Chapter 4 05 The Development of Lanfang and Songkhla

The Chinese people's desire for land is irrepressible,

At the end of the 19th century, in the darkest historical period of the Central Plains, tens of millions of people had to leave their familiar and poor hometowns and migrate to the Kanto, Northwest, and overseas regions in order to fight for the hope of survival.

Break through the east, go to the west, go to the South Seas, move to South America,

The heavy suffering created the largest migration in the history of the Chinese, and also changed the fate of hundreds of millions of overseas Chinese and their descendants.

Later, when the historians of the Han Empire recorded the migration of their ancestors with heavy and admiring strokes, they wrote: "The families who went to sea were penniless, and they wore the only shabby clothes on their bodies, led barefoot children, and carried wooden sticks step by step, begging for hundreds or several kilometers to reach the nearest coastal port, and finally boarded a crowded steam ship, and traveled all the way to the sea for several months before they reached the mainland of South America." ”

The large-scale overseas migration activities are the last efforts of the people who are struggling on the edge of life and death, and their efforts and sufferings are not completely over at the moment they set foot on foreign lands overseas, but they also announce the beginning of a new life.

Between 1868 and 1889, the number of Chinese who went to sea to earn a living increased exponentially, and the ban and rule of the Manchu court on going to sea were in vain with the deliberate connivance of local officials along the southeast coast.

In order to extract the last benefit from the poor people, many local officials began to take the initiative to lure the young and strong people to go to sea, and then used their families as collateral to demand that the young people who returned from the sea pay a part of the silver before they could move overseas with their families.

Young people are the first to go to sea, and after finding a way to survive overseas, they will pay a certain amount of money to bring their relatives to live overseas.

Qing court officials did their best to search the way, while satisfying their own pockets, but also to reduce the difficulty of the bottom people to go to sea, the family is too poor, penniless it doesn't matter, leave the family in the hometown, sign a debt agreement, the government takes the initiative to help you solve the problem of customs documents, in this specific historical period, in 21 years, the total number of Chinese who went to sea exceeded 14 million, excluding nearly 7 million people who emigrated to South America (17.42 million people in the Han country, including about 2 million whites, Indians, and immigrants and descendants of immigrants. )

More than 80 percent of the remaining people chose to stay in Nanyang to live.

Songkhla covers an area of more than 30,000 square kilometers, received a population of more than 200 million and a total population of more than 240 million in 21 years, and the Lanfang Great Ruling State claimed a territory of 500,000 square kilometers, an actual territory of 300,000 square kilometers, and accepted a Chinese population of more than 260 million, with a total Chinese population of more than 300 million.

Songkhla, Lanfang, Thailand, and the East Indies received a total of nearly 6 million Chinese immigrants, and with the continuous delivery of young immigrants, the overall strength of Songkhla and Lanfang continued to increase, and gradually had the strength to resist the invasion of British and Dutch colonists to a certain extent.

In October 1882, Songkhla and Lan Fang announced at the same time that they would accept the comprehensive reorganization of the South American Han Kingdom, and the two countries would carry out thorough reform and reform in terms of politics and economy in accordance with the model of the South American Han Kingdom.

In September 1884, after two years of running-in and transformation, he entered Songkhla and Lan Fong as ordinary Chinese, and a total of 10,000 Wehrmacht troops and more than 400 political officials officially took over the economic, military, and political power of the two countries from the hands of the old ruling class.

In November 1884, in accordance with the instructions of the local government, the Songkhla and Lan Phong rulers successively established a regular army of 34,000 and 36,000 respectively based on the 10,000 regular troops of the National Defense Army.

A total of more than 70,000 troops in the two places, although on the surface dressed in the banner of Songkhla and Lanfang, in fact are the same as the South American mainland, the newly relocated people are managed and arranged by the government personnel sent by the South American mainland, newborns and immigrant children receive the same loyal and patriotic education as the South American mainland, in the newly established schools at all levels in Songkhla and Lanfang, the teachers emphasize every day that Songkla and Lanfang are both part of the Han Empire, and all the people living in the two places are the subjects of the Han Empire. Their native people only live in different regions, but their identities are the same.

The subtle infiltration of the Han Kingdom in South America into Songkhla and Lanfang aroused the vigilance of the British colonists and the Dutch colonists.

In February 1886, half a year earlier than the time of Lanfang's destruction in history, the Dutch East Indian colonial government sent 4,000 white soldiers and 13,000 indigenous soldiers to launch a surprise attack on Lanfang's great domination under the pretext that the Chinese people illegally crossed the border to reclaim the land.

In mid-March, 17,000 Dutch colonial troops occupied more than 20 camps abandoned by Chinese immigrants and arrived at Pontianak, the capital of Lanfang.

On March 17, the Dutch colonial army launched an attack on Pontianak City led by indigenous troops, and the war lasted for half a month, and the Dutch colonial army paid the price of 600 white soldiers and 3,000 indigenous soldiers killed and wounded, but still did not conquer Pontianak City.

On April 6, just as the commander of the Dutch colonial army was hesitating and wanted to evacuate, he was suddenly besieged by a Chinese force of nearly 30,000 people.

On the one hand, there are more than 30,000 Lanfang Wehrmacht soldiers who defend their homeland and fully receive local military training, and on the other hand, they are the Dutch colonial army that is tired of fighting for a long time and suffers heavy casualties.

The results of the Battle of Pontianak made the British and Dutch colonial forces soberly realize that Songkhla and Lanfang are no longer the countries composed of Chinese ethnic groups that they exploited and humiliated in the past, and after receiving more than ten years of imperceptible education and comprehensive reforms in the political, economic, and military fields of the Han Kingdom in South America, the two places, which have a total population of more than 5.5 million and have the support of modern civilization and beliefs, can mobilize nearly 50 to 800,000 troops under extreme conditions according to the mobilization system of the Han State in South America.

Twenty years later, it is unrealistic to follow the example of the French in driving the South American Han from Annam, and force the South American Han to give up their support and covert control over Songkhla and Lan Fang.

After recognizing the contrast of strength between the two sides in the South Seas through the Battle of Pontianak, the British Malay colonial government chose the wisest way to persuade the Dutch East Indies colonial authorities and the Lanfang Empire, demanding that the two sides resolve their contradictions and conflicts in a peaceful way.

In the face of the olive branch extended by the British colonial government, the top military and political leadership of Lanfang, under the orders of the local government, on the one hand sent personnel to negotiate and negotiate with the Netherlands, and on the other hand, took advantage of the heavy losses suffered by the Dutch colonial army to launch a large-scale attack on Dutch Borneo in the name of recovering the lost territory.

On June 12, Sukkadana, Machen and other areas of West Borneo all fell into the hands of the Lan Phong Defense Army, and the Dutch colonial army, which was frightened by the fighting power of the Chinese army in the Battle of Pontianak and many subsequent battles, could only retreat step by step and continue to send telegrams asking for help to the East Indies Governor's Palace.

There are more than 10,000 islands in the Dutch East Indies, and tens of thousands of Dutch colonial troops are scattered on nearly 1.9 million square kilometers of scattered islands, which can be mobilized so easily to support the defenders of Borneo, and affected by the Battle of Pontianak, the indigenous forces in other parts of the East Indies are also ready to move, at this critical juncture, the governor of the East Indies does not dare to rashly mobilize troops, so he can only continue to ask the British colonial government for help, asking the British government to coordinate and resolve the Borneo dispute as soon as possible.

On July 10, five months after the outbreak of the Borneo War, calm returned to the East Indies, which was full of gunsmoke.

Lan Fang and the Dutch East Indies Governor's Office signed an agreement to officially recognize Lan Fang as an independent state, and the Kingdom of Lan dissolved its subordination with Lan Fang, and the two sides took the Machen and Putusibao lines as the dividing line, about 300,000 square kilometers west of the dividing line as the territory of Lan Fang, and about 240,000 square kilometers east of the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

With the signing of the Pontianak Armistice Agreement, Lan Fang's territory was tripled, and although it could not be compared with its heyday, it was enough to satisfy the officials and generals who were sent to Lan Fang under the siege of the Grand Colonists and the British colonists.

Lanfang and Songkhla are a vital part of the century-old strategy of the Han Kingdom in South America, and there is no room for mistakes, so at the end of the Great Dynasty Meeting, Li Mingyuan appointed Mei Dongxing, who had served as the governor of the two northern provinces of Annam, as the new Lanfang commander, replacing the local government and taking charge of Lanfang's political power.