Pontianak, a large city in the western part of Kalimantan. Originally, this was once the territory of Lan Fang Kingdom. It's just that after Lanfang Kingdom was destroyed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it has completely become a Dutch colony. The former Lanfang country is no longer glorious. The Chinese were the rulers of the past, but they also became the targets of oppression by the Dutch colonizers and natives.

However, there are still quite a few Chinese living near Pontianak. Most of these Chinese make a living by planting rubber and mining mines. Some large Chinese families control most of the rubber plantations and mines in the area. However, the Western colonizers have never stopped fighting for these rubber plantations and mines.

As for the local indigenous population, they have completely become the lackeys of the Western colonizers. When the Lanfang Kingdom was strong, these natives fell to the Lanfang Kingdom and fought against the Western colonizers together with the Lanfang Kingdom. However, after the defeat of Lanfangguo, these natives instantly abandoned Lanfangguo and colluded with Western colonizers to kill the Chinese here.

The indigenous people of the Dutch East Indies were divided into different peoples, large and small. However, these natives have one thing in common, that is, they are lazy and lazy. This is also the reason why they are still suffering and poor while guarding the rich land. The Chinese migrated to Nanyang for only a few hundred years. However, the Chinese already control the economic lifeline of the entire South Seas. Among them, there are certainly reasons why the Chinese are smarter than the local natives. But there are also reasons why the Chinese are much more industrious than the local natives.

To take the simplest example, the Chinese and the Dutch East Indies also run a grocery store. However, the Chinese would open their shops until late every day, while the natives of the Dutch East Indies usually closed in the afternoon. The rest of the time, it's fun. Such a contrast. Naturally, the business was stolen by the Chinese, which led to the fact that the business of the Chinese was getting better and better, and the natives could not survive at all.

This is also the case in the Dutch East Indies as a whole. Those natives are lazy to eat, and they are not self-motivated, as long as they can have a bite to eat. If they don't starve, they are already satisfied. As a result, the indigenous people are generally poor, and the wealthy are very scarce. The Chinese people, on the other hand, are mostly more affluent. If it weren't for the repression by the Dutch colonial authorities, the Chinese would have lived a better life.

It is precisely because of the wealth of the Chinese and the provocation of the Dutch colonial authorities that the contradictions between the Chinese and the local aborigines are very deep. The number of aborigines is huge, and the number of aborigines in the Dutch East Indies of China is as high as nearly 40 million, while the number of Chinese. There are only a million of them. Of course, the Dutch are even less numerous. In order to maintain their rule, the Dutch also collected the wealth of the Chinese. Therefore, they provoked conflicts between the Chinese and the natives several times, resulting in the massacre of a large number of Chinese, and the looting of wealth by the Dutch, which made the Dutch make a windfall. But even so, the Dutch could not change the Chinese control over the economic lifeblood of the Dutch East Indies.

Originally, the Dutch colonial authorities treated the Chinese as sheep. After the wealth of the Chinese was re-accumulated, they provoked a conflict between the Chinese and the indigenous people of the Dutch East Indies. Then the wealth of the Chinese was snatched over. It's like shearing sheep and sheep.

However, as the Chinese Empire grew stronger, the Chinese Navy's Nanyang Fleet appeared more often in the Nanyang, which put a lot of pressure on the Dutch colonial authorities to change their strategy towards the Chinese. However, this also made the Dutch very unwilling. On the one hand, there is the wealth in the hands of the Chinese. On the other hand, they are worried that as the Chinese empire grows stronger. Will the Chinese in the Dutch East Indies, after being supported by the Chinese Empire, subvert their rule? Fortunately, the Dutch were restrained and did not take the initiative to cause trouble.

It's just that accidents happen all the time. On a mine outside the city of Pontianak. Countless indigenous people are at work. The mine belonged to the Zhao family, a local Chinese family. Zhao Ziqian, the current ruler of the Zhao family, traveled to China last year to participate in Wu Haoxuan's enthronement ceremony. This makes Zhao Ziqian completely become the leader of the Pontianak Chinese. The Chinese armed forces in Pontianak, more than 600 people, were also mainly in the hands of the Zhao family.

The Zhao family's mine is mainly for gold mining. Since the establishment of Lanfangguo, gold mining has always been one of the pillars of Lanfangguo. However, after the fall of Lanfangguo, most of the gold mines were looted by the Dutch, and only a few gold mines were still under the control of the Chinese. The gold mine owned by the Zhao family is one of them, and it is a gold mine with a large output.

Less than two kilometers from the mine, several middle-aged white men were secretly observing the gold mine. They were all wealthy white merchants from Pontianak, including gold miners, bankers, and plantation owners. However, these guys have long coveted the Zhao family's gold mine. All along, they have been secretly planning to snatch this gold mine from the Zhao family.

"Mr. Phillips, is everything ready? Will there be any surprises? A white man with a belly bigger than a pregnant woman asked.

"Don't worry, Mr. Henry. This time our plan was foolproof. "A burly middle-aged white man named Phillips with a confident look.

"Gentlemen, I don't think you're too optimistic. Don't forget, the Chinese in the Dutch East Indies, though like sheep, no longer have the strength to threaten us. However, not far from the Dutch East Indies, there was a strong Chinese state. Since the previous year, their naval warships have been frequently appearing in the Dutch East Indies. If the country suddenly intervenes, our plan will not only not succeed, but may bring us a catastrophe. A tall and thin middle-aged man said with some concern.

"Haha, Mr. Richard, you're still so cowardly! If you're scared, you can quit and go ahead and be your plantation owner. However, almost all of Pontianak's rubber plantations are under the control of the Chinese. If you want to fight those Chinese, it's impossible. Only if we join forces will we be able to defeat the damned Chinese and snatch the wealth out of their hands. Those infidels, damned yellow-skinned monkeys, are simply not entitled to these riches! Henry burst out laughing, he was a staunch racist who believed in white supremacy from the bottom of his bones. All the wealth of the world should be in the hands of the white people, and the yellow race and other races are inferior.

Richard fell silent for a moment, and his rubber plantation was indeed getting harder and harder under the blows of the Chinese. With the development of industry, the demand for rubber has also increased significantly. Nanyang is the main producer of rubber. Especially after entering the era of internal combustion engines, the demand for rubber has increased a lot. The wheels of the car need rubber. Rubber is also needed for the sealing of some machinery and equipment. It can be said that rubber has become indispensable for industrial development. It has even become a strategic resource. The great powers want to take this resource into their own hands and then impose embargoes on hostile countries.

In the period of history that Wu Haoxuan is familiar with, the German Tiger tank dominates Europe. However, the load wheels of the Tiger tank are staggered by two sets of load wheels. Such a layout allows the Tiger tank's body, which weighs more than 50 tons, to walk like a fly. But again, the staggered arrangement of the two sets of load wheels was a disaster for the tankmen who needed to repair and maintain the tank. This greatly increases the time required for repair and maintenance, and makes the tank extremely prone to breakdowns. The reason why the load-bearing wheels of the Tiger tank adopted such a layout was not because Germany had to adopt a different layout because of its strong scientific and technological strength. The real reason is that synthetic rubber cannot be compared with natural rubber in terms of performance. That's why the Germans had to use that kind of data. The dignified weapons of war of the Third Reich were greatly affected by the performance of rubber because they were subject to rubber. It can be seen that the importance of rubber as a resource.

Wu Haoxuan has always attached great importance to the resource of rubber. When the empire became stronger, it injected a large amount of money into the rubber plantations in the South Seas and began to compete with the Western powers. This is also the reason why the Chinese in Nanyang are able to occupy the majority of the rubber plantation industry. Many large-scale rubber plantations cover an area of more than 10,000 acres and employ thousands of workers. And these large rubber plantations often have shares from the empire.

"Gentlemen, China is indeed very strong. But they can't do anything to us legitimate businessmen. They won't have proof that we did it. We're just trading with the natives. Henry smiled as if everything was under his control.

Henry's plan was actually very simple, to provoke the natives who were interested in the wealth of the Chinese to rob the gold mine, and then buy the gold from the natives at a low price. The natives do not produce, but only eat and drink. After they snatched the gold mines from the Chinese, they could not manage them themselves. It will inevitably be sold to the Dutch. At that time, the Dutch will be able to buy the gold mine at a very low price.

For these Dutchmen, this gold mine is undoubtedly a golden rooster that lays a steady stream of golden eggs. As long as they own this gold mine, they will be able to make a lot of money. Moreover, they are able to put everything on the natives and completely disassociate themselves from them. Even if the Chinese Empire wanted to intervene, it could only find trouble with the natives, and it had nothing to do with them. (To be continued.) )

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