1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 405
"Your identity must be valuable to the Dutch, so they will not neglect you. Foreigners have always been snobbish. If you are useful to him, he will look up to you. If you are useless to him, he will discard it like a shoestring. "

Liu Shoushan said leisurely.

"What does dad mean?" Ye Tingfan asked.

"The reason why the Dutch rely heavily on our father and son is that our father and son control Lanfang Company. As long as you become the general manager of Lanfang Company, you are valuable to the Dutch and can become a bargaining chip that the Dutch are not willing to lose." Liu Shoushan narrowed his eyes and said.

"The general management of the company belongs to you, my son-in-law. I don't dare to have such a heart. The position of general management must be recommended by the respected elders to be effective. How can it be such a joke?" Ye Tingfan swallowed, and refused dutifully.

It is impossible to say that he has no idea about the overall system of Lanfang Company.

Only by becoming Liu Shoushan's son-in-law and hugging Liu Shoushan's thigh did Ye Tingfan have his current position in Lanfang Company.

Without Liu Shoushan, Ye Tingfan is nothing, he can only maintain his current status by obeying Liu Shoushan's orders honestly.

Ye Tingfan didn't know whether Liu Shoushan really wanted him to be the head of Lanfang Company or was testing his loyalty, so Ye Tingfan answered very cautiously.

"According to the power in a hurry, do extraordinary things at an extraordinary time."

Liu Shoushan got off the couch, asked someone to fetch the official seal of Lanfang Company, and explained to Ye Tingfan earnestly.

"When you arrive in Batavia, take good care of my daughter."

Ye Tingfan found that Yin Xin's hands were shaking, and Ye Tingfan asked with a choked voice.

"What about you, daddy?"

Liu Shoushan looked righteous and arrogant, and said firmly: "Father is the head of the company, and he should live and die with the company."

"Daddy is righteous!" Ye Tingfan solemnly kowtowed to Liu Shoushan a few times, and then bid farewell to Liu Shoushan with tears in his eyes.

Taking advantage of Dongwanlu being surrounded by coalition forces, Ye Tingfan secretly left Dongwanlu by a small road, and headed for Batavia on a boat that had been prepared.

Of course, Liu Shoushan would not choose to live and die with Lanfang Company.

Of course, Lanfang Company may not die, at most it will be annexed by other Chinese companies, and once Liu Shoushan falls into the hands of the coalition forces, he will die.

On this point, Liu Shoushan is still very self-aware.

However, Liu Shoushan believed that it was not safe to go to Batavia. As long as the Dutch negotiated peace with Liang Yao, he would inevitably be exchanged to Liang Yao as a bargaining chip for the two parties.

In the end, his life or death is still decided by Liang Yao. In order to appease the Chinese people's resistance to the company, Liang Yao will definitely execute him.

Going back to Guangdong is also unrealistic. It is impossible for Liu Shoushan not to think of things that kid Ye Tingfan can think of.

Liu Shoushan had already thought of a way out for himself, but his way out was Hong Kong, not Batavia.

As long as he came to the territory of the British, Liang Yao would not dare to do anything to him even if he had three heads and six arms.

And the British have also coveted Borneo for a long time, and he is also valuable to the British.

Liu Shoushan believed that the British did not want the Dutch to take all of Borneo, and naturally they did not want Liang Yao to take all of Borneo.

Furthermore, going north to Hong Kong is much safer than going south to Batavia.

It just so happens that Ye Tingfan is able to deceive others, and it's okay to give up the overall control of Lanfang Company to Ye Tingfan at this time. This once glorious position is now a hot potato.

As soon as Ye Tingfan left, Liu Shoushan made people spread the news in Dongwanlu that he was terminally ill and that Ye Tingfan would take over the position of general manager of the company.

He himself packed up the gold overnight, escorted himself and his children and grandchildren to Sarawak with his confidants, and took a British merchant ship from Sarawak to Hong Kong.

Three days later, when Elvis arrived at the city of Dongwanlu.

The huge East Wanlu City has long been in a leaderless state. At this time, the hearts of the people in the city are uncertain, and it is also heard that the coalition forces have a generous policy and do not abuse prisoners and kill innocent people indiscriminately.

In addition, many miners were not of the same mind with the top management of Lanfang Company, so there was no fighting spirit.

Elvis just sent someone to persuade them to surrender, and Dongwanlu City raised the white flag to surrender.

The smoothness of the Dongwanlu battle even exceeded Elvis' expectations before the war.

It's just that when entering the city, the coalition forces were attacked sporadically by some diehard elements, in fact, Liu Shoushan's personal soldiers.

But because they had been prepared for a long time, these sporadic sneak attacks did not bring them too much loss.

Elvis led the army to the location of the Lanfang Company's main hall, lowered the Lanfang Company's flag hanging in the main hall, and replaced it with the Umbrella Company's umbrella flag.

Dong Wanlu has already been captured, and besides quickly dispatching people to claim the victory against Liang Yao, Elvis also searched for the management of Lanfang Company and Liu Shoushan's personal soldiers in the city.

These people must be liquidated.

At the same time, although the war in Dongwanlu has just come to an end, Pontianak has once again fallen into the haze of war.

It was beyond Liang Yao's expectations that Andersen re-entered Pontianak so quickly.

When he first heard the news, Liang Yao even wondered if there was something wrong with his ears, did he hear it wrong?

Only soon, the news was confirmed.

Andersen led more than 4500 soldiers of the Dutch Royal Dutch Indian Army, including 1300 European soldiers, and the rest were native soldiers of various local ethnic groups, vowing to recover Pontianak.

"The enemy's forces are very powerful. Should the troops stationed on the coast be transferred to Pontianak City? To strengthen the force of Pontianak City?" Deng Wenkang suggested.

According to the information they have, 4500 people are already the entire force that the Royal Dutch-Indian Army can mobilize on the island of Borneo.

Liang Yao even boldly judged that a considerable part of the soldiers might be young men recruited by Andersen just now.

The combat effectiveness of such an army is definitely not much stronger.

At present, there is sufficient ammunition in Pontianak City, and with Pontianak's current regular army of more than a thousand people, it is more than enough to defend Pontianak City.

What Liang Yao was most worried about at this time was not Andersen's land military force.

What Liang Yao was more worried about was the Dutch sea power.

Right now, most of Liang Yao's capital ships are not in good condition, and it will take some time for the sea power mobilized from California to reach Pontianak.

What Liang Yao is most afraid of now is that the Dutch will use their superior sea power to block the sea traffic in Pontianak, so that the goods outside can't get in, and the people inside can't get out. This is the most uncomfortable thing.

After all, no matter how abundant the supplies are, there will always be a day when they will be exhausted.

Pontianak's industrial base is almost zero, unable to produce any industrial products.

The combat effectiveness of the Western Brigade is precisely based on sufficient supplies.

Although the Java Sea battle was barely won, Liang Yao did not get carried away with complacency.

He is very clear that the sea power of the Dutch and Indian authorities still exists, and they only temporarily control part of the sea.

(End of this chapter)