dognovel Chapter 283: The Brewing Storm in the Colony
Chapter 283: The Brewing Storm in the Colony
"Given the current comprehensive strength, the base should be close to upgrading to the next level!"
After reading a series of statistical reports, Jiang Hua also had a clearer concept of the current comprehensive strength of the ancient country.
The condition for the base to be promoted to senior commander is that the comprehensive national strength reaches third in the world.
In terms of current comprehensive national strength, the United States ranks first, and it deserves it.
The second place should be Tsarist Russia, which completed the Industrial Revolution.
After all, Tsarist Russia has a vast territory, which is also included in its comprehensive national strength, so it is ahead of the Han State.
The third place is naturally the Hans Kingdom.
John, Gaul and other countries are even further behind.
If you want to achieve this upgrade condition, you must surpass the Hans Kingdom in all aspects.
According to the current development speed of the ancient country, this year should be the year to surpass Hans.
"Skynet, how far does it have to go to surpass Hans?"
Comprehensive national strength cannot be quantified specifically.
However, the base had a solution, so Jiang Hua simply asked Skynet.
"95%!"
Two years ago, the figure was 37%, a year ago it was 68%, and now it is 95%.
As he expected, China is very close to overtaking Hans to become the third largest country in the world, and the distance will be upgraded again.
Next, we just need to develop step by step, and catching up will be a natural thing.
"President, Minister Zheng is here."
Eva's report interrupted Jiang Hua's thoughts.
"Zheng Yaoxian..."
However, the General Intelligence Bureau has been upgraded to the Intelligence Department of the Military-Political Committee. It is no longer one of the subordinate agencies of the General Staff, but is directly under the management of the Military-Political Committee.
The General Staff has an intelligence department responsible for coordinating the two departments and ensuring the smooth flow of intelligence.
"President, a storm is brewing in the South Seas. Our chance has come!"
Zheng Yaoxian said with a serious expression after seeing Jiang Hua.
Jiang Hua's eyes narrowed and his hands unconsciously clenched into fists.
"Is it finally coming? Then let the Southern Military Region prepare."
"Yes!"
This storm in the South Seas refers to the Dutch colonies.
The seeds of this storm were actually planted several years ago.
That year, the Huang brothers and sisters went north to the mainland, met Jiang Hua, and the two sides reached a cooperation.
With the support of the then Restoration government, the Huang family expanded rapidly again in the Netherlands colony.
Business was no longer limited to the Dutch colonies, but spread throughout the Southeast Asia region.
With the support of this ancient country, the Huang family's status has risen rapidly, and they have now firmly established themselves as the number one Chinese family in Southeast Asia.
The old man of the Huang family even became the executive vice president of the Nanyang Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
The rapid expansion of the Huang family also led to the rise of the Chinese community in the entire Dutch colony, and many people made money by following the Huang family.
Therefore, more and more Chinese immigrants began to gather in the Dutch colonies.
After all, people go to higher places and water flows to lower places.
At first, the Dutch colonies were intimidated by the ancient country's strength and powerful navy, so they turned a blind eye to the Huang family's expansion.
However, as the Huang family and overseas Chinese grew faster and faster, their business grew bigger and bigger, but the colonies did not gain any benefits, but instead suffered losses.
The Huang family and the colonial authorities had conflicts more than once.
However, with the secret help of the ancient country, the Huang family naturally gained the upper hand.
This also made the colonial authorities extremely angry with the Huang family.
But when he thought about how even John was beaten up and lost the Shan colony, he could only be angry but not say anything.
The rise of the Chinese and overseas Chinese communities will inevitably lead to damage to the interests of local indigenous people.
What's more, the local indigenous Wa people are lazy and not as hardworking as the Chinese and overseas Chinese, so they can only do the lowest-level jobs.
However, the Chinese and overseas Chinese have become the main force and have become the middle class and the wealthy class.
As the Guawa people make up half of the total population, they naturally began to envy and hate this group.
They will not think that they are lazy and greedy, they will only think that the Chinese and overseas Chinese have plundered their resources and property.
So in recent years, conflicts between the two groups have become more and more frequent.
However, the Chinese and overseas Chinese have their own private guards and are united.
Therefore, it was always the indigenous Wa people who suffered losses, and the colonial authorities did not dare to offend the Chinese and overseas Chinese, so they asked the Wa people to keep quiet.
This also directly led to the Wa people's immense hatred for the Chinese and overseas Chinese, and they even directly prohibited local indigenous people from marrying or even making friends with the Chinese and overseas Chinese.
When hatred accumulates to a certain level, it means that only a fuse will detonate this powder keg.
James Loudon, Governor of the Netherlands Colonial Authority, had taken office two years earlier and was the Queen's chosen governor of the colony.
However, after taking office, James Loudon always maintained a weak attitude towards the Chinese and overseas Chinese communities, which made the Guawa people believe that the governor and the Chinese and overseas Chinese were one and the same, so he was not trusted by the local indigenous people.
James Lowden stood outside the window and watched the groups of Guawa people passing by below.
They were holding sickles, axes, sticks, dung forks and other tools and were heading in one direction aggressively.
There is a Chinatown over there, which is one of the main gathering places for Chinese and overseas Chinese in the city.
It goes without saying that this must be a conflict between the two sides caused by some trivial matters.
And the Guawa people must have suffered losses, so now they are gathering people to get back at their wits' end.
This kind of thing happens not only in this city, but also in other places.
James Lowden watched all this with cold eyes.
"Governor, they're causing trouble in Chinatown again."
"I know. Let's keep the police at bay and let them fight first."
"Yes!"
After his men left, James Louden sneered.
"When the hatred of the Guawa people reaches its peak, it will explode.
This kind of hatred will surely devour these damned ancient people.
If you want to invade our colonies in this way, you will have to pay the price!"
James Lowden had a very clear view of the whole situation.
He knew that the ancient country wanted to use this method to seize control of the colonies.
If he took a tough approach to fight back, it would turn into a conflict between the colonial authorities and the ancient people.
Once the situation develops in an uncontrollable direction, such as an armed conflict breaks out.
Then the ancient country will definitely seize this opportunity and directly send troops to carry out armed intervention.
This is also a common tactic used by Westerners.
So James Lowden came up with a solution.
That is the transfer of contradictions.
The relationship between the local Gua Wa people and the overseas Chinese community is not harmonious.
Then he could take advantage of this and use the local Wa people to deal with the Chinese, while the colonial authorities would act as referees and not directly participate in the conflict.
This turned into an internal conflict within the colony, and the ancient Chinese had no opportunity to intervene.
And the situation did develop as he expected.
In order to intensify the hatred of the Wa people towards the Chinese and overseas Chinese, he acted weak and even deliberately favored the Chinese and overseas Chinese at many times.
Sure enough, this approach exacerbated the situation.
Conflicts between the two groups became more and more frequent, and the expansion of Chinese and overseas Chinese almost stagnated and was even suppressed.
The reason is very simple. The local indigenous people are no longer willing to work for the Chinese and overseas Chinese.
Shops, plantations, factories, etc. were unable to recruit people, so development naturally stagnated.
This also led to the closure of many factories.
If we can’t recruit workers, we can’t start production. The factory will lose money every day it operates, so the wave of closures began to erupt at the end of last year.
The colonial authorities took over these factories at low prices.
Chinese and overseas Chinese cannot recruit people, but white people can.
So these factories that were taken over at low prices quickly started operating and began to generate profits.
The Huang family's business as a Dutch colony was also affected to a certain extent.
This made James Louden very proud.
Even if you have the support of an ancient country, what can I do? I can still curb or even suppress your development.
But what he didn't know was that using hatred as a weapon could easily get out of control.
The situation began to develop in an unpredictable direction from today.
The Guawa people who just passed by the Governor's Mansion came from a village in the city, which is also a slum.
Someone in their village smashed up a Chinese store at night and was about to buy something for free when he was discovered by the owner who lived in the store.
A conflict naturally broke out between one party wanting to buy for free and the other party wanting to protect their own property.
As expected, the boss was beaten and was almost dying.
At this critical moment, gunshots rang out.
The boss's son came out with a shotgun. He was so angry that he shot one of them at a time, quickly and efficiently.
Four deaths and one injury was the outcome of this zero-yuan purchase incident.
The colonial authorities also acquitted the shop owner's son on the grounds of self-defense and released him without being detained for a single day.
When this news reached the slums, it immediately triggered an uproar among the Wa people.
It was just a matter of stealing some things, but he actually killed people?
Blinded by anger, they headed towards Chinatown with knives, guns, sticks and clubs.
They found the location of the store, but the owner had already gone to Chinatown for treatment.
So after smashing and looting the shops, they headed towards Chinatown in anger.
That’s not enough, they want to catch the murderer who killed four people in their village and make him pay with his life!
"Uncle Daguang, the Guawa people are here again!"
"Ring the bell!"
“Ding ding ding ding…”
In an instant, everyone in Chinatown who heard the ringing had their faces changed.
Soon, one after another young strong men reacted, took out weapons from drawers, under tables, and corners, and rushed towards the street intersection at full speed.