As the Dutch lifted the sea blockade of Bacheng, the war situation on West Java began to spread to all directions. When the news arrived in Borneo, the various Chinese forces on the island were confused. Only then did they realize how thick the waist of Beihai Town was. It would be a matter of minutes for them to deal with themselves.

So whether it was Dongwanlu's Lanfang company or Heshun company, the top figures could not sit still. They no longer dared to send an envoy to make contact. Instead, they carried gold and diamonds and other gifts, and Babaer came by boat on a boat. Among the people from all the families, Lanfang company moved the fastest. But this is normal. Who can occupy the estuary of the Capus River, the busiest shipping?

Luo Fangbai has been staying in the sub-hall of Xinbu these days, and he returned to Dongwanlu once during this period. So as soon as the news arrived, he took Wu Yuansheng, Jiang Wu and others on the merchant ship heading to Bacheng the next day. He knew very well that if he wanted to continue to grow the career of the Lanfang Society in West Borneo, he had to hold the thigh of Beihai Town tightly.

Three days later, when Luo Fangbai sailed into Bacheng Harbor on a boat, he saw neither the rumored "Jinglei" nor the "Nanhua No. 1" that once appeared on the Kajiang River. Instead, nine sailing ships of different sizes were quietly parked on the water in the port. Although the huge "VOC" at the stern of the ship had not been replaced, the flags on the top of the mainmast had been replaced with the Red Flag of the North Navy, and it was possible to see soldiers with guns walking back and forth on the decks of each ship.

"Oh my God! Beihai Town has made a lot of money this time!"

Wu Yuansheng, holding a telescope, stared with eyes wide open, and looked envious. Although he has been in Southeast Asia for so many years, he has never seen so many large sailboats gathered together. No wonder he has been dominating Dai Yan for more than ten years, but Dai Yan is in the inland West Borneo and can only trade with Lan Fang on the Capus River.

Jiang Wu, who was standing beside him, said: "I heard from people from Zhanglin that the King of Zhao has now lived thousands of miles away from the pass, and the court has lost even the land of Longxing. Their large iron ship has even been to Dagukou."

"Where is Dagukou?" Wu Yuansheng is also from Jiayingzhou, but he is not familiar with the north and has been away from his hometown for many years, so he no longer cares about things on the mainland.

Jiang Wu thought for a while and said, "Well, it should be in the northeast of Shandong. I heard that it is very close to the capital, and it seems to be more than 300 miles."

"Oh~~~" Wu Yuansheng nodded, but he said curiously: "Fifth brother, I don't understand. Since they have all hit the door of the capital, why don't they enter the capital in one go?"

"Yuansheng, the capital is not so easy to fight!" Jiang Wu smiled and continued to explain with the rumor he heard from Guangdong: "That is the place where the emperor is, guarding more than 100,000 troops."

Wu Yuansheng suddenly sighed and said sadly: "Stop talking about the capital, I have never been to Guangzhou City. I am afraid I will not be able to go back to this life."

His words happened to hit the worries of the Hakka people on the ship, and everyone was silent. At this time, Luo Fangbai, who was standing not far behind the two, suddenly said, "Yuan Sheng, you may not be like this. We may be able to go back to Jiaying to take a look soon."

"Hey!" Wu Yuansheng slapped his forehead and thought to himself, why did he forget this! As long as he was satisfied with the "true Buddha" in Bacheng, everything was possible.

Luo Fangbai smiled slightly with his gray beard, and then turned his gaze to the dome of the Bacheng Church in the distance. He had heard before he came that the Northern Navy could defeat the Dutch this time because the King Zhao, who only heard of his name but did not see him, was in charge of command. He didn't have much confidence in how to deal with such a person.

Because there are a lot of merchant ships to the port today, Luo Fangbai and his team waited for a while before a water diverting boat came over. After the staff of Bacheng Customs boarded the ship, when they learned that these people were coming to visit King Zhao from West Borneo, the two customs clerks from Zhangzhou couldn't help but look a little proud, thinking that you Hakka guys finally knew how to bow their heads.

While checking the list of goods, a clerk spoke in Fuzhou vernacular and said in a serious tone: "Do you have opium in the goods? Don't blame me for not mentioning it in advance. If you have any private hiding it, then hand it over it early. Once you go ashore or sell it or smoke it, you will find that one pound is beheaded and there is no negotiation. If you are less than one pound, you will be sent to the plantation for six months."

A group of West Borneo guests were shocked when they heard this, thinking that what rules were this? Wu Yuansheng was not angry and laughed, "It's funny! Will I be beheaded even if I suck it?"

"I hate opium the most in Beihai Town. Old King Zhao said that opium is a poisonous substance, which can harm people's hearts and will lose their wealth. If poisoning is caused by the world, the disaster will be severe than the floods and beasts, so the law should be strictly followed."

Wu Yuansheng laughed and was about to say that Beihai Town was making a big fuss, Jiang Wu, who was beside him, hurried forward and bowed to the clerk: "Please rest assured. I am here to visit King Zhao. How dare I carry prohibited items and break the local laws?"

Afterwards, when the customs officers issued a document to allow the landing and said goodbye, Jiang Wu said to Wu Yuansheng: "Brother Wu, I heard of it in Guangzhou City. In his early years, King Zhao had launched a large iron ship to bombard the forts of the Portuguese Macau and the Portuguese Macau in his early years. Do you know why?"

"I would like to ask my fifth brother for advice."

Seeing everyone coming, Jiang Wu said: "The Englishmen once opened a warehouse there and stocked up goods, including many opium; as for the Portuguese, they also smuggled a lot to Guangdong. At that time, the entire Hengqin Island was beaten into a sea of ​​fire, and the fire lasted for three days and three nights before it was extinguished, and the umbrella of Macau was also bombed in pieces."

Everyone looked at each other and heard Luo Fangbai say, "Since that's the case, you must not bring opium to the ashore, which will break other people's rules. If you are addicted, then go back to the boat and suck it all."

"As long as Brother Luo's instructions!"

After the group took the water diversion boat to the customs office, they followed the passage to apply for a temporary identity card. Fortunately, there were people who had been to Beihai Town before and knew the rules inside. In order to avoid the attention of those who were interested, Luo Fangbai and Wu Yuansheng did not use their real names when registering, but used Luo Fangbai and Wu Sheng.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! All written registration procedures were very smooth, but when it was time to take a big head photo, trouble came. Luo Fangbai, the one in the front, was under the command of Luo Fangbai, when he saw the first photo of his life, his throat burped, his eyes turned pale, and he was shocked on the spot. After seeing the photos on the ground, Luo Fangbai, Wu Yuansheng and others, they were all shocked.

Since Zhao Xin came, the Military Control Commission took advantage of the Dutch's opportunity to launch an aggressive war and began to take photos of residents inside and outside the city in batches and make ID cards, and the customs also had to take photos of those entering the country.

Don’t think this is easy. Before implementing this measure, the Bacheng Military Control Commission not only posted notices, but also broadcast it in the loudspeaker for several days. As local Chinese leaders, the Huang family, Wang family, Lin family and other wealthy families were ordered to take the lead in participating. After that, they had to publicize it widely to the residents in the city to eliminate their misunderstandings.

Not to mention, at the scene where I was applying for an identity card, two Dutch spies were found. Both of them were scared to pee when taking big photos. As a result, this matter came to the mouths of the common people. As a result, the men in Beihai Town had a "demon mirror" in their hands. Anyone who did not do anything bad was fine, as long as they were spies for the Dutch, their true colors were revealed after they were taken.

Although Luo Fangbai, Wu Yuansheng and Jiang Wu were also terrified of the clear and realistic photos of the big heads, they all participated in a series of fighting and even wars to gain their current status. It is okay to fool the foolish people like monsters, so they will not be afraid!

Faced with such a situation, the customs officers who had seen a lot of people first took out their ID card and work permit with a big head photo to show to Luo Fangbai and others; then they took out fixed words that they had memorized and said that this set of things was found in the Northern Song Dynasty seven hundred years ago, but later because of the war, the method gradually became lost.

"Can the people of Song used it before, but not today? What a joke!"

After hearing the slightly sarcastic ridicule of the customs clerk, Wu Yuansheng couldn't help but say, "Don't look at people in the pinhole! I'll be the one who is here first!"

It was a brief statement. A group of people from Lanfang's company went through some troubles. Finally, they each had a temporary identity card and came out of the door on the other side of the customs office in a daze. They were all covered in white sweat. Then they entered the city and found a hotel to check in. The shopkeeper indeed asked everyone's identity cards to read them one by one, and then registered them on the booklet, so that the guest asked them to take them to the room to settle down.

After washing and changing clothes, Jiang Wu hurried to the Military Control Commission building across the river with the letter written in advance. It was not until dinner time, so Luo Fangbai called Wu Yuansheng and planned to go out for a walk. He had heard Jiang Wu say before that the public security in Bacheng was very good, so in order not to attract attention, he only brought two of the best subordinates.

When they walked out of the hotel and came to the canal, a beautiful sound of silk and bamboo came from their ears, and there was even a female voice singing. However, when the two looked around, they could not see the restaurant and tea shop at all, and they couldn't help but feel confused.

What surprised them even more was that the rumored that the beautiful Bacheng Canal had become a large construction site. Not only the water in the canal was washed away, but a large group of workers were waving shovels to dig the mud; some of the coconut trees originally planted on the river bank were also cut down, and some were digging the roots with iron picks.

Although Wu Yuansheng called himself "The Lord of Dai Yan", he was actually just a general under Luo Fangbai. As long as Luo Fangbai is still there, he would not be able to become king. Seeing the scene in front of him, he was a little curious and found a worker who was digging the roots of a tree nearby and asked in close proximity.

"Brother, why did this beautiful coconut tree be cut down?"

Although the worker heard Wu Yuansheng speaking Chaozhou dialect, he must be a person with status when he saw that he was dressed in gorgeous clothes. He could just take a break after borrowing the reply. Then he stopped his work, wiped his sweat with a towel around his neck, and bowed and said, "It's so that the master can know. The adults of our Military Control Commission said that oil palm will be planted on both sides of the river bank in the future, and coconut trees are useless."

“What is oil palm?”

"Well, I heard that it is a tree that can grow oil, which can squeeze a lot of oil. Not to mention the city, there are still a lot of planting outside the city." The worker's throat shook for a moment and said excitedly: "The radio said that in a few years, we will not be short of oil."

"Oil grows on the tree? How much oil can a tree produce?" Wu Yuansheng felt a little unbelievable. Although there are Chinese people in Daiyan Country who grow rapeseed and squeeze oil, how much oil can acre of land produce?

The worker pulled his finger and calculated it, then said, "It's about forty or fifty kilograms, I also heard it from the radio."

Wow! Not to mention Wu Yuansheng, even Luo Fangbai, who was standing behind him, was shocked when he heard it. However, when he heard the other party mention "radio" twice, he asked, "Do you dare to ask what radio is?"

The worker knew that the people in front of him must have been here for the first time, so he looked around and pointed at the heretic for more than ten meters: "That's the radio. Listen, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" are being played inside!"

Luo and Wu came to the pillar with big horns, looked up for a while, and then they realized that the sound of silk and bamboo that they had just heard was actually coming from the two gray horns above their heads, and they couldn't help but be surprised.

"Brother Luo, what's the reason? How can someone hide in it and sing music?"

Luo Fangbai was a scholar and traveled across the ocean to Pontianak because he failed the provincial examination many times. When he first arrived, he taught for two years. His cultural level was already a top figure in West Borneo, and it was precisely this way that he was supported by a group of low-level immigrants. But although he read a lot of books, he couldn't tell the reason about what he saw.

Whether it is the identity card, the big head photo, the "oil palm" in the workers' mouths and the "broadcast" in front of him, he felt incredible. The methods of governing the people in Beihai Town are strange everywhere, making Luo Fangbai, who had just arrived in Bacheng, feel like he fell into the clouds and mist, and he is increasingly interested in meeting the legendary "King of Zhao".

Speaking of which, although Zhao Xin made a public appearance in Bacheng, not many people know his specific appearance; except for Huang Mianshe, ordinary people have only seen him from afar. So in the rumors in the market, Zhao Xin was portrayed as nine feet tall, with ears looming shoulders, hands over knees, and even double pupils in his eyes and a correct sun horn.

Seeing that Brother Luo didn't recognize him, Wu Yuansheng was stunned for a while and suddenly suggested going to the port for the fortress to see the Northern Navy's cannon. Now this thing is famous in Borneo.

"Hey~~ Yuan Sheng, how could ordinary people see such powerful weapons in military and national affairs?"

"Brother Luo, even if you are far away, you can check the layout of the fort. Maybe we can use it when we return to Pontianak."

Luo Fangbai knew that the other party was right, so he nodded and agreed. Before, when they were taking the water diversion boat, they saw the forts on the left and right sides of the shore. The fort was on the southwest side of the dock, farther away, while the fort was on the east side of the canal, closer to it.

The four of them walked through the wooden bridge built on the dry canal, then walked northward, and then to the coast, walking under the castle's exterior wall, and the fort was three hundred meters away.

Sure enough, when they came to the fort two hundred meters away, they saw a big sign on the ground with the words "Military important land, strictly forbidden to cross". In addition, they also made a big red cross. However, the four people's eyes were only on the sign for a moment, and were attracted by the few people dozens of steps behind the sign.

I saw a tall man wearing a straw hat sitting in front of an iron rack, holding a palm fan and slapping it. The iron rack was filled with white smoke, as if it was baking something. A few steps behind the man, a burly man sat steadily on the stool, looking at Luo Fangbo and the other two.

Wu Yuansheng wrinkled his nose and thought to himself that he was actually grilling prawns?

Through the curling smoke, I saw an extremely pretty young woman running and jumping on the beach opposite the man. As the sea breeze blows, her long hair, like a cloud and a waterfall, appears very elegant and lively. And under her feet, she is still following a big yellow cat.

The man holding the fan had already seen Luo Fangbai and the other four. He was about to get up to greet him when he saw the woman picking up something by the sea. He held it with his hands and ran to the man, raised his hand and spilled it at him. Although the man hurriedly dodged, some sea water still wet his clothes. The woman laughed happily when she saw this.
Chapter completed!