() At this point, after more than a year of offensive, the entire Dutch East Indies has basically fallen under the control of the South China Sea Federation. In this war, the federal army used a total of 3 heavy cruisers, 10 destroyers and more than 30
submarines and dozens of large transport ships, and nearly 20,000 army troops were dispatched.
In more than a year of fighting, the total number of casualties was less than 100, but more than 3,000 Dutch officers and soldiers and more than 5,000 local affiliated troops were captured. The transportation, climate, rainforest and even flora and fauna of the East Indies caused serious damage to the federal army.
The trouble and losses were much greater than those of the Dutch army.
After planning the administrative divisions of the newly occupied lands, the next step for the South China Sea Federation is to develop these areas as soon as possible. Now the South China Sea Federation has become a big country in Southeast Asia. After annexing French Indochina and the Netherlands
After the East Indies, the federal territory reaches 3.29 million square kilometers, and this area does not include Java and its surrounding islands.
The federal territory starts from the former China-Vietnam and China-Laos border in the north, to the New Guinea Island in the north of Australia in the south, from Taiwan Island in the east, to Sumatra Island in the west; except for the northern side of Kalimantan Island and the Malaysian Peninsula, it almost covers
It covers the entire Southeast Asia region and guards the transportation arteries between east and west Asia.
In this war, although the Federation gained a large amount of land, the population was relatively small compared to the millions of square kilometers of land. This was mainly because most of the East Indian population lived on the island of Java.
, the total population has reached nearly 30 million, while Sumatra has a population of less than 7 million, and other islands such as Kalimantan, Sulawesi and New Guinea have a combined population of less than 3 million.
In order to develop an area, the population must reach a certain number. According to the current situation, although the population on Sumatra is not large, it basically meets the number for development, while Kalimantan, Sulawesi
The population densities of the West Island and New Guinea are very different, especially Sulawesi and New Guinea, which are basically primitive desert islands.
If you want to develop in an area, the first thing you need is a stable environment. If businessmen's investments are not protected by the local government, then no one will invest here, and development will be impossible.
The South China Sea Federation is very well prepared on the military front. After first occupying the island of Kalimantan, it began to clear the land and appease the local area while also starting construction. The federal government plans to build two large military ports on the island of Kalimantan.
, respectively in Singkawang City in the west and Balikpapan in the southeast, and starting from these two large military bases as the end points, a railway began to be built as a main transportation artery on the island of Kalimantan.
The two military bases will complete the first phase of construction in two years. The base's berths can dock three large 50,000-ton ships at the same time and have primary maintenance capabilities. In addition, there are large oil depots in the base.
Ammunition depots and various repair shops, and in subsequent phases of construction, arsenals and shipyards will also be added.
In addition to berths and docks for surface ships, the base also has a very special dock for submarines. Naval designers made full use of the local seaside cliffs and carved out several holes in the parts of the cliffs that were submerged in the sea.
Ten caves deep into the cliff. The entrances and exits of these caves are submerged in the sea water. The interior is built into a small dock that can dock 2-4 submarines. The submarine force's oil depot, ammunition depot and guard troops are all stationed there.
The entire cliff body is connected to the outside world by only two railways.
In addition to stationing the navy, these two large bases will also build two military airports and station an air wing of the federal air force respectively.
In addition to the two large military bases on Kalimantan, the federal government also plans to build a larger military base in Bandazia, northern Sumatra, to serve as a bridgehead for the federal navy to monitor the Indian Ocean and develop westward.
After the completion of this base, the federal navy will be able to patrol directly in the Indian Ocean. To the north is British India and the Bay of Bengal, and to the west is the African continent and the Indian Ocean. It can be said that it can advance, attack, retreat or defend. As long as it controls this place, the entire eastern Asia
The sea lanes with Central Asia and West Asia are tightly strangled. If the European and American countries were not trapped in the quagmire of World War I and wanted to occupy this important strategic position, the Federation would not know how much it would have to pay.
Since there are many islands in the federal southern territory, the three military bases alone cannot cover all the sea areas and islands. Therefore, the federal government also plans to gradually build several islands on Sumatra, Sulawesi and New Guinea.
Ten naval supply ports, airstrips and small submarine bases serve as defense support points for the federal southern frontier.
Three large military bases, two railways running through the entire island on Sumatra and Kalimantan, plus many auxiliary roads and the reconstruction and expansion of more than a dozen ports, all require the injection of a large amount of labor and capital.
Completed successfully.
In terms of funds, the pressure on the federal government is not great. Through these years of hard work, the scientific and technological content of many of the federation's products has become at the forefront of the world. Some products have also become federal specialties, such as chemical fertilizers, pesticides, synthetic
Resins, sulfonamide drugs, high-quality electronic tubes, special steels, special alloys, high-power civilian diesel and gasoline engines, large engineering machinery, petrochemical products, etc., have all been sold at home and abroad and have become the flagship products of the Federation, with demand exceeding supply.
In addition, the federal output of grain, cotton and linen products, timber, seafood, rubber, and coffee was also very large. During the war, these materials were sold in large quantities to both warring parties, thereby exchanging large amounts of foreign exchange and precious metal reserves.
In terms of labor force, the pressure on the federal government is slightly greater, but it is not a big problem. After occupying the East Indies except Java Island, although the more than 20 million Javanese people were brutally racialized in order to balance the racial number,
Extermination policy, but in the more than half a year between the beginning of the war and the spread of the plague, more than 3 million residents living on the island of Java fled to the surrounding islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra.
The vast majority of these people are Chinese and Javanese with Chinese ancestry. Although they have lived on the island of Java for many generations, their political status has never been high because of their Chinese ancestry. Therefore, after hearing that the federal government is based on Chinese people,
The government established by the Lord
Fu, and after they came to the city because of the anti-Chinese incident on Java Island, they all sold their properties, brought their families, and passed the federal navy's examination by relying on the fraction or tenth of their Chinese blood.
Sea blockade, fled the island of Java.
Most of them chose Kalimantan as their destination because Sumatra was still in the hands of the Dutch at that time, and the natural environment on Sulawesi was too harsh. Except for a few who had relatives or relatives in other provinces of the federation,
Except for those with business dealings, the remaining people listened to the advice of the federal army and temporarily settled in several port cities on the island of Kalimantan.
Most of these people are agricultural people. Their ancestors have cultivated coffee, rubber and various crops for the Chinese, Javanese and Dutch on the island of Java for generations, so their family property is not much. If it were not for the federal government located in Kalimantan
There are more than a dozen relief stations on the island providing relief, but they have long been unable to continue.
However, now they don’t have to worry about work. Among the dozen or so large-scale construction sites that have started construction, they are all recruiting workers from 11 provinces of the federation. The number of workers recruited is very large. Not only skilled and experienced technical workers are needed, but also a large number of ordinary workers.
Labor force, and for these new immigrants, as long as the wages are suitable, there is no essential difference between carrying bricks and stones, cutting down trees and planting crops.
And once admitted to these construction sites, their whole family will become official federal residents. The old, young, women and children in the family will be arranged into an institution called a cooperative, where several or dozens of families will gather together, eat and live together.
, produce together, harvest together, and after repaying the federal government's loan, you can obtain your own land and plantations.
Some people love gold, some love jewelry, some love the sea, and the Chinese love the land. I don’t know since when, whether it is the Chinese on the mainland or the Chinese overseas, the love for the land far exceeds all other precious things.
things. They buy all the money they have accumulated over a lifetime or even several lifetimes into land.
Build a house and leave it to your descendants. If the wealthy landowner or plantation owner only leaves money to his descendants but no land or fertile farmland, then his life will not be considered a success. Not only will he be sorry for his descendants, but he will also be sorry for himself.
I'm sorry for my ancestors, I feel such deep regret that I can't even close my eyes even if I die.
With land, although it is a futures contract, it is more useful than how much gold or money you promise to give them. In addition to these new immigrants who have fled, the Chinese who originally mined on the island have also brought their families to join the construction.
The ranks of workers and cooperative members, and those locals who had more contact with the Chinese and were more deeply influenced by the Chinese, also put down their jobs one after another, and relied on the introduction of the Chinese families they were familiar with to become workers and cooperative members.
