Dominate the Country

Time is coming to June.

June 1st is China's Children's Day, which is a holiday set by Chen Ming. It is a holiday named by the Emperor of China for his eldest son. As for why the time was set on June 1st, only Chen Ming himself knows.

Anyway, after a few years of influence, the influence of this festival has now covered the whole of China and even spread to neighboring countries. Even Li Kun, who was on Java Island at this time, couldn't help but go to the streets to choose gifts for his nephew and children.

"Wrap this, this, and this for me."

A one-and-a-half-foot-long Malay kris sword, with five broken gems on the scabbard, and a few simple lines engraved on the silver hilt, gives people the feeling that it is not a specially made exquisite decoration, but a dagger that is really used to kill people. The sword mouth is very sharp. When you rub it with your hand, you always feel that your skin is about to be broken. It shines a touch of white light in the sun, and the cold light is pressing.

Li Kun was a little surprised that such a good thing could be sold in the street market of Surabaya. Although this shop looks very upscale. But the sword in front of him looks very old and gives people a feeling.

The price of fifty Spanish eagles is not expensive at all, really not expensive.

Another piece is a natural dog-head gold, not big, about half a catty, and then a Buddha statue carved from rhino horn.

There used to be many one-horned rhinos living here in Java, and they still appear from time to time now. The rhino horn is a precious material that can be compared with ivory.

Although the carving of this Buddha statue is not very exquisite, thinking of the belief reasons here, Buddhism has long become a thing of the past, and it is not surprising that twenty eagles can take this Buddha statue.

If the time can be four hundred years earlier, Li Kun believes that the value of this rhino horn Buddha statue must be ten times, a hundred times, much higher than it is now.

Unfortunately, the former land of Srivijaya is now a piece of heaven. Except for the Buddhist temples built by the Han people in recent years, there is no trace of the Buddhist kingdom hundreds of years ago. It is really a pity.

Li Kun walked towards his residence, and the followers behind him followed closely with three things in their arms.

The Malay Kris sword was bought by Li Kun for his eldest nephew.

A man should wield swords and guns.

The world has changed now, and it is not the way to be a king to simply study the Four Books and Five Classics as in the past.

Although he knew that it would be difficult for him to meet his nephew in this life, he still prepared gifts every year.

Before, it was birthdays, but now the Li family is rich, Li Kun has made a fortune in business, and he even thinks about Children's Day.

He will take it back to worship at home, which is also the heart of his maternal family.

As for the dog-head gold and rhino horn Buddha statue, he wants to take it back to his eldest son and old mother. Today is Children's Day, so the gift cannot be prepared for the eldest nephew alone, as his eldest son is not young anymore. When he returns to Hainan, he will give his eldest son a gold nugget, wishing him prosperity and wealth every year. As for the other children, they are still young, so bringing them a few small things will make them happy.

This also reflects Li Kun's simple family concept, he has high hopes for the eldest son, while the other children are a level lower accordingly. Not to mention the daughter.

He does not expect his son to be a powerful person, but just to be rich.

His mother, Li, is a devout Buddhist, and this rhinoceros horn Buddha statue, which looks very old, will definitely make her happy. Li Kun is a very filial person.

He calculated and calculated, and finally he was happy.

Li Kun couldn't stand the hot weather on Java Island. When he returned to his residence, his clothes were soaked with sweat. He took off his clothes as quickly as possible and put on a pair of shorts commonly worn by southerners. Li Kun sank into the pool.

Now he is no longer the small trader who used to share boats with others and trade grain, salt and sugar cloth. He has evolved from a small shrimp to a small fish.

Not only can he charter a ship to transfer his own goods, but he also invested in Qiongzhou Shipping Company. Now his total net worth is 2 to 3 million yuan.

The wealthy life made Li Kun no longer feel bad about his father's decision. These days, the rich are the masters. Officials have to be lower. Take the officials in Qiongzhou Prefecture for example. Every year, they want to collect some charity donations from their merchants. Don't they also have to arrange the occasion and speak to them humbly, kindly and even flatteringly?

Although being rich now is still not as powerful as being powerful, the social status of the rich is definitely comparable to that of the gentry in the past.

Without the status of the emperor's uncle, Li Kun can still be superior to others.

This is his real ability!

Now Li Kun's biggest wish is that one day he can develop the Li family into the top first-class richest in China. In that case, he will be recognized as a relative of the royal family again, and Li Kun feels that he can also maintain the dignity of his Li family.

The feeling of earning a fortune by one's own hard work is much better than being the emperor's uncle.

However, Li Kun, who was enjoying himself in the pool, didn't know that behind the shop he had just visited, a Nanyang Chinese dressed as a native was staring at the ground with a very bad face, as if he could see a flower on the wooden board. He clenched his fists, tightly clenched his fists, and he was very angry.

He just went back to pee and let a clerk replace him for a while, how come the sword was bought?

This person hates, and this person is even more anxious.

He wanted to cut off his penis at this moment. You said it’s not good to spray when you want to, but it has to be at a critical moment? It’s okay now, the ‘props’ are gone.

The keris that doesn't look gorgeous has a great origin. Li Kun was not wrong at all. The sword was not a decoration, but a real murder weapon. It was the ancestral sword of the Sultan of Yogyakarta. It is the legendary sword of the founder of the Mataram Sultanate.

After the Mataram Sultanate was divided into two - the Sultanate of Yogyakarta and the Sultanate of Solo, this sword has been kept in the hands of the Sultanate's successor, the Sultan of Yogyakarta. It is not only a collection of the royal family, but also a royal treasure. One of the symbols of inheritance.

The Military Intelligence Bureau also spent a lot of effort to get it.

As a result, when the drama began, such a mess happened.

There was another person with a very ugly face standing in front of the Chinese man, but compared to the former who was in annoyance, the latter looked calmer.

"Don't worry. There must be someone watching outside the store. Wouldn't it be better if the sword is in the hands of the businessman?"

The unexpected guest is a serious businessman, which is more real than the person they arranged. Even this store doesn’t need to be leaked at the moment, as long as there is a rumor from the Java Station of the Military Intelligence Agency that someone has bought an extremely sharp keris!

Li Kun had no idea that he had been involved in something huge. Those military intelligence officers who made many mistakes did not know that the black scapegoat that suddenly appeared in their plans was that the empress of the empire was looking for her brother who had not been seen for many years.

Li Kun drank a glass of iced coconut juice and woke up after a long sleep. It was getting late. At seven o'clock, he went out on time and got on the carriage, and then at seven twenty, he arrived at a high-end hotel in Surabaya.

The people gathering here tonight are all businessmen from Qiongzhou Prefecture who came to Java. Their strength is not worth mentioning compared to the Guangzhou business group, but they are a group of people who are tightly gathered together.

In this era, you cannot be a lone ranger in doing business. Whether it is news or raising funds, township meetings are indispensable.

"Let's talk about it. We have been here for a long time. The latest one is Wang, who is a month old. How do you feel?" Li Kun sat on an oak chair and poured some coconut wine for everyone. , asked.

"Let me first tell you my knowledge of this place." Seeing that no one sitting there said a word, Li Kun was the first to start, "A while ago, I went with Zhu Ancai to visit his father's textile factory in Semarang. To be honest, I thought about the situation of his textile factory many times in my mind before going there, but when I first saw this, which is said to be one of the largest textile factories on Java Island, it was really amazing. Shocked."

"There is no other reason. This workshop is too shabby and can only be regarded as a larger workshop."

"All the spinning machines and looms are manual. There are only thirty or forty employees, and it is said that half of them are part-time."

“Many of the people here are farmers from nearby plantations, and they only come to work in the factory during slack periods or when they are very short of money.

Ginning, rinsing, spinning, weaving, washing and dyeing, etc. are very inefficient. As long as you think about what the family workshops in Qiongzhou looked like, you can imagine the Zhu family's textile factory. "Compared with today's textile workers, no matter how skilled the textile workers were in the past, the attitude was the difference between amateurs and professionals.

There are seven people in total including Li Kun, all of whom are from Hainan, and their industries all involve cloth. They also have a fellow in Surabaya whose ancestral home is Qiongzhou. Although this fellow's main relatives have moved to Singapore, he still maintains five plantations and three textile workshops on Java Island.

"There are thirty to forty million people in Nanyang. We can't get a share of Annam and Siam, and Malay has been divided up, but the East Indies can still give it a try." A few people jointly invested, and with the Zhu family As the foundation, a brand new factory was expanded with at least 4,000 spindles.

The amount of money is not small, and it would be difficult for everyone here to come up with it individually, but if everyone joins in and adds people from the Zhu family, it will not be difficult.

Nanyang is not suitable for growing cotton, but you can have linen, which is lighter and more breathable than cotton.

Of course, local Chinese businessmen also purchase cotton from China or India and then engage in the cotton textile industry themselves. It’s just that the market share is very small. Most of the cloth here is native linen and imported cotton.

Li Kun, another textile factory of the Zhu family, also visited once. It produces some primary processed products such as linen, gloves, socks and hats. The quality is not good, the price is not low, but the sales volume is not bad.

"Local production can always save costs. Besides, after thousands of years of development, this place has formed a trading center. We don't need to go through each tribe to sell these cloths. I am very optimistic about this investment."

The Zhu family is a small local snake in Surabaya. It has roots, connections and reputation, and is an excellent cooperation target.

In Nanyang, there are many Chinese who are planters, many Chinese who are traders, and there are countless people who open hotels and taverns. However, those who are interested in developing handicrafts here will only come once in a lifetime.

"So, everyone, let's let's do it together."

"Give it a try!" Several people clinked glasses together.

…

What happened on the remote Java Island was not known to the people in Nanjing at all.

One thing everyone knows is that the negotiations between China and Britain have become awkward.

Since the first long interval, the negotiators from China and Britain have met three times in a row, but no one can convince the other on the issue of Nanyang.

Watson dared not "give up" the Netherlands.

Since the Glorious Revolution, Britain and the Netherlands have signed a large number of alliance treaties. The Dutch have exhausted the accumulation of the treasury and the enthusiasm of the people because of a series of wars with France. In the War of the Spanish Succession, the Netherlands provided the largest army for the anti-French Augsburg Alliance - 140,000 people, showing the Netherlands' amazing financial hegemony, but also paid a heavy price. In the following sixty or seventy years, the Dutch almost gave up their military "strength".

In order to reduce the burden of huge public debts and for the so-called "real freedom" (the bourgeoisie enjoys the political privileges and regressive tax rates of the provinces), the parliamentary merchants in power disbanded most of the Netherlands' military forces, voluntarily lowered the country's international status, and were willing to become a second-rate country. However, the Netherlands is still the richest country in Europe, with the highest per capita income in Europe, and has a strong financial hegemony.

A considerable part of the British national debt is held by the Netherlands, and the two sides are completely complementary. The Dutch have restrained their colonization. They would rather lend the capital accumulated over more than two hundred years to the governments and enterprises of Britain, France and other countries to enjoy stable and generous interest income, rather than regain the enterprising spirit of the "Sea Coachman" and wage colonial wars abroad.

Such a country is simply a natural ally of the British.

Watson is not so irrational to "give up" such a century-old ally because of the little benefit promised by the Chinese.

So the negotiations between China and Britain have reached a deadlock.

Chen Ming was in a bad mood. Looking at the report sent back by Chen Zhongsheng to North Korea, he gently placed it on the table.

"Give Chen Zhongsheng my oral order to kill them all, leaving no one alive."

"But all the evidence must be prepared."

"Ironclad evidence. Nail the case to me."

These Korean bastards are ignorant of good and evil, and they want to support the remnant Qing forces so that they can contain the Northeast Fu Han Army more. They are worthy of death!

Chen Ming is not a Korean. These Korean generals who have colluded with the remnant Qing forces may be considered for Korea's consideration and are worthy of admiration for standing on the Korean side. But in Chen Ming's eyes, from China's standpoint, they should be killed.

What's more, these people just arrived when Chen Ming was unhappy, so he just vented his anger. No matter how many people there are, they are not Chinese.

This wave of generals Jin has arrived in Henan, Falaleyev has also arrived in Lunan, and the second table of guests is about to come, but the British are still dragging their feet.

It's too unpleasant!