Xiao Jianjun thought about it seriously and said, "Let's do this, we are on our way back to the voyage of the two warships, Qingzhou and Yizhou, and now we have passed by the East Indian Ocean. If we dispatch the Kunming ship first, then the time for both sides to arrive in Java is about the same. It's better to let them meet in the waters around Java as an early fleet, and Qingdao will organize a mixed fleet and send a crossing warship, Yueyang ship or Sanya ship as the core, and then rush there."

Xia Bohai nodded and said, "I think this plan is feasible, so let's do it. However, it's not enough to protect the overseas Chinese to send warships, and a part of the combat troops are needed. When we protected the overseas Chinese, we brought two battalions of Marines. Now the People's Army Navy does not have a Marine Corps yet, so we can only draw troops from the army. Therefore, this will be a coordinated operation between sea and land. Therefore, how much troops the army dispatches and how to arrange the command and coordination work of the entire operation needs to be carefully arranged."

Xiao Jianjun nodded and said, "I think the army must dispatch at least one regiment of troops, and it does not include the artillery of the regiment, because this overseas Chinese protection operation is likely to conflict with the Dutch army and local indigenous peoples. If the troops are too small, it may not be enough to capture the Dutch colonial authorities. If there are too many troops, our current military deployment capacity is limited and the consumption is too large. After all, the strength of the Dutch colonial authorities is limited. They mainly rely on Britain to protect, and a regiment should be enough. However, the Kunming ships dispatched in advance can only carry one battalion of troops at most."

Xia Bohai said: "One battalion is enough. After all, the early fleet only plays an interference role, and as long as it is stationed within the range that can be protected by naval guns, it is enough. If it is absolutely impossible, let the Kunming ships use naval guns to strike. However, the dispatch must be elite troops."

Xiao Jianjun said: "If it is an elite force, the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division is in Qingdao now, so I am afraid that Lao Qin will not be able to bear his hard work."

Everyone laughed when they heard this. Qin Zheng smiled and said, "What are you reluctant to let go? Since you are a soldier, you should appear in the most dangerous place and send the 1st Division and the 1st Regiment to the 1st Division. I have no objection. However, the climate in Nanyang is hot, and the disease is growing, and non-combat reduction will be very large. Therefore, medical preparations must be made."

Xia Bohai said: "I think I can go to Zhang Zhenxun for a solution to such a thing. Since he came to ask us to send troops to protect overseas Chinese, he should also provide us with some necessary help. Moreover, he is a Nanyang native, of course he is familiar with the local environment, has money and has the means, and is fully capable of providing help to us."

Qin Zheng also nodded and said, "This is a solution. Moreover, Zhang Zhenxun has opened two shipping companies in Nanyang, with its own docks and ports, so he can even provide our fleet with a place to berth, add coal and supplement the economy."

Xia Bohai said: "This is better, so it's decided, Lao Xiao, you make a plan immediately and start preparations immediately. Today is not counted. You will be given two days at most. At the latest, the Kunming ship will leave Qingdao Pier at the morning of the third day. And the subsequent mixed fleet preparation will be given up to three days."

Xiao Jianjun said: "Okay, I will notify the members of the Kunming ship tonight and ask them to come to Qingdao to gather immediately."

Xia Bohai said to Qin Zheng again: "Old Qin, you can meet Zhang Zhenxun tomorrow to see how much help he can provide us. You can do it yourself."

Qin Zheng said: "Okay, I know what to do?"

Xia Bohai said: "This is an unexpected event, so all other departments must cooperate with each other."

The next day, Qin Zheng met Zhang Zhenxun and first told Zhang Zhenxun that the East China government had decided to organize a mixed fleet immediately to set up to Java Island to arm the protection of overseas Chinese. And the morning after tomorrow, a warship would be sent to Java first.

After hearing this, Zhang Zhenxun was very surprised. He traveled across the ocean to Java when he was young, and has been making a living in Java for nearly 50 years. He started as an apprentice and became a rich man in the richest area. The hard work of this is naturally difficult to describe. However, if Zhang Zhenxun wants to say what the most difficult event of making a living in Southeast Asia is, Zhang Zhenxun will definitely say it is the "Anti-Chinese Movement", because an anti-Chinese Movement can make the hard management of a Chinese family disappear overnight, and even the family will be destroyed.

In fact, Chinese people made a living in Southeast Asia since the 13th and 14th centuries. Because Chinese are hardworking, smart, and mastering advanced planting technology, the climate in Southeast Asia is hot, abundant rainfall, fertile land, and there are also specialties from Southeast Asia that are well-respected in China. Therefore, Chinese people who make a living in Southeast Asia can quickly accumulate a lot of wealth and form a residential community for Chinese people. Moreover, because Chinese people are gentle in character, they can basically live in peace with local indigenous people. Moreover, Chinese people have brought advanced production technology, which has promoted the social and economic development of Southeast Asia, and many indigenous people also benefit from it. Although there are a few indigenous people who are jealous of the wealth of the Chinese, they are alone and unable to do a great job.

However, in the 15th and 16th centuries, when European colonists came to Nanyang and established colonies, the situation changed. The wealth of Chinese people caused the greed of colonists, and the large number of people living together made the colonists feel feared. Moreover, the cruel exploitation of colonies by colonists also allowed the indigenous people to accumulate a lot of resentment. Therefore, colonists often sowed the relationship between Chinese and indigenous people, inciting the hatred of indigenous people against Chinese, and even plundered the wealth of Chinese, massacred the Chinese. This not only resolved the resentment of indigenous people towards colonists, but also transferred the hatred of colonists to Chinese, but also caused ethnic opposition between indigenous people and Chinese, so that colonists could divide and govern them and maintain their rule over the colonies.

Some indigenous people who were jealous of the Chinese wealth were naturally the only ones. The colonists either provided weapons to the indigenous people or led their own teams to the field, causing the massacres of anti-China again and again. The most famous of them was the Massacre of Manila, Philippines in the 31st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1603), and the Hongxi tragedy in Java in the 5th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1740). There were tens of thousands of Chinese people who died in these two incidents. In addition to these two large-scale anti-China massacres, there was always an anti-China incident in Nanyang almost every ten years, but the scale was different.

In addition, the frequent occurrence of anti-China incidents in Southeast Asia was also closely related to the inaction of the Chinese government at that time. In fact, when the Chinese people in Manila were massacres and the Hongxi tragedy occurred, China still had a dominant advantage in Asia. Therefore, after the tragedy, the Spanish and Dutch colonial authorities involved were afraid of retaliation from the Chinese government at that time, so they all took the initiative to send envoys to China to defend themselves. However, the last two feudal dynasties of China treated these two tragedies almost exactly the same.

Emperor Wanli issued a "Edict to Luzon" to the Spanish colonial authorities, which said: "Overseas struggles are unknown; the four Chinese people are the cheapest, so how can they launch soldiers and revolution with untouchables? In addition, among the merchants, they abandon their families and travel to the sea, and they will not return in winter. The fathers, brothers and relatives are despised, and they have no regrets about it. Instead, the soldiers are laborious."

Qianlong's attitude towards the Hongxi tragedy was: "The Celestial Empire abandoned the people and did not hesitate to carry the ancestors' tombs and went abroad to seek profits. The court ignored it." Chen Yilao, a survivor of the Hongxi tragedy, fled back to Fujian with his property and his children, but was immediately arrested by the local officials. Qianlong attached great importance to it and asked the Ministry of Justice to hear the crime and punish it: "We should make friends with foreign countries, buy and sell loans, cheat property, cause border provocations, and send troops to the border to serve, send foreign concubines and children to frugality, and silver goods are pursued into the official."

After entering the 18th and 19th centuries, due to the improvement of the organizational system of various colonies, the anti-Chinese incidents have been reduced a little. Major anti-Chinese massacres such as the Manila Chinese Massacre and the Hongxi Tribulation did not occur, but they were not completely eliminated. Moreover, anti-Chinese incidents occurred more frequently in the Dutch colonies, while other colonies were less. This is because other countries such as the United States, Britain, France, Spain and Portugal either had strong national strength and fewer colonies with weak national strength. Therefore, they had a strong control over the colonies and did not have to provoke conflicts between the Chinese and the indigenous people. After all, once the anti-Chinese massacre occurred, the economic blow to the colonies would be quite severe.

However, the Netherlands is not strong in its national strength, and the area of ​​colonies controlled by Asia reaches more than 1.6 million square kilometers. Although the Netherlands has adopted a full dependence on Britain to ensure the security of the colonies, the Netherlands is still unable to control such a large area of ​​colonies. It can only continue to provoke conflicts between the Chinese and the indigenous people, create anti-Chinese incidents, and ensure its control over the colonies.

During his business in Nanyang, Zhang Zhenxun experienced at least three anti-Chinese incidents. However, after he became rich, he attached great importance to establishing good relations with the Dutch colonial authorities, and had enough capital to hire personnel and organize private armed forces to protect his family and industries. Although he would suffer some losses in property, it would not have much impact. However, after each anti-Chinese incident, there were always thousands of people, and at least hundreds of people died. A large amount of property was stolen. Zhang Zhenxun was powerless to do anything about this.

In 1893, Zhang Zhenxun took the initiative to contact the Qing court and took office as an official position in the Qing court. In addition to the plot of his hometown, there was another very important reason, which was that he hoped that the Qing court could provide protection to overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Because the Qing court had experienced more than 30 years of Westernization Movement at that time, it was quite impressive to revitalize it, and it also established the Beiyang Navy, known as the sixth in the world and the first in Asia, so Zhang Zhenxun still had certain hope for the Qing court.

But just one year later, the Qing court was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Beiyang Navy was wiped out, and the Zhongsheng became a dream. Moreover, after contact, Zhang Zhenxun further understood the corruption and incompetence of the Qing court, so he had a very clear understanding of the situation of the Qing court. Therefore, although he was an official in the Qing court, he was limited to business and did not ask about political affairs.
Chapter completed!