Chapter 769: They're the Best Doglegs!
"............, Myanmar's indigenous Buddhists are merging peacefully and quickly with foreign Chinese. The Chinese have released some interests to rein in the middle and upper classes of Burma, including Buddhist forces. Chinese also believe in Buddhism, and Buddhism has a great influence in China. So the Burmese are not against the rule of the Chinese, and with the British as a comparison, the rule of the Chinese is like being in the paradise of the true gods.
In particular, there is a group of middle- and upper-class people in Myanmar who have knowledge. They became government administrators, middle and low-level officials, and became part of China's dominance......
……… The Chinese here lack aggressiveness, are mild-mannered and humble, and rarely take the initiative to provoke the natives. They use their labor to create wealth, not to plunder and rob the Burmese people......"
Late at night in Yangon City, Abdul. Mohammed. Gage hadn't fallen asleep yet. He's writing things, writing about his eastward journey diary. There is already a thick book of such notes, and here is the second one. It contains a written account of Abdul. Mohammed. Everything Gachi has seen and felt since his journey eastward. In the previous notebook, Abdul. Mohammed. Gage lamented the strength of Europe, lamented the strength of the British, and envied the British for being able to own the tamed land of India. And now, he is marveling at the speed at which China has assimilated Burma. This made every Ottoman fascinated. If the Ottoman Empire also had such means and assimilation speed, where would the whole of Europe still regard the Ottoman Empire as a pig and sheep waiting to be slaughtered!
The light of the cold moon shone on the window, turning Abdul. Mohammed. Garch's figure dragged a long slit on the floor behind him.
Abdul. Mohammed. Gachi couldn't stay in Yangon for much longer, just this afternoon. He received a telegram from Istanbul from Muhammad of the Persian Kingdom. Ali. The sand prince has already set out from Tehran. Officially send the envoy north to China!
Abdul. Mohammed. Garchie has to pick up the pace!
The Ottoman envoys left Rangoon and headed for the Strait of Malacca. There they will experience a whole new feeling. A completely different feeling from the Myanmar region.
The harm caused to China by the True God Cult will not be forgotten by this generation. Although the Green Cult in Nanyang does not seem to be as extreme as the Cult of the True God, hatred does not distinguish between them. China's rule in Nanyang is far more stringent and law-harsh than Burma's.
In addition to non-exterminating massacres, expulsion and slaughtering have been frequent in the past two years. Liu Xian's hands are not soft, but his means are relatively peaceful. During the war, China did not have much strength to invest in Nanyang, and the security forces from Japan willingly took the blame for China. Now the reputation of the Japanese in Nanyang is really ten miles away from the wind.
Maybe many people understand what expulsion is, but don't know what 'picking up and killing' is?
Picking up is a selective killing, just like picking up a human head. That's why it's called pick-up. Those who were killed were the indigenous people who had a 'long grudge' with the Nanyang Chinese in the past few hundred years. The Chinese who have just moved in will not immediately kill the killers, at most they will only kill some indigenous leaders and leaders. However, after the Japanese came to take the blame, the relatively poor military discipline of the security army immediately aroused great disgust and hatred among the natives. The MIA was secretly instigating slightly, and one killing after another began.
Some of them were natives who took the initiative to rebel, and some were greedy Japanese officers who took the initiative to stir up trouble. For example, an officer of the security forces will suddenly come to the indigenous area one day and say that a soldier has disappeared here, and tomorrow he will ask for a search of the whole area. This is obviously looking for death and finding fault. The indigenous people were agitated and did not wait for the Chinese government's conciliators to arrive. There was a big fight on both sides, and then the natives of the whole district were cleaned up by the little devils. Then the officers of this Japanese army would have been demoted, disciplined, or even nominally shot. Actually take a walk outside. Change your name and you'll be back. Only a very small number of them returned to Japan. That's enough money to be made.
The life of the natives of the Nanyang Green Sect is in dire straits. However, those indigenous people who had friendly contacts with the Chinese in the past days did not have a good life. Artificially discriminating and creating class barriers among the natives. It is the first law that governs and divides the natives!
It's the same as driving prisoners of war and laborers. It was not the overseers who treated the prisoners of war and laborers the hardest, but the foremen selected from among them.
The Chinese government has used various means to encompass acres of land in the unit of 100 million. When the prelude to the Great Migration began again, when the number of Chinese in Nanyang increased rapidly at three or four million a year. It seems that the dynasty did not have much fertile soil from the whole of the South Seas.
But on the contrary, the Chinese wash themselves very cleanly, and they have a very sober little brother who happily carries the black pot to the boss. Today, the total number of Japanese security forces is as high as 200,000, and it is the second largest military force in the Nanyang region after the Chinese garrison. The soldiers were no longer just from southwestern Japan, and the Japanese government in Tokyo was also in the crowd when the security forces were recruited for the second time last summer.
The hard-pressed Tokyo government is now really poor and has only one life left. Without external support, both industry and agriculture suffered heavy setbacks, and the financial crisis hit in the blink of an eye, and the bigger trouble was that the domestic rice price was rising month by month, but the Tokyo government had no capital to calm the rising food prices.
The Japanese already imported a large amount of coarse grains from Tohoku, namely corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes. But the Tokyo government has 30 million mouths. Food consumption is generally large from time to time. In order to make up for the lack of agriculture, Tokyo Japan seems to have no other way to make up for it than to exploit the Japanese peasants more excessively. Just like in the sixties and seventies of the Celestial Empire, the exploitation of the countryside to fill the material needs of the cities. A large amount of rice has been transferred from rural Japan to Japanese cities, but the price of rice has soared, and many Japanese urban residents have not been able to buy a pound of rice for a day's hard work. Missau is getting worse and worse. At the same time, in the Japanese countryside, excessive exploitation has left more and more Japanese peasants destitute, and a large number of Japanese civilians - whether peasants or city dwellers - have been reduced to abject poverty in the entire territory of the Japanese government in Tokyo, and the unrest has become increasingly serious. China's military intelligence bureau has also been spreading radical poor party theories to the Tokyo government's territory. Therefore, from the year before last year to the beginning of spring last year, Tokyo was not ordinarily lively.
This is indispensable for the 'bricks and bricks' of the southwest government, and the 'great repatriation' of more than 30,000 former Japanese nationals who have nothing will be abolished in Kobe as soon as they come ashore. The Tokyo government really can't hold on! They groveled to the face of southwestern Japan, a group that had been denounced as 'rebellious' in the past, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing received a diplomatic document signed Meiji. Full of supplication words, the whole article, the tone is not ordinary humble, the figure is not ordinary low, it is completely like a pig and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
Of course, Liu Xian knew that the current humility of the Japanese government in Tokyo was just a show, and that Japan, no matter how barren and chaotic it was, with samurai and Taoist beliefs, their resistance was not comparable to that of other places and countries in the Great Chinese Cultural Circle.
Liu Xian is very happy to see that Tokyo is soft, so that he can not attack Tokyo, so that the confrontation between the north and the south of Japan will always be maintained. To make a show, he first sent a telegram to Saigo Takamori and relayed the begging text of Meiji. Liu Xian is once again expressing his importance to southwest Japan.
After receiving the news, the major giants of the southwestern military government really considered the possibility of taking the opportunity to start a war. As a result, it is self-evident that a large number of military forces have fallen into the southwestern military government in the South Seas, and the military power is by no means the opponent of Tokyo and Japan.
Liu Xian allowed the Japanese government in Tokyo to 'surrender', and as for Meiji's request, Beijing left it to the north and south of Japan to negotiate on their own. Anyway, in order to catch a ride on Southwest Japan, Tokyo Japan has cut a lot of meat.
Only if there is giving, there will be gain. The Tokyo government gave up its dignity and some of its interests in exchange for greater benefits. Half of the 100,000 security troops recruited in the second batch came from Tokyo and Japan, and the leader was still a name that Liu Xian had a little impression of - Prince Nohisa of Kita-Shirakawa Palace!
Following the 50,000 Northern Japanese security troops who arrived in Nanyang were tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants who were destitute and destitute and had only one life left. This place in the South Seas is rich in resources, and the copper and gold mines in the Philippines and the oil in Sumatra all require a lot of labor. Then there is the plantation economy spread across the South Seas, whether it is rice cultivation or the cultivation of different crops such as rubber, pepper, abaca, oil palm, etc., the amount of labor required is astronomical.
There are many people in China, but Chinese rarely go into the plantations to work as coolies. They can easily acquire land in Nanyang and cultivate their own industries. So what about the severe shortage of labor everywhere? Only with natives. Just like the Nanyang economy before it, the plantations run by the Chinese were filled with ten or dozens of times the number of natives who were Chinese. In the past, once the anti-Chinese massacres occurred in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the Chinese suffered heavy losses, and there was such a reason.
Now compared with before, the biggest change for Nanyang Chinese is that they are all their own people, real their own people. Your own people holding the barrel of a gun! At the same time, the number of Chinese in Nanyang has increased substantially. However, there seem to be a lot of tens of millions of Chinese in the entire Nanyang, and they are still ethnic minorities compared to the natives, and the Chinese foreign forces help them better suppress, manage, and restrain the local natives. In the eyes of many Chinese, the fierce Japanese are the best choice -- to let the Japanese be overseers and guards. They are the best doglegs!
With the first batch of Japanese security forces coming to the southwest Japanese immigrants in Nanyang, when the second batch of Japanese immigrants landed in various parts of Nanyang, the small life was no longer too comfortable. (To be continued......)