50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 726 Submarine Crew Takes Position

After leaving Kubang, Timor Island, Sun Zhiwei spent three days traveling around the Javanese-occupied areas of Timor Island, delivering a lot of weapons to the resistance forces in various places.

After finishing all this, he didn't linger and instead flew directly to Papua Island.

Although Papua Island is also in chaos, it has not yet reached the point of a large-scale war.

There are several guerrilla groups in the area, but their struggle is limited to disrupting the Javanese government forces.

Sun Zhiwei searched for several days before finally finding a tribe with a relatively large population and some fighting ability, and sent them tens of thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition.

The local natives are simply hopeless; no matter how capable Sun Zhiwei is, he can't do anything about this disorganized bunch.

He now only hopes that the tribal chief who received his weapons aid will be inspired by those hundreds of thousands of M16s to expand his ambitions, so that his trip will not have been in vain.

Feeling frustrated, Sun Zhiwei went to Solong Port in West Papua and blew up several frigates docked there, finally venting his anger.

But when he was about to return, a problem occurred to him.

During this period, Captain Latif's main naval fleet had been reduced to only two squadrons by his destruction, while Prabovo's main fleet had not suffered significant losses.

In order to maintain the balance of military power on both sides, he had to make a trip to North Kalimantan Province and blow up a squadron of Prabowo stationed there.

Now, the naval vessels on both sides have roughly maintained their balance.

However, the number of ships they used to control their territories began to run out.

Due to insufficient numbers of ships, their control over local islands has also begun to show a significant downward trend.

That's the downside of being an island nation; border defense and stability maintenance both rely entirely on the navy.

With a fleet of over 130 ships, the Javanese Navy was barely able to maintain the stability of its vast island territory, which consisted of tens of thousands of islands.

Now, the two sides have only about 80 ships left, and most of their main warships with a displacement of over 1,000 tons have been lost.

The overall situation in Java has begun to spiral out of control and head towards an abyss.
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After more than a month of work, Sun Zhiwei finally returned to Subi Island from North Kalimantan.

Upon returning to the island, he received a telegram from home informing him that a new batch of 500 people had been selected and were ready to depart once the paperwork was completed.

Upon hearing this good news, Sun Zhiwei immediately asked the island's personnel department to issue a job invitation letter.

The first batch of 500 people also needed to receive invitations from the Pinkerton headquarters in Chicago.

Now that the East Asia branch has been established, Subi Island can directly send job invitations to the second batch of people.

Only with a 'job invitation letter' can they complete the procedures for going abroad to work and legally enter and exit the country.

Next month, escort services for the Malacca Channel will begin, and Sun Zhiwei's Pinkerton Asia branch is currently short-staffed.

Hundreds of ships pass through the Strait of Malacca every day, and local piracy is rampant. As long as their escort service is running smoothly, 500 people are simply not enough.

However, before this group of people officially began their mission, he still hoped to re-educate them.

I heard that among the second batch of 500 people, there are 50 skilled political workers, which is exactly the kind of talent he urgently needs.

The branch office's human resources department issued a job offer that same day and sent it directly to the Hong Kong Island office via fax.

The Hong Kong Island office also sent job offers to Cathay Bank's Sham Ho branch in the same way, and then forwarded them to Beijing. After this transit, all 500 job offers were sent back to the mainland the next day.

This is the progress of technology; wherever you can make a telephone call, you can make a fax.

The distance between Subi Island and Beijing is four or five thousand kilometers. Instead of sending paper documents by plane, problems can be solved directly by fax. Technology is rapidly shortening the distance between the world.

A week later, the second batch of 500 veterans departed from Qingdao by boat.

After the ship set sail, his father-in-law even sent him a telegram.

It was through this telegram that Sun Zhiwei learned that among the 500 people, in addition to 50 political workers, there were also 100 submariners.

Sun Zhiwei was overjoyed. The Trafalgar-class attack submarine "Rock Bay," which had been sitting in his storage space for ages and was almost moldy, could finally be put to use.

Before anyone arrived, he quickly had people tidy up the empty river mouth dock.

The speedboat squadron that was originally there has now been moved to Port Sobi in the north to facilitate frequent escort missions.

The river mouth dock was originally built for submarines, and it has not only outdoor berths but also an indoor dry dock.

In the future, the indoor dock can be used as a dedicated berth for submarines. It can be filled with water for normal use and drained for maintenance, which is very convenient to use and also helps to maintain secrecy.

The sea route from Qingdao to Subi Island is over 4000 kilometers long, and even with a passenger ship traveling at a speed of 15 knots, it took a week to arrive.

The arrival of the new batch of 500 people was warmly welcomed by the soldiers on the island.

As the current de facto person in charge of Subi Island, Dong Haoyang first settled them down, and then Sun Zhiwei convened a small meeting with 50 political cadres.

These 50 people were then evenly distributed among the entire team of 1000.

Their official position was called 'Life Committee Member', and they would be in charge of the soldiers' lives and ideological work.

Three days later, the new soldiers elected their squad leaders through their first skills competition.

As for the higher-ranking company commanders, they will be selected through competition during subsequent training.

With the new recruits settled, the company's escort service is about to officially commence.

Prior to this, the 25 life committee members who were assigned to the previous batch of 500 people received a notification from the company.

Since the previous batch of soldiers had completed their intensive training, they would sign formal labor contracts with the company and become regular employees of Pinkerton.

The base salary for regular full-time employees has doubled since the training period, reaching $1600 per month.

The squad leader also receives a position salary of $200, the company commander $500, and the battalion commander $1000.

If attendance is required, each person will receive an attendance allowance of $100 per day.

Sun Zhiwei didn't care whether Pinkerton's Asian branch could make money or not, as long as it could maintain a balance between income and expenditure and not lose money.

Therefore, he also pays his employees according to America's local wage standards.

He is still subsidizing Subi Island, but he believes that once the escort business is successfully rolled out, the Subi Island branch will be self-sufficient.

(End of this chapter)