Improving the treatment of Chinese workers in the British colonies can also be regarded as a way for Pan Xun to calm the national sentiment in China that the government has never been able to deal with because of the US exclusion of Chinese. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When Pan Xun proposed to negotiate with the British on the issue of Chinese laborers, he was indeed approved by a large number of nationalists.

The British also softened their attitude towards the South Seas issue at this time, and over time they gradually adapted to China's hegemony in East Asia, and understood that without the cooperation of the Chinese, British interests in this region could not be guaranteed.

There is also the competition of the Dutch colonies, with the standardization of the management of the Dutch colonies, the burst of vitality and vitality, so that the British feel the pressure, their business in the South Seas has always been very successful, the loose Anglo-American system, so that the Chinese are like fish in water here, plantations, factories, banks, relatively complete economic system have the deep participation of the Chinese, the British get rich taxes.

But now, with the promotion of the Dutch colonial policy and the status of the Chinese, many Chinese overseas Chinese have begun to invest and even transfer assets to the Dutch colony, after all, the Dutch colony is larger than the British colony in the South Seas, and the rich land in Indonesia is no less than that of Malaya, which is obviously more attractive to the Chinese who are more suitable for agricultural development.

It's not that the British haven't tried to recruit workers from India, but the management cost of the Indians is too great, because they are not honest, if you don't supervise him, he won't work, and the British in Nanyang have long been accustomed to using China to control China, and the power to manage the Chinese is delegated to the Chinese leaders, who should be in charge, and those Chinese themselves manage very well, while the Indians are different, they don't have such habits, you have to manage them personally, and the appointed Indian leaders are completely unreliable, so that the British are big.

This rise in management costs is completely unacceptable to the British, they are not willing to pay too high management costs in India, not to mention Nanyang, not to mention the Indians do not have the advantage of the Chinese, the Chinese have been operating in Nanyang for hundreds of years, the earliest Chinese settled in the Tang and Song dynasties, much earlier than the British came to Nanyang, and they have their own network, which the Indians do not have, so the cost of using the Indians to run the Nanyang is too high, the income is too low, and the British have given up.

Therefore, they also tend to give the Chinese a higher social status like the Dutch, which is not unacceptable to the British.

Because when the British entered the South Seas, it was no longer the barbaric Age of Discovery, but the civilized industrial age, so their colonial policy was still quite relaxed, basically there were no discriminatory clauses, no poll tax, no massacres and plunder, and so on.

But the privileges of whites are still indispensable, at least in the colonial government can only be whites as officials, if the Chinese obtain the same power as whites, it means that Chinese should also be appointed as officials, and with whites to manage colonial affairs, this is not unacceptable, just like in order to stabilize Hong Kong, did they not also give local Chinese some seats in parliament.

The installation of some fictitious positions is just a matter of face, and the British care about this the most, and the key is to see whether there are enough interests.

The relationship between Britain and China in the past year can be described as a honeymoon period, the most important point is the cooperation between gold and oil, the Chinese provided 5,000 tons of gold, and cooperated with them to develop oil in the Middle East, the British have eaten the sweetness of cooperation with China, and see the restraint of the Chinese's expansion in the South Seas, just to protect the rights and interests of the Chinese, and there is no political attempt for the time being, so they plan to accept the Chinese's negotiation requirements and talk to the Chinese.

The negotiations were successful because the two sides were surprisingly unanimous in their attitudes and agreed that both sides had common interests.

The British assured that the Chinese would enjoy the same rights as the whites and would reserve three Chinese seats in the colonial parliament, which would represent the Chinese in Singapore, Malacca and Penang.

The Chinese pledged to give the British colonies the same rights as the Dutch colonies, exempting them from all taxes on imported Chinese goods from the British colonies.

This is what the British wanted, and it was precisely the advantage of the Dutch colonies over the British colonies, because the top products of the Dutch colonies could be imported into China duty-free, so a large number of Chinese capitalists from the British colonies flocked to the Dutch colonies, and now that the British colonies have also obtained this power, the British believe that with their management ability, they will definitely gain an advantage over the Dutch colonies again.

Both sides took what they needed, and both rejoiced, Pan Xun got their political benefits, the British got economic benefits, the psychology of the democrats was greatly satisfied, and the overseas Chinese also felt their eyebrows raised.

As for Yang Chao, he is also happy about this, he looks farther, and sees the situation in ten or twenty years.

Why the Dutch colonies were given tax exemptions, originally not to let them compete with the British colonies, because Yang Chao did not see this at that time, he thought at the time that the plantations and mining can absorb a limited number of people, and the real need for a large number of people is industry, so he wants to encourage local industries, it is impossible to develop high-tech industries, but by processing rubber, fruits, tobacco and other raw materials, manufacturing tires, raincoats, rain boots, all kinds of canned tropical fruits, cigarettes, etc., it is enough to feed millions of people.

Yang Chao thought that this policy could absorb one million Chinese immigrants to the Dutch colony, so he suggested that Mi Qing unilaterally give the Dutch colony a tax-free privilege, but what he didn't expect was that this tax-free privilege caused a large number of Chinese in the British colony to pour into the Dutch colony, causing a chain reaction that made the British have to take the initiative to improve the treatment of Chinese, which was an unexpected gain.

The Chinese in the British colonies were more economically powerful, the economic system was more complete, and even the basic education system was established, so once the Chinese in the British colonies began to invest in industry, I am afraid that it would not be one million Chinese immigrants, but two million or even three million.

At present, there are 3 million Chinese in Nanyang, 2 million living in the British colony, and the total population of the British colony is less than 6 million, and the Chinese are close to half, and the increase of 2 million is enough to ensure that the Chinese occupy a dominant position in Malaya, even if the country is established in the future, at least there will be no discrimination against the Chinese in Malaysia in the future.

With the influx of Chinese, whether this is an Anglo-Dutch colony or a free country, it is clear that a new order will emerge that will be different from the original history, a new order dominated by Chinese.

After negotiating the colonial issue, the mission of the British mission was not over, they had other affairs, the core was the iron ore issue in Australia, this problem could not be bypassed Yang Chao, so Yang Chao also planned to talk to the British, because it was a commercial act, so it was just commercial communication, without official channels, only one person in the British delegation contacted Yang Chao.

However, the identity of the Briton who came to contact Yang Chao did not make Yang Chao expect. (To be continued.) )