Chapter 349 Sino-Japanese goodwill
In the "anti-Chinese script" prepared by the Dutch, Kalimantan was the focus of their purge, and Pontianak was even more important. Since 1939, when the British took advantage of the war to play a knot in East and West Malaya, the distribution of Chinese in Southeast Asia, Kalimantan Island is not the largest, but it is definitely the largest density (before that, Singapore).
Although Pontianak, the capital of Kalimantan, has the largest density of Chinese, the most Chinese live in Java and Sumatra, and Java is also the most populous and densely populated island in the Dutch Indonesian archipelago, and in the forties of the twentieth century, the population here accounted for more than half. Although the absolute number of Chinese people here is high, the total proportion is not high, about 5 percent. (In the colonial era, population rule was not very accurate, and the values were only for reference.) At the same time, the total population of Kalimantan, including the British-controlled part, was only a few million people.
Indonesia is located on the equator, and theoretically grain and rice production can achieve four crops a year, but the main reason for such an uneven population distribution is that these "big islands" located on the equator are too rich in rain, and the land is very barren due to too much rainwater. The island of Java has a large population due to the fertileness of the volcanic ash soil.
Although Sulawesi also brings fertile soil due to frequent volcanic activity, the island is not suitable for cultivation due to its mountainous terrain and few plains, and due to its large forest area, late development and tropical diseases, it has not been developed for decades.
In December 1941, because the Soviet Union and Germany suddenly announced that they would conduct a joint naval military exercise in Iceland, they were "frightened" by this, and the Dutch with bad intentions were so frightened that they urgently terminated the anti-Chinese operation that they had been preparing for several months.
However, there are some things that have been achieved in the state of opening the bow and pulling the string. But suddenly I don't want to shoot and want to give up, but how can it be so easy.
Whether it is the British, the Japanese, or even the Chinese who have become "victims", waiting for the Dutch to fire the first shot, they have long been anxiously waiting. When the Dutch raised their bows and pulled the strings to death, but at the critical moment they retracted their eggs and wanted to give up, they waited for the people of a large country in the East to fire the second shot. I was very unhappy in my heart, and I was extremely unhappy with a big country in the East, including the local Javanese and indigenous people in Indonesia, in the hearts of these people, every anti-Chinese movement is a feast of national carnival, to paraphrase the words of later generations: The pants are taken off, but you say that you can't act for me?
Jakarta, on the island of Java, was the center of Dutch colonization in Indonesia. The Dutch Viceroy in Indonesia is also located here.
On December 5, in a Japanese restaurant near the Dutch Governor's Palace, intelligence agents from four major East Asian countries were holding a secret meeting here: Wang Yaqiao and Dai Yunong from China, and the Japanese side was an assistant to Yamada Ichiro, the secret envoy to Tokyo Special Branch.
There are only eternal interests, and there are no eternal enemies.
Six years ago, Wang Yaqiao controlled the Mocking Wind Assassination Team and Dai Yunong's Blue Coat Society. They also held Suomi and mp18 to each other on the beach, and they fought each other endlessly. And China and Japan are bloody, and when they meet, they will be mortal enemies.
However, six years have passed. The landscape of East Asia has changed dramatically. With the rise of China, the contradictions between China and Japan have shifted under Li Huamei's manipulation, and not only have Wang Yaqiao and Dai Yunong become "good brothers" who sit together and drink together, but China and Japan are now sitting together more "calmly" and have begun to discuss the topic of "Sino-Japanese friendship" and jointly building a "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere."
Whether it is Wang Yaqiao or Dai Yunong. The real identities of the two, in fact, strictly speaking, do not belong to the side of New China, they only represent the Chinese forces in Southeast Asia led by Lin Han, but at present, New China and Lin Han are in the secret moon period. The two companies are in a mutually beneficial relationship. Within New China, there are a large number of students trained by Lin Han who are participating in the construction of the country in New China, and within Lin Han's organization, there are also a large number of people trained by the CCP in New China.
In this Japanese restaurant, intelligence chiefs from China and Japan are exchanging information with each other.
Ichiro Yamada of the Japanese side said: "Brother Yu Nong, yesterday, the Dutch side met with indigenous minds from all over the world, restrained them, and asked them to suspend the anti-Chinese action. ”
Dai Yunong sneered: "We also got this information. However, the fire has already been lit, how can it be extinguished so easily. ”
Wang Yaqiao also followed: "We have been secretly arranging the evacuation of overseas Chinese in the place last month. Now that the Dutch have shrunk, it seems that they need to work harder, and I would like to ask you for more help in this matter. ”
"What's the help?"
"Previously, we advertised to the overseas Chinese that the Dutch would carry out anti-Chinese actions, but many still did not believe it, and some even reported to the Netherlands."
Speaking of this, Wang Yaqiao's left eye blinked a few times, and Dai Yunong, who was familiar with him, knew very well that this was his habitual reaction when he wanted to kill.
Wang Yaqiao continued: "If you help confirm and spread this news, the credibility of the people will be higher. ”
Yamada Ichiro nodded and said, "As for the ships, if there is a need, as long as there is a support, we can provide assistance at any time." ”
The fact that China and Japan can talk and chat so without fire is only a need for each other's interests. These plots against the Dutch seal were actually the result of the secret collusion between China, Britain and Japan.
The British were only colluding with the Japanese, and the Japanese had a secret agreement with the Chinese. The British took a fancy to Sumatra and Java, but the Japanese wanted to swallow Java as well. It's just that Li Huamei is opposed to turning the other cheek with the British too early at this time, but she has come up with a compromise solution, but this solution requires the cooperation of the Chinese side.
The British and Japanese sought to gain the island of Java, while the local Chinese were mostly middle-class. Once the anti-Chinese campaign began, or the British and Japanese entered the area, the local Chinese would be looted once. The best way for the Japanese side to negotiate with the Chinese side is to exchange the territory that is destined to be difficult to keep with the Japanese side.
In return, after the partition of the Dutch colony began, Japanese troops would also enter Kalimantan in large numbers
At that time, the contents of the secret treaty reached in 1939 will be used to occupy most of the territory in the south. In exchange, the former Lanfang Republic on the island of Kalimantan in the Netherlands, centered on Pontianak, will be "returned" by the Japanese side to overseas Chinese as "compensation".
After thinking about it again, Lin Han realized that both Britain, Japan and the Netherlands now have the idea of cutting Chinese flesh and shearing sheep in Indonesia, and the rubber from the forest farm that cannot be transported will eventually fall into the hands of others. In this case, it is better to sell personal favors, and also to increase the contradictions between Britain and Japan -- when the British want to confiscate the property of the local Chinese after occupying the island of Java, they find that all this property has become the property of the Japanese, and there will definitely be dirt between Britain and Japan.
Yamada told Wang Yaqiao that the British envoy is now also operating fiercely in Jakarta, secretly provoking the leaders of several local Indonesian indigenous forces and encouraging them to kick out the Dutch and act privately, so he also asked the Chinese side to speed up and intensify the withdrawal. Although Yamada Ichiro did not say it explicitly, Wang Yaqiao and Dai Yunong were not fools, and the two even decided in their hearts that Japan must have intervened in this matter.
There must be chaos in Indonesia, and the British and Japanese have the best excuse to intervene in the chaos, which is even what Lin Han wants to see.
The four of them talked in the restaurant for two hours and talked in detail before parting and saying goodbye. After Wang and Dai left, Yamada Ichiro's assistant asked him puzzled:
"Yamada-kun, there is a question that I have been holding in my heart for a long time, until I want to ask you."
"What's the problem?"
The assistant was puzzled: "Kalimantan Island is a piece of land that the empire has been looking forward to for a long time, why do we want to cut such a large piece of land on that land for the Chinese people, and it is a piece that has been well developed." ”
Ichiro Yamada explained: "Because the empire needs hostages!" ”
"Hostages?"
Ichiro Yamada spat out two words: "North Korea"
He went on to explain: "In Korea, the pressure on the Kwantung Army was very great, and Chilu and Shina hooked up together. There were at least a million Chinese troops in the northeast, and in the Far East, Lucia also had hundreds of thousands of troops. If needed, with the mobilization capacity of China, they can even expand the army several times in a short period of time Today's China, no, China, in fact, it is already very terrible. ”
Ichiro Yamada experienced the Chinese War from 1935 to ~1936, and after the war, he also went to Beiping and Shanghai with the Japanese delegation to China for on-the-spot "investigation".
"What those Chinese want is to rebuild a Chinese country on the basis of the Lanfang Republic. They even had ambitious sights on the British-controlled East and West Malaya. Here in Southeast Asia, the British and American forces are intertwined, and the Chinese side is the weakest link, and if they succeed in establishing a state here, if they want to ensure the security here, they must make good friends with the empire, so that North Korea will be safe. Do you understand? ”
The assistant nodded convincingly: "Understood!" ”
"Actually, you don't understand."
Ichiro Yamada said in his heart.
As a senior intelligence officer, Yamada Ichiro knew much more than his assistant, and he knew that the Great Japanese Empire, at most, would be at war with the United States in another six months to a year.
The United States is too strong to be defeated by the empire alone, so the empire needs allies, many allies, hooking up with Germany, uniting with Britain, showing favor to China, and keeping Chilu (referring to the Soviet Union) "goodwill neutrality" are the most important guarantees for victory in this war.
The strategic objectives of Japan's actions in Southeast Asia were all set by the "far-sighted" Japanese patron saint Yamato Nadeshiko. (To be continued......)
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