350 Development of Borneo
Lin Fei's subordinates took Su Manwei's family down and settled them properly, and Lin Fei called Chen Ade and Tang Yinchun to the front and ordered them to act according to the predetermined plan.
In order to seize Pontianak, Lin Fei formulated a series of plans after entering Pontianak, first of all, to determine the leadership of the Lanfang Republic and announce it to the outside world.
Under Lin Fei's instructions, Chen Ade elected a wealthy Chinese businessman as the president of the Lanfang Republic, this rich Chinese businessman named "Chen Guizong", hated the Dutch so much that he gritted his teeth, usually sympathized with Chen Ade and these resistances, and often received money and food, and now let him be the president of the Lanfang Republic, of course he gladly agreed.
After the appointment of the president, he will appoint the commander-in-chief of the army, Lin Fei let Chen Ade personally serve as the commander-in-chief, in fact, with Chen Ade's ability, it is okay to be a soldier, but it is not good to be a commander like the commander-in-chief, but Lin Fei just pushed Chen Ade in front of the stage to be a "puppet", and the military power of Pontianak City is still in the hands of Lin Fei's subordinates, in other words, in the hands of Lin Fei.
After the appointment of the president and the commander-in-chief, there is no need to appoint the following institutions, after all, the Republic of Lanfang has just gained power, the situation is still unstable, and the various institutions cannot operate smoothly. Chen Ade then broadcast the news of the appointment of the president and commander-in-chief to the whole city, and the hearts of the people in the city gradually settled down.
In this regard, Lin Fei instructed Chen Ade to cancel an unequal clause against the Chinese, involving various aspects such as taxation and land.
While carrying out various reforms in the city, Lin Fei took Sumanweil's family to the port to meet Claros, Lin Fei came to the port to explain his intentions, and Claros soon met Lin Fei.
Lin Fei smiled at Claros: "I was entrusted by Mr. Chen Guizong, the President of the Lanfang Republic, to hand over Sumanville and his family to the British Empire. ”
Claros smiled and said something briefly, Lin Fei took out an official letter from his briefcase, handed it to Claros, and said with a smile: "Mr. Claros, this is an official letter that President Chen Guizong asked me to transfer to you, requesting the withdrawal of British troops from Pontianak, please consider it carefully." Lin Fei was worried that the British would not leave Pontianak, so he drafted this official letter.
Claros took the official letter and said some more words, Lin Fei pushed that he still had something to do, and returned to Pontianak, Claros looked at Lin Fei's back, regret and resentment were intertwined, originally according to Claros's plan, the Chinese Empire and the Kingdom of the Netherlands would lose both, and the British Empire would take advantage of the fisherman's profits, take Pontianak, pocket the gold mines near Pontianak, and make this place a transit point for operating Senna Port and curbing the Chinese Empire.
But now, the British Empire and the Kingdom of the Netherlands were both defeated, and the Chinese Empire took Pontianak without spending a single soldier or a single shot.
Claros slammed the official letter in his hand on the table, gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence: "Damn Lin Fei..." ”
Claros wondered, "What did he see me doing?" ”
"He said he had something important to tell you."
"Bring him to me."
Not long after, Su Manwell came to Claros's office under the custody of two guards, and Su Manwell did not greet politely, and said directly: "Mr. Claros, we have all been tricked. ”
"Tricked? What do you mean by that? Claros vaguely guessed that Lin Fei was playing tricks on everything, but he wasn't sure, and now he heard Su Manwell say the same, so he hurriedly asked.
Su Manwei sighed, "Driving the natives to attack you and making barrel cannons, these are all told to me by Lin Fei's subordinates, although Lin Fei did not come forward in person, but I suspect that Lin Fei is the real mastermind behind the scenes." ”
Claros nodded slightly, and Su Manwei continued: "I see that the incident of the Determination Ship was also planned by Lin Fei. ”
When Claros heard Su Manwell mention the Resolve incident, he immediately thought that Su Manwell was deliberately exculpating himself, and he was furious, "Tell me, how did Lin Fei plan the Resolve incident?" ”
Su Manwell shook his head gloomily, "I haven't figured this out yet. ”
Claros snorted coldly, "The Resolve incident is clearly what you did, and you still want to excuse yourself here?" Someone, take Sumanwell down. ”
Sumanwell wanted to speak again, but two soldiers had already come over and set him up, Sumanwell had no choice but to follow the guards out, Claros frowned and paced in the room, and did not say a word for ten minutes, when suddenly, he stopped, waved to one of his subordinates, and ordered: "I will send a report to the Governor." ”
The subordinates took out the telegram and pen, ready to record, Claros lowered his voice and said: "To the respected governor, the Chinese Empire is powerful, and the construction of Sarawak, Brunei, and Sabah should be accelerated immediately, especially the Senna Port in Sabah, which is the top priority to contain the Chinese Empire, and I hope to build it as soon as possible." Your faithful subordinates...... Claros. ”
On February 17, the British army evacuated Pontianak and returned to Singapore, the British army still wanted to stay in Pontianak and use Pontianak Port as their base.
In order to drive away the British, Lin Fei came up with a trick, that is, to collect the grain in the whole city, implement the city-wide quota distribution system, and temporarily cancel the free trade of grain.
In the ensuing period, Britain and the Netherlands engaged in a fierce diplomatic battle over how to punish Sumanville, and the British finally sentenced Sumanville to fifteen years in prison, which was regarded as an explanation to the people, but since then they have resented the Netherlands, and the Netherlands has withdrawn its ambassador to the United Kingdom for this, and the relationship between the two countries has been frozen for more than ten years.
As soon as the British troops withdrew, the government of the Republic of Lanfang liquidated the Dutch and indigenous people in the city under the instruction of Lin Fei, and the Chinese government confiscated the property of the rich Dutch merchants and high-ranking officials, took over the factories of the rich Dutch merchants, and allowed the Dutch to leave Pontianak.
Dutch soldiers and policemen were imprisoned in prisoner-of-war camps as coolies, and Lin Fei planned to develop Borneo on a large scale, and the more labor the better.
As for the natives, those who participated in murder, robbery, and rape were to be shot, and the conformists were to be sent to prisoner of war camps, where they worked as coolies like the Dutch soldiers.
The "Autumn Settlement Score" went on for half a month, and by March 1, everything had been dealt with, Lin Fei finally had free time and instructed his subordinates: "Didn't Miss Liu Ziyu always want to see me?" Let her come. ”
It turned out that before this, Liu Ziyu asked to see Lin Fei several times and asked to participate in various affairs, but Lin Fei had always been suspicious of Liu Ziyu, so he only let Liu Ziyu stay on the Tianlong ship and didn't let her do anything.
Liu Ziyu saw Lin Fei, she didn't have a good face, she said angrily: "Your Majesty, you won't let me do anything?" What is this? Is I under house arrest? ”
Of course, Lin Fei couldn't say that he was suspicious of her, so he smiled: "I see that you are a gentle and gentle girl, so I didn't let you do all kinds of work." ”
Liu Ziyu said dissatisfiedly: "What's wrong with the girl? Isn't Ling Xue a girl? Why did you put her in charge of the Ministry of Industry? Isn't Jade Frost a girl? Why did you let her fight so many battles when she was in Taiwan? ”
Lin Fei was speechless, so he had to comfort: "When you return to Dayu City, I will definitely give you a very important job." Liu Ziyu's anger weakened slightly, Lin Fei invited Liu Ziyu to dinner, during the meal, Lin Fei asked Liu Ziyu's family about the residence in a homely way, and then instructed his agent Xie Mingfeng to sneak into Sumatra to investigate these things.
Lin Fei arranged Liu Ziyu's affairs properly and began to arrange the development of Borneo, Borneo is very large, nominally a Dutch colony, but in this era, except for Pontianak, which was developed relatively early and there are more Dutch, the people in other places are uncivilized indigenous savages, so occupying Pontianak is basically equivalent to occupying Borneo by the Dutch.
Lin Fei instructed the Republic of Lanfang to declare: "The whole of Borneo, except for Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah, which are British territories, are the territory of the Republic of Lanfang." ”
As soon as this news was announced, the Kingdom of the Netherlands immediately stood up and lodged a solemn protest, but Lin Fei instructed the Republic of Lanfang to ignore it, and this matter did not cause much controversy, although the Dutch hated the Republic of Lanfang to the core, but they really did not have the strength to launch a landing operation and recapture Pontianak.
In his time, Indonesia, which owned Borneo, was one of the world's most important oil exporters, and the southern part of Borneo had several mega oil fields that were of good quality and shallow and easy to exploit.
Although Lin Fei found oil in the Surigao area of Mindanao, the oil reserves there are extremely low, except for making incendiary tanks and cloud burst bombs, it cannot be supplied to large-scale industrial applications, and now the oil in Borneo can be used on a large scale in industry, with oil can be refined diesel and gasoline, and then Lin Fei will be able to have his own internal combustion engine.
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