A person who came to buy a stock subscription warrant to redeem a lottery ticket found a silver ingot, Wang Xinyu looked at it from a distance, and felt that the silver seemed to be wrong, it looked much brighter and more beautiful than ordinary silver.

"Show this piece of silver to the official!" Wang Xinyu said.

Seeing the prince speak, the man didn't dare to slack off, and presented the "silver" to Wang Xinyu with both hands.

"It's not silver, how can it be used as silver?" Wang Xinyu took the beautiful "silver ingot" with a shiny white luster, put it in his hand, flipped it back and forth a few times, and asked.

"Back to my lord! It's not silver, but your bank recognizes it! This thing is equivalent to silver, and it is so beautiful, since the bank recognizes it, we grass people also recognize it! The man replied.

"How many of these ingots do you have? Hurry up and take it out! I bought it all from you at twice the price of silver! Wang Xinyu hurriedly said. Nonsense, that white shiny metal, but the most precious platinum in later generations! How was it used as silver by Nanyang Bank? The value of this thing is more expensive than silver, I don't know how many times!

"Back to my lord, there are still fifty taels in the grass people's house, so I'll go and bring it to my lord right away!" The man replied.

Wang Xinyu walked to the counter with the ten-tael platinum ingot: "Is there a lot of this kind of silver ingot in the bank?" I bought them all! I paid the bank double the price! ”

The bank teller replied, "It's not much, but it's not much, and our miners often find it when they mine gold." ”

President Zhao Changhui also came over, and after asking about the situation, he hurriedly bowed his hand to Wang Xinyu and said: "Lord Hui, this beautiful white metal is allowed to be used as silver in our bank, and now there are more than three thousand taels in the bank." ”

The president of this bank, Cho Chang-hye. Originally, it was the clan of the Song Dynasty, but after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, some members of the Zhao family clan who escaped by luck fled to Annam, and later some fled to Luzon. Since Wang Xinyu opened Borneo, Zhao Changhui, who is also one of the Chinese businessmen in Nanyang, has taken a stake in Nanyang Bank because of his excellent results. He was promoted to president by Mr. Pan.

"Good! You take it all, I buy it all! Wang Xinyu nodded.

Not long after, all the platinum in the bank was taken out, and Wang Xinyu bought all the platinum at a "high price".

Borneo is a mineral-rich island with abundant gold, silver and brass, and platinum in many gold mines. It's just that most people in this day and age have not yet realized the value of platinum. Except for the ancient Egyptians and the people of the ancient Middle East who knew the value of platinum, neither the Orientals nor Europeans of this era knew what was so valuable about platinum.

The shiny white metal, which is ancillated from the gold mines, is sold by the miners as something about the same value as silver. And Nanyang Bank saw that this metal was indeed beautiful, so it bought it at the price of silver.

However, gold mining by the Han Chinese was not all smooth sailing. Many local students also gradually learned the value of gold, and they tried every means to prevent the Han people from mining gold. For this reason, the escort of the Nanyang Company has not been less likely to clash with the local indigenous people. Around the gold mines, walls and barracks were built.

At first, the local Sulu natives did not know the value of gold, but with the arrival of a large number of Chinese merchants, they exchanged various commodities with them for gold, and the natives here understood. These golden metals they scooped from the river sand can be exchanged for many good things. Now there are people who go directly into their territory to mine. Isn't that tantamount to robbing them of their property? So the local tribe Tuwang organized people to come to stop it.

The Han Chinese, who were unsuspecting at first, were quickly killed by the natives because of their small manpower, and many of the gold miners were killed.

Upon learning of this, Mr. Pan was furious, and then sent a large number of armed guards to protect the gold mine, and clashed with the local natives. After killing a group of natives. The safety of the gold mine was temporarily protected.

"Are you interested in going to the gold mines in the upper reaches of the Kajiang River?" Wang Xinyu asked.

Zheng Xi and Zheng Jing promised to come down: "Go and have a look!" ”

Wang Xinyu took the two of them and set off on a boat upstream to a gold mine upstream.

The three of them went up the river by boat, and along the way, they saw the Ka River (Capuas River). Ships laden with food, weapons and ammunition sailed upstream. Ships coming down from the upstream carried precious metals such as gold and silver, as well as shiploads of timber, copper ore, and other goods.

"Gold mining and conflict with the local indigenous people will definitely happen when my uncle goes to the Americas. Although the natives are uncivilized savages, they also have brains, and over time, they will naturally understand the value of gold. When they come to stop us, we will use our swords and guns against them. Wang Xinyu said.

Zheng Xi asked: "Then let's go to Australia to mine gold, aren't there no indigenous people in that place?" ”

"Of course there are, but it's much less than in the Americas, where the population is sparsely populated, and the number of births in each tribe is not much, so it's easy to deal with if there is a conflict." Wang Xinyu knows that the total number of indigenous people in the entire Australia is probably less than 700,000, and there are not as many indigenous people as there are under the jurisdiction of a Sulu Tuwang on the island of Borneo.

The boat sailed upstream, entered a tributary, and continued upriver for a day and a night, as the river in front of it gradually narrowed and the volume of water became smaller, and finally became a stream that was impassable for boats. Wang Xinyu and the others could only get off the boat, change to a raft, and sail upstream with the raft supported by the soldiers.

The creek was not long, and the raft sailed for a morning before reaching a mining area upstream of the creek.

Wang Xinyu took Zheng Xi and Zheng Jing into the mining area, only to see that the woods around this gold mine had been cut down to create a large open field, and the cut wood was used to build a wooden fence, which was surrounded by a circle along the mining area, and there were barracks and towers in the wooden fence, and there was a tower about every twenty steps, on which archers stood archers. There are also four turrets made of earth and stones, on which are placed tiger squat cannons. This mining area is a relatively large gold mine, with more than 1,000 miners, and in order to protect these miners, Pan Liu sent a 300-strong escort team to serve as a guard mission. This convoy consisted of fifty archers, one hundred arquebusiers, fifty gunners, and one hundred pikemen. Each miner also underwent simple training, and each was issued a spear.

In the creek, miners use dustpans to carry sand dug from the gold mines. It is washed in the stream to remove the silt and fine sand, and then through the screening, the coarse sand particles are removed, leaving the gold sand. Finally, the gold sand is melted, and after a certain amount of processing, purified gold bars or gold leaves can be obtained.

Perhaps in order to "welcome" Wang Xinyu and their arrival, Wang Xinyu had just arrived at the mining area for a short time, and a bell of "Dang Dang Dang" rang on a tower. The sentry archers above shouted, "Ikuban is here!" Get ready for battle! ”

Hearing the bell, all the miners who were working in the creek ran back to the wooden fence, dropped their tools, picked up their spears, and stood behind the fence. The soldiers in the barracks rushed out of their tents, loaded arquebuses in their hands, and galloped behind the wooden fence to point their guns at the forest outside.

This time, Wang Xinyu brought fifty personal soldiers with him. plus Zheng Zheng's twenty personal soldiers and Zheng Jing's twenty personal soldiers, as well as more than 100 rowing sailors. All took up arms and prepared for battle.

Wang Xinyu stood on a fort and observed the primeval forest outside the wooden fence, only to see that in the lush jungle, there were faintly many figures shaking, and it seemed that there were a lot of Sulu natives attacking this time. These Sulu Shengfan's mouths let out Wang Xinyu's shouts that they couldn't understand at all. With a wooden spear and the most primitive earthen bow and arrow in hand, he slaughtered the mines.

The archers on the "whoosh" tower shoot several feathered arrows and burrow into the trees in the distance.

The bows and arrows used by the Nanyang Company escort are all strong bows, with long range and great power, and the bows and arrows of the natives cannot be compared with them. Archers can strike first outside of the range of the natives. Even the Sulu people were not afraid to go into range, and the armor on the archers was no problem blocking the bows and arrows of the natives.

The archers were quite good at archery, and the feathered arrows burrowed into the woods, and several screams were heard in the distance, and some natives fell from the arrows.

However, only a few screams were heard, and then the Sulu people in the jungle receded like the waters of the low tide and disappeared into the jungle. The voices of the natives faded away, and calm returned to the surroundings.

"Keep getting to work!" The head of the mine shouted to the miners.

As soon as the miners picked up their tools and were about to go to the creek to pan for gold, the bell on the tower rang again.

"Ikuban is here again!" The archers on the lookout mission shouted.

This time, the natives outside screamed "wow" louder, and it seemed that more people came. But these students just refused to enter the range of the Ming army, just shouted and screamed in the woods, and some people danced provocatively. After tossing for a while, the indigenous talent gradually retreated. But when the miners went to the creek again to get ready for work, the Sulu natives arrived again, forcing the miners to retreat to the wooden fence once again.

"These barbarians! They know that the attack is futile, and they use this method to delay our time! The mine owner said angrily. Since the convoy came here and built the fortifications, the natives have also come several times. However, under the well-armed blows of the convoy, the natives suffered heavy casualties.

The natives attacked the wooden fence, and the miners who were issued spears were able to fight with the soldiers. They stood behind a wooden fence with spears in their hands that were longer than the wooden spears of the natives, and stabbed them indiscriminately, so that the natives outside could not hurt the miners inside, while the miners could easily kill the natives outside.

The natives, who had suffered a big loss, changed their tactics, and instead of storming the mines, they specialized in attacking the miners who were panning for gold outside. After more than 100 miners were killed by the natives, the mine owner asked the convoy to build watchtowers to serve as guards.

Wang Xinyu shook his head in disappointment, and said to the mine owner seriously: "This is not a solution!" The natives have nothing to do anyway, they harass like this every day, how can you still open mines? Why don't you call more troops, take the initiative, destroy the earth kings here, and take out their lair? ”

"Who said the army wasn't called?" The mine owner said helplessly, "The chairman personally came with an army of 6,000, but as soon as our army came, these students hid in the jungle, the forest here is so big, and our army can't find them!" When we dispersed our forces to search, they concentrated their forces and wiped out a lot of people! When our large army arrived, they ran away without a trace! Our army suffered a loss, so they simply did not come, and had to rely on the convoy to protect the miners. They won't be able to capture our garrison anyway. ”

"Being harassed by them like this, the yield is too low, right? Gotta find a way to wipe out all of these creatures! Wang Xinyu said angrily.

"Speaking of which, we have too small a population! If there are enough of us, we will steadily cut down the forests, and push from the outside into the primeval forests little by little, and wait until all the forests around the gold mines are cut down, and see where these raw things go! Zheng Jing said. In fact, Zheng Jing still values the blood of the Han people, and he had heard that before the establishment of the Nanyang Company, the Han people who came to Borneo to make a living were brutally killed by local cannibals, and Zheng Jing was very angry about this.

In real history, the Spaniards and the Dutch brutalized the Chinese in Nanyang, and Zheng Jing also thought about sending troops, but in the end, because the Qing court cooperated with the Dutch, Zheng Jing was under great pressure, so he failed to send troops to Nanyang.

was reminded by Zheng Jingyi, Wang Xinyu thought of a way: "I have a way!" We can ask King Jin to recruit more Burmese! Let the Burmese come here to develop the forest and kill the people here! ”

"Not bad! That's a good idea! Use the Burmese to kill Sulu Shengfan! Zheng Xi laughed and said, "We can also ask King Gongchang to recruit some Annan people from Annan to kill Sulu Shengfan!" ”

"Hahaha!" All three laughed at the same time, rejoicing that they had come up with such a sinister and vicious plan.

Wang Xinyu stopped laughing: "It will take a while for King Jin and King Gongchang to transfer people over there, so I will go to Luzon Island first and transfer some of the Tartar captives over there to kill Sulu Shengfan!" This can be regarded as asking those Eight Banners soldiers to do something good for us! ”

After a period of time, a large number of Eight Banner soldiers who had been transformed into similar ones were transferred to Borneo Island by Wang Xinyu. When the Eight Banners captives arrived, they were given cutting tools and weapons and armor, and began to cut down the woods around the gold mines. When Sulu Shengfan attacked again, the Eight Banners fought fiercely with Sulu Shengfan. After two years of hard labor, their bodies were exercised, they were sent here, weapons were issued, food was improved, and their physique recovered quickly, and they were no longer the second-generation Eight Banners who had fallen after entering the customs. After seeing the blood, the most primitive fierceness in the Eight Banners was stimulated, and he regained the courage of his parents and ancestors.

Later, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan also transferred Burmese and Annam to Borneo to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the indigenous people of Sulu.

More than 300 years later, the article of Western human rights activists wrote: The development of Borneo was built on the basis of mass murder of Indonesians! The Indonesians are full of white bones, accusing Wang Yu, Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan, Zheng Jing and Zheng Xi of the crimes of this group of colonizers! (To be continued.) )