Like a pebble dropped into water, the Han army repelled the attack of the British Expeditionary Force, forcing Britain, Brazil, and Chile to accept peace talks. The news spread to Nanyang, instantly causing an uneasy wave, and the Han army expanded to the same area in Nanyang.
During this period, the British colonial authorities began to speed up the colonization of the Malay Peninsula. In January 1874, Clark, the governor of the Straits Settlements, took the initiative to quell the dispute for the throne in Perak.
Under the pretext of signing the Treaty of Pangkor with the chiefs of the various states in Perak, Perak officially became a British protectorate. The British government began to dispatch resident officers to Perak in accordance with the provisions of the treaty to intervene in the internal political and economic affairs of Perak. The Perak region is the Malay Peninsula.
The first state among the indigenous kingdoms to receive British protection took control of the Perak region. In October of the same year, civil strife broke out in Selangor. The British government used the excuse to maintain local stability and sent resident officers to the state...
At the end of 1878, Clark resigned, and Frederick took over the position of Governor of the Straits Settlements. He changed Clark's step-by-step expansion method of gradual encroachment. Less than half a year after taking office, he summoned the chiefs of the independent states in Negeri Sembilan to give up their political and military autonomy.
The Indian colonial troops dispatched by the British colonial authorities took charge of local defense. In July 1879, faced with the futility of the British expeditionary force in South America and the rapid expansion of Han power in various parts of Southeast Asia, Frederick sent letters to the London government and
The immediate superior, the Governor-General of India, sent a telegram stating that the Chinese immigrant group has become a huge force in Southeast Asia and that the number of Chinese immigrants in Southeast Asia must be curbed. At the same time, in order to balance the Chinese power, it is recommended to introduce labor in India and replace the locals with Indian colonial troops and police forces.
Aboriginal armed forces assisted the British colonial government in managing affairs in the Straits Settlements.
Differentiating and containing the forces of various ethnic groups in the colonies, with the British colonial authorities acting as arbiters and maintaining colonial order, has always been a control method that the British are good at.
Ever since the British started colonizing the Malay Peninsula, some Indians followed suit and entered Southeast Asia.
In the early days, the Indians who came to the Malay Peninsula were mainly prisoners serving their sentences. They were often used as free labor, engaged in tasks such as clearing jungles, filling swamps, and cleaning roads.
As the development of the Malay Peninsula accelerated and the British colonial government increased infrastructure construction, Indian convict labor borne
It has carried out most of the engineering construction tasks, such as Fort Canning Castle, Mount Pearl Hospital, the new Straits Settlements Government Building and the Cross-Straits Settlements Government Building.
Singapore River bridge construction and other projects,
The obedient and docile labor attitude of Indian prisoners was recognized and welcomed by the colonial government. In the eyes of British colonial officials, compared with Chinese prisoners (in the early days, Chinese prisoners from Hong Kong were also sent to the Malay Peninsula to serve their sentences, but because British colonial officials believed that the Chinese were not easy to
Management and frequent fights (thus stopping Chinese prisoners from serving their sentences in Southeast Asia), the Indian prisoner labor force became more disciplined and easier to manage. Especially after the uprising against the British in India in 1857, these Indian prisoners were photographed during the process of suppressing the uprising by the British colonists.
He used cruel methods and dared not show any resistance, so he just immersed himself in hard labor.
The Indian prisoner laborers were obedient and allowed themselves to be ravaged by the British, which won them praise from the British and an improvement in their social status. After the 1840s, Indians gradually played a more important role in the economic and political formation of the Malay Peninsula.
They have diverse roles. One is as a low-level laborer, engaged in manual labor such as plantation and mineral mining. The second is to serve as a middle- and lower-level colonial official in the colonial government, assisting the British in handling local affairs. The third is to serve as a servant in the military and military.
Colonial police, responsible for suppressing armed rebellions against British rule.
The last category is as a businessman who takes advantage of the political and economic privileges granted by the British to steal economic benefits and compress the living space of competitors, mainly Nanyang Chinese businessmen, through unfair competition.
In order to strengthen the armed forces of the Straits Settlements, the London government agreed to Frederick's request and ordered the Governor-General of India to dispatch a 300-man Sikh detachment and a 500-man Indian colonial detachment to the Malay Peninsula to obey the orders of the Straits Settlements government.
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In early October, Britain and Han signed an armistice agreement, and the situation in South America stabilized. At this time, the London government once again dispatched a 2,000-person labor force to the Malay Peninsula through India.
Within two or three months, Indian colonial troops, armed police, and laborers entered the Malay Peninsula one after another, causing panic among the indigenous chiefs and Chinese Kapitan people who were already worried about the complete loss of political and military power. Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, and Perak
The indigenous chiefs of other areas protested to the Straits Settlements government against the British for violating the agreement and transferring local military management rights from the indigenous army to the Indian colonial army.
In the face of the protests from the indigenous chiefs of the Malay Peninsula, the Straits Settlements government simply appeased them but did not make a clear stance. Indian troops and police forces continued to pour into the Southeast Asian region.
Negotiations with the British were fruitless, and the indigenous chiefs and the Chinese Kapitans alone were unable to change the decision-making of the Straits Settlements Government. After several deliberations, the indigenous people of the Malay Peninsula and the Chinese Kapitans jointly put their hope for help in
The Taiping Hui, or more precisely, the Han army behind the Taiping Hui.
Nanyang is an important transit hub for the transportation of immigrants from South America to and from the mainland. Every year, dozens of fleets travel to and from the two major states. Medicinal merchants bring a lot of real news about Han in South America. Eleven years of cultivation and personal arrival
The real experience of Han in South America made the Chinese in Nanyang understand the strength of Han in South America better than those in the mainland.
In the early years, Peru and Brazil had no influence among the Nanyang Chinese, and they had no impression of Peru and Brazil. Therefore, defeating the above two countries would at most make them feel that Han was quite powerful and could defeat China in terms of population and land area.
Far beyond their own country, during the Argentine War, the British Expeditionary Force, with a total number of nearly 15,000 people, invaded the interior of Argentina and fought with the Han army. As a result, it not only failed to drive the Han army out of Argentina, but also suffered casualties.
More than four thousand people,
During the Opium War, the British only dispatched more than 10,000 troops and defeated the Qing Dynasty's army. The same army performed completely different on the two battlefields. Doesn't that mean that the same number of troops?
The Han army was far superior to the Shangguo army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Manchu and Qing court still maintained a seemingly powerful position in the world. After comparing it with the Qing army, any Nanyang Chinese who remained rational and objective could see the rapid rise of Han in South America. Ordinary Nanyang Chinese
Seeing the strength of Han in South America, I look forward to the arrival of the next batch of transport fleets, and plan to immigrate to Han in South America as soon as possible. Each family will live a happy life with thirty to fifty acres of land, food and clothing, while those in the Malay Peninsula
The indigenous chiefs and the Chinese Kapitans planned to use the power of the Han Dynasty in Southeast Asia to unite the three parties to jointly force the Straits Settlements government to abandon the policy of supporting the Indian military and police and replace their positions with laborers.