Sujing is located on the bank of the Solo River 16 kilometers northwest of Surabaya.
Huang Bohan has a plantation here covering an area of 2,000 hectares, and has built an electrified sugar refinery to refine sugar cubes and granulated sugar.
If Qin Zhiyuan had not appeared, Huang Bohan planned to sell all the sugar factories in the next two years and move to the Lion City.
With Qin Zhiyuan as his backer, Huang Bohan not only did not sell the sugar factory, but instead expanded his business scale and purchased 5,000 hectares of plantations to expand the planting area.
Relying on this alone, Huang Bohan can make millions of dollars every year, so the money Huang Bohan gave Qin Zhiyuan was really not in vain.
This is the destination of Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie. They will lead a company of troops and undertake a one-month rotation here.
At the gate of the plantation, Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie met Guan Jianyuan and Dong Zi who had packed their luggage and were about to return to Penglai Island.
Guan and Dong, like Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie, are veterans brought back from France by Zhang Tianshou. Each two of them is responsible for a company and supports the basic framework of the security force.
Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie noticed that Guan Jianyuan and Dong Zishi's team included not only the original soldiers of the army, but also more than 20 women wearing Umbrella Company uniforms.
Although these women are wearing uniforms that are one size smaller, judging from their shy expressions and slightly darker skin color, it is not difficult to deduce the identities of these women.
You guys have gained a lot from this trip, Gu Xingbang joked with interest.
Tsk, it’s an advantage for you two. Lao Guan and I just ran a route and a Kapitan from Semarang will be sent to us here every month from now on. I guarantee that they will all be clean and unmarried. Count the time.
, the next batch will probably be sent over in a few days. The younger sister remembered that she was about to leave, and Dong Zishi was still angry with himself.
Buying local women to populate Penglai Island is Zhang Tianshou and Qin Haoge's plan.
Penglai Island is now a large military camp, almost all of which are good guys. With so many men together, if there are no women to spice things up, an inhumane tragedy might happen, so Zhang Tianshou and Qin Haoge bought some innocent men.
Local people came here to provide medical services and to give the young men something to look forward to.
Don't get me wrong, this service is limited to washing clothes, cooking, etc., there is no monetary transaction.
Of course, if the young men really have feelings for these women in charge of logistics, Zhang Tianshou and Qin Haoge will encourage it.
A man must have a family and eloquence to be considered a man, and a permanent property to have perseverance, and settling down is the only way to stabilize military morale.
Kapitan is the overseas Chinese leader system implemented by the British and Dutch colonies in Malaysia and Borneo. It is to appoint overseas Chinese leaders who come to do business to make a living or settle down as leaders of the overseas Chinese to assist the colonial government in handling overseas affairs. Kapitan
It is the transliteration of the Dutch kapite, which originally means leader.
Don’t think that all Southeast Asian women are similar to black people. In fact, they have good skin. The so-called wheat color in later generations is this color. And if you search among the huge population base, you can always find some with relatively fair skin, well-proportioned figures, and in line with Chinese aesthetic views.
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The women obtained by Dong Zishi and Guan Jianyuan were more in line with Chinese aesthetics. In fact, the Chinese at this time did not have high requirements for women. As long as they were virtuous and could live a down-to-earth life, as for their appearance and skin, they were all red and pink skulls.
Think about it, the Chinese can even accept domestic women with small feet, what else is unacceptable?
If you're in love, I'll treat you to a drink when I go back. Gu Xingbang was overjoyed. The three wives and four concubines he just mentioned sounded lively, but in fact he was also a bachelor.
It is true that some Chinese soldiers in the Foreign Legion have feelings for French women, but they are a minority after all. Compared with the appearance of Chinese women, blond French women are really unacceptable to some relatively conservative Chinese.
The unacceptable reasons here are not only personal, but also family and social reasons.
So compared to blond French women, and women from the Republic of China who were kidnapped and bound by their feet by the Qing Empire who were killed a thousand times, Southeast Asian women are actually the best choice for Chinese soldiers.
At least they look similar to Chinese people, and not so delicate and weak.
Women with bound feet were unable to engage in physical labor due to the deformation of the foot bones. In some serious cases, they could not even walk. The Qing Empire's actions not only castrated the Chinese mentally;
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Think about it, a mother who stays close to home can educate more lively and active children.
If the Qing Empire were to rule the Republic of China for another 300 years, I am afraid that the Han people would also disappear in the long river of history.
Come on, let's go. Seeing that it was getting late, Guan Jianyuan said hello to Gu Xingbang, and then led the team to leave the plantation and head to the dock to take a small steamer back to Penglai Island.
After sending Guan Jianyuan away, Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie led the team to take over the defense.
The Umbrella Company's security force has a team of about 150 people. It usually has a three-shift structure, which is very suitable for armed security.
Although the security forces are security guards in name, the weapons they are actually equipped with are not weak at all. Except for the lack of artillery and tanks, they are no different from the regular troops of the Foreign Legion. 98B rifles and mg08 heavy machine guns are the basic equipment, and they are also equipped with American-made shotguns.
guns and a large collection of French-made revolvers.
In fact, in urban combat, shotguns and pistols are the best, while rifles and heavy machine guns are a bit out of date.
Therefore, the security forces are equipped with a very large proportion of shotguns and pistols.
These two types of guns are actually not difficult to make, especially shotguns, because they do not require high accuracy and rely on area-wide lethality, so basically they can be processed with simple machines.
Zhang Tianshou has explained this problem to Qin Zhiyuan, and Qin Zhiyuan has also organized a batch of machines to be sent to Borneo. It is also a professional shotgun production line, and the production efficiency will be further improved.
Along with the machine, there are 10 engineers and 100 workers who will set up a shotgun production factory on Penglai Island. The weapons produced will not only be supplied to the security forces, but also to the Chinese throughout Southeast Asia, allowing them to
No longer defenseless when it comes to killing.
Given that the Dutch implemented strict gun control measures in Borneo and did not allow the Chinese to possess thermal weapons, Qin Zhiyuan had another motive for selling weapons to the Chinese.
Once the Chinese possess weapons, it will definitely arouse the vigilance of the Dutch colonial authorities. In this case, if the Dutch colonial authorities take action against those Chinese who own guns, it will give the Umbrella Company a legitimate reason to take action.
Everyone in the Chinese Army is looking forward to the matter of protecting overseas Chinese.
Of course, for Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie, protecting overseas Chinese is still too far away. Their current job is to ensure the safety of this plantation.
This is a plantation with a total area of more than 7,000 hectares. Sugar cane is grown in it. The sugar produced here is sold in Europe and the United States. It is the largest local sugar factory in Borneo.
7,000 hectares, approximately 700,000 acres of land, with a total area of more than 70 square kilometers, spanning both sides of the Solo River, and is divided into four plantations of varying sizes. The number of workers working here exceeded 50,000 during the peak period, and there are also
More than 20,000 people live in the sugar factory and two residential areas in the south and one in the north, but only 150 people guard it. You can imagine the difficulty.
Most of the more than 20,000 people are Chinese, of which there are more than 6,000 permanent workers in the sugar factory, and the remaining more than 10,000 people live outside the sugar factory.
With limited manpower, it is almost impossible to ensure the safety of everyone. Therefore, the security guards can only focus on control and rely on a large number of three-wheeled motorcycles as transportation to quickly mobilize manpower everywhere.
Qin Zhiyuan ordered a large number of three-wheeled motorcycles from the Renault factory. In addition to the Foreign Legion's own use, he also sent more than a hundred motorcycles to Borneo. It is officially because of the existence of these motorcycles that Zhang Tianshou dared to put only one in Sujing Plantation.
company's security forces.
The mission of this company is usually just to be a guard. Once an incident occurs that exceeds its handling capacity, it only needs to use the wireless telegraph in the sugar factory to ask for help from Penglai Island. The reinforcements sent by Penglai Island can arrive in Surabaya within four hours.
Even if the Dutch colonial army personally took action, it would be impossible to break through the defense of the security forces armed with heavy machine guns within four hours.
Although the Netherlands is an old imperialist country, its national strength has long been weakened. In Europe, they did not even dare to participate in a world war. Their combat effectiveness was not even a bit worse than that of the Chinese troops.
What's more, only a small part of the Dutch colonial army were Dutch, and most of them were native aborigines of Borneo. These people, let them bully the unarmed Chinese, and they dared to swarm them. I really want them to face them.
To charge against a fire net made of steel, it is difficult to say that many of these people have a strong will to fight.
After taking over the defense, Gu Xingbang's daily task was to take a patrol unit consisting of several three-wheeled motorcycles to go out in the morning, noon and evening to make sure that the two bunkers in the north and south settlements where a squad of soldiers were stationed were safe and sound, and then maintain them.
Even if the security of the sugar factory is over, life can be considered free.
One morning in mid-October, as soon as Gu Xingbang returned to the sugar factory after completing his patrol, he met Father Francis who came to his door.
Hello, Father. Gu Xingbang said hello from afar.
Oh, Gu, I’m so happy to see you, but I’m not very well. I need your help. Those damn infidels, I want to burn them all to death. Maybe the priest’s mouth is a bit broken, Francis muttered as he walked, and followed
Gu Xingbang walked into the office.
Ha, it’s unusual for a priest to be so angry. Little Dingding, please get a glass of water for the priest to quell the fire. Gu Xingbang greeted with a smile and asked Francis to sit down and speak slowly.
As the Umbrella Company entered Borneo, the priests under Cardinal Auerbach also entered Borneo to spread Catholicism. Everyone's life was different. Zhang Tianshou's work was progressing smoothly, but Francis's work was not making much progress.
Borneo believes in Tuwale, the sun god in Borneo mythology. This sect is quite strange. As long as one member of a family joins Tuwale, everyone in the family must join, and all future generations.
Everyone needs to join, with unparalleled exclusivity.
Although Francis and his group of priests have firm beliefs, they are still unable to bite the hedgehog when they encounter the Tuval religion.
According to the agreement signed between Qin Zhiyuan and Auerbach, the umbrella company must provide convenience for the spread of Catholicism, so Francis approached Gu Xingbang and asked Gu Xingbang to provide support.
It stands to reason that Gu Xingbang should help with this, but how to help is worth considering.
