Indonesia's indigenous people are now in turmoil, with the islands of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, and Celebes (the old name of Sulawesi) all on fire. The bestial Indonesian monkeys burned and looted everywhere, and the entire Dutch East Indies was made into a miasma.

Although the Dutch military and police put out fires everywhere, the Dutch East Indies were too big for the Dutch garrison, and the terrain here was an archipelago. This kind of terrain, which is divided into n islands by the sea, is very inconvenient for military mobilization. Even if the Dutch garrison in Indonesia has increased more than ten times compared to the same period in the original time and space, it is far from enough to suppress the natives who have erupted everywhere. Often, this side has just been pressed down, and the other side has risen again, making the Dutch army exhausted everywhere.

"These damned native monkeys! they're all crazy! they're all crazy!" said Governor Steel, who was now dying, and in just a few days, his hair was half white.

There is no way, the damage caused by this indigenous rebellion to the Netherlands is too great, both in terms of people and property, they can suffer a lot of pain. This has not been counted in detail, just a preliminary estimate, the loss of personnel is more than 20,000. That's more than 20,000 people, and the total population of the Netherlands is only 6.6 million. The loss of property is even more numb, at least hundreds of millions of guilders, which is not counting indirect losses.

Stillham knew full well that even if the riot was suppressed, his governor would be the end.

He shouted angrily, "Rijkaard is so incompetent, he just dealt with a bunch of native monkeys, and he didn't even achieve decisive results now." Hmph, he has 50,000 troops under his command! A full 50,000 troops equipped with planes and artillery! This is already 80 percent of the Royal Army! And there are 30,000 policemen and militiamen to help him, this can't be done, I must report to the Queen, so that there is another general in the country who can fight!"

At this time, Stillham doesn't care about offending people, anyway, he has no bright future, so he has to find a few people to take the blame. He can't afford to shoulder such a big responsibility alone. As a result, Lieutenant General Rijkaard, the commander of the Dutch Far East Corps, who was directing the suppression operation on the front line, was lying down and was shot, anyway, he is not here now.

Seeing that the Governor was furious, the high-ranking officials of the colony all became mud bodhisattvas, and they all pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Major General van der Sar, the Dutch Far East Policeman, felt the need to defend his friend, so he stood up and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, General Rijkaard has done his best, the terrain of the East Indies is too complicated, and the indigenous monkeys do not confront us head-on, as long as they hide in the jungle, we will use several times or even ten times the manpower to search. ”

Stillam shouted, "Poison gas! Why not use poison gas! I remember that our Great Holland was poison gas, just as the British did with the Indians, Arabs, and Zulus......

At this time, his secretary hurriedly reminded: "Well, Your Excellency the Governor, our poison gas bombs are all in the country, and there is no deployment here in the East Indies. ”

"Oh, damn it, why hasn't it been delivered yet?"

The secretary said: "Now the Entente and the Central Powers are blocking each other's sea lines of communication, and it is difficult to block sensitive items such as poison gas bombs, and our last ship of poison gas bombs was seized by the British, and now we are still negotiating with the British at home......

"The British are so hateful, they use so much for themselves, but they don't allow us to use ......," Stillham said angrily.

The secretary said with an ugly face: "The British said that they were worried that we would not keep it well and cause the outflow of poison gas bombs. After all, their colonies were also unstable, and their army in India was attacked by the rebels in the first half of last year, using the British's own gas bombs......"

The British did claim so, and they feared that these things would fall into the hands of the colonial rebels. According to their logic, even the great, invincible British Army could have screwed up, let alone the mere Dutch Army.

The Governor was speechless, and he could not do anything about the overbearing logic of the British. Now that the Netherlands is covered by opium cows, how dare they argue with their boss?

Van der Sar came out again at this time: "Your Excellency the Governor, poison gas bombs also need to be used. Even if the gas bombs were delivered, they would not have been able to be used in the rainy and changeable wind conditions of the East Indies. ”

Stillham didn't want to dwell on it anymore, so he changed the subject: "I want to know, where do the indigenous monkeys get their weapons, they actually have machine guns and explosives? Mr. Superintendent, have you found out where it came from......

Van der Sar replied, "Well, not yet. Because the weapons they use are too miscellaneous. Judging from the seized weapons, in addition to the Manlicia M1895 rifle we gave us, there were also Russian Mosin Nagant rifles, American Springfield rifles, Chinese Type 1906 rifles, German Commission Type 1888 rifles and Mauser 1871 rifles, French Lebel M1886 rifles, British Lee Enfield rifles and Martini Henry rifles...... In short, there are them in every country, and the same is true of pistols. As for the machine guns, there are not many natives, we have captured very few, but the models are completely different, mainly German and British products......"

An official suddenly said: "Your Excellency, I remember that a few years ago, there were arms dealers from Britain, the United States, Germany, and France who went to the East Indies to sell arms, and at that time, in order to check and balance the Chinese, we had no restrictions on their business.

"Well, I know that. But how much money can those monkeys buy them? Of course they will buy some, but not too much?" Stillam frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "Won't the Chinese do it?" I think they are the most likely!"

"Of course it's possible, and they're very suspicious, but we don't have any evidence against ......them," Van der Sar said helplessly, spreading his hands. He added in his heart: How can you prove this kind of thing? Even if you have evidence, what can people do if they don't recognize you? If you are reasonable, how can you still be called a big hooligan?

The main thing is that the Dutch are not clean when it comes to supplying weapons to the natives. So if they really poke it out, they will be trapped in it. So that's just the way it is.

As for why the Dutch provided weapons to the Indonesian natives, the reason is simple: they just wanted to borrow a knife to kill people. Since the signing of the "Sino-Dutch Jakarta Treaty", a "traitorous treaty", the power of the Chinese in Indonesia has swelled more and more, and it has become a "country within a country", and the tail is too big.

Because of the autonomy, the Dutch colonial authorities had no jurisdiction over the affairs of the Chinese-populated areas, and even if the Chinese committed crimes, they had to be tried jointly by the judges of the two countries, which meant that they could not control anything except collect taxes according to the regulations. Moreover, this tax is not as much as they want, and the tax rate charged to the Chinese must not be higher than that of any third country.

Even the size of the armed self-defense forces of the local Chinese exceeds that of the Indonesian garrison, because the local Chinese have a million people, even according to the treaty "no more than 5% of the total number of adult men", they can raise an army of 20,000, and this clause does not limit women. The Dutch presence in the East Indies has always been small, and before the Treaty of Jakarta, the Dutch garrison in Indonesia was less than 5,000 troops. After the Netherlands suffered a big loss, it successively sent a lot of troops, but the population of the Netherlands itself was not large, and the speed of increasing troops was very slow, and it was not until the outbreak of the European war that the number of local garrisons exceeded that of the Chinese armed self-defense forces.

In the face of this situation, the Dutch, who have always regarded Indonesia as their own backyard, really feel embarrassed, but China is too strong, not to mention that the Netherlands itself is far away from the ocean, even if it is next to China, it can't be beaten. So they don't dare to do things that turn their faces openly, so they have to make some small moves.

The Chinese are so powerful, and they dare not turn their faces publicly, coupled with the lack of manpower in their own countries, then the local natives in Indonesia naturally become the best choice for the Dutch. It is best to provoke those indigenous monkeys to attack the Chinese, or provoke a fight between the two sides, and it is best to make those Chinese insecure, unable to stay in the local area, and have to get out of the way.

For the Dutch, this kind of thing is too skilled, and they don't know how many times in their history. And those greedy, stupid and lazy indigenous monkeys are also happy to be used as guns, anyway, the burning and looting of the Chinese can also bring them benefits, and the two sides hit it off. Of course, the Dutch will not be stupid enough to sell arms directly to the natives, so the local Dutch garrison has had several accidents of "theft of arsenals", and of course, they can't forget to spread some rumors such as "the Chinese are coming to rob your territory" and "the Chinese people are stupid and have a lot of money".

But now it looks like the Dutch are shooting themselves in the foot, playing with the rhythm of getting out of the way. originally wanted to use the Indonesian monkey as a gun, but the gun didn't stab the Chinese, but stabbed his own chrysanthemum. This really made the Dutch high-ranking officials present want to cry without tears, this Nima is really unlucky.

However, this plan of "borrowing a knife to kill" was formulated by the domestic high-level, even if they were unhappy, they did not dare to scold publicly, but in their hearts, they had already greeted the ancestors of those guys.

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Van der Sar continued: "The rebellion of the indigenous monkeys is troublesome now, but for us it is only a problem. As long as there is time, no matter what means are used, the Royal Army will exterminate them. However, the threat of Chinese is what matters most......"

The police chief's biggest concern is not only the indigenous riots, but even if the Indonesian monkeys are in trouble, as long as the Dutch government is ruthless, it is not impossible to suppress them. It's a big deal that the army will attack and kill one tribe after another, anyway, there are not many strange creatures like "Our Lady of the White Left" at this time, and there are no human rights activists jumping up and down. At this time, the international hooligans were not as cheeky as later generations, and there was no pressure on the natives to implement the three-light policy.

But the Chinese threat is the real thing, and China has never hidden its interests in Indonesia. In June, the Chinese in Borneo were in turmoil, calling themselves the remnants of the "Republic of Lanfang", demanding that the Dutch withdraw from their land, let them return to their country, and even demand compensation or something.

Well, the "Lanfang Republic" is still the one that the Dutch themselves have admitted, but what other inexplicable "countries" such as the Daiyan Kingdom, the Srivijaya Kingdom, the Borneo Empire, the Shunta Kingdom, etc., have also jumped out to demand restoration and compensation, what is the reason?

The Dutch's stomach is full of anger, this is really the mud horse lying in the groove! A few broken fishing villages are also kind enough to call themselves "kingdoms" and "empires", is there still integrity in this world? What else is hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation, is it possible that several broken villages are made of gold, and they say that they are good and honest? Doesn't it mean that the Chinese are very modest and very easy to bully?

If it had been before, the Dutch would have negotiated with them with guns and cannons, but now they don't dare. As soon as the Chinese over there made a fuss, Mr. Liang Youyuan, the Chinese consul general in Jakarta, immediately came to express his "concern," and he also claimed that he "hoped that the Dutch government would carefully consider the reasonable demands of the local Chinese," and that "the Netherlands has an unshirkable responsibility for the demise of the Republic of Lanfang and other Chinese countries, and the Dutch government should shoulder its own responsibility...... and so on.

Fortunately, the Chinese government has not officially put forward such excessive demands as "Lanfang must return to China", but has only expressed "concern" and "hopes that the Dutch colonial government will discuss well with the local Chinese and solve the problem through negotiations". And the brazen Consul General Liang Youyuan also jumped up and down, and he actually claimed that "[reviving and destroying the country and continuing the peerless] is the fine tradition of the Chinese people."

If this matter is not resolved, the Indonesian natives will make a fuss, and China will be even more "concerned". Consul General Liang had repeatedly asked Governor Steelm to send troops to protect the overseas Chinese, but Stillham had made various excuses to delay it.

"The threat of China? Needless to say, those greedy fellows have not coveted our East Indies for a day or two!" Stillham gave him a blank look, and said angrily: "Just yesterday, that cunning Liang asked me again that they send troops to protect the overseas Chinese, and I finally ......managed to deal with it."

The Governor sighed and said with a sad face: "Time, what we lack most now is time, if the situation has not improved, Chinese have another excuse to intervene, and now the British can't help, I don't know how long it can be delayed...... That damn Liang, his attitude is getting tougher, and the patience of the Chinese seems to be coming to an end. What will we do if the Chinese really invade the East Indies?"

Everyone present suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

As the Governor said, now that the major powers of the world are fighting in Europe, no one can help the Netherlands if China turns its face at this time. Now the Dutch have fully realized what it means to be "a weak country without diplomacy".

At this moment, the door opened, and a secretary rushed in with a telegram: "Your Excellency, no! No! Surabaya has been attacked by the indigenous mob!"