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Chapter 205 Lan Fang: Society and Reaction

Brunei, Bandar Seri Bega...

Tread...Tap...

"Here, guard that side..."

"There are gunshots over there, chase..."

bang bang... bang bang...

In Bandar Seri Bega City, teams of Lanfang soldiers wearing green military uniforms and green military caps are occupying various places worth occupying in the city.

Including the already empty palace.

In fact, this war went so smoothly that it can no longer be described as a war. It was simply an armed parade.

When the soldiers of the Lanfang Pontianak Regiment carefully landed, they found that there was no resistance at all in the city. There were only some old, weak, women and children who did not come and escaped, as well as some timid middle-aged people who were reluctant to part with their family business.

As for the others, they couldn't run very far. Behind Brunei was a large virgin forest. Where could they go? ?

And with the militia in Lanfang territory quickly sending troops to raid Brunei, Brunei can basically declare its demise.

According to Mo Longqing's estimation, he should be able to control the entire territory of Brunei in two days at the latest.

To be honest, this battle made Mo Longqing very frustrated. In his opinion, just the landing operation required the army and navy to cooperate with each other, so as to take this opportunity to exercise the fleet's combat capabilities.

Unexpectedly, it was so easy, even to the point where Mo Longqing found it incredible.

Mo Longqing looked at the still bright sky and the sunset that had not completely set, as if he was in a dream.

He thought of countless ways to break through Sri Bega City, including destroying the city, but he did not expect that the fighting will of this group of people could be so weak.

Even allowing Molongqing to give birth to several other indigenous countries in Borneo was nothing more than the idea that they could be destroyed in one battle.

This thought kept lingering in his mind and couldn't get rid of it.

Looking at the Han national flag fluttering above the palace, Mo Longqing's expression was very complicated. In the final analysis, he could only say one sentence:

"Damn it, if I had known it was so easy, why would I have made so many plans!!"

"Grass……"

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March [-], Lanfang Pontianak City...

It was just dawn in Pontianak City, and there were only a few sanitation workers on the streets cleaning the streets.

(Sanitation workers were created by Liu Peng in Xijing, specializing in maintaining sanitation in the city, and were later promoted to the entire Han Dynasty. As an overseas consul, Lanfang naturally also has them)

brush...

Sanitation worker Zhang Ada wears coarse work clothes with the word "WEI" engraved on them, which represents his identity.

A sanitation worker like him earns five yuan a month in Han China, but in a small place like Lanfang, he only gets three yuan at most. (In the early days, the average salary of a worker in Han Dynasty was about three and a half yuan. In recent years, due to economic growth and the increase in labor prices, it has increased to more than five yuan. Better skilled workers can earn more than ten yuan, or even dozens of yuan)

Zhang Ada himself is very satisfied with this job. After all, he is a mute born from his mother's womb. It is already very good for someone to use him. What's more, three yuan is an average level in Lanfang.

The reason why he, a mute, was able to get this seemingly good job was thanks to the Disability Act issued a year ago.

The reason why this bill was born was because the Han government had paid off the huge national debt it owed during the Han-American War, so it had the money to engage in this kind of virtuous policy. (The Disability Act led by Yan Jun was praised by later generations as one of the virtues of the Longwu era)

The bill stipulates that all disabled people with sound hands and feet should be assigned local jobs. Most of these jobs are simple jobs such as sanitation workers and newspaper factory workers.

In addition, those who are completely disabled and unable to move will be supported by rice grains every year.

In fact, money was first distributed, but considering that it might lead to corruption and robbery by others, rice grains were distributed instead. The main reason was that Han Dynasty was not a Chinese state, and hoarding large amounts of grains was of no use.

Moreover, giving rice and food to the disabled can also consume the food stocks in the national treasury that cannot be piled up.

As for these policies, the civil servants in the cabinet also support them with both hands and feet. After all, this thing is different from military expansion. This is a good policy that can go down in history.

Such a decree comes from their hands, and apart from anything else, they are willing to do it just to whitewash peace.

The birth of the Disability Act ultimately benefits disabled people like Zhang Ada who have both hands and feet.

They got rid of the social status of being discriminated against and could support themselves with their own hands. In some respects, this was also an improvement in the level of governance in the Han Dynasty.

It is also the moral advantage that Han currently occupies in its external propaganda.

In fact, there was an official named Guo Shidao who was even crazier at the beginning. This person claimed to establish a Datong society in a Confucian society where the elderly have support, the young have support, and man and nature are in harmony.

They even came up with plans for low-rent housing, a pension system, and maternity subsidies, but before they were implemented, Liu Peng rejected them without hesitation and demoted him to be the mayor of Monan.

Are you kidding me? When it comes to building a welfare society at this time, can I, the big man, still build it, and can I, the big man, continue to dominate? ?

Liu Peng knew very well that with the current productivity, promoting high welfare would be a dead end. If he really did it, he would be killed by other powers! !

However, although this person was demoted, he was assigned to be the mayor of a large town of [-] people. His real power was much greater than that of him advising and writing official documents at the Xijing Secretariat.

Most people understand that this is nothing more than overt demotion and covert promotion. It can be seen that Guo Shidao's things have indeed entered Liu Peng's heart.

It is also because of this that the Individuals with Disabilities Act was passed so quickly, and the Health Care Reform Act was also passed.

Increase subsidies for medical schools, research new drugs, increase efforts to train more rural doctors, and improve the medical quality of urban public hospitals.

At the same time, some of the medical expenses will be reduced. These two bills are also called the greatest virtues since the founding of the Han Dynasty.

Although the exaggeration is a bit exaggerated, in today's era when the average life expectancy is thirty or forty years old, what Han has done has actually exceeded the level of a great power.

Of course, all this is related to Liu Peng. If you were a different ruler, they might ask you: "What's the use of being kind to the common people?"

In their view, as long as the interests of the king and emperor are maintained, the powerful people who follow them have meat to eat.

As for the people below, they should just contribute to the great cause of the empire! !

The current British Empire is a country where the beggars on London Street and the pound sterling who are always thinking about it in Financial Street form a sharp contrast.

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"I don't think these natives can do anything. If I had known, I would have wiped them all out!!" Zhao Xusheng, the governor of Lanfang, looked happy when he saw that Brunei had been conquered and the Sultan of Brunei was captured alive.

"Governor Zhao, with our Lanfang's strength, we can only win quickly and not be swallowed up. I think it will end well this time." Qin Wensheng on the side was afraid that Zhao Xusheng would be dazzled by the sudden victory and defeat all other countries at once. By that time, if something goes wrong, it will be a big problem.

"Yes, yes...cease the war, cease the war!!" Zhao Xusheng was refreshed by Qin Wensheng's words, and he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Just now he almost had the idea of ​​continuing the fight.

"I think this time we not only captured Brunei, but also captured Brunei's hundreds of thousands of people intact. From now on, we will develop the rainforest and plant rubber, so we will have more manpower!!" Ye Zhenyu smiled at Zhao Xusheng and Zhao Xusheng. Qin Wensheng said.

After hearing this, Zhao Xusheng showed a satisfied smile on his face. Even after looking at the number of seizures related to the Brunei royal family in his hand, he felt a little bored. In his opinion, money is dead, but talent is alive. With people, money Are you still afraid of not having it? ?

If not, it proves that they are not ruthless enough with these Bruneians! !

"The most troublesome thing now is the attitude of the Dutch. The surrounding Southeast Asian indigenous countries don't count. What matters is the Dutch!!" Qin Wensheng suddenly said to Zhao Xusheng and Ye Zhenyu with an extremely serious expression.

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Zhao Xusheng and Ye Zhenyu changed. They looked at each other and could see the sadness in each other's eyes.

Zhao Xusheng walked back and forth in the inner hall several times, and suddenly asked Qin Wensheng: "How much time does it take for the Pacific Fleet to arrive??" Zhao Xusheng looked at Qin Wensheng with eyes full of expectation. In this situation, the only way to suppress the Dutch is to rely on the Pacific Fleet. ambition.

Qin Wensheng thought for a while, and then replied to Zhao Xusheng: "At least seven days..."

After hearing this, Ye Zhenyu's expression suddenly changed, and then he turned to see Zhao Xusheng's reaction.

After Zhao Xusheng listened, his face changed back and forth countless times, and finally made up his mind: "For external propaganda, let's say that in five days, the Pacific Fleet of the Han Navy will visit Batavia!!"

When Ye Zhenyu and Qin Wensheng heard this, their expressions changed drastically. Before they could speak, Zhao Xusheng interrupted their questions with gestures.

"After five days, we only have two days left. Even if the Dutch can't help but stop the natives from beating us, they can't finish it in two days..." Zhao Xusheng looked at the two people and explained why he did this. The reason is, "In this way, after seven days, we annex Brunei, and the Dutch have to admit it, unless they want to go to war with our Han country!!" Zhao Xusheng continued to Ye Zhenyu and Qin Wensheng with a firm expression.

Qin Wensheng and Ye Zhenyu looked at each other, then nodded to Zhao Xusheng, expressing their agreement.

After the two left, Zhao Xusheng looked at the map of Borneo on the wall, and finally fixed his eyes on the two small pocket countries next to Lanfang and below Brunei. His eyes flashed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

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Two days later, the news of Lan Fang's demise in Brunei spread throughout Southeast Asia at the speed of a tornado.

Lanfang, Brunei, these two words are deeply engraved in everyone's heart.

Every force in Southeast Asia is looking for the location of Borneo on the map. When they see the situation of being surrounded by the Dutch one after another, everyone knows that the most urgent thing at the moment is the indigenous countries on Borneo. , the Dutch, the overlord of Southeast Asia.

And this is also true. Several indigenous countries in Borneo, including the small pocket country established by the British, are as anxious as ants on a hot pot.

Among them, Sarawak, a small country founded by British explorers, sent people today to request to join the British Empire and become an autonomous dominion under the British Empire.

This is also a means of survival. After all, judging from the map, the two small pocket countries on the coast have been surrounded by Lan Fang. Whether to swallow them at this time is just a word from Lan Fang.

Other countries are also trembling with fear, and even have the urge to unite to deal with Lanfang. After all, since the Han people intervened in Lanfang, Lanfang not only had a fleet, but now he has also destroyed Brunei, which has been a country for a long time. This has a great impact on many people. It's completely unacceptable.

The word collapse is enough to describe the current situation in Borneo.

Other Southeast Asian countries, while watching Brunei disappear, felt sad, and at the same time increased their precautions against Han. However, they were afraid that Han would use this as an excuse to attack, so they did not expel Han merchants. action, but raising import tariffs on Chinese goods was their unanimous choice.

It can be said that the chain reaction caused by Lanfang's elimination of Brunei has swept across the entire Southeast Asia, and even the entire map of Southeast Asia.

In the end, it was the Han Kingdom thousands of miles away that took the blame for Lan Fang.

These are the ideas of the local countries in Southeast Asia, but the ideas of the Dutch, as the overlord of Nanyang, are very simple.

They only saw one thing, and that was a threat, a naked threat! !

The Dutch had long been aware of Lanfang's threat to the East Indian colonies.

Luxey, the previous governor-general of the Dutch East India, once said bluntly: "Lanfang, a Han country is a nail in the heart of the Dutch East India colony. As Lanfang exists longer and longer, the nail time becomes longer and longer. Sooner or later, this will become the main reason why the Kingdom of the Netherlands loses East India and the entire Southeast Asia!!"

"We Dutch should see that Lanfang is the outpost of Han's conspiracy to expand. If we don't take action, we will lose everything!!"

Now, less than two years have passed since Luxsi left office. As the news of Lanfang's attack on Brunei spread, the Dutch once again thought of what Luxi said.

Lan Fong will be the key to the end of the colonial rule of the Dutch East Indies.

For a time, storms in Nanyang arose, tornadoes and clouds roared, and the curtain of Nanyang was officially opened with Lanfang's attack on Brunei! !

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Batavia, a city rich in Dutch style, is full of Dutch-style windmill buildings, as well as Dutch colonists everywhere, with their bright red hair.

This is also the richest and most densely populated place in the entire Southeast Asia and the entire East Indian colony.

Here you can see a large number of goods from Europe, as well as pepper, spices and other goods produced in Asia that are in high demand in Europe.

From the fact that the earliest East Indies were called the Spice Islands, we can see how rich this place is.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands is an old colonial empire that has accumulated a lot of wealth since it began to use sea coachmen, although it was later consumed in various wars.

But the Kingdom of the Netherlands still retained the most valuable thing, the East Indian Colony! !

It provided a large amount of tax revenue to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and laid the foundation for Dutch trade in Europe. Even the financial market in Amsterdam was inseparable from various spice-related futures stocks based on East Indian spices.

If India is the crown jewel of the British Empire, the global hegemon, then the East Indies are the anchor of the Dutch Kingdom.

With the East India Colony, the Kingdom of the Netherlands is still a second-rate power in Europe. Even if it is at the bottom, it is still considered a power.

Without the East Indian colonies, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was just a financial market, and it was just one of them. It was a small lowland coastal country. From a strategic point of view, it was a small country that threatened Britain, but its national power was weak.

It can even be said that if the East Indian colony is lost, the economy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will definitely have major problems, and it may even cause disorder in the rule of the Dutch royal family.

And it will lead to more serious time.

In all these ways, the East India Colony Hotel is the lifeblood of the Dutch Kingdom, and the Dutch are tight on the treasure of the East India Colony.

This is also the reason why the Dutch reacted so strongly after Han intervened in the Lanfang situation.

Because after the Kingdom of the Netherlands lost its title of sea coachman, it really only had the East India Colony as a fig leaf.

If they were picked again, wouldn't it mean that the Kingdom of the Netherlands would not even be able to maintain its final dignity? ?

"We should declare war on Lanfang and those hateful Han people!!"

"Damn it, they are simply not taking the Kingdom of the Netherlands seriously and blatantly annexing other countries around the Kingdom of the Netherlands."

"If we don't stop it today, maybe it will be the East India and Batavia next time..."

"Yes, that's right, let the Lanfang people and the Han people get out of Nanyang. This is the Nanyang of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, not their American country!!"

In the Governor's Palace in Batavia, the officials of the Dutch East India Colony were discussing Lan Fangton's affair with Brunei one by one with indignation.

In the eyes of many of them, Lanfang dares to annex Brunei today, and tomorrow it will dare to annex the East Indian colonies and the entire Southeast Asia! !

Anyway, to sum it up in one sentence, send troops to intervene in the situation in Borneo.

The Governor of East India, Monkley, did not say a word. He only waited for the group of people to finish arguing before speaking:

"I just received the news that the Lanfang people announced that the Han Pacific Fleet will pay a week-long visit to Nanyang!!"

"Just five days later..."

As soon as these words came out, the entire Governor's Mansion was silent. Those Dutch colonial officials who were clamoring just now to give Lan Fang a look were like beasts that had their throats strangled. They could no longer make any roars, but only from their faces. The complicated expressions can tell how much they are struggling inside.

"Mr. Governor, what should we do now??" Finally, a colonial official asked Governor Monkley about the current countermeasures.

Others also set their sights on Monkley.

Monkley looked at the Dutch colonial officials and said with a complicated expression:

"Put this matter aside for now and wait for orders from Amsterdam!!"

In a word, it is up to the locals to decide what they say now. In fact, this is not a shirking of responsibility, but everyone present has acquiesced.

　Ask for a reward, ask for a monthly ticket

　　

　

(End of this chapter)