Chapter 360: The Insider?
"Since Suharto took office, the Indonesian Chinese have been ostracized, and almost every once in a while, there will be some massacres of Chinese, and over the years, hundreds of ??????thousands of Chinese have died at his hands."
Lin Yu still knows about Suharto's people, and knows that he is not saying how good he is, but his anti-Chinese and dictatorship. Since he became the second president of Indonesia in 1967, by the time he stepped down in '98, almost more than 300,000 Chinese died at his hands.
Suharto is a soldier, a military strongman, and his governing style also has a strong military style, vigorous and resolute, decisive and decisive, from the beginning of the coup d'Γ©tat to power, to later through high-pressure policies to maintain his position, his style is completely a military style.
During his presidency, he brought substantial economic growth, reduced the number of poor people in the country, and improved the quality of life, but after the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the number of poor people rose again. In addition, Suharto's economic policy has enriched his family and cronies through corruption, monopolies, subsidies and other means, and it is estimated that the total assets of the Suharto family are worth $15 billion. In addition, during his reign, he established a strong, centralized government that maintained stability through heavy-handed suppression of political dissent.
Among them, all Chinese know that there is such an executioner in this world.
In the early days, he persecuted the Chinese on the grounds that the Chinese were the armed forces of the Chinese ruling party to seize power abroad, and in the later period, in order to divert the people's attention and plunder the wealth of the Chinese, he also slaughtered the Chinese, among which the Indonesian exclusion of Chinese in 98 was the most significant.
In the previous life, although Lin Yu knew these things, but in 98 Lin Yu was just a student, and he didn't care much about such things, but later he knew about it, and it took a long time, and Lin Yu couldn't do anything about Heyang's affairs at that time, but now, Lin Yu felt that he had the ability to do something for the Chinese in Southeast Asia, of course, this was also for himself, although Lin Yu didn't have any feelings about this poor land, but if he could control it, it would still be of great benefit to Lin Yu.
Lin Yu thought about these things thoughtfully, but the old man didn't notice it, and still told his story: "My family moved here in the late Qing Dynasty, and accumulated a lot of wealth here, at that time it was still very chaotic, and the family made a fortune here by relying on the troubled times, of course, if there is more wealth, it will naturally attract the covetousness of others, we are not like the Zhuang family and the She family, which have a lot of influence in Southeast Asia, so in the face of the cruel Suharto, our family has no self-preservation power at all." So, we had to get out of there and find another place to continue developing. β
Lin Yu nodded, in this case, escaping is the best choice, if you continue to stay there, not only will you not be able to keep your wealth, but you may even have to lose your life.
"Then the She family and the Zhuang family were not suppressed by Suharto? Didn't you say they don't have much influence in Indonesia? Lin Yu asked.
"It's not a lot of influence, that's relative to where they are. Although the power of the She family is very weak in Indonesia, their power in other countries is very strong, if Suharto dares to attack these two families, then he will face the protests and hostility of the surrounding countries, how can he do such a thing that is obviously unfavorable to him. Besides, the She family and the dealer are not necessarily unconnected with Suharto. The old man said.
"You mean, it's possible that Suharto was supported by the She family and the bookmaker?" Lin Yu was surprised.
"I don't know, it's just my own speculation. The She family and the Zhuang family want to strengthen the influence of Indonesia is not a day or two, and they have thought of a lot of ways to control a lot of people before, but there is no case of extra, all of them have failed, this time Suharto sent Chinese and Chinese businessmen, it is not necessarily without the support of these two. You know, in Indonesia, the power of the Chinese and Chinese businessmen is definitely relatively large, if you want to control the country, you must first drive the Chinese and Chinese businessmen out, otherwise many areas will not be able to develop, so I said that the Zhuang and She families are likely to support Suharto. The old man shook his head and said.
"I don't understand, why Chinese families like the She family and the Zhuang family can actually control these Southeast Asian countries? If it is really as you say, Suharto is so willing to obey the She family and the banker? And why did the She family and the dealer have such a large-scale anti-Chinese movement? Is it just for profit? If that were the case, I don't think such a family would have existed for long. Lin Yu asked curiously.
"Hehe, you're thinking far-reaching." The old man laughed: "A family like this hidden behind him, who would dare to anger it before he knew its true meaning?" It's not that Suharto doesn't want to go out independently, but he has no capital now, so he can only rely on the support of the She family and the banker. Moreover, it is said that such a family has always been strongly supported by some other capitalist countries. β
"Oh?" Lin Yu looked at the old man in surprise, and the other people on the deck also became very interested in what the old man said.
"Just look at the history of the She family and the Zhuang family to know why they have developed so fast."
"However, I heard that She Youjin, the founder of the She family at that time, had great prestige in the Chinese circle, and he was also very good to the Chinese abroad, so what is going on?" Lin Yu asked curiously.
She Youjin moved to Singapore from Guangdong in the late Qing Dynasty, with his own efforts, She Youjin founded the She family, at that time the She family only had a great influence in Singapore, later, after the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution, the Western capitalist powers to plunder the commodity market and raw material production areas, set off a frenzy to carve up the world, when Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and other places were occupied by the French who came here, established their Indochina colony.
And She Youjin's son was in contact with the European powers at that time, and was supported by the European powers, and the power soon developed in the Malay Peninsula, and then expanded all the way to the south, developing to the current Malaysia and other places, and then developed towards the south of Southeast Asia, and finally, laid its strong power covering the entire southern part of Southeast Asia, and became the actual controller behind the southern part of Southeast Asia, not only the French and Dutch colonial authorities, but even the British authorities entrenched in Burma at that time did not dare to offend them.