Chapter 269: The City of Chaos (Part 1)

Since Western colonists came to Southeast Asia, Jakarta has been one of the most important ports in Southeast Asia. The natural deep-water port is enough to allow any large ship to dock, and a large number of precious commodities are transported from here to the West. This port city was previously managed by the Dutch, but since the Dutch were forced away by the British decades ago, locals from the British selected British people as governors to manage it. However, because the British focused on the newly developed ports such as Singapore, Luzon and Hong Kong, they neglected the management of Jakarta, and some wrong policies issued by the local governor from time to time, Jakarta became increasingly declining, and its status in ocean trade was eventually replaced by Lampung Port.

The distance between Lampung Port and Jakarta is very close, with only a narrow strait in the middle. Ordinary cargo ships can travel back and forth in about two hours. For ordinary sampans and small sailboats can also walk back and forth within five hours. In the past, there were hundreds of ships traveling on this short route every day, and because foreigners seemed to look down on this little profit, most of the ships belonged to the local Chinese merchant fleet. However, a few years ago, when a man named Awenyo became the governor of Java, he immediately issued a decree, revoking the local maritime trade qualification of the Chinese merchant fleet, making the ships on this route gradually replaced by the local indigenous small sampans.

It’s a pity that these small sampans hand-built by locals are extremely backward in terms of load capacity and speed, which makes a large amount of cargo unable to be transported out of Java Island, and can only accumulate in the warehouse and become moldy and rotten. It was not until the recent year that the Javanese governor lifted the ban on the Chinese merchant fleet under pressure, but he still made some restrictions on the size of Chinese merchant ships, and also collected far more than twice the taxes from Chinese merchants than locals.

The local Chinese businessmen hated this governor to the core, and there were many people who wanted him to die. Even some foreign companies that had trade with Chinese businessmen often suggested to the superiors to replace it. Unfortunately, the British who held real power in the local area were very satisfied with the governor, because they could receive some unexpected wealth and precious antiques that others could not get. As Jakarta was increasingly defeated, the governor's status was still as stable as a rock. The governor also knew that he had offended many people, so he recruited a large number of soldiers and expanded the governor's guards with the British. Every time he traveled, he had hundreds of people guarding him, fearing that he would be assassinated.

But what was unexpected was that the strictly protected governor suddenly disappeared mysteriously in his Governor's residence, and dozens of strong guards were protecting the surroundings outside his room. After learning that the Governor's disappearance, the British, who served as the secretary of the Governor's office, immediately thought of the local Chinese merchants who had a very disagreement with Awen. However, because the Chinese merchants also had certain forces in the local area and were far from being offended by him, they could only send information to the matter and wait for the superiors to deal with it. The news of the Governor's disappearance was also spread by the maids of the Governor's office at this time.

After learning that Awenyou was missing, the local Chinese businessmen were cheering and set off firecrackers at the door to celebrate, while the local indigenous people were deeply indignant and believed that this was the cause of the Chinese businessmen. The hatred accumulated by the two over the years suddenly broke out, and from the initial sporadic quarrels, gradually transformed into a large-scale conflict of force. Although the local natives were large inhabitants, due to the large tribes and the people were not united, the siege of the Chinese businessmen seemed messy and useless. In contrast, although the number of Chinese business groups was less than one-tenth of the local people, they were all refined and strong and had sufficient weapons. In addition, the Chinese businessmen on the surrounding islands came to help after hearing the news, so they did not appear to be weak in the conflict.

The two were equal in strength, and no one could do anything to each other. Only the number of casualties was rising. When the British acting as governor was about to come forward to mediate, both sides were already red-eyed and no one was willing to stop. For this reason, he could only temporarily leave Jakarta under the protection of the Governor's Guard and go to the nearest British base for help. The situation in Jakarta was completely out of control at this moment.

Xu Changqing and others knew that the situation in Jakarta was on the sea twenty nautical miles away from the port of Jakarta, seven Chinese merchant ships that received the telegram were sailing towards Jakarta quickly. The ship was loaded with strong armed personnel, and the Chinese merchants on the ship also thought that Xu Changqing and others were companions who had received the telegram to support him.

After hearing the mysterious disappearance of the Jakarta Governor, everyone on the ship performed differently. Xu Changqing was just a little surprised. In his opinion, this trip was to pass the four days of boring time, and he would not lose anything. However, the purpose of Moses' trip seemed to be related to the governor, so after hearing the news, his face turned extremely pale, but when he noticed that Xu Changqing was looking at him, he immediately covered up his expression, but the panic in his eyes still exposed his inner uneasiness.

Unlike Xu Changqing's calmness, Guan Poming was furious and shouted to give these local natives a profound lesson. Guan Poming was a hot and fierce man. He dared to ignore the rules of the cultivation world and interfere in secular struggles. He even used magic to deal with secular mortals. There were no ten thousand or eight thousand people who died directly at his hands, and indirectly more. Now Guan Poming's character has not changed, and he has become increasingly ruthless because he left the Chinese continent. You can imagine what the result would be after he took action. Guan Zheng, as a junior, naturally had no qualifications to oppose it, and he could only join the fight under Guan Poming's strong command. Despite this, he still believed that practitioners should not directly interfere in secular struggles like this. Therefore, under Xu Changqing's secret suggestion, he decided to wait a while to use secular fists and feet, not practice spells.
Chapter completed!