Chapter 15 The Blood Debt of the Nedland

Nanyang is very important, but in Hu Chuyuan's mind, this is only his second-level front after all.

If he can't stabilize China's silk and tea industry, everything will be in vain. No matter how hard he tosss in Nanyang, it is just a rootless duckweed, which will soon wither.

His trust in Ye Wenlan and Ye Xiangyun is limited, but he still left the matter of Nanyang Company to them first.

He didn't even plan to go to Yamaguchi, but to Shilongmen in Sarawak.

However, Ye Xiangyun told Hu Chuyuan frankly that it was difficult to find Chinese there.

In 1861, the twelve companies established after the merger of Saniaogou Company and Dagang Company decided to occupy Kuching, and it was actually successful. However, their plan failed and did not kill James Brooke, the founder of the Block Dynasty.

After James Brooke fled Kuching, he quickly obtained a large amount of military assistance with the help of British companies, and instigated and lured the local Taya and Malays to jointly attack Shilongmen, and finally massacred all Chinese workers in Shilongmen.

More than 6,000 Chinese workers, including old and young women and children, were all killed, and more than 3,000 Chinese workers who fled to the Dutch jurisdiction of Western Kalimantan were also killed by the Dutch one after another, so that the news was blocked, and few people knew the truth.

Ye Xiangyun was able to know this because they had a close cooperative relationship with the Dutch, and the Dutch did not shy away from telling them and warning Lanfang Company as an example.

After listening to Ye Xiangyun's words, Hu Chuyuan completely fell into silence, and Zhang Lingpu, Yan Shizhang and Wu Shuzhen were speechless.

Yes, Hu Chuyuan is a businessman who knows the current affairs and takes making money as his responsibility.

At this moment, he can no longer stand it.

Even if the twelve companies are wrong or forced to be helpless, he can't stand this kind of thing happening again and again.

Yes, this is Nanyang. The slaughter of Chinese is reasonable. Even if it is unreasonable, it is not guilty. The slaughter of indigenous people is a crime, and the slaughter of white people is a shocking crime. It should attract the attention of the whole world and the bloody revenge of powerful countries.

Just after a few missionaries died, the Eight-Nation Alliance entered China and demanded 400 million taels of silver for compensation.

Nearly 10,000 Chinese people died. What is Manqing doing?

Grass.

Hu Chuyuan only felt that his anger had reached its limit.

He seemed to have seen the corpses in the wild. Blood and red blood were flowing in the river. The old women and children were burned to death in the cave. They struggled and struggled, hoping that a miracle could happen and someone could save them.

At this moment, his heart was bleeding.

After a long silence, he finally opened his mouth, mixed with unprecedented hatred, and said to Zhang Lingpu, "It's up to you here!"

Zhang Lingpu stood up slowly and resolutely, holding his fist, and his eyes were about to spew flames out. He replied word by word with Hu Chuyuan, "Your Excellency, I will die!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded silently, but he knew that he could not rely on Zhang Lingpu alone.

Now is by no means the moment when Zhang Lingpu suddenly emerges.

This matter needs to be arranged and planned more carefully.

James Brooke is dead, and only his successor, his nephew, the man who led the massacre - Charles Brooke, is back.

He wants the whole Brooke dynasty to repay, even if it is a kingdom of Sarawak supported by the British political axe.

He thought silently in his heart, looking for a possible surname that could strangle the Brooke dynasty.

After a long time, he raised his eyes coldly and asked Ye Xiangyun, "It's in Borneo. Where else can we set foot now?"

Ye Xiangyun thought for a time and said, "Letu, known as Lundu by the indigenous people, is located in the northernmost port town of Sarawak, at the entrance of the Jiayang River, backed by Mount Gading. There is also a gold mine there. More than 2,000 Hakka people and Fuzhou people live there, fishing and gold panning for a living. From Le Dun to the southwest, it is the territory of the Dutch when you cross the Gardin Mountain. More than 100 miles to the southeast, you can reach Shilongmen and Kuching. In front of Shilongmen is Kuching, and behind is a valley entrance. After passing through the valley, you will reach the Dutch territory. Many people died at the mouth of the valley.

Hu Chuyuan asked, "Can our ship enter Lotto directly?"

Ye Xiangyun said, "In the past few years, it is okay. The kingdom of Sarawak is getting weaker and weaker, and there is no energy to manage it."

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment and said, "Well, you can arrange it for me. Let's go there to see the actual situation."

Ye Xiangyun nodded cautiously and said, "Your Excellency, don't worry, I will arrange it for you."

Hu Chuyuan waved his hand and asked him to go down and prepare a map of Borneo as detailed as possible for his reference.

He has decided to go to Le Dun for a field visit, but Lin Taizeng and Liu Bu toad also have to be stable and must let them go to Mawei Port first.

As long as they enter the port, the following things will be in Hu Chuyuan and He Jing's plan.

That night, Hu Chuyuan invited Ye Fu to his room and talked about going to Sarawak. He wanted Ye Fu to keep Lin Taizeng and others until he came back.

After listening to these words, Ye Fu pondered for a moment, and couldn't help asking Hu Chuyuan with some worry, "Dare to ask Lord, is this matter arranged by Lord Ye Wenlan Ye?"

Listening to what he meant, he seemed to know some inside information. Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "It's true."

Ye Fu said, "Your Excellency, it's not that I don't trust Ye Wenlan. It's really that your safety is more important than everything, and the big things are all about you. Please wait a few more days. Deng Shichang and I will find some businessmen from our hometown in Singapore and contact some Cantonese Wu Yong to accompany you. Deng Shichang will accompany you. By the way, we can borrow more than 100 guns from Lin Taizeng and others, just in case.

After a pause, he said, "If there is no Liu Bu toad, we can talk to Lin Taizeng and Ye Zuyu and let them use gunboats to escort. It must be inconvenient at present. Pirates in the Nanyang area are rampant, and the common sea routes are relatively safe. The routes to Letun and Kujin are a little remote, and it is easy to encounter pirates. Well, I'll try to contact a merchant ship with artillery to prevent it.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly. After all, safety is the most important thing.

He and Ye Fu discussed for a moment and let Ye Fu go out to deal with these things.

Recently, there have been many typhoons in the South China Sea this month. In order to avoid emergencies, the five gunboats will not continue to depart until the end of the month and sail along the coastline through Vietnam to reach Liangguang.

But there is also another problem. If Liu Bu toad insists on showing filial piety to Li Hongzhang with the ship, he is likely to inform him in Guangzhou, inspect the ship at the port of Guangzhou, and directly transfer the five gunboats to the Nanyang Marine Division.

Although the funds for buying a boat are funded by Liangjiang Yamen, the name belongs to Nanyang Mariners. The person responsible for buying the boat is Li Hongzhang. There are too many confused accounts in it, and it is difficult to calculate clearly.

Fortunately, Liu Bu toad and others will not be in a hurry to leave for the time being.

Hu Chuyuan can only let Ye Fu try his best to persuade Ye Zuke and others not to take risks, so as not to destroy his future.

After waiting for two days, Ye Fu and Deng Shichang found several reliable Chinese businessmen in the Guangdong Guild Hall in Singapore, rented a wooden sailboat specializing in fighting pirates, hired more than 70 Guangdong sailors who dared to fight for their lives, and borrowed a batch of foreign guns from Lin Taizeng and Ye Zukui's Qingbing sailor camp. Deng Shichang was in charge and accompanied Hu. Chu Yuan went to Le Dun together.

The Taichang, which Hu Chuyuan rented from Taikooyang, is a ocean-going merchant ship. Like most of the ocean-going merchant ships that cross the Strait of Malacca in this era, in order to resist possible pirates at any time, the ship has two 4.5-inch Armstrong guns and two 47-millimeter-caliber Harkis. Five-pipe wheeled artillery.

In the waters of Malacca, such a merchant ship is safe, accompanied by a sailboat armed with four bronze cannons, ordinary pirates dare not take the risk of robbing.

Departing in the early morning and sailing on the blue sea for four hours, the Taichang gradually arrived at the sea between Tammeran Island and Yamaguchi Ocean at noon.

The Dutch have a naval base here, which is responsible for cracking down on pirates in the nearby waters. At the same time, they have firmly blocked the entire export of West Borneo and have to pay taxes to them.

When the land was gradually visible, the people on the ship also found the Dutch ship and came over extremely quickly.

Hearing the news, Hu Chuyuan immediately came out of the cabin and looked at the other party's ship from a distance with a telescope.

This does not seem to be a very advanced warship. There are still sails on the ship, with a displacement of about 3,000 tons, which is similar to that of Taichang.

On the flag, the tricolor flag of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Nedland fluttered in the wind, showing off their power, as if swearing their power.

Looking at this flag, Hu Chuyuan scolded with a sneer in his heart: It's a shit, and he dares to bully a group of indigenous people in Asia.

Seeing Zhang Lingpu coming, he gave Zhang Lingpu the telescope and asked Ye Wenlan, "Are they going to come to check?"

Ye Wenlan has rich experience in this area. He shook his head and said, "It's not that they are not so rampant in the British merchant ships. They just show up or come to say hello."

Zhang Lingpu looked at it for a while and said to Hu Chuyuan, "It should be an old-fashioned cruiser of about 3,000 tons. It is not covered with a thin steel plate outside. Even if it pulls the sail, it may not catch up with us."

Hu Chuyuan said oh, even more careless. He went back to his cabin and continued to talk to Ye Wenlan and Ye Xiangyun about the situation in Borneo.

Sure enough, the Dutch cruiser only communicated with the Taichang through the flag language from afar, asked about the situation in the nearby sea area, and then left.

Soon, standing on the deck of the Taichang, Hu Chuyuan could see the beautiful dark blue coastline of Yamaguchi.

The Yamaguchi Ocean is located on the west coast of the Kalimantan Islands. The whole coastline is crescent-shaped, which has a good protective effect on the port. Affected by the tropical monsoon, the west coast itself is much calmer than the north, east and south coasts.

When the ship gradually entered the port, the town appeared at a glance.

Hu Chuyuan heard that Yamaguchi Yanggang Town is not big countless times, because the seaport conditions are good, and there are large areas of tropical plain fields in the surrounding coastal bay. During the Ming Dynasty, many Chinese settled here and gradually opened up a lively and prosperous town.

Here, the common language is Hakka.

However, the real manager is the Dutch.

Shortly after the Taichang stopped, several Dutch officials immediately boarded the ship with some indigenous people for inspection.

Although there are no goods on the ship, the Dutch still forcibly asked for 100 yuan of port rent and public security tax. In the future, 12 yuan will be charged for each day of parking. If there is goods on board, there will be no low export duties.

After the Dutch inspection was over, Hu Chuyuan went ashore and, accompanied by Zhang Lingpu and Deng Shichang, took a look at the actual situation of Yamaguchi.

Compared with the British, the Dutch are very poor in governing the colonies. Coupled with the long-term conflict with the Qing court and the Chinese, their attitude towards the Chinese is also very bad.

It can be said that the first Chinese massacre in Indonesia was instigated by the Dutch, and their goal was to seize the local economic interests and trade privileges of Chinese businessmen.

Since then, similar events have happened again and again.

On the other side of Singapore and the British colonies, such a situation has hardly happened. The British have always adopted a divided approach to the ethnic disputes within the colony, rather than simply and rude suppression, and will not indulge the indigenous and Chinese to fight each other.

The Dutch in this era are just a group of profit-seeking scrapers. They must let them shed the last drop of blood before they know how to respect others.

If you can, you won't hesitate to kill them all.

Even people like Hu Chuyuan will be angry and want to kill all the Dutch in the South China Sea, which is enough to prove how hateful the Dutch are at this time.

Of course, Tiandihui, Heshuntang and Lanfang Company are not good people.

Even under the banner of anti-Qing and Fuming, the community is still a community after all, just the mud that can't support the wall.

After a tour of Yamaguchi, Hu Chuyuan was mainly observing the business conditions of local shops to judge the local economic level and characteristics.

The object of his key observation is export materials. The cultivation of palm and rubber has not yet developed. The main export materials are sugar cane, earth sugar, spices and hardwood.

As far as Hu Chuyuan knows, due to the current economic situation in China, although there are many poor people and many rich people, they have to import at least 3 million taels of hardwood from Nanyang every year, almost all of which are used to make furniture.

This is one of Ye Wenlan's main markets, and it is also the main profit point of Nanyang Trading Bank in the future.