125 What we cherish

The deep blue sea water rolls slowly up and downs. When the sun shines, the eyes are full of light. Every island is dotted on the channel of a huge cruise ship and two armored warships. Each island is green in the jungle and the beach is white.

On the deck of the Changfeng, a group of sailors from the two cruisers Haichen and Haichoo stood in a neat team.

A group of luxury tourists around the Changfeng round the world give curious advice. Among these rich people, there are Chinese and foreigners. Wang Jingwei and his wife and Xiao Dongyang Uchida Liangping, as well as Li Suzhen and Jin Guizhi are all looking here.

Tang Xiangming, the commander-in-chief of the overseas Chinese protection fleet, is training: "... Marshal Li understands the hard work of everyone. I hope you will cherish this opportunity to take a break. You are a member of the Hubei Army of the Hero Army of the Revolutionary Army. You sing the "Three Da Discipline and Eight Notes" of the Hero Army every day. You know the discipline of the Hero Army, so I hope you don't challenge the iron discipline of the Hero Army!" He finally shouted, "Do you hear me!"

"I heard it!"

The roar in unison rolled up like a sea breeze.

"Now Marshal Li will speak to you."

The soldiers immediately gave them a warm applause to Marshal Li, and Tang Xiangming wanted to make a gesture of invitation to Li.

"You all know the situation in Suraya." Li wanted to talk about this and said emotionally, "We cherish the life of every compatriot."

"Vow to protect overseas Chinese to the death!"

The roar of the soldiers suddenly became heavy.

This makes the lively crowd for a while **, and the face of Ryohei Uchida is the most ugly!

All strong and war-friendly legions take the cohesion of national consciousness as the spiritual foundation. Discipline, training and equipment are all relatively easy problems to solve.

There is no doubt that after the bloody nirvana of the Xinhai battlefield, Li Kuangzi's E army has the cohesion spirit of the real main nation! The soul of the Chinese nation has awakened! This is the end of the Empire of Japan! Must be strangled! The best way is to let the crazy Li die in Nanyang! It's time to compromise with the madman Li, properly provoke the madness of this war maniac and set off a bloody storm in the southern ocean! As long as the empire stands by and watches at the critical moment, the madman Li will die!

"There may be a war, maybe we can't go back, but we must not give up our compatriots!" Li wanted his eyes like electricity, and he suddenly smiled, "Have fun to your heart's content. When you arrive in Suribaya, you must be ready to fight and sacrifice at any time!"

"Yes!"

The sailors echoed in unison, spreading the sea and the sky, and the wind and clouds changed color.

"Disband!"

"The Hubei army governs the army strictly, and it really lives up to its reputation." Wang Jingwei and his wife walked to Li Xiang, full of beautiful words: "Tiger and Wolf Master!"

Li Xiang looked at the blue waves of the sea, his eyes were far away, and he just sighed gently. Internationally, the coastal defensive navy is called the "Yellow Water" navy, the offshore navy is called the "Green Water" Navy, and the navy with ocean-going combat capability is called the "Blue Water" Navy. From nothing, from small to large, from the near sea to the far sea, the deep blue road of the Chinese navy is still far away!

Wang Jingwei and his wife and Tang Xiangming followed Li Xiang's footsteps, and the atmosphere was a little dull.

In order to enliven the atmosphere, Tang Xiangming talked about some anecdotes during the voyage: "The two cruisers did not have air conditioning, and the cabin temperature of the ship was as high as 50 °C. After crossing the Tropic of Cancer, the deck temperature on the cruiser was breathless, and even the hard cow tendon soles was softened. Yesterday at noon, a sailor deliberately beat an egg on the deck for an experiment. He turned it over three times, and the egg was baked..."

There is no joke about this anecdote, which is also why Li wants to make a decision to make the sailors happy on the Changhe.

Tang Xiangming continued: "The officers and soldiers work in such a high temperature environment for eight or nine hours. When they went up and down from the deck to the lounge, their bodies were full of blisters and their clothes were covered with white sweat stains. I asked them, do you know what blue water is? Is it hard? Do you regret it? A sailor who went to sea for the first time replied: What is 'blue water'? Only after I sailed with the ship did I really know it. That's an endless blue, that's a color full of hope and challenges, that's a world that can't be conquered or experienced without struggle..."

Mr. and Mrs. Wang Jingwei were also moved.

Li Xiang suddenly asked, "Brother Zhaoming, you have been in Nanyang for a long time, and you are also a Cantonese. What do you think of the Chinese in Nanyang?

Wang Jingwei slowly turned his face, looked at the thoughtful Li Xiang, and slowly said, "Chinese, there are Chinese everywhere. Most people can't change this bloody thing... Every time the revolution is promoted in Nanyang, the local compatriots are enthusiastic and have nothing to say... They all look forward to the success of the revolution, the motherland is bigger and stronger, and how many Chinese are scattered all their wealth for the revolution... The vast number of overseas Chinese in Nanyang stand on the side of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, Mr. Sun Yat-sen The allies sent some cadres to Haiphong, Saigon, Singapore, Siam, Penang Island, Kuala Lumpur, Myanmar and other places to raise funds for the uprising. Local overseas Chinese responded enthusiastically, generously donated, and also tried to buy food and equipment to transport them to the front line of the uprising... Zhang Yongfu, Chen Chunan, Peng Zemin, Zheng Luosheng, Zhu Chi Ni, Chen Wulie , Chen Jiageng, Li Zhuchi, Guan Wensen, etc. are all members of the Alliance Association who are active in the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Society... They have money and make strong contributions. Many people also throw their heads and blood, go through fire and water for the revolution and die for the country..."

Li Xiang shook his head, shook his head, and said to himself softly, "What I want to ask is that Hongmen groups in overseas have been the best for the revolution, such as Honolulu, Mexico, Australia and other places. The alliance's activities over the years are centered on Nanyang. Why can't they get the help of Nanyang Hongmen?"

Listening to his self-to-face, Wang Jingwei and his wife's faces moved.

Wang Jingwei was silent for a moment and looked up into the distance. He didn't know what he was looking at, but his words were cold: "Nanyang does have a court, but it has nothing to do with the revolutionary party. The Yixing Association groups in Nanyang, Britain and the Netherlands, as well as Vietnam, Siam, Myanmar and other places, are scattered all the members are more prosperous than those in North and South America. However, the local government has been too strict, so they have lost their true face. The League has been exercising over the years and taken Nanyang as the base camp, and cannot get the help of the Yixing Association. Therefore, it is said that the Nanyang Hongmen Group has nothing to do with the revolution. It's not impossible."

"Why?" Li wanted to whisper, "Are they the royalists who are inclined to Kang and Liang? Is there nothing we can do to impress them?"

Wang Jingwei glanced at his wife and said, "The Nanyang Yixing Association is controlled by the rich businessmen among the Chinese in Nanyang. The wealth of Nanyang Chinese is also what I have seen with my own eyes. Those people are really rich. When people get rich, they are more thoughtful and harder. They always want to save their family and lives. How many times the alliance has come to raise funds, these real rich businessmen have not raised much. These rich businessmen have received Western-style education since childhood, but they are not close enough to the Chinese of the same origin. They try to get close to the foreign adults in the colony, and they speak more fluently than Chinese... Li Shuai, they are really energetic in Nanyang, but this negotiation... You'd better not have any hope for them!"

"What kind of business can they do to be extremely rich?" Lixiang really can't figure it out. Nanyang Chinese are doing some traditional business without technical content. Can they compete with foreigners?

Wang Jingwei hesitated for a moment, but still didn't say anything.

Li Xiang suddenly burst out a word: "Drug trafficking?"

"This is just one aspect. There is a proverb among overseas Chinese in Nanyang: the rich make money, and the poor pay taxes. The Chinese work hard for the public and have a lot of bad hobbies, especially tobacco, alcohol and gambling. Shen Bijun said for his husband, "But Yixing will also master a huge way to make money, which is to sell piglets!"

This can only be changed from the root cause by improving Chinese culture and education. But..." Li Xiang laughed and said, "... If you can make a fortune, then all the Nanyang Chinese can be as rich as the country!"

Li wanted to smile and found that the atmosphere was wrong. Except for him, no one could laugh out loud.

"What's the matter?"

"Pig" is also known as new customers, young single customers, indentured laborers or coolant workers. Wang Jingwei said with a bitter smile that another history of blood and tears of the Chinese people. "As early as the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the matter of hunting and selling "pigs" in Guangdong Province had sprouted. He did this job and recommended Kun Peter, the first governor of Bacheng, the Dutch East Indies. He advocated plundering the Chinese as slaves and looting five ships going south of China, forcing 2,000 passengers on the ship to stay in Bacheng. However, most of this early plundering activities were carried out in secret, and they happened less often and on a small scale.

Li Xiang didn't know what to say, and his mouth was full of bitterness.

The truly large-scale "pig trade" began after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in December 1814, because according to the treaty, the United Kingdom and the United States were forced to give up the cruel African slave trade. For the white colonists who were at the peak of colonialism, the Ghent Treaty was undoubtedly a bitter fruit. From then on, they had to find another source of labor, so they quickly turned their eyes to the millions of Chinese in the mysterious East. At this time, China's domestic population has grown rapidly, and the per capita arable land has dropped significantly. Coupled with years of natural and man-made disasters, the majority of farmers have no food and clothing, and they have gone abroad to make a living. Under such circumstances, thousands of Chinese workers were quietly transported overseas without official consent.

"After the Opium War and the signing of the Sino-British Treaty of Beijing, the British government has gained the power to recruit labor in China, but in the eyes of the Chinese central and local governments, Chinese immigration is still illegal. The British government did not want to engage in the "pig trade" blatantly, which damaged its reputation. This situation provided an excellent opportunity to make money for the Chinese Secret Association, which gradually emerged in the Straits Settlement in the 19th century. Because with the increase of labor demand in the Straits colony and the expansion of "pig trade", there must be a permanent agency to recruit a large number of Chinese workers. In this case, the "pig restaurant" came into being.

"Singapore is the largest center of "pig trade", so it has also become the base of "pig house". As of the 32nd year of Guangxu, there were 13 "pig restaurants" in Singapore, including six old ones and seven new ones, most of which were dominated by Yixing Club. The New Malaysian Chinese Secret Party holds the behavior of "pig trade". In addition to its own strong power, the key is that the "pig trade" can bring huge profits to the Yixing Association. "Pig trade" is a profitable business.

"What kind of pig! This is a slave trader!" Li's lungs are about to explode. Aren't these people the Li family in Singapore?

"Ye Delai, a famous person in Kuala Lumpur, was born as a "pig" and has been a "pig head". He is the leader of the local Yixing Association. In his mine, cassava garden and a large brick factory, at least 4,000 "pig" serve him. In Johor, the owner of Hong Kong, Chen Kaishun, was originally the backbone of the Singapore Yixing Association. In 1851, after Chen Kaishun went to Johor to open the port, he organized the Xinshan Yixing Association. He used the relationship to make Yixing the only legal party in the local area and controlled many affairs, including the "pig trade". Lin Ya, another Hong Kong owner in Johor, became the leader of the Yixing Association after Chen Kaishun. He owns all the Ganmi gardens of Xinchangxing Port, Xinhexing Port, Xindexing Port and Xinhe Lingang, and hires a large number of pig Chinese workers to open and plant Ganxing for it..."

"Enough!" Li's face was gloomy and terrible: "The Chinese are not united, which is so bullied! ...And the Dutch authorities have been bullying the Chinese in every way. Damn it! I'd like to see. What do they want this time? Will the Red River Creek come again?

Everyone was stunned and remembered the tragedy of the blood flowing into the memory of the Chinese in Surawami, which was the most painful memory of the Chinese in Nanyang!

"Red River Creek..."

Li wanted to look at Wang Jingwei with sincere eyes: "Brother Zhaoming, this negotiation is related to the vital interests of the Chinese in Nanyang. At this tense moment... None of us knows how nervous we are, but we only have two cruisers. Let's talk about the negotiation of warships, but how much deterrent are the two old warships? Force? You have a great reputation in the South China Sea, so your brothers are here to beg that only by organizing all the Chinese in the South China Sea and setting off a huge trend that sweeps the South Sea can deter the colonial authorities in the South Sea!"