Section seven hundred and twenty-seven Complex Nanyang Problem (2)
It is far away from Singapore, but the British colonies Singapore and Australia are close at hand. The Pan family and the Wu family have invested millions of taels of silver here, mainly for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Most of the benefits have fallen into the pockets of British businessmen.
Now the British people in China have borne the high cost, but they have gained tangible benefits. They don’t want to object to the fact that Pan and Wu are here. Besides, it is even more troublesome to expel the China people. Will the Germans infiltrate here because they are worried that letting China people do business here can also balance the Germans to a certain extent?
Britain hesitated for a moment, and after a year, the situation suddenly changed because there was a famine in northern China.
Both the Pan family and the Wu family stepped up their efforts to immigrate here. Britain was really worried about this situation, but at that time, they made great efforts in the world to publicize their own disaster relief operations. All countries unanimously expressed their attitude of assistance. The United States and Russia all said that they would give food. In this case, it is difficult for Britain to prevent the victims from moving here.
Moreover, the international situation has become more and more favorable to Canada, except that Europe has become complicated due to the rise of Germany, Russia has once again moved to the war against Turkey, and Britain has no energy to entangle itself with Canada in this lonely island of Singapore.
After the famine, Russia and Turkey were divided into winners and losers, while Britain sent warships to confront Russia, refusing to admit that Russia had obtained special treatment from Turkey. Finally, European powers called a meeting in Berlin to discuss it. After their discussion, 600,000 people had already emigrated here, and various strongholds had been expanded to form actual control.
But at the same time, Britain has gained more benefits from this. Hundreds of thousands of people are monopolized by British businessmen, which makes Britain want to get involved and doesn’t want to give up this benefit. Moreover, at that time, the problem of emigration to Canada exploded. If we don’t let them emigrate to Canada, how can we stop them from emigrating to New Guinea?
Britain has no choice but to let China people put more victims in New Guinea, which is a Chinese colony and nothing in New Guinea.
Another problem of great benefit is that Russia failed to break through the blockade of the Turkish Strait in the Russian-Turkish war and expand eastward again. Taking advantage of the famine in the Qing Dynasty, it seized the construction of the Qiatu Railway and left the general railway to Zhangjiakou.
At this time, Britain is more worried that Russia’s south will invade their interests in the Yangtze River, and it has already won over France and Great Britain to fight against Russia, so there will be no conflict with Great Britain’s commercial colonies at this time.
By this time, Da had already formed a strong control force in New Guinea Island because of the immigration of hundreds of thousands of people, not only controlling the whole eastern part of New Guinea Island, but also declaring to the Dutch that he had tried his best to control the western expansion.
Have a conflict with Holland
The Netherlands believes that the expansion of the University in the western part of Singapore has violated the legitimate rights of the Netherlands in this area, and the Netherlands is very worried that the cultivation of overseas Chinese in the Dutch colonial islands such as Borneo and Sumatra will also be benefited by the big government, thus infringing on the legitimate interests of the Netherlands.
Therefore, the Bismarck Islands (Solomon Islands) in the northeast of New Guinea involve not only Germany but also Germany and the Netherlands, and the problem is very complicated.
By the time the Singapore meeting was discussed, Da had already immigrated a million people to this area to become the most powerful local force, and for this reason, he formally advocated that Da Li was here. Obviously, after defeating France, the big government was no longer willing to be behind the scenes of Pan Jia and Wu Jia, but planned to go to the front desk to completely demand Da Li.
Germany, where they conducted activities many years ago, took out various early maps and said that they were present here. The Dutch also took out phase evidence and scoffed at it. They took out some ancient books and told them that the ancient people in China had long known about this place, and they entered Nanyang in Zheng He’s time. If they spoke from here now, no one from China would have come here earlier.
There is no dispute among the three parties. The British have stopped pursuing the power here. Obviously, they intend to give up here. They want to ensure Australia’s security, so they mediate.
In Britain, both the mediation and the Netherlands made concessions, and the Netherlands ceded the whole island of Singapore to a large amount of 10 million Dutch guilders. At the same time, the Netherlands promised that it would not ask the Netherlands to leave the territory of other Dutch colonies, and the Netherlands continued to guarantee the freedom of Chinese to do business there, and the Chinese could continue to set up reclamation companies.
Germany has recognized all the interests of New Guinea and gained great recognition at the same time. Obviously, it has just defeated the French navy and occupied the French colony in the South Pacific. Germany is no longer a naval dwarf. Only then can it give up its interests in New Guinea and give up the big six islands completely.
The contradiction with Spain is mainly due to the Spanish people’s boycott of Chinese actions in the Philippines. Although the number of local Chinese is small, it has exceeded the number of Spanish people. They are worried that the Chinese who go to the Philippines for a long time will take the initiative and bring challenges to Spanish rule here. This is why they slaughtered Chinese.
It is not so easy to negotiate with Spain. Catholic countries are more troublesome than Protestant countries. The Spaniards are resolutely reluctant to send consuls to Manila, and they do not agree that big businessmen can operate freely in the Philippines, especially strictly prohibiting big businessmen from owning land in the Philippines.
He threatened the Spanish massacre in the Philippines and once said that he would completely stop discussing the Philippine issue with Spain and would adopt other methods to solve the Philippine issue.
Finally, even with threats and mediation in Britain, Spain accepted to release the Philippines to big businessmen like Britain and Dutch colonies, otherwise Spain would not have a chance to defend the Philippines.
France has successfully maintained its absolute power over Cambodia, and at the same time promised Cambodia that all businessmen in all countries will enjoy the freedom to do business, travel and live in Cambodia, and at the same time, all countries promised that they would not object to France’s efforts in Cambodia.
There is no doubt that Britain has preserved their efforts to establish the fact that the whole of Myanmar belongs to Britain, and Britain continues to rule Malaya and other colonies
Portugal has saved their power in Timor, and they also want to save the colony. They have no ambition to expand. Can they save this place or follow Britain to achieve results, otherwise the Netherlands will annex it sooner or later.
Vietnam and Siam succeeded in getting countries to recognize the freedom of the two countries * * The host country was assured by all countries that it would not try to colonize Siam and Vietnam, and the two countries were settled. However, Vietnam solved the problem of France’s garrison in Nanqi because France had a special treaty and was not discussed at the meeting. Nanqi still maintained the status quo, and France still stationed troops in Saigon.
The colony in New Guinea has been recognized by all countries, and the colony in Nanyang has officially gone to the front desk. It is no longer a commercial reclamation site but a colony with territorial nature.
The university has also gained the Chinese people’s freedom to do business and settle in various parts of Nanyang, and the contribution is to give up the main claim here forever, including the former Lanfang Republic, which is likely to become a big colony. The Lanfang Republic has been established as a commercial company with no political color
However, the attempt to establish a military base in the core area of Nanyang was strongly resisted by Britain, France and other countries and failed
Generally speaking, we have got two basic requirements: immigration and free business.
The meeting also adopted a series of provisions similar to the Berlin conference resolution to protect the exclusive interests of countries.
For example, it is stipulated that the co-guarantor countries should settle in Nanyang colony and refuse to recognize colonial expansion without the consent of the countries participating in the Singapore conference. This is equivalent to blocking other European powers from Nanyang, and countries trying to establish colonies here will be resisted by all countries
At the same time, it also stipulates that the issue of colonial changes in Nanyang region must be unanimously recognized by other countries, otherwise it will not be recognized, which puts an end to the opportunity for other countries to seize Nanyang colonies from Nanyang colonial countries through war and other means. It is also a joint guarantee clause.
The meeting also ruled on disputed areas in various countries, such as the Netherlands and Singapore, the Netherlands and Portugal, Timor, France, Siam and Laos, Siam and Chiang Mai, England, and so on.
France gave up asking Laos for Siam’s recognition of the status quo of Cambodia’s border; Siam received Chiang Mai’s support for the meeting between Britain and Singapore. The Netherlands gave up the guaranteed price of other colonies in West Timor; The Netherlands gave up New Guinea and gave up its claim to the Republic of Lanfang.
The Nanyang problem has been solved, but the troubles caused by the division of colonies will not end.
Nanyang is a geographical concept of China, including Indonesia, Siam, Myanmar, Malaya, the Philippines and other places, but excluding the Pacific region adjacent to Nanyang.
