Wu Tianze's encounter is a microcosm of millions of Chinese going to Nanyang!

Under the organization of the Southeast Prefecture, the tide of Chinese going to the South Seas can be called mighty and unstoppable!

They grow rice, coffee, tea, tobacco, rubber, sugar cane, coconut, cocoa, palm, cinchona, ......

They mined coal, manganese, iron, gold, silver, phosphorus, sulfur, tin, ......

They shipped out oil, big wood and incense with stinking ---- spices and guano!

There are also a staggering number of shark fins and bird's nests!

Then there is the most firm cornerstone of Chinese rule----- battleships built in Southeast Asia, which are often seen!

And all kinds of Chinese boats, covering the sea, all over Southeast Asia!

I heard the Chinese language everywhere, and I saw the Chinese flag everywhere!

It is difficult to say that the vast majority of the founding fathers of the Southeast Empire, who later became the Southeast Empire, did not anticipate the rapid encompassing of Southeast Asia by the Chinese rule when they participated in the expedition to Southeast Asia in 1633.

They first gained access to the island of Java, and then took control of the Kalimantan Peninsula and the islands of Madura and Bali.

Only five years later, due to the capture of Sumatra and the control of the Strait of Malacca, the huge formation of Chinese sail battleships appeared in the Indian Ocean, much to the surprise of the British in India!

I never dreamed that the battleship construction technology they sold to the Chinese seriously threatened them, but it is a pity that there is no regret in the world!

While the Chinese were digesting the Malay Peninsula across Sumatra, it was also ten years after 1633 that the Kalimantan Peninsula and the Sulawesi Islands, the Moluccas, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and the Timor Islands of Timor to the east of Java were all incorporated into the territory of the Southeastern Province.

In the same year, the Marine Corps of the Southeast Fleet landed on the mainland of Tuao, and it took another 10 years for the construction of the mainland to become the climate.

Coal, iron, gold, beef, mutton, wool, donkey production is amazing, like a tide of supply, the southeast of the expedition ---- particularly like to use donkeys, has been slandered by the red hair as "donkey country", but Yan Changwu did not think it was angry, once issued a gold coin made of gold in the mainland of Tuao, on which the head of the donkey is printed, in order to praise this animal that accompanies the Chinese to conquer the world, people call this gold coin donkey coin!

The Chinese pastoral dog, which has traveled all over the world with the Chinese, has also received a commendation---- and the official issued a silver commemorative coin of the Chinese pastoral dog.

If the Mongol Empire established by Genghis Khan is an unprecedented land empire, and the maritime empire established by the Southeast Empire is unique in human history------- the empire on which the sun never sets is nothing, because everywhere the Southeast Empire goes, it is the world of the Chinese!

In order to develop this incomparably vast sea area, millions of Chinese people came from the mainland across the sea, they overcame the stormy waves, landed on large and small islands, many people sacrificed, but more people survived, they cleared the forest, mowed weeds, built cities, it only took a generation, they made brilliant and immortal achievements in Southeast Asia, became a legend, a Chinese creation epic!

Later, there was a red-haired historian named Yankee Richardson, who had an aunt who married into the royal family of the Southeastern Empire, and he made great efforts in studying this period of history, and he summed it up in one sentence: "The Chinese infected the whole of Southeast Asia like a plague!" ”

When the plague came, everything fell apart.

After consulting a lot of materials and visiting many people and places, Yankee Richardson wrote a historical masterpiece "Millions of Chinese Go to the South Seas" to describe this singing and crying history.

In his research, he believes that there are many reasons why the Chinese have successfully conquered Southeast Asia, and one of them has to be mentioned that there are three obstacles in front of the Chinese.

One is the vast sea area;

Southeast Asia is so vast, with vast oceans, many islands, reefs, and unpredictable storms.

the second is the harsh natural environment;

Even the most terrible enemy, the nightmare of all conquerors!

Malaria, dysentery, jaundice and bush-wasting diseases in the jungle are a disincentive for any conqueror!

When a typhoon passes, all crops are overturned!

Volcanic eruptions, in contrast, are still pediatric.

The third is the hostile natives, who are familiar with geography and jungle warfare. There is also the Red Hair Fan, which has proven to be very pragmatic, and they cooperate with the natives to launch an attack on the Chinese!

The red-haired fan has guns, and the natives have no shortage of the spirit of the death squad, and it seems to be a match made in heaven to attack together.

But the Chinese are skilled, they have more people and more guns, and what is even more terrifying is that their spirit and morale overwhelm the red-haired fans and the natives!

The success of the Chinese is due to two most important factors: the organization and adaptability of the Chinese.

Unlike ordinary migrations, the Chinese entered Southeast Asia in an organized manner, and their leaders were very tough, and the Chinese immigrants entered Southeast Asia with the support of the most powerful Chinese fleet in history, overturning the red hairs and the natives!

Many of these difficulties were completely smashed before organized development.

Take malaria, which threatens developers, for example, Belitung Island.

Located in the heart of the three largest islands of Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan, the island's importance in turning people and goods is undeniable.

Five years after 50,000 Chinese people worked hard to develop it, removing weeds, filling ponds, planting anti-mosquito plants, and protecting mosquito-eating bats, and five years later, malaria case reports had dropped to one-tenth of what they had been five years earlier!

The prevention and control of malaria in the southeast province is so effective, just like they don't drink raw water, children know how to boil water to drink, and they build water plants to protect water sources, they like to bathe, and they still use soap, which is an absolute nightmare for all pathogenic bacteria!

Adaptability----- "A Million Chinese Go to the South Seas" believes that the component of a Chinese ---- Cantonese and Fujianese in South China plays a great role!

According to Yankee Richardson, the South China Sea is actually a big lake, Southeast Asia and South China have maintained close cultural and material exchanges since ancient times, history shows that during the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, the Chinese in South China had begun to migrate to Southeast Asia, and when Zheng He went to the West, the number of Chinese to Southeast Asia increased, and the Chinese came and went, and some Chinese returned to the mainland.

Therefore, the Chinese from Fujian and Guangdong have stronger adaptability to Southeast Asia, and at the same time, they have obtained adaptability to the natural environment and climate of Southeast Asia and immunity to a variety of Southeast Asian diseases, which is an advantage for the Chinese to develop Southeast Asia, and other races cannot compare with them at all.

The strength of the Hokkien people lies in navigation, their seafaring skills are the most skilled of all Chinese, and they have first-class navigators, which are comparable to those of Hongmaofan.

There is no way, in such an environment of Fujian Bafen Mountain, one water and one field, people can only have a way to live when they go to sea, and they dare to break through in the face of the boundless sea!

The adaptability of Cantonese people to the environment should be the strongest on the planet, Yankee Richardson admires Cantonese people, believing that if different ethnic groups are put into the harsh natural environment, it is basically Cantonese people who can survive, and the first to die is black, then white, and there must be Cantonese people who live.

In the tide of development, even if the southeast province is well prepared, it often does not provide enough assistance to migrants.

Once, during the development of Tuao, there was a group of Chinese about 100 people, who went deep inland, and I don't know what happened, the government lost their files when they moved, forgot about them, and no longer provided them with supplies.

It was only after a few years that they were rediscovered, and they were surprised to find that they were alive and well, and that they had transformed their surroundings into a similar state, with houses, roads, fields, canals, and so on.

There are even flag-raising stands that are held every Monday to raise the flags of the stars, the sea, and the peaks of the southeastern provinces, and in fact, they are rediscovered because they see the tall flags.

This is a group of Cantonese Chinese, at the beginning their food was rice and sweet potatoes, and some bacon, but after eating?

Foraging casually, what to eat in the surrounding environment, kangaroos, parrots, raccoons, snakes, all kinds of wild vegetables, are all in the recipe, anyway, the world is vast, and there is a lot to do.

They grow food, there is a bonus to growing vegetables, and if others can't live in farming, there is no problem for them to plant!

If today's archaeologists want to judge whether a camp belongs to the Chinese, in addition to finding the canals excavated by the Chinese and the vegetable fields that were introduced, the presence of the bones of many small animals is also an important evidence.

In fact, many tropical indigenous tribes can eat food that ordinary people can't tolerate, such as insects, and the terrible thing about Cantonese people is that they usually eat like ordinary people, but they can also start another mode at any time and transform into eating like field special forces.

In this way, a big survival problem is solved, other races will starve to death, so hungry that they can't move, and they still have the strength to engage in development!

Yankee Richardson was by no means a denigration of the Cantonese, he believed that the Chinese would not succeed if there were no Cantonese and Hokkien in the ranks of the Chinese who conquered Southeast Asia!

He sighed that God gave the Chinese a golden finger, and he was destined to make the Chinese successful!