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"Half of the people in Pontianak are Chinese, and the rest are local natives. Among them, those who believe in Islam are called Borneans, and those who follow the native religion are called Dayaks."

Ye Tenghui accompanied Liang Yao to visit Pontianak, and at the same time introduced the situation of Pontianak to Liang Yao.

The Islam that Ye Tenghui refers to is Islam.

Islam is the main religion on the Indonesian archipelago.

In addition to Christianity, all local ethnic groups have their own complicated religious beliefs. Even the same religion, people in different regions may not believe in the same gods, so it is difficult to say.

But these local religions all have one thing in common, that is, they all believe that everything such as birds, animals, vegetation, and trees have spirits, which can be summarized as animistic religions.

Just as the Chinese do not deal with each other based on the ties of the local clan and region, the Christians and animists on the island also do not deal with each other, believing each other to be heretics.

"Are there any Dutch nationals?" Liang Yao asked.

"Of course there are Hongyi expatriates, but they are not many, only five or six hundred people. Now many Hongyi expatriates have gone to the south, and the remaining Hongyi expatriates may not exceed three hundred. "Liu Shanbang replied.

The Dutch diaspora has always been a very small minority in the Indonesian archipelago, and the proportion of the population is not high.

The population of the Netherlands is very limited, and it is impossible to Dutch the colonies. Even in Java Island, where the Dutch rule is the deepest and has been in operation for more than two hundred years, the proportion of the Dutch population is at an absolute disadvantage.

There are nearly [-] million Java people on Java Island, but the number of Dutch settlers on Java Island has not exceeded [-]. Most of the Dutch on Java Island are still concentrated in Batavia.

What kind of concept is this? The Han Chinese, another immigrant group on Java Island, have a population of [-] to [-].

That is to say, the population of the Dutch in the core ruling area of ​​the Indonesian archipelago is less than one tenth of that of the Chinese immigrants.

Implementing limited detaining rule over the colonies, controlling important trading posts, and extracting as much economic benefits as possible from the colonies, this is already the limit of what a country of the size of the Netherlands can do.

"Just a few hundred people bullied tens of thousands of you like this." Liang Yao let out a long sigh.

When Han Chinese were a minority in California, they were not necessarily bullied by whites like this.

"Hongyi is very cunning and good at sowing dissension. When the people of Cantonese became big, they provoked the Chaoshan people to fight against the Cantonese. When the Chaoshan people became big, they provoked the Hakkas to fight against the Chaoshan people. When the Hakka became big, they provoked The Zhangquan people beat the Hakkas, the Hakkas became big, and then instigated the natives to beat the Hakkas, and the natives got big, and then instigated the Chinese to fight the natives, weakening each other's strength, and so on." Ye Tenghui argued.

"Xiang Shi and others are working together, the Dutch are helpless even if they want to provoke." Liang Yao shook his head and said.

The Chinese on the island of Borneo are mixed up like a bird. In the final analysis, the most important reason is their own internal fighting.

"Tell me about the situation in the nearby native chiefdom."

"There are four main native chiefdoms near us. They are the Pontianak chiefdom in the south, whose chief is Alkadri, with [-] chiefs. There are [-] to [-] chiefs. The chieftain of Brunei in the northeast, Omar, has [-] chiefs. The Xindang chieftain in the inland area in the east, whose chief is Abdul, has [-] chiefs. Remain."

Liu Shanbang replied.

"Except for the Pontianak chiefdom who is a little rich, the rest are very poor, and there is nothing to fear. The entire Borneo island is only difficult for the Hongyi ghosts."

Liu Shanbang also fought against the local chieftains, but they were just a mob, so there was nothing to worry about.

These chiefdoms don't need Liang Yao to take action, they can handle it by themselves.

"Where is Lanfang Company? How is their situation?" Liang Yao asked about the situation of Lanfang Company.

Liang Yao certainly did not intend to accept the top executives of Lanfang Company who took refuge in the Dutch and Indian authorities.

But Liang Yao is willing to accept ordinary miners and their families under the Lanfang Company.

Population, especially core population, is sometimes a more precious resource than natural resources.

The local Borneans who believed in Christianity and Liang Yao, the Dayaks who believed in Fengfeng native religion, had no way to transform them into a core population that could be used by themselves.

But Chinese with the same cultural background can do it, which is why Liang Yao finally set his sights on the island of Borneo and decided to open a rubber plantation in Borneo because Southeast Asia is so big. ,

"Part of the armed forces of Lanfang Company who stayed behind at Dongwanlu followed Andersen to Kendawangan in the south, and the other part took back Dongwanlu's lair, and the remaining small part is now our captives." Liu Shanbang Said.

Kentawangan is a port 300 kilometers south of Pontianak.

Of course, the 300 kilometers here refers to the straight-line distance. In fact, the distance that Anderson needs to travel from Pontianak to Kentawangan by land is more than 300 kilometers.

The long-distance march and retreat in the tropical rainforest, presumably, even if the Royal Dutch East India Army successfully withdraws to Kendawangan this time, the non-combat attrition will not be low.

Unlike Pontianak, there are very few Chinese in Kentawongan. [-]% of the local residents are Bornean, [-]% are Dayak, and the remaining sporadic population is a small number of Chinese and Dutch.

Unlike the Dutch co-governance of Pontianak, Kentawangan is a port completely controlled by the Dutch.

Kentawang Bank is only 550 kilometers away from Batavia in a straight line. It was an important bridgehead for the Dutch to infiltrate Borneo, and it was also their lair in West Borneo. The troops deployed by the Dutch and Indian authorities on Kentawang Bank are far away. On top of Pontianak.

As for Dongwanlu, it is the capital of Lanfang Company.

The gold mines of Lanfang Company are also mainly distributed near Dongwanlu.

"The tens of thousands of soldiers of Lanfang Company rely on Dongwanlu's gold mines to support them. As long as we win Dongwanlu, Lanfang Company will definitely fall apart!"

Ye Tenghui suggested that Liang Yao take down Dongwanlu in one go and directly cut off Lanfang Company's financial resources.

"Lanfang Company really has tens of thousands of soldiers?" Liang Yao asked.

"There are not many Chinese on Borneo Island. The employees of each company are usually mining and farming, and they take up arms to fight in wartime. Lanfang Company is no exception.

The Lanfang Company can still gather [-] people, not to mention the Lanfang Company, even those of us Hakka people who were beaten by the red-haired ghost and retreated into the deep mountains and old forests to make a living can also gather [-] people.

It's just that neither the soldiers of Lanfang Company nor the soldiers of our Chinese Resistance Company are as professional as Mr. Liang's soldiers. "

Liu Shanbang said.

Liu Shanbang originally wanted to say that the combat power of Lanfang's soldiers was similar to that of the green battalion of the Qing Dynasty, but with Hong Mingxiang present, it was not convenient for Liu Shanbang to say so, and he wanted to save some face for the admiral.

In fact, Liang Yao also regarded the military power of Lanfang Company as the green camp of the Qing Dynasty. After all, the military power of Lanfang Company was built on the template of the green camp.

Its combat effectiveness may be slightly higher than that of the green battalion, but to Liang Yao, there is no essential difference.

No matter how elite the green camp is, it is also a green camp.