had no choice but to send an envoy to ask for help.
Wu Dong didn't turn his back on anyone. Even if the Black Flag Army didn't take the initiative to ask for help, he would send troops and torpedo boats to take the initiative to make trouble for Xiaoli.
Now that I have had a hard time in Jiaoao, it would be a good choice to go back to Baodao again.
"Rifles, the Black Flag Army needs a lot of rifles and bullets!"
Seeing Wu Dong's clear attitude, the Black Flag Army envoy was happy and said hurriedly without caring about anything else: "If there are other ordnances, I hope Brother Wu can support a batch of them!"
"Do you want hand grenades? Do you want a homemade cannon with a range of about a mile? Do you want a sword, bow and crossbow?"
Every time Wu Dong said something, the Black Flag Army envoy nodded hurriedly and said "I want it, I want it", and when he realized the reaction, he couldn't help but blush.
"Is the Black Flag Army already in such difficulty?"
Wu Dong was a little confused and asked curiously: "It seems that the imperial court's disarmament was indeed a bit too harsh, but the allocation of ordnance has always been relatively timely?"
The envoy of the Black Flag Army shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said gloomily: "Since the Black Flag Army has less than a thousand men and horses, the government has not been so generous when allocating ordnance!"
Tsk, isn't this a clear sign of killing the donkey?
That is to say, Liu Yongfu could endure it. If he had been replaced, he would have quit long ago.
"In addition, the brothers practice very frequently, which leads to a large vacancy of firearms. There is really no way!"
The envoy of the Black Flag Army said bitterly: "We can't let our brothers fight with the army with their bare hands, right?"
Hearing this, Wu Dong was very satisfied.
It's not that he was gloating about his misfortune, but he was really satisfied. It was obvious that Liu Yongfu had listened to his previous advice, and it was not that he had done nothing.
When he went to Lu, he reminded Liu Yongfu.
Since Liu Yongfu did not want to confront the imperial court and had no idea of direct resistance in the face of the imperial court's repeated disarmament, he should train the remaining brothers well.
It is best to train them as officers. Once something happens and the court needs the Black Flag Army to take action, these well-trained officers will be able to immediately build a combat-effective army and will not be helpless because of too few manpower.
In normal history, the Black Flag Army had almost no performance on Treasure Island because the number was too small to be effective.
But if Liu Yongfu had listened to Wu Dong's suggestion, then the hundreds of troops in the Black Flag Army would be all officers.
As long as there are enough officers and they are elite enough, even if it is just a temporary team, the combat effectiveness will not be too bad.
"I will first give you five hundred rifles and the bullets they are equipped with!"
Wu Dong was also unambiguous and directly began to give out a support list: "In addition, there are two thousand grenades, three hundred sets of swords, bows and crossbows, and enough trauma medicine!"
Without waiting for the Black Flag Army envoy to thank him, he continued to give more intense support: "Tell Liu Tongzhi that after a while, the Khmer people will directly send elite people to fight on the island..."