The Abdul Ramans are in the new Johor land separated from the Lion Island.

The next morning he received news of his father's tragic death. Adulaman's first reaction was to disbelief.

How is this possible?

He had dinner with his father a few days ago, and Abdul Hami was in good health.

"The Grand Duke died under the mouth of the poisonous snake, and Mrs. Katiga was also killed together."

Adulaman didn't care about the death of a young lady. Anyway, his mother died of illness ten years ago. What he cared about was his father!

"How could there be poisonous snakes in my father's dormitory?"

If Abdul Hami was bitten by a snake in the wild, Adu Raman still believed it a little, but in the mansion of the Grand Duke, this was impossible!

"This is very suspicious. When the villain came to report the news, General Rahman had already led the guards to control the entire Duke's mansion, but he didn't know if he could find anything."

“Rahman?”

Abdul Rahman nodded. This was the old man around his father, a person who was absolutely reliable and could not betray his father.

"Gather all the people and go to the Duke's Mansion with me."

Abdul Rahman shouted loudly.

Everyone took action immediately, so until the team was on the way, Abdul Rahman had time to ask the messenger, what had happened to his father in the past few days?

"Nothing happened, but yesterday a team of Chinese businessmen asked to see the Grand Duke and sent a hundred muskets, asking for a piece of land in the estuary of the Temasek River for reclamation."

"Lie, this must be a lie." Abdul Raman made the same judgment as his father.

"Yes, His Highness the Grand Duke was furious after hearing this and asked the guards to drive the Chinese out of the Lion Island."

Speaking of this, the messenger suddenly paused, "Do you think it's possible that this was done by those Chinese?"

Although Abdul Rahman was very heavy in his heart, he would laugh out loud at this moment.

"You really have the talent to tell jokes. No wonder you have been with my father for more than ten years and are still a servant. Have you lent your brain to the devil?"

If the murderer is really Chinese, will they kill people when their front feet are frustrated? Isn’t this taking the suspicion on themselves?

Abdul Raman believed that an enemy was lurking in the public mansion in secret and chose to take action just to let the Chinese take the blame.

So only three days later, Zhao Liang received an invitation from Abdul Raman to meet at the mouth of the Temasek River.

In the past three days, Abdul Rahman has gained nothing. His father's death and the murderer left no clues, and everything is in a dead end.

At the same time, the reaction of the entire Johor Kingdom has not been returned. Although Abdul Rahman is definitely confident of inheriting his father's great cause, he also feels that as his father suddenly moves, the Johor Kingdom will be somewhat shocking.

Abdul Maggie of Pahang may not, but what about Rora Ali, the deputy king of the Lóne Islands?

Are there Dutch and British not far away?

Although the war between Britain and the Netherlands has not yet begun in Southeast Asia, Abdul Hami has already received signs from both sides. As a political old man, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

These two giants are about to start fighting.

Abdul Hami felt that his small body was not enough to get involved in such a huge war.

He hopes he can be neutral.

But such choices often mean that both sides are not pleased, especially in Batavia.

They were the masters of the Johor Kingdom, and Abdul Hami's choice meant a betrayal of the Dutch.

A few days ago, Abdul Hami, who was under great pressure, attracted his son to have dinner. He complained to his son a lot on the table. So in Abdul Raman's heart, the possibility of his father's death is the greatest.

But there are still many doubts about this kind of speculation.

Didn't the Dutch push him into the arms of the British?

This is a very unwise approach.

Unless the Dutch are absolutely sure that after his father dies, he will also get Abdul Rahman done together.

So in the past few days, Abdul Raman didn't even dare to stay in the Duke's Mansion, and the guards were kept away from him.

At the same time, he also wanted to further purchase firepower and expand his strength.

He believed that as long as his strength was strong enough, both British and Dutch would act smart.

So where to buy arms?

Abdul Hami also has enough money. As long as someone is willing to sell it to him, his wealth can change all his troops into musketeers. But it is obvious that the Dutch helped Abdul Hami in this regard, and they are even deliberately controlling Abdul Hami's strength.

"arms?"

Zhao Liang blinked, "Yes, this is definitely not a problem."

Not to mention the guns and cannons on the ship, he still has a lot of self-made guns and cannons in his space.

The coal-iron joint venture in Ruzhou has been in place for a while, so some of the guns and cannons have been prepared in private, and some of them have even been sold to Ruzhou's militia decorate storefronts.

The government will not pursue this matter.

When Su Hetai was in office, did he hope that all militias in the territory were hard-working?

The new magistrate turned a blind eye to this.

However, the Qing court has been calling for strict inspections of guns and cannons recently, so Zhao Liang ordered that the guns and cannons be stopped after the beginning of winter last year.

At least not on the surface.

In secret, he asked people to gather a lot of deaf and mute people, and set up two small processing plants in the mountain nest in Ruzhou, one to build guns and the other to build cannons.

Several lathes (cutting cannons) and large drilling machines (making barrels) that he had hidden before were skillfully controlled by these deaf and mute people.

Deaf and mute people are absolutely vulnerable in society. This phenomenon will continue even in the new century, let alone this time.

Zhao Liang gathered them up and asked someone to teach them mutely, teach them culture, give them food and drink, wear warm clothes, and take care of them when they are sick. Which of these people is not grateful to him?

Not to mention letting them stay in the mountain nest to build guns and cannons, they would give them a knife to kill officials and rebel. These people would not frown.

The Zhao Family Farm in Pontianak has begun to "reorganize the army and prepare for war". The team is not large. The instructor is the group who graduated from the Ruzhou training base. This is the first time that Zhang Damazi and Zhao Yao, the leader, know that the Zhao family has such a foundation overseas.

When Zhao Liang came to Johor, they had already led Zhou Dong, Xu Jialiang and others to train the new recruits.

Zhao Liang only took five hundred people in this group.

This number is not large, especially if you have to divide it into two in the future, some will stay in Pontianak and some will go to Lion Island, which will be even smaller.

Xu Jialiang, a Eight Banners clan from the capital, never expected that Zhao Liang would rebel. These people were the strength he had accumulated. He always disliked the lack of people and asked him to get another 500 people.

Zhao Liang's wish that he could not achieve with money before was now easily accomplished with guns and cannons.

Abdul Raman felt a sense of urgency now, and because he saw the Dutch control over their weapons with his own eyes, as long as he could set up another channel to buy arms, even if he really gave up the Lion Island to the Chinese, it would be no big deal.

Is the latter worth mentioning the threats of the Dutch and the British?

"Five hundred new guns, five small cannons!"

These things are worth more than 10,000 silver dollars on the market, but Zhao Liang's hands are all self-made products, and the actual cost is less than 3,000 yuan.
Chapter completed!