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In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a huge disparity in income between different classes.

Coachmen, restaurant shopkeepers, and other low-level workers in society earn only two or three taels of silver per month, while ordinary soldiers in the Qing army generally earn four or five taels of silver a month, while middle and high-ranking officers such as the Green Battalion Pipe Belt and the Commander Belt earn more than 100 taels a month, and as for the senior generals such as the commander, the general, and the deputy general, the income is even higher.

According to the price estimates of the late Qing Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy 110 catties of rice, and the income of two or three taels of silver was just enough to meet the living needs of the people at the bottom of the society for a month, while those Manchu officials and businessmen in the ruling class often used their power to obtain an income 100 times, 1,000 times, and 10,000 times higher than that of the people at the bottom.

Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road. In order to maintain their rule, a large number of Manchu officials became parasites on the body of the old empire, and in order to maintain their rule, they may make small changes to the government structure under internal and external pressure, but they will not be willing to give up their rule over the country and hand over power to other classes or forces.

As an important class in the social division of labor, businessmen themselves are born to pursue profits, and in the face of huge profit business opportunities, businessmen can easily press all their net worth to win ten times or dozens of times the benefits.

Contrary to the common people's impression, from the defeat of the Taiping Rebellion to the period before the First Sino-Japanese War, the mainland under the rule of the Manchus was the largest industrial country in the Far East, and the scale of industry far exceeded that of resource-poor Japan.

In the Manchu Qing government's focus on the development of several heavy industries, Jiangnan shipyard shipbuilding technology is perfect, responsible for all parts of shipbuilding shipwrights generally have skilled technology, in the original history, the British businessman Kirby saw the Jiangnan shipyard shutdown to show great benefits, using various means to poach more than 30 core technology shipwrights from the Jiangnan shipyard, and then using more than 30 shipwrights to master the shipbuilding technology, soon manufactured two displacement in Japan's premier steam ship "Taihu Maru" No. 12, Two of the steamships had steam engines made by the British, and the other directly with engines made by Chinese shipbuilders.

More than 30 Chinese shipwrights brought technology to Kirby's Kobe shipyard laid a solid foundation, and later the Japanese government formulated a more stringent policy against foreign capital, Kirby's investment in other industries was repeatedly blocked by the Japanese local businessman chaebol, and finally owed a large amount of loans, desperate suicide, and shortly after Kirby's death, his various industries, including the Kobe shipyard, were nationalized by the Japanese government,

After Kirby's industry was nationalized, military shipyards such as Nagoya Shipyard and Yokohama Shipyard in Japan successively mastered the technology of steam engine engines at Kobe Shipyard by sending apprentices to learn, and in just a few years, the level of Japan's shipbuilding industry was raised to a higher level.

Kirby, who worked hard to build the Kobe Shipyard, finally made wedding clothes for others and raised the level of the Japanese military shipyard, but now seeing the fat to his mouth fall into the hands of the Wehrmacht, Kirby, under the instigation of the Japanese shareholders of the Kobe Shipyard, chose to cooperate with the pirates and the Dutch to recapture more than 200 Jiangnan shipyard shipbuilders.

Time flies quickly in the busy, counting from Kirby's arrival in Nanyang, it has been more than ten days, and there are less than three days left before the scheduled plan is launched.

"Mr. Kirby, Kuala Lumpur Kapitan Yalai has sent a message that there has been a Chinese armed fighting in Selangor, and he is leading his men to assist the Sultan of Selangor to quell the dispute between the two Chinese armed factions, and he will not be able to participate in the attack on the Wehrmacht convoy for the time being."

Kirby was receiving more than a dozen Chinese in the room, when a foreigner came in and reported.

"More than ten days ago, all the Jiabi Dans discussed it properly, and now Ye Yalai suddenly repented, what did he mean!"

The foreign devil Kirby has not yet spoken, and Jakarta Kapitan Huang Fuyuan is the first to be dissatisfied.

"The person sent by Ya Ya Lai explained that it was Huang Ping, the head of the Selangor branch of the Taiping Society, who took the lead in making trouble, and the people of the Taiping Society wanted to seize the tin mine in the Klang Valley in Seremban Kepitan Zhang Chang, and Ye Yalai also had a share in the tin field in the Klang Valley, so he had to personally lead his men to negotiate with Huang Ping."

"There are only five or six hundred people in a branch hall under the Taiping Society, and there are thousands of people under the command of Furong Jiabidan, can they still put five or six hundred people on the other side?"

Huang Fuyuan questioned.

"Brother Fuyuan, five or six hundred people in a branch of the Taiping Society was last year, and since the beginning of this year, the number of official members under the command of the Taiping Society has doubled, and the number of people in the original branch has also increased from five or six hundred to more than a thousand.

The Malay Peninsula is rich in tin ore resources, and the Chinese gangs and the Taiping Association have a lot of influence in the local area, and the Perak Kapitan Zheng Jinggui who borders the Defence Forces-controlled Kelantan State knows more about the Taiping Society than others, so he introduced to other Chinese Kapitan, "The organizational structure of the Taiping Society is divided into seven levels: peripheral congregation, formal congregation, 100 president, 1000 president, hall master, helmsman, and leader. The Commander is the backbone and core leadership of the Taiping Society.

Since February this year, after the change of the organizational structure of the Taiping Society, generally one hundred general has jurisdiction over 3 to 40 formal congregations, 1,000 general ministers have jurisdiction over 2 to 3,200 formal congregations, the head of the church has jurisdiction over 4 to 6,000 general congregations, the number of people is about 1,200, and the helmsman has jurisdiction over 7 to 8,000 formal congregations, and the general is the steward of the Taiping Society, responsible for hundreds of thousands of congregations in Nanyang. ”

"I've been hearing from all the Kapitan people in the Malay Peninsula that the Taiping Society is powerful, so do Brother Zheng know who the leader of the Taiping Society is?"

A Chinese Kapitan asked.

"Bukit Jiabi Dan Gao is looking down, the Taiping Society is well organized, not to mention the leader of the Taiping Society, even the rudder master under the leadership of few people knows."

"The master behind the Taiping Society is the Han Kingdom, and they are cautious, and it is difficult for outsiders to find out about them."

The other Kapitan agreed.

According to their conscious secret investigation and the information provided by the Dutch, the Chinese Jiapitan roughly estimated that the total number of Chinese old and young controlled by the Taiping Society was hundreds of thousands, but as for how many of these hundreds of thousands of people, let alone them, within the Taiping Society, except for Liang Xing, the leader of the Taiping Society, and a few high-level officials, even the rudder owners below did not know.

In the entire Nanyang region, the Taiping Society has set up a total of seven rudders, namely Malay Peninsula Rudder, Borneo Rudder, Sumatra Rudder, Java Rudder, Thailand Rudder, Vietnam Rudder, and Philippines Rudder.

With seven rudders and direct staff from the headquarters, the official congregation of the Taiping Society has a total of 60,000 people and more than 200,000 external members.

With a total strength of more than 300,000 external congregations and formal congregations, even though the Taiping Society acted in a low-key and cautious manner, it was still discovered by the Dutch colonists and the Chinese Kapitan, and after seeing the huge strength of the Taiping Society, they naturally developed a fear mentality, and finally chose to join together to resist the pressure given by the Taiping Society.

Power is a man's aphrodisiac, the Chinese in the Nanyang area are all the low-level Chinese in the Nanyang, they sit on the Jiabidan seat through competition with the Chinese forces of the same race, fire merger, etc., if they take the initiative to give up the power in their hands and take refuge in the Taiping Society, I am afraid it will be more difficult than killing them.

Kirby, the Chinese Capitan and the Dutch colonists who supported them came together because of their own interests, and after more than ten days of tandem and preparation, Kirby has gathered more than 6,000 armed forces, more than 70 ships of all sizes, and five gunboats eliminated by the Dutch.

The armed men and weapons of the convoy were prepared, and according to the agreement, the arrival or non-arrival of the four hundred armed forces provided by Yalai had little impact on the success or failure of the operation. Out of consideration for uniting other Chinese Kapitan, Kirby made a final decision and agreed that Ye Yalai would withdraw from the operation halfway, and then distribute the share of the harvest that Ye Yalai deserved after the operation was successful to the other Chinese Kapitan.

Through some arrangement, Kirby was able to deal with the adverse effects of Yalai's withdrawal in time, and at the same time, Yalai led seven or eight hundred men to a stop sixty kilometers from the Klang Valley mine.

"Father, why did the line stop?"

Ye Yalai's eldest son, Ye Shengping, walked to his father from the front of the team and asked.

"There was no accident at the tin mine in the Klang Valley, and my father led seven or eight hundred people out because he didn't want to participate in the attack on the Han transport fleet."

Ye Yalai sat under a big tree far away from the team and explained, "If the plan goes well, the attack on the Han convoy is seventy or eighty percent successful, and we can get a lot of benefits after the operation is successful, but a few days ago I received news from Selangor that the British will take over the administration of Kuala Lumpur, and in two or three years, the capital of the Straits Settlements will be moved to Kuala Lumpur."

Sheng Ping, do you know what it means for the British to do this? ”

"Father, Kuala Lumpur is your life's work, where were the British when you worked hard to develop Kuala Lumpur twenty years ago, why did they rob our Ye family's territory, father, Kuala Lumpur is the root of the Ye family, without Kuala Lumpur, the Ye family is nothing, you must not agree to the British request!"

Kuala Lumpur has developed from a desolate tin mine to a prosperous city, indispensable to the hard work and dedication of the early Chinese, Ye Yalai served as Kuala Lumpur Kapitan for more than ten years, and is the real power in the Kuala Lumpur area, and Ye Shengping, as the heir of the other party, has already regarded Kuala Lumpur as his own private property, so he was very angry when he heard that the British wanted to take back Ye Yalai's power to govern Kuala Lumpur.

"The strength of the British is all over the world, and our Ye family is not even as good as an ant in their eyes, and they are qualified to resist them."

Ye Yalai also accumulated a wave of anger in his heart, and forcibly suppressed, "Kuala Lumpur was developed by me with my own hands, and I can't watch it fall into the hands of the British in vain no matter what."

Sheng Ping, in the Nanyang region, in addition to the British and Dutch, the strength of the Han State is the strongest, so before the British officially intervene in the affairs of Kuala Lumpur, we can't offend the Han State to death, otherwise after a few years, the Ye family will have no possibility of turning over.

Sheng Ping, you may understand what I said! ”

Ye Yalai stared at his son's eyes and said.

"My son understands that Kuala Lumpur is the foundation of the Ye family, and nothing else is important compared to Kuala Lumpur."

"Sheng Ping, remember what I said today, we must not let Kuala Lumpur be thrown away from our father and son!"

"My son will never dare to forget it for the rest of his life!"

"Okay, order the team to rest in place and return to Kuala Lumpur in five days."

"Yes, Father!"

Ye Shengping replied firmly, and walked towards the team without hesitation.