The journey starts from the Titanic

"Because the rebels blocked the news, our people had no time to report the incident. A kingdom officer fled to the Sarawak area of ​​the United Kingdom and sent back news. We only knew about it." The Dutch officer explained.

Hearing this, Colonel Van Basten's heart sank again and walked back to the governor's palace.

"what can we do?"

After hearing that Borneo was about to fall again, Governor Gullit did not furiously, but his face was calm, he was already frustrated.

"Yeah, what can we do?" Colonel Van Basten chewed these words bitterly, realizing that he really couldn't do much.

Borneo Island is the third largest island in the world. It is located on the equator and has a hot climate. Most of the island is covered by forests. It has very little developed land and a small population. Compared with Java’s population of over 100 million, Borneo Island is less than 8 million The population of is actually very different from the third largest island in the world.

Britain and the Netherlands partitioned the island of Borneo. The Sarawak and Brunei regions in the north are owned by the United Kingdom, which is almost the best place, and three-quarters of the land in the south is Dutch territory.

However, the Dutch have not paid much attention to the island of Borneo because of the low output of Borneo.In the hearts of successive governments in Jakarta, the status of Borneo Island is far less than that of Sumatra, and cannot be compared with the island of Java.

This may also have something to do with the Dutch only wanting to plunder the resources of the Indonesian archipelago and not wanting to develop local policies.Except for the oil in the Balikpapan area of ​​East Borneo, the Dutch rarely care about other areas of Borneo. This is also an opportunity for Meihua.

Cutting down forests, opening up farms, and engaging in a large number of forestry and planting industries are the strengths of the Chinese, and they are also forced out of strength.

In the process of developing Nanyang, they made great sacrifices, but they did not even have the minimum security guarantees. Not rebelling is still a dead end.

This can be seen from the exploitation by the Dutch and Indian authorities of Meihua's many investments in Borneo. In order to bring in more Chinese workers, Meihua had to spend a lot of money to buy local Dutch and Indian officials. Pay a poll tax for every Chinese worker!

Many Chinese workers came here by smuggling, but many were bought with money.Every year, Meihua Company has to subsidize a large sum of money to Chinese workers. These people have fallen into the hands of the Dutch, and they have long been full of resentment against the Dutch.

Intensified efforts to retake the lost things from the Dutch are the measures implemented by South China in Sumatra and Borneo. Therefore, after the army came, the financial representative of Meihua Company almost appeared and used rude ways to deprive the Dutch of their industry and influence the Dutch. It was uprooted in the occupied area of ​​South China.

it is necessary.In the future, South China does not need Dutch investment. The US-China Consortium and the William Consortium can fill the gap in Dutch funds at will.

Driving away the Dutch who occupy the pit without shit means that the Chinese in the future can continue to develop Borneo, attract more immigrants, develop the local economy more freely, and obtain better returns.

While the Sumatra war was in full swing, the South China Fifth and Sixth Division, under the leadership of Zhang Chengdong, began to fully occupy the Dutch Borneo. As soon as the ambush came out, it easily captured the big cities such as Pontianak and Machen and destroyed the Dutch and Indian authorities. The rule of Jakarta made Jakarta even worse.

Powerless.

This is a true portrayal of Jakarta Heyin Governor's Mansion.Almost every day, a large number of Dutch businessmen cried back to Jakarta, praying that the Government House would come forward to seek justice for them.

Governor Gullit was still in the mood to receive the wounded Dutch merchants, vowing to make up for what the Dutch merchants lost as soon as the kingdom's army arrives.

But every promise he made failed, and more and more Dutch businessmen came to complain, so he was troubled and simply disappeared.

Jakarta blocked the war on the front lines, but some Dutch businessmen with a keen sense of smell felt that things were not good, and various rumors were increasingly circulating on the island of Java, but the rumors of the Government House always lacked convincing reasons.So some merchants in Java began to sell their assets and began to flee from this land of right and wrong.

Of course some people will buy it.

Thomas, who had been paying close attention to the situation in Java, made a decisive decision and ordered the US and British businessmen entrusted by the Intelligence Agency to buy foreign investors' assets on the island of Java.

This action was supported by Situ Nan.The William Real Estate Company, the industry company of the William family, transferred 10 million US dollars into the account of the Intelligence Bureau through a secret channel, and commissioned the Intelligence Bureau to come forward and buy various industries on the island of Java.

Situ Nan, who has always been the owner of the island, clearly instructed Thomas to transfer the pleasant scenery of Bali to William Real Estate.

There are more than 10,000 islands in the Indonesian archipelago, enough to satisfy Situ Nan's greed for land and islands.At the same time, it is another way to use funds to support South China.

Naturally, Meihua Company followed suit into this feast.

Of course, deserted islands and island purchases are just small decorations. The real big investment is still Indonesia's oil and minerals.In this regard, Occidental Petroleum and South China made a secret and cooperated with each other. Behind the military offensive, they invaded a large number of Dutch oil interests in the Indonesian archipelago.

The situation in Borneo is a great threat to the Dutch Shell Oil Company. The Balikpapan area has a large number of Shell Oil Company's oil industries and is their oil production base in Asia.

After learning that South China's army was advancing to East Borneo, the representative of Shell Oil Company rushed into the Jakarta Governor's Mansion.

"Your Excellency, please send troops to wipe out the rebels on Borneo Island immediately to ensure that our oil fields will not fall into the enemy's hands." The Shell Oil Company representative said almost in a commanding tone.

"Sir, you don't know, now the kingdom has no soldiers to send."

Colonel Van Basten smiled wryly.

"How could this be? Didn't it just quell the rebellion in East Java? Didn't our fleet land in Sumatra?" The Shell Oil Company representative was a little dissatisfied with Colonel Van Basten's excuse.

"Our fleet was defeated in Medan, and the landing army also encountered difficulties. The current measure is to keep Java Island. As for the outer islands..." Governor Gullit smiled bitterly.

"How could it be like this?" The Shell Oil Company representative was blinded as soon as he heard it. He looked at the silent and ashamed people in the Governor's Mansion and immediately understood that it was impossible to count on Jakarta.

"Damn, you are so incompetent! Her Majesty's face has lost all of you. I want to report to Amsterdam! Oh! It's terrible. I...I'm going to find a British person."

The representative of Shell Petroleum Company left the Governor's Mansion with an ugly face, leaving everyone with embarrassed faces.

The capture of the oil fields in the Balikpapan area is indeed one of the major tasks of the Borneo Military Region. If the oilfields of the Balikpapan area are taken down, at least the military expenditure for sending troops will be reduced.

Before Shell could discuss measures, the South China Sixth Division led by Zhang Chengdong appeared in Balikpapan City, confiscated all the assets of the Dutch and Indian authorities, and imposed military control on the local area. The tens of thousands of lumberjacks at Meihua were transformed into The occupying forces of Borneo used their actions to fight for the future 100 acres.

"Report! Li Hanhun reported that they have surrounded the oil production base of Shell Oil Company and are now confronting Shell Oil Company's factory guards, requesting instructions."

An officer walked up to Zhang Chengdong and handed him the telegram.

This is the headquarters of the Borneo Theater in Machen.After taking down Ma Chen, Zhang Chengdong moved the headquarters to Machen City and dispatched 7000 people from the Sixth Division and a brigade led by Li Hanhun to seize the oil resources of Balikpapan.

"Shell Petroleum Company should not move them, just surround them first, tell Li Hanhun that they must be tough.

Except for Shell Oil Company, Dutch businessmen in the Balikpapan area should not be polite to them.Well, report this news to Medan."Zhang Chengdong said.

Had it not been for Shell Oil Company to have British shares, Zhang Chengdong would have taken the Balikpapan oil field as his own.

However, he did not expect that because of the oil dispute in Balibban, the British were almost involved in this war.

Zhang Chengdong then turned his attention to the map of the Java Sea.

Machen is a port city in southern Borneo, across the sea from Surabaya, a large city in East Java, only separated by the Java Sea.After Jakarta lost the East India Fleet, the Java Sea has become an undefended sea area.

As long as there are enough ships, Zhang Chengdong can lead his troops to land in Surabaya at any time and take down East Java in one fell swoop.

Zhang Chengdong looked at the map and looked at it, and drew and drew it, constantly calculating the plan for crossing the sea.

"I hope Medan will approve this plan soon! Otherwise, watching Sumatra have such a lot of fun, it would be too boring for Lao Tzu to stay in Borneo," he murmured.

Chapter 97

"The Borneo theater requires a cross-sea landing in Surabaya. What do you think?" He Wenxiu asked at the military meeting.

The situation is very good, his face is a little relaxed at the moment, not as rigid as usual.

"The force of Java Island is empty, and the success of landing in Surabaya is very high. But at present we have opened up multiple battlefields and our forces have expanded to the limit.

Before the war in Sumatra is known, it is not appropriate to open another battlefield.What needs to be reminded is that our expansion has caused anxiety among the British, and we should guard against the British."

Chief of Staff Marx?Bauer analyzed.

This is a serious view, and the officers of the staff nodded.August will enter in another month, and the rainy season in Sumatra is approaching, which will cause great inconvenience to operations and logistical supplies.