Chapter 278 President of the Republic of Summansia

April 10, 1906.

President Zhang Lingpu of the Republic of Mansia and his delegation arrived in Shanghai for a visit.

At this time, Zhang Lingpu is also a half-year-old man who is nearly 50 years old. Living in the Southern Ocean all year round, he is much darker than before, but he also seems to be healthy and powerful.

In a flash, he left Hu Chuyuan to Nanyang... That was already 26 years ago!

In the past few years, it is really not easy for him and Hu Chuyuan to meet every few years.

Old friends are very happy to meet each other.

Hu Chuyuan accompanied him to visit various large enterprises in Shanghai with great interest. That night, the two met again in the big study of the Garden.

What he saw during the day made Zhang Lingpu feel quite impressed.

Drinking tea with Hu Chuyuan and talking about the past years, inadvertently, Zhang Lingpu couldn't help saying, "Your Excellency, our dream should have come true. China... China is really rich and strong. Look at Shanghai now. I didn't expect it at that time.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Yes, China should be strong now, but it's not rich enough."

Zhang Lingpu hummed.

They are still very clear in their hearts that compared with the average wealth of the United Kingdom and the United States, China's average national GDP is still relatively low.

Taking the United States as a reference, the total population of the United States is 86.5 million, the per capita GDP is 374 US dollars, and the national GDP is 32.35 billion US dollars.

China's statistics are not easy to calculate. After the end of the Far East War, due to the excessive increase in the area of the three northeastern provinces, coupled with the territorial expansion of Western Siberia, Novosibirsk, Eastern Siberia and Central Asia, as well as Guangnan Province... Due to the relatively chaotic chaos in these regions, the GDP data has no There are statistics.

China adopts a multi-nationality method, and the political axe dominates the policy of population migration. The new territorial area is too large. At present, at least 57 million people live in areas that are difficult to count for a long time, and the total GDP and per capita GDP are relatively difficult to calculate.

At present, China's GDP calculation has maintained the statistical range before 1901, including the new Shaanxi plateau areas of Inner and Outer Mongolia, Northeast China, Xinjiang, Tibet, Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, Eastern and Western Siberia, Kashmir, Western Xinjiang, Pacific Islands, Guangnan Province and Yunnan Province. ...There are no statistics in these places.

In the existing statistics, although China's total GDP is roughly comparable to that of the United States, its per capita GDP is only 22% of the U.S. standard. There are many reasons for this. First, domestic prices are generally low, and the average salary and income are low. Second, there are too many underdeveloped areas, and third, non-employed people. There are too many people with hidden employment. Fourth, the calculation error is also relatively large. There is really no way to count in many places.

Regardless of whether this problem is good or not, from the perspective of average affluence, China still has a certain gap compared with the European and American powers, which may be that the gap in the Jiangnan region is relatively small.

When two people talked about the gross national product, they naturally talked about these things.

Zhang Lingpu has been working hard in the Republic of Sumantia for more than 20 years, and now he has finally built Sumancia into the most powerful country in Southeast Asia, with the largest territory and the best industrial and agricultural foundation.

There are about 6.52 million Chinese living in Sumansia, which is also the most concentrated place for overseas Chinese, accounting for 73% of the total population of the Republic of Sumansia.

After so many years of development, the average level of national universal education and infrastructure construction is higher than that in China, especially its compulsory education for Chinese in primary and secondary schools is very popular.

In the Nanyang Combined Fleet, the vast majority of officers and soldiers are from the Summansia region. Its army has more than 200,000 people. In terms of training and equipment level, as well as the educational quality of the whole army's soldiers, it is no worse than that in China.

Of course, Sumantia is also very large, including the whole of Kalimantan, Sulawesi and the Malugu Islands.

Zhang Lingpu said these things calmly to Hu Chuyuan. Soon, he talked about some things that he was very worried about. Generally speaking, the Republic of Summansia is not rich in mining resources. It has relatively abundant hydropower resources, bauxite, tin ore, iron ore, coal mine and gold and silver mine of a certain scale. The problem of oil resources is not prominent.

About 50% of the land in its territory is uncultivated tropical marsh wetlands, and the main industry and agriculture are concentrated in Sarawak.

As he talked, Zhang Lingpu suddenly put forward a new idea.

He asked Hu Chuyuan directly, "Your Excellency, is it possible to directly let the Republic of Súmantia join China, become an autonomous state of China, and then gradually transform into a province by referendum?"

"Oh?"

Hu Chuyuan was a little surprised by this proposal.

It's completely unexpected!

Of course, Hu Chuyuan can understand the meaning behind this proposal, because the proportion of Chinese in Sumansia is very large. If you want to make Sumansia really develop, the most direct way is to become a province of China as the focus of China's investment and construction in Southeast Asia and enjoy domestic economic policies.

On the other hand, this may also be Zhang Lingpu's long-standing wish.

Whether it is a patriotic overseas Chinese or a Chinese who has opened up a large area of territory for China has different meanings, and Zhang Lingpu prefers the latter.

In addition, if Summancia is a province of China, the Chinese are more likely to operate and settle down in Sumance for a long time. In the case of a relatively lack of resources, they can also use the special geographical location to absorb the mineral resources of Southeast Asia and Australia, and develop a more powerful industrial system to China. The development of the domestic market and the surrounding Southeast Asian market.

Hu Chuyuan thought for a while, and then said to Zhang Lingpu, "It still depends on your own wishes and the local Chinese. We must be very welcoming. If Sumansia as a whole becomes a province of China, it will also play a very important role in the long-term development of Sumansia and China's economy. However, we must also consider the issue of international influence. In recent years, the number of Chinese in Australia has been surging rapidly, reaching more than 1.2 million last year. Although most of them do not have Australian nationality, this is still a threat to the United Kingdom and Australia. In Singapore, the total number and proportion of Chinese are also too large. If Sumansia becomes Chinese territory too soon, the negative impact of this matter will still be great for Britain.

"Yes!"

Zhang Lingpu responded, indicating that he had also carefully considered these problems.

After thinking about it, he and Hu Chuyuan continued: "What we mean is that it is better not to referendum, but directly become an overseas autonomous state of China, and then gradually transition to an autonomous province. There will be a transition period of about ten years, and eventually it will become one to two ordinary economic special provinces."

Hu Chuyuan said yes, and he still agreed with this idea.

He also said to Zhang Lingpu, "I have nothing to oppose, which can be said to be very welcome. However, the current prime minister is Qu Hongji, and I am only responsible for national defense and military affairs at present. When you go to Yanjing, talk to him and see what his attitude is. Before that, we actually wanted to stabilize our interests in Southeast Asia and consider gradually transforming Singapore into a domestic province, but it is very difficult. Britain has indeed made a lot of concessions to China over the years, including Kashmir and the Shang states to China, but for Britain, these are not important marginal interests, and Singapore's problems are completely different. Once we officially annex the whole of Sumancia, Britain will definitely be greatly stimulated. We must make assurances with the British that this is only a special case and that the same thing will not happen in Singapore.

Zhang Lingpu said, "That is to say, once Sumantia becomes a province of China in the Southern Ocean, the country must give up its plan in Singapore?"

Hu Chuyuan nodded and said, "What will happen in the future... To be honest, it is unlikely to really give up, but you still have to make it clear to the British in name that it will never happen in Singapore."

After a pause, he sighed again: "Chinese people pay attention to honesty, but sometimes they can't be too honest."

Zhang Lingpu smiled and thought about more things in his heart.

He is actually very clear in his heart that in the hearts of Hu Chuyuan, Lu Guangjian and Qu Hongji, the place they really want to take down is not necessarily Singapore. Singapore is just a guarantee plan, and their actual goal is the Philippines.

In the past few years, the number of new Chinese immigrants in the Philippines has significantly faster than in other Southeast Asia.

Up to now, the total number of Chinese in the Philippines has increased to 5.2 million, an increase of 20 times from 20 years ago, and it is surging at a rate of 300,000 every year. Coupled with the Chinese population of Chinese descent, the total number has accounted for half of the Philippines.

The Chinese now basically occupy the Luzon region in the northern Philippines and the southern Medan region, crushing the Malays into the central Misayan region.

In the past four or five years, internal conflicts between Chinese and Malay armed forces have continued to break out. Although the news has been heavily blocked, it is absolutely impossible to hide Zhang Lingpu. After all, there are some things that still need his secret help.

The result of this internal conflict is obvious, that is, the armed forces of the Malays were basically disintegrated, and a large number of Malays were forcibly relocated to the Irian Peninsula.

In the Malays, the Chinese mainly choose the Misayans with the mildest support attitude and a relatively large population, to deal with the Tagalogs who are too tough, and other tribes of a small population such as Ilogo and Pisayas, constantly provoking tribal conflicts between the Misayans and the Tagalogs to help the Misjans clean up. He is a man of Kalu.

For so many years, Zhang Lingpu has been a very keen old politician.

He knows that once the Philippines is gradually sinicized, the future of Sumancia will be more difficult. Compared with the Philippines, Sumancia is very weak in terms of local mining resources.

Compared with Singapore and the Philippines, Smancia also lacks geographical advantages. Singapore is the stif of the Strait of Malacca and the geographical center of Southeast Asia. The Philippines is the most important link in China's Pacific strategy. Controlling the Philippines can face the entire South Pacific.

Compared with Sumancia, the climate environment and resource conditions of the Philippines are also more suitable for China's long-term needs.

To be honest, at this moment, Zhang Lingpu is still very entangled.

He loves China and Sumsia, which he founded. Considering the problem from the perspective of China's highest political center, the occupation of the Philippines and Singapore is of course the most important thing. However, he also hopes that China and Sumandsia will merge to build a strong country in his heart.

On April 17, after a week-long visit to Shanghai, Zhang Lingpu took the delegation to Yanjing. In Yanjing, he and Qu Hongji had many meetings.

Regarding the merger of Sumandsia, Qu Hongji also has a lot of considerations.

It is certainly not appropriate to dismiss Zhang Lingpu's proposal. What's more, China does have this need. The problem is that it can't affect the domestic plan to gradually annex the Philippines and Singapore.

At this time, Qu Hongji thought of Hu Chuyuan's words - no matter how well we do, the Philippines can still read. I'm afraid only Singapore is the Nanyang territory that can really belong to China forever.

In fact, Qu Hongji also has such considerations.

Many things in China are the basic strategies laid down in the Hu Chuyuan era - just do nothing.

As long as it is possible, even if it takes 30 or 50 years, they will annex the Philippines and Singapore. As an exception, Sumantia is really not considered in China.

Qu Hongji did not refuse Zhang Lingpu's proposal, but suggested that all this should be dealt with slowly, wait for a period of time before setting up Sumandsia as an overseas autonomous state, and then see the reaction of various countries.

Unlike Hu Chuyuan, Qu Hongji has another thought in his heart - if the merger is successful and Zhang Lingpu returns to the domestic mainstream political stage, does it mean that Zhang Lingpu may also become the new cabinet prime minister?

This may still have a big surname. Zhang Lingpu's achievements in Sumancia over the years are very good, and he also has a deep network in China.

Qu Hongji thought again, maybe Zhang Lingpu is aiming at the throne of the Chinese president!

Anyway... This matter is a little mysterious. That's what Qu Hongji thought.

Shortly after Zhang Lingpu left the country, a large-scale military coup finally broke out in the Ottoman Empire. More than 20,000 troops set out from Macedonia and rushed into Istanbul, triggering a larger-scale uprising all the way.

On May 24, Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, was occupied by the Young Progressive Party of the Ottoman League. Sultan Abdul Hamid II was overthrown and placed under house arrest. The new sultan was Mohammed V, the younger brother of Abdul Hamid II. The real power of the country was promoted by China, Ahmed Riza and Maki. You and others took control and re-declared the new constitution.

While the Youth Progressive Party continued to stabilize the New Deal Axe and the army, China was also carrying out close diplomatic activities for countries to recognize the New Deal Axe. By the end of May, China, Britain, France and the United States successively recognized the New Deal Axe, while Germany and Russia refused to recognize it.

The condition proposed by Germany is for the New Deal Axe to recognize the valid surname of the Baghdad Railway Agreement between Germany and Austria, but the New Deal Axe is categorically unacceptable, and the rejection of this agreement is also the basis for Britain, France and other countries to recognize it.

Russia began to appear rampant again, demanding that the Armenian region of the Ottoman Empire be transferred to Russia.

Since there is Chinese support behind it, the Young Progressive Party ignores the Russians even more.

After recognizing the New Sultan and New Deal Axe of the Young Progressive Party and the Ottoman Empire, China's Foreign Aid Commission immediately proposed at home, and Qu Hongji approved the proposal, sending three divisions, a total of 93,000 troops to Baghdad to protect the Ottoman Empire.

In return, the Ottoman Empire handed over the oil in Iraq to China for unified development.

(to be continued)