Chapter 213: Times Change
No matter how different the causes of all power struggles in ancient and modern China and foreign countries are, how tortuous the process is, and who is right and who is evil on both sides of the struggle, the final result is only four words: success and defeat.
At dawn on the eighth day of the counteroffensive against the Sultan of Sarawak and his accomplices, Teo received a congratulatory message from King Pradu I of the Malay Federation and a statement of support for him to become the new Sultan of Sarawak.
And when His Majesty, who was the only one qualified to find fault with his mistakes in legal theory, expressed a moderate attitude, Zhang Longchu knew that the most difficult moment had passed, and as long as he did not make any mistakes and stood firm, then his rule over Sarawak could be smoothly consolidated and continued for a long time.
It's a pity that it's not so easy to make mistakes and misses.
Sarawak, the most elite state of Kalimantan, although it only accounts for more than one-sixth of the total area of the island, can take advantage of the special period when the old and new eras were replaced hundreds of years ago, relying on geographical advantages to annex the neighboring small country of Brunei.
After taking over the world's second-largest crude oil industry, taking a huge amount of money and gradually achieving a revolutionary leap in industrial development, the state's industrial and agricultural output now accounts for two-thirds of the total industrial and agricultural output in Kalimantan.
If it weren't for the mutual restraint of the various warlord forces in the territory, the Malay central government's profit, and the clever encroachment of heavy industry, including the perfect military industrial chain, little by little, I am afraid that Zhang Longchu would face more than twice as many local troops when counterattacking, and it is likely that it is unknown who will be killed.
All of these were the strengths of Sarawak, but with the advent of the Red Cloud invaders, these advantages had a negative impact and brought more and more burdens.
This is because although Sarawak is hundreds or thousands of kilometers away from the frontier zone, it is still located on the island of Kalimantan after all, and if the alien monster invades successfully, it will undoubtedly be the first victim.
Under such circumstances, as a well-known and wealthy state in Southeast Asia, its obligation to resist the Red Cloud invaders was taken for granted by the governments of neighboring Indonesia, Thailand, and even Malay.
Therefore, on the fourth day of his reign, in the suburbs of Kuching City, the capital of Sarawak, in the royal palace built by the river, he received an outrageous material demand document from Liu Junshan, and Zhang Longchu's eyes almost burst into flames.
Without waiting to read the full text, His Majesty the Freshly Roched Sultan, wearing a white silk robe embroidered with various intricate patterns with gold threads, sat on a huge soft lamb cashmere blanket in the air-conditioned palace, frowned and shouted: "50 million units of general-purpose ammunition, 20 million quintals of new rice, 200 million boxes of 450 grams of canned meat... Lighters, chewing gum... There are even condoms.
What the hell, those damn Thais can't even do a ladyboy and what condoms do they want..."
I have long been accustomed to this seemingly ordinary, but in fact unfathomable, former proprietor of his own, and now a young man of his own monarch, who usually never pretends to be deep in front of his cronies, scolds when he is angry, and does not choose what to say, Liu Junshan respectfully persuaded and said: "Your Majesty, the artworks, gold, silver and jewelry we have searched from those old warlord mansions alone will cost tens of billions of yuan when they are sold.
Coupled with the funds in the secret accounts of foreign banks that were tortured to extract confessions, I do not expect to have to worry about military expenses for at least one year.
And in a year's time, the trade in crude oil, rubber, and grain, which has now been temporarily stagnant, should be resumed anyway, and then only the plantations and mines that have been nationalized will be restored..."
Zhang Longchu groaned and said: "No, no, no, Junshan, that's not what I said, blindly backing down will only make those Indonesians and Thais gain an inch."
When they shared the interests of the heterogeneous plane, they scrambled one by one, and now something happened and sent hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder to plug the gun holes, even if they did their duty, let us pay for the money and material things, this is not good, by the way, and our Majesty Pradu, this old guy I think is deliberately not stopping Indonesia and Thailand's excessive demands for Sarawak, and he also participates in it, and also follows the benefits.
He, he's testing our bottom line, yes, it must be so!
Hmph, since he is testing us like this, then we will also test and test where his bottom line is, Hong Shan, you send the elite troops to take back all the heavy industry enterprises controlled by the central government.
The reason, well, let's just say that the management of the factory is not well managed, and in order to complete the supply tasks at the front, it is necessary to implement militarized tough control methods, overtime and overproduction.
Anyway, the property rights of these factories are still subordinate to Sarawak, so it's okay to be tough, understand? With his position in Sarawak at this time, a sentence of 'tough means' undoubtedly means that a bloody storm is about to blow.
After that, Zhang Longchu turned his gaze to Liu Junshan and said: "Junshan, you send people to cooperate with our chief of staff, occupy a factory, take over one, organize workers to increase production, and don't keep a mouthful." ”,
"I see, Your Majesty." Hearing this, the newly promoted Chief of the General Staff of the Sarawak Defence Force, Hong Shan, and the Governor of Sarawak immediately stood up, replied in unison, and then walked out of the palace quickly.
Looking at their disappearing backs, Zhang Longchu waved his hand to signal the servants and guards around him to retreat, and muttered to himself with a flickering gaze: "If you make such a fuss again, if you can still make a big deal and a small thing to break through, then the situation will really calm down completely in a short period of time, but no matter how calm the situation is, the people who should come haven't come yet, it still makes me feel at ease...
Paul, Paul, what are you waiting for if I make such a big fuss and you don't show up...", fell into deep thought.
In the following days, Hong Shan and Liu Junshan, in accordance with Zhang Longchu's orders, took back all the heavy industrial enterprises in Sarawak that had been cleverly set up by the Malay central government for various reasons, and they did not encounter any serious resistance to the level of bloodshed.
It was only at this time that Zhang Longchu understood that it was likely that after Sarawak was swallowed by himself, Pradu I no longer expected the central government to continue to occupy the heavy industry in his territory, so after extorting a large amount of material goods from Sarawak, he directly returned all those factories to their original owners, so that he could not speak out after suffering losses.
This feeling of being brutally pitted by the scheming Malay emperor made Zhang Longchu quite depressed for a while, but fortunately, his gains were far greater than his efforts, and after the unprecedented completion of the control of all heavy industries in Sarawak, Sarawak's former trading partners completely and clearly realized that Zhang Longchu's rule had laid a solid foundation.
Their wait-and-see attitude changed immediately, and soon countless traders appeared in the major ports and cities of Sarawak at a faster rate than when they fled, and the stalled transnational crude oil, rubber, and grain business was again in full swing.
Under these circumstances, Zhang Longchu took the opportunity to change the name of the military academy jointly established by the South Korean military and the United States military base in Asia to the Sarawak Royal Military Academy, which was expanded several times and the address was moved to the outskirts of Kuching;
The comprehensive university established with the help of the Korean government was also renamed Sarawak Royal Family University, and it was also expanded in scale and relocated to Kuching, making a gesture of improving the military and political personnel training system, and successfully left the world with the impression that the results of the war had been digested in a short period of time and became full-fledged.
Of course, the world is impermanent, in addition to a lot of good news, there are also a lot of unexpected bad news, such as the cruise ship of the former sultan of Sarawak and the family of the warlord leader who was sent out of Kalimantan Island, suddenly attacked by pirates, and the ship was destroyed and killed, which was counted on Zhang Longchu's head, triggering widespread protests from all parties in Southeast Asia.
In addition, because a large number of Korean refugees had migrated in the vicinity of the two seaports in the Mebizzy Mountains, all of them did not come out when the coalition forces attacked;
Later, when the Maibiqi Defense Force counterattacked, because of the restrictions on the number of services, it was impossible to stop it at all, and could only sail to the sea to avoid disasters, and the naval forces of the local troops in Sarawak suddenly appeared frequently in the coastal waters off the coast of Sarawak, and although they did not cause any material losses or casualties for the time being, they caused panic among the people.
However, this is not the most serious accident, after all, in a short period of time, Sarawak has very cooperatively deployed a large number of material support to support many troops in Southeast Asia to resist the Red Cloud invaders, all protests and condemnations will only be carried out secretly and implicitly, and the effect is very limited.
The vast majority of the former Sarawak local forces and naval dependents who have fled across the ocean have been controlled by the new Sarawak state government, and in this case, their harassment is nothing more than an attempt to show their strength, and wait until they surrender with a little more bargaining chips, which is completely harmless to the overall situation.
The most serious crisis is that tens of thousands of university students in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, who live in reality but do not recognize the reality, and who are full of enthusiasm and self-proclaimed pioneers in promoting the process of national and social democracy, suddenly and spontaneously hold a large-scale sit-in demonstration.
Although there is no theoretical possibility of success in overthrowing a powerful government by relying on powerless students, the adverse chain reaction produced by the student movement in history is deeply taboo by every regime, so after learning the news, Liu Junshan immediately rushed to the palace to ask to see Zhang Longchu.
At that time, I endured patience for a full 3 weeks, spending more than 16 hours a day with representatives of all parties in Southeast Asia, attending various activities to stabilize people's hearts;
Zhang Longchu, who even personally met with the newly selected senior administrative bureaucrats in major cities in Sarawak late at night, felt that he could finally come down easily, and took out the evil god skeleton from the strange object backpack in the secret room alone, and broke the skull's mouth.
Suddenly, the soul of the Sarawak local coalition soldier contained in the skeleton was at least 200,000 or more, and the black and white smoke that had turned into it drifted out from the seven orifices, and rushed into his belly with Zhang Longchu's long, heavy breathing like an elephant. (To be continued.) )