Expedition to Europe

Sujing is located on the banks of the Solo River 16 kilometers northwest of Sishui.

Huang Bohan has a plantation covering an area of ​​2,000 hectares here, 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 Singapore.

With Qin Zhiyuan as a backer, Huang Bohan not only did not sell the sugar factory, but expanded the scale of operation and purchased 5,000 hectares of plantations to expand the planting area.

Just relying on this item, Huang Bohan can make millions of dollars a year, so the money Huang Bohan gave to Qin Zhiyuan is really not wasted.

This is the destination of Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie. They will lead a company of troops and undertake a one-month rotation mission here.

At the gate of the plantation, Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie met Guan Jianyuan and Dong Zishi who had packed their luggage and were ready to return to Penglai Island.

Guan and Dong, like Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie, are veterans brought back from France by Zhang Tianshou. Two of them are responsible for a company, supporting the basic framework of the "security force".

Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie noticed that in Guan Jianyuan and Dong Zishi's team, there are not only soldiers from the original army, but also more than 20 women wearing "protection umbrella" company uniforms.

Although these women are wearing uniforms that are smaller in size, it is not difficult to guess the identities of these women by looking at their shy expressions and slightly dark skin.

"You have gained a lot on this trip!" Gu Xingbang joked with interest.

"Tsk, it's a bargain for you two. Lao Guan and I have just run a good way. A Kapitan in Semarang will be sent here every month in the future. It is guaranteed that they are all innocent and unmarried. Calculating the time, the next batch will probably be sent here in a few days. Damn..." Dong Zishi was still indignant when he remembered that he was about to leave.

Buying local women to fill Penglai Island was the plan of Zhang Tianshou and Qin Haoge.

Penglai Island is now a large military camp, almost all of them are good guys. If there are no women to balance the situation, there may be a tragic situation. So Zhang Tianshou and Qin Haoge bought some local people with clean backgrounds to come here to do medical care and service work, and to give the young men some hope.

Don't get me wrong, this "service" is limited to washing clothes and cooking, and there is no money 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 a mouth to be considered a man, and only with a stable property can he be persistent. Settling down is the only way to stabilize the morale of the army.

"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, make a living or settle down as the leaders of the overseas Chinese to assist the colonial government in handling overseas Chinese affairs. "Kapitan" is the transliteration of the Dutch word "kapitein", which originally means "leader".

Don't think that Southeast Asian women are similar to black people. In fact, their skin is good. The so-called "wheat color" in later generations is this color. And in the huge population base, you can always find some women with relatively fair skin and well-proportioned figures that meet the aesthetic views of the Chinese.

The women that Dong Zishi and Guan Jianyuan got were more in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese. In fact, the Chinese at that time did not have high requirements for women. As long as they were virtuous and could live a down-to-earth life, it would be fine. As for appearance and skin, they were all rosy skeletons. Think about it, the Chinese can even accept the "female with bound feet" in China, so what else is unacceptable?

"That's great. I'll treat you to a drink when I get back." Gu Xingbang was overjoyed. The "three wives and four concubines" he just mentioned sounded quite lively, but in fact he was also a bachelor.

It is true that some Chinese soldiers in the Foreign Legion had feelings for French women, but that was a minority after all. Compared with the appearance of Chinese women, blond French women with blue eyes were really unacceptable to some relatively conservative Chinese.

The "unacceptable" here has both personal reasons and family and social reasons.

Compared with blond French women and the women of the Republic of China who were abducted by the Qing Empire with bound feet, Southeast Asian women are actually the best choice for Chinese soldiers.

At least they look similar to Chinese people, and they are not so delicate and weak.

Women with bound feet cannot do physical labor at all because of the deformation of the foot bones. In some serious cases, they can't even walk. The Qing Empire's move is not only a spiritual castration for the Chinese, but also a spiritual castration.

Think about it, how lively and active children can a mother who never goes out of the house raise?

If the Qing Empire were to rule the Republic of China for another 300 years, I'm afraid the Han people would also disappear in the long river of history.

"Okay, let's go..." Guan Jianyuan saw that it was getting late, said hello to Gu Xingbang, and led the team to leave the plantation and go to the dock to take a small steamer back to Penglai Island.

After seeing Guan Jianyuan off, Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie led the team to take over the defense.

The security force of the Umbrella Company, a team of about 150 people, is usually a three-shift structure, which is very suitable for armed protection.

Although the security force is nominally a security guard, the weapons they are equipped with are not weak at all. Except for the lack of artillery and tanks, they are no worse than the regular army of the Foreign Legion. The G08 heavy machine gun is the basic equipment, and it is also equipped with American shotguns and a large number of French revolvers.

In fact, in urban combat, shotguns and pistols are the best to use, and rifles and heavy machine guns are a bit out of date.

Therefore, the proportion of shotguns and pistols equipped in the security forces is very large.

These two types of guns are actually not difficult to make, especially shotguns, because they do not require high accuracy and rely on surface lethality, so basically as long as there are simple machines, they can be processed.

Zhang Tianshou has explained this problem to Qin Zhiyuan, and Qin Zhiyuan has also organized a batch of machines to be sent to Borneo, and it is a professional shotgun production line, which will further improve production efficiency.

Along with the machines, there are 10 engineers and 100 workers, who will set up a shotgun production plant on Penglai Island. The weapons produced will not only supply the security forces, but also the Chinese in Southeast Asia, so that they will no longer be unarmed when facing killing.

In view of the fact that the Dutch implemented strict gun control measures in Borneo and did not allow the Chinese to own hot weapons, Qin Zhiyuan had another intention to sell weapons to the Chinese.

Once the Chinese have 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 have guns, it is equivalent to giving the "Umbrella" company a legitimate reason to take action.

The Chinese army is looking forward to the "protection of overseas Chinese".

Of course, for Gu Xingbang and Ma Gaojie, the protection of overseas Chinese is still too far away. Their current job is to ensure the safety of this plantation.

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This is a plantation with a total area of ​​more than 7,000 hectares, where sugarcane is grown. The sugar produced here is sold in Europe and the United States. It is the largest local sugar factory in Borneo.

7,000 hectares, about 700,000 acres of land, with a total area of ​​more than 70 square kilometers, spanning both sides of the Solo River, divided into four plantations of varying sizes. The number of workers working here exceeds 50,000 at peak times, and there are more than 20,000 people working here at ordinary times. They live in the sugar factory and two settlements in the south and north, but there are only 150 people guarding. The difficulty can be imagined.

Most of these 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, so the security guards can only focus on key deployment and rely on a large number of three-wheeled motorcycles as transportation to quickly mobilize personnel everywhere.

Qin Zhiyuan ordered a large number of three-wheeled motorcycles from the Renault factory. In addition to the foreign legion's own use, more than 100 were sent to Borneo. It was precisely because of the existence of these motorcycles that Zhang Tianshou dared to place only one company of security forces in Sujing Plantation.

The task of this company is usually just guarding. Once an incident occurs that exceeds the handling capacity, it only needs to use the wireless telegraph in the sugar factory to ask Penglai Island for help. The reinforcements sent by Penglai Island can arrive in Surabaya within four hours.

It is probably not very likely that the Dutch colonial army will break through the defense of the security forces with heavy machine guns within four hours.

Although the Netherlands is a veteran imperialist country, its national strength has long been weak. In Europe, they dare not even participate in the world war, and their combat effectiveness is not a little bit worse than that of the Chinese troops.

Moreover, only a small number of the Dutch colonial army were Dutch, and most of them were natives of Borneo. These people dared to rush forward bravely when they were asked to bully the unarmed Chinese. If they were really asked to charge against the steel-made fire net, it would be hard to say whether these people had a strong fighting will.

After taking over the defense, Gu Xingbang's daily task was to take a patrol team consisting of several tricycles out for a round in the morning, noon and evening, to make sure that the two bunkers in the north and south settlements, each with a squad of soldiers stationed, were safe and sound, and then maintain the security of the sugar factory, and that was it, and his life was free and easy.

One morning in mid-October, Gu Xingbang had just returned to the sugar factory after completing his patrol when he met Father Francis who came to his door.

"Hello, Father." Gu Xingbang greeted from a distance.

"Oh, Gu, I'm glad to see you, but I'm not feeling well. I need your help. I'm going to burn all those damn pagans to death..." Perhaps the priest's mouth was a little broken, Francis muttered as he walked and followed Gu Xingbang into the office.

"Ha, the priest is still so angry! It's really rare, Xiao Dingding, hurry up and get the priest a glass of water to cool down." Gu Xingbang smiled and greeted Francis, asking him to sit down and talk slowly.

As the Umbrella Company entered Borneo, the priests under Cardinal Auerbach also followed into Borneo to spread Catholicism. Everyone has a different fate. Zhang Tianshou's work progressed smoothly, but Francis's work did not progress much.

Borneo believes in Tuwal, the sun god in Borneo mythology. This sect is quite strange. As long as one person in a family joins the Tuwal religion, all the people in the family must join, and all future generations must join, which has unparalleled exclusivity.

Although Francis and his group of priests have firm faith, they are like a dog biting a hedgehog when they encounter such a Tuval religion.

According to the agreement signed by Qin Zhiyuan and Auerbach, the Umbrella Company must facilitate the spread of Catholicism, so Francis found Gu Xingbang and asked him to provide support.

Logically, Gu Xingbang should help, but how to help is worth studying.