On October 25, the second year of the revival of the Ming Dynasty, the largest city in the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, Kunjiang Port, south of Pontianak.

The fleet led by the Ming third-class battleship slowly sailed into the port under the guidance of a water diversion steamer. The water surface here is similar to that of Basra Port, which is as narrow and rugged as that of sailboats of all sizes.

The deck of the Ming Dynasty was full of officers and sailors, both from Britain and France. The captain of the Ming Dynasty was named James He Bo, who was the British naval colonel and the principal of the Ming Dynasty Huangpu Naval Officer School that had been opened. The British and French naval officers on this ship were all instructors of this military academy that trained talents for the Chinese navy. They are now all standing neatly on the deck in uniform, and they all looked at the scenery in front of them with curious eyes.

Luo Xiangmei, Maria Clementina, Liu Peng and Engels were all standing on the tall rear deck of the Ming Dynasty, holding a telescope to look at everything in front of them.

The Port of Pontianak was presented to them.

Crowded, dirty, messy... There are also several magnificent Western-style buildings standing among a large number of slums that look a bit dilapidated. These Western-style buildings are all the offices of foreign companies from various countries in Lanfang, and the most magnificent of them is the building of the Lanfang Branch of HSBC Bank. The huge European-style bell tower stands tall and is the commanding height of the entire Pontianak, which seems to be telling everyone who is the master of the entire Borneo economy. Those ragged shacks are mostly made of bamboo and wood, and they are just a place to live. Those who live in them are Chinese immigrants who have just arrived in Borneo for a few years.

In the four years since the founding of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, almost every day, ships filled with poor people who were about to survive in China have reached Pontianak Wharf. As Zhu Jishi's career on mainland China became more and more prosperous, the more poor people came to Pontianak! At first, they came from Guangdong and Fujian. Then there were landless farmers from Xianghu Lake. Now, even the landless farmers in Liangjiang fish and rice towns have "selled themselves" to Borneo to seek a way out.

Of course, the people were living in panic! The so-called rise and fall were all the suffering of the people, especially the battle of "Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty" was essentially a national revolution led by the bourgeoisie and participated by the landlord class. The result of this revolution was the co-governance of the bourgeoisie and the landlord class. Although there were also struggles and contradictions between the two, they were all the same in the issue of exploiting the working people - even in Europe today, there were cruel exploitation everywhere. Even the richest and most powerful British Empire in the world were full of sweatshops everywhere, and can you still expect one foot to step into the threshold of capitalism to care about the life and death of the working people?

In a corner of a "labor market" outside the Port Pontianak Pier, more than a hundred and dozens of ragged men were sitting on the ground with numb expressions, waiting for the rich Borneo miners, farmers, factory owners or builders to "buy" them.

Several men wearing silk clothes and Colt pistols on their belts, and were covered in ferocious faces, walking around, their eyes full of greed and ruthlessness.

"There are so many piglets here, can they be sold?"

"Xiao Hu, this is the first time I went to Nanyang? Do you know how big is Nanyang? How many piglets are needed? Pontianak is the largest piglet market in Nanyang. Bosses in Nanyang and even Australia will come here to buy piglets. There has never been a time when they can't be sold."

"But how could there be so many piglets? Now it's the Emperor of Ming Dynasty that Liangjiang has suffered wars and disasters. For some people can't survive and have to go to Southeast Asia, why are there so many people in Guangdong, where the Emperor is in Longxing?"

"What's wrong with the Emperor of Ming Dynasty in the dynasty? Just change to a group of people to be the masters and make a fortune. The common people should have no food or no food. Some people are better off going there, otherwise your money shop guy wouldn't have entered the Hongmen and went to sea to sell piglets..."

"Oh, I don't know when our ordinary people will be able to live a better life..."

This little brother of the Hongmen who seemed to be still conscientious was named Hu Guangyong. He also used art to be a good word for himself. He knew that this person would definitely make a fortune in the future. However, Hu Xueyan was now writing the word "王子" and his old boss Rende Money Bank went bankrupt in the Liangjiang financial crisis at the end of last year. Later, he was taken over by HSBC Bank and merged with more than a dozen other money banks to establish Lixin Bank. Hu Xueyan was actually laid off by the large team of Lixin Bank. After he was unemployed, he started a grain transaction and purchased grain traffic from Huzhou to Liaodong. However, he encountered the Ming Dynasty's implementation of grain export control and lost his capital. There was no choice but to follow an Anhui fellow who participated in the "Red Gang" to start a piglet transaction that was harmful to the world.

The piglets sold to Borneo by their group of people all came from Liangjiang, most of which were unemployed Caogang ship workers. Now Liangjiang is the most miserable person. After the canal transportation was cut off, there was no income. The Caogang boss was still fine. Ordinary boat workers had to make a living by selling their goods, and in the end they had to "sell themselves" to come to Nanyang.

The so-called "selling oneself" does not mean selling oneself as a slave, but first borrowing usury to pay the travel expenses to Nanyang, and then working as a coolie to earn money to pay off the debts after arriving in Nanyang. However, the Hongmen clubs that lend money to these coolie do not have the patience to collect accounts slowly, so they concentrate these coolie to the "coulis market" to resell. The next ones are usually mine owners, farmers, factory owners, and most of them are Chinese. In fact, most of them themselves or their ancestors are "selling" to Nanyang.

Although the South Ocean is full of miasma, it is very prosperous and prosperous. Pontianak is surrounded by rice fields. The land in Borneo is not fertile, but the climate is warm and humid, which is enough to make the rice ripen three times a year. If you don’t want the taste, the yield alone is no less than the fish and rice town of Jiangnan. Moreover, Borneo has a very wide land, with a small population, and no difficulty with few lands and many people. Now outside the city of Pontianak is full of golden rice waves, which can be seen at a glance. Rubber Park

, Palm Garden, Spice Garden, and Coffee Plantation are densely packed and everywhere. A little further away inland, there are many gold mines, diamond mines and oil mines, countless. It can be seen that the prosperity and prosperity here is in sharp contrast with the mainland of Ming Dynasty, where the people are living in poverty. What's more important is that there are too many opportunities to make a fortune in Nanyang and there are not many feudal forces to oppress. With the same efforts, the rewards that can be harvested in Nanyang are far greater than those in the mainland.

Just when Hu Xueyan, who was going to be rich in Southeast Asia, was feeling that life was not easy. At the entrance of the Pontianak Coolie Market, there were more than a dozen men and women in Western dresses. Surrounded by everyone was a Chinese woman in a Western dress, dignified and beautiful, and was the queen of the Ming Dynasty. She was also surrounded by a "ocean horse". She looked very charming and her clothes were even more exposed to the point of being inauspicious. Half of her big white breast and her entire shoulders were exposed, with a parasol in one hand and a carved ivory folding fan in the other hand, looking very hot, of course, Maria Clementina. The bearded Engels walked behind Luo Xiangmei and Maria with his cohabiting girlfriend Mary Enshi. While walking, he was whispering to Liu Peng on the other side.

"Mr. Liu, what is this place? Is it a slave market? Do you want to buy some female slaves from here for Jason?"

"Mr. Engels, this is the largest labour market in Nanyang. Uh, those people are free people and there is no woman to buy. Really, you can see it yourself."

Engels looked at Liu Peng with a little bad look. Because he knew that the Ottoman-style sailboats brought by Liu Peng were filled with slaves! And they were all beautiful female slaves! Some were white-skinned, some were dark-skinned, some were mature and charming, and some were young loli-stylish, all of which were boutiques bought from the slave market in Istanbul.

What made Engels even more unacceptable was that Liu Peng bought these female slaves not for Emperor Zhu, who had always been corrupt in life, but for Hong Xiuquan, the revolutionary leader who corrupted the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! This intention was too sinister and too reactionary... (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!