Chapter 572 Nanyang Strategy (II)

Seeing that Huang Qiuyuan had a sense of embarrassment for the Koreans. Tian Jinfu smiled faintly and said, "Mr. Huang, after Mr. Huang Naishang left Nanyang, New Fuzhou has always been secretly presided over by you, right?" ”

Huang Qiuyuan nodded and said: "It is indeed me who secretly presides, Nanyang is not as good as the country, here the British have the final say, since Uncle Huang was expelled by the British authorities, New Fuzhou has been taken over by me, but in order to perfunctory the local natives, the owner of the reclamation farm in Xinfuzhou is actually a native appointed by the king of the soil, but since the reclamation has done everything properly, I don't have to preside over everything locally, just a few months have passed, look at the situation, now this country' In fact, the pharmacy is also a warehouse for the purchase of farm tools for the reclamation farm, and I also sell the rice and tobacco produced in the reclamation farm. ”

"Mr. Huang, since all the affairs of the New Fuzhou Reclamation Farm are on the right track, why should you worry about a few unscrupulous elements in the Goryeo Reclamation Yard making 'trouble'? What's more, the immigrants I brought with me are hard-working, simple and honest people, I can assure you. These people will definitely not bring any trouble to the new Fuzhou reclamation field, you only need to divide some land among them, or the same as before, five acres of land per person, and I will pay for you to buy land from the natives. As for the few Korean immigrants, you don't have to worry at all, if they can't do a good job, you can just send me a telegram, and I will drive them away. ”

Seeing that Tian Jinfu said sincerely, Huang Qiuyuan didn't shirk anymore, nodded again and again, and then began to discuss specific resettlement matters with Tian Jinfu.

The so-called "New Fuzhou" is actually just a colonial farm, located in the Sarawak region of northern Borneo (Kalimantan), which is now a colony under British occupation, although there are indigenous people, but the production is backward, basically a wild area, which also creates the premise for the Chinese colonial movement, but unlike the British colonists, the Chinese colonial activities in the local area are not official, but purely 'private' movements, and compared with the British colonists, the Chinese colonial movement seems very peaceful.

Speaking of "New Fuzhou", we cannot fail to mention a key person, Mr. Huang Naishang.

Mr. Huang Naishang is a native of Minqing, Fujian. Born in a small peasant family, Tongzhi three years, he reached the age of twenty-one, in a gospel church in Fuzhou as a priest, this experience for his vision is very helpful, after that, he began to learn Bagu Wen, and at the age of twenty-nine in Xiucai, into the county school for further study, but at the same time he is still learning English, in 1884, the outbreak of the Sino-French War, Fujian Navy in Majiang army annihilation, this matter to Huang Naishang great thorn ' In 1894, Huang Naishang was promoted, but in the same year, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the Chinese army and navy suffered defeats, which gave Huang Naishang a greater thorn in the 'agitation'. In order to publicize the new school, he began to establish a newspaper, and to the Guangxu Emperor to write a letter, advocating the implementation of "simplified characters", in order to improve the quality of the people as soon as possible, it was Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others brewing the reform of the law, Huang Naishang and the reform faction soon came together, after the failure of the "100-day Restoration", Huang Naishang who was in the capital was also arrested and imprisoned, and then had the help of friends, so that there was no danger.

After that, Huang Naishang hesitated between the "Restoration" and "**", due to the counterattack of the Qing court conservatives, he had to leave the country, went to Singapore, went to the 'daughter' son-in-law, and worked as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in Singapore for a period of time, because he advocated "radical" progress, a small literary name, that year, he was fifty-one years old, and it was at that time that the idea of "Chinese colonization" began to let Mr. Huang Naishang embark on the road of civil colonization.

After some careful consideration, Huang Nai Sheung finally chose a place called Sibu Port in the Sarawak region of Borneo as his first "folk colony", and then, with the help of local overseas Chinese leaders, Huang Nai Sheung signed a land lease contract with the Tu King of Sibu for a period of 20 years, and this small "folk colony" was officially named "New Fuzhou Reclamation Company", referred to as "New Fuzhou", and Huang Nai Sheung became the "Hong Kong Owner" of the New Fuzhou Reclamation Farm.

After that. Mr. Huang Naishang returned to Fujian, in Minqing, Houguan, Yongfu, Gutian, Youxi, Pingnan and other counties to recruit immigrants, before and after a few years, a total of more than 1,000 Chinese immigrants to Borneo Sarawak area of New Fuzhou, they carried a large number of farm tools, seeds, followed not only farmers, but also Chinese medicine, Western medicine, coppersmiths, blacksmiths, bamboo carpenters, weavers, hunters, boatmen, this is a very courageous and pioneering force. It is conceivable that under the efforts of such a team, the wild Sibu area of New Fuzhou soon changed its appearance, and the new atmosphere of New Fuzhou even attracted the attention of the British colonial authorities, and the official newspapers of Sarawak even reported on it in depth.

The success of the new Fuzhou has given great encouragement to the Chinese, and with it the Chinese settlement areas such as the Shili Street Reclamation Farm, the Kapa Reclamation Field, the Bintulu Reclamation Farm, and the Xinxing Reclamation Field, in these Chinese reclamation fields, schools, roads, factories, and shops have been built one by one, as long as there is enough time, the Chinese can completely turn the Sarawak area into a new immigration area, and Sibu's New Fuzhou will become the political and economic center of the region, and the scene on the North American continent hundreds of years ago is likely to be repeated in this place.

However, history did not give the Chinese and Mr. Wong Nai Sheung enough time, and the Chinese acted at least a hundred years later than the European colonizers, and the British government, which had already regarded Sarawak as a colony, acted quickly. In 1904, when the cause of New Fuzhou was booming, the British colonial authorities issued an expulsion order to him, so the colonial dream of the Chinese woke up, and Mr. Huang Naishang's colonial dream also woke up.

There is only one simple truth behind all this: any colonial cause cannot be separated from official support, and without a strong motherland, any colonial action will end in disgrace.

Mr. Huang Naishang quickly understood this truth, so he stopped hesitating, and he decided. The life of the Manchu Dynasty, the League and the Restoration Society are all his ** comrades, Cai Yuanpei, Song Jiaoren, Chen Qimei, Xu Xueqiu, Lin Sen...... These people are his comrades-in-arms, and even Mr. Sun, the leader of the Alliance, is also his good friend, so when the ** broke out, he quickly devoted himself to this ** and entered the Congress as a representative of Fujian Province.

Therefore, when Mr. President proposed to Mr. Huang Naishang to ask Mr. Huang to assist the center in the Nanyang strategy, Mr. Huang agreed without thinking about it, so there was this letter that Tian Jinfu forwarded to Huang Qiuyuan, and there were also this batch of new immigrants, but unlike before, this group of new Chinese immigrants has some special identities in their souls, although they have received training in agriculture and industrial technology, but their task is not to be honest farmers in the reclamation, as long as they are in Nanyang, Mr. President has every confidence that he will turn some parts of the South Seas upside down.

Although China's national strength is not enough to support any ambitious colonial cause, it is always good to take precautions, and China really needs to establish a foothold in the Nanyang region, which is a strategic issue, a very important strategic issue.

In order to complete this strategic plan, Tian Jinfu took the cruiser "Haiqi" to Singapore, and met with this Mr. Huang Qiuyuan, but in consideration of the confidential "nature" of the plan, Director Tian decided to temporarily conceal the truth from Mr. Huang Qiuyuan, so as not to make the other party panic, the Chinese, may not all be able to form a group, this is the president himself told before going south, the reason why the Nanyang Chinese can not gain a foothold in the local political circles, the suppression of the European colonial authorities is of course the main reason. However, the intrigue between the Chinese is not necessarily not a secondary reason, this is very normal for a nation with a strong sense of locality, regional discrimination is very common in the Nanyang region, and this is also one of the key directions of the central Nanyang strategy, the Chinese community in Nanyang can no longer be scattered, they must unite, unite under the banner of "China", and unite around the president.

Mr. Huang Qiuyuan was not at all clear about the plan of the central government, because Mr. Huang Naishang's personal letter did not mention this Nanyang strategy at all, but only told him that the central government encouraged the landless and landless peasants in the country to emigrate to the Nanyang, and this time, the central government decided to transfer immigrants from the two northern provinces of Shandong and Zhili, and before that, these immigrants were supposed to go to the three eastern provinces.

Although he was a little surprised by Mr. Huang Naishang's sudden decision to let North China farmers immigrate to Nanyang, Huang Qiuyuan really didn't dare to question this matter too much, the younger generation unconditionally obeyed the elders, which is a characteristic of the country's traditional culture, although it has now shown more and more shortcomings, but in this case, it does exempt Director Tian from a lot of tongues, otherwise, just explaining why he did not immigrate from Fujian would give Director Tian a headache.

Of course, the practical difficulties of such an arrangement also exist, and the problem of dialect and customs alone must be solved, in this regard, Tian Jinfu gave Huang Qiuyuan a few reassuring pills, so that the other party could completely put his mind at ease.

"Mr. Huang, please rest assured, for this group of northern immigrants, the center has fully considered every detail, and you don't have to worry about this dialect issue. In addition, the central government will also fund the construction of several new schools in the local area to teach Chinese, of course, considering the position of the British government, these school construction funds and immigration funds cannot be directly allocated by the central government, and can only rely on private capital operation, and it is indispensable to trouble Mr. Huang to preside over this matter. ”

"That's nature, that's nature. The British colonial authorities had always been very suspicious, and they hoped that the Chinese would take care of the plantations and tin mines for them, so as not to directly clash with the natives, but at the same time, they wanted to limit the influence of the Chinese in Nanyang and prevent the Chinese from crowding out the Europeans. ”

Huang Qiuyuan admired the enlightened position of the central government very much, and was also very happy, the rich Chinese businessmen in Nanyang were willing to preside over the immigration to Nanyang, which was of course out of friendship with their fellow villagers, but it was not necessarily without personal interests in it, Huang Qiuyuan was also a layman, and he could not avoid vulgarity, when the time came, once the center transferred the funds for the immigration cause, he could also use the funds to develop his own business, which not only made profits, but also earned favors, which can be described as a lot of money, why not do it?

Seeing that Huang Qiuyuan had agreed to arrange for immigrants to go to New Fuzhou, Tian Jinfu was also very satisfied, and carefully studied the relevant details with the other party, and did not leave until late at night, and went to stay at the hotel.

As for the cruiser "Haiqi," it is still brightly lit, and the overseas Chinese in Nanyang have once again shed hot tears on this warship, and no one can know better than them the profound meaning of the word "motherland."