""    Chapter 369 Lan Fang's Nail Household in Southeast Asia

In order to avoid a head-on collision with the Chinese Empire, the Dutch authorities immediately expressed their willingness to negotiate with the Chinese Empire on the Lan Fang issue, hoping that the incident can be peaceful.*. The fastest and most stable update, Novel Network)

After Lan Fang was occupied by the Netherlands in 1884, he did not claim to occupy it, but established a regime. After the fall of the Qing Empire, the Netherlands announced the formal annexation of Lan Fang while the Chinese Empire was not yet stable in its foothold and fought with Russia. Unexpectedly, Russia was defeated, and the Netherlands was very afraid that the Chinese Empire would interfere with Lan Fang. However, after the Chinese Empire completed the war against Russia, it was preparing to fight against Britain, so it did not have the energy to interfere in Southeast Asian affairs.

After the Sino-British War, the Netherlands was a member of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the Chinese Empire was busy creating hostile actions between the allies and the Allies, and did not make any free moves.

Today, the Chinese Empire has successfully provoked a large-scale global arms race and created fierce conflicts between allies and allies. The situation in Europe is tense, and the attention and military power of the European powers have been transferred back to the country, and there is no time to take care of Southeast Asia.

The Chinese Empire established military regions in Singapore and Australia and deployed three navy, army and air forces. The Dutch East Indies is sandwiched between the Malayan territory of the Chinese Empire and the Australian territory, and it also guards the Malacca Strait channel. Its strategic position is important. The Chinese Empire has long been eyeing the Dutch East Indies, and what it lacks is just an excuse.

As the Chinese Empire made Lan Fang a case, this excuse finally came up, and it was open and the European and American powers could not interfere at all, and the Dutch authorities dared not say no.

On January 5, Guanghua, the Chinese Empire and the Dutch Republic started negotiations in Beijing. Originally, the Netherlands wanted European powers to participate in the audit and mediate from it, but both the allies and the Allies saw through the essence of the Chinese Empire's intervention in Southeast Asian affairs. At this time, the two major military groups were in fierce competition, and the two sides were tense. The entire European sky was full of gunpowder and was about to break out. Under such circumstances, neither the two major military groups would have friction with the Chinese Empire for the sake of the Netherlands, and would even sacrifice the Netherlands to appease the Chinese Empire to become the political strategy of the two major military groups.

The Netherlands cannot count on European countries to help, and they may even help. Yu Netherlands turned his attention to the United States, hoping that the United States would mediate.

The United States is the country with the greatest and most fierce economic competition with the Chinese Empire. Both countries have huge resources, science and technology and economic foundations. The two sides compete comprehensively in steel, coal, oil, machinery manufacturing, electrical appliances, automobiles, aircraft, etc., and have fierce collisions. This includes the grabbing of rubber resources. The Philippines industry controlled by the United States is the largest rubber exporter in Southeast Asia. The competition between the two countries in the Philippines is very fierce. During the Spanish-American War, in order to obtain military support and logistical supplies from the Chinese Empire, the United States allowed the Chinese Empire to invest in the Philippines and enjoy the same treatment as the United States in trade on the Philippines. This has caused the United States to regret it today, and the negotiations with the Chinese Empire to recover this promise has not made any progress.

With the political and military confrontation between China and the United States, the relationship has become worse and worse, which has made the United States increasingly tough on the Philippines issue, restricting the export of important industrial raw materials such as rubber to China. Similarly, the United States is the country with the most interests in rubber plantations on the Dutch East Indies. The US government believes that the Chinese Empire may take action against the Netherlands due to fierce competition in rubber resources, so the US government agreed to support the Netherlands and mediate from it.

However, the Chinese Empire was extremely dissatisfied with the intervention of the United States. The United States used the excuse that the Philippines and Kalimantan Island where the Republic of Lanfang were located across the sea, and was also a neighboring country. It was worried that the war would cause a large number of refugees to pour into the Philippines, so the United States claimed that it had the right to intervene.

However, the Chinese Empire did not abandon the United States at all, and directly put pressure on the Netherlands. If it did not give up Kalimantan Island, it would be equivalent to declaring war on the Chinese Empire. At the same time, the Netherlands occupied the Republic of Lanfang in the year of Lanfang, and must publicly apologize to the descendants of Lanfang in the South Ocean, and at the same time return the plundering gains of the Lanfang Republic for thirty years, and compensate for more than 10,000 Lanfang victims of the Pontianak Massacre, with a total compensation of 500 million yuan.

Kalimantan Island, known as Borneo in the Chinese Empire, is the largest island in Southeast Asia and the world's largest island, with an area of ​​750,000 square kilometers, a population of 500,000, and a tropical forest coverage rate of 95%. It is the largest rubber tree and rubber grass production area in East India of the Netherlands. Due to the huge area of ​​tropical forests, the rubber plantations here have developed rapidly in recent years and have become one of the important fiscal revenues of the Dutch East India Governor's Office. If returned to the Republic of Lanfang, the Netherlands' losses will be huge.

At the same time, the Dutch Republic obviously cannot accept the huge compensation, and even if it accepts it, it cannot afford to pay out the huge sum. You should know that the annual fiscal revenue of the Dutch Republic is only 50 million yuan in dragon coins, and the compensation of 500 million yuan in dragon coins will be enough to repay the Dutch government for ten years without eating or drinking.

The mediation of the US special envoy had no effect, which made the US government very annoyed. Two cruisers of the US Asian Fleet, the Philippine Squadron, sailed to cruise near Palawan Island on the 8th and parked in Port Pontianak to replenish supplies, emphasizing the United States' presence in the region.

At the same time, the two battleships of the South China Sea Squadron, the local fleet of the Chinese Empire, the Crown Prince and the Min Zhu, also forcibly sailed into the Port of Pontianak. The Dutch defenders sent two destroyers to expel them, but the Imperial Navy did not respond, and the Dutch East India garrison did not dare to fire the artillery, so they had to announce to the people that the two Imperial warships were coming for friendly visits.

Two Chinese Empire warships sailed arbitrarily in the Port of Pontianak, and encountered two warships of the US Navy many times. The two sides refused to give in to each other and had several confrontations.

Since 1907, the number of naval military standoffs between the Chinese and American navies has begun to surge, and there will always be one or two times a month. The longest military standoff occurred in March 1910. When the Chinese Empire's local fleet, the North Sea Squadron, was patrolling the Bering Strait, expelling an American whaling ship, which led to the Alaska squadron of the US Pacific Fleet. The two sides then launched a military standoff for 15 days. On the 16th, the US Navy mobilized the main force of the Pacific Fleet to deploy it in the waters near Midway Island to deter the North Sea Fleet of the Chinese Empire. On the 17th day, the Chinese Empire also deployed the main force of the Pacific Fleet in the high seas 50 nautical miles northwest of Oahu Island in Hawaii, in order to respond to the provocation of the US Pacific Fleet.

The main battleships of the US Navy are basically in the Atlantic Fleet because the US Navy is afraid that the Imperial Chinese Navy will adopt a sudden attack tactic on them, so none of the latest main battleships are deployed in Pearl Harbor.

As a result, the strength of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet was far inferior to that of the Chinese Empire's Pacific Fleet. In the end, the US Navy took the initiative to evacuate, ending the standoff.

However, since this time, the US Navy has successively dispatched a number of main warships from the Atlantic Fleet to move Pearl Harbor Naval Base to cope with the increasing scale of the Sino-US naval military standoff.

Starting from the 9th, the Chinese Empire set a countdown for the Netherlands, stipulating that the Dutch authorities must give answers within the next three days, otherwise all consequences will be borne by the Netherlands.

The Netherlands originally stationed 50,000 troops and several warships in the Dutch East Indies, but the tension in Europe caused the Netherlands to transfer 30,000 troops back to its homeland to prevent the German-French war from spreading to the Netherlands. Of course, the most important purpose is to prevent the influx of refugees into the Netherlands.

There were less than 20,000 people left in the Dutch East Indies, and their combat effectiveness was almost zero. They were all composed of local Dutch merchants and descendants of Dutch. Maintaining local public security is enough, but if you act as an army, you will not be able to compare with the Chinese Imperial team, and the gap is too big.

Therefore, the Dutch government knew very well that losing Kalimantan was inevitable. Their efforts were only to reduce the amount of compensation in the Chinese Empire and to keep the Dutch's local interests from violation. Because the Dutch knew too well that the Atlantic Fleet robbed a bank street in Cape Town, and the Dutch Bank was also deeply harmed, but there was no evidence to accuse the Chinese Empire, and the British were blamed.

Faced with the ultimatum of the Chinese Empire, the Dutch government saw that the US protests did not work, so it had to return Kalimantan Island to the Republic of Lanfang, and at the same time made a face-to-face apology, admitted the crimes committed thirty years ago, and was willing to make compensation. However, the amount of compensation was questioned, the Dutch authorities sought to reduce the amount of the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire was just asking for a huge price. The 500 million dragon coins were too huge for the small Dutch country, so they were reduced to 300 million, allowing the Netherlands to borrow from the Chinese Empire with rubber and other export resources under the control of the Dutch East India as a guarantee.

This arrangement is obviously aimed at rubber from the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch also knew this, but the problem is that the Chinese Empire found a very powerful excuse, and the Dutch could only kill their teeth and swallow them into their stomachs.

On February 2, 1912, after two months of bargaining, the Netherlands chose to return Borneo to the Chinese Empire peacefully and compensate 300 million yuan of dragon coins to the descendants of the suffering Republic of Lanfang.

Although the 300 million dragon coins are astronomical, the Dutch government can still afford it. However, the Chinese Empire did not allow the Netherlands to pay 300 million yuan in one lump sum, and strongly demanded that the Netherlands borrow from the Bank of the Imperial China to protect the rubber and other export materials from the Dutch East Indies. After repeated consultations with the Imperial China, the Imperial China finally agreed to the Netherlands to pay 200 million dragon coins and the other 100 million dragon coins to the Imperial China to compensate for the export of rubber and other resources to the Imperial China. In this way, all rubber products on the Imperial China controlled by the Netherlands can only be exported to the Imperial China, and cannot be changed in a short period of time.

After China and the Netherlands signed the Pontianak Treaty, more than 500 Dutch troops stationed in Borneo evacuated the island and returned to Batavia. The Chinese Empire took over the relevant military and administrative facilities left by the Netherlands in Borneo at a peaceful redemption price of 3 million dragon coins, and the funds were deducted from the 300 million compensation.

From the date of signing the treaty, the Dutch people stranded in Borneo allowed to sell their assets within three months, and the assets originally belonging to the Lanfang Republic are no longer listed. At the same time, the Pontianak gold mines and three gold mines that the Dutch took from the Chinese must be returned unconditionally and temporarily custodian by the Chinese Empire.

The treaty was signed by the Netherlands and the Chinese Empire, and the compensation was paid to the Chinese Empire instead of the Lanfang Republic. This means that Lanfang has been classified as a vassal state of the Chinese Empire and has no external autonomy. However, the Chinese and Chinese in Borneo were the happiest and finally turned over and became masters.

Li Yunlong received only 5 million dragon coins, which were used to rebuild the Lanfang government, the police and the army, and all other compensations were all in the pockets of the Ministry of Finance of the Chinese Empire.

On March 1, 1912, the Republic of Lanfang was successfully restored, and the three presidents Li Yunlong was sworn in at the Pontianak Parliament. The Council of Lanfang was elected by 150,000 Chinese and Chinese in the Republic of Lanfang, completely excluding local natives and foreigners.

A presidential decree signed by Li Yunlong was to declare that all indigenous people in Borneo had deprived of the rights and property of the rights and property of the indigenous people in Borneo. They had no right to vote or be elected. At the same time, all their property was confiscated and redistributed by the Lanfang government to the Chinese in need.

The decree was implemented by the Lan Fang Army, and the system of being a soldier for all people was implemented. All 150,000 Chinese from the Lan Fang Republic were incorporated into the Lan Fang Army, and the weapons and equipment were provided by the Chinese Empire.

As the Chinese Empire was undergoing a major replacement of weapons and equipment for the entire army, the previous generation of weapons and equipment was piled up in the warehouse, and the arms dealers could not sell them all, so the Chinese Empire Army promised to provide all the weapons and equipment needed to Lan Fang's army.

In this way, the Lan Fang army replaced the full set of Imperial Army equipment in a short period of time. Although it was not as good as the current Imperial Army equipment, this batch of equipment was still the mainstream army equipment in the world. Although the armed Lan Fang army was not trained, they dealt with the indigenous people without weapons, so it was just right.

The terrain of Borneo is a high middle and low surroundings, and is basically covered by tropical rainforests. Only the sea-line plain area is a residential and trade area.

The 150,000 Lan Fang army, plus a ** brigade sent by the Singapore Military Region of the Chinese Empire, began to confiscate the property of the indigenous people on a large scale, arrested the young and strong men and women in the indigenous people as slaves, and sent them to mining areas, manors, and factories to replace the former Chinese. Others, the weak and sick, rushed to the primeval forests of the central uninhabited area, and the indigenous people who resisted were immediately shot and killed. The Chinese, who had been bullied by the indigenous people for a long time, will naturally retaliate and retaliate.

Through three months of large-scale operations, the Chinese controlled the entire Borneo, and the Lanfang government established a system to rule the indigenous inferiors with Chinese as the best. After the house search, all Chinese had at least a spacious and comfortable house and a mine or manor. At the most, they could also obtain part of the shares of a company, and their per capita personal assets reached the middle level of the Chinese Empire.

Compared to the miserable nature of the natives, the Dutch were forced to leave the country, and most of the property was forcibly purchased by the Lanfang government at the lowest price and then distributed to the Chinese. Foreigners' assets and companies need to be re-registered and high fees have to be paid, which is actually forcing these foreigners to leave the country. This trick is very effective. Soon a large number of foreigners left the country, so their companies were bought by the Lanfang government at a low price and distributed to Chinese businessmen.

The series of decrees signed by the Republic of Lan Fang deeply dissatisfied countries around the world, but behind Lan Fang is the Chinese Empire, and European countries can only protest and have no choice but to do anything about this.

The United States was the most angry because the Netherlands' gubernation caused all rubber from East India to be exported to merchants of the Chinese Empire, including the United States' rubber estates in the East Indies. What's even more annoying is that after Lan Fang controlled Borneo, a large amount of rubber was sold only to the outside of the Chinese Empire, and the Americans had to evacuate from the area, and the losses were huge.

For this reason, the US government seriously protested to the Chinese Empire, demanding compensation for the losses of American citizens in Lan Fang. However, the reply given by the Chinese Empire was that Lan Fang was the only legal government in Borneo, the Dutch were the invaders, and you Americans handed over all the taxes to the invaders, which was itself aiding the evil. The Lan Fang Republic did not pursue the taxes you owed to Lan Fang over the years, but took great care of you, so the US government's request to the Chinese Empire ignore it.

The US government was so angry that it almost vomited blood when it responded to the Chinese Empire, which made the already bad relationship between the two countries even worse.

After the founding of the Republic of Lanfang, the islands near Borneo were also included in the territory of Lanfang, separated from the US Philippines, and the sphere of influence of the South China Sea Fleet of the Chinese Empire expanded to the Sulu Sea, the Siribes Sea and the Java Sea, and had a greater chance of patrol with the US Philippine Fleet.

On June 5, 1912, the U.S. Navy held a large-scale military exercise in the Sugul Sea on the east side of Kalimantan Island.

In response, the South China Sea Squadron of the Chinese Empire's local fleet held a large-scale military exercise in the South China Sea and Su Luhai at the same time. Both sides had live-fire exercises, which were full of murderous intent and tense.

At the same time, after the Dutch government returned Borneo to the Chinese Empire, it thought it would avoid going to war with the Chinese Empire and preserve the Dutch East Indies.

However, the Dutch government soon discovered that they were wrong. After the founding of the Republic of Lanfang, it joined the Greater China Empire Federation and became a member of the federal government. Lanfang was a soldier. After the purge of the indigenous people, the Lanfang army equipped with advanced weapons of the Chinese Empire seemed to be showing off its power and soon claimed sovereignty against Sulawesi Island in eastern Borneo.

The island of Sulawesi covers an area of ​​10,000 square kilometers, and the earliest traces of human existence were the stone tools of the Toyara culture. A century before the arrival of Europeans, the Muslim sultanate on the Malay coast was established in the south of Cyribes. In 1512, the Portuguese, who wanted to monopolize the spice trade, came here, and in 1607, the Dutch built a colony in Makassar. The power of the Netherlands gradually expanded until the country of Poni and Gova were lost in 1905 and 1911, respectively.

At this time, the Netherlands had just announced the annexation of the two countries of Boni and Gova, but the Republic of Lanfang had received a request from the people of Boni and Gova to join the Republic of Lanfang. The Congress of Lanfang agreed to accept the two countries of Boni and Gova, so he asked the Dutch colonial army to withdraw from Sulawesi.

Obviously, there was the support of the Chinese Empire, otherwise Lan Fang would not have attacked the Dutch East India colony so soon.

The Dutch colonial government of Batavia naturally disagreed and rejected Lan Fang's request. The Lan Fang Republic sent 30,000 civilian troops on July 1, 1912 to land on Sulawesi under the escort of the Chinese Empire warships. With the advantage of numbers and equipment, it quickly defeated the 300 Dutch defenders stationed on the island.

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