Time finally slowly slipped to 1900 of the new century, and it has been 16 years since Chen Zeyu came to this world unconsciously.

After another wonderful life, he has already adapted to the world today, a real and exciting world.

This year, he was 23 years old, from an ordinary teenager in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the current head of state, the appearance is still young, but the psychology has long been mature, the same is that his heart is still ambitious, under his guidance, Seris, this East Asian country that has embarked on a fork in the road of history has increasingly revealed more and more majestic development vitality.

At the beginning of the year, the British, still mired in the South African War, suddenly proposed to Beijing that the two sides jointly divide up the Dutch colony. Faced with this unprecedented move by the British in history, Chen Zeyu, who was sitting in Beijing, couldn't help but be a little surprised......

Under his painstaking management, history has finally embarked on a completely different path from the original time and space. At the same time, the Dutch, who had hoped for mediation by the British government, fell into complete despair.

There was no time to think about the British thoughts, and in the face of this unprecedented and sinister diplomatic situation, the Dutch negotiators, who were still stranded in Beijing, quickly "capitulated" after a little unsuccessful struggle.

On January 16, 1900, when the people in Seris were celebrating the New Year, amid the sound of fireworks and firecrackers in Beijing, negotiators from the Netherlands and negotiators from the Seris government signed the "Sino-Dutch Treaty of Siwu" with an armistice between them, and the contents of the treaty were as follows:

One. The Netherlands compensated Seris with 70 million Chinese dollars for his military expenses, and in exchange, Seris would release all the captured Dutch soldiers;

With the exception of the islands of Symollu and Lias, which remain as territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The former Dutch East Indies were ceded to the Republic of Seris. Including Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Timor Islands and other affiliated islands. The total area is nearly 1.37 million square kilometers;

The Dutch enjoyed visa-free access to the former East Indies. The government of Seris allowed Dutch merchants to travel, reside and do business in the islands, but did not have the political rights of local citizens;

Four. With immediate effect, the Seris Navy ceased attacking Dutch merchant ships at sea, and all hostile activities between the two sides ceased. The above treaties entered into force on January 16, 19OO;

In addition, on the issue of Sumatra, taking into account the position of the British, Chen Zeyu's Seris government eventually took a step back and promised to let the Dutch retain their right to govern West Sumatra. Correspondingly. East Sumatra, south of the equator line, is owned by the Seris government.

Originally, the Dutch government did not want to give up the remaining Sumatra in its hands, and vainly hoped to restore its "sovereignty" in other parts of the South Seas under the interference of the British, but soon, a series of blows made them sober.

Almost a few days after the British made their statement, the Ceris fleet in the South Seas also moved again......

On 14 January, two days before the treaty was signed, Seris's naval fleet bombarded the port of Lampung, the seat of the Dutch governorship in Sumatra. The entire port of civil engineering buildings was soon reduced to ruins by the heavy artillery fire, and most of the buildings on Nanyang Island were made of bamboo and wood, except for a few stone buildings. If a fire breaks out, it can easily implicate the entire street. At that time, the fire in Lampung was caused by the bombardment of the explosive incendiary bombardment on the battleship Seris, and the people in the harbor had no other way but to escape.

The raging artillery fire was combined with the chaos in the port itself. The fire at the port of Lampung soon went out of control, and the flames reflected the night sky above the harbor in a "spectacular" sight that even the residents of Java on the other side of the strait could see...... It was only at this time that the officials of the Dutch colonial authorities realized how ridiculous the so-called "support" that the native government had assured them one after another, and that the Dutch had been blown away by the 12 11-inch guns of the Ryukyu-class battleships of the Seris Navy.

In the end, it was the "benevolence" of the Orientals that allowed the Dutch to keep West Sumatra and other places, and in fact, in Chen Zeyu's view, leaving the northwestern part of Sumatra to the Dutch colonial authorities was also a long-planned thing. On the one hand, the Chinese immigrants from Seris have few activities in western Sumatra and do not have much vital interests in their own country, and on the other hand, Chen Zeyu wants to deliberately arrange a buffer zone with Western powers, especially the British government, which regards the Indian Ocean as its own "farm". In fact, the reason why the British proposed the idea of carving up the Dutch Indo-Indies with Seris was the same idea before, and in Chen Zeyu's view, it is still one of the basic national policies of the Republic of Seris to avoid direct confrontation with the British.

Of course, in addition to this, there is another reason that directly prompted Chen Zeyu's government to make the above decision. It has to be said that the long-term uprisings of the Acehnese in West Sumatra are also a factor that Chen Zeyu has to consider carefully. In fact, the essence of Sumatra has always been in the southeast of the island, and its own northwest region has never been truly completely under Dutch rule due to the "turmoil" caused by the Emirate of Aceh since the 70s.

You must know that according to the original history, the resistance of the Acehnese people in West Sumatra would have lasted until the First World War.

West Sumatra's Medan oil is certainly coveted by Chen Zeyu, but for now, Seris has seized a large oil field in Borneo. In terms of the suitability of expanding the colony, the more the better, some places have a large indigenous population, and they have to let the local government invest in construction funds to accelerate their development. At present, Seris has not even been built in the country, and it is a waste to expand uncontrollably and needlessly, and you must know that the construction of the colony also requires financial investment.

With the purpose of killing people with a knife, Chen Zeyu retained the interests of the Dutch colonists in the West Sumatra region. After the Dutch have cleared out the local indigenous tribes, it is not too late to let their own forces "enter", for today's Seris, the small and widowed Netherlands has long been out of her eyes......

……

The Sino-Dutch Treaty of Si Wu between Seris and the Dutch government immediately shocked the world in a short period of time, and even if they knew that the Dutch were no match for this emerging eastern power, the news of the formal signing of the treaty between the two sides was still unacceptable to many in Europe.

In the Far East, when Japan and Siam were declining, just when Europeans thought that the 20th century was still a white world,

The Republic of Seris, the only remaining republic in East Asia, defeated the armies of Spain and the Kingdom of the Netherlands one after another, and became a new power that attracted worldwide attention.

In particular, the actions of the Ceris Navy in the Southern Ocean, not to mention the Ryukyu-class battleships that made the Western world sleep, the powerful naval blockade lineup composed of those fast-paced Cochin-class cruisers and submarines alone has made the European powers deeply fearful.

In this era of giant ships, cannons and the idea of sea power deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the rapid rise of the Republic of Seris relying on sea power is really a bit dazzling to be ignored, after several successive foreign wars, the European powers can not help but look at this emerging country in the Far East with a little strange eyes. (To be continued......)