The two of them were sitting in the carriage and talking, when Li Fushou looked out the window and suddenly became cold and snorted heavily.

The night is deep

On the street of snack street

Although there were much less abortion than before, there were still many diners visiting, and the streets did not appear deserted.

Two Royal Chambers riding tall horses came over and stopped at the door of the store stall along the way. One of the policemen turned over and got off the horse. You could see the owner obediently delivering filial piety and walking over like a shave. Each store stall had to give money, and soon the money bag was bulging.

When the two mount policemen walked to the door of the Mexican barbecue restaurant, Ho Acai greeted him with a smile on his face and handed him a thick stack of filial piety.

Perhaps because the store is doing well, the Mounted Police, who is responsible for collecting filial piety, is very dissatisfied and starts to curse with rude words. The owner's wife Isabena hurriedly helped to make a move. She was not careful that the Mounted Police had already touched the woman's butt...

"Scum, a bunch of scum, dares to openly ask for bribes and tease women in broad daylight. You go and take them down for me, and throw them all into the hard labor camp."

Li Fushou was already furious and slapped the small table hard, causing a large piece of cup and bowl to fall on the table.

Several burly men outside the carriage immediately rushed over and picked up the two bribes who openly solicited bribes, attracting the attention of the crowd around them.

"Let's go, leave here first." Xin Changjun smiled bitterly, knocked on the carriage board with his hand, and the carriage ran quickly.

Seeing Li Fushou still still angry, "Huff, huh, huh" seemed to be in luck, Xin Changjun bowed helplessly and said, "Yuan Ding please calm down. Although such scum is severely punished, it is not worth it. Since the new policy of the Red River Valley, the administration of the Red River Valley is clear and clear, even if it is not inferior to the European powers, there are some rotten meat and sores, so I will just take ruthless measures to remove it. This has been like this since ancient times, and it can be eradicated."

"Brother Changjun, you have also seen that these two scumbags have been asking for bribes on the openly. I don't know how long it has been doing evil. I suspect that the patrol officers above, the police chief and the police chief, are all in a mess. The Songjiang Police Station is completely ruined. The Public Security Department must intervene in a comprehensive rectification. All the black police must be recorded. All illegal gains must be confiscated and they will lose their entirety. If the circumstances are serious, they will be sent to the hard labor camp."

Li Fushou became more and more angry as he said, knocking his fingers hard on the small table, and continued, "It's lawless. I suspect there is more serious corruption in other places. A comprehensive rectification operation will be carried out in the entire Red River Valley. Taking the bad example of Songjiang Police Station as an example, it is not only the police system, but also the tax, banks, administrative and corporate units that are prone to corruption. They all screened me carefully and pulled out all the corrupt parasites."

"Yuan Ding, is this... the attack surface wide?" Xin Changjun was a little worried.

"No, I don't want the Red River Valley to become a world that bullies the weak. This is not a beautiful home for immigrants in my mind. I don't care about how powerful European countries or the Qing Dynasty embezzled and solicited bribes everywhere, and colluded with officials and businessmen, it is absolutely impossible here."

"But the government is now ours, some are disciples of the Hongmen and some are backbone of the Communist Party. Will doing so destroy your foundation?

"I would rather not have such a foundation, and I will be punished severely." Li Fushou looked serious and afraid of others. He said word by word; "Did I treat these old people who have created the current situation in the Red River Valley with me? Which one is not a rich and luxurious house or courtyard, and which one has no corporate shares? Anyone who earns at least hundreds of pounds per year will earn as many as thousands of pounds per year, and there are many who earn tens of thousands of pounds per year. Now, in just a few years, it has become like this. I must kill a group of people and lock up a group to deter the law and let them understand a truth;

You can take what I give you. If I dare not give you, I will chop off your hand if I dare to stretch out my hand. If I dare to stretch out my foot, I will chop off your foot."

Seeing that the count had made up his mind, Xin Changjun could only salute silently. He knew that the Red River Valley would launch a thunderous anti-corruption campaign in the future. I am afraid that a large number of prominent big shots would be brought down. This was purely self-inflicted.

I really didn’t expect that a skewer would have such a result. I wouldn’t have come if I had known it, so why bother!

Since ancient times

Corruption in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad is a stubborn disease, which leads to the corruption of the administration, extremely low administrative efficiency, and public resentment. All of them are deeply troubled by them.

The same is true for France and the United States, which are proud of liberal democracy. The New York Water Service began to build a new office building in 1871, but it has not been completed after 11 years.

The construction funds of $178,000 were increased again and again, but now the cost is as high as $2.32 million. The new office building has not been completed. The price of a crystal chandelier in the director's office is as high as $3,400. Who dares to believe it if you say it?

If calculated at 20 US dollars per ton of steel, the value of this crystal chandelier is equivalent to 170 tons of steel and 34 bulletproof carriages, which is simply incredible.

Only then could Xin Changjun, the officials who had served in the Qing Dynasty, were very satisfied with the current administration of Honghe Valley, so he could say "the administration of the administration was clear and clear".

But this still did not meet Li Fushou's request. Just half a day later, Hongbao appointed Tian Shan, deputy director of the Secretariat, as the newly established investigation director, and dispatched a large number of new students who had just worked for one or two years and some honest officials to form an investigation office with great power to start digging deeper.

Songjiang Police Station has been arrested from ordinary Royal Mounted Police to patrol officers, and the police chiefs have all been arrested. The police station with more than 120 people has fallen to most of them. Many of them are retired soldiers who have shed blood and sweat, which have been corroded in this short period of time.

Depending on the circumstances of the crime;

In this corruption case, more than 30 people, including the police chief, deputy chief and fragmented sheriff, were thrown into a hard labor camp. What awaited them was endless hard work. They repent of their sins during the transformation, and all their property was confiscated, totaling 197,600 pounds and 18 shillings and five pence. There were also a large number of corporate shares held, which were not inferior to the former.

The remaining 40 people had a good attitude of confessing, either confiscating illegal gains and scavenging police uniforms and expelling them from the police force, or recording serious violations and withdrawing stolen money and imposing fines, or being snatched from demotion and salary reduction, or being transferred to remote township police districts.

at the same time

Some backbone police officers with good performance in scenic spots in remote towns and towns were transferred to Songjiang Police Station, and some enthusiastic new students were filled with. The relevant disciplines and regulations were strictly studied and included in the archives as an important basis for police assessment.

Taking the corruption case in Songjiang Police Station as the trigger point, a vigorous corruption purge was launched across the entire Red River Valley sphere of influence, which almost affected all government departments and enterprises, including Fei Laochun, a group of bigwigs, were dismissed.

Fat Laochun, the gold, silver treasures, cash and other items seized in his mansion were worth up to 317,000 pounds, and the equity of important companies such as Huitong Bank was also quite large.

Just as the Red River Valley was fully rectified, a large Dutch fleet quietly arrived at the Lucky Bay more than 40 kilometers southwest of Port Moresby, Shangri-La Island.

Shangri-La Island is about 2,400 kilometers long east-west. The Dutch landing fleet needs to circumnavigate through the westernmost Paradise Island, with an average speed of 11 knots and a total range of more than 2,900 kilometers.

The time of final arrival is accurately calculated to determine the moment before dawn.

April 3, 1882

It was around five o'clock in the morning and it was still dark.

With a hint of morning light, a huge fleet led by the cruiser "Seven Provinces" has arrived at Lucky Bay. There are countless tall masts on the sea, and the front and rear masts have all been put away. Only some secondary sails and front inclined masts are used to adjust the direction and move forward slowly.

The cruiser "Seven Provinces" and another 1,150-ton steam ironclad ship "Lupeff" also put away the mainmast sails and slowly cruised on the periphery of the landing ship, vigilantly monitoring the direction of Port Moresby.

Reliable news from Chinese businessman Sheng Yeyun shows that there are no more than 4 Seagull-type high-speed patrol ships stationed in Port Moresby. They go out to sea for inspection every morning and return in the evening.

According to its speed calculation, it is possible to search for the sea surface in an area of ​​about 150 to 180 kilometers near Port Moresby, and the Lucky Bay is just within its patrol range.

On this quiet morning, a major event is happening that shocks the world.

"Great man, this is simply an easy outing in the countryside." Yang Cork Burkov, commander of the Royal Task Force of the Dutch East Indies, swept away his serious expression, as if he had removed a huge load of ten thousand kilograms of loads, and every pore revealed comfort.

The landing fleet arrived at the landing site safely, indicating that the fleet escort mission was perfectly achieved.

"God bless my powerful Royal Navy, Lieutenant General Commander, and I feel infinite glory. Our equally powerful Royal Army will surely drive this group of Queensland robbers into the sea. I highly look forward to this." Sheng Yeyun quickly flattered.

"No, no..." Yang Kok Burkhoff shook his finger seriously, smiled mysteriously in Sheng Yeyun's surprised gaze, patted his shoulder and said, "After returning, you will be the Lord Baron, and in the future, you will be the Karbidan who ruled the Chinese and other ethnic groups. I should respectfully call you Lord Sir Sheng. The title "below" cannot be mentioned anymore, because you are already a noble Dutch noble."

"Hahaha... Thank you Commander for your kind words, here... Oh, I am very honored."

"I'm not a good word, my dear friend, this is the truth."

"Ah...yes, yes, I've...hehe..."

The commander, who was unrestrained and laughed along the way, actually started to make fun of him. Sheng Yeyun was so happy that he couldn't stop talking and his words seemed incoherent.

On the sea

As many as 14 Dutch warships and nearly 20 three-masted cargo sailing ships gathered. This was after a brief rest in the stream camp, the Joint Fleet sailed along the coastline for 5 days and 5 nights, and finally arrived at Lucky Bay on time.

The sea was covered with wooden sampans of all sizes, and were sending fully armed soldiers and equipment to the Shanghai shore. The landing troops had a total of 3,760 officers and soldiers, and there were 24 95mm field howitzers and more than 80 heavy-duty carriages in three companies, as well as a large number of logistics supplies to accompany them.

This part of the logistics supply is enough to maintain high-intensity combat consumption for three months, and it takes a whole day to transport it to the ashore.

During the Napoleonic era, a French infantry division was equipped with two companies of artillery, and the Dragoon Division was also equipped with two companies of artillery. Each artillery company was equipped with eight artillery, each of which was equipped with seven gunners, and the other soldiers were composed of drivers and gun guard infantry.

The Royal Dutch Army is similar to that, each artillery company is equipped with eight field howitzers, each artillery is equipped with 8 gunners, and another two drivers are responsible for dragging the cannon trucks and ammunition trucks, and are equipped with nearly 100 gun guard infantrymen.

Each artillery company needs 23 heavy-duty carriages, not only carrying artillery and heavy shell boxes, but also carrying a large amount of black beans and forage for horses to eat. Each company also has a special groom, blacksmith who is responsible for nailing horseshoes, repairing wheels, leather craftsmen who repair leather harnesses, saddle harnesses, etc.

Lucky Bay

The experienced Dutch quickly found a landing point suitable for heavy equipment. First, several small sampans paddled over, and the sailors arranged them side by side, took out thick wooden boards that had been prepared long ago and connected them.

The small sampan was swaying on the sea surface, and several engineers simply jumped into the waist-deep sea, raised their sledgehammers and started to work. Soon the long wooden boards were connected to the coast, forming a flat bridge.

At this time, a hundred tons of sloop sailed over. It could be seen that the deck had been transformed and completely rectangular. All unnecessary winches and sail cables were removed. It leaned firmly on both sides of the bridge and was anchored quickly with the bridge through thick long wooden boards, forming a temporary dock.

The three-masted sailboat carrying cannons quickly leaned forward and lifted cannons and horses to the temporary dock through the pulley set on the ship. For a moment, the horses neighed and shouted, making it very lively.

The engineers who came ashore first began to measure. They were about to establish temporary strongholds and temporary forts in this bay to prevent the disconnection of the logistics supply line. At the same time, they sent several teams of men into the depths of the jungle and prepared to open up roads.

Once the battle of attack begins, there will be no amount of ammunition consumed.

The artillery company carried with the vehicle was not enough. Logistics and supplies bases must be established in the rear to continuously transport ammunition to the front. Therefore, it is extremely important to set up temporary turrets and bases in Lucky Bay to defend.

If the attack is not smooth and the two sides are in a long stalemate, the logistics base located in Lucky Bay will be very critical.

This is the sea life supply line for the landing troops ahead. As long as there is no shortage of ammunition and food socks, the Royal Dutch Army can be firmly stuck here like nails, forming a situation where you have me and I have you, creating favorable conditions for the final negotiation.

After hitting a hard nail, the Dutch knew;

It seems that this island cannot be completely taken back. As long as you can eat a large piece, you will have an explanation to the domestic people.

Although the Netherlands has a small country and a small population, low-level countries have always been tough and unwilling to suffer losses. Over the past few hundred years, they have suffered great losses at the hands of the British, and others really don't take it seriously.

In the Dutch's opinion;

The Earl of Queensland is just a British colonial nobleman. There are dozens or hundreds of Tumen kings who have been canonized by Queen Victoria (Empress of India) in the Indian subcontinent. One Earl of Queensland is really not an important figure.

After all, it was the Dutch who encountered a tough nail at sea that was unconvinced and wanted to compete on land.

The main battlefield is chosen in the Moresby area.
Chapter completed!