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Yamaguchiyang, the second largest city in West Borneo after Pontianak, is also the main passage for Chinese workers to and from Borneo. In the west of the city, there is a vacant lot in the Chinese settlement, in the center of which a towering ancient camphor spreads its branches and leaves like a giant umbrella, and a large bell is quietly hung under the shade of the lush trees.

All the major coastal cities of Borneo are the same, not only are there a large number of Chinese, but all of them have such a large bell. It is said that this was spontaneously cast by the Chinese after the Lanfang tragedy, in order to immediately notify the Chinese in the city to avoid danger once something happens, so everyone calls it the beacon bell, and some people simply call it the death bell.

Since the elimination of Lanfang and the seizure of West Borneo, in order to control this important passage of Chinese entry and exit and balance the power of the Chinese, the Dutch colonial government not only set up customs here, but also hired a large number of locals to manage the city, but also excluded the majority of Chinese from political management.

The colonists were very fond of this way of management, and the weak sea coachmen were afraid of the Chinese forces and China, so they cooperated with the British on the one hand, and used the natives to manage the Chinese on the other, deliberately creating ethnic contradictions to balance. It is also this mentality that it was not until the civil strife in China in 1912 that the Netherlands dared to declare West Borneo as its colony, but this statement has not been accepted by the Republic of China, especially after Yang Qiu came to power, the Dutch government has been afraid of China's liquidation of the Lanfang incident, so it will be panicked on the Sumatra oil field issue.

Now that the dust has settled on the Sumatra oil fields, the Chinese navy has sold 30 percent of its shares to a British company after a brief period of intimidation. The Dutch mistakenly believed that China was unwilling to go to war, so they continued to pursue this policy, but they were much more restrained in their oppression of the Chinese than before.

The Dutch colonial government's convergence does not mean that the locals will also converge, and the Chinese who control the economy of West Borneo and even the entire South Seas are the big fat meat that makes them red, so they always take the opportunity to blackmail and exploit in the name of cleverness, and the Chinese will rely on the support of the Netherlands to incite the locals to riot as long as they are slightly dissatisfied, and blatantly rob the wealth of the Chinese.

Hou Minzhu is 50 years old. He is a native of Meixian County, Guangdong, because Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang came to Nanyang to develop him, he called on the Chinese to support him, and became the head of the Yamaguchi Yangmin Party sub-station. It's been 20 years.

Opposite his window is the Borneo National Society's Yamaguchi Branch, which has only come here in recent years. Speaking of the national society, he was quite resentful. It's not that the national community is bad, in fact, because of them, the living environment of the Chinese has been better than before in recent years, especially in the face of the colonizers and locals who are complicit. His waist stiffened a lot as he spoke. What really dissatisfied him and the hundreds of thousands of members of the Nanyang Kuomintang was that the top level of the Kuomintang was seriously corrupt and degenerate, and in such a good situation in the Xinhai year, he was not at ease to do a good job in the country, and he continued to seize power and profit and internal friction.

Yang Qiu led the rise of the National Defense Force, and carried out national defense construction in a down-to-earth manner step by step, not only sorting out the huge China clearly, but also expelling Japan, turning to Europe, and finally recovering millions of land in one fell swoop, so that the Kuomintang was almost wiped out, and finally had to merge with the Republican Party to form the Democratic Party. Although the merger is forced to protect itself. However, the Nanyang Kuomintang is quite unwilling, and is bent on making achievements to show the domestic top brass that the Kuomintang is not only vying for power and profit, but also has grassroots party members like him who have been working for the welfare of the Chinese people for decades.

The work of this sub-station is not only internal party affairs, but also helps to deal with the affairs of the Yamaguchi and foreign Chinese. The latter, in particular, made him feel that the KMT had lost a lot. After all, the Kuomintang has been developing here for decades, and it is more famous than the National Society, and the first thing that Nanyang Chinese think of whenever they encounter something is the Kuomintang Party. And because Borneo is a colony, the Dutch government only allows the establishment of diplomatic offices in Pontianak, so both the Kuomintang and the National Social Affairs Branch actually undertake a lot of embassy work.

As soon as Hou Minzhu picked up the pen, he suddenly heard a cry from downstairs. This made him frown. If it's just noisy, it's not unusual, because usually the branch is like a vegetable market, and you have to do things like seeking medical advice and finding a job, but such a loud cry is extremely rare. So he hurriedly put down his pen and went downstairs, only to find that dozens of Chinese workers were covered in blood and crowded outside the door, and there were several stretchers at the door, all of which were Chinese workers who had been beaten to death or were dying.

"Lord Hou, you have to be the master for us!" As soon as he saw Hou Minzhu, a man in his forties rushed out of the crowd, hugged him and cried anxiously.

Hou Minzhu recognized the man and hurriedly asked, "Isn't this Boss Chen, what's wrong?" ”

Boss Chen wiped his tears and told the story all over again. He is the owner of a large rubber plantation in the eastern suburbs, and the price of rubber in the world has risen all the way in recent years, and he has bought as much as he has in China, so the business is very good, and his subordinates have gradually gathered hundreds of Chinese workers. This morning was fine, but at noon, a group of locals with machetes suddenly rushed into the plantation, and they couldn't help but cut everyone down, and the workers were caught off guard, resulting in several people being hacked to death and dozens injured.

To be sure, Hou wasn't too nervous at first, because this kind of thing happens a lot in Borneo. Because the Chinese have money, and after the silver crisis, large domestic banks such as the Bank of Shanxi opened branches here to provide loans, so in recent years, the expansion of Chinese plantations and industrial and mining has been great. Plantations, in particular, often require the cutting down of pristine rainforests, which leads to conflicts with the local people who depend on the rainforests for their livelihoods, resulting in many deaths and injuries every year. So he thought it was caused by Boss Chen's expansion, so he pulled him to avoid two steps and said softly: "Brother Chen, are you expanding the soil again?" Why don't you spend some money on dots in advance? ”

"the fart!" When Boss Chen heard this, he shouted violently, crying and shouting: "The garden is there, you don't believe in measuring with a ruler!" If I expand the land even half an inch, I will not be human! ”

"Why did you fight without expanding the territory?"

"How do I know! They cut down every man he could, and they cried out that we had killed their men. I've asked three times, and everyone is busy sleeping during this time, who has time to answer them. Boss Chen became more and more anxious, and shouted anxiously: "Lao Hou, if you can't do this thing, just say it, I'll go to the Guoshe!" ”

How can that work! Hou Minzhu hurriedly grabbed Boss Chen, Boss Chen has donated a lot of money to the Yamaguchi Yang Branch of the Democratic Party over the years, not to mention that he is a fellow villager who naturally wants to stand up for him. comforted: "Brother Chen, don't worry, I'll take someone to the plantation to have a look." After Hou Minzhu finished speaking, he turned upstairs and took out the revolver he bought for a hundred oceans, and took a few assistants and Boss Chen to the plantation to understand the situation first.

But when they arrived at the plantation, everyone was stunned, only to see that the huge plantation had been completely destroyed, all the rubber trees that took years to harvest had been cut down, and even the two houses that looked at the garden had been stripped off.

Not to mention Hou Minzhu now, everyone feels abnormal. Usually people who have conflicts and die will not destroy the plantation, because these natives need to rely on the plantation to blackmail the Chinese and continue to exploit them, why would they kill today? The mess and blood on the ground made the Chinese workers who accompanied them nervous, and when they were about to go back to discuss the method first, hundreds of locals suddenly poured out of the surroundings, all of whom were armed with machetes more than a foot long, and when they saw Hou Minzhu and the others, they didn't know what they were shouting, so they rushed over with a big knife like crazy.

"Let's go! Let's go, go back to the city! ”

Seeing this, Hou Minzhu was so frightened that he hurriedly beckoned everyone back to the city, and at the same time shouted to the other side in local language to ask the reason. But the locals didn't give him a chance to ask at all, and continued to raise their broadswords and rush over. In the end, he had to draw his pistol and fire two shots into the air.

The crackling sound of gunfire slowed down the few bandits running in front, but then they rushed over with even more excited eyes. When he was about to fall into the encirclement, a group of young people armed with sticks suddenly rushed out behind Hou Minzhu.

The young men also came out of nowhere, raised their sticks and slashed their heads and faces, and scuffled with the natives. "Brothers, avenge the third child!" Seeing this, the Chinese workers in Boss Chen's plantation also picked up the guys around them one after another, shouting and rushing into the battle circle.

Hou Minzhu hurriedly stomped his feet again and again to persuade everyone, but who could care about these at this time. This kind of brawl has not been broken for decades, they are all brothers who are in distress, if you don't hold a group again, won't you be bullied to death by these natives?! With decades of resentment and hatred, sticks mercilessly smashed on the heads of local bandits again and again, and soon beat them to the point that they left a few corpses and fled north.

Seeing that there were no more dead people on his side, Hou Minzhu breathed a sigh of relief, but before everyone returned to the city, a louder shout of killing sounded behind him. After turning their heads, almost everyone's scalps were numb, and their backs were cold, and they saw thousands of local bandits wielding machetes and sticks, led by a few leaders, rushing towards the west of the city, where the Chinese gathered.

"Ring the bell! The bell-ringing natives have killed! ”

"Brothers, copy guys."

After the death bell suddenly rang after more than ten years of silence, the entire Yamaguchi was in tension and shouting, and the young and strong men grabbed the wooden sticks and kitchen knives around them and rushed out of the house, while the women held their children and trembled.

Hou Minzhu did not dare to delay for a moment, and hurriedly ran to the Dutch government office building, and ordered someone to send a telegram to Pontianak asking for help from the local embassy, and finally sent a telegram to Hu Hanmin in Batavia.

Yamaguchi Yang is not the kind of county town with high walls in China, and the flat streets cannot stop the local mob, and when they are about to rush into the Chinese residential area, the group of young people who have just appeared again, leading hundreds of Chinese who have organized themselves to defend themselves and keep the enemy out and confront each other.

At the same time, dozens of kilometers away, the largest bloody clash between Chinese and locals broke out in recent years, and the smell of blood began to fill the sky over the entire West Borneo...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )