Chapter 172: Bringing in Chinese Workers
When Aguinaldo's corpse appeared in front of Rivera, the Philippine governor was frightened, not because he had never seen the corpse, but because the Germans were so efficient. His Excellency the Governor is also glad that there is no negotiation with these Germans at home, otherwise these wolf-like Germans may really be able to eat themselves alive.
At this time, Germany was in full swing of the "murder of the culprit of the massacre of German citizens", and under the construction of Jochen, the German government gathered a large number of newspaper reporters at the Charlottenburg Palace, and then Frederick III walked out of the palace on the red carpet under the gaze of everyone, and then announced the news, followed by a flash of magnesium lights.
The next day, newspapers throughout Germany began to report on the great efforts and contributions of the German government to "save the whites of the Far East, for the humanitarian cause."
Although the whole of Germany reported this, and even the Americans who did good things began to praise the Germans for their "good deeds", of course, everyone knew what the Americans were thinking about in their stomachs, but after the Spaniards concentrated all their forces on Cuba, the Americans found that the Spaniards did not need their own "help" anymore, so they had to give up.
Amid the praise of the outside world, the top brass of the German Empire continued to plot a plot to seize the whole of the Philippines behind the scenes.
"After killing Aguinaldo, we did what we had to do, and that's not our business. Let the Spaniards slowly weed out the scattered Filipino monkeys. Caprivi said cheerfully.
The announcement of the killing of Aguinaldo was relinquished to His Majesty, but it was a real feat to reach an agreement with the Spaniards to obtain Palawan and the port of Subic. If he can conquer the whole of the Philippines during his tenure, he will be able to achieve unparalleled glory and prestige.
"Our main task now is to continue to consolidate Palawan and the port of Subic, which has excellent hydrological conditions and a great location to serve as a home port for the Far Eastern Fleet. We are going to build it into a real military port, a fortress, so that the Far Eastern Fleet can completely get rid of the days under the fence. Muntz was also excited.
It was finally possible to get rid of the days when even the maintenance had to curry favor with the British, and once the Subic military port was completed, the Far Eastern Fleet would have a real base from which to intervene in Asia.
"We need to do everything we can to build Subic Port, but what are we going to do with this construction project? We can transport resources and equipment from Europe, and it is very convenient to start from Trieste. But what about the workers? Large-scale construction requires a lot of workers, and we can't always send workers from home, and those Filipino monkeys, I don't think they can be relied on. "Caprivi has a bit of a headache.
The current Port of Moresby is not as fully equipped as the planned Subic Port, and it is frightening to rely on the locals to carry out the construction work efficiently. Now that the Filipinos are like this, Caprivi really feels unreliable.
"Workers? Those Filipino monkeys are uneducated, unskilled, and barbaric and lazy. They simply can't do a good job.
I don't think there's any need to worry about this, there are tens of thousands of Filipino monkeys on Palawan, and the harassment of the Princesa stronghold has not stopped during this time, although it has not caused any damage, but it is also very annoying for flies to circulate around people. Sending troops from home to the Philippines continues.
While ensuring the safety of Princesa, we went to clean up the Filipino monkeys on Palawan, and those who gave up resistance would give them a way to live, wouldn't it be the best coolies? Nothing else can be done. You can always do hard work, right? "Yoheng built yƬ to.
"As for the workers, we have better options." Jochen said with a smile.
"Oh? Where can I get a large number of workers? Frederick III asked.
"Qingguo. We can get enough workers from the Qing country. ā
"There are no workers from that decaying Qing country, except for their huge population, their industrial capacity is not necessarily much better than those Filipino monkeys." The defeat of the Sino-Japanese War made the evaluation of the Qing state lower and lower in the European countries, and Frederick III was a little disappointed to hear about his son's unreliable construction.
"Father, you must have seen those soldiers of the Qing Navy. At least what we saw at the time was a soldier with a fairly high level of supra. Jochen explained to his father with a smile.
"The Qing people are just rotten at the top, but the Qing people are industrious, hardworking, hardworking, and studious, and as long as we are willing to teach them, they will soon become excellent workers. What they need is a good leader. And we're very good leaders.
We have made a request to the Qing State for the export of labor services, and the Qing government, which is now burdened with huge debts, will not refuse. Moreover, the Qing people in the Philippines were originally a considerable force, although these people were small in number, but they owned more than one-third of the wealth of the entire Philippines. The Spaniards slaughtered them as fat sheep, and the Filipino monkeys were hostile to these wealthy outsiders, so the Qing people had wealth in the Philippines, but they were not safe.
If we increase the number of Qing people in the Philippines and give them enough treatment, then what will the Filipinos on the other side who are being suppressed by us treat these Qing people? And these Qing people can only rally more closely around us and seek our protection. ā
Increasing Chinese immigrants while purging and hard labor on Filipinos was something Jochen had in mind from the beginning. Giving the Chinese enough social status and sufficient security guarantee is enough to make these Chinese living under the double persecution of Spaniards and Filipinos grateful to Dade.
And these people, in addition to being good workers, good taxpayers, can also be good soldiers in the First World War.
The Philippines is different from Africa as a colony far from the German mainland.
First of all, the Germans in Africa have been in business for a long time, so the locals can be relied upon, and historically Germany has formed a large number of black troops in the colonial armies of Africa, and these blacks are still quite obedient to their German superiors, while the Filipinos obviously cannot be counted on.
Second, Germany's most important colonies were located along the Atlantic coast, and it was possible for the Germans to support these areas as long as the Germans could inflict heavy damage on the British Royal Navy. However, in the Far East, the Philippines would never be able to care about the Germans in the event of a war, so the Philippines must have the ability to survive the First World War on its own.
Therefore, in order to keep the Filipinos from making trouble, in addition to completely subduing them, it is also necessary to introduce a new force to balance them, and this force is the Chinese.
It's not hard to convince the Filipinos. Historically, when the Spanish-American War broke out, the United States completely annihilated the Spanish Far East Fleet, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the Filipinos attacked the Spanish colonial army that could not defend themselves at this time, defeated the Spaniards, and liberated most of the Philippine land. However, these Filipino monkeys thought that they would be invincible if they won the Spanish, and they launched an attack on the Americans, who also coveted the Philippines.
Although the U.S. Army at this time was not necessarily much better than the Spaniards in combat capability. But the U.S. national strength and population allowed them to send a large army to suppress it, and three years later, it completely ruined the Filipino dream of independence.
Germany is not the United States, which has a weak army, and it is not necessary to pay such a huge price to suppress these Filipino monkeys as the Americans. And those armed resistance groups that have popped up here and there are just the right for KSK and GSG to practice their skills and gain experience.
But it is impossible for Germany to keep a huge number of troops in the area all the time, so it is necessary to weaken the Philippine resistance on the one hand, and on the other hand to cultivate a good local army, and the Chinese are a very good choice.
In this way, under the condition that Taiwan does not belong to Japan, if Japan wants to go south, it must first control Taiwan, otherwise even if it attacks the Philippines, it will be cut off by others at any time. Even if France and the Qing Dynasty agreed that Japan would use Taiwan as a springboard to attack the Philippines, the Philippines, which had enough strength, would be able to defend itself.
As for why not to bring in Chinese workers in the African colonies, it is actually very simple, distance. Africa is not the Philippines, and it is indeed unrealistic to transport a large number of Chinese laborers from the Qing Dynasty to Namibia and Nigeria to West Africa.
This is not the number of 12,000 people, how much capacity do hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers need to use? And since you're here to be a worker, you can't just find a broken boat and load it in the way of selling piglets, and then give it food that won't die of hunger, and throw it into the sea when you get sick. You need to provide good living conditions, good food and good medical conditions.
Even if Germany can afford this money, it does not have such a strong capacity. So you don't have to think about it, and the Philippines can achieve this purpose.
"Since you have so much confidence in the Qing people, then let's try it first." Frederick III could not think of a better solution to the labor problem for a while, so he could only try his son's solution first.
"In three years, in three years, I hope to see the Subic Port put into use, in addition, in order to ensure the safety of our construction of the Subic Port, the 2nd Marine Division will go to the Philippines, I want you to guarantee the absolute safety of Palawan Island and Subic Port, in addition, even if the Qing Chinese labor can come to the Philippines, we still need a large number of local labor, you know how to 'persuade' the Filipinos to work for us." Frederick III ordered.
The Germans are not Spaniards, and although they are now implementing a relatively relaxed colonial policy in Africa, once these strict and rigid guys fully implement the colonial strategy of military control, then the Filipinos will definitely have a more difficult time than the Africans in history. (To be continued......)