Chapter 375: The Prologue to the Massacre
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In 1777, Luo Fangbo officially renamed the "Lanfang Company" he founded as the "Republic" and made the capital Dongwanlu. This small country, which is considered by Western scholars to be the first republic in the history of Asia, has always run through the historical process of its development and demise from the founding of the country to its demise.
The parliamentary republic adopted by the Republic of Lan Fong was not so much a manifestation of "boiling" progress as a compromise that various interest groups had to choose when they were surrounded by natives and European colonizers.
Whenever the situation around the Republic of Lanfang is calm, the immature parliamentary republic system they adopt will produce some inexplicable moths. As a result of the infighting, the Chinese regime in the South Pacific, even at its peak, occupied only eleven times the size of Borneo.
Of course, without a strong backing force, such a small country with no roots and no roots will not escape the fate of annihilation when the colonial wave sweeps through the South Pacific. But if there was no brainless infighting, these Chinese people who left their homeland and came to Nanyang to seek a living would not have ended up like this. In the many military campaigns organized by the Dutch against the Republic of Lanfang, you can easily find evidence of traitors.
In 1850, the Republic of Lanfang, ruled by Liu Shoushan, was invited by the Dutch East India Company to take military action against another politically charged Chinese organization, the Dagang Company. From then on, the various republics established by the Chinese in Borneo were wiped out one by one by the Dutch using internal strife among themselves.
In the end, Liu Shoushan also paid the price for his stupid decision, always thinking that he could escape with the sign of the Manchurian "vassal state", and the Lanfang Republic was also attacked by the Dutch East India Company. At this time, there was no Chinese regime in Borneo that could provide assistance to it, and the Republic of Lanfang finally made itself a grave on the way to death.
And the status of the Manchu "vassal state", which was originally thought to be a gold medal for avoiding death, only allowed Liu Shoushan's son Liu Enguan to seek a vacant position in the puppet regime established by the Dutch.
Fighting with various interest groups at home, and fighting with various Chinese republics within Borneo, the history of the Republic of Lanfang is simply a history of infighting among the Chinese in Nanyang.
From the moment Lu Xiaobei stepped on the land of West Borneo, he immediately felt this strong atmosphere of Chinese infighting. She was surprised to find that some of the Chinese, who had recently been cornered by the East India Company mercenaries, refused to cooperate with the group of indigenous soldiers brought by Liang Luyi. After learning the reason, Lu Xiaobei couldn't cry or laugh, this part of the Chinese was supporting Luo Yibo, and he and Liang Luyi had been fighting for the leadership of the rebels a few years ago.
"Damn, there are really such strange things in this world! The knives are all caught in the neck, why are you still thinking about fighting for power and profit? This is to divide the position of who can go first before going to the gallows! "Jin Peng also followed Lu Xiaobei to the South Pacific region this time.
"The situation is a little more complicated than I thought, although I don't expect any scenes of greeting each other, but I still have a little bit of luxury hope that the desperate Chinese will huddle together for warmth, and I was still slapped in the face!" Lu Xiaobei said.
"So what do we do now?" Jinpeng asked for directions to Xiaobei.
"Soldiers! Directly attack the Dutchman's official residence in Dong Wanlu, and make things bigger first! Lu Xiaobei said.
Of course, Lu Xiaobei's so-called reinforcement did not mean that she had increased troops from the Liaodong Peninsula to West Borneo, but she wanted all the indigenous soldiers and paramilitaries who stayed on the ship to land and participate in the military operation against the Dutch.
The landing operation went very smoothly, and the "Zhenyuan" may have been just a backward ironclad cruiser in the eyes of John Bull, but it was undoubtedly a powerhouse-level existence in West Borneo. The "unicorn" flag of the Great Song Royal Navy fluttering in the wind on its mast had a boss-level deterrent effect on the nearby Dutch Spaniards.
I'm crispy, I'm slow, but do you dare to hit me? Hanging this "unicorn" flag means that I have a monster-level big brother like BB63 at home, you guys are okay to stay away from me, be careful buddy, wherever I bump, it will be counted on your head!
The mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company wanted to find out the bottom of these people who had blatantly landed in Songbai Bay, but these mercenaries who had failed to clean up the remnants of the Lanfang Republic Army by relying on traitors to lead the way, their combat effectiveness was really low. They couldn't even get close to the landing site at Songbai Bay.
After the hundreds of people transferred all the equipment and materials ashore, the amount of clothes that Liang Luyi had brought together was about the same. The native soldiers, dressed in their costumes, began to march towards the East, and along the way they saw the Dutch, East India Company, and went straight to fight. Whether it's the guards of the mines or the mercenaries in the small strongholds along the way, they put on a posture of doing whatever they see.
This is not that Lu Xiaobei has a penchant for brainless killing, according to the routine, this armed force is a so-called Chinese uprising force, and it would be too fake to be overly restrained!
However, in this expedition to the South Pacific, there is a real god of killing. Considering the expansion of the territory of the Far Lanfang Republic to Borneo where there are large oil fields, the Crossing Crowd sent their chemical weapons experts to the South Pacific with this expeditionary force.
In a sealed compartment in the bilge of the "Zhenyuan" ship, there are some things that can be called "weapons of mass destruction" even in the 21st century. If there really were some forces whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people who did not understand the situation and insisted on competing with the Crossing Crowd in Borneo, Jinpeng was authorized to use those things in the bilge of the "Zhenyuan" ship.
If there are really such blind people, let them die in the most strange way in the eyes of the world in this era! Anyway, in the jungles of the South Pacific, there are many legends about voodoo plague, and a group of natives who have never seen the world can still see any clues?
Petroleum! Lots and lots of easily extracted oil! Convenient oil for large quantities! The traversal has entered a bottleneck, and the oil on Borneo is the key to breaking through the bottleneck. All the forces that get in the way in the way of the region are likely to be blacklisted as a cheap and efficient way to kill the Dutch, Spaniards, or the nearby natives who hate the Chinese.
The Crossing Native Forces, which were attacking in the direction of the inland East Manlaw, did not realize that they had set in motion a massacre. Ten years onwards, since 1885, when the Republic of Lanfang was destroyed, the Dutch East India Company colonists have slaughtered too many Chinese people in this land. There are many local Chinese people, who do not have a few relatives and friends who died tragically under the butcher's knife of these colonists? When the indigenous soldiers shouted "kill the Dutchman" in front of them in a local accent, the effect was no less than Ran Min's "Kill Hu Order" back then.
The irresponsible departure of the senior staff of the Dutch East India Company had led their mercenaries and the surrounding natives who hated the Chinese into a state of frenzied plunder, which had forced the Chinese in the vicinity of East Manlaw into a desperate situation from which they could not retreat.
When these Chinese people saw a Chinese unit armed with advanced weapons attacking the personnel of the East India Company, they broke out! Although they knew that the armed men dressed in the same clothes as them were not local Chinese at all, they knew that if they did not take the opportunity to kill the Dutch, they would be the ones who would be unlucky! For mobile phone users, please browse M. Reading for a better reading experience.