Chapter 323: The South Seas Move

Like a stone falling into the water, the Han ** team repelled the attack of the British expeditionary force, forcing Britain, Brazil, and Chile to accept the news of peace talks to the South Seas, which instantly led to an unquiet wave, and the Han power expanded to the South Seas at the same time, the British colonial authorities began to speed up the colonization of the Malay Peninsula into the city, and in January 1874, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Clark, to quell the battle for the throne in the Perak region

Under the pretext, the "Treaty of Bangkha" was signed with the chiefs of the Perak states, and Perak officially became a British protectorate, and the British government began to send garrisons to Perak in accordance with the provisions of the treaty, intervening in the internal political and economic affairs of Perak, and the Perak region was the first state in the indigenous kingdoms of the Malay Peninsula to be protected by the British, and after the Perak region was under control, in October of the same year, civil strife broke out in Selangor, and the British government used the excuse to maintain local stability and sent garrisons to the state. ……

At the end of 1878, Clark resigned, Frederick took over the position of Governor of the Straits Settlements, changing Clark's step-by-step and gradual encroachment of expansion, less than half a year after taking office, that is, to convene the chiefs of the princely states in Negeri Sembilan to give up their political and military autonomy, and the Indian colonial army sent by the British colonial authorities to take care of the local defense, in July 1879, in the face of the futile situation of the British expeditionary force in South America, and the rapid expansion of Han power in various parts of the South Seas, Frederick sent telegrams to the London government and the Viceroy of India, explaining that the Chinese immigrant groups had formed an unstoppable trend in the South Seas, and that the number of Chinese immigrants in the South Seas must be curbed, and at the same time, in order to balance the Chinese forces, he suggested that labor should be introduced in the Indian region, and that the Indian colonial army and police force should replace the local indigenous armed forces to assist the British colonial government in managing the affairs of the Straits Settlements.

Dividing and containing the forces of various ethnic groups in the colonies, with the British colonial authorities playing the role of arbiters and maintaining colonial order, has always been a means of control that the British are good at.

Since the British colonized the Malay Peninsula, some Indians have followed suit and entered the South Seas.

In the early days, Indians who arrived in the Malay Peninsula were mainly prisoners serving prison sentences, and they were often used as free laborers to clear the jungle, fill in swamps, and sweep roads.

With the acceleration of the development of the Malay Peninsula and the increase in the construction of infrastructure works by the British colonial government, Indian prisoner labor undertook the burden

Most of the construction tasks were carried out, such as Fort Canning Castle, Pearl Hill Hospital, the new building of the Strait Colonial Government, and the span

construction of bridges over the Singapore River, etc.,

In the eyes of British colonial officials, compared with Chinese prisoners (in the early days, there were also Hong Kong Chinese prisoners serving their sentences in the Malay Peninsula, but because British colonial officials believed that the Chinese were not easy to manage and often fighting, so the Chinese prisoners were suspended from serving their sentences in Nanyang), the Indian prisoner labor was more secure and easy to manage. Especially after the uprising against the British in India in 1857, these Indians were imprisoned by the cruel methods of the British colonizers in the process of suppressing the uprising, and they did not dare to show their resistance and honestly buried their heads in hard labor.

After the forties of the nineteenth century, the Indians gradually played a more diverse role in the economic and political composition of the Malay Peninsula, one was as a low-level laborer, engaged in manual labor such as plantation and mineral mining, the second was to serve as a middle- and lower-level colonial official in the colonial government, assisting the British in local affairs, and third, as a servant army and colonial police. Responsible for the suppression of armed rebellions against British rule.

The last group is as a businessman, taking advantage of the political and economic privileges granted by the British, and stealing economic interests and compressing the living space of competitors, mainly Nanyang Chinese businessmen, in the form of unfair competition.

For the purpose of strengthening the armed forces of the Straits Settlements, the Government of London acceded to Frederick's request and ordered the Governor of India to send a 300-man Sikh detachment and a 500-strong Indian colonial detachment to the Malay Peninsula to obey the orders of the Straits Colonial Government.

In early October, when Britain and China signed an armistice and the situation in South America stabilized, the London government once again sent a 2,000-strong labor force to the Malay Peninsula through India itself.

Within two or three months, the Indian colonial army, armed police, and laborers entered the Malay Peninsula one after another, which greatly panicked the indigenous chiefs and Chinese Kapitan, who were already worried about the complete loss of political and military power, and the indigenous chiefs in Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak and other areas protested to the Straits colonial government, protesting against the British's violation of the agreement and transferring the local military administration from the indigenous army to the Indian colonial army.

In the face of the protests of the indigenous chiefs of the Malay Peninsula, after a simple pacification by the colonial government of the Straits did not make a clear statement, the Indian army and police continued to pour into the Nanyang region.

After several deliberations, the indigenous Aborigines of the Malay Peninsula and the Chinese Kapitan jointly put their hope for help on the Taiping Society, more precisely, the Han ** team behind the Taiping Society.

Nanyang is an important transit hub for the transportation of immigrants to and from the mainland and South America, and dozens of batches of fleets and medicinal herb merchants who come and go to the two major states every year bring a lot of real news about the Han Kingdom in South America, and the real experience of eleven years of edification and personal arrival in the Han Kingdom of South America makes the Chinese in Nanyang know more about the strength of the Han Kingdom in South America than the mainland.

In the early years, Peru and Brazil had no influence among the Chinese in Nanyang, and they did not have any impression of Peru and Brazil, so the defeat of the above two countries was at most to make them feel that the strength of the Han State was good, and they could defeat the country with a population and land area far exceeding itself, and 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 ** team, but not only failed to drive the Han ** team out of Argentina, but also suffered more than 4,000 casualties.

During the Opium War, Britain only dispatched more than 10,000 troops to defeat the army of the Manchu court, and the same army performed completely differently on the two battlefields, which doesn't mean that the same number of Han ** troops are far superior to the army of the Manchu Dynasty.

Before the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Manchu court still maintained a strong position in the world, and after comparing with the Qing Dynasty army, all the Nanyang Chinese who maintained their sanity and objectivity could see the rapid rise of the Han State in South America. Living a happy life of ten acres of land per household, well fed and clothed, the indigenous chiefs of the Malay Peninsula and the Chinese Kapitan are planning to use the power of the Han State in the South Seas to unite the three parties and jointly force the colonial government of the Straits to abandon the policy of supporting the Indian military, police, and laborers to take their place.