Having settled the Dongweng government, the ones entering the Lanfang Republic afterward were the Hohenzollern Conglomerate. After leaving behind an armed force of more than three hundred men in the Lanfang Republic, Archduke Ferdinand led the fleet eastward.
These three hundred armed men did not remain in Dongweng, but continued south to Pontianak, a city of the Lanfang Republic.
Dongweng had been built on the western bank of the Mempawah River, a tributary on the right bank of the Kapuas River, while Pontianak lay at the Kapuas River's estuary. It was an excellent port and Borneo's largest city, with its residents mainly being Chinese.
Dongweng and Pontianak were only twenty or thirty kilometers apart in a straight line, so the two cities still had their differences. Dongweng had become the capital because of its gold mines; this was where the Lanfang Kingdom, or rather the company, had made its fortune.
Pontianak, meanwhile, had developed into the most economically prosperous city on all of Borneo thanks to its convenient transportation. Here, the East African armed forces made contact with the Zanzibar Chamber of Commerce.
"Is that Balabac Island ahead? Looks like another uninhabited place, much like Sumatra! Find somewhere to dock and go ashore." Archduke Ferdinand examined Balabac Island's surroundings through his telescope.
By rights, Balabac Island should have belonged to Spain's Philippine colony. It guarded the Balabac Strait, with Borneo to its west and the Philippine Islands to its east.
However, East Africa did not recognize this sort of default territory, because Balabac Island truly was, as Ferdinand had said, an uninhabited region.
In the twenty-first century of his previous life, Balabac Island's total population had been only a little over fifteen thousand. Its main products were shells and coconuts. At present, aside from a few sparsely populated indigenous