For example, the Dutch East India Company once issued a relevant decree: as long as the Chinese who are willing to settle in the colony, each person or household as a unit, the company will provide land, food and agricultural tools free of charge, so as to encourage the Han people to leave their homeland and immigrate from the Qing Dynasty to Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan and other South Seas areas in Southeast Asia under the control of the Dutch.

With the support of Europeans, the Chinese usually have a higher social status and identity than the local aborigines, such as some grass-roots management positions in the Dutch colonies, commercial handicrafts and various estates, most of which are held by Chinese.

Over time, the Europeans gradually made the Chinese in the colonies of Nanyang gradually become a middle class of Chinese with a higher status than the local natives, and at the same time held a good economic power.

Of course, in the later period of their rule over Nanyang, the Europeans also excluded and vigiled the Chinese from time to time, and even slaughtered the Chinese, but from the perspective of historical mainstream, to a certain extent, it should be said that the Europeans and the Chinese are cooperating in the development of the Nanyang region, although there are some twists and turns and twists and turns from time to time, but in the more than 300 years of colonial history, it is basically throughout.

Of course, it goes without saying that another meaning of cooperative development is that these two groups of "outsiders" will inevitably work together to rule, exclude and even bully the local indigenous people.

However, I don't know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, when a few hundred years later, the European colonial system gradually collapsed, and after the Western colonizers finally left Nanyang, the colonies became independent and self-governing, and the former Europeans who left handed over the power to the indigenous people, rather than the Chinese groups who were also outsiders, so the indigenous people suddenly took power.

This is also one of the reasons why, in the history of the Old World, the local people discriminated against, excluded and even slaughtered the Chinese, making the Chinese gradually become second-class citizens in Nanyang.

An important reason for delving into its historical roots is those historical grievances in the past.

To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the aborigines, the relationship between the Chinese and the Westerners was that of collaborators, one was the boss and the other was the foreman, and this group of natives was the coolies, but then this collaborator and umbrella suddenly withdrew, so if you think about it a little, you can understand that when the coolies turn over and become masters, will the foremen who lose their bosses have a good life?

To use an inappropriate but straightforward analogy, because in the eyes of the locals, the Chinese are also outsiders, and in the past, they used to be the "doglegs" of foreigners, with a higher social status than the natives, and live a generally superior life than the natives.

Now that we're independent, Salted Fish turned over and took power, mastered the knife handle, and now the "foreign devils" are gone, leaving the "two devils", and they are still a group of rich "two devils", don't you be slaughtered as fat sheep? That's weird!

In addition, although the Chinese people's ability to earn money and start a business is first-class, there is a saying that they do generally lack political acumen, and they are not interested in these things, they are just dedicated to earning money to support their families, and the general mentality is that the family is first, the family is first, and they lack overall awareness, and they are accustomed to only sweeping the snow in front of their own house, regardless of the frost on the tiles of others.

Coupled with historical reasons, when the Westerners left Nanyang, they did not hand over the power to the Chinese community as the "foremen" of the past, but directly handed it back to the local aborigines.

Therefore, when the Europeans left Nanyang, in the entire Chinese community in Nanyang, except for a few smart people who saw through it, and when the Europeans left Nanyang, they also sold their wealth and followed others to Europe, most of the Chinese were still ignorant and continued to stay in the local area and live their own small lives.

However, the Chinese people in Nanyang no longer have a stable life, and this group was quickly reduced to second-class citizens in the various "independence movements" throughout Nanyang, becoming fat sheep in the eyes of the natives who held power, and was slaughtered by others, and in the modern history of the old world, this group suffered a lot.

Of course, among the Europeans who colonized the South Seas, there was one strange exception, and that was the Spaniards.

In the history of Europe, the Spaniards who fought on the Iberian Peninsula all year round, fighting hard at the forefront of the resistance to the crescent flag, were often full of religious feelings.

In fact, it is no wonder that people are like this, after all, if the religious feelings are not bursting, then there will be no fighting power and sacrifice, if that is the case, the place in the Iberian Peninsula at the southwestern tip of Europe is likely to become the world of the crescent green flag, and in the future, maybe the crescent flag will climb over the Pyrenees and plant the crescent flag on the banks of the Seine. As a result, towering church spires and crosses are certainly no longer to be seen in Western Europe.

It is precisely because of religion that it seems that the Spaniards did not like the Chinese very much from the beginning, because the Chinese do not seem to have any solid faith except that they like to work hard to earn money and then pass on their ancestors to the next generation.

In the eyes of the Spaniards, even if this group has some "ridiculous, almost superstitious" so-called beliefs, it is also very utilitarian, such as believing in Guanyin to beg for a son, believing in Mazu to keep safe, believing in the prince of the stove to bribe him not to go to heaven in front of the Jade Emperor to report his own dirty things, etc.

And this group of people is very closed, the concept of family and circle is very strong, for the Spaniards, this group of people speak a language that no one understands, maintain customs that are incompatible with outsiders, and do not invest in the local area when they have money, always bring the money back to their hometown, people die, they must return to their roots, even if their hometown is thousands of miles away!

Nima can't even earn the money of the Chinese people in the funeral business, how can this teach people to be embarrassed!?

Well, in fact, this is even more embarrassing for those Spaniards who regard religion as the first value of life!?

Therefore, the Spaniards are not only puzzled by the Chinese group, but also feel more and more unfamiliar, and even feel some fear and jealousy.

However, to be honest, the Chinese are indeed much more "useful" than the local natives, and the accounts of the Chinese people's diligence, hardship, and intelligence are always full of notes and travelogues of Western missionaries.

In Nanyang, wherever there are Chinese, there are always business opportunities and markets, and the Chinese will always open up farmland and establish villages in unexpected places, there will be various supplies of materials, of course, there will be considerable taxes, so in time, there will be a prosperous economic circle in the local area, and the Chinese are still very capable of having babies......

Therefore, the Spaniards are afraid and love this group, and sometimes they are really inseparable from these Chinese, but they are afraid that this group of Chinese will drown themselves.

Generally speaking, the conservative Catholic Spaniards, unlike the Protestant Dutch, have always been very vigilant and vigilant against the Chinese, especially those non-Christian Chinese groups, and they will not hesitate to raise the butcher's knife at the slightest disturbance.

So in Luzon under the control of the Spaniards, the Chinese there had suffered at least three brutal massacres---- these are still documented, and all of them were exterminators.

Poor Nanyang Chinese, are you a group of people who have been cursed by God?

As a doctor of history, Zhu Beiguo told Hou Xianglin a lot about the Nanyang Chinese in the old world before he was about to leave the Nicole and go to take up the post of "director of the Timor Island Free Trade Zone Management Committee." Dr. Zhu told Hou Xianglin in particular that a few years later, the Spaniards had another massacre against the Chinese in Luzon---- if the course of history had not undergone major changes.

Hou Xianglin vaguely remembered that the massacre that Zhu Beiguo said should have happened four or five years later, and Dr. Zhu had revealed his thoughts to Hou Xianglin at that time, and said that if we had the ability, we should interfere with the actions of the Spaniards, and it would be best to prevent the massacre - Hou Xianglin remembered that Dr. Zhu was standing on the front deck of the Nicole with him, looking north by the railing and said:

“…… 40,000 Chinese died, 30,000 were displaced, and the local natives were involved in the massacre, with men killed and women looted into the jungle......

We...... Can we just watch that tragedy unfold right under our noses? ”

After saying this, Dr. Zhu looked back at himself and felt as if there was a fire in his eyes.

“…… Therefore, I need to pay close attention to the construction of the armed forces, and it seems that the work in Sin'an City is not as simple as infrastructure construction...... Maybe then we'll be able to intervene......"

Thinking of this, Hou Xianglin, who was sitting in the carriage, couldn't help muttering to himself.