Chapter 258: The Biggest Heist in History (2)
Is this fire a little inexplicable? Guangxu, who sent away Ogner, reacted that something was wrong and returned to 3
The assault on the Strait of Malacca is not a big deal, it was originally planned. At that time, the German leadership led by Hitler understood that Britain and France pursued a policy of appeasement, and used the idea that Britain and France wanted to recover from the wounds of World War I and were unwilling to provoke a war. It was later revealed that Hitler was nervous and sleepless 36 hours after the German army marched into the Rhineland. If Britain and France showed their willingness to provoke war again once they sent troops to show their willingness to provoke war again, Guangxu also believed that Hitler would withdraw his troops as soon as possible and make concessions that crossed his bottom line. But Hitler succeeded, and Guangxu also wanted to test the bottom line of the British.
It's not impossible. First of all, the Qing state had just defeated Russia, and although it was only a local war, the victory could not be ignored. And among the annihilated Russian army, there were more than 20,000 Cossack cavalry who had made the whole of Europe tremble. In addition, the world situation was favorable to the Qing State, and the United States was still only an industrial power, and the United States was not as good as the Qing State at this time, regardless of its military strength or the number of ships, and its geographical location across the ocean made the United States unable to interfere in the affairs of the Far East. Although a minority in the United States has begun to turn their attention to the Pacific, it must still be a minority. Most Americans are still looking at Europe when they want to prove that the United States is as great a country as Britain and France.
In the Far East, with the exception of England, neither Spain nor the Netherlands is a climate. Even if it's France. Their ability to maintain the colony of Annam was only possible, otherwise the French government would not have fallen after the Qing-French War. And the Netherlands is the oldest and weakest among them, so the Netherlands has become the first unlucky ghost to test the knife in the Qing Dynasty.
And Britain itself is in constant trouble. The Boers were already a headache for the British. Moreover, there was constant friction between Britain and France in the African colonies, and Germany, a country that clearly wanted to challenge Britain's status, was also aggressive.
When the Qing and Dutch declared war and the Qing fleet began to ravage the coast of Indonesia, Spain, France, and the United States did not take any further action except to express concern, and even the United Kingdom, the CIA did not intercept any intelligence that Britain intended to intervene by force. When it was learned that the Dutch vault had been loaded. After the main purpose of the strategy had been achieved, Guangxu and the General Staff Headquarters urgently discussed it all night, and decided to further test the Western powers. It's when the British are too busy to take care of themselves. A test was launched, and only a definite reaction from the British could be used to plan the rest of the plan. As a result, the incident of storming the Strait of Malacca broke out, and the entire Qing Dynasty high-level unanimously agreed that as long as the cannon was not fired, the ship would not be collided. No matter how big the consequences are, there is a way to end them. But you can't send Wu Deren, the second flute. As soon as this guy gets angry, he can do anything. Chief of Staff Feng Qi is more than steady, but too gentle. In the end, Li Liang, who had a similar temper to Wu Deren but was more steady, was in charge of carrying out the plan.
Li Liang also lived up to his expectations, and when passing through the Strait of Malacca, he did not slow down under the banner of supporting the Nanyang Chinese, and the British and Singapore fleets were driven by Li Liang on a warship before they could even come to the emergency interception. So the British could only protest verbally.
The General Staff Headquarters even estimated the reaction of the British, so Guangxu was angry in front of Ogna. Although this anger was originally just a performance. Why do you mess around as if you're really angry? Ran Dao said that after returning from the university hall, he had a fire in his heart? Why don't you feel it?
Guangxu jumped up from the sofa violently. Fidgety pacing back and forth. When I thought of the look before Annsy said goodbye, my heart twitched inexplicably. Ignoring Kou Liancai's opposition, Guangxu forcibly set up a ladder and climbed to the roof alone. Looking at the sun that was about to set, Guangxu took out the organ from his arms, and then said to himself: I said that I would no longer cry for women, not now, and not in the future. A song of gardenia blooming came from Yingtai.
Guangxu used songs to calm his mood, but some people couldn't cry if they wanted to.
The Qing fleet in the South Seas was divided into five, the Qing South Ocean Fleet came out of Sanfa City and burned all the way south along the coast of Kalimantan Island, the Pacific Fleet was divided into four, and after the two battleships ravaged Pontianak, they took two light cruisers and two destroyers respectively, all the way along the north shore of Sumatra Island to rush through the Strait of Malacca to the northwest, all the way along the north coast of Java to the east. The medium-heavy cruiser detachment of the Qing Pacific Fleet, after shelling Batavia, formed two by two, sacked the southern shore of Sumatra and the southern coast of Java.
Wherever the Chinese gathered, the Qing marines came, and the Qing opened the way with naval guns, and then the marines began to kill people after landing. As long as all the Dutch in their sight were their targets, the Dutch local officials in Indonesia were shot dead on the spot without even a chance to negotiate. There are few Dutch people, while Indonesia is a large place. Therefore, there are only a very few people stationed in each place in Indonesia, and although there are a small number of Dutch troops stationed in important places, where is the opponent of the Dutch army that has not been trained for a long time. With just one mask, the Dutch army disappeared on the way of the Qing ** team.
Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia, where a Dutch battalion was stationed. In view of the terrible attack of the Qing ** team, the city chose to surrender after the Qing fleet came into view, and the local Dutch officials gathered with the Dutch battalion stationed in Surabaya in accordance with European surrender conventions, dressed neatly and surrendered at the already small dock. And the hateful Qing state, after accepting the surrender, killed them all. From the mouths of the soldiers who escaped by chance, I learned that the Qing people did this because the Dutch used to treat the Chinese like this, and the Qing people wanted to make the Dutch empathize with them once.
The Qing fleet wreaked havoc in Indonesia like pirates for nearly 20 days, and all the Dutch outside their country were searched for and killed, and the local Chinese also participated in the search and arrest of the Dutch by the Qing ** team. If the incessant killing of the Qing people is not stopped, there will not be a single Dutch in the whole of Indonesia in the near future.
"They are not an army, they are shameless pirates." It was the only worst curse the Queen of the Netherlands could think of.
The Queen of the Netherlands held the telegram in her hands tremblingly. This is a telegram sent back by Vief, who crawled out of the wreckage of the Governor's Palace in Batavia, and especially the last sentence of the telegram deeply stung the entire Dutch government: After sending this telegram, I will also find a safe place to hide. Until the end of the situation. That is, from now on, the whole of Indonesia will temporarily disappear from the sight of the Dutch.
The Dutch first dealt with the Qing State in the second year of Kangxi in 1622, when the Dutch sent an envoy to pay tribute and ask for an assistant to discuss Taiwan. At that time, the powerful Qing State gave an unforgettable impression to the Dutch. In October 1740, the Dutch colonial authorities massacre overseas Chinese in the city of Batavia, Java (present-day Jakarta). Because there is a river in the west of the city, it is called Red Creek. It is one of the places where the accident occurred, so it is called the Hongxi tragedy. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the Dutch parliament debated the matter. Fears of military retaliation by the powerful Qing Qianlong government and the disruption of economic exchanges. For this reason, the Dutch governor Walgenier was arrested and died in prison, hoping to appease the anger of the Qing government. Later, the Qing government thought that the overseas Chinese who were killed were "self-abandoning kings", "born in other places, and are no different from the people", and "the Han species in other places, sanctified from outside". As a result, the Chinese were massacred. "It is a matter of injury, but in fact the evil is self-inflicted", and "the Holy Pilgrimage" does not need to be blamed. But the Qing government simply banned trade between them, and Batavia fell into depression. However, the Qing government's statement made the Dutch let go of their suspense, so the scale of Indonesia's massacre of China became larger and larger.
Although the Dutch gradually weakened, the Qing weakened even faster. The Second Opium War launched by Britain and France ended with the defeat of the Qing State, which further emboldened the Dutch. In addition, Indonesian Tuhua has to be staged again every 20 years. The scale has also grown from one city in the earliest to spread throughout the South Seas. Even the weakened Qing State, which was still stronger than the Dutch, never reacted. As a result, everyone knew that the Qing government had abandoned these overseas expatriates, so Indonesia's Tu Hua became more blatant and unscrupulous.
This time it's a little different. Qing Guo protested, Qing Guo said that the Dutch should bear the consequences, but the Dutch ignored it. The Qing had just won the victory over Russia, and the Guangxu Emperor of the Qing had just imprisoned the Empress Dowager and seized power, but at this time, the Qing protest was mistakenly regarded by the Dutch as nothing more than an act of the newly ruled emperor to show his rights. The Dutch still looked at the Qing Kingdom with old eyes, and all the Dutch thought it was just a protest. What I didn't expect was that the Qing people actually played it really this time.
"What should we do now?" The Queen of the Netherlands asked her minister what to do with a sad face. And her ministers are all in the face, who knows what to do now.
The Dutch Far East Fleet was sunk, the Doge's Palace was in ruins, Governor Karl was dead, the Dutch army was finished, and the Dutch were ...... It's all gone.
"Your Majesty, we have asked the United Kingdom to intercede. Fortunately, the stupid Qing people dared to attack the British detachment stationed in Singapore, and after British mediation, the Qing government has now ordered the withdrawal of all fleets in Indonesia. According to reliable sources from the British side, Britain will go out to find and bring back all the ships of the Qing Kingdom in the Far East. Now we may have to wait for the end of the British operation. "The aged Foreign Secretary has informed Her Majesty of the present situation.
"Can we just sit here now and wait for news? How much time will it take to find all the Qing fleets on the vast sea? We have to do something for our own people, because they are being slaughtered. The queen said unwillingly.
"Of course it won't just sit, now it is up to His Majesty to confirm the request from the Qing Kingdom." The Foreign Secretary submitted to him the telegram just sent back by the Minister in China.
"As long as the Qing Kingdom can immediately stop the massacre of our Dutch, even if the conditions are a little harsher, we still have to agree." The queen took a look, and the conditions were okay and read them out one by one: "There is no problem with the Qing Kingdom's request that our country give the same treatment to the local Chinese and natives. There is no problem in allowing Chinese schools to operate freely at their own expense without interference. It is of course okay to repeal all unreasonable legal provisions that discriminate against or hostile to the Chinese, and the local laws must ensure the legal and normal business and working life of the Chinese in Indonesia......"
The Qing State put forward many conditions, not only the Dutch, but also the British thought that this was a normal condition, at least the Qing State did not ask for extrajudicial jurisdiction, which made the Dutch very happy. Only the last one.
"Qing demanded 10 million pounds in compensation from the Netherlands. Are they going to rob the Dutch government? The Queen of the Netherlands screamed: "It is impossible for the Netherlands to come up with so much money at one time. ”
"Your Majesty, the Qing government has agreed, as long as we agree to these conditions. When all the fleets were assembled, the Qing would immediately withdraw all their troops from Indonesia, and the British could vouch for the Qing. As long as the Qing State does not occupy Indonesian land, these losses can eventually be slowly earned back from Indonesia. Although the compensation is a bit much, I believe it can be discussed. ”
"The other conditions can be agreed to immediately, and the minister in China will try to fight for the amount of indemnity, and ask the British to find the Qing fleet as soon as possible so that they can stop attacking us." The queen made a decision: "Now please Mr. Prime Minister to see how much money the treasury can come up with, and I will also take out the royal family's money, and I also ask the ministers to take out the money as much as possible to pay the reparations of the Qing country." Help our people in Indonesia as much as possible. ”
In these years, there was no need for compensation for the war, so even Britain did not object to the war compensation proposed by the Qing State, but repeatedly mediated and said that it should be reduced as much as possible. Whereas, the Dutch agreed to the other terms unconditionally at one time. The Qing government "Big Belly" agreed to the Dutch's request for relief. However, after several talks between China, Britain and the Netherlands in Singapore, Qing Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi bit the reserve price of five million pounds. When the negotiations reached an impasse, Tang Shaoyi proposed that if the Dutch agreed to revoke the Dutch concession and extrajudicial jurisdiction in China, the Qing side could reduce the amount of indemnity again. Otherwise. Qing ships will continue to be stationed in Pontianak, Batavia and other places to protect the rights and interests of local Chinese.
The Dutch were delighted when they heard it. Originally, the Dutch did not have a few concessions in China, and there were only a few Dutch in the whole of China, and the extrajudicial power was basically not used. As long as it does not affect the normal economic exchanges between the two countries, do not want it.
The Dutch were relieved, but some were worried. James, a former British correspondent in Japan who had reported on the sacking of the Japanese coast by the Qing Pacific Fleet, had traveled to Indonesia this time, and had never gone anywhere else since arriving in Batavia from Pontianak because both the surviving Dutch and natives had a deep fear of the Qing people. And he learned what happened from the mouths of the local Chinese.
As a result, his second personal famous work was newly released, which attracted reprints from all over the world, just like that year. He wrote: devastated cities, voices of mourning, and still burning fires. This is similar to that of Japan after it was sacked by the Qing Pacific Fleet. But after several years of training, the Qing fleet, which had destroyed the Russian Far East Fleet, was more purposeful and efficient than the one that had sacked Japan. The Qing fleet, which had been concentrated in one place to attack from one place to another, broke up the fleet and sacked five places at the same time, and their army also became more sophisticated and efficient in the war with the Russians. Once, I thought, "We should go and reform the ancient countries of the East and let them return to civilized society." "Now I think maybe it's not appropriate to call them the army at this point. Because their warships are always followed by at least two cargo ships to load the goods they have looted. Indonesia is larger than Japan, the coastline is longer than Japan's, and the local Chinese provide them with information, which makes his robbery faster and larger. Japan was only the coastal cities that were robbed, and the interior of Indonesia was visited by Qing marines. I believe that it is accurate to use the word robbery to describe the behavior of the Qing fleet after the end of the frontal battle. (To be continued......)
ps:ps: The word "anti-Chinese" is used in the current history books to describe the massacre of the Chinese in Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries, but you can understand the real situation of history before you can find that the anti-Chinese in the United States is the real anti-Chinese. The United States only expelled or enacted laws restricting the Chinese, and did not openly massacre the Chinese. I don't know why the word "Chinese exclusion" is used in history books to describe the United States and Nanyang.
I just hope that the new government in the future will no longer use the excuse of "Chinese exclusion" when re-describing the tragic fate of the Chinese in Nanyang. As I wrote in my book, facts have proved that the natives of Nanyang are "Tuhua". Thank you! u