Chapter 581: Framing and Borrowing a Knife to Kill
Kuala Lumpur is not only rich in tin resources, it is located in Kuala Lumpur at the confluence of the Gomak River and the Klang River, with the Tidi Wangsa Mountains as a barrier in the east, hills in the north and south, and the Straits of Malacca in the west.
The tropical rainforest climate is warm all year round, with abundant sunshine and abundant rainfall, especially from October to March when the northeast monsoon prevails. Temperatures are also stable for long periods of time, with highs ranging from 31 to 33 degrees Celsius and lows of 22 to 23.5 degrees. If it's not too humid, it's a paradise for the people of north-central China.
Since Kuala Lumpur became associated with the Nanyang Division of the Military Intelligence Bureau, which was still the Military Intelligence Department, the rubber plantation has become another growth point for the local Chinese economy. The price of the natural rubber produced is very pleasing to the extent that Qin Jun buys as much as he wants.
So only a small number of the new Chinese immigrants are entering the mines, and the vast majority are entering the rubber plantations.
Stepping on the dock, Deng Chunguang felt a sense of unreality rise in his heart. In this way, my family came to a foreign country and came to the land of the barbarians in the South Seas?
The interweaving of Chinese, foreign language, and local dialect on the dock had a great impact on Deng Chunguang, who had only been out of the county for the first time in 40 years. It is indeed a foreign country, full of red-haired and green-eyed foreigners and black natives.
Most of the foreigners are well-dressed and neatly dressed. The natives are not good, to use a word that has only been learned for a long time, that is, many people are unclothed.
In fact, his family is also very poor, otherwise he would not have immigrated to Kuala Lumpur. When I was in my hometown in Fujian before, the machine qì salt was not flooded before the market. Deng Chunguang's family was busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and they couldn't eat a tael of salt even after working tirelessly. Until the machine qì salt flooded the market. Coarse salt was removed, and the price of salt was much cheaper. Deng Chunguang's family said goodbye to the yellow-gray, bitter and astringent coarse salt.
People who are willing to leave their hometowns and come to Nanyang to beg for a living are like Deng Chunguang's destitute family. Those owners who came to open mines and companies with a lot of silver bought real estate in Nanyang, and the roots of the family are still in China. Just like the Hui merchants and Jin merchants, no matter how big the business is, how many fields and family businesses have been bought in Yangzhou and Jiangnan, the ancestral houses are still in their hometowns. It is completely different from an immigrant family like Deng Chunguang!
Deng Chunguang glanced back at the north. I'm afraid I won't be able to go back in this life. Thinking so, a sour feeling suddenly rushed to Deng Chunguang's face. Beside him, there were quite a few people on the dock, and they were all as stunned as he was. Looking at the north side with tears streaming down his face.
This is the second batch of Chinese immigrants to come to Kuala Lumpur this year, with 212 families, including Deng Chunguang's family, a total of 1,000 people.
The three migrant boats were accompanied by three Chinese officials, a squad of Chinese soldiers, and a 30-member dart master from the Fuzhou Changfeng Dart Bureau, who was the main escort force for the migrants.
Han Sanqi, the head of the dart, is a descendant of Southern Shaolin. Experienced, skilled, and even more rare is that the marksmanship is also very good. It is also a top-notch dart head in Changfeng Dart Bureau, one of the best dart games in Fujian Province.
The Chinese officials accompanying the ship were obviously very confident in the Changfeng Dart Bureau, and all the guards were handed over to Han Sanqi. This is the reputation that Changfeng Dart Bureau has gained by going to Nanyang again and again in recent years.
Since the new Qin replaced the Qing dynasty. When the government went to the countryside, the control power of the imperial court rose more than one step compared with the previous Qing Dynasty, which also represented the stability of the place. and national legislation to promote commerce and the economy. The abolition of the gold and checkpoints swept away a lot of troubles that merchants had to encounter when traveling between the north and the south in the past. If the dart game also focuses on domestic business exchanges. Except for closing the door, it's a bad fang.
The so-called poor will change, and change will make sense. The adaptability of the Chinese soon gave the dart bureau a new way to live. Go abroad, or go to a frontier that is not completely peaceful.
In the past few years, the dart bureaus all over the country have either joined forces, or the big fish eat the small fish, and now there are hundreds of dart bureaus with more than 200 people, and they have bought gun licenses from the state, which is simply a mercenary group.
These people escorted Chinese caravans to Europe, the Middle East, India, the South Seas, Central Asia, and Afghanistan by sea and land, and the business they did was no longer the 'friends in the rivers and lakes to give face' in the past, but really licked the blood from the knife edge, and pulled out guns against each other without saying a word.
Malaya is a common route for the Long Wind Dart Board. Chinese immigrants to Kuala Lumpur usually disembark in Malacca, and then walk two or three hundred miles to Kuala Lumpur, passing through the territory of several local powers. If there is no one to escort them all the way, and only the migrants are allowed to move on their own, there will definitely be casualties and damage to interests. Even if Yayalai has a force in his hands that is very intimidating to the indigenous forces of Malaya.
Because the boss of Malaya is British after all, and the indigenous people of Malaya, there are more than ten sultans and princes alone.
With the Russians withdrawing from the stage of Northeast Asia, and with closer cooperation between China and Britain, Chinese are increasingly appearing throughout East Asia.
Domestically, whether it is the stock exchange in Shanghai or Beijing, more and more overseas mining companies and development companies are listed. Just as the government in Tokyo is developing Hokkaido, China is trying to digest the fruits of its own victories in Tohoku, Trans-Khingan, Lake Baikal, and Sakhalin. At the same time, in Nanyang, in the Indochina Peninsula, groups of Chinese entered there, and in just a few years, the number of Chinese in Manila, Batavia, Palembang, Semarang, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and other famous Chinese gathering places has increased by two or three percent, half, or even more.
I have to say that immigration is a very good way to get rid of the burden. Millions of immigrants have moved out of the country as well as in the north, and the local instability has plummeted.
Liu Xian has no better way to do it in China. The development of modern industry, the construction of infrastructure on a large scale, the development of labor-intensive industries such as textiles on a large scale, the reduction of the burden on the peasants, the promotion of economic development, the elevation of the status of merchants, and the migration to overseas and frontier areas. As a novice in his previous life, Liu Xian has exhausted his brains except for the fierce beast of 'war' that has not yet been released.
All he can do is to give the people a relatively clean government and a relatively fair legal environment.
Then look at how China develops step by step.
It is also because of this idea that Liu Xian generously delegated power to the cabinet, let Fan Debang and others work harder, and then expect to get better results than expected. Just like Li Hongzhang, who has already arrived in Urumqi, his cunning methods are not comparable to Wang Guosheng, and he has a good time playing with the Mongolian princes and indigenous leaders in Xinjiang who have been deprived of political rights, but still have strong influence in themselves. Whether these people were forced or voluntarily took the initiative to stand up for the new Qin and call on the Mongols and natives to support the Qin army's anti-Russian war, the local situation in Xinjiang was immediately much more stable.
Of course, Liu Xian also needs to look at Europe and the United States, and at the same time stare at the Tokyo government in Japan, this guy who will not settle down.
Since the formation of the fleet of the Japanese government in the southwest, the situation between the two sides, which had just been stable for a year, has become more intense. In particular, the southwestern Japanese government secretly dug into the corners of the Tokyo government in an attempt to win over a few official naval officers, and this further stimulated the nerves of the Tokyo government.
"I wonder if Heihachiro Togo can escape this catastrophe?" He had just received a call from Japan that Gonbei Yamamoto, who was born in the Satsuma Domain, had been imprisoned by the Japanese government in Tokyo, while Heihachiro Togo had been arrested by the newly established Japanese naval gendarmerie.
Liu Xian really laughed.
That Yamamoto Gonbei is very famous in the original time and space, and he is the first boss of the Japanese Navy, and in terms of importance, Togo Heihachiro, the god of naval war, is not as good as the three Honbenbei. This guy was introduced to Katsu Kaishu by Saigo Takamori, and since then he has joined the Japanese Navy, but his relationship with Saigo Takamori is far inferior to his relationship with Saigo Congdao. Therefore, when Saigo Takamori raised troops, the three power guards also made the same choice as Saigo Congdao in the previous life, occupying the side of the Tokyo government.
In the original time and space, Saigo went from the road to the Tokyo government to urinate in a pot. Saigo Takamori has a total of three younger brothers, and in the Boshin War, the four brothers went out at the same time and fought bravely, which was really "fighting tiger brothers and going into battle as father and son soldiers". The second brother died in the latter part of the war, and the fourth brother, Saigo Kobei, returned to Kagoshima with his brother after Saigo resigned, and followed Takamori until the Southwest War. And the third brother Saigo Congdao, who also served as the bodyguard of his elder brother Saigo Takamori, is the same as Kirino Toshiaki, and is Takamori's right-hand man. To paraphrase Shan Tianfang's common words, 'the bird flies away with the luan and the phoenix, and the person accompanies the virtuous and virtuous self-exalted'. Liu Xian didn't know whether he was in good quality or not, anyway, this Saigo Congdao was also a powerful character in some aspects, quite a military talent, he was seriously wounded in the crucial Fushimi Toba battle, and later participated in the battle to sweep Northeast Japan and made great contributions. When Saigo Takamori was the commander of the Japanese army, he was already in the position of deputy chief of the army. However, like most talented right-hand men (such as Li Keyong's Li Cunxiao and Li Cunxin, Tokugawa Ieyasu's Ishikawa Shumasa and Sakai Tadaji), Saigo was also very dismissive of Kirino, and of course, more importantly, his political views were very different from his brother Saigo Takamori, so when Saigo Takamori's political affairs failed and most of his cronies resigned, he continued to serve in the army, and he worked very hard. Later, he led his troops to attack Taiwan and was killed by Liu Xian. But in the original time and space, Saigo Congdao did not die, and he was completely on the side of the government army in the Southwest War. Gonbei Yamamoto is the same.
No matter how much his hometown is in Satsuma, no matter how much he has to do with Saigo Takamori, he just doesn't want to be a person with Saigo Takamori anyway.
In 1875, Yamamoto Gonbei was selected by the Japanese government to study in Germany, and when he returned to China, he encountered the Southwest Domain Army, and Yamamoto Gonbei firmly rejected the olive branch handed by Saigo Takamori and stood on the side of Tokyo. Then before being imprisoned, he was already the chief of the chief cabinet of the Japanese Ministry of the Navy.
He and Heihachiro Togo, who has now been promoted to Shaozuo again, are two people that Liu Xian is very concerned about. When the southwest government built up the navy, a few rumors, a few handwritten letters from Takamori Saigo, a frame and a knife to kill people were perfect...... (To be continued......)