Nanhua covers an area of more than 550,000 square kilometers, but most of the area is unsuitable for farming. Pinshu mobile terminal

Borneo Island is home to the third largest primeval forest in the world, and is located along the island's coast, although it also has vast land and rivers. However, the land here is very poor, and most of the area is not suitable for agriculture at all.

Even in another era, the development of agriculture here was lagging behind, except for a few areas where grain could be grown, most of the area was bananas, and rubber was mainly cultivated.

The land on Borneo is not suitable for food cultivation, and the same is true for Bangka Belitung Island, but the more than 10,000 square kilometers of land that was looted in Sumatra this time are all fertile farmland and a large city.

In fact, it is not a robbery, this place was originally intended by the Dutch to be distributed to the Javanese, the largest ethnic group in the East Indies, with a population of nearly 100 million.

Only give them the island of Java, which has the most fertile land in Southeast Asia, but it is not enough. So Sumatra, in addition to the Acehnese in the north, was originally going to divide the south to the Javanese.

But now the Javanese are not satisfied that they occupy less than a fifth of the land in the East Indies, and of course they are against it. They even wanted to turn the entire East Indies into a single country, and then control the country with their own people as the dominant leader.

In another life, they were supported by the Americans, who first drove out the Dutch and gained independence. Then it encroached on other areas step by step, first taking down Maluku, then Timor, and finally biting the Papuans.

At that time, the Netherlands were greater than the Javanese in terms of military strength, but they did not dare to move, and watched as the Javanese snatched the second largest island in the world.

It was only after another few decades that the Papuans and Timorese gained the support of the United States and gained independence. But the Papuan island of Guinea was cut in half, and the world's largest gold mine, the third largest, became Javanese.

The weak Maluku has disappeared, and the Acehnese have rebelled for decades, refusing to accept themselves as part of Indonesia.

But a tsunami in 2004 helped the Javanese, and the Acehnese were powerless to cope with the disaster and surrender to Javanese rule.

On the island of Sumatra, Javanese people are not dominant, and there are many Malays and Chinese living here, and even the language is mainly Malay.

In fact, for this island, Zhou Nan is the most red-eyed. Because Sumatra has been known as the Golden Island since ancient times, gold production is extremely high.

Moreover, the largest minerals here are not gold, but oil and coal, and the oil fields here are extremely prolific, most of which are land-based.

Even here in Palembang, which is now occupied by the Chinese, there will be oil fields in later generations, but in this era, most people still don't know about it.

The biggest obstacle for the Chinese to occupy most of Sumatra was not the Dutch, but the Americans and the British.

Now in order to win over the Chinese, the Netherlands wants to let the Chinese army serve them, and they dare to agree to any conditions, anyway, these areas are in the hands of the Chinese, and the contribution to them is greater than that of others.

But the British feared that the Chinese occupied Sumatra and would unite with the Chinese in the Malay Peninsula to subvert their rule.

The Americans were also afraid that the Chinese controlled the island of Sumatra, and the Strait of Malacca was controlled by the Chinese.

However, this aspect is not impossible, and the breakthrough point is in North Borneo.

In the north of Borneo, there are still more than 200,000 square kilometers under the control of the British, who once wanted to move the Chinese here and hand over the whole of Borneo to the Chinese to administer.

But this plan was firmly opposed by the United States, because if the whole of Borneo were Chinese, then the Chinese would face the South China Sea, and the South China Sea would really become an inland sea for the Chinese.

Another reason is that Borneo has become controlled by the Chinese, and the Philippines, which is now under the control of the United States, will also face the threat of the Chinese directly.

For these two reasons, the threat of the Strait of Malacca is nothing, because the United States does not believe that the Chinese really dare to control the Strait of Malacca, and when it comes to the navy, the Chinese still rely on them for development.

If the South China Sea becomes an inland sea for the Chinese, if the two sides join forces in the future, it will be difficult for even the Americans to intervene, and this is the most terrifying thing.

So, if the Chinese want territory, you can also do it, first of all, you have to be obedient, and secondly, you can develop to the south.

Palembang is now under the control of the Chinese, which is the meaning of the Dutch, and the United States has also acquiesced, which is also a bait for the Chinese.

Except for forest resources, Borneo has few other resources, and the land is barren.

However, the land of Sumatra is fertile, and the more than 10,000 square kilometers of land in Palembang are all alluvial plains of the Musi River, and the ash from the original volcanic eruptions of the island, although the farmland there is not Java, but it is enough to grow food.

When it comes to farming, no ethnic group in the world is Chinese, and if all of the more than 10,000 square kilometers of land are turned into farmland, not to mention feeding the more than 10 million people in South China, it will be 100 million people, and the pressure will not be great.

Of course, Pan Lao and the others didn't know that there was a lot of oil here, but they just saw that there was fertile farmland here, so they decided to go all out to develop the army and obtain a suitable land for growing food for Nanhua.

Although everyone knew very well why the Dutch were so generous, they also knew that the purpose of these countries was to set the Chinese against the Javanese, so that they could control the situation here more easily.

But this bait is too sweet, for the sake of more than 10,000 square kilometers of fertile farmland that has now entered the pocket, in order to obtain a larger land area in the future, no matter how big the difficulties must be bravely faced.

Zhou Nan is also in favor of going south, counting on the population base of South China, it is impossible to participate in the global hegemony.

Now the Chinese and the Javanese themselves have great contradictions and hatreds, and it is almost impossible to live in peace. If we don't really fight a few battles and subdue them, the property of the Chinese on Java Island will not be guaranteed.

Since we know that the outcome will be like this, and that the United States is willing to support the war, how long will it take to develop our military strength if we do not take this opportunity?

Together with the war, the red tide in the country can also be contained, which is more conducive to the country's economic development and can also get the full support of the West.

Zhou Nan drew an oval circle in the northeast of Sumatra Island, almost encompassing most of the area of South Sumatra, Riau Province, and Zhanbei Province in the later generations, with almost 200,000 square kilometers of land.

It also includes almost all the oil fields, the most fertile land, and a world-class super-large high-quality coal mine. This is still a clearer memory in Zhou Nan's memory, and this island is rich in resources, who knows how many rich minerals there are here.

Moreover, this land also guards the Strait of Malacca, as long as it does not completely turn its face with the Western world, how can the dividends of Malacca in the future be followed and eaten.

This kind of bonus is not to charge any transfer fees, mainly ship service fees, material transfer and storage, financial services and so on.

In later generations, Singapore relied on this development and became a famous financial heart and secondary market, and now with South China, Singapore is a small place, and there is no need to exist at all.

Although grabbing so many places at once may make Britain and the United States vigilant, as long as they can turn their interests into national strength, it is worth it.

If we want to stabilize the interests of the Chinese in Sumatra, the British and Americans must not be less sycophant, and the Dutch flattery cannot be stopped, and the most important thing is to support the Acehnese and win over the Malays.

Although the Acehnese were valiant and good at fighting, their numbers were too small. Therefore, they only have the power to protect themselves, and it is impossible for them to compete with the Chinese.

Britain and the United States will never allow the Chinese to completely swallow such a large island as Sumatra, and even if the Chinese have such military strength, they do not have such strong management ability.

The Chinese population here is not Javanese, or even Malays. Therefore, with so many people managed by a minority, there is still a base camp for Javanese people on the island of Java, and if the Chinese really want to occupy most of Sumatra, then this place will become a second east in the future.

Therefore, if you want to grab territory, you must also leave a little leeway for the Javanese, and simply leave all the side of Sumatra facing the Indian Ocean to other ethnic groups to fight for, and I only need one-third of the territory to be enough.

The Minas oil field in the province of Riau has now been discovered, and in the vicinity of Minas no less than ten oil fields were discovered in the forties.

Shell holds the majority of the interests in these fields, but after the war, the world's oil production far exceeded consumption, so none of these fields have been effectively developed.

And because of today's exploration technology limitations, no one knew that the oil field here would be so large, with only one Minas oil field. There are one billion tons of reserves, which is more than 7 billion barrels according to the customary barrels in Europe and the United States.

The Minas oil field, on the other hand, is only one of more than a dozen oil fields, but it is only the largest.

It is now attracting countless oil companies, but because Shell is jointly controlled by the British and Dutch countries, even the American oil companies are helpless.

Zhou Nan united with American oil companies and consortia through Hughes, hoping that they could persuade the US Congress to support the development of the Chinese in Riau Province, and if the United States supported, the Chinese would be willing to give up half of the oil interests here.

Although Hughes is a genius and madman, he is smart in a way that most people do not, and many times, he just arrogantly sees other people as ants and doesn't care what other people think.

He got serious, and even the emperor was afraid.

With him in the background, his Hughes Petroleum Equipment Company can sell a large amount of equipment, and this benefit is not small.

Therefore, the two of them are not afraid that other people will associate the "friendship" between them, I am afraid that they will announce it openly, and I am afraid that no one will believe that there will really be friendship between them.

But friendship, affection, these emotions that other people don't believe in, are between them.

For the sake of this friendship, Hughes has prepared to move the full set of technology of several fighter models that they had previously eliminated by the US military to South China, and promised to build a fighter manufacturing plant in South China.