A few minutes later, in a small semi-open living room in the side hall of the Malay Palace, Pradu I sat cross-legged on a gorgeous soft couch, looking at the peacocks and broatine walking around the courtyard, 'grunting...' and smoking shisha, with a pleasant and relaxed expression on his face.

The constitutional monarchy of the Federation of Malaysia is very special, the emperor is elected by the sultan of each Malay member state, and it is not a lifetime system, the term of office is only five years, and although the emperor is theoretically the supreme head of state, he holds the authority of the state, and can freely dissolve parliament and remove the prime minister, but in fact there has been no actual council for hundreds of years.

Coupled with the fact that his term of office was short and non-re-elected, his actual authority had long since weakened, and the actual disposer of national affairs had long since become the democratically elected prime minister.

However, this changed by the time of Pradu I.

Soon after the former Sultan of Shelley was elected as the Malay emperor, the Malay prime minister unfortunately died of illness, and then the re-elected prime minister suddenly broke out a huge corruption scandal, and after being impeached by the parliament, he refused to resign for fear of losing the aura of the prime minister's judicial protection when he left office, and refused to resign, which plunged the entire country's political situation into turmoil.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Pradu I took advantage of the Malay emperor's de jure power to forcibly remove the then prime minister, which was only legally existing and had never actually been used, and his popularity was greatly shaken for a while.

Later, under the pretext of acting cheaply in the country's crisis, he took advantage of the absence of the prime minister to issue a decree to creatively abandon the measures to give priority to the pacification of the Malay elite, and took the risk of leading public opinion to pressure the lords of large estates and wealthy businessmen, and improve the living standards of the poor class represented by tenant farmers and manual laborers.

Immediately after cleverly taking advantage of the backlash of the elites, he forced the government and parliament to formulate a series of preferential policies for industrial and agricultural taxation as compensation, and in this way, at the expense of the national treasury reserves, he became a 'savior' to save the country from crisis in one fell swoop, and initially established the image of his holy monarch.

For the next five years, Pradu I took advantage of the opportunity. The political space for the by-election of the prime minister has been squeezed, and a series of radical national welfare initiatives have been introduced, which have further won the support of the poor class, which makes up the vast majority of Malaysia's population.

Although five years later, as soon as he stepped down, the whole country fell into a recession of more than 10 years, but the people are the most short-sighted political animals. Even if the government tells them at length every day, the current economic crisis is the result of the radical economic control policies of Pradu I.

But the people of the herd still look at all this simply in black and white, that is, in the time of Pradu I, everyone was well fed and clothed;

And after he stepped down, everyone's life quickly became difficult.

Therefore, although Malay law stipulates that the election of the emperor should automatically exclude the sultan who had served as the supreme head of state, and only after the hereditary rulers of the other federal states have served as emperors can he run again.

Wait until 20 years later. He finally got another chance to be elected, and when he became the emperor of Malaysia, he was already a saint-like sage, and just at this time, the Malay economy passed through the most difficult trough and ushered in new development opportunities, so the credit for the recovery of national power was credited to Pradu I.

Under these circumstances, the ambitious Pradu felt that the time was finally ripe to fully communicate with the military forces and the major separatist forces in Malay. After a series of exchange of interests, compromises, and lobbying, the parliament was manipulated to amend the constitution. The terms of the emperor's non-re-election were amended to prohibit him from being re-elected for three consecutive terms, and since then he has occupied the Malay throne for 14 years.

And at this moment, at the same time that this magnificent emperor was swallowing clouds and spitting fog, Zhang Longchu, who was close at hand, was also sitting on a soft couch covered with gorgeous silk brocade, and looked at the Malay emperor in front of him, who was completely different from the majestic and solemn bearing just now, and his eyes flickered. I don't know what I'm thinking.

The two sat silently opposite each other for a while, and finally it was a high-ranking palace master who broke the deadlock and said with a smile: "Datuk Long Chu, you can make outstanding contributions to the country on the battlefield at such a young age, which really makes an old man like me very emotional."

If only there were more talented people like you in Malaysia. The rise is just around the corner. ”

"Your Majesty, you've won the prize." Knowing that the emperor was talking nonsense, Zhang Longchu politely lowered his head and replied humbly.

"Although our country is a federal system, and there are many autonomous regions that are only nominally under the jurisdiction of the central government, I will not allow people to be bullied against a national hero like you." Seeing Zhang Longchu's respectful movements, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Pradu's mouth, and he said a somewhat inexplicable sentence slowly.

Teo had already made all kinds of speculations about his sudden appointment to Dato, and at this time, Pradu I's words made him suddenly understand that he was being used as a weapon to weaken the prestige of the royal family in Sarawak.

In the past three or two years, after a period of peak development, Malaysia's national strength has gradually declined again, and it stands to reason that this kind of social and economic fluctuations are the norm in Southeast Asian countries, as long as the magnitude is not large, it does not matter, but the high prestige of Pradu I has made it cocooned.

Naturally, the expectations of the people for the 'sages' are much higher than for ordinary politicians, and the slightest flaw can tarnish their perfect reputation.

And seizing this rare opportunity, the rest of the Sultans of the Malay states, whose prestige had been suppressed by Pradu I all his life, were motivated by unspeakable jealousy;

It is also out of fear that the Shelley royal family has been prominent among many sultans in the Federation of Malaysia in recent decades, and has secretly attacked the reputation of Pradu I.

One of the most active was the Sultan of Sarawak, who was appointed to succeed to the throne after Pradu I completed three consecutive terms as emperor, and settled the head of the royal family, Chaiwanton.

Now, after Pradu I conferred the status of Datuk on Teo Long Chu, he hinted that he would support him to recover his land from the civil strife of the Mabizi hill people, apparently hoping to turn the riots in the Mabiqi hill area from internal riots to external strife, which would attract the attention of all the Malay people.

In this way, the Shachong Ba family, which is a branch of the royal family, has been bullied by a group of hillbilly mountain people for hundreds of years, and this old incident has been exposed.

This kind of thing can be big or small, at least it is just a tragic bloody drama that a feathered phoenix is not as good as a chicken, but it can be extended to settle the royal family cowardly and useless, and even their own interests cannot be preserved, and this kind of family-born sultan can talk about being crowned and leading the country.

A series of thoughts flashed in his heart, and Zhang Longchu, who thought about all this clearly in an instant, pondered for a while, and said in the same vague voice: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, now that I am a Datuk, I will naturally pay attention to the reputation of honor not being tarnished and falling into a cowardly reputation."

I don't need your actual help, but I would be grateful if I could approve of some of the radical practices I have taken against the people of the Mebiqi Mountains in order to defend my own rights and interests. ”

Hearing this, thinking that Zhang Longchu understood his own hint by hearing the strings, Pradu I smiled with satisfaction, took a sip of hookah, and said in a ferocious tone unique to the barbarian peoples of Southeast Asia: "Although Malaysia has long been an era of democracy, after all, it is still a country with a long tradition.

Now as a Dato, you can't do it too much to slaughter all those thieves and robbers when you fight back against them, so let it go. ”

"Yes." Zhang Longchu smiled, showed a more respectful expression, and bowed deeply in response.

Pradu I nodded slightly in satisfaction, and then quietly glanced at a thin old man who was serving beside him, dressed in a plain white coat and black trousers, but embroidered with gold trim on the collar and cuffs.

The old man immediately whispered respectfully, "Your Majesty, the dinner is about to begin." ”

Seeing all this, Zhang Longchu naturally stood up immediately, saluted and said, "Your Majesty, then I will retire." Then, in the gesture of Pradu I smiling and waving his hand, he quickly left the side hall with the Wei Rong official who had led the way.

Later, he attended a lavish but boring dinner in the glittering main hall of the palace, where he and Lee Xian Yee stayed at the five-star hotel Manhua Oriental, which was specially prepared by the Malay royal family for the new Datuk to be honoured.

After the first test of the night, the two played happily in Kuala Lumpur for 3 days, Zhang Long's first love reluctantly sent his girlfriend to a backward village in Negeri Sembilan to start the road of education internship, and then immediately returned to Kalimantan Island, contacted Liu Junshan, and bought a car overnight after leaving the airport, and went straight to the Maibiqi Mountains.

At dawn the next day, just as the sun was rising in the distance on the shores of the crescent-shaped plains of the Mt. Macbizzy, a brand-new off-road vehicle swooped into a sizable port.

As soon as the car came to a stop, and from the dust of the idle cranes on the shoreline, it should have been abandoned for at least a month, built side by side on the harbor, which was supposed to serve as a warehouse, behind the building that was supposed to serve as a warehouse, a group of young men in military uniforms but without military ranks, with strong blood and strength, suddenly ran out and firmly surrounded the car.

These young people were holding second-hand refurbished large-caliber automatic rifles, and their movements when running were not neat, but they barely maintained a column of three people, one charging forward, and two people slightly back to defend the tactical queue on the left and right.

Zhang Longchu, who was standing in the driver's seat of the car, saw this scene, pushed the door and jumped out of the car, returned a military salute in a similar manner, and said with a smile: "Did you do it unexpectedly, Junshan, I thought that the time was so tight, it would be good if you could summon all the people, but I didn't expect to train decently." (To be continued.) )