Chapter 14 The Garden Plan

In Chen Zeyu's eyes, Nanyang should naturally be a colony of the Chinese.

It is not a territory that is dumped purely for raw materials and commodities like Westerners, but purely for the sake of seizing living space for its own people. Nanyang is far from the west, but it is very close to mainland China, and the Philippines, where Chen Zeyu is located, is only a sea away from Taiwan and Guangdong.

Chen Zeyu's plan requires a lot of money and manpower, and if he wants to do something, the first thing he needs to do is to unite this part of the local Chinese forces in Nanyang. Twist them into a rope and raise a fist to turn Nanyang into a true Chinese garden.

However, for a long time, a large number of Chinese were scattered in various places in Nanyang, and they were all content with the status quo, which made Chen Zeyu feel powerless many times.

Maybe God is helping Brother Chen, but this situation suddenly changed a few years ago.

While Chen Zeyu was still studying in the United States, a Chinese separatist force in the Indonesian archipelago in the South Seas called itself the Republic of Lanfang was invaded and annexed by the Dutch.

On the one hand, Chen Zeyu felt sorry in his heart, but on the other hand, this situation brought a large number of Chinese immigrants to the whole Luzon, especially to the eastern Luzon centered on Sizhejiang.

It may be ironic, but the disgraceful and cruel behavior of the Dutch did help Chen Hanyin.

Standing on the beach, Chen Zeyu thought silently while walking his dog.

"Don't worry, there will be a day of reckoning"

The earliest interactions between China and Southeast Asia can be traced back to the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago. According to historical records, in the first century AD, China had contacts with Burma, Vietnam and other countries. Before the Tang Dynasty, a small number of Chinese had migrated to Southeast Asia, and during the Tang Dynasty, the number of immigrants began to increase, and they were called "Tang people" by the locals. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, due to the development of overseas trade, there were more Chinese in Southeast Asia. In the Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, the number of Chinese traveling to Southeast Asia increased dramatically.

In the 50 years from the beginning of the 40s of the 19th century to the early 90s of the 19th century, more than 7 million Chinese immigrated to Southeast Asia. By 1890, the total number of Nanyang Chinese had reached more than 13 million.

Among them, the richer ones account for a considerable part, but Chen Zeyu values this huge population the most.

In Chen Zeyu's eyes, these Chinese who immigrated to Nanyang, including those born in Nanyang later, did not know how to keep their wealth at all. The three-year-old doll hugs the gold brick, and the result is self-evident. For a long time, they didn't know how to properly convert their wealth into muscle.

The Chinese are a very contradictory people, they are hardworking, but sometimes they are not brave enough to show their muscles properly. Even a considerable part of the wealthy class is still very low-key, will cry poor, and even eat, wear, live and travel is no different from ordinary low-class people. For they fear that their wealth will bring disaster. But they don't understand that it's not enough to be low-key, it's about showing your muscles when it's time to show them.

From Southeast Asia, to the Americas, Australia, and even Europe, the wealth that the Chinese have accumulated for decades is looted by local mobs in an instant.

After two successive Opium Wars, England and France, two European countries, opened the door to trade between the East and Turkey, Europeans realized that the most advanced and civilized things had always been in their hands. The Oriental civilization of the past has long been submerged under the iron hooves of the nomads. The current Oriental nation is nothing but a bunch of arrogant and ridiculous foolish slaves.

Some people always pity the Jews, but they don't know that their own people, the Chinese, are actually not much better. For a long time, the Chinese have always hovered between the colonizers and the colonized. Let's say that they are colonizers, they do not have their own political power in the region, let's say that they are colonized, and they also belong to the immigrant class, and there is no lack of hostility from the colonial authorities.

The result was often a two-pronged affair, with both native and white colonists discriminating against it. Coupled with the wealth they hold in their hands, it can be said that throughout the nineteenth century and even the twentieth century, the history of the development of Nanyang is a history of blood and tears of the Chinese.

On the one hand, Westerners bully Chinese people on various occasions, but on the other hand, they are also wary of all Chinese people.

Unlike other conquered peoples, small countries can be destroyed overnight. But only the Chinese can't, you must know that less than a hundred years ago, the Chinese country of East Asia has always been a paradise and the birthplace of civilization in the eyes of Westerners. Whether it is civilization or force, the shadow of the Yellow Peril has always been buried deep in the hearts of all Western colonizers.

A nation in decline but with no lack of potential, this is how Westerners perceive the Chinese.

Just over a decade ago, when Li Hongzhang, a Western-style official in power in the Qing Dynasty, was just about to transfer public students who had completed middle school in the United States to the military academies and naval academies of the United States in accordance with the agreement, the US political axe suddenly tore up the agreement and refused to admit them to these schools. At the same time, international students from Yuben are studying hard in these places.

Without the emergence of Chen Zeyu, a few decades later, a considerable part of the descendants of Chinese propertied people would have been gradually assimilated by Westerners, even if they could only be second-class citizens.

And this conflict between the Republic of Lanfang and the Dutch seems to have ignited a fuse. The Chinese in Nanyang seem to have suddenly realized the fragility of their own reading ability, and the Chinese who were originally scattered all over the country are almost simultaneously looking for the last safe "place to stay"

At this time, the territory of Chen's Sizhejiang, whose influence has increased dramatically in the entire Luzon Islands and even in the entire South Seas, has entered the attention of Chinese forces in various places.

Eventually, in the past ten years, most of the more than 10 million Chinese scattered in the South Seas poured into the Philippine Islands, centered on Luzon in the east. The Spaniards initially held an indifferent attitude towards this situation, but as the number of Chinese in Luzon proliferated, they gradually began to pay attention to it.

Fortunately, just as the Spaniards were preparing to take action against these potentially threatening Chinese forces, the Spanish Latin American colonies in the Caribbean began to make a stir. Uprisings of the locals have occurred one after another in various places, and even the shadow of the Americans has been found behind them.

This situation made the Spaniards wary of whether it was a Latin American colony that was more important to Spain than the Philippines, which was relatively calm for the time being, whether it was a place that could only provide wood and spices for the Spaniards. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Latin American gold was constantly trying to fill Spanish galleons.

In this context, coupled with the existence of Chen Zeyu, a "saint", the Chinese in Luzon ushered in an unprecedented period of development opportunities.

By 1890, more than 80 percent of the population of the Philippines was of Chinese descent. At the end of last year, the leaders of Chinese groups from all over Luzon met for the first time in Sizhejiang and formed a tight organizational structure.

It was a mysterious organization, both a politically charged tax agency and a powerful military force, somewhat akin to the Jewish Zion, seeking to establish a true Chinese homeland in Luzon.

The core is naturally Chen Zeyu, and the Chen family and the Avalanche group led by him will always firmly grasp the absolute power of this Chinese alliance, and in the process of this organization from weak to strong, it will always be supported by the Chen family from beginning to end. In addition, the national forces in Nanyang and even the world who are enthusiastic about the cause of Chinese self-improvement, whether industrialists or intellectuals, will be the targets of this mysterious organization......

From then on, the Chinese forces that joined this organization everywhere would call themselves Huameng, and elected Chen Zeyu's uncle Chen Yanyu as a representative of interests, and every quarter Chinese groups in various places would send donations from their places of residence. In this way, it will provide for the growing number of Chen detachment armed personnel in Sizhejiang and other places, and provide support for the formation and training of reservists for the newly formed Blackwater Security Company, which is part of the Avalanche Group.