() In 1917, Liu Fu ushered in his 31st year since time travel. Now, as the president of a country with tens of millions of people and millions of territories, he is already 47 years old. In these 30 years
, he used the small island of Taiwan as his base, worked hard, and finally established a
It is a relatively strong country. Although this country is still in the stage of large-scale development, and the lives of most people can only be described as poverty, if it can transition smoothly for a few years and according to the current development momentum, all citizens can live comfortably.
There is hope and dignified goals can still be achieved.
Although this country is composed of nearly a hundred ethnic groups, and the federal policy is that all ethnic groups are equal, it is still a country dominated by Chinese, because all official languages are Chinese. Starting from elementary school, students
You can only learn Chinese, use Chinese characters, be familiar with Chinese history, and even celebrate Chinese festivals. It is estimated that after ten or several decades, apart from some differences in appearance, there will be no difference between us.
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Just when Liu Fu was deliberately trying to achieve national integration, a very discordant voice came from the neighboring countries of the South China Sea Federation. At first, it was just a few maritime merchants talking to each other after dinner, and the scope was not very involved.
Guang, South China Sea Federal Government
fu didn't notice it either. But with the intervention of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a very shocking news was put on Liu Fu's desk. An anti-Chinese movement took place in the Dutch East Indies, and it involved many areas, almost all over the country.
The entire Java Island area.
The Ministry of Interior report mentioned that on the island of Java, an organization called the "Islamic League" was spearheaded, inciting locals to participate in burning Chinese shops and houses, expelling and even killing local Chinese residents.
Activities, and this kind of activities did not just start now, but started in 1912.
After reading the report from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Liu Fu walked to the wall again, looked at the map, and suddenly smiled. This was not because Liu Fu was cold-blooded and was happy to see overseas Chinese being bullied, but because Liu Fu finally found a way to attack Dutch.
The excuse of belonging to East India.
From the map, the territory of the current South China Sea Federation is very scattered. Except for the three provinces of Annan, which are a whole piece of land, Taiwan Island and the Philippine Islands are relatively far apart, and there are many islands. It is between the three provinces of Annan and the Philippine Islands.
, sandwiched between it is the third largest island in the world, Borneo, also called Kalimantan.
The area of this island is very large, with nearly 800,000 square kilometers of land, which is almost 80% of the area of the South China Sea Federation. The terrain of Kalimantan Island is similar to that of Taiwan Island, with mountains in the middle and plains around it, although there is not much
Mineral resources, but geographical location is very important.
Kalimantan is located in the center of Southeast Asia. To the west is Sumatra Island and the eastern outlet of the Malacca Strait; to the north is the South China Sea and adjacent to Annan Province; to the northeast is the Philippine Islands; to the east is the Makassar Strait and
Sulawesi faces each other; and across the Java Sea to the south is Java.
After occupying French Indochina and annexing the Philippine Islands, according to Liu Fu's plan, the next step was to reach the island of Kalimantan. However, since part of British Malaysia's territory was on the island of Kalimantan, Liu Fu could not do so.
Just like attacking French Indochina, using troops against Kalimantan without any excuse would anger the British and offend the Americans. Maybe the British and the Germans could come to an armistice agreement, and come and negotiate with yourself first.
Work hard.
But now, with the anti-Chinese movement on Java as an excuse, Liu Fu can confidently rush to Kalimantan to attack the Dutch colony, and then use Kalimantan as a base to continue southward and directly attack the Dutch colony.
Java Island. And to the south of Java Island is another continent that Liu Fu covets, Australia!
In the structure of Southeast Asia during this period, in addition to the French Indochina region and the British India and Malaysia regions, the largest Western colony was the Dutch East Indies, which included the entire land of present-day Indonesia and ran through the entire
Southern region of Southeast Asia.
Historically, the Dutch had already landed on this land in the 16th century, and the place where they landed was the island of Java, where they established a trading station and purchased local spices. Later, the Dutch captured Java
The entire island was named Batavia, which was then Jakarta, as the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company.
Later, the Dutch drove away the Portuguese who had arrived earlier than them, and occupied most of Sumatra and Kalimantan. After the East India Company was dissolved, the Dutch government officially took over and took over these large islands.
The islands, large and small, were collectively known as the Dutch East Indies.
When the East India Company built Batavia, they used various preferential conditions to attract Chinese to do business and work in Batavia. As a famous spice trading port in Southeast Asia at that time, in 1658, there were about 5,000 Chinese in Batavia.
Chinese, and the Chinese in the entire Java Island, the Dutch have no accurate statistics.
After hundreds of years of reproduction and replenishment, by this era, the number of Chinese living in the Dutch East Indies had reached close to one million. Among them, Peranakans accounted for about half, followed by overseas Chinese from Fujian, and the rest were Hakkas and Zhaoqing people from Guangdong.
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There are roughly three types of occupations for Chinese in the Dutch East Indies. One is on Sumatra, where most of the Chinese are laborers trafficked from the mainland by the Dutch; and on Borneo, where most of the Chinese are Hakkas.
, they are engaged in occupations such as mining and gold mining here; while on the island of Java, the Chinese are mainly engaged in the loan business, that is, loan sharking.
Judging from the business scope and final results, these Chinese in Java are very similar to Jews in many places. They all engage in some financial businesses as ethnic minorities locally, and in the end they infringe on too many interests of local people.
And was persecuted in various names.
At that time, there were about 300,000 Chinese on the island of Java, accounting for only about 1% of the population. It was this one percent of Chinese who controlled the economy and trade methods of the entire island of Java.
Java Island has fertile land, and its main source of income is farming. It produces tobacco leaves, spices, dyes, kapok, cassava, sugar and other crops. The Chinese here lend money to the locals, providing them with seeds, loans, etc., and then the locals
Farmers grew tobacco or other crops on their own land and then gave the harvest to Chinese moneylenders under contract.
However, since this kind of contract used the land of local farmers as collateral, slowly, many local people who failed to repay the loan due to various reasons lost their land, while the land in the hands of Chinese lenders was increasing.
More and more, by the beginning of the 19th century, the Chinese used the land in their hands to establish many large plantations, kapok factories, wineries, printing and dyeing factories, rice mills and oil pressing plants, and hired local people who had lost their land to these Chinese
Work in established enterprises.
Because the Chinese have abundant funds and control the source of raw materials through credit to farmers, they control the entire upstream of the industry. Gradually, the plantations and factories run by local people cannot compete with the Chinese due to raw material and sales problems.
After being acquired or closed down, the entire local industrial chain was controlled by the Chinese from beginning to end, causing dissatisfaction among the Dutch and locals.
