Chapter 587: Sharpening the Knife Huo Huo Xiang Niu Niu (I)

PS: Something happened yesterday, sorry

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Wen Desi is also a person with "selective amnesia", and his specific symptoms are as follows: he can't remember anything that takes advantage, but he always remembers the things that he suffers. Of course, no one dared to treat him.

Therefore, this time he took advantage of the whole of Somalia and half of Kenya from the British, and he chose to forget. And what was put on the British table, he remembered it very clearly. Moreover, Wen Desi has always been a person with revenge, and since he has been put on the table, he naturally wants to get it back.

As for how to deal with Britain, an empire that never set, Wen Desi also has a lot of plans in his hands. The staff officers of the General Staff have nothing to do with all kinds of plans, and after so many years, there are already a lot of plans against Britain.

It is certainly impossible to turn the other cheek directly, and if China starts a full-scale war with Britain because of this matter, then Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union will probably wake up laughing from their dreams. Of course, Wen Deji would not be the culprit of such injustice.

After the First World War, the colonial system of old Europe began to crumble, and of course this collapse was not an overnight thing, but a slow process. The process is slow, but irreversible. However, even now, Britain, as the former world hegemon, and France, the second power, still have a large number of colonies.

According to Wen Desi's plan, he was ready to grab the maximum benefit in the process of the collapse of the colonial system of old Europe. Even if you can't grab them all, bite into the most, fattest, and delicious part. Now his eyes are on the Malay Peninsula and Oceania, or to be precise, all of the British colonies in the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and the remaining islands.

Of course, at this time, the contraction of British power has reached the current bottom line, and it is impossible to obtain these territories through diplomacy. I've got to do it. Somalia also came in this way, and if it hadn't been for the violent beating of the British Afrika Korps in the War of the Erathia Succession, they would not have been able to spit it out honestly.

Now, the new territory that he had acquired a few years ago has almost been digested, and Wen Deji is naturally preparing to carry out the next expansion plan. However, Somalia's start was actually just an accident, which was equivalent to picking up rabbits in the grass and picking them up for nothing. In Moon's plan, Somalia is a low priority.

According to Wende's plan, China's expansion targets during World War II were Oceania and Malaya.

Needless to say, once the Malay Peninsula is acquired, it means that the entire South China Sea and South China Sea region have truly become China's inland seas, which is of great value to China's strategic security. It also has great economic potential, with considerable reserves of tin, calcium, gold, iron, oil and gas, as well as a major producer of rubber and spices. In Wendesi's opinion, this British enclave is now an eyesore.

As for Oceania, not to mention. Australia and New Zealand are both good places, and Wen Desi has been coveting this territory for a long time. In addition to the British colonies, the French archipelago of New Caledonia is also a big fat meat, with the world's largest nickel ore reserves, accounting for about 25% of the world's reserves, and the world's largest iron-nickel production area.

Australia has always been Britain's own land, the kind of pro-son, if it is in peacetime, if anyone moves here, it will be a full-scale war with the opium cattle. But Wen Desi didn't want to start a full-scale war with Britain because of this, it was not a question of whether he could fight or not, but he was worried that if he became "Lei Feng" and cheapened the allies in vain, everything would not move.

However, the current situation is different from some time ago, the Entente is now staging an all-out military campaign with the Allies, and the British are not caring about the Asia-Pacific region at all. Therefore, there is no need for an all-out war, only a local war of limited scale is needed to achieve the goal of Wen Dehei. For Britain, although Australia is important, it is only a colony, and it cannot be more important than the mainland.

This "Yangon espionage case" undoubtedly became a fuse, making Wen Desi determined to kill cattle and eat meat. Of course, Wen Desi has always been particular about eating appearance, and he naturally has to have a reasonable excuse to do it. However, starting a war like this, a mere espionage case must not be convincing enough.

However, excuses can always be found as long as they are needed, and even if they can't be found, we can make them ourselves.

This time, he prepared three cattle slaughtering knives for the opium cow, which were used in "Malaya", "Oceania" and "the Indian subcontinent". Wen Deji didn't want to kill the opium cow, but was just going to cut off these large pieces of fat and delicious beef. As for the question of whether the opium cows will be willing, there is no need to worry about this, and now they can't help but be unwilling at this time.

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Datong Mining Limited, Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya.

Chase Mining is Malaya's largest mining company, and of course it is a Chinese-owned company that owns more than two-thirds of the city's tin ore, as well as one-third of its oil and gas, and some iron and titanium ore. At present, the number of Chinese in Malaya has reached about 1.4 million, of which there are about 1 million local Chinese, and nearly 400,000 are employees of various mining companies and agricultural companies, who have only worked here for a long time and have not moved here.

This was the case not only in Malaya, but also in the British colonies of Canada, Australia, India and South Africa, where there were many Chinese companies and a large number of staff. This was all because the British had no choice but to open this opening. In the Mediterranean War of that year, the Chinese Navy captured three Austro-Hungarian and Italian dreadnoughts, because these ships lacked performance and little potential for improvement, the Chinese Navy did not look down on them, and finally sold them to the British, who were in dire need of battleships.

However, at that time, Britain was also very nervous and could not come up with so much money, so China asked Britain to take out the mineral development rights of the colonies as compensation. In addition to paying £1 million worth of supplies for the purchase of warships, Britain also opened mines in its colonies of Canada, Australia, Malaya, India and South Africa to China, allowing Chinese companies to buy land to build factories, as well as to explore and mine locally, at the same tax rate as local companies, and allowing China to send permanent staff to these places.

However, because of the surging colonial independence movement that followed, the two hardest-hit areas of India and South Africa have never stopped, and gunfire can be heard every day. Under these circumstances, the development of Chinese mining companies in the area is naturally slow. And the best developed ones are Canada and Australia, which are places where society is stable and peaceful.

The situation in Malaya was somewhere in between, and the colonial independence movement was also very much in between, but the natives here were not able to fight and were soon brutally suppressed by the British imperialists. The impact is there, but it's not huge.

And there are several advantages here compared with other places, that is, there are many Chinese here, and the civil base is much better than that of Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and then it is very close to China, and immigration is very convenient. Therefore, the development rate of Chinese mining companies here is the fastest among all the British colonies, and the number of Chinese is also the largest, far exceeding that of Canada and Australia.

The number of Chinese here has increased very rapidly since the 20s. Before the end of World War I, there were about 300,000 Chinese in British Malaya, a number that included both early immigrants and new immigrants after the Opium War. By the mid-20s, after the suppression of the Malayan independence movement, the indigenous population had plummeted, and the British colonial authorities, who were in dire need of labor, were very strong. If it was in the original plane, they would have brought in Indians, but the original plane was different, and the Indian side made even more trouble.

Before the independence movement that broke out in the latter part of World War I, there were about 2.5 million indigenous people in the Malay Peninsula, but after the independence movement was basically suppressed by the British in 1926, there were less than a million indigenous people left, and most of them were women and children, and young and strong men were lost in the decade of tug-of-war.

So in this case, they acquiesced to the large number of immigrants from China. Although they are very reluctant, on the one hand, they have reached an agreement with China on mineral development, and China has the right to send workers to its own enterprises. On the other hand, they can't find other ways to replenish the local population. Without a sufficient population, there is no way to convert the resources here into national strength, which is intolerable to Britain, which is in dire need of replenishment. Therefore, no matter how reluctant they are, they can only acquiesce to the Chinese coming.

At this time, in the small conference room of Chase Mining Company, a meeting was being held. However, the participants were not limited to people from Datong Mining, and many of them were heads of local agricultural companies, fishery companies and other institutions.

"Comrades, compatriots, the latest instructions have been sent from China...... Lin Dengwan took out a document and waved it in his hand. His face was red at the moment, and his whole person seemed to be in a state of excitement.

Lin Dengwan's actual age should be almost in his forties, but on the outside he looks like a young man in his early thirties, and he looks good. He was the general manager of Datong Mining, and he was also the leader of the local Chinese forces.

More than 20 years ago, no one in the territory of Malaya knew about the name Linden Wan. The dude was a recent immigrant from Chinese mainland in 1912, who had immigrated to inherit the legacy of a distant uncle. But within a few years, Lin Dengwan relied on his relationship with China to make a name for himself in the local area. No one knows his true identity, he doesn't have a distant uncle at all, he's a high-level cyborg. He was sent by Wen Deji to organize the Chinese forces here. Of course, there are many people who have the same mission as him, and since 1907, Wen Desi has sent thousands of biochemical and natural people with special missions to arrive here.

After that, it took about ten years for Lin Dengwan's group, and he relied on financial resources and force to basically unify most of the Chinese forces. Disobedient, uncooperative, and stubbornly pro-British were subjected to various repressions. Over the years, there have been quite a few comprador forces that have died in the family. For example, the Lee family in Temasek suffered a fire a few years ago, and none of the family escaped, and all of them became charcoal.

At present, the "Malayan Chinese Mutual Aid Association" presided over by Lin Tengwan is the strongest Chinese force in the local area, and the number of Chinese who have joined the association has accounted for more than 95% of the total number of local Chinese.

"Mr. Lin, is the state ready to take action against Malaya?" a cadre hurriedly asked.

"That's right, we're going to get organized, let's do something first. The country also needs to talk about food, and we will help the country create some excuses to come out......" Lin Dengwan said with a smile.

"Hahahaha......" everyone laughed.

"If you want me to say, the country should have done it a long time ago, this place was originally our territory......"

"That's right! During the Ming Dynasty, this was our vassal state, and it should have been taken back a long time ago. ”

"I've been waiting for this day for a long time. ”

Everyone was gearing up, and a lively discussion immediately began.

Lin Dengwan knocked on the table, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said: "Everyone should be careful, the excuses we make should have audio-visual evidence. After the meeting was adjourned, everyone went to register with the Secretary-General and collect the information. Then plan the plan according to the information, and then hand it over to the Secretary-General after the plan is prepared, and then we will arrange the filming team to go over. ”

Lin Dengwan sat next to a delicate beauty, who was Xiang Yingxin, the secretary general of the "Malayan Chinese Mutual Aid Association", who looked at him with admiration at this time. Well, by the way, President Lim has a very rich private life, and although he is not yet married, he has at least ten confidants, and it is said that even the granddaughter of Sir Cliff, the Governor of Malaya, has a leg with him.

"President Lin, this is making a movie...... one member said with a smile.

"No, it doesn't need to be that long, it's just a sketch...... "The most important thing is that our militia must be prepared to protect our people in the next conflict." ”

One cadre said: "There is no problem with this, now most of our settlements have been docked, and even if there is no docking, there are strong walls. Moreover, most of our militia are veterans who have retired from the front. The British don't have many garrisons in the local area, and the combat effectiveness of those natives is not our opponent at all......"

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

Over the years, the Chinese population in Malaya has gradually become a settlement.

Settlements outside the city have basically been transformed into dock forts, and even the settlements inside the city can quickly form barricades after intentional or unintentional reconstruction. At the same time, the newly built houses were largely built to withstand light weapons, and each house could become a fortress when the time came.

Although it was not as exaggerated as the "fortress city" made by the Chinese in the Dutch East Indies, it was not something that the local native army could easily handle.