The sun has just appeared on the sea antenna. And the bell rang for work

In a daze, Park Changxiu was woken up by the shouts of his co-workers, although his forehead was still hot to the touch, but he still insisted on getting up, as a dock worker, it is impossible to have any vacation, as for sick leave, it is even more extravagant, he can only go to work.

This is the port of Singapore, the hub port of the Straits Settlements of the British Empire, which is no better than the port of Busan in the south of North Korea, where the number of ships entering and leaving the port of Singapore every day is several times that of the port of Busan, and the labor intensity of the dock workers is not comparable to the port of Busan, not to mention, Singapore belongs to the tropical climate. The only time of day for heavy work is in the morning and before the sun sets, and at noon, even dock workers need to take a lunch break to escape the heat, which is very different from the port of Busan in southern North Korea.

Park Chang-so is a native of Busan, and in the past, he worked as a dock worker for the Japanese at the port of Busan. Instead, he worked as a coolie in Southeast Asia, thousands of kilometers away from his hometown, to earn more money so that he could make a home here and reunite his family from the Korean Peninsula.

Of course, this is just Park Chang-so's own wishful thinking. He is still a "black worker" without legal status, and he may be deported by the British colonial authorities at any time, unlike the first batch of Korean laborers who came over, he was smuggled into the British Straits Settlements, while the first group of Korean laborers migrated to the South Seas on ships provided by the British, for a very simple reason, because of the "Northeast Asian crisis" before Denmark

During the "Northeast Asian Crisis," in order to settle the officers and men of the anti-Japanese guerrillas on the Korean Peninsula who had laid down their arms, China, Japan, Russia, Britain, and the United States jointly established a non-military organization with international colors, called the "Far East Peace Commission," and the then US President Mr. Taft served as the honorary chairman of the committee. Mr. Stafford Stade, British Minister to China, serves as Executive Chairman. It was this international organization that carried out a large-scale labor export plan and exported tens of thousands of Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla officers and soldiers who had laid down their arms to the Nanyang region as laborers, in order to resolve the deadlocked Sino-Japanese relations and restore peace to Northeast Asia.

It was also that international peace operation that caused a large number of Korean laborers to appear in the British Straits Settlements, and they were scattered on rubber plantations, tin mines, sugar cane plantations, and docks to use as cheap labor. These tens of thousands of North Korean laborers have taken root in Southeast Asia. A few of them have even been able to integrate into the local immigrant ethnic group and become the spokesmen of North Korean workers.

As soon as these Korean labor spokesmen integrated into the local migrant ethnic groups, they immediately began to seek small interests for themselves, and one of the most important "undertakings" was to act as middlemen for smuggling, taking advantage of the loopholes in the colony's laws and various means to recruit more Korean laborers from the Korean Peninsula and to work as illegal workers in the British Nanyang colonies, in order to collect benefits and make profits.

Many Chinese and overseas Chinese in Nanyang have also been involved in this illegal commercial activity, and they have been doing this for decades, and the local British colonial authorities have also turned a blind eye to it, because the local people have seriously sabotaged their work. And it was easy to resist, and the British colonizers were willing to use these more industrious, obedient, and unaccompanied East Asians, and the "pig trade" in the early years was actually picked by the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch colonizers, and now this large-scale smuggling activity in the South Seas is actually an informal continuation of the "pig trade".

Park Chang-so was the "beneficiary" of this illegal business activity in his hometown, and he used usury to scrape together enough money to smuggle in, then handed over to middlemen, and then loaded onto ocean-going ships in Japan or other countries such as China, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Sailing from the port of Busan to the South Seas, and then to the port of Singapore, he was arranged by middlemen to work at the docks. According to Park Changxiu's calculations, as long as he works as a dock worker in the dock for five years, then he can pay off the loan shark, and then spend five years to accumulate the family business, after that, he can marry an indigenous woman in the local area, so as to exchange for legal status, and then he is a subject of the Straits Settlements of the British Empire, although he may not be able to enjoy the treatment of a subject of the British Empire, but at least he does not have to be oppressed by the Japanese.

There are many North Koreans like Park Chang-so, and there are several in the workshop where he is now staying, all of whom are North Koreans, and although they come from different places, they speak the same language. And they all chose this path of immigration to Nanyang in order to escape the oppression of the Japanese colonizers.

Of course, Shangbori also uses the people of Wenxiang Jia, among whom there are also such black workers, but compared with North Korean laborers, these Chinese laborers are more powerful. Rely on local Chinese community organizations and associations. The status of the Chinese laborers was higher than that of the Korean laborers, and the Korean laborers were higher than the local indigenous laborers, so that a pyramidal status structure was formed layer by layer, and at the top of this pyramid stood the early Chinese immigrants who had fully integrated into the local society. After that, it was the indigenous upper class, and finally, the European colonizers, as in the United States and Africa, the European colonizers were very good at using this "razing to raze" ruling strategy, they were unwilling to deal directly with the local aborigines, and handed over this task to the Chinese, through the Chinese to control the colonial economy, and when the local natives were about to explode because they could not bear the economic oppression, they pushed the Chinese to the front, acting as a scapegoat and punching bag for the colonial evil economy.

Although the generations were killed by European colonizers and local aborigines, the Chinese relied on tenacious perseverance to finally take root in Nanyang, and skillfully took advantage of the "trust" of the European colonists to the Chinese workshop merchants and gradually controlled some of the local non-key economic sectors, becoming the richer middle class in the Nanyang region.

Of course, before Li Siam, there was no race or country, and the wealthy Chinese class relied on the sweat and hard work of Chinese compatriots like Park Jianzhu and his peers, and there was not much moral sentiment here. Some are just differences in social class.

In fact, Park Chang-so is very satisfied with his current life. At least he could eat enough, and he didn't have to worry about being pulled by the Japanese army to work as a coolie, let alone being forced to learn Japanese, he was a simple nationalist, and Park Chang-so has been a nationalist since the Japanese colonial army burned his house and insulted and killed his wife. Although he did not directly participate in the armed anti-Japanese independence movement on the Korean Peninsula, he at least sent letters and provided information to the guerrillas, which was a secondary reason for his departure from Busan, because he was afraid that the traitors would secretly report his anti-Japanese actions to the Japanese colonial authorities.

Park Chang-so has been living in Singapore Harbor for more than half a year, and he has basically adapted to the climate, but he has not yet adapted to the mosquitoes. A few days ago, he was infected with malaria again, although relying on the medicine provided by the local Chinese Charity Hall, Zhong's condition has basically stabilized, but now. His fever has not subsided, and he is weak, but he remembers that he is still in arrears with loan sharks, and Park Changxiu can only drag his sick body

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Park Chang-so finally got dressed. Follow a few fellow North Koreans out of the shack. Then he was taken out of the accommodation area by the foreman and rushed to the dock, as usual. Breakfast was picked up on the dock, eaten in a hurry, and then the day's work began.

Park Chang-so's job is very simple, which is to carry a sack, which may weigh 50 kilograms or 20 kilograms. It depends on what kind of goods are loaded. Since the foreman was a good Chinese friend, Park Chang-so was given special care, and today he was sent to carry the cable, which was relatively light.

The docks were bustling with activity, and Britain was busy concentrating its Far Eastern naval forces so that it could reinforce its homeland at any time, as war had broken out in Europe. Singapore, as the most important naval base in the British Straits Settlements, is now moored a large number of warships, some warships sailed from Weihaiwei in China, and some warships sailed from Borneo, not far away, and now they are all anchored in Singapore, waiting for supplies, and with these warships there are also a large number of merchant ships, some of which will be ordered to rush back to Britain with the warships, and some merchant ships will be loaded with various supplies and sail to Japan to support Japan's military power.

With two large ocean-going assault ships of the Chinese Navy in the South China Sea, Japanese merchant ships no longer dare to sail alone on the South China Sea routes. Therefore, they have also chosen the port of Singapore as a staging port. After loading supplies, they formed a convoy and were escorted back to Japan by British warships.

The British Navy's blatant escort behavior aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Chinese central government, and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested to Britain as a result. However, the British Navy was still determined to provide escort for the Japanese fleet, and now the main forces of the Japanese naval fleet were still towed in the Pacific Ocean and the Yellow Sea, and it was impossible for Britain to go south to escort the convoy. There was also a fierce debate within the British government, so until now, the British fleet in the port of Singapore had not decided when to set sail to escort the Japanese fleet home.

Park Chang-so's current job is to move the cables around the rope to the Japanese merchant ship, and the British sailors standing on the ship are loaded with guns, the purpose is to prevent anyone from making trouble on the ship, the British colonial authorities are very clear about the disputes between the Koreans and the Japanese, but considering that the Chinese do not deal with the Japanese very well, and the number of local indigenous laborers is insufficient, the British port department can only agree to have Korean laborers move goods for Japanese merchant ships. Park Chang-so carried a circle of rope on board every time. His heart unconsciously **, thinking of his wife who was insulted and killed by the Japanese colonial army, his heart was full of anger, but this anger was nowhere to vent. This made him very frustrated, and he could only tear the Japanese flags from the cargo while the British sailors were not looking.

I worked on the docks until almost noon. The heat had taken over the land, and the foreman blew the whistle at the right time, and Park Chang-so left the dock with the worker, and was searched by the foreman, and then returned to the shed for a lunch break.

However, this lunch break was not as calm as usual, and at one o'clock in the afternoon, there were several loud screams from the direction of the dock, which sounded like monsters were wailing, and all the workers in the shed ran out to see what was going on, and Park Chang-so followed, and when he arrived at the dock, the dock was actually under martial law, and the British soldiers surrounded the pier, and soon after, Park Chang-so got the exact news:

Two Japanese merchant ships loaded with military supplies suddenly exploded and sank at the berth, at the same time. A large number of leaflets printed in Korean were also displayed on the wharf, and the contents were basically the same, all of which called on the Korean workers in the South Seas to unite and support the independence of the DPRK.

"There is no doubt that this must have been done by North Korean anti-Japanese elements, who planted time bombs on the ship."

In the face of the protest of the Japanese consul in Singapore, the British Channel colonial authorities had to say something. So, on the same day, the British army blocked all the dock workers' sheds in the port and arrested hundreds of "suspects." Then they were cleared into prisons and barracks, and threatened to make them "pay" for the arrested North Korean laborers, including Park Chang-so, a smuggler. As for the reason for his arrest, it is also very simple. Because in his pocket the British soldier pressed out a paper Japanese flag, which was supposed to be affixed to Japanese goods, which apparently proved that this was an "anti-Japanese element."

The British colonial authorities did not realize what kind of chaos their actions would cause, and they could not imagine that in fact the whole thing was part of a great conspiracy, and that it would not be long before the British colonial authorities were confronted with a situation that they could not control, and which the Chinese President was very happy to see, and in fact, which was coming out of the President's strategy.