Chapter 589: Sharpening the Knife Huo Huo Xiang Niu Niu (II)
The development of British Malaya on the original plane has some differences from the original plane. In 1930, they integrated the original Malay Federation, Malay dependent states, and the Straits Settlements to form the Federation of Malaya, 16 years ahead of the original time and space. This change is also to adapt to the changes in current events, and Malaya in the original time and space did not have such a vigorous independent movement as the original plane.
Prior to this, British Malaya was divided into three parts, in order of kinship: the Straits Settlements, the Malay Federation, and the Malay Dependent States.
The Straits Settlements were directly under the British government, and originally consisted of three British ports, Singapore (Temasek), Penang and Malacca (Malacca), so it was called Tri-Chau Province by the local Chinese at that time, and later added Christmas Island and Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, as well as Labuan Port in Sabah. This is the smallest site, but the most important strategic location. The Governor of the Straits Settlements is appointed by the British Crown and is also the Governor of the Malay Federation and the Malay States. The Governor is based in Singapore, and the administration of the Governor is carried out by a resident officer or adviser appointed by the Governor.
The second is the Malay Federation, which is one of the British colonial regimes in the Malay Peninsula, consisting of four Malay dynasties on the peninsula that were under British protection, including Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak and Pahang, established in 1895, with its capital Kuala Lumpur, also known as the four state capitals by the Chinese.
The British introduced so-called "indirect administration" in the Malay Federation in order to distinguish it from the "direct administration" in the Straits Settlements. The head of the Confederation is the Supreme Commissioner, who is also the Governor of the Straits Settlements, but in fact it is the Governor-General of the Confederation who governs the affairs of the Confederation in accordance with the Governor's wishes.
In 1909, the Malay Federation Assembly was established, with the Supreme Commissioner of the Malay Federation as the Speaker, and the laws of each state were passed by the Federation Assembly, which was then handed over to the Sultans of the states for enforcement. The highest administrative body of the states is the Council of States, which is chaired by the Sultan of the States. The British officers stationed in the states are ex-officio members of parliament and are responsible for collecting taxes, deciding on legislative measures, etc. In fact, the Sultan was a subordinate tool in the hands of British officers and advisers when it came to deciding matters of practical significance.
Finally, there are the Malay states, which are made up of the five states of Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu and Perlis, which are not part of the Malay Federation.
Terengganu, Kelantan, Kedah and Perlis, located in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula, have always been vassals of Siam and have varying degrees of political dependence on Siam, and it is impossible to form a federation with all the states of the Malay Federation at the same time. In exchange for annexing these princely states, the British signed the Treaty of Bangkok with Siam in March 1909 in exchange for changing their extraterritoriality in Siam, gaining suzerainty, administrative and administrative rights over Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah and Perlis, placing these four states under British colonial rule. After the British colonists took full control of the Kingdom of Johor in 1914, they collectively referred to Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu and Perlis as Malay dependent states.
The five Malay states, although nominally independent, each state also has its own parliament to assist in administrative matters, and it retains more real power and more traditional forms of political organization than the states in the Malay Federation. The British adopted different ruling strategies according to the ethnic composition of the local society and the strength of their political power, which reduced the cost of colonial rule. Although the Malay subjects were not directly subordinate to the British, they were in fact dominated by the British colonialists. British rule in the Malay subject states was no different from the Malay Federation, except for the change of the garrison officer to the adviser officer.
The colonial independence movement that broke out at the end of World War I completely changed this situation, and Britain's original three-horse partition system was no longer sustainable.
Fortunately, the Straits Settlements were mostly Chinese, with a small number of indigenous people and most of them pro-British. Needless to say, the pro-British faction among the Chinese would certainly not make trouble with the natives, and even those pro-Chinese factions were under the control of China and did not participate in it. So the Straits Settlements didn't make much trouble, and it was the most peaceful.
The Federation of Malays is different from the Malay states, where the natives are having a lot of fun. In the end, the British were forced to release concentration camps, poison gas bombs and other big tricks to suppress these guys.
The British finally put down the rebellion with great difficulty, but the British, who had already been overwhelmed by the natives, simply put the three horses into one in order to facilitate their rule.
After the establishment of the Federation of Malaya, the British discovered another fact that disturbed them. Before the end of World War I, the total population of British Malaya was about 3 million, and the number of Chinese was only 300,000, only 10 percent, but by 1930, the number of Chinese had exceeded 1 million, and after years of war, the local indigenous population was less than 1 million.
The local natives have been completely killed and dare not make trouble, but the Chinese have become an unstable factor.
If it is replaced by the original time and space, under the condition that the mother country is not strong, no matter how many Chinese here are, they are not afraid. On the contrary, these smart and industrious Chinese can create more value than those stupid and lazy natives, and the British will be happier. But this plane is different, the Eastern Dragon has completely woken up, it has not only woken up, but it has become more powerful, stronger than any period in history. It longs to be nourished by the flesh and blood of its neighbors.
In this case, it is a big trouble for so many Chinese. The British will not forget how the Dutch East Indies were lost. It would be strange to say that Boon has no idea about Malaya.
The British bigwigs have big heads, what should they do? Have the heart to repent, revoke the "Haikou Agreement" that allowed Chinese to open mines and build factories. That is to completely tear the face with China, and that guy will definitely not give up. There is still a mess in Europe, how dare the British go back on it? There are other ways to do it if they don't dare to go back.
Britain is a thousand-year-old-stirrer, that's what everyone knows. But few people know that the British are also particularly good at and thin mud. It's about the racial skill that accompanies the "-stirring stick", and the skill of the opium cow "and the mud" is also MAX.
In this case, it is not enough to just stir up, so they began to activate the skill of "and the mud" again, and the two skills were brushed together. Don't you just want the Chinese to have an advantage in Malaya? Haven't you been talking to us about the treatment of the Chinese? No problem!
The British colonial authorities immediately vigorously promoted a group of pro-British Chinese, made these "banana people" officials of the colonial government, and at the same time opened up to them high-ranking positions that were originally restricted. At the same time, there was a Chinese system, and those banana people were asked to take care of the pro-China Chinese, as well as the staff from China. Niu Niu's hand is very hanging, quite powerful, and it immediately made China suffer a dumb loss, Wen Desi and a group of central bigwigs were disgusted by this trick.
The opium cow trick is really difficult to solve, and it is impossible for Wen Desi to say that those "banana people" are not Chinese. Although they are indeed not emotionally counted, they are Chinese in terms of blood. If it is replaced by the next generation, there may really be no good way to solve it.
However, it is different in this era, now is the last golden age of the big hooligans, once the big hooligans are in a hurry, they can be shameless, don't eat the face, and if you can't get it on the card, you can just flip the table. So after being disgusted for a few years, Wen Desi made a ruthless move directly.
As a result, from 1935 onwards, the probability of accidents among the "banana people" in Malaya began to rise sharply, and unnatural deaths continued to occur, and several upper-class Chinese families famous for their banana people were even wiped out. All kinds of accidents, car accidents, shipwrecks, fires, plagues, animal plagues, insect plagues, and attacks by indigenous bandits...... And so on, all sorts of unbelievable accidents.
Now it was the turn of the British to be dumbfounded, they didn't expect Wen Desi to be so ruthless, he didn't play according to the rules, and he didn't play according to the traditional routine. This is really shameless! But the British have no good means to deal with it, and these things are done too cleanly, not only is there no evidence to point to China, but some of the parties involved in the incident are British citizens or people from other countries, and there are even more local natives.
If it were replaced before, when the British Empire was strong, it was really not afraid of these means. It's a big deal to tear your face and stop playing, and directly send the army to speak with giant ships and cannons. But now, the First World War, which lasted for more than five years, and the nearly ten years of colonial independence movement that followed, were almost gone. That's not all, there is still a lively Erdezi in Europe who is eyeing it.
As an adversary, China is already the world's largest industrial country and the most populous country. If the British really dare to tear their faces like this, the Chinese side will definitely be desperate. If the two sides get a puff, it will not only be Malaya that will be lost, but the entire Asia-Pacific region will fall. This is still under the premise that Er Dezi does not take the opportunity to do it, if Wei San and Mustache do it, the consequences are unimaginable.
Therefore, for China's shameless trick of withdrawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, Britain not only did not dare to turn its face, but even did not dare to use the reciprocal trick, that is, to make those pro-China Chinese leaders also "accidental".
There is no way, the national strength really can't support it.
However, the opium cattle have been mixed for many years, and they can afford to let go, and after seeing that there is really no way to maintain it on the Malayan side, they don't want to be entangled with China in this matter. So they announced in April 1939 that they would hold a referendum in Malaya ten years later, in 1949, saying that they would let the Malayan people decide the fate of Malaya themselves. At the same time, immigration restrictions have been liberalized.
It stands to reason that this is the British Yankee's confession. But they may have been a-stirring stick for too long, admitting cowardice and making small moves at the same time, because this immigration is open to the whole world. That is to say, not only Chinese can immigrate to the past, but people from other regions can also immigrate to the past, and this part of the population is mainly Indian. This is clearly adding to China's blockage.
For this so-called concession of the opium cow, Wen Desi was very unhappy. On the one hand, he didn't want to wait that long. On the other hand, he is preparing to take Malay as his own country, rather than a predominantly Chinese country, so naturally he can't tolerate the British getting too many third brothers to come over and grab land.
Therefore, the action against Malaya is something that Wen Deji has already planned, even if there is no espionage incident, that is, this time. This espionage incident is nothing more than allowing Wen Deji to expand the plan a little more and incorporate the operation against Oceania.
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24 December 2781 (1940) in Perak, Ipoh, Union State of Malaya.
Perak, the third largest of the 11 states in the Federal State of Malaya, covers an area of about 21,000 square kilometres and is located on the border between Malaysia and Thailand in the northwest of Malaya. Perak means silver in Malay, and the name "Perak" is still preserved to this day as tin-ore was found in Perak, but it was mistaken for silver.
Ipoh is the capital of Perak and is also known as "Little Guilin" by the Chinese because of its beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery. It is a predominantly Chinese city, and since the aboriginal rebellion was put down, there have been more Chinese. However, under the operation of the British-stirring sticks, the Indians also increased a lot, becoming the second largest ethnic group in the local area after the Chinese.
At this time, in a small alley in the city of Ipoh, several Chinese young men with thick shoulders and round waists were surrounding a young man of the Bumiputera.
"I said, you do it, you don't understand...... Quick, hard!" said a bald Chinese boy who pointed to his head and said impatiently.
"I ...... I ......" The native looked at them with a stick in his hand and trembling, the expression on his face almost bitter.
"Good, obedient!" Another Chinese young man was singing in a group of red-faced, and he smiled and took out two bills: "You just need to give him a hard blow on the head, and the twenty Chinese yuan is yours, which is equivalent to you working for a week." ”
"Supplement...... Repair...... ......The natives were about to cry, shook their heads again and again, and said in stiff Chinese: "Hit ...... Fight to make up virtue, hit the ...... that wants five threads"
"the mud horse, if you don't beat Lao Tzu today, you're going to die!" said the bald head in a hurry.
At this time, a stern female voice sounded: "Stop!"
Several Chinese men and women walked out of a nearby room quickly. The leader is a tall and wavy beauty in a gray shirt. This beauty is now pretty and creamy.
"This man can't do it at all, get him away!" she pointed to the native.
"Get out of here! Get out of here! What a fool, you can't do a little thing!" the Chinese lads immediately snatched the stick, and slipped another bill into the native's hand, and sent him away like a fly. The native ran away as if he had been pardoned.
As soon as these guys turned around, they changed their faces, with a smile on their faces, and said flatteringly: "Secretary General, we didn't know that this guy was such a wastewood." It's a shame that this guy is still a tyrant among the local natives, but I didn't expect to be more timid than a rabbit......"
Xiang Meinu ignored them, but was angry at a middle-aged man beside her: "Look at you, who are you chosen?" she pointed to the young men just now. "Where do they look like victims? If I don't come over and take a look, you're going to have to mess up! Have you read that manual, it says very clearly, you want to find someone who looks like a good bully. ”
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