"Without the Chinese diaspora, it would be almost impossible to make the East Indies achieve brilliant achievements, provide abundant materials, and create a happy life."

"The Case File of the Bacheng Sending Lotus Documents"

The history of Chinese immigration to Southeast Asia can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Fujian and the southeast coastal areas were narrow and densely populated, and the surplus labor force had nowhere to live, while the Nanyang land at this time was vast and sparsely populated, and the resources were rich. Some people who had no way to make a living have crossed the sea to the South Seas to make a living. In the early Qing Dynasty, the largest number of South China residents went to various parts of Java Island.

In the 20 th century, after hundreds of years of blood and tears, although there were nearly 5 million overseas Chinese in Nanyang, these overseas Chinese also had another nickname -- the outcasts of the Celestial Empire......

For the Dutch East Indies and overseas Chinese, this is their former name, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was later forced by the pressure of the foreign powers, began to manage overseas Chinese affairs, but for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in their eyes, perhaps in order to introduce overseas Chinese capital or "sell the lord" needs, began to stop treating overseas Chinese as abandoning the people, but for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he could not offend foreign powers for the benefit of "abandoning the people", overseas Chinese were like sheep, only when they needed wool, the Manchus would remember this group of outcasts.

After the liberation, in the face of millions of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, the ruling axe established the Ministry of Overseas Chinese Affairs, and at the same time preached comfort to the Nanyang faction, and at the same time sent personnel to invest in the construction of Chinese schools, provide free teaching materials, and provide free education for the children of overseas Chinese.

Their return is unusually direct, the young people of Nanyang express their love for the motherland with their own blood, thousands of overseas Chinese children return to China to join the army, their parents express their love for the motherland in another way, and the money saved by overseas Chinese provinces has become a piece of national defense bonds.

After the liberation of the whole country, no one is more looking forward to the establishment of the country than the expatriates in Nanyang, after the consulate to vote, after the national election, the overseas Chinese in Nanyang are also anxious and looking forward to the establishment of the empire, the emperor's accession to the throne, for them, they have more expectations.

Nearly 5 million overseas Chinese are looking forward to this motherland of "man as man" and being able to fight for them even a little bit of power as a man.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, this day is the fourth day after the Chinese New Year, and it is also the day when the emperor of the Chinese Empire ascended the throne and the empire was established.

The northern district of Surabaya City is the name of the city, and it is also the Chinese who developed the place, and it is called Surabaya because it is a place where four rivers meet.

On the bank of the Golden River, here is the earliest Chinatown formed in Nanyang, on the fourth day of the first lunar month, early in the morning, in front of the Confucius Temple in Chinatown, tens of thousands of overseas Chinese elderly people wear Han clothes according to the pattern, young people wear new clothes, hold a rally in front of the Confucian Temple, at this time Chinatown is full of blue, yellow and red tricolor flags, here is like the Spring Festival as lively.

At the telegraph office in Chinatown, Xie Ziqin and his classmates waited in front of the telegraph window, they were waiting for the telegram sent back from China, after His Majesty ascended the throne, they wanted to light the firecrackers outside the telegraph office as soon as possible to celebrate His Majesty's accession to the throne.

Suddenly, there was a clicking sound on the telegraph machine, and with this sound, the Chinese telegraph operator in the telegraph office read it there.

“…… The Great Consul Chen Moran ascended the throne as Emperor of the Chinese Empire at 9:09 a.m. ......"

"Hooray!"

Cheers shouted out from the mouths of Xie Ziqin and the others, who shouted hooray and rushed out of the telegraph office

"Your Majesty has ascended the throne! The empire was founded! ”

In this cheer, the young people who had been waiting by the firecrackers for a long time hurriedly lit firecrackers, first a string, then the entire Chinatown, and the entire Surabaya, instantly shrouded in the smoke of firecrackers.

"Long live the Emperor!"

"Long live the Chinese Empire!"

Shouts in various dialects resounded in Chinatown on the banks of the Golden River, lion dances and cannon fire, and people celebrated the founding of the empire and the enthronement of His Majesty as if they were celebrating the New Year.

Not only in Chinatown on the bank of the Yellow River, but also in front of thousands of Chinese shops in Surabaya City, at this time the "Chinese flag" was planted, and the overseas Chinese who had seen foreigners and indigenous patrols to bow their heads and bend over were raised in front of them for the first time, and they believed that with the ascension of His Majesty to the throne and the establishment of the empire, they would never be bullied like in the past, like motherless children.

The sound of firecrackers and cheers continued to spread from the outside to the mayor's office of the Surabaya municipal axe, and Mayor Mink in the office frowned from time to time.

"Mr. Mayor, we have an obligation to remind those Chinese who are the masters here!"

Police Chief Sylps said, looking at the mayor.

"I've told the Chinese Chamber of Commerce not to gather and not to celebrate, but what did they say to me?"

Mink walked to the window and looked at the blue, yellow and red tricolor flags all over the street, at this time Surabaya was still a city in the Dutch East Indies, and he was a Chinese city at all.

"That's how they answered me, Major Howard, what do you think?"

"Your Excellency Mayor, I agree with Director Sylps that we must remind these Chinese that this is Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies! My troops are ready to go! ”

Major Howard stood up and replied, he was the commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment of the East India Corps.

"Alright! Howard, Sylps, just do it! You go and tell the crazy Chinese to go back to their shops, their rallies are illegal,"

"What if they refuse?"

"Major Howard, the rifle in your hand is not an Aboriginal stick!"

The whole city of Surabaya, the whole of Nanyang, whether it was the natives or the Europeans who were pale and unfit to live in the tropics, none of them had witnessed such a Chinese, a group of Chinese who had fallen into an unprecedented revelry, why they were so happy, perhaps as they expected.

"The rivers and mountains of the motherland have been restored, and the powerful fingers of Tangshan are just around the corner, and they no longer have to be angry with foreigners!"

The streets of Surabaya City were swallowed up by overseas Chinese who cheered long live the emperor and long live the empire.

Xie Ziqin, who was following the crowd, shouted with the people over and over again.

"Long live the Chinese Empire!"

At this time, he couldn't help but think about something.

"The chains are being opened one by one around me, today or tomorrow."

He remembered that as a child, he was chased off the street by a Dutch schoolboy. He even continued to fantasize.

"No one will dare to do this to me anymore, today or tomorrow."

Around him, he could no longer see the poor, the rich, and at this time in this cheering rally, there was no longer a distinction between the great rich and the poor, they were all the same, all citizens of the Chinese Empire, and they, like all the citizens of the Empire, sent His Majesty the Emperor to the throne, their emperor, the emperor of the Chinese.

As far as the eye could see, there were crowds of happy people, hugging and shouting to each other, blessing their country and their emperor with their cries.

"It's as if these people have suddenly found their home."

On the side of the road, a foreign lady with a flower umbrella thought so, in fact, this is also the method of many foreigners, they never thought that overnight, these people who seem to have no motherland, found their own home, their motherland.

Sixteen-year-old schoolgirl Su Ayun and the young man in Surabaya City, on this day, she really, for the first time, had a feeling. "I feel that I am as integrated with the country", in the past, in the face of all kinds of injustices, she once asked herself, if she is Chinese, then where is China?

She didn't get an answer, because China doesn't exist, just like they don't call themselves Qing people, but Tang people, they have a motherland, and they also don't have a motherland, but what about today? Like everyone around her, she found her homeland, not the teacher in the classroom who told her "You are Chinese!" It is a kind of destination from the bottom of my heart.

She remembered a poem she had learned at a Dutchman-run school and silently read it out.

"How good it must be to live at this dawn, just as youth is heaven."

When the poem was finished, Su Ayun saw a group of people, a group of people who shouldn't be here.

In this boiling street, rows of armed military police suddenly appeared, in addition to Dutch officers and police officers, the front row of indigenous police with batons, the back row of native soldiers with rifles, when they looked at these Chinese, the jealousy in their eyes was indescribable, and it was this jealousy that made their faces show a trace of bloodthirsty cruelty.

"With the authority vested in me by the Queen of the Netherlands, I ask you to dissolve the assembly at once and go back to where you are supposed to be!"

William? Officer Curtis shouted at the flag-waving Chinese, and the cheering crowd ignored him, not to mention that not everyone could understand what he was saying.

"Sir, do you mean that here, we hurriedly celebrate the enthronement of His Majesty the Emperor?"

Suayun, dressed in a Chinese dress, answered the Dutch police in Dutch, and then spoke in Chinese, which she had learned at school.

"Yes! We are Chinese, and Chinese do not have the right to celebrate the founding of their own country? ”

There were bursts of roaring rebukes from the crowd, and this wave of rebuke only made William? Curtis and several other officers couldn't help but take a few steps back, and the native policemen and soldiers couldn't help but sneer at the sight.

"Shoot, drive them back to their pigsty!"

Gunshots rang out in the streets of Surabaya, bullets hit Su Ayun's body at the first time, and when she fell, she saw the national flag she was dancing slowly falling on her body, and when her consciousness dissipated, she heard screams......

(To be continued)