In the entire Adan archipelago, there are actually few islands suitable for human habitation.

The Adan archipelago is made up of several archipelagos, including the Egmont Islands in the southwest, the Salomon Islands in the northeast, and the Perus Badanius Islands in the north, with a total of more than 2,000 islands and a total area of about 60 square kilometers.

Zhenghe Island, the largest island in the Adan archipelago, covers an area of 27 square kilometers, a reef area of 174 square kilometers, and a central lagoon area of about 150 square kilometers.

Since the first batch of immigrants arrived on Zhenghe Island in 1909, Zhenghe Island has become the most important supply base in the Indian Ocean, and now there are about 3,000 residents living on Zhenghe Island, of which more than 80 percent are mercenaries of the Umbrella Company and their families, and the remaining 20 percent are supply base staff.

Zhenghe Island in March is beautiful and sunny, it is located in the center of the Indian Ocean, the climate is mild all year round, the average annual temperature is 24~29 °C, and the absolute maximum temperature rarely exceeds 32 °C.

Zhenghe Island's main income comes from providing supplies for passing ships, the island has built warehouses for storing high-quality thermal coal and fuel oil, with the improvement of long-distance technology, more and more ships choose to dock on Zhenghe Island to replenish supplies, there is a small hospital and a primary school on the island, Huang Liang applied to build a middle school on the island last year, but because of the lack of teachers, the middle school has not yet been built.

"In three months, our first primary school students will be graduating from primary school, should we let them go to secondary school in Port Edward? So this issue must be resolved before the start of the school year in the second half of the year. "Zhu Jun is responsible for the families of the mercenaries on the island, although the population of Zhenghe Island is small, but the number of students is large, nearly 150 students have graduated from primary school this year, and it is imperative to establish a middle school.

"I know, I know, my daughter is graduating this year, and I don't want my daughter to go to high school in Port Edward." Huang Liang also has a headache for this problem, Zhenghe Island is not short of money, the ships that come and go to add coal is hundreds of thousands of tons, casually it is a few hundred rands, it is more than enough to build a school, the problem is that there are no teachers, there is no school built, Nyasaland has high requirements for public schools.

In public schools in Nyasaland, it is not enough to have physical facilities, but also excellent teachers, not to mention that they must graduate from the Faculty of Education of the University of Nyasaland, or at least they must graduate from the Nyasaland Normal School.

When the public education system was first established in southern Africa, there was a shortage of teachers, and at first teachers could enter schools as long as they could spell words.

Now this situation is no longer possible, and now in Nyasaland, if you want to become a teacher, you have to take the corresponding teacher qualification examination, and you can only go to school to teach after obtaining the corresponding teaching qualification.

The prerequisite for taking the teacher qualification examination is that you must be proficient in Chinese and English, and if you are particularly good at Chinese, the conditions can be appropriately relaxed, but you must also pass oral English.

Although Zheng Ho Island is far from the mainland, the standards of public schools are still based on those of Nyasaland.

"You apply to the state government, I apply to the headquarters of the Adan company, as long as there are four teachers, you can ensure the smooth opening of the middle school-" Zhu Jun chicken thief, make full use of all the advantages, now the status of the Adan Islands is becoming more and more important, and the Nyasal government and the Adan company will also appropriately increase the importance of the Adan Islands.

"What about next year?" Huang Liang is excited, and it seems to be feasible.

"Continue to ask for it next year, let's give teachers who are willing to come to Zhenghe Island a higher salary, not afraid that no one will want to come." Now there are more than ten passenger ships and freighters docking at Zhenghe Port every day, and Zhenghe Port's daily income is more than 5,000 rand.

I have to say that the sailors on those ocean-going ships are very rich, the vast Indian Ocean, Zhenghe Island is more than 3,500 kilometers away from the nearest African continent, the crew and sailors on this route are generous, and all kinds of consumption after going ashore do not blink, the dried coconut that no one on the island has become a specialty of Zhenghe Island, and the fatty coconut crab is even more irresistible.

The coconut crabs on Zhenghe Island can grow up to four kilograms at the largest, and it's not a joke that one person can't eat one in one meal.

Dependent on the boats, Zheng Ho Island is very profitable, and there are now bars, hotels, and shops for the leisure and entertainment of sailors, and these businesses are also very lucrative, and when compared to the per capita income alone, Zheng Ho Island is probably the highest per capita income in southern Africa.

"Okay then, let's try-" Huang Liang's heart is excited, and he has to fight for his daughter Huang Liang, maybe he will turn his bicycle into a motorcycle.

Leaving Huangliang's office, Zhu Jun drove his all-terrain off-road vehicle back to the camp.

The port area and the living quarters on Zhenghe Island are clearly distinguished, and the mercenary camps are located between the port and living quarters, and the crew and sailors of the ships can only operate in the port area and cannot enter the island's living quarters.

Huangliang's office building is a three-storey granite building, and all the building materials on this island were brought from southern Africa, and they were all wooden buildings at first, but then the wooden buildings could not be used for a long time due to the sea breeze, and now the wooden buildings are slowly changing to stronger reinforced concrete buildings.

In fact, as long as it is carefully maintained, the use of wooden buildings on the island will not be too much of a problem, just paint it several times a year, and you can also choose as many bright colors as possible when choosing colors, so that the colorful buildings will look more beautiful and more island style.

This is the case of Zhenghe Island now, some people replace wooden buildings with reinforced concrete buildings in order to do it once and for all, and more people use colored paint to decorate their homes, white or blue roofs, with red or yellow walls, hidden in the coconut groves everywhere, just like the tropical beauties with all kinds of charm.

Thanks to the company's efforts, the road conditions on the island are also very good, and there is a high-standard two-way four-lane asphalt road around the island, which is flanked by dense coconut groves and cocoa trees, interspersed with palm trees that are not taller but more tropical.

The inner side of the road is scattered with colorful houses, most of which retain the common wooden building style of southern Africa, but also began to appear more Chinese carved beams and painted buildings with arches and cornices, this kind of architecture has also become popular in southern Africa in the past two years, especially in the street parks, more and more octagonal pavilions with oriental characteristics have appeared.

The same is true for Zhenghe Island, there is such an octagonal pavilion not far from each living area, residents can rest in the pavilion, and many pavilions are next to small bridges and flowing water with oriental traditional charm, so that everyone who comes to Zhenghe Island is pleasantly surprised.

Not only the Chinese are surprised, but the whites are also surprised, they don't care about any cultural invasion or not, just look good.

The mercenary camp on Zhenghe Island is not large, and the parking lot is only five or six acres in size, and the mercenaries of less than 200 people are equipped with 16 armored vehicles that showed their skills during the World War, some of these armored vehicles were not used at all, and they were retired after the end of the World War, and the umbrella company took the opportunity to buy a lot at a low price.

As soon as the multi-purpose off-road vehicle entered the camp gate, Zhu Jun's deputy Zhang Liao hurried over.

"We caught two Britons who were inquiring about the former inhabitants of Zhenghe Island, and we found them with documents and weapons." Zhang Liao is highly vigilant, or rather, all the inhabitants of Zheng He Island are very vigilant.

This is no joke, 80% of the residents of Zhenghe Island are family members of mercenaries, and the remaining 20% are also family members of port staff, and agents cannot survive on Zhenghe Island at all.

"What about people?" Zhu Jun had already received the telegram from Adan Company, and jumped off the off-road vehicle with a sneer.

"Lao Chen is under trial." Zhang Liao led the way to the office, "Lao Chen" was a staff member of Brad's office, and he specialized in this aspect of interrogation.

On the desk in the office, there were a lot of bits and pieces, and Zhu Jun still habitually went to get his wallet first.

Unsurprisingly empty-

"I'll want to emphasize this aspect in the future, what if these people pass on information through coins?" Zhu Jun was very dissatisfied, the little cubs below ate meat, and Zhu Jun, the person in charge, couldn't even drink the soup, which was really unruly.

Zhang Liao rolled his eyes and pretended not to hear, the so-called upward and downward effect, he really can't blame his subordinates for being ignorant.

There are work permits in the wallet, all of which were issued by the colonial government of Mauritius, and Zhu Jun carefully checked that the documents were genuine and there was no problem.

In addition to the wallet and documents, there were also two short-barrel detective revolvers produced by the Nyasaland military industry, Zhu Jun looked at the gun number, and then copied it down and handed it to Zhang Liao.

"Send it to the Nyasaland military industry to verify it and see where these two guns come from." Zhu Jun is as meticulous as a hair, and the weapons produced by the Nyasaland military industry are numbered, and according to the number, the sales destination of the weapons can be found.

Zhang Liao hurried to the newspaper room with the number, and Zhu Jun came to the window and lit a cigarette with a gloomy expression.

Outside the window, a 10,000-ton cargo ship is slowly entering, and the deck of the ship is full of crimson and dark blue containers, the dark red containers belong to the Nyasaland Ocean Trading Company, the dark blue containers belong to the South African company, and the ocean-going freighters in the Indian Ocean, most of which belong to these two companies.

In the central lagoon outside Zhenghe Port, there are still more than a dozen ships waiting in line to enter the port, and such a scene happens every day in Zhenghe Port.

There was a rhythmic knock at the door, and it was Lao Chen from Brad's office who entered.

"It's been asked, MI6 agents, ordered to find the former residents of Zhenghe Island." Lao Chen's expression was tired but his spirits were high, he used to be MI5, and now he is MI6, an old opponent.