The Dutch were fond of exploiting the inhospitable islands with their hardly paid labor, cultivating land, mining minerals, and growing cash crops such as spices, coffee, and cinnacle.

And I have to admit that the Chinese did a better job than the Dutch, and the Dutch couldn't train these natives to be as obedient and industrious as the Chinese.

However, as far as the economic construction of Nanyang is concerned, the real main force is still the Chinese, and the work efficiency of the indigenous people who are forced to work is much lower than that of the industrious and tenacious Chinese, whether it is the Magolo Islands of the Dutch or the plantations all over South China, the real efficiency is still those Chinese private plantations.

After ten years of development, the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago occupied by the Dutch has gained no less than when they were the grandfather in Jakarta, mainly due to the rapid economic development of South China and the huge demand for various raw materials.

After Jakarta changed its name to New Tangshan, the Dutch were the second largest economic force in South China, with tens of thousands of Dutch living in New Tangshan, and hundreds of Dutch engaged in financial careers, and the wealth of the sea coachmen accelerated the development of South China.

The finance of the Dutch, the technology of the Germans occupied an important position in the early development of the country in South China, and it is interesting that in South China, the Dutch and the Germans walked together, and people couldn't tell them apart because they were too similar, I don't know if this had anything to do with the fact that they were originally relatives, and the Kaiser still lived in the house of the Queen of the Netherlands?

With Guan Er Ye and Mazu Niangniang ruling Nanhua, Protestants were also free to find their gods in the churches of Nanhua.

Except for small hats.

Under the crackdown of the Ministry of the Interior under the guidance of Jiang Weiji, the second-hand Green Sect, which was originally brought to Southeast Asia by camels, basically returned to peace. The remaining indigenous people are enthusiastic about learning Chinese characters and speaking Chinese. Bai Guan Er Ye and Mazu Niangniang are more pious than the Chinese.

These are after the bloody lessons. The so-called progress of national integration.

For this reason, the British people on the other side of Singapore accused the South China government of persecuting the young people when they had nothing to do, and I really don't know how the camels in the Middle East felt when they heard that the British were so benevolent.

Needless to say, the Chinese newspapers in New Tangshan, even in the English newspapers, the Germans and the Dutch did not fail to expose the crimes of the British, and severely criticized the British for establishing the first concentration camp in human history, enslaving the Boers, and brutally executing tens of thousands of Boers with poison gas.

All right. On the question of the Boers, the Dutch and the Germans are on the same page, they are relatives, and the Boers are also relatives.

For the sake of the Dutch and Germans working hard against the British, the editors of the Chinese newspapers in South China received a hint that they deliberately ignored the fact that "the Boers were not a good thing" and concentrated their firepower on digging up the black history of the British.

The dog bites the dog's mouth, the British and the South Chinese spray each other across the strait, and finally they are embarrassed to find that no one is the White Lotus, revealing the essence of the world - the law of the jungle.

Evil or sin. Often means strong.

Having said so much, I just want to show that the situation in South China is generally stable. It is normal for a rising emerging country and an established empire to spray each other, and it is also a manifestation of the increased national consciousness and the active and exciting social life.

Under the background of the collision and integration of Eastern and Western civilizations, Nanhua basically realized industrialization and profoundly transformed Southeast Asia by using abundant capital, abundant resources, cheap German technology, and high-quality and low-cost labor.

This is a grand scene that has never appeared in the previous position, which indirectly proves that the industrial countries in the tropics may really be related to race, more specifically, among the yellow race, only China and Japan (Korea) have a high degree of civilization and similar culture.

As for the rest of Asia, it is negligible. After all, in 1929, there were only three semi-independent countries in Asia.

The Dutch had to admit that the Chinese built South China as their own country, learned the Yankees beautifully, and did not just plunder resources like the previous colonists, and shipped raw materials back to Europe to cause goods to be resold in the colonies, although it was easy to obtain huge profits, but the colonies under that rule had no room for development.

According to reports, South China's GDP has reached $6 billion, which has surpassed that of the Netherlands!

It is also because of this that the British on the other side of the channel are prone to mental imbalance and feel thorns in their backs.

The Governor of Singapore paid too much attention to South China, and even the Singapore Naval Port Fortress could not reassure the Royal Fleet, and the British planned to invest $100 million a year to build the first military port fortress in Asia.

What is very incompatible with the economic take-off of South China and the prosperity of overseas trade is that the South China Navy has been maintained at a scale of tens of thousands of tons, with no battleships, only two second-hand cruisers bought from other countries to support the façade, which is not enough to threaten the Royal Far East Fleet, and the Philippines is also safe.

However, South China's defense attaches more importance to the air force and submarines, and there is a good army on land, which is enough to ensure national security.

Although it was surrounded or protected by Britain and the United States, South China had no ability or need to expand abroad, and there were enough domestic resources to ensure economic construction, and the past ten years have been quite smooth.

And the real turmoil that has affected the situation in Asia is the Middle East Road War between China and Russia in the past two years.

Talking about the domestic situation, Lin Yimin said with a smile: "The Northeast Army is quite interesting, and it will obediently cede Hebei and return to the northeast of its hometown without us making a move."

Now that the government has basically ruled North China, by the way, Yan Xishan's guy has also been beaten, so as not to have any distractions from this guy. ”

Last year, Zhang Zuolin was killed in Huanggutun, who the murderer was, there are different opinions, the city is full of turmoil, Japan and the Soviet Union are the most suspicious, and the Wuhan government is also suspicious, but it does not hinder, the Wuhan government may become the biggest beneficiary.

Facing the pressure of the revolutionary army going north, Zhang Shaoshuai felt that he could not bear it in the pass, and estimated that the Northeast Army, Yan Xishan, and Feng Yuxiang were not the opponents of the Wuhan government, and the strength of the two sides was too far apart.

The Wuhan government agreed to the deal, readily gave the Northeast Army a batch of arms, and generously provided a sum of 100 million yuan in legal tender economic aid to develop the resources of the Northeast.

With the support of the Wuhan government. He really managed to take control of the Northeast. However, there was no immediate "change of banner in the Northeast". The Wuhan government also seems to be less enthusiastic about formalities, and more focused on the development of resources in the northeast, such as soybeans, minerals, and timber.

Ironically, before the development of the Great Northern Wilderness, the Northeast actually relied on the grain supply from the mainland, and in recent years, the Yangtze River has been flooded, the Central Plains has been drought, and the agricultural production in the south has increased despite the massive use of chemical fertilizers. However, the overall food supply is still tight, and some food is imported from Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Siam) every year, so it is not possible to provide food aid to the north on a large scale.

As a result, as the main trading nation of the Soviet Union, Nanhua assumed a clever role, and the grain that Stalin took from the Ukrainian peasants was actually transported to the northeast and northwest through the Far Eastern Railway and handed over to Wu Peifu's ministry in Xinjiang.

In return, the USSR received valuable rubber and other machinery and equipment from South China.

In the twenties, which were somewhat globalized, the USSR was not as advertised in the newspapers of London. Pitiful under the blockade / lockdown of Britain and France, in fact the Soviet Union and the United States, the Soviet Union and China, South China. The Soviet Union and Germany have always had trade.

Of course, politically the Soviet Union was isolated, and no major power was willing to establish diplomatic relations with it, but economic exchanges would not end because of political antagonism.

The British are scheming, the shackles on the heads of the Russians will soon be shattered by the general trend of the global economic depression, and the polar bear's return to the world stage is entering the countdown, but people do not know it.

Song Ziwen never expected that Zhang Shaoshuai actually had a kind of teasing polar bear, perhaps it was the aircraft, artillery and armored vehicles manufactured by Wuhan Industrial Group that gave him a lot of confidence, and he used the recovery of the Middle East Railway to prove his patriotic enthusiasm, and by the way, he also warned Wuhan that the Northeast Army was not easy to provoke.

It must be clear that on the issue of the Middle East Road, the northeast side is polite and courteous, and it is natural to take back the railway, to paraphrase a common saying, it is not Chinese!

With the support of the Wuhan government's aircraft and artillery, the Northeast Army's five scum of war actually fought with great success, not to mention the repossession of the Middle East Railway, and almost beat Zhukov, the future god of war of the Soviet Union.

However, Maozi is not easy to mess with, Zhukov's counterattack was impressive, killing and wounding a large number of the elite of the Northeast Army, and the two sides suffered heavy losses to each other.

With the revolutionary army entering Inner Mongolia and threatening Outer Mongolia, the Soviet Far East was short of troops, the situation was grim, and Stalin had no confidence in fighting a national war thousands of miles away from his European homeland by relying on the Far Eastern Army, which was the most scummy in the Soviet Union.

China is fighting at home, with the support of its industrial base, and its military industry is no worse than that of the Soviet Union, and it is not at all another golden decade created by "relying on textile flour and Ya flakes", and it is generally in an advantageous position.

Situ Nan privately analyzed that there were two reasons, first, Guo Devil's son Guo Songling did not rebel and lived well, and the elite of the Northeast Army was preserved, which became Zhang Xueliang's greatest support.

Second, the Northeast Army obtained a large number of advanced weapons from Wuhan, and under the command of Guo Songling, the Northeast Army's combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of the other side.

As we all know, the Russians were hanged and beaten under the city of Warsaw a few years ago, and they were completely injured, and the combat effectiveness of the gray cattle was too scum, which was recognized by the world.

(The Red Army, which has not been trained by the Führer and Stalin's father-)

"Guo Songling did a good job."

He Wenxiu, who does not easily praise others, also appreciates the performance of the Northeast Army, he has always been concerned about the situation in the northern continent, "Unlike the ambitious old bandits, Zhang Shaoshuai still understands the general situation, and should give him greater support." ”

Under pressure from Wuhan, Yan Xishan ceded Inner Mongolia, and the revolutionary army had already marched into Inner Mongolia, oppressing the living space of Feng Yuxiang's troops and threatening Outer Mongolia at the same time.

In the northwest, General Wu Peifu also set out from Lanzhou to approach the northern frontier and threaten the Soviet border, and the government helped Zhang Shaoshuai contain hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops in Siberia and Central Asia, which was interesting enough. Otherwise—"

Lin Yimin said.

Now the Wuhan government is really not afraid of a war with the Soviet Union, but it just doesn't want to, and the Soviet Union, which has been blocked/locked by the great powers, does not want to go to war and affect domestic industrial construction.

More importantly, and it is also regrettable, that the revolutionary army did not enter Outer Mongolia, and the two sides have not yet torn their faces.

As for the Middle East Railway, the railroad tracks are all on Chinese soil, and it has almost become a country within a country, and the damage to national sovereignty is even worse than that of the Shanghai Concession.

It stands to reason that the heresies, who keep saying that they want to defend the Soviet Union, do not end well in the interior, and the Zhi Gong Dang government, which has already ruled all the elite territory of the country, has devoted more energy to the internal dictatorship/government, implementing the so-called strategy of five points of economy, three points of politics, and two points of military.

Don't look at the fighting between the Northeast Army and the Russian army, it is Wuhan and Moscow that really decide the outcome of this war, and the diplomats of both sides are spraying each other.

"This is your northern business, not about South China, I just admire Zhang Shaoshuai, I think he has a temperament and my appetite, so Nanhua supports him with a batch of arms."

He Wenxiu smiled at Lin Yimin and others, and was also happy about the favorable situation of domestic and national reunification.

"When I went south, the Hanyang Arsenal told me to protest to Nanhua, saying that you had robbed them of a lot of business."

Lin Yimin joked.

Thomas had been listening to the confrontation between Lin Yimin and He Wenxiu, and suddenly said: "Mr. William is very satisfied with the development of the situation in the Far East, and appreciates the military industry.

I hope you will prepare early and increase cooperation with the San Francisco Shipyard and the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company. ”

The two of them turned pale, and He Wenxiu reacted first and nodded: "The navy and air force are the security guarantee of Nanhua, and it is indeed necessary to speed up the development of this aspect." ”

Lin Yimin also nodded, keeping this matter in mind.

returned to Wuhan and reported the meeting to Song Ziwen. He also found Situ Yong and other military bigwigs, saying that the government would increase investment in armaments and start a military industrial plan.

After consideration, this heavy responsibility fell on Wang Geng.

"Rearmament?"

Wang Geng, who had done a good job as the principal of a military academy, suddenly wanted to take over as minister of armaments, and looked at Li Zongren, chairman of the Central Military Commission, Bai Chongxi, chief of staff, Deng Keng, minister of national defense, and Situ Yong, deputy chief of staff and commander of the Capital Military Region.

"We think you're the right person for your hard work, broad knowledge, and overseas background."

Li Zongren said gently, Wang Geng's performance in the military academy is obvious to all.

"This is not only about integrating the domestic military-industrial system, but also about military exchanges and arms cooperation with foreign countries. There is a lot of responsibility, and you have to be mentally prepared. Bai Chongxi looked serious and admonished Wang Gengdao.

"In the future, the navy and army, the tax police corps, and the construction corps must speed up their development, and all departments must come up with appropriate and far-sighted development plans to meet future challenges." Defense Minister Deng Keng said.

Situ Yong nodded and agreed: "Don't look at the Northeast Army taking back the Eastern Railway and fighting a draw with the Russian army, what is actually going on, everyone knows what is going on, people have no strength at all, the essence of the Soviet Union is in Europe, and the international environment is favorable to our country, Stalin does not want to repeat the mistakes of the Russo-Japanese War, and the so-called British and American "thugs" cannibalize each other.

Anyway, we're lucky this time.

However, since the old bandit was blown up by a few spies, it shows that people don't take you seriously, and they don't hide their ambitions in the Northeast.

In the future, whether it is against Japan or the Soviet Union, the war is likely to start in the northeast, which is a powder keg, and once it explodes, it will affect North China, and once North China is lost, our cause will face collapse.

Therefore, it is necessary to build more military industry in the north, and the government is also preparing to build a heavy industry base in North China, which should be no less large than the Wuhan Industrial Group. ”

"In this way, we will not be able to recover the concession in a short time!" Bai Chongxi reminded. The General Staff has already made plans to recover the Shanghai Concession, and the time is in the near future.

"It's a bit of a pity. However, the situation in the north is even more severe, and without Zhang bandits in the front, we have to directly face the two major forces of Japan and Russia, and the strategic center of the military and government has to move north. ”

Li Zongren said that he embodied his overall view.

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(I hate myself for not being fast-paced.) It's a pity that because I have too much to do with Asia, I couldn't write about the flashy twenties, that golden age. The next chapter on the economic crisis is as simple as possible, and I finish the book with my little obsession. (To be continued.) )