After discussing a preliminary countermeasure to the handling of the Songkhla issue and the subsequent response to the intervention of Thailand and the Straits Settlements,

Mei Dongxing then said another important thing,

"The night before yesterday, a total of 17 Chinese Kapitans in the Malay Peninsula, including Kapitan in Kuala Lumpur, Kapitan in Perak, and Kapitan in Terengganu, left a letter for us with the relatives of Lord Tozhang who stayed in Nanyang, claiming that they were willing to cooperate with the Nanyang Legion to jointly expel the Indian colonial military police and laborers who entered the Malay Peninsula, and in order to persuade the Nanyang Legion to take the lead in organizing it, they also prepared 300,000 taels of silver in advance, and promised to pay another 1 million taels of silver as a reward after the matter was completed, everyone, what do you think of this matter?"

"The central government has just issued an order that peripheral organizations such as the Nanyang Army and the Taiping Society should shrink their sphere of influence in Nanyang, because the Indian military, police and labor affairs are strong, and I am afraid that the British will be more afraid of our power and go against the instructions of the central government.

"The British introduced the Indian colonial army and armed police, the first damage was the indigenous chieftains of the Malay Peninsula and the Chinese Kapitan who depended on the British power, after the shrinkage of power, our sphere of influence in the South Seas is mainly distributed in the Natuna Islands and Songkhla two regions, the presence of the Indian colonial police can not threaten the security of the Natuna Islands and Songkhla, and I also believe that we should not intervene in the conflict between the indigenous chieftains of the Malay Peninsula and the Chinese Kapitan in the Straits Settlements and the Indian military and police."

"Mei-sama, I have a different opinion below."

"Brother Chen, please speak."

"The introduction of the Indian colonial army and armed police by the British is nothing more than to balance the power of the indigenous chieftains and the Kapitans, create contradictions and discord between the three forces, so as to hijack the growth of the power of the indigenous chieftains and the Kapitan, and achieve the goal of divide and rule.

However, please don't forget another point, the British brought in not only the Indian colonial army and armed police force from India, but also a larger number of Indian laborers, and the central government sent troops to Nanyang, which is the reason for the proximity of Nanyang to the mainland and the large number of Chinese immigrants.

In the past ten years, the local areas have been in dire need of young and strong labor supplements, and the local Chinese in Nanyang and laborers from the mainland have been transferred to the local areas one after another, although the Central Plains and Jiangnan have frequent disasters, and the compatriots who cannot survive in the mainland have continued to go to sea to make a living, filling the manpower gap left by the local Chinese in Nanyang after migrating to South America.

From 1870 to the present, the total number of Chinese in the Nanyang region has not increased significantly, and in the next ten or twenty years, the country opened up the Pacific route from the mainland to the Nanyang, and the number of ocean-going shipping ships to and from South America and the Nanyang was even larger, and the local Chinese population loss rate in Nanyang may be two times or three times or four times that of the present.

Nanyang is the central hub belt connecting the mainland and the mainland, we Chinese from more than 200 years ago, we have been going to Nanyang to make a living, several important cities and mineral areas around Nanyang are in the Chinese to come to the local area, only to develop, Nanyang climate is hot, plague, snakes and insects everywhere, the natural conditions are far less than the fertile land, the climate of the four seasons is cool and mild Pampas,

With the increase in the understanding of the local area, the number of people who are willing to stay in Nanyang will only account for a small part of the total number, and the loss of the Chinese population in the Nanyang area or the number of people who have been stagnant for a long time has not grown, and the left manpower vacancies are either filled by the local natives or filled by British laborers.

The local natives are lazy, they occupy the land, will not develop and utilize, and finally still rely on the Chinese to reclaim and develop, and although the Indian labor is not efficient, but because of the obedience and tameness, coupled with India's proximity to the South Seas and the huge number of Indian native population, they are likely to replace the Chinese compatriots and become the largest foreign population in the South Seas.

Master Mei, General Wang, General Li, and Lord Liang, presumably the four of them all understand the wisdom and martial arts of His Highness, according to the current development speed of the local area and His Royal Highness's eloquence and strategy, in less than 20 years, the local population will inevitably be two to three times that of the present, and at that time, the comprehensive strength of the country will far exceed that of now, and the Nanyang region will be more important to the development of the country.

However, if the worst-case scenario continues, and the Indian laborers replace the Chinese as the largest foreign ethnic group in the Nanyangs, and the local forces have the strength to project their military strength into the Nanyang region, it will be difficult for the Indian laborers to achieve their goals under the condition of cooperation with the Western powers. ”

"Your Highness does have plans to meddle in Nanyang in the future."

Liang Xing nodded and said, "However, Brother Chen thinks that the continuous migration of Indian laborers will replace us Chinese and become the largest foreign ethnic group in Nanyang is a bit redundant. ”

"Please ask Lord Liang to answer your doubts."

"There are four reasons for this."

Liang Xing explained: "First, India implements a caste system, and the low-level Indians have no personal freedom, and their migration and immigration to the sea need to be approved by the landlord and the king of the princely state, and the low-level Indians are equivalent to the private property of the king of the princely state and the landlord, and under normal circumstances, they will not agree to let the low-level Indians emigrate overseas.

Second, there are hundreds of small states in India itself,

When an Indian leaves his place of residence, he has to go through many different princely states and pay the taxes established by each of them before he can leave the sea, but the Indians themselves have nothing, let alone pay the costs and taxes of going to sea.

Third, Nanyang is influenced by the oriental cultural circle, and the people in the coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River have the habit of going to Nanyang, and the Chinese can quickly gain a foothold in the local area after going to Nanyang, while the Indians do not have this advantage.

Fourth, the migration of Indian laborers into the Malay Peninsula was not spontaneous, but passively moved in under the leadership of the British, in this case, for each batch of Indian laborers, the colonial government of the Indian Governor General needed to coordinate with the princes of the princely states of India, and after the two parties reached an agreement, they would spend a part of the transportation cost to transport the people to the Malay Peninsula.

The Straits Settlements accept the leadership of the Viceroy of India, and the small-scale immigration of Indian laborers can also be solved by the coordination between the Indian colonial government and the princely princes of India, but the large-scale export of labor will not only bring a lot of costs, but also intensify the contradictions between the Indian colonial government and the princely princes.

However, from the analysis of the current actions of the colonial government in the Straits Strait, the small-scale import of Indian laborers and the permanent presence of Indian military and police in the Malay Peninsula are a foregone conclusion. ”

"It can't be done by relying on the indigenous chieftains and the Kapitans, but by their hands, they can provoke conflicts with the British, which will help to improve the situation of the Nanyang Legion in the Nanyang.

Brother Liang, you rejected their invitation on my behalf, saying that the Nanyang Legion was not strong enough to support their actions, but in order to show support for their righteous deeds, the Nanyang Legion was willing to dispose of a batch of German-style rifles to them, and at the same time suggested that they limit the development of the situation, only create trouble against the Indian military police and laborers, and not expand the matter to the British white colonial army, so as not to end up in the end. ”

"It is clear to the Legion that the Nanyang Legion and the Peace Society will remain out of clashes between the indigenous chieftains, Kapitan and the Indian military and police, and will not leave a handle for the British."