Nanyang 1931: From piglets to giants

Chapter 110 The wings are hardened
Everyone in Penang had been anxiously waiting for the Lord of Penang for two months until he finally returned. However, the first thing he did after returning was not to call everyone to a meeting.

The military situation was critical, but the Lord of Penang only left two puzzling orders and disappeared again, scheduling the meeting for three days later.

I also want to eat hot pot.

It’s still northern hot pot.

There are no northerners in Nanyang. What about sesame paste? Most people may have never seen what sesame paste is in their entire lives. Even if you have money, you may not be able to find a place to buy it, let alone a copper pot.

So much so that after picking up Zheng Yi at the airport, Qian Qiwen was so busy with hot pot and sesame paste that she actually left all the government affairs behind.

As for Zheng Yi himself, he completely ignored the government affairs that had been squeezed out for more than two months, and instead went to find Li Jiazhi to fall in love.

He showed an attitude similar to that of a "tyrant".

For a moment, everyone couldn't help but wonder: What on earth is Zheng Yi up to?

The first day passed by in a daze, with everyone unable to help but have wild and suspicious thoughts.

The next day, when someone finally couldn't help but want to break into the petrochemical site to ask him what was going on, very abruptly, two transport planes from Britain suddenly landed at the Penang airport.

The so-called airport in Penang is not a civilian or military airport. It is just a piece of flat land that has been specially cleared and simply fenced off.

Only tycoons like Zheng Yi, Tan Kah Kee, and Hu Wenhu would have the need to fly, so in fact this thing is similar to a public private airport for these tycoons above them.

The inexplicable arrival of two transport planes completely confused the staff.

It was Zheng Yi who arranged for Qian Qiwen to receive the message after receiving it.

As a result, when the cabin door was opened, it was discovered that one of the two planes was full of heavy machine guns, and the other was full of bullets.

Under the bewildered gazes of the airport staff, Qian Qiwen suppressed her shock and made orderly arrangements: "Send these things to Instructor He Shili. These were all arranged by Mr. Zheng."

The heavy machine guns and their ammunition from the two planes. Even the Kuala Lumpur police force probably couldn’t get so many heavy machine guns.

The most important thing is that this is a British plane and a British weapon!
Everyone was confused and had no idea what was going on. Zheng Yi was deliberately playing with mysticism with them, and they were completely clueless.

People like Li Xiaoshi, Tan Kah Kee, Xu Shengli and others only began to appreciate the flavor of the art until this day.

It turns out that Mr. Zheng has grown to this point without realizing it.

After all, Zheng Yi's various developments in Nanyang have essentially been taking advantage of the situation.

He himself does not have much power of his own. He founded Taiyou Machinery under the Li family, and his shareholding is not as large as Li Xiaoshi's.

He was engaged in the deep processing of rubber vulcanization and a trading center, which he did in cooperation with the Chen family. He didn't even have any shares. It was almost a purely cooperative relationship, and the cooperation was carried out under the name of Taiyou Machinery.

He set up the steel plant and arsenal in Penang in partnership with Xu Shengli and Tan Kah Kee. He was only the technical leader. They provided the money and the people, and they also held the majority of the shares. Zheng Yi invested in technology, but his share did not exceed 30%.

The same is true for most other industries, such as motor factories, motorcycle/power delta-wing factories, etc.

It should be said that Zheng Yi has always relied on technology to lead his work in Nanyang, just like the needle that threads a needle, responsible for clearing the way ahead, but the thread behind the needle has always belonged to others.

He has almost no power of his own and has always needed to rely on the power and influence of others to gain a foothold in Southeast Asia and get to where he is today.

And now, when no one knew what was happening, Zheng Yi had actually managed to get two planes full of munitions without any help from anyone in Nanyang.

He did it all by himself.

It was not until this time that they realized that Zheng Yi had become so powerful.

When did it become hard?

do not know.

After a day of being in such confusion, on the third day after he returned, he temporarily resolved the issue in Glass State.

No one expected that the reinforcements Zheng Yi referred to were not their Chinese armed forces, but the fucking Dutch.

The Marines of the Royal Netherlands Navy in Indonesia suddenly landed in Perlis and directly rushed into the so-called military camp set up by the Malays.

You have to know that in the eyes of the Malays, Europeans are all gods. Most Malays actually cannot tell the difference between the British army and the Dutch army.

The Dutch Marines did not have many soldiers, but when the Malays saw the white people, their morale collapsed and they did not even dare to fight. They fled in panic, and countless people were killed or wounded.

However, it seemed that these Dutch people who came ashore were really there to help. They risked diplomatic conflict, worked hard, fired all the bullets in their guns, and then turned around and left, without doing anything extra.

Only the empty camp left behind by the Malays who fled in panic, especially the several heavy artillery and heavy machine guns inside, were left to the local Hakka militia organization.

"How did you do this?"

In all of Nanyang, only Li Jiazhi knew what Zheng Yi had been doing for the past two months. She also knew that Zheng Yi had brought back a lot of money this time, but she was still a little surprised to see it go this far.

Zheng Yi, who was discussing marriage with Li Jiazhi and having a love affair at the same time, did not hide it from her and said:

"It's actually very simple. The Malays did these things simply because the Colonial Administration was behind them. However, in the eyes of most European upper classes, the so-called Malays were probably no more than monkeys. In their eyes, the Colonial Administration was no more than a zoo director in charge of monkeys."

"I ordered the weapons for those two aircraft from the Royal Mechanical Company. They're all new. Now that we've basically established a cooperative relationship, these new guns are just a small gift from them to me."

"Because they needed to install the equipment, and I flew directly from Iran, which is closer, so they arrived a day later than me."

"As for those Dutch people, I asked Mr. Henry to do that. After returning from the Middle East, my relationship with Henry has become even closer. To him, I'm more than just an ordinary partner in a company he founded."

"Shell is as precious as the apple of the eye to the British, but to the Dutch, it is their lifeblood. Of this former hegemon, Shell is the only company left that can still hold its own."

"Henry's influence on British politics is actually a bit lacking, but his influence on the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch East Indies, is probably something that no other politician can match."

"He proposed this back in the Middle East. If necessary, he could help me by using the Royal Netherlands Navy in Indonesia to help me with a few things. Now, I'm just asking him to fulfill his promise."

Li Jiazhi: "But if we do this, won't the Colonial Office be unhappy?"

Zheng Yi: "Yes, they must hate me to death, but so what? What can they do to Mr. Henry?

Besides, it won't be long before Persian Oil and Royal Machinery will come to Penang to invest and build factories. They are just ordinary bureaucrats from the Far East colonies. What will happen if they are unhappy?

(End of this chapter)