Expedition to Europe

During each rotation, a company of troops would be stationed at the sugar factory for half a month.

Naturally, Huang Bohan would not neglect these "security guards". He not only opened up a place in the sugar factory to build a fully equipped station, but also hired chefs, gardeners, and laundry workers to serve the soldiers stationed in the sugar factory. .

Huang Bohan is responsible for the current salaries of these security guards.

On average, each soldier can get a salary of 60 yuan a month. This salary is of course lower than in France, but considering that the level of danger is not that high, it is still acceptable.

In addition to salary, Huang Bohan is also responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of these soldiers. All added up, it costs about 10 yuan a month.

The same treatment standards also apply to the troops sent by Zhang Tianshou to take charge of security work in the plantations and mines of Huang Jinsheng, Qingmao and others.

There are probably more than 60 such mines and plantations, and each requires different troop strength. Large ones such as the sugar factory where Gu Xingbang is located, originally had two companies of 300 people, but now the trained manpower is insufficient. Sent 150 people. Smaller ones, such as Huang Bohan's bank in Surabaya, only require about one squad of troops to be stationed.

But everything has a cumulative process. In total, the more than 60 places where guards need to be posted probably need more than 4,000 people.

In other words, Huang Bohan and the others helped Qin Zhiyuan raise more than 4,000 soldiers.

These more than 60 points do not include Catholic churches. If Catholic churches also need garrison troops, the number of people needed will be much larger.

"We went to Borneo together half a year ago. When you started building Penglai Island, I also started building a church in Surabaya." Francis rambled, sitting in the office and setting up a dragon gate formation with Gu Xingbang.

Gu Xingbang had already completed his patrol in the morning and completed one-third of the day's tasks. It was helpful to have someone to chat with this time.

For the sake of staying on the same boat for two months, Gu Xingbang braced himself to listen to Francis' complaints, adding one or two exclamations from time to time to make Francis have more desire to talk.

"Three months have passed since the church was built. How many believers do you think I have developed?" Francis suddenly asked a question.

How many?

Gee, this range is not very large.

"Uh...ten?" Gu Xingbang gave an answer that made him feel embarrassed.

"No! It's one! Just a damn one!" As a priest, Francis actually cursed, which shows how much resentment this incident brought to him: "I prepared carefully for the Sunday event the day before yesterday, and it was For this day, I prepared a lot of clothes and food and planned to distribute them to the believers after Sunday activities, but only one damn person came...one person! Oh my God, there were 16 people in the choir. "Is this a private venue?"

Francis was so excited that he seemed about to collapse. He slapped the coffee table next to him and roared, accidentally knocking over the tea cup on the coffee table. The light green tea splashed everywhere, soaking Francis' white robe and the cross on his chest. , Francis still didn't realize it and was still furious.

"Father, Father, calm down, calm down..." Gu Xingbang stood up, helped Francis clean up the tea leaves on his body, and kept persuading him.

"Gu, I can't calm down. I just found out yesterday that it was that damn Yusino who prevented my children from attending Sunday activities, and he also banned people here from believing in the Lord, claiming that all those who believe in the Lord All believers must apologize to their godly religion. This is simply unbearable. Gu, I want you to help me kill him, and I will pay any price for this." Francis kept talking, and the words he said were very unbecoming of a priest.

In fact, it is normal. Religious wars have always been very cruel. Since the Crusades thousands of years ago, religion has always been accompanied by killing and bloodshed. As the ruler of Europe for thousands of years, the Catholic Church has committed countless crimes in this area. Because it once overridden secular imperial power, the Catholic Church was more accustomed to using violent means to solve problems.

"Kill him? Will there be any trouble?" Gu Xingbang hesitated.

To be honest, Gu Xingbang didn't care about Yu Xinuo's life. For Gu Xingbang, as long as he was not Chinese or Chinese, it didn't matter whether he lived or died.

Since the Spaniards invaded Borneo in the 15th century, the Chinese have suffered too many hardships. Almost every time, whether the Spaniards or the Dutch made a decision and acted as accomplices, it was always these indigenous people who took matters into their own hands.

Penglai Pavilion holds some commemorative activities almost every week to commemorate those Chinese who lost their lives in previous "anti-Chinese" movements. This is not just formalism, but also hopes that all soldiers will remember this event. The hatred that lasts for hundreds of years, I hope those soldiers will not show mercy when facing the aborigines and avenge the previous Chinese people.

It seems that there is no difference between the Chinese and those who participated in the "anti-Chinese" mob.

In fact, there is no difference. Vendettas between ethnic groups are always full of indifference and blood. If you don’t want your hands to be stained with blood, you must either leave the land left to you by your ancestors and give up your living space to others, or you can It can only be killed by provoking the neck.

What Qin Zhiyuan hopes more is that the Chinese can take up knives and guns to fight.

"No, you are doing this to spread the glory of the Lord. The Lord will forgive you." Francis began to lie.

"I feel that destroying Yushino physically won't have much effect. We should think of other ways. Does his Sun God cult have any prohibitions?" Gu Xingbang tried to discredit Yushino through other means.

"Prohibitions... It seems that there are really no prohibitions. They can marry and have children, and there is no limit on the number. They can drink alcohol and do not abstain from meat..." Francis seemed to know little about the religion of the indigenous people, and directly applied the prohibitions of other sects.

"I don't believe there are no loopholes to exploit. What about the church property? Will Yushino embezzle it? If you let them marry a wife, you can't let them marry a man, right? Don't they have any more sacred places? For example, churches, the main hall, etc. If these places are desecrated, Yushino and his followers will have a hard time explaining it." Gu Xingbang's imagination was so open that Francis looked at Gu Xingbang with a strange look.

In fact, the Chinese have never been a self-contained nation, nor a nation that sticks to the old ways. Even farmers have their own wisdom and cunning.

"Why make it so complicated? Just kill Yushino, demolish his church, and force the natives here to convert to Catholicism, otherwise burn all the pagans to death. Isn't that okay?" Francis wanted to simplify things.

Compared with the Chinese, the foreign devils who only know how to fight and kill are not cute at all.

"Do you think that will work? Killing one Yushino may lead to the next Yudono. Burning a church may help them build a second one. This will not help you win the hearts of the people! It may even be counterproductive. Father, if you really want to establish a positive Catholicism, don't focus on fighting and killing. Think of other ways. I believe you will find a way." Gu Xingbang persuaded sincerely.

Although Gu Xingbang was persuading, Francis could feel the determination in Gu Xingbang's words.

When Gu Xingbang finished speaking, Francis felt that this trip would be in vain, so he stood up and prepared to say goodbye.

"I will send a team to follow you back to the church. You have such an idea, and maybe Yushino also has it. You can't have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others." After Gu Xingbang finished speaking, he sent a team to follow Yushino back to the Catholic Church in Surabaya.

This team was not sent in vain. Francis and Yushino had a conflict that night, and the cause of the conflict was a girl.

The cause of the story is very bloody.

The sect that Yushino believes in has a rule that any girl in a family that believes in the Yushino sect must also marry a man of the same faith, otherwise the girl will be stoned to death.

A family in Surabaya who believes in the Yushino sect wants to marry their daughter. The men are three brothers, which means that after the girl marries, she will become the common wife of the three brothers.

This is unacceptable to the girl. She doesn't want to marry the three brothers, and she doesn't want to be stoned to death, so she ran to Francis' church to seek shelter.

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It's God's will!

Francis immediately took in the girl with great fanfare, and promised that God would bless her.

Francis was not sure whether God would bless the girl, but Gu Xingbang would.

After receiving the news, Gu Xingbang led a platoon to the church in Surabaya.

Outside the church, Yushino and his men surrounded the church.

Among the people Yushino brought were the girl's family and husband's family, as well as believers who had nothing to do with the matter, and more were idle idlers.

This is also a major feature of Borneo. People are very enthusiastic about watching the excitement. As long as there is excitement to watch, they are not afraid even if they are facing the black muzzle of a gun. Of course, this kind of watching the excitement may turn into a group incident at any time, and then it will be a riot and looting.

Compared with labor, the local indigenous people of Borneo are better at this.

In front of the church, Francis, with a face full of justice, stood in front of Yushino. Looking at that figure, he was particularly righteous, particularly tall and solemn, full of the desolation and determination of "I will go even if there are thousands of people".

Beside Francis were two soldiers holding shotguns. Their task was not to stop these indigenous people, but to set up Francis and withdraw to the Vatican first if something happened, and the task of stopping the indigenous people was given to the two Lewis light machine guns on both sides of the church door.

When Gu Xingbang arrived, the situation was a little out of control.

Yushino did not get the desired result and had retreated to the indigenous people, while the indigenous people were clamoring and preparing to rush into the church.

The Chinese in Borneo have always been famous for being submissive. These indigenous people have participated in many violences against Chinese families. They really don’t have much fear of the Chinese in their hearts, even when facing Chinese with guns.

The law does not punish the masses...

These aborigines are not stupid. They are afraid to charge up with guns on their shoulders. Therefore, they shout loudly but not fast. As long as something goes wrong, they can turn around and run away immediately.

The two security guards of the "Umbrella" company shouted "stop" and "retreat" in Dutch and Javanese alternately, protecting Francis as he retreated.

Just when Francis had just climbed the ramp in front of the church in a bit of embarrassment, someone among the aborigines suddenly shouted.

It was like someone added more fire to the bottom of a pot that was about to boil. The noise suddenly became infinitely amplified. Countless aborigines with fanatical faces and red eyes shouted like a tsunami one after another, rushing towards the church door.

“Boom…”

A soldier fired a gun, and his colleague shouted a warning.

It had no effect. The fanatical crowd seemed to be stimulated by the gunshots, and the commotion became more serious.

Zazazaza…

The Lewis machine gun roared wildly…