Chapter 774: Panic Pontianak
Seeing the Dutch governor's change of attitude, Charles and Pete stopped, they were just unhappy with the attitude of the Dutch governor just now, Malacca is the focus of the British, there must be no chaos here, they themselves are intelligence officers in the Malacca area, and they have just sent a telegram, knowing that the war broke out in Europe, the Entente is in a weak position, and it is impossible to count on the British, even the East Asian fleet of Dinghaishen Needle has been transferred 2 battle cruisers, and the rest have also been mobilized to deal with the East Asian fleet in Qingdao, Germany, At most, it can only be supported verbally, Borneo can be eroded, but it must not go beyond the scope of Borneo, and it must not affect Malacca and Singapore, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.
Seeing that Charles and the two stopped, the governor's face was full of smiles, and after bowing his head and making a small one, Charlie told the Dutch governor in detail what he had seen and heard along the way, and the governor's face turned white, before he just felt that these two people might have heard hearsay, and there were still some loopholes to drill, or the number of Chinese and armed men was not so much. But after listening to what the other party saw, he didn't think so, as far as what he saw and heard, it was very rigorous, the two people were extraordinary, they escaped from the heavy encirclement of the Chinese, what they saw and heard was their own experience, every canyon, every estuary, every traffic artery, all had guards, a radius of hundreds of kilometers, what a huge area this is, to speculate on this, such accuracy is very high. Since he became a governor, he was not parachuted in, he had also led troops and fought in battles, and he knew that this speculation was correct, and even more than less, plus the hundreds of thousands of Chinese villages he saw. According to speculation, it is only a part, a conservative estimate. The number of Chinese in Borneo as a whole may be more than 3 million.
3 million. Why did Borneo come to so many people, you must know that even if it was overestimated as much as possible, it was at most hundreds of thousands, and this is still the entire Indonesian Chinese gathered together, if it is really a few million, not to mention the governor of Indonesia, even the Dutch government can't sit still. The Governor carefully recalled the previous file, and the previous Governor had been taken down for questioning. The things he handled were also carefully examined, but the time was very short, and it was not thoroughly investigated, but after careful identification, there was only one possibility in the end, that is, German farms, only the large-scale expansion of German farms required a large number of personnel. It's all their own solution, when the governor gave thousands of Chinese immigrants to the German farms, which were quickly stopped, so much now. There is only one possibility, and that is that the German farms are not standing up at all, and they have been smuggling people into Borneo on a large scale. The amount is quite huge.
Germany, Germany again. Germany has always been an imaginary enemy in the minds of the British. No, it can't be said that it is an imaginary enemy now, it should be a real enemy, could it be that Germany buried a hand here and deliberately snuggled them, but Borneo is not Singapore, and the Netherlands is not Britain, which seems really too strange.
The governor asked people to prepare a map, according to the record of the Dutch Governor's Palace, these can not be cleaned up casually, according to the text jiàn, and then find the corresponding location, the location of the farm granted to the Chinese farm, all of them were found, and brought to Charles and the two to confirm, but only half of them, Charlie They have seen the farm, only half of the Dutch are assigned to them, and the rest are not assigned to them by the Netherlands, on the map of the Netherlands, most of these locations are located as dangerous areas, There were a large number of cannibals and the terrain was dangerous, and the Dutch could not afford to take the area.
The faces of Charles and the others became ugly, this could not have been done by the Dutch governor, and he was not capable, it was obvious that it was the Chinese who expelled the natives or eliminated them after they had the power, and occupied, and the power that the Chinese expressed was far more powerful than they imagined.
"By the way, we should draw the sphere of influence of the Chinese!" Charlie clapped his hands and said, the governor and Pete also thought so, with the location of the two people encountering the Chinese farm as the center of the circle, combined with the farthest place where the Chinese warriors were encountered, combined with the map, based on the circle, drew a range, when this range circled the general force, the Dutch governor was stunned, almost the entire core of Borneo, may be under the control of the Chinese, is this the conspiracy of the Germans? Still Chinese.
"It may be German, but it's more likely to be Chinese." Pete groaned for a moment, then said.
"China!" Hearing the name, the Governor roared almost like a dog that had stepped on its tail, and in his eyes, China was nothing.
Charlie glanced at the Dutch governor with disdain, the former sea coachman has completely declined, that is, he is holding on to this Indonesia to survive, they have withdrawn from the European stage for too long, not to mention the second-rate, the third-rate is not counted, how can they understand the strength of China, according to the information obtained by the UK, in the past 3 years, the British-funded company has failed 93% in the direct competition with the Northwest Company, even if it is 7% of the win, it is also under the situation of external force and dominance, it is only victorious, Britain, as the hegemon of the world, controls the seven seas, but can only rely on this to confront the Chinese company, and it is a comprehensive retreat, and even in order to resist, it has to achieve a stricter access system and control efforts, but in this way, Chinese materials still occupy the market with various names, if before 1911, the biggest opponents of British-funded companies were Germany and the United States, and now it is equivalent to China replacing their position, and even in the considerable channels, competing with the United States and Germany, It's just because Britain's strength is a little worse and it fell behind earlier.
If it's just a strong economy, that's it, China is in a remote location, like the United States, just ignore it, which is what the United States has been trying to do for decades, but it has been suppressed by the United Kingdom. China is slightly different, but China is very close to Germany, a lot of construction is completed with the help of China, plus the army has far more strength than Russia, this is the most terrible, population is always the most important factor in a country, a country's potential and mobilization capacity, may eventually come down to the population, Russia is such a European steamroller, even if it is an agricultural society, but as much as 10 million mobilization capacity, or the whole of Europe. Compared with Russia, China is even more frenzied, with a population of 450 million, the maximum mobilization capacity is 45 million, China did not have this ability before, equipped with so many troops, but now, in the Balkan crisis, China has supplied Turkey with a large number of arms, plus the army he formed, once he mobilizes, it will be a nightmare for the entire white society.
If there is a choice, Charlie will definitely prevent the occurrence of this European war, a potentially unprecedented enemy has appeared, but the white world in Europe does not know at all, and even because of the contradictions between themselves, they start fighting by themselves, which is a huge process of internal friction, which is too much of a coincidence.
Coincident, any coincidence has inevitability, this is history tells future generations, without the British visit, maybe the First World War will be a little later, or even break out next year, but the British move directly let Yang Yuanzhao take the big killer weapon to the Germans, who are thinking about how to defeat the French, at a glance the power of this killing weapon, the two sides hit it off, and they actually forcibly promoted the First World War, which swept the whole world, with huge casualties. It just broke out like a child's play.
Charlie frowned and thought, the Dutch governor hurriedly went to send a telegram, and at the same time sent the telegram, he also knew that the Netherlands did not have this ability, and the current troops in Indonesia were all that the Dutch could take out in a short time, even if it was a general mobilization, recruiting soldiers from the Netherlands, at most more than 100,000 people, but in the era of the European war, how did these people come to Indonesia, how did they come, and even if they came, could they win, hundreds of thousands of people crossed half the world, Can the army that came here defeat the Chinese who were waiting for work in Borneo?
Here in Pontianak, except for the Dutch-controlled telegraph point, there is no telegram to contact the outside world, Charlie and they also need to send a telegram quickly, regardless of whether Britain can intervene in this matter in Malaysia, they need to send the situation in Malaysia to the past, which is related to the security of Malacca, and also related to the future British Asian strategy, at least to contact Singapore.
The panicked governor, even giving orders to the correspondents, was a little unwilling, and it took more than half an hour to complete, but when it came to Charlie, it was very fast, direct and concise text, describing the number of Chinese, the danger level, and the possible armed men, and then it was gone.
Maybe it's because Pontianak is too close to Singapore, Singapore's call back, arrived an hour later, in addition to asking the truth of the matter, the governor of Singapore has been waiting online, after several times of mutual power generation, the governor of Singapore after a long wait, told Charlie to be on standby, and he will send a message directly to the Prime Minister's Office.
The contact is over, and the rest is in the long wait, but a storm broke out in Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands two bear the brunt, especially the latter, Indonesia has become his lifeline, lose Indonesia, the Dutch government will go bankrupt, this is absolutely unacceptable, a few long telegrams questioned, the state of mind of the table Xiàn is not convinced, but more and more evidence shows that the number of Chinese in Borneo will be a lot, especially carefully check the port information and related people, etc., After getting an even more terrible answer, the telegram finally stopped, and the Dutch top brass in Pontianak fell into an inexplicable panic. (To be continued......)