The port of Medan in this era is actually a big fishing village, the largest port in the Dutch East Indies is in Batavia, the Chinese call it "Coconut City", Medan is just an ordinary port on the island of Sumatra, if it were not for the seizure of the "Ark" this time, many mercenaries would not have even heard of this name.

Compared with the dilapidated docks, dilapidated facilities, and dilapidated buildings, the "Ark", which has just been built, is the most advanced immigration ship of this era, and it is like a golden phoenix in a chicken coop docked in the port of Medan, so it is no wonder that the officials of the Medan port would take risks.

As in southern Africa before there was no autonomy, the officials of the Dutch East Indies were all appointed by the Dutch government, so they did not care about the long-term development of the regional economy and the impact of their actions on the Dutch East Indies.

Because Don was to be in Port Elizabeth, the top commander of the Umbrella Company's mercenaries who led the team to the Lion City was David, who had just been appointed general manager of the Far East branch.

Now David is in the bridge of the "Nile Crocodile", holding a "clairvoyant" military telescope produced in Nyasaland to observe the port of Medan.

"Would you like a drink?" Captain Marcy Petty came to David with two cups of coffee, and placed the coffee on the counter in front of David.

"Thank you—" David put down his binoculars, really puzzled: "Why are the Dutch so stupid?" Don't they know that our lord will repay him? I heard that there are still dead people, and I don't know how many Dutch people will die this time to appease the lord's anger. ”

"Oh, the former sea coachman can only recall in his sleep the glory of the past, do you know why the Dutch hate us so much about the British Empire? It was by stepping on the corpses of the Dutch that we established the current empire on which the sun never sets, and the empire we are building now may have belonged to the Netherlands, so the behavior of the Dutch does not surprise me at all - "Marcy Petty is well aware of the grievances between England and the Netherlands, on the contrary, David, who has just been an Englishman for a few years, does not know the history of Britain:"—The Dutch have now lost the pioneering spirit of their ancestors, and they prefer to lend money to the enterprises of our country, They are also not willing to invest in entities in their own country, these Dutch people are short-sighted, stupid, greedy, and they simply do not want to understand how far the world has developed, let alone our southern Africa, in the whole world, southern Africa has not really made its own voice, I promise, give the Dutch a map, the vast majority of Dutch people certainly do not know where we are in southern Africa, so it is normal for them not to understand our southern Africa. ”

"Uh-huh-" David smirked, the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company would surely impress the Dutch.

"Sir, we've crossed the median line—" the first mate reminded in a low voice.

If, according to international practice, the Strait of Malacca, which has a narrow shipping channel, belongs to the Dutch East Indies on one side and British Malaya on the other, the Dutch and the British can receive a soft hand in collecting "tolls" from the middle line of the Strait of Malacca.

"It's okay, give the Dutch a bold, they don't dare to detain our Nile crocodiles now-" Marcy Petty is not worried, the Dutch are now under great pressure from the British government and the Southern African Federation, and if they dare to provoke, then the British government will also make the Dutch have a good memory.

"I'd like them to be detained, so it would save us a lot of trouble." David was a little regretful, just now David clearly saw that there were gunboats flying the Dutch flag in the port of Medan, but it was a pity that the "Nile crocodile" passed outside the port of Medan, but the Dutch gunboats did not move.

The Dutch's gunboats still used steam engines, and I don't know if they were "old ships" built in that era, so it's hard to say whether they can be started or not.

This surprised Davy that the Dutchman's gunboats were still the kind of wooden sail warships that had been obsolete for many years, and such warships could only be seen in museums in England now.

And there is only one.

There is a fort built by the Dutch outside the port of Medan, but it seems that the caliber of the artillery is not large, and the model is relatively old, which is estimated to be a good thing, used to scare and scare people, and if you really want to put it into battle, it is estimated that the effect is not as good as the mortars used by mercenaries.

As for the unkempt and lazy soldiers on the fort, according to the standards of the umbrella company, these people were not even qualified to sign up as mercenaries, so David really couldn't figure out how such a vulnerable colonial servant army ruled the East Indies, which covered an area of more than 1.9 million square kilometers.

"The Dutch ruled the East Indies by you Chinese—" Marcie Petty surprised David.

"Chinese?"

"Yes, it is you Chinese, in the East Indies, you Chinese are richer, more educated, easier to communicate, and easier to rule, so the Dutch rely on you Chinese to rule the natives of the East Indies, and then continue to provoke the contradictions between those natives and you Chinese, when the contradictions between you Chinese and the natives break out, the Dutch will appear as arbiters, and over time, the Dutch, the Chinese, and the natives of the East Indies will form the current interdependent and hostile relationship." Marcy Petty has been running at sea all year round, traveling all over the world, and is probably better aware of the situation in the East Indies than the East Indians.

"Then why was the Ark seized?" David was confused, the Chinese would not seize the ship transporting the Chinese.

"Don't blame me for speaking badly, David, the Chinese in the East Indies - some Chinese, even some Chinese in Malaya, are standard scum even by East Indian standards, in the East Indies and Malaya, the most harsh on those indentured slaves are the Chinese farmers, because there are too many Chinese in the Qing Kingdom, and there are almost endless resources, so indentured slaves are not worthy of pity-" Marcy Petty still spoke in a leisurely tone, as if not noticing how gloomy David's expression had been.

David was once tricked to Johannesburg as an indentured servant, and if Roque hadn't rescued him, David might have died in the dark mines.

After that, David went to the Rock Gold Mine, then became a mine security guard, and later joined the umbrella.

So when Marcy Petty said that "indentured servitude is not worthy of pity", David's face was so gloomy that it could be dripping, and his eyes were so red that it could burn.

"Are you okay?" Marcy Petty finally noticed David's bruised hand, and was taken aback by David's expression.

"Captain, you may not know that I was once a indentured servant." David took a deep breath and slowly calmed down.

"I'm sorry, I don't know—I didn't mean that—I-" Marcy Petty didn't expect David to have such a past.

"It doesn't matter, the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, hundreds of millions of Chinese, even if there is a scumbag in 10,000, there are tens of thousands, just clean it up slowly-" David understated, but Marcy Petty could hear the storm in David's words.

Ten hours later, the Nile Crocodile arrived at the transit camp set up by the Nyasaland Immigration Department in the Lion City.

There are many such transshipment camps in East Asia, large ones that can accommodate thousands of people, small ones that can accommodate hundreds, provide water and food, as well as basic medical care, and migrant boats traveling between Qing and southern Africa can rest in the camps for short periods of time.

The camp near the Lion City is one of the larger, with a capacity of more than 3,000 people, where the mercenaries would assemble and then dive in batches to Sumatra, on the other side of the strait.

When David arrived at the camp, Leo Ted, the East India commissioner of the Adan Company, was waiting in the camp.

"Wait—"

"Hard—"

After a brief pleasantries, Leo Ted handed over to David.

"During this time, this camp will be used by you, and all our staff will be withdrawn, this is the list of supplies in the warehouse, do you want to click it?" Leo Ted was on business, and the camp was bought by the Nyasaland Immigration Department and then entrusted to the Umbrella Company, which of course is now the property of the Adan Company.

"No, we won't use the supplies in the warehouse, you'd better put a seal-" David didn't even look at the list, the mercenaries had their own cooks and doctors, and they didn't need waiters, and Davy asked for a clean camp.

In fact, the conditions of the camp are not bad, the Nyasaland immigration department came forward, the camp covers a huge area, the immigration office even bought two nearby mountains together, the camp even has its own simple dock, the health is also good, although it often rains here, but there is not much mud in the camp, the roads are all hardened, which is very in line with the standards of Nyasaland.

"You'd better use them all, food and medicine have an expiration date, unless you leave before the warranty expires." Leo Ted stressed that mercenaries have always been extravagant, but extravagance is not allowed.

"Well, we shouldn't be here for too long." David didn't know when the Dutch would throw in the towel, but after the mercenaries took Medan, David would leave for Medan.

"Well, I hope you all the best, for Nyasaland-" Leo Ted took the initiative to say goodbye to David, the mercenaries were a little too much equipment, and Leo Ted didn't give Davy trouble.

"For Nyasaland!" David has a good attitude.

The first batch of mercenaries who followed David to the Lion City consisted of 800 men, carrying weapons and supplies for a week, and merchant ships and transports would arrive at the camp to bring more mercenaries and more equipment.

David sent scouts to Medan the night he arrived at the camp, and the Dutch were doomed this time anyway.