The Rise of Nanhua: From Emptying Shantang Port to Restoring Lanfang

[No System + Farming + Founding a Nation Overseas + Struggle for Supremacy + War of Resistance Against Japan] After transmigrating to the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, Zhou Huaijin is a battalion commander in Shantang. The Huangpu Army is closing in, his former superior has fled, and everyone is waiting to be absorbed into the new forces. Only he quietly takes stock of the Guangdong Army’s arsenal: three thousand rifles, two mountain guns, and four Maxim guns. He takes them all. The silver dollars in the Chaozhou-Meizhou Finance Bureau? Borrow them, with an IOU. The cargo ship belonging to the Taikoo trading company? Rent it. Get aboard first, then figure things out. The Beiyang cruiser Hai Chou docked at the harbor? ...He takes that along too. Five hundred men sail south across the seas, restore Lanfang, and found Nanhua. The Dutch: “You call these scattered remnants? This looks more like an amphibious invasion!” Zhou Huaijin: “Don’t rush. This is only the beginning.”