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"The Tiandihui that participated in the local turf war is the Yixinghui. The Jinlan Temple is dedicated to Qingshui Zushi and is closed to the public. It seems to be called the Zushi Association."

"Oh, they just look down on this small piece of land of Singapore and still want to compete with those people in the Central Plains."

"Hey, isn't Tiandihui against the Qing Dynasty and for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty?"

"This is just a propaganda slogan. If the Tiandihui conquers the territory, do you think they will really support someone with the surname Zhu as emperor?"

"Who would be so stupid as to make wedding clothes for others?"

"Yes." Xian Yaowen pointed at the gate of Jinlan Temple, "The newspaper said that the current Jinlan Temple is not the original Jinlan Temple?"

"During the reign of Emperor Guangxu, members of the Patriarchs' Association died or dispersed. The wealthy businessman Zhang Mingyun paid to rebuild the Jinlan Temple and opened it to the public for worship. Now the Jinlan Temple is just an ordinary temple."

"Zhang Mingyun? I've never heard of this name."

"Zhang Mingyun is Zhang Fanglin."

"Oh, the one who sells opium?"

"Hmm. Should we go in and worship? There is a big Buddha statue here, it is very effective."

"What is a Buddha statue?"

"There is a small Buddha statue on the altar in the temple. If you have a connection with the Buddha, you can lift it up. If you don't, the big Buddha will not move at all. You must pray to the gods for a change of fortune."

Xian Yaowen smiled faintly and said, "You need to donate some money to change your luck, right?"

"Yes."

"Then you don't have to go in and worship. Next time I'll take you to England to pay respect to William Gilbert. He once published The Magnet Theory. The Buddha here probably makes a living by his theories."

"Is there a mechanism on the altar?" Narcissus suddenly realized.

"What else? Buddha is dead, but humans are alive. Even if there are people with great supernatural powers in the world, they cannot be Buddha. Buddha is the same as opium, a commodity with high added value. The craftsmen who sculpt Buddha and the farmers who grow opium can only earn enough to eat three meals a day, but only the sellers can make a fortune.

However, the sellers will say that they are compassionate and that they are the ones who feed the craftsmen and farmers. Well, that’s wrong. It should be said that they are saving all living beings.

The opium sellers built temples, and the family members of the opium addicts came here to worship and pray to the Buddha to help the opium addicts return to the right path. The poor families had to pay for the incense. Once the money was paid, the women had to go to the Zhang family's territory to work as aunts in order to feed the children.

Xian Yaowen clicked his tongue twice, "This business is a perfect closed loop."

Narcissus patted Xian Yaowen lightly, "Master, the Zhang family is not as cruel as you say. Building the temple is nothing more than seeking peace of mind."

"Haha, just kidding. But it's better to believe in Jesus than to believe in Buddha. At least Jesus knows how to give back to customers, and missionaries actually do some good deeds. When I was a child, I liked meeting missionaries the most. In order to spread their faith, they would give food to believers, and sometimes they would also give candy."

"The Japanese are handing out candy. Are they good people?"

"Not bad. For a few years, I studied in the Japanese school. The Japanese provided me with food, drink, and shelter. If the restoration operation hadn't started, I would have led the guerrillas to kill the Japanese. I might have been sent to Tokyo for further studies by the Japanese. Maybe I'm still studying at the University of Tokyo now."

"Are you a good citizen of the Japanese school?"

"I, Yamamoto Fumio, am a very good citizen. I received awards every semester. I once wrote an essay titled "Father and Mother Are Not as Close as the Emperor", which was circulated in schools in the Wang Puppet Control Area as an excellent essay."

Narcissus laughed and asked, "Why weren't you arrested as a traitor?"

"A scholar knows the current affairs. Later, I wrote an article titled "Chairman Chiang is not my biological father, but he is better than my biological father." Nothing happened. I went to high school at public expense."

"Hahaha." Narcissus laughed out loud.

After she had laughed enough, the two continued to stroll around Tanjong Pagar. Xian Yaowen would occasionally climb to a high place to look into the distance, and mark the open spaces he observed on the map one by one.

The two passed by the former license plate hall which had been converted into a women and children's clinic and arrived at the Tanjong Pagar train station.

After walking around the station, whose design was inspired by the Helsinki Railway Station in Finland, the two climbed to the high ground again to overlook the entire station and the railway line.

While looking out, Xian Yaowen marked the distribution of buildings along the route on the map.

"Master, what's so good about railways? Do you want to run railways?"

"Generally, the property rights of railways include the land a few to dozens of yards away from both sides of the railway." Xian Yaowen pointed at the railway and said, "Look at those houses. The property rights are likely to cause disputes in the future."

"why?"

"This railway belongs to the Federated Malay States Railways and the Malayan Railway Authority. Now both Malaya and Singapore are under the control of the British, so there won't be any problems. If Malaya becomes independent in the future, this railway will belong to the new Malayan government."

"Malaya? Why not Singapore?" Narcissus asked in surprise, "Master, do you think that if Malaya becomes independent, Singapore will join the new Malayan government?"

"It's nice to be under a big tree and to be part of Malaya seems to be a better option."

"On the surface?"

Xian Yaowen nodded, "Yes, only on the surface."

“Why only on the surface?”

Xian Yaowen turned around and pointed in the direction of Duxton Road. "Who lives in that area?"

Narcissus took a look and said, "Huian people, Zhang Hezhuang three major surnames, and Jiang Huangye three other surnames."

"Yes." Xian Yaowen nodded, "The Chinese community in Singapore is made up of people from Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Cantonese, Hakka, Hainan, Fuzhou, Xinghua, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Fuqing. Fujianese make up the majority of the Chinese in Singapore, and the Chinese make up the majority in Singapore.

This is the world of the British, but also the world of the Chinese. Once the British leave, this will be the world of the Chinese."

Xian Yaowen paused and said: "British forces entered the Malay Peninsula in 1785. The East India Company leased Penang from the Sultan of Kedah. Soon, Britain planned to seize Penang. In 1819, it seized the management of Singapore from Johor to compete with the Netherlands.

In 1824, Britain and the Netherlands signed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty, which finally confirmed Britain's rule over Malaya. The Netherlands was forced to withdraw from Malacca and give up all its interests in Malaya, but Britain also had to recognize the Netherlands' interests in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).

Since entering Malaya, the British were worried that the Malayans would seek independence, so they introduced a large number of Chinese and Indians to the Malay Peninsula. By making sure that the three major ethnic groups, Malays, Indians and Chinese, did not make up more than half of the population, the British did indeed stabilize their control over the Malay Peninsula.

Although the three parties all have their own national movements going on, the motherland that the Indians fight for is India, and the Malays who believe in Islam retain political privileges with the tacit approval of the British, but there are always voices among them advocating cooperation with Indonesia to expel Europeans and establish a large Islamic country.

The art of divide and rule and the huge Royal Navy ensured the foundation of the British Empire's rule over Southeast Asia.

As for the Chinese, they were caught up in a factional struggle among the monarchists, reformists and revolutionaries. The monarchists wanted to protect the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the reformists wanted to promote modernization reforms of the Qing Dynasty, and the revolutionaries wanted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.

Although the three parties refused to give in to each other, they were all concerned about their homeland.

It was not until the Qing Dynasty was overthrown in 1911 that the monarchists and reformists became history one after another, and the Kuomintang, which evolved from the revolutionaries, won overwhelming support from the Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia.

Although overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia enthusiastically supported the Xinhai Revolution and the Northern Expedition, no one thought that one day China should annex the Malay Peninsula. The Chinese, Malays, and Indians were all oppressed nations that were colonized by the West. Although there were conflicts between them, there were no deep-seated contradictions either.

The three major ethnic groups may not have any contact with each other, but in fact they do not invade each other.

The Kuomintang registered a branch in Singapore as early as 1912. Although it was once banned by the colonial authorities, their goal was not to overthrow the British rule over the Malay Peninsula.

However, all this changed after Sun Yat-sen adopted the policy of alliance with Russia and tolerance of the Communist Party and introduced Soviet and Chinese Communist forces into the Kuomintang.

The reorganized Nanyang branch of the Kuomintang was established in Singapore in 1924 and was soon regarded by the British as the Southeast Asian branch of the Communist International.

After the Guangdong-Hong Kong General Strike in 1925, the confrontation between Britain and the Kuomintang escalated, which intensified the pressure on the Kuomintang's Nanyang branch.

After the left-wing-controlled Kuomintang turned its spearhead against the "imperialist" forces, the left-leaning radicals within the Nanyang Kuomintang also came up with the idea of ​​overthrowing Britain's colonial rule over the Malay Peninsula.

Because the radical Kuomintang in Malaya were not only nationalists, but also communists who believed in Marxism-Leninism. They advocated that weak ethnic groups such as Chinese, Malays and Indians unite to defeat the European and American colonial powers.

Under such circumstances, the Malay Peninsula, which had gained independence from Britain, should have become a member of the Communist International and a multi-ethnic country implementing the dictatorship of the proletariat.

This internationalist proposition was not accepted by the conservative and moderate faction within the Nanyang Kuomintang, and fierce conflict broke out between the two sides.

In order to assist the radicals in seizing control of the Nanyang KMT, the CPC also established the Nanyang Provisional Committee of the CPC in 1926, with He Yanzhi as its chairman.

In 1927, one month before Chiang Kai-shek ordered a purge in Shanghai, the conservatives and radicals within the Nanyang Kuomintang had a fierce fight in Chinatown.

After this violent incident, the radicals withdrew from the Kuomintang and merged with the Nanyang Provisional Committee of the Communist Party of China and changed their name to the Nanyang Communist Party. Subsequently, in accordance with the principle of one country and one party of the Communist International, the Nanyang Communist Party, with the Malay Peninsula as its main base of operations, was reorganized into the Malayan Communist Party in 1930.

Although the Malayan Communist Party was established under the witness of Ho Chi Minh and led by a Chinese-Vietnamese mixed-race man named Lai Te, nearly 90% of its party members were Chinese, making it almost impossible to unite Malays and Indians into their own camp.

The Indians want to revolutionize India themselves. They do not care about the future direction of Malaya. What the Malays want is to form a new country of Greater Indonesia together with the Indonesians. Malays and Indonesians equally reject the Chinese who enjoy economic privileges in their homeland, and reject atheistic communism based on their common Muslim beliefs.

Even the left-wing Malay revolutionaries mostly joined the organization called the "Malay Youth League" and refused to join the Malay Communist Party, which was mainly composed of Chinese. This phenomenon led to the Malay Communist Party being more like a branch of the Chinese Communist Party in the Malay Peninsula despite its name.

In the eyes of the Malayan Communist Party leaders, the Malay Sultans enjoyed political privileges with the support of the British. They were not only symbols of feudalism, but also running dogs of imperialism and were also targets of revolution.

However, the Malayan Communist Party, which was mainly composed of Chinese, obviously still focused its attention on the motherland that was invaded by the Japanese.

After the Malayan Communist Party and the Nanyang branch of the Kuomintang split up, they immediately replaced the latter as the primary target of the British colonial authorities. After the purge, the Nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek resumed its policy of getting close to Britain and the United States in preparation for the challenges from the Soviet Union and Japan.

From Chiang Kai-shek's point of view, if a communist revolution with Chinese as the main force broke out in Singapore and Malaysia, it would not only extend the influence of the Communist International to Southeast Asia, but would also cut off economic and trade exchanges between overseas Chinese and the national government. Obviously, it would be unwise to challenge Britain's colonial rule over the Malay Peninsula.

Until the outbreak of World War II, the Nationalist government and the Chinese Communist Party had never made any territorial claims on the Malay Peninsula. Instead, it was Wang Jingwei who had ambitions for the Malay Peninsula.

Xian Yaowen lit up a cigar, took a puff, and continued, "Draw the sword into one piece, and live up to the youth's head. Wang Jingwei, who followed Mr. Sun Yat-sen in his early years, although he established the pro-Japanese Wang Puppet Regime, he was probably a great Chinese nationalist in his bones.

Wang Jingwei understood that the price of cooperating with Japan was that he had to acknowledge that Manchukuo, which was supported by the Japanese in Northeast China, was a sovereign and independent country that was not subordinate to the Wang Puppet Regime.

The leader of Manchukuo was none other than Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty. This must have been a very painful decision for him, who had once assassinated the Regent Zaifeng.

In order to restore the confidence of the Chinese people and overseas Chinese, Wang Jingwei, who was criticized by thousands of people, not only asked Japan to assist the Wang Puppet Regime in regaining the European and American concessions and foreign legal rights in China, but also hoped that the Wang Puppet Regime could obtain overseas territories.

Hitler's tactic of forcibly sending troops to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia on the grounds that the main inhabitants of the region were Germans set an example for several countries that attempted territorial expansion during World War II.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Thailand joined the Axis Powers and used this as an excuse to annex four states in the north of British Malaya, namely Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu.

This was Japan's reward for Thailand's assistance in sending troops to Burma, but the base point was that these four states were once ruled by the Siamese Dynasty and had a considerable number of Thai compatriots settled there.

After giving up these four states, the Chinese became the largest ethnic group in Malaya, accounting for 47% of the total population, while the Malays accounted for only 34%, and the Indians and other ethnic groups together accounted for only 18%.

In addition, revolutionary veterans such as Lim Boon Keng and Zhang Yongfu, who had followed Sun Yat-sen in his early years, recognized the Wang Puppet Regime as the only legitimate government representing China. After the Japanese invaded the Malay Peninsula, they organized pro-Japanese Overseas Chinese Associations, which strengthened Wang Jingwei's influence in Southeast Asia.

When the Japanese invaded Singapore, Wang Jingwei negotiated with them to bring Southeast Asia under the rule of the Wang Puppet Regime. On this condition, the Wang Puppet Regime declared war on Britain and the United States and helped Japan realize the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

But this discussion ultimately died in the cradle, not because the Wang Puppet Regime was incapable of projecting its political influence onto the Malay Peninsula, but because the Japanese invaders who occupied the Malay Peninsula fundamentally distrusted the Chinese.

At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia assisted the Nationalist government in the fight against Japan by donating money and returning to China to join the army, and were the targets of extreme hatred by the Japanese devils.

It was also because of this distrust that Japan rejected the Wang Puppet Regime's request to declare war on Britain and the United States in 1941, and insisted on postponing the date to January 1943, 1.

After all, with the Chinese population far outnumbering the Japanese, if we rashly let the Wang Puppet Regime gain a foothold in Southeast Asia, sooner or later the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere would become the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere, which would be equivalent to the Japanese sending troops to open up new territories for China, something the Japanese did not want to see.

As he spoke, Xian Yaowen marked a few points on the map, "After the Japanese occupied the Malay Peninsula, in addition to the Commonwealth prisoners of war who laid down their arms, the first target of their purge was the Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia.

A total of nearly 5 Chinese died in the Japanese massacre in less than half a month from February to March 1942.

However, the Suqing Massacre was not just a simple massacre of the Chinese anti-Japanese forces by the Japanese devils, but also a racial massacre involving Malays and Indians.

The Japanese invaders who attacked Southeast Asia were regarded as liberators by the Malays and Indians on the Malay Peninsula. They sincerely believed that the arrival of the Japanese invaders would help them gain independence from the British colonial rulers.

Although the Malay Youth League was a leftist group that believed in socialism, it still decided to cooperate with the Japanese to expel the British troops. The Japanese regarded the Chinese as their second biggest enemy after the Allies, and did everything they could to incite Malays and Indians to hate the Chinese.

From the perspective of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", Britain and the Malayan Communist Party temporarily put aside their ideological disputes and became allies in the fight against Japan. The armed force of the Malayan Communist Party, the "People's Anti-Japanese Army", became the number one threat to the Japanese rule of the Malay Peninsula.

Under the call of the "International Anti-Fascist United Front" and the "Anti-Japanese National United Front", many Chinese who were not members of the Malayan Communist Party, including secret societies and Kuomintang members, joined the People's Anti-Japanese Army.

On the red flag held high by the People's Anti-Japanese Army, there were three yellow five-pointed stars symbolizing the Chinese, Malays and Indians, but in fact, more than 85% of the officers and soldiers participating in the People's Anti-Japanese Army were Chinese from Guangdong and Fujian.

Although a small number of Malays and Indians who volunteered to join cannot be ruled out, the vast majority of non-Chinese in the People's Anti-Japanese Army were forcibly conscripted. The British army's support for the People's Anti-Japanese Army further widened the rift between the three major ethnic groups.

Initially, the Malayan Communist Party's struggle program claimed that it would work together with the Malays and Indians to drive out the British and establish the People's Republic of Malaya without ethnic and religious distinctions.

But now that the Malayan Communist Party has broken its promise and stood with the British colonialists who it had vowed to overthrow, it has naturally increased the hatred of the Malays and Indians towards the Chinese. So under the call of the Japanese Shonan Military Police, the Malay police and patrolmen have invested heavily in the struggle to hunt down the Malayan Communist Party.

India's "national hero" Subhas Chandra Bose even established the Free India regime based in Singapore, preparing to cooperate with the Japanese to fight back to India.

The Indian National Army organized by them was well-equipped and well-trained, and was an armed force that the People's Anti-Japanese Army did not dare to provoke easily. The only thing the Malayan Communist Party dared to do was to assassinate individual Chinese, Malay and Indian elites who cooperated with the Japanese.

During the People's Anti-Japanese Army's battles, the British sent a lot of advanced weapons to Malaya through the 136th Unit, but the People's Anti-Japanese Army secretly hid the advanced weapons dropped by the British Army, and continued to fight the Japanese with the remaining weapons of the British Army picked up in the jungle in the early days of the war.

It is obvious that the Malayan Communist Party at that time had regarded the anti-Japanese war as a show, performed for the people on the Malay Peninsula and also for the British.

In fact, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States joining the Allies was a foregone conclusion, and the Japanese defeat was imminent. Anti-Japanese forces in various parts of Asia had already set their sights on the struggle for territory and power after the Japanese surrender.

Xian Yaowen smiled contemptuously, "Anti-Japanese is just an excuse for conscription. The battlefield has also become a training ground. New recruits are trained to become veterans who have seen blood and are ready to go. Who cares about bullshit doctrines? The most important thing is to seize power and obtain territory where we can collect taxes.

But in order to seize power, the Malayan Communist Party must first eliminate its number one enemy before the British army returned. That enemy was not the Japanese, but the Malays and Indians who served the Japanese, as well as the Chinese who opposed the Malayan Communist Party.

In January 1945, the Battle of Manila broke out. Everyone could see that the United States would soon defeat the Japanese. The Malayan Communist Party knew that it was time to start their battle to seize power. The People's Anti-Japanese Army launched bloody revenge against the Malays and Indians. Pandora's box was opened.

Although the Indian National Army was defeated in the war to attack Imphal, it still maintained a relatively strong military presence in Singapore, and even had tanks provided to them by the Japanese. Therefore, the Malayan Communist Party wisely avoided its attack and targeted the Malays.

In 1945, the Japanese gradually withdrew their troops from small and medium-sized towns and villages on the Malay Peninsula to deal with possible amphibious landings by the British and defend large cities.

The People's Anti-Japanese Army seized the opportunity to advance into these vacuum areas and established red regimes one after another. Once the red regimes were established, they began to retaliate against the Malays under various pretexts.

The People's Anti-Japanese Army demanded that the Malays pay taxes to the red regime and provide material and intelligence assistance. Any Malay village chiefs who were unwilling to cooperate would be immediately killed.

As long as you are a Malay, if you show even the slightest disobedience, you will disappear at any time.

Malay policemen, civil servants and village heads were often the primary targets of retaliation because they were all assigned by the Japanese in the past. Before being brutally killed, they would often first experience the torture invented by the Malayan Communist Party.

Many Malay women were forced by the People's Anti-Japanese Army to cook in military camps, while some of the less fortunate ones were molested or raped.

The Malays, angered by the Malayan Communist Party, asked the Japanese to help train the Malays to resist the Chinese. So the Japanese followed the practice in Indonesia and helped Malay villages in Malaya train militias called "Homeland Defense Volunteers" to resist the invasion of the People's Anti-Japanese Army.

The armed conflict between the Chinese and Malays entered a white-hot stage in April 1945. The Japanese handed over all the work of sweeping the countryside to the Homeland Defense Volunteer Army, which greatly increased the time for the Chinese and Malays to attack each other.

……

The mutual harm between the Chinese and Malays reached its peak from August 8, when the Japanese surrendered, to September 15, when the Royal Navy fleet returned to Singapore, as the entire Malay Peninsula fell into a state of anarchy.

The Malayan Communist Party, which regarded itself as the representative of the Han nationality, was suddenly replaced by the old Tongmenghui from the era of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China". It raised the banner of a blue sky, a white sun and a red earth and violently retaliated against and liquidated the Malays.

The past internationalist left-wing advocacy has completely disappeared, replaced by an extreme right-wing nationalist belief in defending the interests of the Chinese people, which is even more exaggerated than that of the Kuomintang itself.

In fact, at this stage, whether they were anti-Japanese or pro-Japanese, supporting the Kuomintang or the Malayan Communist Party, the Chinese only had the People's Anti-Japanese Army to rely on.

Until the British army returned to the Malay Peninsula and restored order, the racial war between the Chinese and Malays was like the battlefield in Yugoslavia during World War II, the People's Anti-Japanese Army was like the Chetniks in Serbia, and the Jihad Red Army was like the Ustasha in Croatia. The killing methods of both sides could be described as unscrupulous.

The return of the British army temporarily stopped the armed conflict between the two sides, but it laid the groundwork for another longer and bloodier war.

Xian Yaowen looked at Shuixian and asked, "Did you participate in the parade to celebrate the victory of the Anti-Japanese War?"

Narcissus nodded and said, "Yes."

"The Japanese occupied Singapore for three and a half years. You must have suffered a lot, right?"

Narcissus shook her head. "Before the Japanese came ashore, my sister had already disbanded the Pipa Hall and took us into hiding. We survived the most chaotic period. We survived by saving money and making red headscarves."

"You are lucky. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, many people in the Japanese army had already anticipated that they would fail in the end. They were afraid of being retaliated against too severely, so they became more restrained in their actions.

Moreover, because the battle line was too long and the military force was tight, there was no condition to station too many troops in the occupied areas, so a conciliatory approach was adopted.

If it had been earlier..."

Xian Yaowen shook his head and said nothing further, but just hugged Narcissus tightly.

"Master, it's all over."

Xian Yaowen kissed Narcissus's hair and continued, "For the vast majority of Malaysian Chinese who experienced World War II, the racial conflict in the last year of the war may be a more horrific memory than the Qing Massacre.

Although the Japanese were massacring the Chinese, they still hoped that the Chinese would donate money to support the "Greater East Asia War". Therefore, the Qing Massacre came to an end after Lim Boon Keng organized the Overseas Chinese Association to coordinate food and wages for the Japanese.

……

The Chinese believed that since the Nationalist government was already the victor of World War II and the Malays and Indians had been accomplices of the Japanese invaders during the war, the fate of the Malay Peninsula after the war should naturally be decided by the Chinese.

The Malayan Communist Party considered itself to be the backbone of the Chinese resistance against Japan, and was naturally more qualified than other Chinese to decide the direction of independent Malaya.

Regardless of whether they support the Kuomintang or the Malayan Communist Party, building a Chinese-dominated Nanyang order has now become the common wish of the Malaysian Chinese.

This is also why when the British army returned to Singapore, the number of flags flying on the streets exceeded the Union Jack.

However, the National Government had no territorial ambitions on the Malay Peninsula, and its relationship with the communist Malayan Communist Party was even more incompatible.

However, with the encouragement of the United States, Chiang Kai-shek did have the idea of ​​strengthening the Kuomintang's influence on the Chinese in Southeast Asia and thereby shaking British colonial rule.

The National Government Navy recovered the South China Sea Islands in November 1946 in preparation for advancing into Southeast Asia. However, the collapse of the "Anti-Japanese National United Front" and the outbreak of the Liberation War caused the Malayan Chinese, who had originally united in supporting the National Government, to split again.

In 1948, the Malayan Communist Party once again went into the jungle to launch an armed struggle, this time they wanted to overthrow the British colonial rulers. The Chinese who were loyal to the National Government followed the National Government's position and supported the Commonwealth in encircling and suppressing the Malayan Communist Party.

In this process, the Malayan Communist Party, which originated from the Nanyang Kuomintang, officially replaced the Kuomintang and became the leading force in promoting Greater Chinaism in Nanyang.

Xian Yaowen paused and said, “Back in 1942, the Malay elites represented by Tunku Abdul Rahman did not necessarily agree with the Japanese invasion of the Malay Peninsula, but were still shocked by the scene of Orientals defeating Westerners on the battlefield.

Their nationalism was fully awakened, and they began to believe that the Malays could establish their own country on the Malay Peninsula. In order to ensure their racial superiority, the Malay elites did not hesitate to cooperate with the Japanese to persecute Allied prisoners of war and Chinese anti-Japanese elements.

Although the underground workers of the Kuomintang government sent to the Malay Peninsula by the British Unit 136 did not agree with the communist revolution promoted by the People's Anti-Japanese Army, they still adopted a non-interference attitude towards the racial struggle of the Malayan Communist Party based on their national sentiment as Chinese.

This attitude made the Malays very frightened. They were afraid that once the British returned to the Malay Peninsula, they would support the Kuomintang and Communist guerrillas to establish a Chinese Malay state, or even directly incorporate Singapore and Malaysia into the national government.

With the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the National Government became one of the top four powers in the world, and the national flag with a blue sky, a white sun and a red earth could be seen on the streets from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur. The Malays who had cooperated with the Japanese during the war were deeply worried that they would lose all political power or even suffer a new wave of purges by the Malayan Communist Party.

Especially after the four states were ceded to Thailand, the Chinese became the most populous ethnic group on the Malay Peninsula. In addition, the Kuomintang government had strong support from the United States, so the possibility of the Kuomintang government annexing Singapore and Malaysia was quite high in 1945.

However, the British are not known as troublemakers for nothing. Britain knows how to play the game of balancing power better than any other country.

When the British army returned to the Malay Peninsula and established the British Malaya Military Government on September 1945, 9, Britain immediately adjusted its ethnic policy in Malaya..." (End of this chapter)